And bite thy tongue, that slanders him with cowardice Clif. I will not bandy with thee word for word, But buckle with thee blows, twice two for one. To prick thy finger, though to wound his heart. And ten to one is no impeach of valour. 50 55 60 [They lay hands on York, who struggles. Clif. Ay, ay, so strives the woodcock with the gin. North. So doth the cony struggle in the net. York. So triumph thieves upon their conquer'd booty; North. What would your grace have done unto him now? 65 That raught at mountains with outstretched arms, will not. whose verie looke hath made thee deaf ere this] 36, 37. And... quake ere this Q. 49-53. Northumberland] 37-41. I death (deafe Qq 2, 3) valour Northumberland Q. 54-60. Hold, Clifford! 48. faint] See above, 1. i. 129. 49. bandy word for word] Again in Taming of Shrew, v. ii. 172. Shakespeare is very partial to this metaphor from tennis. Compare Marlowe's Edward II. (Dyce, 185, a): "I'll bandy with the barons and the earls"; where the meaning is exchange blows but no more words. 50. buckle with thee] grapple or couple with in combat. See note to 1 Henry VI. 1. ii. 95. 53. deaf] misprinted "death," Q. 60. impeach] accusation, reproach, as in Comedy of Errors, v. 269. Elsewhere "impeachment.' It is war's Tis warres 61, 62. Ay, ay cunnie with the net Q. 63-65. So would . . . unto him now?] 51-53. will. with him? Q. 66-69. hand] 54-57. Brave warriors That ... ... 61. woodcock gin] See Twelfth Night, II. v. 92. 67, 68. molehill mountains] An old antithesis, or proverb. Again in Shakespeare in Coriolanus. New Eng. Dict. gives an example from Foxe's Acts and Monuments, 1570. See Pecham's True Discourse (Hakluyt ed. 1811, iii. 223), 1583: "They will take upon them to make Mountains seeme Molehilles and flies elephants.' Greene, Nashe and Harvey all use it, the latter in 1573. 68. raught] reached. Yet parted but the shadow with his hand. 70 75 Or, with the rest, where is your darling Rutland? Look! York: I stain'd this napkin with the blood 80 And if thine eyes can water for his death, I give thee this to dry thy cheeks withal. Alas! poor York, but that I hate thee deadly, 85 I prithee grieve, to make me merry, York. What, hath thy fiery heart so parch'd thine entrails Why art thou patient, man? thou should'st be mad; 70. What! king?] omitted Q. crook-back 71-77. Was 't you mutinies?] 58-64. Was it you Crookbackt. mutinies? Q. 78-85. Or, with ... 90 And where's Or where is... stain'd . . . with the the boy deadly state] 65-72. Or amongst . dipt... in the ... thy boy... much state? Q. 86-88. I prithee . . . Rutland's death ?] 73-76. I prethee Yorke ? Stamp Rutland's death? Q. 89-90. Why art thou. A crown for York! and, lords, bow low to him: 95 [Puts a paper crown on his head. Is crown'd so soon, and broke his solemn oath? 100 As I bethink me, you should not be king Till our King Henry had shook hands with death. And will you pale your head in Henry's glory, And rob his temples of the diadem, Now in his life, against your holy oath? 105 O! 'tis a fault too too unpardonable. Off with the crown; and, with the crown, his head; King? 95. Puts...] omitted Q, Ff. 96-100. Ay, marry, sir, now king! Ay, this .. solemn oath ?] 81-85. I now . Q. IOI-108. As I bethink As I bethinke . Till our Henry . dead Q. ... pale your head in 95. paper crown] The passage quoted from Hall at the death of Rutland above (Scene iii. 1. 47) continues: "Yet this cruell Clifford, and deadly bloud supper not content with this homicyde, or chyld killyng, came to ye place wher the dead corps of the duke of Yorke lay, and caused his head to be stryken of, and set on it a croune of paper, & so fixed it on a pole, & presented it to the Quene, not Ïyeng farre from the felde . . . but many laughed then that sore lamented after " (p. 251, ed. 1809). This paper crown is referred to again in Richard III. 1. iii. 175. ... 100-102. broke his ... oath death] Holinshed writes here (iii. 269, ed. 1808): "Manie deemed that this miserable end chanced to the duke of York, as a due punishment for breaking his oth of allegiance unto his Souereigne lord King Henrie: but others held him discharged thereof, because he obteined a dispensation from the pope, by such suggestion as his procurators made vnto him, whereby the same oth was adiudged void, as that which was receiued vnaduisedlie, to the preiudice of himselfe, and disheriting of all his posteritie." "A purchase of Gods cursse with the popes blessing" (margin). This . . . holie oath, do him dead] 86-93. impale your head with ... doe him 103. pale] enclose in the pale or circle of a crown. The same as "impale" below, III. ii. 171, and 111. iii. 189. Compare Antony and Cleopatra, II. vii. 74. Elsewhere "pales in." 106. too too] A very common mode of intensification at this time and earlier. 