PARALLEL PASSAGES

In Shakspeare's *Henry IV.*, Act V. Sc. 4., the Prince exclaims, beholding Percy's corpse,— "When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound; But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough!" In Ovid we find the following parallel:— "... jacet ecce Tibullus, Vix manet e toto parva quod urna capit." A second one appears in the pretended lines on the sepulchre of Scipio Africanus:— "Cui non Europa, non obstitit Africa unquam, Respiceres hominem, quem brevis urna premit." The same reflection we find in Ossian:— "With three steps I measure thy grave, O thou, s…