... “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 passage quoted by
Theobald from the _Knight of the Burning Pestle_ is an imitation. If it be
chargeable with any fault, it is with plagiarism, not with sarcasm.
“Henry V.”