GREY. And me, my royal sovereign. K. HEN. Then, Richard earl of Cambridge, there is yours;- Read them; and know, I know your worthiness. you lose We will aboard to-night. Why, how now, gentlemen! Out of appearance? САМ. your blood I do confess my fault: And do submit me to your highness' mercy. K. HEN. The mercy, that was quick in us but late, You must not dare, for shame, to talk of mercy; As dogs upon their masters, worrying you. These English monsters! My lord of Cambridge here,— Than Cambridge is,-hath likewise sworn.-But, O! (†) First folio, an. (*) First folio, have. my lord." Black from white,-] So the quartos. The folio has "black and white." e A natural cause,-] Cause was probably a misprint for course. "And me, Wonder, to wait on treason and on murder: With patches, colours, and with forms being fetch'd But he that temper'da thee, bade thee stand up, Why, so didst thou. Why, so didst thou. c Show men dutiful? And God acquit them of their practices! EXE. I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Richard earl of Cambridge. I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Henry† lord Scroop of Masham. I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Thomas Grey, knight, of Northumberland. (*) Old text, make thee. (†) First folio, Thomas. Temper'd thee,-] Moulded thee. Johnson proposed to read “tempted thee.” b Vasty Tartar-] That is, Tartarus. e Garnish'd and deck'd in modest complement;] Complement signified accomplishments, perfection, completeness: and was applied sometimes to mental, sometimes to physical attainments, and occasionally, as in the present instance, merely to the taste and elegance displayed in dress. Thus, in a note of Drayton's upon the Epistle from Geraldine to Lord Surrey; "but Apparell and the outward Appearance intituled Complement." d Another fall of man.-] The whole of this speech from the line,— "Treason and murder ever kept together," inclusive, is omitted in the quartos. SCROOP. Our purposes God justly hath discovered, CAM. For me, the gold of France did not seduce, GREY. Never did faithful subject more rejoice Hear your sentence. Wherein you would have sold your king to slaughter, [Exeunt Conspirators, guarded. Now, lords, for France; the enterprize whereof Then forth, dear countrymen; let us deliver Putting it straight in expedition. Cheerly to sea; the signs of war advance: No king of England, if not king of France. [Exeunt. SCENE III.-London. Pistol's House in Eastcheap. Enter PISTOL, Hostess, BARDOLPH, NYM, and Boy. HOST. Pr'ythee, honey-sweet husband, let me bring thee to Staines. (*) First folio omits, I. (†) First folio omits, have. PIST. No; for my manly heart doth yearn. Bardolph, be blithe;-Nym, rouse thy vaunting veins ;- BARD. Would I were with him, wheresome'er he is, either in heaven or in hell! HOST. Nay, sure, he's not in hell; he's in Arthur's bosom, if ever man went to Arthur's bosom. 'A made a finer end, and went away, an it had been any christom child; (2) 'a parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide: (3) for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers' ends,* I knew there was but one way; for his nose was as sharp as a pen, and 'a babbled of green fields.a How now, sir John? quoth I: what, man! be o' good cheer. So 'a cried out-God, God, God! three or four times: now I, to comfort him, bid him, 'a should not think of God; I hoped there was no need to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet: so, 'a bade me lay more clothes on his feet: I put my hand into the bed, and felt them, and they were as cold as any stone; then I felt to his knees, and so upward,† and upward, and all was as cold as any stone. NYм. They say, he cried out of sack. HOST. Ay, that 'a did. BARD. And of women. HOST. Nay, that 'a did not. BOY. Yes, that 'a did; and said, they were devils incarnate. HOST. 'A could never abide carnation: 't was a colour he never liked. BOY. 'A said once, the devil would have him about women. HOST. 'A did in some sort, indeed, handle women: but then he was rheumatic; and talked of the whore of Babylon. Boy. Do you not remember, 'a saw a flea stick upon Bardolph's nose, and 'a said, it was a black soul burning in hell? BARD. Well, the fuel is gone that maintained that fire: that's all the riches I got in his service. NYM. Shall we shog? the king will be gone from Southampton. PIST. Come, let's away.-My love, give me thy lips, Look to my chattels, and my movables: Let senses rule; the word is, Pitch and pay;c (*) First folio, end. (†) First folio, up-peer'd. () First folio, world. And 'a babbled of green fields.] In the folio,-"his nose was as sharpe as a Pen, and a Table of greene fields." The quartos have simply, "His nose was as sharp as a pen." Theobald's famous emendation of "'a babbled of green fields," has now become so completely a part of the text, that no editor will ever have the temerity to displace it. The conjecture of Pope, therefore, that "a table of green fields," was a stage-direction for the property-man, (whom he supposed to be named Greenfield,) to have a table ready on the stage "a table of Greenfield's; and the equally atrocious sophistication of Mr. Collier's annotator-"his nose was as sharp as a pen on a table of green frieze!" need only be mentioned to be laughed at. b Was rheumatic;] Was lunatic, the "quondam Quickly" means. e Pitch and pay ;] A proverbial saying, equivalent to our " pay on delivery." One of the old laws of Blackwell-hall, Farmer says, "was that a penny be paid by the owner of every bale of cloth for pitching." Tusser, in his description of Norwich, calls it,— "A city trim; Where strangers well may seem to dwell, Trust none, for oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes, Therefore, caveto be thy counsellor. Go, clear thy crystals.-Yoke-fellows in arms, Let us to France! like horse-leeches, my boys; To suck, to suck, the very blood to suck! Boy. And that is but unwholesome food, they say. PIST. Touch her soft mouth, and march. Farewell, hostess. [Kissing her. NYм. I cannot kiss, that is the humour of it; but adieu. [Exeunt. SCENE IV.-France. A Room in the French King's Palace. Flourish. Enter KING CHARLES, attended; the DAUPHIN, the DUKE of BURGUNDY, the Constable, and others. K. CHA. Thus come the English with full power upon us, And more than carefully it us concerns, To answer royally in our defences. Therefore the dukes of Berry, and of Bretagne, Of Brabant, and of Orleans, shall make forth, And you, prince Dauphin,-with all swift despatch, To line and new repair our towns of war, With men of courage, and with means defendant: It fits us then to be as provident As fear may teach us, out of late examples DAU. My most redoubted father, It is most meet we arm us 'gainst the foe; For peace itself should not so dull a kingdom, (Though war, nor no known quarrel, were in question,) But that defences, musters, preparations, Should be maintain'd, assembled, and collected, As were a war in expectation. Therefore, I say, 't is meet we all go forth, To view the sick and feeble parts of France; And let us do it with no show of fear, No, with no more, than if we heard that England Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance: For, my good liege, she is so idly king'd, Her sceptre so fantastically borne By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth, CON. O peace, prince Dauphin! |