་ SOM. Methinks, my lord fhould be religious, And know the office that belongs to fuch. WAR. Methinks his lordship fhould be humbler; It fitteth not a prelate fo to plead. SOM. Yes, when his holy state is touch'd fo near. WAR. State holy, or unhallow'd, what of that? Is not his grace protector to the king? PLAN. Plantagenet, I fee, muft hold his tongue; Left it be faid, Speak, firrah, when you should; Muft your bold verdiel enter talk with lords? Elfe would I have a fling at Winchester. [Afide. K. HEN. Uncles of Glofter, and of Winchester, The fpecial watchmen of our English weal; I would prevail, if prayers might prevail, To join your hearts in love and amity. O, what a scandal is it to our crown, That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.[A noife within; Down with the tawny coats! What tumult's this? WAR. An uproar, I dare warrant, Begun through malice of the bifhop's men. [A noife again; Stones! Stones! Enter the Mayor of London, attended. MAY. O, my good lords,―and virtuous Henry,Pity the city of London, pity us! The bishop and the duke of Glofter's men, Have fill'd their pockets full of pebble-ftones; Do pelt fo faft at one another's pate, That many have their giddy brains knock'd out: Our windows are broke down in every ftreet, And we, for fear, compell'd to fhut our fhops. Enter, Skirmishing, the retainers of GLOSTER and Winchester, with bloody pates. K. HEN. We charge you, on allegiance to our◄ felf, To hold your flaught'ring hands, and keep the peace. Pray, uncle Glofter, mitigate this ftrife. 1. SERV. Nay, if we be Forbidden ftones, we'll fall to it with our teeth. 2. SERV. Do what ye dare, GLO. You of my household, broil, we are as refolute. 2 [ Skirmish again. leave this peevish And fet this unaccuftom'd fight aside. 3. SERV. My lord, we know your grace to be a man Juft and upright; and, for your royal birth, And, ere that we will fuffer fuch a prince. 2 unaccuftom'd fight ] Unaccuftom'd is unfeemly, in decent. JOHNSON. The fame epithet occurs again in Romeo and Juliet, where it feems to mean- -fuch as is uncommon, not in familiar ufe: "Shall give him fuch an unaccustom'd. dram," but his majefty: Old copy, redundantly 3 but his majesty. Perhaps, the line originally ran thus: "To none inferior, but his majefty." STEEVEN. STEEVENS. To be difgraced by an inkhorn mate,4 We, and our wives, and children, all will fight, And have our bodies flaughter'd by thy foes. 1. SERV. Ay, and the very parings of our nails Shall pitch a field, when we are dead. GLO. [ Skirmish again. Stay, ftay, I fay! And, if you love me, as you fay you do, Let me perfuade you to forbear a while. K. HEN. O, how this discord doth afflict foul! my Can you, my lord of Winchester, behold My fighs and tears, and will not once relent? Who fhould be pitiful, if you be not? › Or who fhould study to prefer a peace, If holy churchmen take delight in broils? WAR. My lord protector, yield; -yield Winchefter ; Except you mean, with obftinate repulfe, 4 ——an inkhorn mate. ] A bookman. JOHNSON. It was a term of reproach at the time towards men of learning or men affecting to be learned. George Pettie in his Introduction to Guazzo's Civil Converfation, 1586, fpeaking of those he calls nice travellers, fays, "if one chance to derive anie word from the Latine, which is infolent to their cars, (as perchance they will take that phrafe to be) they forthwith make a jeft at it, and tearme it an Inkhorne tear me." REED. Stay, fay, I fay!] Perhaps the words-I Say, fhould be omitted, as they only ferve to disorder the metre, and create a difagreeable repetition of the word-fay, in the next line. STEEVENS. My lord protector, yield; ] Old copy-Yield, my lord protector This judicious tranfpofition was made by Sir T. Hanmer. STEEVENS. Hath been enacted through your enmity: Or, I would fee his heart out, ere the priest WAR. Behold, my lord of Winchester, the duke GLO. Here, Winchefter, I offer thee my hand. K. HEN. Fie, uncle Beaufort! I have heard you preach, That malice was a great and grievous fin: And will not you maintain the thing you teach, But prove a chief offender in the fame? WAR. Sweet king!-the bifhop hath a kindly gird. For fhame, my lord of Winchefter! relent; WIN. Well, duke of Glofter, I will yield to thee; Love for thy love, and hand for hand I give. GLO. Ay; but, I fear me, with a hollow heart. 7 hath a kindly gird. ] i. e. feels an emotion of kind re morfe. JOHNSON. A kindly gird is a gentle or friendly reproof. Falstaff obferves, that men of all forts take a pride to gird at him:" and, in The Taming of a Shrew, Baptifta says: Tranio hits you now:" to which Lucentio anfwers : "I thank thee for that gird, good Tranio." STEEVENS. The word gird does not here fignify reproof, as Steevens supposes, but a twitch, a pang, a yearning of kindness. M. MASON. I wish Mr. M. Mafon had produced any example of gird ufed in the fenfe for which he contends. I cannot fupply one for him, or I moft readily would. STEEVENS. See here, my friends, and loving countrymen; [Afide. But join in friendfhip, as your lords have done. 1. SERV Content; I'll to the furgeon's. 2. SERV. And fo will I. 3. SERV. And I will fee what phyfick the tavern affords. [Exeunt Servants, Mayor, &c. WAR. Accept this fcroll, moft gracious fovereign; Which in the right of Richard Plantagenet GLO. Well urg'd, my lord of Warwick;-for, An if your grace mark every circumftance, At Eltham-place I told your majesty. K. HEN. And thofe occafions, uncle, were of force: Therefore, my loving lords, our pleasure is, WAR. Let Richard be reftored to his blood; So fhall his father's wrongs be recompens'd. WIN. As will the reft, fo willeth Winchester. kind duke of Glofter,] For the [fake of metre, I could wish to read-moft kind duke &c. STEEVENS. |