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1H4 . . 0 The History of Henry the Fourth
1H4 . . 0 {Enter King Henry, Lord John of Lancaster, and the +
1H4 1.1. 0 Earl of Westmorland, with other [lords]}
1H4 1.1. 1
1H4-KING HENRY
So shaken as we are, so wan with care,
1H4 1.1. 2 Find we a time for frighted peace to pant
1H4 1.1. 3 And breathe short-winded accents of new broils
1H4 1.1. 4 To be commenced in strands afar remote.
1H4 1.1. 5 No more the thirsty entrance of this soil
1H4 1.1. 6 Shall daub her lips with her own children's blood.
1H4 1.1. 7 No more shall trenching war channel her fields,
1H4 1.1. 8 Nor bruise her flow'rets with the armed hoofs
1H4 1.1. 9 Of hostile paces. Those opposed eyes,
1H4 1.1. 10 Which, like the meteors of a troubled heaven,
1H4 1.1. 11 All of one nature, of one substance bred,
1H4 1.1. 12 Did lately meet in the intestine shock
1H4 1.1. 13 And furious close of civil butchery,
1H4 1.1. 14 Shall now in mutual well-beseeming ranks
1H4 1.1. 15 March all one way, and be no more opposed
1H4 1.1. 16 Against acquaintance, kindred, and allies.
1H4 1.1. 17 The edge of war, like an ill-sheathed knife,
1H4 1.1. 18 No more shall cut his master. Therefore, friends,
1H4 1.1. 19 As far as to the sepulchre of Christ -
1H4 1.1. 20 Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross
1H4 1.1. 21 We are impressed and engaged to fight -
1H4 1.1. 22 Forthwith a power of English shall we levy,
1H4 1.1. 23 Whose arms were moulded in their mothers' womb
1H4 1.1. 24 To chase these pagans in those holy fields
1H4 1.1. 25 Over whose acres walked those blessed feet
1H4 1.1. 26 Which fourteen hundred years ago were nailed,
1H4 1.1. 27 For our advantage, on the bitter cross.
1H4 1.1. 28 But this our purpose now is twelve month old,
1H4 1.1. 29 And bootless 'tis to tell you we will go.
1H4 1.1. 30 Therefor we meet not now. Then let me hear
1H4 1.1. 31 Of you, my gentle cousin Westmorland,
1H4 1.1. 32 What yesternight our Council did decree
1H4 1.1. 33 In forwarding this dear expedience.
1H4 1.1. 34
1H4-WESTMORLAND
My liege, this haste was hot in question,
1H4 1.1. 35 And many limits of the charge set down
1H4 1.1. 36 But yesternight, when all athwart there came
1H4 1.1. 37 A post from Wales, loaden with heavy news,
1H4 1.1. 38 Whose worst was that the noble Mortimer,
1H4 1.1. 39 Leading the men of Herefordshire to fight
1H4 1.1. 40 Against the irregular and wild Glyndw^r,
1H4 1.1. 41 Was by the rude hands of that Welshman taken,
1H4 1.1. 42 A thousand of his people butchered,
1H4 1.1. 43 Upon whose dead corpse' there was such misuse,
1H4 1.1. 44 Such beastly shameless transformation,
1H4 1.1. 45 By those Welshwomen done as may not be
1H4 1.1. 46 Without much shame retold or spoken of.
1H4 1.1. 47
1H4-KING HENRY
It seems then that the tidings of this broil
1H4 1.1. 48 Brake off our business for the Holy Land.
1H4 1.1. 49
1H4-WESTMORLAND
This matched with other did, my gracious lord,
1H4 1.1. 50 For more uneven and unwelcome news
1H4 1.1. 51 Came from the north, and thus it did import:
1H4 1.1. 52 On Holy-rood day the gallant Hotspur there -
1H4 1.1. 53 Young Harry Percy - and brave Archibald,
1H4 1.1. 54 That ever valiant and approved Scot,
1H4 1.1. 55 At Holmedon met,
1H4 1.1. 56 Where they did spend a sad and bloody hour,
1H4 1.1. 57 As by discharge of their artillery
1H4 1.1. 58 And shape of likelihood the news was told;
1H4 1.1. 59 For he that brought them in the very heat
1H4 1.1. 60 And pride of their contention did take horse,
1H4 1.1. 61 Uncertain of the issue any way.
1H4 1.1. 62
1H4-KING HENRY
Here is a dear, a true industrious friend,
1H4 1.1. 63 Sir Walter Blunt, new lighted from his horse,
1H4 1.1. 64 Stained with the variation of each soil
1H4 1.1. 65 Betwixt that Holmedon and this seat of ours;
1H4 1.1. 66 And he hath brought us smooth and welcome news.
1H4 1.1. 67 The Earl of Douglas is discomfited.
1H4 1.1. 68 Ten thousand bold Scots, two-and-twenty knights,
1H4 1.1. 69 Balked in their own blood did Sir Walter see
1H4 1.1. 70 On Holmedon's plains. Of prisoners Hotspur took
1H4 1.1. 71 Mordake the Earl of Fife and eldest son
1H4 1.1. 72 To beaten Douglas, and the Earl of Athol,
1H4 1.1. 73 Of Moray, Angus, and Menteith;
1H4 1.1. 74 And is not this an honourable spoil,
1H4 1.1. 75 A gallant prize? Ha, cousin, is it not?
1H4 1.1. 76
1H4-WESTMORLAND
In faith, it is a conquest for a prince to boast of.
