it, Exeunt; Manet Catesby with Hastings. And in the next scene, before the Tower walls, we find Lovel and Catesby come back from the execution, bringing the head of Hastings, THEOBALD.

Mr. Theobald should have added, that, in the old quarto, no names are mentioned in Richard's speech. He only says " some see it done." Nor, in that edition, does Lovel appear in the next scene; but only Catesby, bringing the head of Hastings. The confusion seems to have arisen, when it was thought necessary that Catesby should be employed to fetch the mayor, who, in the quarto, is made to come without having been sent for. As some other person was then wanted to bring the head of Hastings, the poet, or the players, appointed Lovel and Ratcliff to that office, without reflecting that the latter was engaged in another service on the same day at Pomfret.

TYRWHITT. 428. The rest, that love me, rise, and follow me.] So, in The Battle of Alcazar, 1594:

"And they that love my honour, follow me."

MALONE. 433. Three times to-day my foot-cloth horse did stumble, &c.] So, in the Legend of Lord Hastings, by M. D.

My palfrey, in the plainest paved street,

Thrice bow'd his bones, thrice kneeled on the floor, Thrice shunn'd (as Balaam's ass) the dreaded tower. To stumble was anciently esteem'd a bad omen. So, in the Honest Lawyer. "And just at the threshold Master Bromley stum Signs! signs!"

The

The housings of a horse, anciently denominated a foot-cloth. So, in Ben Jonson's play called The Case is Altered:

"I'll go on my foot-cloth, I'll turn gentleman.” Again, in A fair Quarrel, by Middleton, 1617: -thou shalt have a physician,

"The best that gold can fetch upon his footcloth."

Again, in Ram-Alley, or Merry Tricks, 1610: -nor shall I need to try

"Whether my well-greas'd tumbling foot-cloth

nag

"Be able to out-run a well-breath'd catch-pole." STEEVENS.

447. Who builds, &c.] So, Horace :

Nescius auræ fallacis.

JOHNSON.

457. -in rusty armour, &c.] Thus Holinshed : "-himselfe with the duke of Buckingham, stood harnessed in old ill-faring briganders, such as no man should weene that they would vouchsafe to have put upon their backes, except that some sudden necessitie had constreined them." STEEVENS.

482. -the earth a christian;] Here the quarto

adds:

Look you, my lord-mayor.

This hemistich I have inserted in the following speech of Buckingham, to which I believe it originally belonged; as without it we meet with an imperfect

verse.

E

Well,

Well, well, he was the covert'st shelter'd traitor

That ever lived.

Would you imagine, &c.

STEEVENS.

532. -put to death a citizen,] This person was one Walker, a substantial citizen and grocer at the Crown in Cheapside.

539.

-his ranging eye,

GREY.

-] Thus the modern editors. The folio reads-raging—the quartos—lust

ful.

STEEVENS. 560. This Pinker or Penker was provincial of the Augustine friars. See Speed. STEEVENS.

568. read o'er in Paul's.] The substance of this speech is from Hall's Chronicle, p. 16. "Nowe was thys proclamation made within twoo houres after that he was beheaded, and it was so curiously indyted, and so fayre writyen in parchment, in a fayre sette hande, and therewith of itselfe so long a processe, that every chyld might perceyve that it was prepared and studyed before (and as some men thought, by Catesby), for all the tyme betwene his death and the proclamacion coulde scant have suffyced unto the bare writyng alone," &c. STEEVENS.

579.

-seen in thought.] That is, seen in siJOHNSON.

lence, without notice or detection.

584. -lady Lucy,] The king had been familiar with this lady before his marriage, to obstruct which his mother alleged a pre-contract between "Whereupon, says the historian, dame Elizabeth Lucye was sente for, and albeit she was by the kyng hys mother, and many other, put in good com.

them :

fort

fort to affirme that she was assured to the kynge; yet when she was solempny sworne to say the truth, she confessed she was never ensured. Howbeit, she sayd his grace spake suche loving woordes to her, that she verily hoped that he would have married her; and that yf such kynde woordes had not bene, she woulde never have shewed such kindnesse to him to lette hym so kyndely gette her wyth chylde."

623. intend some fear ;] senses of to intend was to pretend.

act:

Hall, Edw. V. fol. 19.

REMARKS.

One of the ancient

So, in sc. v. of this

Tremble and start at wagging of a straw,
Intending deep suspicion.

STEEVENS.

631. As I can say, nay to thee,] Buckingham is to plead for the citizens; and if (says Richard) you speak for them as plausibly as I in my own person, or for my own purposes, shall seem to deny your suit, doubt but we shall bring all to a happy issue.

654.

there is no

STEEVENS.

to engross] To fatten; to pamper. JOHNSON.

673. --two Bishops.] "At the last he came out of his chambre, and yet not doune to theim, but in a galary over theim, with a bishop on every hande of hym, where thei beneth might se hym and speke to hym, as thoughe he woulde not yet come nere them til he wist what they meante, &c."

Eij

Hall's Chronicle.

FARMER.

706.

706. And almost shoulder'd in the "swallowing gulph

Of dark forgetfulness] So, in the

Baron's Wars, by Drayton, Canto I:

"Stoutly t'affront and shoulder in debate."

STEEVENS.

Shoulder'd is, Not, thrust in by the shoulders, but, immersed up to the shoulders.

So, in Othello:

"Steep me in poverty to the very lips.”

MALONE.

708. Which to recure,] To recure is to recover. This word is frequently used by Spenser; and both as a verb and a substantive in Lylly's Endymion, 1591. . STEEVENS.

767.

744. And much I need to help you,—] And I want much of the ability requisite to give you help, if help were needed. JOHN SON. -loath'd bigamy:] Bigamy, by a canon of the council of Lyons, A. D. 1274, (adopted in England by a statute in 4 Edw. I.) was made unlawful and infamous. It differed from polygamy, or having two wives at once; as it consisted in either marrying two virgins successively, or once marrying a widow.

BLACKSTONE.

789. effeminate remorse,] i. e. pity.

STEEVENS.

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