Note return to page 1 [a] aspeak.

Note return to page 2 [b] bprofesses.

Note return to page 3 [c] cand.

Note return to page 4 [d] dThese words restor'd from the first edition, without which the sense was not compleat.

Note return to page 5 [e] ethine enemies, ne'er

Note return to page 6 [f] fThat

Note return to page 7 [g] gprofessed.

Note return to page 8 [h] hcuriosity.

Note return to page 9 †them. Old edition.

Note return to page 10 *&lblank; believe a fool. Lear. A bitter fool. Fool. Dost thou know the difference, my boy, between a bitter fool and a sweet one? Lear. No lad: teach me. Fool. Nuncle, give me an egg, and I'll give thee two crowns. Lear. What two Crowns, &c.

Note return to page 11 †These are out of the old edition.

Note return to page 12 * &lblank; who I am? Fool. Lear's shadow. Lear. Your name, fair gentlewoman?—

Note return to page 13 [i] iA little is the common reading; but it appears from what Lear says in the next Scene that this number fifty was requir'd to be cut off, which (as the editions stood) is no where specify'd by Gonerill.

Note return to page 14 [k] kaway, away.

Note return to page 15 [l] luntented.

Note return to page 16 [m] mlet it be so.

Note return to page 17 †gasted, for aghasted.

Note return to page 18 [a] aspirits.

Note return to page 19 [b] bstrangeness.

Note return to page 20 †In the common editions it is Good dawning, tho' the time be apparently night. I have restor'd it to sense from the old edition.

Note return to page 21 [c] cyears.

Note return to page 22 [d] d Like rats oft bite the holy cords in twain Which art t' intrince, t' unloose; smooth &lblank;

Note return to page 23 [e] eBeing.

Note return to page 24 [f] fcompact.

Note return to page 25 [g] gcolour.

Note return to page 26 †The four following lines added from the old edition.

Note return to page 27 †meiny, or people.

Note return to page 28 [h] hcommands, tends, service.

Note return to page 29 [i] itop.

Note return to page 30 [k] kYou taking airs.

Note return to page 31 [l] lblister.

Note return to page 32 [k] ksickly.

Note return to page 33 †&lblank; tears his white hair, &c.] The six following verses were omitted in all the late editions: I have replac'd them from the first, for they are certainly Shakespear's. The sense is, that any animal, tho' even provok'd by hunger, or drawn by nature to its young, wou'd not venture out in such a storm.

Note return to page 34 *&lblank; 'Twixt Albany and Cornwall: Who have, (as who have not, whom their great stars Thron'd and set high?) servants, who seem no less, Which are to France the spies and speculations Intelligent of our state. What hath been seen, Either in snuffs and packings of the Dukes, Or the hard rein which both of them have born Against the old kind king; or something deeper, Whereof, perchance, these are but furnishings &lblank; Gent. I will talk. After the words 'twixt Albany and Cornwall in the old edition are the lines which I have inserted in the text, which seem necessary to the plot, as preparatory to the arrival of the French army with Cordelia in Act 4. How both these, and a whole Scene between Kent and this gentleman in the fourth Act, came to be left out in all the latter editions, I cannot tell: they depend upon each other, and very much contribute to clear that incident.— The lines which have been put in their room are unintelligible, and to no purpose.

Note return to page 35 †That I have some intrinsic worth.

Note return to page 36 ‡Fore-runners.

Note return to page 37 †i. e. all relations, or kindred elements that compose man.

Note return to page 38 [a] asubscription.

Note return to page 39 †Gallow, a West-country word, signifies to scare or frighten.

Note return to page 40 [b] b Thou perjur'd, and thou simular of virtue Thou art incestuous; caitiff, to pieces shake

Note return to page 41 †This speech not in the old edition.

Note return to page 42 [c] cfooted.

Note return to page 43 [d] dsword.

Note return to page 44 [e] earch'd.

Note return to page 45 [f] fdearly.

Note return to page 46 [g] ghanded.

Note return to page 47 *There follow in the old edition several speeches in the mad way, which probably were left out by the players, or by Shakespear himself. I shall however insert them here, and leave 'em to the reader's mercy.

Note return to page 48 †Name of particular sort of dog.

Note return to page 49 †Name of particular sort of dog.

Note return to page 50 [a] amy.

Note return to page 51 [b] bhis naked soul, which I'll &lblank;

Note return to page 52 †These lines are added here in the old edition.

Note return to page 53 †These and the speech ensuing are in the edition of 1608, and are but necessary to explain the reasons of the detestation which Albany expresses here to his wife.

Note return to page 54 †This Scene, left out in all the common books, is restor'd from the old edition; it being manifestly of Shakespear's writing, and necessary to continue the story of Cordelia, whose behaviour here is most beautifully painted.

Note return to page 55 [c] cdesires.

Note return to page 56 †french, for Glances.

Note return to page 57 [d] dat least.

Note return to page 58 †i. e. twisted waving horns.

Note return to page 59 [e] ewalk'd.

Note return to page 60 [f] fenraged.

Note return to page 61 [g] gHa Gonerill with a white beard; they flatter'd &lblank;

Note return to page 62 †Fitchew, a kind of Polecat.

