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 indignatio, and it is from this perennial spring that a steady flow of eulogy has irrigated the history of satire.

A representative of the Elizabethan group is Marston:

"I would show to be Tribunus plebis, 'gainst the villainy Of those same Proteans, whose hypocrisy Doth still abuse our fond credulity."

Milton manages here as elsewhere to sound a clarion note over the clash of seventeenth century partisanship:

"A taste for delicate satire cannot be general until refinement of manners is general likewise; till we are enlightened enough to comprehend that the legitimate object of satire is not to humble an individual, but to improve the species. * * * For a satire as it is born out of a tragedy so it ought to resemble its parentage, to strike high, to adventure dangerously at the most eminent vices among the greatest persons."

Defoe echoes Dryden, both speaking with reasonable consistency; and even Pope tries to make out a case for himself. But the completest paean is from the pen of John Brown. His poetic analysis begins at the beginning:

"In every breast there burns an active flame, The love of glory, or the dread of shame: The passion one, though various it appear, As brighten'd into hope, or dimm'd by fear.