Ecclus. viii. 2-"Golde and silver hath destroyed many and hath subverted the hearts of Kings."

Ecclus. xxxi. 6-"Many are destroyed by reason of golde, and have found their destruction before them. It is as a stumbling-blocke unto them that sacrifice unto it, and every foole is taken therewith."

Act V. iii. 37

"The time and my intents are savage wild,
More fierce, and more inexorable farre

Than emptie Tygers or the roaring sea."

For the roaring cruelty of the sea compare

Jer. vi. 23-" With bowe and shield shall they be weaponed; they are cruell and will have no compassion: their voyce roareth like the sea."

Act V. iii. 61—

"I beseech thee youth

Put not another sin upon my head

By urging me to furie, O be gone!

By heaven I love thee better than myselfe,
For I come hither arm'd against myselfe."

Scripture reference—

Ephes. iv. 26, 27-"Bee angry and sinne not let not the sunne goe downe upon your wrath. Neither give place to the devill."

I Sam. xxv. 39-" The Lord hath recompensed the wickednesse of Nabal upon his owne head."

Lev. xix. 18-"Thou shalt not avenge, nor be mindeful of wrong against the children of thy people but shalt love thy neighbour as thyselfe."

Act V. iii. 108

Romeo. "Here, here will I remaine

With wormes that are thy chambermaids: O here

Will I set up my everlasting rest,

And shake the yoke of inauspicious starres

From this world-wearied flesh."

For parallel in thought and word see

Job xvii. 13, 14-"I shall make my bed in the darke.

I

shall say to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worme, Thou art my mother and my sister."

Genevan Note-"Dust and wormes shall bee to me instead of father, mother, sister or any worldly thing."

Job xiv. 12-"So man sleepeth and riseth not, for hee shall not wake againe, nor be raised from his sleepe till the heavens be no more."

Judges v. 20-"Even the starres in their courses fought against Sisera."

Hos. xi. 4-"I was to them as He that taketh off the yoke." Ecclus. xxviii. 19, 20—" The yoke thereof is a yoke of yron, and the bandes of it are bandes of brasse."

Act V. iii. 152—

Friar. "A greater power than we can contradict

Hath thwarted our intents: come, come away."

Reference to Scripture

Prov. xvi. 9-" The heart of man purposeth his way; but the Lord doth direct his steppes."

Prov. xvi. 33-"The lot is cast into the lappe, but the whole disposition thereof is of the Lord."

Prov. xix. 21-"Many devises are in a man's heart; but the counsell of the Lord shall stand."

Isa. xliii. 13-"Yea before the day was, I am, and there is none that can deliver out of mine hand: I wil do it and who shall let it."

Acts ix. 2-" Nowe as he (Paul) journeyed, it came to passe that as he was come neere to Damascus, suddenly there shined rounde about him a light from heaven, and he fell to the earth.” Act V. iii. 206

Lady Cap. "O me! this sight of death is as a bell,

That warns my old age to a sepulchre."

For the admonition of death compare

Ps. xc. 3, 4-"Thou turnest man to destruction: againe thou sayest, returne ye sonnes of Adam. For a thousand yeeres in thy sight are as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night." 12" Teach us so to number our dayes, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom."

Act V. iii. 261-"Beare this worke of Heaven with patience." Mic. vi. 9-"The Lorde's voyce cryeth unto the citie, and the man of wisedome shall see thy name: Heare the rodde, and who hath appointed it."

Job v. 6-"For miserie commeth not foorth of the dust, neither doeth affliction spring out of the earth."

Ecclus. i. 28-"A patient man will suffer for a time and then shall he have the reward of joy."

Ecclus. ii. 4—"Whatsoever commeth unto thee, receive it patiently, and be patient in the change of thine affliction." 5— "For as gold and silver are tried in the fire, even so are men acceptable in the furnace of adversitie."

I Cor. x. 13-"God is faithful, which wil not suffer you to be tempted above that you be able, but will even give the issue with the tentation, that ye may be able to beare it."

Act V. iii. 305

"A glooming peace this morning with it brings,
The sunne for sorrow will not shew his head :

Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things.'

Reminds one of the darkness of the Sun when the Peace of Mankind was won upon the Cross.

Matt. xxvii. 45-"Nowe from the sixt houre was there darkness over all the land, unto the ninth houre."

Luke xxiii. 45-" And the sunne was darkened."

Luke xxiv. 13-" And beholde two of them went that same day to a towne which was from Hierusalem about three score furlongs, called Emmaus." 14-" And they talked together of al these things that were done."

FIRST PART OF HENRY THE SIXTH.

"On March 3, 1592, a new piece, called 'Henry VI.,' was acted at the Rose Theatre by Lord Strange's men. It was no doubt the play which was subsequently known as Shakespeare's 'The First Part of Henry VI. On its first performance it won a popular triumph."-Sidney Lee.

Act I. i. 20

Bedford. "And death's dishonourable victory
We with our stately presence glorify,

Like captives bound to a triumphant car.
What! shall we curse the planets of mishap,
That plotted thus our glory's overthrow."

Reference to the victory of Barak at Kishon

Judges v. 20-"They fought from heaven, even the starres in their courses fought against Sisera. The river Kishon swept them away, that ancient river."

Act I. i. 28

Bishop of Winchester—

"He was a King blessed of the King of Kings.
Unto the French the dreadfull Judgement Day
So dreadfull will not be, as was his sight.
The Battailes of the Lord of Hosts he fought,

The Churche's Prayers made him so prosperous.'

Gloucester. "The Church! where is it? Had not Churchmen

pray'd

His thred of life had not so soone decay'd,

None do you like but an effeminate prince,
Whom, like a school-boy, you may over-awe."

Winchester." Gloster, whate'er we like, thou art protector
And lookest to command the prince and realm.

Thy wife is proud: she holdeth thee in awe,
More than God or religious Churchmen may."

Gloucester. "Name not religion for thou lovst the flesh:

And ne'er throughout the year to Church thou go'st
Except it be to pray against thy foes."

Rev. xix. 16—“ King of Kings and Lord of Lords."

Rev. xx. II—“And I saw a great white throne and One that sate upon it, from whose face fled away both the earth and heaven, and their place was no more found."

Rev. vi. 15-" And the Kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men, and the chiefe captaines, and the mightie men, and every bond man and every free man, hid themselves in dennes, and among the rockes of the mountaines." 16-" And said to the mountaines and rocks, Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the Lambe." 17-" For the great day of His wrath is come, and who can stand?"

Isa. xiii. 14-" The Lord of Hostes numbreth the hoste of the battell."

I Sam. xxv. 28-"Because my lord fighteth the battels of the Lord."

Isa. xxxviii. 12-"I have cut off like a weaver my life, He will cut me off from the height."

1 John ii. 15, 16—“Love not this world, neither the things that are in this world. If any man love this world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is of the world (as the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life) is not of the Father, but is of the world."

Gal. v. 24" For they that are Christ's, have crucified the flesh with the affections and the lustes."

"The Church? where is it?" a truly Puritan inquiry. Matt. xviii. 20-" Where two or three are gathered together in My Name, there am I in the mids of them."

This is followed immediately by the verse which speaks of the forgiveness of a brother even "unto seventie times seven," and the Genevan Note says: "They shall finde God severe and not to be pleased, which doe not forgive their brethren, although they have been diversely and grievously injured by them." Note how Shakespeare puts the sin of praying against foes. Luke vi. 28—“ Blesse them that curse you, and pray for them which hurt you."