Volume II Part 87 (1/2)

[533] Float.

[534] Lat. _lympha_ is the same word as _Nympha_.

[535] Scene: the open country near Carthage.

[536] The reader will be reminded of Juliet's Nurse.

[537] Wencher.

[538] Scene; a room in Dido's palace.

[539] Plan.

[540] Old ed. ”honeys spoyles.”

[541] Old ed. ”her.” In the _Athenaeum_ for 10th May 1884, Dr. Karl Elze makes the plausible emendation, ”And _scent_ our pleasant suburbs with _perfumes_.”

[542] Rudder. Cf. 1 _Henry VI._ i. 1:--

”The king from Eltham I intend to send, And sit at chiefest _stern_ of public weal.”

[543] At l. 50 the stage-direction was ”Exit _Sergestus_ with Ascanius.”

[544] Plan.

[545] Requite.

[546] A word which it is not easy to supply has been omitted. Dyce's ”farewell [none]” and Cunninghan's ”Let me go _is_ farewell” are equally unsatisfactory.

[547] Old ed. ”chaunged.”

[548] Old ed. ”my”

[549] Cf. 1 _Tamburlaine_, v. 1. l. 21.

[550] Virgil, _aen._ iv. 317.

[551] Old ed. ”ad haec.”

[552] Virgil, _aen_. iv. 360.