[266] A quotation from Seneca’s Thyestes, 194-5.

[267] Not marked in old eds.—The Latin lines are from Seneca’s Thyestes. ll. 13-14, 75-80.

[268] Ed. 1602 “antri.”

[269] Old eds.feres.”

[270] The metre might be restored by reading—

“And by the mould that presseth down the skull
Of my dead father, I will be revenged.”

[271] Is busy with.—So in The Tempest:—

“Do not infest your mind with beating on
The strangeness of this business.”

[272] Old form of digest.

[273] Wanton excesses.