Note 7 — SHAKESPEARE—A THEORY
Reading edition
It is obviously borrowed, mutatis mutandis, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. “Deeper than did ever plummet sound,” however, is not from Ovid’s Medea, but it seems to me from Act III, Sc. 3, of The Tempest itself. Golding’s English version of the Metamorphoses may well have been in the writer’s mind along with the Latin original.