text:  From the same epistle we would recommend to the consideration of the Pontius Pilates of our era the numerous poets who choose none but awfully perilous themes and who re-enact tremendous mysteries more confidently than if they were all Miltons the annexed judicious admonition:-- "Plays made from holy tales I hold unmeet; Let some great story of a man be sung; When as a man we God and Jesus treat In my poor mind we do the Godhead wrong