[Milton-L] Looking for a Line or Two

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Dear Carter:
I missed the original post, but I think this may be what you're looking
for; check the final lines of this sonnet:

On the New Forcers of Conscience under the
Long Parliament

BEcause you have thrown of your Prelate Lord,
And with stiff Vowes renounc't his Liturgie
To seise the widdow'd whore Pluralitie
>From them whose sin ye envi'd, not abhor'd 

Dare ye for this adjure the Civill Sword [ 5 ]
To force our Consciences that Christ set free,
And ride us with a classic Hierarchy
Taught ye by meer A. S. and Rotherford? 

Men whose Life, Learning, Faith and pure intent
Would have been held in high esteem with Paul [ 10 ]
Must now be nam'd and printed Hereticks 

By shallow Edwards and Scotch what d' ye call:
But we do hope to find out all your tricks,
Your plots and packing wors then those of Trent, 

That so the Parliament [ 15 ]
May with their wholsom and preventive Shears
Clip your Phylacteries, though bauk your Ears, 

And succour our just Fears
When they shall read this clearly in your charge
New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large. [ 20 ] 


Original Message:
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From: Richard Hardiman richard.hardiman at greyfriars.ox.ac.uk
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:00:37 +0000
To: milton-l at lists.richmond.edu
Subject: Re: [Milton-L] Looking for a Line or Two


Try this:

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/contents/index.shtml

You can search these texts by pressing control + f and typing whatever you
can remember of the line. If you have the latest version of firefox it'll
let you search without going to a separate dialogue box. As long as you can
remember a bit of a line you can zip through all the texts looking for it in
ten mins, tops. Invaluable.

Rich

ps - sorry if that assumed less computer knowledge then you have - best to
play on the safe side.

On 12/17/06, Sanford Blackburn <antinomian2 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am looking for a line or two in which Milton compares Presbyterians and
> Presbyters to Episcopalians and bishops--declaiming both parties as being
> uninspired, authoritarian, corrupt by their own power, and so on. The
> lines
> I seek might be a rhyming couplet, but I do not recall precisely.
>
> Thanks in advance for pointing the way,
>
> Carter Kaplan
>
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