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Suf. I'll win this Lady Margaret. For whom A Why, for my king: Tush! that's a wooden thing Mar. He talks of wood: It is some carpenter. Suf. Yet so my fancy 12 may be satisfied, w And peace e established between t these realms. But there remains a scruple in that too; For though her father be the king of Naples, Duke of Anjou and Maine, yet he is poor, And our nobility will scorn the match.

Mar

1

Aside

ear ye, captain? Are you not at leisure?
Suf. It shall be so, disdain they ne'er so much:
Henry is youthful, and will quickly yield.
Madam, I have a secret to reveal.

Mar. What though I be enthrall'd? he seems a
knight,

And will not any way dishonour me. [Aside.
Suf. Lady, vouchsafe to listen what I say. I
Mar. Perhaps, I shall be rescu'd by the French; -
And then I need not crave his courtesy. [4side.
Suf. Sweet madam, give me hearing in a cause
Mar. Tush: women have been captivate ere now.
[Aside,

Suf. Lady, wherefore talk you so?

Mar. I cry you mercy, 'tis but quid for quo. Suf. Say, gentle princess, would you not suppose Your bondage happy, to be made a queen?ant? Mar. To be a queen in bondage, is more vile, Than is a slave in base servility;fedis For princes should be free.ll-yet

Suf. espiguet And so shall you, 11

If happy England's royal king be free.seg

Mar. Why, what concerns his freedom unto me?
Suf. I'll undertake to make thee Henry's queen;

To put a golden sceptre in thy hand, q

11 i. e. an awkward business, an undertaking not likely to suc ceed. It is sport to see a bold fellow out of countenance, for that puts his face into a most shrunken and wooden posture.

12 i. e. love. Thus in Midsummer Night's Dream:-
Fair Helena in fancy following me.'

Vol. VI.

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And set a precious crown upon thy head, A
If thou wilt condescend to be my-
Murdegna, Slagh Pi
Suf. His love. od

What?

Maram unworthy to be Henry's wife. Suf. No, gentle madam; I unworthy am To woo so fair a dame to be his wife, And have no portion in the choice myself. How say you, madam; are you so content? Mar. An if my father please, I am content.vol Suf. Then call our captains, and our colours,

-forth:

And, madam, at your father's castle walls We'll crave a parley to confer with him. [Troops come forward.

A Parley sounded. Enter REIGNIER, on the Walls.

Suf See, Reignier, see, thy daughter prisoner. Reig. To whom?

Suf.on
Reig.

To me.

Suffolk, what remedy?

I am a soldier, and unapt to weep,

Or to exclaim on fortune's fickleness.

Suf. Yes, there is remedy enough, my lord: Consent (and, for thy honour, give consent), os Thy daughter shall be wedded to my king;

Whom I with pain have woo'd and won thereto;
And this her easy-held imprisonment engage vold
Hath gain'd thy daughter princely liberty.
Reig. Speaks Suffolk as he thinks?

eh i
Suf, et mobosal Fair Margaret knows,
That Suffolk doth not flatter, face 13, or feign.
Reig. Upon thy princely warrant, I descend,
To give thee answer of thy just demand.

[Exit, from the Walls. Suf. And here I will expect thy coming.

13 To face it is to carry a false appearance, to play the hypocrite. Hence the name of one of Ben Jonson's characters in The Alchymist.

Trumpets sounded. Enter REIGNIER, below. Reig. Welcome, brave earl, into our territories: Command in Anjou what your honour pleases. Suf. Thanks, Reignier, happy for so sweet a beschild, w

ase

Fit to be made companion with a king:
What answer makes your grace unto my suit?
Reig. Since thou dost deign to woo her little

worth,

To be the princely bride of such a lord; o
Upon condition I may quietly

Enjoy mine own, the county Maine, and Anjou,
Free from oppression, or the stroke of war,Lives
My daughter shall be Henry's, if he please.git
Suf. That is her ransome, I deliver her;
And those two counties, I will undertake,
Your grace shall well and quietly enjoy.
Reig. nd I again,-in Henry's royal name,
As deputy unto that gracious king,

Give thee her hand, for sign of plighted faith.
Suf. Reignier of France, I give thee kingly thanks,
Because this is in traffic of a king:

[Aside.

