Note 43 — ACT I.
Reading edition
Prior has adopted this image—
"So when the Parthian turn'd his steed, And from the hostile camp withdrew, He backward sent the fatal reed, Secure of conquest as he flew."
—Poems, i. 40, edit. 1778.
Reading edition
Prior has adopted this image—
"So when the Parthian turn'd his steed, And from the hostile camp withdrew, He backward sent the fatal reed, Secure of conquest as he flew."
—Poems, i. 40, edit. 1778.