Not working with the eye, without the ear, And, but in purged judgment, trutting neither? Such, and fo finely boulted, didft thou feem: And thus thy fall hath left a kind of blot, 3 4 To mark the full-fraught man, the best endu'd, And God acquit them of their practices! Exe. I arrest thee of high treafon, by the name of Richard earl of Cambridge. what we fay ad conciliandam gratiam, more than is strictly or literally meant. JoHNSON. Complement has in this inftance the fame fenfe as in Love's Labor's Luft, A& I. Complements, in the age of shakspeare, meant the fanie as accomplishments in the prefent one. STEEVENS. 2 Not working with the eye without the ear.-] He is here giving the character of a complete gentleman; and fays, he did But when not buff the eye without the confirmation of his ear. men have eye fight proof, they think they have fufficient evidence, and do not ftay for the confirmation of an hear-fay. Prudent men, on the contrary, won't trust the credit of the ear, And this till it be confirmed by the demonitration of the eye. is that conduct for which the king would here commend him, So. that we inuit read: Not working with the ear, but with the eye. WARBURTON. The author's meaning I fhould have thought not fo difficult to find, as that an emendation fhould have been propofed. The king means to fly of Seroop, that he was a cautious man, who : knew that fronti nulla fides, that a fpecious appearance was deceitful, and therefore did not work with the eye without the ear, did not trull the air or look of any man till he had tried him by enquiry and converfation. Surely this the character of a prudent man. JOHNSON. & 3 and fo finely boulted, did thou ferm:] i. e. refined or purged from all faults. Pore. Boulted is the fame with fified, and has confequently the meaning of refined. JOHNSON. To make the full-fraught mar,-] We fhould read: To mark the full fraught man, ie. marked by the blot he speaks of in the preceding line WARBURTON. I arreft I arreft thee of high treafon, by the name of Henry lord Scroop of Matham. I arreft thee of high treafon, by the name of Thomas Grey, knight of Northumberland. Scroop. Our purposes God juftly hath difcover'd; And I repent my fault, more than my death; Which I beseech your highnefs to forgive, Although my body pay the price of it. Cam. For me, the gold of France did not feduce; Although I did admit it as a motive, The fooner to effect what I intended: But God be thanked for prevention; Which I in fufferance heartily will rejoice, Befeeching God, and you, to pardon me. Grey. Never did faithful fubject more rejoice At the discovery of most dangerous treason, Than I do at this hour joy o'er myself, Prevented from a damned enterprize: • My fault, but not my body, pardon, fovereign. K. Henry. 5 For me, the gold of France did not feduce:] Holiufhed, p. 549, obferves from Hall, that diverfe write that Kichard carle of Cambridge did not confpire with the lord Scroope and Thomas Graie for the murthering of king Henrie to please the French king withall, but onlie to the intent to exalt to the crowne his brother in-law Edmunde, earl of March, as heire to Lionell duke of Clarence: after the death of which earle of March, for diverfe fecret impediments not able to have iffue, the earl of Cambridge was fure that the crowne fhould come to him by his wife, and to his children of her begotten. And therefore (as was thought) he rather confefled hindelte for neede of monie to be corrupted by the French king, than he would declare his inward mind, &c. which if it were etpied, he faw plainlie that the earle of March fhould have tafted of the fame cuppe that he had drunken, and what should have come to his owne children, he much doubted, &c." STEEVENS. • My fault, One of the confpirators against queen Elizabeth, I think Parry, concludes his letter to her with these words, a culpâ, but not a pœnâ abfolve me, most dear lady. This letter was much read at that time, and the author doubtle's copied it. K. Henry. God quit you in his mercy! Hear your fentence. You have confpir'd against our royal perfon, Wherein you would have fold your king to flaughter, Putting it ftraight in expedition. This whole fcene was much enlarged and improved after the first edition; the particular