Chapter LXXXIV: Act V

SC. 1. "So tell your cousin, and bring me word _again_
What he will do."

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SC. 2. "Suspicion, all our lives, shall be stuck full of eyes."

The word in 4tos and folio is _Supposition_, which may be right; the correction is Pope's.

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"Lord Douglas, go you and tell him so."

This is so abrupt and prosaic that I think we should read '_pray_ go you.'

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"_Up_on his follies; never did I hear
Of any prince so wild a liberty."

So the 4tos. The folio reads '_at_ liberty'; Capell _libertine_, which is the reading usually adopted, even by the Cambridge editors. In Com. of Err. (i. 2) we have "such like _liberties_ of sin" of persons.

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"If life did ride upon a dial's point,
Still ending at the arrival of an hour ...
An if we live, we live to tread on kings."

The aposiopesis here is in character with Hotspur, but there may be a line or more lost.

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SC. 3. "What is thy name that in _the_ battle thus."

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"The King hath many marching in his coats."

_March_ is here, as so frequently in Spenser and others, simply the French _marcher_.

"In which the Majesty of buried Denmark
Did sometimes _march_."
Ham. i. 1.

Collier's folio reads _masking_; but it was only the face that was masked. Gifford, without hesitation, read _march'd_ in

"Let fury then disperse these clouds, in which
I long have _mask'd_ disguised."
Mass. Bondman, v. 3.

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"I will assay thee, and _so_ defend thyself."

KING HENRY IV.--PART II.