*Sword, hold thy temper; heart, be wrathful still: * Priests pray for enemies, but princes kill.

[Exit.

Yet the alteration is not necessary; for the old reading is sense, though obscure. JOHNSON.

Dr. Johnson justly observes that the particle for seems to be used here without any apparent inference. The corresponding passage in the old play induces me to believe that a line has been omitted, perhaps of this import:

"Behold, the prophecy is come to pass;

"For, underneath-" &c.

We have had already two similar omissions in this play.

Thus the passage stands in the quarto :

MALONE.

"Rich. So lie thou there, and tumble in thy blood! "What's here? the sign of the Castle?

"Then the prophecy is come to pass;

"For Somerset was forewarned of castles,

"The which he always did observe; and now,
"Behold, under a paltry ale-house sign,
"The Castle in saint Albans, Somerset

"Hath made the wizard famous by his death."

I suppose, however, that the third line was originally written: "Why, then the prophecy is come to pass."

STEEVENS.

The death of Somerset here accomplishes that equivocal prediction given by Jourdain, the witch, concerning this duke; which we met with at the close of the first Act of this play: "Let him shun castles:

"Safer shall he be upon the sandy plains,
"Than where castles, mounted stand."

i. e. the representation of a castle, mounted for a sign.

THEOBALD.

Alarums: Excursions. Enter King HENRY, Queen MARGARET, and others, retreating.

*

6

'Q. MAR. Away, my lord! you are slow; for shame, away!

* K. HEN. Can we outrun the heavens? good Margaret, stay.

* Q. MAR. What are you made of? you'll not fight, nor fly:

* Now is it manhood, wisdom, and defence,7 *To give the enemy way; and to secure us By what we can, which can no more but fly. [Alarum afar off. * If you be ta'en, we then should see the bottom * Of all our fortunes: but if we haply scape,

6

Away, my lord!] Thus, in the old play :

"Queen. Away, my lord, and fly to London straight; "Make haste, for vengeance comes along with them; "Come, stand not to expostulate: let's go.

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King. Come then, fair queen, to London let us haste,

"And summon a parliament with speed,

"To stop the fury of these dire events."

[Exeunt King and Queen. Previous to the entry of the King and Queen, there is the following stage-direction:

"Alarums again, and then enter three or four bearing the Duke of Buckingham wounded to his tent. Alarums still, and then enter the king and queen." See p. 210, n. 9, and p. 220, n. 6. MALONE.

7 Now is it manhood, wisdom, &c.] This passage will serve to countenance an emendation proposed in Macbeth. See Vol. p. 232, n. 5. STEEVENS.

X.

If you be ta'en, we then should see the bottom

Of all our fortunes:] Of this expression, which is undoubt

(As well we may, if not through your neglect,) * We shall to London get; where you are lov'd; * And where this breach, now in our fortunes made, May readily be stopp❜d.

*

Enter young CLIFFORD.

*Y. CLIF. But that my heart's on future mischief set,

* I would speak blasphemy ere bid you fly; *But fly you must; uncurable discomfit

* Reigns in the hearts of all our present parts.9

edly Shakspeare's, he appears to have been fond. So, in King Henry IV. P. I:

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for therein should we read

"The very bottom and the soul of hope,
"The very list, the very utmost bound
"Of all our fortunes."

Again, in Romeo and Juliet:

"Which sees into the bottom of my grief."

Again, in Measure for Measure:

"To look into the bottom of my place." MALONE.

all our present parts.] Should we not read?—party.

The text is undoubtedly right. So, before:
"Throw in the frozen bosoms of our part
"Hot coals of vengeance."

TYRWHITT.

I have met with part for party in other books of that time. So, in the Proclamation for the apprehension of John Cade, Stowe's Chronicle, p. 646, edit. 1605:"-the which John Cade also, after this, was sworne to the French parts, and dwelled with them," &c.

Again, in Hall's Chronicle, King Henry VI. fol. 101: "-in conclusion King Edward so corageously comforted his men, refreshing the weary, and helping the wounded, that the other part [i. e. the adverse army] was discomforted and overcome." Again,

* Away, for

your

relief! and we will live

* To see their day, and them our fortune give: Away, my lord, away!

*

[Exeunt.

in the same Chronicle, EDWARD IV. fol. xxii; " to bee provided a kynge, for to extinguish both the faccions and partes [i. e. parties] of Kyng Henry the VI. and of Kyng Edward the fourth."

Again, in Coriolanus:

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if I cannot persuade thee,

"Rather to show a noble grace to both parts,

"Than seek the end of one,”

In Plutarch the corresponding passage runs thus: "For if I cannot persuade thee rather to do good unto both parties," &c. MALONE.

A hundred instances might be brought in proof that part and party were synonymously used. But that is not the present question. Mr. Tyrwhitt's ear (like every other accustomed to harmony of versification) must naturally have been shocked by the leonine gingle of hearts and parts, which is not found in any one of the passages produced by Mr. Malone in defence of the present reading. STEEVENS.

SCENE III.

Fields near Saint Albans.

Alarum: Retreat. Flourish; then enter YORK, RICHARD PLANTAGENET, WARWICK, and Soldiers, with Drum and Colours.

• YORK. Of Salisbury,' who can report of him; * That winter lion, who, in rage, forgets * Aged contusions and all brush of time;2

* And, like a gallant in the brow of youth,3

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1 Of Salisbury, &c.] The corresponding speeches to this and the following, are these, in the original play:

2

"York. How now, boys! fortunate this fight hath been, "I hope to us and ours, for England's good, "And our great honour, that so long we lost, "Whilst faint-heart Henry did usurp our rights. "But did you see old Salisbury, since we "With bloody minds did buckle with the foe? "I would not for the loss of this right hand "That aught but well betide that good old man.

"Rich. My lord, I saw him in the thickest throng, Charging his launce with his old weary arms; "And thrice I saw him beaten from his horse, "And thrice this hand did set him up again; "And still he fought with courage 'gainst his foes; "The boldest-spirited man that e'er mine eyes beheld."

MALONE.

brush of time;] Read bruise of time: WARBURton. The brush of time, is the gradual detrition of time. The old reading I suppose to be the true one. So, in Timon:

one winter's brush-." STEEVENS.

3 —— gallant in the brow of youth,] The brow of youth is an expression not very easily explained." "I read the blow of youth; the blossom, the spring. JOHNSON.