65. SCENE IV. "Faith I have been a truant in the law, will." "Et mihi res, non me rebus, submittere conor." Hor. Ep. Lib. I. 19. 66. "Let him that is no coward, nor no flatterer." This is correctly expressed, "nor" is not a reduplication of the negative sense, but the conjunction appropriate to negative position. 67. " If I, my lord, for my opinion bleed, Opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt, "And keep me on the side where still I am.” If, for my opinion, I must suffer, the consciousness of that opinion's being right shall compensate for the injury, and be an argument to fix and confirm my resolution. 72. -My faction." My party:" faction is often used without any idea of reproach. 81. Long after this, when Henry the Fifth.” We should read, here, Henry nam'd the Fifth, as in the next Act, page 94: "Which in the time of Henry nam'd the Fifth." And again, Act 4: "God save King Henry, of that name the Sixth." 1 ACT III. SCENE I. 86. "If I were covetous, ambitious, or perverse." Mr. Steevens's proposed reading, "Were I covetous, ambitious, or perverse,' would not mend the metre, though it reduces the redundance: perhaps we should read, Were I ambitious, covětous, or perverse. 87. "This Rome shall remedy; Roam thither, then.” To support the jingle here intended, "Rome" roam" must be pronounced alike. and 88. "Verdict." Opinion simply. 89. "This unaccustom'd fight." "Unaccustom'd," here, is surely not, as Dr. Johnson explains, unseemly, indecent, but strange, extraordinary. SCENE II. 100. "I speak not to that railing Hecaté." This correct accentuation of Hecate is singular, and may help to "thicken other proofs that demonstrate not thinly" the spuriousness of this play. 102. "Gather we our forces out of hand." SCENE III. 105 "Dismay not, princes, at this accident." Dismay a verb neuter. SCENE IV. 110. "To do my duty to my sovereign." ACT IV. SCENE II. 126. " Thy timorous soul." But a minute before, the speaker, in the tautology of applause, had called Talbot "a man of an invincible, unconquered spirit. SCENE III. 130. "That ever-living man of memory.' it Memory" appears to signify" renown;" yet may be "that man of ever-living, or immortal memory.' 134. SCENE V. If you love my mother, We meet with this thought in K. Henry V. "Dishonour not your mothers; now attest "That those whom ye call fathers did beget you." SCENE VII. 143. "How the young whelp of Talbot's, raging wood." I believe, for wood, we should read brood. ACT V. SCENE III. 160. If thou wilt condescend to be my”What?" "His love.". Mr. Steevens's correction appears necessary both to the sense and the metre; if the king loved her, she must be his love; i. e. the object of his love, without any condescension. SCENE V. 174. "So full replete." This is a strange pleonasm, yet, perhaps, not more justly exceptionable than the familiar one, "fill full;" to fill," being of itself " to put-in all that can be contained." A A 2 To your most gracious hands, that are the substance Of that great shadow I did represent.” Represent, here, may only signify "exhibit;" and so the sense is good: but I fear "deputation" is implied, and that consequently there is a confusion of ideas between the substance represented, and the shadow representing. If that, in the second line, be the relative to the king implied, are should be art; but the quarto will direct us, perhaps, to a better reading: "Unto your excellence, that art the substance," &c. 195. "And common profit of his country!" The metre wants repairing: perhaps thus: "The good and common profit of his country!" "Then let's make haste away, and look unto the |