The Acrostic Paradise Lost by John Milton and Terrance Lindall
The first ever acrostic that tells the story as the proem goes along. Contains most of Lindall's art for Paradise Lost. Signed and numbered hardcover is $300. milton@wahcenter.net
The first ever acrostic that tells the story as the proem goes along. Contains most of Lindall's art for Paradise Lost. Signed and numbered hardcover is $300. milton@wahcenter.net
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Defensio Regio & Defensio pro Populo Anglicano<br />
Bound Together<br />
Collection of the Yuko Nii Foundation<br />
Left: <strong>Terrance</strong> <strong>Lindall</strong>, President of the Yuko Nii Foundation<br />
n 1649, in November, appeared the work for which many remember Salmasius best: his royalist tract Defensio regia<br />
pro Carolo I provoked <strong>by</strong> the execution of Charles I.<br />
Defensio pro Populo Anglicano is a Latin polemic <strong>by</strong> <strong>John</strong> <strong>Milton</strong>, published in 1651. <strong>The</strong> full title in English is<br />
<strong>John</strong> <strong>Milton</strong> an Englishman His Defence of the People of Engl<strong>and</strong>.[ <strong>The</strong> work includes invective against Salmasius<br />
<strong>and</strong> accusations of that scholar's inconsistency for taking contradictory positions. <strong>Milton</strong> also claims Salmasius wrote<br />
his work only due to being bribed with a "hundred Jacobuses" <strong>by</strong> the exiled son of Charles, who would later become<br />
King Charles II of Engl<strong>and</strong>.[4] <strong>The</strong> level of ad hominem attack is high:<br />
“...It were better for you to return to those illustrious titles of yours in France: first to that hunger starved<br />
Seigneurie of St. Loup, <strong>and</strong> next to that sacré Council of the Most Christian King; you are too far abroad from<br />
your own country for a counsellor. But I see full well that France desires not either you or your counsel, <strong>and</strong> did<br />
not, even when you were back a few years ago, <strong>and</strong> were beginning to smell out <strong>and</strong> hunt after a Cardinal's<br />
kitchen. She is right, <strong>by</strong> my troth, she is right, <strong>and</strong> can willingly allow you, you French capon, with your<br />
mankind wife <strong>and</strong> your desks chock-full of emptiness, to w<strong>and</strong>er about, till somewhere in creation you light<br />
upon a dole bountiful enough for a grammarian-cavalier or illustrious hippo-critic,--always supposing any king<br />
or state has a mind to bid highest for a vagabond pedant that is on sale....”<br />
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