And plague injustice with the pains of hell. Uncle, you say, the queen is at your house; Boling. Thanks, gentle uncle -Come, lords, away; SCENE II. [Exeunt. The coast of Wales. A castle in view. Flourish: drums and trumpets. Enter King RICHARD, Bishop of Carlifle, AUMERLE, and Soldiers. K. Rich. Barkloughly castle call you this at hand? 9 Thanks, gentle uncle. Come, lords, away; To fight with Glendower and his complices; A while to work, and, after, boliday.] Though the intermediate line has taken potieffion of all the old copies, I have great fufpicion of its being an interpolation; and have therefore ventured to throw it out. The first and third lines rhime to each other; nor do I imagine this was cafual, but intended by the poet. Were we to acknowledge the line genuine, it must argue the poet of forgetfulness and inattention to hiftory. Bolingbroke is, as it were, but just arrived; he is now at Bristol, weak in his numbers; has had no meeting with a parliament; nor is so far aflured of the succession, as to think of going to fupprefs infurrections before he is planted in the throne. Besides, we find the oppofition of Glendower begins The First Part of K. Henry IV. and Mortimer's defeat by that hardy Welfhman is the tidings of the first scene of that play. Again, though Glendower, in the very first year of K. Henry IV. began to be troublesome, put in for the fupremacy of Wales, and imprisoned Mortimer; yet it was not till the succeeding year that the king employed any force against him. THEOBALD. This emendation, which I think is just, has been followed by fir T. Hanmer, but is neglected by Dr. Warburton. JOHNSON. Mr. Heath observes, that Bolingbroke marched to Chester, probably with a view to attack the Welsh army headed by Lord Salisbury. He thinks therefore the line is genuine. See p. 61. sc. iii. Stowe expressly says that "Owen Glendower ferved King Richard at Flint-Castle." MALONE. Here may be properly inferted the last scene of the second act. JOHNS. Aum. 53 1 Aum. Yea, my lord: How rooks your grace the air, K. Rich. Needs must I like it well; I weep for joy, Car. Fear not, my lord; that Power, that made you king, 2 As a long parted mother with her child Plays fondly with her tears, and smiles in meeting;] « Παιδ ̓ ειν· η' δαρα μιν κηωδεί δεξαλο κολπῶ " ΔΑΚΡΥΘΕΝ ΓΕΛΑΣΑΣΑ." Hom. II. Z. Perhaps smiles is here used as a substantive. As a mother plays fondly with her child from whom she has been a long time parted, crying, and at the fame time smiling, at meeting him. It has been proposed to read smiles in tweeping; and I once thought the emendation very plausible. But I am now perfuaded the text is right. If we read weeping, the long-parted mother and her child do not meet, and there is no particular cause affigned for either her smiles or tears. MALONE. Guard it,] That is, border it. See Vol. II. p. 66, n. 9. MALONE. E 3 The means that heaven yields must be embrac'd, Aum. He means, my lord, that we are too remiss; The 4-and lights the lower world,] The old copies read that lights. The emendation was made by Dr. Johnson. Sense might be obtained by a flight transposition, without changing the words of the original text: That when the searching eye of heaven, that lights By the lower world, as the paslage is amended by Dr. Johnson, we must understand, a world lower than this of ours; I suppose, our Antipodes. But the lower world may fignify our world. MALONE. The breath of worldly men &c.] Here is the doctrine of indefeafible right expressed in the strongest terms; but our poet did not learn it in the reign of K. James, to which it is now the practice of all writers, whofe The deputy elected by the Lord: A glorious angel: then, if angels fight, Weak men must fall; for heaven still guards the right. Enter SALISBURY. Welcome, my lord; How far off lies your power? Sal. Nor near, nor further off, my gracious lord, Aum. Comfort, my liege: Why looks your grace so pale? Aum. Comfort, my liege; remember who you are. whose opinions are regulated by fashion or interest, to impute the original of every tenet which they have been taught to think falfe or foolish. JOHNSON. 6 Awake, thou coward majesty!] Thus the quarto. The folio has thou sluggard majesty. MALONE. 7 Is not the king's name forty thousand names?] Thus in King Richard III. "Befides, the king's name is a tower of strength." See a speech of Antigonus in Plutarch, of this kind. Vol. II. p. 199, 4to. Gr. S. W. E 4 Arm, Arm, arm, my name! a puny subject strikes Enter SCROOP. But who Scroop. More health and happiness betide my liege, Than can my care-tun'd tongue deliver him! K. Rich. Mine ear is open, and my heart prepar'd; Scroop. Glad am I, that your highness is so arm'd 8 Mine ear is open, &c.] It seems to be the design of the poet to raise Richard to esteem in his fall, and confequently to intereft the reader in his favour. He gives him only paffive fortitude, the virtue of a confeffor rather than of a king. In his profperity we saw him imperious and oppreffive; but in his distress he is wife, patient, and pious. JOHNS. 9 - and clap their female joints] Mr. Pope more elegantly reads -and clafp-; which has been adopted by the subsequent editors. But the emendation does not seem abfolutely neceffary. MALONE. Thy |