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Alas, I look'd, when some of you should say,
I was too ftrict, to make mine own away;
But you gave leave to my unwilling tongue,
Against my will, to do myself this wrong.

K. RICH. Coufin, farewell :-and, uncle, bid him

fo;

Six years we banish him, and he shall go.

[Flourish. Exeunt K. RICHARD and Train. AUM. Coufin, farewell: what prefence must not know,

From where you do remain, let paper show.

MAR. My lord, no leave take I; for I will ride, As far as land will let me, by your fide.

GAUNT. O, to what purpose dost thou hoard thy words,

That thou return'st no greeting to thy friends?
BOLING. I have too few to take my leave of you,
When the tongue's office should be prodigal
To breathe the abundant dolour of the heart.

GAUNT. Thy grief is but thy absence for a time.
BOLING. Joy absent, grief is present for that

time.

GAUNT. What is fix winters? they are quickly

gone.

BOLING. To men in joy; but grief makes one

hour ten.

GAUNT. Call it a travel that thou tak'st for plea

fure.

BOLING. My heart will figh, when I miscall it so,

Which finds it an enforced pilgrimage.

GAUNT. The fullen passage of thy weary steps

Esteem a foil, wherein thou art to fet
The precious jewel of thy home-return.

BOLING. Nay, rather, every tedious stride I make Will but remember me, what a deal of world I wander from the jewels that I love. Must I not serve a long apprenticehood To foreign paffages; and in the end, Having my freedom, boast of nothing else, But that I was a journeyman to grief?3

GAUNT. All places that the eye of heaven visits,

Are to a wife man ports and happy havens :
Teach thy neceffity to reason thus;
There is no virtue like neceffity.

Think not, the king did banish thee;5

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Boling. Nay, rather, every tedious stride 1 make-] This, and the fix verses which follow, I have ventured to fupply from the old quarto. The allufion, it is true, to an apprenticeship, and becoming a journeyman, is not in the fublime tafte; nor, as Horace has expressed it: "Spirat tragicum fatis :" however, as there is no doubt of the passage being genuine, the lines are not fo defpicable as to deserve being quite loft. THEOBALD.

3 - journeyman to grief?] I am afraid our author in this place defigned a very poor quibble, as journey fignifies both travel and a day's work. However, he is not to be cenfured for what he himself rejected. JOHNSON,

The quarto, in which these lines are found, is faid in its titlepage to have been corrected by the author; and the play is indeed more accurately printed than most of the other fingle copies. There is now, however, no certain method of knowing by whom the rejection was made. STEEVENS.

* All places that the eye of heaven visits, &c.] So, Nonnus: αιθερος ομμα : i. e, the fun. STEEVENS.

The fourteen verses that follow are found in the first edition. POPE.

I am inclined to believe that what Mr. Theobald and Mr. Pope have restored were expunged in the revision by the author: If these lines are omitted, the sense is more coherent. Nothing is more frequent among dramatic writers, than to shorten their dialogues for the stage. JOHNSON.

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Therefore, think not, the king did banish thee. RITSON.

But thou the king: Woe doth the heavier fit,
Where it perceives it is but faintly borne.
Go, say-I fent thee forth to purchase honour,
And not the king exíl'd thee: or suppose,
Devouring peftilence hangs in our air,
And thou art flying to a fresher clime.
Look, what thy foul holds dear, imagine it
To lie that way thou go'st, not whence thou com'st:
Suppose the finging birds, musicians;

The grafs whereon thou tread'st, the prefence

strew'd;"

• Think not, the king did banish thee;

But thou the king:] The fame thought occurs in Coriolanus :
"I banish you." M. MASON.

