32 Love they 4 to live, that love and honour have. [Exit, borne out by his attendants. K. Rich. And let them die, that age and sullens have; For both haft thou, and both become the grave. York. I do beseech your majesty, impute his words To wayward fickliness and age in him: He loves you, on my life, and holds you dear As Harry duke of Hereford, were he here. K. Rich. Right; you say true: as Hereford's love, so his. As theirs, so mine; and all be as it is. Enter NORTHUMBERLAND 5. North. My liege, old Gaunt commends him to your majesty. K. Rich. What says he? North. Nay, nothing; all is faid : His tongue is now a stringless instrument; York. Be York the next that must be bankrupt so! doth he; Though death be poor, it ends a mortal woe. York. How long shall I be patient? Ah, how long 4 Love they-] That is, let them love. JOHNSON. - Northumberland) was Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland. - our pilgrimage must be:] i. e. is yet to come. 7 where no venom elfe,] This alludes WALPOLE. MASON. to a tradition that St. Pa trick freed the kingdom of Ireland from venomous reptiles of every kind. STEEVENS. Not ; Not Gaunt's rebukes, nor England's private wrongs, Of whom thy father, prince of Wales, was first; Accomplish'd with the number of thy hours"; 8 Nor the prevention of poor Bolingbroke About bis marriage, When the duke of Hereford, after his banishment, went into France, he was honourably entertained at that court, and would have obtained in marriage the only daughter of the duke of Berry, uncle to the French king, had not Richard prevented the match. STEEVENS. Accomplish'd with the number of thy hours;] i. e. when he was of thy age. MALONE. VOL. V. Let not to-morrow then ensue to-day; K. Rich. Think what you will; we seize into our hands His plate, his goods, his money, and his lands. York. I'll not be by, the while: My liege, farewel: What will ensue hereof, there's none can tell; That their events can never fall out good. [Exit. K. Rich. Go, Bushy, to the earl of Wiltshire straight; Bid him repair to us to Ely-house, To see this business: To-morrow next We will for Ireland; and 'tis time, I trow; Our uncle York lord-governor of England, [Flourish. [Exeunt King, Queen, Bus. AUM. GRE. and BAG. North. Well, lords, the duke of Lancaster is dead. Rofs. And living too; for now his fon is duke. Willo. Barely in title, not in revenue. North. Richly in both, if justice had her right. Rofs. My heart is great; but it must break with filence, Ere't be disburden'd with a liberal tongue. North. Nay, fpeak thy mind; and let him ne'er speak more, That speaks thy words again, to do thee harm! 1 - deny kis offer'd bomage,] That is, refuse to admit the homage, by which he is to hold his lands. JOHNSON. Willo. Willo. Tends that thou'dst speak, to the duke of Hereford? If it be so, out with it boldly, man; Quick is mine ear, to hear of good towards him. Rofs. No good at all, that I can do for him; Unless you call it good, to pity him, Bereft and gelded of his patrimony. North. Now, afore heaven, 'tis shame, such wrongs are borne, In him a royal prince, and many more Rofs. The commons hath he pill'd with grievous taxes, But bafely yielded upon compromife That which his ancestors atchiev'd with blows: Rofs. The earl of Wiltshire hath the realm in farm. His burthenous taxations notwithstanding, North. His noble kinsman: -Most degenerate king! But, lords, we hear this fearful tempest sing, Yet seek no shelter to avoid the storm: We see the wind fit fore upon our fails, And yet we strike not2, but fecurely perish 3. Rofs. 2 And yet we strike not, To frike the fails, is, to contraff them when there is too much wind. JOHNSON. 3-but securely perish.] We perish by too great confidence in VOL. V. our D2 : fecerity, : Rofs. We fee the very wreck that we must suffer, North. Not fo; even through the hollow eyes of death, I fpy life peering; but I dare not say, How near the tidings of our comfort is. Willo. Nay, let us share thy thoughts, as thou dost ours. Ross. Be confident to fpeak, Northumberland: We three are but thyself; and, speaking so, Thy words are but as thoughts; therefore, be bold. North. Then thus: - I have from Port le Blanc, a bay In Britany, receiv'd intelligence, That Harry Hereford, Reignold lord Cobham, [The fon of Richard earl of Arundel,] That late broke from the duke of Exeter 5, His fecurity. The word is used in the same sense in the Merry Wives of Windfor: Though Ford be a fecure fool, &c. MALONE. 4 And unavoided is the danger-] Unavoided is, I believe, here used for unavoidable. MALONE. 5 The fon of Richard earl of Arundel, That late broke from the duke of Exeter,] For the infertion of the line included within crotchets, I am answerable; it not being found in the old copies. Mr. Steevens observed, that "all the perfons enumerated in Holinshed's account of those embarked with Bolingbroke are here mentioned with great exactness, except Thomas Arundell, sonne and heire to the late Earle of Arundell, beheaded at the Tower-hill. And yet this nobleman is the perfon to whom alone that circumstance relates of having broke from the Duke of Exeter." From hence he very justly inferred, that a line must have been loft, "in which the name of this Thomas Arundel had originally a place." The paflages in Holinshed relative to this matter run thus: "Aboute the fame time the Earl of Arundell's fonne, named Thomas, rubich was kept in the Duke of Exeter's house, escaped out of the realme, by means of one William Scot," &c. "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 provifion was made ready, he tooke the fea, 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 |