"Farre is hee from ondnesse." gall] wear out his rit. Compare "con h anguish" (Fari 3); and eepe despight" (i wast his ney] See line 69 of line 171. etc., etc.] There is e in the Chronicl lowing: "Thiscour fter the siege had ekes full, issued out bridge and fought n, but they receyued and terrible strokes his company com flie back into the lishe men folowed lling and taking of they entered with e of the bridge: Towre standing at me, was taken in English men. French, men were e slaine, and the Te and Bulwarke Vylliam Glasdale, In For none but Samsons and Goliases It sendeth forth to skirmish. One to ten! Lean raw-boned rascals! who would e'er suppose Cha. Let's leave this town; for they are hare-brain'd slaves, 25. homicide] manslayer. Only in 28. hungry prey] prey for their hunger. Compare wondrous praise, v. iii. 190 (praise of her wondrous virtues). A common and often perplexing kind of passage in Shakespeare. The hungry lion is perhaps more commonly met with in Shakespeare than in any other volume, excepting the Bible. 30. Olivers and Rowlands] The two selected ones of Charlemagne's twelve peers or knights, commonly pitted against each other as exponents of deeds of derring-do. Greene brings them all on the stage in Orlando Furioso, but these two and Turpin (not Dick) and Ogier alone have parts. The others are merely "Gibson girls." Ben Jonson speaks of" All the mad Rolands and sweet Olivers" in his Execration upon Vulcan. Halliwell quoted from Hall, Henry VI. f. 64: "But to have a Roland to resist an Oliver, he sent solempne ambassadors to the Kyng of England." "A Rowland for an Oliver," "mad Rowland," and "sweet Oliver," were common sayings. 33. Goliases] Compare Nashe, Have with you, etc. (Grosart, iii. 125), 1596: "wheretoo, the other (beeing a big boand lustie fellow, and a Golias, or Behemoth, in comparison of him)." 34. to skirmish] to battle. "Skirmish" had a more serious import than it has now. Compare Greene, Euphues His 2 37. Let's 35 Censure (Grosart, vi. 254), 1587: "the skirmish furiously begun continuing for the space of three houres, with great massacre and bloodshed, fell at last on Ortellius side." And Holland's Plinie (1601), viii. 7: "Anniball forced those captives whom he had taken of our men, to skirmish one against another to the utterance." Common earlier as in Lord Berner's Froissart. 35. raw-boned] skeleton-like. Nashe uses the term in Lenten Stuffe: "Any simple likelihood or raw bond carcase of a reason (Grosart, v. 287). And again in Christes Teares over Jerusalem (Grosart, iv. 103), 1593: So many men as were in Jerusalem, so many pale rawbone ghosts you would have thought you had seene." See "pale ghosts," line 7, above. Spenser has "rawbone armes and "rawbone cheekes" in Faerie Queene (1. viii. 41 and 1. ix. 35) earlier. 35. rascals] lean, worthless deer, not worth killing. Compare 1 Henry IV. II. iv. 383; As You Like It, 111. iii. 58; and Coriolanus, 1. i. 163. 37. hare-brain'd] Occurs again in 1 Henry IV. v. ii. 19. This is the spelling in Hall's Chronicle, Henry V. (1548), the earliest example in New Eng. Dict. "As wood as a hare" occurs in Chaucer's Frere's Tale, and "as mad as a March hare" was very common from about 1500 onwards. Some support for "hair" may be found in the old saying, "more hair than wit." "Hairbraind head" and a "hairbrainde blab" are found in Golding's Ovid (1567). 12 18 THE FIRST PART OF And hunger will enforce them to be more Of old I know them; rather with their te The walls they'll tear down than forsake Reig. I think, by some odd gimmors or device Their arms are set like clocks, still to stri Else ne'er could they hold out so as they By my consent, we'll even let them alone. Alen. Be it so. Enter the Bastard of ORLEANS Bast. Where's the Prince Dauphin? I have ne 41. gimmors] F 1; 38. eager] fierce. See 3 Henry VI. 41. gimmors] A corruption of gim- 43. hold out] last, endure. See 2 gimmals Ff 2, 3, 4. Henry IV. Iv. iv. vi. 24. Compare ( (Hazlitt's Dodsley taines are Lords w if the world hold kings shortly." 