The Works of Christopher Marlowe: Including His Translations
The Works of Christopher Marlowe: Including His Translations
Christopher Marlowe, Francis Cunningham
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Thy anchors shall be hewed from crystal rocks. Which, if thou loose, shall shine above the All previous editions read lose, and I have ventured to substitute loose as a word MUiually connected with anchor, and as conveying a more poetical image than the other. Dido is drawing a picture of i£neas' ships, and, in describing the crystal anchors, says that even when you have loosed them the;f will still contribute to the beauty of the scene hf shining above the waves. It is very boki to differ firo...m Collier and Dyoe combined, but the reading which they have sanctioned appean to me to cany a Lloyd's wl^ about it which is veiy prosaic P. zSa b. The masts, whereon thy swelling sails shall hamg. Hollow pyramides of silver plate, Marlowe has here anticipated the hollow metal masts of the nineteenth centmy. Mr. Collier thinks the general beauty of this exquisite passage would be heightened tf we were to read pyramids instead of pyramides, but this last appears to have been Mariowe's favourite form of the wora, whidi was not limited in its meaning at it now is.
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