"Our author has a similar exaggeration in Troilus and Cressida, Act III. Scene 2.:
'When we (i. e. lovers) vow to weep seas, live in fire, eat rocks, tame tigers,' &c.
"In Chaucer's Romaunt of the Rose, we find the following lines:
'He underfongeth a grete paine,
That undertaketh to drink up Seine.'"
Steevens notices King Richard II., Act II Scene 2.:
"The task he undertakes,
Is numb'ring sands, and drinking oceans dry."
But enough. The majority of readers, like the majority of critics, will surely be for the river, in the proportion of at least six to two. Verbum non amplius addam.
J. S. W.