66 They mean to warn us at Philippi here." STEEVENS. 508. Of your ill-will, &c.] This line is restored from the first edition. POPE. 553. Tell him, and spare not; look, what I have said] This verse I have restored from the old quartos. 556. THEOBALD. my pains] My labours; my toils. JOHNSON. 557. Out, devil!] Mr. Lambe observes in his notes on the ancient metrical history of the Battle of Floddon Field, that out is an interjection of abhorrence or contempt, most frequent in the mouths of the common people of the north. It occurs again in act iv. 564. -out on ye, owls!" STEEVENS. -royalize,] i. e. to make royal. So, in Claudius Tiberius Nero, 1607: "Who means to-morrow for to royalize "The triumphs," &c. 568. -Was not your husband STEEVENS. In Margaret's battle,] It is said in Henry VI. that he died in quarrel of the house of York. JOHNSON. 586. We follow'd then our lord, our sovereign king ;] The quarto of 1613 reads, our lawful king ;— which is, perhaps, better, as it justifies the attachment of his followers. MALONE. 597. Hear me, you wrangling pirates, &c.] This scene of Margaret's imprecations is fine and artful. She prepares the audience, like another Cassandra, for the following tragick revolutions. 598. WARBURTON. which you have pill'd from me:] To pill is to pillage. So, in the Martyr'd Soldier, by Shirley, 1638 : "He has not pill'd the rich, nor flay'd the poor." STEEVENS. To pill, is literally, to take off the outside or rind. Thus they say in Devonshire, to pill an apple, rather than pare it; and Shirley uses the word precisely in this sense. HENLEY. -] The meaning of 602. Ah, gentle villaingentle is not tender or courteous, but high-born. An opposition is meant between that and villain, which means at once a wicked and a low-born wretch. So before: Since ev'ry Jack is made a gentleman, There's many a gentle person made a Jack. JOHNSON. 603. what mak'st thou in my sight?] An obsolete expression for-what dost thou in my sight. Se, in Othello: "Ancient, what makes he here ?" Margaret Margaret in her answer takes the word in its ordinary acceptation. MALONE. 626. Northumberland, then present, wept to see it.] Alluding to a scene in K. Henry VI. Part III. "What weeping ripe, my lord Northumberland ?” STEEVENS. 629. And turn you all your hatred now on me?] I would point thus: And turn you all, your hatred now on me? to shew that all is not to be joined in construction with hatred. That the poet did not intend that it should be connected with hatred, appears, I think, from the foregoing line, What! were you snarling all, &c. The quarto reads, perhaps better: And turn you now your hatred, all on me? MALONE. 633. Could, &c.] The folio reads: Should all which is, perhaps, better. MALONE. 636. by surfeit die your king,] Alluding to his luxurious life. JOHNSON. 667. -elvish-mark'd] The common people in Scotland (as I learn from Kelly's Proverbs) have still an aversion to those who have any natural defect or redundancy, as thinking them mark'd out for mischief. STEEVENS. -rooting hog!] The expression is fine, alluding (in memory of her young son) to the ravage which hogs make, with the finest flowers, in gardens; and intimating that Elizabeth was to expect no other treatment for her sons. WARBURTON. She calls him hog, as an appellation more contemptuous than boar, as he is elsewhere termed from his ensigns armorial. There is no such heap of allusion as the commentator imagines. JOHNSON. In the Mirror for Magistrates (a book already quoted) is the following Complaint of Collingbourne, who was cruelly executed for making a rime : For where I meant the king by name of hog, To Lovel's name I added more-our dog; As cat and rat, the half-names of the rest, To hide the sense that they so wrongly wrest. That Lovel was once the common name of a dog, may be likewise known from a passage in The Historie of Jacob and Esau, an interlude, 1568: "Then come on at once, take my quiver and my bowe; "Fette lovell my hounde, and my horne to blowe." The rhime for which Collingbourne suffered, was: "A cat, a rat, and Lovel the dog, "Rule all England under a hog." STEEVENS. The rhime of Collingbourne is thus preserved in Heywood's History of Edward IV. Part II. "The cat, the rat, and Lovell our dog, "The "The crooke backt boore the way hath found "Both flower and bud will he confound, "Till king of beasts the swine be crown'd: "Shall in his trough feed and be fat." The propriety of Dr. Warburton's note, notwithstanding what Dr. Johnson hath subjoined, is fully confirmed by this satyr. HENLEY. -] The expression 669. The slave of nature, is strong and noble, and alludes to the ancient custom of masters branding their profligate slaves: by which it is insinuated, that his mis-shapen person was the mark that nature had set upon him to stigmatize his ill conditions. Shakspere expresses the same thought in The Comedy of Errors: "He is deformed, crooked, &c. "Stigmatical in making," But as the speaker rises in her resentment, she expresses this contemptuous thought much more openly, and condemns him to a still worse state of slavery: "Sin, death, and hell, have set their marks on him." Only, in the first line, her mention of his moral condition insinuates her reflections on his deformity: and, in the last, her mention of his deformity insinuates her reflections on his moral condition: And thus he has taught her to scold in all the elegance of figure. 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