The plays of William Shakspeare : with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes . to an hour. Johnson. I am not fare that Dr. Johnfons obfervation is juft. In thisplay the king of France, as well as England, makes his appear-ance ; and the fenfe may be this :—// vnijl he to your imagina-tions that our ki7igs are indebted for their royalty. Let thefancy of the fpe6tator furnifh out thofe appendages to greatnefswhich the poverty of our ftage is unable to fupply. The poet isftill apologizing for the defefts of theatrical Ieprefentation, Steevens, Johnfon
The plays of William Shakspeare : with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes . to an hour. Johnson. I am not fare that Dr. Johnfons obfervation is juft. In thisplay the king of France, as well as England, makes his appear-ance ; and the fenfe may be this :—// vnijl he to your imagina-tions that our ki7igs are indebted for their royalty. Let thefancy of the fpe6tator furnifh out thofe appendages to greatnefswhich the poverty of our ftage is unable to fupply. The poet isftill apologizing for the defefts of theatrical Ieprefentation, Steevens, Johnfon is, in my opinion, miftaken alfo in liis explanation ofthe remainder of the fentence. Carry them here and there doesnot mean, as he fuppofes. Carry your thoughts here and there jfor the Chorus not only calls upon the imagination of the audi-ence to adorn his kings, but to carry them alfo from one placeto another, though by a common poetical licenfe the copulativebe omitted. M. Mason. * jumping oer fiTww;] So, in the prologue to Troilus and CreJJida : Leaps oer the vaunt and firftlings of thofe broils—. Steevens, I. V /? .A/tP^M- a Jtn/1 lifter ai £>j:/o?ti. KING HENRY V. ACT I. SCENE London.^ An Ante-chamher in the Kings Palace^ Enter the Archhijkop of Canterbury,? and Bijliopof Ely.^ Cant. My lord, Ill tell you,—that felf bill isurgd,Which, in the eleventh year o the laft kings reignWas like, and had indeed againft us that the fcambling and unquiet time ^ ^ This firft fcene was added fince the edition of 16O8, whichis much Ihort of the prefent editions, wherein the fpeeches aregenerally enlarged and raifed : feveral whole fcenes betides, andall the chorulfes alfo, were fince added by Shakfpeare. Pope. * London.] It appears from Halls and HolinQieds Chroni-cles, that the bufinefs of this fcene was tranfaded at Leicefter,where King Henry V. held a parliament in the fecond year ofhis reign. But the chorus at the beginning of the fecond ActIhows that the a
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