More laud than gilt o'erdusted e'er is given."
"Made emulous missions 'mongst the gods themselves."
I incline to read emulations.
"Whilst emulation in the army crept."—ii. 2.
"When, for so slight and frivolous a cause,
Such factious emulations shall arise."
1 Hen. VI. iv. 1.
Here one word appears, as elsewhere, to have become two in the printer's hands. (See Introd. p. [67].) But as the poet was probably familiar with Chapman's Iliads, the allusion may be to the various missions of Apollo, Minerva, Hermes, and Iris.