Enter a Meffenger 9.

Arch. Here comes a meffenger: What news?
Mef. Such news, my lord, as grieves me to unfold.
Queen. How doth the prince?

Mef. Well, madam, and in health.
Dutch. What is thy news?

Mef. Lord Rivers, and lord Grey,

Are fent to Pomfret, prifoners; and, with them,
Sir Thomas Vaughan.

Dutch. Who hath committed them?

Mef. The mighty dukes, Glofter, and Bucking

hám.

Arch. For what offence?

Mef. The fum of all I can, I have difclos'd; Why, or for what, the nobles were committed, Is all unknown to me, my gracious lord.

Queen. Ah me, I fee the ruin of my houfe! 'The tyger now hath feiz'd the gentle hind; Infulting tyranny begins to jut

Upon the innocent and awlefs throne:-
Welcome destruction, blood, and maffacre!
I fee, as in a map, the end of all.

Dutch. Accurfed and unquiet wrangling days!
How many of you have mine eyes beheld?
My husband loft his life to get the crown;
And often up and down my fons were toft,
For me to joy, and weep, their gain, and lofs:
And being feated, and domeftick broils
Clean over-blown, themfelves, the conquerors,

Enter a Meffenger.] The quarto reads-Enter Dorfet.

STEEVENS. The tyger now bath feiz'd the gentle hind ;] So, in our author's Rape of Lucrece:

66

While the, the picture of pure piety,
"Like a white bind under the grype's fharp claws

12-awless] Not producing awe, not reverenced.

jut upon is to encroach. JOHNSON.

Fa

MALONE.

To

Make

Make war upon themselves; brother to brother,
Blood to blood, felf against felf:-O, prepofterous
And frantick outrage, end thy damned spleen;
3 Or let me die, to look on death no more!

Queen. Come, come, my boy, we will to fanctuary.

Madam, farewel.

Dutch. Stay, I will go with you.
Queen. You have no caufe.

Arch. My gracious lady, go,

And thither bear your treasure and your goods.
For my part, I'll refign unto your grace
The feal I keep: And fo betide to me,
As well I tender you, and all of yours!
Come, I'll conduct you to the fanctuary.

[Exeunt.

ACT III.

SCENE I.

In London.

The trumpets found. Enter the Prince of Wales, the Dukes of Glofter and Buckingham, Cardinal Bourchier, and others.

Buck. Welcome, fweet prince, to London, to your chamber. Glo.

3 Or let me die, to look on earth no more.] This is the reading of all the copies, from the firft edition put out by the players, downwards. But I have reftored the reading of the old quarto in 1597, which is copied by all the other authentic quartos, by which the thought is finely and properly improved.

Or let me die, to look on death no more. THEOBALD. This quarto printed in 1597 I have never seen, neither was it in Theobald's collection of the old copies, which the late Mr. Tonfon poffeffed entire. STEEVENS.

4

mer regia.

to your chamber.] London was anciently called CaPOPE.

So,

Glo. Welcome, dear coufin, my thoughts' fovereign:

The weary way hath made you melancholy.

Prince. No, uncle; but our croffes on the way
Have made it tedious, wearifome, and heavy:
I want more uncles here to welcome me.

Glo. Sweet prince, the untainted virtue of your

years

Hath not yet div'd into the world's deceit :
No more can you diftinguish of a man,

Than of his outward fhew; which, God he knows,
Seldom, or never, jumpeth with the heart.
Thofe uncles, which you want, were dangerous;
Your grace attended to their fugar'd words,
But look'd not on the poifon of their hearts:
God keep you from them, and from fuch falfe
friends!

Prince. God keep me from false friends! but they

were none.

Glo. My lord, the mayor of London comes to greet you.

Enter the Lord Mayor, and his train.

Mayor. God bless your grace with health and happy days!

Prince. I thank you, good my lord ;-and thank you all.

