760-769.

I have not myself examined Phillips's _New World of Words_; but I have looked at the Thomason copy of his _Mysteries of Love and Eloquence_, where the date of publication is given.

Perhaps Godwin is a little too severe in his account of it.] During the month immediately preceding his wife's death, and the two months following it, there is a break in the series of Milton's State-Letters for Cromwell.

But he resumed the familiar occupation on the 30th of March, 1658; and thenceforward to the end of the Protectorate the series is again pretty continuous.

Indeed, of this period of Milton's life we know little more than may be inferred from, or associated with, the following morsels of his continued Secretaryship:-- (CXVIII.) To CHARLES X., KING OF SWEDEN, _March_ 30, 1658:--The occasion of this letter was the receipt of news at last of the climax of the Swedish-Danish war in a great triumph of the Swedes.