That 4 though the truth of it ftands off as grofs
As black from white, my eye will fcarcely fee it.
5 Treafon and murder, ever kept together,
As two yoke devils fworn to either's purpose,
6 Working fo grofly in a natural caufe,
That admiration did not whoop at them.
But thou, 'gainft all proportion, didst bring in
Wonder, to wait on treafon, and on murder;
And whatsoever cunning fiend it was,
That wrought upon thee fo prepofterously,
He hath got the voice in hell for excellence :
And other devils, that fuggeft by-treafons,
Do botch and bungle up damnation,

With patches, colours, and with forms being fetch'd
From gliftering femblances of piety;

But 7 he that temper'd thee, bade thee ftand up;
Gave thee no inftance why thou shouldft do treason,
Unless to dub thee with the name of traitor.
If that fame dæmon that hath gull'd thee thus,
Should with his lion-gait walk the whole world,
He might return to vafty Tartar back,
And tell the legions, I can never win
A foul fo eafy as that Englishman's.
Oh, how haft thou with jealousy infected

though the truth ftand off as grofs

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As Llack and white,- Though the truth be as apparent and visible as black and white contiguous to each other. To ftand off is être relevé, to be prominent to the eye, as the ftrong parts of a picture. JOHNSON.

5 Treafon and murder,-] What follows to the end of this fpeech is additional fince the first edition. POPE.

• Working fo grofly Grofly for commonly, which the Oxford Editor not understanding, alters it to clofely. WARB. Grofly is neither clafely nor commonly, but palpably; with a plain and visible connexion of caufe and effect. JOHNSON.

1 - be that temper'd thee,-] Though temper'd may ftand for formed or moulded, yet I fancy tempted was the author's word, for it anfwers better to fuggeft in the oppofition. JOHNSON. 8 Oh, how haft thou with jealouly infected

The fweetness of affiance!] Shakespeare urges this aggrava

The sweetness of affiance! Shew men dutiful?

Why, fo didft thou.

Seem they grave and learned? Why, fo didft thou. Come they of noble family? Why, fo didft thou. Seem they religious? Why, fo didst thou. Or are they spare in diet; Free from grofs paffion, or of mirth, or anger; Conftant in fpirit, not fwerving with the blood; 9 Garnish'd and deck'd in modest complement; 'Not working with the eye, without the ear, And but in purged judgment trusting neither?

tion of the guilt of treachery with great judgment. One of the worft confequences of breach of truft is the diminution of that confidence which makes the happiness of life, and the diffemination of fufpicion, which is the poifon of fociety. JOHNSON.

Garnish'd and deck'd in modest complement;-] Modeft complement, that is, fulness. WARBURTON.

This note will not much help the reader, unless he knows to what fulness is to be applied. I take the meaning to be this. The king, having mentioned Scroop's temperance in diet, paffes on to his decency in drefs, and fays, that he was decked in modeft complement; that is, he was decorated with ornaments, but fuch as might be worn without vain oftentation. Complement means fomething more than is neceffary; fo complement in language is what we fay ad conciliandum gratiam, more than is ftrictly or literally meant. JOHNSON.

Not working with the eye without the ear,-] He is here giving the character of a complete gentleman, and fays, he did not truft the eye without the confirmation of his ear. But when men have eye-fight proof, they think they have fufficient evidence, and do not stay for the confirmation of an hear-fay. Prudent men, on the contrary, won't trust the credit of the car, till it be confirmed by the demonftration of the eye. And this is that conduct for which the king would here commend him. So that we must read,

Not working with the ear, but with the eye.

WARBURTON.

The author's meaning I fhould have thought not fo difficult to find, as that an emendation fhould have been proposed. The king means to fay of Scroop, that he was a cautious man, who knew that fronti nulla fides, that a fpecious appearance was deceitful, and therefore did not work with the eye without the ear, did not truft the air or look of any man till he had tried him by enquiry and converfation. Surely this is the character of a prudent man. JOHNSON,

Such,

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Such, and fo finely boulted, didft thou seem:
And thus thy fall hath left a kind of blot,

3 To mark the full-fraught man, the best endu'd,
With fome fufpicion. I will weep for thee;
For this revolt of thine, methinks, is like
Another fall of man.Their faults are open;
Arreft them to the anfwer of the law,
And God acquit them of their practices!

Exe. I arreft thee of high treafon, by the name of Richard earl of Cambridge.

I arreft thee of high treafon, by the name of Henry lord Scroop of Malham.

I arreft thee of high treafon, by the name of Thomas Grey, knight of Northumberland.

