THE FIRST PART OF If Sir John Fastolfe had not play'd the co 131. Fastolfe] Theobald; Falstaff Ff. 132. vaward] (Theobald conj.). 135. wrack] Ff, Craig; wreck Ste 137. Walloon] Ff 3, 4; Wallon Ff 1, 2. 139. their ch Ff 3, 4. was in support (pla [ACT I. Mess. O, no! he lives; but is took prisoner, And Lord Scales with him, and Lord Hungerford : I'll hale the Dauphin headlong from his throne; 145 150 155 Mess. So you had need; for Orleans is besieg'd; rereward Hanmer teevens, Cambridge. chief] Ff 1, 2; tha placed behind) of the was probably led by The passage but somebody had o Greene's Euphues H us (Grosart, vi. 275 mose courage no pen . for proofe of his was foremost in th ind] A military use Exe. Remember, lords, your oaths to Henry sworn, Either to quell the Dauphin utterly, Or bring him in obedience to your yoke. Bed. I do remember it; and here take my leave, To go about my preparation. Glou. I'll to the Tower with all the haste I can, To view th' artillery and munition; And then I will proclaim young Henry king. Exe. To Eltham will I, where the young king is, Being ordain'd his special governor ; 149. Dauphin] Dolphin Ff (throughout). 146. Scales Hungerford] See note at line 116 above. 149. hale headlong] Compare Marlowe, Tamburlaine, Part II. iv. 3 (65, a): Haling him headlong to the lowest hell." 66 154. our great Saint George's feast] Held regularly on 23rd April in Shakespeare's time. Nichols has "Feast of St. George now kept," 1560 (i. 88); and "Feast of St. George observed at Utrecht," 1586 (ii. 455-57). A full account of the ceremonies and banqueting will be found at the later reference. 160 165 [Exit. [Exit. 165. my] omitted Ff 2, 3, 4. 170 battayle, and to subdue by force.. Wherefore he having together ten thousand good Englishe men (besides Normans) departed out of Paris in warlike fashion and passed through Brie to Monstrell, Faultyow, and there sent by Bedforde his Herault letters to the French king" (Grafton, i. 583, ed. 1809). 156. all Europe] See "all France," above, line 139. 162. to Henry sworn] See note at line 70, above. 168. munition] war materials. again King John, v. ii. 98. See as in III. ii. 127. icle, i. 296: "plan en of warre in sundr See Much A es. 1. iii. 159. Sose] on purpose, de e Merchant of Veni John, v. vii. 86. an inhabitant of the ween the Netherland De country itself, as it e] See again " 155. Ten thousand soldiers] "The overcome by 171. his special governor] "The Citie of Mouns thus being reduced into the English mens hands, the Lorde Talbot departed to the towne of Alanson. After which marciall feate manfully acheeved, the Erle of Warwike And for his safety there I'll best devise. Windsore, to the en governaunce as him 563). 176. Eltham] Men 156. A favourite p kings of England do Henry VIII., when i importance to Green frequented by Elizab hunting and the hea "As for tythyngs h way at Eltham and at and to sport hym Parlement, and the Prynce byth in Wal with hir the Duc other" (Paston Lette 177. sit at chiefes chiefest place of gu affairs. Stern is rud this sense in Whetst Cassandra, part i. Plays): "I am the their thoughts." 177. public weal] A sion occurring again iii. 189. It is in G 258, 259): "rulde the Persey" (Persia). Th in Grafton's Continud (1543), as at p. 574, is [Exit end: 175 [Exeunt. 176. send] Ft, entent to put him in liste" (Grafton, p. entioned again, III. i. palace of the early own to the reign of it began to yield in wich. It was much Deth and James for ealthy air of Kent. here, the Kyng is Grenewych to hunt there, byding the e Quene and the ys alway. And is of Excestre and rs, Oct. 12, 1460), t stern] be in the uidance of public der. It occurs in cone's Promos and (p. 11, Six Old stern that guides A standard expresin Coriolanus, II. olding's Ovid (iv epublike weal Of e usual expression tion of Hardyng 'public weal." 66 SCENE II.