[23] II. i. 22.
[24] II. i. 46. The dramatist may perhaps have been thinking of this scene when he afterwards put into Hamlet’s mouth a reiteration of the same view of the indifference of the crowd:
Why, let the stricken deer go weep,
The hart ungalled play,
For some must watch, while some must sleep:
Thus runs the world away.
Hamlet, III. ii. 265.
[25] Venus and Adonis, 680.
[26] Ib. 697.
[27] III. i. 80.