The real author of the _Regii Sanguinis Clamor_ neither lives among the Dutch,--is not "stabled" among them, to use your own expression--nor has he, I believe, anything in common with them ...
Vehemently and almost tragically you complain that I have upbraided you with your blindness.

I can positively affirm that I did not know till I read it in your own book that you had lost your eyesight.

For, if anything occurred to me that might seem to look that way, I referred to the mind [Note this sentence: the Latin is "_Nam, si quid forte se dabat quod eo spectare videretur, ad animum referebam_"] ...

Could I then upbraid you with blindness who did not know that you were blind,--with personal deformity who believed you even good-looking, chiefly in consequence of having seen the rather neat likeness of you prefixed to your Poems [Marshall's ludicrous botch of 1645 which Milton had disowned] ...
Nor did I know any more that you had written on Divorce.

I have never read that book of yours; I have never seen it ...