Tuz LIFE OF MILTON. 411 verbs Parricidias Anglicanos. The true author of this book was Peter du Moulin the younger, who was afterwards prebandary of Canterbury : and he tranfmitted his papers to Salmafius ; and Sal- mafius intruded them to the care of Alexander Morus, a French Miniffer ; and Mortis publifned. them with a dedication to King Charles II. in the name of Adrian Ulac the printer, from whence he came to be reputed the author of the whole. This Morns was the fon of a learned Scotchman, who was prefident of the college, which the proteftants had formerly at Cadres in Languedoc ; and he is Paid to have been a man of a molt haughty difpofition, a.lel immoderately addicted to women, 'taffy, ambitious, full of himfelf and his own per,. formances, and fatirical upon all others. He was however efteemed one of the molt eminent preachers of that age among the proteftants ; but as Monfieur Byle obferves, his chief talent mutt have confided in the gracefulnefs of his delivery, or in thole fallies of imagination and quaint turns and allufions, whereof his fermons are full ; for they retain not thofe charms in reading, which they were laid to have formerly in the pulpit. Againit this man therefore, as the reputed author of Regii fanguinis Clamor, Sec. Milton . publifbed by authority his Second Defenfe of the people of England, Defenfio Secunda pro populo Anglicano in 1654, and treats Morns with Inch feverity as nothing could have excufed, if he had not been provoked to it by fa much abufe poured upon himfelf. There is one piece of his wit, which had been publifhed before in the news-papers at London, a diftich upon Morus for getting Panda the maid-fervant of his friend Salmafius with child. Galli ex concubitu gravidam te, Pontia, Mori Quis bene moratam morigeramque neget ? Upon this Mortis published his Fides Publica in anfwer to Milton, in which he inferted feveral teftimonies of his orthodoxy and morals figned by the confiftories, academies, fynods, and magiftrates of the places where he had lived ; and difowned his being the author of the book imputed to him, and appealed to two gentlemen of great credit with the Parliament party, who knew the real author. This brought Du
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