Hath pawn'd the Sicils and Jerusalem,

And hither have they sent it for her ransom.

K. Edw. Away with her, and waft her hence to
France.

And now what rests, but that we spend the time
With stately triumphs, mirthful comic shows,
Such as befit the pleasures of the court?———
Sound, drums and trumpets!-farewel, sour annoy!
For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.

500

[Exeunt omnes.

THE END.

BY

SAM. JOHNSON & GEO. STEEVENS,

AND

THE VARIOUS COMMENTATORS,

UPON

KING HENRY VI

PART III.

WRITTEN BY

WILL. SHAKSPERE.

-SIC ITUR AD ASTRA.

VIRG.

LONDON:

Printed for, and under the Direction of,

JOHN BELL, British-Library. STRAND, Bookseller to His Royal Highness the PRINCE of WALES.

M DCC LXXXVII.

ANNOTATIONS

UPON

KING HENRY VI.

PART III.

THIRD PART-] First printed under the title of The true Tragedy of Richard Duke of York, and the good King Henry the Sixth; or, The Second Part of the Contention between York and Lancaster, 1600. POPE.

ACT I.

Line 1. I WONDER, how the king-] This play is only divided from the former for the convenience of exhibition; for the series of action is continued without interruption; nor are any two scenes of any play

more closely connected than the first scene of this play with the last of the former.

JOHNSON. 9. Were by the swords of common soldiers slain.] See Dr. Percy's note, Henry VI. Part III. act v. 1. 244. REED.

47. —if Warwick shake his bells.] The allusion is to falconry. The hawks had sometimes little bells hung upon them, perhaps to dare the birds; that is, to fright them from rising. JOHNSON. 79. —as the kingdom is.] Thus the quarto 1600, and that without date. The folio erroneously reads: -as the earldom was. STEEVENS.

108. I am the son of Henry the Fifth,] The military reputation of Henry the Fifth is the sole support of his The name of Henry the Fifth dispersed the followers of Cade.

son.

145.

JOHNSON. Think you, 'twere prejudicial to the crown ?] i. e. STEEVENS. 162. May that ground gape, and swallow me alive.] So in Phaer's translation of the 4th Æneid:

to the prerogative of the crown.

"But rather would I wish the ground to gape for STEEVENS.

me below."

191. They seek revenge, -] They go away, not because they doubt the justice of this determination, but because they have been conquered, and seek to be revenged. They are not influenced by principle, but passion. JOHNSON.

239. What is it, but to make the sepulchre,] The queen's reproach is founded on a position long received among politicians, that the loss of a king's power is soon followed by loss of life. JOHNSON.