[109] This epithet to a dolphin doth not give one so clear an idea as were to be wished; a smiling fish seeming a little more difficult to be imagined than a flying fish. Mr. Dryden is of opinion that smiling is the property of reason, and that no irrational creature can smile:
"Smiles not allow'd to beasts from reason move."—"State of Innocence."
[110] These lines are written in the same key with those in the Earl of Essex:
"Why, say'st thou so? I love thee well, indeed
I do, and thou shalt find by this 'tis true."
Or with this in Cyrus:
"The most heroic mind that ever was."
And with above half of the modern tragedies.
[111] Aristotle, in that excellent work of his, which is very justly styled his masterpiece, earnestly recommends using the terms of art, however coarse or even indecent they may be. Mr. Tate is of the same opinion.
"Bru. Do not, like young hawks, fetch a course about.