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Sc. 6. p. 307. Beadle of Dol Tear Sheet.

Bead.

about ber.]

1632.

There hath been a man or two kill'd

"Lately kill'd about her. Folio

Sc. 6. p. 308.

Hoft. O that right fhould thus overcome might, well, of fufferance comes eafe.]

The proverb. "Might overcomes right. See Ray's Proverbial Sentences, p. 175.

Sc. 7. It will be two of the clock ere they come from the coronation; difpatch, difpatch.] "Difpatch, dispatch, wanting in. Folio 1632. Sc. 8. p.311. King Henry the Fifth, to Falstaff. When thou dost hear, I am, as I havebeen, Approach me, and thou shalt be as thou waft, The tutor, and the feeder of my riots: Till then I banifhthee on pain of death, As I have done the rest of my misleaders,

Not to come near our perfon by ten miles.] This is confirm'd by most of our English biftorians.

The

The Life of King Henry V.

ACT I. SCENE I. p. 322.

CANTERBURY. It must be thought on,

if it pass against us

We lose the better half of our possession:
For all the temporal lands which men devout ·
By teftament have given to the church,
Would they trip from us, being valued thus,
As much as would maintain to the King's bonour,
Full fifteen Earls, and fifteen hundred Knights,
Six thousand and two hundred good Efquires:
And to relief of lazars, and weak age.
Of indigent, faint fouls poft corporal toil,
A bundred alms boufes right well fupplied
And to the coffer of the King befide,

A thousand pounds by th' year, thus runs the bill.]. This account of the intended bill against the clergy is true in all respects, excepting the fum to the king's use, which Hall, and Howel fay, was twenty thousand pounds. Hall's Chronicle, first edit. folio, 35. b. Medulla Hiftoria Anglicanæ, p. 111.

Mr. Echard obferves from Hall's Chronicle, (See Hiftory of England, vol. 1. p. 437.) "That this bill caufed the fat abbots to fweat, the proud priors to frown, the poor friars to Bb 2 " curfe,

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" curfe, and foolish nuns to weep, and all her merchants to fear, that Babel would sink.”

Id. ib.

Cant. Hear him but reafon in divinity, &c.] I can't but think, that Shakespeare in this place, spoke his real fentiments of King Henry the Fifth, without any defign of reflecting either upon King James the First, or his Prelates. Hall fpeaks as high things of him, [Chronicle, folio 81.]

"This Henry was a Kyng, whofe life was "immaculate, and his livyng without fpot: "this King was a Prince whom all men loved, "and of none difdained: this Kyng was a Capi"taine, against whom fortune never frowned, nor mischance once spurned: this Capitaine

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or friendship unrewarded. This Jufticiary "was fo feared, that all rebellion was banished, "and fedition fuppreffed: his vertues were no "more notable, then his qualities were worthy “of praise.He was merciful to offend

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a very father. What fhould I fay, he was "the Blafying Comete, and apparent lantern in "his dayes, he was the mirrour of Christendome, "and the glory of his country: he was the

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"floure of Kynges paffed, and a glass to them "that should fucceed: no Emperour in magna"nimitie ever him excelled: no potentate was

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more piteous, nor Lorde more bounteous:

no Prince had leffe of his fubjects, and never Kyng conquered more: whofe fame by "his death as lively flourisheth, as his actes "in his life were fene, and remembred."

Id. ib.

So that the all, and practic part of life, Must be the mistress to this theorique.]

"So that the art, &c. Folios 1623, 1632.

and Sir Tho. Hanmer.

Alter'd by Mr. Theobald.

See his reafon.

Sc. 2. p. 325.

K. Henry. Sure we thank you

My learned Lord, we pray you to proceed;
And justly, and religiously unfold,

Why the law Salike, which they have in France,
Or fhould, or fhould not bar us of our claim.]

See a full account of the law Salique, Hall's Chronicle, folio 36, &c. and Note upon The Lady's Anfwer to the Knight, ver. 378.Hudibras, vol. 2. p. 444. See likewife Gloffary to Mr. John Disney's ancient Laws against Immorality and Profaneness, published in folia 1729. P. 341, 342.

Id. ib. p. 328.

And your great Uncle Edward, the black Prince, Who on the French ground plaid a tragedy, Making defeat on the full pow'r of France,

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While

While bis most mighty father, on a bill,
Stood Smiling, to behold his lions whelp
Forage in blood of French nobility.]

King Edward the Third, (who during the battle of Crefy, ftood upon a hill, and could better furvey the field and judge of the circumftances of the fight, than thofe that were in it) found there was no occafion for his affiftance, and declared, that his fon fhould have the honour of the day. See Echard's Hiftory of England, vol. 1. p. 360. Howell's Medulla Hiftoria Anglicana, P. 98.

Id. ib. p. 329.

Weft.

O let their bodies follow my dear Liege
With blood, fword, and fire to win your right.
Cant. In aid whereof, we of the fpiritualty
Will raife your Highness fuch a mighty fum,
As never did the clergy at one time,
Bring in to any of your ancestors.]

The Archbishop of Canterbury declared upon this occafion, that the clergy would give the greatest fupply, they ever had been raised, to enable the King to recover his juft rights. Echard's Hift. of England, vol. 1. p. 438. Salmon's Hift. of England, vol. 3. p. 96.

Id. ib. p. 330.

K. Henry.

For you fhall read that my great grandfather
Ne'er went with his full forces into France,

But that the Scot, &c.] "Never went with his " forces into France, &c. Folios 1623, 1632. Sir Tho. Hanmer, and Mr. Theobald.

Id.

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