So many English kings. Thy due, from me, [Putting it on his head. Which heaven shall guard: And put the world's whole strength Into one giant arm, it shall not force This lineal honour from me: This from thee Re-enter WARWICK, and the rest. [Exit. Cla. your grace? K. Hen. Why did you leave me here alone, my lords? Cla. We left the prince my brother here, my liege, Who undertook to sit and watch by you. K. Hen. The prince of Wales? Where is he? let me see him: He is not here. War. This door is open; he is gone this way. P. Humph. He came not through the chamber where we stay❜d. K. Hen. Where is the crown? who took it from my pillow? War. When we withdrew, my liege, we left it here. K. Hen. The prince hath ta'en it hence :-go, seek him out; Is he so hasty, that he doth suppose My sleep my death? Find him, my lord of Warwick; chide him hither. [Exit WARWICK. This part of his conjoins with my disease, And helps to end me.-See, sons, what things you are! How quickly nature falls into revolt, When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care, Their bones with industry; For this they have engrossed and pil'd up Our thighs pack'd with wax, our mouths with honey, Re-enter WARWICK. Now, where is he that will not stay so long War. My lord, I found the prince in the next room, 21 Taking toll. 22 Accumulations. 23 i. e. ended. It is still used in that sense in legal conveySo in Antony and Cleopatra, speaking of a hailstone: ances. — as it determines, so Dissolves my life.' Re-enter PRINCE HENRY. Lo, where he comes.-Come hither to me, Harry :Depart the chamber, leave us here alone. [Exeunt CLARENCE, PRINCE HUMPHREY, Lords, &c. P. Hen. I never thought to hear you speak again. K. Hen. Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought: I stay too long by thee, I weary thee. Dost thou so hunger for my empty chair, That thou wilt needs invest thee with mine honours Thou seek'st the greatness that will overwhelm thee. Thou hast stol'n that, which, after some few hours, Thy life did manifest, thou lov'dst me not, What! canst thou not forbear me half an hour? 24 i. e. confirmed my opinion. 25 Hour, anciently written hower, is used sometimes as a dissyllable, as well by Shakspeare as others. So Ben Jonson in The Case is Alter'd: Only compound me with forgotten dust; Now, neighbour confines, purge you of your scum: Peopled with wolves, thy old inhabitants! P. Hen. O, pardon me, my liege! but for my tears, The moist impediments unto my speech, [Kneeling. I had forestall'd this dear and deep rebuke, 26 This playing upon words seems to have been highly admired in the age of Shakspeare. Thus Marlowe, in his Hero and Leander : 'And as amidst the enamour'd waves he swims, The god of gold a purpose gilt his limbs, That this word guilt including double sense, The double guilt of his incontinence, Might be express'd.' Again, in Acolastus his Afterwit, a poem, by S. Nicholson, 1600: O sacred thirst of golde, what canst thou not?— Some term thee gylt, that every soule might read, Ere you with grief had spoke, and I had heard And never live to show the incredulous world Therefore, thou, best of gold, art worst of gold. Preserving life in med'cine potable 28: But thou, most fine, most honour'd, most renown'd, Hast eat thy bearer up. Thus, my most royal liege, Accusing it, I put it on my head; 27 The Variorum Shakspeare reads: 'Let me no more from this obedience rise (Which my most true and inward-duteous spirit Johnson and others have considered this passage as obscure in the construction; but it was only made so by their wrong pointing. The obvious sense is, 'Let me no more rise from this obeisance, which my most loyal and inwardly duteous spirit teacheth this prostrate and exterior bending.' Obeisance and obedience were formerly used indiscriminately the one for the other. Truth is always used for loyalty. 28 It was long a prevailing opinion that a solution of gold had great medicinal virtues; and that the incorruptibility of the metal might be communicated to the body impregnated with it. Potable gold was one of the panacea of ancient quacks. |