Act V. v. 8

"So part we sadly in this troublous world,

To meet with joy in sweet Jerusalem."

A reference to the Eternal City, the New JerusalemRev. xxi. 2-"The holy citie, New Hierusalem come downe from God out of heaven prepared as a bride trimmed for her husband." 4-“And God shall wipe away all teares from their eyes and there shalbe no more death, neither sorow, neither crying; neither shall there be any more paine."

Act V. v. 75

"I, but thou usest to forsweare thyselfe :

Twas sin before, but now tis charity."

Matt. v. 33-"Thou shalt not forswear thyselfe, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths."

Act V. vi. 3

"Tis sinne to flatter; good was little better,

Good Gloster, and good devil, were alike."
Scripture thus speaks of the sin of flattery—

Ps. xii. 2, 3-"They speake deceitfully every one with his neighbour, flattering with their lips and speake with a double heart. The Lord cut off all flattering lips."

Prov. xxvi. 28-"A false tongue hateth the afflicted, and a flattering mouth causeth ruine."

Dan. xi. 32-" And such as wickedly break the covenant, shall he cause to sinne by flatterie."

Act V. vi. II—

Gloster. "Suspition alwayes haunts the guilty minde,

The thief doth feare each bush an officer."

Compare

Lev. xxvi. 36-"The sound of a leafe shaken shal chase them, and they shal flee as fleeing from a sword, and they shall fall no man pursuing them."

Prov. xxviii. "The wicked flee when none pursueth."

Genevan Note-" Their owne conscience accuseth them." Act V. vi. 81-Richard of Gloster. "And this word love which Greybeards call Divine."

A reference to the text in the Epistle of John

I John iv. 7" Beloved, let us love one another, for love

commeth of God, and every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God for God is Love."

Act V. vi. 19

That thou might'st repossess the crown in peace ; And of our labours thou shalt reap the gaine." Richard. "Ile blast his Harvest, if your head were laid."

Reference to the text

John iv. 37, 38-" For herein is the saying true, that one soweth and another reapeth. I sent you to reape that whereon yee bestowed no labour; other men laboured and yee are entered into their labours."

Act V. vi. 31

Gloster. "And that I love the tree from whence you sprang'st, Witnesse the loving kisse I give the Fruite. (Aside) To say the truth, so Judas kist his Master

And cried all haile whenas he meant all harm." King Edward. "Now am I seated as my soule delights." Direct reference to Scripture—

Mark xiv. 45-"And assoone as He was come, hee went straightway to Him and sayd, Haile Master, and kissed Him. Then they layd hands on Him and tooke Him."

Isa. lxvi. 3-" Their soule delighteth."

Isa. xlii. I—" In whom my soule deliteth."

THE TRAGEDY OF RICHARD THE THIRD.

Published anonymously 1597, and "publikely acted by the right Honorable the Lorde Chamberlaine his servants."

Act I. i. 41-"Dive thoughts, down to my soul."

Compare the Scripture which makes the heart the seat of thought

Gen. vi. 5-" All the imaginations of the thoughts of his heart were only evill continually."

Matt. xv. 19-"For out of the heart cometh evil thoughts." Act I. i. 85-" His majesty hath straightly given in charge." Scriptural phrase—

Mark v. 43-" And He charged them straitly," Authorised. Wic.-" comaundide to hem greetly."

Tyn., Cran., Gen.-" charged them straytely."

Rheims "commanded them earnestly."

Act I. i. 90

Gloster. "We speake no Treason, man; we say the King
Is wise and vertuous, and his Noble Queene
Well strooke in yeares, faire and not jealious."

Wic.-" of greet age."

Tyn., Cran., Gen.-" well stricken in age."
Rheims "well striken in their daies."

Author.-"well striken in yeeres."

Concerning this phrase Bishop Wordsworth says: "I conclude this chapter with a remark upon the phrase 'well stricken in years' which we find in Luke i. 7. 'They had no child because that Elizabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.' In Tyndale's translation, 1534, and Cranmer's, 1539, the words were 'well stricken in age,' which we find also in Gen. xviii. II and xxiv. I. Is it possible

that our translator of St. Luke altered the expression out of deference to the passage of Shakespeare?" But the expression is a common one in the Genevan Bible. The Version gives "of greet yeeres;" "stricken in age;" "stricken in yeeres."

Gen. xxiv. I- "Abraham was olde and stricken in yeres." Jos. xiii. 1-"Now when Joshua was olde and striken in yeeres." I Kings i. I" David was olde and striken in yeres.'

"Strooke."

Luke xxii. 63-" And the men that held Jesus, mocked Him, and strooke Him."

2 Sam. xii. 15-"The Lord stroke the child."

Matt. xxvi. 51-" Drew his sword and stroke a servant of the hie priest."

Luke xxii. 50—

Wic.-"kit" for "cut".

Tyn.-" smote."

Cran., Gen.-" smote" and "stroke."

Rheims, Author.-" smote" and "cut."

Luke xxii. 63

Wic.-"smyten hym."

Tyn.-" smoote."

Cran.-"smote."

Gen.-" strooke him."

Rheims-"smote."

Author.-" stroke."

Matt. xxvi. 51—

Wic.-" smote."

Tyn., Cran., Gen., Author.-" stroke."

Rheims-" striking."

Act I. i. 106—“We are the Queen's abjects, and must obey." Use of Scriptural word—

Ps. xxxv. 15-"The abjects assembled themselves." So also Authorised.

In the Genevan Prayer-book, Ps. xxxv. 15-"Yea, the very abjects," and also in the notes on 2 Cor. xi. 21"Paule is called weake, in that he seemeth to the Corinthians a vile and abject man, a beggarly artificer, a most wretched and miserable idiot."

Act I. i. 130

"For they that were your Enemies, are his

And have prevail'd as much on him, as you."

Scripture phraseology—

Ps. xiii. 4-"Lest mine enemie say, I have prevail'd against him."

Isa. xlii. 13-" Shall prevaile against his enemies."

Be it lawfull that I invocate thy Ghost."
Reference to the ordinances against witchcraft—

Lev. xx. 27—“They shall die the death, they shal stone them to death."

Deut. xviii. 10-" That useth witchcraft, or a regarder of times, or a marker of the flying of fowles, or a sorcerer, or a charmer, or that counselleth with spirits, or a soothsayer, or that asketh counsel at the dead. For all that doe such things are abomination unto the Lord."

Act I. ii. 45—

Alas, I blame you not, for you are Mortall,

And Mortall eyes cannot endure the Divell.

Avant, thou dreadful minister of Hell!

Thou hadst but power over his mortall body,

His soule thou canst not have: Therefore be gone."

Richard. "Sweet Saint, for charity be not so curst."

Matt. x. 28-"And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.”

I Cor. xiii. I—" Though I speake with the tongues of men and Angells and have not love, I am as sounding brasse or a tinkling cymbal."

Genevan Note-" reasoneth first of charitie."

"Tongues of angels, and I had them, and did not use them to the benefit of my neighbour, it were nothing else but a vaine and pratling kinde of babbling."

Act I. ii. 58

"Tis thy presence that exhales this blood

From cold and empty veines where no blood dwels;