Forget, forgive; conclude, and be agreed;
Our doctors fay, this is no time to bleed.
Good uncle, let this end where it begun;
We'll calm the duke of Norfolk, you your fon.

GAUNT. To be a make-peace fhall become my

age:

Throw down, my fon, the duke of Norfolk's gage. K. RICH. And, Norfolk, throw down his.

GAUNT.

When, Harry ?5 when? Obedience bids, I fhould not bid again.

K. RICH. Norfolk, throw down; we bid; there is no boot."

NOR. Myfelf I throw, dread fovereign, at thy foot: My life thou fhalt command, but not my fhame: The one my duty owes; but my fair name,

pens to be very unluckily placed here, because the context, without the inferted rhymes, will not connect at all. Read this paffage as it would ftand corrected by this rule, and we shall find, when the rhyming part of the dialogue is left out, King Richard begins with diffuading them from the duel, and, in the very next fentence, appoints the time and place of their combat."

Mr. Edwards's cenfure is rather hafty; for in the note, to which it refers, it is allowed that fome rhymes must be retained to make out the connection. STEEVENS.

* When, Harry ?] This obfolete exclamation of impatience, is likewife found in Heywood's Silver Age, 1613:

Fly into Affrick; from the mountains there,

"Chufe me two venomous ferpents: thou fhalt know

them :

"By their fell poifon and their fierce aspect.

"When, Iris ?

"Iris. I am gone."

Again, in Look about you, 1600:

66

I'll cut off thy legs,

"If thou delay thy duty. When, proud John?"

STEEVENS.

6 no boot.] That is, no advantage, no use, in delay, of refufal. JOHNSON.

(Despite of death, that lives upon my grave,)
To dark difhonour's use thou shalt not have.
I am difgrac'd, impeach'd, and baffled here;8
Pierc'd to the foul with flander's venom'd fpear;
The which no balm can cure, but his heart-blood
Which breath'd this poifon.

K. RICH.

Rage must be withstood: Give me his gage :-Lions make leopards tame.

NOR. Yea, but not change their spots:9 take but my shame,

And I refign my gage. My dear dear lord,
The pureft treasure mortal times afford,
Is-fpotlefs reputation; that away,
Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay.
A jewel in a ten-times- barr'd-up cheft
Is-a bold spirit in a loyal breast.

7

my fair name, &c.] That is, my name that lives on my grave, in defpight of death. This eafy paffage most of the editors feem to have mistaken. JOHNSON.

8

and baffled here;] Baffled in this place means treated with the greatest ignominy imaginable. So, Holinfbed, Vol. III. p. 827, and 1218, or annis 1513, and 1570, explains it: "Bafulling, fays he, is a great difgrace among the Scots, and it is ufed when a man is openlie perjured, and then they make of him an image painted, reverfed, with his heels upward, with his name, wondering, crieing, and blowing out of him with horns." Spenfer's Fairy Queen, B. V. c. iii. ft. 37; and B. VI. c. vii. ft. 27, has the word in the fame fignification. TOLLET.

The fame expreffion occurs in Twelfth-Night, fc. ult: "Alas, poor fool! how have they baffled thee?" Again, in King Henry IV. P. I. A&t. I. fc. ii:

an I do not, call me villain, and baffle me." Again, in The London Prodigal, 1605: "chil be alaffelled up and down the town, for a meffel;" i. e. for a beggar, or rather a leper. STEEVENS.

9

but not change their pots:] The old copies have-his spots. Corrected by Mr. Pope. MALONE.

Mine honour is my life; both grow in one;
Take honour from me, and my life is done:
Then, dear my liege, mine honour let me try;
In that I live, and for that will I die.

K. RICH. Coufin, throw down your gage; do you begin.

BOLING. O, God defend my foul from fuch foul
fin!

Shall I feem creft-fallen in my father's fight?
Or with pale beggar-fear impeach my height
Before this outdar'd daftard? Ere my tongue
Shall wound mine honour with fuch feeble wrong,
Or found fo bafe a parle, my teeth fhall tear
The flavish motive of recanting fear;

And fpit it bleeding in his high difgrace,
Where shame doth harbour, even in Mowbray's face.
[Exit GAUNT.

