26 following, when he received thirty-six stripes upon his naked back with a threefold cord, his hands being tied to a stake, and then stood almost two hours in the pillory in the frost and snow, before he was branded in the face, his nose slit, and his ears cut off; that after this he was carried by water to the Fleet, and shut up in such a room that he was never well, and after eight years was turned into the common gaol."] [Footnote 131: An answer to the "Eikon Basilike," a work on the king's side, and attributed to the king.] [Footnote 132: "Of Reformation in England," 4 to, 1641, p. 62.] [Footnote 133: "Of Reformation in England."] [Footnote 134: The loss of Cicero's works alone, or those of Livy, could not be repaired by all the Fathers of the church.] [Footnote 135: "Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce," Mitford, II. 4.] [Footnote 136: Ibid. II. 5.] [Footnote 137: "Areopagitica," Mitford, II. 423.] [Footnote 138: "Areopagitica," Mitford, II. 439.] [Footnote 139: Ibid. 437-8.] [Footnote 140: Ibid. 441.] [Footnote 141: "Animadversions upon Remonstrants' Defence," Mitford, I. 234-5.] [Footnote 142: "Of Reformation in England," first book, Mitford, I. 23.] [Footnote 143: Ibid., second book, Mitford, I. 42.] [Footnote 144: "Of Reformation in England," book first, Mitford, I. 3.] [Footnote 145: "Areopagitica," II. 411-12.] [Footnote 146: "Of Reformation in England," book second, 40.] [Footnote 147: "Areopagitica," II. 406. "Whatsoever time, or the heedless hand of blind chance, hath drawn down from of old to this present, in her huge drag-net, whether fish or sea-weed, shells or shrubs, unpicked, unchosen, those are the fathers." ("Of Prelatical Episcopacy," Mitford.)] [Footnote 148: "Areopagitica," Mitford, II. 400.] [Footnote 149: Ibid. II. 404.] [Footnote 150: "Areopagitica," II. 431-2.] [Footnote 151: When he is simply comic, he becomes, like Hogarth and Swift, eccentric, rude and farcical. "A bishop's foot that has all his toes, maugre the gout, and a linen sock over it, is the aptest emblem of the prelate himself; who, being a pluralist, may, under one surplice, which is also linen, hide four benefices, beside the great metropolitan toe."--"An Apology," etc. I. 275.] [Footnote 152: "Of Reformation in England," Mitford, I. 17.] [Footnote 153: Ibid. I. 71. (The old spelling has been retained in this passage.--Tr.)] [Footnote 154: "Of Reformation in England," Mitford.] [Footnote 155: Ibid. I. 68-69.] [Footnote 156: "Animadversions," etc., ibid. 220-2.] [Footnote 157: See the "Hymn on the Nativity"; amongst others, the first few strophes. See also "Lycidas."] [Footnote 158: "Arcades," line 32.] [Footnote 159: "Cornus," lines 188-190.] [Footnote 160: "Cornus," lines 21-23.] [Footnote 161: "Ode at a Solemn Musick," lines 6-11.] [Footnote 162: "Lycidas," lines 136-151.] [Footnote 163: "Faust," Prolog im Himmel.] [Footnote 164: See the prophecy against Archbishop Laud in "Lycidas," line 130: