An epithet adopted from Virgil's "Aeneid," lib. vi, line 729--

"Et quae _marmoreo_ fert monstra sub aequore pontus."

Ibid. lib. vii. v. 28--

"Lento luctantur _marmore_ tonsae."

Again, "Georg. I.," v. 254--

"Infidum remis impellere _marmor_."

--_Steevens_.

[24] [What secret hollow doth the huge seas hide,
When blasting fame mine acts hath not forth blown.]
--_Lansdowne MS_.

[25] Io.

[26] [Grazing in.--_Lansdowne MS_.]

[27] Like to Amphitrio [when he presented himself] to Alcmena.

[28] [Me.--_Lansdowne MS_.]

[29] [The bloody Mars hath felt my.--_Do_.]

[30] [Evened.--_Do_.]

[31] Hercules.

[32] Alexander.

[33] [Won the famous golden fleece.--_M.S_.]

[34] [What nature's bond or law's restraint avails,
To conquer and deface me every hour.--MS.]

[35] Myrrha.

[36] i.e., For pity. So, act ii. sc. 2--

"As easily befalls that age which asketh _ruth_."

Act v. sc. 1--

"That hath the tyrant king
Withouten _ruth_ commanded us to do."

Again, in Milton's "Lycidas," i. 163--

"Look homeward, angel, now and melt with _ruth_,
And, O ye Dolphins, waft the helpless youth."

And in Churchyard's "Worthiness of Wales," 1587--

"Great _ruth_, to let so trim a seate goe downe,
The countries strength, and beautie of the towne."

[37] [Mine almighty.--MS.]

[38] [This, and the three following lines, are not in the MSS.]

[39] [In creeping thorough all her veins within,
That she thereby shall raise much ruth and woe.--MS.]

[40] [This, and the five preceding lines, are not in the MSS.]

[41] [Lo, this before your eyes so will I show,
That ye shall justly say with one accord
We must relent and yield; for now we know
Love rules the world, love only is the lord.--MS.]

[42] [Hath taught me plain to know our state's unrest.--MS.]

[43] [O mighty Jove, O heavens and heavenly powers.--MS.]

[44] [This, and the next line, do not occur in the MSS.]

[45] [Thy sprite, I know, doth linger hereabout
And looks that I, poor wretch, should after come;
I would, God wot, my lord, if so I mought:
But yet abide, I may perhaps devise
Some way to be unburdened of my life,
And with my ghost approach thee in some wise
To do therein the duty of a wife.--MS.]

[46] These omissions are frequent in our old plays. See note on "Love's
Labour Lost," edit. of Shakspeare, 1778, vol. ii. p. 410.--_Steev