[121:1] Cf. “Lear,” iii., 6, 54. The expression was proverbial, it is true.
[121:2] “Tempest,” i., 2.
[121:3] It is interesting to compare the higher conception of Caliban seen in Browning’s “Caliban upon Setebos,” where, though the brute sprawls “with elbows wide, fists clenched to prop his chin,” in the “cool slush,” he nevertheless reasons vaguely upon such problems as the existence of evil, of pain, and of a law governing the universe.
[122:1] In “Have with you to Saffron Walden.” The “fool’s coat” is often mentioned in our plays.
[123:1] “Shakespearean Tragedy,” pp. 311-12.
[125:1] “Shakespearean Tragedy,” p. 312.
CHAPTER VI.
Mad Folk in Comedy and Tragedy.
(iii.) Melancholy.
“Many new and old writers have spoken confusedly of it, confounding melancholy and madness.”