Consume thine eyes and grieve thine heart.—1 Sam. ii. 33.
Macbeth.—Lighted fools the way to dusty death.—v. 5.
Thou hast brought me into the dust of death.—Ps. xxii. 15.
Dusty death alludes to the sentence pronounced against Adam:—
Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.—Gen. iii. 19.
Macbeth.—Life’s but a walking shadow.—v. 5.
Man walketh in a vain show.—Ps. xxxix. 6.
Prince of Morocco.—Mislike me not for my complexion,
The shadow’d livery of the burnished sun.—Merch. Ven. ii. 1.
Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me.—Sol. Song, i. 6.