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The First Part of King Henry the Fourth.

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ACT L. SCENE I. p. 99.

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There came

Apoft from Wales, loaden with heavy news,
Whose worst was that the noble Mortimer
Leading the men of Herefordshire to fight,
Against th'irregular and wild Glendower,
Was by the rude bands of the Welshman taken,
A thousand people butchered;

Upon whofe dead corps there was fuck mifufe,
Such beaftly, fhameless transformation,
By thofe Welihwomen done, as may not be,
Without much foame, re-told, or spoken of.]

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Confirmed by Holinfhed, Henry the Fourth. "The Earl of March was taken prifoner, and "about a thousand of his people flain in the place. The shameful villany ufed by the

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without great fums of money given, for liberty to convey them away.

Id. ib. p. 100.

The Earl of Douglas is difcomfited

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Ten thoufand bold Scots, three and twenty knights,
Balk'd in their own blood, did Sir Walter fee
On Holmedon plains.] This is literally con-
firmed by Holinfbed, Henry the Fourth, p. 1135,

first edition.

Balk'd in their own blood, fhould, I think, be read baked. The blood being coagulated, and congealed upon their cloaths and bodies." The fame expreffion is ufed before, King John, A& 3. fc. 5.

"Or if that furly fpirit, melancholy, "Had baked thy blood, and made it heavy"thick."

Id. ib. p. 100. King Henry of the Prince of Wales.

K. Henry.
O could it be proved
That fome night-tripping fairy bad exchanged,
In cradle cloaths, our children where they lay,
And call'd mine Percy, bis Plantagenet;
Then would I bave his Harry, and be mine.
But let him from my thoughts.]

The first Duke of Ormond's return to a compliment of condoleance upon the death of the Earl of Offory, his eldest fon.

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My lofs (fays he) fits heavy on me, and "nothing elfe in this world could affect me "fo much; but fince I could bear the death 20 of my great and good master, King Charles

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the First, I can bear any thing else: and tho' "I am very fenfible of the lofs of fuch a son

as Offory, yet, thank God, my cafe is not "fo deplorable as that nobleman's, for I “would rather have my dead fon, than his living one.

See Mr. Cart's Hiftory of the Life of James Duke of Ormond, Vol. 2. P. 5°7′i vd

Sc. 2. p. 104.

Prince Henry, Thou didst well, for wisdom cries out in the freets, and no man regards it.] Alluding to Proverbs i. 20. viii. 1.

32. 105:2 Sc. 2. p. 105,

Now we fhall know if Gadthill have fet a match.] Qu. fet a watch or kept a good look out? Pr. Henry. Who, I rab? I a thief, not 1 by my faith.] Who, I rob? I a thief? "not I." Folios 1623, and 1632.

Id. ib. By the Lord, I'll be a traytor then, when Thou art king] By the Lord, not in Folios 1623, 1632.

Sc. 3. p. 108.

Pr. Henry. If all the year were playing holidays, To fport would be as tedious as to work, But when they feldom come, they wish'd for come.]

The holidays were about that time so numerous, that in the 28th year of Henry the Eighth's reign many of them were abrogated.

The preamble to the Act. (Bishop Gibson's Codex, p. 276.)

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2is fo exceffively growen, and yet daily more " and moresby men's devocyon, yea rather supersticyon, was like farther to increase, that the fame was, and fholde be not only prejudiciall to the commonwealk, by reason that it is occafion as well of much flouth "and ydlenefs, the very houry the of theuds,

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vacabounds, and of dyuers other unthrifty"nefs and inconveniences, as of decay of good 16 myfteries, of arts, &c. it is therefore by the kyng's hyghness auctority, &c.--de" creed, ordayned, and establish’d”.— RAW Sc. 4. p. 108.

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á King Henry. I will from henceforth rather be Had myself, alon Lin" Mighty, and to be fear'd, than my condition, Which bath been fmooth as oil, foft as young down.] Qu. Dove's down; an expreffion which he makes ufe of, Winter's Tale, A&t 4. fc. 7. Florizel &to Perdita.

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Flor. I take thy hand, this hand "As foft as dove's down, and as white as it.” Sc. 4. p. 111

K. Henry, Why, yet he doth deny bis prisoners, But with provifo, and exception,

That we at our own charge, fhall ranfome straight His brother-in-law, the foolish Mortimer.]

See this confirm'd, Echard's Hiftory of England, Vol. 1. p. 424.:

Sc. ibid. p. 113

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vinHotspurs All Audies bere I folemnly defy, "Save how to gall and pinch this Balinbroke, And that fame fword and buckler, Prince of Wales, „Ed have him poison'd with a pot of ale.] bas -Amanifest allusion to Caxton's account of King John's death. aɔɔnsinsvnoɔni bus alan

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vd He came (a), fays he, by the abby of 55 Swynebede, and ther abode two dais : and "as he fat at méte he axed a monks of the "house, how much a lofe was worth that was 30" fet before hym on the table; and the monke faid, that the lofe was worth but an half. spenny. Oh, faid the kynge, tho' here is fogtet chepe of brede now, fayde he, tho 2 and I maye liue, fuch a lofe fhall be worth xx fhelyngs or half a yere be gone."monke was for this word full fory in his herte, and thought rather he hymself would

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(a) Caxton's Tractus Temporum. Julian Notary's edition, $515, folio 62. Tradit tamen fama vulgaris quod apud monafterium de Swynnefhead obiit intoxicatus. Juraverit enim (ut afferitur) ibidem prandens, quod panem tunc obolo valentem, faceret infra annum fi viveret, 12d. valere. Quod audiens unus de converfis fratribus illius loci, venenum conficit, et regi porrexit: fed et ipfe fumpto prius viatico, fimul cum rege obiit, haufto ve

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Tha. Otterbourne, Chronic. Reg. Anglia, p. 77. Edit. a Tho. Hearne.

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