1H4 1.1. 77
1H4-KING HENRY
Yea, there thou mak'st me sad, and mak'st me sin
1H4 1.1. 78 In envy that my lord Northumberland
1H4 1.1. 79 Should be the father to so blest a son -
1H4 1.1. 80 A son who is the theme of honour's tongue,
1H4 1.1. 81 Amongst a grove the very straightest plant,
1H4 1.1. 82 Who is sweet Fortune's minion and her pride -
1H4 1.1. 83 Whilst I by looking on the praise of him
1H4 1.1. 84 See riot and dishonour stain the brow
1H4 1.1. 85 Of my young Harry. O, that it could be proved
1H4 1.1. 86 That some night-tripping fairy had exchanged
1H4 1.1. 87 In cradle clothes our children where they lay,
1H4 1.1. 88 And called mine Percy, his Plantagenet!
1H4 1.1. 89 Then would I have his Harry, and he mine.
1H4 1.1. 90 But let him from my thoughts. What think you, coz,
1H4 1.1. 91 Of this young Percy's pride? The prisoners
1H4 1.1. 92 Which he in this adventure hath surprised
1H4 1.1. 93 To his own use he keeps, and sends me word
1H4 1.1. 94 I shall have none but Mordake Earl of Fife.
1H4 1.1. 95
1H4-WESTMORLAND
This is his uncle's teaching. This is Worcester,
1H4 1.1. 96 Malevolent to you in all aspects,
1H4 1.1. 97 Which makes him prune himself, and bristle up
1H4 1.1. 98 The crest of youth against your dignity.
1H4 1.1. 99
1H4-KING HENRY
But I have sent for him to answer this;
1H4 1.1. 100 And for this cause awhile we must neglect
1H4 1.1. 101 Our holy purpose to Jerusalem.
1H4 1.1. 102 Cousin, on Wednesday next our Council we
1H4 1.1. 103 Will hold at Windsor. So inform the lords.
1H4 1.1. 104 But come yourself with speed to us again,
1H4 1.1. 105 For more is to be said and to be done
1H4 1.1. 106 Than out of anger can be uttered.
1H4 1.1. 107A
1H4-WESTMORLAND
I will, my liege. {Exeunt [King Henry, +
1H4 1.1. 107A Lancaster, and other}
1H4 1.1. 0 {lords at one door; Westmorland at another door]} {Enter +
1H4 1.2. 0 Harry Prince of Wales and Sir John Oldcastle}
1H4 1.2. 1
1H4-SIR JOHN
Now, Hal, what time of day is it, lad?
1H4 1.2. 2
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Thou art so fat-witted with drinking of old
1H4 1.2. 3 sack, and unbuttoning thee after supper, and sleeping
1H4 1.2. 4 upon benches after noon, that thou hast forgotten to
1H4 1.2. 5 demand that truly which thou wouldst truly know.
1H4 1.2. 6 What a devil hast thou to do with the time of the day?
1H4 1.2. 7 Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons,
1H4 1.2. 8 and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs
1H4 1.2. 9 of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair
1H4 1.2. 10 hot wench in flame-coloured taffeta, I see no reason
1H4 1.2. 11 why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the
1H4 1.2. 12 time of the day.
1H4 1.2. 13
1H4-SIR JOHN
Indeed you come near me now, Hal, for we that
1H4 1.2. 14 take purses go by the moon and the seven stars, and
1H4 1.2. 15 not `By Phoebus, he, that wand'ring knight so fair'.
1H4 1.2. 16 And I prithee, sweet wag, when thou art a king, as
1H4 1.2. 17 God save thy grace - `majesty' I should say, for grace
1H4 1.2. 18 thou wilt have none -
1H4 1.2. 19
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
What, none?
1H4 1.2. 20
1H4-SIR JOHN
No, by my troth, not so much as will serve to
1H4 1.2. 21 be prologue to an egg and butter.
1H4 1.2. 22
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Well, how then? Come, roundly, roundly.
1H4 1.2. 23
1H4-SIR JOHN
Marry then, sweet wag, when thou art king let
1H4 1.2. 24 not us that are squires of the night's body be called
1H4 1.2. 25 thieves of the day's beauty. Let us be `Diana's foresters',
1H4 1.2. 26 `gentlemen of the shade', `minions of the moon', and
1H4 1.2. 27 let men say we be men of good government, being
1H4 1.2. 28 governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress
1H4 1.2. 29 the moon, under whose countenance we steal.
1H4 1.2. 30
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Thou sayst well, and it holds well too, for
1H4 1.2. 31 the fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb
1H4 1.2. 32 and flow like the sea, being governed as the sea is by
1H4 1.2. 33 the moon. As for proof now: a purse of gold most
1H4 1.2. 34 resolutely snatched on Monday night, and most
1H4 1.2. 35 dissolutely spent on Tuesday morning; got with
1H4 1.2. 36 swearing `lay by!', and spent with crying `bring in!';
1H4 1.2. 37 now in as low an ebb as the foot of the ladder, and by
1H4 1.2. 38 and by in as high a flow as the ridge of the gallows.
1H4 1.2. 39
1H4-SIR JOHN
By the Lord, thou sayst true, lad; and is not my
1H4 1.2. 40 Hostess of the tavern a most sweet wench?
1H4 1.2. 41
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the
1H4 1.2. 42 castle; and is not a buff jerkin a most sweet robe of
1H4 1.2. 43 durance?
1H4 1.2. 44
1H4-SIR JOHN
How now, how now, mad wag? What, in thy
1H4 1.2. 45 quips and thy quiddities? What a plague have I to do
1H4 1.2. 46 with a buff jerkin?
1H4 1.2. 47
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Why, what a pox have I to do with my
1H4 1.2. 48 Hostess of the tavern?
