Volume II Part 86 (2/2)

[510] Scene: before the cave.

[511] The line is unrhythmical and corrupt. Qy. ”That can _call forth the winds_”?

[512] Old ed. ”Tiphous.”

[513] Still, hushed.

[514] Old ed. ”eares.”

[515] Scene: a room in Iarbas' house.

[516] The epithet ”gloomy,” here and in l. _2_, contrasts oddly with ”_Father of gladness and all frolic thoughts_.”

[517] Elissa (Dido).

[518] Scene: a room in Dido's palace.

[519] Old ed. ”the.”

[520] Cf. Faustus, scene xiv.--”And burnt the _topless_ towers of Ilium.”

[521] Old ed. ”beames,”--a mistake, as Dyce observed, for ”reames” (a common form of ”realms).”

[522] Old ed. ”my.”

[523] ”Coll” = cling round the neck.

[524] Scene: a room in Dido's palace.

[525] Old ed. ”Circes.”

[526] It is related in the fifth book of the Iliad how Aphrodite shrouded aeneas in a cloud when he was hard-pressed by Diomed.--Old ed.

”fleest.”

[527] Old ed. ”Heavens.”

[528] Desire, order.

[529] Old ed. ”loues.”

[530] Cf. _Faustus_.--

”Sweet Helen, make me _immortal with a kiss_.”

[531] Intrigued.

[532] Old ed. ”he.”

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