All places that the eye of heaven visits,
Are to a wise man ports and happy havens:-
Think not the king did banish thee;

But thou the king:] Shakspeare, when he wrote the passage before us, probably remembered that part of Lyly's Euphues, 1580, in which Euphues exhorts Botanio to take his exile patiently. Among other arguments he observes, that "Nature hath given to man a country no more than the hath a house, or lands, or livings. Socrates would neither call himself an Athenian, neither a Grecian, but a citizen of the world. Plato would never account him banished, that had the funne, ayre, water, and earth, that he had before; where he felt the winter's blaft and the summer's blaze; where the same sunne and the fame moone shined: whereby he noted that every place was a country to a wife man, and all parts a palace to a quiet mind. When it was cast in Diogenes' teeth, that the Sinoponetes had banished him Pontus, yea, said he, I them of Diogenes." MALONE.

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- the prefence strew'd;] Shakspeare has other allufions to the ancient practice of strewing rushes over the floor of the prefence chamber. HENLEY.

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Tarquin thus

"Did foftly press the rushes, ere he waken'd

"The chastity he wounded:-" STEEVENS.

See Hentzner's account of the prefence chamber, in the

palace at Greenwich, 1598. Itinerar. p. 135. MALONE.

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The flowers, fair ladies; and thy steps, no more
Than a delightful measure, or a dance:
For gnarling forrow hath less power to bite
The man that mocks at it, and fets it light.

BOLING. O, who can hold a fire in his hand,
By thinking on the frosty Caucafus ?9
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite,
By bare imagination of a feaft?
Or wallow naked in December snow,
By thinking on fantastick fummer's heat ?
O, no! the apprehenfion of the good,
Gives but the greater feeling to the worse :
Fell forrow's tooth doth never rankle more,
Than when it bites, but lanceth not the fore.

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- than a delightful measure,) A measure was a formal court dance. So, in King Richard III :

"Our dreadful marches to delightful measures."

STEEVENS.

9 O, who can hold a fire in his hand, &c.] Fire is here, as in many other places, used as a dissyllable. MALONE.

It has been remarked, that there is a passage resembling this in Tully's Fifth Book of Tusculan Questions. Speaking of Epicurus, he says:-" Sed una se dicit recordatione acquiefcere præteritarum voluptatum: ut fi quis æstuans, cum vim caloris non facile patiatur, recordari velit se aliquando in Arpinati nostro gelidis fluminibus circumfufum fuiffe. Non enim video, quomodo sedare poffint mala præfentia præteritæ voluptates." The Tusculan Questions of Cicero had been tranflated early enough for Shakspeare to have seen them. STEEVENS.

Shakspeare, however, I believe, was thinking on the words of Lyly, in the page from which an extract has been already made : " I speake this to this end, that though thy exile seem grievous to thee, yet guiding thy felfe with the rules of phylofophy, it should be more tolerable: he that is cold, doth not cover himselfe with care but with clothes; he that is washed in the raine, drieth himselfe by the fire, not by his fancy; and thou which art banished," &c. MALONE.

GAUNT. Come, come, my fon, I'll bring thee on thy way:

Had I thy youth, and cause, I would not stay,

BOLING. Then, England's ground, farewell; sweet foil, adieu;

My mother, and my nurse, that bears me yet!
Where-e'er I wander, boast of this I can,-
Though banish'd, yet a trueborn Englishman.

[Exeunt.

SCENE IV.

The fame. A Room in the King's Cafile. Enter King RICHARD, BAGOT, and GREEN; -AUMERLE following.

K. RICH. We did observe. --Coufin Aumerle, How far brought you high Hereford on his way? AUM. I brought high Hereford, if you call him so, But to the next highway, and there I left him. K. RICH. And, say, what store of parting tears were shed? AUM. 'Faith, none by me: except the north-eaft wind,

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yet a trueborn Englishman.] Here the first Act ought to end, that between the first and second Acts there may be time for John of Gaunt to accompany his fon, return, and fall fick. Then the first scene of the second Act begins with a natural conversation, interrupted by a message from John of Gaunt, by which the King is called to visit him, which visit is paid in the following scene. As the play is now divided, more time passes between the two last scenes of the first Act, than between the first Act and the second. JOHNSON.

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- none by me :) The old copies read for me. With the other modern editors I have here adopted an emendation made

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