Which with fuch gentle forrow be book off,..
His face ftill combating with tears and smiles,
The badges of bis grief and patience.}

- I don't find that this fuits, in all refpects, the character of King Richard the Second. Had Shakespeare furvived the reign of King Charles the First, I should have imagined that this was an encomium upon him, for his remarkable patience; who, among the feveral inftances of it, when a foldier fpit in his face, he took no more notice of this barbarous and inhuman ufage, than to wipe it off with his handkerchief. But it is remarked in the Life of King Charles, prefix'd to Reliquiæ Sacræ Carolina, p. 88. "That the divine vengeance would not "fuffer the indignity of fpitting in the king's "face to go unpunifh'd: The wretch being "not long after condemn'd for fome endea"vours to make a mutiny in the army, "was openly fhot to death in St. Paul's church"yard."

Sc. 4. This and the following scenes, relating to the Duke of York, and his fon Au merle, are exactly conformable to Hall's Chro nicle, Henry IVth, and other English Historians.

Sc. 5. p. 81. The Duke of York, when he had discovered the treason of his fon, Aumerle, against King Henry the Fourth.

York. Give me my boots.

Dutchess. Why, York, what wilt thou do? Wilt thou not bide the trespass of thine owne Have we more fons? or are we like to bave? me

Is not my teeming date drunk up with time?
And wilt thou pluck my fair fon from myne age!
And rob me of a happy mother's name?]

This reafoning fhew'd the affectionate tenderness of a mother, but not the proper regard to her king and country.

In a braver manner did that Scotch lady, the wife of Seton, the governor of Berwick, act: When that town was befieged by King Edward the Third, one of her fons was taken prifoner, and the other deliver'd as an hostage, to deliver up the town, if not reliev'd in fo many days. King Edward perceiving the Scots were preparing to relieve the befieged, infifted upon Seton's delivering it before the (g) time appointed;

(g) Etfi dies nondum adveniffet, quo die convenerat, ut oppidum dederetur, tamen cum Scotorum copias tam vicinas videret, mifit facialem ad præfectum præfidii; qui denunciaret, nifi oppidum ftatim dederet, fe animadverfurum in Thomam ejus filium: fruftra præfecto contendente diem deditionis nondum veniffe; ac fidem datam atteftante. Ibi cum caritas mifericordia, metus, et officium erga patriam variè animum paternum verfarent, propiorem terrorem Anglos admovendum ratus, crucem in loco, ad quem profpectus ex oppido patebat, erigi jubet; et duos præfecti filios, alterum obfidem, alterum bello captum, eo ad fupplicium producit. Ad hoc tam miferabile spectaculum cum patris animus fluctu aret, uxor ejus, eademque juvenum mater, virilis fortitudinis mulier, variâ oratione eum confirmavit, propofita ante oculos fide erga regem, caritate in patriam, dignitate nobliffimæ Liberos alios illis extinétis fuper

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appointed; and threatned if he refused, that both his fons fhould be hang'd within view of the town, He confulted with his wife, how he should act upon the occafion; the told him, that a breach of truft, and lofs of honour, could never be repair'd, but they were young enough, to repair the lofs of their two fons -.Sc. 7. p. 84:14

York. Villain it was, ere thy band fet it down.] “. It was villaine" Folio 1632.

--Sc. 8. p. 86,

Dutch. Ney, do not fay, ftand up,

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Put pardon first; say afterwards, ftand up.] “And afterwards.” Folio 1632.

Sc. 8. p. 87.

K. Richard.

The better fort

(As thoughts of things divine) are intermixt
With fcruples, and do fet the word itself
Against the word: as thus. Come little ones,
And then again

effe, nec dum fuam illiufque ætatem aliis gignendis præteriffe illos, etiamfi nunc mortem evaferint, brevi tamen, vel morte fortuitá, vel temporis maturitate fato fuo funâuros; at fi qua famæ macula in gente Setonia inhæferit, cam in omnem pofteritatem permanfuram, ac imme renti etiam foboli afperfuram infamiam orabat igitur, ne commodum incertum et (fi contingat) momentareum, certâ, et perpetuâ redimeret ignominia. Hâc oratione eum viri animum paullo tranquilliqrem fenfiffet, ne fupplicii fœditatem oculi perferre, non poffent cum in diverfam partem, unde confpici nequibat avertit. Buchanani Hift. Rer. Scotic. 9. 13. Jo. Major. Fol. 99.

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It is as hard to come, as for a camel omniboʻys To thread the postern of a needle's eye.] zunarod Alluding to Matt. xix. 14. Mark x. 25.1 Luke xviii. noites wit goqu jos nust

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And again I fay unto you, it is easier for "a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the king"dom of God." Bishop Latimer, in his Sermon on the Sunday call'd Septuagefima, p. 208, obferves, that camel here, eft funis nauticus; that is, a great cable of a fhip; which is more likelier, than a beaft that is called a camel. Kedos funis eft craffus quo nautæ utuntur, ad jacendas ancoras. Vid. Suide Lexic. Schol. Ariftoph. et Scapula Lexicon.

.Sc. 1o. p. 88.

K. Rich. So is it in the mufick of men's lives.

And bere have I the daintinefs of ear,

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difcordant?

Sc. 13. P. 92.

Bol. Carlife, this is your doom

Chufe out fome fecret place, fome reverend room, More than thou hast, and with it joy thy life, So as thou livst in peace, die free from strife, For though mine enemy thou haft ever been, High Sparks of honour in thee I have seen.] SoBithop Godwin fays, pr680. That the Bishop of Carlisle only was pardoned's Peradventure (fays he) in regard of his calling. For it had never been feen hitherto, that any bishop was put to death by order of

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“ law. Peradventure in fome kind of favour, 66 and admiration of his faithful conftancy,

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(for virtue will be honoured, even of her "enemies.) Peradventure alfo to this end, "that by forcing him to live intolerably, they might lay a punishment upon him more grievous than death; which they well faw f he defpifed. The pope, who feldom denied "the king any request, at he might afford "good cheap, was eafily intreated to translate, "forfooth, this good bishop from the See of "Carlisle, which yielded him honour and main

tenance, unto Samos in Greece, whence he “ knew he should not receive one penny pro "fit. He was so happy, as neither, to take "benefit of the gift of his enemy, nor to bel “hurt by the masked malice of his counterfeit "friend; disdaining as it was, to, take his "life as his gift, who took away from his "mafter both life and kingdoms. He died "fhortly after his deliverance; fo deluding "alfo the mockery of his tranflation, (whereby things fo falling out) he was nothing "damnified."

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Bolinbroke. Upon hearing of King Richard's

Lords, I proteft my foul is full of roce, That blood should sprinkle mes to make me grow; Come mourn with me, for what I do lamenty And put on fullen black, incontinent;

I'll make a voiage to the Holy Land.] >

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