[King Richard ftarts out of his dream. "The fame went, (fays Hall, Chronicle, 3d year "of King Richard HI.), That he had the fame night a dreadful and a terrible dreame; for

yt femed to hymn, beynge a flepe, that he fawe "diuerfe ymages lyke terrible deuilles, which "pulled and haled him, not fufferynge hym to "take any quyet or reft. The whiche ftraunge "vifion not fo fodenly strake his heart with a

fodeyne feare, but it ftuffed his hed, and "troubled hys mynde with many dreadful and bufy imaginacions; for incontynent after, his "heart being almost damped, he prognosticated "before the doubtful chaunce of the battaile to "come."

Norf. A good direction, warlike Sovereign. This paper found I on my tent this morning.

[Giving a fcrowl.

Jacky of Norfolk, be not fo bold,

For Dicken, thy mafter is bought and fold.]

See Hall's Chronicle, 3d year of King Richard III. and our other historians.

Sc. vii., p. 324.

K. Rich

And who doth lead them, but a paltry fellow,
Long kept at Bretagne, at his mother's coft?
A milk-fop, one that never in his life

Felt fo much cold, as over fhoes in fnow, &c.]

This seems to be borrowed from the Tragical Life and Death of King Richard III. by Richard Nicolls.

"First, with our foemens captain to begin, "A weak Welch milk-fop, one that I do know "Was ne'er before for fight in battle feene, "Not able of himfelf, as guide, to goe "In marshal discipline against his foe. "And for his company, a fort they be, "Of rafcal French, and British runawaies."

The Life of HENRY VIII.

ACT I. SCENE I. P. 343.

Duke of Buckingham to the Duke of Norfolk. N untimely ague

Buck.

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Staid me a prifoner in my chamber, when Thofe funs of glory, thofe two lights of men, Met in the vale of Arde.

Norf. 'Twixt Guynes and Arde:

I was then prefent, faw them falute on borse-back.]

This interview betwixt Henry VIII. and Francis I. was on the 4th of June 1520. See a pompous defcription of it, Hall's Chronicle, the 12th year of King Henry VIII. Agreeable to ShakeSpeare's account, and Holinfhed's Henry VIII. p. 858, &c. Echard's Hiftory of England, vol. 1. p. 639.

Id. ib. p. 345.

Buck. Who did guide,

I

I mean, who fet the body and the limbs

Of this great sport together, as you guess?

One fure, [certes, folio 1632.], that promifes no element in fuch a business.

Norf. All this was order'd by the good difcre

tion

Of the right rev'rend the Cardinal of York.]

"In this time, (fays Hall, Chronicle, the 12th yere of Kyng Henry VIII), the reverend fa"ther, Lorde Thomas Wolfey, Cardinal, and

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Legate a Latere, as the Kynge's high ambas"fador, rode with noble repaire of lordes, gen"tlemen, and prelates, to the towne of Arde, "to the French courte; whereof the French

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Kynge, the fame Lord Cardinal was highly en"tertained. Of the nobleness of this Cardinal, "the Frenchmen made bokes, fhewyng the "tryumphant doyngs of the cardinal's royaltie, "the nomber of the gentlemen, knights, and "lordes, all in crimofyn veluet, with the mar"uellous nomber of chaines of gold, the great

horfe, mules, courfers, and carriages, that "there were whiche went before the cardinal's

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comyng into Arde, with fumpters, and co"fers; of his great croffes, and pillers borne, "the pillow bere, or cace broudered, the twoo "mantelles, with other the ceremoniall offices; "with great and honourable nomber of bi

fhoppes geuying their attendaunce; the mighty " and great nomber of fervauntes, as yomen, groomes, all clothed in fcarlet; whofo redeth

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"of

"of the French boke, fhall find wonderfully fet "forthe.

"When the Lorde Cardinal had fojourned at "Arde, in the French court, by the fpace of "twoo daies, and the high and urgent princely "caufes in counfail declared, the Lord Cardinall "took his leaue of the French King, and re"paired unto the caftle of Guyfies."

See likewife Holinfbed's Henry VIII. p. 585. Strype's Memorials Ecclefiaftical, vol. 1. p. 25. Id. ib. Buckingham of Wolfey.

Buck. The devil fpeed him; no man's pye is freed From his ambitious finger.]

i. e. He is a bufy, medling perfon. To have a finger i' th' pye, is a proverbial phrase.

See Ray's Proverbs, 2d edit. p. 244.
Id. ib.
wonder,

That fuch a ketch can with his very bulk
Take up the rays of the beneficial fan]

Qu. Hulk, which is a great, broad fhip, chiefly used for setting mafts into ships.

Ketch, a small veffel, having only a mizžen and main mast. He, in another place, Troilus and Creffida, act iv. calls Achilles the great bulk.

Id. ib. p. 346.

Yet furely, Sir,

There's in him stuff that puts him to thefe ends.]

Id. ib. p. 347.

Folios 1623, and 1632.

Muft fetch in him, he papers.]

"Muft fetch him in." Folios 1623, 1632.

Ib.

Ib. p. 347.

Aber. I do know

Kinfmen of mine, three at the leaft, that have
By this fo ficken'd their eftates, that never
They shall abound as formerly.

Buck. O, many

Have broke their backs, with laying mannors on 'em For this great journey.]

Hall defcribes this pompous appearance (12th year of King Henry VIII.) in the following man

ner.

"He were much wife that could haue tolde, ἐσ or fhewed, of the riches of apparele that were "emongst the lordes and gentlemen of England, "cloth of golde, cloth of filver, velvets, tin"fins, fattins embroidered, and crimson fattins; "the marvelous threafures of golde that was "worne in chaynes and bauderykes, (belts), fo

weigtie, fome in colers of S. greate, that the ἐσ gold was innumerable, in my deming, to be "fummed, of all noblemen, gentlemen, fquiers, and knights; and every honeft officer of the Kynge was richly apparled, and had chaynes "of golde great, and maruellous wrought, " &c."

See his description of the appearance of the two kings. Id. ib.

Sc. ii. p. 349. Buckingham of Wolfey. This butcher's cur is venom-mouth'd, and I Have not the power to muzzle bim.]

Cardinal Wolfey was generally thought to be