alive, and would deny it, I would make him eat a piece of my sword.

P. John, This is the strangest tale that e'er I heard. P. Hen. This is the strangest fellow, brother John.Come, bring your luggage nobly on your back: For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have.

[A Retreat is sounded.

The trumpet sounds retreat, the day is ours.
Come, brother, let's to the highest of the field,
To see what friends are living, who are dead.

[Exeunt Prince HEN. and Prince JOHN. Fal. I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him! If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I 'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do. [Exit, bearing off the Body,

SCENE V.

Another Part of the Field.

The Trumpets sound. Enter King HENRY, Prince HEN-
RY, Prince JOHN, WESTMORELAND, and Others, with
WORCESTER, and VERNON, prisoners.

K. Hen. Thus ever did rebellion find rebuke.3.
Ill-spirited Worcester! did we not send grace,
Pardon, and terms of love to all of you?
And would'st thou turn our offers contrary?
Misuse the tenor of thy kinsman's trust?
Three knights upon our party slain to-day,
A noble earl, and many a creature else,
Had been alive this hour,

by one of the Conqueror's knights to the body of King Harold. I do not however believe that Lord Lyttelton supposed Shakspeare to have read this old Monk. The story is told likewise by Matthew Paris and Matthew of Westminster; and by many of the English Chroniclers, Stowe, Speed, &c. &c. Farmer.

3 Thus ever did rebellion find rebuke.] Thomas Churchyard, in a catalogue of his own printed works, prefixed to his Challenge, 1593, informs us, that he had published "a booke called A Rebuke to Rebellion [dedicated] to the good old Earle of Bedford."

Steevens.

If, like a christian, thou hadst truly borne
Betwixt our armies true intelligence.

Wor. What I have done, my safety urg'd me to;
And I embrace this fortune patiently,

Since not to be avoided it falls on me.

K. Hen. Bear Worcester to the death, and Vernon too: Other offenders we will pause upon.

How goes the field?

[Exeunt WOR. and VER. guarded.

P. Hen. The noble Scot, lord Douglas, when he saw The fortune of the day quite turn'd from him,

The noble Percy slain, and all his men

Upon the foot of fear,-fled with the rest;
And, falling from a hill, he was so bruis'd,
That the pursuers took him. At my tent
The Douglas is; and I beseech your grace,
I may dispose of him.

K. Hen.

With all my heart.

P. Hen. Then, brother John of Lancaster, to you This honourable bounty shall belong:

Go to the Douglas, and deliver him

Up to his pleasure, ransomless, and free:

His valour, shown upon our crests to-day,

Hath taught us how to cherish such high deeds,
Even in the bosom of our adversaries 5

K. Hen. Then this remains,-that we divide our pow

er.

4 Hath taught us -] This reading, which serves to exclude an inelegant repetition (and might have been derived from the quarto, 1598, corrected by our author,) is refused by Mr. Malone. See the subsequent note: and yet are we authorized to reject the fittest word, merely because it is not found in the earliest copy? In note on p. 330, Mr Malone accepts a reading from a late quarto, which he acknowledges to be of no value. Steevens.

Hath shown us-] Thus the quarto, 1598. In that of 1599, shown was arbitrarily changed to taught, which consequently is the reading of the folio. The repetition is much in our author's manner. Malone.

Here Mr. Pope inserts the following speech from the quartos: "Lan. I thank your grace for this high courtesy,

"Which I shall give away immediately."

But Dr. Johnson judiciously supposes it to have been rejected by Shakspeare himself. Steevens.

You, son John, and my cousin Westmoreland,

Towards York shall bend you, with your dearest speed,
To meet Northumberland, and the prelate Scroop,
Who, as we hear, are busily in arms:

Myself, and you, son Harry,-will towards Wales,
To fight with Glendower, and the earl of March.
Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway,
Meeting the check of such another day:
And since this business so fair is done,"
Let us not leave till all our own be won.

[Exeunt.

6 And since this business so fair is done,] Fair for fairly. Either that word is here used as a dissyllable, or business as a trisyllable. Malone.

Business is undoubtedly the word employed as a trisyllable.

END OF VOL. VIII.

T. S. Manning, Printer, 143 N. Third Street.

Steevens.