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Wear it, enjoy it, and make much of it. Richm. Great God of heaven, say amen to all!

But, tell me, is young George Stanley living? Der. He is, my lord, and safe in Leicester town; Whither, if it please you, we may now with

draw us.

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Richm. What men of name are slain on either side? Der. John Duke of Norfolk, Walter Lord Ferrers,

Sir Robert Brakenbury, and Sir William
Brandon.

Richm. Inter their bodies as becomes their births:
Proclaim a pardon to the soldiers fled,
That in submission will return to us:
And then, as we have ta'en the sacrament,
We will unite the white rose and the red.
Smile heaven upon this fair conjunction,
That long have frown'd upon their enmity!
What traitor hears me, and says not amen?
England hath long been mad, and scarr'd her-
self;

The brother blindly shed the brother's blood,
The father rashly slaughter'd his own son,

The son, compell'd, been butcher to the sire:

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feats. Then the people rejoised and clapped their hands, crying, -King Henrie, king Henrie! When the lord Stanlie saw the good will and gladnesse of the people, he tooke the crowne of king Richard, which was found amongst the spoile in the field, and set it on the earles head; as though he had beene elected by the voice of the people, as in times past in diverse realmes it hath beene accustomed.” -H. N. H.

9. "But tell me, is young George Stanley living"?; so Pope, "tell me first"; Keightley, "tell me, pray," etc need to emend; "George" is evidently dissyllabic.-I. G.

Ff. and Qq.
There is no

All this divided York and Lancaster,
Divided in their dire division,

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O, now let Richmond and Elizabeth,
The true succeeders of each royal house,
By God's fair ordinance conjoin together!
And let their heirs, God, if thy will be so,
Enrich the time to come with smooth-faced
peace,

With smiling plenty and fair prosperous days!
Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord,
That would reduce these bloody days again,
And make poor England weep in streams of
blood!

Let them not live to taste this land's increase,
That would with treason wound this fair land's
peace!

Now civil wounds are stopp'd, peace lives again:
That she may long live here, God say amen! 41

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36. To "reduce" is to bring back; an obsolete sense of the word, derived from its Latin original, reduco. "The mornynge forsakyng the golden bed of Titan, reduced the desyred day" (Eurialus and Lucretia, 1560).—H. N. H.

GLOSSARY

By ISRAEL GOLLANCZ, M.A.

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ACCOUNT, number, reckoning; V. iii. 11.

ACCOUNT, count upon; (used quibblingly); III. ii. 72. ACQUIT, acquitted; V. v. 3. ACQUITTANCE, acquit; III. vii. 233.

ADULTERATE, adulterous; IV. iv. 69.

ADVANCE, raise; V. iii. 264. ADVANTAGE, opportunity (Ff. "vantage"); III. v. 74. ADVANTAGING, increasing; IV. iv. 323.

ADVENTURE, risk, hazard; I. iii. 116.

ADVERSE, opposing; IV. iv. 190. ADVERTISED, informed; IV. iv. 501.

ADVISED; "well a.," "in sound

senses, hot mad"; I. iii. 318. ADVISED, "be a.," reflect, consider; II. i. 107.

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AMAZE, affright; V. iii. 341. AMBLING, moving in an affected manner; I. i. 17.

AMITY, friendship; I. iii. 281.
ANCIENT, old; III. i. 182.
ANNOY, injury, harm; V. iii. 156.
ANOINTED, Consecrated by unc-

tion; one of the ceremonials in
the coronation of sovereigns;
IV. i. 62.

ANSWER, answer for, be responsi-
ble for; IV. ii. 97.
APPARENT, manifest; III. v. 30.
ARBITREMENT, decision; V. iii. 89.
ARCH, wicked; IV. iii. 2.

As, that (Ff. "that"); III. iv. 40.

AT ONCE, in brief, without more ado; III. iv. 1.

ATONEMENT, reconciliation; I. iii. 36.

ATTAINDER, taint; III. v. 32. ATTORNEY; "by a.," by proxy; V. iii. 83.

AWELESS, inspiring no awe; (Qq. "lawlesse"); II. iv. 52.

BAITED AT, harassed, worried; I. iii. 109.

BAR, debar, exclude; III. ii. 54. BARBED, armed and harnessed for war; I. i. 10.

