the critic John Dennis (1657-1734) and the "thunder" is
related in Cibber's _Lives_, iv. 234. Dennis was, or feigned to be, the
inventor of a new method of producing stage-thunder, by troughs of wood
and stops. Shortly after a play (_Appius and Virginia_) which he had put
upon the stage had been withdrawn, he was present at a performance of
_Macbeth_, at which the new "thunder" was inaugurated. "That is _my_
thunder, by God!" exclaimed Dennis. "The villains will play my thunder,
but not my plays."--_Dict. Nat. Biog._, art. "Dennis."]

[ib] {282}
_But speak not now--on thine and on my head_
_O'erhangs the sabre_----.--[MS.]

[ic] {284}
_Night wears apace--and I have need of rest_.--[MS.]

[id] {286} A variant of lines 1596, 1597 first appeared in MS. in a
revise numbering 1780 lines--

_Blood he had viewed, could view unmoved--but then_
_It reddened on the scarfs and swords of men._

In a later revise line 1597 was altered to--

_It flowed a token of the deeds of men._

[ie] {287} _His silent thoughts the present, past review._--[MS.
erased.]

[if] _Fell quenched in tears of more than misery._--[MS.]

[ig] {288} _They count the Dragon-teeth around her tier_.--[MS.]

[233] ["Tier" must stand for "hold." The "cable-tier" is the place in
the hold where the cable is stowed.]

[ih] {289} _Whom blood appalled not, their rude eyes perplex_.--[MS.
erased.]

[234] [Compare--

"And I the cause--for whom were given
Her peace on earth, her hopes in heaven."
_Marmion_, Canto III. stanza xvii. lines 9, 10.]

[ii] {290}
_"Gulnare"--she answered not again--"Gulnare"_
_She raised her glance--her sole reply was there_.--[M.S.]

[ij]
_That sought from form so fair no more than this_
_That kiss--the first that Frailty wrung from Faith_
_That last--on lips so warm with rosy breath_.--[MS. erased.]

[ik] _As he had fanned them with his rosy wing_.--[MS.]

[il] {291}
_Oh! none so prophesy the joys of home_
_As they who hail it from the Ocean-foam_.--[MS.]
_Oh--what can sanctify the joys of home_
_Like the first glance from Ocean's troubled foam_.--[Revise.]

[235] {292} In the Levant it is the custom to strew flowers on the
bodies of the dead, and in the hands of young persons to place a
nosegay.

[Compare--"There shut it inside the sweet cold hand." _Evelyn Hope_, by
Robert Browning.]

[236] {293} [Compare--"And--but