Note return to page 63 [h] hwill.

Note return to page 64 [i] igentleman.

Note return to page 65 †The four next lines are added from the old edition.

Note return to page 66 †holds, for obliges or binds.

Note return to page 67 [a] aHere is.

Note return to page 68 [a] amedicine.

Note return to page 69 †'say for essay, some shew or probability.

Note return to page 70 [a] afirst.

Note return to page 71 [b] bNor.

Note return to page 72 [c] cEdg.

Note return to page 73 †The troublesome reign of K. John was written in two parts by W. Shakespear and W. Rowley, and printed 1611. But the present Play is entirely different, and infinitely superior to it.

Note return to page 74 †Sir Nobbe, a nickname, in contempt, of Sir Robert.

Note return to page 75 [b] btoo sociable.

Note return to page 76 [c] cconversion.

Note return to page 77 †piked, i. e. formal, bearded.

Note return to page 78 †Philip is a common name for a tame Sparrow.

Note return to page 79 [d] dmarry to confess. Could get me! &c.

Note return to page 80 †scathe. Mischief.

Note return to page 81 * &lblank; I mean to chastise it. K. John. Alack, thou dost usurp authority. K. Philip. Excuse it, 'tis to beat usurping down. Eli. Who is't that thou dost call usurper, France? Const. Let me make answer: thy usurping son. Eli. Out insolent! thy bastard shall be King, That thou may'st be a Queen, and check the world! Const. My bed was ever to thy son as true, As thine was to thy husband; and this boy, Liker in feature to his father Geffrey, Than thou and John, in manners being as like As rain to water, or devil to his dam. My boy a bastard! by my soul I think His father never was so true begot; It cannot be, and if thou wert his mother. Eli. There's a good mother, boy, that blots thy father. Const. There's a good grandam, boy, that would blot thee. Aust. Peace. Bast. Hear the crier. Aust. What the devil art thou? Bast. One that will play the devil, Sir, with you, And a may catch your hide and you alone. You are the hare, of whom the proverb goes, Whose valour plucks dead Lions by the beard, I'll smoak your skin-coat, and I catch you right; Sirrah, look to't, i'faith I will, i'faith. Blanch. O well died he become that Lion's robe, That did disrobe the Lion of that robe. Bast. It lyes as sightly on the back of him, As great Alcides' shoes upon an Ass; But, Ass, I'll take that burthen from your back, Or lay on that shall make your shoulders crack. Aust. What cracker is this same that deafs our ears With this abundance of superfluous breath? King Lewis, determine what we shall do streight. Lewis. Women and fools, break off your conference.

Note return to page 82 * &lblank; of France can win; Submit thee, boy. Eli. Come to thy Grandam, child. Const. Do, child, go to it Grandam, child, Give Grandam kingdom, and it Grandam will Give it a plum, a cherry and a fig, There's a good Grandam. Arth. Good my mother, peace, I would that I were low laid in my grave, I am not worth this coil that's made for me. Eli. His mother shames him so, poor boy he weeps. Const. Now shame upon you where she does or no. His Grandam's wrong, and not his mother's shames Draws those heav'n-moving pearls from his poor eyes, Which heav'n shall take in nature of a fee: With these sad chrystal beads heav'n shall be brib'd To do him justice, and revenge on you. Eli. Thou monstrous slanderer of heav'n and earth. Const. Thou monstrous injurer of heav'n and earth, Call me not slanderer; thou and thine usurp The domination, royalties and rights Of this oppressed boy; this is thy eldest son's son, Infortunate in nothing but in thee: Thy sins are visited in this poor child, The canon of the law is laid on him, Being but the second generation Removed from thy sin-conceiving womb. K. John. Bedlam, have done. Const. I have but this to say, That he is not only plagued for her sin, But God hath made her sin and her the plague On this removed issue, plagu'd for her, And with her plague her sin; his injury Her injury, the beadle to her sin, All punish'd in the person of this child, And all for her; a plague upon her. Eli. Thou unadvised scold, I can produce A will that bars the title of thy son. Const. Ay, who doubts that? a will; a wicked will; A woman's will; a canker'd Grandam's will. K. Philip. Peace lady, pause, or be more temperate; It ill beseems this presence to cry Amen To these ill tuned repetitions.

Note return to page 83 †winking, a metaphor for half-open.

Note return to page 84 †or circle.

Note return to page 85 †See the note on Act 3. Scene 1.

Note return to page 86 * &lblank; in our strong-barr'd gates: Kings of our fear, untill our fears resolv'd Be by some certain King purg'd and depos'd. Bast. By heav'n, &c.

Note return to page 87 * &lblank; bullets on this town. Bast. O prudent discipline! from North to South; Austria and France shoot in each other's mouth. I'll stir them to it; come away, away. Cit. Hear us great Kings, &c.

Note return to page 88 [a] aspleen.

Note return to page 89 * &lblank; miracle, The shadow of my self form'd in her eye, Which being but the shadow of your son, Becomes a sun, and makes your son a shadow: I do protest—

Note return to page 90 * &lblank; close your hands. Aust. And your lips too, for I am well assur'd That I did so, when I was first assur'd. K. Philip. Now citizens, &c.

