Sc. 2. "You have taken up Under the counterfeited zeal of God, The subjects of his substitute, my father." I would read _seal_, in which I am supported by Sidney Walker and Collier's folio. In iv. 1 we have "That you should seal this lawless bloody book Of forged rebellion with a _seal_ divine." * * * * * Sc. 4. "As he, whose brow with homely biggin bound." For 'whose,' I read without hesitation, _who_, _his_, probably written _who's_. * * * * * "Changes the mode; for what in me was purchas'd." Collier's folio reads _purchase_, which is very plausible. * * * * * "And all thy friends whom thou must make thy friends." This is nonsense, produced in the usual way (Introd. p. 64). Tyrwhitt proposed '_my_ friends,' _i.e._ those who are regarded as such. For the first 'my friends,' we may read _my_, _thy_, or _the foes_. "True: those that were _your father's enemies_, Have steep'd their galls in honey and do serve you With hearts create of duty and of zeal." Hen. V. ii. 2. * * * * * "I cut them off." Mason's reading _some_ seems to be certain. ACT V. SC. 1. "And never shall you see that I shall beg A ragged and forestall'd remission." This last line is difficult. By 'ragged' seems to be meant mean, unworthy, paltry; or it may be the same as _rugged_, and denote the roughness with which his application would be received; and by 'forestall'd' what has been anticipated, prevented by the efforts of his enemies. Massinger uses _forestall'd remission_ twice apparently in this sense: Duke of Milan, iii. 1, Bondman, iii. 4. * * * * * "'Tis all in every part." I think Warburton may have been right in reading "'Tis _all in all_, and all in every part." "Some say she's all in all, and all in every part" (Davis, Nosce Teipsum); "she's all in all, and all in every part" (Drayton, Mortim. 1596); "tota in toto, et tota in qualibet parte" (Phoenix Nest, 1593)--all of the soul. Shakespeare may have read most or all of these passages. THE LIFE OF HENRY V. ACT I. SC. 1. "_Cant._ The King is full of grace and fair regard, And a true lover of the Holy Church. _Ely._ The courses of his youth promis'd it not. _Cant._ The breath no sooner left his father's body," etc. It is really marvellous that for two centuries and a half no critic--not even Theobald or Tyrwhitt--should have discerned that this was the true distribution of the speeches. See Introd. p. 48. * * * * * "Upon our spiritual convocation." This is no doubt metrical; but it is not easy to make sense of it. I suspect that the poet may have written 'Upon _the part of_,' the verse still being metrical.