infertions it would be tedious to mention, and tedious without much ufe. JOHNSON. The words of l'arty's letter are, not a pœna, good ladie. EDITOR. Difcharge me a culpa, but "Get ye Get you therefore bene,] So, in Holinfhed; hence, therefore, ye poor miferable wretches, to the receiving of your just reward: wherein God's majetky give you grace, & STEEVENJ. Chearly Chearly to fea; the figns of war advance : [Exeunt SCENE III. Quickly's houfe in Eastcheap. Enter Piftol, Nym, Bardolph, Boy, and Quickly. Quickly. Pr'ythee, honey-fweet hulband, let me bring thee to Staines. Pift. No; for my manly heart doth yearn.Bardolph, be blith ;-Nym, roufe thy vaunting veins; Boy, bristle thy courage up; for Falstaff he is dead, And we must yern therefore. Bard. Would I were with him, wherefome'er he is, either in heaven, or in hell! Quick. Nay, fure, he's not in hell; he's in Arthur's bofom, if ever man went to Arthur's bofom. 'A made a finer end, and went away, an it had been 1 2 any 8 No king of England, if not king of France] So in the old play before that of Shakspeare: 9 "If not king of France, then of nothing must I be king." STEEVENS. let me bring thee to Staines.]. e. let me attend, or accompany thee. See Vol. II. 10. VII. 20. 2 finer end, for final, JOHNSON. an it had been any chrifom'd child :has it crifomb'd child. EDITOR. -] The old quarto "The chryfom was no more than the white cloth put on the new baptifed child.” See Johnjon's Canons of Ecclef, Law, 1720. I have fomewhere (but cannot recollect where) met with this further account of it; that the chryfom was allowed to be carried out of the church, to enwrap fuch children as were in too weak a condition to be borne thither; the chryfom being fuppofed to make every place holy. This cuftom would rather ftrengthen the allufion to the weak condition of Falstaff. The child itfelf was fometimes called a chryfom, as appears from the following palinge in The Fancies Chafe and Noble. 1638: E 4 any chriftom child; 'a parted even just between twelve and one, e'en at turning o'the tide for after "the boy furely I ever faid was a very chrifome in the thing you wot." 66 Again, in The Wits, by Sir W. Davenant, 1637: 66 "The chryfome babe.” Again, in his Albovine, 1629: "Sir, I would fain depart in quiet like other young chryfomes." Again, in Four Five Gallants, by Middleton: " would kill his heart i'faith; be'd away like a chryfum.” a fine old man to his father, it STEEVENS, In the Liturgie, 2 E. VI. Form of private Baptifm, is this di rection. "Then the minifter fhall put the white vesture, commonly called the cbrifome, upon the child," &c. The Gloffary of Du Cange, vide Chrifmale, explains this ceremony thus: "Quippe olim ut et hodie, baptizatcrum, ftatim atque chrifmate in fronte ungebantur, ne chrifma deflueret, capita panno candido obvolvebantur, qui octava demum die ab iis auferebatur." During the time therefore of their wearing this vesture, the children were, I fuppofe, called chrifomes. One is registered under this defcription in the regifter of Thatcham, Berks, 1605. [Hearne's Appendix to the Hiftory of Glastonbury, p. 275.] younge crime being a man child, beinge found drowned," &. "A TYRWHITT. In the account of Falfaff's death, my dame Quickly fays, 'a made a finer end, and went away an it had been any chri fom'd child'. The chrifom is properly explained as the white garment put upon the child at its baptifin. And this the child wore till the time the mother came to be churched, who was then to offer it to the minifter. So that, truly speaking, a chrijom child was one that died after it had been baptized, and before its mother was churched. Erroneoufly, however, it was used for children that die before they are baptized; and by this denomi pation fuch children were entered in the bills of mortality down to the year 1726. But have I not seen, in fome edition, chriftom child? if that reading were fupported by any copy of authority, I fhould like it much. It agrees better with my dame's enuntiation, who was not very likely to pronounce a hard word with proptiery, and who just before had called Abi abam-Aribur. WHALLEY. Mr. Whalley is right in his conjecture. The first folio reads chrifiom; and fo fhould the word hereafter be printed. MALONE. turning |