stones to me: if the young dace be a bait for [Exit. medicine, the other a transmuter of base metals into gold"; so Warburton; Malone explains:-"I will make him of twice the value of the philosopher's stone."-I. G. ACT FOURTH SCENE I Yorkshire. Gaultree Forest. Enter the Archbishop of York, Mowbray, Hastings, and others. Arch. What is this forest call'd? Hast. 'Tis Gaultree Forest, an 't shall please your grace. Arch. Here stand, my lords; and send discoverers forth To know the numbers of our enemies. 'Tis well done. ers 10 As might hold sortance with his quality, 11. "hold sortance with"; sort with, be in keeping with.-C. H. H. That your attempts may overlive the hazard And fearful meeting of their opposite. Mowb. Thus do the hopes we have in him touch ground And dash themselves to pieces. Hast. Enter a Messenger. Now, what news? 20 Mess. West of this forest, scarcely off a mile, Upon or near the rate of thirty thousand. Mowb. The just proportion that we gave them out. Let us sway on and face them in the field. Arch. What well-appointed leader fronts us here? Enter Westmoreland. Mowb. I think it is my Lord of Westmoreland. West. Health and fair greeting from our general, The prince, Lord John and Duke of Lancaster. Arch. Say on, my Lord of Westmoreland, in peace: What doth concern your coming? West. Then, my lord, 30 The substance of my speech. If that rebellion 25. "well-appointed"; completely accoutered.-H. N. H. 34. "bloody; guarded"; Baret carefully distinguishes between And countenanced by boys and beggary; 40 Whose learning and good letters peace hath Whose white investments figure innocence, Into the harsh and boisterous tongue of war; 50 Your pens to lances, and your tongue divine To a loud trumpet and a point of war? Arch. Wherefore do I this? so the question stands. Briefly to this end: we are all diseased, bloody, full of blood, sanguineous, and bloody, desirous of blood, sanguinarius. In this speech Shakespeare uses the word in both senses.—"Guarded" is a metaphor taken from dress; to guard being to ornament with guards or facings.-H. N. H. 45. “investments"; formerly all bishops wore white, even when they traveled. This white investment was the episcopal rochet.— H. N. H. 50. "graves"; Warburton proposed glaives, Steevens greaves; which latter Singer approves and remarks “that greaves, or leg-armour, is sometimes spelt graves." Mr. Verplanck concurs in the same emendation.-H. N. H. And with our surfeiting and wanton hours Troop in the throngs of military men; 60 And purge the obstructions which begin to stop What wrongs our arms may do, what wrongs And find our griefs heavier than our offenses. And have the summary of all our griefs, We are denied access unto his person 55-79. Omitted in Q.-I. G. 60. “I take not on me as"; I do not assume the part of.-C. H. H. 71. "our most quiet there"; our perfect acquiescence in its course. The idea is that of smoothly running waters suddenly diverted by the inrush of a turbulent torrent.-C. H. H. "there"; the reading of the Ff.; Hanmer conjectured "sphere"; Collier "chair.”—I. G. |