my * Which most true and inward-duteous fpirit And never live to fhew th' incredulous world Preferving life in med'cine potable, But thou, moft fine, moft honour'd, most renowned, Haft eat thy bearer up. Thus, Royal Liege, Accufing it, I put it on my head, To try with it, as with an enemy, That had before my face murder'd my father, But if it did infect my blood with joy, Did with the least affection of a welcome Heav'n put it in thy mind to take it hence, *True is loyal. 6 In med cine potable.] There has long prevailed an opinion that a folution of gold has great medicinal virtues, and that incorruptibility of gold might be communicated to the body impregnated with it. Some have pretended to make potable gold among other frauds practifed on credulity. That That thou might'ft win the more thy father's love, Come hither, Harry, fit thou by my bed; For all the foil of the atchievement goes My gain of it by their affiftances; Which daily grew to quarrel and to blood-fhed, 9 All these bold fears Thou feeft, with peril I have anfwered, For all my reign hath been but as a Scene, 'Changes the mode; for what in me was purchas'd, but time and meafure in finging, or the pitch in fpeaking: Modus, a word peculiar to the ancient Drama: For the metaphor is continued from the words immediately preceding, -as a Scene, Acting that Argument WARBURTON. Mode is here in its ufual fenfe, the form or fate of things. Nothing is more eafy than to make obfcurities and clear them. 2 Succeffively.] To order of fucceffion. Every ufurper fnatches a claim of hereditary right as foon as he can. Yet Yet though thou stand't more fure than I could do, With foreign Quarrels; that action, hence, borne out, More would I, but my Lungs are wafted fo, You won it, wore it, kept it, gave it me; 3 To lead our many to the Holy Land] As plaufible as this reading is, it is corrupt. ShakeSpear, I think, wrote, To leat OUR manyour many or meiny, i. e. our people. WARLURTON. As plaufible as this emendation is I think it wrong. The fente is: Of thefe who af et my furpation, fome I have cut off, and many I inter ded to lead abroad, This journey to the Holy Land, of which the king very frequent ly revives the mention, had two motives, religion and policy. He durft not wear the ill-gotten crown without expiation, but in the act of expiation he contrives to make his wickednefs fucceffful. 4 Haw I came, &c.] This is a true picture of a mind divided between heaven and earth He prays for the profperity of guilt while he deprecates its punishment. Enter Enter Lord John of Lancaster, and Warwick. K. Henry. Look, look, here comes my John of Lancafter. Lan. Health, peace and happiness to my royal father! K. Henry. Thou bring'ft me happinefs and peace, fon John; But health, alack, with youthful wings is flown Where is my lord of Warwick? P. Henry. My lord of Warwick. K. Henry. Doth any name particular belong Unto the lodging where I first did fwoon? War. 'Tis call'd Jerufalem, my noble lord. K. Henry. Laud be to God! even there my life muft end. It hath been prophefy'd to me many years, [Exeunt. ACT ACT V. SCENE I. Shallow's Seat in Glo'ftershire. Enter Shallow, Silence, Falstaff, Bardolph, and Page. SHALLOW. Y cock and pye, Sir, you fhall not away to night. B What! Davy, I fay Fal. You muft excufe me, mafter Robert Shallow. Shal. I will not excufe you; you shall not be excufed. Excufes fhall not be admitted: there is no excufe fhall ferve: you fhall not be excus'd. Why, Davy! Davy. Here, Sir. Enter Davy. Shal. Davy, Davy, Davy, let me fee, Davy, let me fee;-yea, marry, William Cook, bid him come hither.-Sir John, you fhall not be excus'd. Davy. Marry, Sir, thus. Thofe precepts cannot be ferv'd; and, again, Sir, fhall we fow the head-land with wheat? Shal. With red wheat, Davy. But, for William Cook. Are there no young Pidgeons? Davy. Yea, Sir-Here is now the Smith's note for fhoeing, and plow-irons. 5 I will not excuse you, &c.] The fterility of Justice Sha'low's wit is admirably defcribed, in thus making him, by one of the fineft ftrokes of nature, fo often vary his phrafe, to exprefs one and the fame thing, and that the commoneft, WARBURTON. "The Je precepts cannot be ferv'd.] Precept is a juftice's warrant. To the offices which Falfaf gives Day in the following feene, may be added that of justice's clerk. Davy has almost as many employments as Scrub in the Stratagem. Skal |