1H4 1.2. 49
1H4-SIR JOHN
Well, thou hast called her to a reckoning many
1H4 1.2. 50 a time and oft.
1H4 1.2. 51
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Did I ever call for thee to pay thy part?
1H4 1.2. 52
1H4-SIR JOHN
No, I'll give thee thy due, thou hast paid all
1H4 1.2. 53 there.
1H4 1.2. 54
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Yea, and elsewhere so far as my coin would
1H4 1.2. 55 stretch; and where it would not, I have used my credit.
1H4 1.2. 56
1H4-SIR JOHN
Yea, and so used it that were it not here apparent
1H4 1.2. 57 that thou art heir apparent - but I prithee, sweet wag,
1H4 1.2. 58 shall there be gallows standing in England when thou
1H4 1.2. 59 art king, and resolution thus fubbed as it is with the
1H4 1.2. 60 rusty curb of old father Antic the law? Do not thou
1H4 1.2. 61 when thou art king hang a thief.
1H4 1.2. 62
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
No, thou shalt.
1H4 1.2. 63
1H4-SIR JOHN
Shall I? O, rare! By the Lord, I'll be a brave
1H4 1.2. 64 judge!
1H4 1.2. 65
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Thou judgest false already. I mean thou
1H4 1.2. 66 shalt have the hanging of the thieves, and so become
1H4 1.2. 67 a rare hangman.
1H4 1.2. 68
1H4-SIR JOHN
Well, Hal, well; and in some sort it jumps with
1H4 1.2. 69 my humour as well as waiting in the court, I can tell
1H4 1.2. 70 you.
1H4 1.2. 71
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
For obtaining of suits?
1H4 1.2. 72
1H4-SIR JOHN
Yea, for obtaining of suits, whereof the hangman
1H4 1.2. 73 hath no lean wardrobe. 'Sblood, I am as melancholy
1H4 1.2. 74 as a gib cat, or a lugged bear.
1H4 1.2. 75
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Or an old lion, or a lover's lute.
1H4 1.2. 76
1H4-SIR JOHN
Yea, or the drone of a Lincolnshire bagpipe.
1H4 1.2. 77
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
What sayst thou to a hare, or the
1H4 1.2. 78 melancholy of Moor-ditch?
1H4 1.2. 79
1H4-SIR JOHN
Thou hast the most unsavoury similes, and art
1H4 1.2. 80 indeed the most comparative, rascalliest sweet young
1H4 1.2. 81 Prince. But Hal, I prithee trouble me no more with
1H4 1.2. 82 vanity. I would to God thou and I knew where a
1H4 1.2. 83 commodity of good names were to be bought. An old
1H4 1.2. 84 lord of the Council rated me the other day in the street
1H4 1.2. 85 about you, sir, but I marked him not; and yet he talked
1H4 1.2. 86 very wisely, but I regarded him not; and yet he talked
1H4 1.2. 87 wisely, and in the street too.
1H4 1.2. 88
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Thou didst well, for wisdom cries out in
1H4 1.2. 89 the streets, and no man regards it.
1H4 1.2. 90
1H4-SIR JOHN
O, thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed
1H4 1.2. 91 able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm
1H4 1.2. 92 upon me, Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew
1H4 1.2. 93 thee, Hal, I knew nothing; and now am I, if a man
1H4 1.2. 94 should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.
1H4 1.2. 95 I must give over this life, and I will give it over. By the
1H4 1.2. 96 Lord, an I do not, I am a villain. I'll be damned for
1H4 1.2. 97 never a king's son in Christendom.
1H4 1.2. 98
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Where shall we take a purse tomorrow,
1H4 1.2. 99 Jack?
1H4 1.2. 100
1H4-SIR JOHN
Zounds, where thou wilt, lad! I'll make one; an
1H4 1.2. 101 I do not, call me villain and baffle me.
1H4 1.2. 102
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
I see a good amendment of life in thee,
1H4 1.2. 103 from praying to purse-taking.
1H4 1.2. 104
1H4-SIR JOHN
Why, Hal, 'tis my vocation, Hal. 'Tis no sin for
1H4 1.2. 105 a man to labour in his vocation. {Enter Poins}
1H4 1.2. 106 Poins! Now shall we know if Gadshill have set a match.
1H4 1.2. 107 O, if men were to be saved by merit, what hole in hell
1H4 1.2. 108 were hot enough for him? This is the most omnipotent
1H4 1.2. 109 villain that ever cried `Stand!' to a true man.
1H4 1.2. 110
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Good morrow, Ned.
1H4 1.2. 111
1H4-POINS
Good morrow, sweet Hal. {(To Sir John)} What +
1H4 1.2. 111 says
1H4 1.2. 112 Monsieur Remorse? What says Sir John, sack-and-
1H4 1.2. 113 sugar Jack? How agrees the devil and thee about thy
1H4 1.2. 114 soul, that thou soldest him on Good Friday last, for a
1H4 1.2. 115 cup of Madeira and a cold capon's leg?
1H4 1.2. 116
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Sir John stands to his word, the devil shall
1H4 1.2. 117 have his bargain, for he was never yet a breaker of
1H4 1.2. 118 proverbs: he will give the devil his due.
1H4 1.2. 119
1H4-POINS
{(to Sir John)} Then art thou damned for +
1H4 1.2. 119 keeping thy
1H4 1.2. 120 word with the devil.
1H4 1.2. 121
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Else he had been damned for cozening the
1H4 1.2. 122 devil.