BASILISK, the fabulous creature supposed to kill by its look; v. "cockatrice"; I. ii. 151. BATTALION, army; (Ff. “Batta

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BOOTLESS, useless; III. iv. 104. BOTTLED, bloated; I. iii. 242. BOUGHT AND SOLD, deceived, betrayed; a proverbial phrase; V. iii. 305.

BRAVED, made brave, adorned; V. iii. 279.

BRECKNOCK, Brecknock Castle in South Wales; IV. ii. 126. BRIDGE, i. e. London Bridge, where the heads of traitors were placed; III. ii. 72. BRIEF, quick, speedy; II. ii. 43. BROKEN, broken up, done away with; II. ii. 117.

BROOK'D, borne, endured; I. i. 125.

BRUISING IRONS, destroying weapons; referring to the heavy iron maces used in battle; V. iii. 110.

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spirit; I. iii. 144. CAITIFF, wretch; IV. iv. 100. CAPABLE, quick to apprehend, of good capacity; III. i. 155. CAPARISON, put on the trappings, cover with a horsecloth; V. iii. 289.

CAREFUL, full of care; I. iii. 83. CARNAL, flesh-eating, bloodthirsty; IV. iv. 56.

CENSURES, opinions; II. ii. 144. CHAIR, throne; IV. iv. 470. CHAMBER, London was called the king's chamber soon after the Conquest; III. i. 1.

CHARACTERS, Used quibblingly in double sense (1) written signs, (2) marked dispositions; III. i. 81.

CHARGE, Command, post; V. iii.

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CLOSELY, Secretly; III. i. 159. CLOSURE, enclosure; III. iii. 11. CLOUDY, having cloudy looks; II. ii. 112.

COCKATRICE, a fabulous creature supposed to kill by its glance; (v. "basilisk"); IV. i. 55. COCK-SHUT TIME, twilight ("cock

shut" a kind of net used for catching woodcocks, generally set in the dusk of the evening); V. iii. 70.

COG, deceive, cheat; I. iii. 48. COMPETITORS, confederates; IV. iv. 506.

COMPLOTS, plots; III. i. 192. CONCEIT, Conception, idea; III. iv. 51.

CONCLUDED, officially recorded; I. iii. 15.

CONDITION, disposition; IV. iv. 157.

CONDUCT, escort; I. i. 45. CONFIRM'D; "thy age c.," thy riper years; IV. iv. 171. CONSEQUENCE, sequel; IV. iv. 6. CONSIDERATE, observant; IV. ii. 30.

CONSORTED, joined, associated;

III. iv. 73.

CONTENT, pay, satisfy; III. ii. 113.

CONTRACT, Contracted; III. vii. 179.

CONVERSATION, intercourse; III. v. 31.

CONVEYANCE; "madest quick c.," quickly removed; IV. iv. 283. CONVICT, Convicted; I. iv. 194. CORSE, Corpse, body; I. ii. 32. COSTARD, a humorous expression for the head; properly, a kind of apple; I. iv. 160. COUNTED, accounted; IV. i. 47. COUSINS, grandchildren; II. ii. 8; nephew; III. i. 2,

COVERT'ST, most secret; III. v. 33. COZEN'D, cheated, deceived (with a play upon "cousins”); IV. iv.

222.

CROSBY PLACE, the palace of Richard, when Duke of Gloster, still standing in Bishopsgate Street; (Ff. "Crosby House”); I. ii. 213. CROSS-ROW, alphabet; "so called, according to some, from the cross anciently placed before it to indicate that religion was the chief end of learning; or, as others say, from a superstitious custom of writing the alphabet in the form of a cross, by way of charm" (Nares); originally "Christcross-row"; corrupted into "criss-cross-row"; then into "cross-row"; I. i. 55. CROWN, head; III. ii. 43. CURRENT, genuine; I. ii. 84. CURST, shrewish; I. ii. 49.

DALLY, trifle; II. i. 12.
DANGEROUS; "d. success," doubt-
ful issue; IV. iv. 236.
DATE, term, period of duration;
IV. iv. 254.

DEAR, extreme; I. iv. 217.
DEAR, used in double sense, (1)

dearly loved, (2) intensely se-
vere; II. ii. 77.

DEATH; "the d.," an old idiom especially used with reference to penal death; I. ii. 179. DEBASE, lower, degrade; (Ff. "abase"); I. ii. 247. DECLENSION, decline; III. vii. 189.

DECLINE, "run through from first to last, as in declining, or giving the cases of a noun, in grammar" (Malone); IV, iv. 97,

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