An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton / Comprising All the Autobiographic Passages in His Works, the More Explicit Presentations of His Ideas of True Liberty.

by John Milton

P. [48]. never be forgotten by any revolution of time: i.e. as Hales explains, caused to be forgotten.

P. [48]. other parts: i.e. of the world.

P. [48]. in time of parliament: there was no parliament assembled from 1629 to 1640.

P. [48]. without envy: without exciting any odium against me.—Hales.

P. [48]. he whom an honest quæstorship: Cicero, 75 B.C.

P. [48]. Verres: pro-prætor in Sicily, 73-71 B.C. Cicero's Verrine orations were directed against his extortions and exactions.

To Lucas Holstenius. (Familiar Letters, No. IX.)

P. [49]. Lucas Holstenius: see [note], p. 21.

P. [49]. Alexander Cherubini: Roman friend of Milton, 'known in his lifetime as a prodigy of erudition, though he died at the early age of twenty-eight.'

P. [49]. Virgil's 'penitus convalle virenti': Virgil's 'souls enclosed within a verdant valley, and about to go to the upper light.'