CHAR. Welcome, brave duke! thy friendship makes us fresh. BAST. And doth beget new courage in our breafts. ALEN. Pucelle hath bravely plaied her part in this, And doth deserve a coronet of gold. CHAR. Now let us on, my lords, and join our powers; And seek how we may prejudice the foe. [Exeunt. SCENE IV. Paris. A Room in the Palace. Enter King HENRY, GLOSTER, and other Lords, VERNON, BASSET, &c. To them TALBOT, and Some of his Officers. TAL. My gracious prince,—and honourable peers, Hearing of your arrival in this realm, I have a while given truce unto my wars, In fign whereof, this arm-that hath reclaim'd To your obedience fifty fortreffes, Twelve cities, and feven walled towns of ftrength, Befide five hundred prisoners of esteem, Lets fall his fword before your highness' feet; Firft to my God, and next unto your grace. K. HEN. Is this the lord Talbot, unele Glofter, That hath so long been refident in France? Gto. Yes, if it please your majefty, my liege. K. HEN. Welcome, brave captain, and victorious When I was young, (as yet I am not old,) Or been reguerdon'd 4 with so much as thanks, [Exeunt King HENRY, GLOSTER, TALBOT, VER. Now, fir, to you, that were so hot at sea, Difgracing of thefe colours that I wear s Is this the lord Talbot, uncle Glofter,] Sir Thomas Hanmer fupplies the apparent deficiency, by reading Is this the fam'd lord Talbot, &c. So, in Troilus and Crefida: My well fam'd lord of Troy-" STEEVENS. 2 I do remember how my father faid,] The author of this play was not a very correct hiftorian. Henry was but nine months old when his father died, and never faw him. MALONE. 3 refolved of your truth,] i. e. confirmed in opinion of it. So, in the Third Part of this play: I am refolu'd "That Clifford's manhood lies upon his tongue." STEEVENS. 4 Or been reguerdon'd-] i. e. rewarded. The word was obfolete even in the time of Shakspeare. Chaucer ufes it in the Boke of Boethius. STEEVENS. 5 thefe colours that I wear] This was the badge of a In honour of my noble lord of York,- VER. Sirrah, thy lord I honour as he is. BAS. Why, what is he? as good a man as York. VER. Hark ye; not fo: in witness, take ye that. [Strikes him. BAS. Villain, thou know'ft, the law of arms is fuch, That, who so draws a fword, 'tis present death;" rofe, and not an officer's fcarf. So, in Love's Labour's Loft, A& III. fcene the last : "And wear his colours like a tumbler's hoop." TOLLET. • That, who fo draws a fword, 'tis prefent death ;] Shakspeare wrote: draws a fword i'th' prefence 't's death; i. e. in the court, or in the presence chamber, Warburton. This reading cannot be right, because, as Mr. Edwards obferved, it cannot be pronounced. It is, however, a good comment, as it shows the author's meaning. JOHNSON. I believe the line should be written as it is in the folio: That, who fo draws a fword, i. e. (as Dr. Warburton has obferved,) with a menace in the court, or in the presence chamber. Johnson, in his collection of Ecclefiaftical Laws, has preserved the following, which was made by Ina, king of the West Saxons, 693: "If any one fight in the king's house, let him forfeit all his eftate, and let the king deem whether he shall live or not." I am told that there are many other ancient canons to the same purpofe. Grey. STEEVENS. Sir William Blackstone obferves that, "by the ancient law before the Conqueft, fighting in the king's palace, or before the king's judges, was punished with death. So too, in the old Gothic conftitution, there were many places privileged by law, quibus major reverentia et fecuritas debetur, ut templa et judicia, Or elfe this blow fhould broach thy dearest blood. But I'll unto his majefty, and crave I may have liberty to venge this wrong; When thou fhalt fee, I'll meet thee to thy coft. VER. Well, mifcreant, I'll be there as foon as you; And, after, meet you fooner than you would. [Exeunt. ACT IV. SCENE I. The fame. A Room of State. Enter King HENRY, GLOSTER, EXETER, YORK, SUFFOLK, SOMERSET, WINCHESTER, WARWICK, TALBOT, the Governour of Paris, and Others. GLO. Lord bishop, set the crown upon his head. WIN. God fave king Henry, of that name the fixth! GLO. Now, governour of Paris, take your oath,— [Governour kneels. que fancta habebantur,arces et aula regis,-denique locus quilibet prefente aut adventante rege. And at prefent with us, by the Stat. 33 Hen. VIII. c. xii. malicious ftriking in the king's palace, wherein his royal perfon refides, whereby blood is drawn, is punishable by perpetual imprifonment and fine, at the king's pleasure, and also with lofs of the offender's right hand, the folemn execution of which sentence is prescribed in the ftatute at length." Commentaries, Vol. IV. p. 124. "By the ancient common law, also before the Conqueft, ftriking in the king's court of juftice, or drawing a sword therein, was a capital felony." Ibid. p. 125. REED. That you elect no other king but him: This fhall ye do, fo help you righteous God! Enter Sir JOHN FASTOLFE. FAST. My gracious fovereign, as I rode from Calais, To hafte unto your coronation, A letter was deliver'd to my hands, Writ to your grace from the duke of Burgundy. TAL. Shame to the duke of Burgundy, and thee! I vow'd, bafe knight, when I did meet thee next, To tear the garter from thy craven's leg,8 [Plucking it off. (Which I have done) because unworthily Thou waft inftalled in that high degree.Pardon me, princely Henry, and the reft: This daftard, at the battle of Patay,9 tend. fuch as fhall pretend-] To pretend is to defign, to inJOHNSON. So, in Macbeth: "What good could they pretend ?" STEEVENS. To tear the garter from thy craven's leg,] Thus the old copy. The laft line fhould run thus: -from thy craven leg, i. e. thy mean, daftardly leg. WHALLEY. STEEVENS. at the battle of Patay,] The old has-Poitiers. copy The battle of Poitiers was fought in the year 13 of King Edward III. and the fcene now lies in the MALONE. 7, the 31ft 7th year of |