No More Learning

"--Pope.

"There's one did laugh in his sleep, and one cry'd murder;
They wak'd each other. "

--_Macbeth. _

219 "Aurora now had left her saffron bed,
And beams of early light the heavens o'erspread. "

Dryden's Virgil, iv. 639

220 --_Red drops of blood. _ "This phenomenon, if a mere fruit of the
poet's imagination, might seem arbitrary or far-fetched. It is one,
however, of ascertained reality, and of no uncommon occurrence in
the climate of Greece. "--Mure, i p. 493. Cf. Tasso, Gier. Lib. ix.
15:

"La terra in vece del notturno gelo
Bagnan rugiade tepide, e sanguigne.
"

221 "No thought of flight,
None of retreat, no unbecoming deed
That argued fear. "

--"Paradise Lost," vi. 236.

222 --_One of love. _ Although a bastard brother received only a small
portion of the inheritance, he was commonly very well treated. Priam
appears to be the only one of whom polygamy is directly asserted in
the Iliad. Grote, vol. ii. p. 114, note.

223 "Circled with foes as when a packe of bloodie jackals cling
About a goodly palmed hart, hurt with a hunter's bow
Whose escape his nimble feet insure, whilst his warm blood doth
flow,
And his light knees have power to move: but (maistred by his
wound)
Embost within a shady hill, the jackals charge him round,
And teare his flesh--when instantly fortune sends in the powers
Of some sterne lion, with whose sighte they flie and he devours.
So they around Ulysses prest. "

--Chapman.

224 --_Simois, railing,_ &c.

"In those bloody fields
Where Simois rolls the bodies and the shields
Of heroes. "

--Dryden's Virgil, i.