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 conspir'd, And sworn unto the practices of France, To kill us here in Hampton: to the which, This knight,-no less for bounty bound to us Than Cambridge is, hath likewise sworn.-But, O! What shall I say to thee, lord Scroop? thou cruel, Ingrateful, savage, and inhuman creature! Thou, that didst bear the key of all my counsels, That knew'st the very bottom of my soul, That almost mightst have coined me into gold, Wouldst thou have practis'd on me for thy use? May it be possible, that foreign hire Could out of thee extract one spark of evil, That might annoy my finger? 'tis so strange, That, though the truth of it stands off as gross As black from white," my eye will scarcely see it. Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a* natural cause,b That admiration did not whoop † at them: But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in Wonder, to wait on treason and on murder: And whatsoever cunning fiend it was, That wrought upon thee so preposterously, Hath got the voice in hell for excellence; And other devils that suggest by treasons, Do botch and bungle up damnation

With patches, colours, and with forms being fetch'd From glistering semblances of piety;

с

Constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood,
Garnish'd and deck'd in modest complement ;
Not working with the eye, without the ear,
And, but in purged judgment, trusting neither?
Such and so finely boulted didst thou seem;
And thus thy fall hath left a kind of blot
To mark the full-fraught man, and best indued,
With some suspicion. I will weep for thee;
For this revolt of thine, methinks, is like
Another fall of man.'-Their faults are open,
Arrest them to the answer of the law;-
And God acquit them of their practices!

But he that temper'd thee, bade thee stand up, Gave thee no instance why thou shouldst do treason, Unless to dub thee with the name of traitor. If that same dæmon, that hath gull'd thee thus, Should with his lion-gait walk the whole world, He might return to vasty Tartar back, And tell the legions-I can never win A soul so easy as that Englishman's. O, how hast thou with jealousy infected The sweetness of affiance! Show men dutiful? Why, so didst thou. Seem they grave and learned?

Why, so didst thou. Why, so didst thou. Why, so didst thou.

(*) First folio, an.

Come they of noble family? Or are they spare in diet, Seem they religious?

(t) First folio, hoope.

a Black from white,-] So the quartos. The folio has "black

and white."

b A natural cause,-] Cause was probably a misprint for course. c Temper'd thee,-] Moulded thee. Johnson proposed to read

"tempted thee."

d Vasty Tartar-] That is, Tartarus. e Garnish'd and deck'd in modest complement ;] Complement signified' accomplishments, perfection, completeness: and was applied sometimes to mental, sometimes to physical attainments,

EXE. I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Richard earl of Cambridge.

I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Henry lord Scroop of Masham.

I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Thomas Grey, knight, of Northumberland..

SCROOP. Our purposes God justly hath discovered,

And I repent my fault more than my death;
Which I beseech your highness to forgive,
Although my body pay the price of it.

CAM. For me, the gold of France did not seduce,

Although I did admit it as a motive
The sooner to effect what I intended:
But God be thanked for prevention ;
Which I in sufferance heartily will rejoice,
Beseeching God and you to pardon me.

GREY. Never did faithful subject more rejoice
At the discovery of most dangerous treason,
Than I do at this hour joy o'er myself,
Prevented from a damned enterprize:
My fault, but not my body, pardon, sovereign.
K. HEN. God quit you in his mercy! Hear
your sentence.

You have conspir'd against our royal person, Join'd with an enemy proclaim'd, and from his

coffers

Whose ruin you have sought, that to her laws
We do deliver you. Get you therefore hence,
Poor miserable wretches, to your death:
The taste whereof, God, of his mercy, give
You patience to endure, and true repentance
Of all your dear offences!-Bear them hence.
[Exeunt Conspirators, guarded.
Now, lords, for France; the enterprize whereof
Shall be to you, as us, like glorious.
We doubt not of a fair and lucky war,
Since God so graciously hath brought to light
This dangerous treason, lurking in our way,
To hinder our beginnings. We doubt not now,
But every rub is smoothed on our way:
Then forth, dear countrymen; let us deliver
Our puissance into the hand of God,
Putting it straight in expedition.

Cheerly to sea; the signs of war advance:
No king of England, if not king of France.

Boy, bristle thy courage up;-for Falstaff he is And we must yearn therefore.

BARD. Would I were with him, wheresome'er he is, either in heaven or in hell!

any

HOST. Nay, sure, he's not in hell; he's in Arthur's bosom, if ever man went to Arthur's bosom. 'A made a finer end, and went away, an it had been christom child ;(2) 'a parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide:(3) for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers' ends, I knew there was but one way; for his nose was as sharp as a pen, and 'a babbled of green fields. How now, sir John? quoth I: what, man! be o' good cheer. So 'a cried out-God,

a

a And 'a babbled of green fields.] In the folio,-"his nose was as sharpe as a Pen, and a Table of greene fields." quartos have simply, "His nose was as sharp as a pen." The bald's famous emendation of "a babbled of green fields," has now Theobecome so completely a part of the text, that no editor will ever have the temerity to displace it. The conjecture of Pope, therefore, that "a table of green fields," was a stage-direction for the property-man, (whom he supposed to be named Greenfield,) to have a table ready on the stage-" a table of Greenfield's; the equally atrocious sophistication of Mr. Collier's aunotator

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and

God, God! three or four times: now I, to comfort him, bid him, 'a should not think of God; I hoped there was no need to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet: so, 'a bade me lay more clothes on his feet: I put my hand into the bed, and felt them, and they were as cold as any stone; then I felt to his knees, and so upward, and upward, and all was as cold as any stone.

