'Wretch,' I cried, 'thy God hath lent thee – by these angels he has sent thee Respite – respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore!
He spoke, "I would speake it to Gods Glory [that] you have bine an Instrument of doing some good amongst us ... he hath given you a sharp apprehension, a ready utterance and abilitie to exprese yourselfe in the Cause of God".
The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious; If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
It is a somewhat Masonic experience; you realize that there were no witnesses to your fall from grace because everyone who works there seems to be somewhere in the back, and it's really dark in there (and therefore grace arguably never hath left you).
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
At the end of the first day of the trial, Winthrop recorded, "Mrs. Hutchinson, the court you see hath labored to bring you to acknowledge the error of your way that so you might be reduced.
And yet, you wanton rampallian, you hath sunk my BATTLESHIP".
No, Faustus, curse thyself, curse Lucifer That hath depriv'd thee of the joys of heaven.
On the other side of the argument, he was praised by Blake, Wordsworth ("Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: /England hath need of thee...".) and Hazlitt, who wrote of Milton's imagination melting down, "as in a furnace, the most contradictory materials".
But the LORD hath not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