Note return to page 91 * &lblank; I cannot brook thy sight; This news hath made thee a most ugly man. Sal. What other harm have I, good Lady, done But spoke the harm that is by others done? Const. Which harm within it self so heinous is, As it makes harmful all that speak of it. Arth. I do beseech you, &c.

Note return to page 92 †What was the ground of this quarrel of the Bastard to Austria is no where specify'd in the present Play: nor is there in this place, or the Scene where it is first hinted at (namely the second of Act 2.) the least mention of any reason for it. But the story is, that Austria, who kill'd K. Richard Cœur-de-lion, wore as the spoil of that Prince, a Lyon's hide which had belong'd to him. This circumstance renders the anger of the Bastard very natural, and ought not to have been omitted. In the first sketch of this Play (which Shakespear is said to have had a hand in, jointly with William Rowley) we accordingly find this insisted upon, and I have ventured to place a few of those verses here.

Note return to page 93 * &lblank; a new untrimmed bride. Blanch. The lady Constance speaks not from her faith: But from her need. Const. Oh, if thou grant my need, Which only lives but by the death of faith, That need must needs infer this principle, That faith would live again by death of need: O then tread down my need, and faith mounts up: Keep my need up, and faith is trodden down. K. John. The King is mov'd, and answers not to this. Const. O be remov'd from him; and answer well. Aust. Do so, King Philip, hang no more in doubt. Bast. Hang nothing but a calve's-skin, most sweet lout. K. Philip. I am perplext, &c.

Note return to page 94 [a] acased.

Note return to page 95 †Added from the old Play.

Note return to page 96 [b] btune.

Note return to page 97 [c] cbrooded.

Note return to page 98 [c] cconvicted.

Note return to page 99 * &lblank; should I forget! Preach some philosophy to make me mad, And Cardinal thou shalt be canoniz'd; For, being not mad, but sensible, of grief, My reasonable part produces reason How I may be deliver'd of these woes, And teaches me to kill or hang my self. If I were mad, I should forget my son, Or madly think a babe of clouts were he: I am not mad; &c.

Note return to page 100 * &lblank; of each calamity. K. Philip. Bind up those tresses; O what love I note In the fair multitude of those her hairs; Where but by chance a silver drop hath fall'n, Ev'n to that drop ten thousand wiery friends Do glew themselves in sociable grief, Like true, inseparable, faithful loves, Sticking together in calamity. Const. To England, if you will. K. Philip. Bind up your hairs. Const. Yes, that I will; and wherefore will I do it? I tore them from their bonds, and cry'd aloud, O that these hands could so redeem my son, As they have giv'n these hairs their liberty; But now I envy at their liberty, And will again commit them to their bonds, Because my poor child is a prisoner. Oh father Cardinal, &c.

Note return to page 101 [d] dscope.

Note return to page 102 * &lblank; must I burn them out. Arth. Ah, none but in this iron age would do it. The iron of it self, though heat red-hot, Approaching near these eyes, would drink my tears, And quench its fiery indignation, Even in the matter of mine innocence: Nay, after that, consume away in rust, But for containing fire to harm mine eye. Are you more stubborn hard, than hammer'd iron? Oh if an angel should, &c.

Note return to page 103 * &lblank; hold your tongue. Arth. Hubert, the utterance of a brace of tongues Must needs want pleading for a pair of eyes: Let me not hold, &c.

Note return to page 104 * &lblank; I can revive it, boy. Arth. And if you do, you will but make it blush, And glow with shame of your proceedings, Hubert: Nay, it perchance will sparkle in your eyes: And, like a dog that is compell'd to fight, Snatch at his master that doth c [Subnote: cIn the first edition.] tarre him on. All things that you, &c.

Note return to page 105 †to sound forth, or to declare.

Note return to page 106 †(i. e.) Whose private account of the Dauphin's affection to our cause is much more ample than the letters.

Note return to page 107 [a] asin of Times.

Note return to page 108 [f] fcenter.

Note return to page 109 [a] acripple.

Note return to page 110 [b] b &lblank; away, my friends, new flight, And happy newness that attends old right.

Note return to page 111 [c] ctott'ring.

Note return to page 112 [d] dLeaves them invisible, and his siege is now.

Note return to page 113 [e] efare.

Note return to page 114 * &lblank; and ev'n so stop. What surety of the world, what hope, what stay, When this was now a King, and now is clay? Bast. Art thou gone so? &lblank;

Note return to page 115 †Appeal, or call, demand, challenge, from apello.

Note return to page 116 * &lblank;a miscreant. Too good to be so, and too bad to live. Since the more fair and crystal is the sky, The uglier seem the clouds that in it fly; Once more, the more to aggravate the Note, With a foul traitor's name stuff I thy throat, And wish, so please my soveraign, ere I move, What my tongue speaks, my right drawn sword may prove. Mowb. Let not &c.

Note return to page 117 [a] adoubly.

Note return to page 118 [b] bWhere-ever.

Note return to page 119 [c] cRights.

Note return to page 120 [d] dSlander.

