ILLUSTRATIONS OF SHAKSPEARE, AND OF ANCIENT MANNERS: WITH DISSERTATIONS ON THE CLOWNS AND FOOLS OF SHAKSPEARE; ON THE GESTA ROMANORUM; AND ON THE E. FRANCIS DOUCE THE ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD BY J. BERRYMAN. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II London: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REIS, AND ORMY. PATERNOSTER ROW. MDCCCVII. D6 V. 2 KING HENRY VI. PART I. ACT I. Scene 1. Page 506. BED. And with them scourge the bad revolting stars, It is conceived that most readers, after perusing the several notes on these lines, will be of opinion that some further elucidation is necessary. The first attempt should be to ascertain the respective significations of the words concent and consent, which can only be effected by an attention to their Latin etymology. Concent, in its simple and primitive acceptation, is nothing more than a singing together harmoniously; but because in such harmony there is an agreement of sounds, the word was sometimes metaphorically used to express concord or agreement generally. Consent never means union of sounds, but agreement generally, or an union of sense or opinion. Cicero has most carefully distinguished them when he says, "Ubi 394253 |