The nature of our people,

Our city's inftitutions, and the terms
For common juftice you are pregnant

·in.

Measure for Meafure, A. 1, S. 1.

He did plot the duke of Glofter's death;

Sluic'd out his innocent foul through ftreams of blood;

Which blood, like facrificing Abel's, cries,
Even from the tonguelefs caverns of the earth,
To me, for justice, and rough chastisement.

Richard II. A. 1, S. 1.

As thou urgeft juftice, be affur'd,

Thou fhalt have juftice, more than thou defir'st.

Merchant of Venice, A. 4, S. 1.

Our decrees,..

Dead to infliction, to themselves are dead;

And liberty plucks juftice by the nose.

Meafure for Meafure, A. 1, S. 4.
His life is parallel'd

Even with the ftroke and line of his great juftice.

Measure for Measure, A. 4, S. 2. What's open made to juftice,

That juftice feizes.

Meafure for Measure, A. 2, S. 1.

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K.

KING, KINGDO M.

OU would have fold your king to flaughter,
His princes and his peers to fervitude,

His fubjects to oppreffion and contempt,

And his whole kingdom unto defolation.

Touching

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Touching our perfon, feek we no revenge;
But we our kingdom's fafety muft fo tender,
Whose ruin you three fought, that to her laws
We do deliver you.
Henry V. A. 2, S. 2:

We give exprefs charge, that, in our marches through the country, there be nothing compelled from the villages, nothing taken but paid for; none of the French upbraided, or abused in difdainful language; for when lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentleft gamefter is the fooneft winner. Henry V. A. 3, S. 6. 1O, for a mufe of fire, that would afcend The brightest heaven of invention! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the fwelling scene! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Affume the port of Mars; and, at his heels, Leash'd in like hounds, fhould famine, fword, and

fire,

Crouch for employment.

Henry V. Chorus.

So work the honey bees; Creatures, that, by a rule in nature, teach The art of order to a peopled kingdom. They have a king, and officers of forts:

O for a mufe of fire that would afcend

The brightest heaven of invention !] This goes upon the notion of the peripatetic fyftem, which imagines feveral heavens one above another; the last, and highest of which, was one of fire. WARBURTON.

It alludes likewise to the aspiring nature of fire, which by its levity at the feparation of the chaos, took the highest feat of all JOHNSON.

the elements.

The commentators have here, I believe,

66 Difcover'd meanings which were never meant." "A mufe of fire that would ascend the brightest heaven of in"vention"-means, I apprehend, vigour of fancy,---fuch as is capable of bold and daring flights; without any allufion to the peripatetic fyftem, or to the afpiring nature of fire.

Q

A. B.

Where

Where fome, like magiftrates, correct at home;
Others like merchants, venture trade abroad;
Others like foldiers, armed in their ftings,
Make boot upon the fummer's velvet buds;
Which pillage they with merry march bring home.
Henry V. A. 1, S. 2.;

I'll give my jewels for a fet of beads;
My gorgeous palace for a hermitage;
My gay apparel for an alms-man's gown
My figur'd goblets, for a difh of wood;
My fcepter, for a palmer's walking staff;
My fubjects, for a pair of carved faints;
And my large kingdom, for a little grave.

Richard II. A. 3, S. 3.

O my poor kingdom, fick with civil blows!
When that my care could not with-hold thy riots,
What wilt thou do, when riot is thy care?
O, thou wilt be a wilderness again,
Peopled with wolves, thy old inhabitants!

Henry IV. P. 2, A. 4, S. 4.

The watry kingdom, whofe ambitious head
Spits in the face of heaven, is no bar
To stop the foreign fpirits; but they come,
As o'er a brook, to fee fair Portia.

Merchant of Venice, A. 2, S. 7.
Your breath firft kindled the dead coal of wars
Between this chaftis'd kingdom and myself,
And brought in matter that should feed this fire,
And now 'tis far too huge to be blown out
With that fame weak wind which enkindled it.

King John, A. 5, S. 2.

Alas! how should you govern any kingdom,
That know not how to use ambaffadors;
Nor how to be contented with one wife;
Nor how to use your brothers brotherly;

Nor

Nor how to study for the people's welfare;
Nor how to fhrowd yourself from enemies?

Henry VI. P. 3,

A. 4,

This unhair'd faucinefs, and boyish troops',

S. 3.

King John, A, 5, S. 2.

The king doth smile at.

Let Rome in Tyber melt

and the wide arch

Of the rang'd empire fall! Here is my space;
Kingdoms are clay: our dungy earth alike

Feeds beaft as man. Antony and Cleopatra, A. 1, S. 1.

A true devoted pilgrim is not weary

To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps;
Much less shall he, that hath love's wings to fly.
Two Gentlemen of Verona, A. 2, S. 7.

I am all the subjects that you have,

Who first was mine own king. Tempest, A. 1, S. 2.
Oh, two fuch filver currents, when they join,
Do glorify the banks that bound them in:

And two fuch fhores to two fuch streams made one,
Two fuch controlling bounds fhall you be, kings,
To these two princes, if you marry them.

King John, A. 2, S. 2. Shall that victorious hand be feebled here, That in your chambers gave you chastisement ? No: Know, the gallant monarch is in arms;

i This unheard of fauciness, and boyish troops.] Thus the printed copies in general; but unheard is an epithet of very little force or meaning here. Faulconbridge talks of the Dauphin's boyish troops, of dwarfish war, pigmy arms, &c. which, according to my emendation, fort very well with unhair'd, i. e. unbearded sauTHEOBALD.

cinefs.

Yet another reading might be recommended:

"This unair'd fauciness,"

i.e. untravelled rudenefs.

STEEVENS.

"Unair'd is," I think, the reading to be preferred. Unair'd, however, is not, in this place, to be taken in the sense of untravelled. It rather means unfeafoned, inordinate,

A. B.

And like an eagle o'er his airy towers,

To foufe annoyance that comes near his neft.
King John, A. 5, S. 2.

Hear him but reason in divinity,

And, all-admiring, with an inward wish

You would defire the king were made a prelate:
Hear him debate of common-wealth affairs,
You would fay,-it hath been all-in-all his study.
Henry V. A. 1, S. 1.

You are too much mistaken in this king:
Question your grace the late ambaffadors,
With what great ftate he heard their embaffy,
How well fupply'd with noble counsellors,
How modeft in exception, and, withal,
How terrible in conftant refolution,-
And you shall find, his vanities fore-spent
Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus,
Covering difcretion with a coat of folly.

Henry V. A. 2, S. 4.

Truly, for mine own part, if I were as tedious as a king, I could find in my heart to bestow it all of your worship. Much ado about nothing, A. 3, S. 5.

Not all the water in the rough rude fea
Can wash the balm from an anointed king;
The breath of worldly men cannot depose
The deputy elected by the Lord.

Richard II. A. 3,

S. 2.

Rich men look fad, and ruffians dance and leap,The one, in fear to lose what they enjoy,

The other, to enjoy by rage and war:

These figns forerun the death or fall of kings.

Richard II. A. 2, S. 4.

Sometimes am I king,

Then treafon makes me with myself a beggar,
And fo I am then crushing penury
Perfuades me, I was better when a king;

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