WorkWilliam Shakespeare
The First Part of King Henry the Fourth (c. 1596–97; First Folio 1623) Inferred
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) · 1598
InferredFuller uses the phrase "vasty deep" as a casual allusion to Shakespeare's *Henry IV Part 1*, Act 3, Scene 1, where Glendower boasts "I can call spirits from the vasty deep."
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Documented 1830–1840
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“mercilessly exhorted us to jump and run, (as it seemed to us), into the very arms of the vasty deep”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Inferred Fuller uses the phrase "vasty deep" as a casual allusion to Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 1, Act 3, Scene 1, where Glendower boasts "I can call spirits from the vasty deep."
“All mortals, my friend, are slack and bare; they wait to see whether Hotspur wins, before they levy aid for as good a plan as ever was laid.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
Inferred Fuller's allusion to Hotspur's 'By the Lord, our plot is a good plot as ever was laid, our friends true and constant.' | Hudspeth identified this allusion: 1 Henry IV, II.iii.16-18.