My soul will quickly sink."—"Mithridates."
"My soul is like a ship."—"Injured Love."
[90] This well-bred line seems to be copied in the Persian Princess:
"To be your humblest and most faithful slave."
[91] This doubt of the king puts me in mind of a passage in the "Captives," where the noise of feet is mistaken for the rustling of leaves:—
"Methinks I hear
The sound of feet:
No; 'twas the wind that shook yon cypress boughs."
[92] Mr. Dryden seems to have had this passage in his eye in the first page of Love Triumphant.
[93] Don Carlos, in the Revenge, suns himself in the charms of his mistress: