Let not the world see fear, and sad distrust, Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire; Bast. O inglorious league! To arms invasive? shall a beardless boy, 4 So in Macbeth : 'Let's briefly put on manly readiness, And meet i'the hall together.' 5 Thus in Hamlet: -such a sight as this Becomes the field.' 6 Forage here seems to mean to range abroad; which Dr. Johnson says is its original sense: but fourrage, the French source of it, is formed from the low Latin foderagium, food: the sense of ranging therefore appears to be secondary. We have the same image in Macbeth: 'Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky, And fan our people cold.' From these two passages Gray formed the first lines of his 'Bard.' And find no check? Let us, my liege, to arms: Perchance, the cardinal cannot make your peace; Or if he do, let it at least be said, They saw we had a purpose of defence. K. John. Have thou the ordering of this present time. Bast. Away then, with good courage; yet, I know, Our party may well meet a prouder foe8. [Exeunt. SCENE II. A Plain, near St. Edmund's-Bury. Enter, in arms, LEWIS, SALISBURY, MELUN, PEMbroke, Bigot, and Soldiers. Lew. My Lord Melun, let this be copied out, And keep it safe for our remembrance: Return the precedent1 to these lords again; That, having our fair order written down, Both they, and we, perusing o'er these notes, May know wherefore we took the sacrament, And keep our faiths firm and inviolable. Sal. Upon our sides it never shall be broken. And, noble Dauphin, albeit we swear A voluntary zeal, and unurg'd faith, To your proceedings; yet, believe me, prince, 8 i. e. I know that our party is able to cope with one yet prouder, and more confident of its strength than theirs. 1 i. e. the rough draught of the original treaty. In King Richard II. the scrivener employed to engross the indictment of Lord Hastings says, 'It took him eleven hours to write it, and that the precedent was full as long a doing.' That, for the health and physic of our right, Her enemies' ranks (I must withdraw and weep Where these two Christian armies might combine O, what a noble combat hast thou fought, 2 Shakspeare often uses stranger as an adjective. See the last scene: 'Swearing allegiance and the love of soul To stranger blood, to foreign royalty.' So in a Midsummer Night's Dream: "To seek new friends and stranger companies.' 3 i. e. the stain. 4 To clip is to embrace; not yet obsolete in the northern counties. 5 The old copy reads cripple. The emendation was made by Pope. The poet alludes to the wars carried on by the Christian princes in the Holy Land against the Saracens, where the united armies of France and England might have laid their animosities aside and fought in the cause of Christ, instead of fighting against brethren and countrymen. 6 Shakspeare here employs a phraseology used before in the Merry Wives of Windsor: vol. i. p. 251, note 7: And, fairy-like, to-pinch the unclean knight.' This compulsion was the necessity of a reformation in the state; which, according to Salisbury's opinion (who in his preceding speech calls it an enforced cause) could only be procured by foreign arms; and the brave respect was the love of country. Let me wipe off this honourable dew, But this effusion of such manly drops, This shower, blown up by tempest of the soul8, And with a great heart heave away this storm: As Lewis himself:-so, nobles, shall you all, Enter PANDULPH, attended. And even there, methinks, an angel spake9: Pand. 8 "This windy tempest till it blow up rain 9 In what I have now said an angel spake : for see, the holy legate approaches to give a warrant from heaven, and the name of right to our cause. It may lie gently at the foot of peace, And be no further harmful than in show. Lew. Your grace shall pardon me, I will not back; I am too high-born to be propertied10, To be a secondary at control, Or useful serving-man, and instrument, To any sovereign state throughout the world. this land, After young Arthur, claim this land for mine; Sweat in this business, and maintain this war? 10 Appropriated. 11 This was the phraseology of the time: 'He hath more worthy interest to the state King Henry IV. Part 11. Again in Dugdale's Warwickshire, vol. ii. p. 927-'He had a release from Rose, the daughter and heir of Sir John de Arden, before specified, of all her interest to the manor of Pedimore.' 12 i. e. passed along the banks of the river. Thus in the old play : "--from the hollow holes of Thamesis |