796. The crowd's wild fury, etc. The MS. reads: "The crowd's wild fury ebbed amain In tears, as tempests sink in rain." The 1st ed. reads as in the text, but that of 1821 has "sunk amain." The figure here is a favorite one with Shakespeare. Cf. R. of L. 1788: "This windy tempest, till it blow up rain, Held back his sorrow's tide, to make it more; At last it rains, and busy winds give o'er;" 3 Hen. VI. i. 4. 146: "For raging wind blows up incessant showers, And, when the rage allays, the rain begins;" Id. ii. 5. 85: "see, see, what showers arise, Blown with the windy tempest of my heart;" T. and C. iv. 4. 55: "Where are my tears? rain, to lay this wind, or my heart will be blown up by the root;" and Macbeth, i. 7. 25: "That tears shall down the wind."
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