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wickedness of man was great in the earlh ». Etc. (i). Les remarques précédentes s'appliquent aux rapprochements suivants dûs encore à Lauder :

« 0 ! tliat nien (Canst tliûu believe?) should be so stupid grown. While yet the Patriark Uv'd. whoscap'd the Flood, As to forsake the living God, and fall To worship tlieir own work in Wood and Stone For Gods ! » (2) .

« Alas ! what may I of that race présume

Next th'ireful Flame that shall this Frame consume. Whose gut their god, whose lust their law shall l)e, Who shall not hearof God, nor yet of me ? Sith those outrageons, that began their birth On th'holy groundsill of sweet Eden's earth. And (yet) the sound of Heav'ns drad Sentence hear, And as ey-witness of mine Exile were, Seem to de.spight God » (3) .

« 0 strange to bebeleev'd! the blessed Race, The sacred Flock, whom God by speciall grace^ Adopts for his, ev'n thev (Alas !) most shameless Do follow Sin, most beastly-brute and tameless With lustful eys chusing for wanton Spouses Mens wicked daughters ; mingling so the bouses Of Selh and Gain, preferring foolishly Frail beauties blaze to vertuous modesty « (4).

Si nous refusons d'admettre que Milton ait fait à Du Bartas les emprunts systématiques que lui repro-