45. Enter the E "Here must I a litt clare to you, what Orleaunce which Capitayne of the Ci Charles the Sixt, m and in great auctho extreme enemie to .. Lewes Duke was owner of the C whereof he made Cawny, a man not was faire, & yet sh but she was as well of Orleaunce as of she conceyued a ch a pretie boy called I of the kinne to my enged the enherita the boy was a basta came to the age of ey which time it was openly whose sonn boldly answered, m and my noble coura I am the sonne of Orleaunce, more gla with a meane lyving sonne of that cowar with his foure tho yere]. . . . Charles tooke him into him great offices a well deserved, for (d he defended his lar Englishmen, and in o his deliveraunce" (C 577). INS. news for him. 4. 7.117 and Part III. (Peele's) Jack Strau ey, v. 393): "We cap within ourselves, and id out, we shall be Bastard of Orleans ittle digresse, and de It was this Bastard d was not only now Citie, but also after by made Erle of Dunoys, oritie in Fraunce, and the Englishe nation e of Orleaunce. Castell of Concy.. Constable the lord of t so wise as his wife she was not so faire Il beloued of the Duke of her husband. hild, & brought forth Iohn. . . . The next Lorde Cawny, cha aunce alleging that Card... the chylde yght yeres olde. A sdemaunded of hir ne he was... my hart geveth me. age telleth me, that the noble Duke of ad to be his Bastard he g, then the lawful rd Cuckold Cawny, Dusand crownes Duke of Orleaunce his family and gave and fees, which he uring his captivitie des, expulsed the conclusion procured Grafton, i. pp. 576 48. appaled] appal'd Ff; appall'd, Steevens, Cambridge, Craig. 47. thrice welcome] See Introduction on these compounds. 48. appaled] Compare "pale of cheer" in Midsummer Night's Dream. New Eng. Dict. distinguishes the two words appall and appale. Both occur in Golding's Ovid (ii. 190, viii. 671). Greene is fond of the word appale: "whose gorgeous presence so appaled my senses, yt I stood astonished" (Arbasto (Grosart, iii. 190), 1564, and often elsewhere). his hand. Unto the Dolphin into his gallerie when first she was brought; and he, shadowing himselfe behind, setting other gaie lords before him to trie her cunning from all the companie, with a salutation (that indeed marz alle the matter) she prickt him out alone, who thereupon had her to the end of the gallerie, where she held him an houre in secret and private talke, that of his priuie chamber was thought verie long (see line 118), and therefore would have broken it off; but he made them a signe to let her saie on . . she set out unto him the singular feats (forsooth) given her to understand by reuelation divine, that in vertue of that sword shee should atchive: which were, how with honor and victorie she would raise the siege at Orleance, set him in state of the crowne of France, and drive the English out of the countrie (lines 53, 54)... Heereupon he hartened at full, appointed hir a sufficient armie with absolute power." Grafton is more condensed here, and more scurrilous concerning Puzell: "a ramp of such boldnesse,' etc. (p. 580). He does not call her "of Arc," but "Ione the Puzell" from the first. 51. A holy maid hither with me I bring] Holinshed says (iii. 163), 1577: "In time of this siege at Orleance [March, 1428-9] was caried a yoong wench of an eighteene yeeres old, called Jone Are, by name of hir father (a sorie sheepheard) Iames of Are, and Isabell hir mother, brought up poorelie in theyr trade of keeping cattell. of favour was she counted likesome, of person stronglie made and manlie, of courage great, hardie and stout withall: an understander of counsels though she were not at them; great semblance of chastitie.. the name of Iesus in hir mouth about all hir businesses. . .. A person (as theyr bookes make hir) raised up by power divine, onelie for succour to the French estate . . . at the Dolphins sending by her assignement, from