-France. Before Orleans. Sound a Flourish. Enter CHARLES, with his Forces; Cha. Mars his true moving, even as in the heavens Alen. They want their porridge and their fat bull-beeves: France. Before Orleans] Before Orleans in France Theobald. 1. Mars his] So in Troilus and Cressida several times; in The Tempest and Hamlet the reading is Mars's. Peele has "Mars his sworn man," "his knights," etc., very often. Golding has "Mars his snake" (Ovid, iii. 671). 1. Mars his true moving] Steevens referred to Nashe for a curious parallel here. The passage is in "To the Reader" prefixed to Have with you to Saffron Walden (Grosart's Nashe, iii. 28), 1596: "Nay, then, Esopum non attriuistis, you are as ignorant in the true movings of my Muse as the Astronomers are in the true movings of Mars, which to this day they could never attaine too." It was the motions of Mars, watched for many long years by Tycho Brahe, and studied for twenty years by Kepler, which enabled the latter, in 1609, to complete his labours and lead the planet captive. 6. we lie near Orleans] "After this [see note at line 171] in the Moneth of September, he [Salisbury] layde his siege on the one side of the water of Loyre and besieged the towne of Orleaunce, before whose comming, the Bastard of Orleaunce, and the Byshop of the Citie and a great number of Scottes hering of the Erles intent, made divers fortifications about the towne, and destroyed the suburbes, in the which were xij Parishe Churches, and foure orders of Friers. They cut also downe all the vines, trees and bushes within five leagues of the towne, so that the Englishe men should have 5 Sound a 8. Faintly] feebly, weakly. pare Tamburlaine, Part I. ii. I: With unwilling soldiers faintly arm'd" (Dyce, 13, b). 66 9. porridge] Compare Nashe, Foure Letters Confuted (Grosart, ii. 285), 1592: Amongst all other stratagems and puissant engins, what say you to Mates Pumpe in Cheapside, to pumpe over mutton and porridge into Fraunce? this colde weather our souldiers, I can tell you, have need of it, and, poore field mise, they have almost got the colicke and stone with eating of provant." A suggestive parallel. See lines II, 12. 9. They want their . . . bull-beeves] To eat bull beef was supposed to confer courage. The expression had a proverbial use. Thus Gascoigne, An Apologie of the School of Abuse (Arber, p. 64), 1579: "They have eaten bulbief, and threatned highly, too put water in my woortes, whensoever they catche me; I hope it is but a coppy of their countenance, Ad diem fortasse minitantur. Shrewde kyne shall have shorte hornes." And Nashe, Preface to Sidney's Astrophel and Stella (Arber's English Garner, i. 500), 1591: “they bear out their sails as proudly as if they were ballasted with bull beef." "To look as if he had eaten bull-beef" is in Ray's Proverbs (ed. 1678). THE FIRST PART OF Either they must be dieted like mules Here Alarum; they are beaten back by the Englis Cha. Who ever saw the like? what men have IO, II. mules... provender tied "Except the Cammell have his pro- Hung at his mouth he will not And Marlowe, Tamburlaine, Part II. "I'll have you learn to feed on And in a stable lie." 12. piteous... like drowned mice] "He lokyd furyous as a wyld And pale of hew like a drouned (Colyn Blowbres Testament (circa 1500), (Grosart, iv. 257): that mad-braine fon 16. spend his go bitterness of spirit sume his gall with Queene, III. x. 18) inward gall with dee 1. ii. 6). 17. men nor mone Scene i. and note, li 21. Here Alarum, no such occurrence but compare the follo agious Bastard, aft continued three wee of the gate of the with the Englishmen him with so fierce a that he was with al pelled to retire and Citie: but the Engl them so fast, in kyll their enemies, that them the Bulwarke which with a great T the ende of the sam continent by the E which conflict many taken, but mo were keeping of the Tow was committed to W Esquire" (Grafton, i. |