nephew Philips, under whose name he published an answer so much
corrected by him, that it might be called his own, imputed it to
Bramhal; and, knowing him no friend to regicides, thought themselves
at liberty to treat him as if they had known what they only
suspected.

Next year appeared "Regii Sanguinis clamor ad Coelum." Of this the
author was Peter du Moulin, who was afterwards prebendary of
Canterbury; but Morus, or More, a French minister, having the care
of its publication, was treated as the writer by Milton, in his
"Defensio Secunda," and overwhelmed by such violence of invective,
that he began to shrink under the tempest, and gave his persecutors
the means of knowing the true author. Du Moulin was now in great
danger; but Milton's pride operated against his malignity; and both
he and his friends were more willing that Du Moulin should escape
than that he should be convicted of mistake.

In this second Defence he shows that his eloquence is not merely
satirical; the rudeness of his invective is equalled by the
grossness of his flattery, Deserimur, Cromuelle tu solus superes, ad
te summa nostrarum rerum, rediit, in te solo consistit, insuperabili
tuae virtuti cedimus cuncti, nemine vel obloquente, nisi qui
aequales inaequalis ipse honores sibi quaerit, aut digniori
concessos invidet, aut non intelligit nihil esse in societate
hominum magis vel Deo gratum, vel rationi consentaneum, esse in
civitate nihil aequius, nihil utilius, quam potiri rerum
dignissimum. Eum te agnoscunt omnes, Cromuelle, ea tu civis
maximus, et gloriosissimus, dux publici consilii, exercituum
fortissimorum imperator, pater patriae gessisti. Sic tu spontanea
bonorum omnium et animitus missa voce salutaris.