Note 34 — II HENRY VAUGHAN 1621-1695
Reading edition
Mr. R. H. Stoddard owns a copy of the first edition of Nieremberg’s Meditations, translated by Vaughan in 1654, and published the following year, which has upon the title-page an autographic “J. M.” supposed, by every evidence, to be Milton’s. If it be so, the busy Latin Secretary, meditating his grand work, must have been, on his part, a reader and a lover of the man who was almost his equal at golden phrases.