And from the great and new-made Duke of Suffolk ; 95 They, knowing Dame Eleanor's aspiring humour, SCENE III.-The palace. Enter three or four Petitioners, PETER, the Armourer's man, being one. First Petit. My masters, let's stand close: my lord protector will come this way by and by, and then we may deliver our supplications in the quill. Suffolke. For he it is, but I must not say so, That by my meanes must worke the Duches fall, Who now by Conjurations thinkes to rise. But whist Sir Iohn, no more of that I trow, For feare you lose your head before you goe. Exet. SCENE III.] omitted Q. Armourer's man. Q. SCENE 111. Enter...] Enter two petitioners, and Peter the 1-3. First Petit. My masters. . . quill] 1-3 (verse). 97. aspiring humour] See note at "aspiring French," Part I. v. iv. 99. 99. buz] This verb occurs again, 3 Henry VI. II. vi. 95 and v. vi. 86. And in Titus Andronicus, IV. iv. 7, and Richard II. 11. i. 26. See, too, Henry VIII. II. i. 148. Not in Q. Peele has it exactly in The Tale of Troy (551, a), 1589:— "Till one, I say, revengeful power should appeare that there can hardlie 105. wrack] See Part I. IV. i. 56 (note). 106. attainture] disgrace. Compare tainture, II. i. 188 below. New Eng. Dict. gives the word here the sense of attainder, conviction, with earlier illustrations. SCENE III. 2. by and by] immediately. Very frequent in Shakespeare. Compare Edward's Damon and Pithias (Hazlitt's Dodsley, iv. 93): "do thine office by and by." And Sidney's Arcadia: "And by and by called him to fight with him, protesting that one of them two should die" (bk. i.). Not in Q. 3. in the quill] simultaneously (New Eng. Dict.). Unexplained. Compare Second Petit. Marry, the Lord protect him, for he's a good man! Jesu bless him! Enter SUFFOLK and QUEEN. Peter. Here a' comes, methinks, and the queen with him. Second Petit. Come back, fool! this is the Duke of Suffolk, Suf. How now, fellow! would'st any thing with me? First Petit. I pray, my lord, pardon me: I took ye for my lord protector. Queen. "To my Lord Protector!" Are your supplications 5 ΙΟ to his lordship? Let me see them: what is thine? First Petit. Mine is, an 't please your grace, against John 15 Goodman, my lord cardinal's man, for keeping my house, and lands, and wife, and all, from me. Suf. Thy wife too! that's some wrong indeed. What's yours? What's here! "Against the Duke of Suffolk, 1. Peti. Come sirs let's linger here abouts a while, Vntill my Lord Protector come this way, That we may show his Grace our seuerall causes. 4, 5. Second Petit. Marry. bless him!] 4-8. 2. Peti. I pray God saue the good Duke Humphries life, For but for him a many were undone That cannot get no succour in the Court, But see where he comes with the Queene. 6, 7. Peter. Here sure] included in Second Petitioner's last speech. 8, 9. Second Petit. Come protector] Enter the Duke of Suffolke with the Queene, and they take him for Duke Humphrey and give him their writings. 1. Peti. Oh we are undone, this is the Duke of Suffolke. 10. How now . . . with me] a' comes... .. 9. Queene. Now good fellowes, whom would you speake withall? Petit. I pray Queen. "To my II-14. First thine ?] 11-15. Queene. Are your sutes to his grace. Let us see them first, Looke on them my Lord of Suffolke. Suffolke. A complaint against the Cardinals man, What hath he done? (as if verse). 15-17. Mine is · from me] 16, 17. 2 Peti. Marry my Lord, he hath stole away my wife, And th' are gone togither, and I know not where to finde them (as verse). 18, 19. Thy wife, . . . What's yours ?] 18, 19. Hath he stole thy wife, thats some iniury indeed, But what say you? 19-21. What's here! Against the. Melford... knave] 35-38. Whats here? A complaint against .. long Melford ... knave. ... 