"Does not the hound betray our pace, Though we, like harmless sheep fhould feed, Honeft in thought, in word, in deed; "Whatever hen-rooft is decreas'd, "We fhall be thought to fhare the feast. "The change shall never be believ'd, "A loft good-name is ne'er retriev❜d. "Nay, then replies the feeble fox, "(But hark! I hear a hen that clocks) "Go, but be mod'rate in your food, "A chicken too might do me good. Sc. 5. p. 191. Hotfpur. Now Efperanza? Percy, and fet on.] "Efperance. Folio 1632. Hall in his Chronicle, folio 22d, fays, "Then fuddenly the trumpets blew ; the King's parte cried Saint George upon them. "The "The adverfaries cried, Efperaunce: and fo, furiously the armies joyned." Sc. 6. p. 192. Hotspur. The King has many marching in bis coat.] 'Tis obferved by several of our historians, that at the battle of Shrewsbury, Percy and Douglas kill'd feveral in the King's coat-armour. See Hall's Chronicle, 22 b. At the battle of Floddon-Field, where King James the Fourth loft his life, 'tis obferved by the Scotch biftorians, that many with the like arms, and with the like guards with the King, were kill'd every one of whom was taken for the King. Buchanan Rer, Scoticar. Hift. lib. 13. cap. 40. Drummond's Hiftory of Scotland, 8vo. p. 228. .Sc. 10. p. 197. Falft. Sblood, 'twas time to counterfeit, or that hot termagant Scot had paid me fcat and lot.] "Scot and let, anno. 33. Henry VIIIth, chap. 19. fignifieth a customary contribution laid upon all fubjects, according to their ability. Hoveden Anlote Afcoto, In Principio Henrici 2. Reliqua vide in Tribute, Minghieu's Guide into the Tongues, col. 649. Sc. 11. p. 198. P. Henry. Why, Percy I kill'd my felf, andfaw thee dead. Falft. Did'ft thou? Lord Lord, how the world is given to lying! I grant I was down, and out of breath, and fo was he; but we rofe both at an uftant, and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock clock-I take't on my death 1 gave this wound in his thigh, &c.] Falstaff carries his affurance in this inftance, much further, than Briton Villandry, a favourite of King Francis the First, did, in his answer to the Duke of Guise. “They 66 τα were saying, that at a certain battle of King "Francis against the Emperour Charles the "Fifth, Briton arm'd capapé to the teeth, and "mounted like Saint George, yet sneak'd off, "and plaid leaft in fight during the engagement: blood and oons, anfwer'd Briton, I was "there and can prove it eafily, nay even where you, my Lord, dared not have been. The "Duke began to refent this as too rafh and faucy; but Briton quickly appeafed him, and "fet them all a laughing; I gad, my Lord, quoth he, I kept out of harms way, I was all "the while with your page Jack, fkulking in a certain place, where you dared not hide ❝ head, as I did.” tr your The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth. ACT I. SCENE 3. p. 209. Sounds ever after, as a fullen bell AND his tongue Folio 1632. Remembred, tolling a departed friend.] and probably right, as he ufes the fame word in Macbeth, act 5. fc. 8. Siward fpeaking of his fon's death. "Had I as many fons, as I have hairs, "I would not wifh them to a fairer death, and so his knell is knoll'd." The word is, I believe, ftill ufed for tell'd, in the Northern counties of England. Sc. 4. p. 213. Falft. I was never mann'd with an agot till now: but I will set you neither in gold, nor filver; but in vile apparrel, and fend you back again to your master for a jewel: the juvenal, the Prince your master.] It should be read, in all probability, the juvenile, &c. Shakespeare uses the word juvenal, Midfummer Night's Dream, act 3. fc. 2. edit. folio 1632. Thift. "Moft valiant Pyramus, moft lillywhite of hue, of colour like the red rofe of "triumphant bryer, most brisk juvenal, and "eke most lovely Jew." Altered Altered in the modern editions, and in Loves Labour's loft. Juvenile, act 1. fc. 3. P. 200. "How canft thou part fadness and melancholy, my tender juvenile?" And again, act 3. fc. 1. p. 216. "A most acute juvenile, voluble, and free " of grace." Chaucer, in Troilus and Crefeide, fpeaking of Hedor, ufes the word juvenal in the fame fenfe. L. 197. "O juvenal Lorde, trewe is thy fentence. Sc. ib. p. 214. The whorfon Smooth pates.] "Horfen. Folio 1623, and 1632, as before. Sc. 5. p. 215. Page. Here comes the nobleman, who committed the Prince, for ftriking him about Bardolph.] One of our late hiftorians gives the following account of the Prince's behaviour. Another time, when one of his compa"nions was arraign'd for felony, before the *Lord Chief Juftice, [Gafcoin,] the Prince 66 .66 went to the King's Bench Bar, and offer'd to take away the prisoner by force, but being "oppofed by the Lord Chief Justice, he stept upon the bench, and ftruck the Chief Justice upon the face, who fate ftill undaunted, and boldly faid to the Prince: Sir, remember "who, and what you are? The feat which I "bere poffefs, is not mine, but your father's, to "whom, and his laws you owe a double obedi .66 66 ence: if bis Majesty's laws be thus violated by 66 you, |