"you, who will obey you, when you are a Sove-TM reign? and therefore for this offence, I do, in “ your father's\name, commit you prisoner to the "King's Bench, there to remain till his Majesty's pleasure be further known "At which words, the Prince ftood mute, "laid afide his weapons, and paid obeyfance "to the court, and rendred himself a prisoner." "It was a great pleasure to the King, to find "he had a Judge of fo much courage; and to fhew his approbation of it, he remov'd "the Prince from being prefident of his coun"fel, and conferr'd that honour upon his third "fon, John." See Hiftory of England from authentick records, &c. 1706. vol. 1. p. 218. Sc. ib. Do not the rebels_need foldiers?J "Want foldiers. Folios 1623, 1632. Sc. 6. p. 223. And publifh the occafion of our arms, The commonwealth is fick of their own choice, &c.] When the Earl of Westmoreland, and John, Duke of Lancaster, the King's fon, found the Archbishop of York, &c. too strong for them, "They enquired of them in a peaceable man ner, what their intentions fhould be in taking uparms? The Archbishoppe answer'd, that he “meant nothing but the good of the realm, as he would gladly certify him, if he had fecute "and fafe receffe unto him: and therewithal "fhew'd a writing, wherein he charg❜d the new King with treafon against his Sovereign King Richard, oppreffion of the church, and "commonalty, whofe liberties he had fworne "to defend ; tyranny and cruelty in putting "to death the faid King, many of the nobility,' "and great numbers of the commons with impiety and facrilege, in defrauding the church of Rome of her rights; and daftly with evil government, perfidiousness, perju ry, and diverse other like heinous crimes • for which he pronounced him excommuni cate, &c.". Bp. Godwin's Catalogue of the Bishops of England, p. 604. &c. Act. 2 fc. 1. p. 225. Phang. If 1 can but fift him once, if he come but once within my vice.] Mr. Pope fays, that "there is another reading in the old edition, namely, view; but he does not think it fo good." It is vice in folios 1623, and 1632. 'Id. ib. Hoftefs. I pray ye, fince my altion is entred.] Exion. Folios 1623, 1632. and more proper for a blundering hoftefs. Sc. 3 p. 230. Chief Justice. I have heard better news.] "I "have heard bitter news. Folios 1623, 1632. Sc. 4. p. 231. And God knows whether, &c.] This period, Mr. Pope observes, was supplied out of the old edition, without mentioning the date of that edition. 'Tis wanting in folio 1632. Id. ib. Few young Princes would do so, their fathers lying fa fick as yours at this time is.] Lying fo fick as yours is. Folios 1623, 1632. 66 Sc. ib. p. 232. Prince Henry, By this hand, thou thinkeft me as far in the devil's book, as thou, and Falstaff.] By this band, not in folios 1623, 1632. nor in Sir Tho. Hanmer's edition, but in Mr. Theobald's. Sc. 5, p. 233 . Page. Marry, my Lord, Althea dream'd, fhe was deliver'd of a fire-brand, and therefore I call him her dream.] Althea was the wife of Eneas, King of Calydonia, who reveng'd the death of her brother, by the death of her own fon Meleager, burning the log of wood, which was to prolong his life, fo long as it lafted and was not confumed by fire.. Sc. ibid. Poins. I am your fhadow, my Lord, I'll follow.] Does not he mean, that he was an unbidden gueft, like the Umbra in Horace? Serm. lib, 2. 8. 20. &c. Summus ego, et prope me Vifcus Thurinus, - & infra (Si memini) Varius; cum Servilio Balatrone Vibidius, quos Maecenas adduxerat Umbras. Sc. 6. p. 238. L. North. Flye to Scotland.] "Scotland. Folios 1623, 1632. "O Alye: to Sc. 8. p. 240. I'faith, fweet heart.] I'faith, not in folio 1632, nor Sir The Hanmer's edit. Sc. 10. Sc. 10. p. 243•` your Dol. By this wine I'll thrust my knife in mouldy chaps, if you play the faucy cuttle with me. Alluding to the cuttle-fifb, call'd fepia in latin, whose blood is as black and as thick as (a) ink; and which it throws out to elude the attempts of the fishermen to take it. Sc. ro. p. 245. Hoft. Here's goodly stuff toward.] "ftuff. Folio 1632. "Good Sc. 11. Falstaff speaking of Poins, fays. Falft. He a good wit? hang him baboon his wit is as thick as Tewksbury mustard.] The old proverb, "He looks as if he had lived on "Tewksbury mustard." "Tewksbury is a fair market town in the "county of Gloucester, noted for the mustard "balls made there, and fent into other parts. "This is spoken, partly of fuch who have a fad, fevere, and tetrick countenance. Si ecaftor bic bomo finapi vititet, non cenfeam jam " tristem effe poffe. Plaut. in Trucul. Partly, "of fuch as are fnappifh, captious, and prone "to take exceptions." Proverbs from Dr. Fuller's Worthies. Ray's Proverbs, p. 308. (a) Pifcis qui atrum cruorem inftar atramenti per quam effundit, &c. cum fepeti animadvertit, et pifcatori Gefner. Vid. Ariftotel. de Hiftor. Gefner. Animal. lib. 9. cap. 37. 41. Oper. tom. I. Aa 3. fc. 3. p. 256. Shall: Is old Double of your town living yet? Sil. Dead Sir. Shall. Dead! fee fee, he drew a good bow, and dead? be foot a fine shoot, John of Gaunt lov'd him well, and betted much money on bis head. Dead! he would have clapt in the clawt at twelve fcore-] Rabelais [fee Works, book 4. chap. 24.] after having defcribed feveral famous archers, igives Pantagruel the preference, in the following hu morous manner," "The noble Pantagruel was without com"parifon more admirable in the art of fhoot"ing, and darting: for with his dreadful piles and darts, rearly resembling the huge beams, "that fupport the bridges of Nantes, Saumur, and 66 at Paris, the miller's, and the changer's bridges, "in length, weight, fize, and iron work; he at "a mile's diftance would open an oyster, and "never touch the edges; he would snuff a can dle without putting it out; would fhoot a "magpie in the eye, take off a boot's under "fole, a riding-hood's lining without foiling "them a bit; turn over every leaf of Friar John's Breviary one after another, and not "tear one." This was literally f Sc. 3. p. 257. in the lone bow. Shallow. How a faves now Silence. Thereafter ewes may be aorth ten p Shake |