[152:1] Though these lines are from an old ballad given in Percy's Reliques, they are much altered by Shakespeare, and it is his version we sing in the nursery.

[153:1]

For he being dead, with him is beauty slain,

And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again.

Venus and Adonis.

[153:2] "Fondly" in Singer and White; "soundly" in Staunton.

[155:1] Cervantes: Don Quixote, part ii. chap. i.

[155:2] "His slow and moving finger" in Knight and Staunton.

[159:1] See Marlowe, page [41].

[159:2] See Lyly, page [32].