Up in the air, crown'd with the golden fun,3— The patterns that by God and by French fathers Enter a Meffenger. MESS. Ambaffadors from Henry King of England Do crave admittance to your majesty. FR. KING. We'll give them prefent audience. Go, and bring them. [Exeunt Meff. and certain Lords. You fee, this chafe is hotly follow'd, friends. Again, in Spenfer's Faerie Queen, B. I. c. xi: "Where ftretch'd he lay upon the funny fide Mr. Tollet thinks this paffage may be explained by another in A&t I. fc. i: -his most mighty father on a hill." STEEVENS. If the text is not corrupt, Mr. Steevens's explication is the true one. See the extract from Holinfhed, p. 284, n. 5. The repetition of the word mountain is much in our author's manner, and therefore I believe the old copy is right. MALONE. 3 Up in the air, crown'd with the golden fun,] calls this "the nonfenfical line of fome player." ever, might have been taken from Chaucer's Women: Dr. Warburton The idea, howLegende of good "Her gilt heere was yerownid with a fon.” Shak fpeare's meaning, (divefted of its poetical finery,) I fuppofe, is, that the king stood upon an eminence, with the fun fhining over his head. STEEVENS. 4-fate of him.] His fate is what is allotted him by destiny, or what he is fated to perform. JOHNSON. So Virgil, fpeaking of the future deeds of the defcendants of Æneas: Attollens humeris famamque et fata nepotum. STEEVENS. DAU. Turn head, and stop pursuit: for coward dogs Most spend their mouths, when what they seem to threaten, Runs far before them. Good my sovereign, Re-enter Lords, with EXETER and Train. FR. KING. From our brother England? EXE. From him; and thus he greets your ma jefty. He wills you, in the name of God Almighty, That you may know, 'Tis no finifter, nor no aukward claim, Pick'd from the worm-holes of long-vanish'd days, [Gives a paper. In every branch truly demonftrative; 5fpend their mouths,] That is, bark; the fportfman's term. 6 JOHNSON. - memorable line,] This genealogy; this deduction of his lineage. JOHNSON. Edward the third, he bids you then refign EXE. Bloody constraint; for if you hide the crown 6 And therefore &c.] The word-And, is wanting in the old copies. It was fupplied by Mr. Rowe, for the fake of measure. STEEVENS. 7 Turns be-] Thus the quarto, 1600. The folio readsturning the widows' tears. MALONE. 8 The dead men's blood,] The difpofition of the images were more regular, if we were to read thus: upon your head Turning the dead men's blood, the widows' tears, The orphans' cries, the pining maidens' groans. JOHNSON. The quartos 1600 and 1608 exhibit the paffage thus: And on your heads turns he the widows' tears, The orphans' cries, the dead men's bones, The pining maidens' groans, For husbands, fathers, and diftreffed lovers, Thefe quartos agree in all but the mereft trifles; and therefore for quote the former STEEVENS. The folio has Pining is the reading of the quarto, 1600. privy. Blood is the reading of the folio.-The quarto instead of it has-bones. MALONE. This is his claim, his threat'ning, and my meffage; Unless the Dauphin be in prefence here, To whom exprefsly I bring greeting too. FR. KING. For us, we will confider of this further: To-morrow fhall you bear our full intent Back to our brother of England. DAU. For the Dauphin, I ftand here for him; What to him from England? EXE. Scorn, and defiance; flight regard, contempt, And any thing that may not misbecome The mighty fender, doth he prize you at. DAU. Say, if my father render fair reply, It is against my will: for I defire Nothing but odds with England; to that end, 9 Shall chide your trefpafs,] To chide is to refound, to echo. So, in A Midsummer Night's Dream: never did I hear "Such gallant chiding." Again, in King Henry VIII: "As doth a rock against the chiding flood." STEEVENS. This interpretation is confirmed by a paffage in The Tempest: 2 66 the thunder, "That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounc'd MALONE. of bis ordnance.] Ordnance is here ufed as a trifyllable; being in our author's time improperly written ordinance. As matching to his youth and vanity, EXE. He'll make your Paris Louvre fhake for it, FR. KING. To-morrow fhall you know our mind at full. EXE. Defpatch us with all speed, left that our king Come here himself to question our delay; FR. KING. You fhall be foon despatch'd, with fair conditions: A night is but small breath, and little pause, 3 - -he mafters now;] Thus the folio. So, in King Henry VI. Part I: "As if he mafter'd there a double spirit "Of teaching and of learning" &c. The quarto, 1600, reads mufters. STEEVENS. 4 -you fhall read-] So the folio. The quarto, 1600, has-you shall find. MALONE. |