Ely. But how, my lord,fhall we refift it how?2 Cant. It must be thought on; if it pafs against us, We lofe the better half of our poffeffion;77 For all the temporal lands, which men devout 10. By teftament have given to the Churchimbi "Is JMĀ Would they strip from us being valu'd thus, voľ As much as would maintain, to the King's honour, I Full fifteen Earls and fifteen hundred Knights, b'uo7 Six thousand and two hundred. good Esquires 3d fri And to relief of lazars, and weak agelund raust A Of indigent faint fouls, paft corporal toil, mon T A hundred alm-houfes, right well fupply'd;T And to the coffers of the King, befide, on, I A thousand pounds by th' year. Thus runs, the bill. Ely. This would drink deep. now since ɔde pri Cant. 'Twould drink the cup and all.

Ely. But what prevention ?

Cant. The King is full of grace and fair regard.
Ely. And a true lover of the holy Church.
Cant. The courses of his youth promis'd it not.
The breath no fooner left his father's body,
But that his wildness mortify'd in him,
Seem'd to die too; yea, at that very moment,
* Confideration, like an angel, came,
And whipt th' offending Adam out of him;
Leaving his body as a Paradife,

Tinvelope and contain celeftial fpirits.
Never was fuch a fudden scholar made,
Never came reformation in a flood 3

With fuch a heady current, fcow'ring faults,
Nor ever Hydra-headed wilfulness,

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03 Never came reformation like a flood] Allading to the method by which Hercules cleansed the famous ftables when he turned a river through them. Hercules ftill is in our authour's head when he mentions the Hydra.

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Cant. Hear him but reafon in divinity, i
And, all admiring with an inward with ind
You would defire, the King were made a Brelate.
Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs, but on
You'd fay it hath been all in all his ftudy. I do
Lift his difcourfe of war, and you shall hear
A fearful battle render'd you in mufick.
Turn him to any caufe of policy,

The Gordian knot of it he will unloofe,

Familiar as his garter. When he speaks, pdci a
The air, a charter'd libertine, is ftill, 5. i
And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears,
To fteal his feet and hony'd fentences.

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ly fnatched to treat with contempt that part of his character which was leaft contemptible. King James's theological know

was not inconfiderable.

• When Arch-ledge at difputations is not

To

4 Hear him but reafon in divinity, &c.] This fpeech feems to have been copied from King James's prelates, fpeaking of their Solomon ; bishop as an emibiopter says, died foon after- very fuitable to a king, but to nent writer wards, and probably doared then, understand the questions is furely at the Hampton-Court conference, laudable, The poet, if he had declared himself verily perfuaded, James in his thoughts, was no that his facred Majefty pake by fkilful encomiaft; for the mention the Spirit of God. And, in ef of Harry's kill in war, forced fect, this fcene was added after upon the remembrance of his King James's acceffion to the audience the great deficiency of crown: So that we have no way their prefent king; who yet of avoiding its being efteemed a all his faults, and many faults he compliment to him, but by sup had, was fuch that Sir Robert pofing it was a fa ire on his bi- Cotton fays, he would be content Shops seka WARBURTON. that England should never have a Why thefe lines fhould be di- better, provided that it should nevided from the rest of the fpeech ver have a worfels $199 mes and applied to king James, I am not able to conceive; nor why opportunity fhould be fa enger

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5 The air, &c. This line is exquifitely beautifuls lethals

So

So that the Art, and practie part of life, uda
Must be the mistress to this theorique tot won woll
Which is a wonder how his Grace Thould glean it,
Since his addiction was to courfes vain to sən
His companies unletter'd Pude and fhallow
His hours filled up with riots, banquets, fports36110
And never noted in him any ftudy guided T
Any retirement, any fequeftrations bein ved 1701
From open haunts and popularity, (susniqi suo nequ

Ely. The Strawberry grows underneath the nettle,
And wholesome berries thrive, and ripen beft, dod??
Neighbour'd by fruit of bafer quality. gados A
And fo the Prince obfcur'd His contemplation
Under the veil of wildnefs, which, no doubt, bi
Grew like the fummer grafs, fastest by night,
by night, ri
Unseen, yet crefcive in his faculty. E duW SRED
Cant. It must be fo for miracles are ceafed!
And therefore we muft needs admit the means,
How things are perfected. bu bus atsisva sr
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6 So that the Art and practic thofe Rules by Proof and Expart of Life, All the Edi-periment. THEOBALD. tions, if I am not deceiv'd, areThis emendation is

