And plague injustice with the pains of hell. Boling. My lord Northu berland, fee them dispatch'd. [Exeunt Nor. and others, with prisoners. Uncle, you fay, the queen is at your houfe ; For heaven's fake, fairly let her be entreated: Tell her, I fend to her my kind commends; Take special care my greetings be deliver'd. York. A gentleman of mine I have dispatch'd With letters of your love to her at large. Boling. Thanks, gentle uncle. -Come, lords, away; To fight with Glendower and his complices; A while to work, and, after, holiday 9. SCENE II'. The coaft of Wales. A caftle in view. [Exeunt. Flourish: drums and trumpets. Enter King RICHARD, 9 Thanks, gentle uncle.-Come, lords, away; To fight with Glendower and his complices; A while to work, and, after, boliday.] Though the intermediate line has taken poffeffion of all the old copies, I have great fufpicion of its being an interpolation; and have therefore ventured to throw it out. The first and third lines rhime to each other; nor do I imagine this was cafual, but intended by the poet. Were we to acknowledge the line genuine, it must argue the poet of forgetfulnefs and inattention to hiftory. Bolingbroke is, as it were, but just arrived; he is now at Bristol, weak in his numbers; has had no meeting with a parliament; nor is fo far aflured of the fucceffion, as to think of going to fupprefs infurrec tions before he is planted in the throne. Befides, we find the oppofition of Glendower begins The First Part of K. Henry IV. and Mortimer's defeat by that hardy Welshman is the tidings of the first scene of that play. Again, though Glendower, in the very first year of K. Henry IV. began to be troublesome, put in for the fupremacy of Wales, and imprifoned Mortimer; yet it was not till the fucceeding year that the king employed any force against him. THEOBALD. This emendation, which I think is juft, has been followed by fir T. Hanmer, but is neglected by Dr. Warburton. JOHNSON. Mr. Heath obferves, that Bolingbroke marched to Chester, probably with a view to attack the Welsh army headed by Lord Salisbury. He thinks therefore the line is genuine. See p. 61. fc. iii. Stowe exprefsly fays that "Owen Glendower ferved King Richard at Flint-Cafle." MALONE. 1 Here may be properly inferted the last scene of the fecond act. Joнns. Aum. Aum. Yea, my lord: How rooks your grace the air, K. Rich. Needs must I like it well; I weep for joy, Plays fondly with her tears, and fmiles in meeting'; Feed not thy fovereign's foe, my gentle earth, Car. Fear not, my lord; that Power, that made you king, As a long parted mother with her child Plays fondly with her tears, and smiles in meeting ;] σε Ως είπων, αλόχοιο φίλης εν χερσιν έθηκε σε Παιδ' είν' η δαρα μιν κνωδεί δεξαιο κολπο « ΔΑΚΡΥΘΕΝ ΓΕΛΑΣΑΣΑ. Hom. II. Z. Perhaps fmiles is here ufed as a fubftantive. As a mother plays fondly with her child from whom he has been a long time parted, crying, and at the fame time fmiling, at meeting him. It has been propofed to read-fmiles in zweeping; and I once thought the emendation very plaufible. But I am now perfuaded the text is right. If we read weeping, the long-parted mother and her child do not meet, and there is no particular caufe affigned for either her fmiles or tears. MALONE. 3 Guard it,] That is, border it. See Vol. II. p. 66, n. 9. MALONE. The means that heaven yields must be embrac'd, Aum. He means, my lord, that we are too remifs; Grows ftrong and great, in fubftance, and in friends. The cloak of night being pluck'd from off their backs, The 4 and lights the lower world,] The old copies read-that lights. The emendation was made by Dr. Johníon. Senfe might be obtained by a flight tranfpofition, without changing the words of the original text: That when the searching eye of heaven, that lights By the lower world, as the paflage is amended by Dr. Johnfon, we muft understand, a world lower than this of ours; I fuppofe, our Antipodes. But the lower world may fignify our world. MALONE. The breath of worldly men &c.] Here is the doctrine of indefeafible right expreffed in the ftrongest terms; but our poet did not learn it in the reign of K. James, to which it is now the practice of all writers, whofe The deputy elected by the Lord: For every man that Bolingbroke hath prefs'd, Weak men must fall; for heaven ftill guards the right. Enter SALISBURY. Welcome, my lord; How far off lies your power? O'erthrows thy joys, friends, fortune, and thy state; Aum. Comfort, my liege: Why looks your grace fo pale? Aum. Comfort, my liege; remember who you are. whofe opinions are regulated by fashion or intereft, to impute the original of every tenet which they have been taught to think falfe or foolish. JOHNSON. 6 Awake, thou coward majesty !] Thus the quarto. The folio has thou fluggard majefty. MALONE. 7 Is not the king's name forty thousand names?] Thus in King Richard III. Vol. II. p. 199, "Befides, the king's name is a tower of strength." See a speech of Antigonus in Plutarch, of this kind. 4to. Gr. S. W, Arm, Arm, arm, my name! a puny fubject ftrikes Enter SCROOP. Scroop. More health and happiness betide my liege, Than can my care-tun'd tongue deliver him! K. Rich. Mine ear is open, and my heart prepar'd3; The worft is-death, and death will have his day. Like an unfeasonable ftormy day, Which makes the filver rivers drown their fhores, With hard bright steel, and hearts harder than steel. 8 Mine ear is open, &c.] It seems to be the defign of the poet to raise Richard to esteem in his fall, and confequently to intereft the reader in his favour. He gives him only paffive fortitude, the virtue of a confeffor rather than of a king. In his profperity we faw him imperious and oppreffive; but in his diftrefs he is wife, patient, and pious. JoHNS. 9 and clap their female joints] Mr. Pope more elegantly reads -and clafp-; which has been adopted by the fubfequent editors. But the emendation does not feem abfolutely neceflary. MALONE. Thy |