Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1910 — Milton's Reply. [ARTICLE]

Milton's Reply.

Milton, besides being an excellent poet, could, if the occasion offered and circumstances demanded, make a sharp retort. In a letter to the London Spectator the writer quotes an anecdote which he found among some family papers. It was originally related by his great-great-grandfather in 1762. King Charles 11. had the curiosity to see Milton, and in the course of conversation said to him: , “God hath punished you for your mallee, and bo forth, to my father by taking away your sight” “Aye,” Milton is said to have replied, “but before I lost my eyes, he ln»t big head."