288, 289. Saint George . . . door] So Pope; the Folios end the first line at dragon.

276. Bastards, and else) Mr. Moore. The sign of “St. George and the Smith seems more accurate than Dragon ” must have been very comSchmidt in taking this to mean mon in Elizabethan times; indeed “Bastards and otherwise" instead it is not uncommon nowadays. Comof “ Bastards and such-like.”

pare Lyly, Euphues (ed. Arber, p. 281. Compound] settle among your- 47, line 288): “St. George, who is selves. Compare The Taming of ever on horseback yet never rideth.” the Shrew, 1. ii. 27: “We will com. 288. swinged] thrashed, whipped. pound this quarrel.”

A.S. swingan, to beat. Compare 285. fleet] Ait. Compare The 2 Henry Iỹ. v. iv. 21:Merchant of Venice, iv. i. 135: “Even “I will have you swinged soundly from the gallows did his fell soul for this.”' fleet.”

289. horse] Perhaps we ought to 288, 289. Saint George . . . door] read horse' to indicate the possessive. 290. some fence] literally “some 304. bleeding ground] Note the fencing.” Compare “An I thought transference of the adjective. he had been so valiant and cunning 308, 309. Upon the ... display'd] in fence” (Twelfth Night, 111. iv. 312), Vaughan connects" triumphantly and the phrase "a master of fence.”' display'd" with “French." Why

292. I would . . . hide] one more he should prefer this to the far more variation of the inevitable Elizabethan natural “ banners" does not appear. joke on the cuckold's horns.

Keightley inverts the line into

From first to last, the onset and retire 318. a staff] any staff Collier, ed. 2 (Collier MS.). “ Triumphantly display'd; who are To transfer dying to foes would at hand." This seems unnecessary. hardly be an improvement, and we

316. Hither ... blood] Compare are forced to believe that Shakespeare Macbeth, 11. iii. 118:

sacrificed sense a little for the sake of “Here lay Duncan playing with the sound. His silver skin laced with his 325. First Cit.] In the Folios the golden blood" ;

person here called the First Citizen is and Ford, 'Tis Pity, v. vi.: "gilt called Hubert. Mr. Knight retains with the blood of a fair sister and a this, identifying him with Hubert hapless father.” Compare also the de Burgh. Mr. Wright suggests phrase "red gold."

that the parts both of Hubert and of 318. staff] Here used as equivalent the Citizen were played by the same for the whole spear...

actor. In the Troublesome Raigne 323. Dyed ... dying] The play Hubert and the Citizen are two dis. upon words is obvious, and “ dying tinct persons. slaughter" may be compared with 326. retire] See line 253 and note. “bleeding ground," line 304 supra. supra.

327, 328. whose equality . . . cen- i. 33) is not, however, convincing. sured] our best eyes cannot dis- An old dictionary (1696) by Coles tinguish between the two claimants, gives “Censure : to judge, give so equally matched are you. Malone sentence," and the meaning in to says, “Our author ought to have judge" seems sufficient for our written 'whose superiority,' or passage. whose inequality' cannot be cen. 335. shall ... run on] Compare sured.” Vaughan explains, “whose v. iv. 56: “And calmly run on in equality is so exact that our best eyes obedience." In view of this there is can see no flaw in its completeness,” no doubt that run is the preferable and adds that “censure appears to be reading. a term specially applicable to the 344. climate] Here a portion of the discrimination of differences.” The sky. In Richard II. iv. i. 130 it is instance he quotes (Henry VIII. 1. used for a region of the earth (" That You equal potents, fiery kindled spirits ! 358. fiery kindled] fiery-kindled Pope ; fire-ykindled Collier, ed. 2 (Collier MS.); fire-enkindled Lettsom conj. in a Christian climate souls refined gives “to mouch” = “to eat up Should show as heinous ..."). greedily” (Linc.), and Coles, “to eat Cotgrave has "Climat : a clime, or up all.” climate ; a division in the skie, or 357. “havoc !”] The crying of portion of the world, between south “havoc 1" was the signal for indisand north” ; Coles (1696) “Climote criminate slaughter. Compare Julius (sic): clime, such a space of earth Cæsar, III. i. 273 :ibetween two parallel lines) as makes “Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the half an hour's difference in the sun

dogs of war.” dials and length of days.”

The New Eng. Dict. quotes (1385) 350. towers) soars.' See v. ii. 149 Ord. War Richard II. in Black Bk. infra. A hawking term. A grouse Admiralty (Rolls), i. 455:that rises high before dropping after “Item, qe nul soit si hardy de being mortally struck is still said to crier havok sur peine davoir la “ tower.”

teste coupe.” 354. mousing] generally given as 358. equal potents] equally “ tearing, as a cat tears a mouse." matched powers. A much better sense is given by tak- 358. fiery kindled] See readings ing the more obvious meaning of in the variant, supra. I would suggnawing, nibbling as a mouse does. gest“ fury-kindled spirits.” Compare The “ Well moused, Lion!” of A Ēdward III. 11. iii. 113: “Or that Midsummer-Night's Dream, v. i. 274, enkindled fury turn to flame”; and will also bear this interpretation. It Richard II.1. 1.152: “ Wrath-kindled is perhaps worth noting that Halliwell gentlemen, be ruled by me."