For this they have been thoughtful to invest The virtuous sweets, Our thighs pack'd with wax, our mouths with honey, 75 74. culling] toling Q; toyleing Dering MS. 75-79. The... father.] arranged as by Capell (after Q); as five lines, ending Wax, Hiue; paines. engrossements, Father. Ff. 75. The... sweets] om. Q. 76. thighs pack'd] thigh, packt Q. 78. murder'd] Pope; murdred Q; murthered Ff. Rowe; Yeelds Q, Ff 1, 2; yields Ff 3, 4. 79. Yield] with wax and honey to our hive." Usually the bee is described as returning to the hive with thighs laden with honey, as in Dekker, The Honest Whore, Part II. (Pearson, ii. 167): "All here are one swarme of Bees, and strive To bring with wearied thighs honey to the Hiue," and the same author's Whore of Babylon (Pearson, ii. 229): "Bees. bring thighs laden With honey." We read, however, in Middleton, The Family of Love, v. iii: "bees... Come home crura thymo plenæ," a passage pointing to Virgil, Elizabethan references to the method Georgics, iv. 181, as the source of in which the bee carries its booty to the hive. Modern research has shown that the worker bee carries pollen in a cavity on the central joint of the hind pair of legs, that the nectar having been the mouth and thence down the gullet sucked from the flower is conveyed into into the honey-bag, and that the wax is secreted in wax-pockets situated on the ventral surface of the abdomen." Again it is not the worker-bees who are murdered for their pains; the workers massacre the drones when swarming time is over and the supply of honey decreases. Little was directly known of the habits of the bee in the sixteenth century, though its natural history became again the subject of study with Edward Wotton (1492-1555) and Conrad Gesner, whose works "contain numerous trustworthy observations" (J. Arthur Thomson). 78, 79. This... engrossments] The treasures he has stored up yield this bitter taste. Ending, dying; cf. Rape of Lucrece, 1612. Re-enter WARWICK. Now, where is he that will not stay so long 80 85 Lo, where he comes. Come hither to me, Harry. Depart the chamber, leave us here alone. 90 [Exeunt Warwick and the rest. Prince. I never thought to hear you speak again. King. Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought: I stay too long by thee, I weary thee. 95 Thou seek'st the greatness that will overwhelm thee. Is held from falling with so weak a wind That it will quickly drop: my day is dim. 100 Thou hast stolen that which after some few hours Were thine without offence; and at my death 81. 80. Re-enter W.] Capell; Enter W. Ff; Enter W. Q (after line 81). hath] hands Q. 84. deep] om. Oxford. 89. Re-enter .] Re-enter Prince. Capell; Enter Prince Henry. Ff; Enter Harry. Q (after line 87). .] Capell; exeunt. Q; Exit. Ff. 94. mine] my Ff. 95. my] mine Ff. 90. Exeunt forget his cruel nature, and let fall his weapon!" Tyranny, cruelty; cf. Venus and Adonis, 737. By beholding, beholding; cf. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, II. ii: "[will] any noble or true spirit. think his own worth impeached, by beholding his [Brisk's] motley inside?" and Dekker, Old Fortunatus (Pearson, i. 150). 93. by] with. Herford explains as "in thy opinion." 103. seal'd up] confirmed. Middleton, Mayor of Queenborough, 11. ii: "I'll... seal the deed up." Thy life did manifest thou lovedst me not, 105 What! canst thou not forbear me half an hour? Let all the tears that should bedew my hearse Give that which gave thee life unto the worms. Down, royal state! all you sage counsellors, hence! 120 106. hidest] hidst Q; hid'st Ff. 107. Which] Whom Q. 108. life] fraile life F 3; frail life F 4. III. thine] thy Ff. 119. Harry] Henry Ff. 106. Thou... thoughts] Cf. Middleton and Dekker, The Roaring Girl, iv. ii: "Thou'st stuck ten thousand daggers through my heart." ... 107. stony heart] From Ezekiel, xi. 19. So in 2 Henry VI. v. ii. 50, 51: "My heart is turn'd to stone and while 'tis mine It shall be stony." 109. for bear] spare. III, 112. bid dead] For the thought, cf. Sir Thomas Wyat (Pearson's Dekker, iii. 86), where Guilford warns Lady Jane: "The flattering belles that shrilly sound At the Kings funeral with hollow heartes, Will cowardly call thee Soueraigne.' For the contrast between coronation bells and those that ring for the dead, cf. Wilkins, Miseries of Enforced Marriage, iv: "like bells whose music rings On coronation day for joy of kings. . . not like tolls, That summons living tears for the dead souls." Allusion is frequently made to the duty of mourners to ring for the dead. See Fletcher, The Wild-Goose Chase, Iv. iii: "Oriana. I shall die to-morrow; And will ... you ring the bells?" Middleton, Michaelmas Term, IV. iv: "Quo. What a beloved man did I live! My servants gall their fingers with ringing, my wife's cheeks smart with weeping," etc.; Chapman, An Humorous Day's Mirth, xi: “my father and my mother died both in a day, and I rung me a peal for them." Hentzner (Travels in England, 1598) noted the English fondness for bell-ringing. In London, he says, "it is common for a number of them, that have got a glass in their heads, to go up into some belfry, and ring the bells for hours together "(Rye). Cf. Jonson, The Magnetic Lady, iv. iii. 114. balm] the consecrated oil used to anoint the king at his coronation. T. Heywood, Edward the Fourth, Part I. (Pearson, i. 55): "the balm vpon his head." 118. form] laws and good usages. So in Sir Thomas More, II. iv: "Submyt you... Geue vp yourselfe to forme, obay the maiestrate," and Ford, Love's Sacrifice, 1. i: "Should form [i.e. usage, ceremony] . . . Prevail above affection." 