I have no brother, I am like no brother: ' And this word-love, which greybeards call divine, Clarence, beware; thou keep'st me from the light; That Edward shall be fearful of his life;1 And then, to purge his fear, I'll be thy death. King Henry, and the prince his son, are gone': 'Clarence, thy turn is next; and then the rest; SCENE VII. The same. A Room in the Palace. [Exit. King EDWARD is discovered sitting on his Throne; Queen ELIZABETH with the infant Prince, CLARENCE, GLOSTER, HASTINGS, and Others, near him. K. Edw. Once more we sit in England's royal throne, Re-purchas'd with the blood of enemies. What valiant foe-men, like to autumn's corn, It might have been omitted in the folio merely by accident, (as some lines in The Second Part of King Henry VI certainly were) but its restoration is not necessary, for the sense is complete without it. Malone. 9 But I will sort a pitchy day for thee:] But I will choose out an hour whose gloom shall be as fatal to you. To sort is to select. So, in The Spanish Tragedy, 1605: 66 for they had sorted leisure." Again, in The Lover's Melancholy, 1629: "We shall sort time to take more notice of him." Steevens. 1 For I will buz abroad such prophecies, That Edward shall be fearful of his life;] The quartos add a line between these: This line is not in the quarto printed by W. W. 1600; but it is in the undated quarto, which in fact was printed in 1619, from that printed in 1600 by V. S. Malone. Have we mow'd down,2 in tops of all their pride? Two Cliffords, as the father and the son, And two Northumberlands; two braver men Ne'er spurr'd their coursers at the trumpet's sound: With them, the two brave bears, Warwick and Mon tague, That in their chains fetter'd the kingly lion, And made the forest tremble when they roar'd. Come hither, Bess, and let me kiss my boy :- Gis. I'll blast his harvest, if your head were laid; 2 like to autumn's corn, Have we mow'd down,] A kindred image occurs in King Henry V, p. 378: 66 mowing like grass "Your fresh-fair virgins, and your flow'ring infants." Steevens. 3 Work thou the way, and thou shalt execute.] I believe we should read: and this shall execute. Richard laying his hand on his forehead says: Work thou the way then bringing down his hand, and beholding it: and this shall execute. Though that may stand, the arm being included in the shoulder. The quartos read: "Work thou the way, and thou shalt execute." Johnson. I suppose he speaks this line, first touching his head, and then looking on his hand. Steevens. This is the reading of the old play. The folio reads-and that shalt execute. But as the word shalt is preserved, the other must have been an error of the transcriber or compositor. Malone K. Edw. Clarence, and Gloster, love my lovely queen; And kiss your princely nephew, brothers both. Clar. The duty, that I owe unto your majesty, I seal upon the lips of this sweet babe. K. Edw. Thanks, noble Clarence; worthy brother, thanks.4 • Glo. And, that I love the tree from whence thou sprang'st, Witness the loving kiss I give the fruit::To say the truth, so Judas kiss'd his master; < ‹ And cried—all hail! when as he meant—all harm. Aside. K. Edw. Now am I seated as my soul delights, Having my country's peace, and brothers' loves. Clar. What will your grace have done with Margaret? Reignier, her father, to the king of France Hath pawn'd the Sicils and Jerusalem, And hither have they sent it for her ransome. K. Edw. Away with her, and waft her hence to France. And now what rests, but that we spend the time [Exeunt. 4 Thanks, noble Clarence; worthy brother, thanks.] The quarto appropriates this line to the Queen. The first and second folio, by mistake, have given it to Clarence. In my copy of the second folio, which had belonged to King Charles the First, his Majesty has erased-Cla, and written King, in its stead. Shakspeare, therefore, in the catalogue of his restorers, may boast of a Royal name. Steevens. 5 With stately triumphs,] Triumphs are publick shows. This word has occurred too frequently to need exemplification in the present instance. Steevens. 002 THE following SUMMARY ACCOUNT* of the times and places of the several battles fought between the two houses of York and Lancaster, and of the numbers killed on both sides, is given by Trussel, at the end of his History of England, a book of little value, but in matters of this kind tolerably correct. I have compared his account with our earliest historians, and in some places corrected it by them. 1. THE BATTLE OF SAINT ALBANS, fought on the 23d of May, 1455, between Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, and King Henry VI. In this battle the Duke of York was victorious, and Henry was taken prisoner. KILLED, on the royal side 5041, (among whom were Edmond Duke of Somerset, Henry Earl of Northumberland, Humphrey Earl of Stafford, and Thomas Lord Clifford;) on the side of the Duke of York, 600. TOTAL-5641. 