Art not ashamed? But, firrah, henceforth As will difpleafe you.-My lord Northumberland, [Exeunt King HENRY, BLUNT, and Train. NORTH. What, drunk with choler? ftay, and pause, awhile; Here comes your uncle. HOT. Re-enter WORCESTER. Speak of Mortimer? 'Zounds, I will speak of him; and let my foul phew mad. NORTH. Brother, the king hath made your ne[To WORCESTER. WOR. Who ftruck this heat up after I was gone? HOT. He will, forfooth, have all my prifoners; And when I urg'd the ranfom once again Of my wife's brother, then his cheek look'd pale; Art not-] Old copies-Art thou not. STEEVENS. And on my face he turn'd an eye of death,' WOR. I cannot blame him: Was he not proclaim'd, By Richard that dead is, the next of blood?" 5 an eye of death,] That is, an eye menacing death. Hotfpur feems to defcribe the king as trembling with rage rather than fear. JOHNSON. So, in Marlowe's Tamburlaine, 1590: "And wrapt in filence of his angry foul, "Upon his browes was pourtraid ugly death, "And in his eyes the furies of his heart." STEEVENS. Johnfon and Steevens feem to think that Hotfpur meant to defcribe the King as trembling not with fear, but rage; but furely they are mistaken. The king had no reafon to be enraged at Mortimer, who had been taken prifoner in fighting against his enemy; but he had much reafon to fear the man who had a better title to the crown than himself, which had been proclaimed by Richard II; and accordingly, when Hotspur is informed of that circumftance, he says, Nay, then I cannot blame his coufin king "That with'd him on the barren mountains ftarv'd." And Worcester, in the very next line, fays: "He cannot blame him for trembling at the name of Mortimer, fince Richard had proclaimed him next of blood." M. MASON. Mr. M. Mafon's remark is, I think, in general juft; but the King, as appears from this fcene, had fome reafon to be enraged alfo at Mortimer, because he thought that Mortimer had not been taken prifoner by the efforts of his enemies, but had himself revolted. MALONE. Was he not proclaim'd, By Richard that dead is, the next of blood?] Roger Mortimer, earl of March, who was born in 1371, was declared heir apparent to the crown in the 9th year of King Richard II. (1385). See Grafton. p. 347. But he was killed in Ireland in 1398. The perfon who was proclaimed by Richard heir apparent to the crown, previous to his laft voyage to Ireland, was Edmund Mortimer, (the fon of Roger,) who was then but feven years old; but he was not Percy's wife's brother, but her nephew. MALONE. Upon his Irish expedition; From whence he, intercepted, did return WOR. And for whofe death; we in the world's wide mouth Live fcandaliz'd, and foully fpoken of. Hor. But, foft, I pray you; Did king Richard then Proclaim my brother Edmund Mortimer 7 Heir to the crown?] Edmund Mortimer, earl of March, was the undoubted heir to the crown after the death of Richard, as appears from the following table; in which the three younger children of King Edward III. are not included, as being immaterial to the subject before us: Sandford in his Genealogical Hiftory fays, that the last mentioned Edmund, earl of March, (the Mortimer of this play,) was married to Anne Stafford, daughter of Edmund, earl of Stafford. VOL. VIII. Dd NORTH. He did; myself did hear it. Hor. Nay, then I cannot blame his cousin king, That wish'd him on the barren mountains ftarv'd. But shall it be, that you,-that fet the crown Upon the head of this forgetful man; And, for his fake, wear the detefted blot Of murd❜rous fubornation,-shall it be, That you a world of curfes undergo; Being the agents, or bafe fecond means, The cords, the ladder, or the hangman rather?— O, pardon me, that I defcend fo low, To show the line, and the predicament, Wherein you range under this fubtle king.— Shall it, for fhame, be fpoken in these days, Or fill up chronicles in time to come, That men of your nobility and power, Did 'gage them both in an unjuft behalf,As both of you, God pardon it! have done,To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose, Thomas Walfingham afferts that he married a daughter of Owen Glendower; and the subsequent hiftorians copied him; but this is a very doubtful point, for the Welsh writers make no mention of it. Sandford fays that this earl of March was confined by the jealous Henry in the caftle of Trim in Ireland, and that he died there, after an imprisonment of twenty years, on the 19th of January, 1424. But this is a miftake. There is no proof that he was confined a state-prifoner by King Henry the Fourth, and he was employed in many military fervices by his fon Henry the Fifth. He died in his own caftle at Trim in Ireland, at the time mentioned by Sandford, but not in a state of imprisonment. See note on King Henry V. P. II. A&t II. fc. ii. Vol. X. Since the original note was written, I have learned that Owen Glendower's daughter was married to his antagonist Lord Gray of Ruthven. Holinfhed led Shakspeare into the error of fuppofing her the wife of Edmund Mortimer, earl of March. This nobleman, who is the Mortimer of the prefent play, was born in November, 1392, and confequently at the time when this play commences, was little more than ten years old. The Prince of Wales was not fifteen. MALONE. And plant this thorn, this canker, Bolingbroke?' Even with the bloody payment of your deaths. WOR. Peace, coufin, say no more: And now I will unclasp a secret book, Hor. If he fall in, good night :-or fink or Send danger from the east unto the weft, 8 this canker, Bolingbroke?] rofe, the flower of the Cynofbaton. thing: "I had rather be a canker in grace." STEEVENS. The canker-rofe is the dogSo, in Much ado about Noa hedge, than a rose in his 9 — difdain'd-] For difdainful. JOHNSON. 2 On the unfteadfast footing of a spear.] That is, of a fpear laid acrofs. WARBURTON. 3 - fink or fwim:] This is a very ancient proverbial expref fion. So, in The Knight's Tale of Chaucer, Mr. Tyrwhitt's edit. v. 2399: "Ne recceth never, whether I fink or flete." Again, in The longer thou liveft the more Fool thou art, 1570: "He careth not who doth sink or fwimme." STEEVENS, |