How now for mitigation of this bill Urged by the commons? Doth his majesty Cant. He seems indifferent, Or rather swaying more upon our part And in regard of causes now in hand, Did to his predecessors part withal. Ely. How did this offer seem received, my lord? Cant. With good acceptance of his majesty ; Of his true titles to some certain dukedoms Ely. What was the impediment that broke this Cant. The French ambassador upon that instant Craved audience; and the hour, I think, is come To give him hearing: is it four o'clock ? Ely. It is. Cant. Then go we in, to know his embassy; 74. exhibiters, introducers of the bill in Parliament. 86. severals, details. [Exeunt. 70 80 90 86. unhidden passages, manifest courses or channels of descent. SCENE II. The same. The Presence chamber. Enter KING HENRY, GLOUCESTER, BEDFORD, EXETER, WARWICK, WESTMORELAND, and K. Hen. Where is my gracious Lord of Can- Exe. Not here in presence. K. Hen. Send for him, good uncle. West. Shall we call in the ambassador, my liege ? K. Hen. Not yet, my cousin: we would be Before we hear him, of some things of weight Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, and Cant. God and his angels guard your sacred throne And make you long become it! K. Hen. Sure, we thank you. My learned lord, we pray you to proceed And justly and religiously unfold Why the law Salique that they have in France Or nicely charge your understanding soul 4. cousin. Westmoreland was a cousin only by marriage. He had married, as his second wife, a daughter of John of ΤΟ Gaunt, half sister of Henry IV., and aunt of the king. 14. bow, warp. 15. nicely, sophistically. With opening titles miscreate, whose right Of what your reverence shall incite us to. 'Gainst him whose wrongs give edge unto the That make such waste in brief mortality. Cant. Then hear me, gracious sovereign, and you peers, That owe yourselves, your lives and services, 19. in approbation of, in proving, making good. 32. As pure as sin, (concisely expressed for) 'as pure as the heart from sin.' 20 30 40 33 f. The whole of the archbishop's exposition is taken from Holinshed, in parts almost word for word. 40. glose, explain. Where Charles the Great, having subdued the Saxons, There left behind and settled certain French; Eight hundred five. Besides, their writers say, Of Blithild, which was daughter to King Clothair, 49. dishonest, unchaste. 57, 61, 64. The numbers and the reckoning are from Holinshed. As Rolfe pointed out, he seems to have deducted 405 from 826, instead of 426 from 805. 23 72. find, furnish, provide. 50 60 70 74. Convey'd himself as, stole into the position of, contrived to pass himself off as. 74. Lingare. Holinshed has Lingard. Her actual name was Liutgard. Daughter to Charlemain, who was the son Of Charles the Great. Also King Lewis the Tenth, Daughter to Charles the foresaid duke of Lorraine : Was re-united to the crown of France. So that, as clear as is the summer's sun, 75. Charlemain, i.e. Carloman (Carlman). Historically it was Charles the Bold. 76. Lewis (monosyllabic throughout). So 77. Lewis the Tenth. Holinshed. Historically it was Lewis IX. 82. lineal of, directly descended from. 88. Lewis his satisfaction, Lewis's conviction, release from uncertainty. 93. a net, i.e. of flimsy sophistries. 2 94. amply to imbar. F, F, 'imbarre'; Qq 'imbace,'' embrace.' Rowe read 'make bare' 80 90 and Theobald 'imbare,' which has been widely adopted, and forms a plausible antithesis to 'hide.' But the antithesis intended is not merely between frankness and subterfuge, but between an open and a crafty method of defence. Hence Knight properly restored 'imbar' from Ff, in the sense of bar in,' 'fortify,' 'secure." The French prefer to shelter themselves under a delusive appeal to the Salic law, which excludes their claim as well as ours, instead of directly and unreservedly defending their title as nevertheless the better.' |