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. [87]. 'Cry' of that kind 'to Heaven': the reference is to the Regii Sanguinis Clamor ad Cœlum, adversus Parricidas Anglicanos (The Cry of the Royal Blood to Heaven against the English Parricides).

P. [87]. Morus: Alexander More, whom Milton supposed to be the author of 'The Cry of the Royal Blood to Heaven.' See [note], p. 248.

To Leonard Philaras. (Familiar Letters, No. XV.)

P. [89]. Phineus: see [note] on 'P. L.,' iii. 36, in this volume.

P. [89]. Salmydessus: a town of Thrace, on the coast of the Black Sea.

P. [89]. Argonautica: a heroic poem on the Argonautic expedition, by Apollonius Rhodius.

P. [89]. κάρος δέ μιν ἀμφεκάλυψεν:

'A darkling maze now round about him drew,

The earth from underneath seemed whirling fast,

In languid trance he lay bereft of speech.'