And all the fertile land within that bound "Because the King misliked their request, 66 They came themselves, and did accord with 66 mee, "Complaining how the kingdome was opprest By Henry's rule, wherefore we did agree "To pluck him down, and part the realm in "three: "The North Part theirs, Wales holy to be "mine, "The reft to reft to th' Earle of Marches "line". Sc. 4. p. 161. K. Hen. But being feldom feen, I could not ftir, &c.] By being feldome feen. Folio 1632, and Sir Thomas Hanmer. Act 4. fc. 1. p. 176. Falft. There's but a fhirt and a half in my company, and the half fhirt is two napkins tack'd together, and thrown over the fhoulders like a Herald's coat without fleeves. Jafper Mayne, in his tragi-comedy, intit❜led, The Amorous Warr, publifh'd in the year 1648, act 2. fc. 6. seems to have borrow'd this thought from Shakespeare. Callias. "I have the ftrongest company "voluntiers, of "All "All gentlemen of bedges and highways, "I do command an hospital of fifty, "But two have fhirts among them, and these "Not as fhift, or things first ordain'd to be The latter end of a fray, and beginning of a feast, "Better come at the latter end of a feast, "than the beginning of a fray." See Ray's Proverbs, entire fentences, p. 137. Mr. Philip Maffenger, in the Bashful Lover, act 3. Plays, p. 48. has it thus, "Hafte to the beginning of a feast, but to "the end of a fray." Sc. 6. p. 182. York.-I fear good Sir Michell, What with the fickness of Northumberland— And what with Owen Glendowr's abfence thence, Who with them was a rated finew, too; And comes not in, o'er rul'd by prophecies, 1 fear the power of Percy is too weak.] I think fome of our hiftorians mention Owen Glendour, as building much upon prophecies for his fuccefs. To this Phaer alludes, in his poem, intit❜led, How Owen Glendour feduced by false prophecies, took upon him to be Prince of Wales, and was by Henrie Prince of England chafed to the mountains, where he miferably died for lack of food. Anno 1401. "And Z 3 "And I, while fortune offered me fo faire, "Did what I might his honor to appaire: "And tooke on me to be the Prince of Wales, Entifte thereto by prophefies, and tales. "And for to fet us hereon more agog, "A prophet came (a vengeance take them all) "Affirming Henry to be Gogmagog, "Whom Merlin doth a mold warpe ever call, "Accurft of God, that muft be brought in "thrall By a wolfe, a dragon, and a lion strong, "Which should divide his kingdome them 66 among. "This crafty dreamer made us three fuch "beafts, "To think we were the forefaid beafts indeed : "And for that caufe our badges and our crefts "Wee fearched out, which scarcely well agreed: "Howbeit the herolds apt at fuch a need, Drew down fuch iffue from old anceftors, "As prov'd thefe enfignes to be furely ours." Act 5. fc. 1. p. 185. Worcester to King Henry. Wor. And being fed by us, you ufed us so, As that ungentle gull, the cuckowe bird Ufeth the fparrow, did opprefs our neft.] 'Tis remark'd of the cuckow, that the lays her eggs in the (a) nefts of other birds. Shakespeare (a) Semperque parit in alienis nidis, maximè Palum lium, majori ex parte fingula ova, quod nulla alia avis, raro Bina. Caufa fubjiciendi pullos putatur, quod fciat fe invifam cunctis avibus, nam minutas quoque infeftant: Shakespeare in his Antony and Cleopatra, act 2. fc. 6. has a fimilar expreffion. "But fince the cuckow builds not for him"felf." Sc. 3. p. 188. Worc. For treafon is but trufted like a fox, Who ne'er fo tame, fo cherish'd, and lock'd up, The tricks of the fox are enumerated by Dr. Derham, Phyfico-Theology, book 4. chap. 11. "There are many stories told of the fox, to "compass his prey; of which Olaus Magnus "has many fuch, as feigning the barking of 26 a dog, to catch prey near houses; feigning "himfelf dead, to catch fuch animals as come to feed upon him; laying his tail upon a wafp's neft, and then rubbing it hard against 66 66 a tree, and then eating the wafps fo kill'd; "ridding himself of fleas, by gradually going "under water with a lock of wool in his mouth, ita non fore tutam generi fuo ftirpem opinatur, ni fefellerit: quare nullum facit nidum, alioquin trepidum animal. Educat ergo fubditum adulterato fœta nido, Ille avidus ex natura, præripit cibos reliquis pullis, itaque pinguefcit, et nitidus in fe nutricem convertit: illa gaudet ejus fpecie, miraturque fefe ipfam, quod talem pepererit fuos comparatione ejus damnat, ut alienos, abfumique etiam fe inspectante patitur, donec corripiat ipfam quoque jam volandi potens. Nulla tum avium fuavitate carnis comparatur illi. Plinii Natural. Hift. lib. 10. cap. 9. De Caccyce, quæ a fuo genere interimitur. "and fo driving the fleas up, into it, and then leaving it in the water: by catching crab"fish with his tail, which he faith he himself was an eye-witnefs of." Vid. Olai Magni Hift. lib. 18. cap. 39, 40. The late ingenious Mr. Gay has beautifully defcribed the nature of the fox, in his 29th fable, intit'led, The Fox at the Point of Death. "A fox, in life's extreme decay, "Weak, fick, and faint, expiring lay; "All appetite hath left his maw, "And age difarm'd his mumbling jaw; "His num'rous race about him ftand, "To learn their dying Sire's command; "He rais'd his head with whining moan, "And thus was heard the feeble tone. "Ah fons, from evil ways depart, "My crimes lie heavy on my heart. "See, fee, the murder'd geefe appear! Why are those bleeding turkeys there? Why all around this cackling train, "Who haunt my ears for chickens slain? "The hungry foxes round them star'd, "And for the promis'd feaft prepar'd. "Where, Sir, is all this dainty cheer? "Nor turkey, goofe, nor hen is here: "These are the phantoms of your brain, "And your fons lick their lips in vain. "O gluttons, fays the drooping Sire, Restrain inordinate defire; "Your liq'rifh tafte you fhall deplore, "Does |