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Enter the Lord Chamberlain.

CHAM. Mercy o'me, what a multitude are here! They grow ftill too, from all parts they are coming, As if we kept a fair here! Where are thefe porters, These lazy knaves?-Ye have made a fine hand, fellows.

There's a trim rabble let in: Are all these

Your faithful friends o'the fuburbs? We fhall have Great ftore of room, no doubt, left for the ladies, When they pass back from the christening.

PORT. An't please your honour We are but men; and what fo many may do, Not being torn a pieces, we have done : An army cannot rule them.

CHAM.

As I live,

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If the king blame me for't, I'll lay ye all
By the heels, and fuddenly; and on your heads
Clap round fines, for neglect: You are lazy knaves;
And here ye lie baiting of bumbards, when
Ye fhould do fervice. Hark, the trumpets found;
They are come already from the christening:
Go, break among the prefs, and find a way out
To let the troop pafs fairly; or I'll find

A Marshalsea, shall hold you play these two months.
PORT. Make way there for the princess.

MAN. You great fellow, ftand close up, or I'll make your head ake.

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ye

lie baiting of bumbards,] A bumbard is an alebarrel; to bait bumbards is to tipple, to lie at the Spigot. JOHNSON. It appears from a paffage already quoted in a note on The Tempest, Act II. fc. ii. out of Shirley's Martyr'd Soldier, 1638, that bumbards were the large veffels in which the beer was carried to foldiers upon duty. They refembled black jacks of leather. So, in Woman's a Weathercock, 1612: "She looks like a black bombard with a pint pot waiting upon it." STEEVENS.

PORT. You i'the camlet, get up o'the rail; I'll pick you. o'er the pales elfe."

SCENE IV.

The Palace."

[Exeunt.

Enter Trumpets, founding; then two Aldermen, Lord Mayor, Garter, CRANMER, Duke of NORFOLK, with his Marshal's staff, Duke of SUFFOLK, two Noblemen bearing great standing-bowls3 for the christening gifts; then four Noblemen bearing a canopy, under which the Duchefs of NORFOLK, godmother, bearing the child richly habited in a mantle, &c. Train borne by a Lady: then follows the Marchionefs of DORSET, the other godmother, and ladies. The troop pafs once about the stage, and Garter Speaks.

GART. Heaven, from thy endless goodness,* fend profperous life, long, and ever happy, to the high and mighty princefs of England, Elizabeth!

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-get up o'the rail;] We must rather read-get up off the rail,-or,-get off the rail. M. MASON.

9 I'll pick you o'er the pales elfe.] To pick is to pitch. "To pick a dart," Cole renders, jaculor. DiCT, 1679. See a note on Coriolanus, Act I. fc. i. where the word is, as I conceive, rightly fpelt.-Here the fpelling in the old copy is peck.

MALONE. To pick and to pitch were anciently fynonymous. So, in Stubbes's Anatomy of Abules, 1595, p. 138: " to catch him on the hip, and to picke him on his necke." STEEVENS.

2 The Palace.] At Greenwich, where, as we learn from Hall, fo. 217, this proceffion was made from the church of the Friars.

REED.

3 - ftanding-bowls—] i. e. bowls elevated on feet or pedestals.

STEEVENS.

Heaven, from thy endless goodness, &c.] Thefe words are not

Flourish. Enter King, and Train.

CRAN. [Kneeling.] And to your royal grace, and
the good queen,

My noble partners, and myself, thus pray ;-
All comfort, joy, in this moft gracious lady,
Heaven ever laid up to make parents happy,
May hourly fall upon ye!

K. HEN.

Thank you, good lord archbishop: '

What is her name?

CRAN.

K. HEN.

Elizabeth.

Stand up, lord.[The King kiffes the child.

With this kifs take my bleffing: God protect thee! Into whofe hand I give thy life.

CRAN.

Amen.

K. HEN. My noble goffips, ye have been too

prodigal :

I thank ye heartily; fo fhall this lady,
When she has so much English.

