But was he also partially the author?
Here too Milton's evidence may be taken as conclusive, so far as respects the Dedicatory Epistle to Charles II.

That Epistle, with its enormous praises of Salmasius, and its extremely malignant notice of Milton, was undoubtedly by Morus, for copies of it signed by himself were still extant.

So far, therefore, Milton was right in saying that Morus's denial of the authorship of the _Regii Sanguinis Clamor_ was an equivocation, resting on a tacit distinction between the body of the book and the additional or editorial matter.

In several passages Morus himself had betrayed this equivocation, but in none so remarkably as in a sentence to the peculiar phrasing of which we called attention in quoting it (ante p.

159).