BRITANNICUS (to servant).
Nay, the mullet.
Ner. Lucan, what say you for your art?
LUCAN.
I claim
The first place for it, and I say ’tis proved
Nobler than any plastic art in this;
It needs not tools nor gross material,
And hath twin doors to the mind, both eye and ear.
Nay, even of drama Aristotle held,