Excerpt from Samson Agonistes
Almost everything is known about Milton, and Milton is the second greatest poet that England, the land of poets, has produced; but in a little book like this the briefest sketch of the poet's life must suffice.
John Milton was born at his father's shop, the "Spread Eagle," Cheapside, on the 9th of December, 1608.
The father was a scrivener, a sort of solicitor, and had made money; a man of sense, too, and accomplishments, skilled to compose tunes and airs; able and glad to provide good instruction for the son, who was ever grateful for this forethought. In music, we may suppose that Milton, the most musical of England's singing birds, gained much from a father's skill and early care. In the classics, he had as private tutor one Thomas Young, of whose instruction he speaks highly in later life. Young was with him also after he went to St. Paul's School, which was then presided over by that "ingeniose person" Alexander Gill, esteemed the best teacher of the day, notwithstanding, or perhaps to some extent in consequence of, his whipping fits.
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