I was a pack-horfe in his great affairs; I To royalize his blood, I fpilt mine own. 2. Mar. Ay, and much better blood than his, or thine. Glo. In all which time, you, and your hufband Grey, Were factious for the house of Lancafter ; And, Rivers, fo were you :- Was not your husband What you have been ere now, and what you are; 2. Mar. A murd'rous villain, and fo ftill thou art. Glo. Poor Clarence did forfake his father Warwick, Ay, and forfwore himfelf,-Which Jefu pardon!9. Mar. Which God revenge! Glo. To fight on Edward's party, for the crown; And, for his meed, poor lord, he is mew'd up: I would to God, my heart were flint, like Edward's, Or Edward's foft and pitiful, like mine; I am too childish-foolish for this world. 2. Mar. Hie thee to hell for fhame, and leave this world, Thou cacodæmon! there thy kingdom is. Riv. My lord of Glofter, in those busy days, you -royalize,] i. e. to make royal. So, in Claudius Tiberius Nero, 1607: "Who means to-morrow for to royalize "The triumphs &c." STEEVENS. 2 Was not your husband, In Margaret's battle, 1 It is faid in Henry VI. that he died in quarrel of the house of York. JOHNSON. Glo. Gle. If I fhould be ?-I had rather be a pedlar: Far be it from my heart, the thought thereof! Queen. As little joy, my lord, as you fuppofe You should enjoy, were you this country's king; As little joy you may fuppofe in me, That I enjoy, being the queen thereof. 2. Mar. A little joy enjoys the queen thereof; For I am fhe, and altogether joylefs. I can no longer hold me patient. [She advances. Hear me, you wrangling pirates, that fall out In fharing that which you have pill'd from me 4: Which of you trembles not, that looks on me? If not, that, I being queen, you bow like fubjects; Yet that, by you depos'd, you quake like rebels? Ah, gentle villain, do not turn away! 5 Glo. Foul wrinkled witch, what mak'st thou in my fight? 2. Mar. But repetition of what thou hast marr'd; That will I make, before I let thee go. Glo. Wert thou not banished, on pain of death? 2. Mar. I was; but I do find more pain in ba nishment, Than death can yield me here by my abode. Hear me, you wrangling pirates, &c.] This fcene of Marga ret's imprecations is fine and artful. She prepares the audience, like another Caffandra, for the following tragic revolutions. WARBURTON. which you have pill'd from me :] To pill is to pillage. So, in the Martyr'd Soldier, by Shirley, 1638: "He has not pill'd the rich, nor flay'd the poor." Ah, gentle villain, STEEVENS. ] We fhould read: WARBURTON. ungentle villain,- The meaning of gentle is not, as the commentator imagines, tender or courteous, but high-born. An oppofition is meant between that and villain, which means at once a wicked and a lowborn wretch. So before: Since ev'ry Jack is made a gentleman, There's many a gentle perfon made a Jack. Jonsson. And And thou, a kingdom;-all of you, allegiance: Glo. The curfe my noble father laid on thee,- Dorf. No man but prophefy'd revenge for it. Ready to catch each other by the throat, Can curfes pierce the clouds, and enter heaven ?———— curfes! Though not by war, 7 by furfeit die your king, 6 Q.Mar. So juft is God, &c.] This line fhould be given to Edward IVth's queen. WARBURTON. -by furfeit die your king!] Alluding to his luxurious life. JOHNSON. Thy Thyfelf a queen, for me that was a queen, Deck'd in thy rights, as thou art ftall'd in mine! Glo. Have done thy charm, thou hateful wither'd hag. 2. Mar. And leave out thee? ftay, dog, for thou fhalt hear me. If heaven have any grievous plague in ftore, On thee, the troubler of the poor world's peace! Thou 8 -elvish-mark'd] The common people in Scotland (as I learn from Kelly's Proverbs) have still an averfion to those who have any natural defect or redundancy, as thinking them mark'd out for mischief. STEEVENS. rooting bog!] The expreffion is fine, alluding (in memory of her young fon) to the ravage which hogs make, with the finest flowers, in gardens; and intimating that Elizabeth was to expect no other treatment for her fons. WARBURTON. She calls him bog, as an appellation more contemptuous than bear, Thou that waft feal'd in thy nativity Glo. boar, as he is elfewhere termed from his enfigns armorial. There is no fuch heap of allufion as the commentator imagines. JOHNSON. In the Mirror for Magifirates (a book already quoted) is the following Complaint of Collingbourne, who was cruelly executed for making a rime. For where I meant the king by name of hog, I only alluded to his badge the bore: To Lovel's name I added more,- As cat and rat, the half-names of the reft, That Lovel was once the common name of a dog, may be likewife known from a paffage in The Hiflorie of Jacob and Efau, an interlude, 1568: "Then come on at once, take my quiver and my The rhime for which Collingbourne fuffered, was: : "Rule all England under a hog." STEEVENS. bowe; The flave of nature,] The expreffion is ftrong and noble, and alludes to the ancient cuftom of masters branding their profligate flaves: by which it is infinuated that his misshapen perfon was the mark that nature had fet upon him to ftigmatize his ill conditions. Shakespeare expreffes the fame thought in The Comedy of Errors: He is deformed, crooked, &c. "Stigmatical in making, But as the fpeaker rifes in her refentment, the expreffes this contemptuous thought much more openly, and condemns him to a ftill worfe ftate of flavery: "Sin, death, and hell, have fet their marks on him." Only, in the first line, her mention of his moral condition infi. nuates her reflections on his deformity: and, in the laft, her mention of his deformity infinuates her reflections on his moral condition: And thus he has taught her to fcold in all the elegance of figure. WARBURTON. 2 Thou rag of honour; &c.] We should certainly read: Thou wrack of honour |