To beasts or fowls of th' air,

I'll sacrifice to them, that they may know

I can be civil too.

X. 7 The great storm of September 2, 1658, the day before Cromwell's death.

18 Marvell in 1678, and Otway in The Atheist, 1684, first mentioned the vicus infaustus which humour (or the want of it) renamed 'Milton' Street, from the proximity of Bunhill Fields.


Epode XI. To Pettius his Chamber-fellow.

Ah, Pettius! I have done with Poetry,

I've parted with my liberty