KING HENRY VIII. ACT I. SCENE I.-London. An Ante-chamber in the Palace. Enter the Duke of NORFOLK, at one door; at the other, the Duke of BUCKINGHAM, and the Lord ABERGAVENNY. Buckingham. GOOD morrow, and well met. Since last we saw in France ? Nor. I thank your grace: How have you done, Healthful; and ever since a fresh admirer 1 Buck. An untimely ague Stay'd me a prisoner in my chamber, when Nor. 'Twixt Guynes and Arde?? I was then present, saw them salute on horseback; Which had they, what four thron'd ones could have weigh'd Such a compounded one? Buck. All the whole time I was my chamber's prisoner. Nor. Then you lost The view of earthly glory: Men might say, Became the next day's master, till the last Made former wonders its :3 To-day, the French, 4 [1] An admirer untired; an admirer still feeling the impression as if it were hourly renewed. JOHNSON. [2] Guynes then belonged to the English, and Arde to the towns in Picardy, and the valley of Ardren lay between them. Hall and Holinshed write it as Shakespeare does. REED. [3] Dies diem docet. Every day learned something from the concluding day collected all the splendor of all the former shows. [4] All glittering, all shining. Clarendon uses this word in his Spanish Juego de Toros. JOHNSON. French; they are preceding, till the Shone down the English; and, to-morrow, they (For so they phrase them,) by their heralds challeng'd The noble spirits to arms, they did perform Beyond thought's compass; that former fabulous story, Being now seen possible enough, got credit, That Bevis was believ'd." Buck. O, you go far. Nor. As I belong to worship, and affect Buck. Who did guide, I mean, who set the body and the limbs In such a business. Buck. I pray you who, my lord? Nor. All this was order'd by the good discretion Of the right reverend cardinal of York. Buck. The devil speed him! no man's pie is freedo WARB. [5] Censure, for determination, of which had the noblest appearance. [6] The old romantic legend of Bevis of Southampton. This Bevis, (or Beavois,) a Saxon, was for his prowess created by William the Conqueror Earl of Southampton: of whom Camden speaks in his Britannia. THEOBALD. [7] The course of these triumphs and pleasures, however well related, must lose in the description part of that spirit and energy which were expressed in the real action. JOHNSON. [8] No initiation, no previous practices. Elements are the first principles of things or rudiments of knowledge. The word is here applied, not without a catachresis, to a person. JOHNSON. REED. 19] To have a finger in the pie, is a proverbial phrase. 1 From his ambitious finger. What had he Nor. Surely, sir, There's in him stuff that puts him to these ends : Out of his self-drawing web, he gives us note, Aber. I cannot tell What heaven hath given him, let some graver eye Peep through each part of him: Whence has he that? If not from hell, the devil is a niggard ; Or has given all before, and he begins A new hell in himself. Buck. Why the devil, Upon this French going-out, took he upon him, Who should attend on him? He makes up the file' Aber. I do know Kinsmen of mine, three at the least, that have Buck. O, many Have broke their backs with laying manors on them But minister communication of [2] A keech is a solid lump or mass. A cake of wax or tallow formed in a mould, is called yet in some places, a keech. JOHNSON. [3] That is, the list. [4] Council not then sitting. JOHNSON. [5] He papers, a verb; his own letter, by his own single authority, and without the concurrence of the council, must fetch him in, whom he papers down.---I don't understand it, unless this be the meaning. POPE. [6] What effect had this pompous show, but the production of a wretched conclu sion. JOHNSON. |