So hath your Highness—never King of England
Had nobles richer,” &c.
He breaks off from the grammar and natural order from earnestness, and in order to give the meaning more passionately.
Ib. Exeter's speech:—
“Yet that is but a crush'd necessity.”
Perhaps it may be “crash” for “crass” from crassus, clumsy; or it may be “curt,” defective, imperfect: anything would be better than Warburton's “'scus'd,” which honest Theobald, of course, adopts. By the by, it seems clear to me that this [pg 180] speech of Exeter's properly belongs to Canterbury, and was altered by the actors for convenience.
Act iv. sc. 3. King Henry's speech:—
“We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.”
Should it not be “live” in the first line?