Note 330 — THE PLEASANT COMEDY OF OLD FORTUNATUS.
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i.e. Queen Elizabeth, at this time in her sixty-eighth year.
Pandora is the only one of these poetic terms for Elizabeth peculiar to Dekker. The rest of them are used by others of the Elizabethan poets. He evidently here conceives Pandora on the side of her good fortune only, as receiving the gifts of the gods, and not in her more familiar association with the story of Pandora’s Box and its evils.