And all the fertile land within that bound "Because the King mifliked their request, They came themfelves, and did accord with mee, "Complaining how the kingdome was oppreft By Henry's rule, wherefore we did agree "To pluck him down, and part the realm in "three: "The North Part theirs, Wales holy to be "mine, "The reft to reft to th' Earle of Marches "line". Sc. 4. p. 161. K. Hen. But being seldom seen, I could not ftir, &c.] By being feldome feen. Folio 1632, and Sir Thomas Hanmer. Act 4. fc. 1. p. 176.. There's but a fhirt and a half in my company, and the half fhirt is two napkins tack'd together, and thrown over the boulders like a Herald's coat without fleeves. 25 Jasper Mayne, in his tragi-comedy, intitled, The Amorous Warr, publifh'd in the year 1648, *act 2. fc.6. feems to have borrow'd this thought from Shakespeare. Callias "I have the strongest company of "voluntiers, H ". All "All gentlemen of hedges and highways, "I do command an hofpital of fitty, "But two have fhirts among them, and thefe CC worn "Not as fhift, or things firft ordain'd to be "Made clean, but as perpetual garments, "Not to be put off till they do fortake "Their wearers voluntarily, &c.” Sc. 3. p. 178. Falft. Well. The latter end of a fray, and beginning of a feaft, Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest.] Here the proverb is reverst. "Better come at the latter end of a feaft, than the beginning of a fray." See Ray's Proverbs, entire fentences, p. 137. Mr. Philip Mallenger, in the Bashful Lover, act 3. Plays, p. 48. has it thus, "Hafte to the beginning of a feast, but to "the end of a fray.' Sc. 6. p. 182. Pork.-I fear good Sir Michell, What with the fickness of Northumberland →→→ And what with Owen Glendowr's abfence thence, Who with them was a rated finew, too; And comes not in, o'er rul'd by prophecies, I fear the power of Percy is too weak.] I think fome of our hiftorians mention Owen Glendour, as building much upon prophecies for his fuccefs. To this Phaer alludes, in his poem, intitled, How Owen Glendour feduced by falfe prophecies, took upon him to be Prince of Wales, and was by Henrie Prince of England chafed to the mountains, where be miferably died for lack of food. Anno 1401. Z 3 ORSION " And And I, while fortune offered me fo faire, "Did what I might his honor to appaire; And tooke on me to be the Prince of Wales, Entifte thereto by propbefies, and tales."And for to fet us hereon more agog, "A prophet came (a vengeance take them all) "Affirming Henry to be Gogmagog, "Whom Merlin doth a mold warpe ever call, "Accurft of God, that muft be brought in "thrall By a wolfe, a dragon, and a lion ftrong, "Which fhould divide his kingdome them among. "This crafty dreamer made us three fuch "beafts, L To think we were the forefaid beafts indeed : And for that caufe our badges and our crefts Wee fearched out, which fcarcely well agreed: "Howbeit the herolds apt at fuch a need, Drew down fuch iffue from old ancestors, "As prov'd thefe enfignes to be furely ours." A&t 5. fc. 1. p. 185. Worcester to King Henry. Wor. And being fed by us, you used us fo, As that ungentle gull, the cuckowe bird Ufeth the fparrow, did opprefs our neft.] 'Tis remark'd of the cuckow, that the lays her eggs in the (a) nefts of other birds. Shakespeare (a) Semperque parit in alienis nidis, maximè Palumbium, majori ex parte fingula ova, quod nulla alia avis, raro Bina. Caufa fubjiciendi pullos putatur, quod fciat fe invifam cunétis avibus, nam minutas quoque infeftant: Shakespeare in his Antony and Cleopatra, act 2. fc. 6. has a fimilar expreffion. "But fince the cuckow builds not for him "felf." Sc. 3. p. 188. Our Word. For treafon is but trufted like a fox, Who ne'er fo tame, fo cherish'd, and lock'd up, made of The tricks of the fox are enumerated by Dr.. Derham, Phyfico-Theology, book 4. chap. 11. Fleet There are many ftories told of the fox, to compafs his prey; of which Olaus Magnus “has many fuch, as feigning the barking of a dog, to catch prey near houses; feigning "himself dead, to catch fuch animals as come "to feed upon him; laying his tail upon a eitar wafp's neft, and then rubbing it hard againft ha '' a tree, and then eating the wafps fo kill'd; fidding himself of fleas, by gradually going "under water with a lock of wool in his mouth, ita non fore tutam generi fuo ftirpem opinatur, ni fefellerit: quare nullum facit nidum, alioquin trepidum animal. Educat ergo fubditum adulterato foeta nido. Ille avidus ex natura, præripit cibos reliquis pullis, itaque epinguescit, et nitidus in fe nutricem convertit: illa gau̟det ejus fpecie, miraturque fefe ipfam, quod talem pepererit fuos comparatione ejus damnat, ut alienos, abfumique etiam fe infpectante patitur, donec corripiat ipfam quoque jam volandi potens Nulla tum avium fuazivitate carnis comparatur illi, Plinii Natural. Hift. lib. 10. cap. 9. De Coccyce, qua a fuo genere interimitur?15) "and fo driving the fleas up, into it, and then "leaving it in the water: by catching crab "fifh with his tail, which he faith he himfelf "was an eye-witnefs, of." Vid. Olei Magni Hift. lib. 18. cap. 39, 40. I The late ingenious Mr. Gay has beautifully defcribed the nature of the fox, in his 29th fable, intit'led, The Fox at the Point of Death "A fox, in life's extreme decay, Weak, fick, and faint, expiring lay "All appetite hath left his maw,. And age difarm'd his mumbling jaw; D "His num'rous race about him stand, "To learn their dying Sire's command; A "He rais'd his head with whining moan, "And thus was heard the feeble tone. "Ah fons, from evil ways depart, ི་ཟེ་ 22 My crimes lie heavy on my heart. * "See, fee, the murder'd geefe appear!7 Why are those bleeding turkeys there ? Why all around this cackling train, "Who haunt my ears for chickens flain ? "The hungry foxes round them star'd, And for the promis'd feaft prepar'd. Where, Sir, is all this dainty cheer? "Nor turkey, goofe, nor hen is here: A "These are the phantoms of your brain, "And your fons lick their lips in vain. "O gluttons, fays the drooping Sire, "Restrain inordinate defire; and 1 Your liq'rifh tafte you fhall deplore, !» "Does |