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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society: In Commemoration of the Tercentenary of the Birth of John Milton, 9 December, 1908

In place of the stated monthly meeting of the Society, a public commemoration, under its auspices, of the tercentenary of the birth of John Milton was held at the edifice of the First Church in Boston, on Berkeley Street, on Wednesday afternoon, December 9, at four o'clock. Seats in the chancel were occupied by the President, Dr. Everett, Dr. DeNormandie, Dr. Perry, and Rev. Charles E. Park. A portrait of Milton, made for the occasion, bearing a garland of laurel, stood on an easel at the back of the chancel.

Members of the Society and of their families, and invited friends, were admitted on presentation of tickets at half-past three o'clock; and the doors were thrown open to the public at five minutes of four. More than eight hundred persons in all participated, filling the pews and much of the standing-room at the entrance.

An elaborate programme of the exercises had been prepared, in the nature of a memorial of the occasion, fifteen hundred copies of which were printed for distribution among those in attendance and otherwise. It contained reproductions of two of the engraved portraits of Milton, after Faithorne and one at Nuneham, as well as reproductions of the titlepage of the first collective edition of his minor "Poems" (1645) showing the rare portrait by Marshall of the first titlepage of the first edition of the "Paradise Lost" (1667), and of the titlepage of the first edition of the "Paradise Regained" (1671); also the sonnets, the extracts from Milton's "Areopagitica," and the hymns, selected as features of the observance.

The first number of the "Order of Exercises" was an organ prelude, the "Largo" by Handel from his opera of Xerxes, by Mr. Arthur Foote, organist and musical director of the celebration. This was followed by the "Venite," rendered by a triple quartette, a chant by Henry Lawes, the friend of Milton, to whom one of Milton's sonnets is addressed, and who was the composer of the music for "Comus" and "Arcades."

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