Enter Charles, Alanson, Burgundie,Baftard,
and Pucell.

Char. Had Yorke and Somerfet brought refcue in,
We fhould have found a bloody day of this.

Baft. How the yong whelpe of Talbots, raging wood,
Did flesh his puny-fword in Frenchmens blood.
Pue. Once I encountred him,and thus I faid:
Thou Maiden youth,be vanquisht by a Maide.
But with a provd Majefticalf high fcorne So rusting in
He answer'd thus: Yong Talbot was not borne
To be the pillage of a Giglot Wench,

He left me proudly, as unworthy fight.

of the

Bur. Doubtleffe he would have made a noble Knight:
See where he lyes inherced in the armes

Of the most bloody Nurffer of his harmes. fix Blooding
Baft. Hew them to peeces, hack their bones affunder,
Whofe life was Englands glory, Gallia's wonder.
Char. Oh no forbeare: For that which we have fled
During the life, let us not Wrong it dead.

Enter Lucy, and Geranto
Lu.Herald,conduct me to the Dolphins Tent,
To know who hath obtain d the glory of the day.
Char. On what fubmiffive meflage art thou fent?
Lucy. Submission Dolphin? Tis a meere French word:
We English Warriours wot not what it meanes.
I come to know what Prifoners thou haft tane,
And to furvey the bodies of the dead.

Char. For prifoners askft thou? Hell our prison is.

briefly But tell me whom thou seekst?

Luc. But where's the great Alcides of the field,
Valiant Lord Talbot Earle of Shrewsbury?
Created for his rare fucceffe in Armes,
Great Earle of #afofexd, Waterford, and Valense,
Lord Talbot of Goodrig and Vrchinfield,

Lord Strange of Blackmere, Lord Verdon of Alton,

Lord Cromwell of Wingefield, Lord Furnivall of Sheffeild,
The thrice victorious Lord of Falconbridge,

Knight of the Noble Order of S. George,
Worthy S. Michael,and the Golden Fleece,

Great Marshall to our King Henry the fixt,

Of all his Warres within the Realme of France.

Northern

TO THE TEXT OF

SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS,

FROM

EARLY MANUSCRIPT CORRECTIONS

IN

A COPY OF THE FOLIO, 1632,

IN THE POSSESSION OF

J. PAYNE COLLIER, ESQ. F.S.A.

FORMING

A Supplemental Volume

TO THE

WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE BY THE SAME EDITOR.

THE SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED.

LONDON:

WHITTAKER AND CO. AVE MARIA LANE.

PREFACE

TO THE PRESENT EDITION.

NEARLY the whole of what was thought necessary by way of preface to the present edition had been written, when I was favoured by a gentleman, of whom I had no personal knowledge, but the deeds of whose near and illustrious relative are upon historical record, with information which has led to an important discovery regarding the ownership and history of my corrected folio, 1632.

John Carrick Moore, Esq., of Hyde Park Gate, Kensington (nephew to Sir John Moore, who terminated his brilliant career at Corunna in January, 1809), struck by the indisputable value of many of the published emendations, and animated, like other members of his family, by the warmest love for Shakespeare and his works, was kind enough to address a note to me, in which he stated that a friend of his, a gentleman of the name of Parry, had been at one time in possession of the very folio upon which I founded my recent volume of "Notes and Emendations "-that Mr. Parry had been well acquainted with the fact that its argins were filled throughout by manuscript notes, and th he accurately remembered the hand-writing in which they were made. On being shown the fac-simile, which accompanied my first edition, and which is repeated in the present, he declared his instant conviction that it had been copied from what had once been his folio,

1632. How or precisely when it escaped from his custody he knew not, but the description of it in my "Introduction" exactly corresponded with his recollection.

I lost no time in thanking Mr. Moore for these tidings, and in writing to Mr. Parry for all the particulars within his knowledge. Unfortunately the latter gentleman, just before he received my note, had met with a serious injury, which confined him to his bed, so that he was unable to send me any reply.

For about ten days I remained in suspense, but at last I determined to wait upon Mr. Moore to inquire whether he was aware of any reason why I had not received an answer from Mr. Parry. He accounted for the silence of that gentleman on the ground of his recent accident; and as Mr. Moore was confident that Mr. Parry was correct in the conclusion that my folio, 1632, had formerly belonged to him, he advised me to call upon him, being sure that he would be glad to satisfy me upon every point. I accordingly hastened to St. John's Wood, and had the pleasure of an interview with Mr. Parry, who, without the slightest reserve, gave me such an account of the book as made it certain that it was the same which, some fifty years ago, had been presented to him by a connexion of his family, Mr. George Gray. Mr. Parry described both the exterior and interior of the volume, with its innumerable corrections and its missing leaves, with so much minuteness that no room was left for doubt.

On the question from whence Mr. Gray, who resided at Newbury, had procured the book, Mr. Parry was not so clear and positive: he was not in a condition to state any distinct evidence to show out of what library it had come; but he had always understood and believed that it had been obtained, with some other old works (to the collection of which Mr. Gray was partial), from Ufton Court, Berkshire; formerly, and for many years before the dispersion of the library, the residence of a Roman Catholic family of the name of Perkins, one member of which, Francis Perkins, who died in 1736, was