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Life of John Milton

CHAPTER IV
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They were probably sold separately.

The frontispiece, engraved by Marshall, is unfortunately a sour and silly countenance, passing as Milton's, but against which he protests in four lines of Greek appended, which the worthy Marshall seems to have engraved without understanding them.

The British Museum copy in the King's Library contains an additional MS.
poem of considerable merit, in a hand which some have thought like Milton's, but few now believe it to have been either written or transcribed by him.

It is dated 1647, but for which circumstance one might indulge the fancy that the copy had been a gift from him to some Italian friend, for the binding is Italian, and the book must have seen Italy.
Milton was now to learn what he afterwards taught, that "they also serve who only stand and wait." He had challenged obloquy in vindication of what he deemed right: the cross actually laid upon him was to fill his house with inimical and uncongenial dependants on his bounty and protection.

The overthrow of the Royalist cause was utterly ruinous to the Powells.


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