"The immortality of my fame _is the white_ I shoot at;"
in Beaumont and Fletcher's "Four [Plays in One" (Dyce's edit.), ii. 512]--
"And let your thoughts flee higher; aim them right, Sir, you may hit, you have _the fairest white_;"
in Lyly's "Euphues and his England," 1582--"Vertue _is the white_ we shoot at, not vanitie" (p. 11). Again, "He glaunced from the marke Euphues shot at, and hit at last _the white_ which Philautus set up" (p. 18).
Again, "An archer saye you, is to be knowen by his aime, not by his arrowe: but your aime is so ill, that if you knewe howe farre wide _from the white_ your shaft sticketh, you would hereafter rather breake your bowe then bend it."--_Ibid._ 57.
[165] In this speech are to be found the outlines of the character of _Zanga_, so admirably drawn by Dr Young. The plot of the _Revenge_ is, however, said to have been taken from Mrs Behn's play of "Abdelazar," which was borrowed from "Lust's Dominion; or, The Lascivious Queen."
"I in mine own woe charm'd, Could not find death, where I did hear him groan; Nor feel him, where he struck: being an ugly monster, 'Tis strange, he hides him in fresh cups, soft beds, Sweet words; or hath more ministers than we That draw his knives i' th' war."
[168] [Mr Collier's correction. Old copy, _leave_.]
[171] See note to "The Miseries of Enforced Marriage" [ix. 538.]
[174] So Milton, in "Paradise Lost," bk. iv. 1. 159--
"As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambique, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the blest: with such delay Well pleas'd they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles."
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