NYм. They say, he cried out of sack.
HOST. Ay, that 'a did.

BARD. And of women.

HOST. Nay, that 'a did not.

Boy. Yes, that 'a did; and said, they were devils incarnate.

HOST. 'A could never abide carnation: 'twas a colour he never liked.

Boy. 'A said once, the devil would have him about women.

HOST. 'A did in some sort, indeed, handle women but then he was rheumatic; and talked of the whore of Babylon.

Boy. Do you not remember, 'a saw a flea stick upon Bardolph's nose, and 'a said, it was a black soul burning in hell?

BARD. Well, the fuel is gone that maintained that fire: that's all the riches I got in his service. NYм. Shall we shog? the king will be gone from Southampton.

PIST. Come, let's away.-My love, give me thy
lips,

Let senses rule; the wordt is, Pitch and pay;
Look to my chattels, and my movables:
Trust none, for oaths are straws, men's faiths are
wafer-cakes,

And hold-fast is the only dog, my duck;
Therefore, caveto be thy counsellor.
Go, clear thy crystals.-Yoke-fellows in arms,
Let us to France! like horse-leeches, my boys;
To suck, to suck, the very blood to suck!

Boy. And that is but unwholesome food, they

(*) First folio, up-peer'd.

[Exeunt.

(f) First folio, world. "his nose was as sharp as a pen on a table of green frieze!" need only be mentioned to be laughed at.

b Was rheumatic;] Was lunatic, the "quondam Quickly" means. Pitch and pay;] A proverbial saying, equivalent to our "pay on delivery." One of the old laws of Blackwell-hall, Farmer says, was that a penny be paid by the owner of every bale of cloth for pitching." Tusser, in his description of Norwich, calls

it,

"A city trim; Where strangers well may seem to dwell, That pitch and pay, or keep their day."

EXE. Bloody constraint; for if you hide the Even in your hearts, there will he rake for it: Therefore in fierce tempest is he coming, In thunder, and in earthquake, like a Jove; (That, if requiring fail, he will compel ;) And bids you, in the bowels of the Lord, Deliver up the crown, and to take mercy On the poor souls, for whom this hungry war Opens his vasty jaws: and on your head Turning the widows' tears, the orphans' cries, The dead men's blood, the pining maidens' groans, For husbands, fathers, and betrothed lovers, That shall be swallow'd in this controversy. This is his claim, his threat'ning, and my message; Unless the Dauphin be in presence here, To whom expressly I bring greeting too.

K. CHA. For us, we will consider of this
further:

To-morrow shall you bear our full intent
Back to our brother of England.

DAU.

a Awkward-] Distorted.

For the Dauphin,

b Memorable line,-] Line is lineage, genealogy.

e Pining-] So the quartos; the folio has "privy."

d Greeting too.] Thus the quartos; the folio reads, "greeting

to."

e Shall chide your trespass,-] Chide is here employed in its

! I stand here for him; what to him from England? EXE. Scorn and defiance; slight regard, contempt,

And any thing that may not misbecome
The mighty sender, doth he prize you at.
Thus says my king: an if your father's highness
Do not, in grant of all demands at large,
Sweeten the bitter mock you sent his majesty,
He'll call you to so hot an answer of it,
That caves and womby vaultages of France
Shall chide your trespass, and return your mock
In second accent of his ordinance.f

DAU. Say, if my father render fair return,
It is against my will: for I desire
Nothing but odds with England; to that end,
As matching to his youth and vanity,
I did present him with the Paris balls.

EXE. He'll make your Paris Louvre shake for
it,

Were it the mistress-court of mighty Europe:
And, be assur'd, you'll find a difference,
(As we, his subjects, have in wonder found,)
Between the promise of his greener days,
And these he masters now; now he weighs time,
Even to the utmost grain; that you shall read
In your own losses, if he stay in France.
K. CHA. To-morrow shall you

know our mind

at full. EXE. Despatch us with all speed, lest that our

king

Thus with imagin'd wing our swift scene flies, In motion of no less celerity

Than that of thought. Suppose, that you have

seen

The well-appointed king at Hampton* pier Embark his royalty; and his brave fleet With silken streamers the Play with your fancies; and in them behold young Phoebus fanning.+ Upon the hempen tackle, ship-boys climbing: Hear the shrill whistle, which doth order give To sounds confus'd: behold the threaden sails, Borne with the invisible and creeping wind, Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd Breasting the lofty surge. O, do but think, You stand upon the rivage, and behold A city on the inconstant billows dancing; For so appears this fleet majestical, Holding due course to Harfleur. Follow, follow! Grapple your minds to sternage of this navy; And leave your England, as dead midnight, still,

sea,

(*) Old copy, Dover. (t) Old copy, fayning. Rivage,-] The shore or bank. The word is not unfrequent VOL. II.

with our old writers, although this is the only instance of its occurrence in Shakespeare.

b Tosternage of this navy;] To the steerage, or course, of the fleet.