Note 511 — SCENE III.
Reading edition
Methinks, &c.] “Shakespeare seems to have imitated this in the Tempest, A. 3. S. 3.
‘Oh, it is monstrous! monstrous!
Methought, the billows spoke, and told me of it;
The winds did sing it to me; and the thunder,
That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounc’d
The name of Prosper.’”—Reed.
The date of The Tempest must be settled before we can determine whether Shakespeare or Middleton was the imitator.