CRAN.
Let me fpeak, fir,
For Heaven now bids me; and the words I utter
Let none think flattery, for they'll find them truth.
This royal infant, (heaven ftill move about her!)
Though in her cradle, yet now promises
Upon this land a thousand thousand bleffings,
Which time shall bring to ripeness: She shall be

the invention of the poet, having been pronounced at the chriftening of Elizabeth. See Hall's Chronicle, Henry VIII. fol. 218. MALONE.

5 Thank you, good lord archbishop:] I fuppofe the word archbishop fhould be omitted, as it only ferves to fpoil the measure. Be it remembered alfo that archbishop, throughout this play, is accented on the first fyllable. STEEVENS.

(But few now living can behold that goodness,)
A pattern to all princes living with her,
And all that fhall fucceed: Sheba was never
More covetous of wisdom, and fair virtue,
Than this pure foul fhall be: all princely graces,
That mould up fuch a mighty piece as this is,
With all the virtues that attend the good,

Shall still be doubled on her: truth fhall nurfe her,
Holy and heavenly thoughts ftill counsel her:
She shall be lov'd, and fear'd: Her own fhall bless

her;

Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn,

And hang their heads with forrow: Good grows with her:

In her days, every man shall eat in safety
Under his own vine," what he plants; and fing
The merry fongs of peace to all his neighbours:
God fhall be truly known; and those about her
From her fhall read the perfect ways of honour,'

every man shall eat in fafety

Under his own vine,] This part of the prophecy feems to have been burlesqued by Beaumont and Fletcher in The Beggar's Bush, where orator Higgin is making his congratulatory fpeech to the new king of the beggars:

"Each man fhall eat his ftolen eggs, and butter,
"In his own fhade, or funshine," &c.

The original thought, however, is borrowed from the 4th chapter of the first book of Kings: Every man dwelt fafely under his

vine." STEEVENS.

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A fimilar expreffion is in Micah, iv. 4: "But they fhall fit every man under his vine, and under his fig tree, and none shall make them afraid." REED.

7 From her ball read the perfect ways of honour,] The old copy reads-way. The flight emendation now made is fully justified by the fubfequent line, and by the fcriptural expreffion which our author probably had in his thoughts: "Her ways are ways of pleafantnefs, and all her paths are peace." MALONE.

And by thofe claim their greatnefs, not by blood. [Nor fhall this peace fleep with her: But as when

By thofe, in the laft line, means by thofe ways, and proves that we must read ways, inftead of way, in the line preceding. Shall read from her, means, shall learn from her. M. MASON.

8 [Nor fball this peace fleep with her: &c.] Thefe lines, to the interruption by the king, feem to have been inferted at fome revifal of the play, after the acceffion of King James. If the paffage, included in crotchets, be left out, the fpeech of Cranmer proceeds in a regular tenour of prediction, and continuity of fentiments; but, by the interpofition of the new lines, he firft celebrates Elizabeth's fucceffor, and then wishes he did not know that the was to die; firft rejoices at the confequence, and then laments the cause. Our author was at once politick and idle; he refolved to flatter James, but neglected to reduce the whole fpeech to propriety; or perhaps intended that the lines inferted fhould be spoken in the action, and omitted in the publication, if any publication was ever in his thoughts. Mr. Theobald has made the fame obfervation.

JOHNSON

I agree entirely with Dr. Johnfon with refpect to the time when thefe additional lines were inferted. See An Attempt to afcertain the Order of Shakspeare's Plays, Vol. I. I fufpect they were added in 1613, after Shakspeare had quitted the ftage, by that hand which tampered with the other parts of the play fo much, as to have rendered the versification of it of a different colour from all the other plays of Shakspeare. MALONE.

Such indeed were the fentiments of Mr. Roderick, though the examples adduced by him in fupport of them are, in my judgement, undecifive. See Canons of Criticism, edit. 1763, p. 263. But, were the fact as he has stated it, we know not how far our poet might have intentionally deviated from his ufual practice of verfification.

If the reviver of this play (or tamperer with it, as he is ftyled by Mr. Malone,) had so much influence over its numbers as to have entirely changed their texture, he must be supposed to have new woven the fubftance of the whole piece; a fact almost incredible.

The lines under immediate confideration were very probably furnished by Ben Jonfon; for

"When heaven fhall call her from this cloud of darkness," (meaning the "dim fpot" we live in,) is a feeming imitation of

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