Note return to page 121 * &lblank; without letting blood: This we prescribe though no physician,† [Subnote: †I must make one remark in general on the Rhymes throughout this whole Play; they are so much inferior to the rest of the writing, that they appear to me of a different hand. What confirms this, is that the context does every where exactly (and frequently much better) connect, without the inserted Rhymes; except in a very few places; and just there too, the rhyming verses are of a much better taste than all the others, which rather strengthens my conjecture.] Deep malice makes too deep incision: Forget, forgive, conclude and be agreed, Our doctors say, this is no time to bleed. Good uncle, &c.

Note return to page 122 [e] ebeggar'd fear.

Note return to page 123 [f] fbastard.

Note return to page 124 [g] gcommand.

Note return to page 125 †sometime, for formerly.

Note return to page 126 [h] hEdward.

Note return to page 127 [i] iplaced.

Note return to page 128 * &lblank; Lord Aumerle: Not sick, although I have to do with death, But lusty, young, and chearly drawing breath. Lo, as at English feasts, so I regreet The daintiest, last, to make the end most sweet: Oh thou &lblank;

Note return to page 129 [k] kfurnish.

Note return to page 130 [l] lamaz'd.

Note return to page 131 [m] mvaliant.

Note return to page 132 [n] nMine innocence and St. George to thrive.

Note return to page 133 [o] ocaptain.

Note return to page 134 [p] pThese five verses are omitted in the other editions, and restor'd from the first, of 1598.

Note return to page 135 * &lblank; the harmony. Within my mouth you have engoal'd my tongue, Doubly portcullis'd with my teeth and lips; And dull, unfeeling, barren ignorance Is made my goaler to attend on me. I am too old &lblank;

Note return to page 136 [q] qthink.

Note return to page 137 [r] rThese two lines added from the first edition.

Note return to page 138 [s] sThe fourteen verses that follow are found in the same edition.

Note return to page 139 [t] tMarry, would the word farewel had &lblank;

Note return to page 140 [u] usouls.

Note return to page 141 [1] &lblank; their words in pain. He that no more must say, is listen'd more   Than they whom youth and ease have taught to glose; More are mens ends mark'd than their lives before:   The setting sun, and musick in the close As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in remembrance, more than things long past; Though Richard my life's counsel would not hear, My death's sad tale may yet undeaf his ear. York. His ear &lblank;

Note return to page 142 [a] a &lblank; flatt'ring sounds, As praises of his state; then there are found Lascivious meeters, to whose venom sound &c.

Note return to page 143 [b] btheir.

Note return to page 144 [c] cThat.

Note return to page 145 * &lblank; with wits regard. Direct not him, whose way himself will chuse; 'Tis breath thou lack'st, and that breath wilt thou lose. Gaunt. Methinks I am &lblank;

Note return to page 146 [d] dbeing rag'd.

Note return to page 147 * &lblank; with aged Gaunt? Gaunt. Oh how that name befits my composition! Old Gaunt indeed, and gaunt in being old: Within me grief hath kept a tedious fast; And who abstains from meat, that is not gaunt? For sleeping England long time have I watcht, Watching breeds leaness, leaness is all gaunt; The pleasure that some fathers feed upon, Is my strict fast, I mean my children's looks, And therein fasting hast thou made me gaunt; Gaunt am I for the grave, gaunt as a grave, Whose hollow womb inherits nought but bones, K. Rich. Can sick men play so nicely with their names? Gaunt. No, misery makes sport to mock it self: Since thou dost seek to kill my name in me, I mock my name, great King, to flatter thee. K. Rich. Should dying men flatter those that live? Gaunt. No, no, men living flatter those that die. K. Rich. Thou now a dying, say'st thou flatter'st me. Gaunt. Oh no, thou dy'st, though I the sicker be. K. Rich. I am in health, I breathe, I see thee ill. Gaunt. Now he that made me, knows I see thee ill: Ill in my self &lblank;

Note return to page 148 [e] ehand.

Note return to page 149 * &lblank; my Liege, Pardon if you please; if not, I, pleas'd not to be pardon'd, am content. Seek you to seize, &c.

Note return to page 150 [f] fQuoint.

Note return to page 151 * &lblank; heavy sad. As though on thinking, on no thought I think, Makes me with heavy nothing faint and shrink. Bushy. 'Tis nothing &lblank;

Note return to page 152 * &lblank; mine is not so, For nothing hath begot my something grief; Or something, hath the nothing that I grieve, 'Tis in reversion that I do possess; But what it is, that is not yet known, what I cannot name, 'tis nameless woe I wot. Enter Green &lblank;

Note return to page 153 [g] gcrave haste good hope.

Note return to page 154 [h] hThis line added from the first edition.

Note return to page 155 [i] itown.

Note return to page 156 [a] aThe four lines that follow, from the first edition.

Note return to page 157 [b] blightning.

Note return to page 158 [c] cadded from the same edition.

Note return to page 159 [d] dmy.

