Life of Shakespeare. King Henry VI

And is a pattern of celestial peace.

Whom should we match with Henry, being a
king,

But Margaret, that is daughter to a king?
Her peerless feature, joined with her birth,
Approves her fit for none but for a king:
Her valiant courage and undaunted spirit,
More than in women commonly is seen,
Will answer our hope in issue of a king;
For Henry, son unto a conqueror,
Is likely to beget more conquerors,
If with a lady of so high resolve

As is fair Margaret he be link'd in love.
Then yield, my lords; and here conclude with

That Margaret shall be queen, and none but she.

King. Whether it be through force of your report,
My noble Lord of Suffolk, or for that
My tender youth was never yet attaint
With any passion of inflaming love,
I cannot tell; but this I am assured,
I feel such sharp dissension in my breast,
Such fierce alarums both of hope and fear,
As I am sick with working of my thoughts.
Take, therefore, shipping; post, my lord, to
France;

Agree to any covenants, and procure

That Lady Margaret do vouchsafe to come

perhaps the difficulty of the line is due to the quadrisyllabic nature of the word "contrary”=“cónteráry.”—I. G.

To cross the seas to England, and be crown'd 90
King Henry's faithful and anointed queen:
For your expenses and sufficient charge,
Among the people gather up a tenth.
Be gone, I say; for, till you do return,
I rest perplexed with a thousand cares.
And you, good uncle, banish all offense:
If you do censure me by what you were,
Not what you are, I know it will excuse
This sudden execution of my will.

And so, conduct me where, from company,

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I may revolve and ruminate my grief. [Exit. Glou. Aye, grief, I fear me, both at first and last. [Exeunt Gloucester and Exeter. Suf. Thus Suffolk hath prevail'd; and thus he

goes,

As did the youthful Paris once to Greece,
With hope to find the like event in love,
But prosper better than the Trojan did.
Margaret shall now be queen, and rule the
king;

But I will rule both her, the king and realm.

[Exit.

90. "To cross"; Walker, "Across."—I. G. 97. To "censure" is here simply to judge. "If in judging me you consider the past frailties of your own youth."-H. N. H.

108. Suffolk set forth on this expedition in October, 1444. Thus stands the account in Holinshed: "The earle of Suffolke was made marquesse of Suffolke, which marquesse, with his wife and manie honorable personages of men and women, richlie adorned both with apparell and jewels, having with them manie costlie chariots and gorgeous horslitters, sailed into France for the conveiance of the nominated queene into the realme of England. For king Reiner, hir father, for all his long stile, had too short a pursse to send his daughter honorablie to the king hir spouse."-H. N. H.

GLOSSARY

By ISRAEL GOLLANCZ, M.A.

ACCIDENTS, events; V. iii. 4. ACCOMPLICES, fellows in arms; V. ii. 9.

ADMONISHMENTS, instructions; II. v. 98.

ADVANTAGE, Occasion; II. v. 129. AFFECTS, cares for, loves; V. v. 57.

AGAZED ON, aghast at, gazing with

amazement at; I. i. 126. ALCIDES, Hercules; IV. vii. 60. ALLIANCE, relationship; II. v. 53.

AMAZE, throw into consternation; IV. vii. 84.

AMORT, “all a.,” quite dejected; III. ii. 124.

ANTIC, buffoon; (Ff. 1, 2, “antique"; Ff. 3, 4, "antick"); IV. vii. 18.

APPARELL'D, dressed; II. iv. 22.
APPARENT, evident, plain; II. i. 3.
APPREHENSION, conception of me;
(Theobald, "reprehension";
Vaughan, "misapprehension"
for "this ap."); II. iv. 102.
ARGUE, show, prove; II. v. 7.
ARGUMENT, token; V. i. 46.
ARMS, coat of arms; I. i. 80.
As, that; III. i. 16.
ASTRÆA, goddess of justice; (Ff.
2, 3, 4, "bright Astræa"); I. vi.

ATTACHED, arrested; II. iv. 96. ATTAINT, tainted; V. v. 81. ATTAINTED, tainted, disgraced, II.

iv. 92; convicted of capital treason, II. iv. 96. ATTORNEY SHIP, discretional agency of another; V. v. 56.

BANDING, uniting in troops; III. i. 81.

BANNING, cursing; V. iii. 42.
BAY; "stand at b.," a term of the
chase, "when the game is driven
to extremity and turns against
its pursuers"; IV. ii. 52.
BEARD; "b. thee to thy face," set
thee at defiance; I. iii. 44.
BEARING-CLOTH, the cloth or man-
tle in which the child was car-
ried to the font; I. iii. 42.
BENEFIT; "of b.," used in its le-
gal sense of property bestowed
by the favor of another; V.
iv. 152.

BESIDE, besides; III. i. 24.
BEST; "I were best," it were bet-
ter for me; V. iii. 83.
BESTOW, place, lodge; III. ii. 88.
BEWRAY'D, betrayed; IV. i. 107.
BISHOP; "the b. and the D. of
Gloucester's men"; i. e. bishop's
men (Hanmer, "Bishop's");
III. i. 78.

BLOOD; "in b.," in perfect health

and vigor; a technical term of the chase; IV. ii. 48.

BLUE COATS, blue was the ordinary color of the livery of serving-men; I. iii. 47.

Boor; "it is no b.," it is no profit, use; IV. vi. 52.

BOUGHT AND SOLD, betrayed; IV. iv. 13.

