* Sword, hold thy temper; heart, be wrathful still: * Priests pray for enemies, but princes kill. [Exit. Alarums: Excursions. Enter KING HENRY, QUEEN MARGARET, and Others, retreating. Q. Mar. Away, my lord! you are slow; for shame, away! * K. Hen. Can we outrun the heavens? good Margaret, stay. * Q. Mar. What are you made of? you'll not fight, nor fly: * Now is it manhood, wisdom, and defence 1o, * To give the enemy way: and to secure us * By what we can, which can no more but fly. [Alarum afar off. * If you be ta'en, we then should see the bottom 13. * Of all our fortunes: but if we haply scape * (As well we may, if not through your neglect), * We shall to London get; where you are lov'd; and the fall of many eminent persons is by the Chronicles represented as accomplishing them: being delivered in obscure terms, any fortuitous event was the more readily supposed to verify them. 12 This line, Steevens observes, may serve to countenance his emendation of a passage at the commencement of the third scene, Act iv. of Macbeth, where he proposed to read and wisdom is it to offer,' &c. See note on that passage. 13 This expression, the bottom of all our fortunes, is peculiarly Shakspeare's, he has it again in King Henry IV. Part I.:— The very bottom and the soul of hope, The very list, the very utmost bound Of all our fortunes.' Again in Romeo and Juliet: Which sees into the bottom of my grief.' And in Measure for Measure : To look into the bottom of my place.' * And where this breach, now in our fortunes made, *Y. Cliff. But that my heart's on future mischief set, * I would speak blasphemy ere bid you fly; * But fly you must; uncurable discomfit * * 14 Reigns in the hearts of all our present parts 14. *To see their day, and them our fortune give: * [Exeunt. SCENE III. Fields near Saint Albans. Alarum: Retreat. Flourish; then enter YORK, RICHARD PLANTAGENET, WARWICK, and Soldiers, with Drum and Colours. York. Of Salisbury, who can report of him; *That winter lion, who, in rage, forgets * Aged contusions and all brush of time1; * And, like a gallant in the brow of youth?, * Repairs him with occasion? this happy day * Is not itself, nor have we won one foot, * If Salisbury be lost. Rich. My noble father Three times to-day I holp him to his horse, 14 Parts may stand for parties; but I cannot help thinking that it is an error for party; by which, as Mr. Tyrwhitt and Steevens observe, the jingle of hearts and parts would be avoided. 1 Warburton would substitute all bruise of time.' But, as Steevens observes, the brush of time' is the gradual detrition of time. So in Timon of Athens:: 2 i. e. the height of youth: the brow of a hill is its summit. 'Three times bestrid him3, thrice I led him off, "Persuaded him from any further act: 'But still, where danger was, still there I met him; * And like rich hangings in a homely house, * So was his will in his old feeble body. * But, noble as he is, look where he comes. Enter SALISBURY. Sal. Now, by my sword, well hast thou fought to-day; By the mass, so did we all.—I thank you, Richard: God knows, how long it is I have to live; And it hath pleas'd him, that three times to-day 'You have defended me from imminent death.* Well, lords, we have not got that which we have1; * "Tis not enough our foes are this time fled, * Being opposites of such repairing nature5. York. I know, our safety is to follow them; For, as I hear, the king is fled to London, To call a present court of parliament. 'Let us pursue him, ere the writs go forth::• What says Lord Warwick? shall we after them? 3 That is three times I saw him fallen, and striding over him defended him till he recovered." This act of friendship Shakspeare has frequently mentioned. See the First Part of King Henry IV. Act v. Sc. 1, ad finem. 4 i. e. we have not secured that which we have acquired. Thus in Shakspeare's Rape of Lucrece : oft they have not that which they possess.' 5 i. e. being enemies that are likely so soon to rally and recover themselves from this defeat. To repair, in ancient language, was to renovate, to restore to a former condition. Thus in Cymbeline : 'O, disloyal thing That should'st repair my youth.' And in All's Well that Ends Well: |