To Cyriack Skinner - J. Milton

77 To Cyriack Skinner
The seventy-seventh poem in the collection. (* additional details below )

*NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK:

Themis: the goddess of justice. Skinner was grandson by his mother to Sir E. Coke;—hence, as pointed out by Mr. Keightley, Milton's allusion to the bench.

what the Swede intends, and what the French: Sweden was then at war with Poland, and France with the Spanish Netherlands.