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| | §4. His life during the commonwealth. V. Milton. Vol. 7. Cavalier and Puritan. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21 |
 | | Those with Ussher and Hall had, at least, the excuse, in matter if not in manner, of religious convictions; the divorce tracts, of intense personal interest; Eikonoklastes, of political consistency; and Defensio pro Populo Anglicano, of the same, and of official commission. |
| | Although Milton’s regular official duties of translation and writing seem to have been rather multifarious than hard, they were, in themselves, not good for a man with very weak eyesight; and his unfortunate aptitude for pamphleteering marked him out for overtime work, which was still worse. |
| | Milton cooked his spleen for two whole years, rummaged the continent for scandal against Morus, refused to believe the latter’s true assertion that he was only the editor of the book and, in May, 1654, published a Defensio Secunda which is simply a long, clumsy, would-be satiric invective against his enemy. |
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