Note 473 — SCENE I.
Reading edition
Old ed. "wound." The emendation was suggested by Collier. Shakespeare certainly glanced at this passage when he wrote:—
"Unequal match'd Pyrrhus and Priam drives, in rage strikes wide; But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword The unnerved father falls."
Very slight heightening was required to give a burlesque turn to this speech of Æneas.