19. Against the Duke of Suffolk] The "articles proponed by the commons against the Duke of Suffolke" are set forth by Grafton in ten Items in "The XXVIIJ Yere" (1450). They relate chiefly to the King's marriage and other French affairs. At the close of them it is stated: "All these obiections he utterly denied, or faintly auoyded, but none fully excused. Diuers other crimes were laide to his charge, as enryching hymselfe with the King's goods, and landes, gathering together and making a Monopoly ['money pollde' in Hall] of officies, fees, wards and fermes" (p. 639). The special act of enclosing here referred to has not been How now, 20 for enclosing the commons of Melford." sir knave! Second Petit. Alas! sir, I am but a poor petitioner of our whole township. Peter. Against my master, Thomas Horner, for saying that the Duke of York was rightful heir to the 25 crown. Queen. What sayest thou? did the Duke of York say he was rightful heir to the crown? Peter. That my master was? No, forsooth: my master said that he was, and that the king was an 30 Take this fellow in, and send for his master with a pursuivant presently. We'll hear more of your matter [Exeunt Servants with Peter. 35 Queen. And as for you, that love to be protected Under the wings of our protector's grace, . ... usurper] 22, 23. Second Petit. Alas! sir, I am.. of... township] 39, 40. 1 Peti. I beseech your Grace to pardon me, me, I am town-ship. He teares the papers. 24-26. Peter. Against. crown] 20-24. Peter Thump. Marry sir I come to tel you that my maister said, that the Duke of Yorke was true heire unto the Crowne, and that the King was an vsurer. Queene. An usurper thou wouldst say. Peter. I forsooth an vsurper. 27-31. Queen. What sayest.. 25. Queene. Didst thou say the king was an usurper? Peter. No forsooth, I saide my maister saide so, th' other day, when we were scowring the Duke of Yorks Armour in our garret. 32-35. Suf. Who is ... before the King] 29-33. Suffolke. I marry this is something like, Whose within there? Enter one or two. Sirra take in this fellow and keepe him close, And send out a Purseuant for his maister straight, Weele . . of this ... King (verse). Exet. with the Armorer's man. 36-39. Queen. And as .. let them go] 41-43. Suffolke. So now show your petitions to Duke Humphrey, Villaines get you gone and come not neare the Court, Dare these pesants write against me thus. Exet. Petitioners. Begin your suits anew, and sue to him. [Tears the petition. Away, base cullions! Suffolk, let them go. [Exeunt Petitioners. 40 All. Come, let's be gone. 45 50 40. All. Come let's be gone] omitted Q. 41-48. My lord .. to a duke] 44-51. My lord of Suffolke, you may see by this, The Commons loue unto that haughtie Duke, That seekes to him more then to King Henry, Whose eyes are alwaies poring on his booke, and nere regards the honour of his name, But still must be protected like a childe, And governed by that ambitious Duke, That scarse will move his cap nor speake to us. 49-53. I tell thee, Pole . . . proportion] 59-62. I tell thee Poull, when thou didst runne at Tilt, And stolst away our Ladaies hearts in France, I . . . been like to thee, Or else thou hadst not brought me out of France. the same phrase refers to the wings of a battle. The metaphor here is from the Bible, Ruth ii. 12 (and elsewhere). 39. cullions] wretches. Compare Peele, Old Wives Tale (452, b): Hence, base cullion!" Not in Q. Shakespeare uses this opprobrious epithet again in Taming of a Shrew, and in Henry V. It is in Gammer Gurton's Needle, v. ii. 40. Exeunt Petitioners] For the source of the Armourer's episode, see extract at II. iii. (end). Note the omission of " Marry "in the opening conversation, which occurs three times in Q. 41. guise] recognised custom or fashion; as in Cymbeline, v. i. 32. The word was often used as here of the custom of a country, as in Timothie Kendall's Flowers of Epigrams (reprint, p. 54), 1577: "all disordered lye my locks, after the Spanish guise." And several times in Golding's Ovid: "When judgement should bee giuen it was the guyse in auncient tyme (bk. xv. 1. 48). These first four lines (41-44) have no parallel in The Conten tion. "Guise of the court" occurs in Caxton's Reynard the Fox, 1481. 