Saxony

Mansus 84; Kings & Mag. 4. 473; Commonplace 112. Eleg. 4. 74; Hist. Brit. (3) 5. Ill, 113, 120, 127; The name in Hist. Brit, is always qualified with the adjective Milton defines it as “all that Coast of Germany and lying between the Rhene and Elve, the Nether-lands,”old.”... and from thence North as far as Eidora, the River bounding Holsatia.” He also speaks of it as “at this day Holstein in Denmark.” The Saxony of the time of Milton was a district in Thu ring i a and the lands to the eastward, with its capital at Wittenberg. 270