imbare

• Than amply to imbare their crooked titles [11] —  King Henry the Fifth Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre
• (R.C.) Then hear me, gracious sovereign, and you peers That owe your lives, your faith, and services To this imperial throne.--There is no bar To make against your highness’ claim to France But this, which they produce from Pharamond No woman shall succeed in Salique land Which Salique land the French unjustly gloze[10 To be the realm of France, and Pharamond The founder of this law and female bar Yet their own authors faithfully affirm That the land Salique lies in Germany Between the floods of Sala and of Elbe Where Charles the Great, having subdued the Saxons There left behind and settled certain French Nor did the French possess the Salique land Until four hundred one and twenty years After defunction of King Pharamond Idly supposed the founder of this law Besides, their writers say King Pepin, which deposed Childerick Did hold in right and title of the female So do the kings of France unto this day Howbeit they would hold up this Salique law To bar your highness claiming from the female And rather choose to hide them in a net Than amply to imbare their crooked titles[11 Usurp’d from you and your progenitors K. Hen. May I with right and conscience make this claim Cant. —  King Henry the Fifth Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre
• -- JOHNSON.] [Footnote I. 7: _ ---- miscreate_,] Ill-begotten, illegitimate, spurious.] [Footnote I. 8: _ ---- in approbation_] i.e., in proving and supporting that title which shall be now set up.] [Footnote I. 9: _ ---- impawn our person_,] To engage and to pawn were in our author’s time synonymous.] [Footnote I. 10: _ ---- gloze_] Expound, explain.] [Footnote I. 11: _ ---- +imbare+ their crooked titles_] i.e., to lay open, to display to view.] [Footnote I. 12: In allusion to the battle of Crecy, fought 25th —  King Henry the Fifth Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre

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