Alphonsus Emperor of Germany Author:George Chapman Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTES Page i Stage direction: Alexander de Tripes. This character is later referred to as Alexander de Toledo, and his father, who in the dramatis persons... more » appears as Lorenzo de Cipres (a probable misprint for Cyprus), is on p. 13,1. 4, spoken of as Lorenzo de Toledo. Page 2 Line 15: He learns his wisdom, not by flight of Birds. Compare with JEneid, Bk. Ill, 11. 359-361: " Troiugena, interpres divum, qui numina Phabi, qui tripodas, Clarii laurus, qui sidera sentts et volucrum linguds et prcepetis"omina pinna," etc. Line 16: By prying into sacrificed beasts. Compare this passage with Mneid, Bk. IV, 11. 63-64: "... pecudumque reclusis pectoribus inhians spirantia consulit exta." Line 17: By Hares that cross the way. Compare with Webster's Duchess of Malfi, Act II, sc. 2: "The throwing down salt, or crossing of a hare . . . are of power To daunt whole man in us." Line 17: by howling Wolves. The wolf had an uncanny reputation among the Elizabethans. Thus in Macbeth, Act II, sc. i, appear the lines: "... and wither'd Murther Alarum'd by his centinell, the Wolfe Whose howle's his Watch," etc. Duchess of Malfi, Act IV, sc. I : "The wolf shall find her grave, and scrape it up, Not to devour the corpse, but to discover The horrid murder." Also see God's Revenge against Murther, Bk. VI, Hist. 27, p. 407, ed. 1670. Pages Line I: Una arbusta non alit duos Erithicos:— "ou tplfet [j.Ea Xf] 8uo IpiGaxou? " Schol. Aristoph. Vesp., 922. Stephani Thesaur. s. 'EpEGaxos. Plin. Hist. Nat., x, 29, 44 [Elze's note]. Line 41: LA Prince must be of the nature of the Lion and the Fox; but not the one without the other. Meyer points out (Machiavelli and the Elizabethan Drama, pp. 134-135) that this maxim is derived from Gentil...« less