1H4 1.2. 123
1H4-POINS
But my lads, my lads, tomorrow morning by four
1H4 1.2. 124 o'clock early, at Gads Hill, there are pilgrims going to
1H4 1.2. 125 Canterbury with rich offerings, and traders riding to
1H4 1.2. 126 London with fat purses. I have visors for you all; you
1H4 1.2. 127 have horses for yourselves. Gadshill lies tonight in
1H4 1.2. 128 Rochester. I have bespoke supper tomorrow night in
1H4 1.2. 129 Eastcheap. We may do it as secure as sleep. If you will
1H4 1.2. 130 go, I will stuff your purses full of crowns; if you will
1H4 1.2. 131 not, tarry at home and be hanged.
1H4 1.2. 132
1H4-SIR JOHN
Hear ye, Edward, if I tarry at home and go not,
1H4 1.2. 133 I'll hang you for going.
1H4 1.2. 134
1H4-POINS
You will, chops?
1H4 1.2. 135
1H4-SIR JOHN
Hal, wilt thou make one?
1H4 1.2. 136
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Who, I rob? I a thief? Not I, by my faith.
1H4 1.2. 137
1H4-SIR JOHN
There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good
1H4 1.2. 138 fellowship in thee, nor thou camest not of the blood
1H4 1.2. 139 royal, if thou darest not stand for ten shillings.
1H4 1.2. 140
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Well then, once in my days I'll be a
1H4 1.2. 141 madcap.
1H4 1.2. 142
1H4-SIR JOHN
Why, that's well said.
1H4 1.2. 143
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Well, come what will, I'll tarry at home.
1H4 1.2. 144
1H4-SIR JOHN
By the Lord, I'll be a traitor then, when thou
1H4 1.2. 145 art king.
1H4 1.2. 146
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
I care not.
1H4 1.2. 147
1H4-POINS
Sir John, I prithee leave the Prince and me alone.
1H4 1.2. 148 I will lay him down such reasons for this adventure
1H4 1.2. 149 that he shall go.
1H4 1.2. 150
1H4-SIR JOHN
Well, God give thee the spirit of persuasion and
1H4 1.2. 151 him the ears of profiting, that what thou speakest may
1H4 1.2. 152 move and what he hears may be believed, that the true
1H4 1.2. 153 prince may, for recreation' sake, prove a false thief; for
1H4 1.2. 154 the poor abuses of the time want countenance. Farewell.
1H4 1.2. 155 You shall find me in Eastcheap.
1H4 1.2. 156
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Farewell, the latter spring; farewell, All-
1H4 1.2. 157 hallown summer. {Exit Sir John}
1H4 1.2. 158
1H4-POINS
Now, my good sweet honey lord, ride with us
1H4 1.2. 159 tomorrow. I have a jest to execute that I cannot manage
1H4 1.2. 160 alone. Oldcastle, Harvey, Russell, and Gadshill shall rob
1H4 1.2. 161 those men that we have already waylaid - yourself and
1H4 1.2. 162 I will not be there - and when they have the booty, if
1H4 1.2. 163 you and I do not rob them, cut this head off from my
1H4 1.2. 164 shoulders.
1H4 1.2. 165
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
But how shall we part with them in setting
1H4 1.2. 166 forth?
1H4 1.2. 167
1H4-POINS
Why, we will set forth before or after them and
1H4 1.2. 168 appoint them a place of meeting, wherein it is at our
1H4 1.2. 169 pleasure to fail. And then will they adventure upon the
1H4 1.2. 170 exploit themselves, which they shall have no sooner
1H4 1.2. 171 achieved but we'll set upon them.
1H4 1.2. 172
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Ay, but 'tis like that they will know us by
1H4 1.2. 173 our horses, by our habits, and by every other
1H4 1.2. 174 appointment, to be ourselves.
1H4 1.2. 175
1H4-POINS
Tut, our horses they shall not see - I'll tie them in
1H4 1.2. 176 the wood; our visors we will change after we leave
1H4 1.2. 177 them; and, sirrah, I have cases of buckram for the
1H4 1.2. 178 nonce, to immask our noted outward garments.
1H4 1.2. 179
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
But I doubt they will be too hard for us.
1H4 1.2. 180
1H4-POINS
Well, for two of them, I know them to be as true-
1H4 1.2. 181 bred cowards as ever turned back; and for the third,
1H4 1.2. 182 if he fight longer than he sees reason, I'll forswear
1H4 1.2. 183 arms. The virtue of this jest will be the incomprehensible
1H4 1.2. 184 lies that this same fat rogue will tell us when we meet
1H4 1.2. 185 at supper: how thirty at least he fought with, what
1H4 1.2. 186 wards, what blows, what extremities he endured; and
1H4 1.2. 187 in the reproof of this lives the jest.
1H4 1.2. 188
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Well, I'll go with thee. Provide us all things
1H4 1.2. 189 necessary, and meet me tomorrow night in Eastcheap;
1H4 1.2. 190 there I'll sup. Farewell.
1H4 1.2. 191
1H4-POINS
Farewell, my lord. {Exit}
1H4 1.2. 192
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
I know you all, and will a while uphold
1H4 1.2. 193 The unyoked humour of your idleness.
1H4 1.2. 194 Yet herein will I imitate the sun,
1H4 1.2. 195 Who doth permit the base contagious clouds
1H4 1.2. 196 To smother up his beauty from the world,
1H4 1.2. 197 That when he please again to be himself,
1H4 1.2. 198 Being wanted he may be more wondered at
1H4 1.2. 199 By breaking through the foul and ugly mists
1H4 1.2. 200 Of vapours that did seem to strangle him.
