Came like itself, in base and abject routs.”
Henry IV, Part II, IV, i, 32.
The same construction appears in [V, iii, 95].
[I, ii, 163]. Writ man—i. e., wrote himself down as a man.
[I, ii, 170]. Granson, Morat, Nancy—the “three memorable overthrows” which Charles the Bold suffered at the hands of the Swiss cantons and Duke René of Loraine. The battle of Granson took place March 3, 1476; that of Morat, June 22, 1476; that of Nancy, January 5, 1477. On each occasion the army of Charles was annihilated; and finally at Nancy he was himself slain. These defeats ended the power of Burgundy.
[I, ii, 171]. The warlike Charloyes—Charles the Bold, the Duke of Burgundy.
[I, ii, 185]. Ill ayres—noxious exhalations, miasma.
[I, ii, 194–5]. They are onely good men, that pay what they owe.
2 Cred. And so they are.
1 Cred. ’Tis the City Doctrine.
Cf. Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice, I, iii, 12 ff.: