Two youths set about him.

[…] wherefore he now begunne To challenge her anew, as his owne prize, Whom formerly he had in battell wonne,

The aster is at this period closely similar to those of Ascaris at certain periods, as figured by Boveri, and the red mass with its central group of granules corresponds exactly, I think, to Boveri's centrosome with its Centralkorn or centriole (centrosphere with its centrosome in Strasburger's terminology).

These are partial artifacts, if you will: the imaging process has merely amplified flaws that were already present in the original.