Notes to Chapter 1in Austin Texas, at the Humanities Research Center (Pre-1700 Manuscript 127); there
is an autotype in the Public Record Office, and a photograph in the British Library
(Add Ms 41,063. I, ff. 84–5.) See Chronology, 24.
42 Milton’s edition of Aphthonius’s Progymnasmata was the one that became standard for
150 years, translated and augmented by Reinhard Lorich (1546; 1596); it was often
reissued. See Walter MacKellar, ed. Latin Poems of John Milton (New Haven, Conn.,
1930), 365; and Clark, Milton at St Paul’s School, 206, 233, 235–7.
43 Stella Revard, Milton and the Tangles of Neaera’s Hair (Columbia, NY and London,
1997), 11–12, points also to the Greek epigrammatist Meleager and the Renaissance
poet Hieronymus Baldi as exemplars for this theme.
44 Mantuan, Sylvarum, Bk 4, Opera, 3 vols (Paris, 1513), II, f. 1904v.
45 Besides Hebrew, Milton could read the other oriental languages important for the Bi-
ble: Aramaic (which he called Chaldee) and Syriac. He proposed teaching those “dia-
lects” in the curriculum he designed in Of Education, and taught them to his nephews,
according to Edward Phillips (EL 61). So it seems likely that his own Hebrew studies
made a beginning in Aramaic and Syriac. See Gordon Campbell and Sebastian Brock,
“Milton’s Syriac,” MQ 27 (1993), 74–7.
46 Registers of St Stephen Walbrook, and of St Benet Sherehog, London, ed. W. Bruce Bannerman,
Harleian Society XLIX (1919), 60.
47 The document is in the Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 953). Edward Phillips (EL 53)
comments on the generous settlement.
48 Christopher Hill, Milton and the English Revolution (London, 1977), 27.
49 Joshua Sylvester, Bartas His Divine Weekes and Workes (London, 1605, 1621, etc.).
50 Variorum II.1, 111–18.
Chapter 2 “To Cambridge... for Seven Years” 1625–16321 See chapter 1, pp. 11–13
2 Samuel Johnson, Lives of the English Poets, ed. G. B. Hill, 3 vols (Oxford, 1905), I, 87.
3 See Stella P. Revard, Milton and the Tangles of Neaera’s Hair: The Making of the 1645
Poems (Columbia, Mo., 1997).
4 See Variorum I, 3–24; R. W. Condee, “The Latin Poetry of John Milton,” in The Latin
Poetry of the English Poets, ed. J. W. Binns (London, 1974), 58–92; and John K. Hale,
“Milton Playing with Ovid,” MS 25 (1989), 3–20.
5 LR I, 90–1. According to the (Latin) record of admission to Christ’s, “John Milton of
London, son of John, instituted in the elements of letters under Master Gill, prefect of
St Paul’s School, was admitted as a minor pensioner on February 12, 1624/5, under
Master Chappell. He paid for entrance ten shillings.” After he matriculated on April 9
he may have returned to London again, since the university was in vacation until the
beginning of Easter term (April 28).
6 James Bass Mullinger, The University of Cambridge, 3 vols (Cambridge, 1873–1911), I,
398–9.
7 Henry Peacham, The Compleat Gentleman (London, 1627), 33.
8 Their residence at Cambridge overlaps with Milton’s, at least briefly. See Mullinger,
University of Cambridge, II, 370–439; Masson, I, 111–45; and John Peile, BiographicalNotes to Chapter 1–2