[Footnote 109: This epithet to a dolphin doth not give one so clear an idea as were to be wished; a smiling fish seeming a little more difficult to be imagined than a flying fish. Mr. Dryden is of opinion that smiling is the property of reason, and that no irrational creature can smile: "Smiles not allow'd to beasts from reason move."--"State of Innocence." ] [Footnote 110: These lines are written in the same key with those in the Earl of Essex: "Why, say'st thou so? I love thee well, indeed I do, and thou shalt find by this 'tis true." Or with this in Cyrus: "The most heroic mind that ever was." And with above half of the modern tragedies.] [Footnote 111: Aristotle, in that excellent work of his, which is very justly styled his masterpiece, earnestly recommends using the terms of art, however coarse or even indecent they may be. Mr. Tate is of the same opinion. "_Bru._ Do not, like young hawks, fetch a course about. Your game flies fair. _Fra._ Do not fear it. He answers you in your hawking phrase."--"In Love." I think these two great authorities are sufficient to justify Dollallolla in the use of the phrase, "Hie away, hie!" when in the same line she says she is speaking to a setting-dog.] [Footnote 112: We meet with such another pair of scales in Dryden's King Arthur: "Arthur and Oswald, and their different fates, Are weighing now within the scales of heaven." Also in Sebastian:-- "This hour my lot is weighing in the scales." ] [Footnote 113: Mr. Rowe is generally imagined to have taken some hints from this scene in his character of Bajazet; but as he, of all the tragic writers, bears the least resemblance to our author in his diction, I am unwilling to imagine he would condescend to copy him in this particular.] [Footnote 114: This method of surprising an audience, by raising their expectation to the highest pitch, and then baulking it, hath been practised with great success by most of our tragical authors.] [Footnote 115: Almeyda, in Sebastian, is in the same distress:-- "Sometimes methinks I hear the groan of ghosts, Thin hollow sounds and lamentable screams; Then like a dying echo from afar, My mother's voice that cries, Wed not, Almeyda; Forewarn'd, Almeyda, marriage is thy crime." ] [Footnote 116: "As very well he may, if he hath any modesty in him," says Mr. D--s. The author of Busiris is extremely zealous to prevent the sun's blushing at any indecent object; and therefore on all such occasions he addresses himself to the sun, and desires him to keep out of the way. "Rise never more, O sun! let night prevail. Eternal darkness close the world's wide scene."--"Busiris." "Sun, hide thy face, and put the world in mourning."--_Ibid._ Mr. Banks makes the sun perform the office of Hymen, and therefore not likely to be disgusted at such a sight: "The sun sets forth like a gay brideman with you."--"Mary Queen of Scots." ]