2. Eliz. For what offence 4?

Mef. The fum of all I can, I have difclos'a gel Why, or for what, the nobles were committed, Is all unknown to me, my gracious lady.

2. Eliz. Ah me, I fee the ruin of my house! The tyger now hath feiz'd the gentle hinds; Infulting tyranny begins to jut

Upon the innocent and awless throne":{
Welcome, deftruction, blood, and massacre!
I fee, as in a map, the end of all,

Dutch. Accurfed and unquiet wrangling days!
How many of you have mine eyes beheld?
My husband loft his life to get the crown;
And often up and down my fons were toft,
For me to joy, and weep, their gain, and lofs:
And being feated, and domestick broils

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Clean over-blown, themselves, the conquerors,
Make war upon themfelves; brother to brother,
Blood to blood, self against self:-O, prepofterous
And frantick outrage, end thy damned spleen ;
Or let me die, to look on death no more?!

4 For what offence?] This queftion is given to the archbishop in former copies, but the meffenger plainly fpeaks to the queen or dutchefs. JOHNSON.

The question is given in the quarto to the archbishop, (or cardinal, as he is there called,) where alfo we have in the following fpeech, my gracious lady. The editor of the folio altered lady to herd; but it is more probable that the compofitor prefixed Car. (the defignation there of the archbishop) to the words, " For what offence?" instead of Qu. than that lady fhould have been printed in the fubfequent fpeech in ftead of lord. Compofitors always keep the names of the interlocutors in each scene ready-compofed for ufe; and hence miftakes fometimes arife.. MALONE.

5 The tyger now bath feiz'd the gentle hind;] So, in our authour's Rape of Lucrece:

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while fhe, the picture of pure piety,

"Like a white bind under the grype's fharp claws."

MALONE.

awlefs-] Not producing awe, not reverenced. To jut upon is to encroach. JOHNSON.

7on death] So the quarto 1598, and the fubfequent quartos. The folio reads earth. MALONE.

2. Elix.

2. Eliz. Come, come, my boy, we will to fanctuary

Madam, farewel.

Dutch. Stay, I will go with you.

2. Eliz. You have no caufe.

Arch. My gracious lady, go,

[to the Queen,

And thither bear your treafure and your goods.

For my part, I'll refign unto your grace
The feal I keep; And fo betide to me,
As well I tender you, and all of yours
Come, I'll conduct you to the fanctuary.

ACT III.

[Exeunt.

SCENE I.

The fame. A Street.

The trumpets found. Enter the Prince of Wales, GLOSTER, BUCKINGHAM, Cardinal Bourchier, and Others.

Buck. Welcome, fweet prince, to London, to your chambers.

Glo. Welcome, dear coufin, my thoughts' fovereign: The weary way hath made you melancholy.

Prince. No, uncle; but our croffes on the way
Have made it tedious, wearifome, and heavy:
I want more uncles here to welcome me.

Glo. Sweet prince, the untainted virtue of your years. Hath not yet div'd into the world's deceit:

No more can you distinguish of a man,

Cardinal Bourcbier,] Thomas Bourchier was made a Cardinal, and elected Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1464. He died in 1486. MALONE.

8 -to your chamber.] London was anciently called Camera regia.

POPE.

So, in Heywood's If you know not me, you know Nobody, 1633, 2d Part:

"This city, our great chamber." STEEVENS.

This title it began to have immediately after the Norman conqueft. See Coke's 4 Inft. 243, where it is ftyled Camera regis; Camden's Britannia, 374; Ben Jonfon's Account of King James's Entertainment in paffing to his coronation, &c. REED.

Than of his outward shew; which, God he knows,
Seldom, or never, jumpeth with the heart".
Thofe uncles, which you want, were dangerous;
Your grace attended to their sugar'd words,
But look'd not on the poison of their hearts:

God keep you from them, and from fuch falfe friends!
Prince. God keep me from false friends! but they were

none.

Glo. My lord, the mayor of London comes to greet you.
Enter the Lord Mayor, and his Train.

May. God bless your grace with health and happy
days!

all.

Prince. I thank you, good my lord;-and thank you [Exeunt Mayor, &c. I thought, my mother, and my brother York, Would long ere this have met us on the way:Fie, what a flug is Haftings! that he comes not To tell us, whether they will come, or no.

Enter HASTINGS.

Buck. And, in good time', here comes the fweating

lord.

Prince. Welcome, my lord: What, will our mother

come?

Haft. On what occafion, God he knows, not I,

The queen your mother, and your brother York,
Have taken fanctuary: The tender prince
Would fain have come with me to meet your grace,
But by his mother was perforce withheld.

