"With sad and sorry cheer
About her wond'ring stood
The citizens of the wood."
Shakespeare calls deer in "As You Like It" citizens, and elsewhere, "native burghers of this desert city."
The author of "Fuimus Troes" goes farther, and calls the blessed souls in heaven citizens—
"Then shall I
Envy no more those citizens above
The ambrosian juncates of the Olympian hall."
[150] Old copy, arm.
[151] The name of Carbo is accidently omitted before this reply in the quarto.
[152] Old copy misplaces the words break and bend; the alteration here made was suggested by Mr Collier.
[153] i.e., With a withy, or twig of willow.
[154] Old copy, the ravens.
[155] The quarto reads: "Enter Scipio and Norbanus, Publius Lentulus," but the latter has nothing to do with the scene, while Carinna is omitted.