Fastolf occur in this collection, which has been edited by Mr. James Gairdner, of the Record Office, in three volumes, with full historical introductions, and with the recovery of more than four hundred letters that were not in the collection previously made by Sir John Fenn. Mr. Gairdner's volumes of the "Paston Letters are the best source of information as to the real character of the knight whose name Shakespeare has taken, not in vain. Of the use made by Shakespeare of his fat knight, and of the inner spirit of this play, there will be full room to speak in the Introduction to the Second Part of Henry IV., when the two parts will be, in that respect, taken together. They are to be obtained only through Professor Arber, of Mason's College, Birmingham, by whom they were published in 1872-75 H. M. And breathe short-winded accents of new broils Shall daub her lips with her own children's blood; Which, like the meteors of a troubled heaven, Whose arms were moulded in their mothers' wombs To chase these pagans in those holy fields Over whose acres walked those blesséd feet But this our purpose is a twelvemonth old, . West. My liege, this haste was hot in question, Upon whose dead corpse there was such misuse, By those Welsh women done, as may not be K. Hen. It seems, then, that the tidings of this broil Brake off our business for the Holy Land. West. This, matched with other, did, my gracious lord; For more uneven and unwelcome news Came from the north, and thus it did import: On Holy-rood day, the gallant Hotspur there, Where they did spend a sad and bloody hour, And shape of likelihood, the news was told; K. Hen. Here is a dear and true-industrious friend, Sir Walter Blunt, new lighted from his horse, Betwixt that Holmedon and this seat of ours; And he hath brought us smooth and welcome news. The Earl of Douglas is discomfited; Ten thousand bold Scots, two-and-twenty knights, Balked in their own blood, did Sir Walter see On Holmedon's plains: of prisoners, Hotspur took Mordake the Earl of Fife, and eldest son And is not this an honourable spoil |