John Milton -- Bow Churchyard, City of London, UK
N 51° 30.790 W 000° 05.610
30U E 701670 N 5710898
A plaque dedciated to John Milton, born and baptized nearby
Waymark Code: WMT2DR
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 09/13/2016
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There are two plaques here, all stacked one on top of the other.
The waymarked plaque is the top one, that reads as follows:
"Three poets, in three distant ages born,
Greece, Italy, and England did adorn;
The first in loftiness of thought surpassed,
The next in majesty; in both the last:
The force of nature could no farther go,
To make a third, she joined the other two. (poem by John Dryden, referring to Virgil, Dante, and Milton)
John Milton was born in Bread-Street on Friday the 9th day of December 1608 and was baptised in the parish-church of All-Hallows Bread-Street on Tuesday the 20th day of December 1608."
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