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Ch. Juft. Alas! I fear all will be overturn'd.
Lan. Good morrow, coufin Warwick.
Glou. Cla. Good morrow, coufin.

Lan. We meet like men that had forgot to speak.
War. We do remember; but our argument
Is all too heavy to admit much talk.

Lan. Well, peace be with him that hath made us heavy!

Ch. Juft. Peace be with us, left we be heavier ! Glou. O, good my lord, you have loft a friend, indeed:

And I dare fwear you borrow not that face

Of feeming forrow; it is, fure, your own.

Lan. Though no man be affur'd what grace to find,

You ftand in coldest expectation:

I am the forrier; 'would 'twere otherwise.

Cla. Well, you must now speak Sir John Falstaff fair,

Which swims against your stream of quality.

Ch. Juft. Sweet princes, what I did, I did in ho

nour,

foul;

Led by the impartial conduct of my
And never fhall you fee, that I will beg
A ragged and foreftall'd remiffion.
If truth and upright innocency fail me,

A ragged and foreftall'd remiffion.] Ragged has no fenfe here. We should read,

A rated and forefall'd remiffion.

i. e. A remiffion that must be fought for, and bought with fupplication. WARBURTON.

Different minds have different perplexities. I am more puzzled with foreftall'd than with ragged; for ragged, in our author's licentious diction, may easily fignify beggarly, mean, bafe, ignominious; but forestall'd I know not how to apply to remiffion in any fenfe primitive or figurative. I fhould be glad of another word, but cannot find it. Perhaps by forestall'd remiffion, he may mean a pardon begged by a voluntary confeffion of offence, and anticipation of the charge. JOHNSON.

I'll to the king my mafter that is dead,
And tell him who hath fent me after him.

War. Here comes the prince.

Enter prince Henry.

Ch. Juft. Heaven fave your majefty!

K. Henry. This new and gorgeous garment, majefty,

Sits not fo eafy on me as you think.

Brothers, you mix your fadness with fome fear;
This is the English, not the Turkish court;
Not Amurath an Amurath fucceeds,

But Harry, Harry. Yet be fad, good brothers,
For, to fpeak truth, it very well becomes you:
Sorrow fo royally in you appears,

That I will deeply put the fashion on,

And wear it in my heart. Why then, be fad;
But entertain no more of it, good brothers,
Than a joint burthen laid upon us all.
For me, by heaven, I bid you be affur'd
I'll be your father and your brother too;
Let me but bear your love, I'll bear your cares.
Yet weep that Harry's dead; and fo will I:
But Harry lives, that fhall convert those tears,
By number, into hours of happiness.

Lan. &c. We hope no other from your majefty.
K. Henry. You all look ftrangely on me; and you
[To the Cb. Juft.
You are, I think, affur'd I love you not.

moft:

Ch. Juft. I am affur'd, if I be measur'd rightly, Your majefty hath no just cause to hate me.

K. Henry. No! How might a prince of my great hopes forget

So great indignities you laid upon me?

not the Turkish court;] Not the court where the prince that mounts the throne puts his brothers to death.

JOHNSON.
What!

What! rate, rebuke, and roughly send to prifon
The immediate heir of England! 9 Was this eafy?
May this be wash'd in Lethe and forgotten?
Ch. Juft. I then did use the person of your father;
The image of his power lay then in me:
And in the administration of his law,
While I was bufy for the commonwealth,
Your highness pleased to forget my place,
The majefty and power of law and justice,
The image of the king whom I prefented,
And struck me in my very feat of judgment;
Whereon, as an offender to your father,
gave bold way to my authority,

I

And did commit you. If the deed were ill,
Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
To have a fon fet your decrees at nought;
To pluck down justice from your awful bench;
To trip the course of law, and blunt the fword
That guards the peace and fafety of your person:
Nay, more: to spurn at your most royal image,
* And mock your workings in a fecond body.
Question your royal thoughts; make the cafe yours;
Be now the father, and propose a fon :

Hear your own dignity fo much profan❜d,
See your most dreadful laws fo loofely flighted,
Behold yourself fo by a fon difdain'd;
And then imagine me taking your part,
And in your power fo filencing your fon.-
After this cold confiderance, sentence me;
And, as you are a king, fpeak 3 in your state

Was this cafy?] That is, Was this not grievous? Shakefpeare has eafy in this fenfe elsewhere. JOHNSON.