BOUNDS, boundaries, limits; I. ii. 54.

Bow, depart (Collier MS., "fly";
Long MS., "go"; Vaughan,
"budge”); IV. v. 29.
BRAVED, defied; II. iv. 115.
BREAK, broach; (Pope, "tell");
I. iii. 81.

BREAK UP, break open; (Gray conjectured “Break ope”); I. iii. 13.

BRUITED, noised abroad; II. iii. 68.

BUCKLE WITH, join in close fight with; I. ii. 95. BULL-BEEVES, oxen beef; I. ii. 9.

the two senses of the word); II. iv. 34. COMMANDMENT, command; quadrisyllabic; (Ff. 1, 2, 3, commandement"); I. iii. 20. CONCEIT, invention, IV. i. 102; understanding, V. v. 15. CONSENTED UNTO, conspired to bring about; I. i. 5. CONTEMPTIBLE, mean, low; I. ii. 75. CONTUMELIOUSLY, contemptuously; I. iii. 58.

CONVEYANCE, dishonest practice; I. iii. 2.

COOLING CARD, "something to damp or overwhelm the hope of an expectant"; V. iii. 84. CORNETS, horsemen, cavalry; IV. iii. 25.

CORROSIVE, fretting, giving pain; (Ff., 2, 3, "corrasive"; Boswell, "a corrosive"); III. iii. 3. COURT OF GUARD, main guardhouse; II. 1. 4.

CRAZY, decrepit, weak; III. ii. 89.
CRESTLESS, with no right to coat-
armor; II. iv. 85.
CUNNING, skill; III. iii. 10.

DAMASCUS; alluding to the ancient belief that it was near the place where Cain killed Abel; I. iii. 39.

DARNEL, a kind of weed, ryegrass, which is thought to be injurious to the eyes; hence the old proverb, lelio victitare (to feed on darnel); "tares" in Matthew xiii. 25, should perhaps properly be rendered "darnels"; III. ii. 44.

DEAD, (F. 2, "dread"); I. iii. 34. DEAREST, most precious; III. iv. 40.

DENIS; "Saint Denis," the patron saint of France; I. vi. 28.

DETERMINED, limited; IV. vi. 9. DEVISE ON, lay schemes; (Vaughan, "decide"); I. ii. 124. DIFFIDENCE, distrust, suspicion; III. iii. 10.

DIGEST, Vent; (F. 2, "disgest"); IV. i. 167.

DISABLE, disparage, undervalue; V. iii. 67.

DISCOVER, tell; II. v. 59.

DISEASE, cause of uneasiness, trouble; II. v. 44.

DISMAY NOT, be not dismayed; III. iii. 1.

DISTRAIN'D, taken possession of; I. iii. 61.

DROOPING CHAIR, chair fit for de

clining age; IV. v. 5. DUE, endue (? give as thy due); (Ff., "dew"; Collier, "'due"); IV. ii. 34.

DUMB SIGNIFICANTS, signs, indications; (Pope, "d. significance”) ; II. iv. 26.

EFFUSED, Shed; V. iv. 52. EMULATION, rivalry, contention; IV. iv. 21.

ENDAMAGE, injure; II. i. 77. ENRANK, place in order, battle array; I. i. 115.

ENTERTAIN, maintain, keep; (Collier MS., "enterchange"); V. iv. 175.

ENVY, enmity; IV. i. 193.
ESPIALS, spies; I. iv. 8.
EXEMPT, cut off, excluded; II.
iv. 93.

EXEQUIES, obsequies, funeral rites; III. ii. 133.

EXIGENT, end; (Vaughan, "exeunt"); II. v. 9.

EXPULSED, expelled; III. iii. 25. EXTIRPED, extirpated; III. iii. 24. EXTREMES, "most ex.," greatest

extremities of danger; (Hanmer, "worst ex."); IV. i. 38.

FACE, lie with effrontery; V. iii. 142.

FAMILIAR, familiar spirit; III. ii.

122.

FANCY, love; V. iii. 91.

FASHION (Pope, "passion"; Theobald, "faction"); II. iv. 76. FEATURE, make, form; V. v. 68. FLESH, initiate; IV. vii. 36. FLOWER-DE-LUCES, the white lilies,

the emblem of France; I. i. 80. FOND, foolish; II. iii. 45. FOOT-BOYS, lackeys; III. ii. 69. FORGED, Counterfeit; IV. i. 102. FORLORN, utterly wretched, referring to former wretchedness; (Collier MS., "forborne"); I. ii. 19.

FORTH, forth from, from out; I. ii. 54.

FORTUNE, fate; IV. iv. 39. FRANCE HIS SWORD, France's sword, i. e. the sword of the King of France; (Rowe, “France's”); IV. vi. 3. FROISSART, (Ff., “Froysard”); I. ii. 29.

GIGLOT, wanton; IV. vii. 41. GIMMORS, gimcracks, curious contrivances; (Ff. 2, 3, 4, “Gimmalls"); I. ii. 41.

GIRD, rebuke; III. i. 131.
GIRD, invest; (Ff. 1, 2, "gyrt";

F. 3, "girt"); III. i. 171. GLEEKS; "Charles his g.," i. e. Charles scoffs; (Ff., “glikes"); III. ii. 123.

GLOSS, specious appearance; IV. i. 103.

GOLIASES, Goliaths; I. ii. 33. GRACELESS, profligate; V. iv. 14.

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