Lio. A match! Lead on; good wit and fortune guide us. [Exeunt.
FOOTNOTES:
[310] So in Ben Jonson's "Every Man out of his Humour," act iii. sc. 3: "You shall see sweet silent rhetorique and dumb eloquence speaking in her eye; but when she speaks herself, such an anatomy of wit, so fine wiz'd and arteriz'd, that 'tis the goodliest model of pleasure that ever was to behold."
Again, in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," act ii. sc. 2—
"She speaks, yet she says nothing; what of that?
Her eye discourses, I will answer it."
And Pope, in his translation of the "Iliad"—
"Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs,
Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes."
The lines in the text, as well as those quoted in the note, were all written subsequent to the publication of "The Complaint of Rosamond," by Samuel Daniel, whence the following stanza is extracted—
"Ah beauty, syren, faire enchaunting good,
Sweet silent rhetorique of perswading eyes,
Dombe eloquence, whose power doth move the blood,
More than the words or wisedome of the wise;
Still harmonie, whose diapason lies
Within a brow, the key which passions move,
To ravish sense, and play a world in love."
[311] Borrowed from Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," act ii. sc. 2—