This, as it stands, defies interpretation.

The _Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes_ appeared in April 1659, or eight months before the same.

There ought, I believe, to have been a full stop after _Hirelings_, and the rest should have run on thus:--"Just upon the King's coming over, having a little before been sequestered from his office of latin Secretary and the salary therunto belonging, he was force," &c.] * * * * * In office or out of office, it was the same to Milton.

He had determined that he would not be suppressed, that he would not be silent, till they should tie his hands, or gag his mouth.

There is no grander exhibition of dying resistance, of solitary and useless fighting for a lost cause, than in his conduct through April 1680.
Alone he then stood, we may say, the last of the visible Republicans.
Hasilrig, Scott, Ludlow, Neville, and Vane, had collapsed or were out of sight, the last under ban already by his former brothers of the Commonwealth; Needham was extinguished; most of the Cromwellians had gone over to the enemy, or were hastening to surrender.