I.1: _----in a fair consent with ours,_] i.e., in
friendly concord; in unison with ours.]

[Footnote II.2: _----hearts +create+_] Hearts _compounded_ or
_made up_ of duty and zeal.]

[Footnote II.3: _----more advice,_] On his return to more
_coolness of mind_.]

[Footnote II.4: _Are heavy orisons 'gainst, &c._] i.e., are
weighty supplications against this poor wretch.]

[Footnote II.5: _----proceeding on +distemper+,_] _Distemper'd in
liquor_ was a common expression. We read in Holinshed, vol. iii.,
page 626:-- "gave him wine and strong drink in such excessive
sort, that he was therewith _distempered_, and reeled as he
went."]

[Footnote II.6: _----how shall we stretch our eye_] If we may not
_wink_ at small faults, _how wide must we open our eyes_ at
great.]

[Footnote II.7: _Who are the late commissioners?_] That is, who
are the persons lately appointed commissioners.]

[Footnote II.8: _----quick_] That is, _living_.]

[Footnote II.9: _----as gross_] As palpable.]

[Footnote II.10:
_----though the truth of it stands off as gross
As black from white,_]
Though the truth be as apparent and visible as black and white
contiguous to each other. To _stand off_ is _etre releve_, to be
prominent to the eye, as the strong parts of a picture.
--JOHNSON.]

[Footnote II.11: _Which I in sufferance heartily will rejoice,_]
Cambridge means to say, _at_ which prevention, or, which intended
scheme that it was prevented, I shall rejoice. Shakespeare has
many such elliptical expressions. The intended scheme that he
alludes to was the taking off Henry, to make room for his
brother-in-law. --MALONE.]

[Footnote II.12: _----our kingdom's safety must so tender,_] i.e.,
must so regard.]

[Footnote II.13: _----dear offences!----_] _To dere_, in ancient
language, was _to hurt_; the meaning, therefore, is hurtful--
pernicious offences.]

[Footnote II.14: _Our puissance_] i.e., our power, our force.]

SCENE II.--FRANCE. A ROOM IN THE FRENCH KING'S PALACE.

_Trumpets sound._

_Enter the FRENCH KING,[15] attended; the DAUPHIN, the DUKE OF
BURGUNDY, the CONSTABLE, and Others,(E) L.H._

_Fr. King._ (C.) Thus come the English with full power upon us;
And more than carefully it us concerns[16]
To answer royally in our defences.
Therefore the Dukes of Ber