a touch of your condition,] A spice of particle of your temper or disposition. H.L. Tetchy-] Is touchy, peevish, fretful, illtempered.

lil 44. That ever grac'd me-] To grace seems

here to mean the same as to bless, to make happy. So, gracious is kind, and graces are faYours. JOHNSON,

121.45.

Humphrey Hour,] I believe nothing more than a quibble was meant. In our poet's twentieth Sonnet we find a similar conceit; a quible between hues (colours) and Hughes, formerly spelt Hewes) the person addressed. MALONE.

1.1.68. Shame serves thy life,] To serve is to accompany, servants being near the persons of their masters.

4.73 Stay, madam.] On this dialogue 'tis not necessary to bestow much criticism; part of it is ridiculous, and the whole improbable. JOHNSON.

I cannot agree with Dr. Johnson's opinion. I see nothing ridiculous in any part of this dialogue; and with respect to probability, it was not unnatural that Richard, who by his art and wheedling tongue had prevailed on lady Anne to marry him in her heart's extremest grief, should hope to persuade an ambitious, ard, as he thought her, a wicked woman, to esent to his marriage with her daughter, which would make her a queen, and aggrandire her family. M. MASON.

P 216, e 1. l. 15. All unavoided, &c.] i. e. unaroidable.

still use-1 i. e. constant use.

46 The high imperial type-] Type is extion, show, display, or perhaps, emblem. IL 49. Canst thou demise-] To demise is to grant, from demittere, to devolve a right from

(e to another.

1741, even I: what think, &c." MALONE. 21. 22. but hate thee."-MALONE. 12139 bid like sorrow.] Bid is in the past trose from bide.

11.9. To whom I will retail my conquest won,] To retail is to hand down from one to another. Richard, in the present instance, means to say bowl transmit the benefit of his victories to Eizabeth.

P 217. c. 1, l. 5.—which the king's King forbids Alluding to the prohibition in the Levitical law.

14. 47. by heaven,"-MALONE.

la c. 2.1.29. changing-woman!] Such was the real character of this queen dowager, who would have married her daughter to king Richard, and did all in her power to alienate the marquis of Dorset, her son, from the earl of Richmond.

Ed 1.39 Some light-foot friend, &c.] Richard's precipitation and confusion is in this scene very happily represented by inconsistent orders, and idden variations of opinion. JOHNSON. P18, c. 1, l. 48. --more competitors-] That more opponents to us, or rather, associates with them.

Id2 10. they must be told.] This was the language of Shakspeare's time, when the word news was often considered as plural.

ld. l. 17.

SCENE V.

Sir Christopher Urswick.] The person, who is called Sir Christopher here, and who has been styled so in the Dramatis Persona of all the impressions, was Christopher Urswick, a bachelor in divinity; and chaplain to the countess of Richmond, who had intermarried with the lord Stanley. This priest, the history tells us, frequently went backwards and forwards, unsuspected, on messages betwixt the eountess of Richmond, and her husband, and the young earl of Richmond, whilst he was preparing to make his descent on England. He was afterwards almoner to king Henry VII. and retired to Hackney, where he died in 1521.

ACT V. SCENE I.

Id. 1. 66. Is the determin'd respite of my wrongs.] Hanmer has rightly explained it, the time to which the punishment of his wrongs was respited. Wrongs in this line means wrongs done, or injurious practices.

SCENE II.

P. 219, c. 1, l. 19. Lies now-] i. e. sojourns.

SCENE III.

Id. 1. 59. sound direction:] True judgment; tried military skill.

Id. 1. 72. Limit--] i. e. appoint.
Id. 1. 76.

with it.

keeps his regiment;] i. e. remains

Id. c. 2, l. 10. make some good means-] i. e. adopt some convenient measure.

Id. 1. 23. It's nine o'clock.] I think, we ought to to read-six instead of nine, as in the quarto edition. A supper at so late an hour as nine o'clock, in the year 1485, would have been a prodigy STEEVENS. Mr. Malone reads six, and "full supper-time."

Id. c. 2, 1. 40. -Give me a watch.] A watch has many significations, but I should believe that it means in this place not a sentinel, which would be regularly placed at the king's tent; nor an instrument to measure time, which was not used in that age; but a watch-light, a candle to burn by him; the light that afterwards burnt blue. JOHNSON.

Id.

1. 43. Look that my staves-] Staves are the wood of the lances.

