dusty
“death”
MACBETH, v.5.23
When, in my Few Notes , etc., 1853, p. 133, I observed
that this very striking expression--which Shakespeare's commentators evidently supposed was
found for the first time in Macbeth-- occurs in a poem
published more than a dozen years before the appearance of that tragedy,
“Time and thy graue did first salute thy nature,
Euen in her infancie and cradle- rightes,
Inuiting it to dustie deaths defeature,”
A Fig for Fortune, 1596, by Anthony Copley, p. 57 [49] ,
I was not aware that Mr. Collier had already made the same quotation in the first edition of his Shakespeare.
“Time and thy graue did first salute thy nature,
Euen in her infancie and cradle- rightes,
Inuiting it to dustie deaths defeature,”
A Fig for Fortune, 1596, by Anthony Copley, p. 57 [49] ,
I was not aware that Mr. Collier had already made the same quotation in the first edition of his Shakespeare.
