And the third hour of drowsy morning name.] The old copy

nam'd. STEEVENS.

How much better might we read thus?

The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll,

And the third hour of drowsy morning

I have admitted this very necessary and elegant emendatiqu. STEEVENS.

Sir T. Hanmer, with almost equal probability, reads:

And the third hour of drowsy morning's nam'd. MALONE. P. 65, 1. 21. -- over-lusty] i. e. oversaucy. STEVENS.

P. 65, 1. 22. Do the low-rated English play at dice; i. e. do play them away at dice. WARBURTON. P. 65, I. 29. 30. and their gesture sud, Investing lank-lean cheeks, and war-worn coats,] A gesture investing cheeks and coats is nonsense. We should read:

Invest in lan lean cheeks which is sense; i. e. their sad gesture was cloath'd, or set off, in lean cheeks and worn The image is strong and picturesque.

coats.

WARBURTON. I fancy Shakspeare might have written :

In fasting, lank-lean cheeks, &c. Heath. Change is unnecessary. The harshness of the me~ taphor is what offends, which means only, that their looks are invested in mournful gestures. STEEVENS.

Gesture only relates to their cheeks, after

which word there should be a comma, as in the first folio. TOLLET.

P. 66, 1. 26. To mind is the same as to call to remembrance. JOHNSON.

P. 67, 1. 9. Dress us, I believe, means here, address us; i. e. prepare ourselves. MALONE. Dress, in its common acceptation, may be the true reading. STEEVENS.

P. 67, 1. 13. Sir Thomas Erpingham came over with Bolingbroke from Bretagne, and was one of the commissioners to receive King Richard's abdication. EDWARDS'S MS.

Sir Thomas Erpingham was in Henry V's

time warden of Dover castle. His arms are still visible on one side of the Roman pharos.

STEEVENS.

P. 67, 1. 25. Slough is the skin which the serpent annually throws off, and by the change of which he is supposed to regain new vigour and fresh youth. Legerity is lightness, nimbleness. JOHNSON.

P. 68, 1. 19. An imp is a shoot in its primitive sense, but means a son in Shakspeare.

STEEVENS.

P. 69, 1. 4. It sorts ~] i. e. it agrees.

STEEVENS. P. 69, 1. 15. 14. that there is no tiddle taddle, nor pibble pabble, in Pompey's camp, &c.] Amongst the laws and ordinances militarie set down by Robert Earl of Leicester in the Low Countries, printed at Leyden, 1586, one is, that "No man shall make anie outerie or noise in any watch, ward, ambush, or anie other place where silence is requisite, and necessarie, upon paine of losse of life or limb at the general's discretion." REED.

F: 70; 1. 22. conditions are qualities. The meaning is, that objects are represented by his senses to him, as to other men by theirs. What is danger to another is danger likewise to bim; and, when he feels fear, it is like the fear of meaner mortal. JoHNSON.

P. 70, 1. 25. they stoop with the like wing ;] This passage alludes to the ancient sport of, falconry. When the hawk, after soaring aloft, or mounting high, descended in its flight, it was said to stoop. PERCY..

P. 71, l. 13. Bates. Ay, or more than we should seek after;] This sentiment does not correspond with what Bates. has just before said. The speech, I believe, should be given to Court. MALONE.

P. 719 1. 21. at the latter day,] i. e. the last day, the day of judgement. Our author has, in other instances, used the comparative for the superlative. STEEVENS.

P. 71, 1. 26.

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some upon their children That is, without preparation, hastily, suddenly. What is not matured is raw.

rawly left.]

JOHNSON.

Rawly left, is left young and helpless.

RITSON.

P.. 72, 1.20. native punishment,] That is," punishment in their native country. HEATH.

Native punishment is such as they are born to, if they offend. STEEVENS.

P. 72, 1. 36. 31. Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own.] This is a very just distinction, and the whole argument is well followed,, and properly cou cluded. JOHNSON. P. 72, 1. 33.

wash every mote out of his

conscience: Old copy moth, which was only the ancient spelling of mote. I suspected, but did not know, this to be the case, when I proposed the true reading of a passage in A. John. MALONE.

P. 73, 1. 5. 'Tis certain, &c.] In the quarto. this little speech is not given to the same soldier who endeavours to prove that the King was an swerable for the mischiefs of war; and who after wards gives his glove to Heary. The persons are indeed there only distinguished by figures, 1, 2, 3.. But this circumstance, as well as the tenour of the present speech, shews, that it does not belong to Williams, who has just been maintaining contrary doctrine. It might with. propriety be transferred to Court, who is on the scene, and says scarcely a word.. MALONE.

P. 73, 1. 17. To pay in old language meant to thrash or beat; and here signifies to bring to account, to punish. The text is here made out from the folio and quarto. MALONE.

P. 73, 1. 18. 19. That's a perilous shot out of an elder gun, that a poor and private displeasure can do against a monarch!] In the old play [the quarto, 1600, the thought is more opened. It is a great displeasure that an elder gun can do against a cannon " or a subject against a monarch. JOHNSON.

P. 75, 1. 24. Your reproof is something too round; i. e. too rough, too unceremonious.

STEEVENS.

P. 74, 1. 15. 16. the French may lay twenty French crowns to one,] This conceit, rather too low for a King, has been already explained, as alluding to the venereal disease.

JOHNSON.

There is surely no necessity for supposing any allusion in this passage to the veneral disease. The conceit here seems to turn merely upon the equivocal sense of crown, which signifies either a coin, or a head. TYRWHITT.

P. 74, 21. and fol. Upon the King! let us our lives, &c.] This beautiful speech was added after the first edition. POPE.

There is something very striking and solemn in this soliloquy, into which the King breaks immediately as soon as he is left alone. Something like this, on less occasions, every breasthas felt. Reflection and seriousness rush upon the mind upon the separation of a gay company, and especially after forced and unwilling merriment. JOHNSON.

P. 75, first 1. What is the soul of adoration?] The first copy reads,

What? is thy soul of adoration?

This is incorrect, but I think we may discover the true reading easily enough to be, What is thy soul, O adoration?

That is, reverence paid to Kings, what art thou within? What are thy real qualities? What is thy intrinsic value? JOHNSON.

I have received Mr. Malone's amendment, which he thus explains: "What is the real worth and intrinsick value of adoration?

The quarto has not this speech. The folio reads,

What? is thy soul of adoration?

STEEVENS.

The latter word was corrected in the second folio. For the other emendation, now made, [