King Arthur seems to be as brave a fellow as Almanzor, who says most heroically: "In spite of ghosts I'll on."
[169] The ghost of Lausaria, in Cyrus, is a plain copy of this, and is therefore worth reading:
"Ah, Cyrus!
Thou may'st as well grasp water, or fleet air,
As think of touching my immortal shade."—"Cyrus the Great."
"Thou better part of heavenly air."—"Conquest of Granada."
[171] "A string of similes," says one, "proper to be hung up in the cabinet of a prince."
[172] This passage hath been understood several different ways by the commentators. For my part I find it difficult to understand it at all. Mr. Dryden says—
"I've heard something how two bodies meet,