So much complexion? Look ye, how they change! Their cheeks are paper. Why, what read you there, That hath so cowarded and chased your blood Out of appearance ? Cam. I do confess my fault And do submit me to your highness' mercy. ; K. Hen. The mercy that was quick in us but By your own counsel is suppress'd and kill'd: You know how apt our love was to accord But, O, What shall I say to thee, Lord Scroop? thou cruel, Ingrateful, savage and inhuman creature! Thou that didst bear the key of all my counsels, Could out of thee extract one spark of evil 90. practices, plots. 91. Hampton, Southampton. 80 90 100 That might annoy my finger? 'tis so strange, But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in Do botch and bungle up damnation With patches, colours, and with forms being fetch'd From glistering semblances of piety; But he that temper'd thee bade thee stand up, Gave thee no instance why thou shouldst do treason, Unless to dub thee with the name of traitor. 103. stands off, stands out. 108. That admiration, etc., that wonder did not cry out at them; they excited no surprise. 114. suggest, tempt. 119. instance, ground. Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger, Another fall of man. Their faults are open: Arrest them to the answer of the law; 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. Scroop. Our purposes God justly hath discover'd; And I repent my fault more than my death; Which I beseech your highness to forgive, Although my body pay the price of it. Cam. For me, the gold of France did not seduce; Although I did admit it as a motive The sooner to effect what I intended: 133. blood, impulse of passion. 134. complement, outward de meanour, manners. 135. Not working with the eye without the ear, not judging by the looks of men without having had intercourse with them. 137. bolted, sifted, purified from dross. 139. mark the, Theobald's correction for Ff 'make thee.' 140 150 But God be thanked for prevention ; Grey. Never did faithful subject more rejoice My fault, but not my body, pardon, sovereign. K. Hen. God quit you in his mercy! Hear your sentence. You have conspired against our royal person, Join'd with an enemy proclaim'd and from his coffers Received the golden earnest of our death; Wherein you would have sold your king to slaughter, His princes and his peers to servitude, guarded. Now, lords, for France; the enterprise whereof 158. for prevention, for having forestalled me. 159. rejoice, rejoice at. 165. My fault, but not my body. Probably derived from a 160 170 180 letter addressed to the queen in 1585 by Parry, after his conviction of treason: Discharge me A culpa, but not A pæna, good ladie.' 169. earnest, earnest-money. We doubt not of a fair and lucky war, 190 Cheerly to sea; the signs of war advance: [Exeunt. SCENE III. London. Before a tavern. Enter PISTOL, Hostess, NYM, BARDOLPH, and Host. Prithee, honey-sweet husband, let me bring thee to Staines. Pist. No; for my manly heart doth yearn. Bardolph, be blithe: Nym, rouse thy vaunting veins : Boy, bristle thy courage up; for Falstaff he is dead, 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 10 bosom. A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom 191. in expedition, in march. 2. to Staines, the first stage on the road to Southampton. 11. finer, the Hostess' blunder for 'final.' 12. christom child, a child dying within a month of birth. child; a' parted even 'Christom' is Mrs. Quickly's mixture of ' christen' and 'chrisome,' the latter being the white cloth bound round the head of the newly christened child and removed at the end of the first month. |