The name of valour.--O, let the vile world end,

[Seeing his dead father.

And the premised flames of the last day
Knit earth and heaven together!

Now let the general trumpet blow his blast,
Particularities and petty sounds

To cease!

Wast thou ordain'd, dear father,
To lose thy youth in peace, and to achieve
The silver livery of advised age,

And in thy reverence, and thy chair-days, thus
To die in ruffian battle?-Even at this sight

My heart is turn'd to stone: and, while 't is mine,
It shall be stony. York not our old men spares;
No more will I their babes: tears virginal
Shall be to me even as the dew to fire;
And beauty, that the tyrant oft reclaims,
Shall to my flaming wrath be oil and flax.
Henceforth I will not have to do with pity:
Meet I an infant of the house of York,
Into as many gobbets will I cut it,
As wild Medea young Absyrtus did:
In cruelty will I seek out my fame.

Come, thou new ruin of old Clifford's house;

As did Æneas old Anchises bear,

[Taking up the body.

So bear I thee upon my manly shoulders;
But then Æneas bare a living load,

Nothing so heavy as these woes of mine.

[Exit.

Enter RICHARD PLANTAGENET and SOMERSET, fighting,
and SOMERSET is killed.

RICH. So, lie thou there;

For underneath an alehouse' paltry sign,

The Castle in Saint Albans, Somerset

Hath made the wizard famous in his death.

Sword, hold thy temper: heart, be wrathful still:
Priests pray for enemies, but princes kill.

[Exit.

Alarums: Excursions. Enter KING HENRY, QUEEN MARGARET, and others, retreating.

Q. MAR. Away, my lord! you are slow; for shame, away! K. HEN. Can we outrun the heavens? good Margaret,

stay.

Q. MAR. What are you made of? you'll not fight, nor fly: Now is it manhood, wisdom, and defence,

To give the enemy way; and to secure us
By what we can, which can no more but fly.

[Alarum afar off.

If you be ta'en, we then should see the bottom
Of all our fortunes: but if we haply 'scape,
(As well we may, if not through your neglect,)
We shall to London get, where you are lov'd;
And where this breach, now in our fortunes made,
May readily be stopp'd.

Enter Young CLIFFORD.

Y. CLIF. But that my heart's on future mischief set. I would speak blasphemy ere bid you fly;

But fly you must; uncurable discomfit

Reigns in the hearts of all our present parts.
Away, for your relief! and we will live

To see their day, and them our fortune give:
Away, my lord, away!

SCENE III.-Fields near Saint Albans.

[Exeunt.

Alarum: Retreat. Flourish: then enter YORK, RICHARD PLANTAGENET, WARWICK, and Soldiers, with drum and colours.

YORK. Of Salisbury, who can report of him?

That winter lion, who in rage forgets

Aged contusions and all brush of time;

And, like a gallant in the brow of youth,

Repairs him with occasion? This happy day
Is not itself, nor have we won one foot,
If Salisbury be lost.

RICH.

My noble father,

Three times to-day I holp him to his horse,

Three times bestrid him, thrice I led him off,
Persuaded him from any further act:

But still where danger was, still there I met him;
And like rich hangings in a homely house,

So was his will in his old feeble body.

But, noble as he is, look where he comes.

Enter SALISBURY.

SAL. Now, by my sword, well hast thou fought to-day; By the mass, so did we all.-I thank you, Richard:

God knows how long it is I have to live;

And it hath pleas'd him that three times to-day
You have defended me from imminent death.
Well, lords, we have not got that which we have:
"T is not enough our foes are this time fled,
Being opposites of such repairing nature.

YORK. I know our safety is to follow them;
For, as I hear, the king is fled to London,
To call a present court of parliament.
Let us pursue him, ere the writs go forth:
What says lord Warwick? shall we after them?
WAR. After them! nay, before them, if we can
Now, by my hand, lords, 't was a glorious day:
Saint Albans' battle, won by famous York,
Shall be eternis'd in all age to come.

Sound, drum and trumpets:-and to London all:
And more such days as these to us befail!

[Exeuri

VARIOUS READINGS.

"My masters, let's stand close: my lord protector will come this way, by and by, and then we may deliver our supplications in sequel."

The original has "in the quill." Some commentators have made a difficulty about this expression; but Steevens suggested that "in the quill" meant written or penn'd supplications; as we say, "in print." Mr. Dyce would read "in the coil." Mr. Collier's MS. Corrector has Bequel.

(ACT I., Sc. 3.)

We always adopted the original reading; and agree with Mr. Richard Grant White, the author of 'Shakespeare's Scholar,' that the text should not be disturbed.

"My staff? here noble Henry is my staff:
To think I fain would keep it makes me laugh."

The new line in Italic is given in Mr. Collier's MS. corrections. Queen Margaret's previous speech of four lines has been turned into rhyme, by the substitution of one word for another.

(ACT II., Sc. 3.)

The broken-hearted Protector has just seen his wife banished: "Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief."

Is the new line suited to the situa-
tion or the character?

"Old Salisbury, who can report of him'
That winter lion, who in rage forgets
Aged contusions and all bruise of time,
And, like a gallant in the bloom of youth,
Repairs her with occasion."

The original has-" Of Salisbury"-"brush of time". and "brow of youth." Mr. Collier calls these "three errors," and sub.. stitutes the lines above.

(ACT V., Sc. 3.)

Steevens rejected the corrections, which were proposed before Mr. Collier's folio was discovered. "Brush of time" has a precedent in 'Timon,' and in 'Troilus and Cressida,' and "brow of youth," -meaning the general air of the countenance, occurs in Lear.'

GLOSSARY.

AFFY. Act IV., Sc. 1.

"For daring to affy a mighty lord."

To affy is to betroth, to affiance.

ALDER-LIEFEST. Act I., Sc. 1.

"With you mine alder-liefest sovereign."

Aider, the Anglo-Saxon genitive case of all, is frequently joined with an adjective of the superlative degree--as alder-first, alder-most. Liefest, or levest, is the superlative of lefe, leve (from leof, love), dear, dearest of all.

"And twice by awkward wind from England's bank." The epithet of awkward, as applied to wind, has been used by Marlowe and Drayton.

BARGULUS. Act IV., Sc. 1.

Bargulus, the strong Illyrian pirate."

Cicero, 'Officia,' lib. ii., cap. xi., mentions " Bargulus, Illyrius latro."

BEARS. Act V., Sc. 1.

"My two brave bears."

The cognizance of the Nevils was the bear and ragged staff. BEAT. Act II., Sc. 1.

"Thine eyes and thoughts

Beat on a crown."

That is, are intent on a crown. This fine expression is eluci-
dated by a similar one in 'The Tempest' (Act V., Sc. 1)—
"Do not infest your mind with beating on

The strangeness of this business."

BEZONIANS. Act. IV., Sc. 1.

"Great men oft die by vile bezonians."

Bezonian, probably from the Italian bisognoso, a poor or mean person, was used, as a term of contempt. In 'Henry IV., Part II.' (Act V., Sc. 3), Pistol says

"Under which king, Bezonian?"

BILLS. Act IV., Sc. 7.

"Take up commodities upon our bills."

This is a play upon the double meaning of bills the bills of