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guilty of a flight Corruption in by Dr. Warburton, but it apthis Paffage. The Archbishop has pears to me founded upon a mifbeen fhewing, what a Mafter the interpretation. The true meanKing was in the Theory of Diing feems to be this. He difvinity, War and Policy: fo that courfes with fo much skill on all it must be expected (as I con fubjects, that the art and practice ceive, he would infer;) that the of life must be the mistress or teacher King should now wed that Theory of his theorique, that is, that his to Action, and the putting the theory must have been taught by art feveral Parts of his Knowledge and practice, which, Jays he, is into Practice. If this be our au- ftrange fince he could fee little of thor's Meaning, I think, we can the true art or practice among his hardly doubt but he wrote, loofe companions, nor ever reSo that the Act, and practic, &c. tired to difgell his practice into a is ufed by the authour for practices diftinguished from fcience or theory.

Thus we fonance in theory: Art

the Terms and Senfe. For Theory is the Art, and Study of the Rules of any Science; and Action, the Exemplification of

crefcive in his faculty.] Encreasing in its proper power. Ely.

Ely. But, my good Lord,

How now for mitigation of this bill,

Incline to it, or no?

Urg'd by the Commons? doth his Majefty od 77 27 ne jobs zid sou? regions arti

Cant. He feems indifferent
Or rather fwaying more upon our part,
Than cherishing th' exhibiters against us,
For I have made an offer to his Majesty,
Upon our fpiritual Convocation,

And in regard of caufes now in hand.

Which I have open'd to his Grace at large to w n As touching France, to give a greater Sum, od Than ever at one time the Clergy yet

Did to his predeceffors part withal.

Ely. How did this offer feem receiv'd, my Lord?
Cant. With good acceptance of his Majefty;

Save that there was not time enough to hear
As, I perceiv'd, his Grace, would fain have done
The feverals, and unhidden paffages as agrids wor
Of his true titles to fome certain Dukedoms,
And, generally, to the Crown and feat of France,
Deriv'd from Edward his great grandfather.

Ely. What was th' impediment, that broke this off? q Cant. The French Ambaffador upon that inftant Crav'd audience; and the hour, I think, is come To give him hearing. Is it four o'clock?

en g Ely. It is of án 191109 1613 of yɔilo¶ ban is W year, Cant. Then go we in to know his embaffy of Which I could with a ready guefs declare, blodt nie Before the Frenchman (peaks a word of ithas noth of zi Ely. I'll wait upon you, and I long to hear itervet, -10 ad an 11.95 [Exeunt.

-The feverals,

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wsi.and doob vibind unbidden pallages of of his titles are the lines paffages] This of fucceffion, by which his claims line I fuf -pect of corruption, though it may defcend. Unbidden is open, clear: be fairly enough explained: the bush oda a prod

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Opens to the Prefence.

Enter King Henry, Gloucester, Bedford, Clarence, Warwick, Weftmorland, and Exeter.

ཟེ་ཝཱཏི་

HERE is my gracious Lord of

Canterbury?

Exe. Not here in prefence.

K. Henry. Send for him, good uncle.

Weft. Shall we call in th' ambaffador, my Liege? K. Henry. Not yet, my coufin; we would be refolv'd, Before we hear him, of fome things of weight,

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That task our thoughts, concerning us and France.

Enter the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Bishop of Ely. Cant. God and his angels guard your facred throne, And make you long become it!

K. Henry. Sure, we thank you.

My learned Lord, we pray you to proceed;
And juftly and religiously unfold,

Why the law Salike, that they have in France,
Or fhould, or should not, bar us in our claim.
And, God forbid, my dear and faithful Lord,
That you should fashion, wreft, or bow your reading;
Or nicely charge your understanding foul
With opening titles + mifcreate, whose right
Suites not in native colours with the truth.
For, God doth know, how many now in health
Shall drop their blood, in approbation
Of what your reverence fhall incite us to.

Shall we call in, &c.] Here began the old play. POPE. *tak] Keep bufied with fcruples and laborious difquifitions.

Or nicely charge your under ftanding foul] Take heed left by nice and fubtle fophiftry you burthen your knowing foul,

or knowingly burthen your foul, with the guilt of advancing a falfe title, or of maintaining, by fpecious fallacies, a claim which, if fhewn in its native and true colours, would appear to be false.

+ mifcreate-] 1 begotten; Ill illegitimate; fpurious.

Therefore