[P. 251.] spreads its sweet leaves. “Romeo and Juliet,” i, 1, 158.
[P. 252.] the stuff. “Tempest,” iv, 1, 156.
mere oblivion. “As You Like It,” ii, 7, 166.
man’s life “King Lear,” ii, 4, 270.
[P. 253.] There is warrant. “Richard III,” i, 4, 112.
such seething brains. “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” v, 1, 4.
Angelica and Medoro. Characters in “Orlando Furioso.”
[P. 254.] which ecstacy is very cunning in. “Hamlet,” iii, 4, 138.
Poetry, according to Lord Bacon. Cf. Bacon’s “Advancement of Learning,” Book II: “Because true Historie representeth Actions and Euents more ordinarie and lesse interchanged, therefore Poesie endueth them with more Rarenesse and more vnexpected and alternatiue Variations: So as it appeareth that Poesie serueth and conferreth to Magnanimitie, Moralitie, and to delectation. And therefore it was euer thought to haue some participation of diuinesse, because it doth raise and erect the Minde, by submitting the shewes of things to the desires of the Mind, whereas reason doth buckle and bowe the Mind unto the Nature of things.”
[P. 255.] Our eyes are made the fools. “Macbeth,” ii, 1, 44.