Note 436 — Chapter II · HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE.
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A beautiful simile, which Virgil has imitated—
“Muscosi fontes, et somno mollior herba.”—Eclog. vii. 45.
Shakespeare, too, has, without imitation, struck upon a similar thought, where the amorous Troilus thus describes himself:—
“But I am weaker than a woman’s tear,
Tamer than sleep, fonder than ignorance.”
Troilus & Cressida, i. 1.