And in the "Wounds of Civil War," 1594—
"I'll have a present cooling card for you."
[359] See Note to this play, p. [421].
[360] i.e., at the fall of water through a bridge. The idea seems to be taken from the noisy situation of the houses formerly standing on London Bridge.—Steevens.
[361] So in "Hamlet," act iii. sc. 4—
"This is the very coinage of your brain;
This bodiless creation ecstasy
Is very cunning in."
Mr Steevens observes that in this place, and many others, ecstasy means a temporary alienation of mind, a fit.
[362] Alluding to the fate of Polydorus, a son of King Priam. See Virgil's "Æneid," book iii. l. 49—
"Hunc Polydorum auri quondam cum pondere magno
Infelix Priamus furtim mandarat alendum
Threicio regi——
. . . . Polydorum obtruncat, et auro
Vi petitur."
[363] In the first edit. this line is thus—