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out his Pardon;^"'' and by means of that, when the Serjeant 

 of the house of Commons had officiously seisd him, was quickly 

 set at liberty. Hee had too at the first return of the Court 

 in ofood manners ^"*' left his house in Petty France, which had 

 a door into the Park;^**^ and in all other things demeaning 

 himselfe peaceably, was so farr from being reckon 'd disaf- 

 fected, that hee was visited at his house on Bun-hill by a 

 Chief Officer of State, and desir'd to imploy his Pen on thir 

 behalfe.^"* And w^hen the Subject of Divorce was under con- 

 sideration with the Lords, upon the account of the Lord Ross, 

 hee was consulted by an eminent^"" Member of that house."" 

 By the great fire in 1666 hee had a house in Bread street 

 burnt : w<^^ was all the Real Estate hee had. Hee rendred 

 his Studies and various Works more easy & pleasant by allot- 

 ting them thir several portions of the day. Of these the time 

 friendly to the Muses fell to his Poetry; And hee waking 

 early (as is the use of temperate men) had commonly a good 

 Stock of Verses ready against his Amanuensis came; which 

 if it happened to bee later then ordinary, hee would com- 

 plain. Saying hee wanted to hee milkd}^^ The Evenings hee 

 likewise spent in reading some choice Poets, by way of re- 

 freshment after the days toyl, and to store his Fancy against 

 ]\Iorning. Besides his ordinary lectures out of the Bible and 

 the^^^ be«5t Commentators on the week day. That was his 

 sole subject on Sundays. And Davids Psalms were in esteem 



"•^ Milton was set at liberty in December 1660. Professor Masson 

 conjectures that he was arrested between 13 Sept. and 6 Nov. The poet 

 must then have secured his pardon before the last-named date. Charles 

 II came to the throne in May, and the order for Milton's arrest was 

 issued 16 June. He was still at large 13 August (Masson, vi. 184-95). 



106 < j„ go<xl manners' substituted for 'prudently.' 



"'The omission of the name of the park suggests that the writer 

 was a Londoner. 



'* Richardson embodied this tradition in his introduction to Ex- 

 planatory Notes on Paradise Lost, p. c. ; Professor Masson rejects it. 



'"* ' an eminent ' substituted for ' no mean.' 



"" Wood inserts this passage earlier, in his discussion of Milton's 

 Divorce tracts. 



'" A remark of Milton not found elsewhere. 



"^ Substituted for ' its.' 



