The plays of William Shakspeare : with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes . ry.] I have ventured to fix the place of the fcene here^ which is fpecified by none of the edi-tors, on tlie following authorities. In the preceding , whereSalilbury has fixed to go over to the Dauphin, he fays : Lords, I will meet him at St. EdmuncVs-Bury And Count Melun, in this laft A6t, fays : and many more with me, Upon the altar at St. EdmimcVs-Bury; Even on that altar, where we fwore to you Dear amity, and everlafting it appears likewife, from The tro
The plays of William Shakspeare : with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes . ry.] I have ventured to fix the place of the fcene here^ which is fpecified by none of the edi-tors, on tlie following authorities. In the preceding , whereSalilbury has fixed to go over to the Dauphin, he fays : Lords, I will meet him at St. EdmuncVs-Bury And Count Melun, in this laft A6t, fays : and many more with me, Upon the altar at St. EdmimcVs-Bury; Even on that altar, where we fwore to you Dear amity, and everlafting it appears likewife, from The troublefome Reign of KingJohn, in two Parts, (the firft rough model of this play,) thatthe interchange of vows betwixt the Dauphin and the Engliflibarons was at St. Edmunds-Bury. Theobald. ^ -the precedent t^c.] the rough draught of tl^e original treaty between the Dauphin and the Englifh lords. Thus(adds Mr. M. jVIafon) in King Richard III. the fcrivener em-ployed to engrofs t!ie indiftment of Lord Haftings, fays, thatit took him eleven hours to write it, and that the precedent wasfull as long a doing. KING JOHN. 503 To your proceedings; yet, believe me, prince, I am not glad that ftich a fore of time Should leek a plafter by contemnd revolt. And heal the invetei-ate canker of one wound. By making many: O, it grieves my foul. That I muft draw this metal from my lide To be a widow-maker; O, and there. Where honourable refcue, and defence, Cries out upoft the name of Salilbury : But fuch is the infe6lion of the time. That, for the health and phyfick of our right. We cannot deal but with the very hand Of ftern injuftice and confufed wrong.— And ist not pity, O my grieved friends ! That we, the fons and children of this ifle, Were born to fee fo fad an hour as this; Wherein we ftep after a ftranger march ^ Upon her gentle bofom, and fill up Her enemies ranks, (I muft withdraw and weep Upon the fpot of this enforced caufe,) ^ To grace the gentry of a land remote, And
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