The fiery orbs above and the twinn'd stones

Upon the number'd beach."

Theobald, I think, was right in reading 'unnumber'd.'

"The murmuring surge

That on the unnumbered idle pebbles chafes."

Lear, iv. 6.

The joining it with 'beach' seems an instance of the figure called Hypallage. The stones are called 'twinn'd' from their resemblance to each other.


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