SECOND PART OF Lan. We meet like men that had forgot to speak. 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 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, 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; But Harry, Harry. Yet be fad, good brothers, That I will deeply put the fashion on, And wear it in my heart. Why then, be fad; Lan. &c. We hope no other from your majefty. 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! rate, rebuke, and roughly send to prifon I And did commit you. If the deed were ill, Hear your own dignity fo much profan❜d, 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. 3 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: The unitained fword that you have us'd to bear; 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; You did commit me, &c.] So in the play on this subject, antecedent to that of Shakespeare, Henry V. 5 "You fent me to the Fleet; and, for revengement, "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. 7 fadly I furvive,] Sadly is the riously, gravely. Sad is oppofed to wild. JOHNSON. fame as foberly, feJOHNSON, 8 To frustrate prophecies, and to raze out As I before remember'd, all our state, And (heaven configning to my good intents) 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 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, |