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(d)	Better then Death, Death’s office thou dischargest And with a pleasing sleepe our soule inlargest, ·⁠·⁠·⁠·⁠· That a open canst with such an easie key The doore of life, come gentle cunning thiefe, That from our selues so stea’st our selues away. Cleopatra, K. iii.	Thou best of thieves; who with an easy key, Dost open life, and unperceived by us, Ev’n steal us from ourselves; discharging so Death’s dreadful office, better than himself; Touching our limbs so gently into slumber. All for Love, Act v. sc. i.
(e)	False flesh (saith she) and what dost thou conspire With Cæsar too, as thou wert none of ours. Cleopatra, K. iiii.	Coward flesh, Wouldst thou conspire with Cæsar to betray me, As thou wert none of mine? All for Love, Act v. sc. i.
(f)	Ile bring my soule my selfe, and that with speede, My selfe with bring my soule to Antony. Cleopatra, K. v.	But bring myself my soul to Antony. All for Love, Act v. sc. i.
(g)	She went with such a will. Cleopatra, K. v.	I go with such a will to find my lord. All for Love, Act v. sc. i.
(h)	And now proude Tyrant Cæsar do thy worst. Cleopatra, K. iiii. verso.	⁠Cæsar, thy worst. All for Love, Act v. sc. i.
(i)	Charmion, is this well done? saide one of them. Yea, well saide she, and her that from the race Of so great Kings descends, doth best become. Cleopatra, K. v.	Charmion, is this well done? Yes, ’tis well done, and like a queen, the last Of her great race. All for Love, Act v. sc. i.
(j)	And in that cheere th’ impression of a smile Did seeme to shew she scorned Death and Cæsar, And telling Death how much her death did please her. Cleopatra, K. iiii. verso, K. v.	Th’ impression of a smile, left in her face Shows she died pleas’d with him for whom she liv’d. All for Love, Act v. sc. i.

ii. Dryden and Milton.

Aubrey^[1] is the authority for the well-known story of Dryden’s visit to Milton to obtain permission “to tagge his verses.” Dr. Verrall^[2] was of opinion that it is probably apocryphal. This version of it, with additional details, seems to have escaped notice:

“We shall here beg the Readers Pardon for mentioning a Passage told a Gentleman of our Society almost Forty years since by M^r. Dryden,

1. Brief Lives, ed. Clark, ii. 72.
2. Lectures on Dryden, 220.