For one commanding all, obey'd of none. Having no more but thought of what thou wert, SCENE V. His Mother's Character of King Richard. Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy; Thy school days frightful, defp'rate, wild and furious; Thy prime of manhood, daring, bold and venturous; 'Thy age confirm'd, proud, fubtle, fly and bloody. ACT V. SCENE II. HOPE. True hope is swift, and flies with fwallows wings; Kings it makes gods; and meaner creatures kings. SCENE III. A fine Evening. The weary fun hath made a golden fet, And, by the bright tract of his fiery car, Gives fignal of a goodly day to-morrow. SCENE IV. Day-break. The filent hours fteal on, And flaky darkness breaks within the east. give sense to this, as it is now read; but I fhould apprehend the author wrote, For one being fear'd of all, now fearing all: and this correction not only the next line, but the whole manner of the fpeech, as well as the fuperior elegance given to the paffage, feem to confirm. K 2 Richmond's Richmond's Prayer. O thou! whose captain I account myself, SCENE V. Richard starting out of his Dream. Give me another horse-bind up my wounds. Have mercy, Jefu -Soft, I did but dream. O coward confcience!-how doft thou afflict me? SCENE VII. CONSCIENCE. Confcience is but a word that cowards ufe, Devis'd at firft to keep the strong in awe. Richard before the Battle. A thousand hearts are great within my bofom, (9) Victory, &c.] The image here is fine and noble: Milton defcribing Satan, fpeaks thus fublimely, His ftature reach'd the skies, and on his creft, Sat horror plum'd! And in another place, he says, At his right hand victory Sat eagle-winged. B. 6. v. 762. SCENE SCENE VIII. Alarum. Enter King Richard. K. Richard. A horfe! a horfe! my kingdom for a horse ! Cates. Withdraw, my lord, I'll help you to a horse. K. Richard. Slave, I have fet my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the dye; I think there be fix Richmond's in the field; L ROMEO and JULIET. ACTI. SCENE II. LOVE. OVE is a smoke rais'd with the fume of fighs, Being vex'd, a fea nourish'd with lovers tears; What is it elfe? a madness most discreet, A choaking gall, and a preserving sweet! SCENE V. On Dreams. O then I fee queen mab hath been with you. The traces, of the smallest spider's web; (1) Fancy's, &c.] This has been read Fairies, but Mr. Warburton alter'd it, to Fancy: the lines following. Which are the children of an idle brain Begot of nothing but vain phantasy, evidently prove the truth of the Reading. Refide, as he is the queen of the Fairies, it would rather be beneath her dignity to be their midwife too. The word shape is ufed in the next line very licentiously for form, fize, or magnitude. The The collars, of the moonshine's watry beams; Her waggoner a small grey-coated gnat, Not half fo big as a round little worm, And (2) O'er a courtier's nofe.] Tho' lawyer's is here used in almost all the modern editions, it is very obfervable, that in the old ones the word ufed is, Courtier's; but the modern editors, having no idea what the poet could mean by a courtier's fmelling out a fuit, notwithstanding he had introduced the lawyers before, gave them another place, in this fine fpeech. Mr. Warburton has very well explain'd it, by obferving that "in our author's time, a courtfollicitation was call'd fimply a fuit; and a procefs, a fuit at law to diftinguish it from the other." The king (fays an anonymous cotemporary writer of the life of Sir William Cecil) called him [Sir William Cecil] and after long talk with him, being much delighted with his anfwers, willed his father to find [i. e. smell out] a Juit for him. Whereupon be became fuitor for the reverfion of the Cuftos Brevium office in the Common-Pleas. Which the king willingly granted it, being the first fuit be bad in his life." Nor can it be objected, as Mr. Warburton alfo obferves, that there will be a repetition in this fine fpeech if we read courtiers, as there is, if we read lawyers, it having been said before, On courtiers knees that dream on curtfies ftraight. Because they are fhewn in two places under different views; in the first their foppery, in the fecond their rapacity is ridiculed." Befides, we may add, that in the first line he feems to allude to the court ladies, in these under confideration to the gentleThe custom being fo much out of ufe, it is not amifs that men, |