Ib. Seward's comparison of Julia's speech in the Two Gentlemen of Verona, act iv. last scene—
Madam, 'twas Ariadne passioning, &c.—
with Aspatia's speech in the Maid's Tragedy—
I stand upon the sea-beach now, &c. (Act ii.)
and preference of the latter.
It is strange to take an incidental passage of one writer, intended only for a subordinate part, and compare it with the same thought in another writer, who had chosen it for a prominent and principal figure.
Ib. Seward's preference of Alphonso's poisoning in A Wife for a Month, act i. sc. 1, to the passage in King John, act v. sc. 7,—
Poison'd, ill fare! dead, forsook, cast off!
Mr. Seward! Mr. Seward! you may be, and I trust you are, an angel; but you were an ass.
Ib.