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'To this sonnet we have prefixed the title, which the author himself
has in the Manuscript. In the Manuscript this sonnet was written by
another hand, and gad this title "On his door when the City expected
an assault:" but this he scratched out, and wrote with his own hand
"When the assault was intended to the City." The date was also
added 1642, but blotted out again: and it was in November 1642 that
the King marched with his army as near as Brentford, and put the city
in great consternation. Milton was then in his 34th year.
(line 10: The great Emathian conqueror &c): When Alexander the
great took Thebes, and entirely ras'd the rest of the city, he order'd
the house of Pindar to be preserv'd out of regard to his memory: and
the ruins of Pindar's house were to be seen at Thebes, in
Pausanias's time, who lived under Antoninus the philosopher.
(line 12: --- And the repeated air &c): I suppose this refers to a
passage in Plutarch's Life of Lysander. When that general had taken
Athens, he proposed to change the government. Some say he
moved in council that the Athenians might be reduced to slavery,
when at the same time Erianthus the Theban proposed wholly to
destroy the city, and leave the country desolate: but a little afterwards
at an entertainment of the captains, one of them repeated some
verses out of Euripides's Electra.'
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