Shakespeare's First Part of King Henry VI

Whom should we match with Henry, being a king,
But Margaret, that is daughter to a king?
Her peerless feature, joined with her birth,
Approves her fit for none but for a king:
Her valiant courage and undaunted spirit,
More than in women commonly is seen,
Will answer our hope in issue of a king ;
For Henry, son unto a conqueror,
Is likely to beget more conquerors,
If with a lady of so high resolve

As is fair Margaret he be link'd in love.

Then yield, my lords; and here conclude with me
That Margaret shall be queen, and none but she.
King. Whether it be through force of your report,
My noble Lord of Suffolk, or for that
My tender youth was never yet attaint
With any passion of inflaming love,
I cannot tell; but this I am assured,
I feel such sharp dissension in my breast,
Such fierce alarums both of hope and fear,
As I am sick with working of my thoughts.

Take, therefore, shipping; post, my lord, to France;
Agree to any covenants, and procure

That Lady Margaret do vouchsafe to come
To cross the seas to England, and be crown'd

King Henry's faithful and anointed queen :
For your expenses and sufficient charge,
Among the people gather up a tenth.
Be gone, I say; for, till you do return,
I rest perplexed with a thousand cares.
And you, good uncle, banish all offence:
If you do censure me by what you were,
Not what you are, I know it will excuse
This sudden execution of my will.
And so, conduct me where, from company,
I may revolve and ruminate my grief.
Glou. Ay, grief, I fear me, both at first and last.

100

[Exit.

[Exeunt Gloucester and Exeter.

Suf. Thus Suffolk hath prevail'd; and thus he goes,

As did the youthful Paris once to Greece,
With hope to find the like event in love,
But prosper better than the Trojan did.

Margaret shall now be queen, and rule the king;
But I will rule both her, the king and realm. [Exit.

Glossary.

vii. 84. AMORT; ii. 124.

Ff. 3, 4,

'all a.," quite dejected; III.

ANTIC, buffoon; (Ff. 1, 2, "antique";
"antick"); IV. vii. 18.
APPARELL'D, dressed; II. iv. 22.
APPARENT, evident, plain; II. i. 3.
APPREHENSION, Conception of
me; (Theobald, reprehension";
Vaughan, misapprehension" for
"this ap."); II. iv. 102.
ARGUE, show, prove; II. v. 7.
ARGUMENT, token; V. i. 46.
ARMS, coat of arms; I. i. 80.
As, that; III. i. 16.

ASTREA, goddess of justice; (Ff. 2, 3, 4," bright Astræa"); I. vi. 4. ATTACHED, arrested; II. iv. 96. ATTAINT, tainted; V. v. 81. ATTAINTED, tainted, disgraced, II. iv. 92; convicted of capital treason, II. iv. 96.

ATTORNEYSHIP, discretional agency of another; V. v. 56.

BANDING, uniting in troops; III. i.

81.

BANNING, cursing; V. iii. 42. BAY; "stand at b.," a term. of the chase," when the game is driven to extremity and turns against its pursuers"; IV. ii. 52.

BEARD; "b. thee to thy face," set thee at defiance; I. iii. 44. BEARING-CLOTH, the cloth or mantle in which the child was carried to the font; I. iii. 42.

BENEFIT; of b.", used in its legal sense of property bestowed by the favour of another; V. iv. 152. BESIDE, besides; III. i. 24.

BEST; "I were best," it were better for me; V. iii. 83.

BESTOW, place, lodge; III. ii. 88. BEWRAY'D, betrayed; IV. i. 107. BISHOP; "the b. and the D. of Gloucester's men"; i.e. bishop's men (Hanmer, "Bishop's"); III.* i. 78.

BLOOD; "in b.," in perfect health and vigour; a technical term of the chase; IV. ii. 48.

BLUE COATS, blue was the ordinary colour of the livery of serving-men ; 1. iii. 47:

BOOT; it is no b.," it is no profit, use; IV. vi. 52.

BOUGHT AND SOLD, betrayed; IV. iv.

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CENSURE, judge; V. v. 97. CHALLENGE, claim; V. iv. 153. CHARGE, expense, cost; V. v. 92. CHEER, Countenance; I. ii. 48. CIRCUMSTANCE, circumstances, details; I. i. 109. CLUBS; "I'll call for clubs"; "in any public affray the cry was, 'Clubs! clubs!' by way of calling for persons with clubs to part the combatants" (Nares); I. iii. 84.

COAT, coat of arms; I. i. 81. COGNIZANCE, badge; II. iv. 108. COLLOP, slice of meat; V. iv. 18. COLOURS, pretence (with play upon the two senses of the word); II. iv. 34.

COMMANDMENT, command; quadrisyllabic; (Ff. 1, 2, 3, "commandement"); I. iii. 20.

CONCEIT, invention, IV. i. 102; understanding, V. v. 15. CONSENTED UNTO, conspired to bring about; I. i. 5.

CONTEMPTIBLE, mean, low; I. ii. 75. CONTUMELIOUSLY, contemptuously; I. iii. 58.

CONVEYANCE, dishonest practices; I. iii. 2.

COOLING CARD, "something to damp

or overwhelm the hopes of an expectant"; V. iii. 84.

