His brother, archbishop late of Canterbury, 3 Sir John Norbery, fir Robert Waterton, and Francis Quoint, All these well furnish'd by the duke of Bretagne, With eight tall ships, three thousand men of war, "Duke Henry, -chiefly through the earnest perfuafion of Thomas Arundell, late Archbishoppe of Canterburie, (who, as before you have heard, had been removed from his fea, and banished the realme by King Richardes means,) got him downe to Britaine :-and when all his provision was made ready, he tooke the sea, together with the faid Archbishop of Canterburie, and his nephew Thomas Arundell, sonne and heyre to the late Earle of Arundell, beheaded on Tower-hill. There were also with him Reginalde Lord Cobham, Sir Thomas Erpingham," &c. There cannot, therefore, I think, be the smallest doubt, that a line was omitted in the copy of 1597, by the negligence of the tranfcriber or compofitor, in which not only Thomas Arundel, but his father, was mentioned; for his in a fubfequent line (His brother) must refer to the old Earl of Arundel. Rather than leave a lacuna, I have inserted such words as render the passage intelligible. In Act V. sc. ii. of the play before us, a line of a rhyming couplet was paffed over by the printer of the first folio: "Ill may'st thou thrive, if thou grant any grace." It has been recovered from the quarto. So also, in K. Henry V1. Part II. the first of the following lines was omitted, as is proved by the old play on which that piece is founded, and (as in the present instance,) by the line which followed the omitted line : [Suf. Jove sometimes went disguis'd, and why not I?] "Cap. But Jove was never flain, as thou shalt be." In Coriolanus, Act II. sc. ult. a line was in like manner omitted, and it has very properly been supplied. The chriftian name of Sir Thomas Ramston is changed to John, and the two following persons are improperly described as knights in all the copies. These perhaps were likewife mistakes of the press, but are scarcely worth correcting. MALONE. 3-archbishop late of Canterbury,] Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury, brother to the Earl of Arundel who was beheaded in this reign, had been banished by the parliament, and was afterwards deprived by the Pope of his fee, at the request of the King; whence he is here called, late of Canterbury. STEEVENS. Are making hither with all due expedience, Ross. To horse, to horse! urge doubts to them that fear. WILLO. Hold out my horse, and I will first be [Exeunt. there. 4 Imp out-] As this expreffion frequently occurs in our author, it may not be amiss to explain the original meaning of it. When the wing-feathers of a hawk were dropped, or forced out by any accident, it was usual to fupply as many as were deficient. This operation was called, to imp a hawk. So, in The Devil's Charter, 1607: "His plumes only imp the muse's wings." Again, in Albumazar, 1615: " when we defire "Time's hafte, he seems to lose a match with lobsters; Turbervile has a whole chapter on The Way and Manner howe to ympe a Hawke's Feather, how-foever it be broken or broofed. STEEVENS. 5 -gilt,] i. e. gilding, fuperficial display of gold. So, in Timon of Athens : "When thou wast in thy gilt and thy perfume," &c. STEEVENS. SCENE II. The fame. A Room in the Palace. Enter Queen, BUSHY, and BAGOT. BUSHY. Madam, your majesty is too much fad : You promis'd, when you parted with the king, To lay afide life-harming heaviness,6 And entertain a cheerful disposition. QUEEN. To please the king, I did; to please myfelf, I cannot do it; yet I know no caufe 6 7 -life-harming heaviness,] Thus the quarto, 1597. The quartos 1608, and 1615-halfe-harming; the folio-self-harming. STEEVENS. With nothing trembles: at something it grieves,] The following line requires that this should be read just the contrary way : With fomething trembles, yet at nothing grieves. All the old editions read: my inward foul WARBURTON. With nothing trembles; at something it grieves. The reading, which Dr. Warburton corrects, is itself an innovation. His conjectures give indeed a better sense than that of any copy, but copies muft not be needlessly forsaken. JOHNSON. I suppose it is the unborn forrow which the calls nothing, because it is not yet brought into existence. STEEVENS. Warburton does not appear to have understood this passage, BUSHY. Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows, Which show like grief itself, but are not so: nor Johnson either. Through the whole of this scene, till the arrival of Green, the Queen is describing to Bushy, a certain unaccountable despondency of mind, and a foreboding apprehension which the felt of some unforeseen calamity. She says, "that her inward foul trembles without any apparent cause, and grieves at fomething more than the King's departure, though she knows not what." He endeavours to perfuade her that it is merely the confequence of her forrow for the King's absence. She says it may be so, but her foul tells her otherwise. He then tells her it is only conceit; but she is not fatisfied with that way of accounting for it, as she says that conceit is still derived from fome fore-father grief, but what she feels was begot by nothing; that is, had no preceding cause. Conceit is here used in the fame sense that it is in Hamlet, when the King says that Ophelia's madness was occafioned by "conceit upon her father." M. MASON. * Like perspectives, which, rightly gaz'd upon, Show nothing but confusion; ey'd awry, Distinguish form :) This is a fine fimilitude, and the thing meant is this. Amongst mathematical recreations, there is one in optics, in which a figure is drawn, wherein all the rules of perspective are inverted: so that, if held in the fame pofition with those pictures which are drawn according to the rules of perSpective, it can present nothing but confufion: and to be seen in form, and under a regular appearance, it must be looked upon from a contrary station; or, as Shakspeare fays, ey'd awry. WARBURTΟΝ. Dr. Plot's History of Staffordshire, p. 391, explains this perspective, or odd kind of "pictures upon an indented board, which, if beheld directly, you only perceive a confufed piece of work; but, if obliquely, you fee the intended person's picture;" which, he was told, was made thus : "The board being indented, [or furrowed with a plough-plane,) the print or painting was cut into parallel pieces equal to the depth and number of the indentures on the board, and they were pasted on the flats that Looking awry upon your lord's departure, strike the eye holding it obliquely, so that the edges of the parallel pieces of the print or painting exactly joining on the edges of the indentures, the work was done." TOLLET. The following short poem would almost perfuade one that the words rightly and awry [perhaps originally written-aright and wryly,] had exchanged places in the text of our author: Lines prefixed to " Melancholike Humours, in Verses of Diverse Natures, fet down by Nich. Breton, Gent. 1600 : In Authorem. "That thou wouldst finde the habit of true passion, "So with this author's readers will it thrive : Ben Jonfon. So, in Hentzner, 1598, Royal Palace, Whitehall: " Edwardi VI. Angliæ regis effigies, primo intuitu monftrofum quid repræsentans, fed fi quis effigiem recta intueatur, tum vera depræhenditur." FARMER. The perspectives here mentioned, were not pictures, but round chrystal glasses, the convex furface of which was cut into faces, like those of the rose-diamond; the concave left uniformly smooth. These chrystals which were sometimes mounted on tortoise-shell box-lids, and sometimes fixed into ivory cafes-if placed as here represented, would exhibit the different appearances described by the poet. The word Shadows is here used, in oppofition to substance, for reflected images, and not as the dark forms of bodies, occafioned by their interception of the light that falls upon them. HENLEY. |