And many moe corrivals and dear men Of estimation and command in arms. SIR MICHAEL. Doubt not, my lord, they shall be well oppos'd. ARCHBISHOP. I hope no less, yet needful 'tis to fear; And 'tis but wisdom to make strong against him: 33. they Q1 he Ff. 35 40 Exeunt 31. moe: more. The old comparative of 'many.' In Middle English 'moe,' or 'mo,' was used of number and with collective nouns; 'more' had reference specifically to size. ACT V SCENE I. [The KING's camp near Shrewsbury] Enter the KING, PRINCE OF WALES, LORD JOHN OF LANCASTER, SIR WALTER BLUNT, and FALSTAFF KING HENRY. How bloodily the sun begins to peer Above yon busky hill! the day looks pale At his distemperature. PRINCE OF WALES. The southern wind Doth play the trumpet to his purposes, 5 KING HENRY. Then with the losers let it sympathise, For nothing can seem foul to those that win. The trumpet sounds Enter WORCESTER [and VERNON] How now, my Lord of Worcester! 'tis not well 2. busky Ff bulky Q1. 10 To crush our old limbs in ungentle steel: A prodigy of fear and a portent Of broached mischief to the unborn times? I have not sought the day of this dislike. 15 20 25 KING HENRY. You have not sought it! how comes it, then? FALSTAFF. Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it. PRINCE OF WALES. Peace, chewet, peace! WORCESTER. It pleas'd your majesty to turn your looks Of favour from myself and all our house; And yet I must remember you, my lord, 25. do Ff | Q1 omits. 31 13. our old limbs. The king was at this time but thirty-seven years old. But in his development of historical characters Shakespeare's chief interest was to bring the substance of historic truth within the conditions of dramatic effect. 17. obedient orb: orbit (or path) of obedience. Cf. V, iv, 65. 29. chewet: chough (i.e. chatterer, prater). The word is found in Cotgrave: "chouette, a chough, cadesse, daw, jackdaw." The word also meant a "dish made of various kinds of meat or fish, chopped fine, and mixed with spices and fruits."-Murray. Bacon, in Sylva "chuetts, which are likewise minced meat." We were the first and dearest of your friends. In Richard's time; and posted day and night It was myself, my brother and his son, 35 40 45 50 55 58. Forgot . . . Doncaster. "At his comming unto Doncaster, the earle of Northumberland, and his sonne sir Henry Persie, wardens of the marches against Scotland, with the earle of Westmerland, came unto him, where he sware unto those lords, that he would demand no more than the lands that were to him descended by inheritance from his father, and in right of his wife."-Holinshed. And being fed by us you us'd us so As that ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird, 60 Useth the sparrow; did oppress our nest; That even our love durst not come near your sight Sworn to us in your younger enterprise. 65 70 KING HENRY. These things indeed you have articulate, Proclaim'd at market-crosses, read in churches, To face the garment of rebellion With some fine colour that may please the eye 72. articulate Q1 | articulated Ff. 75 60. gull: unfledged bird. Cf. Timon of Athens, II, i, 31-32: "a naked gull, Which flashes now a phoenix." In Elizabethan slang, a 'gull' was a fool or a dupe, as in the title of Dekker's work, The Gull's Hornbook.-cuckoo's bird: young cuckoo. Shakespeare has many references to the extraordinary habits of the cuckoo in usurping the nests of other birds, especially that of the hedge-sparrow, and leaving her egg to be hatched there by the foster-bird. In Holland's translation of Pliny's Natural History, first published in 1601, is a remarkable account of these habits of the cuckoo mingled with not a few folk-stories on the subject, but the birds whose nests are usurped are given there as the stock-dove and the 'titling.' Shakespeare seems to be the first writer to refer to the usurpation of the hedge-sparrow's nest, and this we owe not improbably to his own personal observation. 67. we stand opposed: we stand in opposition to you. 72. articulate: set down in articles. See Abbott, § 342. |