ood besprent,
And many a cruell dent
Brused his helmett.

Glo'ster that Duke so good,
Next of the royall blood,
For famous England stood
With his braue brother:
Clarence in steele most bright,
That yet a maiden knighte,
Yet in this furious fighte
Scarce such an other.

Warwick in bloode did wade,
Oxford the foes inuade,
And cruel slaughter made
Still as they ran vp:
Suffolk his axe did ply,
Beaumont and Willoughby
Bare them right doughtyly,
Ferrers and Fanhope.

On happy Cryspin day
Fought was this noble fray,
Which fame did not delay
To England to carry.
O! when shall Englishmen
With such acts fill a pen,
Or England breed agen
Such a King Harry?

ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES.

ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES.

Page 14, l. 3 [Stz. 4]. "_Monarchesse._" --This stately word ought to be
revived; it is fully as legitimate as _abbess_.

Page 14, l. 9 [Stz. 5]. "_A Parliament is calld._" --It met at Leicester
on April 30th, 1414. Negotiations for a treaty with France had been
opened on January 21st preceding. "The first indication of a claim to
the crown of France," says Sir Harris Nicolas ("History of the Battle of
Agincourt"), "is a commission to the Bishop of Durham and others, dated
on the 31st of May, 1414, by which they were instructed to negotiate the
restitution of such of their sovereign's rights as were withheld by
Charles."

Page 14, l. 17 [Stz. 6]. "_In which one Bill (mongst many) there was
red._" --"Many petitions moved," says Holinshed, "were for that time
deferred: amongst whyche one was that a bill exhibited in the Parliament
holden at Westminstre in the eleventh year of King Henry the fourth,
might now with good deliberation be pondered, and brought to some good
conclusion. The effect of which supplication was that the temporall
landes devoutely given, and disordinately spent by religious and other
spirituall persons, should be seased into the Kyngs hands, sithence the
same might suffice to maintayne to the honor of the King and defence of
the realme fifteene Erles, fifteene C. Knightes, six M. two Esquiers,
and a C. almes houses for reliefe only of the poor, impotente, and
needie persones, and the King to have cleerely to his cofers twentie M.
poundes." Shakespeare ("Henry V.," act i., sc. 1) versifies this passage
with the remarkable deviation of making the surplus remaining to the
Crown one thousand pounds instead of twenty th