I a march of twelve-score. The money shall be paid back again with advantage. Be with me betimes in the morning; and so, good morrow, Peto. Peto. Good morrow, good my lord. 622. "his death will be,” etc.; that is, "a march of twelve-score will be his death." A score, as here used, was twenty yards. So that "twelve-score" was two hundred and forty yards.-H. N. H. ACT THIRD SCENE I Bangor. The Archdeacon's house. Enter Hotspur, Worcester, Mortimer, and Glendower. Mort. These promises are fair, the parties sure, And uncle Worcester: a plague upon it! Glend. No, here it is. Sit, cousin Percy; sit, good cousin Hotspur, Doth speak of you, his cheek looks pale, and A rising sigh he wisheth you in heaven Glend. I cannot blame him: at my nativity 10 13. "at my nativity," etc.; the singular behavior of nature at the birth of Glendower is thus mentioned by Holinshed: "Strange wonders happened (as men reported) at the nativitie of this man; for the same night he was borne all his fathers horsses in the stable were found to stand in blood up to the bellies.” And in 1402 a blazing star appeared, which the Welch bards construed as foretokening success to Glendower.-H. N. H. I The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, The frame and huge foundation of the earth 20 Hot. Why, so it would have done at the same season, if your mother's cat had but kittened, though yourself had never been born. Glend. I say the earth did shake when I was born. Hot. And I say the earth was not of my mind, If you suppose as fearing you it shook. Glend. The heavens were all on fire, the earth did tremble. Hot. O, then the earth shook to see the heavens on fire, And not in fear of your nativity. Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth 30 Shakes the old beldam earth and topples down Cousin, of many men I do not bear these crossings. Give me leave 18-20. This and the preceding speeches of Hotspur, which are commonly printed as verse, are here given in their proper order. Mr. Verplanck justly observes,-"The contrast between Glendower's selfdeceiving enthusiasm and Hotspur's impatient bluntness is stronger by the meter of the one and the prose of the other."-H. N. H. I The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, The goats ran from the mountains, and the herds Were strangely clamorous to the frighted fields. 40 These signs have mark'd me extraordinary; Which calls me pupil, or hath read to me? 50 Mort. Peace, cousin Percy; you will make him mad. Glend. I can call spirits from the vasty deep. But will they come when you do call for them? Glend. Why, I can teach you, cousin, to command The devil. Hot. And I can teach thee, coz, to shame the devil By telling truth: tell truth, and shame the devil. 39, 40. "and the herds to the frighted fields"; so in the description of an earthquake at Catania, quoted by Malone: "There was a blow as if all the artillery in the world had been discharged the cattle in the fields ran crying."-H. N. H. at once; If thou have power to raise him, bring him hither, And I'll be sworn I have power to shame him hence. 60 O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil! Mort. Come, come, no more of this unprofitable chat. Glend. Three times hath Henry Bolingbroke made head Against my power; thrice from the banks of Wye And sandy-bottom'd Severn have I sent him Hot. Home without boots, and in foul weather too! According to our threefold order ta'en? Mort. The archdeacon hath divided it Into three limits very equally: 70 England, from Trent and Severn hitherto, 80 71. "threefold order ta'en," threefold arrangement proposed.— C. H. H. 72–80. This matter is thus given by Holinshed: "They by their deputies, in the house of the archdeacon of Bangor, divided the realme amongst them, causing a tripartite indenture to bee made and sealed with their seales, by the covenants whereof all England from |