C. L.

[117] This address, for its barbaric splendor of conception,

extravagant vein of promise, not to mention some idiomatic

peculiarities, and the very structure of the verse, savours strongly

of Marlowe; but the real author, I believe, is unknown.

[118] A sort of young Caliban, her son, who presently enters,

complaining of a “bloody coxcomb” which the Young Saint George had

given him.

[119] Calib had killed the parents of the Young Saint George.

[120] The whole theory of the reason of our delight in Tragic

Representations, which has cost so many elaborate chapters of

Criticism, is condensed in these four last lines: _Aristotle

quintessentialised_.

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