Note return to page 160 * &lblank; and they are fled, And 'till so much blood thither come again, Have I not reason to look pale, and dead? All souls &lblank;

Note return to page 161 * &lblank; unto your foe; Fear, and be slain, no worse can come from fight, And fight and die, is death destroying death. Where fearing, dying, pays death servile breath. Aum. My father hath a pow'r, enquire of him, And learn to make a body of a limb. K. Rich. Thou child'st me well: proud Bolingbroke, I come To change blows with thee, for our day of doom; This ague-fit of fear is over-blown, An easie task it is to win our own. Say, Scroop, where lyes our uncle with his power? Speak sweetly, man, although thy looks be sower. Scroop. Men judge by the complexion of the sky   The state and inclination of the day; So may you by my dull and heavy eye:   My tongue hath but a heavier tale to say: I play &lblank;

Note return to page 162 [e] eadded from the same edition.

Note return to page 163 †ear, or are; from aro, to plow.

Note return to page 164 * &lblank; cheeks of heav'n: Be he the fire, I'll be the yielding water: The rage be his, while on the earth I rain. My waters; on the earth, and not on him. March on, &c.

Note return to page 165 [f] fhopeful.

Note return to page 166 * &lblank; soveraign's head. For on my heart they tread now, whilst I live; And bury'd once, why not upon my head? Aumerle, &c.

Note return to page 167 * &lblank; a pair of graves, Within the earth; and therein laid, there lyes Two kinsmen digg'd their graves with weeping eyes? Would not this ill do well? well, well, I see I talk but idely, and you mock at me. Most mighty Prince, &c.

Note return to page 168 * &lblank; of unruly jades. In the base court? base court where Kings grow base, To come at traitors calls, and do them grace. In the base court come down? down court, down King, For Night-owls shriek, where mounting Larks should sing. Boling. What, &c.

Note return to page 169 * &lblank; your courtesie. Up, cousin, up, your heart is up, I know, Thus high at least, although your knee be low. Boling. My, &c.

Note return to page 170 [g] gbad.

Note return to page 171 [h] hsing.

Note return to page 172 [i] iunto.

Note return to page 173 [i] igarden at time of year.

Note return to page 174 [a] aThese three verses are taken from the first Edition.

Note return to page 175 [b] bthis.

Note return to page 176 [c] cchild, childs children.

Note return to page 177 †This Scene where Richard is introduced, from these words, May't please you, lords, &c. to the fourth scene of this act, is entirely added since the first edition.

Note return to page 178 [d] dreturn.

Note return to page 179 * &lblank; in twelve thousand, none. God save the King: will no man say, Amen. Am I both priest and clark? well then, Amen. God save the King, although I be not he: And yet Amen, if heav'n do think him me. To do what service, &c.

Note return to page 180 * &lblank; on that side thine. Now is this golden crown like a deep well, That owes two buckets, filling one another, The emptier ever dancing in the air, The other down, unseen, and full of water: That bucket down, and full of tears am I, Drinking my griefs, whilst you mount up on high. Boling. I thought you had been willing to resign. K. Rich. My crown I am, but still my griefs are mine: You may my glories, and my state depose, But not my griefs; still am I King of those. Boling. Part of your cares you give me with your crown. K. Rich. Your cares set up, do not pluck my cares down. My care, is loss of care, by old care done; Your care, is gain of care, by new care won. The cares I give, I have, though given away; They tend the crown, yet still with me they stay. Boling. Are you contented to resign the crown? K. Rich. I no; no I, for I must nothing be: Therefore no no, for I resign to thee. Now, mark me, &c.

Note return to page 181 [e] eblame.

Note return to page 182 * &lblank; that hast all atchiev'd; Long may'st thou live in Richard's seat to sit, And soon lye Richard in an earthy pit. God save King Henry, unking'd Richard says, And send him many years of sun-shine days. What more, &c.

Note return to page 183 * &lblank; in water-drops. Good King, great King, and yet not greatly good, Ah if my, &c.

Note return to page 184 * &lblank; beholders wink? Is this the face, which fac'd so many follies, That was at last out-fac'd by Bolingbroke? A brittle glory shineth in this face, As brittle as the glory, is the face, For there it is, crackt in an hundred shivers. Mark, silent King, the moral of this sport, How soon my sorrow, &c.

Note return to page 185 * &lblank; to the Tower. K. Rich. Oh good; convey: conveyers are you all, That rise thus nimbly by a true King's fall. Boling. On Wednesday, &c.

Note return to page 186 †sometime, for formerly.

Note return to page 187 * &lblank; to their beds. For why? the senseless brands will sympathize The heavy accent of thy moving tongue, And in compassion weep the fire out: And some will mourn in ashes, some coal-black, For the deposing of a rightful King. SCENE &lblank;

Note return to page 188 * &lblank; but little policy. Queen. Then whither he goes, thither let me go. K. Rich. So two together weeping, make one woe. Weep thou for me in France; I for thee here: Better far off; than near, be ne'er the near. Go, count thy way with sighs, I mine with groans: Queen. So longest way shall have the longest moans. K. Rich. Twice for one step I'll groan, the way being short, And piece the way out with a heavy heart. Come, come, in wooing sorrow let's be brief, Since wedding it, there is such length in grief: One kiss shall stop our mouths, and dumbly part; Thus give I mine, &c.

Note return to page 189 * &lblank; begg'd before. Boling. Our scene is alter'd from a serious thing. And now chang'd to the beggar, and the King: Boling. My dangerous cousin, &c.

Note return to page 190 [a] afrom the first edition.

Note return to page 191 [b] band.

