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A place next to the king.

Aber. I cannot tell

:

What heaven hath given him, let some graver eye Pierce into that; but I can see his pride

Peep through each part of him: Whence has he

that?

If not from hell, the devil is a niggard;

Or has given all before, and he begins
A new hell in himself.

Buck. Why the devil,

:

Upon this French going out, took he upon him,
Without the privity o' the king, to appoint
Who should attend on him? He makes up the file
Of all the gentry; for the most part fuch
Too, whom as great a charge as little honour
He meant to lay upon: and his own letter,
The honourable board of council out,

Muft fetch in him he papers.

Aber. I do know

Kinfmen of mine, three at the least, that have
By this so ficken'd their estates, that never
They shall abound as formerly.

Buck. O, many

Have broke their backs with laying manors on them

:

*the file] That is, the lift. See Vol. II. p. 104.

JOHNSON. 5-council out,] Council not then fitting. JOHNSON. The expression rather means, "all mention of the board of council being left out of his letter." STEEVENS.

Without advising with, or consulting the council, not fuffering them to have any concern in the business. REMARKS.

Must fetch in him he papers.] He papers, a verb; his own letter, by his own single authority, and without the concurrence of the council, must fetch in him whom he papers down. don't understand it, unless this be the meaning. POPE.

Wolfey published a lift of the several perfons whom he had ap pointed to attend on the king at this interview. See Hall's Chronicle, Rymer's Federa, tom. 13; &C. STEEVENS.

For For this great journey 7. * What did this vanity, But minifter communication of

A most poor iffue?

Nor. Grievingly I think,

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The peace between the French and us not values
The coft that did conclude it.

Buck. Every man,

After the hideous storm that follow'd, was
A thing inspir'd; and, not confulting, broke
Into a general prophecy, That this tempest,
Dashing the garment of this peace, aboaded
The fudden breach on't.

1 Have broke their backs with laying manors on them
For this great journey.]

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In the ancient Interlude of Nature, bl. 1. no date, but appa rently printed in the reign of King Henry VIII. there seems to have been a fimilar stroke aimed at this expenfive expedition:

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Pryde. I am unhappy, I fe it well,

" For thexpence of myne apparell

"Towardys this vyage

"What in horses and other aray
"Hath compelled me for to lay

"All my land to mortgage." STEEVENS.

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We meet with a fimilar expression in Marlowe's King Ed

ward II. 1598:

"He wears a lord's revenue on his back."

"While foldiers mutiny for want of pay,

MALONE.

"'Tis an or

So also Burton in his Anatomy of Melancholy. dinary thing to put a thousand oakes, or an hundred oxen, into a sute of apparell, to weare a whole manor on his back." Edit. 1634, p. 482. WHALLEY.

See alfo DODSLEY'S Collection of Old Plays, edit. 1780, Vol.

V. p. 26. Vol. XII. p. 395. EDITOR.

8 What did this vanity,

But]

What effect had this pompous shew but the production of a wretched conclufion. JOHNSON.

9 Every man,

After the bideous storm that follow'd, &c.]

His author, Hall, says, Monday, 18th day of June, there blew Such storms of wind and weather, that marvel was to hears for which hideous tempest some said it was a very prognostication of trouble and hatred to come between princes." In Henry VIII. p. 80. WARBURTON.

VOL. VII.

Nor

Nor. Which is budded out;

For France hath flaw'd the league, and hath attach'd

Our merchants' goods at Bourdeaux.

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Aber. Is it therefore

The ambaffador is filenc'd? V

Nor. Marry, is't.

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Aber. A proper title of a peace; and purchas'd

At a fuperfluous rate!

Buck. Why, all this business

Our reverend cardinal carry'd.
Nor. Like it your grace,

The state takes notice of the private difference
Betwixt you and the cardinal. I advise you,
(And take it from a heart that wishes towards you
Honour and plenteous safety) that you read
The cardinal's malice and his potency
Together: to confider further, that

What his high hatred would effect, wants not
A minister in his power: You know his nature,
That he's revengeful; and I know, his fword
Hath a sharp edge: it's long, and, it may be faid,
It reaches far; and where 'twill not extend,
Thither he darts it. Bosom up my counsel,
You'll find it wholesome. Lo, where comes that

rock,

That I advise your shunning.