1H4 1.2. 201 If all the year were playing holidays,
1H4 1.2. 202 To sport would be as tedious as to work;
1H4 1.2. 203 But when they seldom come, they wished-for come,
1H4 1.2. 204 And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
1H4 1.2. 205 So when this loose behaviour I throw off
1H4 1.2. 206 And pay the debt I never promised,
1H4 1.2. 207 By how much better than my word I am,
1H4 1.2. 208 By so much shall I falsify men's hopes;
1H4 1.2. 209 And like bright metal on a sullen ground,
1H4 1.2. 210 My reformation, glitt'ring o'er my fault,
1H4 1.2. 211 Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes
1H4 1.2. 212 Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
1H4 1.2. 213 I'll so offend to make offence a skill,
1H4 1.2. 214 Redeeming time when men think least I will. {Exit}
1H4 1.2. 0 {Enter the King, the Earls of Northumberland and +
1H4 1.3. 0 Worcester, Hotspur, Sir Walter Blunt, with other [lords]}
1H4 1.3. 1
1H4-KING HENRY
{(to Hotspur, Northumberland, and +
1H4 1.3. 1 Worcester)} My blood hath been too cold and temperate,
1H4 1.3. 2 Unapt to stir at these indignities,
1H4 1.3. 3 And you have found me, for accordingly
1H4 1.3. 4 You tread upon my patience; but be sure
1H4 1.3. 5 I will from henceforth rather be myself,
1H4 1.3. 6 Mighty and to be feared, than my condition,
1H4 1.3. 7 Which hath been smooth as oil, soft as young down,
1H4 1.3. 8 And therefore lost that title of respect
1H4 1.3. 9 Which the proud soul ne'er pays but to the proud.
1H4 1.3. 10
1H4-WORCESTER
Our house, my sovereign liege, little deserves
1H4 1.3. 11 The scourge of greatness to be used on it,
1H4 1.3. 12 And that same greatness too, which our own hands
1H4 1.3. 13B Have holp to make so portly.
1H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
{(to the +
1H4 1.3. 13B King)} My lord -
1H4 1.3. 14
1H4-KING HENRY
Worcester, get thee gone, for I do see
1H4 1.3. 15 Danger and disobedience in thine eye.
1H4 1.3. 16 O sir, your presence is too bold and peremptory,
1H4 1.3. 17 And majesty might never yet endure
1H4 1.3. 18 The moody frontier of a servant brow.
1H4 1.3. 19 You have good leave to leave us. When we need
1H4 1.3. 20 Your use and counsel we shall send for you. {Exit Worcester}
1H4 1.3. 21B You were about to speak.
1H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
Yea, my good lord.
1H4 1.3. 22 Those prisoners in your highness' name demanded,
1H4 1.3. 23 Which Harry Percy here at Holmedon took,
1H4 1.3. 24 Were, as he says, not with such strength denied
1H4 1.3. 25 As was delivered to your majesty,
1H4 1.3. 26 Who either through envy or misprision
1H4 1.3. 27 Was guilty of this fault, and not my son.
1H4 1.3. 28
1H4-HOTSPUR
{(to the King)} My liege, I did deny no +
1H4 1.3. 28 prisoners;
1H4 1.3. 29 But I remember, when the fight was done,
1H4 1.3. 30 When I was dry with rage and extreme toil,
1H4 1.3. 31 Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword,
1H4 1.3. 32 Came there a certain lord, neat and trimly dressed,
1H4 1.3. 33 Fresh as a bridegroom, and his chin, new-reaped,
1H4 1.3. 34 Showed like a stubble-land at harvest-home.
1H4 1.3. 35 He was perfumed like a milliner,
1H4 1.3. 36 And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held
1H4 1.3. 37 A pouncet-box, which ever and anon
1H4 1.3. 38 He gave his nose and took 't away again -
1H4 1.3. 39 Who therewith angry, when it next came there
1H4 1.3. 40 Took it in snuff - and still he smiled and talked;
1H4 1.3. 41 And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by,
1H4 1.3. 42 He called them untaught knaves, unmannerly
1H4 1.3. 43 To bring a slovenly unhandsome corpse
1H4 1.3. 44 Betwixt the wind and his nobility.
1H4 1.3. 45 With many holiday and lady terms
1H4 1.3. 46 He questioned me; amongst the rest demanded
1H4 1.3. 47 My prisoners in your majesty's behalf.
1H4 1.3. 48 I then, all smarting with my wounds being cold -
1H4 1.3. 49 To be so pestered with a popinjay! -
1H4 1.3. 50 Out of my grief and my impatience
1H4 1.3. 51 Answered neglectingly, I know not what -
1H4 1.3. 52 He should, or should not - for he made me mad
1H4 1.3. 53 To see him shine so brisk, and smell so sweet,
1H4 1.3. 54 And talk so like a waiting gentlewoman
1H4 1.3. 55 Of guns, and drums, and wounds, God save the mark!
1H4 1.3. 56 And telling me the sovereign'st thing on earth
1H4 1.3. 57 Was parmacity for an inward bruise,
1H4 1.3. 58 And that it was great pity, so it was,
1H4 1.3. 59 This villainous saltpetre should be digged
1H4 1.3. 60 Out of the bowels of the harmless earth,
1H4 1.3. 61 Which many a good tall fellow had destroyed
1H4 1.3. 62 So cowardly, and but for these vile guns
1H4 1.3. 63 He would himself have been a soldier.
1H4 1.3. 64 This bald unjointed chat of his, my lord,
1H4 1.3. 65 Made me to answer indirectly, as I said,
1H4 1.3. 66 And I beseech you, let not his report
1H4 1.3. 67 Come current for an accusation
1H4 1.3. 68 Betwixt my love and your high majesty.
