Razing the characters of your renown; 'Defacing monuments of conquer'd France; Undoing all, as all had never been! Car. Nephew, what means this paffionate discourse? This peroration with fuch circumftance"? For France, 'tis ours; and we will keep it ftill. * Glo. Ay, uncle, we will keep it, if we can; * But now it is impoffible we should: Suffolk, the new-made duke that rules the roast, *Sal. Now, by the death of him that dy'd for all, For, were there hope to conquer them again, My fword should fhed hot blood, mine eyes no tears. Anjou and Maine! myself did win them both; Those provinces thefe arms of mine did conquer; And are the cities, that I got with wounds, Deliver'd up again with peaceful words'? • Mort Dieu! *York. For Suffolk's duke-may he be fuffocate, * That dims the honour of this warlike ifle! * France should have torn and rent my very heart, *Before I would have yielded to this league. I never read but England's kings have had · Large fums of gold, and dowries, with their wives: And our king Henry gives away his own, 8 This peroration with fuch circumftance?] This speech crowded with fo many inftances of aggravation. JOHNSON. -boje large ftyle Agrees not with the leanness of his purse.] So Holinfhed: "King Reigner hir father, for all his long file, had too short a purfe to fend his daughter honourably to the king hir spowse." MALONE. 1 And are the cities, &c.] The indignation of Warwick is natural, and I wish it had been better expreffed; there is a kind of jingle intended in wounds and words. JOHNSON. In the old play the jingle is more ftriking." And must that then which we won with our words, be given away with words?" MALONE. • To To match with her that brings no vantages. * Glo. A proper jeft, and never heard before, That Suffolk fhould demand a whole fifteenth, *For cofts and charges in transporting her! She fhould have ftaid in France, and starv'd in France, * Before * Car. My lord of Glofter, now you grow too hot; It was the pleasure of my lord the king. * Glo. My lord of Winchester, I know your mind; 'Tis not my fpeeches that you do mislike, But 'tis my prefence that doth trouble you. 'Rancour will out: Proud prelate, in thy face I fee thy fury: if I longer stay, We shall begin our ancient bickerings 2.— Lordings, farewel; and fay, when I am gone, I prophely'd-France will be loft ere long. Car. So, there goes our protector in a rage. 'Tis known to you, he is mine enemy: *Nay, more, an enemy unto you all ; [Exit. And no great friend, I fear me, to the king. Confider, lords, he is the next of blood, And heir apparent to the English crown; *Had Henry got an empire by his marriage, *And all the wealthy kingdoms of the weft3, *There's reason he fhould be difpleas'd at it. *Look to it, lords; let not his fmoothing words *Bewitch your hearts; be wife, and circumfpect. "What though the common people favour him, 'Calling him-Humphrey, the good duke of Glofter; Clapping their hands, and crying with loud voice'Jefu maintain your royal excellence! 2-bickerings.] To bicker is to skirmish. In the ancient metrical romance of Guy Earl of Warwick, bl. I no date, the heroes confult whether they should bicker on the walls, or defcend to battle on the plain. Levi pugna congredior is the expreffion by which Barrett in his Alvearie, or Quadruple Dia. 1580, explains the verb to bicker. STEEVENS. 3—of the weft,] Certainly Shakspeare wrote-eaß. WARBURTON. There are wealthy kingdoms in the weft as well as in the eaff, and the western kingdoms were more likely to be in the thought of the Speaker. JOHNSON. . With With-God preferve the good duke Humphrey ! * Buck. Why fhould he then protect our fovereign, 營 -- And all together, with the duke of Suffolk,— [Exit. Than all the princes in the land befide; If Glofter be difplac'd, he'll be protector. Buck. Or thou, or I, Somerfet, will be protector, * Defpight duke Humphrey, or the cardinal. [Exeunt BUCKINGHAM and SOMERSET. Sal. Pride went before, ambition follows him. I never faw but Humphrey duke of Glofter • Warwick my fon, the comfort of my age! 'In ♦ And, brother York,] Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, married Cicely, the daughter of Ralf Nevil, Earl of Weftmoreland. Richard Nevil, Earl of Salisbury, was fon to the Earl of Westmoreland by a fecond wife. He married Alice, the only daughter of Thomas Montacute, Earl of Salisbury, who was killed at the fiege of Orleans (fee p. 25, n. 1.); and in confequence of that alliance obtained the title of Salisbury In bringing them to civil difcipline*; Thy late exploits done in the heart of France, When thou wert regent for our fovereign, 'Have made thee fear'd, and honour'd, of the people:→ Join we together, for the publick good; 'In what we can, to bridle and fupprefs The pride of Suffolk, and the cardinal, 'With Somerfet's and Buckingham's ambition; 'And, as we may, cherish duke Humphrey's deeds, While they do tend the profit of the lands. *War. So God help Warwick, as he loves the land, *And common profit of his country! *York. And fo fays York, for he hath greatest cause. Sal. Then let's make hafte away, and look unto the main. War. Unto the main! O father, Maine is loft; That Maine, which by main force Warwick did win, And would have kept, fo long as breath did laft: Main chance, father, you meant; but I meant Maine; Which I will win from France, or else be flain. [Exeunt WARWICK and SALISBURY. York, Anjou and Maine are given to the French; Paris is loft; the ftate of Normandy Stands on a tickle point", now they are gone : Salisbury in 1428. His eldest fon Richard, having married the fifter and heir of Henry Beauchamp Earl of Warwick, was created Earl of Warwick, in 1449. MALONE. -to civil difcipline ;] This is an anachronifm. The prefent fcene is in 1445, but Richard Duke of York was not viceroy of Ireland till 1449. MALONE. 5-the profit of the land.] I think we might read-more clearlyto profit of the land, i. e. to profit themselves by it; unless 'tend be written for attend. STEEVENS. Perhaps tend has here the fame meaning as tender in a fubfequent fcene: "I tender fo the safety of my liege." Or it may have been put for intend; while they have the advantage of ` the commonwealth as their object. MALONE. -on a tickle point,] Tickle is very frequently ufed for ticklish by prets contemporary with Shakspeare. So, in the Spanish Tragedy, 1605: "Now ftands our fortune on a tickle point." Again, in Soliman and Perfeda, 1599: "The rest by turning of my tickle wheel." STEEVENS. 4 * Suffolk *Suffolk concluded on the articles; The peers agreed; and Henry was well pleas'd, *To change two dukedoms for a duke's fair daughter. * I cannot blame them all; What is't to them? 'Tis thine they give away, and not their own. Pirates may make cheap pennyworths of their pillage, And purchafe friends, and give to courtezans, Still revelling, like lords, till all be gone: While as the filly owner of the goods. Weeps over them, and wrings his hapless hands, And thakes his head, and trembling ftands aloof, While all is fhar'd, and all is borne away; * Ready to ftarve, and dare not touch his own. So York muit fit, and fret, and bite his tongue, *While his own lands are bargain'd for, and fold. Methinks, the realms of England, France, and Ireland, *Bear that proportion to my flesh and blood, As did the fatal brand Althea burn'd', *Unto the prince's heart of Calydon. Anjou and Maine, both given unto the French! Cold news for me; for I had hope of France, Even as I have of fertile England's foil. A day will come, when York shall claim his own; Whofe church-like humours fit not for a crown. Till Henry, furfeiting in joys of love, 7 As did the fatal brand Althea burn'd,] According to the fable, Meleager's life was to continue only fo long as a certain firebrand should laft. His mother Althea having thrown it into the fire, he expired in great torment. MALONE. 8 — the prince's beart of Calydon.] Meleager. STEEVENS. |