Which serves as paste and cover to our bones 9. sepulchral hillock of earth which ascertains the length and breadth of the body beneath it. In this sense it may be termed its model. STEEVENS. Shakspeare generally uses model, not for an exemplar, but for a thing made after a pattern. The King therefore means to say, that the earth placed upon the body assumes its form. So, in a former scene of this play: 66 thou see'st thy wretched brother die, "Who was the model of thy father's life." See vol. x. p. 440, n. 2. Model, however, may be used for mould. See Minsheu's Dict. in v. MALONE. Perhaps, a small model means, a small portion. "Modle (says Cockeram,) is a part of one's self." BOSWELL. 9 Which serves as paste, &c.] A metaphor, not of the most sublime kind, taken from a pie. JOHNSON. the ghosts they have DEPOS'D;] Such is the reading of all the old copies. The modern editors, in the room of have depos'd, substituted dispossess'd. STEEVENS. 2 there the ANTICK sits,] Here is an allusion to the antick or fool of old farces, whose chief part is to deride and disturb the graver and more splendid personages. JOHNSON. If there be any such allusion intended, it is to the old Vice, who, indeed, appears to have been such a character as Dr. Johnson describes. The Fool was rather introduced to be laughed at. RITSON. So, in The First Part of King Henry VI. : "Thou antick death, which laugh'st us here to scorn!" STEEVENS. It is not impossible that Shakspeare borrowed this idea from one of the cuts of that most exquisite work, called Imagines Mortis, commonly ascribed to the pencil of Holbein, but without any authority. See the seventh print. DOUCE. To monarchize, be fear'd, and kill with looks; Bores through his castle wall, and-farewell king! How can you say to me-I am a king? CAR. Mylord, wise men ne'er sit and wail their But presently prevent the ways to wail. K. RICH. Thou chid'st me well:-Proud Bolingbroke, I come To change blows with thee for our day of doom. An easy task it is, to win our own. Say, Scroop, where lies our uncle with his power? Speak sweetly, man, although thy looks be sour. 4 : * So quartos: folio, ne'er wail their present woes. 3 Tradition,] This word seems here used for traditional practices that is, established or customary homage. JOHNSON. death destroying death;] That is, to die fighting, is to return the evil that we suffer, to destroy the destroyers. I once read "death defying death;" but destroying is as well. JOHNSON. SCROOP. Men judge by the complexion of the sky The state and inclination of the day: So may you by my dull and heavy eye, My tongue hath but a heavier tale to say. I play the torturer, by small and small, To lengthen out the worst that must be spoken :Your uncle York hath join'd with Bolingbroke; And all your northern castles yielded up, And all your southern gentlemen in arms Upon his party. K. RICH. Thou hast said enough. Beshrew thee, cousin, which didst lead me forth [TO AUMERLE. Of that sweet way I was in to despair! What say you now? What comfort have we now? By heaven, I'll hate him everlastingly, That bids me be of comfort 5 any more. I'll hate him everlastingly, That bids me be of comfort-] This sentiment is drawn from nature. Nothing is more offensive to a mind convinced that its distress is without a remedy, and preparing to submit quietly to irresistible calamity, than these petty and conjectured comforts which unskilful officiousness thinks it virtue to administer. JOHNSON. 6 A king, woe's slave, shall kingly woe obey.] So, in King John, vol. xv. p. 263: "For grief is proud, and makes its owner stoop." BOSWELL. "TO EAR the land-] i. e. to plough it. So, in All's Well that Ends Well: "He that ears my land, spares my team." STEEVENS. K. RICH. He does me double wrong, That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue. Discharge my followers, let them hence ;-Away, From Richard's night to Bolingbroke's fair day. [Exeunt. SCENE III. Wales. A Plain before Flint Castle". Enter, with Drum and Colours, Bolingbroke and To say-king Richard :-Alack the heavy day, Left I his title out. YORK. The time hath been, Would you have been so brief with him, he would Have been so brief with you, to shorten you, 7 - FLINT Castle.] In our former edition I had called this scene the same with the preceding. That was at Barkloughly castle, on the coast where Richard landed; but Bolingbroke never marched further in Wales than to Flint. The interview between him and Richard was at the castle of Flint, where this scene should be said to lie, or rather in the camp of Bolingbroke before that castle.-" Go to Flint castle." See above. STEEVENS. 8 Your grace mistakes ME;] The word-me, which is wanting in the old copies, was supplied by Sir T. Hanmer. STEEVENS. Far taking so the head, your whole head's length. BOLING. Mistake not, uncle, further than you should. YORK. Take not, good cousin, further than you should, Lest you mistake: The heavens are o'er your head. BOLING. I know it, uncle; and oppose not myself Against their will '-But who comes here?? Enter PERCY. 3 Welcome, Harry; what, will not this castle yield 3 ? 9 For taking so the head,] To take the head is, to act without restraint; to take undue liberties. We now say, we give the horse his head, when we relax the reins. JOHNSON. The heavens and oppose not Myself against their will.] So, in Romeo and Juliet: "Move them no more by crossing their high will.” 2 I know it, uncle; and oppose not myself STEEVENS, Such is the re Against their will. But who comes here?] gulation of the old copies. The second line is left unmetrical, according to a frequent practice of our author, when a person enters suddenly, and apparently for the purpose of imitating the abruptness of dialogue in real life. Mr. Steevens, in direct opposition to the old copies, regulates the lines thus: "I know it, uncle; and oppose not "Myself against their will.-But who comes here?" When the deviation was pointed out, he had recourse to his usual suggestion of an interpolation, and, in the following note, defended his arrangement, in the face of the old copies, by proposing another regulation of the text, which yet he has not followed. MALONE. I regard the word-myself, as an interpolation, and conceive Shakspeare to have written and oppose not Against their will." To oppose may be here a verb neuter. So, in King Lear: 66 a servant, thrill'd with remorse, Oppos'd against the act." STEEVENS. 3 WELL, Harry; what, will not this castle yield?] The old |