On Milton.
Three Poets, in three distant ages born,
Greece, Italy, and England did adorn;
The first in loftiness of thought surpassed,
The next in majesty, in both the last.
The force of nature could no further go;
To make a third she joined the other two.
JOHN BUNYAN.
1628-1688.
Apology for his Book.
And so I penned
It down, until at last it came to be,
For length and breadth, the bigness which you see.
Some said, "John, print it," others said,
"Not so."
Some said, "It might do good," others said,
"No."