Note 124 — AN ESSAY OF DRAMATIC POESY.
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The insurrection in Scotland, in Charles I.'s time, inflamed Cleiveland as much as the nation. We have often heard of poetic fire, but he is the only author who calls for a bucket of water to quench it:
Ring the bells backward, I am all on fire; Not all the buckets in a country quire Shall quench my rage—