Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England Can advise me like you: be to yourself As you would to your friend. Buck. I'll to the king: And from a mouth of honour quite cry down This Ipswich fellow's insolence; or proclaim There's difference in no persons. Nor. Be advis'd. Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself: We may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running. Know you not The fire that mounts the liquor till it run o'er, In seeming to augment it, wastes it? Be advis'd: I say again, there is no English soul More stronger to direct you than yourself; If with the sap of reason you would quench, Or but allay, the fire of passion. Buck. Sir, As shore of rock. Attend. This holy fox, As here at home, suggests the king our master (For 't was, indeed, his colour; but he came Ere it was ask'd;-but when the way was made, Buck. Lo you, my lord, The net has fallen upon me; I shall perish Under device and practice.b Bran. I am sorry That swallow'd so much treasure, and like a glass To see you ta'en from liberty, to look on 'Faith, and so it did. Nor. Buck. Pray, give me favour, sir. This cunning cardinal The articles o' the combination drew As himself pleas'd; and they were ratified, Has done this, and 't is well; for worthy Wolsey, John de la Car-the name of the original and of the Chronicles; but ordinarily printed John de la Court. Michael Hopkins. So the original. The same personthe "Chartreux friar"-is in the next scene called by "the Surveyor" Nicholas Hentom: in both these passages the name is changed by the modern editors to Nicholas Hopkins. Some confusion is probably saved by this; but we also think that the poet might intend Buckingham to give the Nicholas Hopkins of the Chronicles' a wrong Christian-name in his precipitation; and that the Surveyor might call him by his more formal surname, Nicholas Henton-Nicholas of Henton -to which convent he belonged. With this explanation we retain the original text, in both cases. This passage is not easy to be understood. Is the comparison a single or a double one? Douce says it is double: Buckingham is first made to say that he is but a shadow; in other terms a dead man. He then adverts to the sudden cloud of misfortune that overwhelms him, and, like a shadow, obscures his prosperity." Johnson treats the comparison as single: "I am the shadow of poor Buckingham, whose post and dignity is assumed by the cardinal that overclouds and oppresses me, and who gains my place by darkening my clear sun." Offering another explanation, Johnson would read puts out; and Steevens inclines to pouts on. We think the comparison is continuous, though not exactly single: I am the shadow of poor Buckingham-Buckingham is no longer a reality-but even this figure of himself is absorbed, annihilated, by the instant cloud. The metaphor, however, forgets that "the shadow proves the substance true." And point by point the treasons of his master He shall again relate. The KING takes his State. The Lords of the Council take their several places. The CARDINAL places himself under the KING's feet, on his right side. A noise within, crying, Room for the Queen! Enter the QUEEN, ushered by the DUKES OF NORFOLK and SUFFOLK: she kneels. The KING riseth from his State, takes her up, kisses, and placeth her by him. Q. Kath. Nay, we must longer kneel; I am a suitor. K. Hen. Arise, and take place by us :-Half your suit Never name to us; you have half our power; Q. Kath. I am solicited, not by a few, And those of true condition, that your subjects Are in great grievance: there have been commissions Sent down among them, which have flaw'd the heart Of all their loyalties:wherein, although, Of these exactions, yet the king our master, Language unmannerly, yea, such which breaks You that are blam'd for it alike with us, Wol. The chronicles of my doing,-let me say Please you, sir, Where others tell steps with me. To cope malicious censurers; which ever, To those which would not know them, and yet Not ours, or not allow'd; what worst, as oft, Hitting a grosser quality, is cried up For our best act. If we shall stand still, In fear our motion will be mock'd or carp'd at, And with a care, exempt themselves from fear; And, though we leave it with a root, thus hack'd Tongues spit their duties out; and cold hearts I put it to your care. Wol. [To the Secretary. Let there be letters writ to every shire, Of the king's grace and pardon. commons The griev'd Hardly conceive of me; let it be nois'd, Enter Surveyor. Q. Kath. I am sorry that the duke of Buck ingham Is run in your displeasure. K. Hen. It grieves many : The gentleman is learn'd, and a most rare speaker, To nature none more bound; his training such That he may furnish and instruct great teachers, And never seek for aid out of himself. Yet see When these so noble benefits shall prove Not well dispos'd, the mind growing once cor rupt, Once is here used in the sense of sometimes. They turn to vicious forms, ten times more ugly Said, "T was the fear, indeed; and that he Than ever they were fair. This man so cómplete, Who was enroll'd 'mongst wonders, and when Almost with ravish'd list'ning, could not find (This was his gentleman in trust) of him Wol. Stand forth; and with bold spirit relate Most like a careful subject, have collected Surv. First, it was usual with him, every day Wol. doubted, "T would prove the verity of certain words Spoke by a holy monk: that oft,' says he, Hath sent to me, wishing me to permit John de la Car, my chaplain, a choice hour (Tell you the duke) shall prosper: bid him strive On the complaint o' the tenants: Take good heed On my soul, I'll speak but truth. I told my lord the duke, by the devil's illusions This dangerous conception in this point. Q. Kath. dangerous for him To ruminate on this so far, until It forg'd him some design, which, being believ'd, K. Hen. Ha! what so rank? Ah, ha! Surv. Proceed. Being at Greenwich, K. Hen. To think an English courtier may be wise, Lov. The lag end of their lewdness, and be laugh'd at. Sands. "T is time to give them physic, their diseases |