"Sorrow is Knowledge."
Act I. sc. 1, line 10, vide ante, [p. 85].
Compare, too—
"Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son!
'All that we know is, nothing can be known.'"
Childe Harold, Canto II. stanza vii. lines 1, 2,
Poetical Works, 1899, ii. 103.]
[ [147] {115}[Astarte is the classical form (vide Cicero, De Naturâ Deorum, iii. 23, and Lucian, De Syriâ Deâ, iv.) of Milton's
"Moonéd Ashtaroth,
Heaven's queen and mother both."
Cicero says that she was married to Adonis, alluding, no doubt, to the myth of the Phoenician Astoreth, who was at once the bride and mother of Tammuz or Adonis.]
[bc] {116}Or dost Qy?—[Marginal reading in MS.]
[148] [Compare—