There is none but he
Whose being I do fear: and, under him,
My Genius is rebuked; as, it is said,
Mark Antony’s was by Caesar.[188]
(III. i. 54.)
More interesting and convincing is a coincidence that Malone pointed out in Chapman’s Bussy d’Ambois, which was printed in 1607, but was probably written much earlier. Bussy says to Tamyra of the terrors of Sin:
So our ignorance tames us, that we let
His[189] shadows fright us: and like empty clouds
In which our faulty apprehensions forge
The forms of dragons, lions, elephants,