SCENE III. London. Hill before the Tower. Enter, at the Gates, the Duke of GLOSTER, with his Serving-men in blue coats. GLO. I am come to furvey the Tower this day; Since Henry's death, I fear, there is convey ance. Where be these warders, that they wait not here? Open the gates; it is Glofter that calls. [Servants knock. 1. WARD. [Within ] Who is there that knocks fo imperiously? 1. SERV. It is the noble duke of Glofter. 2. WARD. [Within.] Whoe'er he be, you may not be let in. 1. SERV. Villains, answer you fo the lord protector? 1. WARD. [Within.] The Lord protect him! fo we anfwer him: We do no otherwife than we are will'd. GLO. Who willed you? or whofe will stands, but mine? 2 There's none protector of the realm, but I. — 9 there is conveyance.] Conveyance means theft. HANMER. So Piftol, in The Merry Wives of Windfor: "Convey the wife it call; Steal! foh; a fico for the phrafe." STEEVENS. * Break up the gates, ] 1 fuppofe to break up the gate is to force up the portcullis, or by the application of petards to blow up the gates themselves. STEEVENS. 1 Servants rush at the Tower gates. Enter, to the gates, WOODVILLE, the Lieutenant. WOOD. [Within.] What noife is this? what traitors have we here? GLO. Lieutenant, is it you, whofe voice I hear? Open the gates; here's Glofter, that would enter. WOOD. [Within.] Have patience, noble duke; I may not open; The cardinal of Winchefter forbids: From him I have exprefs commandement, Arrogant Winchefter? that haughty prelate, Whom Henry, our late fovereign, ne'er could brook? Thou art no friend to God, or to the king: 1. SERV. Open the gates unto the lord protector; Or we'll burft them open, if that you come not quickly. To break up in Shakspeare's age was the fame as to break open. Thus in our tranflation of the Bible: They have broken up, "and have paffed through the gate." Micah, ii. 13. So again, in St. Matthew, xxiv. 43: "He would have watched, and would not have fuffered his houfe to be broken up." WHALLEY. Some one has proposed to read Break ope the gates, but the old copy is right. So Hall, HENRY VI. folio 78, b. "The lufty Kentifhmen hopyng on more friends, brake up the gaytes of the King's Bench and Marshalfea," &c. MALONE. Enter WINCHESTER, attended by a train of Servants in tawny coats.6 WIN. How now, ambitious Humphry? what means this? 7 8 GLO. Piel'd prieft, doft thou command me to be shut out? tawny coats. It appears from the following paffage in a comedy called A Maidenhead well Loft, 1634, that a tawny coat was the dress of a fummoner, 1. e. an apparitor, an officer whose büfinefs it was to fummon offeuders to an ecclefiaftical court: Tho I was never a tawny-coat, I have play'd the fummoner's part." These are the proper attendants therefore on the Bishop of Winchefter. So, in Stowe's Chronicle, p. 822, " and by the way the bishop of London met him, attended on by a goodly company of gentlemen in tawny coats," &c. Tawny was likewife a colour worn for mourning, as well as black and was therefore the fuitable and fober habit of any perfon employed in an ecclefiaftical court: "A croune of bayes fhall that man weare "That triumphs over me; "For blacke and tawnie will I weare, "Whiche mournyng colours be." The Complaint of a Lover wearyng blacke and tawnie: by E. Ö. [i. e. the Earl of Oxford. ] Paradife of Dainty Devifes, 1576. STEEVENS. 7 How now, ambitious Humphrey? what means this?] The first folio has it—umpheir. The traces of the letters, and the word being printed in italicks, convince me, that the duke's chriftian name lurk'd under this corruption. THEOBALD. 8 Piel'd prief, Alluding to his fhaven crown. POPE. In skinner (to whofe Didionary I was directed by Mr. Edwards) I find that it means more: Pill'd or peel'd garlick, cui pellis, bell pili omnes ex morbo aliquo, præfertim è lue venerea, defluxerunt. In Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair, the following inftance occurs: "I'll fee them p-'d first, and pil'd and double pil'd." STEEVENS. In Weever's Funeral Monuments, p. 364,' Robert Baldocke, bishop of London, is called a peel'd prieft, pilide clerke feemingly in al |