Miles. Marie, sir, he doth but fulfill, by rehearsing of these names, the fable of the Fox and the Grapes: that which is above us pertains nothing to us. 21
Burden. I tell thee, Bacon, Oxford makes report,
Nay, England, and the court of Henrie saies,
Th' art making of a brazen head by art,
Which shall unfold strange doubts and aphorismes, 25
And read a lecture in philosophie;
And, by the helpe of divels and ghastly fiends,
Thou meanst, ere many yeares or daies be past,
To compasse England with a wall of brasse.
Bacon. And what of this? 30