Upon her gentle bofom, and fill up Her enemies ranks? (I muft withdraw and weep (27); To grace the gentry of a land remote, Where these two Chriftian armies might combine Lewis. A noble temper doft thou fhew in this, Editors, the word franger is here an adjective in its ufage, and to be coupled to march, which is its fubftantive and no verb. Richard II. So in And tread the ranger paths of banishment. And fo in his poem, call'd, Tarquin and Lucrece ; But the, that never cop'd with firarger eyes, As to the ufe of this word adjectively, I have already spoke in my 2d. note on Midsummer Night's Dream. (27) I muft withdraw, and weep Upon the spot, for this enforced caufe.] Thus Mr. Pope points. and reads thefe lines: whith, if I understand the drift, is making Salifoury fay, I must go from this spot, and weep upon it."I have chofe to flick to the reading of the old copies, and to throw the paffage into Parenthesis; this is what, I apprehend, the Poet means, Salisbury fhould fay; I muft, turn afide, and weep for this ftain "this difgrace, of our revolt; to which we have been enforced by "the King's proceedings.' So in the laft fpeech of Salisbury to Prince Heny, the word fpot again is ufed. And the like tender of our love we make But But this effufion of fuch manly drops, This fhow'r, blown up by tempeft of the foul, As Lewis himself; fo, nobles, shall And even there, methinks, an angel fpake! Pand. Hail, noble Prince of France! Lewis. Your Grace fhall pardon me, I will not back? I am too high-born to be property'd, To be a fecondary at controul; Orufeful ferving-man, and inftrument, S.5 And And brought in matter, that should feed this fires After young Arthur, claim this land for mine: Sweat in this bufinefs, and maintain this war? Pand. You look but on the outfide of this work. [Trumpet Jounds. What lufty trumpet thus doth fummon us? Enter Faulconbridge. Faule. According to the fair play of the world, And And as you anfwer, I do know the scope Pand. The Dauphin is too willful-oppofite, Faulc. By all the blood that ever fury breath'd, He is prepar'd; and reafon too, he should. This harnefs'd mafk, and unadvised revel, (28) This unheard faucinefs, and boyish troops,] Thus the printed copies in general: but unbeard is an epithet of very little force, ur meaning here; befides let us obferve how 'tis coupled. Faulconbridge is fneering at the Dauphin's invafion, as an unadvis'd enterprize, favouring of youth and indifcretion; the refult of childishnefs, and unthinking rafhness: and he seems altogether to dwell on: this character of it, by calling his preparation boyish troops, dwarfish war, pigmy arms, &c. So before, in the 1ft fcene of this act, Faulconbridge fays; fhall a beardless boy, A cockred, fikken, wanton brave our fields? Let me fubjoin a few inftances to fhew, that this epithet unbair'd isvery much in the mode of our Shakespeare's expreffion. So, in Macbeth. And many unrough youths, That even now proteft their first of manhood.. Love's Labour loft. I'll mark no words that smooth-fac'd lovers fay, Antony and Cleopatra. or who knows, If the fearce-bearded Cæfar have not fent Coriolanus. Tempeft. Henry V. When with his Amazonian chin he drove Till new-born chins Be rough and razorable. For who is he, whofe chin is but enrich'd And in his poem, call'd, Venus and Adoris ; Whose beams upon his bairle's face are fix'dz. The The King doth fmile at; and is well-prepar'd: That hand which had the strength,, ev'n at your door,. To lie, like pawns, lock'd up in chefts and trunks ;. To foufe annoyance that comes near his neft. Lewis. There end thy brave,and turnthy face in peace; We grant, thou canft out-fcold us; fare thee well: We hold our time too precious to be spent With fuch a babler. Pand. Give me leave to speak. Faulc. No, I will speak. Lervis. We will attend to neither: Strike up the drums, and let the tongue of war Plead for our int'reft, and our being here. Faule. Indeed, your drums, being beaten, will cry out; And fo fhall you, being beaten; do but start. An echo with the clamour of thy drum, And ev❜n at hand a drum is ready brac'd, That shall reverb'rate all as loud as thine. Sound |