* The ambassador is filenc'd?] Silenc'd for recall'd. This being proper to be faid of an orator; and an ambassador or public minister being called an orator, he applies filenc'd to ambassador. WARBURTON.

I understand it rather of the French ambaffador refiding in - England, who, by being refused an audience, may be faid to be filenc'd. JOHNSON.

A proper title of a peace ;-] A fine name of a peace.

nically. JOHNSON. 3

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comes that rock,] To make the rock come is not very

just. JOHNSON.

Enter

Enter Cardinal Wolfey, the purse borne before him, certain of the guard, and two Secretaries with papers. The Cardinal in his passage fixeth his eye on Buckingham, and Buckingham on him, both full of disdain.

Wol. The duke of Buckingham's surveyor? ha? Where's his examination ?

Secr. Here, so please you.

Wol. Is he in person ready?

Secr. Ay, please your grace.

Wol. Well, we shall then know more; and Buck

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[Exeunt Cardinal, and his train.

Buck. This butcher's cur is venom-mouth'd, and I
Have not the power to muzzle him; therefore, best
Not wake him in his slumber. 5 A beggar's book
Out-worths a noble's blood.

Nor. What, are you chaf'd?
Ask God for temperance; that's the appliance only,
Which your disease requires.
Buck. I read in his looks
Matter against me; and his eye revil'd
Me, as his abject object: at this instant

4-butcher's cur) Wolfey is faid to have been the fon of a butcher. JOHNSON.

Dr. Grey observes, that when the death of the duke of Buckingham was reported to the emperor Charles V. he said, "The firit buck of England was worried to death by a butcher's dog.” Skelton, whose satire is of the grossest kind, in Why come you not to Court, has the same reflection on the meanness of cardinal Wolsey's birth:

For drede of the boucher's dog,

"Wold wirry them like an hog." STEEVENS,

5-A beggar's book

Out-worths a noble's blood.]

That is, the literary qualifications of a bookish beggar are more prized than the high defcent of hereditary greatness. This is a contemptuous exclamation very naturally put into the mouth of one of the antient, unletter'd, martial nobility. JOHNSON.

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'Hebores me with some trick: He's gone to the king; I'll follow, and out-stare him.

Nor. Stay, my lord,

And let your reason with your choler question
What 'tis you go about: To climb steep hills,
Requires flow pace at first: Anger is like "
A full-hot horse; who being allow'd his way,
Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England
Can advise me like you: be to yourself,
As you would to your friend.

Buck. I'll to the king;

And from a mouth of honour quite cry down
This Ipswich fellow's infolence; or proclaim,
There's difference in no persons.

Nor. Be advis'd;

Heat not a furnace for your foe fo hot
That it do finge yourself: We may out-run,
By violent fwiftness, that which we run at,
And lose by over-running. Know you not,
The fire, that mounts the liquor 'till it run o'er,
In feeming to augment it, wastes it? Be advis'd:

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6 He bores me with some trick ) He stabs or wounds me by fome artifice or fiction. JOHNSON.

So, in the Life and Death of the Lord Cromwell 1613:
"One that hath gull'd you, that hath bor'd you, fir."

Anger is like

A full hot horse;

So, Maflinger, in the Unnatural Combat.:

∴ STEEVENS.

Let paffion work, and, like a hot-rein'd horse,
'Twill quickly tire itself. STEEVENS.

8from a mouth of honour) I will crush this baseborn fellow, by the due influence of my rank, or fay that all diftinction of perfons is at an end. JOHNSON.

9 Heat not a furnace &c.] Might not Shakspeare allude to Dan. iii. 22.? "Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of fire flew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshac, and Abednego."

STEEVENS.

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