he had destroyed monarchy, and commenced monarch himself, under the
title of Protector, but with kingly and more than kingly power.
That his authority was lawful, never was pretended; he himself
founded his right only in necessity; but Milton, having now tasted
the honey of public employment, would not return to hunger and
philosophy, but, continuing to exercise his office under a manifest
usurpation, betrayed to his power that liberty which he had
defended. Nothing can be more just than that rebellion should end
in slavery; that he, who had justified the murder of his king, for
some acts which seemed to him unlawful, should now sell his
services, and his flatteries, to a tyrant, of whom it was evident
that he could do nothing lawful.

He had now been blind for some years; but his vigour of intellect
was such, that he was not disabled to discharge his office of Latin
secretary, or continue his controversies. His mind was too eager to
be diverted, and too strong to be subdued.

About this time his first wife died in childbed, having left him
three daughters. As he probably did not much love her, he did not
long continue the appearance of lamenting her; but after a short
time married Catharine, the daughter of one Captain Woodcock, of
Hackney, a woman doubtless educated in opinions like his own. She
died, within a year, of childbirth, or some distemper that followed
it; and her husband honoured her memory with a poor sonnet.

The first reply to Milton's "Defensio Populi" was published in 1651,
called "Apologia pro Rege et Populo Anglicano, contra Johannis
Polypragmatici (alias Miltoni) defensionem destructivam Regis et
Populi." Of this the author was not known; but Milton and his