Scroop. Our purpofes God juftly hath difcover'd, And I repent my fault, more than my death; Which I befeech your highnefs to forgive, Although my body pay the price of it.

Cam. 4 For me, the gold of France did not feduce, Although I did admit it as a motive The fooner to effect what I intended: But God be thanked for prevention; Which I in fufferance heartily rejoice for, Befeeching God, and you, to pardon me.

Grey. Never did faithful fubject more rejoice At the discovery of moft dangerous treafon, Than I do at this hour joy o'er myself,

2 and fo finely boulted, didst thou feem:] i. e. refined or purged from all faults. POPE.

Boulted is the fame with fifted, and has confequently the meaning of refined. JOHNSON.

3 TO MAKE the full-fraught man,-] We fhould read,

To MARK the full-fraught man,

i. e. marked by the blot he speaks of in the preceding line. WARBURTON.

For me, the gold of France did not feduce,] Holinfhed, p. 549, obferves, from Hall, that the earl of Cambridge plotted to deftroy the king, that he might place his brother-in-law, Edmund Mortimer earl of March, on the throne. STEEVENS.

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Prevented from a damned enterprize.

5 My fault, but not my body, pardon, fovereign. K. Henry. God quit you in his mercy! Hear your fentence.

You have confpir'd against our royal perfon,

Join'd with an enemy proclaim'd, and from his coffers
Receiv'd the golden earneft of our death;
Wherein you would have fold your king to flaughter,
His princes and his peers to fervitude,
His fubjects to oppreffion and contempt,
And his whole kingdom unto defolation.
Touching, our perfon, feek we no revenge;
But we our kingdom's fafety muft fo tender,
Whofe ruin you three fought, that to her laws
We do deliver you. Get you therefore hence,
Poor miferable wretches, to your death:

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The tafte whereof, God of his mercy, give
You patience to endure, and true repentance
Of all your dear offences!-Bear them hence. [Exeunt.
-Now, lords, for France; the enterprize whereof
Shall be to you, as us, like glorious.

We doubt not of a fair and lucky war;
Since God fo graciously hath brought to light
This dangerous treafon, lurking in our way,
To hinder our beginnings. We doubt not now,
But every rub is Imoothed in our way.

Then, forth, dear countrymen; let us deliver
Our puiffance into the hand of God,

5 My fault,-] One of the confpirators againft queen Elizabeth, I think Parry, concludes his letter to her with thefe words, a culpâ, but not, a pœnâ; abfolve me, most dear lady. This letter was much read at that time, and the author doubtlefs copied it.

This whole scene was much enlarged and improved after the first edition; the particular infertions it would be tedious to mention, and tedious without much ufe. JOHNSON.

- Get you therefore hence,] So in Holinfhed; "Get ye "hence therefore, ye poor miferable wretches, to the receiving "of your juft reward: wherein God's majefty give you grace," E. STEEVENS,

Putting it ftraight in expedition.,

Chearly to fea. The figns of war advance;

7 No king of England, if not king of France. [Exeunt.

Changes to Quickly's houfe in Eaftcheap. Enter Pistol, Nym, Bardolph, Boy, and Quickly. Quickly. Pr'ythee, honey-fweet husband, let me bring thee to Staines.

Pift. No; for my manly heart doth yern.— Bardolph, be blith. Nym, roufe thy vaunting vein. Boy, bristle thy courage up; for Falítaff he is dead, And we must yern therefore.

Bard. Would I were with him wherefome'er he is, either in heaven, or in hell!

Quick. Nay, fure, he's not in hell; he's in Arthur's bofom, if ever man went to Arthur's bofom. He made a finer end, and went away, 9 an it had been any chrifom'd child. A'parted even just between

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7 No king of England, if not king of France.] So in the old play before that of Shakespeare,

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If not king of France, then of nothing muft I be king."
STEEVENS.

-finer end,] for final. JOHNSON.

an it had been any chrifom'd child.-] The old quarto has it crifomb'd child.

"The chryfom was no more than the white cloth put on the "new baptifed child." See JOHNSON's Canons of Ecclef. Law,

1720.

I have fomewhere (but cannot recollect where) met with this further account of it; that the chryfom was allowed to be carried out of the church, to enwrap fuch children as were in too weak a condition to be borne thither: the chryfom being fuppofed to make every place holy. This custom would rather trengthen the allufion to the weak condition of Falstaff.

STEEVENS.

In the Liturgie, 2 E. 6. Form of private Baptifm, is this direction." Then the minister fhall put the white veture, "commonly called the Chrijome, upon the child," &c. The Gloflary of Du Cange, vide Chrifmale, explains this ceremony

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