Cf. also Shakespeare, Richard III, Act I, sc. iv, 1.
55:
False, fleeting, perjured Clarence.
13 27 LUXOR occupies part of the site of ancient Thebes, capital of
Egypt; its antiquities are famous.
14 9 BUT ON OUR SIDE... WAS A TOWER OF MORAL STRENGTH, ETC.: Cf.
Shakespeare, _Richard_ III, Act V, sc. in, 11. 12-13:
Besides, the king's name is a tower of strength,
Which they upon the adverse party want.
14 20 FELT MY HEART BURN WITHIN ME: Cf. Luke xxiv. 32.
14 32 A VERY FINE STORY FROM ONE OF OUR ELDER DRAMATISTS: The dramatist
in question has not been identified. I am indebted indirectly to
Professor W. Strunk, Jr., of Cornell University, for reference to
Johann Caius' Of English Dogs, translated by A. Fleming, in Arber's
English Garner, original edition, Vol. III, p. 253 (new edition, Social
England Illustrated, pp. 28-29), where, after telling how Henry the
Seventh, perceiving that four mastiffs could overcome a lion, ordered
the dogs all hanged, the writer continues: "I read an history
answerable to this, of the selfsame HENRY, who having a notable and an
excellent fair falcon, it fortuned that the King's Falconers, in the
presence and hearing of his Grace, highly commended his Majesty's
Falcon, saying, that it feared not to intermeddle with an eagle, it was
so venturous and so mighty a bird; which when the king heard, he
charged that the falcon should be killed without delay: for the
selfsame reason, as it may seem, which was rehearsed in the conclusion
of the former history concerning the same king.
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