Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: "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 stratum (viam). Does not the Prince's question rather show this ? -- " This Doll Tear-street should be some road ? " Act iii. sc. t. King Henry's speech: -- . . . " Then, kappy 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,"