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Small as an Eunuch W. A. Wright calls attention to Hanmer's reading, eunuch's, and compares, for this construction, I, vi, 34; see, therefore, his note thereon. the Virgin voyce R. G. White: Criticism of Shakespeare's poetry has no place in this work unless as an aid to the settlement of his text; but I may be pardoned for remarking that this is the most infelicitous use of epithet that I remember to have noticed in all these plays.—Hudson (ed. ii.): White notes ‘virgin’ here as an ‘infelicitous use of epithet.’ I cannot conceive why, unless on the ground that virgins never use their voice in singing lullaby to other people's children. Do none but mothers lull babies asleep?
William Shakespeare. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D. The Tragedie of Coriolanus. Philadelphia and London. J. B. Lippincott Company.
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