CORNETS, horsemen, cavalry; IV. iii.

25.

CORROSIVE, fretting, giving pain; (Ff. 2, 3, corrasive"; Boswell, "a corrosive"); III. iii. 3.

COURT OF GUARD, main guard-house; II. I. 4.

CRAZY, decrepit, weak; III. ii. 89. CRESTLESS, with no right to coatarmour; II. iv. 85.

CUNNING, skill; III. iii. 1o.

DAMASCUS; alluding to the ancient belief that it was near the place where Cain killed Abel; I. iii. 39. DARNEL, a kind of weed, rye-grass, which is thought to be injurious to the eyes; hence the old proverb, lolio victitare (to feed on darnel); "tares" in Matthew xiii. 25, should perhaps properly be rendered "darnels"; III. ii. 44.

DEAD (F. 2, "dread"); I. iii. 34. DEAREST, most precious; III. iv. 40. DENIS ; Saint Denis," the patron saint of France; I. vi. 28. Determined, limited; IV. vi. 9. DEVISE ON, lay schemes; (Vaughan "decide"); I. ii. 124.

DIFFIDENCE, distrust, suspicion; III. iii. 10.

DIGEST, vent; (F. 2, “disgest"); IV. i. 167.

DISABLE, disparage, undervalue; V iii. 67.

DISCOVER, tell; II. v. 59.

DISEASE, cause of uneasiness, trouble; II. v. 44.

DISMAY NOT, be not dismayed; III. iii. I.

DISTRAIN'D, taken possession of; I. iii. 61.

DROOPING CHAIR, chair fit for declining age; IV. v. 5.

DUE, endue (? give as thy due); (Ff., "dew"; Collier, "'due"); IV. ii. 34. DUMB SIGNIFICANTS, signs, indications; (Pope, "d. significance"); II. iv. 26.

EFFUSED, shed; V. iv. 52.

EMULATION, rivalry, contention; IV. iv. 21.

ENDAMAGE, injure; II. i. 77.
ENRANK, place in order, battle array ;
I. i. 115.

ENTERTAIN, maintain, keep; (Collier
MS., "enterchange"); V. iv. 175.
ENVY, enmity; IV. i. 193.
ESPIALS, spies; I. iv. 8.

EXEMPT, cut off, excluded; II. iv. 93.
EXEQUIES, obsequies, funeral rites;
III. ii. 133.

EXIGENT, end (Vaughan, "exeunt");

II. v. 9.

EXPULSED, expelled; III. iii. 25. EXTIRPED, extirpated; III. iii. 24. . EXTREMES, "' most " ex., greatest extremities of danger (Hanmer, 66 worst ex."); IV. i. 38.

FACE, lie with effrontery; V. iii. 142. FAMILIAR, familiar spirit; III. ii.

122.

FANCY, love; V. iii. 91.

FASHION (Pope, “passion"; Theobald,
"faction"); II. iv. 76.
FEATURE, make, form; V. v. 68.
FLESH, initiate; IV. vii. 36.
FLOWER-DE-LUCES, the white lilies,

the emblem of France; I. i. 80.

FOND, foolish; II. iii. 45.
FOOT-BOYS, lackeys; III. ii. 69.
FORGED, Counterfeit; IV. i. 102.
FORLORN, utterly wretched, referring
to former wretchedness (Collier
MS., "forborne"); I. ii. 19.
FORTH, forth from, from out; I. ii. 54.
FORTUNE, fate; IV. iv. 39.

FRANCE HIS SWORD, France's sword,

i.e., the sword of the King of France (Rowe, "France's "); IV. vi. 3. FROISSART (Ff., 66 Froysard"); I. ii. 29.

GIGLOT, wanton; IV. vii. 41. GIMMORS, gimcracks, curious contrivances (Ff. 2, 3, 4, "Gimmalls");

I. ii. 41.

GIRD, rebuke; III. i. 131.

GIRD, invest (Ff., 1, 2, "gyrt"; F. 3, "girt"); III. i. 171. "Charles 19 his g i.e. GLEEKS; Charles' scoffs; (Ff., "glikes"); III. ii. 123.

GLOSS, specious appearance; IV. i. 103.

GOLIASES, Goliaths; I. ii. 33. GRACELESS, profligate; V. iv. 14. GRAVE, dignified (Collier, "brave"); V. i. 54.

GRISLY, grim, terrible; I. iv. 47. GUARDANT, guard, sentinel;" IV. vii.

HALCYON DAYS (Ff. 1, 2, "Halcyons days"); calm days; halcyon is the old name of the King-fisher. In Holland's Pliny occurs the following illustrative passage:-"They lay and sit about mid-winter when days be shortest; and the times whiles they are broody is called Halcyon days, for during that season the sea is calm and navigable, especially on the coast of Sicily" (Bk. X., ch. xxxii); I. ii. 131.

HAND; 66 out of h.," directly, at once; III. ii. 102.

HAUGHTY, high-spirited, adventurous; II. v. 79.

HAVE WITH THEE, I'll go with you; II. iv. 114.

HEAD, armed force; I. iv. 100.

HEART-BLOOD, heart's blood; I. iii. 83.

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