Poets. But this I may reserve for a Discourse by it self, because I would not break the Thread of these Speculations, that are designed for English Readers, with such Reflections as would be of no use but to the Learned.
I must however observe in this Place, that the breaking off the Combat between
Gabriel
and
Satan
, by the hanging out of the Golden Scales in Heaven, is a Refinement upon
Homer's
Thought, who tells us, that before the Battle between
Hector
and