nature's common gift partake: Unhappy Dido was alone awake." --Dryden's Virgil, iv. 767. 216 --_The king of Crete:_ Idomeneus. 217 --_Soft wool within, i e._ a kind of woollen stuffing, pressed in between the straps, to protect the head, and make the helmet fit close. 218 "All the circumstances of this action--the night, Rhesus buried in a profound sleep, and Diomede with the sword in his hand hanging over the head of that prince--furnished Homer with the idea of this fiction, which represents Rhesus lying fast asleep, and, as it were, beholding his enemy in a dream, plunging the sword into his bosom. This image is very natural; for a man in his condition awakes no farther than to see confusedly what environs him, and to think it not a reality but a dream."--Pope. "There's one did laugh in his sleep, and one cry'd murder; They wak'd each other." --_Macbeth._ 219 "Aurora now had left her saffron bed, And beams of early light the heavens o'erspread." Dryden's Virgil, iv. 639 220 --_Red drops of blood._ "This phenomenon, if a mere fruit of the poet's imagination, might seem arbitrary or far-fetched. It is one, however, of ascertained reality, and of no uncommon occurrence in the climate of Greece."--Mure, i p. 493. Cf. Tasso, Gier. Lib. ix. 15: "La terra in vece del notturno gelo Bagnan rugiade tepide, e sanguigne." 221 "No thought of flight, None of retreat, no unbecoming deed That argued fear." --"Paradise Lost," vi. 236. 222 --_One of love._ Although a bastard brother received only a small portion of the inheritance, he was commonly very well treated. Priam appears t