WIN. Glofter, thou'lt answer this before the pope. GLO.Winchester goofe,' I cry-a rope! a rope! 4. Now beat them hence, Why do you let them stay?Thee I'll chafe hence, thou wolf in fheep's array.Out, tawny coats!-out, scarlet hypocrite!' Here a great tumult. In the midst of it, Enter the Mayor of London, and Officers. MAY. Fie, lords! that you, being fupreme magistrates, Thus contumeliously should break the peace! GLO. Peace, mayor; thou know'ft little of my wrongs: Here's Beaufort, that regards nor God nor king, Hath here diftrain'd the Tower to his ufe. WIN. Here's Glofter too, a foe to citizens;" One that still motions war, and never peace, O'ercharging your free purfes with large fines; That feeks to overthrow religion, Because he is protector of the realm; 3 Winchester goofe,] A ftrumpet, or the confequences of her love, was a Winchester goofe. JOHNSON. —a rope! a rope!] See the Comedy of Errors, Vol. VII. p. 288, n. 2. MALONE. sout, fcarlet hypocrite!] Thus, in King Henry VIII. the Earl of Surrey, with a fimilar allufion to Cardinal Wolfey's habit, calls him-"fcarlet fin." STEEVENS. 6 -the Mayor of London,] I learn from Mr. Pennant's LONDON, that this Mayor was John Coventry, an opulent mercer, from whom is defcended the prefent Earl of Coventry. STEEVENS. Here's Glofter too, &c.] Thus the fecond folio. The first folio, with lefs fpirit of reciprocation, and feebler metre,-Here is Glofter &c. STEEVENS. And would have armour here out of the Tower, To crown himself king, and fupprefs the prince. GLO. I will not answer thee with words, but [Here they fkirmish again. blows. MAY. Nought refts for me, in this tumultuous ftrife, But to make open proclamation: Come, officer; as loud as e'er thou canft. OFF. All manner of men, assembled here in arms this day, against God's peace and the king's, we charge and command you, in his highness' name, to repair to your feveral dwelling-places; and not to wear, bandle, or ufe, any fword, weapon, or dagger, benceforward, upon pain of death. GLO. Cardinal, I'll be no breaker of the law: But we shall meet, and break our minds at large. WIN. Glofter, we'll meet; to thy dear cost, be fure: 8 Thy heart-blood I will have, for this day's work. MAY. I'll call for clubs, if you will not away:9This cardinal is more haughty than the devil, 8 Glofter, we'll meet; to thy dear coft, be fure:] Thus the second folio. The firft omits the epithet-dear; as does Mr. Malone, who fays that the word-fure" is here ufed as a diffyllable." STEEVENS. 9 I'll call for clubs, if you will not away:] This was an outcry for affiftance, on any riot or quarrel in the ftreets. It hath been explained before. WHALLEY. So, in King Henry VIII: “ and hit that woman, who cried out, clubs!" STEEVENS. That is, for peace-officers armed with clubs or ftaves. In affrays, it was customary in this author's time to call out clubs, clubs! See As you like it, Vol. VI. p. 151, n. 2. MALONE. GLO. Mayor, farewell: thou doft but what thou may'st. WIN. Abominable Glofter! guard thy head; For I intend to have it, ere long. [Exeunt. MAY. See the coaft clear'd, and then we will depart. Good God! that nobles fhould fuch ftomachs & bear! I myself fight not once in forty year." [Exeunt. 8 ftomachs-] Stomach is pride, a haughty fpirit of re fentment. So, in King Henry VIII: 9 he was a man "Of an unbounded stomach. that nobles should fuch ftomachs bear! I myself fight not once in forty year.] Old copy-these nobles. Corrected by Mr. Rowe. MALONE. The mayor of London was not brought in to be laugh'd at, as is plain by his manner of interfering in the quarrel, where he all along preferves a fufficient dignity. In the line preceding thefe, he directs his officer, to whom without doubt these two lines fhould be given. They fuit his character, and are very expreffive of the pacific temper of the city guards. WARBURTON. I fee no reason for this change. The Mayor speaks first as a magiftrate, and afterwards as a citizen. JOHNSON. Notwithstanding Warburton's note in fupport of the dignity of the Mayor, Shakspeare certainly meant to reprefent him as a poor, well-meaning, fimple man, for that is the character he invariably gives to his Mayors. The Mayor of London, in Richard III. is juft of the fame ftamp. And fo is the Mayor of York, in the Third Part of this play, where he refuses to admit Edward as king, but lets him into the city as Duke of York, on which Glofter fays "A wife ftout captain! and perfuaded foon. "Haft. The good old man would fain that all were well." Such are all Shak fpeare's Mayors. M. MASON. SCENE IV. France. Before Orleans. Enter, on the walls, the Mafter-Gunner and his Son. M. GUN. Sirrah, thou know'ft how Orleans is befieg'd; And how the English have the fuburbs won. SON. Father, I know; and oft have shot at them, Howe'er, unfortunate, I miss'd my aim. M. GUN. But now thou fhalt not. Be thou rul'd by me: 2 Chief mafter-gunner am I of this town; In yonder tower, to overpeer the city; * The prince's efpials-] Efpials are fpies. So, in Chaucer's Freres Tale: went. "For fubtilly he had his efpiaille." STEEVENS. The word is often used by Hall and Holinfhed. MALONE. 3 Wont, through a fecret grate of iron bars &c.] Old copySee the notes that follow Dr. Johnson's. STEEVENS. That is, the English went not through a fecret grate, but went to over-peer the city through a fecret grate which is in yonder tower. I did not know till of late that this paffage had been thought difficult. JOHNSON. I believe, inftead of went, we should read—wont, the third perfon plural of the old verb wont. The English wont, that is, are accustomed to over-peer the city. The word is used very frequently by Spenfer, and feveral times by Milton. TYRWHITT. And thence discover, how, with moft advantage, A piece of ordnance 'gainst it I have plac'd; If thou spy't any, run and bring me word; [Exit. SON. Father, I warrant you; take you no care; I'll never trouble you, if I may spy them. Enter, in an upper chamber of a Tower, the Lords SALISBURY and TALBOT, Sir WILLIAM GLANSDALE, Sir THOMAS GARGRAVE, and Others. SAL. Talbot, my life, my joy, again return'd! How wert thou handled, being prifoner? The emendation propofed by Mr. Tyrwhitt, is fully fupported by the paffage in Hall's Chronicle, on which this speech is formed. So, in The Arraignment of Paris, 1584: 4 the ufual time is nie, "When wont the dames of fate and deftinie Now, boy, do thou watch, For I can ftay no longer.] The first folio reads: MALONE. Part of this line being in the old copy by a mistake of the tranfcriber connected with the preceding hemiftich, the editor of the fecond folio fupplied the metre by adding the word-boy, in which he has been followed in all the fubfequent editions. MALONE. As I cannot but entertain a more favourable opinion than Mr. Malone of the numerous emendations that appear in the fecond folio, I have again adopted its regulation in the present inftance. This folio likewife fupplied the word-fully. STEEVENS. 5-Talbot,] Though the three parts of King Henry VI. are |