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 describes, which I would have observed in
divers other places of this poem, that else will pass as very
careless verses: as before,

AND OVER-RUNS THE NEIGHB'RING FIELDS WITH VIOLENT COURSE.

"In the second book:

DOWN A PRECIPICE DEEP, DOWSE HE CASTS THEM ALL -

"And,

AND FELL A-DOWN HIS SHOULDERS WITH LOOSE CARE.

"In the third,

BRASS WAS HIS HELMET, HIS BOOTS BRASS, AND O'ER
HIS BREAST A THICK PLATE STRONG BRASS HE WORE.

"In the fourth,