"Does not the hound betray our pace, £.15 And gins, and guns destroy our race?! Thieves dread the fearching eye of pow'r, *And never feel the quiet hourys CA 25W >> "Old age, (which few of us fhall know) f Now puts a period to my woe, 95, 9T Would you true happiness attain clas "Let honefty your passions rein; So live in credit and efteem. "And the good name you loft, redeem. "The counsel's good, a fox replies, "Could we perform, what you advife. A "Think what our ancestors have done;" "A line of thieves, from son to son; "To us defcends the long difgrace, "And infamy hath mark'd our race. "Though we, like harmless fheep fhould feed, "Honeft in thought, in word, in deed; "Whatever hen-rooft is decreas'd, "We fhall be thought to fhare the feaft. "The change fhall never be believ❜d, "A loft good-name is ne'er retriev❜d. "Nay, then replies the feeble fox, (But hark! I hear a hen that clocks) "Go, but be mod'rate in your food, A chicken too might do me good. Sc. 5. p. 191. de sot ars alx" Hotfpur. Now Efperanza? Percy, and fet on.] "Efperance. Folio 1632. cyst chomly O Hall in his Chronicle, folio 22d, fays, “Then fuddenly the trumpets blew the "King's parte cried Saint George upon them... 2560 "The "The adverfaries cried, Efperaunce and fo "furiously the armies joyned." 193 J. Sc. 6. P. 192. f. Hotspur. The King has many marching in his coat.] 'Tis obferved by feveral of our hiftorians, that at the battle of Shrewsbury, Percy and Douglas kill'd feveral in the King's coat-armour. See Hall's Chronicle, 22 b. At the battle of Floddon-Field, where King James the Fourth loft his life, 'tis obferved by the Scotch biftorians, that many with the like arms, and with the like guards with the King, were kill'd: every one of whom was taken for the King Buchanan Rer. Scoticar. Hift. lib. 13. cap. 40. Drummond's Hiftory of Scotland, 8vo. p. 228. Sc. 10. p. 197.. i.f t Falft, Sblood, 'twas time to counterfeit, or that bot termagant Scot had paid me foot and lot.] "Scot and lot, anno. 33. Henry VIIIth, chap. 19. fignifieth a customary contribution laid upon all fubjects, according to their ability. Ho veden Anlote & Afcoto. In Principio Henrici 2. Reliqua vide in Tribute. Minghieu's Guide into the Tongues, col. 649. Sc. 11. p. 198. P. Henry. Why, Percy I kill'd my self, andfaw thee dead. Falft. Did'ft thou? Lord Lord, how the world is given to lying! I grant I was down, and out of breath, and so was he; but we rose both at an inftant, and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock clock-I take't on my death I gave this wound in bis thigh, &c.] Falstaff carries his affurance in this inftance, much further, than Briton Villandry, a favourite of King Francis the Firft, did, in his anfwer to the Duke of Guife." They Leas were saying, that at a certain battle of King "Francis againft the Emperour Charles the "Fifth, Briton arm'd capapé to the teeth, and mounted like Saint George, yet fneak'd off, and plaid leaft in fight during the engagement: blood and oons, anfwer'd Briton, I was there and can prove it eafily, nay even where you, my Lord, dared not have been. The "Duke began to refent this as too rafh and faucy; but Briton quickly appeafed him, and "fet them all a laughing; I gad, my Lord, quoth he, I kept out of harms way, I was all the while with your page Jack, fkulking in a "certain place, where you dared not hide your head, as I did." S'A The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth.. ACT I. SCENE 3. p. 209. - AND his tongue Sounds ever after, as a fullen bell Remembred, tolling a departed friend.] 66 Folio 1632. and probably right, as he ufes the fame word in Macbeth, act 5. fr. 8. Siward fpeaking of his fon's death. "Had I as many fons, as I have hairs, "I would not wish them to a fairer death, " and fo his knell is knoll'd.". The word is, I believe, still used for toll'd, in the Northern counties of England. Sc. 4. p. 213. Falft. I was never mann'd with an agot till now: but I will set you neither in gold, nor filver; but in vile apparrel, and fend you back again to your master for a jewel : the juvenal, the Prince your master.] It fhould be read, in all probability, the juvenile, &c. Shakespeare ufes the word juvenal, Midfummer Night's Dream, act 3. fc. 2. edit. folio 1632. Thish. "Moft valiant Pyramus, moft lillywhite of hue, of colour like the red rofe of triumphant bryer, most brifk juvenal, and seke most lovely Jew." Altered Altered in the modern editions, and in Loves Labour's loft. Juvenile, act 16 fc. 3. P. 200. 66 "How canft thou part sadness and melancholy, my tender juvenile?” And again, act 3. fc. 1. p. 216 "A moft acute juvenile, voluble, and free ❝ of grace.” Chaucer, in Troilus and Crefeide, fpeaking of Hector, uses the word juvenal in the fame fenfe, L. 197. "O juvenal Lorde, trewe is thy fentence. Sc. ib. p. 214. The wharfon Smooth pates. "Horfen. Folio 1623, and 1632, as before. Sc. 5. P. 215! Page. Here comes the nobleman, who committed the Prince, for striking him about Bardolph.] One of our late hiftorians gives the following account of the Prince's behaviour. "Another time, when one of his compa"nions was arraign'd for felony, before the "Lord Chief Justice, [Gafcoin,] the Prince went to the King's Bench Bar, and offer'd to take away the prifoner by force, but being "oppofed by the Lord Chief Justice, he ftept upon the bench, and ftruck the Chief Justice "upon the face, who fate ftill undaunted, and boldly faid to the Prince: Sir, remember "who, and what you are? The feat which I "bere poffefs, is not mine, but your father's, to "whom, and his laws you owe a double obedience: if bis Majefty's laws be thus violated by 66 66 you, |