Act II.
Sc. 1.
"Then is Alcides beaten by his page."
'page' is Theobald's undoubted correction; 4tos and folio read rage.
"First forward to the temple! After dinner
Your hazard shall be made."
Surely 'temple' has no meaning here. Must not the poet have written table. In Lucrece (st. 168), in the Var. Shakespeare, "Her sacred temple" is printed "Her sacred table." I am not aware that any critic has observed this palpable error. The term 'table,' it may be observed, was much more used by our forefathers than by us. Thus in The Elder Brother (iii. 4) Miramont says to his brother, "May be I'll see your table too," i.e. be of your dinner-party.