Id. l. 46.

the melancholy lord Northumberland?] Richard calls him melancholy, because he did not join heartily in his cause. Id. l. 48, Cock-shut time,] i. e. twilight. Id. l. 50. "So, I am satisfied."-MALONE. Id. l. 53 "Set it down."-MALONE. Id. l. 55,"Rateliff, bid my," &c MALONE. A Id. i. 67. reading which he censured in his first edition. by attorney.] By deputation. Id. 1. 74. mortal-staring war,] I suppose, by mortal-staring war is meant-war that looks big, or stares fatally on its victims. STEE

I come no more to make you laugh; things now, That bear a weighty and a serious brow,

Sd, high, and working, full of state and woe,
Sich poble scenes as draw the eye to flow,

now present. Those that can pity, here May, if they think it well, let fall a tear; fe abject will deserve it. Such, as give eir money out of hope they may believe,

May here find truth too. Those, that come to see dy a shew or two, and so agree,

play may pass; if they be still, and willing, dertake, may see away their shilling Xably in two short hours. Only they, Fat come to hear a merry. bawdy play, Anoise of targets; or to see a fellow la long motley coat, guarded with yellow,

be deceiv'd: for, gentle hearers, know, I rank our chosen truth with such a shew As fool and fight is, beside forfeiting Or own brains, and the opinion that we bring, To make that only true we now intend,) Wil leave us never an understanding friend. Derefore, for goodness' sake, and as you are known first and happiest hearers of the town; sad, as we would make ye: think, ye see be very persons of our noble story,

they were living; think you see them great, Ad follow'd with the general throng, and sweat, tousand friends; then, in a moment, see How soon this mightiness meets misery! ad, if you can be merry then, I'll say, Aaan may weep upon his wedding day.

Since last we saw in France?
Nor.

Healthful; and ever since a fresh admirer
Of what I saw there.

Buck.

I thank your grace:

An untimely ague

Stay'd me a prisoner in my chamber, when Those suns of glory, those two lights of men, Met in the vale of Arde.

I was my chamber's prisoner

Nor. Then you lost The view of earthly glory: Men might say, Till this time pomp was single; but now married To one above itself. Each following day Became the next day's master, till the last Made former wonders it's: To-day, the French, All clinquant, all in gold, like heathen gods, Shone down the English; and, to-morrow, they Made Britain, India: every man, that stood, Shew'd like a mine. Their dwarfish pages were As cherubims, all gilt: the madams too, Not us'd to toil, did almost sweat to bear The pride upon them, that their very labour Was to them as a painting: now this mask Was cry'd incomparable; and the ensuing night Made it a fool, and beggar. The two kings, Equal in lustre, were now best, now worst, As presence did present them; him in eye, Still him in praise: and, being present both, 'Twas said they saw but one; and no discerner Durst wag his tongue in censure. When these suns (For so they phrase them,) by their heralds chalThe noble spirits to arms, they did perform leug'd Beyond thought's compass: that former fabulous story,

Being now seen possible enough, got cred.

(And take it from a heart, that wishes towards you
Honour and plenteous safety.)
that you
read

The cardinal's malice and his potency
Together: to consider further, that

What his high hatred would effect, wants not
A minister in his power: You know his nature,
That he's revengeful; and I know, his sword
Hath a sharp edge : it's long, and, it may be said,
It reaches far; and where twill not extend,
Thither be darts it. Bosom up my counsel,
You'll find it wholesome. Lo, where comes that
That I advise your shunning.
(rock,

Enter Cardinal WOLSEY, (the purse borne before kim.) certain of the Guard, and two Secretaries with papers. The Cardinal in his passage fixeth his eye on Buckingham, and Buckingham on him, both full of disdain.

Wol. The duke of Buckingham's surveyor? ha? Where's his examination?

1 Seer.

Here, so please you.

Wol. Is he in person ready? 1 Secr.

Ay, please your grace.

Wol. Well, we shall then know more; and Back

ingham Shall lessen this big look.

Exeunt Wolsey, and Train. Buck. This butcher's cur is venom-month'd, and i Have not the power to muzzle him; therefore, best Not wake him in his slumber. A beggar's book Out-worths a noble's blood.

Buck.

I read in his looks
Matter against me; and his eye revil'd
Me, as his abject object: at this instant
He bores me with some trick: He's gone to the king;
I'll follow, and out-stare him.

Nor.
Stay, my lord,
And let your reason with your choler question
What 'tis you go about: To climb steep hills,
Requires slow pace at first: Anger is like
A full-hot horse; who being allow'd his way,
S. If mettle tires him. Not a man in England
Can advise me like you: be to yourself
As you would to your friend.

Buck.
I'll to the king;
And from a mouth of honour quite cry down
This Ipswich fellow's insolence; or proclaim,
There's difference in no persons.

Nor.

Be advis'd;

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot,
That it do singe yourself: We may outrun,
By violent swiftness, that which we run at,
And lose by over running. Know you not,
The fire, that mounts the liquor till it run o'er,
In seeming to augment it, wastes it? Be advis'd:
I say again, there is no English soul
More stronger to direct you than yourself,
If with the sap of reason you would quench.
Or but allay, the fire of passion.

Buck.

