*Fear frames disorder, and disorder wounds *Where it should guard. O war, thou son of hell, *Whom angry heavens do make their minister, *Throw in the frozen bosoms of our part *Hot coals of vengeance!-Let no soldier fly: *He that is truly dedicate to war,

*Hath no self-love; nor he, that loves himself, * Hath not essentially, but by circumstance, * The name of valour.-O, let the vile world end, [Seeing his dead Father. * And the premised flames of the last day

* Knit earth and heaven together!

* Now let the general trumpet blow his blast, * Particularities and petty sounds

* To cease! Wast thou ordain'd, dear father, * To lose thy youth in peace, and to achieve *The silver livery of advised age;"

* And, in thy reverence, and thy chair-days, thus *To die in ruffian battle?-Even at this sight, *My heart is turn'd to stone: and, while 'tis mine, *It * It shall be stony. York not our old men spares; *No more will I their babes: tears virginal

*Shall be to me even as the dew to fire;

And beauty, that the tyrant oft reclaims, *Shall to my flaming wrath be oil and flax. * Henceforth, I will not have to do with pity: * Meet I an infant of the house of York, * Into as many gobbets will I cut it,

* As wild Medea young Absyrtus did:"

3 And the premised flames-] Premised, for sent before their time. The sense is, let the flames reserved for the last day be sent now.

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To cease!] Is to stop, a verb active.

- to achieve-] Is, to obtain.

6 The silver livery of advised age;] Advised is wise, experienced,

or cautious, considerate.

7 As wild Medea, &c.] When Medea fled with Jason from Colchos, she murdered her brother Absyrtus, and cut his body

* In cruelty will I seek out my fame.

'Come, thou new ruin of old Clifford's house;

[Taking up the Body.

As did Æneas old Anchises bear,

So bear I thee upon my manly shoulders; *But then Æneas bare a living load,

* Nothing so heavy as these woes of mine. [Exit.

Enter RICHARD PLANTAGENET and SOMERSET, fighting, and SOMERSET is killed.

Rich. So, lie thou there;

For, underneath an alehouse' paltry sign, The Castle in Saint Albans, Somerset

Hath made the wizard famous in his death.

* Sword, hold thy temper; heart, be wrathful still: * Priests pray for enemies, but princes kill. [Exit.

Alarums: Excursions. Enter King HENRY, Queen MARGARET, and others, retreating.

Q. Mar. Away, my lord! you are slow; for shame, away!

* K. Hen. Can we outrun the heavens? good Margaret, stay.

* Q. Mar. What are you made of? you'll not fight, nor fly:

*Now is it manhood, wisdom, and defence, * To give the enemy way; and to secure us By what we can, which can no more but fly. [Alarum afar off. * If you be ta'en, we then should see the bottom *Of all our fortunes: but if we haply scape, * (As well we may, if not through your neglect,) *We shall to London get; where you are lov'd;

into several pieces, that her father might be prevented for some time from pursuing her.

* And where this breach, now in our fortunes made, May readily be stopp'd.

Enter young CLIFFORD.

*Y. Clif. But that my heart's on future mischief set,

* I would speak blasphemy ere bid you fly;
* But fly you must; uncurable discomfit
* Reigns in the hearts of all our present parts.
* Away, for your relief! and we will live
*To see their day, and them our fortune give:
* Away, my lord, away!

SCENE III.

Fields near Saint Albans.

[Exeunt.

Alarum: Retreat. Flourish; then enter YORK, RICHARD PLANTAGENET, WARWICK, and Soldiers, with Drum and Colours.

' York. Of Salisbury, who can report of him; * That winter lion, who, in rage, forgets * Aged contusions and all brush of time;" * And, like a gallant in the brow of youth,' * Repairs him with occasion? this happy day Is not itself, nor have we won one foot, *If Salisbury be lost.

Rich.

My noble father, Three times to-day I holp him to his horse, 'Three times bestrid him, thrice I led him off,

all our present parts.] i. e. party. TYRWHITT.
brush of time;] i. e. the gradual detrition of time.
gallant in the brow of youth,] The brow of youth is the

height of youth, as the brow of a hill is its summit.

Three times bestrid him,] That is, Three times I saw him fallen, and, striding over him, defended him till he recovered.

'Persuaded him from any further act:

'But still, where danger was, still there I met him; * And like rich hangings in a homely house, *So was his will in his old feeble body.

* But, noble as he is, look where he comes.

Enter SALISBURY.

Sal. Now, by my sword, well hast thou fought to-day;

By the mass, so did we all.-I thank you, Richard: "God knows, how long it is I have to live;

And it hath pleas'd him, that three times to-day You have defended me from imminent death. *Well, lords, we have not got that which we have:* * 'Tis not enough our foes are this time fled, *Being opposites of such repairing nature.*

York. I know, our safety is to follow them; < For, as I hear, the king is fled to London, To call a present court of parliament. Let us pursue him, ere the writs go forth:'What says lord Warwick? shall we after them? War. After them! nay, before them, if we can. Now by my faith, lords, 'twas a glorious day: Saint Albans battle, won by famous York, Shall be eterniz'd in all age to come.

Sound, drums and trumpets;-and to London all: And more such days as these to us befall! [Exeunt.

'Well, lords, we have not got that which we have ;] i. e. we have not secured, we are not sure of retaining, that which we have acquired.

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+ Being opposites of such repairing nature.] Being enemies that are likely so soon to rally and recover themselves from this defeat.

KING HENRY VI.

PART III.*

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