In it, he crosses out a lewd anecdote and dismisses it as inappropriate.
In Milton's exact words, it was: 'an unbecom[ing] / tale for a hist[ory] / and as pedlerl[y] / expresst'.
Milton is renowned as an enemy of press censorship, but here we see he was not immune to prudishness.
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