K. Henry. I doubt not that: fince we are well per

fuaded,

We carry not a heart with us from hence,

That grows not in a fair confent with ours;
Nor leave not one behind, that doth not wish
Succefs and conqueft to attend on us.

Cam. Never was monarch better fear'd, and lov'd, Than is your majefty; there's not, I think, a fubject, That fits in heart-grief and uneafinefs

Under the sweet fhade of your government.

Grey. Even thofe, that were your father's enemies, Have ftcep'd their galls in honey; and do ferve you With hearts create of duty and of zeal.

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K. Henry. We therefore have great caufe of thankfulness;

And fhall forget the office of our hand,
Sooner than quittance of defert and merit,
According to the weight and worthinefs.

Scroop. So fervice fhall with fteeled finews toil;
And labour shall refresh itself with hope,
To do your grace inceffant fervices.

K. Henry. We judge no lefs.-Uncle of Exeter,
Enlarge the man committed yesterday,
That rail'd against our perfon: we confider,
It was excess of wine that fet him on;

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And, on his more advice, we pardon him.

Scroop. That's mercy, but too much security; Let him be punifh'd, fovereign; left example Breed, by his fufferance, more of fuch a kind. K. Henry. O, let us yet be merciful.

Cam. So may your highnefs, and yet punish too. Grey. Sir, you fhew great mercy, if you give him. life,

After the taste of much correction.

bearts create-] Hearts compounded or made up of duty and JOHNSON.

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zeal.

-more advice,—] On his return to more coolness of mind.

JOHNSON.
K. Henry.

K. Henry. Alas, your too much love and care of

me

Are heavy orifons 'gainst this poor wretch,

If little faults, proceeding on diftemper,

Shall not be wink'd at, 'how fhall we ftretch our eye, When capital crimes, chew'd, fwallow'd, and digefted,

Appear before us ?-We'll yet enlarge that man, Though Cambridge, Scroop, and Grey,-in their

dear care

And tender prefervation of our perfon,

Would have him punith'd. And now to our French caufes ;

Who are the late commiffioners ?

Cam. I one, my lord;

Your highness bade me afk for it to-day.
Scroop. So did you me, my liege.

Grey. And me, ny royal fovereign.

K. Henry. Then, Richard, earl of Cambridge, there is yours;

There yours, lord Scroop of Mafham ;-and, fir

knight,

9-proceeding on diftemper-] i. e. fudden paffions.

WARBURTON. Perturbation of mind. Temper is equality or calmnefs of mind, from an equipoife or due mixture of paffions. Diftemper of mind is the predominance of a paffion, as diftemper of body is the predominance of a bumour. JOHNSON.

It has been just faid by the king that, it was excess of wine that fet him on, and diffemper may therefore mean intoxication. Dif temper'd in liquor, is ftill a common expreffion. Chapman, in his epicedium on the Death of Prince Henry 1612, has perfonified this distemper:

"Frantick distemper, and hare-ey'd unreft." And Brabantio fays, that Roderigo is :

"Full of fupper and diftemp'ring draughts."

Again, Holinfhed, Vol. III. p. 626,

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-gave him wine and

ftrong drink in fuch exceffive fort, that he was therewith dißlempered, and reel'd as he went." STEEVENS.

-how fall we firetch eur eye, -] If we may not wink at finall fau is, how wide must we open our eyes at great? JOHNSON.

Grey

Grey of Northumberland, this fame is yours:Read themh; and know, I know your worthinefs.My lord of Westmoreland,-and uncle Exeter,We will aboard to-night.-Why, how now, gentle

men?

What fee you in thofe

papers, that you lofe So much complexion ?-look ye, how they change! Their cheeks are paper.-Why, what read you there, That hath fo cowarded and chas'd your blood Out of appearance?

Cam. I do confefs my fault;

And do fubmit me to your highnefs' mercy.
Grey, Stroop. To which we all appeal.

