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 IO r. JOHN MILTON. Areopagitica. 1644. {a) Areopagitica : A Speech of Mr, John Milton For the Liberty of Vnlicendd Printing, To the Par- liament of England, (b) A Decree of Starre- Chamber, concerning Print- ing, made the eleuenth of July last past, 1637. (c) An Order of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament for the Regulat- ing of Printing, &c. 1643. Lord Macaulay. He at- tacked the licensing system in that sublime treatise which every statesman should wear as a sign upon his hand, and as frontlets between his eyes. — Edinburgh Review,#. 344, August 1825. H. Hallam. Many pas- sages in this famous tract are admirably eloquent : an in- tense love of liberty and truth flows through it : the majestic soul of Milton breathes such high thoughts as had not been uttered before. — Introduction to the Literature of Europe , iii. 660. Ed. 1839. W. H. Prescott. The most splendid argument, per- haps, the world had then witnessed on behalf of in- tellectual liberty. — History of Ferdinand and I sabella, iii. 391. Ed. 1845. English Reprints. 2. HUGH LATIMER. Ex-Bishop of Worcester. The Ploughers. I S49- A notable Sermon of ye reuerende father Master Hughe Latimer, whiche he preached in ye Shrouds at paules churche in London on the xviii daye of fanuarye, SirR. Morison. Did there ever any one (I say not in England only, but among other nations) flourish since the time of the Apostles; who preached the gospel more sin- cerely, purely, and honestly, than Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester. — Apo maxis Calumniarum. . quibus Joannes Cocleus &c., f. 78. Ed. 1537. It was in this Sermon, that Latimer (himself an ex- Bishop) astonished his gener- ation, by saying that the Devil was the most diligent Prelate and Preacher in all England. “Ye shal neuer fynde him idle I warraunte you." 3 - STEPHEN GOSSON Stud. Ox on- The School of Abuse. I 579* (a) The Schoole of Abuse. Conteining a pleasaunt inuective against Poets, Pipers , Plaiers , festers , and such like Caterpillers of a Common wealth ; Setting vp the Flagge of Defiance to their mischieuous exercise , and ouerthrowing their Bulwarkes , by Prophane Writers , Naturall reason and common experience. I 579- (b) An Apologie of the Schoole of Abuse , against Poets , Pipers , Players , and their Excusers. [Decl 1579- V This attack is thought to have occasioned Sir Philip Sidney’s writing of the follow- ing Apologie for Poesie. Gosson was, in succession, Poet, Actor, Dramatist, Satir- ist, and a Puritan Clergyman.