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He secreted himself in London, and when he returned to the public eye in the winter, found himself no farther punished than by a general disqualification for the public service, and the disgrace of a public burning inflicted on his "Eikonoclastes," and his "Defensio pro Populo Anglicano."
Having such an antagonist, inferior to him in all possible qualifications, whether of nature, of art, of situation, it may be supposed that Milton's triumph was absolute. He was now thoroughly indemnified for the poor success of his "Eikonoclastes." In that instance he had the mortification of knowing that all England read and wept over the king's book, while his own reply was scarcely heard of.
'Youths, said the Phoenix, 'sons of misfortune, hear my words. 'My eyes! said Ike. 'Look out, Ike, said Urb, 'you'll throttle the joker and I see at wunst 'e was wuth 'is weight in flimsies.'00 'Hearken, O Eikonoclastes, despiser of sacred images and thou, Urbanus, dweller in the sordid city. Forbear this adventure lest a worse thing befall.
As the only one that seemed fitted to it in kind, Milton drew up a running commentary upon each separate head of the original; and as that had been entitled the king's image, he gave to his own the title of "Eikonoclastes, or Image-breaker," "the famous surname of many Greek emperors, who broke all superstitious images in pieces."
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