You shall not be my judge': for it is you Have blown this coal betwixt my lord and me,- Refuse you for my judge; whom, yet once more, Wol. I do profefs, You speak not like yourfelf; who ever yet O'er-topping woman's power. Madam, you do me wrong; By a commiffion from the confiftory, Yea, the whole confiftory of Rome. You charge me, Remove these thoughts from you: The which before You, gracious madam, to unthink your speaking, 1-and make my challenge, You shall not be my judge:] Challenge is here a verbum juris, a law The criminal, when he refufes a juryman, fays, I challenge bim. JOHNSON. term. 2 I utterly abhor, yea, from my foul Refufe you for my judge;] Thefe are not mere words of paffion, but technical terms in the canon law. Deteftor and Recufo. The former in the language of canonifts, fignifies no more, than I protest against. BLACKSTONE. The words are Holinfhed's :" and therefore openly protested that the did utterly abbor, refufe, and forfake fuch a judge." MALONE. 3-gainfay] i. e. deny. So, in lord Surrey's tranflation of the fourth book of the Eneid: "I hold thee not, nor yet gainfay thy words." STEEVENS. 2. Cath. 2. Cath. My lord, my lord, I am a fimple woman, much too weak To oppofe your cunning. You are meek, and humblemouth'd; You fign your place and calling 4, in full seeming, [She curt'fies to the King, and offers to depart. 4 You fign your place and calling, &c.] I think, to fign, must here be to show, to denote. By your outward meeknefs and humility, you bow that you are of an holy order, but, &c. JOHNSON. 5 Where powers are your retainers; and your words, Domefticks to you, ferve your will,-] You have now got power at your beck, following in your retinue: and words therefore are degraded to the fervile ftate of performing any office which you shall give them. In humbler and more common terms; Having now got power, you do not regard your word. JOHNSON. The word power, when used in the plural and applied to one perfon only, will not bear the meaning that Dr. Johnfon wishes to give it. By powers are meant the emperor and the king of France, in the pay of one or the other of whom Wolfey was conftantly retained. MASON. Whoever were pointed at by the word powers, Shakipeare, furely, does not mean to fay that Wolfey was retained by them, but that they were retainers, or fubfervient, to Wolfey. MALONI. I believe we should read: "Where powers are your retainers, and your wards, The Queen rifes naturally in her defcription. She paints the powers of government depending upon Wolfey under three images; as his retainers, his wards, his domeftick Jervants. TYR WHITT. So, in Storer's Life and Death of Tho. Wolfey, Cardinal, a poem, 1599* "I must have notice where their wards must dwell; "I car'd not for the gentry, for I had "Yong nobles of the land, &c." STEEVENS. Cam. Cam. The queen is obftinate, Stubborn to justice, apt to accuse it, and She's going away. King. Call her again. Crier. Catharine, queen of England, come into the court. Grif. Madam, you are call'd back. 2. Cath. What need you note it? pray you, keep your way: When you are call'd, return.-Now the Lord help, Upon this bufinefs, my appearance make In any of their courts. [Exeunt Queen, GRIFFITH, and her other Attendants. King. Go thy ways, Kate: That man i'the world, who fhall report he has Carried herself towards me. Wol. Moft gracious fir, In humbleft manner I require your highness, Of all these ears, (for where I am robb'd and bound, At once and fully fatisfy'd',) whether ever I 6- could speak thee out)] If thy feveral qualities had tongues to speak thy praife. JOHNSON. 7 - although not there At once, and fully fatisfied,)] The fenfe, which is encumbered with words, is no more than this. I must be loofed, though when fo losfed, I fhall not be fatisfied fully and at once; that is, I shall not be immediately fatisfied. JOHNSON. Did broach this bufinefs to your highness; or King. My lord cardinal, I do excufe you; yea, upon mine honour, My confcience firft receiv'd a tenderness, Scruple, and prick, on certain speeches utter'd By the bishop of Bayonne, then French ambaffador; A marriage', twixt the duke of Orleans and 8 -on my bonour, Ifpeak my good lord cardinal to this point,] The king, having firft addreffed to Wolfey, breaks off; and declares upon his honour to the whole court, that he fpeaks the cardinal's fentiments upon the point in question; and clears him from any attempt, or wish, to stir that bufi. nefs. THEOBALD. 9 Scruple and prick,- Prick of confcience was the term in confeffion. JOHNSON The expreffion is from Holinfhed, where the king fays: "The fpecial caufe that moved me unto this matter was a certaine fcrupulofitie that pricked my confcience," &c. See Holinfhed, p. 907. STEEVENS. 1 A marriage,] Old Copy-And marriage. Corrected by Mr. Pope. VOL. VII, MALONE. Our daughter Mary: I'the progrefs of this bufinefs, (I mean, the bishop) did require a refpite; The grave does to the dead: for her male iffue 2 This refpite shook Toward The bofom of my confcience,-] Though this reading be sense, yet, I verily believe, the poet wrote, The bottom of my conscience,-. Shakspeare, in all his hiftorical plays, was a moft diligent obferver of Holiathed's Chronicle. Now Holinfhed, in the fpeech which he has given to king Henry upon this fubject, makes him deliver himself thus: "Which words, once conceived within the fecret bortom of my confcience, ingendred fuch a fcrupulous doubt, that my confcience was incontinently accombred, vexed, and difquieted." Vid. Life of Henry VIII. p. 907. THEOBALD. 3 -hulling in The wild fea—] That is, floating without guidance; toss'd here and there. JOHNSON. The phrafe belongs to navigation. A ship is faid to bull, when the is |