And, in a vifion full of majesty, My courage try by combat, if thou dar'st, Char. Thou haft aftonish'd me with thy high terms; Puc. I am prepar'd: here is my keen-edg'd fword, Deck'd with five flower-de-luces on each fide'; The which, at Touraine in faint Catharine's churchyard, Out of a great deal of old iron I chose forth. Char. Then come o'God's name, I fear no woman. Puc. And, while I live, I'll ne'er fly from a man. [They fight. Char. Stay, ftay thy hands; thou art an Amazon, And fighteft with the fword of Debora. Puc. Chrift's mother helps me, elfe I were too weak. Char. Whoe'er helps thee, 'tis thou that must help me ; Deck'd with five flower-de-luces, &c.] The old copy reads-fine. The fame mirake having happened in A Midsummer Night's Dream and in other places, I have not hesitated to reform the text, according to Mr. Steevens's fuggeftion. In the Mfs. of the age of Queen Elizabeth u and n are undiftinguishable. MALONE. We should read, according to Holinfhed, five flower-de-luces. "in a fecret place there among old iron, appointed the hir fword to be fought out and brought her, that with five floure delices was graven on both fides," &c. STEEVENS, Impatiently Impatiently I burn with thy defire *; My heart and hands thou haft at once fubdu'd. Let me thy fervant, and not fovereign, be; Char. Mean time, look gracious on thy próftrate thrall. Alen. Doubtlefs, he fhrives this woman to her fmóck; Elfe ne'er could he fo long protract his speech. Reig. Shall we disturb him, fince he keeps no mean ? Alen. He may mean more than we poor men do know: These women are fhrewd tempters with their tongues. Reig. My lord, where are you? what devise you on? Shall we give over Orleans, or no? Puc. Why, no, I fay, diftruftful recreants! Char. What the fays, I'll confirm; we'll fight it out. This night the fiege affuredly I'll raise : Till, by broad fpreading, it disperse to nought*. With Impatiently I burn with thy defire;] The amorous constitution of the Dauphin has been mentioned in the preceding play: "Doing is activity and he will still be doing." COLLINS. 4 Glory is like a circle in the water, Til, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.] So, in Noscz " As With Henry's death, the English circle ends; Now am I like that proud infulting ship, Nor yet faint Philip's daughters7, were like thee. Alen. Leave off delays, and let us raife the fiege. Reig. Woman, do what thou canst to fave our honours; Drive them from Orleans, and be immortaliz'd. Char. Presently we'll try :-Come, let's away about it: No prophet will I truft, if the prove falfe. "As when a ftone is into water caft, "Till the laft circle reach the bank at last." [Exeunt. The fame image, without the particular application, may be found in Silius Italicus, Lib. xiii. Sic ubi perrumpfit ftagnantem calculus undam, Mox tremulum vibrans motu glifcente liquorem Contingat geminas patulo curvamine ripas. MALONE. 5-like that proud infulting ship, Which Cæfar and bis fortune bare at once.] This alludes to a paffage in Plutarch's Life of Julius Cæfar, thus tranflated by Sir T. North. "Cæfar hearing that, ftraight difcovered himselfe unto the maister of the pynnafe, who at the firft was amazed when he faw him, but Cæfar, &c. faid unto him, Good fellow, be of good cheere, &c. and fear not, for thou baft Cæfar and bis fortune with thee." STEEVENS. 6 Was Mahomet infpired with a dove?] Mahomet had a dove, which he used to feed with wheat out of his ear; which dove when it was hungry, lighted on Mahomet's thoulder, and thrust its bill in to find it's breakfast; Mahomet perfuading the rude and ɓimple Arabians, that it was the Holy Ghoft that gave him advice." See Sir Walter Raleigh's Hiftory of the World, Book I. Part I. ch. vi. Life of Mabomet, by Dr. Prideaux. GREY. 7 Nor yet faint Philip's daughters,] Meaning the four daughters of Philip mentioned in the Aas. "HANMER. VOL. VI. SCENE SCENE III. London. Hill before the Tower. Enter, at the gates, the Duke of GLOSTER, with his ferving-men in blue coats. Glo. I am come to furvey the 'Tower this day; 8 Since Henry's death, I fear, there is conveyance Where be these warders, that they wait not here? Open the gates; it is Glofter that calls. [Servants knock. 1. Ward. [within.] Who is there, that knocks fo imperiously? 1. Serv. It is the noble duke of Glofter. 2. Ward. [within.] Whoe'er he be, you may not be let in. 1. Serv. Villains, answer you fo the lord protector? 1. Ward. [within.] The Lord protect him! fo we anfwer him: We do no otherwife than we are will'd. Glo. Who willed you? or whofe will stands, but mine? There's none protector of the realm, but I.Break up the gates, I'll be your warrantize: Shall I be flouted thus by dunghill grooms? Servants rush at the Tower gates. Enter, to the gates, WOODVILLE, the Lieutenant, Wood. [within.] What noife is this? what traitors have we here? Glo. Lieutenant, is it you, whose voice I hear? Open the gates; here's Glofter, that would enter. 8-there is conveyance.] Conveyance means theft. HANMER. Break up the gates,] I fuppofe to break up the gate is to force up the portcullis, or by the application of petards to blow up the gates themselves. STEEVENS. Some one has propofed to read-break ope the gates; but the old copy is right. So Hall, Henry VI. folio 78, b. "The lufty Kentishmen hopyng on more friends, brake up the gaytes of the King's Bench and Marthaifea," &c. MALONE, Wood. Wood. [within.] Have patience, noble duke; I may not open; The cardinal of Winchefter forbids: From him I have exprefs commandement, Glo. Faint-hearted Woodville, prizest him 'fore me? 1. Serv. Open the gates unto the lord protector; Or we'll burst them open, if that you come not quickly. Enter WINCHESTER, attended by a train of Servants in tawny coats. Win. How now, ambitious Humphry 2? what means this? Glo. Piel'd prieft3, doft thou command me to be shut out? Win. I do, thou moft ufurping proditor, And 1 — tawny coats.] A tawny coat was the drefs of a fumpner, i. e. an apparitor, an officer whofe bufinefs it was to fummon offenders to an ecclefiaftical court. Thefe are the proper attendants therefore on the bishop of Winchefter. So, in Stowe's Chronicle, p. 822: "—and by the way the bishop of London met him, attended on by a goodly company of gentlemen in tawny coats," &c. Tawny was a colour worn for mourning, as well as black; and was therefore the proper and fober habit of any perfon employed in an ecclefiaftical court. "A crowne of baies fhall that man weare "That triumphes over me; "For blacke and tawnie will I weare, "Which mourning colours be." The Complaint of a Lover wearing blacke and taunie; by E. O. Paradife of Dainty Devises, 1596. STEEVENS. 2-Humphry?] Old Copy-Umpheir. Corrected by Mr. Theo bald. MALONE. POPE. 3 Pield pricft,] Alluding to his thaven crown. In Skinner (to whofe dictionary I was directed by Mr. Edwards) I find that it means more: Pill'd or peel'd garlick, cui pellis, vel pili mnes ex morbo aliquo, præfertim e lue venerea, deflexerunt. In Ben Jonfon's Bartholemew Fair the following inftance occurs: " I'll fee them p-'d first, and pil'd and double pild." STEEVENS. C 2 In |