Make claim and title to the crown of France. Of Charles the duke of Lorraine, sole heir male Daughter to Charles the foresaid duke of Lorraine: So that, as clear as is the summer's sun, 72 To find. truth] Holinshed reads "to make his title seeme true." 74 Convey'd himself] Represented himself, passed himself off. 77 Lewis the tenth] Holinshed's error for Lewis IX (Saint Louis). 82 lineal of] lineally descended from. 88 King Lewis his satisfaction] the satisfying of King Lewis's scruples. See line 80, supra: “till satisfied." And rather choose to hide them in a net K. HEN. May I with right and conscience make this claim? CANT. The sin upon my head, dread sovereign! When the man dies, let the inheritance 93 hide them in a net] conceal themselves in a net (of flimsy sophistries). 94 amply to imbar... titles] fully and frankly to admit the fatal defect in (and so disown) their own unjust or false titles. Imbar, which is the Folio reading, is an emphatic form of "bar," i. e., to exclude decisively, reject. The Quartos less satisfactorily read imbace, a misprint for "embrace." 98 Numbers] According to Holinshed the archbishop "further alledged out of the booke of Numbers this saieng." The quoted verse comes from Numbers, xxvii, 8. 101 your bloody flag] your flag of war. 106 Who... play'd a tragedy] A reference to the battle of Crécy in 1346, which is mentioned again, II, iv, 54, infra. 100 110 O noble English, that could entertain All out of work and cold for action! ELY. Awake remembrance of these valiant dead, EXE. Your brother kings and monarchs of the earth WEST. They know your grace hath cause and means and might; So hath your highness; never king of England CANT. O, let their bodies follow, my dear liege, 114 cold for action] cold for want of action, for standing idle. This use of "for" is common. Cf. Macb., I, v, 33: "almost dead for breath" (i. e., for want of breath). 126 So hath your highness] An emphatic affirmation, corroborating, on the speaker's own authority, the truth of the strength put to the credit of the English king by his "brother kings." 129 And lie pavilion'd] And are already (in imagination) dwelling in tents. 120 130 Will raise your highness such a mighty sum Bring in to any of your ancestors. K. HEN. We must not only arm to invade the French, But lay down our proportions to defend Against the Scot, who will make road upon us CANT. They of those marches, gracious sovereign, 140 Shall be a wall sufficient to defend Our inland from the pilfering borderers. K. HEN. We do not mean the coursing snatchers only, But fear the main intendment of the Scot, 137 lay down our proportions to] dispose our numbers so as to. 138 make road . . . advantages] make inroads at every favourable opportunity. 140 They of those marches] The inhabitants of the Scottish border. 143 coursing snatchers] scattered, unattached raiders. 144 the main intendment of the Scot] the design of the armed forces of Scotland. 145 giddy] fickle, untrustworthy. 151 assays] assaults. 150 That England, being empty of defence, Hath shook and trembled at the ill neighbourhood. CANT. She hath been then more fear'd than harm'd, my liege; For hear her but exampled by herself: When all her chivalry hath been in France, The King of Scots; whom she did send to France, As is the ooze and bottom of the sea With sunken wreck and sumless treasuries. Then with Scotland first begin:" For once the eagle England being in prey, 161 The King of Scots] David II, the King of Scotland, was taken prisoner at the battle of Neville's Cross, 17 October, 1346, and was captive in England for eleven years. The text errs in sending him to France. This mistake seems borrowed from the play of Edward III, IV, ii, 55–56 and V, i, 64. 162 prisoner kings] John II, King of France, was also one of Edward III's prisoners. 163 her chronicle] The Folios read their chronicle, and the Quartos your chronicle. Johnson suggested the accepted reading. 166–173 WEST. But... eat] The Folios give this speech to "Bish. Ely," the Quartos, to a "Lord." Holinshed assigns similar remarks to Westmoreland, whose name Capell first introduced here. 160 170 |