Note 14 — Early Poems (continued 2)
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With this cf. Greene, James IV., v., 4:— “Should all things still remain in one estate Should not in greatest arts some scars be found Were all upright nor chang’d what world were this? A chaos made of quiet, yet no world.” And cf. Shakespeare, Coriolanus, ii., iii.:— What custom wills in all things should we do it, The dust on antique Time would be unswept, And mountainous error too highly heaped For Truth to overpeer.