Too soon ta'en prisoner; and that furious Scot, North. For this I shall have time enough to mourn. In poison there is physic; and these news, Having been well, that would have made me sick, Out of his keeper's arms; even so my limbs, crutchR! Hence, therefore, thou nice A scaly gauntlet now, with joints of steel, Must glove this hand and hence, thou sickly quoif! 6 th' appearance of the king,] These elisions are not very frequent in the folio impression of Shakespeare's plays, and are unusual in the quarto editions. We give them wherever authorized by the old copies. 7 BUCKLE under life,] "Buckle" here means bend, and has been derived from the Sax. bugan. We find it used in the same sense in no other author of the time that I am aware of: buckles of hair, for curls, may have the same etymology, though traced no higher than the Fr. boucle. 8 Hence, therefore, thou NICE crutch !] speare in the sense of insignificant, trifling. "Nice" is often used by ShakeIn "Romeo and Juliet," Act iii. sc. 1, we have "Bid him bethink how nice the quarrel was ;" and in Act v. sc. 2, of the same tragedy, "the letter was not nice, but full of charge." Other instances from other authors are needless. Let heaven kiss earth: now, let not nature's hand [Tra. This strained passion doth you wrong, my lord'.] Bard. Sweet earl, divorce not wisdom from your honour. Mor. The lives of all your loving complices Lean on your health; the which, if you give o'er To stormy passion, must perforce decay. You cast the event of war, my noble lord', And summ'd the account of chance, before you said, That, in the dole of blows' your son might drop: Of wounds and scars, and that his forward spirit Bard. We all, that are engaged to this loss, 9 [This strained passion doth you wrong, my lord.] This line is omitted in the folio in the quarto it is mistakenly assigned to Umfr. or Umfrevile, who is not upon the stage. This mistake perhaps led the editors of the folio to exclude the line, as of little importance to the scene. It probably, as Steevens suggested, belongs to Travers. 10 You cast the event of war, my noble lord,] This and the thirteen lines following are not in the quarto; but were first printed in the folio, 1623. 1 That in the DOLE of blows-] The "dole" of blows is the dealing of blows, the distribution of them. See Vol. iii. pp. 123. 439. Knew that we ventur'd on such dangerous seas, Mor. "Tis more than time: and, my most noble lord, As fish are in a pond. But now the bishop. Suppos'd sincere and holy in his thoughts, 2 I hear for certain, and DARE speak the truth,] So the quarto; meaning, that Morton ventures to say that what he speaks is true. The folio reads, "and do speak the truth." The twenty-one lines following the above are only in the folio, and it will be observed that the sense requires the addition. It seems that the quarto, having been brought out in haste, perhaps to avoid rivalry, was printed from a defective manuscript. The aptest way for safety, and revenge. Get posts and letters, and make friends with speed: [Exeunt. SCENE II. London. A Street. Enter Sir JOHN FALSTAFF, with his Page bearing his Sword and Buckler. Fal. Sirrah, you giant, what says the doctor to my water? Page. He said, sir, the water itself was a good healthy water; but for the party that owed it, he might have more diseases than he knew for. Fal. Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me: the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter', more than I invent, or is invented on me: I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. I do here walk before thee, like a sow that hath overwhelmed all her litter but one: if the prince put thee into my service for any other reason than to set me off, why then, I have no judgment. Thou whoreson mandrake, thou art fitter to be worn in my cap, than to wait at my heels. I was never manned with an agate till now: but I will in-set you neither in gold nor silver3, but in vile apparel, and send you back again to your master, for a jewel; the juvenal, the prince your mas 3 AND never yet more need.] The folio has nor for "and." any thing that TENDS to laughter,] The quarto has intends. 4 S - but I will IN-SET you neither in gold nor silver,] The folio alters "in-set" of the quarto to set. When Falstaff just above calls his page "mandrake" and 66 agate," ," he uses the words in reference to the small size of the boy. A mandrake was a vegetable production, which, being forked in the root, was said to resemble a human creature, and to utter a cry when it was extracted from the earth. Agates were often worn in rings, and were of old supposed to possess the virtue of preventing the wearer from suffering misfortune. ter, whose chin is not yet fledged. I will sooner have a beard grow in the palm of my hand, than he shall get one on his cheek; and yet he will not stick to say, his face is a face-royal. God may finish it when he will, it is not a hair amiss yet: he may keep it still as a faceroyal', for a barber shall never earn sixpence out of it; and yet he will be crowing, as if he had writ man ever since his father was a batchelor. He may keep his own grace, but he is almost out of mine, I can assure him. What said master Dumbleton about the satin for my short cloak, and my slops? Page. He said, sir, you should procure him better assurance than Bardolph; he would not take his bond and yours he liked not the security. Fal. Let him be damned like the glutton: may his tongue be hotter !-A whoreson Achitophel! a rascally yea-forsooth knave, to bear a gentleman in hand3, and then stand upon security!—The whoreson smooth-pates do now wear nothing but high shoes, and bunches of keys at their girdles; and if a man is thorough with them in honest taking up, then must they stand upon security. I had as lief they would put ratsbane in my mouth, as offer to stop it with security. I looked he should have sent me two and twenty yards of satin, as I am a true knight, and he sends me security. Well, he may sleep in security; for he hath the horn of abundance, and the lightness of his wife shines through it: 6 - get one on his cheek ;] The quarto less intelligibly reads "get one off his cheek." Perhaps, we ought to read, "get one of his cheek :" the use of prepositions at this date was often different from the modern practice. 7 - he may keep it still as a face-royal,] The quarto, 1600, and the folio, 1623, have it "at a face-royal" it was corrected in the folio, 1632. The allusion seems to be to the coin called a royal, having a face upon it which produced no beard profitable to a barber. 8 The a RASCALLY yea-forsooth knave, to bear a gentleman IN HAND,] quarto has rascal for "rascally" of the folio: "to bear a gentleman in hand,” meant to be in treaty with a gentleman, and to lead him to expect compliance with his wishes. 9 - honest taking up,] i. e. honest dealing for purchasing goods: to take up a commodity" is a phrase of frequent occurrence. |