As it is, I have had to take my descriptions of both from the copies in the collective Prose Works.

By the bye, it is an error in bibliographers and editors to give only the titles of old books from the original title-pages, without adding the imprints of the publishers.

Much historical and biographical information lies in such imprints.

In the present instance, for example, I should have liked very much to know whether Livewell Chapman was nominally the publisher of the second edition as well as of the first, or whether Milton was obliged to put forth the second edition without any publisher's name.] Among the _additions_ the most prominent is this motto (an extension of Juvenal I.15, 16) prefixed to the whole:-- "_Et nos_ _Consilium dedimus Syllae: demus Populo nunc_"; which may be translated:-- "We have advised Sulla himself: advise we now the People." Had this been prefixed to the first edition, the inevitable conclusion would have been that Sulla stood for Oliver Cromwell, and that Milton meant that, having taken the liberty in his _Defensio Secunda_ of tendering wholesome advices even to the great Protector in the height of his power, it might be allowed to him now to advise the general body of his countrymen.

Much would have depended then on Milton's estimate of the character of the real or Roman Sulla.