Duke. Night,[329] like a masque, is enter’d heaven’s great hall,
With thousand torches ushering the way.
To Risus will we consecrate this evening;
Like[330] Mycerinus cheating th’ oracle,
We’ll make this night the day. Fair joys befall
Us and our actions. Are you pleasèd all?
[Exeunt omnes.
[314] This scene is printed throughout as verse in old eds.
[315] “I and U”—so the editor of 1820. Old eds. “IOV.”
[316] Old eds. “him.”
[317] Wrinkled.
[318] Old eds. “then.”
[319] i.e., subject for dissection.
[320] Topsel in his account of the lion writes:—“Their sight and their smelling are most excellent, for they sleep with their eyes open, and because of the brightness of their eyes they cannot endure the light of fire, for fire and fire cannot agree: also their smelling (for which cause they are called Odorati) is very eminent, for if the lioness have committed adultery with the leopard the male discovereth it by the sense of his nose.”—History of Fourfooted Beasts, ed. 1658, p. 360.
[321] Topsel has some remarks on the fondness of leopards for wine.