He was much more admired abroad than at home." This corresponds with all our own evidence hitherto, though we have heard nothing of those invitations and offers of foreign preferment of which Aubrey speaks.
[Footnote 1: The copy I have seen of Guentzer's _Dissertatio_ is in the British Museum Library.

The figure "17" is inserted in MS.
after the word "_die_" in the title-page.] In May 1658, three or four months before Cromwell's death, there was published in London a little volume of about 200 pages, with this title-page: "_The Cabinet Council; Containing the chief Arts of Empire, and Mysteries of State; Discabineted in Political and Polemical Aphorisms, grounded, on Authority, and Experience; And illustrated with the choicest Examples and Historical Observations.
By the Ever-renowned Knight, Sir Walter Raleigh, published by John Milton Esq._-Quis Martem tunica tectum Adamantina digne scripserit ?-_London, Printed by Tho.

Newcomb for Tho.

Johnson at the sign of the Key in St.Pauls Churchyard, near the West-end, 1658."_ Prefixed to the body of the volume, which is divided into twenty-six chapters, is a note "_To the Reader,"_ as follows: "Having had the manuscript of this Treatise, written by Sir Walter Raleigh, many years in my hands, and finding it lately by chance among other books and papers, upon reading thereof I thought it a kind of injury to withhold longer the work of so eminent an author from the public: it being both answerable in style to other works of his already extant, as far as the subject would permit, and given me for a true copy by a learned man at his death, who had collected several such pieces.-JOHN MILTON."[1] [Footnote 1: There were subsequent reprints of Raleigh's _Cabinet Council_ from this 1658 edition by Milton, with changes of title.

See Bohn's Lowndes under _Raleigh_] By far the most interesting fact, however, in Milton's literary life under the Second Protectorate is that he had certainly, before its close, resumed his design of a great English poem, to be called Paradise Lost.