nose was as sharp as a pen, and a' babbled of green fields. "How now, Sir John!" quoth I: "what, man! be o' good cheer." So a' cried out "God, God, God!" three or four times. Now I, to comfort him, bid him a' should not think of God; I hoped there was no need to trouble 20 himself with any such thoughts yet. So a' bade me lay more clothes on his feet: I put my hand into the bed and felt them, and they were as cold as any stone; then I felt to his knees, and they were as cold as any stone, and so upward and upward, and all was as cold as any stone. NYм. They say he cried out of sack. HOST. Ay, that a' did. BARD. And of women. HOST. Nay, that a' did not. Boy. Yes, that a' did; and said they were devils in carnate. HOST. A' could never abide carnation; 't was a colour he never liked. Boy. A' said once, the devil would have him about women. HOST. A' did in some sort, indeed, handle women; but then he was rheumatic, and talked of the whore of Babylon. 16-17 and a' babbled of green fields] Theobald's famous emendation (suggested by an anonymous acquaintance) of the Folio unintelligible reading and a Table of greene fields. The words do not appear in the Quarto. But the Quarto text reads above in line 14 talk of flowers for the Folio reading play with flowers, an expression which supports Theobald's change. 27 cried out of exclaimed against. 38 rheumatic] blunder for "lunatic." 30 Boy. Do you not remember, a' saw a flea stick upon 40 Bardolph's nose, and a' said it was a black soul burning in hell-fire? BARD. Well, the fuel is gone that maintained that fire: that's all the riches I got in his service. NYм. Shall we shog? the king will be gone from Southampton. PIST. Come, let's away. My love, give me thy lips. Let senses rule; the word is "Pitch and Pay:" For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes, Therefore, Caveto be thy counsellor. Go, clear thy crystals. Yoke-fellows in arms, Let us to France; like horse-leeches, my boys, To suck, to suck, the very blood to suck! Boy. And that's but unwholesome food, they say. BARD. Farewell, hostess. [Kissing her. 50 NYM. I cannot kiss, that is the humour of it; but, 60 adieu. PIST. Let housewifery appear: keep close, I thee command. HOST. Farewell; adieu. 45 shog] be off. Cf. II, i, 43, supra. [Exeunt. 49 "Pitch and Pay"] a colloquial phrase for "pay ready money." 52 hold-fast... dog] Cf. the old proverb "Brag is a good dog, but holdfast a better." 54 clear thy crystals] dry thine eyes. 62 keep close] keep at home. SCENE IV-FRANCE THE KING'S PALACE Flourish. Enter the FRENCH KING, the DAUPHIN, the DUKES of BERRI and BRETAGNE, the CONSTABLE, and others FR. KING. Thus comes the English with full power upon us; And more than carefully it us concerns Therefore the Dukes of Berri and of Bretagne, It fits us then to be as provident As fear may teach us out of late examples DAU. My most redoubted father, It is most meet we arm us 'gainst the foe; 2 more than carefully] with more than common care. 7 line] support, strengthen. 10 As waters gulf] As waters drawn to a whirlpool. ... 13 the fatal and neglected English] the English whom we have fatally neglected, neglected to our ruin. 10 For peace itself should not so dull a kingdom, Should be maintain'd, assembled and collected, As were a war in expectation. Therefore, I say 't is meet we all go forth No, with no more than if we heard that England For, my good liege, she is so idly king'd, By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth, CON. And shall find his vanities forespent you Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus, 16 so dull] render so callous. 25 Whitsun morris-dance] An ancient dance associated with Whitsuntide festivities. The dancers performed in grotesque costume. 28 humorous] capricious, frolicsome. 34 modest in exception] diffident in expressions of dissent. 37-38 Brutus . . . folly] Lucius Junius Brutus, the founder of Republican Rome, according to Livy, by feigning idiocy escaped ruin at 20 80 As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots DAU. Well, 't is not so, my lord high constable; FR. KING. Think we King Harry strong; Of that black name, Edward, Black Prince of Wales; the hands of his foe, King Tarquinius Superbus, whose rule he ultimately brought to an end. According to Shakespeare's Lucrece, 1812-1814, L. Junius Brutus, when he was conspiring against Tarquin," with the Romans was esteemed so, As silly-jeering idiots are with kings, For sportive words and uttering foolish things." 45 the proportions] the appropriate needs. 46 Which... projection] the provision of which on a weak and niggardly plan. This clause forms the subject of "doth spoil" in the next line. 50 The kindred upon us] His family gained its first military experience in conflict with us. A hound was said to be "fleshed," when it first tasted blood in the chase. Cf. III, iii, 11, infra. 54 Cressy battle] Cf. I, ii, 106, supra. 40 50 |