[238] "Carmine dissiliunt, abruptis faucibus, angues." ("Fauces" means both "jaw" and "mountain-gorge." Marlowe has gone desperately wrong.)

[239] Old eds. "O."


Elegia II.[240]

Ad Bagoum, ut custodiam puellæ sibi commissæ laxiorem habeat.

Bagous, whose care doth thy[241] mistress bridle,

While I speak some few, yet fit words, be idle.

I saw the damsel walking yesterday,

There, where the porch doth Danaus' fact[242] display: