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NOR.

Grievingly I think,

The peace between the French and us not values

The cost that did conclude it.

BUCK.
Every man,
After the hideous storm that follow'd, 9 was
A thing inspir'd; and, not confulting, broke
Into a general prophecy, - That this tempeft,
Dashing the garment of this peace, aboded

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.

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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 :
The cardinal's malice and his potency
Together: to confider further, that

What his high hatred would effect, wants not
A minister in his power: You know his nature,
That he's revengeful; and I know, his fword
Hath a sharp edge: it's long, and, it may be faid,
It reaches far; and where 'twill not extend,
Thither he darts it. Bosom up my counsel,
You'll find it wholesome. Lo, where comes that

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.

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- 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:

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"he'd carry it fo,

"To make the scepter his." REED.

comes that rock, To make the rock come, is not very just.

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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
Me, as his abject object: at this inftant

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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:

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" 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.
NOR.
And let your reason with your choler question
What 'tis you go about: To climb steep hills,
Requires flow pace at first: Anger is like
A full-hot horse; who being allow'd his way,
Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England
Can advise me like you: be to yourself

As you would to your friend.

BUCK.

I'll to the king;

And from a mouth of honour quite cry down
This Ipswich fellow's insolence; or proclaim,

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:

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"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:

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" 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,
And lose by over-running. Know you not,
The fire, that mounts the liquor till it run o'er,
In feeming to augment it, wastes it? be advis'd:
I say again, there is no English soul
More stronger to direct you than yourself;
If with the fap of reason you would quench,
Or but allay, the fire of passion.4

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I am thankful to you; and I'll go along
By your prescription :- but this top-proud fellow,
(Whom from the flow of gall I name not, but
From fincere motions,5) by intelligence,
And proofs as clear as founts in Júly, when
We fee each grain of gravel, I do know

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,
Or wolf, or both, (for he is equal ravenous,
As he is subtle; and as prone to mischief,
As able to perform it: his mind and place
Infecting one another, yea, reciprocally,)

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4 If with the fap of reason you would quench,

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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.

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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.

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his mind and place

Infecting one another, This is very fatirical.

His mind he

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