Denham.
What have I done?
Vane.
Not what you have tried to do—to paint an epic picture.
Denham.
Is that wrong?
Vane.
Worse than wrong; it is a bêtise. (Comes to fire, and stands with his back to it.) You might as well try to write a long poem. Such things are certainly long, and as certainly not poems. That huge thing is not a picture.
Denham.