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 and in King John,

and in Lucrece,

Is it so very unlikely that the poet who wrote thus might, aiming at a peculiarly heightened and passionate style, write the speech of Aeneas?

4. But, pursuing this line of argument, we must go further. There is really scarcely one idea, and there is but little phraseology, in the speech that cannot be paralleled from Shakespeare’s own works. He merely exaggerates a little here what he has done elsewhere. I will conclude this Note by showing that this is so as regards almost all the passages most objected to, as well as some others. (1) ‘The Hyrcanian beast’ is Macbeth’s ‘Hyrcan tiger’ ( iv. 101), who also occurs in 3 Hen. VI. iv. 155. (2) With ‘total gules’ Steevens compared Timon iii. 59 (an undoubtedly Shakespearean passage),

(3) With ‘baked and impasted’ cf. John iii. 42, ‘If that surly spirit melancholy Had baked thy blood.’ In the questionable Tit. And. ii. 201 we have, ‘in that paste let their vile heads be baked’ (a paste made of blood and bones, ib. 188), and in the undoubted Richard II. ii. 154 (quoted by Caldecott) Richard refers to the ground

(4) ‘O’er-sized with coagulate gore’ finds an exact parallel in the ‘blood-siz’d field’ of the Two Noble Kinsmen, i. 99, a scene which, whether written by Shakespeare (as I fully believe) or by another poet, was certainly written in all seriousness. (5) ‘With eyes like carbuncles’ has been much ridiculed, but Milton (P.L. ix. 500) gives ‘carbuncle eyes’ to Satan turned into a serpent (Steevens), and why are they more outrageous than ruby lips