text:  "PASSION" is used in the old strong general sense of powerful possessing emotion--in this example filial sorrow; and lower down we have the obsolete "OWES" for the modern "OWNS " which two vitiating reliques of antiquity along with that "pestering " "affected " and "obscure" figure "_crept by me_ upon the waters " would explain without doubt the impossibility which the reader feels himself under of deriving any pleasure from the passage and to speak strictly of discovering any signification in it!! Assuredly we do not design transcribing whole Shakspeare in order to contradicting a rash word of Dryden's