Note 90 — SCENE IV.—An Apartment in a Palace at Padua.
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"I never saw anything like this dirge, except the ditty which reminds Ferdinand of his drowned father in the Tempest. As that is of the water, watery; so this is of the earth, earthy. Both have that intenseness of feeling, which seems to resolve itself into the elements which it contemplates."—C. Lamb, Spec. of Eng. Dram. Poets.