I cut them off; 8 and had a purpose now With foreign quarrels ; that action, hence borne out, I cut them off';] As this paffage ftands, the King is ad vifing the Prince to make thofe perfons his friends, whom he has already cut off. We fhould furely therefore read, "I cut fome off," inftead of them. M. MASON. To lead out many to the Holy Land ;] The fenfe is: Of thofe who affifted my ufurpation, fome I have cut off, and many I intended to lead abroad. This journey to the Holy Land, of which the King very frequently revives the mention, had two motives, religion and policy. He durft not wear the ill-gotten crown without expiation, but in the act of expiation he contrives to make his wickednefs fuccefsful. JOHNSON. I confefs, I have no diftinct comprehenfion of the foregoing paffage, which is ungrammatical as well as obfcure. Dr. Johnfon's explanation pre-fuppofes the existence of fuch a reading as is fince offered by Mr. M. Mason, viz. some instead of them. STEEVENS. Left reft, and lying ftill, might make them look Too near unto my fate.] The expedition that Cæfar meditated against the Parthians, immediately before his death, has been afcribed to the fame apprehension which dictated to Henry a journey to the Holy Land: "Invidiæ ftimulos ergo ut lenire furentis, "Et capite infidias, quas maturare quietem 66 Debita jamdudum Latio; juffu ille Senatûs, "(Ne patrum imminui videatur facra poteftas) Decretoque toga, mandari Parthica bella Suppliciter petiit." Supplm. Lucani. Lib. VII. MALONE. How I came by the crown, O God, forgive! And grant it may with thee in true peace live! P. HEN. My gracious liege, You won it, wore it, kept it, gave it me; Enter Prince JOHN of LANCASTER, WARWICK, Lords, and Others. K. HEN. Look, look, here comes my John of Lancaster. P. JOHN. Health, peace, and happiness, to my royal father! K. HEN. Thou bring'st me happiness, and peace, fon John; But health, alack, with youthful wings is flown Where is my lord of Warwick? P. HEN. My lord of Warwick ! K. HEN. Doth any name particular belong Unto the lodging where I firft did fwoon? WAR. 'Tis call'd Jerufalem, my noble lord. K. HEN. Laud be to God!-even there my life. muft end.3 2 How I came &c.] This is a true picture of a mind divided between heaven and earth. He prays for the profperity of guilt while he deprecates its punishment. JOHNSON. 3 Laud be to God !-even there my life must end.] "At length he recovered his fpeech, and understanding and perceiving himfelfe in a ftrange place, which he knew not, he willed to know It hath been prophefied to me many years, [Exeunt. if the chamber had anie particular name, whereunto answer was made, that it was called Jerufalem. Then faid the king; Lauds be given to the father of heaven, for now I know that I shall die here in this chamber, according to the prophefie of me declared, that I fhould depart this life in Jerufalem." Holinfhed, p. 541. The fame equivocal prediction occurs alfo in the Orygynale Cronykil of Androw of Wyntown, B. VI. ch. xii. v. 47. Pope Sylvefter, having fold himself to the devil for the fake of worldly advancement, was defirous of knowing how long he should live and enjoy it : The dewil anfweryd hym agayne, Our Pope foon afterwards was conducted, by the duties of his office, into a church he had never visited before: "Then fperyd he, quhat thai oyfyd to call And then the prophecy was completed by his death. STEEVENS. АСТ ACT V. SCENE I. Glofterfhire. A Hall in Shallow's Houfe. Enter SHALLOW, FALSTAFF, BARDOLPH, and Page. SHAL. By cock and pye,4 fir, you shall not away to-night. What, Davy, I fay! 4 ♦ By cock and pye,] This adjuration, which feems to have been very popular, is used in Soliman and Perfeda, 1599: "By cock and pie and monfefoot." Again, in Wily Beguiled, 1606: "Now by cock and pie, you never spake a truer word in your life." Again, in The Two angry Women of Abington, 1599: Merry go forry, cock and pie, my hearts." Cock is only a corruption of the Sacred Name, as appears from many paffages in the old interludes, Gammer Gurton's Needle, &c. viz. Cocks-bones, cocks-wounds, by cock's-mother, and fome others. Cock's body, cock's paffion, &c. occur in the old morality of Hycke Scorner, and in The Merry Wives of Windfor. Ophelia likewife fays: By cock they are to blame." The pie is a table or rule in the old Roman offices, fhowing, in a technical way, how to find out the service which is to be read upon each day. Among fome "Ordinances, however, made at Eltham, in the reign of King Henry VIII." we have- Item that the Pye of coals be abridged to the one halfe that theretofore had been ferved." A printing letter of a particular fize, called the pica, was probably denominated from the pie, as the brevier, from the breviary, and the primer from the primer. STEEVENS., What was called The Pie by the clergy before the Reformation, was called by the Greeks Ilway, or the index. Though the word IIwa fignifies a plank in its original, yet in its metaphorical fenfe it fignifies σανὶς ἐζωγραφημένη, a painted table FAL. You must excufe me, master Robert Shallow. SHAL. I will not excufe you; 5 you shall not be excused; excufes fhall not be admitted; there is no excuse shall serve; you shall not be excufed.Why, Davy! DAVY. Here, fir. Enter DAVY. SHAL. Davy, Davy, Davy,-let me fee, Davy; let me fee-yea, marry, William cook, bid him come hither. Sir John, you shall not be excufed. -- or picture and because indexes or tables of books were formed into fquare figures, refembling pictures or painters' tables, hung up in a frame, thefe likewife were called IIivanes, or, being marked only with the first letter of the word, II's or Pies. Aйl other derivations of the word are manifeftly erroneous. In the fecond preface Concerning the Service of the Church, prefixed to the Common Prayer, this table is mentioned as follows: "Moreover the number and hardness of the rules called the Pie, and the manifold changes," &c. RIDLEY. 5 I will not excufe you; &c.] The fterility of Juftice Shallow's wit is admirably defcribed, in thus making him, by one of the finest strokes of nature, so often vary his phrase, to exprefs one and the fame thing, and that the commoneft. WARBURTON. -William cook, bid him come hither.] It appears from this inftance, as well as many others, that anciently the lower orders of people had no furnames, or, if they had, were only called by the titles of their feveral profeffions. The cook of William Canynge, the royal merchant of Bristol, lies buried there under a flat ftone, near the monument of his mafter, in the beautiful church of St. Mary Redcliffe. On this ftone are reprefented the enfigns of his trade, a ikimmer and a knife. His epitaph is as follows: "Hic jacet WILLM COKE quondam ferviens WILLM' CANYNGES mercatoris ville Brifioll; cujus anime propitietur Deus." Lazarillo, in The Woman-Hater of Beaumont and Fletcher, expreffes a wish to have his tomb ornamented in a like manner: |
