And fright him there? and make him tremble there? To meet displeasure farther from the doors, And grapple with him ere he come so nigh. K. John. The legate of the pope hath been with me, Bast. O inglorious league! To arms invasive? shall a beardless boy, 60 65 A cocker'd silken wanton, brave our fields, 70 And flesh his spirit in a warlike soil, 67. compromise] comprimise Ff. Ff 3, 4. 59. forage] range abroad, or, perhaps, seize supplies by force. Compare Edward III. Iv. iii. 81: "And forage their country as they have done ours." Shakespeare uses the word several times. Compare Henry V. I. ii. 110:"Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp Forage in blood." Cotgrave has " Fourrager: .. to forrage,... to ransack, ravage, boot hale it." 66-69. Shall we invasive?] shall we, with our feet upon our own soil, make overtures of peace to invading forces? 66 72. idly] idlely Ff 1, 2; idely 70. cocker'd... wanton] Very common in Elizabethan English. Cotgrave throws light on this expression -"To cocker: mignarder"; 'Mignarder to lull, feddle, dandle, cherish, wantonnize, make much or make a wanton of." Compare Gosson's Schoole of Abuse (Arber): "They are cockered continually in those islandes, where they see nothing but Foxes, and Hares, wil never be persuaded that there are huger beastes." 71. flesh] to make an animal savage by foretaste of flesh. Compare Hakluyt (1577), ed. Maclehose, x. 498: "The tigers being fleshed on those dead carkeisse," Or if he do, let it at least be said They saw we had a purpose of defence. 75 Our party may well meet a prouder foe. [Exeunt. SCENE II.-The Dauphin's camp at St. Edmundsbury. Enter, in arms, LEWIS, SALISBURY, MELUN, PEMBROKE, BIGOT, and Soldiers. Lew. My Lord Melun, let this be copied out, And keep it safe for our remembrance: A voluntary zeal and an unurged faith 5 ΙΟ prouder I am confident that our party could beat a stronger foe.” 3. precedent] Johnson; president Ff. 78, 79. Away, then, foe] We can hardly agree with Johnson that the Bastard is here showing the white feather by meaning "Yet I so well know the faintness of our party, that I think it may easily happen that they shall encounter enemies who have more spirit than themselves." Quite the contrary meaning is more in keeping with the Bastard's character and with the continual appeal to English patriotism in the play-" Even now Scene II. 1. this] the compact with the English lords. As an actual document it is evidently the same as the "precedent," the original draft which was to be returned to the Englishmen, while "it" in line 2 must have meant the copy that Philip ordered to be made, Should seek a plaster by contemn'd revolt, Where honourable rescue and defence That, for the health and physic of our right, Her enemies' ranks,-I must withdraw and weep 15 20 25 30 To grace the gentry of a land remote, 27. stranger, march] Ff; stranger 16. metal] Rowe (ed. 2); mettle Ff. march Theobald; stranger's march Long MS.; stranger monarch Herr conj. "And cried, in fainting, upon Rosalind." I incline to the second interpretation, because it has more connection with what goes before. "It grieves my soul to draw my sword in order to become a widow maker, and that among those whom I ought to rescue and protect.' 27. stranger, march] Theobald and some others would omit the comma after "stranger," thus making it an adjective = foreign, and qualifying "march" = martial music. 30. spot] stain, dishonour. I must withdraw and weep over this dishonour into which I am forced. And follow unacquainted colours here? What, here? O nation, that thou couldst remove! That Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee about, Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself, 35. And grapple thee unto a pagan shore; Where these two Christian armies might combine 40 45 But this effusion of such manly drops, This shower, blown up by tempest of the soul, 50 36. grapple] Pope; cripple Ff; gripple Steevens conj.; couple Gould conj. 43. thou] omitted in Ff 1, 2, 3. Lift up thy brow, renowned Salisbury, And with a great heart heave away this storm: 55 That never saw the giant world enraged; Full of warm blood, of mirth, of gossiping. Come, come; for thou shalt thrust thy hand as deep 60 As Lewis himself: so, nobles, shall you all, That knit your sinews to the strength of mine. Enter PANDulph. Look, where the holy legate comes apace, 65 To give us warrant from the hand of heaven, Pand. Hail, noble prince of France! The next is this, King John hath reconciled 70 56. waters] F 1; warres F 2; warrs F 3; wars F 4. 59. Full of warm] Cambridge ed. (Heath conj.); Full warm of Ff. |