The plays of William Shakspeare : with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes . il Conftance alludes to Elinors infidelity to her hufband;, Lewis the Seventh, whenthey were in the Holy Land ; on account of which he was di-voixed from her. She afterwards (1151) married our KingHenry IL Malone. ^ Hear the crier.] Alluding te the ufual proclamation forJilence, made by criers in courts of jutlice, beginning Oyez,corruptly pronouncfcl OYes. Auftria has jull faid Peace ! Malone,^ Oue that will play the devil, Jir, with you,An a may catch your hide and ifo
The plays of William Shakspeare : with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes . il Conftance alludes to Elinors infidelity to her hufband;, Lewis the Seventh, whenthey were in the Holy Land ; on account of which he was di-voixed from her. She afterwards (1151) married our KingHenry IL Malone. ^ Hear the crier.] Alluding te the ufual proclamation forJilence, made by criers in courts of jutlice, beginning Oyez,corruptly pronouncfcl OYes. Auftria has jull faid Peace ! Malone,^ Oue that will play the devil, Jir, with you,An a may catch your hide and ifou alone.] The ground ofthe quarrel of the Ballard to Auftria is no where fpecified in theprefent play. But the ftory is, that Auftria, who killed KingRichard Cceur-de-lion, wore, as the fpoil of that priace, a lionshide, which had belonged to him. This ciroumftance rendersthe anger of the Baftard very natural, and ought not to havebeen omitted. Pope. Seep. 367, !• 7. and p. 36s, n. S. oajiiiion of this incident was natural. Shakfpeare havingfamiliarized the ftory to hiS own imagination, forgot that it was. Kl>f G loHN. KING JOHN. 377 You are the hare^ of whom the proverb goes,Whofe valour plucks dead lions by the beard;Ill fmoke your ikin-coat, an I catch you right;Sirrah, look tot; ifaith, I will, ifaith. Blanch. O, well did he become that lions robe,That did difrobe the lion of that robe! Bast. It lies as lightly on the back of great Alcides flioes upon an afs : 3— obfcure to his audience ; or, what is equally probable, the ftorywas then fo popular, that a hint was lutficient, at that time, tobring it to mind; and thele plays were written with very littlecare for th^ approbation of pofterity, Johnson. * You are the hare—] So, in The Spanijh Tragedy : He hunted well that was a lions death ; Not he that in a garment wore his fkin : So hures may pull dead lions by the p. 344, n. 3. Steevens. The proverb alluded to is, Mortuo leoni et lepores
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