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Sits in the winde Capell (i, 39): The word ‘sits’ shews the phrase to be taken from field-sports; the pursuers of which know,—that scents coming down the wind, or from game that sits or lyes in the wind, are always the strongest. 2. Hearke, etc.] What phenomenon in nature was it to which Antony here refers, and interprets according to his own despairing mood? Can it have been the wild tumult on land caused by ‘the great boisterous wind,’ which, according to Plutarch, troubled Anthony's ships more than aught else after he had deserted them?—Ed.
William Shakespeare. Horace Howard Furness. A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra. Philadelphia and London. J. B. Lippincott Company. 1907.
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