I thought, my mother, and my brother York,

So, in Heywood's If you know not me you know Nobody, 1633: 2d Part:

"This city, our great chamber."

STEEVENS.

This title it began to have immediately after the Norman conqueft. See Coke's 4 Inft. 243, where it is ftyled Camera Regis; Camden's Britannia, 374; Ben Jonson's Account of King James's Entertainment in paffing to his Coronation, &c.

EDITOR. Sjumpeth with the heart :] So, in Soliman and Perfeda: "Wert thou my friend, thy mind would jump with mine.”

STEEVENS.

Would long ere this have met us on the way:-
Fie, what a flug is Haftings! that he comes not
To tell us, whether they will come, or no.

Enter Haftings.

Buck. And, in good time, here comes the fweating lord.

Prince. Welcome, my lord: What, will our mother come?

Haft. On what occafion, God he knows, not I, The queen your mother, and your brother York, Have taken fanctuary: The tender prince Would fain have come with me to meet your grace, But by his mother was perforce withheld.

Buck. Fie! what an indirect and peevish courfe Is this of hers?-Lord cardinal, will your grace Perfuade the queen to fend the duke of York Unto his princely brother presently?

If the deny,-lord Haftings, you go with him,
And from her jealous arms pluck him perforce.
Card. Mylord of Buckingham, if my weak oratory
Can from his mother win the duke of York,
Anon expect him here: But if she be obdurate
To mild entreaties, God in heaven forbid
We fhould infringe the holy privilege
Of bleffed fanctuary! not for all this land,
Would I be guilty of fo deep a fin.

Buck. You are too fenfelefs-obftinate, my lord, "Too ceremonious, and traditional:

Weigh it but with the groffness of this age,

You

—in good time,] See Vol. I. p. 153. STEEVENS. 7 Too ceremonious, and traditional:] Ceremonious for fuperftitious; traditional for adherent to old customs.

8

WARBURTON.

Weigh it but with the groffnefs of this age,] But the more grofs, that is, the more fuperftitious the age was, the ftronger would be the imputation of violated fanctuary. The queftion, we fee by what follows, is whether fanctuary could be claimed

by

You break not fanctuary in feizing him.
The benefit thereof is always granted

To those whose dealings have deferv'd the place,
And those who have the wit to claim the place:
This prince hath neither claim'd it, nor deferv'd it:
Therefore, in mine opinion, cannot have it:
Then, taking him from thence, that is not there,
You break no privilege nor charter there.
Oft have I heard of fanctuary men';

But fanctuary children, ne'er 'till now.

Card. My lord, you fhall o'er-rule my mind for

Come on, lord Haftings, will you go with me?
Haft. I go, my lord.

Prince. Good lords, make all the speedy hafte you [Exeunt Cardinal, and Haftings.

may.

by an infant. The speaker refolves it in the negative, because it could be claimed by thofe only whofe actions neceffitated them to fly thither; or by thofe who had an understanding to demand it; neither of which could be an infant's cafe: It is plain then, the first line, which introduces this reafoning, fhould be read

thus:

Weigh it but with the greennefs of his age,

i. e. the young duke of York's, whom his mother had fled with to fanctuary. The corrupted reading of the old quarto is fomething nearer the true:

WARBURTON.

-the greatnefs of his age. This emendation is received by Hanmer, and is very plaufible; yet the common reading may stand:

Weigh it but with the groffnefs of this age,

You break not fanctuary,

That is, compare the act of feizing him with the grofs and licen tious practices of thefe times, it will not be confidered as a violation of fanctuary, for you may give fuch reafons as men are now ufed to admit. JOHNSON.

The quarto of 1613 reads as the folio does:

the groffness of this age. MALONE.

Oft have I heard of fanctuary men; &c.] Thefe arguments against the privilege of fanctuary are taken from Hall's Chron. -And verily, I have harde of fanctuarye menne, but I never hearde before of fanctuarye children, &c."

P. 10:

STEEVENS.