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“