Note 1119 — ACT V. SCENE I.

Drinks, &c.] Here the editor of 1816 gives “Stabs herself,” observing in a note, “I have added this stage-direction, without which I cannot otherwise understand the following speech of the Lord Cardinal’s.” But it is evident, I think, from the last words of Bianca,—

“Tasting the same death in a cup of love,”—

that she drains off the poisoned cup which she had prepared for the Cardinal, and which Ganymede had by mistake presented to the Duke.