Note return to page 192 * &lblank; teach thee how. The word is short, but not so short as sweet, No word like pardon, for Kings mouths so meet. York. Speak it in French, King, say Pardonnez moy. Dutch. Dost thou teach pardon, pardon to destroy? Ah my sow'r husband, my hard-hearted lord, That set'st the word it self, against the word. Speak pardon as 'tis currant in our land, The chopping French we do not understand. Thine eye begins to speak, set thy tongue there: Or in thy piteous heart, plant thou thine ear, That hearing how our plaints and prayers do pierce, Pity may move thee, pardon to rehearse. Boling. Good aunt, &c.

Note return to page 193 * &lblank; traytors are. They shall not live within this world, I swear; But I will have them, if I once know where. Uncle farewel, and cousin adieu; Your mother well hath pray'd, and prove you true. Dutch. Come my old son, I pray heav'n make thee new. SCENE, &c.

Note return to page 194 [d] dfaith.

Note return to page 195 [e] efaith.

Note return to page 196 [f] fhear.

Note return to page 197 †Brooch, an old word signifying a Jewel.

Note return to page 198 * &lblank; royal Prince. K. Rich. Thanks, noble Peer. The cheapest of us, is ten groats too dear. What art thou? and how com'st, &c.

Note return to page 199 †sometime, for formerly.

Note return to page 200 [a] adamp.

Note return to page 201 [b] bhe told.

Note return to page 202 [c] creport.

Note return to page 203 [d] dlaid by.

Note return to page 204 [e] etide.

Note return to page 205 [f] fThou did'st well, for no man regards it.

Note return to page 206 [g] gthe.

Note return to page 207 [h] hwords.

Note return to page 208 [i] isoil.

Note return to page 209 [k] k Whoever through envy or misprision Was guilty of his fault, 'twas not my son.

Note return to page 210 * &lblank; nose, and took't away again; Who therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff. &lblank; And still he smil'd, &c.

Note return to page 211 †indent, for article, bargain.

Note return to page 212 [l] lsubordinations.

Note return to page 213 [m] mconveying.

Note return to page 214 [n] ngaudy.

Note return to page 215 †dank, i. e. wet and rotten.

Note return to page 216 †A cant-word for the devil, old nick.

Note return to page 217 †Perhaps, Oneraires, Trustees or Commissioners.

Note return to page 218 †Mammets. i. e. girls.

Note return to page 219 [a] aconfidence.

Note return to page 220 [b] bbreak.

Note return to page 221 [c] cnot-pated.

Note return to page 222 †In the old edition Rossel speaks here, and not Gads-hill.

Note return to page 223 [e] esun.

Note return to page 224 †a micher, i. e. a truant; to mich, is to lurk out of sight: a hedge-creeper.

Note return to page 225 †i. e. it will kill him to march so far as twelvescore foot.

Note return to page 226 *He means the writer of the articles.

Note return to page 227 †This alludes to an old prophecy which is said to have induced O. Glendower to take arms against K. Henry. See Hall's Chron. fol. 20.

Note return to page 228 [a] a By which account Our business valued, some twelve days hence Our gen'ral forces &lblank;

Note return to page 229 [b] bAdvantage feeds him fat, while men delay. First edition.

Note return to page 230 [a] amine.

Note return to page 231 [b] bheir.

Note return to page 232 [c] coffering.

Note return to page 233 [d] ddare.

Note return to page 234 [e] edream.

Note return to page 235 †Baited, i. e. flutter'd the wings.

Note return to page 236 †cuisses, fr. armour for the thighs.

Note return to page 237 †witch, for bewitch, charm.

Note return to page 238 †shackles.

Note return to page 239 [c] cfollow'd.

Note return to page 240 †a rated sinew, so the first edition, i. e. accounted a strong aid.

Note return to page 241 [f] frated firmly.

Note return to page 242 †Chevet, fr. a bolster.

Note return to page 243 †cital, for taxation.

Note return to page 244 †This was the word of battel on Percy's side. See Hall's Chron. fol. 22.

Note return to page 245 [a] aearth, and the

Note return to page 246 *These two lines added out of the first edition.

Note return to page 247 *This direction, which is only to be found in the first edition in quarto of 1600, explains a passage in what follows, otherwise obscure.

Note return to page 248 [a] athem.

Note return to page 249 [b] bof truth.

Note return to page 250 [c] cable.

Note return to page 251 †hilding, for hinderling; i. e. base, degenerate.

Note return to page 252 [d] dwhen the

Note return to page 253 [e] eThis line is only in the first edition, where it is spoken by Umfreville, who speaks no where else. It seems necessary to the connection.

Note return to page 254 [f] fThe fourteen lines, from hence to Bardolph's next speech, are not to be found in the first editions, 'till that in folio of 1623. A very great number of other lines in this play are inserted after the first edition in like manner, but of such spirit and mastery, generally, that the insertions are plainly by Shakespear himself.

Note return to page 255 [g] gAll the following lines to the end of this speech are not in the first edition.

Note return to page 256 [h] hhealing.

Note return to page 257 †va-ward, i. e. van-guard.

Note return to page 258 [i] iyour wind short, your wit single.

