"fhall approach the lifts nearer than four foot "in distance, nor shall utter any word, speech, "voice, or countenance, whereof either the “challenger, bor defender, may take advantage,› upon pain of lofs of life, living, or goods, "to be taken at the king's good pleasure, Segar of Honour military and civil, lib.ga Selden's Duello, chap. 11,q25?

cap. 17.

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Where the fight was for life or death "None of the people might cry, fcryce out, "make any noise, or give any figne whatsa "ever. And hereunto at Halle in Swevia,” (a place appointed for campe fight) was fo great "regard taken, that the executioner stood be"fyde the judges, ready with an ax to cut off "the right hand, and left foot of the party "offending." nadw See Verfegan's Reftitution of Decay'd Intelli

gence, p. 64. ...

Id. ib. p, 15.

As gentle, and as jocund as to just,

Go I to fight.]"To jeft," in Folio 1632, and Sir Tho. Hanmer. See Mr. Warburton's reason for the alteration.

banished Hereford for ten years, and Norfolk" for ever. how yas 7910 ile 10 ft. " Mr. Ecbard ays: ( obfervable," “that this fentence was pronounced against the "Duke of Norfolk, the fame day twelve months," "that the Duke of Gloucester had been mur-"" "dered by his order at (7) Catarsi” Sc. ib. p. 18.ziɔ „ollow I z krohis2 ri quɔ Mowbray. Within my mouth you have engail'd my tongue, rigim: alqooq edi de 9000 » Doubly portculliz'd with my teeth and lips.] Mr. William Cartwright, in his tragi-comedy' intitled, The Siedge, Act 2. fc. 5. p. 123, seems to have borrow'd this thought from Shakespeare." Prufias. Lips decent, and most fit" YPhil To fweep a mangerd zemer mila ** Calli. "Which the does open like a pair of * gates, 13

Phil. “And then claps down her lips like a “portcullis.”

Act 2. fe. 1. p. 25. The Duke of York, fpeaking of King Richard,

Fork:

There are, befide.

Lafcivious meeters, to whofe venom'd found
The open ear of youth doth always liften,

(b) Hiftory of England, Vol. 1. p. 407.

(c) In ifto parliamento 1399, notum erat et, compertum de morte Ducis Glouceftria, quam dolofe, et maliciofe fuerat apud Calefiam, per Thomam Merobray, Dacem Northfalcia, capitaneum ibidem, rege jubënte fuffo, -tatus?

Vit. Ricardi Secundi, a monachis de Evrfiam, p. 161. I berlined

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Report

Report of fabions in proud Italy,

Whofe manners ftill our tardy, apifh nation, bu Limps after, in bafe, aukward imitation.

Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity (So it be new, there's no respect bow vile). That is not quickly buzz'd into his ears.]

King Richard's extravagances, with regard to drefs, were very extraordinary, as appears from the authorities cited in the (d) margin. To which Shakespeare alludes, A&t 3. sc. 6. P. 59.

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K. Rich. I'll give my jewels for a fet of "beads;

My gorgeous palace for a hermitage; My gay apparel for an alms-man's gown; "My figur'd goblers for a dish of wood;

My scepter for a palmer's walking staff; "My fubjects for a pair of carved faints, "And my large kingdom for a little grave, " &c."

(d) Vid. Chronic. Regum Anglia a Tho, Otterbourne. Edit. a Tho. Hearne, p. 199. De extorfione regis, vocaţa le plefaunce.

Fertur tamen quod inter alias hujus mundi divitias fecit fibi fieri, unam tunicam de perillis, et aliis lapidibus preciofis, et auto ex propria ordinatione factam, ad 3000 marcarum in valorem appreciatam. Vit. Ricardi Secundi a monacho quodam de Evesham. Edit. a The. Hearne, p. 156.

Confirm'd by Stow, Annals, P. 319.

"This year (1399) the king caused a garment for "himself to be made of gold, filver, and precious ftones, "to the value of 3000 marks.”

Id. ib. p. 26. John of Gaunt, speaking of Eng Land, fays:N

This land of fuch dear fouls, this dear, dear land, Is now leas'd out, (1 die pronouncing it) 40MM Like to a tenement, or pelting farm.].

By pelting farm, Shakespeare may meant a farm fubject to the rot of fheep fo call'd, because the skins, or pelts, were the greatest part of the owner's profit. As he uses the word in King Lear, A&t 2. fc. 7manchanda molna oT From low farms.c

Poor pelting villages, sheep cots and mills,
Enforce their charity.

¿baad Or by pelting, he may mean paltry so in which fenfe he often uses the word.cost me

"Contagious foes, which falling in the land, "Have every pelting river made fo proud,1 "That they have overborn their continents." Midfummer Night's Dream, Act 2. fc. 2. He uses it in another fense for chafing. Jove would never be quiet, "For every pelting, petty officer,

Ifab.

"Would ufe his heaven for thunder."

be

Measure for Meafure, Act 2. fc. 7. P. 385.
Hector. "I pray you, let us fee you in the

**We have had pelting wars, fince you refused

The Grecian camp.

Troilus and Creffida, A&t 4. fc. 9. p. 462.
Id. ib. England bound in with the triumphant
sea,

Whofe rocky shore beats back the envious
Of watry Neptune.

Siege

I fhould

I should rather imagine, Shakespeare wrote envious furge, as he often uses the expreffion. "The fea's a thief, whole liquid furge refolves "The moon into falt tears."

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Timon of Athens, Alr. Tay. p. 224. LA 5. And againgin ein anouira, Timon. "Come not to me again, but fay to

"Athens,

t. 15A « Timon has made his everlasting manfion "Upon the beeched verge of the falt flood; “Which once a day, with his embossed froth," "The turbulent furge fhall cover."

A&t 5. fc. 3. p. 236.

And exprefly in the fame fenfe with the paffage under confideration, Titus Andronicus, A& 3. fc. 3. p. 282.

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Titus. "For now I ftand as one upon a rock, "Environ'd with a wilderness of fea, “Who marks the waxing tide grow wave by ."wave,''

Expecting ever when some envious furge "Will, in his briny bowels, fwallow him."

Indeed, in his Life and Death of King John, Act 2. fc. 1. the has the following expreffion, in his description of England, which may in fome measure justify the old reading. Я

"Together with that pale, that white-faced

"fhore,

"Whofe foot fpurns back the ocean's roaring antides, apzet tides, zetteur tub pr

"And coops from other lands her iflanders; "Even till that England hedg'd in with the main,