...early waking — what with loathsome smells ; And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth, That living mortals, hearing them, run mad ; — Oh ! if I wake, shall I not be distraught P " I will quote but two further illustrations of the point under notice from the plays of the same...

...the household. Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet says in Juliet's farewell: And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth Thnt living mortals hearing: them, run mad. It is a native of Southern Europe, and the name is derived from the peculiar shape of the forked root,...

...So early waking, what with loathsome smells, And shrieks like mandrakes' torn out of the earth, That living mortals, hearing them, run mad. . . Oh, if I wake, shall I not go insane, Entombed there with all these hideous fears, And madly play with my forefather's joints?...

...spirits resort— Alack, alack, is it not like that I, So early waking—what with loathsome smells That living mortals, hearing them, run mad— Oh, if I wake, shall I not be distraught And madly play with my forefathers' joints And, in this rage, with some great kinsman's bone As with...