1H4 1.3. 69
1H4-BLUNT
{(to the King)} The circumstance considered, +
1H4 1.3. 69 good my lord,
1H4 1.3. 70 Whate'er Lord Harry Percy then had said
1H4 1.3. 71 To such a person, and in such a place,
1H4 1.3. 72 At such a time, with all the rest retold,
1H4 1.3. 73 May reasonably die, and never rise
1H4 1.3. 74 To do him wrong or any way impeach
1H4 1.3. 75 What then he said, so he unsay it now.
1H4 1.3. 76
1H4-KING HENRY
Why, yet he doth deny his prisoners,
1H4 1.3. 77 But with proviso and exception
1H4 1.3. 78 That we at our own charge shall ransom straight
1H4 1.3. 79 His brother-in-law the foolish Mortimer,
1H4 1.3. 80 Who, on my soul, hath wilfully betrayed
1H4 1.3. 81 The lives of those that he did lead to fight
1H4 1.3. 82 Against that great magician, damned Glyndw^r -
1H4 1.3. 83 Whose daughter, as we hear, the Earl of March
1H4 1.3. 84 Hath lately married. Shall our coffers, then,
1H4 1.3. 85 Be emptied to redeem a traitor home?
1H4 1.3. 86 Shall we buy treason, and indent with fears
1H4 1.3. 87 When they have lost and forfeited themselves?
1H4 1.3. 88 No, on the barren mountains let him starve;
1H4 1.3. 89 For I shall never hold that man my friend
1H4 1.3. 90 Whose tongue shall ask me for one penny cost
1H4 1.3. 91 To ransom home revolted Mortimer -
1H4 1.3. 92A
1H4-HOTSPUR
Revolted Mortimer?
1H4 1.3. 93 He never did fall off, my sovereign liege,
1H4 1.3. 94 But by the chance of war. To prove that true
1H4 1.3. 95 Needs no more but one tongue for all those wounds,
1H4 1.3. 96 Those mouthed wounds, which valiantly he took
1H4 1.3. 97 When on the gentle Severn's sedgy bank,
1H4 1.3. 98 In single opposition, hand to hand,
1H4 1.3. 99 He did confound the best part of an hour
1H4 1.3. 100 In changing hardiment with great Glyndw^r.
1H4 1.3. 101 Three times they breathed, and three times did they drink,
1H4 1.3. 102 Upon agreement, of swift Severn's flood,
1H4 1.3. 103 Who, then affrighted with their bloody looks,
1H4 1.3. 104 Ran fearfully among the trembling reeds,
1H4 1.3. 105 And hid his crisp head in the hollow bank,
1H4 1.3. 106 Bloodstained with these valiant combatants.
1H4 1.3. 107 Never did bare and rotten policy
1H4 1.3. 108 Colour her working with such deadly wounds,
1H4 1.3. 109 Nor never could the noble Mortimer
1H4 1.3. 110 Receive so many, and all willingly.
1H4 1.3. 111 Then let not him be slandered with revolt.
1H4 1.3. 112
1H4-KING HENRY
Thou dost belie him, Percy, thou dost belie him.
1H4 1.3. 113 He never did encounter with Glyndw^r. I tell thee,
1H4 1.3. 114 He durst as well have met the devil alone
1H4 1.3. 115 As Owain Glyndw^r for an enemy.
1H4 1.3. 116 Art thou not ashamed? But, sirrah, henceforth
1H4 1.3. 117 Let me not hear you speak of Mortimer.
1H4 1.3. 118 Send me your prisoners with the speediest means,
1H4 1.3. 119 Or you shall hear in such a kind from me
1H4 1.3. 120 As will displease you. - My lord Northumberland,
1H4 1.3. 121 We license your departure with your son.
1H4 1.3. 122 {(To Hotspur)} Send us your prisoners, or you'll hear +
1H4 1.3. 122 of it. {Exeunt all but Hotspur and Northumberland}
1H4 1.3. 123
1H4-HOTSPUR
An if the devil come and roar for them
1H4 1.3. 124 I will not send them. I will after straight
1H4 1.3. 125 And tell him so, for I will ease my heart,
1H4 1.3. 126 Although it be with hazard of my head.
1H4 1.3. 127
1H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
What, drunk with choler? Stay and pause +
1H4 1.3. 127 awhile. {Enter the Earl of Worcester}
1H4 1.3. 128B Here comes your uncle.
1H4-HOTSPUR
Speak of Mortimer?
1H4 1.3. 129 Zounds, I will speak of him, and let my soul
1H4 1.3. 130 Want mercy if I do not join with him.
1H4 1.3. 131 In his behalf I'll empty all these veins,
1H4 1.3. 132 And shed my dear blood drop by drop in the dust,
1H4 1.3. 133 But I will lift the downfall Mortimer
1H4 1.3. 134 As high in the air as this unthankful King,
1H4 1.3. 135 As this ingrate and cankered Bolingbroke.
1H4 1.3. 136
1H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
{(to Worcester)} Brother, the King +
1H4 1.3. 136 hath made your nephew mad.
1H4 1.3. 137
1H4-WORCESTER
Who struck this heat up after I was gone?
1H4 1.3. 138
1H4-HOTSPUR
He will forsooth have all my prisoners;
1H4 1.3. 139 And when I urged the ransom once again
1H4 1.3. 140 Of my wife's brother, then his cheek looked pale,
1H4 1.3. 141 And on my face he turned an eye of death,
1H4 1.3. 142 Trembling even at the name of Mortimer.
