As we with honour and respect may take,
With purpose presently to leave this war.

Bast. He will the rather do it, when he sees
Ourselves well sinewed to our defence.

Sal. Nay, it is in a manner done already;
For many carriages he hath despatch'd
To the sea-side, and put his cause and quarrel
To the disposing of the cardinal:

With whom yourself, myself, and other lords,
you think meet, this afternoon will post

If

To cónsummate this business happily.

Bast. Let it be so:-And you, my noble prince,
With other princes that may best be spar'd,
Shall wait upon your father's funeral.

P. Hen. At Worcester must his body be interr'd;
For so he will'd it.

Bast.

Thither shall it then.

And happily may your sweet self put on

The lineal state and glory of the land!

To whom, with all submission, on my knee,
I do bequeath my faithful services

And true subjection everlastingly.

Sal. And the like tender of our love we make,

To rest without a spot for evermore.

P. Hen. I have a kind soul, that would give you

thanks,

And knows not how to do it, but with tears.

Bast. O, let us pay the time but needful woe,
Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs.-
This England never did, (nor never shall,)
Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror,
But when it first did help to wound itself.

Now these her princes are come home again,
Come the three corners of the world in arms,
And we shall shock them: Nought shall make us rue,
If England to itself do rest but true.

[Exeunt,

END OF VOL. V.

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ACT I.

LINE 30. Be thou, as lightning -] The simile does not suit well the lightning indeed appears before the thunder is heard, but the lightning is destructive, and the thunder innocent.

JOHNSON. Line 58. and Philip, his bastard brother.] Holinshed says, that Richard I. had a natural son named Philip, who killed the viscount De Limoges to revenge the death of his father. STEEVENS.

In expanding the character of the Bastard, Shakspeare seems to have proceeded on the following slight hint in the original play :

"Next them, a bastard of the king's deceas'd,
"A nardie wild-head, rough, and venturous.”

MALONE.

Line 98. He hath a trick of Caur-de-lion's face.] Our author often uses this phrase, and generally in the sense of a peculiar air or cast of countenance or feature. MALONE.

Line 140. This concludes,] This is a decisive argument. As your father, if he liked him, could not have been forced to resign him, so, not liking him, he is not at liberty to reject him. JOHNSON.

Line 155.

ANNOTATIONS ON

my face so thin,

That in mine ear I durst not stick a rose

[ACT I.

Lest men should say, Look where three-farthings goes?] The illusion is to a silver coin of three-farthings in the reign of Elizabeth, which had the impression of a rose on one side, and being extremely thin was liable to be cracked; hence the humour of the passage.

Line 188. Madam, by chance, but not by truth; what though?] I am your grandson, madam, by chance, but not by honesty -what then? JOHNSON.

Line 190. Something about, a little from the right, &c.] This speech, composed of allusive and proverbial sentences, is obscure. I am, says the sprightly knight, your grandson, a little irregularly, but every man cannot get what he wishes the legal way. He that dares not go about his designs by day, must make his motions in the night; he, to whom the door is shut, must climb the window, or leap the hatch. This, however, shall not depress me; for the world never enquires how any man got what he is known to possess, but allows that to have is to have however it was caught, and that he who wins, shot well, whatever was his skill, whether the arrow fell near the mark, or fur off it. JOHNSON. These expressions STEEVENS.

Line 191. In at the window, &c.] mean, to be born out of wedlock.

Line 210. Now your traveller,] It is said in All's well that ends well, that a traveller is a good thing after dinner. In that age of newly excited curiosity, one of the entertainments at great tables seems to have been the discourse of a traveller. JOHNSON.

Line 214. My picked man of countries:] The word picked may not refer to the beard, but to the shoes, which were once worn of an immoderate length. STEEVENS.

Line 240. To blow a horn -] He means, that a woman who travelled about like a post was likely to horn her husband. JOHNSON,

Line 253. James Gurney.] Our author found this name in perusing the history of King John, who, not long before his victory at Mirabeau, over the French, headed by young Arthur, seized the lands and castle of Hugh Gorney, near Butevant, in Normany. MALONE.

Line 260. Colbrand-] Colbrand was a Danish giant, whom Guy of Warwick discomfited in the presence of king Athelstan. The combat is very pompously described by Drayton, in his Polyolbion. JOHNSON.

Line 257. There's toys abroad, &c.] i. e. idle reports.

STEEVENS. Basilico-like:]

Line 272. Knight, knight, good mother Falconbridge's words here carry a concealed piece of satire on a stupid drama of that age, printed in 1599, and called Soliman and Perseda. In this piece there is a character of a bragging cowardly knight, called Basilico. His pretensions to valour is so blown and seen through, that Piston, a buffoon-servant in the play, jumps upon his back, and will not disengage him, till he makes Basilico swear upon his dudgeon dagger to the contents, and in the terms he dictates to him THEOBALD.

ACT II.

Line 3. Richard, that robb'd, &c.] So Rastal in his Chronicle. It is sayd that a lyon was put to kynge Richard, beynge in prison, to have devoured him, and when the lyon was gapynge he put his arme in his mouth, and pulled the lyon by the harte so hard that he slewe the lyon, and therefore some say he is called Rycharde Cure de Lyon; but some say he is called Cure de Lyon, because of his boldness and hardy stomake. DR. GREY.