But I wish the anonymous author would come forth some time or other openly in his own name....

What then would Milton think?
He might have reason to fame and detest the light of life, being manifestly convicted of lying before the world.

He might say, indeed, "I had not thought of it: I have been under a mistake" ...

But what if I prove by clear evidence that you knew well enough already that the author of this book was another person, not I?
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[Morus then goes on to say that Milton might have learnt the fact in various ways, even from a comparison of the style of the book with that of Morus's acknowledged writings; but he lays stress chiefly on the information actually sent to Milton in 1652 by Ulac, and on the subsequent communications to him, through Durie and the Dutch Ambassador Nieuport, before the _Defensio Secunda_ had left the press] ...