Note 206 — Chapter V
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One is glad of this result for Shakespeare's sake, as well as Aristotle's; though a Warwickshire man might have been expected to know the exact truth so far as his county is concerned; which Shakespeare did not:—
"The blind mole casts Copp'd hills towards heaven." (Pericles, I. 1.)
"Pray you tread softly that the blind mole may not Hear a footfall." (Tempest, IV. 1.)