Saint Katherins Church of Fierbois in Touraine (where she never had beene and knew not) in a secret place there among old iron, appointed she hir sword [see lines 98-101] to be sought out and brought hir, (that with five floure delices was graven on both sides) wherewith she fought and did manie slaughters by hir owne hands. On warfar rode she in armour cap a pie & mustered as a man; before her an ensigne all white, wherin was Iesus Christ painted with a floure delice in 54. forth] prep. out of; as in 2 Henry VI. III. ii. 89, and two or three later passages. Compare Peele, David and Bethsabe (473, b): "he forced Thamor shamefully, And hated her, and threw her forth his doors." In the two later folios the reading at 2 Henry VI. III. ii. 89 is "from." 55, 56. The spirit of deep prophecy Exceeding the nine sibyls] Sibyls here stands for the sibylline books which the Cumaan Sibyl offered for sale to The Tarquin, who bought but three. Greek sibyls were set down at various numbers (Varro enumerates ten), but 118 never at nine. Joan's spirit of prophecy Behold things things past But things t human reac And are not p eyes (David and Bethsa is as much the mo the more sensible, o the other extracts. 59. unfallible] E speare the word is now the choice in have been a matte common words, s and unfortunate, illu especially adheres constant, Uncurab evitable, Unexper Unpossible, Unpro sufferable, Untolera The modern tenden negative prefix, to Latin types. Nash "unfallible prescrip lesse, etc. (Grosart i fallible rules" (Ha (iii. 11) 1596), and places. 64. wondrous fea Spanish Tragedy, Beltazar Το 1 wondrous feats of a And I will answer unpremeditated: - awhile. gs present, and record st; to come exceed ou ach, painted yet in angels sabe, 484, a). Peeles ore poetical, as he s on this occasion, that Elsewhere in Shake s infallible. Then as this prefix seems to ter of fancy. A few such as unfrequent ustrate this. Greene to Un, as in Unble, Undirect, Un rienced, Unperfect, Oper, Unsatiate, Ur able, and Unviolable ncy is to use In, the words of obviously he affects unfallible: tions "(Pierce Pe i. 126), 1592): “p ave with you, etc. unfallibly in many ts] Compare Kyd's 1. iii. 62: "Don vinne renowne di mes. My courage try by combat if thou dar'st, 71. takes upon her] plays her part, 71. at first dash] Not again in Shakespeare. It occurs twice (page 89, Six Old Plays) in Whetstone's Promos and Cassandra, part ii. 1578. See Appendix to Measure for Measure (Arden Edition). A favourite with Greene: "Shal I loue so lightly? shal Fancie give me the foyle at the first dash? (Mamillia (Grosart, ii. 73), 1583); and in Alcida (Grosart, ix. 59), where Greene repeats himself. 77. parching heat] An expression of Peele's in An Eclogue Gratulatory, 1589. Also in Lucrece, 1145. See note at "Summer's parching heat" (Peele's phrase) in Part II. 1. i. 79. In Peele's Pageant, "Louely London," he has "parching zone" (1585). 84. swart] tawny, dark, grimy-look 90 86. which you may see] F 1; which you ing. Grafton speaks of "her foule face" in her early days. Shakespeare has the word (of the complexion only) again in Comedy of Errors, III. ii. 104 and in King John, III. i. 46. He has also swarth, swarthy, and swarty, in the same sense. Golding uses the word of discolouring clotted blood: "all his bodye wext stark cold and dyed swart” (Ovid's Metamorphoses, xii. 463); and again "The blacke swart blood gusht out" (xii. 357, 1567). Compare Grafton, i. 307: "The king was of stature talle, somewhat swarte or blacke of colour, strong of body." 85. infus'd on me] shed, or diffused on me. Not in this sense again in Shakespeare. New Eng. Dict. has a 1420 example from Palladius on Husbandry. 91. Resolve on this] decide on this, make your mind up on this. This " refers to the following clause. WithOut" on, "it is a common sense. "Do but look on his hand, and that shall resolve you" (Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, v. 2). |