Of base infinuating flattery, I pluck this white rofe, with Plantagenet. SUF. I pluck this red rofe, with young Somerset ; And fay withal, I think he held the right. VER. Stay, lords, and gentlemen; and pluck no more, Till you conclude that he, upon whose fide SOM. Good master Vernon, it is well objected;1 If I have feweft, I subscribe in silence. PLAN. And I. VER. Then, for the truth and plainness of the cafe, I pluck this pale, and maiden bloffom here, SOM. Prick not your finger as you pluck it off; Left, bleeding, you do paint the white rofe red, And fall on my fide fo against your will. VER. If I, my lord, for my opinion bleed, -well objected ;] Properly thrown in our way, juftly propofed. JOHNSON. So, in Goulart's Admirable Hiftories, 4to. 1607: "And be cause Sathan transfigures himselfe into an angell of light, I objected many and fundry queftions unto him." Again, in Chapman's verfion of the 21ft Book of Homer's Odyssey : "Excites Penelope t'object the prize, "(The bow and bright steeles) to the woers' ftrength." Again, in his verfion of the seventeenth Iliad: Objecting his all-dazeling fhield," &c. Again, in the twentieth Iliad: his worst shall be withstood, "With fole objection of myselfe.”. STEEVENS. SOM. Well, well, come on: Who elfe? LAW. Unless my study and my books be false, The argument you held, was wrong in you; TO SOMERSET. In fign whereof, I pluck a white rose too. PLAN. Now, Somerset, where is your argument? SOM. Here, in my fcabbard; meditating that, Shall die your white rofe in a bloody red. PLAN. Mean time, your cheeks do counterfeit our roses; For pale they look with fear, as witneffing SOM. No, Plantagenet, 'Tis not for fear; but anger,—that thy cheeks2 Blush for pure fhame, to counterfeit our roses; And yet thy tongue will not confefs thy error. PLAN. Hath not thy rose a canker, Somerset ? SOM. Hath not thy rofe a thorn, Plantagenet? PLAN. Ay, fharp and piercing, to maintain his truth; Whiles thy confuming canker eats his falfehood. SOM. Well, I'll find friends to wear my bleedingrofes, That fhall maintain what I have faid is true, PLAN. Now, by this maiden bloffom in my hand, I fcorn thee and thy fashion,3 peevish boy. 2 but anger, that thy cheeks &c.] i. e. it is not for fear that my cheeks look pale, but for anger; anger produced by this circumftance, namely, that thy cheeks blufh, &c. MALONE. 3 Ifcorn thee and thy fashion,] So the old copies read, and rightly. Mr. Theobald altered it to faction, not confidering that by fashion is meant the badge of the red rofe, which Somerset SUF. Turn not thy fcorns this way, Plantagenet. PLAN. Proud Poole, I will; and scorn both him and thee. SUF. I'll turn my part thereof into thy throat. SOM. Away, away, good William De-la-Poole ! We grace the yeoman, by converfing with him. WAR. Now, by God's will, thou wrong'ft him, Somerset ; His grandfather was Lionel, duke of Clarence,4 faid he and his friends would be diftinguished by. But Mr. Theobald afks, If faction was not the true reading, why should Suffolk immediately reply Turn not thy fcorns this way, Plantagenet. Why? because Plantagenet had called Somerfet, with whom Suffolk fided, peevish boy. WARBURTON. Mr. Theobald, with great probability, reads-faction. Plantagenet afterward ufes the fame word: 66 this pale and angry rose "Will I for ever, and my faction, wear." whom In King Henry V. we have pation for paction. We should undoubtedly read-and thy faction. The old fpelling of this word was faccion, and hence fashion easily crept into the text. So, in Hall's Chronicle, EDWARD IV. fol. xxii : “ we ought to beleve to be sent from God, and of hym onely to bee provided a kynge, for to extinguifh both the faccions and partes [i. e. parties] of Kyng Henry the VI. and of Kyng Edward the fourth." MALONE. As fashion might have been meant to convey the meaning affigned to it by Dr. Warburton, I have left the text as I found it, allowing at the fame time the merit of the emendation offered by Mr. Theobald, and countenanced by Mr. Malone. STEEVENS. * His grandfather was Lionel, duke of Clarence,] The author mistakes. Plantagenet's paternal grandfather was Edmund of Langley, Duke of York. His maternal grandfather was Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, who was the son of Philippa the daughter of Lionel, Duke of Clarence. The duke therefore was his maternal great great grandfather. See Vol. XI. p. 225, n. 5. MALONE. Third fon to the third Edward king of England; Spring creftlefs yeomen 5 from fo deep a root? PLAN. He bears him on the place's privilege," Or durft not, for his craven heart, fay thus. SOM. By him that made me, I'll maintain my words On any plot of ground in Chriftendom: PLAN. My father was attached, not attainted; Condemn'd to die for treason, but no traitor; And that I'll prove on better men than Somerset, 5 Spring creftlefs yeomen] i. e. those who have no right to WARBURTON. arms. • He bears him on the place's privilege,] The Temple, being a religious house, was an afylum, a place of exemption, from violence, revenge, and bloodshed. JOHNSON. It does not appear that the Temple had any peculiar privilege at this time, being then, as it is at prefent, the refidence of lawftudents. The author might, indeed, imagine it to have derived fome fuch privilege from its former inhabitants, the Knights Templars, or Knights Hofpitalers, both religious orders: or blows might have been prohibited by the regulations of the Society: or what is equally probable, he might have neither known nor cared any thing about the matter. RITSON. 7 For treafon executed in our late king's days?] This unmetrical line may be fomewhat harmonized by adopting a practice common to our author, and reading-execute inftead of executed. Thus, in King Henry V. we have create inftead of created, and contaminate instead of contaminated. STEEVENS. 8 Corrupted, and exempt-] Exempt for excluded. WARBURTON. Were growing time once ripen'd 9 to my will. in my SOM. Ay, thou fhalt find us ready for thee ftill: And know us, by these colours, for thy foes; For these my friends, in spite of thee, fhall wear. PLAN. And, by my foul, this pale and angry rofe, As cognizance of my blood-drinking hate,4 9 time once ripen'd-] So, in The Merchant of Venice: ·ftay the very riping of the time." STEEVENS. For your partaker Poole,] Partaker in ancient language, fignifies one who takes part with another, an accomplice, a confederate. So, in Pfalm 1: " When thou faweft a thief thou didst confent unto him, and hast been partaker with the adulterers." Again, in Marlow's tranflation of the first Book of Lucan, 1600: "Each fide had great partakers; Cæfar's caufe "The Gods abetted-;" his Again, in Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, Lib. II: " obfequies being no more folemnized by the teares of his partakers, than the bloud of his enemies." STEEVENS. 2 I'll note you in my book of memory,] So, in Hamlet : the table of my memory." fhall live "Within the book and volume of my brain." STEEVENS. 3 To fcourge you for this apprehenfion:] Though this word poffeffes all the copies, I am perfuaded it did not come from the author. I have ventured to read-reprehenfion and Plantagenet means, that Somerfet had reprehended or reproached him with his father the Earl of Cambridge's treafon.. THEOBALD. Apprehenfion, i. e. opinion. WARBURTON. So, in Much Ado about Nothing: 4 : "how long have you profefs'd apprehenfion ?" this pale and angry rofe, STEEVENS. As cognizance of my blood-drinking hate,] So, in Romeo and Juliet: |