44. Albion] Shakespeare only uses "Albion while working at the Chronicles, once in King Lear, once in Henry V., and twice in this and twice in the following part of Henry VI. Greene has it often in Frier Bacon. Not in Q. The queen's speech here differs more from Q than anything we have yet met with. Note passage here in Contention: "eyes poring on his book." Shakespeare has this twice in Love's Labour's Lost-nowhere else. 45, 46. King Henry be a pupil . . Gloucester's governance] See note above, 1. i. 163, 164. Almost the exact words are in Hall and Grafton (The XXV Yere): "like a yong Scholer or innocent Pupile to be governed by the disposition of an other man (p. 629); and a little higher, he (King Henry) “passed not much on the aucthoritie and governaunce of the realme." "Governance" is not found again in Shakespeare. It is frequent in Hall (p. 242, 1809, e.g.). And in Hawes' Pastime of Pleasure, 1509. 49, 50. Pole, when in the city Tours Thou rann'st a tilt] at the "triumphant Iustes" held there when Suffolk went for the queen as procurator. See extract, I. i. 1-3. These lines recall or are imitated by Marlowe in Edward the Second (220, a) : "Tell Isabel the queen, I look'd not thus, And stol'st away the ladies' hearts of France, I thought King Henry had resembled thee In courage, courtship, and proportion : 55 His champions are the prophets and apostles, His weapons holy saws of sacred writ, His study is his tilt-yard, and his loves Are brazen images of canonised saints. I would the college of the cardinals Would choose him pope, and carry him to Rome, That were a state fit for his holiness. 60 54-63. But all his mind his holiness] See 11. 46, 47, quoted at 1. 44 above. When for her sake I ran at tilt in made prominent in Iv. i. 18, by lines not France, And there unhors'd the Duke of It is important that they occur also in The Contention. The expression is in Grafton's Continuation of Hardyng (466), 1543: "the duke of Albany fled into Fraunce, & there was kylled runnynge at the tylte in Parys." 54-63. bent to holiness . . . his holiness] Boswell Stone quotes here a description of Henry given at his murder in the Tower, in the tenth year of King Edward IV. But the living description of him in the Chroniclers is to be preferred for many reasons. It is a piece of the same account as the queen's manly disposition (The XXV Yere): "King Henry was a man of a meeke spirite, and of a simple witte, preferring peace before warre. . . And to the intent, that all men might perceiue, that there coulde be none, more chaste, more meeke, more holye, nor a better creature: In him raigned shamefastnesse [note in 3 Henry VI. IV. viii. 53, "the shame-faced Henry"], modesty, integritie and patience to be maruayled at... he was gouerned of them whome he shoulde have ruled. . . He gaped not for honor, nor thristed for riches but studied onelye for the health of hys soule: the sauing whereof, he esteemed to be the greatest wisedome, and the losse thereof, the extremest folie that coulde be" (Grafton, p. 628). See the opening of Scene vi. in the last Act of Part III. Henry's holiness is again in the original, in several places. 55. number Ave-Maries on his beads] Repeated in 3 Henry VI. II. i. 162; see lines from Faerie Queene there quoted. 59. canonised saints] Polydore Vergil bears the fullest testimony to Henry's holiness. He says (Camden Society, p. 157): "These and suche lyke actions and offices of parfyte holynes, made, that for his cause God shewyd many myracles in hys lyfe time. By reason whereof King Henry the VIIth not without desert, began a few yeres past to procure at the hande of Julius byshop of Rome that he might be canonyzd for a Saint, but being preventid by hasty death he could not perform that honorable fact." We have one of these miracles presently. See 3 Henry VI. II. i. 156. 62. triple crown] of the pope. This expression Shakespeare found in Hall (or Grafton). See extract at the beginning of III. iii. It is used also by Peele in a rant against popery in A Farewell to the Generals (Portugal Voyage), 1589: "To steel your swords on Avarice' |