Glend. Do fo; • And tho' th' musicians, that fhall play to you Hang in the air a thousand leagues from hence; Yet ftrait they fhall be here; fit, and attend. Lady. Go, ye giddy goose. Hot. Come, Kate, thou art perfect in lying down! come, quick, quick, that I may lay my head in thy lap. [The mufick plays. Hot. Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh: and 'tis no marvel, he is fo humourous, by'r lady, he's a good musician, Lady. Then would you be nothing but mufical, for you are altogether govern'd by humours: lie ftill, ye thief, and hear the lady fing in Welb. Hot. I had rather hear Lady, my brach, howl in Irish. Lady. Would't have thy head broken? Hot. No. Lady. Then be still. Hot. Neither, 'tis a woman's fault. Lady. Now God help thee! Hot. To the Welsh lady's bed. Lady. What's that? Hot. Peace, fhe fings. [Here the Lady fings a Welsh fong. Come, I'll have your fong too. Lady. Not mine in good footh. Hot. Not yours, in good footh! you swear like at comfit-maker's wife; not you, in good footh; and, as true as I live; and, as God fball mend me; and, as fure as day and giveft fuch farcenet furety for thy oaths, as if thou never walk'd'ft further than Finsbury. Swear me, Kate, like a lady, as thou art, 6 And THOSE musicians, that shall play to you Hang in the air. -Yet] The particle yet being ufed here adverfitively, muft have a particle of conceffion preceding it. I read therefore And THO' TH' musicians A A good mouth-filling oath, and leave infooth, Lady. I will not fing. Hot. 'Tis the next way to turn tailor, or be RobinRed-breaft teacher: if the indentures be drawn, I'll away within these two hours: and fo come in, when ye will. [Exit. Glend. Come, come, lord Mortimer, you are as flow, Ás hot lord Percy is on fire to go. By this our book is drawn: we will but feal, Mort. With all my heart. S C E N: E IV. [Exeunt. Changes to the Prefence-chamber in Windfor. Enter King Henry, Prince of Wales, Lords and others. K. Henry. L ORDS, give us leave; the Prince of Must have some private conference: but be near, [Exeunt Lords. I know not, whether God will have it fo, 8: 7 For fome difpleafing fervice-] fervice for action, fimply. 8 mark'd For the bot vengeance] i. e. appointed for the inftru.. ment of vengeance. Could Could fuch inordinate and low defires, Such poor, fuch base, such lewd, fuch mean attaints, Such barren pleasures, rude fociety, As thou art match'd withal and grafted to, P. Henry. So please your Majefty, I wish, I could Quit all offences with as clear excufe, As well, as, I am doubtless, I can purge As, in reproof of many tales devis'd, Which oft the ear of Greatness needs must hear, Find pardon on my true fubmiffion. [Harry, K. Henry. Heav'n pardon thee: yet let me wonder, At thy affections, which do hold a wing Quite from the flight of all thy Ancestors. Thy place in council thou haft rudely lost, Which by thy younger brother is supply'd; And art almoft an alien to the hearts Of all the Court and Princes of my blood. The hope and expectation of thy time Is ruin'd, and the foul of every man Prophetically does fore-think thy Fall. 'Had I fo lavish of my prefence been, 'So common-hackney'd in the eyes of men, So ftale and cheap to vulgar company; Opinion, that did help me to the crown, 'Had ftill kept loyal to poffeffion; 'And left me in reputelefs banishment, 'A fellow of no mark, nor likelihood. 9-fuch lewd, fuch mean ATTEMPTS,] Shakespear certainly Wrote ATTAINTS, i. e, unlawful actions. • But • But being seldom feen, I could not stir, But, like a comet, I was wonder'd at! That men would tell their children, this is he. • Others would fay, where? which is Bolingbroke? • ' And then I ftole all courtefie from heav'n, • And dreft my felf in much humility, That I did pluck allegiance from men's hearts, • Loud fhouts and falutations from their mouths, • Even in the presence of the crowned King. • Thus I did keep my person fresh and new, • My presence, like a robe pontifical, Ne'er feen, but wonder'd at; and fo my State, • Seldom, but sumptuous, fhewed like a feast, And won, by rareness, fuch folemnity. The skipping King, he ambled up and down • With fhallow jefters, and rafh bavin wits, Soon kindled, and foon burnt; 'fcarded his State; : Mingled his Royalty with carping fools; Had his great name profaned with their scorns ; To laugh (a) with gybing boys, and stand the push Grew a companion to the common streets, 1 And then I ftole all courtefie from beav'n,] This is an allufion to the story of Prometheus's theft, who fiole fire from thence; and as with this he made a Man, fo with that, Bolingbroke made a King. As the Gods were fuppofed jealous in appropriating reafon to themselves, the getting fire from thence, which lighted it up in the mind, was called a theft; and as power is their prerogative, the getting courtefie from thence, by which power is beft procured, is called a theft. The thought is exquifitely great and beautiful.. 2-rah bavin-] i. e. dry brufhwood. 3 CARDED his State;] Richard is here reprefented as laying afide his royalty, and mixing himfelf with common jefters. This will lead us to the true reading, which I fuppofe is, 'SCARDED his State; i. e. difcarded, threw off. [(a) with. Oxford Editor.Vulg. at.] • Enfeoff'd 'Enfeoff'd himself to popularity: That, being daily fwallow'd by men's eyes, • They furfeited with honey, and began To loath the tafte of fweetnefs; whereof a little 'More than a little is by much too much. So when he had occafion to be seen, 'He was but, as the Cuckow is in June, Heard, not regarded; feen, but with fuch As, fick and blunted with community, 'Afford no extraordinary gaze; 6 Such as is bent on fun-like Majefty, • When it shines feldom in admiring eyes: eyes, 'But rather drowz'd, and hung their eye-lids down, Slept in his face, and rendred fuch afpect As cloudy men use to their adverfaries, Being with his prefence glutted, gorg'd and full. Save mine, which hath defir'd to fee thee more; P. Henry. I fhall hereafter, my thrice-gracious lord, Be more my felf. K. Henry. For all the world, As thou art at this hour was Richard then, |
