Lady P. Then be still. Hot. Neither; 'tis a woman's fault. Lady P. Now God help thee! Hot. To the Welsh lady's bed. Lady P. What's that? Hot.Peace! she sings. [A Welsh Song sung by LadyM. Come, Kate, I'll have your song too. Lady P. Not mine, in good sooth. Hot. Not yours, in good sooth! 'Heart, you swear like a comfit-maker's wife! Not you, in good sooth; and, As true as I live; and, As God shall mend me; and, As sure as day : And giv'st such sarcenet surety for thy oaths, As if thou never walk'dst further than Finsbury. A good mouth-filling oath; and leave in sooth, Lady P. I will not sing. Hot. 'Tis the next way to turn tailor, or be red-breast teacher.5 An the indentures be drawn, I'll away within these two hours; and so come in when ye will. [Exit. Glend. Come, come, lord Mortimer; you are as slow, As hot lord Percy is on fire to go. By this our book's drawn; we'll but seal, and then Mort. With all my heart. [Exeunt. SCENE II. London. A Room in the Palace Enter King HENRY, Prince of Wales, and Lords. K. Hen. Lords, give us leave; the Prince of Wales and I, Must have some conference: But be near at hand, [Exeunt Lords. [3] i. e. protestations as common as the letters which children learn from an alphabet of gingerbread. What we now call spice gingerbread was then called pepper gingerbread. STEEV. Such protestations as are uttered by the makers of gingerbread. MALONE. " [4] To such as have their clothes adorned with shreds of velvet, which was I suppose the finery of cockneys. JOHNS The cloaks, doublets," &c. says Stubbs in his Anatomy of Abuses, were guarded with velvet guar is, or else laced with costly lace." STEEV. STEEV, [5] The next way is the nearest way, I know not whether God will have it so, Make me believe,-that thou art only mark'd Such poor, such bare, such lewd, such mean attempts, As thou art match'd withal, and grafted to, And hold their level with thy princely heart? Which oft the ear of greatness needs must hear,- Find pardon on my true submission. K.Hen.God pardon thee!-yet let me wonder, Harry, At thy affections, which do hold a wing Quite from the flight of all thy ancestors. Thy place in council thou hast rudely lost, Which by thy younger brother is supplied ; And art almost an alien to the hearts Of all the court and princes of my blood: The hope and expectation of thy time Is ruin'd; and the soul of every man Prophetically does fore-think thy fall. Had I so lavish of my presence been, So common-hackney'd in the eyes of men, So stale and cheap to vulgar company; Opinion, that did help me to the crown, Had still kept loyal to possession ;9 [8] i. e. officious parasites. STEEV. [9] True to him that had then possession of the crown. JOHNS. And left me in reputeless banishment, That men would tell their children, This is he ; Others would say,- Where? which is Bolingbroke ? And then I stole all courtesy from heaven,' And dress'd myself in such humility, That I did pluck allegiance from men's hearts, Ne'er seen, but wonder'd at: and so my state, Had his great name profaned with their scorns; That being daily swallow'd by men's eyes, To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little Heard, not regarded; seen, but with such eyes, [1] The meaning, I apprehend, is.-I was so affable and popular that I engrossed the devotion and reverence of all men to myself, and thus defrauded heaven of its worshippers. MAL [2] Rash is heady, thoughtless: Bavin, is brushwood, which, fired, burns fiercely, but is soon out. JOHNS. [3] By carding his state, the King means that his predecessor set his consequence to hazard, played it away (s a man loses his fortune) at cards. RITSON. [4] Of every boy whose vanity incited him to try his wit against the king's. When Louis XIV was asked. why, with so much wit, he never attempted raillery, he answered, that he who practised raillery, ought to hear it in his turn, and that to stand the butt of raillery was not suitable to the dignity of a king. Scudery's Conversation. JOHNS [5] To enfeoff, is a law term, signifying to invest with possession. STEE Afford no extraordinary gaze, Such as is bent on sun-like majesty When it shines seldom in admiring eyes: But rather drowz'd, and hung their eyelids down, As cloudy men use to their adversaries; Being with his presence glutted, gorg'd, and full. With vile participation; not an eye But is a-weary of thy common sight, Save mine, which hath desir'd to see thee more ; Make blind itself with foolish tenderness. P. Hen. I shall hereafter, my thrice gracious lord, Be more myself. K. Hen. For all the world, As thou art to this hour, was Richard then And military title capital, Through all the kingdoms that acknowledge Christ? Thrice hath this Hotspur Mars in swathing clothes, This infant warrior in his enterprizes Discomfited great Douglas: ta'en him once, And shake the peace and safety of our throne. [6] He better deserves to inherit the kingdom than thyself, who art intitled by birth to that succession of which thy vices render thee unworthy. RITSON. And what say you to this? Percy, Northumberland, But wherefore do I tell these news to thee? P. Hen. Do not think so, you shall not find it so ; Which, wash'd away, shall scour my shame with it. 'Would they were multitudes; and on my head [7] Capitulate, combine, confederate, indent. To capitulate is to draw up any thing in heads or articles. Johnson's Dictionary. RITSON. [8] Dearest, is most fatal, most mischievous. JOHNS. [9] i. a. bonds, for thus the word was anciently spelt. STEEV. |