“The gaudy, babbling and remorseful day
Is crept into the bosom of the sea,
And now long howling wolves arouse the jades
That drag the tragic melancholy night;
Who with their drowsy slow and flagging wings
Clip dead men’s graves, and from their misty jaws
Breathe foul contagious darkness in the air.”
—Second Part Henry VI.
Aut Christopherus Marlowe, aut diabolus, “A study of Shakespere,” by Swinburne, p. 52.
43 “Mr. Fleay believes him [the writer of the plays] to have been a partner of Shakespere, whose name so far is undiscoverable.”
—Morgan’s “Shakespere In Fact and In Criticism,”
p. 18.
44 “There were tiers of galleries or scaffolds; beneath these, the boxes or rooms intended for persons of the higher class, and which at the private theaters were secured with locks, the keys being given to the individuals who engaged them.”
—Dyce’s Shakespere, p. 41.
45 “The top of his performance was the ghost in Hamlet.”
—Rowe’s Life of Shakespere.
46. “I wonder that the commentators should have overlooked so obvious an origin of this passage as Lucan’s description (Pharsalia lib. 1) of the prodigies which preceded the death of Cæsar.”
—Note in Furness’ Variorum, vol. 3, p. 17
(Hunter II, 214).