Lo, this is all: Nay, yet depart not so; Alack, and what fhall good old York there fee, And what hear there for welcome, but my groans? Enter the lord Marshal and Aumerle. Mar. My lord Aumerle, is Harry Hereford arm'd? Aum. Yea, at all points; and longs to enter in. Mar. The duke of Norfolk, fprightfully and bold, Stays but the fummons of the appellant's trumpet. Aum. Why then, the champions are prepar'd, and ftay For nothing, but his majefty's approach. [Flourish. The trumpets found, and the king enters with Gaunt, Bufhy, Bagot, and others: when they are fet, enter the duke of Norfolk in armour. K. Rich. Marfhal, demand of yonder champion The cause of his arrival here in arms: -unfurnish'd walls,] In our ancient castles the naked stone walls were only covered with tapestry, or arras, hung upon tenter hooks, from which it was eafily taken down on every removal of the family. See the Preface to the Household Book of the Fifth Earl of Northumberland, began in 1512. STEEVENS. Afk Ask him his name; and orderly proceed art, Mar. In God's name, and the king's, fay who thou Mowb. My name is Thomas Mowbray, duke of Who hither come engaged by my oath, (Which, heaven defend, a knight should violate!) Both to defend my loyalty and truth, To God, my king, and his fucceeding iffue?, Trumpets found. Enter Bolingbroke, appellant, in armour. K. Rich. Marfhal, afk yonder knight in arms, STEEVENS. 7 And fo] The old copies read: As fo -] Mowbray.] Mr. Edwards, in his MS. notes, obferves, both from Matthew Paris and Holinthed, that the duke of Hereford, appellant, entered the lifts firft; and this indeed must have been the regular method of the combat; for the natural order of things requires, that the accufer or challenger fhould be at the place of appointment first. STEEVENS. 9 bis fucceeding iffue,] Such is the reading of the first folio; the later editions read my iffue. Mowbray's iffue, was by this accufation, in danger of an attainder, and therefore he might come, among other reasons, for their fake: but the old reading is more just and grammatical. JOHNSON. The three oldest quartos read my. STEEVENS. De Depofe him in the justice of his cause. Mar. What is thy name? and wherefore com'ft thou hither, Before king Richard, in his royal lifts? [To Boling. Against whom comeft thou? and what's thy quarrel? Speak like a true knight, fo defend thee heaven! Boling. Harry of Hereford, Lancaster, and Derby, Am I; who ready here do ftand in arms, To prove, by heaven's grace, and my body's valour, To God of heaven, king Richard, and to me; Mar. On pain of death, no person be so bold, Boling. Lord marfhal, let me kifs my fovereign's hand, And bow my knee before his majefty: And loving farewel, of our feveral friends. nefs, Mar. The appellant in all duty greets your high- Farewel, my blood; which if to-day thou fhed, L Not Not fick, although I have to do with death; Whofe youthful fpirit, in me regenerate, 2 Gaunt. Heaven in thy good caufe make thee profperous! Be fwift like lightning in the execution; Rouze up thy youthful blood, be valiant and live. Never did captive with a freer heart Caft off his chains of bondage, and embrace waxen coat,] Waxen may mean either foft, and confequently penetrable, or flexible. The brigandines or coats of mail, then in ufe, were compofed of fmall pieces of fteel quilted over one another, and yet fo flexible as to accommodate the drefs they form, to every motion of the body. Of these many are to be seen in the Tower of London. STEEVENS. 2 And furbish] Thus the quarto 1615. The folio reads: -furnish. Either word will do, as to furnish in the time of Shakespeare fignified to drefs. So, twice in As you like it:" fur nished like a huntfinan." -furnished like a beggar." 66 STEEVENS. More More than my dancing foul doth celebrate Go I to fight; Truth hath a quiet breast. Mar. Harry of Hereford, Lancaster, and Derby, Receive thy lance; and heaven defend the right! Boling. Strong as a tower in hope, I cry-amen. Mar. Go bear this lance to Thomas duke of Norfolk. 1 Her. Harry of Hereford, Lancafter, and Derby, Stands here for God, his fovereign, and himself, On pain to be found falfe and recreant, Το prove the duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray, A traitor to his God, his king, and him, And darès him to fet forward to the fight. 2 Her. Here ftandeth Thomas Mowbray, duke of Norfolk, 3 This feast of battle -] War is death's feaft," is a proverbial faying. See Ray's Collection. STEEVENS. + As gentle and as jocund, as to jeft,] Not fo neither. We fhould read, to just; i. e. to tilt or tourney, which was a kind of fport too. WARBURTON. ་ The fenfe would perhaps have been better if the author had written what his commentator fubftitutes; but the rhyme, to which fenfe is too often enflaved, obliged Shakespeare to write jeff, and obliges us to read it. JOHNSON. The commentators forget that to jeft fometimes fignifies in old language to play a part in a mask. Thus, in Hieronymo : "He promifed us in honour of our gueft, "To grace our banquet with fome pompous jeft." and accordingly a mask is performed. FARMER. Mr. Farmer has well explained the force of this word. So, in the third part of K. Henry VI: 66 as if the tragedy Were play'd in jeft by counterfeited actors." TOLLET. |