A MASK. BY JOHN MILTO N. WITH THIRTY ILLUSTRATIONS BY PICKERSGILL, CORBOULD, BIRKET FOSTER, HARRISON WEIR, &c. ENGRAVED BY THE BROTHERS DALZIEL. OUGH LONDON: GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & CO. FARRINGDON STREET. NEW YORK: 18, BEEKMAN STREET. 1858. COMUS. THE Mask was presented in 1634, and consequently in the twenty-sixth year of our author's age. In the title-page of the first edition, printed in 1637, it is said that it was presented on Michaelmas night, and there was this motto:— "Eheu quid volui misero mihi! floribus austrum In this edition, and in that of Milton's poems in 1645, there was prefixed to the Mask the following dedication: : To the RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD JCEN VISCOUNT BRACKLY, Son and Heir Apparent to the EARL OF BRIDGEWATER, &c. MY LORD,―This poem, which received its first occasion of birth from yourself and others of your noble family, and much honour from your own person |