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This was written at Rydal Mount, as a token of affectionate respect for the memory of Milton. “I have determined,” says he, in his preface to his History of England, “to bestow the telling over even of these reputed tales, be it for nothing else but in favour of our English Poets and Rhetoricians, who by their wit will know how to use them judiciously.”