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P. 179, 1. 22. But they can see a sort -] a
a company. WARBURTON.
P. 1.79, 1. 30.

- haught,] i e. haughty.

STEEVENS.

P. 179, 1. 33. No, not that name was given me at the font,] How that name which was given him at the font could be usurped, I do not understand. Perhaps Shakspeare meant to shew that imagination, dwelling long on its own misfortunes, represents them as greater than they really are. ANONYMOUs.

P. 180, l. 23. 24.
Where all

my

the very book sins are writ,] This phrase is from the 139th Psalm, v. 15: and in thy book were all my members written." STEEVENS. P. 180, 1. 32. 35. That every day under his household roof

Shak

Did keep ten thousand men?] speare is here not quite accurate. Our old chronicles only say that to his household came every day, to meate, ten thousand men." MALlone.

P. 182, 1. 5. Conveyers are you all,] To convey is a term often used in an ill sense, and so Richard understands it here. Pistol says of stealing, convey the wise it call, and to convey is the word for sleight of hand, which seems to be alluded to here. Ye are all, says the deposed Prince, jugglers, who rise with this nimble dexterity by the fall of a good King.

JOHNSON. P. 182, 1. 15-17. The woe's to come; the children yet unborn

Shall feel this day as sharp to them as thorn.] This pathetic denunciation shows that Shakspeare intended to

impres his auditors with dislike of the deposal of Richard. JOHNSON.

P, 182, l. 22, To bury mine intents,] To conceal, to keep secret. JOHNSON.

P. 162, last 1. In the first edition there is no personal appearance of King Richard, so that all to the line at which he leaves the stage was inserted afterwards, JOHNSON.

P. 183, 1. 6. Julius Caesar's ill-erected tower,] The Tower of London is traditionally said to have been the work of Julius Caesar. JOHNSON.

By-ill-erected, I suppose, is meant

for bad purposes, STEEVENS.

erected

P. 183, I. 16. 17. Ah, thou, the model where old Troy did stand

Thou map of honour:] The Queen uses comparative terms absolutely. Instead of saying, Thou who appearest as the ground on which the magnificence of Troy was once erected, she says— Ah, thou the model, &c.

Thou map of honour;

Thou picture of greatness,

JOHNSON.

Model, it has already been observed, is used by our author, for a thing made after a pattern. He is, I believe, singular in this use of the word. Thou ruined majesty, says the Queen, that resemblest the desolated waste where Troy once stood. MALONE,

P. 183, 1. 18, Inn does not here signify a house of publick entertainment; but a dignified hahitation. Lord Howard's magnificent seat in Essex is still called Audley-Inn. STEEVENS.

I cannot agree with Steevens. Inn means a house of entertainment, and is opposed to alehouse in the following line, M. MASON,

P, 183, 1, 22-27. Joint not with grief, &c.] Do not thou unite with grief against me; do not, by thy additional sorrows, enable grief to strike me down at once. My own part of sorrow I can bear, but thy affliction will immediately destroy me. JOHNSON.

P. 183, last 1. and P. 184, first 1.

I am

sworn brother, sweet,

To grim necessity;] I have reconciled myself to necessity, I ain in a state of amity with the constraint which I have sustained. JOHNSON.

The expression-sworn brother, alludes to fratres jurati, who, in the ages of adventure, bound themselves by mutual oaths, to share fortunes together. STEEVENS.

P. 184, 1. 18-20.

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if aught but beasts, I had been still a happy King of men.] 'Tis marvellous, that Mr. Upton did not quote this passage as an evidence of our author's learning, and observe, that a more faithful translation of Homer's ava avdgav could not have been made. STEEVENS.

P. 184, 1. 28. to quit their grief,] to retaliate their mournful stories. JOHNSON. P. 184, 1. 31 and fol. For why, the senseless brands &c.] The poet should have ended this speech with the foregoing line, and have spared his childish prattle

about the fire. JOHNSON.

This is certainly childish prattle, as Johnson calls it; but it is of the same stamp with the other speeches of Richard, after the landing of Bolingbroke, which are a strange medley of sense and puerility. M. MASON.

P. 185, 1. 52. for with a kiss 'twas made,] A kiss appears to have been an established ci

cumstance in our ancient nuptial ceremony.

STEEVENS.

P. 186, 1. 3. Hallowmas;] All-ballows, or all-hallowtile; the first of November. STEEVENS.

P. 186, 1. 15. Better far off, than

near, be

ne'er the near'.] To be never the nigher, or, as it is commonly spoken in the midland counties, ne'er the ne'er, is, to make no advance towards the good desired.

JOHNSON.

The meaning is, it is better to be at a great distance, than being near each other, to find that we yet are uot likely to be peaceably and happily united. MALONE.

P. 187, 1. 25. With painted imag'ry,] Our author probably was thinking of the painted clothes that were hung in the streets, in the pageants that were exhibited in his own time; in which the figures sometimes had labels issuing from their mouths, containing sentences of gratulation. MALONE.

P. 188, 1. 2. Are idly bent,] That is, carelessly turned, thrown without attention. This the poet learned by his attendance and practice on the stage. JOHNSON.

P. 188, 1. 24. Aumerle that was ;] The Dukes of Aumerle, Surrey, and Exeter, were by an act of Henry's first parliament deprived of their dukedoms, but were allowed to retain their earldoms of Rutland, Kent, and Huntingdon. Holinshed, p. 513, 514. STEEVENS.

P. 189, first 1. bear you well that is, conduct yourself with prudence. JOHNSON.

P. 189, 1. 5. Triumphs are Showes, such as Masks, Revels, &c. STEEVENS.

P: 189, 1. 9. What seal is that, that hangs without thy bosom?] The seals of deeds were formerly impressed on slips or labels of parchment, appendant to them. MALONE.

P. 189, 1. 11. Yea, look'st thou pale? let me see the writing.] Such harsh and defective lines as this, are probably corrupt, and might be easily supplied, but that it would be dangerous to let conjecture loose on such slight occasions. JOHNSON.

Perhaps Shakspeare wrote-Boy, let me see the writing. York uses these words a little lower. MALONE.

P. 190. 1. 18. thou art amaz'd.] i. e. perplexed, confounded. STEEVENS.

P. 190, 1. 31-33. A dozen of them &c.] That the Dukes of Exeter and Surry, and the Earl of Salisbury entered into a conspiracy for this purpose is unquestionable; but Hall's nar rative, copied by Holinshed and Sir John Hayward, is by no means to be depended upon. Aumerle, in particular, is not charged by any contemporary writer, unless it be the writer of a romance, as having the least concern in it. Sce a "Requiem to the Conspirators," in A Collection of Ancient Songs, lately published, where may be found an authentic account of the plot from writers of authority. RITSON.

P. 192, first 1. Enquire at London, 'möngst the taverns there.] This is a very proper introduction to the future character of Henry the Fifth, to his debaucheries in his youth, and his greatness in his manhood.

JOHNSON.

Shakspeare seldom attended to chronology.

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