Sir,

I am thankful to you; and I'll go along

By your prescription :-but this top-prond fellow,
(Whom from the flow of gall I name not, but
From sincere motions,) by intelligence,
And proofs as clear as founts in July, when
We see each grain of gravel, I do know
To be corrupt and treasonous.
Nor.
Say not, treasonous.
Buck. To the king I'll say 't; and make my vouch

as strong

As shore of rock. Attend. This holy fox, Or wolf, or both, (for he is equal ravenous, As he is subtle, and as prone to mischief, As able to perform it: his mind and place Infecting one another, yea, reciprocally,) Only to shew his pomp as well in France As nere at home, suggests the king our master

To this last costly treaty, the interview,
That swallow'd so much treasure, and like a glass
Did break i' the rinsing.
Nor.
'Faith, and so it did.

Whose figure even this instant cloud puts on, By dark'ning my clear sun. My lord, farewell.

SCENE II.-The Councii-Chamber.

[Exeunt.

cardinal

The articles o' the combination drew,

As himself pleas'd; and they were ratified,
As he cried, Thus let be: to as much end,

As give a crutch to the dead: But our count-cardinal

Has done this, and 'tis well; for worthy Wolsey,
Who cannot err, he did it. Now this follows,
Which, as I take it, is a kind of puppy
To the old dam, treason,)-Charles the emperor,
Under pretence to see the queen his aunt,
For 'twas, indeed, his colour; but he came
To whisper Wolsey,) here makes visitation :
His tears were, that the interview betwixt
Egland and France might, through their amity,
Breed him some prejudice; for from this league
Peep'd harms, that menac'd him: He privily
Deals with our cardinal; and, as I trow,-
Wasch I do well; for, I am sure, the emperor
Paid ere he promis'd; whereby his suit was granted,
Ere it was ask'd;-but when the way was made,
And pav'd with gold, the emperor thus desir'd;-
That he would please to alter the king's course,
And break the foresaid peace. Let the king know,
As soon he shall by me,) that thus the cardinal
Des buy and sell his honour as he pleases,
Asd for his own advantage.

Nor.

I am sorry

To hear this of him; and could wish, he were Something mistaken in't.

Buck.

No, not a syllable;

I do pronounce him in that very shape,
He shall appear in proof.

Enter BRANDON; a Sergeant at Arms before him, and two or three of the Guard.

Bran. Your office, sergeant; execute it.
Serg.

Sir,

My lord the duke of Buckingham, and earl
Of Hereford, Stafford, and Northampton, I
Arrest thee of high treason, in the name
Of our most sovereign king.
Buck.
Lo you, my lord,
The net has fallen upon me; I shall perish
Under device and practice.

Bran.

I am sorry

To see you ta'en from liberty, to look on
The bosiness present; 'Tis his highness' pleasure,
You shall to the Tower.

Buck.
It will help me nothing,
To plead mine innocence; for that die is on me,
Which makes my whitest part black. The will of

heaven

The will of heaven be done, and the king's pleasure
By me obey'd.
Brand

Here is a warrant from

the Lords of the Council, Sir THOMAS LOVELL, Officers, and Attendants. The King enters, leaning on the Cardinal's shoulder.

K. Hen. My life itself, and the best heart of it,
Thanks you for this great care: I stood i' the level
Of a full-charg'd confederacy, and give thanks
To you, that chok'd it.-Let be call'd before us
That gentleman of Buckingham's: in person
I'll hear him his confessions justify;

And point by point the treasons of his master
He shall again relate.

The King takes his State. The Lords of the Council take their several places. The Cardinal places himself under the King's feet, on his right side.

A noise within, crying, Room for the Queen. Enter the Queen, ushered by the Dukes of NORFOLK and SUFFOLK: she kneels. The King riseth from his State, takes her up, kisses, and placeth her by him.

Q. Kath. Nay, we must longer kneel: I am a suitor.

Language unmannerly, yea, such which breaks
The sides of loyalty, and almost appears
In loud rebellion.

Nor.
Not almost appears,
It doth appear for, upon these taxations,
The clothiers al!, not able to maintain
The many to them 'longing, have put off
The spinsters, carders, fullers, weavers, who,
Unfit for other life, compell'd by hunger,
And lack of other means, in desperate manner
Daring the event to the teeth, are all in uproar,
Aud danger serves among them.
K. Hen.
Taxation!
Wherein and what taxations?-My lord cardinal
You, that are blam'd for it alike with us,
Know you of this taxation?

Q. Kath. No, my lord, You know no more than others but you frame Things, that are known alike; which are not whole

some

To those which would not know them, and yet must
Perforce be their acquaintance. These exactions,
Whereof my sovereign would have note, they are
Most pestilent to the hearing; and, to bear them,
The back is sacrifice to the load. They say,
They are devis'd by you; or else you suffer