[326]. Defence of Poetry. An Apologie for Poetry, 1595.

VII. CHARACTER OF LORD BACON’S WORKS, Etc.

One of the wisest. Pope’s Essay on Man, Epis. iv. 282.

As in a map. Cowper’s Task, vi. 17.

[327]. Large discourse. Hamlet, IV. 4.

[331]. Sir Thomas Brown. Sir Thomas Browne (1605–1682).

[333]. The bosoms and businesses. Dedication to Bacon’s Essays.

Find no end. Paradise Lost, II. 561.

Oh altitudo. Religio Medici, Part I. ‘I love to lose myself in a mystery, to pursue my reason to an O altitudo!’

[334]. Differences himself by. Religio Medici, Part I. ‘But (to difference my self nearer, and draw into a lesser Circle).’