THE THIRD PART OF HENRY THE SIXT.

Act I. i. 16—" Whom I encountred as the Battels joyned."

Scriptural phraseology—

Gen. xiv. 8-" And they joyned Battels with them."

Act I. i. 161-" May that ground gape and swallow me alive." Compare the destruction of Korah and his familyNum. xvi. 30-" And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up."

Act I. i. 185

Northumberland. "Be thou a prey unto the house of York,
And die in bands for this unmanly deed."

Compare for the language, Genevan Psalms: "The Com-
plaint of a Sinner "—

“That even the man rightwise

Falls oft in sinfull bandes."

Ps. lxxix., J. Hopkins

"Lord set them out of band

Which unto death were destinate

And in their enemies' hand."

Ps. lxxiii. 4-" For there are no bonds in their death" (Authorised-"bands").

Isa. xlii. 22—“ They shall be for a prey and none shall deliver."
Act I. iii. 8-

"Ah, Clifford ! murther not this innocent child,

Lest thou be hated both of God and man."

For the guilt of murder compare

Ps. x. 8—" In the secret places doth he murther the innocent." Ps. xi. 5-"The Lord will trie the righteous: but the wicked

and him that loveth iniquitie doth his soul hate."

Ezek. xxxv. 6-" Therefore as I live, sayth the Lord God, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee, except thou hate blood, even blood shall pursue thee."

Gen. iv. 14-(And Kain sayde to the Lord) "A vagabond and a runnagate on the earth, and whosoever findeth mee shall slay me."

Act I. iii. 40

"Thou hast one son, for his sake pity me
Lest, in revenge thereof, sith God be just,
He be as miserably slain as I."

Here sith since; sith also = ago.

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Ps. lxii., Genevan Version, J. Hopkins

"The Lord long sith one thing doth tell
Which here to minde I call."

Ps. lxxiii., J. Hopkins

"O Lord, thou dost revenge all wrong
That office longs to thee.

Sith vengeance doth to thee belong
Declare that all may see."

Isa. xlv. 21-" A just God and a Saviour."

Rom. xii. 19—“Vengeance is Mine, I will repay, sayth the Lord."

Rev. xv. 3-" Lord God Almightie, just and true are Thy ways."

Act I. iv. 92

"To make me sport;

Yorke cannot speake, unlesse he weare a crowne.

A crowne for Yorke: and Lords, bow lowe to him,

Hold you his handes, whilest I doe set it on.

I marry sir, now lookes he like a King."

For a Scripture parallel compare

Matt. xxvii. 29-" Platted a crowne of thornes, and put it upon His head, and a reed in His right hande, and bowed their knees before Him and mocked Him, saying, God save thee, King of the Jewes."

Luke xxiii. 11-"And Herod with his men of warre, despised Him and mocked Him."

Act I. iv. 112-"Whose tongue more poysons than the Adder's Tooth."

Ps. cxl. 3-"They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent, adders' poyson is under their lips."

Act I. iv. 167

"Hard hearted Clifford, take me from the world:

My soule to heaven, my Blood upon your heads."

Matt. xxvii. 25—“ His blood be upon us and on our children."

Act I. iv. 187

"Open Thy Gate of Mercy, gracious God,

My soul flyes through these woundes to seeke out Thee."
Genevan Psalms: "The Lamentation of a Sinner".
"So come I to thy mercy gate

Where mercy doth abounde."

Ps. xxxi. 5" Into Thine hand I commend my spirit." Ps. xxxii. 10-"He that trusteth in the Lord mercy shall compasse him."

Eccles. xii. 7-"And the spirite return to God who gave it." Isa. lx. 20" The Lord shalbe thine everlasting light and the dayes of thy sorrow shall be ended."

Act II. i. 21–

Richard "See how the morning opes her Golden Gates,
And takes her farwell of the glorious Sunne,

How well resembles it the prime of Youth,
Trimm'd like a Yonker prancing to his love!"