K. RICH. We were not born to fue, but to com

mand:

Which fince we cannot do to make you friends,
Be ready, as your lives fhall answer it,
At Coventry, upon Saint Lambert's day;
There fhall your fwords and lances arbitrate
The fwelling difference of your settled hate;
Since we cannot atone you,3 we shall fee
Justice defign4 the victor's chivalry.—

I

with pale beggar-fear-] This is the reading of one of the oldeft quartos, and the folio. The quartos 1608 and 1615, read-beggar-face; i. e. (as Dr. Warburton obferves,) with a face of fupplication. STEEVENS.

2 The flavish motive-] Motive, for inftrument.

3

Rather that which fear puts in motion.

WARBURTON.

JOHNSON.

— atone you,] i. e. reconcile you. So, in Cymbeline : "I was glad I did atone my countryman and you.'

STEEVENS.

Juftice defign] Thus the old copies. Mr. Pope reads

Marshal, command 5 our officers at arms
Be ready to direct these home-alarms.

SCENE II.

[Exeunt.

The fame. A Room in the Duke of Lancafter's Palace.

Enter GAUNT, and Duchefs of Glofter."

GAUNT. Alas! the part I had 7 in Glofter's blood Doth more folicit me, than your exclaims, To ftir against the butchers of his life. But fince correction lieth in those hands, Which made the fault that we cannot correct, Put we our quarrel to the will of heaven; Who when he fees the hours ripe on earth, Will rain hot vengeance on offenders' heads.

8

"Juftice decide," but without neceffity. Defigno, Lat. fignifies to mark out, to point out: "Notat defignatque oculis ad cædem unumquemque noftrum." Cicero in Catilinam. STEEVENS.

To defign in our author's time fignified to mark out. See Minfheu's DICT. in v: "To defigne or fhew by a token. Ital. Denotare. Lat. Defignare." At the end of the article the reader is referred to the words " to marke, note, demonstrate or shew." -The word is still used with this fignification in Scotland.

MALONE.

› Marshal, command &c.] The old copies-Lord Marshall; but (as Mr. Ritfon obferves,) the metre requires the omiffion I have made. It is alfo juftified by his Majefty's repeated address to the fame officer, in fcene iii. STEEVENS.

6

duchefs of Glofter.] The Duchefs of Glofter was Eleanor Bohun, widow of Duke Thomas, fon of Edward III.

WALPOLE.

7 the part I had-] That is, my relation of confanguinity to Glofter. HANMER.

Who when he fees-] The old copies erroneously read:
Who when they see.

DUCH. Finds brotherhood in thee no fharper fpur?
Hath love in thy old blood no living fire?
Edward's feven fons, whereof thyfelf art one,
Were as feven phials of his facred blood,
Or feven fair branches fpringing from one root:
Some of those seven are dried by nature's course,
Some of those branches by the deftinies cut:
But Thomas, my dear lord, my life, my Glofter,-
One phial full of Edward's facred blood,

One flourishing branch of his most royal root,-
Is crack'd, and all the precious liquor fpilt;

Is hack'd down, and his fummer leaves all faded,9
By envy's hand, and murder's bloody axe.

Ah, Gaunt! his blood was thine; that bed, that

womb,

That mettle, that felf-mould, that fashion'd thee, Made him a man; and though thou liv'ft, and

breath'ft,

Yet art thou flain in him: thou doft confent'
In fome large measure to thy father's death,
In that thou feeft thy wretched brother die,

I have reformed the text by example of a fubfequent paffage, p. 17:

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heaven's fubftitate,

"His deputy, anointed in his fight," &c. STEEVENS. 9 One phial &c.] Though all the old copies concur in the prefent regulation of the following lines, I would rather read: One phial full of Edward's facred blood

Is crack'd, and all the precious liquor spill'd;
One flourishing branch of his moft royal root

Is hack'd down, and his fummer leaves all faded. Some of the old copies in this inftance, as in many others, read vaded, a mode of spelling practised by several of our ancient writers. After all, I believe the tranfpofition to be needlefs. STEEVENS.

thou doft confent &c.] i. e. affent. So, in St. Luke's Gospel, xxiii. 51: "The fame had not confented to the counsel and deed of them." STEEVENS.