The Works of Shakespeare: Life and death of King John ; The tragedy of King Richard II ; The first part of King Henry IV

Sal. Nay, it is in a manner done already;

For many carriages he hath dispatch'd
To the sea-side, and put his cause and quarrel
To the disposing of the cardinal:
With whom yourself, myself and other lords,
If you think meet, this afternoon will post
To consummate this business happily.
Bast. Let it be so: and you, my noble prince,
With other princes that may best be spared,
Shall wait upon your father's funeral.

P. Hen. At Worcester must his body be interr'd;
For so he will'd it.

Bast.

Thither shall it then :
And happily may your sweet self put on
The lineal state and glory of the land!
To whom, with all submission, on my knee
I do bequeath my faithful services

And true subjection everlastingly.

Sal. And the like tender of our love we make,

To rest without a spot for evermore.

P. Hen. I have a kind soul that would give you thanks
And knows not how to do it but with tears.

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Bast. O, let us pay the time but needful woe,
Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs.
This England never did, nor never shall,
Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror,
But when it first did help to wound itself.
Now these her princes are come home again,
Come the three corners of the world in arms,
And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue,
If England to itself do rest but true.

[Exeunt.

Glossary.

A'=he; I. i. 68. Absey book, i.c. A B C book; a primer, which sometimes included a catechism; I. i. 196. Abstract, epitome, summary; II. i.

ΙΟΙ.

Adjunct, consequent; III. iii. 57. Advantage, profit, interest; III. iii.

22.

Adverse, inimicable, hostile; IV. ii. 172.

Advice, deliberate consideration; III. iv. 11.

Advised, "well a., ,"considerate; III. i. 5.

Aery, eagle's brood; V. ii. 149. Affecteth, resembleth; I. i. 86. Affections, passions, feelings; V.ii.41. Affliction, afflicted one; III. iv. 36. Aim; "cry a."; an expression borrowed from archery to encourage the archers by crying out aim when they were about to shoot, and then in a general sense to applaud, to encourage with cheers; II. i. 196. Airy, dwelling in the air; III. ii. 2. Amazed, bewildered; IV. ii. 137. An; "an if"; an used to emphasize if; I. i. 138. Anatomy, skeleton; III. iv. 40. Angel; a gold coin of the value of ten shillings, with the figure of Michael and the dragon; II. i. 590; III. iii. 8; play upon "angel" and "noble " (value six shillings and eightpence); V. ii. 64.

Angerly, angrily; IV. i. 82.
Angiers, Angers, the capital of
Anjou; II. i. 1.

Answer, face; V. vii. 60.
Answer'd, atoned; IV. ii. 89.
Apparent, plain, evident; IV. ii.

93.

Armado, fleet of war-ships; III. iv. 2.

Arms, heraldic device, IV. iii. 47.

Arms, "in arms," armed; III. i. 102; in embracement; III. i. 103.

Arras, embroidered hangings which
covered the walls; IV. i. 2.
Articles, particular items in a writ-
ing or discourse; II. i. 111.
Artificer, artisan; IV. ii. 201.
Aspect, look, air; IV. ii. 72.
Assured, betrothed; II. i. 535.
At=by; V. ii. 75.

Ate (Folios, "Ace"), Goddess of
Mischief; II. i. 63.

Avaunt, exclamation of contempt or abhorrence, away! begone! IV. iii. 77.

Aweless, unawed, fearless; I. i. 266.

Battles, armies drawn up in battle Blood, "lusty blood," hasty, im

array; IV. ii. 78.

Beadle; II. i. 188.

petuous spirit; II. i. 461.

Blood; "true b.," blood of the

rightful heir; III. iv. 147.

Bloods, men of mettle; II. i. 278.
Blots, disfigurements; III. i. 45.
Blow a horn, etc.; I. i. 219.

The Beadle to the University of Paris. From a painted glass window in the Paris National Library (temp. Francis I.).

Becks beckons; III. iii. 13.
Become, adorn, grace; V. i. 55.
Bedlam, lunatic; II. i. 183.
Beguiled, cheated; III. i. 99.

Behalf; "in right and true b.," on behalf of the rightful and true claim; I. i. 7.

Behaviour, "in my b.," i.e. "in the tone and character which I here assume"; I. i. 3.

Beholding, beholden; I. i. 239. Beldams, old women, hags; used contemptuously; IV. ii. 185. Bent, directed, pointed; II. i. 37. Bequeath, transfer; V. vii. 104. Beshrew my soul, a mild oath; V. iv.

49.

Betime, quickly, before it is too late;

IV. iii. 98.

Betters, superiors in rank; I. i. 156.

Bias, that which draws in a particular direction; preponderant activity; originally the weight of lead let into one side of a bowl in order to make it turn towards that side; II. i. 574.

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Brave, defy; V. i. 70.
Breathes, takes breath; III. ii. 4.
Brief, short document; a legal term;
II. i. 103.

Brief in hand, speedily to be dis-
patched; IV. iii. 158.
Broke out, escaped; V. vi. 24.

Broke with, opened my heart, com-
municated; IV. ii. 227.
Broker, agent; II. i. 568.

Christendom, baptism, Christianity;
IV. i. 16.

