Les incipits : MILTON, Paradise Regain'd.

I who ere while the happy garden sung,
By one man's disobedience lost, now sing
Recover'd Paradise to all mankind,
By one man's firm obedience fully try'd
Through all temptation, and the temper foil'd
In all his wiles, defeated and repuls'd,
And Eden rais'd in the waste wilderness.


John MILTON, Paradise Regain'd, 1671