By violent swiftness, that which we run at, More stronger to direct you than yourself; Or but allay, the fire of passion.+ BUCK. Sir, I am thankful to you; and I'll go along To be corrupt and treasonous. NOR. Say not, treasonous. BUCK. To the king I'll say't; and make my vouch as strong As shore of rock. Attend. This holy fox, 7 * If with the fap of reason you would quench, Or but allay, the fire of passion.] So, in Hamlet: Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper " Sprinkle cool patience." STEEVENS. $fincere motions,)) Honest indignation; warmth of integrity. Perhaps name not, should be blame not. 6 Whom from the flow of gall I blame not. JOHNSON. for he is equal ravenous,] Equal for equally. Shakspeare frequently uses adjectives adverbially. See King John, Vol. VIII. p. 176, n. 6. MALONE. Infecting one another,] This is very fatirical. His mind he Only to show his pomp as well in France Did break i' the rinfing. NOR. 'Faith, and so it did. Buck. Pray, give me favour, fir. This cunning cardinal The articles o' the combination drew, As give a crutch to the dead: But our count-car dinal 9 Has done this, and 'tis well; for worthy Wolfey, represents as highly corrupt; and yet he supposes the contagion of the place of first minifter as adding an infection to it. WARBURTON. 8suggests the king our master-] Suggests, for excites. So, in King Richard II : " WARBURTON. Suggest his foon-believing adversaries." STEEVENS. 9 - our count-cardinal-] Wolfey is afterwards called king cardinal. Mr. Pope and the subsequent editors read-court-cardinal. MALONE. 2 he privily-] He, which is not in the original copy, was added by the editor of the second folio. MALONE. Deals with our cardinal; and, as I trow, - NOR. I am forry To hear this of him; and could wish, he were Something mistaken in't.+ BUCK. No, not a fyllable; I do pronounce him in that very shape, He shall appear in proof. Enter BRANDON; a Sergeant at arms before him, and two or three of the guard. BRAN. Your office, sergeant; execute it. SERG. My lord the duke of Buckingham, and earl Sir, Does buy and fell his honour as he pleases,] This was a pro verbial expression. See King Richard III. Act V. fc. iii. The fame phrafe occurs also in King Henry VI. Part I: from bought and fold lord Talbot." MALONE. Again, in The Comedy of Errors: "It would make a man as mad as a buck, to be so bought and fold." STEEVENS. Something mistaken in't.] That is, that he were something different from what he is taken or supposed by you to be. MALONE. Arrest thee of high treason, in the name BUCK. The net has fall'n upon me; BRAN. Lo you, my lord, I am forry To fee you ta'en from liberty, to look on The business present: 'Tis his highness' pleasure, You shall to the Tower. BUCK. It will help me nothing, To plead mine innocence; for that die is on me, Which makes my whitest part black. The will of heaven Be done in this and all things!-I obey.- BRAN. Nay, he must bear you company :-The [To ABERGAVENNY. king Is pleas'd, you shall to the Tower, till you know How he determines further. ÁBER. As the duke faid, The will of heaven be done, and the king's plea fure By me obey'd. BRAN. Here is a warrant from The king, to attach lord Montacute; " and the bodies 5-practice,] i. e. unfair fstratagem. So, in Othello, Act V: "Fallen in the practice of a cursed slave." And in this play, Surry, speaking of Wolfey, says: "How came his practices to light?" REED. 6 I am Sorry To see you ta'en from liberty, to look on The business present:] I am forry that I am obliged to be present and an eye-witness of your loss of liberty. JOHNSON. 7 lord Montacute;] This was Henry Pole, grandfon to George Duke of Clarence, and eldest brother to Cardinal Pole. Of the duke's confeffor, John de la Court, BUCK. So, fo; These are the limbs of the plot: No more, I hope. BRAN. A monk o' the Chartreux. BUCK. BRAN. O, Nicholas Hopkins?* He. BUCK. My furveyor is false; the o'er-great car dinal Hath show'd him gold: my life is spann'd already:* I am the shadow of poor Buckingham; He had married the Lord Abergavenny's daughter. He was restored to favour at this juncture, but was afterwards executed for another treason in this reign. REED. 8 John de la Court,] The name of this monk of the Chartreux was John de la Car, alias de la Court. See Holinshed, p. 863. STEEVENS. 9 One Gilbert Peck, his chancellor,) The old copies have ithis counsellor; but I, from the authorities of Hall and Holinshed, changed it to chancellor. And our poet himself, in the beginning of the second act, vouches for this correction: "At which, appear'd against him his surveyor, I believe [in the former instance) the author wrote-And Gilbert &c. MALONE. 2 Nicholas Hopkins?) The old copy has-Michael Hopkins. Mr. Theobald made the emendation, conformably to the Chronicle: "Nicholas Hopkins, a monk of an house of the Chartreux order, befide Bristow, called Henton." In the MS. Nich. only was probably set down, and mistaken for Mich. MALONE. 3 my life is spann'd already:] To span is to gripe, or inclofe in the hand; to span is also to measure by the palm and fingers. The meaning, therefore, may either be, that hold is taken of my life, my life is in the gripe of my enemies; or, that my time is meaJured, the length of my life is now determined. JOHNSON. Man's life in Scripture is faid to be but a span long. Probably therefore it means, when 'tis spann'd 'tis ended. REED. |