is marked for deletion, and has these words prefixed to it in Du Moulin's hand; "_Epistola, quam aiunt esse Alexandri Mori, quae mihi valde non probatur_" ("Epistle which they say is by Alexander Morus, and which is not greatly to my taste"),[1] All the rest, therefore, was his own.

But, to remove all possible doubt, we have the still more complete and exact information furnished by him in 1670, Milton then still alive and in the first fame of his _Paradise Lost_.

In that year there appeared from the Cambridge University Press a volume entitled _Petri Molinaei P.F.[Greek: Parerga]: Poematum Libelli Tres_.

It was a collection of Dr.Peter Du Moulin's Latin Poems, written at various times of his life, and now arranged by him in three divisions, separately title-paged, entitled respectively "Hymns to the Apostles' Creed," "Groans of the Church" (_Ecclesiae Gemitus_), and "Varieties." In the second division were reprinted the two Latin Poems that had originally formed part of the _Regii Sanguinis Clamor_, with their full titles as at first: to wit, the "Eucharistic Ode," to the great Salmasius for his _Defensio Regia_, and the set of scurrilous Iambics "To the Bestial Blackguard John Milton, Parricide and Advocate of the Parricide." With reference to the last there are several explanations for the reader in Latin prose at different points in the volume.

At one place the reader is assured that, though the Iambics against Milton, and some other things in the volume, may seem savage, zeal for Religion and the Church, in their hour of sore trial, had been a sufficient motive for writing them, and they must not be taken as indicating the private character of the author, as known well enough to his friends.