Therefore take heed, how you impawn our perfon, *
How you awake our sleeping sword of war
We charge you in the name of God, take heed.
For never two fuch kingdoms did contend
Without much fall of blood; whofe guiltless drops
Are every one a woe, a fore complaint,

'Gainst him, whofe wrong gives edge unto the fwords,
That make fuch wafte in brief mortality.
Under this conjuration, fpeak, my Lord;

For we will hear, note, and believe in heart,
That what you speak is in your conscience washt,:
As pure as fin with baptism.

Cant. Then hear me, gracious Sovereign, and you
Peers,

That owe your lives, your faith, and services,
To this imperial throne. There is no bar 3
To make against your Highnets' claim to France,
But this which they produce from Pharamond;
In terram Salicam Mulieres nè fuccedant ;
No Woman fhall fucceed in Salike land:
Which Salike land the French unjustly glofs
To be the realm of France, and Pharamond
The founder of this law and female bar.
Yet their own authors faithfully affirm,
That the land, Salike lies in Germany,
Between the floods of Sala and of Elve,

Where Charles the great, having fubdu'd the Saxonss.
There left behind and fettled certain French, bun
Who, holding in difdain the German women,
For fome difhoneft manners of their life,
Eftablish'd then this law; to wit, no female
Should be inheritrix in Salike land, or ontgrⱭ
Which Salike, as I faid, 'twixt Elve and Sala, si v
Is at this day in Germany call'd Meifen sinu-s V
Thus doth it well appear, the Salike law dro
We Jedi 02
Was not devised for the realm of France 31 mar
Nor did the French poffefs the Salike land,
Until four hundred one and twenty years
After defunction of King Pharamond, a
Idly fuppos'd the founder of this law;
Who died within the year of our redemption
Four hundred twenty-fix; and Charles the great,A
Subdu'd the Saxons, and did feat the Frenchins ad I
Beyond the river Sala in the yearny, moil
Eight hundred five. Befides, their writers fay,
King Pepin, which depofed Childerick,
Did as heir general, being defcended

blod oT od ob 02 ideo, of

Of Blithild, which was daughter to King Clothair,
Make claim and title to the Crown of France.
Hugh Capet alfo, who ufurp'd the Crown

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Of Charles the Duke of Lorain, fole heir male
Of the true line and flock of Charles the great,
To fine his title with fome fhews of truth, n
Though, in pure truth, it was corrupt and naught,
Convey'd himself as heir to th' Lady Lingare,
Daughter to Charlemain, who was the font
To Lewis th' Emperor, which was the fon

Of Charles the great. Alfo King Lewis the ninth,
the great.

To fine his title, &c.] This
is the reading of the 4to of 1608,
that of the folio is, To find his
title. I would read,

To line bis title with shows of
truth.

To line may fignify at once to

decorate and ftrengthen.
In Macbeth:

He did line the rebels with bidden help and vantage.

Dr. Warburton fays, that yo fine his title, is to refine or improve it. The reader is to judge.

Who

Who was fole heir to the ufurper Capet,
Could not keep quiet in his confcience,
Wearing the Crown of France, 'till fatisfy'd
That fair Queen Ifabel, his grandmother,
Was lineal of the lady Ermengere,

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Daughter to Charles the forefaid Duke of Lorain:
By the which match the line of Charles the great
Was re-united to the Crown of France.
So that, as clear as is the fummer's fun,"
King Pepin's title, and Hugh Caper's claim,
King Lewis Satisfaction, all appear
all appear oʻrigh na
To hold in right and title of the female; moto
So do the Kings of France until this day,
Howbeit they would hold up this Salike law,
To bar your Highnefs claiming from the female
And rather chufe to hide them in a net,
Than amply to imbare their crooked titles,
Ufurpt from you and your progenitors.
ience make this
K. Henry. May I with right and confcience
55loqab nonH

claim?
Cant. The fin upon my head, dread Sovereign!
For in the book of Numbers it is writ,
When the fon dies, let the inheritance

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Defcend unto the daughter the b

Gracious Lord ny as Stand for your own, unwind your bloody flag, Look back into your mighty ancestors;

Go, my dread Lord, to your great grandfire's tomb, From whom you claim; invoke his warlike fpirit,

