We think, if any thing could give additional effect to the fine taunting irony of these lines, it would be Mr. Kean’s mode of delivering them. He is almost the only actor who does not spoil Shakspeare.
Again, a very spirited scene of a different description, which is an astonishing mixture of violence and duplicity, occurs when Glo’ster rushes into the apartment where the Queen’s friends are assembled, to complain of their taking advantage of his meekness and simplicity:—
Glo’ster.—They do me wrong, and I will not endure it.
Who are they that complain unto the king,
That I, forsooth, am stern, and love them not?
By holy Paul, they love his Grace but lightly,
That fill his ears with such dissentious rumours!
Because I cannot flatter, and speak fair,
Smile in men’s faces, smooth, deceive, and cog,
Duck with French nods, and apish courtesy,