[412] "Mugeroun (Maugiron) fell in a duel: Anquetil, _Hist. de France_, t. v. 344, ed. 1817: but Saint-Mégrin, the gallant of the Duchess of Guise, _was_ assassinated. 'Ils dressèrentu ne embuscade à la porte du Louvre. Comme Saint-Mégrin, en sortoit la nuit, des assassins apostés se jetèrent sur lui, et l'étendirent sur le pavé, percé de trente-cinq coups. Il vécut cependant jusqu au lendemain.' Anquetil, _Ibid._ p. 347."--_Dyce._ [413] Pension, maintenance. [414] Collier's correction for the old copy's "sexious." [415] Quit, free. [416] It cannot be determined where this scene takes place. [417] Dyce reads "'A takes" (_i.e._ "He takes"); but the omission of a personal pronoun, where the sense is plain, occurs not unfrequently. [418] Scene: a room in the royal palace at Blois. [419] Cf. _2 Tamburlaine_ iv. 3:--"Mounted his shining chariot" (for "mounted _in_"). [420] Dyce conjectures that Guise must have seen himself in a mirror as he uttered these words. [421] Set. [422] Order. [423] Scene: the interior of a prison at Blois. [424] Scene: a room in Dumaine's house, at Paris. [425] Old ed. "_His life_ and all," &c. [426] Scene: Saint-Cloud. [427] Old ed. "Lucrecia walles." [428] Old ed. "Jacobus." [429] Old ed. "their." [430] Dyce's correction for "_incense_ ... to kiss the _holy_ earth." He compares _Edward II._ (I. 4, ll. 100, 101):-- "I'll fire thy crazed buildings, and _enforce_ The papal towers to kiss the _lowly_ ground." [431] The bracketed words were inserted by Dyce. [432] Dyce's correction for the old copy's "for." FOOTNOTES FOR: "THE TRAGEDY OF DIDO, QUEEN OF CARTHAGE" [433] Old ed. "aire." [434] "This expression is well illustrated by Titian's[?] picture (in the National Gallery) of the rape of Ganymede.--In Shakespeare's _Love's Labour's Lost_, act v. sc. 2, we have,-- 'A lady _wall'd-about_ with diamonds!'"--_Dyce._ [435] This speech is undoubtedly by Marlow, but it is curious that Nashe, in _Summer's Last Will and Testament_ speaks of the amusement caused among the gods by the sight of Vulcan's dancing:--"To make the gods merry the celestial clown Vulcan tuned his polt foot to the measures of Apollo's lute, and danced a limping galliard in Jove's starry hall." (Hazlitt's _Dodsley_, viii. 91). In both passages there is perhaps an allusion to the lines in the first book of the _Iliad_ (599-600), describing how "unquenchable laughter rose among the blessed gods when they saw Hephæstus limping through the hall." [436] Surprised. [437] The stars were the children of Astræus and Eos. See Hesiod, _Theogony_, ll. 381-2. [438] These rhyming lines are suggestive of Nashe. [439] "Parce metu, Cytherea; manént immota tuorum Fata tibi." Virg. _Æn._ i. 257-8. [440] "Hic jam ter centumt totos regnabitur annos Gente sub Hectorea." Virg. _Æn._ i. 272-3.