Note 57 — Front matter
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This may fairly be argued, perhaps, even of the somewhat close parallel, noted by Mr. Feis, between Laertes' lines (I, 3):
"For nature, crescent, does not grow alone In thews and bulk, but as this temple waxes The inward service of the mind and soul Grows wide withal,"
and Florio's rendering of an extract from Lucretius in the Apology
"The mind is with the body bred, we do behold. It jointly grows with it, it waxeth old."
Only the slight coincidence of the use of the (then familiar) verb "wax" in both passages could suggest imitation in the case of such a well-worn commonplace.