As for Harrington, _he's_ but a demi-semi in the Rump's music, and should be good at the cymbal; for he is all for wheeling instruments, and, having a good invention, may in time find out the way to make a concert of grindstones."[1] [Footnote 1: Pamphlet, of title and date given, in the Thomason Collection.

I have mended the pointing, but nothing else.] Such was the popular verdict, in March 1660, on Milton and his last pamphlet, and all his deserts and accomplishments in the world he had lived in for one-and-fifty years.

More of the like may be found on search; but I will pass to one retort on his _Ready and Easy Way_, of somewhat higher literary quality than the last, and which retains a certain celebrity yet.
It appeared on March 30, as a small quarto of sixteen pages, with this title: "_The Censure of the Rota upon Mr.Milton's Book, entituled 'The Ready and Easie Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth_.'" On the title-page is the imprint, "_London, Printed by Paul Giddy, Printer to the Rota, at the sign of the Windmill in Turne-againe Lane_.

1660," and also a professed extract from the minutes of the Rota Club, "_Die Luna 26 Martii_ 1660," certified by "_Trundle Wheeler, Clerk to the Rota_," authorizing and ordering Mr.Harrington, as Chairman of the Club, to draw up and publish a narrative of that day's debate of the Club over Mr.Milton's pamphlet, and to transmit a copy of the same to Mr.
Milton.

The thing, though it has been mistaken by careless people as actually a production of Harrington's, is in reality a clever burlesque by some Royalist, in which, under the guise of an imaginary debate in the Rota over Milton's pamphlet, Milton and the Rota-men are turned into ridicule together.