*Mr. Pope reads: w odwin his Edition, who reads;

Than openly imbrace] But where is the Antithefts betwixt bide in the preceding Line, and imbrace in this? The two old Folio's an amply to imbarreWe certainly muft read, as Mr. Warburton advis'd me,-Thanamply to imbare lay open, display View. I am furpriz'd Mr. Pepe did not fart this Conjecture, as Mr. Rowe has led the way to it

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Than amply to make bare their

crooked Titles, THEOBALD. Mr. Theobald might have found in the quarto of 1608, this readng to o iz 45 quibson a Than amply to embrace their

crooked capfes, out of which line Mr. Pope form ed his reading, erroneous indeed, but not merely capricious.. Bb 2

And

And your great uncle Edward the black Prince, UŽA
Who on the French ground play'd a Tragedy,
Making defeat on the full pow'r of France, nga
While his moft mighty Father, on a hill, A
Stood fmiling, to behold his Lion's whelprob yol tud
Forage in blood of French Nobility. Add fing
O noble English, that could entertain navbe is dien
With half their forces the full pow'r of France,
And let another half ftand laughing by

red lied? All out of work, and cold for action Act Let I mO

Ely. Awake remembrance of these valiant dead, s And with your puiffant arm renew their feats.

You are their heir, you fit upon their throne

The blood, and courage, that renowned them, 101
Runs in your veins; and my thrice puiffant Liege
Is in the very May-morn of his youth,...... ́
Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprifes.

Exe. Your brother Kings and Monarchs of the earth
Do all expect that you thould rouze yourself,
As did the former Lions of your blood,

West. They know, your Grace hath cause; and means and might 6

So hath your Highnefs; never King of England Had Nobles richer, and more loyal Subjects; Whofe hearts have left their bodies here in England, And lie pavilion'd in the field of France.

Cant. O, let their bodies follow, my dear Liege, With blood and sword, and fire, to win your right. In aid whereof, we of the Spiritualty

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5 Thefe four fpeeches were added after the first edition.

6 They know your GRACE BATH caufe, and means, and might, So bath your Highness-] We fhould read,

your RACE HAD coufe. which is carrying on the fenfe of the concluding words of Exeter. As did the former Lions of your blood.

meaning Edward III, and the Black Prince.

WARBURTON.

do not fee but the prefent reading may ftand as I have pointed it.

7 Thefe two lines Dr. Warburton gives to Westmorland, but with fo little reafon that I have continued them to Canterbury. The credit of old copies, though not great, is yet more than nothing.

Will raise your Highness fuch a mighty fum,
As never did the Clergy at one time

Bring in to any of your ancestors.

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K. Henry. We must not only arm t'invade the French, But lay down our proportions to defend dillad to Against the Scot, who will make road upon us With all advantages.one bites unh

Cant. They of thofe Marches, gracious Sovereign, Shall be a wall fufficient to defend on th

Our Inland from the pilfering borderers.wo

K. Henry. We do not mean the courfing fnatchers only, But fear the main intendment of the Scot,

8

Who hath been ftill a giddy neighbour to us;
For you fhall read, that my great grandfather
Never went with his forces into France, 9.
But that the Scot on his unfurnifht kingdom
Came pouring, like a tide into a breach,
With ample and brim fulness of his force,
Galling the gleaned land with hot aflays,
Girding with grievous fiege caftles and towns,
That England, being empty of defence,

Hath fhook, and trembled, at th' ill neighbourhood. Cant. She hath been then more fear'd than harm'd, my Liege;

For hear her but exampled by herself,

When all her chivalry hath been in France,
And she a mourning widow of her Nobles,
She hath herself not only well defended, a
But taken and impounded as a ftray

The King of Scots, whom he did fend to France,
To fill King Edward's fame with prifoner Kings;
And make your chronicle as rich with praife,

giddy neighbour] That is, inconflant, changeable. 9 Never went with his forces into France Shakespeare wrote the line thus, Ne'er went with his FULL forces into France.

As

The following expreffions of unfurnisht kingdom, gleaned land, and empty of defence, thew this. WARBURTON.

There is no need of alteration, i And make his chronicle as rich Bb 3 with