Let 'the highly distinguished man,' especially as an Ambassador, hold me excused if I would not, and really could not, condone public injuries on private intercessions." Before Milton passes to the review of Morus's vindication of his character and past career, he disposes of Dr.Crantzius and Ulac, as objects intervening between him and that main task.

For the _Fides Publica_, it will be remembered, had been bound up with that Hague edition of Milton's _Defensio Secunda_ to which the Rev.Dr.
Crantzius had prefixed a preface in rebuke of Milton and in defence of Morus, and to which Ulac had also prefixed a statement replying to Milton's charges against him of dishonesty and bankruptcy.

Several pages are given to Dr.Crantzius, who is called "a certain I know not what sort of a bed-ridden little Doctor," then taxed with ignorance, garrulity, and general imbecility, and at last kicked out of the way with the phrase "But I do marvellously delight in Doctors." Ulac, as having been reckoned with before, receives briefer notice.

"_You are a swindler, Ulac_, said I; _I am a good Arithmetician_, says Ulac:" so the notice begins; and then follow some sentences to the effect that Ulac's creditors had been very ill satisfied with his _counting_, that the rule of probity is not the _Logarithmic canon_, that correct accounts are different things from _Tables of Sines_ or _Tables of Tangents and Secants_, and that acting on the square is not necessarily taught by _Trigonometry_.

After which Milton reverts to Ulac's double-dealings with himself, first in his fathering the abusive Dedication of the _Regii Sanguinis Clamor_ while he was corresponding with Milton's friends in London and making kind inquiries about Milton's health, and next in bringing out a pirated edition of the _Defensio Secunda_, printing the same inaccurately, and actually binding it up with the _Fides Publica_ of Morus, so as to compel a united sale of the two books for his own profit.