[Footnote 117: Neurmahal sends the same message to heaven: "For I would have you, when you upwards move, Speak kindly of us to our friends above."--"Aurengzebe." We find another to hell in the Persian Princess: "Villain, get thee down To hell, and tell them that the fray's begun." ] [Footnote 118: Anthony gives the same command in the same words.] [Footnote 119: "Oh! Marius, Marius, wherefore art thou, Marius?"--Otway's "Marius." ] [Footnote 120: Nothing is more common than these seeming contradictions; such as-- "Haughty weakness."--"Victim." "Great small world."--"Noah's Flood." ] [Footnote 121: Lee hath improved this metaphor: "Dost thou not view joy peeping from my eyes, The casements open'd wide to gaze on thee? So Rome's glad citizens to windows rise, When they some young triumpher fain would see."--"Gloriana." ] [Footnote 122: Almahide hath the same contempt for these appetities: "To eat and drink can no perfection be.--"Conquest of Granada." The Earl of Essex is of a different opinion, and seems to place the chief happiness of a general therein: "Were but commanders half so well rewarded, Then they might eat."--Banks's "Earl of Essex." But, if we may believe one who knows more than either, the devil himself, we shall find eating to be an affair of more moment than is generally imagined: "Gods are immortal only by their food."-- "Lucifer, in the State of Innocence."] [Footnote 123: "This expression is enough of itself," says Mr. D., "utterly to destroy the character of Huncamunca!" Yet we find a woman of no abandoned character in Dryden adventuring farther, and thus excusing herself: "To speak our wishes first, forbid it pride, Forbid it modesty; true, they forbid it, But Nature does not. When we are athirst, Or hungry, will imperious Nature stay, Nor eat, nor drink, before 'tis bid fall on?"-- "Cleomenes." Cassandra speaks before she is asked: Huncamunca afterwards. Cassandra speaks her wishes to her lover: Huncamunca only to her father.] [Footnote 124: "Her eyes resistless magic bear: Angels, I see, and gods, are dancing there,"--Lee's "Sophonisba." ] [Footnote 125: Mr. Dennis, in that excellent tragedy called Liberty Asserted, which is thought to have given so great a stroke to the late French king, hath frequent imitations of this beautiful speech of king Arthur: "Conquest light'ning in his eyes, and thund'ring in his arm." "Joy lighten'd in her eyes." "Joys like light'ning dart along my soul." ] [Footnote 126: "Jove, with excessive thund'ring tired above, Comes down for ease, enjoys a nymph, and then Mounts dreadful, and to thund'ring goes again."--"Gloriana." ] [Footnote 127: This beautiful line, which ought, says Mr. W----, to be written in gold, is imitated in the New Sophonisba: