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Charles Ii And Milton
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CHARLES II. and his brother James went to see Milton, to reproach him,
and finished a profusion of insults with saying, You old villain! your
blindness is the visitation of Providence for your sins.--If
Providence, replied the venerable bard, has punished my sins with
blindness, what must have been the crimes of your father which it
punished with death!
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