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K. Henry. The mercy, that was quick in us but

late,

By your own counfel is fupprefs'd and kill'd:
You must not dare, for fhame, to talk of mercy;
For your own reafons turn into your bofoms,
As dogs upon their mafters, worrying them.-
See you, my princes, and my noble peers,
Thefe English monfters! My lord Cambridge here,-
You know, how apt our love was, to accord
To furnish him with all appertinents
Belonging to his honour; and this man.
Hath, for a few light crowns, lightly confpir'd,
And fworn unto the practices of France,
To kill us here in Hampton: to the which,
This knight, no lefs for bounty bound to us
Than Cambridge is,-hath likewife fworn.-But O!
What fhall I fay to thee, lord Scroop; thou cruel,
Ingrateful, favage, and inhuman creature!
Thou, that didft bear the key of all my counfels,
That knew'ft the very bottom of my foul,
That almost might'ft have coin'd me into gold,
Would't thou have practis'd on me for thy ufe?
May it be poffible, that foreign hire

quick] That is, living. JOHNSON.

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Could

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Could out of thee extract one spark of evil,
That might annoy my finger? 'tis fo ftrange,
That, though the truth of it ftands off as grofs
As black from white, my eye will fcarcely fee it.
Treafon, and murder, ever kept together,

As two yoke-devils fworn to either's purpofe,
Working fo grofsly in a natural caufe,

That admiration did not whoop at them:
But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didft bring in
Wonder, to wait on treafon, and on murder :
And whatfoever cunning fiend it was,
That wrought upon thee fo prepofteroufly,
He hath got the voice in hell for excellence:
And other devils, that fuggeft by treasons,
Do botch and bungle up damnation

With patches, colours, and with forms being fetch'd
From gliftering femblances of piety;

But he, that temper'd thee, bade thee ftand up, Gave thee no inftance why thou fhould't do treafon, Unless to dub thee with the name of traitor.

If that fame dæmon, that hath gull'd thee thus,

though the truth fiand off as gross

As black and white,

Should

Though the truth be as apparent and wifible as black and white contiguous to cach other. To ftand off is étre relevé, to be prominent to the eye, as the ftrong parts of a picture. JOHNSON.

4 Treafon and murder,- ] What follows to the end of this fpeech is additional fince the first edition. POPE.

5 Working fo grofily Grofily for commonly, which the Oxford editor not understanding, alters it to clafely.

WARBURTON.

Grofsly is neither clofely nor commonly, but palpably; with a plain and visible connexion of caute and effect. JOHNSON.

And other devils that fuggeft, &c.] The reafoning, I think, requires that we should read- For other devils

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MALONE.

-be that temper'd thee,] Though temper'd may stand for formed or moulded, yet I fancy tempted was the author's word, for it answers better to fuggeft in the oppofition. JoHNSON.

Temper'd

Should with his lion gait walk the whole world,
He might return to vafty Tartar back,
And tell the legions-I can never win
A foul fo eafy as that Englishman's.

Oh, how haft thou with jealoufy infected

The sweetness of affiance! Shew men dutiful?
Why, so didst thou: Seem they grave and learned?
Why, fo didft thou: Come they of noble family?
Why, fo didst thou: Seem they religious?
Why, fo didst thou: Or are they fpare in diet;
Free from grofs paffion, or of mirth, or anger;
Conftant in fpirit, not fwerving with the blood
'Garnish'd and deck'd in modeft complement;

. Not

Temper'd, I believe, is the true reading. Falstaff fays of Shai low, that he has him " tempering between his thumb and finger," STEEVENS

Dr. Johnson's emendation is strongly supported, not only by the word juggs, which he has mentioned, but likewife by the foregoing and fubfequent lines:

And whatfoever cunning fiend it was

"That wrought upon thee

"If that fame dæmon that hath gull'd thee thus-"

MALONE,

& vafty Tartar] i. e. Tartarus, the fabled place of future punishment. So, in Heywood's Brazen Age, 1613:

"With Aconitum that in Tartar fprings," STEVENS, • Ob, bow haft thou with jealousy infected

The fixeetness of affiance!]

Shakspeare urges this aggravation of the guilt of treachery with great judgment. One of the worft confequences of breach of truft is the diminution of that confidence which makes the hape pinefs of life, and the diffemination of fufpicion, which is the poi ion of fociety. JOHNSON.

Garnish'd and deck'd in modeft complement;] Modeft complement that is, fulness, WARBURTON.

This note will not much help the reader, unless he knows to what fullness is to be applied. I take the meaning to be this. The king, having mentioned Scroop's temperange in diet, pafles on to his decency in drefs, and fays, that he was decked in mode complement; that is, he was decorated with ornaments, but fuch as might be worn without vain oftentation. Complement means fomething more than is neceflary; lo complement in language is

what