“Or Daphne roaming through a thorny wood,
Scratching her legs that one shall swear she bleeds,
And at that sight shall sad Apollo weep,
So workmanly the blood and tears are drawn.”
And Troilus (act i. sc. 1, l. 94, vol. vi. p. 130) makes the invocation,—
“Tell me, Apollo, for thy Daphne’s love
What Cressid is, what Pandar, and what we?”
Among Mythological Characters we may rank Milo, “of force unparalleled;” to whom with crafty words of flattery Ulysses likened Diomed; Troilus and Cressida (act ii. sc. 3, l. 237),—
“But he that disciplined thine arms to fight,
Let Mars divide eternity in twain,