To show the line, and the predicament, Even with the bloody payment of your deaths. Wor. Peace, cousin, say no more; And now I will unclasp a secret book, Hot. If he fall in, good night:—or sink or swim:- North. Imagination of some great exploit Hot. By heaven, methinks, it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon; Or dive into the bottom of the deep, d this canker Bolingbroke?] The canker-rose is the dog-rose, the flower of the cynosbaton.-STEEVENS. disdain'd]-for disdainful. . Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, But out upon this half-fac'd fellowship !f Wor. He apprehends a world of figures here,s Wor. That are your prisoners, Hot. Those same noble Scots, I'll keep them all; By heaven, he shall not have a Scot of them : No, if a Scot would save his soul, he shall not: Wor. You start away, And lend no ear unto my purposes.- Hot. Nay, I will; that's flat;- He said, he would not ransome Mortimer Nay, ; I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak To keep his anger still in motion. Wor. Cousin; a word. Hear you, Hot. All studies here I solemnly defy, Save how to gall and pinch this Bolingbroke: And that same sword-and-buckler prince of Wales,"— f But out upon this half-fac'd fellowship!] A coat is said to be faced when part of it, as the sleeves or bosom, is covered with something finer or more splendid than the main substance. The mantua-makers still use the word. Half-faced fellowship is then " partnership but half-adorned, partnership which yet wants half the shew of dignities and honours."-JOHNSON. g — a world of figures here,] Figures mean shapes created by Hotspur's imagination, but not the form of what he should attend; viz. of what his uncle had to propose.-EDWARDS. h And that same sword-and-buckler prince of Wales,] A royster or turbulent fellow, that fought in taverns, or raised disorders the streets, was called a swash-buckler. In this sense sword-and-buckler is here used. JOHNSON. But that I think his father loves him not, Wor. Farewell, kinsman! I'll talk to you, North. Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool Art thou, to break into this woman's mood; Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own? [rods, Hot. Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with In Richard's time,-What do you call the place? Hot. You say true: Why, what a candy deal of courtesy This fawning greyhound then did proffer me! Wor. Nay, if you have not, to't again; Hot. I have done, i'faith. Wor. Then once more to your Scottish prisoners. [TO NORTHUMBERLAND. Your son in Scotland being thus employed,— i "be granted you-My lord,"-MALONE. Hot. Of York, is't not? Wor. True; who bears hard His brother's death at Bristol, the lord Scroop. As what I think might be, but what I know Hot. I smell it; upon my life, it will do well. To join with Mortimer, ha? .m Wor. Hot. He does, he does; we'll be reveng'd on him. Where you and Douglas, and our powers at once, To bear our fortunes in our own strong arms, Which now we hold at much uncertainty. North. Farewell, good brother: we shall thrive, I trust. estimation,] Here used for conjecture. 1 let'st slip.] To let slip, is to loose the greyhound. m by raising of a head:] A head is a body of forces. The king will always, &c.] This is a natural description of the state of mind between those that have conferred, and those that have received obligations too great to be satisfied. That this would be the event of Northumberland's disloyalty was predicted by King Richard in the former play.-JOHNSON. Cousin,] This was a common address in our author's time to nephews, nieces, and grandchildren.-MALONE. Hot. Uncle, adieu:-O, let the hours be short, [Exeunt. ACT II. SCENE I.-Rochester. An Inn Yard. Enter a Carrier, with a Lantern in his hand. 1 Car. Heigh ho! An't be not four by the day, I'll be hanged: Charles' wain' is over the new chimney, and yet our horse not packed. What, Ostler! Ost. [within.] Anon, anon. 1 Car. I pr'ythee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle,' put a few flocks in the point; the poor jade is wrung in the withers out of all cess." Enter another Carrier. 2 Car. Pease and beans are as dank' here as a dog, and that is the next way to give poor jades the bots; this house is turned upside down, since Robin ostler died. 1 Car. Poor fellow! never joyed since the price of oats rose; it was the death of him. 2 Car. I think, this be the most villainous house in all London road for fleas : I am stung like a tench." 1 Car. Like a tench? by the mass, there is ne'er a king in Christendom could be better bit than I have been since the first cock. 2 Car. Why, they will allow us ne'er a jorden, and then · Charles' wain-] Charles's wain is the vulgar name given to the constellation called the Bear. It is a corruption of the Chorles or Churls wain (Sax. ceoɲl, a countryman).—RITSON. q Cut's-] Cut is the name of a horse in The Witches of Lancashire, 1634, and, probably, a common one.-STEEVENs. out of all cess.] i. e. Out of all measure: the phrase being taken from a cess, tax. WARBURTON. dank-] i. e. Wet, rotten. bots:]-are worms in the stomach of a horse. stung like a tench.] It appears from Holland's translation of Pliny's Natural History, b. 9, c. 47, that anciently fishes were supposed to be infested with fleas.-STEEVENS. |