[Footnote 3:]

Poetics

, cap. xi.

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[Footnote 4:]

that

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[Footnote 5:]

Dediction of the Æneid; where, after speaking of small claimants of the honours of the Epic, he says,

'Spencer has a better for his "Fairy Queen" had his action been finished, or been one; and Milton if the Devil had not been his hero, instead of Adam; if the giant had not foiled the knight, and driven him out of his stronghold, to wander through the world with his lady-errant; and if there had not been more machining persons that human in his poem.'