To make against your highness' claim to France, No woman shall succeed in Salique land: Where Charles the great, having subdued the Saxons, Which Salique, as I said, 'twixt Elbe and Sala, Eight hundred five. Besides, their writers say, Of Blithild, which was daughter to king Clothair, [7] Glose-Expound, explain, and sometimes comment upon. REED. [8] This is the reading of the quarto of 1680; that of the folio is-To find his title. I believe that find is right; the jury finds for the plaintiff, or finds for the defendant; to find his title, is, to determine in favour of his title with some show of truth. STEEVENS. [9] Derived his title. MALONE., VOL. VI. 2 To Lewis the emperor, and Lewis the son Could not keep quiet in his conscience, Daughter to Charles the foresaid duke of Lorain · So that, as clear as is the summer's sun, Than amply to imbare' their crooked titles K. Hen. May I, with right and conscience, make thứ claim? Cant. The sin upon my head, dread sovereign! When the son dies, let the inheritance Go, my dread lord, to your great grandsire's tomb, [1] To unbar is to open, and might have been the word set down by the poet, in opposition to-ban. JOHNSON. [2] This alludes to the battle of Cressy, as described by Holinshed: "The earls of Northampton and others sent to the king where he stood aloft on a windmill-hill, the king demanded if his sonne were slaine, hurt, or felled to the earth. No, said the knight that brought the message, but he is sore matched. Well, (said the king,) returne to him and them that sent you, and saie to them, that they send no more to me for any adventure that falleth, so long as my son is alive; for I will that this journey be his, with the honour thereof. The slaughter of the French was great and lamentable at the same battle, fought the 26th August, 1346." BOWLE, O noble English, that could entertain With half their forces the full pride of France; All out of work, and cold for action! Ely. Awake remembrance of these valiant dead, And with your puissant arm renew their feats : You are their heir, you sit upon their throne; The blood and courage, that renowned them, Runs in your veins; and my thrice-puissant liege Is in the very May-morn of his youth, Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprizes. Exe. Your brother kings and monarchs of the earth Do all expect that you should rouse yourself, As did the former lions of your blood. West. They know, yo grace hath cause, and means, and might; So hath your highness; never king of England Had nobles richer, and more loyal subjects; Whose hearts have left their bodies here in England, And lie pavilion'd in the fields of France. Cant. O, let their bodies follow, my dear liege, With blood, and sword, and fire, to win your right: In aid whereof, we of the spirituality Will raise your highness such a mighty sum, As never did the clergy at one time Bring in to any of your ancestors. K. Hen. We must not only arm to invade the French; But lay down our proportions to defend Against the Scot, who will make road upon us With all advantages. Cant. They of those marches, gracious sovereign, Shall be a wall sufficient to defend Our inland from the pilfering borderers. K. Hen. We do not mean the coursing snatchers only, But fear the main intendment of the Scot, Who hath been still a giddy neighbour to us; They know your grace hath cause; and means, and might, So, in this place, has the force of also, or likewise. M. MASON. [4] The marches are the borders, the limits, the confines. Hence the Marchers, i. e. the lords presidents of the marches, &c. STEEVENS ; With ample and brimfulness of his force Hath shook, and trembled at th' ill neighbourhood. Cant. She hath been then more fear'd than harm'd, my liege : * For hear her but exampled by herself, When all her chivalry have been in France, The king of Scots; whom she did send to France, With sunken wreck and sumless treasuries. Then with Scotland first begin:5 For once the eagle England being in prey, Exe. It follows then, the cat must stay at home: Since we have locks to safeguard necessaries, Like music. Cant. True: therefore doth heaven divide [5] Hall's Chronicle. Hen. V. year 2, fol. 7, (p. 2,) x. POPE. [6] A curs'd necessity means, I believe, only an unfortunate necessity. Curs'd, in colloquial phrase, signifies any thing unfortunate. STEEVENS. [7] I learn from Dr. Burney, that consent is connected harmony, in general, and not confined to any specific consonance. Thus, (says the same elegant and wellinformed writer,) concentio and concentus are both used by Cicero for the union of voices or instruments in what we should now call a chorus, or concert. STE. Obedience : for so work the honey bees; The lazy yawning drone. I this infer,- As many several ways meet in one town ; K Hen. Call in the messengers sent from the Dauphin. [Exit an attendant. The King ascends his throne. Now are we well resolv'd: and,-by God's help; France being ours, we'll bend it to our awe, [8] The sense is, that all endeavour is to terminate in obedience, to be subordiMate to the public good and general design of government. JOHNSON. [9] To knead the honey gives an easy sense, though not physically true. The bees, do in fact, knead the wax more than the honey, but that Shakespeare perhaps did not know. JOHNSON. |