And yet, methinks, I could be well content
To be mine own attorney in this case.
I'll over then to England with this news,
And make this marriage to be solemniz'd;
So,
Set this diamond safe
farewell, Reignier!
In golden palaces, as it becomes.

Reig. I do embrace thee, as I would embrace The Christian prince, King Henry, were he here. Mar. Farewell, my lord! Good wishes, praise,

and prayers,

Shall Suffolk ever have of Margaret.

[Going. Suf. Farewell, sweet madam! But hark you, Marvigaret;:

No princely commendation to my king?

Mar. Such commendations as become a maid, A virgin, and his servant, say to him.

Suf. Words sweetly plac'd, and modestly directed.

But madam, I must trouble you again-
No loving token to his majesty?

· Mar. Yes, my good lord: a pure unspotted heart, Never yet taint with love, I send the king.sudo Suf. And this withal. Vadimo [Kisses her. Mar. That for thyself:-I will not so presume, To send such peevish 14 tokens to a king.it [Exeunt REIGNIER and MARGARET.

Suf. O, wert thou for myself! - But, Suffolk,

stay;

er in th

Thou may'st not wander in that labyrinth;
There Minotaurs, and ugly treasons, lurk.
Solicit Henry with her wondrous praise:
Bethink thee on her virtues. that surmount;
Mad 15, natural graces that extinguish art; bland
Repeat their semblance often on the seas,
That, when thou com'st to kneel at Henry's feet,
Thou may'st bereave him of his wits with wonder.
[Exit.

SCENE IV.

Camp of the Duke of York, in Anjou.

Enter YORK, WARWICK, and Others.

York. Bring forth that sorceress, condemn'd to

burn.

Enter LA PUCELLE, guarded, and a Shepherd.

Shep. Ah, Joan! this kills thy father's heart outright!

Have I sought every country far and near,
And, now it is my chance to find thee out,
Must I behold thy timeless 1 cruel death?
Ah, Joan, sweet daughter Joan, I'll die with thee!

14 i. e. silly, foolish. Vide note on Comedy of Errors, Act iv. Sc. 1.

15 Mad has been shown by Steevens to have been occasionally used for wild, in which sense we must take it here; if we do not, with others, suspect it an error of the press for And or Her.

Timeless is untimely, Thus Drayton in his Legend of Robert Duke of Normandy:

Puc. Decrepit miser 2! base ignoble wretch! ball I am descended of a gentler blood;uite, oslo 10 Thou art no father, nor no friends of mine.

Shep. Out, outMy lords, an please you, 'tis bonot so; signad send red wind I did beget her, all the parish knows: Her mother liveth yet, can testify,

She was the first fruit of my bachelorship.
War. Graceless! wilt thou deny thy parentage?
-York: This argues what her kind of life hath
been;

Wicked and vile; and so her death concludes.
Shep. Fye, Joan! that thou wilt be so bbstacle 3!
God knows, thou art a collop of my flesh;37
And for thy sake have

Deny me not, I pryth shed many a tear:

gentle

T Puc. Peasant, avaunt! You have suborn'd this -man, fun, Divsem

Of purpose to obscure my noble birthshine
Shep. "Tis true, I gave a noble to the priest, e
The morn that I was wedded to her mother.
Kneel down and take my blessing, good my girl,
Wilt thou not stoop? Now cursed be the time
Of thy nativity! I would the milke ohm 6/1
Thy mother gave thee, when thou suek'dst her
breast, nt etifosount bang alam

Thy strength was buried in his timeless death.' We have the word again in King Richard II. and in Romeo and Juliet.

2 Miser er has no relation to avarice in this passage, but simply means a miserable creature. Thus Holinshed, p. 760, speaking of the death of King Richard III.:And so this miser, at the same verie point had like chance and fortune,' &c. And describing the death of Lord Cromwell, he says:And so patiently suffered the stroke of the axe, by a ragged and butcherlie miser, which illfavouredlie performed the office. p. 951. Other instances may be seen in Mr. Nares's Glossary, and in the Variorum Shakspeare.y 3 This vulgar corruption of obstinate has oddly lasted till now, says Johnson, It occurs in Chapman's May Day, 1611.

'An obstacle young thing it is."

We have the phrase a collop of his flesh in the History of Morindos and Miracola, 1609: - yet being his second selfe, a callop of his own flesh. Thus also in The Winter's Tale:

Most dearest! my collop.'