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 to be the only one of whom polygamy is directly asserted in the Iliad. Grote, vol. ii. p. 114, note. 223 "Circled with foes as when a packe of bloodie jackals cling About a goodly palmed hart, hurt with a hunter's bow Whose escape his nimble feet insure, whilst his warm blood doth flow, And his light knees have power to move: but (maistred by his wound) Embost within a shady hill, the jackals charge him round, And teare his flesh--when instantly fortune sends in the powers Of some sterne lion, with whose sighte they flie and he devours.