Note to The Merchant of Venice, 3.2.54-57. "much more love, / Than young Alcides, when he did redeem / The virgin tribute paid by howling Troy / To the sea-monster"
much more love, / Than young Alcides, when he did redeem / The virgin tribute paid by howling Troy / To the sea-monster: "Alcides" was an earlier name of Hercules. Hercules' motive in rescuing the Trojan princess Hesione from a sea-monster to which she was to be sacrificed was not love but a desire for the horses which had been promised as a reward. howling: lamenting.