A reference to the passage in the Psalms

Ps. xix. 5-"The sunne which cometh foorth as a bridegroom out of his chamber and rejoyceth like a mightie man to run his race;" while the very word "trimmed" occurs in the Metrical Version of the Psalm by Thomas Sternhold

Ps. xix., T. S.—

"In them the Lord made for the Sunne

A place of great renowne

Who like a bridegroom readie trim'd

Doth from his chamber come."

Act II. ii. 6—" Withhold revenge, dear God, 'tis not my fault."

Compare Rom. xii. 19-"Vengeance is mine, I will repay, sayth the Lord."

Act II. ii. 14—

"Whose hand is that the forest bear doth lick?
Not his that spoils her young before her face."

For Scripture parallel of the fierceness of the bear com

pare

Hos. xiii. 8-“ I will meete them as a beare that is robbed of her whelpes, and I will break the kall (caul) of their hearts, and there will I devoure them."

Act II. ii. 162

"But when we saw our sunshine made thy Spring,

And that thy Summer bred us no increase,

We set the Axe to thy usurping Roote."

A reference to the Barren Fig Tree

Luke xiii. 6, 7-" He came and sought fruite thereon and found none. Then sayde He . . . cut it downe; why keepeth it also the grounde barren."

Luke iii. 9-" Now also is the axe layd unto the roote of the tree: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit, shal be hewen downe and cast into the fire."

Act II. iii. 15-" Thy brother's blood the thirsty earth hath drunk."

Reference to the passage in Genesis

Gen. iv. 10" The voyce of thy brother's blood cryeth unto me from the earth." Authorised-"ground." II-"Now therefore art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood."

Line 22" The noble gentleman gave up the Ghost."

Common Biblical expression.

Act II. iii. 22-" Then let the earth be drunken with our blood."

"Drunk with blood," a Biblical figure

Isa. xlix. 26-“ Drunken with their owne blood."

Ezek xxxix. 19—“ And drink blood till ye be drunken.”
Rev. xvii. 6—“ Drunken with the blood of Saintes."

Deut. xxxii. 42-" Arrowes drunk with blood."

Isa. xxxiv. 6-"Sword shall be drunken."

Jer. xlvi. 10-"Sword made drunke with their blood."
Act II. iii. 35: Edward of York-

"And ere my Knee rise from the Earth's cold face,
I throw my hands, mine eyes, my heart to thee."

Ps. cxxiii. 1—“I will lift up mine eyes unto Thee, that dwellest in the heavens."

Lam. iii. 41-"Let us lift up our hearts with our handes unto God in the heavens."

Act II. iii. 37

"Thou setter up and plucker downe of Kings,
Beseeching thee (if with thy will it stands)
That to my Foes this body must be prey,
Yet that thy brazen gates of heaven may ope
And give sweet passage to my sinful soul."

Compare Act III. iii. 157, where Queen Margaret uses.
to Warwick the same terms: "Proud setter up and

puller down of Kings."

Dan. ii. 20" The name of God be praysed for ever and ever for wisedome and strength are His. And He changeth the times and seasons: He taketh away Kings, He setteth up Kings."

Ps. lxxv. 27, Genevan Version—

"The Lord our God he is,

The righteous Judge alone:

He putteth downe the one, and sets

An other in the throne.'

1 Sam. iii. 18-"It is the Lord, let Him do what seemeth Him

good."

Matt. xxvi. 42-" Thy will be done."

Ps. xxiv. 7-" Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up ye everlasting doores."

Rev. xxi. 24-" And the gates of it shall not be shut by day, for there shall be no night there."

Act II. v. 47

"And to conclude the shepherd's homely curds,

His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle,

His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade,
All which secure and sweetly he enjoys,

Is far beyond a prince's delicates,
His viands sparkling in a golden cup,

His body couched in a curious bed,

When care, mistrust, and treason wait on him."

For Scripture parallels see

Eccles. iv. 6-"Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.”