The plays of William Shakspeare : with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes . en taken from what every man mufthave obferved, i. e. ragged curtains put in motion by the air,when the windows of mean houfes are left open. Steevens. ^ Their horfemen Jit like Jixed torch-Jiaves in their hand .•] Grandpre alludes tothe form of ancient candlefticks, which frequently reprefentedhuman figures holding the fockets for the lights in their extendedhands. Afimilar image occurs in Vittorid Coromlona, l6l2: —hefliowed like a pewter candhjijck,
The plays of William Shakspeare : with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes . en taken from what every man mufthave obferved, i. e. ragged curtains put in motion by the air,when the windows of mean houfes are left open. Steevens. ^ Their horfemen Jit like Jixed torch-Jiaves in their hand .•] Grandpre alludes tothe form of ancient candlefticks, which frequently reprefentedhuman figures holding the fockets for the lights in their extendedhands. Afimilar image occurs in Vittorid Coromlona, l6l2: —hefliowed like a pewter candhjijck, falhioned like a man in armour^holding a tilting ftafF in his hand little bigger than a candle. 443 KING HENRY V. Lob down their heads, dropping the hides and hips iThe gum down-roping from their pale-dead eyes;And in their pale dull mouths the gimmal bit^ The following is an exa6t reprefentation of one of thefe can-dlefticks, now in the poffeflion of Francis Douce, Efq. Thereceptacles for the candles are wanting in the original. Thefockets in which they were to be placed are in the outftretchedhands of the i The form of torch-Jlaves may be afcertained by a wooden cutin Vol. IX. p. 359. Steevens. gimmal lit—^] Ghnvial is, in the weftern counties, a ring; a gimmal lit is therefore a lit of which the parts playedone within another. Johnson. KING HENRY V. 449 Lies foul with chewd gvafs, ftill and motionlefs jAnd their executors, the knavifh crows/Fly oer them all, impatient for their cannot fuit itfelf in words,To demonftrate the life of fuch a battleIn life fo lifelefs^ as it (hows itfelf. Con. They have faid their prayers, and they ftayfor death. Dau. Shall we go fend them dinners, and freflafuits,And give their fafting horfes provender,And after fight with them ? Con. I ftay but for my guard ;4 On, to the field: I meet with the word, though differently fpelt, iii the old playof The Raigne of King Edward the Third, \5QQ : Nor lay afide their jacks
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