Grey of Northumberland, this fame is yours :-
Read them; and know, I know your worthiness.-
My lord of Weftmoreland,-and uncle Exeter,-
We will aboard to-night.-Why, how now, gentle-
men?

What fee you in those papers, that you lofe
So much complexion?-look ye, how they change!
Their cheeks are paper.-Why, what read you
there,

That hath fo cowarded and chas'd your blood
Out of appearance?

CAM.

I do confefs my fault; And do fubmit me to your highnefs' mercy. GREY. SCROOP. To which we all appeal.

K. HEN. The mercy, that was quick' in us but
late,

By your own counfel is fupprefs'd and kill'd:
You must not dare, for fhame, to talk of mercy;
For your own reafons turn into your bofoms,
As dogs upon their masters, worrying them.-
See you, my princes, and my noble peers,
Thefe English monfters! My lord of Cambridge
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 fworn unto the practices of France,
To kill us here in Hampton: to the which,
This knight,-no lefs for bounty bound to us
Than Cambridge is,-hath likewife fworn.-But O!
What shall I fay to thee, lord Scroop; thou cruel,

6 quick-] That is, living. JOHNSON.

7 To furnish him-] The latter word, which is wanting in the firft folio, was fupplied by the editor of the fecond. MALONE.

Ingrateful, favage, and inhuman creature!
Thou, that didst bear the key of all my counfels,
That knew'ft the very bottom of my foul,
That almoft might'ft have coin'd me into gold,
Would'st thou have practis'd on me for thy use?
May it be poffible, that foreign hire

Could out of thee extract one fpark of evil,
That might annoy my finger? 'tis so strange,
That, though the truth of it ftands off as grofs
As black from white, my eye will fcarcely fee it.
Treason, and murder, ever kept together,
As two yoke-devils fworn to either's purpose,
Working fo grofsly in a natural caufe,
That admiration did not whoop at them:
But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didft bring in
Wonder, to wait on treason, and on murder:
And whatsoever cunning fiend it was,
That wrought upon thee fo prepofterously,
H'ath got the voice in hell for excellence:
And other devils, that fuggeft by treasons,
Do botch and bungle up damnation

With patches, colours, and with forms being fetch'd
From gliftering femblances of piety;

But he, that temper'd thee, bade thee ftand up,

8

-though the truth of it ftands off as grofs

As black from white,] Though the truth be as apparent and vifible as black and white contiguous to each other. Toftand off is être relevé, to be prominent to the eye, as the strong parts picture. JOHNSON.

of a

fo grofsly-] Palpably; with a plain and visible connexion of caufe and effect. JOHNSON.

he, that temper'd thee,] Though temper'd may ftand for formed or moulded, yet I fancy tempted was the author's word, for it anfwers better to fuggeft in the oppofition. JOHNSON.

Temper'd, I believe, is the true reading, and means-rendered thee pliable to his will. Falstaff fays of Shallow, that he has him "tempering between his thumb and finger." STEEVENS,

Gave thee no inftance why thou fhould'ft do treason,
Unless to dub thee with the name of traitor.
If that fame dæmon, that hath gull'd thee thus,
Should with his lion gait walk the whole world,
He might return to vafty Tartar back,
And tell the legions-I can never win
A foul fo eafy as that Englishman's.
O, how haft thou with jealousy infected

The sweetness of affiance!+ Show men dutiful?
Why, fo didst thou: Seem they grave and learned?
Why, fo didft thou: Come they of noble family?
Why, fo didst thou: Seem they religious?

Why, fo didst thou: Or are they spare in diet; Free from grofs paffion, or of mirth, or anger; Conftant in fpirit, not fwerving with the blood; Garnifh'd and deck'd in modeft complement;' Not working with the eye, without the ear,"

STEEVENS.

3vafty Tartar-] i. e. Tartarus, the fabled place of future punishment. So, in Heywood's Brazen Age, 1613: "With aconitum that in Tartar fprings.' Again, in The troublefome Raigne of King John, 1591: "And let the black tormentors of black Tartary, Upbraide them with this damned enterprize.'

40, how haft thou with jealouly infected

MALONE.

The sweetness of affiance!] Shakspeare uses this aggravation of the guilt of treachery with great judgement, One of the worst confequences of breach of truft is the diminution of that confidence which makes the happiness of life, and the diffemination of fufpicion, which is the poifon of fociety. JOHNSON.

