[315] See note 2, vol. i. p. 87.
[316] The image of Pallas at Troy. The safety of the city depended on its possession.
[317] Ed. 2. “lightfull.”
ACT II.
SCENE I.
The Senate-house at Carthage.
Whilst the music for the first Act sounds, Hanno, Carthalon, Bytheas, Gelosso, Enter: they place themselves to counsel, Gisco, the impoisoner, waiting on them; Hanno, Carthalon, and Bytheas setting their hands to a writing, which being offered to Gelosso, he denies his hand, and, as much offended, impatiently starts up and speaks.
Enter Gelosso, Hanno, Bytheas, Carthalon.
Gel. My hand? my hand? rot first; wither in aged shame.
Han. Will you be so unseasonably wood?[318]