Mr. Weber does not appear to know what the author means. G. 10. W. 11.-At once both th'roughly cur'd and set in safety. The king could not say this, for the operation, as he had just observed, had been laborious, and the effect gradual. Read: At last, both thoroughly cured, &c. G. 10. W. 12.-In sending to this blood-shrunk commonwealth. Read: In lending to this blood-shrunk, &c. G. 11. I. 13.-Of troubles and seditions. Read: Of troubles and sedition. G. 11. W. 13.-Nor are her birth as other mothers' are. G. 13. W.14.—Will you all confess? Here is no thought of putting a question; the king takes the fact for granted. Read: G. 18. W. 18. You will all confess, &c. and in the highest line Derive my pedigree, &c. This is wrong; the speaker means in the most direct line. and in the rightest line, Read: Derive, &c. G. 21. W. 20.-My faultering tongue. Read My faulting tongue. And for " am I to em ploy." which is hardly sense here, read—I am to employ. G. 21. W.21.-To side thy equals.] "This is a singular use of the verb, to side, which was originally a technical term at card-playing." Nothing can be more absurd. the familiar and proper sense, to Side, in Ford, is used in keep pace with, to be equally forward; whereas the word in Massinger, from the index of which Mr. Weber has innocently taken it, signifies set, or party; and the expression there used-" to pull down a side," means-to occasion the loss of the game. G. 23. W.22.-Proclaims it, in the best, a president. Read: Proclaims it, in the best, a precedent. G. 24. W.23.—A secretary from the duke of York. This destroys all the contempt meant to be conveyed by the speaker. Read: A secretary from a duke of York. G.26. W.25.-Let my weak knees rot to the earth. Read: rot on the earth. i. e. before I rise. G. 28. W.26.-List. "An old word for choose"! G. 32. W.29.-When counsels fail, and there's no man to trust. Read: When counsels fail, and there's in man no trust, G. 33. W.30.-Careful," i. e. full of cares." Very good indeed. G. 37. W.33.-Reserving the relation to the secrecy Read: Of your own princely care. of your own princely ear. G.40. W.36.-Exeunt king Henry. Mr. Weber seems to have an odd taste in these matters. The ex. of the old copy is alternately converted by him into exeunt and exit; by way, apparently, of keeping as even a hand as possible between them. He seems not to have the slightest suspicion of any difference in the meaning of the two words; so that it is all pure conscience with him G. 42. W.37.-You so desir'd to speak with. G.42. W.37.-What? I am abused? Read: What! am I abused? G. 44. W.39.—Your army, sir, being muster'd. G. 44. W. 40.-Such arguments. Read: Such argument. G. 46. W.41.-For service of— Read: For service to G. 46. IV. 40.-What surety both of unity and honour. Read: G. 47. W. 41. Read: Have my services drawn on me i. c. when I am on the verge of the grave, and should spend the short remainder of my life in tranquillity. But Mr. Weber has blundered through the whole of this fine speech, of which he comprehends nothing. G. 51. IV. 44. may all the happiness My prayers ever sued to, fall upon you Another extraordinary confusion of sense. My prayers ever sued to fall upon you, G.51. W.44.-Here's entrance G.51. IV.44.-When I traded in remnants. The point and pleasantry of the speech are lost. The speaker is a botcher. G. 52. IV. 45.-In good time. Read, shall in time. G. 52. W.45.-No indenture but has its counterpawn. There is, I believe, no such word: read, its counterpane. G. 53. W.46.-Let my skin be pinch'd full of oylet-holes by the bodkin, &c. Oylet-holes are the eyes of needles." Pinching a skin full of the eyes of needles is every way worthy of the critic. Read: Let my skin be punch'd full of oylet-holes, &c. Oylet-holes, as every child knows, are little holes, or perforations," as Johnson proudly calls them, punched in cloth or linen, for tapes or laces to pass through. G. 53. W.46.-Let me live a bankrupt. r. Let me first live. Mr. Weber did not notice the sarcasm here meant by the poet; Sketon was at this time a bankrupt. G. 54. W.47.—" Carriage, behaviour"! This is about the tenth time Mr. Weber has given us this important information; there is therefore good hope. that before we get through these plays, we shall be somewhat familiar with its meaning. G. 57. W.50.-Resolv'd to try your mercy. Nonsense. The prisoners were not resolved to try Henry's mercy; but, as the text has it, Reserv'd, &c. Two thousand rebels had been slain in the field; as many more were preserved by the royal forces for the trial of, or rather in the hope of, the king's clemency. They were, of course, dismissed, with the exception of the leaders. "I have not been able to discover what particular kind of liquor was thus denominated, never having met with the phrase before." Phrase call you it! Mr. Weber's South Sea of discovery, as the reader knows, is the index to Shakspeare; beyond that, all is terra incognita with him. Bonny-clabber is a word exceedingly common; and I could produce, if it were necessary, scores of examples of it, from our poet's contemporaries. It is still in use. Swift translates the lac concretum of Virgil by "bonny-clabber," that is, says he, "thick sour milk." In allusion to this curdled state, it is called by Heath, who has the word in many places, the Irish tough bonny-clabber." Our old writers usually understand it of stale whey or butter-milk. See Jonson, vol. v. p. 330. G. 62. W.54. Read: the losing of a daughter Admits not any pair like one of these. the losing of a daughter Admits not any pain, &c. G. 65. W.57.-Here are kingly bugs' words! Of these royal creatures I never heard before. 66 Read: Here are kingly bug-words; i. e. high sounding, imperious, &c. Well advised. G. 68. W.59.-Careful, “i. e. full of cares; see before, p. 30.” In matters of this doubtful kind, one cannot be too circumspect. G.70. I. 61. Partage, i. c. partition; partage, Fr." G.71. W.61.—The privacy of his advertisement to us. : G. 71. W.61.-His wisdom and your care. Read: His wisdom and our care. Same page for counsel, read council; and for-join in treaty, which is simple nonsense in this place, read, join entreaty with me. G.72. IV. 62.-Your vow'd beadsman.] "A beadsman, in Catholic countries, is one who prays a certain number of prayers |