Wonder, to wait on treason and on murder:
And whatsoever cunning fiend it was,
That wrought upon thee so preposterously,
Hath got the voice in hell for excellence;
And other devils that suggest by treasons,
Do botch and bungle up damnation.

With patches, colours, and with forms being fetch'd
From glistering semblances of piety;

But he that temper'da thee, bade thee stand up,
Gave thee no instance why thou shouldst do treason,
Unless to dub thee with the name of traitor.

If that same dæmon, that hath gull'd thee thus,
Should with his lion-gait walk the whole world,
He might return to vasty Tartarb back,
And tell the legions-I can never win
A soul so easy as that Englishman's.
O, how hast thou with jealousy infected
The sweetness of affiance! Show men dutiful?
Why, so didst thou. Seem they grave and learned?
Why, so didst thou. Come they of noble family?
Why, so didst thou. Seem they religious?
Why, so didst thou. Or are they spare in diet,
Free from gross passion, or of mirth or anger,
Constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood,
Garnish'd and deck'd in modest complement;
Not working with the eye, without the ear,
And, but in purged judgment, trusting neither?
Such and so finely boulted didst thou seem;
And thus thy fall hath left a kind of blot
To mark the full-fraught man, and best indued,
With some suspicion. I will weep for thee;
For this revolt of thine, methinks, is like
Another fall of man."-Their faults are open,
Arrest them to the answer of the law ;—
And God acquit them of their practices!

с

EXE. I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Richard earl of Cambridge.

I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Henry† lord Scroop of Masham.

I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Thoinas Grey, knight, of Northumberland.

(*) Old text, make thee.

(†) First folio, Thomas.

Temper'd thee,-] Moulded thee. Johnson proposed to read "tempted thee." b Vasty Tartar-] That is, Tartarus.

e Garnish'd and deck'd in modest complement;] Complement signified accomplishments, perfection, completeness: and was applied sometimes to mental, sometimes to physical attainments, and occasionally, as in the present instance, merely to the taste and elegance displayed in dress. Thus, in a note of Drayton's upon the Epistle from Geraldine to Lord Surrey; "but Apparell and the outward Appearance intituled Complement."

d Another fall of man.-
1.-] The whole of this speech from the line,-

"Treason and murder ever kept together,"

inclusive, is omitted in the quartos.

SCROOP. Our purposes God justly hath discovered,
And I repent my fault more than my death;
Which I beseech your highness to forgive,
Although my body pay the price of it.

CAM. For me, the gold of France did not seduce,
Although I did admit it as a motive
The sooner to effect what I intended:
But God be thanked for prevention;
Which I in sufferance heartily will rejoice,
Beseeching God and you to pardon me.

GREY. Never did faithful subject more rejoice
At the discovery of most dangerous treason,
Than I do at this hour joy o'er myself,
Prevented from a damned enterprize:
My fault, but not my body, pardon, sovereign.
K. HEN. God quit you in his mercy! Hear your sentence.
You have conspir'd against our royal person,
Join'd with an enemy proclaim'd, and from his coffers
Receiv'd the golden earnest of our death;

Wherein you would have sold your king to slaughter,
His princes and his peers to servitude,
His subjects to oppression and contempt,
And his whole kingdom into desolation.
Touching our person, seek we no revenge;
But we our kingdom's safety must so tender,
Whose ruin you have † sought, that to her laws
We do deliver you. Get you therefore hence,
Poor miserable wretches, to your death:
The taste whereof, God, of his mercy, give
You patience to endure, and true repentance
Of all your dear offences!-Bear them hence.

[Exeunt Conspirators, guarded.

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 so graciously hath brought to light
This dangerous treason, lurking in our way,
To hinder our beginnings. We doubt not now,
But every rub is smoothed on our way:
Then forth, dear countrymen; let us deliver
Our puissance into the hand of God,

Putting it straight in expedition.

Cheerly to sea; the signs of war advance:

No king of England, if not king of France.

[Exeunt.

SCENE III.-London. Pistol's House in Eastcheap.

Enter PISTOL, Hostess, BARDOLPH, NYM, and Boy.

HOST. Pr'ythee, honey-sweet husband, let me bring thee to Staines.

(*) First folio omits, 1.

(†) First folio omits, have.

PIST. No; for my manly heart doth yearn.

Bardolph, be blithe;-Nym, rouse thy vaunting veins ;—
Boy, bristle thy courage up ;-for Falstaff he is dead,
And we must yearn therefore.

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

HOST. Nay, sure, he's not in hell; he's in Arthur's bosom, if ever man went to Arthur's bosom. 'A made a finer end, and went away, an it had been any christom child; (2) 'a parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide: (3) for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers' ends,* I knew there was but one way; for his nose was as sharp as a pen, and 'a babbled of green fields. How now, sir John? quoth I: what, man! be o' good cheer. So 'a cried out-God, God, God! three or four times: now I, to comfort him, bid him, 'a should not think of God; I hoped there was no need to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet: so, 'a bade me lay more clothes on his feet: I put my hand into the bed, and felt them, and they were as cold as any stone; then I felt to his knees, and so upward,† and upward, and all was as cold as any stone.

NYм. They say, he cried out of sack.

HOST. Ay, that 'a did.

BARD. And of women.

HOST. Nay, that 'a did not.

BOY. Yes, that 'a did; and said, they were devils incarnate.

HOST. 'A could never abide carnation: 't was a colour he never liked.

