weigh out, may signify to counterbalance, to counteract with equal force. JOHNSON."

I. To weigh out is the same as to outweigh. In Macbeth, Shakspeare has overcome for come

over STEEVENS.

P. 64, 1. 14. The more shame for ye;] If I mistake you, it is by your fault, not mine; for I thought you good. The distress of Katharine might have kept her from the quibble to which she is irresistibly tempted by the word Cardinal. 219: 1

JOHNSON.

P. 65, 1. 15. Been, out of fondness, superstitious to him?] That is, served him with superstitious attention; done more than was required. JOHNSON.

P. 65, 1, 33. Ye have angels' faces, but heaven knows your hearts.] She may perhaps allude to the old jingle of Angli and Angeli. JOHNSON.

R. 66, 1. 5. 6. → Like the lily,

flourish'd,

bd That once was mistress of the field, and of yellow So, in Speuhser's Fairy Queen, Book II. c. vi, st, 16: The lily, lady of the flow'ring field. "

HOLT WHITE.

P. 66, 1. 21. 23. — to stubborn spirits,

They swell, and grow as terrible as storms.] It was one of the charges brought against Lord Essex in the year before this play was probably written, by his ungrateful kinsman, Sir Francis Bacon, when that nobleman to the disgrace of humanity was obliged by a junto of his enemies to kneek at the end of the conncil-table for several hours, that in a letter written during his retirement in 1598, to the Lord Keeper, he had said,

"There is no tempest to the passionate indignation of a Prince." MALONE.

P. 67, 1.3. If I have us'd myself unmannerly ;] That is, if 1 have behaved myself unmannerly. M. MASON. P. 67, 1, 20. And force them with a constancy, Force is en

force, urge. JoOHNSON.

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P. 67, 1.29-31. Which of the Peers, a Have uncontemn'd gone by him, or at least Strangely neglected?] Which of the Peers has not gone by him conteinned or neglected ?

JOHNSON. Our author extends to the words, strangely neglected, the negative comprehended in the word uncontemn'd. M. MASON.

Uncontemn'd, must be understood, as if the author had written not contemn'd.

P. 67, last 1. and P. 68, l. 12,

regard

Malone. when did he

The stamp and nobleness in any person, Out of himself?} The expression is bad, and the thought false. For it supposes Wolsey to be noble, which was not so: we should read and point;

when did he regard

The stamp of nobleness in any persons For Outs of't himself?

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e. When did he regard nobleness of blood in another, having none of his own to value himself upon? WARBURTON...

I do not think this correction proper, The meaning of the present reading is easy. When did he, however careful to carry his own dignity to the utmost height, regard any dignity of annother ? JOHNSON. ALISONE

P. 68, 1. 19.

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his contrary proceedings] Private practices opposite to his publick procedure. JOHNSON.

P. 69, 1. 2-4. — how he coasts,

And hedges, his own way.] To hedge, is to creep along by the hedge: not to take the direct and open path, but to steal covertly through cir¬ cumvolutions. JOHNSON.

Hedging is by land, what coasting is by sea. M. MASON. P. 69, 1, 12. To trace, is to follow. JOHNSON. P. 69, 1. 21. To memorize is to make memorable. STEEVENS.

P. 70, 1. 3-6. He is return'd, in his opi-
nions, which

Have satisfy'd the King for his divorce,
Together with all famous colleges

Almost in Christendom:] Cranmer, says Suffolk, is returned in his opinions, i. e. with the same sentiments, which he entertained before he went abroad, which (sentiments) have satisfied the King, together with all the famous colleges referred to on the occasion.

Or, perhaps the passage (as Mr. Tyrwhitt observes) may mean He is return'd in effect, having sent his opinions, i. e. the opinions of divines, &c. collected by him. STEEVENS.

P. 71, 1. 50. Enter the King, reading a schedule, That the Cardinal gave the King an inventory of his own private wealth, by mistake, and thereby ruined himself, is a known variation from the truth of history. Shakspeare, however, has not injudiciously represented the fall of that great man, as owing to an incident which he had once improved to the destruction of another

"Thomas Ruthall, Bishop of a Durham, was,

after the death of King Henry VII. one of the privy council to Henry VIII. to whom the King gave in charge to write a book of the whole estate of the kingdom, &c. Afterwards, the King commanded Cardinal Wolsey to go to this Bishop, and to bring the book away with him. This Bishop having written two books (the one to answer the King's command, and the other intreating of his own private affairs) did bind them both after one sort in vellum, &c. Now, when the Cardinal came to demand the book due to the King, the Bishop unadvisedly commanded his servant to bring him the book bound in white vellum, lying in his study, in such a place. The servant accordingly brought forth one of the books so being the book intreating of the state of the R &c. The Cardinal having the book, went from the Bishop, and after, (in his study by himself) understanding the contents thereof, he greatly rejoiced, having now occasion (which he long songht for) offered unto him, to bring the Bishop into the King's disgrace. "Wherefore he went forth with to the King, delivered the book into his hands, and briefly informed him of the contents thereof; putting further into the King's head, that if at any time he were destitute of a mass of money, he should not need to seek further therefore than to the coffers of the Bishop. Of all which when the Bishop had intelligence, &c. he was stricken with such grief of the same, that he shortly, through extreme sorrow, ended his life at London, in the year of Christ 1523, After which, the Cardinal, who had long before gaped after his bishoprick, in singular hope to attain thereunto, had now his wish in effect," &c. Ste Holinshed. STEEVENS,

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P. 72, 1. 13. Springs out into fast gail; then, stops again,] Sallust describing the disturbed state of Catiline's mind, takes notice of the same circumstance: citus modo, modo tardus incessus.

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STEEVENS.

P. 44, 1. 9-14. your royal graces, Shower'd on me daily, have been more, than could

My studied purposes requite; which went Beyond all man's endeavours:] The sense is, my purposes went beyond all human endea vour. I purposed for your honour more than it falls within the compass of man's nature to at tempt. JOHNSON.

I am rather inclined to think, that which, refers to "royal graces;" which, says Wolsey, no human endeavour could requite. MALONE. P. 74, 1. 14. 16. my endeavours

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Have ever come too short of my desires, Yet, fild with my abilities:] My endea vours, thoughtless than my desires, have fild, that is, have one an equal pace with my abilities.

P. 74, 1. 33-36. & P. 75, first 1.

and heart,

JOHNSON.

your hand,

• Your brain, and every function of your

power,

LAD

Should, notwithstanding that your bond of duty,

As 'twere in love's particular, be more r To me, your friend, than any. Besides the general bond of duty, by which you are obliged to be a loyal and obedient subject, you owe a particular devotion of yourself to me, as your particular benefactor. JOHNSON.

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