Blount concluded, as Milton had done, by recommending that any book might be printed without a license, provided that the name of the author or publisher were registered.

[389] The Just Vindication was well received.

The blow was speedily followed up.

There still remained in the Areopagitica many fine passages which Blount had not used in his first pamphlet.

Out of these passages he constructed a second pamphlet entitled Reasons for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing.