Had I as many fons as I have hairs,

I would not wish them to a fairer death:
And fo his knell is knoll'd.

Mal. He's worth more forrow,

And that I'll spend for him.

Siw. He's worth no more;

They fay, he parted well, and paid his score:
And fo, God be with him!-Here comes newer comfort.

Re-enter MACDUFF, with MACBETH's head.
Macd. Hail, king! for fo thou art: Behold, where
The ufurper's curfed head: the time is free: [stands
I fee thee compafs'd with thy kingdom's pearl,
That fpeak my falutation in their minds;

Whofe voices I defire aloud with mine,-
Hail, king of Scotland!

All. Hail, king of Scotland!

[Flourish.

Mal. We fhall not spend a large expence of time, Before we reckon with your feveral loves, And make us even with you. My thanes and kinfHenceforth be earls, the first that Scotland

[men,
In fuch an honour nam'd. What's more to do,
Which would be planted newly with the time,-
As calling home our exil'd friends abroad,
That fled the fnares of watchful tyranny;
Producing forth the cruel minifters

Of this dead butcher, and his fiend-like queen;
Who, as 'tis thought, by felf and violent hands
Took off her life :-This, and what needful elfe
That calls upon us, by the grace of Grace,
We will perform in meafure, time, and place:
So thanks to all at once, and to each one,
Whom we invite to fee us crown'd at Scone.

THE END.

[Flourish. Exeunt

ON THE FABLE AND COMPOSITION OF

HENRY V.

THIS play was writ (as appears from a paffage in the chorus to the fifth act) at the time of the earl of Effex's commanding the forces in Ireland in the reign of queen Elizabeth, and not 'till after Henry the VIth had been played, as may be seen by the conclufion of this play. POPE.

The tranfactions comprised in this hiftorical play commence about the latter end of the firft, and terminate in the eighth year of this king's reign: when he married Katharine princefs of France, and clofed up the differences between England and that crown.

THEOBALD.

This play in the quarto edition, 1608, is ftyled the Chronicle Hiftory of Henry, &c. which feems to have been the title anciently appropriated to all Shakefpeare's historical dramas. So, in The Antipodes, a co. medy by R. Brome, 1638:

"Thefe lads can act the emperor's lives all over, "And Shakespeare's chronicled Hiftories to boot." The players likewife, in the folio edition, 1623, rank thefe pieces under the title of Hiftories.

It is evident, that a play on this fubject had been performed before the year 1595. Nath, in Pierce Penniless his Supplication to the Devil, dated 1595, fays: "what a glorious thing it is to have Henry the Fifth reprefented on the ftage leading the French king prisoner, and forcing both him and the Dolphin to sweare fealtie. STEEVENS.

This play has many scenes of high dignity, and many of eafy merriment. The character of the king is well fupported, except in his courtship, where he has

neither