The voice, i. e. the found of King John's name. See a parallel, in the First Part of Henry the Sixth, A& 2. p. 459.

Alarum. "Enter a foldier crying A Talbot, "a Talbot. They fly, leaving their cloaths be“hind.”

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Sol. I'll be fo bold to take what they have left, The cry of Talbot ferves me for a fword;

For I have loaded me with many spoils,
Using no other weapon but his name.

In another place of the fame play, A&t 1. fc. 9. p. 450. Talbot is called the fcare-crow of the French.

Talbot. "Here faid they is the terror of the "French,

"The fcare-crow, that affrights our children." And in that very Act, sc. 4. p. 461, says the Countefs of Auvergne,

"Is this the fcourge of France?

"Is this the Talbot, fo much fear'd abroad,

." That with his name the mothers scare their "babes ?"

The cry of Talbot, with other additional instances, will support the emendation, and fufficiently explain it. explain it. Mr. Smith.

Sc. 6. p. 470.

Enter Melun wounded. Melun. Fly noble English, you are bought and fold;

Untread the rude way of rebellion,
And welcome home again difcarded faith;
Seek out King John, and fall before his feet,
For if the French be lords of this loud day,

He

He means to recompence the pains you take,
By cutting off your heads: Thus bath he fworn, &c.]

Mr. Echard in a great measure confirms the truth of this. [Hiftory of England, Vol.1. p. 257.] "The Viscount de Melun, a French nobleman, "being in his last sickness at London, gene"rously sent to those barons that were there, "for the fecurity of the city, and declared to "them, that he was extremely griev'd for the

impending ruin that was falling upon them, "of which they had no knowledge; particu

larly Prince Lewis, with fixteen Earls and "Barons of France, had fworn, that when he "had conquer'd England, and was crown'd, he "would for ever banish all those who had fought "for him against King John, as traitors to the "realm, and destroy their pofterity; and that

they might not doubt the truth of it, he af"firm'd upon the word of a dying man, and "as he hoped for falvation, that he was one "of those that had taken that oath, yet he de"fired them to be fecret, and provide for "their fafety, as well as they could; presently "after which he expired."

Sc. 8. p. 473.

Hub. The king I fear is poison'd by a monk. Faulc. How did he take it? Who did taste to bim?

Hub. A monk I tell you, a refolved villain,

Whofe bowels fuddenly burst out.]

See this explain'd, First Part of King Henry the Fourth, Act 1. fc. 4. from Caxton's Fructus Temporum, and Speed.

Sc.

Sc. ibid.

Faulc. Pll tell thee Hubert, half my powers this night,

Paffing thefe flats, are taken by the tide ; Thefe Lincoln-washes bave devoured them, Myfelf well mounted, hardly have escaped.] Mr. Echard gives the following account [Hiftory of England, Vol. 1. p. 258.] "The "king after many motions and traverses, espe

cially in Lincolnshire, in October arrived at "Lyn-Shortly after, paffing from thence to "Lincolnshire, and marching over the great "marsh between Norfolk and that county, he " and his whole army were in danger of being "loft by the quick-fands, and the flowing in

of the tide; but all his waggons, carts, "fumpter horses, with their lading, and all "his treafure, precious veffels, facred relicks, "and his regalia, were fwallow'd up in the "mouth of the river Willand-The king got "fafe that night to Swinefbed, and there lodg'd; " but through exceffive grief for the loss of his carriages, and treafure, he fell into a fever, "which he heightned by eating peaches, and drinking new ale, or bracket."

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Sc. 9. p. 474.

Henry. The life of all his blood is touch'dCorruptibly, and his pure brain

(Which fome fuppofe the foul's fair dwelling house) Doth, by the idle comments that it makes,

Foretel the ending of mortality.]

The

The foul was fuppofed to refide in the brain, and Des Cartes, and fome of his followers, have extravagantly enough imagined the conarion, or glandula pinealis, (so call'd from its resembling a pine apple in form) to be the feat of the foul.

Scene 10.

Pr. Hen. At Worcefter must his body be in terr'd,

For fo be willed it.] The king died the 18th of October, 1216, in the 51ft year of his age, and the eighteenth of his reign, and was buried, according to his defire, in the cathedral church of (a) Worcester. See Stow, Echard, Salmon.

(a) In craftino Santi Luca Johannes Rex Angliæ in caftro de Newark obiit, et fepultus eft in ecclefia Wigornienfi inter corpora fancti Ofwaldi, et fancti Wiftani. Chronic. five Annal. Prioratus de Dunftaple, edit. a Tho, Hearne, Tom. I. p. 78.

Haft thou, according to thy oath and bond, Brought bither Henry Hereford, thy bold fon, Here to make good the boift'rous late (a) appeal, Which then our leisure would not let us bear, Against the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray.] Band, Folio 1632, and used for

bond at that (b) time.

The king here speaks to the Duke of Lancafter, as pledge and affurance for his fon's appearance. For the combatants upon the challenge, or acceptance of it, were bound to bring in fufficient pledges for furety, that they, and every of them, fhould appear, and perform the combat, betwixt the fun rifing and going down of the day, appointed for the acquittal of their (c) pledges. The day of the battle, the (a) Vid. Thoma Otterbourne Chronica Regnum Anglia, published by Mr. Hearne, p. 195.

(b) See band (which fignified at that time a bond, or obligation). Minghieu's Guide into Tongues, col. 56. (c) To this Spenfer feems to allude in the combat of the three brethren with Cambel, for Canacer, book 4. canto 3. 3.

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