Id. ib. Cant. She bath berfelf not only well defended, "But taken and impounded as a stray, "The King of Scots, whom she did fend to France "To fill King Edward's fame with prisoner 66 Kings."] David Brus, King of Scotland, was defeated, and taken prifoner by the English in the year 1346, at the fame time that Calais was befieged by King Edward. See Echard's Hiftory of England, vol. 1. p. 362. John King of France was likewife taken prifoner by the Black Prince at the battle of Poictiers in the year 1356, and brought prisoner into England. Echard, ibid. p. 368. I don't find that the King of Scotland was carried over into France, but kept prifoner 11 years in the caftle of Odiam; from whence he was released at the inceffant fuit of Queen Joan his Queen, upon the payment of a ransom of a hundred thousand marks fterling, and upon condition of demolishing certain forts and caftles.. Echard, ibid. p. 370. The French King upon a peace concluded in the year 1360, was likewife released. Echard, ibid. p. 372. Id. ib. p. 332. Others like merchant venturers, trade abroad.] Others like merchants, venter trade abroad. Folios 1623, 1632. Venture, Sir Tho. Hanmer, and Mr. Theobald. Id. ib. The fad-ey'd Justice with his furly hum Delivering o'er to executors pale The lazy-yawning drone.] Alluding to that line in Virgil. Ignavum ficos, pecus, a præfepibus arcent. Sc. 2. p. 232. Virgilii Georgic. lib. 4. 168, K. Henry. Either our history fhall with full mouth Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave, Like Turkish mute, fhall have a tongueless mouth, Not worshipt with a waxen epitaph.] The Turkish mutes have tongues, but are not able to use them, being born deaf. See Sir Paul Ricaut's Hiftory of the Ottoman Empire, book 3. chap. 8. Sc. 3. p. 334. K. Henry. We are no tyrant, but a Chriftian King, Therefore with frank, and with uncurbed plainnefs, Tell us the Dauphin's mind.] The Dolphin's mind, in folios 1623, 1632. and 'twas the ufual way of writing in Shakespeare's days. * "The Dolphin of France, or eldeft fon of "the King of France, fo call'd of Daulphine, "a province of France; which had first that "name of Dauphine from the wife to Guigne, "the fecond Prince of that province, given, (or as fome report, fold) in the year 1349 by Humbert Earl thereof, to the French King "Philip de Vallois, on condition, that the "French "French King's eldest fon fhould hold it du ring his father's life by that title Daulphin, "quartering his arms with France, which are a Dolphin Hauriant, Or, in a Field Azure." Guillim's Heraldry, last edit. p. 239. *See Minfhieu's Guide into the Tongues, col. 243. Call'd Dolphin by Hall, Chronicle, folio 41. and in several other places, and by Hollinfbed, The Dolphyn. Sc. 4. p. 337. Bardolph to Corporal Nim. Bard. It is certain, Corporal, that he is married to Nell Quickly; and certainly fhe did you wrong, for you were troth-plight to her.] Alluding to the promise made by the man, in the office of matrimony. The man faying, " And "thereto I plight thee my troth The woman" And thereto I give thee my troth." See Cymbeline, act 1. fc. 2. p. 233. Winter's Tale, act 5. fc. the last. Or he may allude to the parliament statuteroll, by which Richard III. was established King, wherein are these words. "The faid 66 King [viz. Edward IV.] was, and stood "married, and troth-plight to one Dame Eleanor Butler, daughter to the Earl of Shrewf bury." Notwithstanding which contract, he married Elizabeth Grey, May 1, 1464. Hiftory of the College of Corpus Chrifti &c. commonly call'd Benet, by Mr. Robert Masters, M. A. Fellow. 1753. vol. 1. p. 53, Sc. 4. P. 339. Pift. O bound O bound of Crete, think'st thou my spouse to get? No to the fpittle go, And from the powd'ring tub of infamy Fetch forth the lazar kite of Creffid's kind Dol Tear Sheet, fhe by name, and her efpoufe.] An allufion to thofe lines in the teftament of Cre feide, by Robert Henderson, annex'd to Troilus and Crefeide, in Chaucer. "When Diomede had al his appetite "And more fulfillid of this faire Lady "Upon anothir fette was his delite "And fende to her, a libel repudy, [a bill of *And her excludid fro his company, [divorce] "Than defolate she walkid up and doun "As fome men faine in the courte as commune. L. 330. &c. "Than Cynthia whan Saturne past awaie "Out of her fete difcendid dounè blive, [quickly] "And red a bill on Crefeide, where the laie, Containing this fentence diffinitive, "Fro-hele of body here. I the deprive, "And to thy fikenesse shal be no recure, "But in dolour thy day is to endure. "Thy cristal eyen mingid with blode I make 66 Thy voice fo clere unplefaunt here, and "bace, "Thy luftie lere orfpred with spotti "And lumpis hawe appering in thy Where thou comift eche man f place, arfel "Thus fhalt thou go begging fro hous to hous, << With cuppe and (a) clappir like a Lazarous A&t 2. fc. 1. p. 341. Chor. They fell the pasture now to buy the horse.] Spenfer has an image not very unlike this. "And little prais'd his labour's evil speed, "That for to win the faddle, fold the steed. Fairy Queen, book 3. canto 5. 22. Not lefs humorous was the faying of a country fellow to his friend; upon the viewing of the house of a gentleman, who had ruined his eftate, by building it. . 7 "I fuppofe (fays he) this gentleman built "this great house to put all his lond [land] in." Id. ib. Chorus. O England. But fee thy fault, France has in thee found out And by their bands, this grace of Kings must die, These three were bribed by the crown of France, with a million of gold crowns, to make a diverfion in their favour, by trumping up a person to have perfonated King Richard, and giving out, that he was alive, to have raised (a) Clappir, the cover of a cup, by which beggars wed to make a noise, by fhaking it. an |