GLO. Then Saunder, fit thou there,' the lying'st knave In Christendom. If thou hadst been born blind, Thou might' as well have known our names, as thus To name the feveral colours we do wear. Sight may diftinguifh of colours; but fuddenly 2 8 My lords, faint Alban here hath done a miracle; GLO. My mafters of Saint Albans, have you not headles in your town, and things call'd whips? MAY. Yes, my lord, if it please your grace. GLO. Then fend for one presently. MAY. Sirrah, go fetch the beadle hither straight. [Exit an Attendant. GLO. Now fetch me a ftool hither by and by. [A ftool brought out.] Now, firrah, if you mean to fave yourself from whipping, leap me over this ftool, and run away. SIMP. Alas, mafter, I am not able to ftand alone: You go about to torture me in vain. Re-enter Attendant, with the Beadle. GLO. Well, fir, we must have you find your legs. 7 -fit thou there, I have fupplied the pronoun thou, for the fake of metre. STEEVENS. 3 —— our names, ] Old copy, redundantly—all our names. 9 To nominate them all, 's impoffible.-] Old copy it is impoffible. STEEVENS. that cunning-] Folio- it cunning. STELVENS. Corrected by Mr. Rowe. That was probably contra&ed in the Mf. yt. MALONE. Sirrah beadle, whip him tili he leap over that fame flool. BEAD. I will my lord.--Come on, firrah; off with your doublet quickly. SIMP. Alas, mafter, what fhall I do? I am not able to fland. After the Beadle hath hit him once, he leaps over the flool, and runs away; and the people follow, and cry, A Miracle! *K. HEN. O God, fee'st thou this, and bear'st fo long? * Q. MAR. It made me laugh, to fee the villain. run. GLO. Follow the knave; and take this drab away. *WIFE. Alas, fir, we did it for pure need. GLO. Let them be whipped through every market town till they come to Berwick, whence they came. Exeunt Mayor, Beadle, Wife, &c. CAR. Duke Humphrey has done a miracle to day. SUF. True; made the lame to leap, and fly away. GLO. But you have done more miracles than I; You made, in a day, my lord, whole towns to fly. Enter BUCKINGHAM. K. HEN. What tidings with our cousin Buckingham? whole towns to fly. ] Here in the old play the king adds: "Have done, I fay; and let me hear no more of that." STERVEN • BUCK. Such as my heart doth tremble to unfold. A fort of naughty perfons, lewdly bent, 5. Under the countenance and confederacy Of lady Eleanor, the protector's wife, The ringleader and head of all this rout.• Have practis'd dangerously against your state, Dealing with witches, and with conjurers: • Whom we have apprehended in the fact; Raifing up wicked fpirits from under ground, Demanding of king Henry's life and death, And other of your highnefs' privy council, As more at large your grace fhall underftand. CAR. And fo, my lord protector, by this means Your lady is forthcoming yet at London. This news I think, hath turn'd your weapon's edge; 'Tis like, my lord, you will not keep your hour. [Afide to GLOSter. GLO. Ambitious churchman, leave to afflict my heart! 4 Such as my heart doth tremble to unfold. &c.] In the original play the corresponding speech ftands thus; and the variation is worth noting: Ill news for fome, my lord, and this it is, "And here's the answer the devil did make to them." MALONE. A fort-lewdly bent, ] Lewdly, in this place, and in fome others, does not fignify wantonly, but wickedly. STEEVENS. The word is so used in old ads of parliament. A fort is a company. See Vol. VII. p. 90, n. 8. MALONE. Your lady is forthcoming-] That is, Your lady is in cuftody. JOHNSON, * Sorrow and grief have vanquifh'd all my powers: * And, vanquifh'd as I am, I yield to thee, * Or to the meaneft groom. * K. HEN. O god, what mifchiefs work the wicked ones; Heaping confufion on their own heads thereby! Q. MAR. Glofter, see here the tainture of thy * neft; * And, look, thyfelf be faultlefs, thou wert beft. GLO. Madam, for my felf,' to heaven I do appeal, How I have lov'd my king, and commonweal: Noble fhe is; but, if fhe have forgot I banish her, my bed, and company; And give her, as a prey, to law, and fhame, • That hath difhonour'd Glofter's honeft name. K. HEN. Well, for this night, we will repose To-morrow, toward London, back again, ⚫ And call these foul offenders to their anfwers; 7 Madam, for myself, &c.] Thus in the original play: "That I am guiltless of these heinous crimes, Unless the clear herself of this foul deed." MALONE. And poife the cause in juftice' equal fcales, Whofe beam ftands fure, whofe rightful cause [Flourish. [Exeunt. prevails. SCENE II. London. The Duke of York's Garden. Enter YORK, SALISBURY, and WARWICK. YORK. Now, my good lords of Salisbury and Our fimple fupper ended, give me leave, In craving your opinion of my title, 9 Which is infallible, to England's crown. *SAL. My lord, I long to hear it all full. WAR. Sweet York, begin: and if thy claim be good, The Nevils are thy fubjects to command. YORK. Then thus: Edward the Third, my lords, had feven fons: The firft, Edward the Black Prince, prince of Wales; The fecond, William of Hatfield; and the third, Lionel, duke of Clarence; next to whom, Was John of Gaunt, the duke of Lancaster: The fifth, was Edmond Langley,* duke of York; And poife the cause in juflice' equal fcales, Whofe beam ftands fure, whofe rightful caufe prevails. The fenfe will, I think, be mended if we read in the optative mood: - juftice' equal fcale, Whofe beam ftand fure, whofe rightful cause prevail!" JOHNSON. Which is infallible,] I know not well whether he means the opinion or the title is infallible. JOHNSON. Surely he means his title. MALONE. 2 The fifth, was Edmond Langley, &c.] The author of the ori |