* Upon their woes,+ whom fortune captivates ? But that thy face is, vifor-like, unchanging, Made impudent with use of evil deeds, I would affay, proud queen, to make thee blush : Thy father bears the type 5 of king of Naples, Yet not fo wealthy as an English yeoman. Hath that poor monarch taught thee to infult? That beggars, mounted, run their horfe to death. As the Antipodes are unto us, Or as the fouth to the feptentrion." • Upon their woes,] So, the folio. The quarto reads-Upon his woes. STEEVENS. the type-] i. e. the diftinguishing mark; an obsolete ufe of the word. So again, in King Richard III : 6 "The high imperial type of this earth's glory." STEEVENS. • 'Tis government, that makes them feem divine;] Government, in the language of that time, fignified evenness of temper, and decency of manners. JOHNSON. So, in King Henry IV. P. I. Falstaff says: "Let men fay, we be men of good government.” 7feptentrion.] i. e. the North. ufes the fame word as an adjective: STEEVENS. Septentrio, Lat. Milton cold feptentrion blasts." STEEVENS, O, tiger's heart, wrapp'd in a woman's hide !8 And yet be seen to bear a woman's face? 'Thou stern, obdurate, flinty, rough, remorseless. 'Would'st have me weep? why, now thou haft thy will: 'For raging wind blows up inceffant showers,' And, when the rage allays, the rain begins.2 These tears are my fweet Rutland's obfequies; 8 O, tiger's heart, wrapp'd in a woman's hide!] We find almoft the fame line in Acolaftus his Afterwitte, 1600: 9 "O woolvifh heart, wrapp'd in a woman's hide!” -- : MALONE. thy with &c.] So the folio: The quarto reads→→→ thy will in the first line, and thy wish in the second. STEEVENS. For raging wind blows up inceffant Showers,] Thus the folio. The quartos read For raging winds blow up a ftorm of tears. STEEVENS. Would't have me weep? why, now thou hast thy will: For raging wind blows up inceffant fhowers, And, when the rage allays, the rain begins.] We meet with the fame thought in our author's Rape of Lucrece : "This windy tempeft, till it blows up rain, "Who should weep most for daughter or for wife.” Again, in Macbeth: that tears fhall drown the wind." Again, in Troilus and Creffida: "Where are my tears? rain, rain, to lay this wind ?" Again, in King John: "This fhower, blown up by tempeft of the foul-." MALONE. And every drop cries vengeance for his death,3"Gainst thee, fell Clifford,—and thee false French woman. NORTH. Befhrew me, but his paffions move me fo, That hardly can I check my eyes from tears. YORK. That face of his the hungry cannibals Would not have touch'd, would not have ftain'd with blood :4 But you are more inhuman, more inexorable, And every drop cries vengeance for his death,] So the folio. The quarto thus: And every drop begs vengeance as it falls, ·would not have ftain'd with blood :] Thus the firft folio. STEEVENS. would not have ftain'd the rofes juft with blood :] So the fecond folio nonfenfically reads the paffage; but the old quarto, &c. of better authority, have it thus : That face of his the hungry cannibals Would not have touch'd, would not have ftain'd with blood. And this is fenfe. Could any one now have believed that an editor of common understanding should reject this, and fasten upon the nonsense of the later edition, only because it afforded matter of conjecture? and yet Mr. Theobald will needs correct, rofes juft with blood, to rofes juic'd with blood, that is, change one blundering editor's nonfenfe for another's. But if there ever was any meaning in the line, it was thus expreffed : Would not have ftain'd the rofes just in bud. As, without correction, the words-the roses juft, do not make good fenfe, there is very little reason to fufpect their being interpolated, and therefore it is moft probable they were preserved among the players by memory. The correction is this: That face of his the hungry cannibals Would not have touch'd: Would not have ftain'd the rofes juft i' th' bloom. The words [the roses juft] were, I fuppofe, left out by the first editors, in order to get rid of the fuperfluous hemiftich. MUSGRAVE. O, ten times more,-than tigers of Hyrcania.5 [He gives back the Handkerchief. And, if thou tell'ft the heavy ftory right, And, in thy need, fuch comfort come to thee, Hard-hearted Clifford, take me from the world; 'I fhould not for my life but weep with him, To fee how inly forrow gripes his foul.8 of Hyrcania.] So the folio. The quartos read-of Arcadia. STEEVENS. And, if thou tell ft the heavy story right, Upon my foul, the hearers will shed tears.] So, in King Richard II: "Tell thou the lamentable tale of me, "And fend the hearers weeping to their beds." STEEVENS. 7 There, take the crown, and, with the crown, my curfe ;] Rowe has transferred this execration to his dying Hengift in The Royal Convert: "Take it, and be as curs'd with it as I was.” STEEVENS. 8 Ifhould not for my life but weep with him, To fee how inly forrow gripes his foul.] So the folio. The quartos as follows:" "I could not choose but weep with him, to fee Q. MAR. What, weeping-ripe, my lord Northumberland? Think but upon the wrong he did us all, CLIF. Here's for my oath, here's for my father's death. [Stabbing him. Q. MAR. And here's to right our gentle-hearted king.9 [Stabbing him. YORK. Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God! • My foul flies through thefe wounds to feek out thee. [Dies. Q. MAR. Off with his head, and fet it on York gates; So York may overlook the town of York.' [Exeunt. And here's to right our gentle-hearted king.] So the folio. The quarto thus: "And there's to right our gentle harted kind." Of thefe variations there are many, but it is useless labour to enumerate them all. STEEVENS. 1 So York may overlook &c.] This gallant nobleman fell by his own imprudence, in confequence of leading an army of only five thousand men to engage with twenty thousand, and not waiting for the arrival of his fon the Earl of March, with a large body of Welshmen. He and Cicely his wife, with his fon Edmond Earl of Rutland, were originally buried in the chancel of Foderingay church; and (as Peacham informs us in his Complete Gentleman, 4to. 1627,) "when the chancel in that furie of knocking churches and facred monuments in the head, was also felled to the ground," they were removed into the churchyard; and afterwards "lapped in lead they were buried in the church by the commandment of Queen Elizabeth; and a mean monument of plaifter wrought with the trowel erected over them, very homely, and far unfitting fo noble princes." "I remember, (adds the fame writer,) Mafter Creuse, a gentleman and my worthy friend, who dwelt in the college at the fame time, told me, that their coffins being opened, their bodies appeared very plainly to be discerned, and withal that the dutchefs |