I was I know not what, and am I know not how.
—Gloriana.
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[Footnote 2: To understand sufficiently the beauty of this passage, it will be necessary that we comprehend every man to contain two selfs. I shall not attempt to prove this from philosophy, which the poets make so plainly evident.
One runs away from the other:
——Let me demand your majesty,
Why fly you from yourself? —Duke of Guise.
In a second, one self is a guardian to the other:
Leave me the care of me. —Conquest of Granada.
Again:
Myself am to myself less near. —Ibid.
In the same, the first self is proud of the second:
I myself am proud of me. —State of Innocence.