It's for this second printing that Milton adds the headnote that you see here that now begins the poem: "In this Monody the Author bewails a learned Friend, unfortunately drown'd in his Passage from Chester on the Irish Seas, 1637."

在第二版中，他加上了眉批,你们现在都能看到：,“周一作者缅怀了一位，不幸于1637年在爱尔兰海上,溺水而亡的挚友“

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It's in response to what seems to have been an aesthetic reaction to the poem that the printer of Paradise Lost asked Milton, went back to Milton and asked him to append a note to the book's second printing -- to append a note that explains why the poem rhymes not.

这是弥尔顿对《失乐园》的出版商的答复,出版商问弥尔顿关于此诗的美学问题，他找到弥尔顿，让他给此诗的第二次印刷附一个,注解--附个注解解释这诗为什么不押韵。

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