It was one of the maxims of the Spartans, not to press upon a flying army, and therefore their enemies were always ready to quit the field, because they knew the danger was only in opposing. The civility with which you have thought proper to treat me, when you had incontestable superiority, has inclined me to make your victory complete, without any further struggle, and not only publickly to acknowledge the truth of the charge which you have hitherto advanced, but to confess, without the least dissimulation, subterfuge,or concealment, every other interpolation I have made in those authors, which you have not yet had opportunity to examine. On the sincerity and punctuality of this confession, I am willing to depend for all the future regard of mankind, and cannot but indulge some hopes, that they whom my offence has alienated from me, may by this instance of ingenuity and repentance, be propitiated and reconciled. Whatever be the event, I shall at least have done all that can be done in reparation of my former injuries to Milton, to truth, and to mankind, and entreat that those who shall continue implacable, will examine their own hearts, · whether they have not committed equal crimes with'out equal proofs of sorrow, or equal acts of atonement *. * The interpolations are distinguished by Italick characters. PASSAGES PASSAGES interpolated in MASENIUS. The word pandemonium in the marginal notes of Book I. Essay, page 1o. CITATION VI. Essay, page 38. Adnuit ipsa dolo, malumque (heu! longa dolendi Materies ! & triste nefas !) vesana momordit Tanti ignara mali. Mora nulla, solutus Ayernus Exspuit infandas acies; fractumque remugit Divulsa compage solum. Nabathæa receptum Regna dedere sonum, Pharioque in littore Nereus Territus erubuit: simul adgemuere dolentes Hesperiæ valles, Libyæque calentis arenæ Exarsere procul. Stupefacta Lycaonis ursa Constitit, & pavido riguit glacialis in axe: Omnis cardinibus submotus inhorruit orbis; Angeli hoc efficiunt, cælestia jussa secuti. Citation VII. Essay, page 41. Illa quidem fugiens, sparsis per terga capillis, Ora rigat lacrimis, & cælum questibus implet: Talia voce rogans. Magni Deus arbiter orbis ! Qui rerum momenta tenes, solusque futuri Præscius, elapsique memor: quem terra potentem Imperio, cælique tremunt; quem dite superbus Horrescit Phlegethon, pavidoque furore veretur: En! Styge crudeli premimur. Laxantur hiatus Tartarei, dirusque solo dominatur Avernus, Infernique canes populantur cuncta creata, Et manes violant superos: discrimina rerum Sustulit Sustulit Antitheus, divumque oppressit honorem. Respice Sarcotheam: nimis, heu! decepta momordit Infaustas epulas, nosque omnes prodidit hosti. CITATION VIII. Essay, page 42, the whole passage. Quadrupedi pugnat quadrupes, volucrique volucris ; CITATION IX. Essay, page 43. Vatibus antiquis numerantur lumine cassis, Tiresias, Phineus, Thamyrisque, & magnus Homerus. The above passage stands thus in Masenius, in one line: Tiresias cæcus, Thamyrisque, & Daphnis, Homerus. N. B. The verse now cited is in Masenius's Poems, but not in the Sarcotis. 1 Τ Α Τ ΙΟΙ Citation X. Essay, page 46. Persimilis Persimilis turri præcelse, aut montibus altis Passages interpolated in Grotius. Citation I. Essay, page 55. CITATION II. Essay, page 58, the whole passage. Nam, me judice, Citation IV. Essay, page 61, the whole passage. Citation V. Essay, page 63. Citation VI. Essay, ibid. Quod illud animal, tramite obliquo means, Ad me volutum flexili serpit viâ ? Sibila retorquet ora setosum caput CITATION VII. Essay, page 65, the whole passage. - Nata deo! atque homine sata ! Regina mundi ! eademque interitus inscia ! Cunctis colenda! CITATION VIII. Essay, page 66, the whole passage. CITATION IX. Essay, ibid. Per sancta thalami sacra, per jus nominis Citation X. Essay, page 67, the whole passage. (Adeoque |