The folio has " sonne."-Corrected in the second folio.

An error has been suspected here. Roderick proposed "fell-barking;" Heath would read "fell-lurching,”—which is little more than an alteration of spelling (see Richardson's Dict. in v. Lurch); and Mr. Collier's Ms. Corrector substitutes "fell-looking."

P. 191. (204)

"Oft have I seen a hot o'erweening cur

Run back and bite, because he was withheld;
Who, being suffer'd with the bear's fell paw,

Hath clapp'd his tail between his legs and cried :"

Mr. Collier's Ms. Corrector substitutes "Who, having suffer'd with the bear's fell paw," &c. :- -on which Mr. Singer (Shakespeare Vindicated, &c. p. 156) remarks truly enough "that the old copy needs no change ;" but he misses the truth when he adds that "suffer'd is here used passively in the sense of punished." Nothing can be more evident than that "being suffer'd” is put in opposition to "withheld," and has here the same meaning as it has earlier in the play, p. 160,

"Lest, being suffer'd in that harmful slumber," &c.

and also in The Third Part of Henry VI. act iv. sc. 8,

"A little fire is quickly trodden out;

Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench."

The cur, when withheld, turned round and snapped at those who restrained him; but, being suffer'd to engage with the bear's fell paw, &c.

1864. Since I have been accused of borrowing from other commentators without acknowledgment, and since I find that Mr. Staunton cites here the same passages as I do to explain the words "being suffer'd," -I think it right to mention, that the above note appeared in the first edition of my Shakespeare before the publication of the No. of Mr. Staunton's edition which contained the present play.

The folio has

"And shame thine honourable Age with blood?

For shame."

Corrected by Walker (Crit. Exam. &c. vol. i. p. 311).

So The First Part of the Contention, &c.-The folio has "housed;" the second folio "houses."

P. 193. (209)

"And so to arms, victorious father,"

The editor of the second folio, to assist the metre, reads (tamely enough) "And so to arms, victorious noble father." But in this line, and in a line of the next scene,

"To cease!-Wast thou ordain'd, dear father," Walker bids us "note the apparent lengthening of the word father." Shakespeare's Versification, &c. p. 210.

"It is remarkable, that at the beginning of the Third Part of this historical play, the poet has forgot this occurrence, and there represents Clifford's death as it really happened;

'Lord Clifford, and Lord Stafford, all a-breast,

Charg'd our main battle's front, and, breaking in,

Were by the swords of common soldiers slain.'" PERCY.

"For this inconsistency the elder poet [or poets] must answer; for these lines [with some variation] are in The True Tragedie of Richard Duke of York, &c., on which, as I conceive, The Third Part of King Henry VI. was founded." MALONE.

P. 194. (211) "To cease!-Wast thou ordain'd, dear father," See note 209.-The second folio has "

P. 195. (212)

ordained (O deere Father)."

"So, lie thou there ;-."

From the corresponding passage in the original play Malone conjectures that, after this, a line has been omitted in the folio, to the following effect;

"Behold, the prophecy is come to pass;

For underneath," &c.—

"The death of Somerset here accomplishes that equivocal prediction given by [the Spirit raised by] Jourdain, the witch [&c.], concerning this duke; which we meet with at the close of the First Act of this play [p. 126];

'Let him shun castles;

Safer shall he be upon the sandy plains

Than where castles mounted stand,'

i.e. the representation of a castle mounted for a sign." THEOBALD.

The folio has "our present parts."-Earlier in this scene, Young Clifford speaks of "the frozen bosoms of our part” (i. e. party).

So Mr. Collier's Ms. Corrector.-The folio has "Of Salsbury."-In the corresponding speech of the original play York asks, "But did you see old Salsbury," &c.; and we have already had “ Old Salisbury," p. 191.

P. 196. (215) "Aged contusions and all brush of time,

And, like a gallant in the brow of youth,"

Here Mr. Collier's Ms. Corrector alters "brush" to "bruise" (Warburton's reading), and "brow" to "bloom."-For "brow" (which, according to Steevens, is equivalent to "height") Johnson proposed "blow."-(In support of the alterations "bruise" and "bloom" Mr. W. N. Lettsom cites

"And, with gray hairs and bruise of many days,

"The first folio reads 'Now by my hand.' This undoubtedly was one of the many alterations made by the editors of that copy, to avoid the penalty of the Stat. 3 Jac. I. c. 21. The true reading I have restored from the old play." MALONE,-who is followed by the Cambridge Editors.-Mr. Collier defends (but weakly, I think) the lection of the folio.

P. 197. (217)

"Sound drums and trumpets;—”

So the original play.—Here the folio has “Sound Drumme and Trumpets;" but in The Third Part of Henry VI. act i. sc. 1, it has "Sound Drummes and Trumpets."

THE THIRD PART OF

KING HENRY THE SIXTH.