111. Glo. Yea! is it so? &c.] So the folio. The quartos read with the following variations: Glo. I, Is the wind in that door? Clar. I see the lady, &c. STEEVENS. 116. Widow, we will consider] This is a very lively and spritely dialogue; the reciprocation is quicker than is common in Shakspere. JOHNSON. 184. Her looks do argue her replete with modesty ;] So the folio. The quartos read: Her looks are all replete with majesty. STEEVENS. 198. And yet too good to be your concubine.] So in Warner's Albion's England, 1602, B. VII. chap. xxxiv. "His plea for love, my suit was land: I plie him, he plies me: "Too bace to be his queen, too good his concubine to be." Shakspere, however, adopted the words from Stowe's STEEVENS. Chronicle. 202. Thou art a widow, &c.] This is part of the king's reply to his mother in Stowe's Chronicle, "That she is a widow, and hath already children; by God's blessed lady I am a batchelor, and have some too, and so each of us hath a proofe that neither of us is like to be barrain :" &c.. STEEVENS. 249. I'll make my heaven, &c.] Thus the folio. The quartos alter and transpose the two lines as follows: I will go clad my body with gay ornaments, 257. STEEVENS. -like a wither'd shrub ;] So the folio. STEEVENS. The quartos-like a wither'd shrimp. 262. —unlick'd bear-whelp,] It was an opinion which, in spite of its absurdity, prevailed long, that the bear brings forth only shapeless lumps of animated flesh, which she licks into the form of bears. It is now well known that the whelps of the bear are produced in the same state with those of other creatures. 267. -to o'erbear such JOHNSON. As are of better person than myself,] Richard speaks here the language of nature. Whoever is stigmatized with deformity has a constant source of envy in his mind, and would counterbalance by some other superiority these advantages which he feels himself to want. Bacon remarks, that the deformed are commonly daring; and it is almost proverbially observed that they are ill-natured. The truth is, that the deformed, like all other men, are displeased with infe riority, and endeavour to gain ground by good or bad means, as they are virtuous or corrupt. JOHNSON. 271. Until mp mis-shap'd trunk that bears this head, Be round impal'd, &c.] A transposition seems to be necessary: "Until my head, that this mis-shap'd trunk bears." Otherwise the trunk that bears the head is to be encircled with the crown, and not the head itself, STEEVENS. 272. -impaled] i. e. encircled. So, in Heywood's Rape of Lucrece, 1630: "Tear off the crown that yet empales his temples." STEEVENS. 294. And set the murd'rous Machiavel to school.] As this is an anachronism, and the old quarto reads, And set the aspiring Catiline to school. I don't know why it should not be preferred. WARBURTON, This is not the first proof I have met with, that Shakspere, in his attempts to familiarize his ideas, has diminished their propriety. STEEVENS. 297. Fair queen of England, &c.] Thus the folio. The quartos give the following: Welcome, queen Margaret, to the court of France, Sit by my side; and here I vow to thee, STEEVENS. 300. No, mighty king of France, &c.] Instead of this speech, the quartos only supply the following: Queen. I humbly thank your royal majesty, wrongs. 340. Enter Warwick.] This nobleman's embassy and commission, the insult he receives by the king's hasty marriage, and his consequent resolution to avenge it, with the capture, imprisonment, and escape of the king, Shakspere, it is true, found in Hall and Holinshed: but later, as well as earlier writers, of better authority, incline us to discredit the whole; and to refer the rupture between the king and his political creator to causes which have not reached posterity, or to that jealousy and ingratitude so natural, perhaps, to those who are under obligations too great to be discharged. Beneficia, says Tacitus, eo usque læta sunt, dum videntur exsolvi posse; ubi multum antevenere, pro gratia odium redditur. REMARKS. 354. -Henry's hope is done.] So the folio. The quartos read all our hope is done. STEEVENS. 360. Hath plac'd thy beauty's image, and thy virtue.] So the folio. The quarto thus: Hath plac'd thy glorious image, and thy virtues. 381. tos, 393. -to the wisest;] So the folio. The quar -to the world. STEEVENS. STEEVENS. thirty and six years,] So the folio. The quartos, thirty and eight years. 402. When nature brought him to the door of death?] Thus the folio. The quartos: When age did call him to the door of death. STEEVENS. This passage unavoidably brings before the mind that admirable image of old age in Sackville's Induction: "His withered fist still knocking at death's dore," &c. FARMER. 412. -that were not lawful chosen.] Thus the folio. The quarto as follows: -that is not lawful heir. 422. STEEVENS. That this his love was an external plant;] The old quarto reads rightly eternal; alluding to the plants of Paradise. WARBURTON. 425. Exempt from envy, but not from disdain,] I believe envy is in this place, as in many others, put for malice or hatred. His situation places him above these, though it cannot secure him from female disdain. STEEVENS. 452. You have a father able- -] This seems ironical. The poverty of Margaret's father is a very frequent topick of reproach. JOHNSON. 455. Proud setter-up and puller-down of kings!] The queen here applies to Warwick, the very words that Edward, act II. line 423, addresses to the Deity. MONCK MASON. 458. Thy sly conveyance,] Conveyance isjuggling, and thence is taken for artifice and fraud. 66 JOHNSON. 486. Did I let pass the abuse done to my niece?] Thus Holinshed, p. 668, King Edward did attempt a thing once in the earles house, which was much against the earles honestie (whether he would have defloured his daughter or his nice, the certaintie was not for both their honours revealed) for surely such a thing was attempted by king Edward." STEEVENS. 488. Did I put Henry from his native right?] Thus the folio. The quartos read: |