Note 29 — ACT I. SCENE I.
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Fair Venus' son, draw forth a leaden dart.] The idea of this double effect, to which Massinger has more than one allusion, is from Ovid:
Filius huic Veneris; figat tuus omnia, Phœbe, Te meus arcus, ait:—Parnassi constitit arce, Eque sagittifera promsit duo tela pharetra Diversorum operum; fugat hoc, facit illud amorem. Quod facit, auratum est, et cuspide fulget acuta; Quod fugat, obtusum est, et habet sub arundine plumbum. Met. lib. i. 470.
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