Sluic'd out his innocent foul through streams of blood: Which blood, like facrificing Abel's, cries, K. RICH. How high a pitch his resolution foars!Thomas of Norfolk, what say'st thou to this? NOR. O, let my fovereign turn away his face, 2 K. RICH. Mowbray, impartial are our eyes, and ears: Were he my brother, nay, my kingdom's heir, NOR. Then, Bolingbroke, as low as to thy heart, 2 - this flander of his blood,] i. e. this reproach to his ancestry. STEEVENS. 3 -my Scepter's awe-] The reverence due to my scepter. JOHNSON, Since last I went to France to fetch his queen : Now fwallow down that lie. For Glofter's death, I flew him not; but to my own disgrace, K. RICH. Wrath-kindled gentlemen, be rul'd by me; Let's purge this choler without letting blood: * This we prescribe, though no physician; &c.] I must make one remark in general on the rhymes throughout this whole play; they are so much inferior to the rest of the writing, that they appear to me of a different hand. What confirms this, is, that the context does every where exactly (and frequently much better) connect, without the inferted rhymes, except in a very few places; and just there too, the rhyming verses are of a much better taste than all the others, which rather strengthens my conjecture. POPE. "This observation of Mr. Pope's, (says Mr. Edwards,) hap Forget, forgive; conclude, and be agreed; GAUNT. To be a make-peace shall become my age : Throw down, my son, the duke of Norfolk's gage. K. RICH. And, Norfolk, throw down his. GAUNT. When, Harry ?5 when? Obedience bids, I should not bid again. K. RICH. Norfolk, throw down; we bid; there is no boot.6 NOR. Myself I throw, dread fovereign, at thy foot: My life thou shalt command, but not my shame: The one my duty owes; but my fair name, pens to be very unluckily placed here, because the context, without the inferted rhymes, will not connect at all. Read this paffage as it would stand corrected by this rule, and we shall find, when the rhyming part of the dialogue is left out, King Richard begins with diffuading them from the duel, and, in the very next sentence, appoints the time and place of their combat." Mr. Edwards's censure is rather hasty; for in the note, to which it refers, it is allowed that some rhymes must be retained to make out the connection. STEEVENS. 5 When, Harry?] This obsolete exclamation of impatience, is likewife found in Heywood's Silver Age, 1613 : Fly into Affrick; from the mountains there, "Chuse me two venomous serpents: theu shalt know them: "By their fell poison and their fierce aspect. " When, Iris? " Iris. I am gone." Again, in Look about you, 1600 : 6 66 - I'll cut off thy legs, "If thou delay thy duty. When, proud John?" STEEVENS. no boot.] That is, no advantage, no use, in delay, or refufal. JOHNSON. (Despite of death, that lives upon my grave,)' K. RICH. Rage must be withstood: Give me his gage :-Lions make leopards tame. Nor. Yea, but not change their spots: take but my shame, And I refign my gage. My dear dear lord, Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay. 7 my fair name, &c.] That is, my name that lives on my grave, in despight of death. This easy passage most of the editors seem to have mistaken. JOHNSON. 8 "Ba and baffled here;) Baffled in this place means treated with the greatest ignominy imaginable. So, Holinshed, Vol. III. p. 827, and 1218, or annis 1513, and 1570, explains it : fulling, fays he, is a great disgrace among the Scots, and it is used when a man is openlie perjured, and then they make of him an image painted, reversed, with his heels upward, with his name, wondering, crieing, and blowing out of him with horns." Spenser's Fairy Queen, B. V. c. iii. ft. 37; and B. VI. c. vii. ft. 27, has the word in the fame fignification. TOLLET. The fame expression occurs in Twelfth Night, sc. ult: "Alas, poor fool! how have they baffled thee?" Again, in King Henry IV. P. I. Act. I. fc. ii : an I do not, call me villain, and baffle me." Again, in The London Prodigal, 1605: chil be alaffelled up and down the town, for a messel;" i. e. for a beggar, or rather a leper. STEEVENS. 9 but not change their spots :] The old copies have-his spots. Corrected by Mr. Pope. MALONE. 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 seem crest-fallen in my father's fight? K. RICH. We were not born to sue, but to com mand: Which fince we cannot do to make you friends, I with pale beggar-fear-) This is the reading of one of the oldest quartos, and the folio. The quartos 1608 and 1615, read-beggar-face; i. e. (as Dr. Warburton observes,) with a face of fupplication. STEEVENS. 2 3 The flavish motive - Motive, for inftrument. WARBURTON. Rather that which fear puts in motion. JOHNSON. atone you,] i. e. reconcile you. So, in Cymbeline : " I was glad I did atone my countryman and you." STEEVENS. * Justice design-) Thus the old copies. Mr. Pope reads |