5 Garnish'd and deck'd in modeft complement;] Complement has in this inftance the fame fenfe as in Love's Labour's Loft, A&t I. Complements, in the age of Shakspeare, meant the fame as accomplishments in the present one. STEEVENS.

See Vol. V. p. 190, n. 3. By the epithet modeft the king means that Scroop's accomplishments were not oftentatiously display'd. MALONE.

Not working with the eye, without the ear,] The king means to fay of Scroop, that he was a cautious man, who knew that fronti mulla fides, that a fpecious appearance was deceitful, and therefore

And, but in purged judgement, trusting neither?
Such, and fo finely boulted, didst thou seem:7
And thus thy fall hath left a kind of blot,
To mark the full-fraught man, and beft indued,'
With fome fufpicion. I will weep for thee;
For this revolt of thine, methinks, is like
Another fall of man.-Their faults are open,
Arreft them to the answer of the law;-
And God acquit them of their practices!

EXE. I arreft thee of high treafon, by the name of Richard earl of Cambridge.

I arreft thee of high treason, by the name of Henry lord Scroop of Mafham.

did not work with the eye, without the ear, did not trust the air or look of any man till he had tried him by enquiry and conversation. JOHNSON.

7 and fo finely boulted,] i. e. refined or purged from all faults. РОРЕ.

Boulted is the fame with fifted, and has confequently the meaning of refined. JOHNSON.

8 To mark the full-fraught man, and best indued, &c.] Beft indued is a phrafe equivalent to-gifted or endowed in the moft extraordinary manner. So, Chapman :

"His pow'rs with dreadful strength indu'd." STEEVENS. The folio, where alone this line is found, reads-To make the full fraught man, &c. The emendation was made by Mr. Theobald. Mr. Pope endeavoured to obtain fome fenfe by pointing thus: To make the full-fraught man and beft, indu'd With fome fufpicion.

But to make a perfon indued with fufpicion," does not appear, to my ear at least, like the phrafeology of Shakspeare's or any other age. Make or mock are so often confounded in these plays, that I once fufpected that the latter word might have been used here: but this alfo would be very harsh. The old copy has thee inftead of the. The correction was made by Mr. Pope. MALONE.

Our authour has the fame thought again in Cymbeline :

"Wilt lay the leaven to all proper men;
"Goodly and gallant fhall be falfe and perjur'd,
"From thy great fall." THEOBALD.

I arreft thee of high treafon, by the name of Thomas Grey, knight of Northumberland.

SCROOP. Our purposes God juftly hath difcover'd;

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

CAM. For me, the gold of France did not feduce;"

Although I did admit it as a motive,
The fooner to effect what I intended:
But God be thanked for prevention;
Which I in fufferance heartily will rejoice,"
Befeeching God, and you, to pardon me.
GREY. Never did faithful fubject more rejoice
At the difcovery of moft dangerous treafon,
Than I do at this hour joy o'er myself,

9 For me, the gold of France did not feduce;] Holinfhed, p. 549, obferves from Hall, "that diverfe write that Richard earle of Cambridge did not confpire with the lord Scroope and Thomas Graie for the murthering of king Henrie to please the French king withall, but onlie to the intent to exalt to the crowne his brother-in-law Edmunde, earl of March, as heire to Lionell duke of Clarence: after the death of which earle of March, for diverfe fecret impediments not able to have iffue, the earle of Cambridge was fure that the crowne fhould come to him by his wife, and to his children of her begotten. And therefore (as was thought) he rather confeffed himfelfe for neede of monie to be corrupted by the French king, than he would declare his inward mind, &c. which if it were efpied, he faw plainlie that the earle of March fhould have tafted of the fame cuppe that he had drunken, and what fhould have come to his owne children, he much doubted," &c. STEEVENS.

2 Which I in fufferance heartily will rejoice,] I, which is wanting in the old copy, was added by the editor of the fecond folio. Cambridge means to fay, at which prevention, or, which intended fcheme that it was prevented, I fhall rejoice. Shakspeare has many fuch elliptical expreffions. The intended fcheme that he alludes to, was the taking off Henry, to make room for his brother-inlaw. See the preceding note. MALONE.