At another place (pp.

141-2 of the volume) there is, by way of afterthought or extension, a larger and more express statement about the Iambics against Milton, which must here be translated in full: "Into what danger I was thrown," says Du Moulin, "by the first appearance of this Poem in the _Clamor Regii Sanguinis_ would not seem to me worthy of public notice now, were it not that the miracle of divine protection by which I was kept safe is most worthy of the common admiration of the good and the praise of the Supreme Deliverer.

I had sent my manuscript sheets to the great Salmasius, who entrusted them to the care of that most learned man, Alexander Morus.

This Morus delivered them to the printer, and prefixed to them an Epistle to the King, in the Printer's name, exceedingly eloquent and full of good matter.

When that care of Morus over the business of printing the book had become known to Milton through the spies of the Regicides in Holland, Milton held it as an ascertained fact that Morus was the author of the _Clamor;_ whence that most virulent book of Milton's against Morus, entitled _Defensio Secunda pro Populo Anglicano_.