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EDITOR'S NOTE
The portrait which fronts the title-page is that known as the Onslow portrait, from its having belonged to Speaker Onslow, but it has disappeared since the sale of Lord Onslow's pictures in 1828. It had originally belonged to Milton's widow. This photogravure is after Vertue's engraving made in 1731 from the portrait then in Speaker Onslow's possession. The vignette on the title-page represents the "pretty box" which Ellwood found for the poet in the village of Chalfont St. Giles, during the prevalence of the Plague of 1665.
W. V. M.
New York, February 13, 1899.
