Glend. Do fo; And tho' th' muficians, that fhall play to you Hang in the air a thousand leagues from hence; Yet ftrait they fhall be here; fit, and attend. Hot. Come, Kate, thou art perfect in lying down: come, quick, quick, that I may lay my head in thy lap. Lady. Go, ye giddy goose. [The mufick plays. Hot. Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh: and 'tis no marvel, he is fo humourous, by'r lady, he's a good musician. Lady. Then would you be nothing but mufical, for you are altogether govern'd by humours: lie ftill, ye thief, and hear the lady fing in Welb. Hot. I had rather hear Lady, my brach, howl in Irish. Hot. No. Lady. Then be still. Hot. Neither, 'tis a woman's fault. Lady. Now God help thee! Hot. To the Welj lady's bed. Lady. What's that? Hot. Peace, the fings. [Here the Lady fings a Welsh fong. Come, I'll have your fong too. Lady. Not mine in good footh. Hot. Not yours, in good footh! you fwear like a comfit-maker's wife; not you, in good footh; and, as true as I live; and, as God fhall mend me; and, as fure as day and givest fuch farcenet furety for thy oaths, as if thou never walk'd'ft further than Finsbury. Swear me, Kate, like a lady, as thou art, 6 And THOSE muficians, that fhall play to you Hang in the air Yet] The particle yet being used here adverfitively, muft have a particle of conceffion preceding it. I read therefore 157 And THO' TH' musicians- A A good mouth-filling oath, and leave infooth, Lady. I will not fing. Hot. 'Tis the next way to turn tailor, or be RobinRed-breaft teacher: if the indentures be drawn, I'll away within these two hours: and fo come in, when ye [Exit. Glend. Come, come, lord Mortimer, you are as flow, As hot lord Percy is on fire to go. will. By this our book is drawn: we will but feal, Mort. With all my heart. SCE NE [Exeunt. IV. Changes to the Prefence-chamber in Windfor. Enter King Henry, Prince of Wales, Lords and others. K. Henry. LOR ORDS, give us leave; the Prince of Must have some private conference: but be near, [Exeunt Lords. I know not, whether God will have it fo, 7 For fome difpleafing service-] fervice for action, fimply. 8 mark'd For the bot vengeancement of vengeance. -] i. e. appointed for the inftru Could Could fuch inordinate and low defires, Such poor, fuch base, such lewd, such mean attaints, As thou art match'd withal and grafted to, P. Henry So please your Majefty, I wish, I could Quit all offences with as clear excufe, As well, as, I am doubtless, I can purge As, in reproof of many tales devis'd, Which oft the ear of Greatness needs must hear, [Harry, Of all the Court and Princes of my blood. 9-fucb lewd, fuch mean ATTEMPTS,] Shakespear certainly Wrote ATTAINTS, ¿. e. unlawful actions. • But. 'But being seldom feen, I could not stir, But, like a comet, I was wonder'd at ! • That men would tell their children, this is he. • Others would fay, where? which is Bolingbroke? And then I ftole all courtefie from heav'n, • And drest my self in much humility, • That I did pluck allegiance from men's hearts, 6 Ne'er feen, but wonder'd at; and fo my State, The skipping King, he ambled up and down Had his great name profaned with their scorns ; To laugh (a) with gybing boys, and ftand the push Grew a companion to the common streets, 1 And then I fole all courtefie from heav'n,] This is an allu fion to the ftory of Prometheus's theft, who ftole fire from thence; and as with this he made a Man, fo with that, Bolingbroke made a King As the Gods were fuppofed jealous in appropriating reason to themselves, the getting fire from thence, which lighted it up in the mind, was called a theft; and as power is their prerogative, the getting courtefie from thence, by which power is beit procured, is called a theft. The thought is exquifitely great and beautiful. 2 -rafh bavin-] i. e. dry brushwood. 3 CARDED his State;] Richard is here reprefented as laying afide his royalty, and mixing himfelf with common jefters. This will lead us to the true reading, which I fuppofe is, 'SCARDED his State; i. e. difcarded, threw off. [(a) with. Oxford Editor.-Vulg. at. ] • Enfeoff'd • Enfeoff'd himself to popularity: That, being daily fwallow'd by men's eyes, To loath the tafte of sweetness; whereof a little • More than a little is by much too much. So when he had occafion to be seen, He was but, as the Cuckow is in June, 'Heard, not regarded; feen, but with fuch eyes, As, fick and blunted with community, • Afford no extraordinary gaze; 6 • Such as is bent on fun-like Majefty, When it fhines feldom in admiring eyes: But rather drowz'd, and hung their eye-lids down, As cloudy men use to their adversaries, Save mine, which hath defir'd to see thee more; P. Henry. I fhall hereafter, my thrice-gracious lord, Be more my self. K. Henry. For all the world, As thou art at this hour was Richard then, |