On the Bontia affair specifically, Salmasius's express words, not only to Dr.Crantzius, but to others whom he names, had been, "If Morus is guilty, then I am the pimp, and my wife the procuress." As to the sequel of the case Dr.Crantzius is ignorant; and he furnishes Ulac with this preface to the Book only in the interests of truth.

But what a quarrelsome fellow Milton must be, who had not kept his hands off even the "innocent printer"! The "innocent printer's" own preface to the Reprint shows him to have been a very shrewd person indeed.

He keeps his temper better than any of them.

Two years had elapsed., he says, since he printed the _Regii Sanguinis Clamor_.

Who the real author of the book was he did not even yet know.