Many a time he danc'd thee on his knee,

Sung thee asleep, his loving breast thy pillow;
Many a matter hath he told to thee,
Meet and agreeing with thine infancy;
In that respect, then, like a loving child,

Shed yet some small drops from thy tender spring,
Because kind nature doth require it so:
Friends should associate friends in grief and woe:
Bid him farewell; commit him to the grave;

Do him that kindness, and take leave of him.

Boy. O grandsire, grandsire! even with all my heart
Would I were dead, so you did live again!—
O Lord, I cannot speak to him for weeping;
My tears will choke me, if I ope my mouth.

Re-enter Attendants with AARON.

First Rom.(110) You sad Andronici, have done with woes: Give sentence on this execrable wretch,

That hath been breeder of these dire events.

Luc. Set him breast-deep in earth, and famish him;

There let him stand, and rave, and cry for food:

If any one relieves or pities him,

For the offence he dies. This is our doom:

Some stay to see him fasten'd in the earth.

Aar. O, why should wrath be mute, and fury dumb? I am no baby, I, that with base prayers

I should repent the evils I have done :

Ten thousand worse than ever yet I did

Would I perform, if I might have my will:
If one good deed in all my life I did,

I do repent it from my very soul.

Luc. Some loving friends convey the emperor hence,

And give him burial in his father's grave:

My father and Lavinia shall forthwith

Be closed in our household's monument.

As for that heinous tiger, Tamora,

No funeral rite, nor man in mournful weeds,
No mournful bell shall ring her burial;

But throw her forth to beasts and birds of prey :

Her life was beast-like, and devoid of pity;
And, being so, shall have like want of pity.
See justice done on Aaron, that damn'd Moor,
By whom our heavy haps had their beginning:
Then, afterwards, to order well the state,
That like events may ne'er it ruinate.

[Exeunt.

P. 3. (1)

"To justice, continence, and nobility."

Mr. Collier's Ms. Corrector substitutes "To justice, conscience, and,” &c.

P. 5. (*) 66

Open the gates, and let me in.

Bas. Tribunes, and me, a poor competitor."

Mr. Collier's Ms. Corrector substitutes "Open the brazen gates," &c.,-Mr. Collier observing that "the epithet was, doubtless, accidentally omitted." But, if any thing has dropped out, it was quite as likely to have been what Capell inserts," Open the gates, tribunes, and let me in.”

So the fourth folio.-The earlier eds. have "his fraught," &c.

Theobald printed “in her tent,” &c., on the strength of the account of Polymnestor's death in the Hecuba of Euripides.

So the quartos (“lay the coffin in the tombe").—The folio has "the coffins;" which most of the modern editors have adopted, though the words of the earlier stage-direction, p. 5,-" two men bearing a coffin" "set down the

coffin,"―distinctly prove that the author intended only a single coffin to be exhibited in this scene. (We are not told how many dead sons Titus now brings home: but we may suppose that they are not more than four or five; for it appears (see p. 4) that he had before returned five times to Rome with some of his numerous family in coffins.)

P. 7. (°)

"here are no storms," &c.

The editor of the second folio omits "are."

P. 8. (7)

"Be chosen with proclamations," &c.

Mr. Collier's Ms. Corrector changes "proclamations" to "acclamations:" but compare, in p. 11, the words of Saturninus, on his being chosen emperor, "Proclaim our honours, lords, with trump and drum."

P. 8. (8)

"And set abroad new business," &c.

The third folio alters "set abroad" to the more usual expression, "set abroach;" and so Mr. Collier's Ms. Corrector.

Has been altered to "Prince Saturnine;" and rightly, it would seem.

So the third folio.-The earlier eds. have "thy friend," &c.

P. 10. (")

"Lavinia will I make my empress," &c.

Here, as in some

other passages of this drama, "empress” is to be pronounced as a trisyllable. (Several of the modern editors print "emperess,”—and inconsistently, for in the present play where "brethren" must be read as a trisyllable, they do not print “bretheren.")

P. 10. (12)

"And in the sacred Pantheon her espouse."

So the second folio.-The earlier eds. ". the sacred Pathan," &c.

P. 12. (13)

"Sat. No, Titus, no; the emperor needs her not," &c. In the old eds. this is preceded by a stage-direction, "Enter aloft the Emperour with Tamora and her two sonnes, and Aaron the Moore.”—Mr. Collier is justified in remarking that "the stage-arrangements in this scene are not easily understood."

P. 12. (14)

"Was none in Rome to make a stale,
But Saturnine? Full well, Andronicus,
Agree these deeds," &c.

So the three earliest eds.,—something having dropped out from the fourth line. The editor of the second folio supplied the deficiency thus,

"Was there none els in Rome to make a stale of

But," &c.,

which most probably comes very near to the true reading, if we except the "of.”—Mr. Knight thinks that he has set all right by a new arrangement (which the author evidently did not intend),—

"Was none in Rome to make a stale but Saturnine?

Full well, Andronicus,

Agree these deeds," &c.

P. 12. (15)

"And will create thee empress of Rome."

See note (11).

P. 14. (16) "He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.'

The stage-arrangements in this scene are (as already noticed) sufficiently puzzling. After the present line the quartos have "Exit all but Marcus and