[177] B. i, Chap. 30.

[178] Edit. Firmin-Didot, i, 202.

[179] Ibid., pp. 477-478.

[180] Here, it may be said, there is a trace of the influence of Bruno's philosophy; and it may well be that Shakspere did not spontaneously strike out the thought for himself. But I am not aware that any parallel passage has been cited.

[181] Fleay's Life, pp. 138, &c.

[182] B. i, Chap. 42.

[183] B. ii, Chap. 12. (Edit. cited, i, 501.)

[184] Midsummer Nights Dream, Act ii. Sc. 2.

[185] See his Conversations with Drummond of Hawthornden

[186] Halliwell-Phillipps, Outlines of the Life of Shakspere, 5th ed., p. 175.