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by the iealous Queene of Heauen Johnson: That is, by Juno, the guardian of marriage, and consequently the avenger of connubial perfidy. that kisse . . . Virgin'd it ere since Three dramatists subsequent to Shakespeare's Coriolanus have substantially this same phraseology in regard to a kiss, whether taken from this source, or independently invented, it is needless to enquire. These are thus given in Some 300 Fresh Allusions to Shakespeare, ed. Furnivall. Fletcher, Queen of Corinth, ‘Beliza. . . . by my life, The parting kiss you took before your travel Is yet a virgin on my lips preserv'd,’ I, 11; Works, v, 403. Massinger, The Bondman, ‘Cleora. I restore This kiss, so help me goodness! which I borrow'd When I last saw you,’ IV, iii; Works, ii, 86. Shirley, The Coronation, Arcadius, ‘Thou art jealous now; Come, let me take the kiss I gave thee last; I am so confident of thee, no lip Has rauish'd it from thine,’ II, i, ed. Gifford and Dyce, iii, 474.—Ed.
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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