Lucifer.‍To what was before thee!

The phantasm of the world; of which thy world

Is but the wreck.

Cain.‍What! is it not then new?

Lucifer. No more than life is; and that was ere thou

Or I were, or the things which seem to us

Greater than either: many things will have

No end; and some, which would pretend to have

Had no beginning, have had one as mean

As thou; and mightier things have been extinct