Buck. Fie! what an indirect and peevish course
Is this of hers?-Lord cardinal, will your grace
Perfuade the queen to fend the duke of York
Unto his princely brother prefently?

If the deny,-lord Haftings, go with him,
And from her jealous arms pluck him perforce.

• — jumpeth with the beart.] So, in Soliman and Perseda, 1599: "Wert thou my friend, thy mind would jump with mine."

STELVENS.

in good time,] A la bonne heure. Fr. STELVINS.

Card.

Card. My lord of Buckingham, if my weak oratory
Can from his mother win the duke of York,
Anon expect him here: But if she be obdurate
To mild entreaties, God in heaven forbid
We should infringe the holy privilege
Of bleffed fanctuary! not for all this land,
Would I be guilty of fo deep a fin.

Buck. You are too fenfelefs-obftinate, my lord,
Too ceremonious, and traditional?:

Weigh it but with the groffness of this age',
You break not fanctuary in feizing him.
The benefit thereof is always granted

To those whose dealings have deferv'd the place,
And those who have the wit to claim the place:
This prince hath neither claim'd it, nor deserv'd it;
And therefore, in mine opinion, cannot have it:
Then, taking him from thence, that is not there,
You break no privilege nor charter there.
Oft have I heard of fanctuary men*;

But fanctuary children, ne'er till now.

Card. My lord, you fhall o'er-rule my mind for once. Come on, lord Haftings, will you go with me?

2 Too ceremonious, and traditional:] Ceremonious for superstitious; traditional for adherent to old cuftoms. WARBURTON.

3 Weigh it but with the groffness of this age,] That is, compare the act of feizing him with the grofs and licentious practices of these times, it will not be confidered as a violation of fanctuary, for you may give fuch reasons as men are now used to admit. JOHNSON.

Dr. Warburton reads-with the greenness of bis age; and endeavours to ftrengthen his emendation by afferting, in general terms, that "the old quarto" reads-greatness; from which he confiders greenness as no great deviation. The truth is, the quarto 1598, and the two fubfequent quartos, as well as the folio, all read-groffness. Greatness is the corrupt reading of a late quarto of no authority, printed in 1622. MALONE.

Oft have I beard of fan&tuary men; &c.] Thefe arguments against the privilege of fanctuary are taken from Sir Thomas More's Life of And verily, I have King Edward the Fiftb, published by Stowe: " often heard of fanctuary men, but I never heard earft of fanctuary children," &c. STEEVENS.

More's Life of K. Edward V. was published alfo by Hall and Holinfhed, and in the Chronicle of Holinshed Shakspeare found this argument. MALONE,

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Haft. I go, my lord.

Prince. Good lords, make all the speedy hafte you may,
[Exeunt Cardinal, and HASTINGS.

Say, uncle Glofter, if our brother come,
Where shall we fojourn till our coronation ?
Glo. Where it feems beft unto your royal self.
If I may counsel you, fome day, or two,
Your highness shall repofe you at the Tower:
Then where you please, and shall be thought moft fit
For your beft health and recreation.

Prince. I do not like the Tower, of any place :-
Did Julius Cæfar build that place, my lord?

Glo. He did, my gracious lord, begin that place;
Which, fince, fucceeding ages have re-edify'd.
Prince. Is it upon record? or elfe reported
Succeffively from age to age, he built it?
Buck. Upon record, my gracious lord.
Prince. But fay, my lord, it were not register'd;
Methinks, the truth fhould live from age to age,

As 'twere retail'd to all pofterity,

Even to the general ending day.

Glo. So wife fo young, they fay, do ne'er live long",

[Afide.

Prince. What fay you, uncle?

Glo. I fay, without characters, fame lives long.

Thus, like the formal vice, Iniquity,

I moralize two meanings in one word7.

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【Afide.

Prince.

5 As 'twere retail'd to all pofterity,] Retail'd may fignify diffused, difperfed. JOHNSON.

Minfhew in his Dictionary, 1617, befides the verb retail in the mercantile fenfe, has the verb " to retaile or retell, G. renombrer, a Lat. renumerare;" and in that fenfe, I conceive, it is employed here. MALONE.

Richard ufes the word retailed in the fame fenfe in the fourth act, that he does in this place, when fpeaking to the queen of her daughter, he fays,

"To whom I will retail my conquefts won." MASON.

6 So quife so young, they say, do ne'er live long.]

Is codit ante fenem, qui Japit ante diem,

a proverbial line. STEEVENS.

7 Thus, like the formal vice, Iniquity,

I moralize two meanings in one word.] Dr. Warburton reads-like

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