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* * "But this is not all. My noble friend's plan is not merely to insti- tute a lottery in which some writers will draw prizes aud some will draw blanks. His lottery is so contrived that, in the vast majority of cases, the blanks will fall to the best books, and the prizes to books of inferior merit. " Take Shakspeare. My noble friend gives a longer protection than I should give to ' Love's Labor's Lost, ' and ' Pericles, Prince of Tyre ;' but he gives a shorter jH-otection than I should give t...o 'Othello' and 'Macbeth. ' " Take Milton. Milton died in 1674. The copyrights of Milton's great works would, according to my noble friend's plan, expire in 1699. ' Comus' 122 LIFE AND LETTERS OF [chap. Ix. When he resumed his seat, Sir Robert Peel walked across the floor, and assured him that the last twenty minutes had rad- appeared in 1634, the ' Paradise Lost ' in 1668. To ' Comus, ' then, my no- ble friend would give sixty-five years of copyright, and to ' Paradise Lost' only thirty-one years.
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