Well, that was all one [said Milton]; he having writ it [the _Defensio Secunda_], it should go into the world: one of them was as bad as the other.'"-- _Bentrovato_; but there is at least one vital particular in which neither Du Moulin's amusing statement in 1670 nor Aubrey's subsequent anecdote seems to be consistent with the exact truth as already before us in the documents.

The secret of the real authorship of the _Regii Sanguinis Clamor_ had been better and longer kept than Du Moulin's statement would lead us to suppose.

Even Ulac in 1654, as we have seen, while declaring that Morus was not the author, could not tell who else he was.

Morus himself did then know, having been admitted into the secret, probably from the first; and several others then knew, having been told in confidence by Salmasius, Morus, or Du Moulin.

Charles II.