Eight years after its initial composition, Milton looks back at this elegy, rereads it, and picks out the Saint Peter passage on the corrupted clergy as that specific feature of the poem worth singling out and introducing.

在第一版出版的8年后，弥尔顿重新审视了这首挽歌，把圣彼得关于腐朽教会的篇章,单独挑出来并作了介绍。

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