Hoft. What's the matter? Bard. Bid Mistress Tear-Sheet come to my master. ACT III. SCENE I. 2 The Palace in LONDON. Enter King Henry in his Night-Gown, with a Page. K. HENRY. (0, call the Earls of Surrey and of Warwick; But, ere they come, bid them o'er-read thefe G letters, And well confider of them. Make good speed. [Exit Page. Why rather, Sleep, ly'ft thou in fmoaky cribs, And hufht with buzzing night-flies to thy flumber; And lull'd with founds of fweeteft melody? 7 This firft fcene is not in my copy of the first edition. A watch-cafe, &c] This alludes to the watchmen fet in garrifon-towns upon fome emi Wilt nence attending upon an alarumbell, which he was to ring out in cafe of fire, or any approaching danger. He had a cafe or box to fhelter him from the weather, bur Wilt thou, upon the high and giddy mast, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Enter Warwick and Surrey. War. Many good morrows to your Majesty! War. 'Tis one o'clock, and paft. I K. Henry. Why, then, good morrow to you. Well, Have you read o'er the letters I fent you? K.Henry. Then you perceive the body of our Kingdom, 3 My lord Northumberland will foon be cool'd. K. Henry. Oh heav'n, that one might read the book of fate, And fee the revolution of the times Make Mountains level, and the Continent, Weary of folid firmness, melt itself Into the Sea; and, other times, to fee The beachy girdle of the Ocean. Too wide for Neptune's hips; how Chances mock, With divers liquors! 40, if this were seen, All, to two Peers. THEOBALD. portance. It is but as a body YET diftemper'd,] What would he have more? We should read, It is but as a body SLIGHT df temper'd. WARBURTON. The prefent reading is right. Difemper, that is, according to the old phyfick, a disproportionate mixture of humours, or inequality of innate heat and radidical humidity, is less than actual deafe, being only the ftate which foreruns or produces difcafes. The difference between difemper and d feofe, feems to be VOL. IV. much the fame as between dif pofition and habit. 3 My lord Northumberland will foon be cooL'D.] I believe Shakespear wrote SCHOOL'D; tutord, and brought to fubmiffion. WARBURTON. Cool'd is certainly right. 40, if this were seen, &c.] Thefe four lines are supplied from the Edition of 1600. WARB. My copy wants the whole fcene, and therefore these lines. There is fome difficulty in the line, What perils poft, what croffes to er fue, because it seems to make paft perils equally terrible with ensuing crofes. Wou'd fhut the book, and fit him down and die. Since Richard and Northumberland, great Friends, That I and Greatnefs were compell'd to kifs: War. There is a hiftory in all men's lives, 6 Such things become the hatch and brood of time; 5 He refers to King Richard, act 5. fcene 2. But whether the King's or the authour's memory fails him, fo it was, that War. quick was not prefent at that converfation. 6 And by the nece Tary form of this, I think we might better read, The neceffary form of things. The word this has no very evident antecedent. That That great Northumberland, then falfe to him, K. Henry. Are these things then neceffities? * And that fame word even now cries out on us. War. It cannot be: Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, To comfort you the more, I have receiv'd K. Henry. I will take your counfel; And were these inward wars once out of hand, We would, dear lords, unto the Holy Land. ' [Exeunt. through the first edition, and there is therefore no evidence that the divifion of the acts was made by the authour. Since then every editor has the fame right to mark the intervals of action as the players, who made the prefent diftribution, I fhould propose that this fcene may be added to the foregoing act, and the remove from London to Gloucesterfhire be made in the intermediate time, but that it would fhorten the next act too much, which has not even now its due proportion to the reft. |