[471] Mr. Symonds has an excellent criticism on this passage in _Shakespeare's Predecessors_, 664-5. He contrasts Virgil's reserve with Marlowe's exaggeration; and remarks that "even Shakespeare, had he dealt with Hector's as he did with Hamlet's father's ghost, would have sought to intensify the terror of the apparition at the expense of artistic beauty." [472] Armour. [473] Old ed. "wound." The emendation was suggested by Collier. Shakespeare certainly glanced at this passage when he wrote:-- "Unequal match'd Pyrrhus and Priam drives, in rage strikes wide; But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword The unnerved father falls." Very slight heightening was required to give a burlesque turn to this speech of Æneas. [474] Old ed. "Fawne." [475] Old ed. "And after by that." [476] Cease speaking. [477] We must suppose that Venus had borne the sleeping Ascanius to Cyprus.--Cf. Virg. _Æn_. i. 680-1:-- "Hunc ego sopitum somno super alta Cythera Aut super Idalium sacrata sede recondam." [478] Sentinels. The form "centronel" (or "sentronel") occurs in the _Tryal of Chevalry_ (1605), i. 3:--"Lieutenant, discharge Nod, and let Cricket stand Sentronell till I come." [479] Old ed. "Citheida's." [480] Grandson (Lat. _nepos_). [481] Scene: a room in Dido's palace. [482] The same form of expression occurs in the _Jew of Malta_, iii. ll. 32, 33:-- "Upon which _altar I will offer up_ My daily sacrifice of sighs and tears." [483] "_I.e._ (I suppose) twisted."--_Dyce_. [484] "The blank verse, falling in couplets, seems to cry aloud for rhymes."--_Symonds_. [485] Ballast. [486] I have adopted Dyce's emendation. The old ed. gives "meanly." (Collier suggested "newly.") [487] Dyce gives this line to Sergestus, arguing that the prefix _Æn._ is "proved to be wrong by the next speech of Dido." But we may suppose that Dido is there calling Æneas' attention to another set of pictures on the opposite side of the stage. [488] Old ed. "Olympus." [489] Old ed. "how." [490] Old ed. "speak" (repeated from the line above). [491] Scene: a grove. [492] "Heir of Fury" is certainly a strange expression, but I dare not adopt Cunningham's emendation, "heir of Troy." [493] Old ed. "face." [494] Old ed. "left out." [495] Old ed. "made."--The correction is _Dyce's_. [496] See vol. i. p. 35, note 4. [497] Ready. [498] A Virgilian passage. Cf. _Æn._ i. 26-8:-- "Manet alta mente repostum Judicium, Paridis, spretæque injuria formæ, Et genus invisum, et rapti Ganimedis honores." [499] Irresistible. [500] Old ed. "change." [501] Love. [502] Old ed. "these." [503] Scene: a wood near Carthage. [504] Old ed. "shrowdes." [505] A deer or other animal was said to "take _soil_" when it fled from its pursuers to the water. Dyce quotes from Cotgrave:--"_Souil de sanglier_. The soile of a wild Boare; the slough or mire wherein he hath wallowed."