BOY. 'A said once, the devil would have him about women. HOST. 'A did in some sort, indeed, handle women: but then he was rheumatic; and talked of the whore of Babylon.

Boy. Do you not remember, 'a saw a flea stick upon Bardolph's nose, and 'a said, it was a black soul burning in hell?

BARD. Well, the fuel is gone that maintained that fire: that's all the riches I got in his service.

NYM. Shall we shog? the king will be gone from Southampton. PIST. Come, let's away.-My love, give me thy lips,

Look to my chattels, and my movables:

Let senses rule; the word is, Pitch and pay;

(*) First folio, end. (+) First folio, up-peer' d.

(+) First folio, world.

And 'a babbled of green fields.] In the folio,-"his nose was as sharpe as a Pen, and a Table of greene fields." The quartos have simply, "His nose was as sharp as a pen." Theobald's famous emendation of "a babbled of green fields," has now become so completely a part of the text, that no editor will ever have the temerity to displace it. The conjecture of Pope, therefore, that "a table of green fields," was a stage-direction for the property-man, (whom he supposed to be named Greenfield,) to have a table ready on the stage "a table of Greenfield's;" and the equally atrocious sophistication of Mr. Collier's annotator-"his nose was as sharp as a pen on a table of green frieze!" need only be mentioned to be laughed at.

b Was rheumatic;] Was lunatic, the "quondam Quickly" means.

Pitch and pay; A proverbial saying, equivalent to our pay on delivery." One of the old laws of Blackwell-hall, Farmer says, "was that a penny be paid by the owner of every bale of cloth for pitching." Tusser, in his description of Norwich, calls it,—

Trust none, for oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes,
And hold-fast is the only dog, my duck;

Therefore, caveto be thy counsellor.

Go, clear thy crystals.-Yoke-fellows in arms,

Let us to France! like horse-leeches, my boys;

To suck, to suck, the very blood to suck!

Boy. And that is but unwholesome food, they say.
PIST. Touch her soft mouth, and march.
BARD.

Farewell, hostess. [Kissing her.

NYM. I cannot kiss, that is the humour of it; but adieu.
PIST. Let housewifery appear; keep close, I thee command.
HOST. Farewell; adieu.

[Exeunt.

SCENE IV.-France. A Room in the French King's Palace. Flourish. Enter KING CHARLES, attended; the DAUPHIN, the DUKE of BURGUNDY, the Constable, and others.

K. CHA. Thus come the English with full power upon us, And more than carefully it us concerns,

To answer royally in our defences.

Therefore the dukes of Berry, and of Bretagne,

Of Brabant, and of Orleans, shall make forth,

And you, prince Dauphin,—with all swift despatch,
To line and new repair our towns of war,

With men of courage, and with means defendant:
For England his approaches makes as fierce,
As waters to the sucking of a gulf.

It fits us then to be as provident

As fear may teach us, out of late examples
Left by the fatal and neglected English,
Upon our fields.

DAU.

My most redoubted father,

It is most meet we arm us 'gainst the foe;

For peace itself should not so dull a kingdom,

(Though war, nor no known quarrel, were in question,)

But that defences, musters, preparations,

Should be maintain'd, assembled, and collected,

As were a war in expectation.

Therefore, I say, 't is meet we all go forth,

To view the sick and feeble parts of France;

And let us do it with no show of fear,

No, with no more, than if we heard that England

Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance:

For, my good liege, she is so idly king'd,

Her sceptre so fantastically borne

By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth,
That fear attends her not.

CON.
You are too much mistaken in this king:
Question, your grace, the late ambassadors,-

O peace, prince Dauphin!

With what great state he heard their embassy,
How well supplied with noble counsellors,
How modest in exception, and, withal,
How terrible in constant resolution,-
And you shall find, his vanities forespent
Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus,
Covering discretion with a coat of folly;
As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots
That shall first spring, and be most delicate.
DAU. Well, 't is not so, my lord high constable;
But though we think it so, it is no matter:
In cases of defence, 't is best to weigh
The enemy more mighty than he seems,
So the proportions of defence are fill'd;
Which, of a weak and niggardly projection,
Doth, like a miser, spoil his coat, with scanting
A little cloth.

K. CHA.

Think we king Harry strong;
And, princes, look you strongly arm to meet him.
The kindred of him hath been flesh'd upon us;
And he is bred out of that bloody strain,
That haunted us in our familiar paths:
Witness our too-much memorable shame,
When Cressy battle fatally was struck,
And all our princes captiv'd, by the hand

Of that black name, Edward, black prince of Wales;
Whiles that his mountain sire,-on mountain standing,

Up in the air, crown'd with the golden sun,

Saw his heroical seed, and smil❜d to see him
Mangle the work of nature, and deface

The patterns that by God and by French fathers

Had twenty years been made. This is a stem

Of that victorious stock; and let us fear

The native mightiness and fate of him.

Enter a Messenger.

MESS. Ambassadors from Harry king of England
Do crave admittance to your majesty.
K. CHA. We'll give them present audience.

Go, and bring them.

[Exeunt Messenger and certain Lords.

You see, this chase is hotly follow'd, friends.

DAU. Turn head, and stop pursuit: for coward dogs

Most spend their mouths, when what they seem to threaten,

Runs far before them. Good my sovereign,

Take up the English short, and let them know

Of what a monarchy you are the head;

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin,

As self-neglecting.

Which, of a weak and niggardly projection,-] We should, perhaps, read, "Which

if" or "Which oft."

b Mountain sire,-] Theobald suggested, Mounting sire.