But, if Morland took the speech with him, unless he wrote it himself and had it approved before his departure, who so likely to have furnished it as Milton?
All in all, that is the most probable conclusion; and anything un-Miltonic in the speech may be accounted for by supposing that, though the Latin was Milton's, the substance was not entirely his.
Morland, though he does not say in his book that the speech was furnished him, does not positively claim it as his own.

He, at all events, used the liberty of deviating from the original draft.] (LV.) TO THE EVANGELICAL SWISS CANTONS, _May 25, 1655_[1]:--His Highness in this letter recapitulates the facts at some length, and expresses his conviction that the Cantons, so much nearer the scene of the horrors, are already duly roused.

He informs them that he has written to the Duke of Savoy and hopes the intercession may have effect; but adds, "If, however, he should determine otherwise, we are prepared to exchange counsels with you on the subject of the means by which we may be able most effectively to relieve, re-establish, and save from certain and undeserved ruin, an innocent people oppressed and tormented by so many injuries, they being also our dearest brothers in Christ."[2] [Footnote 1: So dated in the official copy as dispatched, and as printed in Morland's book, pp.

581-562; but draft dated "_Westmonasterio, May 19, 1655_" in the Skinner Transcript, the Printed Collection, and Phillips.] [Footnote 2: One of the phrases in this letter about the poor Piedmontese Protestants is "_nunc sine tare, sine teoto, ...

per monies desertos atque nives, cum conjugibus ac liberis, miserrime vagantur_." The phrase occurs almost verbatim in Morland's speech to the Duke of Savoy--"_sine lare, sine tecto ...