NOR. Grievingly I think, The peace between the French and us not values The cost that did conclude it. BUCK. The fudden breach on't. NOR. Which is budded out; For France hath flaw'd the league, and hath attach'd Our merchants' goods at Bourdeaux. ABER. The ambaffador is filenc'd?2 NOR. Is it therefore Marry, is't. ABER. A proper title of a peace; $ and purchas'd At a fuperfluous rate! 9 Every man, Dr. Warburton After the hideous storm that follow'd, &c.] From Holinshed: "Monday the xviii. of June was such an hideous forme of wind and weather, that many conjectured it did prognosticate trouble and hatred shortly after to follow between princes." has quoted a similar passage from Hall, whom he calls Shakspeare's author; but Holinshed, and not Hall, was his author, as is proved here by the words which I have printed in Italicks, which are not found so combined in Hall's Chronicle. This fact is indeed proved by various circumstances. MALONE. The ambassador is filenc'd?] Silenc'd for recall'd. This being proper to be faid of an orator; and an ambassfador or public minifter being called an orator, he applies filenc'd to an ambassador. WARBURTON. I understand it rather of the French ambassador refiding in England, who, by being refused an audience, may be said to be fplenc'd. JOHNSON. 3 A proper title of a peace;] A fine name of a peace. Ironically. JOHNSON. So, in Macbeth : "O proper stuff! "This is the very painting of your fear." STEEVENS. BUCK. NOR. Why, all this business Our reverend cardinal carry'd. 4 'Like it your grace, The state takes notice of the private difference Betwixt you and the cardinal. I advise you, (And take it from a heart that wishes towards you Honour and plenteous safety,) that you read : What his high hatred would effect, wants not rock, 5 That I advise your shunning. Enter Cardinal WOLSEY, (the purse borne before him,) certain of the guard, and two Secretaries with papers. The Cardinal in his paffage fixeth his eye on Buckingham, and Buckingham on him, both full of disdain. WOL. The duke of Buckingham's surveyor? ha? Where's his examination? 1. SECR. 4 - this business Here, so please you. Our reverend cardinal carry'd.] To carry a business was at this time a current phrafe for to condud or manage it. So, in this Act: 5 "he'd carry it fo, "To make the scepter his." REED. comes that rock, To make the rock come, is not very just. 1 JOHNSON. WOL. Is he in person ready? 1. SECR.. Ay, please your grace. WOL. Well, we shall then know more; and Buckingham. Shall leffen this big look. [Exeunt WOLSEY, and train. BUCK. This butcher's cur is venom-mouth'd, and I Have not the power to muzzle him; therefore, best Not wake him in his slumber. A beggar's book Out-worths a noble's blood.' NOR. What, are you chaf'd? Ask God for temperance; that's the appliance only, Which your disease requires. BUCK. I read in his looks Matter against me; and his eye revil'd 6 butcher's cur-) Wolfey is faid to have been the son of a butcher. JOHNSON. Dr. Grey observes, that when the death of the Duke of Buck "The ingham was reported to the Emperor Charles V. he said, firft buck of England was worried to death by a butcher's dog." Skelton, whose satire is of the grossest kind, in Why come you not to Court, has the fame reflection on the meanness of Cardinal Wolfey's birth: 7 " For drede of the boucher's dog, "Wold wirry them like an hog." STEEVENS. --A beggar's book Out-worths a noble's blood.] That is, the literary qualifications of a bookish beggar are more prized than the high defcent of hereditary greatness. This is a contemptuous exclamation very naturally put into the mouth of one of the ancient, unlettered, martial nobility. Johnson. It ought to be remembered that the speaker is afterward pro nounced by the king himself a learned gentleman. RITSON. He bores me with some trick: He's gone to the king; Stay, my lord, I'll follow, and out-stare him. As you would to your friend. BUCK. I'll to the king; And from a mouth of honour quite cry down There's difference in no perfons. NOR. Be advis'd; Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do finge yourself: 3 We may outrun, 8 He bores me with some trick; ) He stabs or wounds me by some artifice or fiction. JOHNSON. So, in The Life and Death of Lord Cromwell, 1602: 9 "One that hath gull'd you, that hath bor'd you, fir." - Anger is like STEEVENS A full-hot horse! So, Massinger, in The Unnatural Combat : "Let paffion work, and, like a hot-rein'd horse, "'Twill quickly tire itself." STEEVENS. Again, in our author's Rape of Lucrece: 2 - " Till, like a jade, self-will himself doth tire." MALONE. from a mouth of honour - ) I will crush this base-born fellow, by the due influence of my rank, or say that all diftinction of persons is at an end. JOHNSON. 3 Heat not a furnace &c.] Might not Shakspeare allude to Dan. i1i. 22.? "Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of fire flew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshac, and Abednego." STEEVENG By violent fwiftness, that which we run at, I am thankful to you; and I'll go along To be corrupt and treasonous. NOR. Say not, treasonous. BUCK. To the king I'll say't; and make my vouch as strong As shore of rock. Attend. This holy fox, 6 4 If with the fap of reason you would quench, 5 Or but allay, the fire of passion.) So, in Hamlet: " Upon the heat and flame of thy diftemper " Sprinkle cool patience." STEEVENS. fincere motions,)] Honeft indignation; warmth of in tegrity. Perhaps name not, should be blame not. 6 Whom from the flow of gall I blame not. JOHNSON. for he is equal ravenous, Equal for equally. Shakspeare frequently uses adje&ives adverbially. See King John, Vol. XI. p. 466, n. 6. MALONE. 7 his mind and place Infecting one another, This is very fatirical. His mind he |