Note 43 — SHAKESPEARE—A THEORY
Reading edition
Milton’s versification of the Psalms is much worse than Bacon’s, and if there were any doubt as to the authorship of Paradise Lost, and Lycidas, and L’Allegro, and Il Penseroso, and Milton were known only as the writer of this versification of the Psalms, it would be confidently asserted that he could not possibly be the author of the above-mentioned works. [Ed.]