inter to the
Reader_," a brief explanatory Preface. "You have here, good Reader,"
he says, "the missing remainder of the edition of a Treatise which we
lately printed and published under the title _Aleaxandri Mori Fides
Publica contra calumnias Joannis Miltoni_. This remainder that
Reverend gentleman has sent me from France. Of the whole matter judge
as may seem fair and just to you. Let it suffice for me to have
satisfied your curiosity. Farewell." It must have been this
_Supplementum_ of Morus, reaching London perhaps in April 1655,
or perhaps during the first busy correspondence about the Piedmontese
massacre, that delayed the appearance of Milton's already written
Rejoinder to the imperfect _Fides Publica_. He would notice this
"Supplement" as well as the volume already published, and so have
done with Morus altogether.

[Footnote 1: Vaughan's _Protectorate_, I. 73; where "Mr. Miton"
appears as "Mr. Hulton."]

Morus's _Supplementum_ consists of 105 pages, added to the
original _Fides Publica_, but numbered onwards from the last
page there, so as to admit of the binding of the two volumes into one
volume consecutively paged, though with two title-pages, differently
dated. The matter also proceeds continuously from the point at which
the _Fides Publica_, broke off. Referring to the testimony borne
to his character in the venerable Diodati's Letter from Geneva to
Salmasius, dated May 9, 1648, and connecting it with Milton's mention
of his personal acquaintance with Diodati formed in his visit to
Geneva in 1639, Morus addresses Milton thus:

"This is that John Diodati upon whom you cast no small stain by
your praise, and who truly, if he were alive, would prefer to be in
the number of those who are vituperated by you. Would he
_were_ alive! How he would beat back your pride, not indeed
with other pride, but with the gravest smile of contempt! How he
would despise in his great mind your thoughts, sayings, acts, all
in one! How he would anticipate your fine satire, and, moved with
holy loathing, spit upon it! '_With him_,' you say, '_I had
daily society at Geneva_.' But what did you learn from him? What
of desirable contagion did you carry away from his acquaintance?
Often have we heard him enumerating those friends he had in your
country whom he commended on the score of either learning or
goodness. Of _you_ we never heard a syllable from him."

Then, after telling of his affectionate part