mer's Cross has been omitted by the dramatist. The present scene should be imagined as occurring at Chipping Norton where Edward and Warwick met after the latter's defeat at the second battle of St. Albans, February 17, 1461, though the allusion in line 140 to 'the marches here' shows that the dramatist thought of Edward as still in the neighborhood of Mortimer's Cross on the Welsh border.
II. i. 68, 69. Sweet Duke of York! our prop to lean upon, Now thou art gone, we have no staff, no stay! Compare Marlowe's Massacre at Paris, lines 1122, 1123;
'Sweet Duke of Guise, our prop to leane vpon,
Now thou art dead, heere is no stay for vs.'
The version of line 69 in the True Tragedy is still closer: 'Now thou art gone there is no hope for vs.'
II. i. 91, 92. Nay, if thou be that princely eagle's bird, Show thy descent by gazing 'gainst the sun. Alluding to the common idea, derived from Pliny, that eagles could gaze at the sun without blinking.
II. i. 113. And very well appointed, as I thought. This line is omitted in the Folio, probably by inadvertence. Otherwise the speech of Warwick is identical in the Folio and True Tragedy versions, save for a few trifling verbal alterations of the reviser.
II. i. 146. your kind aunt, Duchess of Burgundy. 'Isabel, daughter of John I, King of Portugal, by Philippa of Lancaster, eldest daughter of John of Gaunt: she was therefore third cousin to Edward instead of aunt.' (Rolfe.) Holinshed records that after the death of the Duke of York and his second son Rutland, 'The duches of Yorke, seeing hir husband and sonne slaine, and not knowing what should succeed of hir eldest sonnes chance, sent hir two yonger sonnes, George and Richard, ouer the sea, to the citie of Utrecht in Almaine, where they were of Philip duke of Burgognie well receiued; and so remained there, till