2. THE BATTLE OF BLOARHEATH in Shropshire, fought on the 30th of September, 1459, between James Lord Audley on the part of King Henry, and Richard Nevil Earl of Salisbury on the part of the Duke of York; in which battle Lord Audley was slain, and his army defeated. KILLED-2411. S. THE BATTLE OF NORTHAMPTON, 20th of July, 1460, between Edward Plantagenet, Earl of March, eldest son of the Duke of York, and Richard Nevil Earl of Warwick, on the one side, and King Henry on the other; in which the Yorkists were victorious. KILLED-1035, among whom were John Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury, Humphrey Duke of Buckingham, and Sir William Lucy. 4. THE BATTLE OF WAKEFIELD, December 30, 1460, between Richard Duke of York and Queen Margaret; in which the Duke of York was defeated. KILLED-2801, among whom were the Duke of York, Edmond Earl of Rutland his second son, Sir John and Sir Hugh Mortimer, his base uncles, and the Earl of Shrewsbury. Richard Nevil Earl of Salisbury was in this battle taken prisoner, and afterwards beheaded at Pomfret. 5. THE BATTLE OF MORTIMER'S CROSS, in Herefordshire, on Candlemas-day, 1460-1, between Edward Duke of York, on the one side, and Jasper Earl of Pembroke, and James Butler Earl of Wiltshire, on the other; in which the Duke of York was victorious. KILLED-3800, among whom was Sir Owen Tuther or Tudors, who married Queen Katharine, the widow of King Henry V. 6. THE SECOND BATTLE OF SAINT ALBANS, February 17, 1460-1, between Queen Margaret on the one side, and the Duke * Mr. Ritson, among his Remarks, 1783, p. 130, has also enumerated the following battles, &c. but as Mr. Malone's subsequent account of the same occurrences is the more ample of the two, I have adopted it. Steevens. of Norfolk and the Earl of Warwick on the other; in which the Queen obtained the victory. KILLED-2303; among whom was Sir John Grey, a Lancastrian, whose widow, Lady Grey, afterwards married King Edward the Fourth. 7. THE ACTION AT FERRYBRIDGE, in Yorkshire, March 28, 1461, between Lord Clifford on the part of King Henry, and the Lord Fitzwalter on the part of the Duke of York. KILLED-230, among whom were Lord Fitzwalter, John Lord Clifford, and the bastard son of the Earl of Salisbury. 8. THE BATTLE OF TOWTON, four miles from York, PalmSunday, March 29, 1461, between Edward Duke of York and King Henry; in which King Henry was defeated. KILLED-37,046, among whom were Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland, the Earl of Shrewsbury, and the Lords Nevil, Beaumond, Willoughby, Wells, Roos, Grey, Dacres, and Fitzhugh. The Earl of Devonshire was taken prisoner, and soon af terwards beheaded at York. 9. THE BATTLE OF HEDGELEY MOOR, in Northumberland, April 29, 1463, between John Nevil Viscount Montague, on the part of King Edward IV, and the Lords Hungerford and Roos on the part of King Henry VI: in which the Yorkists were victorious. KILLED-108, among whom was Sir Ralph Percy. 10. THE BATTLE OF HEXHAM, May 15, 1463, between Viscount Montague and King Henry, in which that King was defeated. KILLED-2024. Henry Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, and the Lords Roos and Hungerford, fighting on the side of King Henry, were taken prisoners, and soon afterwards beheaded. 11. THE BATTLE OF HEDGECOTE, four miles from Banbury, July 25, 1469, between William Herbert Earl of Pembroke, on the part of King Edward, and the lords Fitzhugh and Latimer, and Sir John Conyers, on the part of King Henry; in which the Lancastrians were defeated KILLED-5009. The Earl of Pembroke and his brother, Richard Widville Earl of Rivers, father to King Edward's Queen, Sir John Widville, John Tiptoft Earl of Worcester, the Lords Willoughby, Stafford, and Wells, were taken prisoners, and soon afterwards beheaded. 13. THE BATTLE OF STAMFORD, in Lincolnshire, October 1, 1469, between Sir Robert Wells and King Edward; in which the former was defeated and taken prisoner. The vanquished who fled, in order to lighten themselves threw away their coats, whence the place of combat was called Losecoatfield. KILLED-10,000. 14. THE BATTLE OF BARNET, on Easter-Sunday, April 14, 1471, between King Edward on one side, and the Earl of Warwick, the Marquis of Montague, and the Earl of Oxford, on the part of King Henry VI, in which the Lancastrians were defeated. KILLED-10,500, among whom were the Earl of Warwick, |