"For if thou be of suche covine,

"To get of love by ravyne

"Thy lust," &c.

STEEVENS.

355. And of the paste a coffin ] A coffin is the term of art for the cavity of a raised pye. JOHNSON. 391. -break the parle;] That is, begin the parley. We yet say, he breaks his mind.

JOHNSON.

434. Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.] The additions made by Ravenscroft to this scene, are so much of a piece with it, that I cannot resist the temptation of shewing the reader how he continues the speech before us :

"Thus cramm'd, thou'rt bravely fatten'd up for hell,

"And thus to Pluto I do serve thee up :"

[Stabs the empress.

And then-" A curtain drawn discovers the heads and hands of Demetrius and Chiron hanging up agasint the wall; their bodies in chairs in bloody linen."

STEEVENS.

445. Goth.] This speech and the next, in the quarto 16:1, are given to a Roman lord In the folio they both belong to the Goth. I know not why they are separated. I believe the whole belongs to Marcus; who, when Lucius has gone through such a part of the narrative as concerns his own exile, claims his turn to speak again, and recommend Lucius to the

empire.

STEEVENS.

519. Thanks, gentle Romans;-) It should seem from the beginning of this speech of Lucius, that the first and last lines of the preceding one ought to be given to the concourse of Romans who are supposed to be present.

STEEVENS.

THE END.