[21] This word seems anciently to have been pronounced as two syllables. See "Cornelia," act iv., Chorus.

[22] [And eat the living heart.—Lansdowne MS.]

[23] An epithet adopted from Virgil's "Aeneid," lib. vi, line 729—

"Et quae marmoreo fert monstra sub aequore pontus."

Ibid. lib. vii. v. 28—

"Lento luctantur marmore tonsae."

Again, "Georg. I.," v. 254—

"Infidum remis impellere marmor."

Steevens.

[24] [What secret hollow doth the huge seas hide, When blasting fame mine acts hath not forth blown.] —Lansdowne MS.