you Alas, I look'd, when some of fhould fay, K. RICH. Coufin, farewell:—and, uncle, bid him fo; Six years we banish him, and he shall go. [Flourish. Exeunt K. RICHARD and Train. AUM. Coufin, farewell: what presence must not know, From where you do remain, let paper fhow. MAR. My lord, no leave take I; for I will ride, As far as land will let me, by your fide. GAUNT. O, to what purpose dost thou hoard thy words, That thou return'ft no greeting to thy friends? GAUNT. Thy grief is but thy abfence for a time. GAUNT. What is fix winters? they are quickly gone. BOLING. To men in joy; but grief makes one hour ten. GAUNT. Call it a travel that thou tak'st for pleafure. BOLING. My heart will figh, when I miscall it so, Which finds it an enforced pilgrimage. GAUNT. The fullen paffage of thy weary steps Efteem a foil, wherein thou art to fet The precious jewel of thy home-return. BOLING. Nay, rather, every tedious ftride I make Will but remember me, what a deal of world I wander from the jewels that I love. Muft I not serve a long apprenticehood To foreign paffages; and in the end, Having my freedom, boaft of nothing else, But that I was a journeyman to grief?3 GAUNT. All places that the eye of heaven vifits,♦ Are to a wife man ports and happy havens: Teach thy neceffity to reafon thus ; There is no virtue like neceffity. Think not, the king did banish thee;5 2 Boling. Nay, rather, every tedious ftride 1 make-] This, and the fix verses which follow, I have ventured to supply from the old quarto. The allufion, it is true, to an apprenticeship, and becoming a journeyman, is not in the fublime tafte; nor, as Horace has expreffed it: "fpirat tragicum fatis:" however, as there is no doubt of the paffage being genuine, the lines are not fo defpicable as to deferve being quite loft. THEobald. 3 -journeyman to grief?] I am afraid our author in this place defigned a very poor quibble, as journey fignifies both travel and a day's work. However, he is not to be cenfured for what he himself rejected. JOHNSON, The quarto, in which thefe lines are found, is faid in its titlepage to have been corrected by the author; and the play is indeed more accurately printed than most of the other fingle copies. There is now, however, no certain method of knowing by whom the rejection was made. STEEVENS. ✦ All places that the eye of heaven vifits, &c.] So, Nonnus: depos qua: i. e. the fun. STEEVENS. The fourteen verfes that follow are found in the first edition. POPE. I am inclined to believe that what Mr. Theobald and Mr. Pope have reftored were expunged in the revision by the author: If thefe lines are omitted, the fenfe is more coherent. Nothing is more frequent among dramatic writers, than to shorten their dialogues for the ftage. JOHNSON. 5 did banish thee;] Read: Therefore, think not, the king did banish thee. RITSON. But thou the king: Woe doth the heavier fit, The grafs whereon thou tread'ft, the presence ftrew'd ;7 Think not, the king did banish thee; But thou the king :] The fame thought occurs in Coriolanus: "I banifh you.' M. MASON. All places that the eye of heaven vifits, Are to a wife man ports and happy havens; Think not the king did banish thee; But thou the king:] Shakspeare, when he wrote the paffage before us, probably remembered that part of Lyly's Euphues, 1580, in which Euphues exhorts Botanio to take his exile patiently. Among other arguments he obferves, that "Nature hath given to man a country no more than the hath a house, or lands, or livings. Socrates would neither call himself an Athenian, neither a Grecian, but a citizen of the world. Plato would never account him banished, that had the funne, ayre, water, and earth, that he had before; where he felt the winter's blaft and the fummer's blaze; where the fame funne and the fame moone fhined whereby he noted that every place was a country to a wife man, and all parts a palace to a quiet mind. When it was caft in Diogenes' teeth, that the Sinoponetes had banished him Pontus, yea, faid he, I them of Diogenes." MALONE. 7 : the prefence ftrew'd ;] Shakspeare has other allufions to the ancient practice of ftrewing rushes over the floor of the prefence chamber. HENLEY. So, in Cymbeline: 66 Tarquin thus "Did foftly prefs the rushes, ere he waken'd See Hentzner's account of the prefence chamber, in the palace at Greenwich, 1598. Itinerar. p. 135. MALONE. " The flowers, fair ladies; and thy fteps, no more BOLING. O, who can hold a fire in his hand, Or wallow naked in December snow, 8 than a delightful measure,] A measure was a formal court dance. So, in King Richard III : "Our dreadful marches to delightful measures." STEEVENS. 9 O, who can hold a fire in his hand, &c.] Fire is here, as in many other places, ufed as a diffyllable. MALONE. It has been remarked, that there is a paffage refembling this in Tully's Fifth Book of Tufculan Questions. Speaking of Epicurus, he fays:-"Sed unâ fe dicit recordatione acquiefcere præteritarum voluptatum: ut fi quis æftuans, cum vim caloris non facile patiatur, recordari velit fe aliquando in Arpinati noftro gelidis fluminibus circumfufum fuiffe. Non enim video, quomodo fedare poffint mala præfentia præteritæ voluptates." The Tufculan Questions of Cicero had been tranflated early enough for Shakspeare to have seen them. STEEVENS. Shakspeare, however, I believe, was thinking on the words of Lyly, in the page from which an extract has been already made: "I fpeake this to this end, that though thy exile feem grievous to thee, yet guiding thy felfe with the rules of phylofophy, it should be more tolerable: he that is cold, doth not cover himfelfe with care but with clothes; he that is washed in the raine, drieth himfelfe by the fire, not by his fancy; and thou which art banifhed," &c. MALONE. GAUNT. Come, come, my fon, I'll bring thee on thy way: Had I thy youth, and caufe, I would not stay, BOLING. Then, England's ground, farewell; sweet foil, adieu; My mother, and my nurse, that bears me yet! [Exeunt. SCENE IV. The fame. A Room in the King's Cafile. Enter King RICHARD, BAGOT, and GREEN; AUMERLE following. K. RICH. We did obferve.-Coufin Aumerle, How far brought you high Hereford on his way? AUM. I brought high Hereford, if you call him fo, But to the next highway, and there I left him. K. RICH. And, fay, what store of parting tears were fhed? I AUM. 'Faith, none by me: except the north-eaft wind, yet a trueborn Englishman.] Here the first A&t ought to end, that between the first and fecond Acts there may be time for John of Gaunt to accompany his fon, return, and fall fick. Then the first scene of the second Act begins with a natural converfation, interrupted by a meffage from John of Gaunt, by which the King is called to vifit him, which vifit is paid in the following scene. As the play is now divided, more time paffes between the two laft fcenes of the firft A&t, than between the firft Act and the second. JOHNSON. 2 — none by me :] The old copies read-for me. With the other modern editors I have here adopted an emendation made |