[273]. How long a time, Act I. 3. sighed his English breath, Act III. 1. The language I have learnt, Act I. 3. is hung armour, Wordsworth’s Sonnet, It is not to be thought of (1802). keen encounters. King Richard III., Act I. 2. If that thy valour, Act IV. 1 [Till thou the lie-giver and that lie do lie]. [275]. This royal throne of kings, Act II. 1 [fear’d by their breed and famous by their birth ... the envious siege]. [276]. Ourself and Bushy, Act I. 4. I thank thee, Act II. 3. O that I were a mockery king, Act IV. 1. it yearned his heart, Act V. 5. My lord, you told me, Act V. 2 [scowl on gentle Richard].
HENRY IV.
[278]. we behold the fulness. Cf. Col. ii. 9. lards the lean earth. 1 King Henry IV., Act II. 2. into thin air. The Tempest, Act IV. 1. three fingers [omit deep], Act IV. 2. it snows of meat and drink. Canterbury Tales, Prologue, 345. ascends me into the brain, Part II. Act IV. 3. a sun of man, Part I. Act II. 4. [279]. open, palpable, Part I. Act II. 4 [like their father that begets them; gross as a mountain, open, palpable]. By the lord, Part I. Act I. 2. [280]. But Hal, Part I. Act I. 2. who grew from four [two] men, Part I. Act II. 4. [281]. Harry, I do not only marvel, Part I. Act II. 4 [purses? a question to be asked].
HENRY V.
PAGE [285]. the [best] king of good fellows, Act V. 2. plume up their wills. Othello, Act I. 3. the right divine, Pope’s Dunciad, Book IV. 1. 188. [286]. when France is his, Act I. 2. O for a muse of fire, Prologue. [287]. the reformation and which is a wonder, Act I. 1. And God forbid, Act I. 2. [288]. the ill neighbourhood, For once the eagle England, and For government [the act of order], Act I. 2. [289]. rich with [omit his] praise, Act I. 2. O hard condition, Act IV. 1. [290]. The Duke of York, Act IV. 6. [291]. some disputations, Act III. 2.
HENRY VI.
[292]. flat and unraised. King Henry V., Act I., Chorus. Glory is like a circle, Part I. Act I. 2. yet tell’st thou not, Part I. Act I. 4. [293]. Aye, Edward will use women honourably, Part III. Act III. 2. We have already observed. See note to p. 200 for the source of this paragraph. [294]. The characters and situations. The material between these words and disappointed ambition (p. 297) formed part of an article by Hazlitt in The Examiner (see note to p. 200). Edward Plantagenet, Part III. Act II. 2. mock not my senseless conjuration. Richard II., Act III. 2 [foul rebellion’s arms ... lift shrewd steel ... God for his Richard]. [295]. But now the blood. Richard II., Act III. 2. cheap defence. Cf. Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France, ‘the cheap defence of nations.’ Awake, thou coward majesty [twenty thousand names] and Where is the duke. Richard II., Act III. 2. [296]. what must the king do now. Richard II., Act III. 3. This battle fares, Part III. Act II. 5. [297]. had staggered his royal person. Richard II., Act V. 5.
RICHARD III.
PAGE [298]. the character in which Garrick came out. David Garrick (1717–1779) appeared, October 19, 1741, at the theatre in Goodman’s Fields. the second character in which Mr. Kean appeared. Edmund Kean (1787–1833) appeared at Drury Lane as Shylock, January 26, 1814, on February 1st as Shylock, on February 12th as Gloster in Richard III. See Some Account of the English Stage, Genest, vol. viii. pp. 407–408, 1832. See also Hazlitt’s A View of the English Stage. But I was born, Act I. 3. [299]. Cooke. George Frederick Cooke (1756–1811) acted Richard III. at Covent Garden on September 20, 1809. See Genest’s Some Account of the English Stage, viii. p. 178. [300]. Sir Giles Overreach, in Massinger’s A New Way to Pay Old Debts (1620–33). For Hazlitt’s criticism of Kean’s acting in this and the other characters referred to in the same paragraph see his A View of the English Stage. Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave. A play (1696) by Thomas Southerne (1660/1–1746) founded on a novel of Aphra Behn’s (1640–1689). Cibber. See note to p. 157. [301]. bustle in, Act I. 1. they do me wrong, Act I. 3 [speak fair]. I beseech your graces, Act I. 1. [302]. Stay, yet look, Act IV. 1 [rude, ragged nurse]. Dighton and Forrest, Act IV. 3.