it had ever been before. Pomp is no more mar> ried to the English than to the French King, for to neither is any preference given by the speaker. Pomp is only married to pomp, but the new pomp is greater than the old. JOHNSON.

Before this time all pompous shows were exhibited by one prince only. On this occasion the ing's of England and France vied with each other. To this circumstance Norfolk alludes. M. MASON. 'P. 8, 1.5-7. Each following day

Became the next day's master, till the last · Made former wonders it's:] Dies diem docet. Every day learned something from the preceding, till the concluding day collected all the splendor of all the former shows. JOHNSON.

P. 8, 1. 8. All clinquant,-] All glittering, all shining. Clarendon uses this word in his description of the Spanish Juego de Toros.

JOHNSON. It is likewise used in A Memorable Masque, &c. performed before King James at Whitehall in 1613. STEEVENS.

P. 8, 1. 21. 22.

and no discerner

Durst wag his tongue in censure.] Censure for determination, of which had the noblest appearance. WARBURTON.

P. 8, 1. 30. That Bevis was believ'd.] The old romantic legend of Bevis of Southampton. This Bevis (or Beavois) a Saxon, was for his prowess created by William the Conqueror Earl of Southampton: of whom Camden in his Britannica. THEOBALD.

P. 8, 1. 33-35. the tract of every thing Would by a good discourser lose some life, Which action's self was tongue to,] The course of these triumphs and pleasures, however

well related, must lose in the description part of that spirit and energy which were expressed in the real action. JOHNSON.

P. 8, first but one 1. All was royal; &c.] This speech was given in all the editions to Buckingham; but improperly. For he wanted information, having kept his chamber during the solemnity. I have therefore given it to Norfolk. WARBURTON.

P. 8, last 1. & P. 9, 1. 1. 2. To the disposing of it nought rebella,

Order gave each thing view; the office did Distinctly his full function.] The commission for regulating this festivity was well executed, aud gave exactly to every particular person and action the proper place. JOHNSON.

P. 9, 1. 6. Certes,] An obsolete adverb, signifying certainly, in truth.

STEEVENS.

P. 1. 6. 9, that promises no element] No initiation, no previous practices. Elements are the first principles of things, or rudiments of knowledge. The word is here applied, not without a catachresis, to a person. JOHNSON.

P. 9, 1. 12-14. no man's pie is free'd

From his ambitious finger.] To have a finger in the pie, is a proverbial phrase. See Ray, 244. REED.

P. 9, 1. 15. fierce vanities?] Fierce is here, I think used like the French fier for proud, unless we suppose an allusion to the mimical ferocity of the combatants in the tilt. JOHNSON.

It is certainly used as the French word fier. So, in Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair, the puritan says, the hobby horse is a fierce and rank idol." STREVENS.

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A cake of wax or tallow formed in a mould, is called yet in some places, a keech. JOHNSON.

There may, perhaps, be a singular propriety in this term of contempt. Wolsey was the son of a butcher, and in the Second Part of King Henry IV. a butcher's wife is called Goody Keech. STEEVENS.

P. 9, 1. 25. Out of his self-drawing web,] Thus it stands in the first edition. The latter editors, by injudicious correction, have printedet.

Out of his self-drawn web. JOHNSON. P. 9, 1. 27. 28. A gift that heaven gives for him, which buys

A place next to the King.] It is evident a word or two in the sentence is misplaced, and that we should read:

A gift that heaven gives; which buys for him

A place next to the King. Warburton. It is full as likely that Shakspeare wrote: gives to him, →→ Beri

which will save any greater alteration. JOHNSON. I am too dull to perceive the necessity of any change. What he is unable to give himself, heaven gives or deposits for him, and that gift, or deposit, buys a place, &c. STEEVENS.

I agree with Johnson that we should read:dy A gift that heaven gives to him as my steady for Abergavenny says, in reply,

"I cannot tell

"What heaven hath given him."

which confirms the justness of this amendment. I should otherwise have thought Steevens's explanation right. M. MASON.

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P. 10, 1. 4. He makes up the file] That is,TM the list. JoHNSON.

P. 10, 1. 7-9.

and his own letter,

The honourable board of council out, Must fetch him in he papers.] Council out, Council not then sitting, JOHNSON.

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The expression rather means, "all mention of the board of council being left out of his letter." STEEVENS. That is, left out, omitted, unnoticed, uncon→ sulted with.

RITSON.

It appears from Holiashed, that this expression is rightly explained by Mr. Pope in the next note: without the concurrence of the council. "The Peers of the realme receiving letters to prepare themselves to attend the King in this journey, and no apparent necessarie cause expressed, why or wherefore, seemed to grudge that such a costly journey should be taken in hand - without consent of the whole boarde of the Counsaille."

MALONE.

He papers, a verb; his own letter, by his own single authority, and without the concurrence of the council, must fetch in him whom he papers down. I don't understand it unless this be the meaning. POPE."

Wolsey published a list of the several persons whom he had appointed to attend on the King at this interview. See Hall's Chronicle, Rymer's Foedera, Tom. XIII. &c. STEEVENS.

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For this great journey.] In the ancient Interlude of Natur, bl. 1. no date, but apparently printed in the reign of King Henry VIII. there seems to have been a similar stroke aimed at this expensive expedition. STEEvens,

So also, Burton in his Anatomy of Melancholy:"Tis Tis an ordinary thing to put a thousand oakes, or an hundred oxen, into a suit of apparell, to weare a whole manor on his back." Edit. 1634, p. 482. WHALLEY.

P. 10, 1. 17-19.

What did this vanity,

But minister communication of

A most poor issue? What effect had this pompous show, but the production of a wretched conclusion. JOHNSON.

P. 10, 1. 54. The ambassador is silen'd?] Silenc'd for recall'd, This being proper to be said of an orator; and an ambassador or public minister being called an orator, he applies silenc'd to an ambassador. WARBURTON.

I understand it rather of the French ambassador residing in England, who, by being refused an audience, may be said to be silenc'd. JOHNSON. "P. 10, last 1. A proper title of a peace; ] A fine name of a peace. Ironically, JOHNSON.

P. 11, 1. 3. To carry a business was at this time a current phrase for to conduct or manage it. 7 REED.

P. 11, 1, 18, where comes that rock, To make the rock come, is not very just. JOHNSON. P. 12, first. 1. - butcher's cur] Wolsey is said to have been the son of a butcher. JOHNSON. Dr. Grey observes, that when the death of the Duke of Buckingham was reported to the Emperor Charles V. he said, "The first buck of England was worried to death by a butcher's dog," STEEVENS,

P. 12, 1. 5. 6. A beggar's book

Out-worths a noble's blood.] That is, the literary qualifications of a bookish beggar are more prized than the high descent of hereditary greatness. This is a contemptuous exclamation very naturally