The International Prester John Project: How A Global Legend Was Created Across Six Centuries

Paradise Lost

John Milton alludes to Prester John in Book XI of Paradise Lost (1667), in which Milton's Adam describes the dissemination of his descendents across the world:

Nor did his eyes not ken
Th'empire of Negus, to his utmost port,
Ercoco, and the less maritime kings,
Mombaza and Quiloa and Melind

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