By all your good leaves, gentlemen ;-Here I'll make My royal choice. K. HEN. You have found him, cardinal: 5 [Unmasking. You hold a fair affembly; you do well, lord : WOL. Your grace is grown fo pleasant. I am glad, My lord chamberlain, K. HEN. CHAM. An't please your grace, fir Thomas Bullen's daughter, The viscount Rochford, one of her highnefs' women. K. HEN. By heaven, she is a dainty one.-Sweet`heart, I were unmannerly, to take you out, And not to kiss you.7-A health, gentlemen, 5 You have found him, cardinal:] Holinfhed fays the Cardinal mistook, and pitched upon Sir Edward Neville; upon which the King laughed, and pulled off both his own mark and Sir Edward's. Edwards's MSS. STEEVENS. 6 unhappily.] That is, unluckily, mischievously. JOHNSON, So, in A merye Jefte of a Man called Howleglas, bl. 1. no date : "-in fuch manner colde he cloke and hyde his unhappinesse and falfneffe." STEEVENS. See Vol. VI. p. 55, n. 2. MALONE. 7 I were unmannerly, to take you out, And not to kiss you.] A kifs was anciently the established fee of a lady's partner. So, in A Dialogue between Custom and Veritie, concerning the Ufe and Abufe of Dauncing and MinStrelfie, bl. 1. no date, "Imprinted at London, at the long fhop adjoining unto faint Mildred's church in the Pultrie, by John Allde;" WOL. Sir Thomas Lovell, is the banquet ready I' the privy chamber ? Lov. WOL. Yes, my lord. Your grace, I fear, with dancing is a little heated. K. HEN. I fear, too much. WOL. In the next chamber. There's frefher air, my lord, K. HEN. Lead in your ladies, every one.-Sweet partner, I must not yet forfake you :-Let's be merry ;Good my lord cardinal, I have half a dozen healths To drink to these fair ladies, and a measure To lead them once again; and then let's dream Who's beft in favour.-Let the mufick knock it.9 [Exeunt, with Trumpets. "But fome reply, what foole would daunce, "If that when daunce is doon, "He may not have at ladyes lips "That which in daunce he woon?" STEEVENS. See Vol. IV. p. 43, n. 5. MALONE. This cuftom is ftill prevalent, among the country people, in many, perhaps all, parts of the kingdom. When the fiddler thinks his young couple have had mufick enough, he makes his inftrument fqueak out two notes which all understand to saykifs her! RITSON. 8 a little heated.] The King, on being discovered and defired by Wolfey to take his place, faid that he would "firft go and fhift him and thereupon, went into the Cardinal's bedchamber, where was a great fire prepared for him, and there he new appareled himselfe with rich and princely garments. And in the king's abfence the difhes of the banquet were cleane taken away, and the tables covered with new and perfumed clothes.Then the king took his feat under the cloath of estate, commanding every perfon to fit ftill as before; and then came in a new banquet before his majeftie of two hundred dishes, and fo they paffed the night in banqueting and dancing untill morning.” Cavendith's Life of Wolfey. MALONE, ACT II. SCENE I. A Street. Enter Two Gentlemen, meeting. 1 GENT. Whither away fo faft? 2 GENT. 1 GENT. you! I I'll fave you That labour, fir. All's now done, but the ceremony Of bringing back the prisoner. 9 2 GENT. 1 GENT. Yes, indeed, was I. 2 GENT. Were you there? Pray, fpeak, what has happen'd? Is he found guilty? 1 GENT. You may guefs quickly what. 2 GENT 1 GENT. Yes, truly is he, and condemn'd upon it. 2 GENT. I am forry for't. 1 GENT. So are a number more. 2 GENT. But, pray, how pass'd it? Let the mufick knock it.] So, in Antonio and Mellida, Part I. 1602 : "Fla. Faith, the fong will seem to come off hardly. "Fla. Pert Catzo, knock it then." STEEVENS. IO,-God fave you !] Surely, (with Sir Thomas Hanmer,) we should complete the measure by reading: O, fir, God fave you! STEEVENS. 1 GENT. I'll tell you in a little. The great duke Came to the bar; where, to his accufations, He pleaded ftill, not guilty, and alleged Many fharp reafons to defeat the law. The king's attorney, on the contrary, Urg'd on the examinations, proofs, confeffions Of divers witneffes; which the duke defir'd To him brought, viva voce, to his face: 2 At which appear'd against him, his furveyor; Sir Gilbert Peck his chancellor; and John Court, Confeffor to him; with that devil-monk, Hopkins, that made this mifchief. 2 Gent. That fed him with his prophecies ? 1 GENT. That was he, The fame. All these accus'd him ftrongly; which he fain Would have flung from him, but, indeed, he could not: And fo his peers, upon this evidence, Have found him guilty of high treafon. Much 2 GENT. After all this, how did he bear himself? 1 GENT. When he was brought again to the bar,— to hear His knell rung out, his judgment,-he was firr'd With fuch an agony, he fweat extremely,4 To him brought, viva voce, to his face:] This is a clear error of the prefs. We muft read-have inftead of him. M. MASON. 3 Was either pitied in him, or forgotten.] Either produced no effect, or produced only ineffectual pity. MALONE. 4 he sweat extremely,] This circumftance is taken from Holinfhed: "After he was found guilty, the duke was brought to the bar, fore-chafing, and fweat marvelously." STEEVENS. And fomething spoke in choler, ill, and hafty: 2 GENT. I do not think, he fears death. Sure, he does not, He never was fo womanifh; the cause 2 GENT. The cardinal is the end of this. 1 GENT. Certainly, 'Tis likely, By all conjectures: Firft, Kildare's attainder, 2 GENT. Was a deep envious one. 1 GENT. That trick of state At his return, No doubt, he will requite it. This is noted, 2 GENT. All the commons Hate him perniciously, and, o' my confcience, With him ten fathom deep: this duke as much They love and dote on; call him, bounteous Buckingham, The mirror of all courtesy;5 1 GENT. Stay there, fir, And fee the noble ruin'd man you speak of. 5 The mirror of all courtesy ;] See the concluding words of n. 1, p. 42. STEÈVENS. |