BULLER.
Would that Lord Bacon were here!
NORTH.
And thus we are led to a deeper truth. The Metrical Epos imitates History, without doubt, as Lord Bacon says—it borrows thence its mould, not rigorously, but with exceeding bold and free adaptations, as the Iliad unfolds the Ten Years' War in Seven Weeks. But for the Poet, more than another, ALL IS IN ALL.
SEWARD.
Sir?
NORTH.
What is the Paradise Lost, ultimately considered?
BULLER.
Oh!