ABSTRACT
Date. 1650. M.'s Defensio was entered in the Stationers' Register 31 Dec. 1650. It was a reply to the Defensio Regia Pro Carolo I, published in Holland (1649), which the English Royalists had employed Claude de Saumaise (1588–1653), one of the greatest classical scholars of the seventeenth century, to write. In his Defensio (Columbia vii 428–9) M. mocks at Saumaise's misuse of English terms in the Defensio Regia, and adds this epigram (an adaptation of Persius, Prologue 8–14: ‘Who was it that made the parrot so glib with his “Good morning”? …, with the words and phrases which are copied exactly from Persius italicized.