Note return to page 259 [k] kadded from the first edition.

Note return to page 260 [l] lThese following periods are restor'd from the first edition.

Note return to page 261 †three-man-bettle, i. e. a rammer big enough to require three men to lift it.

Note return to page 262 [k] kIndeed.

Note return to page 263 [m] mThis excellent speech of York, was one of the passages added by Shakespear after his first edition.

Note return to page 264 [a] avice, or grasp, a metaphor taken from a smith's vice; there is another reading in the old edition, view, which I think not so good.

Note return to page 265 †sneap, a yorkshire word for rebuke.

Note return to page 266 †This period is supply'd out of the old edition.

Note return to page 267 [b] bbeen.

Note return to page 268 [c] cpernicious.

Note return to page 269 †frank, i. e. a Hog-sty.

Note return to page 270 [d] ddeclension.

Note return to page 271 [e] eThe twenty two following lines, are of those added by Shakespear after his first edition.

Note return to page 272 [f] fThis period is from the first edition.

Note return to page 273 †Utis, an old word yet in use in some counties, signifying a merry festival, from the French Huit; octo, ab A S. Eahta. Octavæ Festi alicujus. Skinner.

Note return to page 274 †brooches, were chains of gold that women wore formerly about their necks. Owches were bosses of gold set with diamonds.

Note return to page 275 [g] gThis is from the old edition, 1600.

Note return to page 276 [h] hfor.

Note return to page 277 [i] iout of the old edition.

Note return to page 278 †neif, from nativa, i. e. a woman slave that is born in one's house.

Note return to page 279 †In the first Edition it is the devil blindes him too.

Note return to page 280 [a] aThese four verses are supply'd from the edition 1600.

Note return to page 281 †the rood, i.e. the cross.

Note return to page 282 [b] bEdition 1600.

Note return to page 283 [c] cevery where.

Note return to page 284 †Caliver, a large gun.

Note return to page 285 [d] dadded from the edition of 1600.

Note return to page 286 †schutcht, i. e. whipt, over-switch'd, i. e. carted.

Note return to page 287 [e] eMost of this speech inserted since the first edition.

Note return to page 288 [f] fThe two or three next speeches were also of those inserted.

Note return to page 289 †or wall.

Note return to page 290 †rigol, circle; meaning the crown.

Note return to page 291 [c] cending.

Note return to page 292 [d] dmost.

Note return to page 293 [e] ejoin.

Note return to page 294 [f] fquarrels.

Note return to page 295 [g] gThou bring'st me happiness, Son John.

Note return to page 296 [a] awith.

Note return to page 297 [b] bimperial.

Note return to page 298 [c] cwild.

Note return to page 299 [d] dGood Mr. Bardolph, some wine Davy.

Note return to page 300 [d] dAnatomy.

Note return to page 301 [e] eredeem.

Note return to page 302 [a] aforgotten.

Note return to page 303 †This alludes to a play, in which Sir John Oldcastle was put for Falstaff.

Note return to page 304 *This Play was writ (as appears from a passage in the Chorus to the fifth Act) at the time of the Earl of Essex's commanding the forces in Ireland, in the reign of Q. Elizabeth; and not 'till after Henry the Sixth had been play'd; as may be seen by the conclusion of this Play.

Note return to page 305 ‡This first Scene was added since the edition of 1608, which is much short of the present editions, wherein the speeches are generally enlarg'd and raised: several whole scenes besides, and all the Chorus's also were since added by Shakespear.

Note return to page 306 †Here began the old Play.

Note return to page 307 [a] ayour selves, your lives and services.

Note return to page 308 †This whole speech is copied (in a manner verbatim) from Hall's Chronicle, Henry V. year the second, fol. 4. xx. xxx. xl. &c. In the first edition it is very imperfect, and the very history and names of the Princes are confounded, but this was afterward set right and corrected from his original, Hall's Chronicle.

Note return to page 309 [b] btenth. See Hall, loco cit.

Note return to page 310 [c] csatisfaction. Hall, loco cit.

Note return to page 311 [d] dupon.

Note return to page 312 [e] eamply to.

Note return to page 313 [f] fman. See Hall, fol. 5. x.

Note return to page 314 †Hall's Chronicle, Hen. 5. year 2. fol. 7. page 2. x.

Note return to page 315 [g] gcrush'd.

Note return to page 316 [h] hact.

Note return to page 317 [i] iAnd.

Note return to page 318 †Between this and the foregoing Scene, in all the editions hitherto is inserted the Chorus which I have postpon'd. That Chorus manifestly is intended to advertise the Spectators of the Change of the Scene to Southampton, and therefore ought to be plac'd just before that Change, and not here, where the Scene is still continued in London.

Note return to page 319 [k] kdoating.

Note return to page 320 [l] lface.

Note return to page 321 †I have divided the Acts of this Play differently from all the editions, by beginning here the second Act, whereby each throughout the play begins with a Chorus, regularly; whereas before, this Chorus was stuck into a place where it interrupted the continuance of the Scene, and for want of this division they were forc'd to split the one day's battle at Agincourt into two acts, namely the third and fourth. See the note on Act 4, Scene 13.

Note return to page 322 [a] awe'll digest Th' abuse of distance: force a play.

