PART III.

PART III.

ACT I.

SCENE 1. Page 223.

EXE. Here comes the queen whose looks _bewray_ her anger.

Although the word _bewray_ has received very proper illustration on the present and other occasions, it remains to observe that its simple and original meaning was to _discover_ or _disclose_; that it has been confounded with _betray_, which is used, though not exclusively, for _to discover for bad or treacherous purposes_, a sense in which bewray is never _properly_ found. Of this position take the following proof: "If you do so, saide the other, then you ought to let me knowe what so ever you know your selfe: unlesse you thinke that yourself will _bewray_ yourself, except you doubt yourself will deceive yourself, and unlesse you thinke that yourself will _betray_ your self."--Lupton's _Siuqila_, 1580, 4to, sign. L 4. b.

SCENE 1. Page 224.

Q. MAR. _Rather_ than made that savage duke thine heir.

The note which follows Mr. Steevens's was _not_ inadvertently introduced by that gentleman, though it certainly should not have been retained _as the text now stands_.

SCENE 4. Page 242.

Q. MAR. [Putting a _paper_ crown on his head.]

Mr. Ritson has not shown, as he conceived he had, that the preceding commentator was _certainly mistaken_: for the author of the play, if he be accountable for the stage direction, could not have "followed history with the utmost precision," when he makes _queen Margaret_ put a _paper_ crown on York's head; whereas Holinshed, the black-letter chronicler whom Mr. Ritson should have first consulted, and who only follows Whethamstede, relates that a garland of _bulrushes_ was placed on York's head; which was afterwards stricken off and presented to the queen. Nor is there historical evidence that the queen herself put on the crown. Shakspeare has continued the same error in _King Richard the Third_, where he makes Gloucester say to queen Margaret,

"The curse my noble father laid on thee When thou didst crown his noble brows with _paper_."

He was therefore, in this instance, misled by the author of _King Henry the Sixth_; or he must have written the queen's speech himself.

SCENE 4. Page 244.

YORK. Whose tongue more poisons than the adder's tooth.

Again in _Cymbeline_, Act III. Scene 4;

"Whose tongue outvenoms all the worms of Nile."