King. Uncle of Winchester, I pray, read on. Car. [Reads] 'Item, It is further agreed between them, that the duchies of Anjou and Maine shall be released and delivered over to the king of her father, and she sent over of 60 the King England's own proper cost and charges, without having any dowry.' King. They please us well. Lord marquess, kneel down: We here create thee the first duke of Suffolk, We here discharge your grace from being re- I' the parts of France, till term of eighteen months Be full expired. Thanks, uncle Winchester, 70 We thank you all for this great favor done, Come, let us in, and with all speed provide To see her coronation be perform'd. [Exeunt King, Queen, and Suffolk. 60. Of course the reader will observe that this item does not run the same as it did in the hands of Gloster. Malone remarks, that "the words of the instrument could not thus vary whilst it was passing from the hands of the duke to those of the cardinal." Doubtless Gloster had caught the drift and substance of the document, but the dimness of his eyes prevented his reading with literal exactness.-H. N. H. 63. "kneel down"; Pope reads "kneel you down"; Keightley, Collier MS., "kneel thee down." Perhaps "kneel" is to be read as a dissyllable.-I. G. 80 Glou. Brave peers of England, pillars of the state, wick, Received deep scars in France and Normandy? 90 How France and Frenchmen might be kept in awe, And had his highness in his infancy 88. "Beaufort"; Ff. read "Beauford"; Rowe, "Bedford."-I. G. 93. "And had his highness in his infancy Crowned"; Grant White's emendation of Ff., "And hath Crowned"; Rowe reads "And Razing the characters of your renown, Undoing all, as all had never been! 101 Car. Nephew, what means this passionate dis course, This peroration with such circumstance? Glou. Aye, uncle, we will keep it, if we can; Agrees not with the leanness of his purse. Sal. Now, by the death of Him that died for all, These counties were the keys of Normandy. But wherefore weeps Warwick, my valiant son? War. For grief that they are past recovery: 102. "Defacing"; Capell reads, "Reversing," following The Contention.-I. G. 105. This speech crowded with so many circumstances of aggravation.-H. Ν. Η. 109. "Roast”; this word, spelled rost in the original, ought perhaps to be roost. However, Richardson explains it, "to rule the roast, as king of the feast, orderer, purveyor, president"; and he adds, "or may it not be to rule the roost, an expression of which every poultryyard would supply an explanation?" So in Bishop Jewell's Defence: "Geate you nowe up into your pulpets like bragginge cockes on the rowst, flappe your whinges, and crowe out aloude."-H. Ν. Η. 115. The Salisbury of this play was Richard Nevil, second son to Ralph Nevil, whom we have often met with in former plays as earl of Westmoreland. Richard was married to Alice, the only child and heir of Thomas Montacute, the earl of Salisbury who was killed at the siege of Orleans in 1428; and thus brought that earldom into the Nevil family. His oldest son, Richard, again, was married to Anne, the sister and heir of Henry Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, and so succeeded to that earldom in 1449. Shakespeare, though he rightly makes Warwick the son of Salisbury, attributes to him the acts of Richard Beauchamp, the earl of Warwick who figures For, were there hope to conquer them again, tears. Anjou and Maine! myself did win them both; And are the cities, that I got with wounds, 120 York. For Suffolk's duke, may he be suffocate, Before I would have yielded to this league. 130 And our King Henry gives away his own, To match with her that brings no vantages. Glou. A proper jest, and never heard before, That Suffolk should demand a whole fifteenth For costs and charges in transporting her! in the preceding play. Perhaps it should be added that there is the same confusion in the quarto; which may be some evidence that Shakespeare was the author of that.-H. N. H. 133. "fifteenth," i. e. of the personal property of every subject.С. Н. Н. 134. So in Holinshed: "First, the king had not one penie with hir; and for the fetching of hir the marquesse of Suffolke demanded a whole fifteenth in open parlement. And also there was delivered for hir the duchie of Anjou, the citie of Mans, and the whole countie of Maine, which countries were the verie staies and backestands to the duchie of Normandie." -H. Ν. Η. She should have stay'd in France and starved in France, Before 140 Car. My lord of Gloucester, now ye grow too hot: [Exit. 151 Car. So, there goes our protector in a rage. Gloucester,' Clapping their hands, and crying with loud voice, 'Jesus maintain your royal excellence!' 160 |