Note return to page 323 †What follows to the end of this speech is additional since the first edition.

Note return to page 324 †boulted or sifted, [i. e.] refined, or purg'd from all faults.

Note return to page 325 [b] bthee.

Note return to page 326 †This speech also has been inlarged by the author.

Note return to page 327 †his nose was as sharp as a pen, and a table of green fields. These words and a table of green fields are not to be found in the old editions of 1600 and 1608. This nonsense got into all the following editions by a pleasant mistake of the Stage-editors, who printed from the common piecemeal-written Parts in the Play-house. A Table was here directed to be brought in, (it being a scene in a tavern where they drink at parting) and this direction crept into the text from the margin. Greenfield was the name of the Property man in that time who furnish'd implements &c. for the actors. A Table of Greenfield's.

Note return to page 328 †This part much inlarg'd since the first writing.

Note return to page 329 [c] cprivy maidens.

Note return to page 330 [d] dtender.

Note return to page 331 †This whole act (and also the rest of the play) very much enlarged and improved by the author since the editions of 1600, and 1608.

Note return to page 332 *See edit. of 1600, and 1608.

Note return to page 333 †I have left this ridiculous scene as I found it; and am sorry to have no colour left, from any of the editions, to imagine it interpolated.

Note return to page 334 [e] eSpirt.

Note return to page 335 [f] fnook-shotten.

Note return to page 336 [g] gyouth.

Note return to page 337 †This is conformable to history, a soldier (Hall tell us, Hen. 5. year 3. fol. 14.) being hang'd at this time for such a fact.

Note return to page 338 [a] aspeak with him from the bridge, is added in the latter editions; but it is plain from the sequel, that the scene here continues, and the affair of the bridge is over.

Note return to page 339 [b] bheir, in the first edition.

Note return to page 340 †Hall's Chronicle, fol. 14. Hen. 5. year 2.

Note return to page 341 *This scene is shorter, and I think better, in the first editions of 1600 and 1608. But as the enlargements appear to be the author's own, I would not omit them; but have, for the reader's curiosity, marked them with small comma's.

Note return to page 342 *&lblank; who knew it. &plquo;Orl. &plquo;He needs not, it is no hidden virtue in him.&prquo; &plquo;Con. &plquo;By my faith, Sir, but it is; never any body saw it but his lacquey; 'tis a hooded valour, and when it appears it will abate.&prquo; Orl. Ill-will never said well. Con. I will cap that proverb with, There is flattery in friendship. Orl. And I will take up that with, Give the Devil his due. Con. Well plac'd; there stands your friend for the devil; have at the very eye of that proverb with, A pox of the devil. Orl. You are the better at proverbs, by how much a fool's bolt is soon shot. Con. You have shot over. Orl. 'Tis not the first time you were over-shot. SCENE &lblank;

Note return to page 343 [a] asinfully miscarry upon the sea.

Note return to page 344 [b] bpurpose.

Note return to page 345 [c] cbefore.

Note return to page 346 [d] dblessedly lost.

Note return to page 347 *&lblank; SCENE V. K. Henry. Indeed the French may lay twenty French crowns to one, they will beat us, for they bear them on their shoulders; but it is no English treason to cut French crowns, and to-morrow the King himself will be a clipper. Upon the King! &lblank;

Note return to page 348 †This beautiful Speech was added after the first editions.

Note return to page 349 * &lblank; up my lords. Dau. Monte Cheval: my horse, valet lacquay: ha! Orl. O brave spirit! Dau. Voier les cieux & la terre. Orl. Rion puis le air & feu. Dau. Cien, Cousin Orleans. Enter Constable. Now my lord Constable! Con. Hark how our Steeds for present service neigh. Dau. Mount them and make incision in their hides, That their hot blood may spin in English eyes, And daunt them with superfluous courage: ha! Ram. What, will you have them weep our Horses blood? How shall we then behold their natural tears? Enter Messenger. Mes. The English are embattell'd, you French Peers. Con. To horse &lblank;

Note return to page 350 †Jymold, or rather gimmald, which signifies a ring of two rounds. Gemellus, Sk.

Note return to page 351 [c] cfam'd.

Note return to page 352 [f] fsee this day, and live old age.

Note return to page 353 [g] g yet all shall not be forgot, But he'll remember &lblank;

Note return to page 354 * &lblank; a plague in France. Mark then abounding valour in our English: That being dead, like to the bullets grasing, Break out into a second course of mischief, Killing in relapse of mortality. Let me speak proudly; &c.

Note return to page 355 [h] hblood he was.

Note return to page 356 †Here in the other editions they begin the fourth Act, very absurdly, since both the Place and Time evidently continue, and the words of Fluellen immediately follow those of the King just before.

Note return to page 357 [i] ioffer'd.

Note return to page 358 [k] kand with.

Note return to page 359 [l] ltestimony and witness, and will avouchment.

Note return to page 360 †This list is copied from Hall.

Note return to page 361 †The King (say the Croniclers) caused the psalm In exitu Israel de Ægypto (in which according to the Vulgate is included the psalm Non nobis domine, &c.) to be sung after the victory.

Note return to page 362 †The Earl of Essex, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

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