sification; of which it will be best to give his own account subjoined to this line:
Nor can the glory contain itself in th' endless space.
"I am sorry that it is necessary to admonish the most part of readers, that it is not by negligence that this verse is so loose, long, and, as it were, vast; it is to paint in the number the nature of the thing which it prescribes, which I would have observed in divers other places of this poem, that else will pass for very careless verses: as before,
And over-runs the neighb'ring fields with violent course.
"In the second book;
Down a precipice deep, down he casts them all.—
"—And,
And fell a-down his shoulders with loose care.
"In the third,
His breast a thick plate of strong brass he wore.
"In the fourth,
Like some fair pine o'er-looking all th' ignobler wood.
