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The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660

CHAPTER II
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[A list of some of these, including _Orationes Argumenti Sacri, cum Poematiis_: the list closed with a statement that he has mentioned only his Latin works, and not his French Sermons].
Every now and then there is a passage of retaliation on Milton.

Here are two specimens: MILTON'S OWN CHARACTER AND REPUTATION:--"Do not think, obscurely though you live, that, because you have had the first innings in this game in the art of slander, you therefore stand aloft beyond the reach of darts.

You have not the ring of Gyges to make you invisible.

Your virtues are taken note of.

You are not such a person, my friend, that Fame should fear to tell lies even about _you_; and, unless Fame lies, there is not a meaner or more worthless man going, and nothing is clearer than that you estimate by your own morals the characters of other people.


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