The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere . gel of Queen Elizabeth.] ^ Scene VIII.— That in a gondola loere seentogether. The only way of reaching the mainland wasin a gondola. But to be seen was altogether a matter of choice,—the gondola being themost private mode of conveyance in the world,(not excepting the Turkish palanquin,) and thefittest for an elopement. M. [The Goodwins.] ACT III. ^?^ Scene I.— The Goodunns, I thinh they callthe place. The popular notion of the Goodwin Sand was,not only that it was a very dangerous flat andfatal, but that it possessed a voraci
The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere . gel of Queen Elizabeth.] ^ Scene VIII.— That in a gondola loere seentogether. The only way of reaching the mainland wasin a gondola. But to be seen was altogether a matter of choice,—the gondola being themost private mode of conveyance in the world,(not excepting the Turkish palanquin,) and thefittest for an elopement. M. [The Goodwins.] ACT III. ^?^ Scene I.— The Goodunns, I thinh they callthe place. The popular notion of the Goodwin Sand was,not only that it was a very dangerous flat andfatal, but that it possessed a voracious andingurgitating property; so that, should a ship of the largest size strike on it, in a few days itwould be so wholly swallowed up b}^ these quick-sands, that no part of it would be left to beseen. It is to this belief that Shakspere mostprobably alludes when he describes the place asone where the carcases of many a tall ship lieburied. It has, however, been ascertained that P P vi 578 ILLUSTRATIONS. |_ACT IV. the sands of the opposite shore are of the samequality as that which tradition reports to haveonce formed the island property of Goodwin,Earl of Kent. ^^ Scene I.—It was my turquoise. The turquoise, turkise, or Turkey-stone, wassupposed to have a marvellous property, thusdescribed in Fentons Secret AVondeis of Na-ture, 1569:—The turkeys doth move whenthere is any
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