How God, and good men, hate so foul a liar. K. Rich. Mowbray, impartial are our eyes and ears : Nor. Then, Bolingbroke, as low as to thy heart, 130 Upon remainder of a dear account, Since last I went to France to fetch his queen : To prove myself a loyal gentleman Even in the best blood chamber'd in his bosom : 150 In haste whereof, most heartily I pray 160 Your highness to assign our trial day. K. Rich. Wrath-kindled gentlemen, be ruled by me : Let's purge this choler without letting blood : Deep malice makes too deep incision : Our doctors say this is no month to bleed.— Good uncle, let this end where it begun ; 'We'll calm the Duke of Norfolk, you your son. Gaunt. To be a make-peace shall become my age.—Throw down, my son, the Duke of Norfolk's gage. K. Rich. And, Norfolk, throw down his. Gaunt. When, Harry? when? Obedience bids, I should not bid again. K. Rich. Norfolk, throw down, we bid; there is no boot. My life thou shalt command, but not my shame : The one my duty owes ; Despite of death, that lives upon my grave, To dark dishonour's use thou shalt not have. 170 I am disgraced, impeach'd, and baffled here; Pierced to the soul with slander's venom'd spear; K. Rich. Rage must be withstood: Give me his gage :-Lions make leopards tame. Nor. Yea, but not change his spots: take but my shame, And I resign my gage. My dear, dear lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford, Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay. Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; K. Rich. Cousin, throw up your gage ; do 190 Before this outdared dastard? Ere my tongue Where shame doth harbour, even in Mowbray's face. [Exit Gaunt. K. Rich. We were not born to sue, but to command : Be ready, as your lives shall answer it, [Exeunt. 30 In suffering thus thy brother to be slaughter'd.Faiq A An angry arm against His minister. Duch. Where then, alas! may I complain myself? 3. Henry Hereford; Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Hereford, eldest son of John of Gaunt, and afterwards Henry IV. He was called Bolingbroke from the name of the castle in Lincolnshire where he was born. 4. boisterous late appeal; the loud accusation which he lately made. 12. sift him on that argument; examine or scrutinize him on that subject. 13. apparent; appearing, manifest. So we speak of the "heir apparent." Compare Julius Caesar, Act II. Sc. 1, "these apparent prodigies." 18. high stomach'd; "stomach" is "pride." So in Henry VIII., Act IV. Scene 2, Wolsey is described as being "of an unbounded stomach." " 20. befal; infinitive mood, gov. by "may" understood. 22. Each day, etc.; may each day's happiness exceed that of every other which has gone before it. 23. hap; fortune, luck-that which happens. Compare Ruth ii. 3, "Her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz." 26. the cause you come; the cause (for which) you come; or, the cause you come (on). 28. object; to offer in opposition, oppose. (Lat. jacio, I throw.) 30. record; register, witness. 32. Tendering; esteeming, heeding, regarding. 38. divine; godlike, immortal, immaterial, partaking of the essence of the deity. 39. miscreant; (Lat. credo, I believe), properly, an unbeliever; then, an infidel, a vile, wicked wretch. 43. aggravate the note; (Lat. gravis, heavy) to render heavier, make more distinct and emphatic the note or mark (Lat. nota) of infamy with which I brand thee. 45. so please my sovereign; adv. sent. (condition) to "and wish." (If it may) so please my sovereign. 46. right-drawn; drawn in a rightful cause. 47. accuse; charge with insincerity or indifference, blame my (want of) zeal. 49. eager; sharp, keen (Lat. acer; Fr. aigre). 66 It is a nipping and an eager air.' Comp. Hamlet, I. 4, 56. post; to travel post, or with great speed. Comp. Milton, Sonnet 19, "And post o'er land and ocean without rest.” 59. let him be; the more regular construction would be," and letting him be,"-i.e., supposing him to be. 63. tied; bound, obliged. 65. inhabitable; not habitable, uninhabitable. 67. this; this defiance (contained in the next line). 69. gage; a pledge or pawn, a challenge to combat represented by a glove, cap, or some other article, thrown down by the challenger, and picked up by the person who accepts the trial by arms. 72. except; to take out, not to include (Lat. capio, I take). 77. or thou canst worse devise; if I do not make it good against thee, then thou canst devise worse things (than thou hast already devised). Ɛo. fair degree; fair mode of trial. |