6 Upon the innocent and awless throne :- DUCH. Accursed and unquiet wrangling days! How many of you have mine eyes beheld? My husband lost his life to get the crown; And often up and down my sons were tost, For me to joy, and weep, their gain, and loss: And being seated, and domestick broils Clean over-blown, themselves, the conquerors, Make war upon themselves; brother to brother, Blood to blood, self 'gainst self *:-O, preposterous And frantic courage†, end thy damned spleen ; Or let me die, to look on death no more 7! Q. ELIZ. Come, come, my boy, we will to sanctuary. Madam, farewell. DUCH. Stay, I will go with you. Q. ELIZ. You have no cause. ARCH. My gracious lady, go, [To the Queen. And thither bear your treasure and your goods. For my part, I'll resign unto your grace The seal I keep; And so betide to me, As well I tender you, and all of yours! Come, I'll conduct you to the sanctuary. [Exeunt. * Quarto 1597, Make war upon themselves; blood against blood, Self against self. + Quarto 1597, outrage. 6-awless-] Not producing awe, not reverenced. To jut upon is to encroach. JOHNSON. The quarto reads, I think preferably, to jet, to be ostentatious. See vol. xi. p. 414, n. 4. BoS WELL. 7 Or let me die, to look on DEATH no more!] Earth is the reading of all the copies, from the first edition put out by the players, downwards. But I have restored the reading of the old quarto in 1597, which is copied by all the other authentic quartos, by which the thought is finely and properly improved: "Or let me die, to look on death no more." THEOBALD. I'll resign unto your grace The seal I keep; &c.] Afterwards, however, this obsequious ACT III. SCENE I. London. A Street. The Trumpets sound. Enter the Prince of WALES, GLOSTER, BUCKINGHAM, Cardinal BOURCHIER, and Others. BUCK. Welcome, sweet prince, to London, to your chamber 1. GLO. Welcome, dear cousin, my thoughts' sovereign : The weary way hath made you melancholy. PRINCE. No, uncle; but our crosses on the way Have made it tedious, wearisome, and heavy: I want more uncles here to welcome me. GLO. Sweet prince, the untainted virtue of your years Hath not yet div'd into the world's deceit : Than of his outward show; which, God he knows, Archbishop [Rotheram] to ingratiate himself with K. Richard III. put his majesty's badge, the Hog, upon the gate of the Publick Library, Cambridge. STEEVENS. 9 Cardinal Bourchier,] Thomas Bourchier was made a Cardinal, and elected Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1464. He died in 1486. MALONE. I - to your CHAMBER.] London was anciently called Camera Regis. POPE. So, in Heywood's If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody, 1633, Part II.: "This city, our great chamber." STEEVENS. This title it began to have immediately after the Norman conquest. See Coke's 4 Inst. 243, where it is styled Camera Regis; Camden's Britannia, 374; Ben Jonson's Account of King James's Entertainment in passing to his Coronation, &c. REED. JUMPETH with the heart.] So, in Soliman and Perseda, "Wert thou my friend, thy mind would jump with mine." STEEVENS. Those uncles, which you want, were dangerous; PRINCE. God keep me from false friends! but they were none. GLO. My lord, the mayor of London comes to greet you. Enter the Lord Mayor, and his Train. MAY. God bless your grace with health and happy days! you all. PRINCE. I thank you, good my lord ;—and thank Exeunt Mayor, &c. I thought my mother, and my brother York, Would long ere this have met us on the way: Fye, what a slug is Hastings! that he comes not To tell us, whether they will come, or no. Enter HASTINGS. BUCK. And in good time, here comes the sweating lord. PRINCE. Welcome, my lord: What, will our mother come? HAST. On what occasion, God he knows, not I, The queen your mother, and your brother York, Have taken sanctuary: The tender prince Would fain have come with me to meet your grace, But by his mother was perforce withheld. BUCK. Fye! what an indirect and peevish course If she deny,-lord Hastings, go with him, 3- in good time,] De bonne heure. Fr. STEEVENS. CARD. My lord of Buckingham, if my weak oratory Can from his mother win the duke of York, Of blessed sanctuary! not for all this land, BUCK. You are too senseless-obstinate, my lord, Too ceremonious, and traditional 5: Weigh it but with the grossness of this age, 4 ANON expect him here: &c.] The word-anon, may safely be omitted. It only serves to vitiate the measure. STEEVENS. 5 Too CEREMONIOUS, and TRADITIONAL:] Ceremonious for superstitious; traditional for adherent to old customs. WARBURTON. Weigh it but with the GROSSNESS of THIS age,] But the more gross, that is, the more superstitious the age was, the stronger would be the imputation of violated sanctuary. The question, we see by what follows, is whether sanctuary could be claimed by an infant. The speaker resolves it in the negative, because it could be claimed by those only whose actions necessitated them to fly thither; or by those who had an understanding to demand it; neither of which could be an infant's case: It is plain then, the first line, which introduces this reasoning, should be read thus: 66 Weigh it but with the greenness of his age," i. e. the young Duke of York's, whom his mother had fled with to sanctuary. The corrupted reading of the old quarto is something nearer the true : — the greatness of his age." WARBURTON. This emendation is received by Hanmer, and is very plausible; yet the common reading may stand : 66 Weigh it but with the grossness of this age, "You break not sanctuary— That is, compare the act of seizing him with the gross and licentious practices of these times, it will not be considered as a violation of sanctuary, for you may give such reasons as men are now used to admit. JOHNSON. Dr. Warburton is not accurate. The original quarto, 1597, and the two subsequent quartos, as well as the folio, all read— grossness. Greatness is the corrupt reading of a late quarto of no authority, printed in 1622. MALONE. You break not sanctuary in seizing him. To those whose dealings have deserv'd the place, But sanctuary children, ne'er till now". CARD. My lord, you shall o'er-rule my mind for once. Come on, lord Hastings, will you go with me? PRINCE. Good lords, make all the speedy haste you may, [Exeunt Cardinal and HASTINGS. Say, uncle Gloster, if our brother come, Where shall we sojourn till our coronation? If I GLO. Where it seems best unto your royal self. may counsel you, some day, or two, Your highness shall repose you at the Tower: Then where you please, and shall be thought most fit For your best health and recreation. PRINCE. I do not like the Tower, of any place:Did Julius Cæsar build that place, my lord? GLO. He did, my gracious lord, begin that place; Which, since, succeeding ages have re-edified". ❝ Oft have I heard of sanctuary men ; &c.] These arguments against the privilege of sanctuary are taken from Sir Thomas More's Life of King Edward the Fifth, published by Stowe; And verily, I have heard of sanctuary men, but I never heard earst of sanctuary children," &c. STEEVENS. More's Life of King Edward V. was published also by Hall and Holinshed, and in the Chronicle of Holinshed Shakspeare found this argument. MALONE. He did, &c.] I suppose this and the following line, (the useless epithet-gracious, omitted,) should be read thus: |