Churlish, rough, rude; II. i. 76;
niggardly; II. i. 519.
Cincture (Pope's reading; Folios,
"center," perhaps French cein-
ture), girdle; IV. iii. 155.
Circumstance, details; II. i. 7.
Clap up, join hands to ratify a com-
pact; III. i. 235.

Brows, walls (used figuratively); II. | Clearly, completely; V. v. 7.

i. 38.

Buss, kiss; III. iv. 35.

But, except, III. i. 92; but that, IV. i. 128; "but now "just now, V. vii. 66.

By this light, a mild oath; I. i. 259.

Calf's-skin, a coat made of calf's-
skin; the distinguishing garment
of a fool; III. i. 129.

Gall, a cry to entice birds to return;
III. iv. 174.

Canker, corroding evil; V. ii. 14.
Canker'd, venomous, wicked; II. i.
194.

Capable of, susceptible to; III. i. 12.
Censured, judged; II. i. 328.
Chafed (the Folios, "cased "
Theobald's emendation),
raged; III. i. 259.
Champion of our Church'; "the
King of France was styled the
Eldest son of the Church and the
Most Christian King"; III. i. 267.
Chaps, jaws, the mouth; II. i. 352.
Chastised, severely punished; V. ii.
84.

Chatillon (Chatillion, in the Folios),

quadrisyllabic; I. i. 30. Check, control; an allusion to the game of chess; "the Queen of the chessboard was, in this country, invested with those remarkable powers that render her by far the most powerful piece in the game, somewhere about the second decade of the 16th century (Staunton); II. i. 123.

Climate, region of the sky

344.

II. i.

Clippeth about, embraceth; V. ii. 34.
Close, secret; IV. ii. 72.
Closely, secretly; IV. i. 133.
Closet, private apartment; IV. ii.
267.

Clouts; "a babe of c.," a doll made
of pieces of cloth, a rag-doll ; III.
iv. 58.

Clutch, shut close; II. i. 589.
Cocker'd, pampered;
V. i. 70.

Coil, ado, turmoil; II. i. 165.
Colbrand the Giant; a famous legen-
dary giant, overthrown by Guy
of Warwick before King Athel-
stan at Winchester (cp. Ballad of
Guy and Colebrande, in Percy's
Reliques); I. i. 225.

Coldly, calmly, tranquilly; II. i. 53.
Commandment on, command of, over;
IV. ii. 92.

Commodity, profit, self-interest; II.

Consequently, accordingly; IV. ii.
240.

Contemn'd, despised; V. ii. 13.
Control, constraint; I. i. 17.
Controlment, compulsion; I. i. 20.
Conversion, change to superior rank;
I. i. 189.

Convertite, convert; V. i. 19.
Convicted, defeated, overpowered;
III. iv. 2.

Coops, shuts up (for protection); II.
i. 25.

Corruptibly, causing corruption; V.
vii. 2.
Countries;
I. i. 193.
Cousin, any kinsman or kinswoman
not nearly related; III. i. 339.
Covetousness, eagerness, desire; IV.

"man of c.," traveller;

ii. 29.
Cracker, blusterer, braggart; II. i.
147.

Create, created; IV. i. 107.
Cross'd, thwarted; III. i. 91.
Cull, choose out, select; II. i. 40.
Customed, accustomed, customary,
common; III. iv. 155

ments, III. iv. 154; angry, ill-
humoured; IV. iii. 21.

Doff, take off; III. i. 128.
Dogged, cruel; IV. i. 129; IV. iii.
149.

Dominations, dominion, sovereign
power; II. i. 176.

Doubt, suspect, fear; IV. i. 19.
Doubtless, free from fear; IV. i. 130.
Down-trodden, trampled to the
ground; II. i. 241.

Draw, draw out, lengthen; II. i.

103.

Drawn, drawn together; IV. ii.
118.

Drew, levied; V. ii. 113.
Dunghill; a term of contempt for a
person meanly born ("dung-
hill cur"); IV. iii. 87.
Dust, "a d.," a particle of dust; IV.
i. 93.

Eat, eaten; I. i. 234.

Effect, import, tenour; IV. i. 38. Embassy, message entrusted to an ambassador; I. i. 6, 22.

Embattailed, drawn up in battle order; IV. ii. 200.

Dead news, news of death; V. vii. 65. | Embounded, enclosed; IV. iii. 137.

Device, cut and ornaments of a garment"; I. i. 210.

Endamagement, injury, harm; ÏÏ. i.

209.

Enforced, compelled; V. ii. 30.
Enfranchisement, release from prison,
deliverance; IV. ii. 52.
Equity, justice; II. i. 241.
Even, exactly, just; III. i. 233.
Excommunicate = excommunicated;
III. i. 173.

Dim, "wanting the fresh aspect of Exercise; "good exercise," educa

life and health"; III. iv. 85. Disallow of, refuse; I. i. 16. Discontents, discontented spirits; IV.

iii. 151.

Dishabited, dislodged; II. i. 220.
Dispiteous, pitiless; IV. i. 34.
Dispose, disposal; I. i. 263.

Disposed, managed, arranged; III. iv.

II.

tion befitting a noble youth;
IV. ii. 60.

Exhalation, meteor; III. iv. 153.
Expedient, expeditious, quick; II. i.

60.

Distemper'd, disturbed by the ele- | Fair, clearly, distinctly; IV. i. 37.

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