Note 147 — SCENE I.—The Banqueting Room in Belforest's Mansion.

This way of description, which seems unwilling ever to leave off weaving parenthesis within parenthesis, was brought to its height by Sir Philip Sidney. He seems to have set the example to Shakespeare. Many beautiful instances may be found all over the Arcadia. These bountiful wits always give full measure, pressed down and overflowing.—Charles Lamb.