Strahan and Preston,

Printers-Street.

I call that a complete and generous Education, which fits a
Perfon to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the
Offices both of public and private Life; of Peace and of War.
MILTON,

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES,
IN THE STRAND.

COULD it have been forefeen by the Author of the following pages, that, in the cafe of the illuftrious Person who is the fubject of them, the ftandard of Education would have been fet fo high; and efpecially, that this Education would be committed to fuch able and diftinguished hands, the work might furely have been spared. But as

the Second Volume was gone to the Prefs before that appointment was announced, which muft give general fatisfaction, it becomes important to request, that if the advice fuggefted in any part of the Work fhould appear prefumptuous, your Lordfhip, and ftill more the Public, who might be more forward than your Lordship in charging the Author with prefumption, will have the candour to recollect, that it was offered, not to the learned Bifhop of Exeter, but to an unknown, and even to an imaginary Preceptor.

Under thefe circumftances, your Lordship will perhaps have the goodnefs to accept the Dedication of

thefe