The spirit of deep prophecy she hath,
Exceeding the nine Sibyls of old Rome:
What's past and what's to come she can descry.
191. *Proposing in this paper to trace the leading sentiment in
Shakespeare's English Plays as a sort of popular dramatic chronicle, I
have left untouched the question how much (or, in the case of Henry the
Sixth and Henry the Eighth, how little) of them may be really his: how
far inferior hands have contributed to a result, true on the whole to
the greater, that is to say, the Shakespearian elements in them.
201. *Perhaps a double entendre:--of any ordinary grave, as comprising,
in effect, the whole small earth now left to its occupant or, of such a
tomb as Richard's in particular, with its actual model, or effigy, of
the clay of him. Both senses are so characteristic that it would be a
pity to lose either.