TEMPER, quality, hardness; ii. 4. | VANTAGE, advantage; "for van 13. TENDERING; "Tendering my ruin; Rolfe's edition says: "A strange expression, commonly explained as tender of me in my fall, or watching me tenderly. We doubt, however, whether it has any connection with the adjective tender. Elsewhere we have the verb = have regard to, care for, and that may be the sense here, caring for me, being heedful of | me; " iv. 7. 10. TIMELESS, untimely; v. 4. 5. To; "No way to that;" that is, no way compared with that; iii. 2. 25. TOMYRIS, the Queen of the Massagetæ, by whom Cyrus was slain; ii. 3. 6. Toy, trifle; iv. 1. 145. TRAFFIC; "traffic of a king; that is, this is a transaction in behalf of, or in the name of, a king; v. 3. 164. TRAIN'D, lured; ii. 3. 35.. TRIUMPH, tournament; v. 5. 31. UNACOUSTOM'D, unus u al, extraordinary; Johnson explains WEENING, thinking; ii. 5. 88, WHERE, whereas (Pope reads "While "); v. 5. 47. WILL'D, commanded; i. 3. 10. WINCHESTER GOOSE, a cant term for a swelling in the groin, the result of venereal disease; i. 3. 53. WITTING, knowing; ii. v. 16. WONT are wont, accustomed; i. 4. 10. WOODEN; "a wooden thing," which means, says Steevens, "an awkward business, an un and Marston use writhled in the same sense); ii. 3. 23. YIELD; "yield the other in the right opinion;" that is, admit that the other is in the right opinion; ii. 4. 42. THE DRAMATIS PERSONÆ IN THE LIFE OF KING HENRY V [From French's "Shakespeareana Genealogica."] Time of Action, from 1415 to 1420. KING HENRY THE FIFTH. -The sudden alteration in the behaviour of the young king is described by all the early chroniclers, and the Poet Hardyng, who was with “his maister” at Agincourt, says, "The hour he was crownèd and anoint, He changed was of all his old condition." The glorious career of this warlike prince is well drawn in the play. His title to "wear the garland" was not challenged by the rightful heir to the throne, the Earl of March, whose friendship with Henry is a remarkable fact, and honourable to both parties. The king had been a suitor for the hand of the youthful widow of Richard II., Isabelle of France, and afterwards of her next sister, Marie, who took the veil ; failing in these objects, he made overtures for a younger sister, Katharine, and after many years of negotiation obtained her at last, almost as a prize of his sword. |