To trip the course of law,-] To defeat the process of juftice; a metaphor taken from the act of tripping a runner. JOHNSON.

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2 To mock your workings in a fecond bedy.] To treat with contempt your acts executed by a reprefentative. JOHNSON. in your fate,] In your regal character and office, not with the paffion of a man interested, but with the impartiality of a legiflator. JOHNSON.

What

What I have done that misbecame my place,

My perfon, or my liege's fovereignty.

K. Henry. You are right, Juftice, and you weigh this well;

Therefore ftill bear the balance and the fword:
And I do wish your honours may increase
Till you do live to fee a fon of mine
Offend you, and obey you, as I did.
So fhall I live to speak my father's words;
Happy am I, that have a man fo bold
"That dares do juftice on my proper
fon
"And no less happy, having fuch a fon,
"That would deliver up his greatness fo
"Into the hand of juftice."-4 You did commit me;
For which I do commit into your hand

The unitained fword that you have us'd to bear;
With this 5 remembrance, that you use the fame
With a like bold, juft, and impartial spirit

As you have done 'gainst me.

There is my hand; You fhall be as a father to my youth,

you;

My voice fhall found as you do prompt mine ear;
And I will stoop and humble my intents
To your well-practis'd, wife directions.
And, princes all, believe me, I befeech
6 My father is gone wild into his grave,
For in his tomb lie my affections;
And with his fpirit 7 fadly I furvive,
To mock the expectations of the world;

You did commit me, &c.] So in the play on this subject,

antecedent to that of Shakespeare, Henry V.

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"You fent me to the Fleet; and, for revengement,
"I have chofen you to be the protector

"Over my realm." STEEVENS.

remembrance.-] That is, admonition. JOHNSON. 6 My father is gone wild-] Mr. Pope, by fubftituting wail'd for wild, without fufficient confideration, afforded Mr. Theobald much matter of oftentatious triumph.

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fadly I furvive,] Sadly is the riously, gravely. Sad is oppofed to wild.

JOHNSON. fame as foberly, feJOHNSON,

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To frustrate prophecies, and to raze out
Rotten opinion, which hath writ me down
After my feeming. The tide of blood in me
Hath proudly flow'd in vanity, till now:
Now doth it turn, and ebb back to the fea,
Where it shall mingle with the state of floods,
And flow henceforth in formal majesty.
Now call we our high court of parliament:
And let us choose fuch limbs of noble counsel,
That the great body of our ftate may go
In equal rank with the best govern'd nation;
That war, or peace, or both at once, may be
As things acquainted and familiar to us ;-
In which you, father, fhall have foremost hand.-
[To the lord Chief Justice.
Our coronation done, we will accite,

As I before remember'd, all our state,

And (heaven configning to my good intents)
No prince, nor peer, fhall have juft caufe to fay,
Heaven fhorten Harry's happy life one day. [Exeunt.

SCENE III.

Shallow's feat in Gloucestershire.

Enter Falstaff, Shadow, Silence, Bardolph, the Page, and Davy.

Shal. Nay, you shall fee mine orchard; where, in an arbour, we will eat a laft year's pippin of my own

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the state of floods,] i. e. The affembly, or general meeting of the floods: for all rivers, running to the fea, are there reprefented as holding their feffions. This thought naturally introduced the following,

New call we our high court of parliament.

But the Oxford Editor, much a ftranger to the phraseology of that time in general, and to his author's in particular, out of mere lofs for his meaning, reads it backwards, the floods of fate.

WARBURTON.

graffing,

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