[Footnote 394: Christian Priest: "But we by martyrdom our faith avow." Montezuma: "You do no more than I for ours do now. To prove religion true, If either wit or sufferings would suffice, All faiths afford the constant and the wise, And yet even they, by education sway'd, In age defend what infancy obeyed." Christian Priest: "Since age by erring childhood is misled, Refer yourself to our unerring head." Montezuma: "Man, and not err! what reason can you give?" Christian Priest: "Renounce that carnal reason, and believe...." Pizarro: "Increase their pains, the cords are yet too slack." --"The Indian Emperor," V. 2.] [Footnote 395: "Tyrannic Love," III. 5, 1. When dying Maximin says: "And shoving back this earth on which I sit, I'll mount, and scatter all the Gods I hit."] [Footnote 396: "Aureng-Zebe," V. 4, 1. Dryden thought he was imitating Racine, when six lines further on he makes Nourmahal say: "I am not changed, I love my husband still; But love him as he was, when youthful grace And the first down began to shade his face: That image does my virgin-flames renew, And all your father shines more bright in you." Racine's Phèdre (2, 5) thinks her husband Thesus dead, and says to her stepson Hippolytus: "Oui, prince, je languis, je brûle pour Thésée: Je l'aime... Mais fidèle, mais fier, et même un peu farouche, Charmant, jeune, traînant tous les coeurs après soi, Tel qu'on dépeint nos dieux, ou tel que je vous voi. Il avait votre port, vos yeux, votre langage; Cette noble pudeur colorait son visage." According to a note in Sir Walter Scott's edition of Dryden's works, Langbaine traces this speech also to Seneca's Hippolytus.--Tr.] [Footnote 397: "The Indian Emperor," I. 2.] [Footnote 398: "Aureng-Zebe," V. 2, 1.] [Footnote 399: "Marriage à la Mode," IV. 3, 1.] [Footnote 400: "The first image I had of him was from the Achilles of Homer, the next from Tasso's Rinaldo, and the third from the Artaban of Monsieur Calpranède."--Preface to "Almanzor."] [Footnote 401: "The Moors have heaven, and me, to assist their cause" "I'll whistle thy tame fortune after me" (3, 1). He falls in love, and speaks thus: "'Tis he; I feel him now in every part; Like a new lord he vaunts about my heart, Surveys in state each corner of my breast, While poor fierce I, that was, am dispossess'd'" (3, 1).] [Footnote 402: Compare the song of the Zambra dance in the first part of "Almanzor and Almahide."] [Footnote 403: The first part of "Almanzor and Almahide," IV. 5, 2.] [Footnote 404: "The Indian Emperor," II. 1, 1.] [Footnote 405: The first part of "Almanzor and Almahide," IV. 2, 1. This same Lyndaraxa says also to Abdalla (4, 2), "Poor women's thoughts are all extempore." These logical ladies can be very coarse; for example, this same damsel says in Act 2, 1, to the same lover, who entreats her to make him "happy, If I make you so, you shall pay my price."]