120. state] dignified ceremonial, pomp. Now, neighbour confines, purge you of your scum: Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, Revel the night, rob, murder, and commit When that my care could not withhold thy riots, 123. neighbour confines] hyphen Ff. 124. ruffian] ruffin Q. swill F I. 124, 125. swear, night? Rob? Murder? Ff. gill'd Ff 1-3; guil'd F 4. 132. on] in Ff. 138. O ... 125 130 135 140 124. will] murder,] sweare? "drinke? dance? 124. dance] and dance Ff 3, 4. 128. gild] Q; 128. guilt] gilt Q. 131. muzzle] mussel Q. tears,] as two lines Ff. 139. moist] most Ff. 123. confines] regions, as in Julius Cæsar, III. i. 272. 124. dance] Dancing is frequently catalogued in the drama with drinking, swearing and other familiar vices; e.g. in Jonson, Every Man in his Humour. 1. iv: "He and his wild associates. Swear, leap, and dance, and revel night by night." Men in their cups appear to have indulged in dancing so that it was regarded as one of the forms of debauchery associated with the licence of the tavern. See Peele, Jests of George Peele (Bullen, ii. 396), where, in a description of a tavern supper, we read that George's friends, who were passing merry, no chere wanting, wine enough, music playing," were 'skipping and dancing" when George left them. 126. kind of ways] Capell proposed to read kinds of way, but change is unnecessary. "Kind of way" is a group substantive (cf. Porter, Two Angry Women of Abington [Haz. Dods., vii. 309]: "each kind of way"), inflected in the plural as in the text. 128. double guilt] For quibbles on "gild" or "gilt " and " guilt," see Henry V. ii. Cho. 26, Macbeth, 11. ii. 55, 56, and Sir Thomas Wyat (Pearson's Dekker, III. iii): "these light crownes, that with blood are double guilt.' Edward the Third, IV. iv: "double guild." " 132. flesh] A metaphor from the use of "flesh" in the sense "to stain a weapon by plunging it into flesh," as in 1 Henry VI. IV. vii. 36. 133. civil] inflicted in civil war; cf. "civil wounds” in Richard II. 1. iii. 128. 140. dear .] grevious, as often; or "earnest." Deep, severe. 143. immortally] eternally, as in Peele, Order of the Garter (Bullen, ii. 336); "that your names immortally Long guard it yours! If I affect it more Than as your honour and as your renown, 145 Let me no more from this obedience rise, And found no course of breath within your majesty, 150 And never live to show the incredulous world 155 And dead almost, my liege, to think you were, I spake unto this crown as having sense, And thus upbraided it: "The care on thee depending Therefore, thou best of gold art worst of gold: 160 Other, less fine in carat, is more precious, 147. inward... duteous] true, and inward duteous Ff. 148, 149. bending. ... me, God... me, when] bending, God... me. When Q; bending. Heauen when Ff. 157. this] the Ff. 160. worst of] worse then Q. 161. fine in carat, is more] Rowe (reading carrat); fine in Charract, is more Ff 1-3; fine in Carract, is more F 4; fine, in karrat more Q. may shine In these records, not earthly, but divine"; and in The Contention between Liberality and Prodigality, II. iv. So "immortal"= eternal, in Ford, Love's Sacrifice, Iv. ì. 144. affect] aspire to (as in 2 Henry VI. IV. vii. 103), or "care for, love." 146. obedience] attitude of obedience or submission, obeisance. We owe to Capell the insertion of a comma after Teacheth in line 148, which gives a more satisfactory sense than the punctuation of Q and Ff. 147. inward] sincere. 150. course] current. Peele, Edward the First, sc. xxv : 66 remorse doth stop my course of speech." 151. cold struck] it chilled, disspirited. Cf. Edward the Third, III. ii: "These . . . surmises strike many cold vnto the heart"; Dekker, If This Be Not a Good Play, etc. (Pearson, iii. 350): "Strikes it so cold to thy heart?" Middleton, Father Hubburds Tales (Bullen, viii. 76); and The Phoenix, I. vi: "News as cold to the heart as an old man's kindness." ... Also Greene, Defence of Conny-Catching (Grosart, xi. 90). 161. less. carat] less fine in respect to the standard of purity of gold (pure gold being 24 carats), less pure. So fig. in Jonson, The Magnetic Lady, 1. i: "I cannot cry his caract up enough: He is unvaluable." The word also occurs as the name of a measure of weight for gold and precious stones (about 3 grains), as in Comedy of Errors, IV. i. 28 (charect, F); Jonson, The Fox, 1. i: "Tell him, it [a pearl] doubles the twelfth caract," and The Magnetic Lady, 1. i. 161. precious] With a play on the senses of "precious": (1) of great price; and (2) of medicinal value, efficacious, as in Middleton, A Mad World, my Masters, III. ii, where aurum potabile or his tincture" is named as an ingredient in a "precious cordial" and is pronounced by Sir Bounteous to be "Very precious, sir." 162. medicine potable] Cf. J. Shirley, The Arcadia, III. ii: "if this be gold, 'tis liquid, and yet too thick to be |