[71] Actus III, 865-866.

[72] Actus IV, 1526-7.

[73] This in turn is an echo from the Greek. See note in Doering's edition.

[74] See Boswell's edition of Malone's Shakspere, in loc.

[75] Yet again, in Marston's Insatiate Countess, the commentators have noticed the same sentiment.

"Death, From whose stern cave none tracks a backward path."

It was in fact a poetic commonplace.

[76] Act 5, Scene 6.

[77] Act v, sc. 1.

[78] I, 22.