GAUNT. To be a makepeace fhall become my age:Throw down, my fon, the duke of Norfolk's gage. K. RICH. And, Norfolk, throw down his. GAUNT. When, Harry? when? Obedience bids, I fhould not bid again. K. RICH. Norfolk, throw down; we bid; there is no boot.3 NOR. Myfelf I throw, dread fovereign, at thy foot: My life thou shalt command, but not my fhame: When, Harry? This obfolete exclamation of impatience, is likewife found in Heywood's Silver Age, 1613: 66 Fly into Affrick; from the mountains there, "Chufe me two venomous ferpents: thou fhalt know them: By their fell poifon and their fierce afpect. "When, Iris? "Iris. I am gone." Again, in Look about you, 1600: I'll cut off thy legs, "If thou delay thy duty. When, proud John?" STEEVENS. 3 no boot.] That is, no advantage, no use, in delay or refufal. JOHNSON. 4 my fair name, &c.] That is, my name that lives on my grave, in despight of death. This cafy paffage moft of the editors feem to have mistaken. JOHNSON. 5 and baffled here;] Baffled in this place means treated with the greatest ignominy imaginable. So, Holinfhed, Vol. III. p. 827, and 1218, or annis 1513, and 1570, explains it: "Bafulling fays he, is a great difgrace among the Scots, and it is used when a man is openlie perjured, and then they make of him an image painted, reverfed, with his heels upward, with his name, wondering, crieing, and blowing out of him with horns." Spenfer's Faery Queen, B. V. c. iii. ft. 37; and B. VI. c. vii. ft. 27. has the word in the fame fignification. TOLLET. The which no balm can cure, but his heart-blood Which breath'd this poison. K. RICH. Rage must be withstood: Give me his gage:-Lions make leopards tame. NOR. Yea, but not change their spots: take but And I refign my gage. My dear dear lord, Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay. Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; K. RICH. Coufin, throw down your gage; do you begin. BOLING. O, God defend my foul from such foul fin! Shall I feem creft fallen in my father's fight? The fame expreffion occurs in Twelfth Night, fc. ult: "Alas, poor fool! how have they baffled thee?" Again, in K. Henry IV. Part I. A&t I. fc. ii: an I do not, call me villain, and baffle me." Again, in The London Prodigal, 1605: chil be abaffelled up and down the town, for a messel."' í. e. for a beggar, or rather a leper. STEEVENS. 6 but not change their Spots:] The old copies have-his fpots. Corrected by Mr. Pope. MALONE. 7 - with pale beggar-fear-] This is the reading of one of the oldeft quartos, and the folio. The quartos 1608 and 1615 read-beggar-face; i. e. (as Dr. Warburton obferves) with a face of fupplication. STEEVENS. Or found fo base a parle, my teeth fhall tear mand: Which fince we cannot do to make you friends, 4 The flavish motive-] Motive, for inftrument. Rather that which fear puts in motion. [Exeunt. WARBURTON. JOHNSON. So, in Cymbeline: atone you,] i. e. reconcile you. STEEVENS. 6 Juftice defign-] Thus the old copies. Mr. Pope reads"Juftice decide," but without neceffity. Defigno, Lat. fignifies to mark out, to point out: "Notat defignatque oculis aď cædem unumquemque noftrûm." Cicero in Catilinam. STEEVENS. To defign in our author's time fignified to mark out. See Minfheu's DICT. in v. " To defigne or hew by a token. Ital. Denotare. Lat. Defignare." At the end of the article the reader is referred to the words "to marke, note, demonftrate or fhew."The word is ftill ufed with this fignification in Scotland. MALONE. 7 Marshal, command, &c.] The old copies-Lord Marshall; but (as Mr. Ritfon obferves) the metre requires the omiffion I have made. It is alfo juftified by his Majefty's repeated addrefs to the fame officer, in fcene iii. STEEVENS. The fame. SCENE II. A Room in the Duke of Lancaster's Enter GAUNT, and Duchefs of Glofter. 2 8 GAUNT. Alas! the part I had' in Glofter's blood Doth more folicit me, than your exclaims, To ftir against the butchers of his life. But fince correction lieth in thofe hands, Which made the fault that we cannot correct, Put we our quarrel to the will of heaven; Who when he fees the hours ripe on earth, Will rain hot vengeance on offenders' heads. DUCH. Finds brotherhood in thee no sharper fpur? Hath love in thy old blood no living fire? Edward's feven fons, whereof thyself art one, Were as seven phials of his facred blood, Or feven fair branches, fpringing from one root: Some of those seven are dried by nature's course, Some of thofe branches by the deftinies cut: But Thomas, my dear lord, my life, my Glofter, duchess of Glofter.] The Duchefs of Glofter was Eleanor Bohun, widow of Duke Thomas, fon of Edward III. 9 WALPOLE. the part I had―] That is, my relation of confanguinity to Glofter. HANMER. 2 heaven; Who when he fees-] The old copies erroneously read- I have reformed the text by example of a fubfequent paffage, P. 202: heaven's fubftitute, "His deputy, anointed in his fight," &c. STEEVENS. One phial full of Edward's facred blood, Ah, Gaunt! his blood was thine; that bed, that womb, That mettle, that felf-mould, that fashion'd thee, Made him a man; and though thou liv'ft, and breath'ft, Yet art thou flain in him: thou doft confent His deputy anointed in his fight, One phial, &c.] Though all the old copies concur in the prefent regulation of the following lines, I would rather read— One phial full of Edward's facred blond Is crack'd, and all the precious liquor Spill'd; Is hack'd down, and his fummer leaves all faded. Some of the old copies in this inftance, as in many others, read vaded, a mode of fpelling practifed by feveral of our ancient writers. After all, I believe the tranfpofition to be needlefs. STEEVENS. 3 -thou doft confent, &c.] i. e. affent. So, in St. Luke's Gospel, xxiii. 51: "The fame had not confented to the counsel and dead of them.' STEEVENS. |