Such Bickerings To Recount, Met Often In These Our Writers, What More
Worth Is It Than To Chronicle The Wars Of Kites Or Crows Flocking
And Fighting In The Air?
Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more
worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking
and fighting in the air?
-- John Milton (1608-1674)
-- The History of England, Book iv
By this time, like one who had set out on his way by nigh and travelled
through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives
on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn,
representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and
shapes....
