⁂ John Baptist Marino, an Italian poet, has a poem on The Massacre of the Innocents (1569-1625).
Innogen or Inogene (3 syl.), wife of Brute (1 syl.), mythical king of Britain. She was daughter of Pan´drasos of Greece.
Thus Brute this realme unto his rule subdewd ...
And left three sons, his famous progeny,
Born of fayre Inogene of Italy.
Spenser, Faëry Queen, ii. 10 (1590).
And for a lasting league of amity and peace,
Bright Innogen, his child, for wife to Brutus gave.
M. Drayton, Polyolbion[Polyolbion], I. (1612).
Insane Root (The), hemlock. It is said that those who eat hemlock can see objects otherwise invisible. Thus when Banquo had encountered the witches, who vanished as mysteriously as they appeared, he says to Macbeth, “Were such things [really] here ... or have we eaten [hemlock] of the insane root, that takes the reason prisoner,” so that our eyes see things that are not?—Macbeth, act i. sc. 3 (1606).