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The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660

Note 1 — Chapter I · (continued 4)

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: Copy of Killing no Murder (first edition, much rarer than a second and enlarged edition of 1659) among the Thomason Pamphlets, with the date "June 1657" marked on it: Wood's Ath. IV. 624-5; Godwin, IV. 388-390 (where the pamphlet is assumed to have been out "early in May"); Carlyle, III, 67. After the Restoration, Sexby being then dead, the pamphlet was claimed by another.—An answer to Killing no Murder, under the title Killing is Murder, appeared Sept. 21, 1657. It was by a Michael Hawke, of the Middle Temple.

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