Glo. Why, what, I pray, is Margaret more than that? Her father is no better than an earl, Although in glorious titles he excel. Suff. Yes, my good lord, her father is a king, Glo. And so the earl of Armagnac may do, Exe. Beside, his wealth doth warrant liberal dower; While Reignier sooner will receive than give. Suff. A dower, my lords! Disgrace not so your king, That he should be so abject, base, and poor, To choose for wealth, and not for perfect love. h; And not to seek a queen to make him rich As is fair Margaret, he be linked in love. Then yield, my lords; and here conclude with me, K. Hen. Whether it be through force of your report, My noble lord of Suffolk, or for that My tender youth was never yet attaint That lady Margaret do vouchsafe to come And so conduct me, where from company, Glo. Ay, grief, I fear me, both at first and last. [Exit. [Exeunt GLOSTER and EXETER. Suff. Thus Suffolk hath prevailed; and thus he goes, Margaret shall now be queen, and rule the king; [Exit. EXPLANATORY NOTES. TAMING OF THE SHREW. "Take them to the buttery."- Induction. "The top of the profession were then mere players, not gentlemen of the stage: they were led into the buttery by the steward; not placed at the lord's table, or the lady's toilette."-RowE. "Marian Hacket, the fat ale-wife of Wincot."-Induction. Wilnecotte is a village in Warwickshire, near Stratford, with which Shakspeare was well acquainted. The house kept by our genial hostess still remains, but is at present a mill.—Warton. “Be she as foul as was Florentius' love.”—Act I. Sc. 2. "A Florentine young gentleman was so deceived by the lustre and orientness of her jewels, pearles, rings, lawns, scarfes, laces, gold, spangles, and other devices, that he was ravished overnight, and was mad till the marriage was solemnized. But next morning by light viewing her before she was gorgeously trimmed up, she was such a leane, yellow, riveled, deformed creature, that he never lay with her, nor lived with her afterwards; and would say that he had married himself to a stinking house of office, painted over, and set out with fine garments: and so for grief consumed away in melancholy, and at last poysoned himself." Gomesius, lib. III. de Sal. Gen. cap. 22.-FARMER. "And for your love to her, lead apes in hell.”—Act II. Sc. 1. To lead apes was anciently, as at present, one of the bearward's employments, who often carries one of those animals about with his bear; but it does not appear how this phrase came to be applied to old maids. There is a similar passage in Much Ado about Nothing. "Therefore (says Beatrice), I will even take sixpence in earnest of the bearward, and lead his apes in hell."-MALONE. "This small packet of Greek and Latin books.”—Act II. Sc. 1. A strange present from a lover! It might be thought so now, but in Elizabeth's time the young ladies of quality were usually instructed in the learned languages, if any attention was paid to their minds at all. Lady Jane Grey and her sisters, Queen Elizabeth, &c., are trite instances.-PERCY. แ "Counterpoints."-Act II. Sc. 1. Counterpoints, or, as we now say, Counterpanes, were in ancient times extremely costly. In Wat Tyler's rebellion, Stowe informs us, when the insurgents broke into the wardrobe in the Savoy, they destroyed a cover let worth a thousand marks.-MALONE. |