Note 468 — SCENE I.
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"An odd mistake on the part of the poet; similar to that which is attributed to the Duke of Newcastle in Smollet's Humphry Clinker (vol. i. 236, ed. 1783), where his grace is made to talk about 'thirty thousand French marching from Acadia to Cape Breton.' (The following passage of Sir J. Harington's Orlando Furioso will hardly be thought sufficient to vindicate our author from the imputation of a blunder in geography:
'Now had they lost the sight of Holland shore, And marcht with gentle gale in comely ranke,' &c. B. x. st. 16.)"—Dyce.
The passage of Harington seems to amply vindicate Marlowe.