And bite thy tongue, that slanders him with cowardice. Clif. I will not bandy with thee word for word, 50 But buckle with thee blows, twice two for one. To prick thy finger, though to wound his heart. 55 бо [They lay hands on York, who struggles. Clif. Ay, ay, so strives the woodcock with the gin. So true men yield, with robbers so o'ermatch'd. Come, make him stand upon this molehill here, 65 ... 49-53. 47, 48. And . . . slanders . . . Whose . . . fly ere this] 36, 37. And slanderst. whose verie looke hath made thee quake ere this Q. I will not deaf... Northumberland] 37-41. I will not prolong the traitors life a while. . death (deafe Qq 2, 3) Northumberland Q. 54-60. Hold, Clifford ! cony ... prolong... life ... valour . . . It is war's vantages of valour] 42-48. Hold Clifford ... valure. Tis warres advantages in warres; Fight and take him Q. 61, 62. Ay, ay net] 49, 50. I, I . . cunnie with the net Q. 63-65. So triumph... with overmatch'd would... unto him now ?] 51-53. So triumphs. . . by robbers overmatcht . . . will .. with him? Q. 66-69. Brave warriors arms, Yet... hand] 54-57. Brave warriors... That aimde... arme, And . hand Q. 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.' 61. woodcock gin] See Twelfth Night, 11. 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. What! was it you that would be England's king? 70 And made a preachment of your high descent? 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; 90 71-77. Was 't you ... And where's 70. What!... king ?] omitted Q. crook-back mutinies?] 58-64. Was it you Or where is... ... Crookbackt.. mutinies? Q. 78-85. Or, with ... ... ... ... stain'd... with the . dipt. . . in the Rutland's death ?] the boy deadly state] 65-72. Or amongst thy boy much state? Q. 86-88. I prithee 73-76. I prethee Yorke ? Stamp. dance (1. 91 transposed) Rutland's death? Q. 89-90. Why art thou thee thus] omitted Q. Stamp... dance] 74. Stamp dance Q. Hardyng (468), 1543, says of Richard : "he was lytle of stature, euill feautured of lymms, croke backed, the left shulder much higher then the right, harde fauoured of.. warlike visage." 91. Stamp... dance] The transposition of this line from its position after "make me merry, York" (86) in the Quarto in consequence of the addition of the two new lines, "Why art thou... mock thee thus" (89, 90) has been a disputed point. Malone replaced it. A crown for York! and, lords, bow low to him: 95 [Puts a paper crown on his head. Ay, marry, sir, now looks he like a king! Ay, this is he that took King Henry's chair: 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; Q. 95. Puts...] omitted Q, Ff. 96-100. Ay, marry, sir, now king! Ay, this .. solemn oath ?] 81-85. I now King? This . . . holie oath, 101-108. As I bethink pale your head in.. do him dead] 86-93. As I bethinke Till our Henry... impale your head with ... doe him dead Q. ... 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 Îyeng 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). 101, 102. As I bethink . . . with death] Margaret quotes here Suffolk's words to her in Contention, about the murder of the good Duke Humphrey (III. i. 116-118): "And so thinke I, Madame . . . Duke Humphrey then would looke to be our King." See note at 2 Henry VI. II. i. 265. Peele comes near it with "shook hands with sin," in David and Bethsabe. Seems to have escaped Schmidt. Shakespeare quoting his own words from The Contention into the finished 3 Henry III. is an interesting phenomenon. 103. pale] enclose in the pale or circle of a crown. The same as "impale below, III. ii. 171, and III. iii. 189. Compare Antony and Cleopatra, 11. vii. 74. Elsewhere "pales in." 106. too too] A very common mode of intensification at this time and earlier. Clif. That is my office, for my father's sake. IIO 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: 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. I 20 125 .. sake Q. Mar. Nay, stay; let's makes] 94, 95. Queen. Yet stay: and lets Thats death. makes Q. with use blush:] poison'd. his woes by use... blush Q. needs not, nor knows derived, Were . . . both the . doing hand" (Faerie Queene, II. iii. 8). At III. x. 32 is found: "But soone he shall be found, and shortly doen be dead." And again later. "Dead-doing" is nearer. "Do" means make, or cause to be. See note at II. i. 103 below. 110. orisons] prayers. Five times in Shakespeare. 112. poisons. adder's tooth] See again 2 Henry VI. 11. 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 I 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. 111-118. She96-103. She wolfe 119-129. To . 114. trull] See 1 Henry VI. 11. ii. 28. "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, 11. 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; 130 As the Antipodes are unto us, 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; Bidd'st thou me rage? why, now thou hast thy wish: ... now 130-140. 'Tis virtue that doth . . . 'Tis government . . . abominable. woman's hide! . . . woman's face?] 115-125. Tis government that makes Tis vertue abhominable womans hide? . . womans face? Q. 141-149. Women are soft, mild . . . Thou rough .. wish: will.. wind. showers, And . cries... 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. thou ... ... 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: Asperius nihil est humili, cum There's nothing more perverse and tack upon Shakespeare in the Groats- Who is to Wealth advanced from woman's hide," an obvious recollec- 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 |