[Footnote 2:  This principle admitted of general application.  For example, astrological books were to be licensed by John Booker, who could by no means see his way to pass the prognostications of his rival Lilly without “many impertinent obliterations,” which made Lilly exceeding wroth.]

[Footnote 3:  Two persons of this uncommon name are mentioned in the State Papers of Milton’s time—­one a merchant who imported a cargo of timber; the other a leatherseller.  The name also occurs once in Pepys.]

[Footnote 4:  Rossetti’s sonnet, “On the Refusal of Aid between Nations,” is an almost equally remarkable instance.]

[Footnote 5:  The same is recorded of Friedrich Hebbel, the most original of modern German dramatists.]

[Footnote 6:  In his “Urim of Conscience,” 1695.  This curious book contains one of the first English accounts of Buddha, whom the author calls Chacabout (Sakhya Buddha, apparently), and of the “Christians of St. John” at Bassora.]

[Footnote 7:  Ariosto and Marcellus Palingenius.  Both these wrote before Ronsard, to whom the thought is traced by Pattison, and Valvasone, to whom Hayley deems Milton indebted for it.]

[Footnote 8:  We cannot agree with Mr. Edmundson that Milton was in any respect indebted to Vondel’s “Adam’s Banishment,” published in 1664.]

[Footnote 9:  Theocritus, Idyll I.; Lang’s translation.]

INDEX.

A.

Adam, not the hero of “Paradise Lost,” 155

Adonais compared with Lycidas, 51

Aldersgate Street, Milton’s home in, 67, 83

“Allegro, L.,” 49-50

Andreini, his “Adamo” supposed to have suggested “Paradise Lost,” 169

Anglesey, Earl of, visits Milton, 186

“Animadversions upon the Remonstrant,” 72

“Apology for Smectymnuus,” 72

“Arcades,” 44

“Areopagitica, the,” 78;
  argument of, 79-82

Arian opinions of Milton, 159, 191

Ariosto, Milton borrows from, 164

Artillery Walk, Milton’s last house, 144

“At a Solemn Music,” 33

Aubrey’s biographical notices of Milton, 14, 15, 19, 24, 129, 144, 145

B.

Ball’s Life of Preston, 23

Barbican, Milton’s house in the, 96

Baroni, Leonora, admired by Milton, 62

Beddoes, T.L., on Milton and Vondel, 170

Benrath on Ochino’s “Divine Tragedy,” 171

Blake on Milton, 179

Bradshaw, Milton’s praise of, 120

Bread Street, Milton born in, 16

Bridgewater, Lord, “Comus” written in his honour, 45

Bright, John, his admiration for Milton, 164.

British Museum, copy of Milton’s poems in, 97;
  proclamation against Milton’s books preserved in the, 139

Buckhurst, Lord, his admiration of “Paradise Lost,” 177