108. do him dead] Not again in Shakespeare. "Done to death" and "do him to dye" are frequent in Spenser, and the latter is in Chaucer. Spenser has "doe her dye" (Faerie Queene, I. viii. 45). Compare "dead 1 Clif. That is my office, for my father's sake. Q. Mar. Nay, stay; let's hear the orisons he makes. To triumph like an Amazonian trull, Made impudent with use of evil deeds, I would assay, proud queen, to make thee blush: To tell thee whence thou cam'st, of whom derived, 115 Were shame enough to shame thee, wert thou not shame- Thy father bears the type of King of Naples, Yet not so wealthy as an English yeoman. That beggars mounted run their horse to death. 120 125 sake Q. Mar. Nay, stay; let's makes] 94, 95. Queen. Yet stay: and lets makes Q. III-118. Shewith use... blush:] 96-103. She wolfe their woes his woes... by use... blush Q. derived, Were . both the needs not, nor IIO. orisons] prayers. Five times in Shakespeare. 112. poisons adder's tooth] See again 2 Henry VI. 1. ii. 76, Richard II. III. ii. 20, and Richard III. 1. ii. 19. 113. ill-beseeming] undecorous. See 1 Henry VI. IV. i. 31; and later in 2 Henry IV. and Romeo and Juliet. Unhyphened in Quartos and 1 Henry VI. See note at the latter reference. See, too, Cymbeline, v. v. 409. And "wellbeseeming" in 1 Henry IV. 1. iii. 267, and in Titus Andronicus. Shakespeare affected the word "beseem," and compounds of it. knows. whom deriude, Twere 114. trull] See 1 Henry VI. 11. ii. 28. 66 'Strumpet" usually, here rather a ramp or female bravoo. 115. captivates] subdues, captures. See Love's Labour's Lost, III. 126, and Venus and Adonis, 281. This verb is several times in Locrine. See Kyd, Spanish Tragedy, II. i. 131 "Thus hath he tane my body by his force, And now by sleight would captivate my soule." 116. vizard-like] as expressionally fixed as a mask. 121. type] badge. Compare Richard III. iv. iv. 244. The crown. But perhaps used for title. 127. beggars death] A proverb found in a variety of shapes. "Set a beggar on horse backe they saie, and hee will neuer alight" (Greene, Carde of Fancie (Grosart, iv. 102), 1587), and repeated in Greene's Orpharion, a 'Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; As the Antipodes are unto us, 130 135 Or as the south to the Septentrion. O tiger's heart wrapp'd in a woman's hide! How could'st thou drain the life-blood of the child, To bid the father wipe his eyes withal, And yet be seen to bear a woman's face? 140 Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible; Thou stern, obdurate, flinty, rough, remorseless. Bidd'st thou me rage? why, now thou hast thy wish: 130-140. 'Tis virtue that doth . . . 'Tis government . . . abominable. woman's hide! .. woman's face?] 115-125. Tis government that makes abhominable womans face? Q. Tis vertue thou ... . womans hide? showers, And cries will. wind death, 'Gainst Frenchwoman] 126-134. Women are milde Thou indurate, sterne, rough . . . will . So thou... wish. windes blowes up a storme of teares, And... begs vengeance as it fals, On . . . French woman Q. rehash of the former (xii. 36). The proverb is in Cyril Tourneur's Revengers Tragedy, Lord Cromwell, Jonson's Staple of News, Camden's Remaines, Motteux's Don Quixote, etc. Peacham has that old verse: 66 (Worth of a Penny, 1641 (Arber's English Garner, vi. 260)). That old verse is from Claudian. 131. The contrary doth] Compare here 1 Henry VI. v. v. 62-64. 132. government] seemly manners and discipline. 136. Septentrion] North. Not again in Shakespeare. This line is recalled in Soliman and Perseda, III. iv. 5: "From East to West, from South to Septentrion." 137. O tiger's heart...] The famous line made use of by Greene in his at tack upon Shakespeare in the Groatsworth of Wit (Grosart, xii. 144). See Introduction. Nashe has a familiar expression: "An apes hart with a lions case (Terrors of the Night (Grosart, iii. 231), 1593), in which he probably recalled Spenser's Mother Hubberd's Tale. Malone quotes from Acolastus his Afterwitte, 1600: "O woolvish hart, wrapp'd in a woman's hide," an obvious recollection of this. See Introduction to Part II. 142. obdurate] See 2 Henry VI. iv. vii. 114, in this ed. Always so accented in Shakespeare. It does not occur in First Contention, and here the True Tragedie (Q) has "indurate." Marlowe has " Might have entreated your _obdurate breasts" in Tamburlaine, Part I. v. i. (Dyce, 31, a); and the same expression occurs in Sylvester's Du Bartas (ed. 1621, p. 37): "One single sigh from thy obdurate brest" (1591). Marlowe's use is the earliest, applied to persons, in New Eng. Dict. durate was older. |