[ [467] Old ed. "viewd."
[ [468] "An odd mistake on the part of the poet; similar to that which is attributed to the Duke of Newcastle in Smollet's Humphry Clinker (vol. i. 236, ed. 1783), where his grace is made to talk about 'thirty thousand French marching from Acadia to Cape Breton.' (The following passage of Sir J. Harington's Orlando Furioso will hardly be thought sufficient to vindicate our author from the imputation of a blunder in geography:
'Now had they lost the sight of Holland shore, And marcht with gentle gale in comely ranke,' &c. B. x. st. 16.)"—Dyce.
The passage of Harington seems to amply vindicate Marlowe.
[ [469] This epithet alone would show that the passage is Marlowe's.—Cf. Edward II. v. i. l. 44,
"Heaven turn it to a blaze of quenchless fire!"
[ [470] We have had the expression "ring of pikes" in 2 Tamburlaine, iii. 2. l. 99.
[ [471] Mr. Symonds has an excellent criticism on this passage in Shakespeare's Predecessors, 664-5. He contrasts Virgil's reserve with Marlowe's exaggeration; and remarks that "even Shakespeare, had he dealt with Hector's as he did with Hamlet's father's ghost, would have sought to intensify the terror of the apparition at the expense of artistic beauty."
[ [472] Armour.
[ [473] Old ed. "wound." The emendation was suggested by Collier. Shakespeare certainly glanced at this passage when he wrote:—