Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley

book called “Icon Basilike,” which the council of state, to whom he was

now made Latin Secretary, employed him to censure, by inserting a prayer taken from Sidney’s “Arcadia,” and imputing it to the king, whom he charges, in his “Iconoclastes,” with the use of this prayer, as with a heavy come, in the indecent language with which prosperity had emboldened the advocates for rebellion...