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Prolusion and Verses presumed to be by John Milton

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1876

Extract

Tritum est vetustate proverbium “diluculo surgere saluberrimum est,” nee sane minus verum quàm antiquum: etenim si ordine supputare conabor hujus rei singulas utilitates, opus ardui laboris obire videbor: surge igitur, surge, deses nee semper teneat te mollis lectus; nescis quot oblectamenta prsebet aurora. Oculos delectare cupis? aspice solem purpureo colore orientem, coelum purum et salubre, herbescentem agrorum viriditatem, florum omnium varietatem. Aures juvare velis ? audi argutos auvium concentus et leves apum susurros : naribus placebis ? non satiari possis suavitate odorum qui è floribus efflantur. Quod si hæc non arrident, rationem salutis tuse aliquantulum quseso ducas ; quippe summo mane cubitu surgere ad firmam corporis yaletudinem non parum conducit, study's vero aptissimum est, tune enim in numerato habes ingenium. Præterea boni regis est non somno immodico corpus saginare, et vitam feriatam et laboris vacuam transigere, at reipublicæ cum nocte turn die consulere ut argute hortatur Theocritus

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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1876

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