[Footnote 10: These passages are Shakspere's own, not quotations: the Quartos differ. But when he wrote them he had in his mind a phantom of Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage. I find Steevens has made a similar conjecture, and quotes from Marlowe two of the passages I had marked as being like passages here.]
[Footnote 11: The poetry is admirable in its kind—intentionally charged, to raise it to the second stage-level, above the blank verse, that is, of the drama in which it is set, as that blank verse is raised above the ordinary level of speech. 143.
The correspondent passage in 1st Q. runs nearly parallel for a few lines.]
[Footnote 12:—like portentous.]
[Footnote 13: 'all red', 1st Q. 'totall guise.']
[Footnote 14: Here the 1st Quarto has:—
Back't and imparched in calagulate gore,
Rifted in earth and fire, olde grandsire Pryam seekes:
So goe on.]
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To their vilde Murthers, roasted in wrath and fire,
[Sidenote: their Lords murther,]
And thus o're-sized with coagulate gore,
With eyes like Carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus
Old Grandsire Priam seekes.[1]
[Sidenote: seekes; so proceede you.[2]
Pol. Fore God, my Lord, well spoken, with good accent, and good discretion.[3]