Dar'd once to touch a duft of England's ground? Frighting her pale-fac'd villages with war, And oftentation of despised arms? Com'ft thou because the anointed king is hence? Were I but now the lord of fuch hot youth, Boling. My gracious uncle, let me know my fault; York. Even in condition of the worst degree, In grofs rebellion, and detefted treafon : Thou art a banish'd man, and here art come, In braving arms against thy fovereign. Boling. As I was banish'd, I was banish'd Hereford; But as I come, I come for Lancaster. 5 But then more why ;-] But, to add more queftions. This is the reading of the first quarto, 1597, which in the fecond, and all the fubfequent copies, was corrupted thus: But more than why. The expreffion of the text, though a fingular one, was, I have no doubt, the author's. It is of a colour with those immediately preceding: "Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle." MALONE. 6 And oftentation of defpifed arms ?] Mr. Upton gives this paffage as a proof that our author ufes the paffive participle in an active fenfe. The copies all agree. Perhaps the old duke means to treat him with contempt as well as with feverity, and to infinuate that he defpifes his power, as being able to master it. In this sense all is right. JOHNSON So, in this play: "We'll make foul weather with despised tears." STEEVENS. 7 On what condition] It should be, in what condition, i. e. in whas degree of guilt. The particles in the old editions are of little credit. JOHNSON. York's reply fupports Dr. Johnfon's conjecture: "Ev'n in condition, &c." MALONE. And, And, noble uncle, I beseech your grace, And yet my letters-patent give me leave: North. The noble duke hath been too much abus’d. 8 «Every with an indifferent eye:] i. e. with an impartial eye. juryman," fays Sir Edward Coke, ought to be impartial, and indifferent." MALONE. 9- Wherefore was I born? &c.] To what purpose serves birth and lineal fucceflion? I am duke of Lancafter by the fame right of birth as the king is king of England. JOHNSON. 1-to fue my livery bere,] See a note on K. Henry IV. P. I. A&IV, fc, iii. MALONS. Cherish Cherish rebellion, and are rebels all. North. The noble duke hath fworn, his coming is Boling. An offer, uncle, that we will accept. York. It may be, I will go with you :-but yet I'll paufe; For I am loath to break our country's laws. Nor friends, nor foes, to me welcome you are : Things paft redrefs are now with me past care. [Exeunt. Enter SALISBURY 3, and a Captain. Cap. My lord of Salisbury, we have staid ten days, And hardly kept our countrymen together, And yet we hear no tidings from the king; This fcene Dr. Johnson fufpects to have been accidentally tranfpofed. In the author's draught he fuppofes it to have been the fecond fcene in the enfuing act MALONE. 3-Salisbury- was John Montacute, Earl of Salisbury. WALPOLE. Therefore Therefore we will difperfe ourselves: farewel. Sal. Stay yet another day, thou trusty Welshman; The king repofeth all his confidence in thee. Cap. Tis thought, the king is dead; we will not stay. The bay-trees in our country are all wither'd, And meteors fright the fixed ftars of heaven; The pale-fac'd moon looks bloody on the earth, And lean-look'd prophets whifper fearful change; Rich men look fad, and ruffians dance and leap,The one, in fear to lose what they enjoy, The other, to enjoy by rage and war: Thefe figns forerun the death or fall of kings. Farewel; our countrymen are gone and fled, As well affur'd, Richard their king is dead. [Exit. Sal. Ah, Richard! with the eyes of heavy mind, [Exit. ACT III. SCENE I. Bolingbroke's Camp at Bristol. Enter BOLINGBROKE, YORK, NORTHUMBERLAND, PERCY, WILLOUGHBY, Ross: Officers behind with BUSHY, and GREEN, prifoners. Boling. Bring forth these men. Bufhy, and Green, I will not vex your fouls (Since prefently your fouls muft part your bodies,) With too much urging your pernicious lives, For 'twere no charity: yet, to wash your blood 4 The bay-trees &c.] This enumeration of prodigies is in the highest degree poetical and ftriking. JoHNSON. Some of thefe prodigies are found in Holinfhed: "In this yeare in a manner throughout all the realme of England, old baie trees withored," &c. STEEVENS, From From off my hands, here, in the view of men, And ftain'd the beauty of a fair queen's cheeks This, and much more, much more than twice all this, Busby. More welcome is the stroke of death to me, Than Bolingbroke to England.-Lords, farewel. Green. My comfort is, that heaven will take our fouls, 5- and disfigur'd clean.] Clean has here the fignification of altogether, totally. So, in our author's 75th Sonnet: And by and by, clean-ftarved for a look." MALONE. 6 Difpark'd my parks,] To dijpark is to throw down the hedges of an enclosure. Dijepio. I meet with the word in Barret's Alvearie or Quadruple Dictionary, 1580. STEEVENS. 1 From my own windows torn my boufbold coat,] It was the practice, when coloured glass was in ufe, of which there are still fome remains in old feats and churches, to anneal the arms of the family in the windows of the house. JOHNSON. 8 Rax'd out my imprefs, &c.] The imprefs was a device or motto. Ferne, in his Blazon of Gentry, 1585, obferves, "that the arms &c. of traitors and rebels may be defaced and removed, wherefoever they are fixed, or fet." STEEVENS. And |