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"Or hew my way out with a bloody axe."

This same child of honour."

Thus in K. Henry VIII.

The great child of honour, Cardinal Wolsey."

SCENE III.

352. "While I am in some liking."

While I yet preserve some remnant of comeli

ness.

253. "The inside of a church."

Mr. Malone's latter conjecture is certainly right: "the inside of a church" is merely an exclamatory repetition, referring to his want of religious devotion, and not an object of comparison with himself.

Cheap" says Dr. Johnson, is "market," and "good cheap," a bon marché; but how will this accord with the context:-the sack which thou hast drunk would have bought me lights as good market, &c. Is not the plain meaning this ?— The light from thy nose has often, of a dark night, saved me the expence of a torch; and yet what I have paid for sack, to feed that nasal illumination, would have purchased torch light as good, ay, and comparatively cheap too, though purchased at the dearest chandler's. I would point" Lights as good, cheap, &c.

366. "Enrich'd with any other injuries," &c.

368. O, I could wish, this tavern were my drum."

Falstaff is now going out with a recruiting commission, and the inn where the officer is quartered is called, I believe, the Drum-head, and perhaps, emphatically, the "Drum :" if so, Falstaff only wishes that he could carry this tavern along with him.

369. "

ACT IV. SCENE I.

If speaking truth,

"In this fine age, were not thought flattery."

If in an age, so sophistically refined and false as this is, the language of truth and honest commendation were not likely to be mistaken for mere compliment and flattery, &c.

I defy

"The tongues of soothers.'

"To defy," is to abjure; as in other places : "All studies here I solemnly defy," &c. "Thou art the king of honour.”

Perhaps

"I doubt it not; thou art the king of honour.'

370. "These letters come from your father."

I suppose we should read:

"These letters, good my lord, come from your father."

How has he the leisure to be sick,

"In such a justling time?".

The same thought is introduced by Beaumont and Fletcher, in the Loyal Subject:

"The general sick now! Is this a time.
"For men to creep into their beds ?"

371. "I would, the state of time had first been whole."

I

suppose it should be "the state o' the time." The same expression, and the same apparent error, we find in Hamlet:

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The whips and scorns of time."

373. "We may boldly spend upon the hope."

Mr. Ritson very properly proposes an amendment of this line, by beginning-" We now may," &c. But what is to be done with what follows? The best answer that occurs to me is, in another question, what is the use of these words, "of what is to come in ?" The sense is. in?" clear and full, without any hemistic or hyper

380.

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You strain too far."

You do strain too far."

"I saw young Harry-
Rise from the ground-

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"And vaulted with such ease, &c.

"As if an angel dropt down from the clouds," &c.

Who vaulted? According to the structure of the sentence, the speaker: the tense, too, is wrong of the verb "dropt:" concord requires a different reading:

"And vault with such an ease-or so much ease, &c.

"As if an angel hăd dropt down from the clouds," &c.

Mr. Malone's easy emendation perhaps ought to be adopted:

"And vault it," &c.

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382. Harry to Harry shall, hot horse to horse."

The quarto, 1613, reads "not horse to horse," which certainly affords only a feeble sense, but I cannot reconcile myself to "hot horse," I should rather suppose that the word wanting is the simple conjunction “and,”

"Harry to Harry shall, and horse to horse."

That bears a frosty sound."

For an expression similar to this Dryden was ridiculed by the wits who wrote the Rehearsal, but it may be justified: we commonly say, ill news damps our expectation, freezes our hopes, and, this sound, like a frost, chills and disheartens

us.

"My father and Glendower being both away, "The powers of us may serve so great a day."

The animating glory of the enterprise will render even our small numbers equal to its accomplishment.

390.

SCENE III.

"Looks he not for supply?"

Vern." So do we."

The disorder of the metre might easily be repaired

V. "So we."

H. "But his is certain, ours is doubtful."

"You speak it out of fear and cold heart."

Here again a particle has been carelessly omitted

"You speak it out of fear, and from cold heart.” 391. "

-Certain horse
Of my cousin Vernon's," &c.

This line sets out discordantly; the particle "of" might be dismissed

Certain horse:

My cousin Vernon's."

"That not a horse," &c.

"That," as in other places for "

392. "Such bold hostility."

so that."