...of chastity in his personal life indicates its centrality to his political efforts and convictions: "He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things — not pretending to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he...

...thoughts, without transgression. And long it was not after, when f was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem,0 that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things, not presuming to sing...

...the poet must always be critical in his reading, extracting what is best from other writers, he adds: "he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himselfe to bee a true Poem, that is, a composition, and patterne of the best and honourablest things;...

...feel grief yourself." In Smectymnuus [CPW 1 .890], Milton observes with great depth of judgment that "he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought him selfe to bee a true Poem, that is, a composition and patterne of the best and honourablest things...

.../ Non Anglus, verum hercle Angelus ipse fores" (The Poems of John Milton, ed. Darbishire, 514). 14. "[H]e who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought him selfe to bee a true Poem, that is, a composition, and pattern of the best and honourablest things;...

...a marvellous artist" anticipates Milton's famous prescription for himself, Apology for Smectymnuus, "he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem." 36 turgidulus is a rare diminutive, found at Cat. 3.18 flendo turgiduli rubent ocelli, "her darling...