Theseus is the Attic Hercules, however; and Troy may have been a sort of house of call for mythical monsters, in the view of midland shepherds.
FOOTNOTES:
[BH] "Would not the design have looked better, to us, on the plate than on the print? On the plate, the reins would be in the left hand; and the whole movement be from the left to the right? The two different forms that the radiance takes would symbolize respectively heat and light, would they not?"
[BI] Strutt, pp. 97-8, ed. 1801.
[BJ] Explained as "a game still played by the shepherds, cowkeepers," etc., in the midland counties.
[BK] See Iliad, 20, 145.
XI.
"Obediente Domino voci hominis."