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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: nothing is more pleasing to God, or more agreeable to reason,
than that the highest mind should have the sovereign power.
Such, sir, are you, by general confession: such are the things
achieved by you, the greatest and most glorious of our
countrymen, the director of our public councils, the leader of
unconquered armies the father of your country; for by that title
does every good man hail you with sincere and voluntary praise."]
On the landing of Charles II. Milton withdrew to the privacy
afforded by a residence in Bartholomew Close, near West
Smithfield. For a time he was apprehensive of punishment. His
pamphlet justifying the late king's execution was, with others of
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