["'But if my boy with virtue be endued, What harm will beauty do him?' Nay, what good? Say, what avail'd, of old, to Theseus' son, The stern resolve? what to Bellerophon?-- O, then did Phaedra redden, then her pride Took fire to be so steadfastly denied! Then, too, did Sthenobaea glow with shame, And both burst forth with unextinguish'd flame!" Gifford, _Juvenal_, Sat. x. 473-480. The adventures of Hippolytus, the son of Theseus, and Bellerophon are well known. They were accused of incontinence, by the women whose inordinate passions they had refused to gratify at the expense of their duty, and sacrificed to the fatal credulity of the husbands of the disappointed fair ones. It is very probable that both the stories are founded on the Scripture account of Joseph and Potiphar's wife.--Footnote, ibid., ed. 1817, ii. pp. 49, 50.] [fp] _The poets and romances_----.--[MS.] [fq] _And this strong second cause (to tire no longer_ _Your patience) shows the first must still be stronger_. --[MS. Alternative reading.] {256}[309] ["By Heaven! methinks, it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon." _Henry IV_., act i. sc. 3, lines 201, 202.] [fr] _Like natural Shakespeare on the immortal page_.--[MS.] [310] ["And when I have stol'n upon these sons-in law, Then kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill." _King Lear_, act iv. sc. 6, lines 185, 186.] [311] ["A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate, For, there, the dread of shame adds stings to hate." Gifford's _Juvenal, Sat_. x. lines 481, 482, ed. 1817, ii. p. 50.] {258}[312] ["Yes--my valour is certainly going! it is sneaking off! I feel it _oozing_ out, as it were, at the palms of my hands!"--Sheridan's _Rivals_, act v. sc. 3.] [fs] _Or all the stuff which uttered by the "Blues" is_.--[MS.] {259}[ft] _But prithee--get my women in the way_, _That all the stars may gleam with due adorning_.--[MS.] [fu] _Of Cantemir or Knollēs_-----.--[MS.] [313] It may not be unworthy of remark, that Bacon, in his essay on "Empire" (Essays, No. xx.), hints that Solyman was the last of his line; on what authority, I know not. These are his words: "The destruction of Mustapha was so fatal to Solyman's line; as the succession of the Turks from Solyman until this day is suspected to be untrue, and of strange blood; for that Selymus the second was thought to be supposititious." But Bacon, in his historical authorities, is often inaccurate. I could give half a dozen instances from his Apophthegms only.