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":{ Dutch. Accurfed and unquiet wrangling days! *་ Clean over-blown, themselves, the conquerors, 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: 16 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 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 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, God keep you from them, and from fuch falfe friends! none. Glo. My lord, the mayor of London comes to greet you. May. God bless your grace with health and happy 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, Buck. Fie! what an indirect and peevish course If the deny,-lord Haftings, go with him, • — 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 Buck. You are too fenfelefs-obftinate, my lord, Weigh it but with the groffness of this age', To those whose dealings have deferv'd the place, 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, L14 Haf Haft. I go, my lord. Prince. Good lords, make all the speedy hafte you may, Say, uncle Glofter, if our brother come, Prince. I do not like the Tower, of any place :- Glo. He did, my gracious lord, begin that place; 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. } 【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 the H |