"down to the calf of his leg, with a long broad. "ax in his hand, was pedes gravis armaturæ, "(and was inftead of the footman that now "weareth the corflet), before the corflet was "used, or almost invented."

Sc. xi.

Iden. I feek not to wax great by others winning, Or gather wealth I care not with what envy ; Sufficeth, that I have maintains my ftate, And fends the poor well-pleafed from my gate.] See Luke i. 53.

Sc. xi. p. 95.

Iden. Is't Cade that I have flain, &c.]

"Cade was flain by Mr. Alexander Eden, a "Kentish gentleman, in his garden, at Hothfield "in Suffex." Holinfhed, p. 635.

Chronicle, p. 614.

Grafton's

Act v. fc. i. p. 96. York to Buckingham. · York. Scarce can I fpeak, my choler is fo great. Ob! I could bew up rocks, and fight with flint, I am fa angry at these abject terms. And now, like Ajax Telamonius,

On fheep or oxen could I spend my fury.]

Alluding to Ajax's encountering a flock of fheep, in his madness, taking them for the Grecian chiefs who had awarded Achilles's armour (to which he laid claim) to Ulyffes.

Vid. Horatii Serm. lib. ii. eclog. iii. 193, &c. edit. Bentl. Ovidii Metamorph. 13. 3. 80, &c.

Thus

Thus humourously described by Cleveland, Works, 1677, p. 76.

"Stout Ajax, with his anger-codled brain, "Killing a sheep, thought Agamemnon slain.” And Butler, Hudibras, part 1. canto ii. 309, &c.

"With greater troops of fheep he'd fought, "Than Ajax, or bold Don Quixote."

Sc. iii.

K. Henry. Ay, Clifford, Bedlam, and ambitious bumour,

Makes him oppofe himself against bis King.] The word Bedlam not ufed in the reign of King Henry VI. : nor was Bethlehem hofpital (vulgarly called Bedlam) converted into a house or hospital for lunatics, till the reign of King Henry VIII. who gave it to the city of London for that purpose.

See Seymour's Survey of London, book 1. p. 186.

Third Part of KING HENRY VI.

ACT I. SCENE I. P. 112.

Edw.L

Ord Stafford's father, Duke of Bucking
ham,

Is either flain, or wounded dangerously.]
"Or wounded dangerous." Folio 1632.

VOL. II.

D

Sc. i.

Sc. i. p. 113.

War. Neither the King, nor be that loves him

beft,

The proudest he that holds up Lancaster,
Dares ftir a wing, if Warwick shakes his bells.
I'll plant Plantagenet, root him up who dare.]

Henry II. was the firft of the line of Plantagenet; so called from his father Geoffry Plantagenet, who was Duke of Anjou, and married Maud, fole daughter of Maud the Empress, fole daughter of Henry I. firnamed Plantagenet, from planta genifta, or broom plant.

Sc. ii.

Enter King Henry, Clifford, Northumberland, Weftmoreland, Exeter, and others. "Exeter, and the reft." Folio 1632.

Sc. ib. p. 114.

No, Warwick, I remember it to my grief.]

"Yes, Warwick, &c." Folio 1632. Sir Tho. Hanmer.

-Sc. iv. p. 122. Enter Messenger.] "Enter Gabriel." Folio 1632.

Sc. v. p. 124.

Cliff. Plantagenet, I come, Plantagenet, And this thy fon's blood, claving to my blade, Shall ruft upon my weapon, &c.]

"Cleaving to my blade." Folio 1632. Sir Tho Hanmer, and Mr. Theobald.

Sc. vi. P. 126.

Cliff. I will not bandy with thee word for

word,

But

But buckle with thee blows, twice two for one.] "Buckler with thee." Folio 1632.

Sc. vi. p. 128. Duke of York to the Queen. York. Hath that poor monarch taught thee to infult?

It needs not, nor it boots thee not, poor Queen,
Unless the adage must be verify'd,

That beggars mounted, ride their borse to death.]

The adage, Set a beggar on horse-back, and he'll ride a gallop.

Afperius nihil eft humili, cum furgit in altum. Claudian. See Ray's Proverbial Sentences.

Sc. vi. p. 129.

York. Thefe tears are my feet Rutland's obfequies,

And ev'ry drop cries vengeance for his death "Gainst thee, fell Clifford, and thee, falfe French woman.]

"The Earl of Rutland, the Duke of York's fon, after the encounter on Wakefield Green, 66 (where the Duke was himself killed in the year 1460), being about twelve years of age, "fled with his governor; but being overtaken

by the Lord Clifford, was ftabbed by him to "the heart, to revenge the death of his father, "who was killed at the battle of Saint Albans. "Many more did this Lord kill that day with "his own hand in cold blood; from whence he 66 was afterwards called the Butcher (a). He

cut

(a) Ubi [viz. Pountfrett] per confilium dominorum decollaverunt corpora mortua ducis Eborum, &c. pofueruntque ca

"cut off the head of the Duke of York, and fix"ing it on a fpear, crowned it with a paper"crown, and prefented it to the Queen, who "ordered it to be fet up upon the walls of York. "So that the Duke's lamentation over his fon, " and the fixing a paper-crown upon his head "whileft alive, are both mistakes." See Holinfbed's Chronicle, p. 659. Grafton's Chronicle, p. 645. Echard's Hiftory of England, vol. 1. P. 515.

Act ii. fc. i. p. 133. Richard Duke of Gloucefter to his brother Edward Duke of York. Rich. Nay, if thou be that princely eagle's bird, Shew thy defcent, by gazing 'gainst the fun.]

It is obferved by naturalifts, that the eagle holds up its brood, as foon as hatch'd, to the fun, to prove whether they are genuine or not.

Haliæetus tantum implumes etiamnum pullos fuos percutiens, fubinde cogit adverfus intueri folis radios, et fi conniventem, humectantemque animadvertit, præcipitat e nido, velut adulterinum, atque degenerens illum, cujus acies firma contra fteterit, educat. Pliny, Natural. Hift. lib. x. cap. 3. lib. xxix. cap. 6.

To this Chaucer alludes, Affemblie of Foules 330, &c.

"There mighten men the royal egal find, "That with his fharp look perfith the fonne."

piti eorum fuper diverfas partes Eboraci. Caput quoque du cis Eboraci in defpectu coronaverunt carta: Willhelmi Wyrcefler, Annal. Ragum Angliæ. Edit. a Tho. Hearne, F. 485.

And