[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.