Note 398 — ACT V.

Marston is ridiculing Hall’s Defiance to Envy, prefixed to Virgidem.:— “Or would we loose her plumy pinion, Manacled long with bonds of modest fear, Soon might she have those kestrels proud outgone Whose flighty wings are dew’d with weeter [sic] air; And hopen now to shoulder from above The eagle from the stairs of friendly Jove.

“Or list she rather in late triumph rear Eternal trophies to some conqueror Whose dead deserts slept in his sepulchre, And never saw nor life nor light before, To lead sad Pluto captive with my song To grace the triumphs he obscured so long, &c.”