v. 200. Sardanapall] So our early writers often spell his name;
“Last of all was Sardanapall.”
Lydgate’s Fall of Prynces, Boke ii. leaf L. ed. Wayland.
Page 162. v. 204. Egeas] Is mentioned with various other evil personages in The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy,
“Herod thy uthir eme, and grit Egeass.”
Dunbar’s Poems, ii. 86. ed. Laing.
and in the Second Part of Marlowe’s Tamburlaine;
“The headstrong jades of Thrace Alcides tamed,
That King Egeus fed with humane flesh.”
Last sc. of act iv. sig. G 3. ed. 1606.