the native liberty of
mankind; turning all virtue into prescription, servitude, and
necessity, to the great impairing and frustrating of Christian
Liberty."

As if the very closeness of the vision of returning Royalty had
rendered Milton's defiance of it more desperate and reckless, he
inserts, wherever he can, some new expression of his contempt for
Charles and all his family, and of his prophetic horror of the state
of society they will bring in. Thus:--

"There will be a Queen of no less charge, in most likelihood
outlandish and a Papist, besides a Queen-Mother, such already,
together with both their Courts and numerous Train: then a Royal
issue, and ere long severally _their_ sumptuous Courts, to the
multiplying of a servile crew, not of servants only, but of
nobility and gentry, bred up then to the hopes not of public, but
of court offices, to be Stewards, Chamberlains, Ushers, Grooms."

But the most terrific new passage in prediction of the Restoration
and its revenges is the following: in which the reader will observe
also the recognition, as in one spurn of boundless scorn, of the
Royalist scurrilities against himself:--

"Admit that Monarchy of itself may be convenient to some nations;
yet to us who have thrown it out, received back again, it cannot
but prove pernicious. For Kings to come, never forgetting their
former ejection, will be sure to fortify and arm themselves
sufficiently for the future against all such attempts hereafter
from the People; who shall be then so narrowly watched and kept so
low that, though they would never so fain, and at the same rate of
their blood and treasure, they never shall be able to regain what
they now have purchased and may enjoy, or to free themselves from
any yoke imposed upon them. Nor will they dare to go about
it,--utterly disheartened for the future, if these their highest
attempts prove unsuccessful: which will be the triumph of all
Tyrants hereafter over any People that shall resist oppression; and
their song will then be to others _How sped the Rebellious
English?_, to our posterity _How sped the Rebels your
fathers?_.... Yet neither shall we obtain or buy at an easy rate
this new gilded yoke which thus transports us. A new Royal Revenue
must be found, a new Episcopal,--for those are individual: both
which, being wholly dissipated or bought by private persons, or
assigned for service done, and espec