1H4 1.3. 143
1H4-WORCESTER
I cannot blame him: was not he proclaimed
1H4 1.3. 144 By Richard, that dead is, the next of blood?
1H4 1.3. 145
1H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
He was; I heard the proclamation.
1H4 1.3. 146 And then it was when the unhappy King,
1H4 1.3. 147 Whose wrongs in us God pardon, did set forth
1H4 1.3. 148 Upon his Irish expedition,
1H4 1.3. 149 From whence he, intercepted, did return
1H4 1.3. 150 To be deposed, and shortly murdered.
1H4 1.3. 151
1H4-WORCESTER
And for whose death we in the world's wide mouth
1H4 1.3. 152 Live scandalized and foully spoken of.
1H4 1.3. 153
1H4-HOTSPUR
But soft, I pray you; did King Richard then
1H4 1.3. 154 Proclaim my brother Edmund Mortimer
1H4 1.3. 155B Heir to the crown?
1H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
He did; myself did hear it.
1H4 1.3. 156
1H4-HOTSPUR
Nay, then I cannot blame his cousin King
1H4 1.3. 157 That wished him on the barren mountains starve.
1H4 1.3. 158 But shall it be that you that set the crown
1H4 1.3. 159 Upon the head of this forgetful man,
1H4 1.3. 160 And for his sake wear the detested blot
1H4 1.3. 161 Of murderous subornation, shall it be
1H4 1.3. 162 That you a world of curses undergo,
1H4 1.3. 163 Being the agents or base second means,
1H4 1.3. 164 The cords, the ladder, or the hangman, rather?
1H4 1.3. 165 O, pardon me that I descend so low
1H4 1.3. 166 To show the line and the predicament
1H4 1.3. 167 Wherein you range under this subtle King!
1H4 1.3. 168 Shall it for shame be spoken in these days,
1H4 1.3. 169 Or fill up chronicles in time to come,
1H4 1.3. 170 That men of your nobility and power
1H4 1.3. 171 Did gage them both in an unjust behalf,
1H4 1.3. 172 As both of you, God pardon it, have done:
1H4 1.3. 173 To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose,
1H4 1.3. 174 And plant this thorn, this canker, Bolingbroke?
1H4 1.3. 175 And shall it in more shame be further spoken
1H4 1.3. 176 That you are fooled, discarded, and shook off
1H4 1.3. 177 By him for whom these shames ye underwent?
1H4 1.3. 178 No; yet time serves wherein you may redeem
1H4 1.3. 179 Your banished honours, and restore yourselves
1H4 1.3. 180 Into the good thoughts of the world again,
1H4 1.3. 181 Revenge the jeering and disdained contempt
1H4 1.3. 182 Of this proud King, who studies day and night
1H4 1.3. 183 To answer all the debt he owes to you
1H4 1.3. 184 Even with the bloody payment of your deaths.
1H4 1.3. 185B Therefore, I say -
1H4-WORCESTER
Peace, cousin, say no more.
1H4 1.3. 186 And now I will unclasp a secret book,
1H4 1.3. 187 And to your quick-conceiving discontents
1H4 1.3. 188 I'll read you matter deep and dangerous,
1H4 1.3. 189 As full of peril and adventurous spirit
1H4 1.3. 190 As to o'erwalk a current roaring loud
1H4 1.3. 191 On the unsteadfast footing of a spear.
1H4 1.3. 192
1H4-HOTSPUR
If he fall in, good night, or sink or swim.
1H4 1.3. 193 Send danger from the east unto the west,
1H4 1.3. 194 So honour cross it from the north to south;
1H4 1.3. 195 And let them grapple. O, the blood more stirs
1H4 1.3. 196 To rouse a lion than to start a hare!
1H4 1.3. 197
1H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
{(to Worcester)} Imagination of +
1H4 1.3. 197 some great exploit
1H4 1.3. 198 Drives him beyond the bounds of patience.
1H4 1.3. 199
1H4-[HOTSPUR]
By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap
1H4 1.3. 200 To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon,
1H4 1.3. 201 Or dive into the bottom of the deep,
1H4 1.3. 202 Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,
1H4 1.3. 203 And pluck up drowned honour by the locks,
1H4 1.3. 204 So he that doth redeem her thence might wear,
1H4 1.3. 205 Without corrival, all her dignities.
1H4 1.3. 206 But out upon this half-faced fellowship!
1H4 1.3. 207
1H4-WORCESTER
{(to Northumberland)} He apprehends a +
1H4 1.3. 207 world of figures here,
1H4 1.3. 208 But not the form of what he should attend.
1H4 1.3. 209 {(To Hotspur)} Good cousin, give me audience for a +
1H4 1.3. 209 while,
1H4 1.3. 210 And list to me.
1H4 1.3. 211B
1H4-HOTSPUR
I cry you mercy.
1H4-WORCESTER
Those same noble Scots
1H4 1.3. 212B That are your prisoners -
1H4-HOTSPUR
I'll keep them all.
1H4 1.3. 213 By God, he shall not have a Scot of them;
1H4 1.3. 214 No, if a scot would save his soul he shall not.
1H4 1.3. 215B I'll keep them, by this hand.
1H4-WORCESTER
You start away,
1H4 1.3. 216 And lend no ear unto my purposes.
1H4 1.3. 217B Those prisoners you shall keep.
1H4-HOTSPUR
Nay, I will; that's flat.
1H4 1.3. 218 He said he would not ransom Mortimer,
1H4 1.3. 219 Forbade my tongue to speak of Mortimer;
1H4 1.3. 220 But I will find him when he lies asleep,
1H4 1.3. 221 And in his ear I'll hollo `Mortimer!'
