Cam. I do confess my fault; And do submit me to your highness' mercy. K. Hen. The mercy, that was quick9 in us but late, By your own counsel is suppress'd and kill'd: You must not dare, for shame, to talk of mercy; For your own reasons turn into your bosoms, As dogs upon their masters, worrying them.See you, my princes, and my noble peers, These English monsters! My lord of Cambridge here, You know, how apt our love was, to accord Could out of thee extract one spark of evil Though the truth be as apparent and visible as black and white contiguous to each other. To stand off is to be prominent. As two yoke-devils swore to either's purpose, With patches, colours, and with forms being fetch'd But he, that temper'd thee 13, bade thee stand up, 14 The sweetness of affiance 15! Show men dutiful? 11 i. e. plainly, evidently. 12 Did not whoop at them.' That they excited no exclamation of surprise. Vide note on As You Like It, Act iii. Sc. 2. 13 He that temper'd thee.' That is, he that ruled thee. ‹ Temperator, he that tempereth, or moderateth; he that knoweth how to rule and order.'-Cooper. 14 i. e. Tartarus, the fabled place of future punishment. 15 The sweetness of affiance!' Shakspeare uses this aggravation of the guilt of treachery with great judgment. One of the worst consequences of breach of trust is the diminution of that confidence which makes the happiness of life, and the dissemination of suspicion, which is the poison of society.—Johnson. Free from gross passion, or of mirth, or anger; And, but in purged judgment, trusting neither? Exe. I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Richard earl of Cambridge. I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Henry Lord Scroop of Masham. I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Thomas Grey, knight of Northumberland. Scroop. Our purposes God justly hath discover'd; And I repent my fault more than my death; Which I beseech your highness to forgive, Although my body pay the price of it. Cam. For me, the gold of France did not seduce 19; 16 Complement' has here the same meaning as in Love's Labour's Lost, Act i. Sc. 1. Bullokar defines it, 'Court-ship, [i. e. courtiership], fulness, perfection, fine behaviour.' The gradual change of this word, to its meaning of ceremonious words, may be traced in Blount's Glossography. 17 Bolted is the same as sifted, and has consequently the meaning of refined. 18 i. e. endowed, or gifted. 19 For me, the gold of France did not seduce.' diverse write that Richard earle of Cambridge did not conspire with the Lord Scroope, &c. for the murthering of King Henrie, to please the French king withall, but onlie to the intent to exalt the crowne to his brother-in-law Edmund earle of Marche, as heir to Lionel duke of Clarence, who being for diverse secret Although I did admit it as a motive, Grey. Never did faithful subject more rejoice My fault, but not my body, pardon, sovereign. sentence. You have conspir'd against our royal person, Of all your dear offences!-Bear them hence. [Exeunt Conspirators, guarded. impediments not able to have issue, the earl of Cambridge was sure that the crowne should come to him by his wife, and to his children of her begotten. And therefore (as was thought) he rather confessed himselfe for neede of money to be corrupted by the French king, lest the earl of March should have tasted of the same cuppe that he had drunken, and what should have come to his owne children he much doubted,' &c.-Holinshed. 20 i. e. at which prevention, in suffering, I will heartily rejoice.' Now, lords, for France; the enterprise whereof We doubt not of a fair and lucky war: Since God so graciously hath brought to light SCENE III. [Exeunt. London. Mrs. Quickly's House in Eastcheap. Enter PISTOL, MRS. QUICKLY, NYM, Quick. Pr'ythee, honey-sweet husband, let me bring1 thee to Staines. Pist. No; for my manly heart doth yearn.Bardolph, be blithe;-Nym, rouse thy vaunting veins. Boy, bristle thy courage up: for Falstaff he is dead, And we must yearn therefore. Bard. 'Would, I were with him, wheresome'er he is, either in heaven, or in hell! Quick. Nay, sure, he's not in hell; he's in Ar21 The signs of war advance.' Phaer, in rendering the first line of the eighth Æneid, Ut belle signum,' &c. has "When signe of war from Laurent townes,' &c. 1 i. e. let me accompany thee. Thus in Measure for Measure:give me leave, my lord, 6 That we may bring you something on the way.' 'Deducere, honourably to bring or accompany to and fro.'Cooper. The expression and the custom are still provincially in use. |