u deserve.

_Fal._ I would you had but the wit; 'twere better than your
dukedom.--Good faith, this same young sober-blooded boy doth
not love me;--nor a man cannot make him laugh."

Act ii. sc. 1. Second Carrier's speech:--

... "breeds fleas like a _loach_."

Perhaps it is a misprint, or a provincial pronunciation, for "leach," that
is, blood-suckers. Had it been gnats, instead of fleas, there might have
been some sense, though small probability, in Warburton's suggestion of
the Scottish "loch." Possibly "loach," or "lutch," may be some lost word
for dovecote, or poultry-lodge, notorious for breeding fleas. In Stevens's
or my reading, it should properly be "loaches," or "leeches," in the
plural; except that I think I have heard anglers speak of trouts like _a_
salmon.

Act iii. sc. 1.--

"_Glend._ _Nay_, if you melt, then will she run mad."

This "nay" so to be dwelt on in speaking, as to be equivalent to a
dissyllable - u, is characteristic of the solemn Glendower; but the
imperfect line

"_She bids you_
Upon the wanton rushes lay you down," &c.,

is one of those fine hair-strokes of exquisite judgment peculiar to
Shakespeare;--thus detaching the Lady's speech, and giving it the
individuality and entireness of a little poem, while he draws attention to
it.

"Henry IV.--Part II."

Act ii. sc. 2--

"_P. Hen._ Sup any women with him?

_Page._ None, my lord, but old mistress Quickly, and mistress
Doll Tear-sheet.

_P. Hen._ This Doll Tear-sheet should be some road."

I am sometimes disposed to think that this respectable young lady's name
is a very old corruption for Tear-street--street-walker, _terere stratam_
(_viam_). Does not the Prince's question rather show this?--

"This Doll Tear-street should be some road?"

Act iii. sc. 1. King Henry's speech:--

... "Then, _happy low, lie down_;
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

I know no argument by which to persuade any one to be of my opinion, or
rather of my feeling; but yet I cannot help feeling that "Happy
low-lie-down!" is either a proverbial expression, or the burthen of some
old song, and means, "Happy the man, who lays himself down on his straw
bed or chaff pallet on the ground or floor!"

_Ib._ sc. 2. Shallow's speech:--

"_Rah, tah, tah_, would 'a say; _bounce_, would 'a say," &c.

That Beaumont and Fletcher have more than once been guilty of sneering at
their great master, cannot, I fear, be denied; but the pa