Com That is, But furnish discourse on the poverty of its result. munication in the sense of talk, or discourse, is found so repeatedly in writers of Shakespeare's time, that the passage would hardly have required explanation, if the commentators had not overlooked this meaning of the word, aud Mr. Collier, in adopting "consummation,"-a reading of his annotator,-had not pronounced the old text "little better than nonsense." b Like it your grace,-] Equivalent to "An it like your grace." He bores me with some trick: he's gone to the king; I'll follow, and out-stare him. NORF. Stay, my lord, choler question And let As you would to your friend. I'll to the king; And from a mouth of honour quite cry down This Ipswich fellow's insolence; or proclaim There's difference in no persons. NORF. Be advis'd; Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself: we may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running. Know you not, The fire that mounts the liquor till't run o'er, BUCK. Sir, I am thankful to you; and I'll go along By your prescription:-but this top-proud fellow, NORF. Say not, treasonous, BUCK. To the king I'll say 't; and make my vouch as strong Attend. This holy fox, As shore of rock. Did break i' the rinsing:-* NORF. Faith, and so it did. BUCK. Pray, give me favour, sir-this cunning cardinal The articles o' the combination drew As himself pleas'd; and they were ratified, As give a crutch to the dead: but our countcardinal Has done this, and 'tis well; for worthy Wolsey, Ere it was ask'd; but when the way was made, (*) Old text, Councellour. O, Nicholas + Hopkins? He. (1) Old text, Michaell. see you deprived of liberty, that I am a witness of this business. Not almost appears,― It doth appear; for, upon these taxations, K. HEN. WOL. Please you, sir, I know but of a single part, in aught Q. KATH. No, my lord, You know no more than others: but you frame Things, that are known alike, which are not whole Traduc'd by ignorant tongues, which neither know The chronicles of my doing,-let me say, Το "Their tractable obedience," &c. b Noprimer business.] The old copies have "basenesse," which was corrected in Southern's copy of the fourth folio. And with a care, exempt themselves from fear; A word with you. [To the Secretary. Let there be letters writ to every shire, Of the king's grace and pardon. The griev'd Q. KATH. I am sorry that the duke of Buckingham Is run in your displeasure. K. HEN. It grieves many: The gentleman is learn'd, and a most rare speaker; To nature none more bound; his training such, That he may furnish and instruct great teachers, And never seek for aid out of himself. Yet see, When these so noble benefits shall prove Not well dispos'd, the mind growing once corrupt, They turn to vicious forms, ten times more ugly Than ever they were fair. This man so complete,Who was enroll'd 'mongst wonders, and when we, Almost with ravish'd list'ning, could not find His hour of speech a minute-he, my lady, Hath into monstrous habits put the graces That once were his, and is become as black As if besmear'd in hell. Sit by us; you shall hear (This was his gentleman in trust) of him Things to strike honour sad.-Bid him recount a A trembling contribution!] Mr. Collier's annotator would change this to, "A trebling contribution." b Lop.-] Lop is the technical term for the branches, or faggot wood, of a tree, distinct from the trunk or timber. e Nicholas Hopkins.] The old text has Nicholas Henton; and Hopkins was sometimes so named from the convent of Henton, The fore-recited practices; whereof Most like a careful subject, have collected K. HEN. Speak freely. SURV. First, it was usual with him, every day It would infect his speech,—that if the king Should without issue die, he'd* carry it so To make the sceptre his: these very words I have heard him utter to his son-in law, Lord Aberga'ny; to whom by oath he menac'd Revenge upon the cardinal. WOL. Please your highness, note This dangerous conception in this point: Not friended by his wish to your high person, His will is most malignant; and it stretches Beyond you, to your friends. Q. KATH. Deliver all with charity. K. HEN. My learn'd lord cardinal, Speak on: How grounded he his title to the crown, Upon our fail? to this point hast thou heard him At any time speak aught? By a vain prophecy of Nicholas Hopkins. K. HEN. What was that Hopkins? SURV. His cónfessor; who fed him every minute How know'st thou this? SURV. Not long before your highness sped to France, The duke being at the Rose, within the parish |