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YOUR correspondent, Mr. J. J. Murphy, in his letter, NATURE, vol. xix. p. 197, overlooks the fact that blue is quite as inappropriate as green to describe the eye of an eagle. Shakespeare would never have used either epithet; the word he made use of was doubtless keen. Green has been substituted by the mistake of some transcriber of the play working by ear, and not by eye. I only wonder the correction has not been made long ago by some commentator.
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BREWIN, R. Letters to the Editor. Nature 19, 221 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019221c0
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