is in apposition with _Death_, not with Posthumus Leonatus. In a note appended to this censure, referring to another passage from L. L. L., I averred that MR. COLLIER had corrupted it by chancing the singular verb _dies_ into the plural _die_ (this too done, under plea of editorial licence, without warning to the reader), and that such corruption had abstracted the true key to the right construction. To make good this last position, two things I must do first, cite the whole passage, without change of letter or tittle, as it stands in the Folios '23 and '32; next, show the trivial and vulgar use of "contents" as a singular noun. In Folio '23, thus: "_Qu._ Nay my good Lord, let me ore-rule you now; That sport best pleases that doth least know how. Where Zeale striues to content, and the contents Dies in the Zeale of that which it presents: Their forme confounded, makes most forme in mirth When great things labouring perish in their birth." Act IV. p. 141. With this the Folio '32 exactly corresponds, save that the speaker is _Prin._, not _Qu_.; _ore-rules_ is written as two words without the hyphen, and _strives_ for _striues_. I have been thus precise, because criticism is to me not "a game," nor admissive of cogging and falsification. I must now show the hackneyed use of _contents_ as a singular noun. An anonymous correspondent of "N. & Q." has already pointed out one in _Measure for Measure_, Act IV. Sc. 2.: "_Duke_. The _contents_ of this is the returne of the Duke." Another: "This is the _contents_ thereof."--Calvin's 82nd _Sermon upon Job_, p. 419., Golding's translation. Another: "After this were articles of peace propounded, y^e _contents_ wherof was, that he should departe out of Asia."--The 31st _Booke of Justine_, fol. 139., Golding's translation of Justin's _Trogus Pompeius_. Another: "Plinie writeth hereof an excellent letter, the _contents_ whereof is, that this ladie, mistrusting her husband, was condemned to die," &c.--_Historicall Meditations_, lib. iii. chap. xi. p. 178. Written in Latin by P. Camerarius, and done into English by John Molle, Esq.: London, 1621. Another: "The _contents_ whereof is this."--_Id._, lib. v. chap. vi. p. 342. Another: "Therefore George, being led with an heroicall disdaine, and nevertheless giuing the bridle beyond moderation to his anger, vnderstanding that Albert was come to Newstad, resolued with himselfe (without acquainting any bodie) to write a letter vnto him, the _contents_ whereof was," &c.--_Id._, lib. v. chap. xii. p. 366.