_Milton in Prose_ (Vol. vi., p. 340.).--I know of one performance in the
French language, which answers the description of _Milton in Prose_: it is
a rhapsody entitled _Le Paradis Terrestre, Poëme imité de Milton_, by
Madame Dubocage: London, 1748. The French themselves had so poor an opinion
of it, that one of their wits, the Abbé Yart, has ridiculed it in the
following epigram:
"Sur cet écrit, charmante Dubocage,
Veux-tu savoir quel est mon sentiment?
Je compte pour _perdus_, en lisant ton ouvrage,
Le Paradis, mon temps, ta peine, et mon argent."