GAUNT. To be a makepeace fhall become my age;Throw down, my fon, the duke of Norfolk's gage. K. RICH! And, Norfolk, throw down his. GAUNT. When, Harry? when? Obedience bids, I fhould not bid again. K. RICH. Norfolk, throw down; we bid; there is no boot.3 NOR. Myfelf I throw, dread fovereign, at thy foot: My life thou shalt command, but not my fhame: To dark difhonour's ufe thou shalt not have. When, Harry? This obfolete exclamation of impatience, is likewife found in Heywood's Silver Age, 1613: Fly into Affrick; from the mountains there, "Chufe me two venomous ferpents: thou shalt know them: "By their fell poison and their fierce afpe&. When, Iris? "Iris. I am gone." Again, in Look about you, 1600: STEEVENS. 3 --no boat] That is, no advantage, no use, in delay or refufal. JOHNSON. 4 my fair name, &c.] That is, my name that lives on my grave, in defpight of death. This eafy paffage moft of the editors feem to have mistaken. JOHNSON. 5 and baffled here; ] Baffled in this place means treated with the greateft ignominy imaginable. So, Holinfhed, Vol. III. p. 827, and 1218, or annis 1513, and 1570, explains it: "Bafulling fays he, is a great difgrace among the Scots, and it is used when a man is opeulie perjured, and then they make of him an image painted, reverfed, with his heels upward, with his name, wondering, crieing, and blowing out of him with horns." Spenser's Faery Queen, B. V. c. iii. ft. 37; and B. VI. c. vii. ft. 27. has the word in the fame fignification. TOLLET, The which no balm can cure, but his heart-blood K. RICH. Rage must be withflood: Give me his gage:-Lions make leopards tame, NOR. Yea, but not change their spots: take but my fhame, 6 And I refign my gage. My dear dear lord, Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; K. RICH. Coufin, throw down your gage; do you BOLING. O, God defend my foul from fuch foul fin! Shall I feem creftfallen in my father's fight? The fame expreffion occurs in Twelfth Night, fc. ult: "Alas, poor fool! how have they baffled thee?" Again, in K. Henry IV. Part I. A& I. fc. ii: --an I do not, call me villain, and baffle me." Again, in The London Prodigal, 1605; "chil be abaffelled up and down the town, for a meffel." i. e. for a beggar, or rather a leper. STEEVENS. The old copies have-his 6 -but not change their Spots:] fpots. Corre&ed by Mr. Pope. MALONE. 7 with pale beggar-fear-] This is the reading of one of the oldeft quartos, and the folio. The quartos 1608 and 1615 read-beggar-face; i. e. (as Dr. Warburton obferves) with a face of fupplication. STEVENS. 1 1 Or found fo bafe a parle, my teeth fhall tear And fpit it bleeding, in his high difgrace, mand: Which fince we cannot do to make you friends, 6 The flavish motive-] Motive, for inftrument. [Exeunt. WARBURTON. Rather that which fear puts in motion. JOHNSON. STEEVENS. 6 Juftice defign-] Thus the old copies. Mr. Pope reads→ "Juftice decide," but without neceffity. Defigno, Lat. fignifies to mark out, to point out : Notat defignatque oculis ad cædéin. unumquemque noftrum." Cicero in Catilinam. STEEVENS. To defign in our author's time fignified to mark out. See Minfheu's Dicr. in v. "To defigne or fhew by a token. Ital. Denotare. Lat. Defignare." At the end of the article the reader is referred to the words to marke, note, demonftrate or fhew."The word is ftill used with this fignification in Scotland, MALONE. 7 Marshal, command, &c.] The old copies-Lord Marshall, but fas Mr. Ritfon obferves) the metre requires the omiffion I have nade. It is alfo juftified by his Majefty's repeated addrefs to the fame officer, in scene iii. STEEVENS. The fame. A Room in the Duke of Lancaster's Palace. Enter GAUNT, and Duchefs of Glofter. 9 8 GAUNT. Alas! the part I had in Glofter's blood 2 DUCH. Finds brotherhood in thee no fharper fpur? 8 -duchess of Glofter.] The Duchess of Glofter was Eleanor Bohun, widow of Duke Thomas, fon of Edward III. 9 WALPOLE. -the part I had] That is, my relation of confanguinity to Glofter. HANMER. I have P. 16: heaven; Who when he fees-] The old copies erroneously read Who when they fee reformed the text by example of a fubfequent paffage, heaven's fubftitute, His deputy, anointed in his fight," &c. STEEVENS. One phial full of Edward's facred blood, Ah, Gaunt! his blood was thine; that bed, that womb,. That mettle, that felf-mould, that fashion'd thee, Made him a man; and though thou liv'ft, and breath'ft, Yet art thou flain in him: thou doft confent3 What fhall I fay? to fafeguard thine own life, His deputy anointed in his fight, 2 1 One phial, &c.] Though all the old copies concur in the prefent regulation of the following lines, I would rather readOne phial full of Edward's facred blood Is crack'd, and all the precious liquor spill'd; - One flourishing branch of his moft royal root Is hack'd down, and his fummer leaves all faded. Some of the old copies in this inftance, as in many others, read vaded, a mode of spelling practised by several of our ancient writers. After all, I believe the transpofition to be needless. STEEVENS. 3 -thou doft confent, &c.] i. e. affent. So, in St. Luke's Gospel, xxiii. 51: The fame had not confented to the counsel and dead of them." STEEVENS, |