notice

[6]

, that

Milton

is every where full of Hints and sometimes literal Translations, taken from the greatest of the

Greek

and

Latin

Poets. But this I may reserve for a Discourse by it self, because I would not break the Thread of these Speculations, that are designed for English Readers, with such Reflections as would be of no use but to the Learned.

I must however observe in this Place, that the breaking off the Combat between