Queen. Come, come, my boy, we will to Sanctuary. -Madam, farewel. Dutch. Stay, I will go with you, And thither bear your treasure and your goods. -Go, I'll conduct you to the Sanctuary. [Exeunt, The Trumpets found. Enter Prince of Wales, the Dukes of Gloucester and Buckingham,, Archbishop, with others. BUCKINGHAM, 7ELCOME, fweet Prince, to London, WE to Glo. Welcome, dear Coufin, my thought's Sovereign, The weary way hath made you melancholy, Prince. No, Uncle, but our croffes on the way Have made it tedious, wearifome, and heavy. I want more Uncles here to welcome me.. Glo. Sweet Prince, th'untainted virtue of your years Hath not yet div'd into the world's deceit, God keep you from them, and from fuch false friends! were none. Glo. My lord, the Mayor of Loudon comes to greet you. Enter Lord Mayor. Mayor. God bless your Grace with health and happy days! Prince. I thank you, good my Lord, and thank you all: I thought my mother and my brother York, Enter Lord Haftings. Buck. And in good time here comes the sweating lord. Prince. Welcome, my lord, what will our mother come? Haft. On what occafion God he knows, not I, The Queen your mother and your brother York, Have taken Sanctuary; the tender Prince Would fain have come with me to meet your Grace, But by his mother was perforce with-held. Buck. Fie, what an indirect and peevish course Is this of hers? Lord Cardinal, will your Grace Perfuade the Queen to fend the Duke of York Unto his Princely Brother presently? If the deny, lord Haftings, you go with him, Buck. You are too fenfelefs-obftinate, my Lord; 7 Too ceremonious and traditional. 8 * Weigh it but with the Groffnefs of this age, To thofe, whofe dealings have deferv'd the place; 7 Too ceremonious and traditional.] Ceremonious for fuperftitious; traditional for adherent to old customs. WARBURTON. 8 Weigh it but with the GROSSNESS OF THIS age.] But the more gros, that is, the more fuperftitious the age was, the ftronger would be the imputation of violated fanctuary. The queftion, we fee, by what follows, is whether fanctuary could be claimed by an infant. The Speaker refolves it in the negative, because it could be claimed by thofe only whofe actions ne. ceffitated them to fly thither; or by thofe who had an underftanding to demand it; neither of which could be an infant's cafe: It is plain then, the first line, which introducs ethis reafoning, fhould be read thus, Weigh it but with the GREEN- i. e. the young Duke of York's, -the greatnefs of his age. WARBURTON. This emendation is received by Hanmer, and is very plaufible; yet the common reading may ftand. Weigh it but with the groffness of this age, you break not fanctuary. That is, compare the act of feizing him with the grofs and licentious practices of thefe times, it will not be confidered as a violation of fanctuary, for you may give such reasons as men are now used to admit. You You break no Privilege nor Charter there. But Sanctuary-children ne'er till now. Arch. My Lord, you shall o'er-rule my mind for once. Come on, Lord Haftings, will you go with me? Prince. Good Lords, make all the fpeedy hafte you [Exeunt Archbishop and Haftings. may. Say, Uncle Glo'fter, if our Brother come, Your Highness fhall repofe you at the Tower: Prince. I do not like the Tower of any place. Even to the general all-ending day. Glo. So wife, fo young, they fay, do ne'er live long. Prince, What fay you, Uncle? [Afide. Glo. I fay, without characters Fame lives long, 9 As 'twere RETAIL'D to all Pofterity;] And fo it is: And by that means, like most other retail'd things, became adulterated. We should read, INTAIL'd to all Pofterity; which is finely and fenfibly ex preffed, as if truth was the natural inheritance of our chil dren; which it is impiety to deWARBURTON. prive them of. Retailed may fignify diffufed, difperfed. Thus Thus, like the formal vice, Iniquity, I moralize: Two Meanings in one word. Afide. ▾ Thus like the formal Vice, Iniquity, I moralize two Meanings in one Word.] By Vice, the Author means not a Quality but a Perfon. There was hardly an old Play, till the Period of the Reformation, which had not in it a Devil, and a droll Character, a Jefter; (who was to play upon the Devil;) and this Buffcon went bythe Name of a Vice. This Buffoon was at first accoutred with a long Jerkin, a Cap with a Pair of Ais's Ears, and a wooden Dagger, with which (like an other Arlequin) he was to make Sport in belabouring the Devil. This was the conftant Entertainment in the Times of Popery, whilft Spirits, and Witchcraft, and Exorcifing held their own. When the Reformation took place, the Stage fhook off fome Groffities, and encreased in Refinements. The Mafter-Devil then was foon difmiffed from the Scene; and this Buffoon was changed into a fubordinate Fiend, whofe Bufinefs was to range on Earth, and feduce poor Mortals into that perfonated vicious Quality, which he occafionally fupported; as, Iniquity, in general, Hypocrify, Ufury, Vanity, Prodigality, Gluttony, &c. Now as the Fiend, (or Vice,) who perfonated Iniquity (or Hypocrify, for Inftance) could never hope to play his Game to the Purpofe but by hiding his cloven Foot, and affuming a Semblance quite different from his real Charac Prince. ter; he muft certainly put on a formal Demeanour, moralize and prevaricate in his Words, and pretend a Meaning directly oppofite to his genuine and primitive Intention. If this does not explain the Paffage in Queftion, 'tis all that I can at present fuggeft upon it. THEOBALD. Thus like the formal VICE, I NIQUITY, I moralize two meanings in one word.] That the buffoon, or jefter of the old En life farces, was called the Vice is certain : and that, in their moral reprefentations, it was common to bring in the deadly fins, is as true. Of these we have yet feveral remains. But that the Vice ufed to affume the perfonage of these fins, is a fancy of Mr. Theobald's, who knew nothing of the matter. The truth is, the Vice was always a fool or jefter: And, (as the Woman, in the Merchant of Venice, calls the Clown, alluding to this Character,) a merry Devil. Whereas thefe mortal fins were fo many fad, ferious ones. But what milled our editor was the name Iniquity, given to this Vice: But it was only on account of his unhappy tricks and rogueries. That it was given to him, and for the reafon I mention, appears from the following paffage of Johnson's Staple of Neus, fecond intermeane. M. How like you the Vice i'the play? T. Here is never a fiend to car |