Knight's tale, v. 1155. though some copies, both manuscript and printed, read _er_ in this place as well as in others. Mr. Steevens seems properly to object to the orthography of _ore_. ACT V. SCENE 1. Page 155. BAST. Away then, with good courage; yet I know, Our party may well meet a _prouder_ foe. Mr. Steevens has noticed Dr. Johnson's misconception of this passage; yet it may be doubted whether he has sufficiently simplified the meaning, which is, "yet I know that our party is fully competent to engage a more _valiant_ foe." _Prouder_ has in this place the signification of the old French word _preux_. KING RICHARD II. ACT III. SCENE 2. Page 272. K. RICH. That when the searching eye of heaven is hid Behind the globe, _and_ lights _the lower world_. The slight but necessary emendation of _and_ for _that_ ascribed to Johnson, had already been made by Hanmer. _Lower world_ simply means _lower hemisphere_. SCENE 2. Page 279. K. RICH. Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own, but death. This resembles Wolsey's speech; "To the last penny 'tis the king's; my robe And my integrity to heav'n, is all I dare now call my own." SCENE 2. Page 279. K. RICH. And that small _model_ of the barren earth. _Model_ or _module_, for they were the same in Shakspeare's time, seems to mean in this place, a _measure_, _portion_, or _quantity_. SCENE 2. Page 280. K. RICH. ... For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps death his court; and there the antick sits, Scoffing his state, and _grinning_ at his pomp. Some part of this fine description might have been suggested from the seventh print in the _Imagines mortis_, a celebrated series of wooden cuts which have been improperly attributed to Holbein. It is probable that Shakspeare might have seen some spurious edition of this work; for the great scarcity of the original in this country in former times is apparent, when Hollar could not procure the use of it for his _copy_ of the dance of death. This note, which more properly belongs to the present place, had been inadvertently inserted in the first part of _Henry the Sixth_. See Act IV. Scene 7, in Mr. Steevens's edition. SCENE 3. Page 283. NORTH. Your grace mistakes me; only to be brief Left I his _title_ out. YORK. The time hath been, Would you have been so brief with him, he would Have been so brief with you, to shorten you, For _taking so the head_, your whole head's length.