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LONDON:

PRINTED BY RICHARD CLAY,

BREAD STREET HILL.

LENOX LIBRARY

NEW YORK

OUCLY YRANGLI

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
Perditus."

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

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