[895] The charcoal with which Alexander is drawing.
[896] The old pictures were painted on wooden panels.
[897] For the suggestion for this scene, see Holland, XXXV. 10.
[898] Go as I wish.
[899] "Modesty tempered in yielding by a contrasting emotion." F.
[900] Preceding editions quinta. Before the house of Apelles. Is a division needed? Apelles might remain when Alexander and Hephestion leave, and just before Psyllus cries "Away, Manes," see his page and move toward him. Bl. 'Psyllus, Manes, Apelles.'
[901] Bl. Hast thou hast. F. and M. strike out the first hast. Is it not more likely that the second is the mistake?
[902] "Alexander streightly forbad by express edict, that no man should draw his portrait in colours but Apelles the painter: that none should engrave his personage but Pyrgoteles, the graver: and last of all, that no workman should cast his image in brasse but Lysippus a founder," Holland, VII. 1.
[903] Apelles addresses here and in l. 44 a picture of Venus, which he really left unfinished. Holland, XXXV. 11.
[904] Canopy