THE SECONDE PART OF HENRY THE FOURTH. Induction, line 31 "And that the King before the Douglas' Rage Stoop'd his annointed head as low as death." For parallels compare I Sam. xvi. 6-"Surely the Lord's Anointed is before him." Phil. ii. 8-" He humbled himselfe and became obedient unto the death." Act I. i. 43 "With that he gave his able Horse the head, And bending forward strooke his able (armed) heeles Catullus gives "viam vorabit," but see the description of the war-horse in the Book of Job, chapter xxxix. 27-" He swalloweth the ground for fiercenesse and rage, and he beleeveth not that it is the noyse of the trumpet." Act I. i. 59 Northum. "Yea this man's brow, like to a title leaf, A reference drawn from the marking of Cain- Rev. xiv. 9-" If any man worship the beast and his image and receive his marke on his forehead or on his hand, he also shall drinke of the wine of the wrath of God." For Act I. ii. 60 to 110 compare the whole scene of the despatching of the messengers Ahimaaz and Cushi by Joab to acquaint King David with the death of Absalom. Act. I. i. 131 "The summe of all Is, that the King hath wonne." Biblical phrase Heb. viii. I" Nowe of the things which we have spoken, this is the summe." Dan. vii. I—" Declared the summe of the matter." Num. xxxi. 26-" This is the summe." Act I. i. 137 "In poison there is physic: and these news Having been well, that would have made me sick, For parallel in thought Heb. xii. 11-"Now no chastising for the present seemeth to be joyous but grievous: but afterward it bringeth the quiet fruite of righteousnesse, unto them which are thereby exercised." Lam. iii. 27-29—“It is good for a man that he beare the yoke in his youth." Ps. cxix. 67—" Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept thy word." Job xxxvi. 10, 11-" He openeth also their eare to discipline, and commandeth them that they returne from iniquitie. If they obey and serve him, they shall end their dayes in prosperity and their yeres in pleasure." Act I. i. 155 "Let the world no longer be a stage To feede Contention in a ling'ring act; But let one spirit of the First-borne Caine Reigne in all bosomes, that each heart being set On bloody courses, the rude scene may end, And darknesse be the burier of the dead." A reference to the first murder, by Cain the eldest born, which arose from wicked envy and strife— Gen. iv. 6, 8. 1 John iii. 12—"Not as Cain which was of that wicked one and slewe his brother and wherefore slew he him, because his owne workes were evill and his brother's good." Act I. i. 166 "You cast the event of war, my noble Lord, And summed the account of chance, before you said Let us make head." A reference to the Gospel illustration of the need of fore sight and preparation Luke xiv. 31-"Or what King going to make warre against another King, sitteth not downe first, and taketh counsell, whether he be able with ten thousand to meete him that cometh against him with twentie thousand." Luke xiv. 28-"Sitteth not downe before, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to performe it." Act I. i. 200 Mort. "But now the Bishop Turnes Insurrection to Religion: Suppos'd sincere and holy in his Thoughts He's follow'd both with Body and with Minde." The Bishop as a minister of God is followed by his flock who think by this that they are serving God. Matt. xxii. 37-"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soule, and with all thy minde." Luke x. 27-"With all thy heart, and with all thy soule, with all thy strength, and with all thy thought." Act I. ii. 6—Falstaff. "The braine of this foolish compounded Clay-man." For the meaning compare Gen. ii. 7" Made man of the dust of the ground." Job xxxiii. 6—"I am also formed of the clay." Isa. lxiv. 8-"Wee are the clay, and thou art our potter, and we all are the worke of thine hands." Act I. ii. 13-"Thou whoreson Mandrake." Mandrake is a kind of plant whose root, at some distance from its upper part, is generally divided into two branches, which is the reason that this root has something of the figure of a man. Some call it a provocative and that therefore it was used in philtres. Compare Gen. xxx. 14, 15. Act I. ii. 34-Falstaff. "Let him bee damn'd like the Glutton, may his tongue be hotter, a horson Achitophel, a Rascally-yea forsooth-knave, to beare a Gentleman in hand and then stand upon security." References to the rich man and Lazarus, and to the subtle counsellor of Absalom, Ahitophel, whose wise sug gestions were neglected— Luke xvi. 19—"There was a certaine rich man which was clothed in purple and fine linnen and fared well and delicately every day." Luke xvi. 24—“Have mercy on me and send Lazarus that he may dippe the tip of his finger in water and coole my tongue: for I am tormented in this flame." 2 Sam. xvii. 14-23-"Let me chuse out nowe twelve thousand men and I will up and follow after David this night" (that is, Ahitophel desired absolute security after the success of the first move). "Nowe when Ahitophel sawe that his counsell was not followed, he sadled his asse and arose and he went home unto his citie, and put his householde in order and hanged himselfe," Act I. ii. 126—Falstaff. "I am as poore as Job, my Lord, but not so patient." Direct reference Job i. 21-" And sayd, Naked came I out of my mother's wombe, and naked shall I returne thither: the Lord hath given. and the Lord hath taken it, blessed be the Name of the Lord." James v. 11-"Yee have heard of the patience of Job." Genevan Bible Note-" Job in this historie is set before our eyes the example of a singular patience." Act I. ii. 159—Ch. Just. "There is not a white haire on your face but should have his effect of gravity." Tit. ii. 2-"That the elder men be watchfull, grave, temperate." Lev. xix. 32-"Thou shalt rise up before the hore-head and honour the person of the olde man." Prov. xvi. 31-" Age is a crowne of glory when it is found in the way of righteousnesse." Act I. ii. 162—Ch. Just. "You follow the young prince up and down, like his ill angel." Falstaff. "Not so, my lord: your ill angel is light; but I hope he that lookes on me will take me without weighing." Direct use of Scripture I Peter v. 8-"Your adversary the devil as a roaring lyon, walketh about seeking whom he may devour." Ps. lxxviii. 49-"Vexation by the sending out of evil angels," "your ill angel is light," etc., is a play upon two texts— 2 Cor. xi. 14-" Satan is transformed into an Angel of Light," and Dan. v. 27-" Thou art weyed in the balance and art found too light" (Author. "wanting") Act I. ii. 190-Falstaff. "To approve my youth further I will not: the truth is, I am only old in judgement and understanding." Quoted from the text in Corinthians 1 Cor. xiv. 20—“Brethren be not children in understanding, but as concerning maliciousnesse be children, but in understanding be of a ripe age." Compare also story of Susannna, verse 52: "O thou that art olde in a wicked life, now thy sinnes which thou hast committed aforetime are come to light." And the case of the young child Daniel who was raised up to be Judge of the Elders. Act I. ii. 196—Falstaff. “I have checked him for it, and the young lion repents: marry not in ashes and sacke-cloath but in new silke and old sacke." A play upon the custom of the Hebrews Jonah iii. 6-"Covered him with sackecloth and sate in ashes." Matt. xi. 21—“ Repented long agone in sackcloth and asshes." Luke x. 13-"A great while agone repented sitting in sackecloth and asshes." Job xlii. 6-" Therefore I abhorre myselfe and repent in dust and ashes." The Versions show some interesting differences— Wic, and Rheims use the word "penance." Tyn. and Cran. "repented," but do not use "sackecloth." Luke x. 13 Wic.-" in heire and aisches and have doon penaunce." Cran.-"repented of their synnes, sytting in heercloth and |