1H4 1.3. 222 Nay, I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak
1H4 1.3. 223 Nothing but `Mortimer', and give it him
1H4 1.3. 224 To keep his anger still in motion.
1H4 1.3. 225A
1H4-WORCESTER
Hear you, cousin, a word.
1H4 1.3. 226
1H4-HOTSPUR
All studies here I solemnly defy,
1H4 1.3. 227 Save how to gall and pinch this Bolingbroke.
1H4 1.3. 228 And that same sword-and-buckler Prince of Wales -
1H4 1.3. 229 But that I think his father loves him not
1H4 1.3. 230 And would be glad he met with some mischance -
1H4 1.3. 231 I would have him poisoned with a pot of ale.
1H4 1.3. 232
1H4-WORCESTER
Farewell, kinsman. I'll talk to you
1H4 1.3. 233 When you are better tempered to attend.
1H4 1.3. 234
1H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
{(to Hotspur)} Why, what a +
1H4 1.3. 234 wasp-stung and impatient fool
1H4 1.3. 235 Art thou to break into this woman's mood,
1H4 1.3. 236 Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own!
1H4 1.3. 237
1H4-HOTSPUR
Why, look you, I am whipped and scourged with rods,
1H4 1.3. 238 Nettled and stung with pismires, when I hear
1H4 1.3. 239 Of this vile politician Bolingbroke.
1H4 1.3. 240 In Richard's time - what d' ye call the place?
1H4 1.3. 241 A plague upon 't, it is in Gloucestershire.
1H4 1.3. 242 'Twas where the madcap Duke his uncle kept -
1H4 1.3. 243 His uncle York - where I first bowed my knee
1H4 1.3. 244 Unto this king of smiles, this Bolingbroke.
1H4 1.3. 245 'Sblood, when you and he came back from Ravenspurgh.
1H4 1.3. 246B
1H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
At Berkeley castle.
1H4-HOTSPUR
You say true.
1H4 1.3. 247 Why, what a candy deal of courtesy
1H4 1.3. 248 This fawning greyhound then did proffer me!
1H4 1.3. 249 `Look when his infant fortune came to age',
1H4 1.3. 250 And `gentle Harry Percy', and `kind cousin'.
1H4 1.3. 251 O, the devil take such cozeners! - God forgive me.
1H4 1.3. 252 Good uncle, tell your tale; I have done.
1H4 1.3. 253
1H4-WORCESTER
Nay, if you have not, to 't again.
1H4 1.3. 254B We'll stay your leisure.
1H4-HOTSPUR
I have done, i' faith.
1H4 1.3. 255
1H4-WORCESTER
Then once more to your Scottish prisoners.
1H4 1.3. 256 Deliver them up without their ransom straight;
1H4 1.3. 257 And make the Douglas' son your only mean
1H4 1.3. 258 For powers in Scotland, which, for divers reasons
1H4 1.3. 259 Which I shall send you written, be assured
1H4 1.3. 260 Will easily be granted. {(To Northumberland)} You, my +
1H4 1.3. 260 lord,
1H4 1.3. 261 Your son in Scotland being thus employed,
1H4 1.3. 262 Shall secretly into the bosom creep
1H4 1.3. 263 Of that same noble prelate well-beloved,
1H4 1.3. 264B The Archbishop.
1H4-HOTSPUR
Of York, is 't not?
1H4-WORCESTER
True, who +
1H4 1.3. 264B bears hard
1H4 1.3. 265 His brother's death at Bristol, the Lord Scrope.
1H4 1.3. 266 I speak not this in estimation,
1H4 1.3. 267 As what I think might be, but what I know
1H4 1.3. 268 Is ruminated, plotted, and set down,
1H4 1.3. 269 And only stays but to behold the face
1H4 1.3. 270 Of that occasion that shall bring it on.
1H4 1.3. 271
1H4-HOTSPUR
I smell it; upon my life, it will do well!
1H4 1.3. 272
1H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
Before the game is afoot thou still lett'st slip.
1H4 1.3. 273
1H4-HOTSPUR
Why, it cannot choose but be a noble plot -
1H4 1.3. 274 And then the power of Scotland and of York
1H4 1.3. 275B To join with Mortimer, ha?
1H4-WORCESTER
And so they shall.
1H4 1.3. 276
1H4-HOTSPUR
In faith, it is exceedingly well aimed.
1H4 1.3. 277
1H4-WORCESTER
And 'tis no little reason bids us speed
1H4 1.3. 278 To save our heads by raising of a head;
1H4 1.3. 279 For, bear ourselves as even as we can,
1H4 1.3. 280 The King will always think him in our debt,
1H4 1.3. 281 And think we think ourselves unsatisfied
1H4 1.3. 282 Till he hath found a time to pay us home.
1H4 1.3. 283 And see already how he doth begin
1H4 1.3. 284 To make us strangers to his looks of love.
1H4 1.3. 285
1H4-HOTSPUR
He does, he does. We'll be revenged on him.
1H4 1.3. 286
1H4-WORCESTER
Cousin, farewell. No further go in this
1H4 1.3. 287 Than I by letters shall direct your course.
1H4 1.3. 288 When time is ripe, which will be suddenly,
1H4 1.3. 289 I'll steal to Glyndw^r and Lord Mortimer,
1H4 1.3. 290 Where you and Douglas and our powers at once,
1H4 1.3. 291 As I will fashion it, shall happily meet,
1H4 1.3. 292 To bear our fortunes in our own strong arms,
1H4 1.3. 293 Which now we hold at much uncertainty.
1H4 1.3. 294
1H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
Farewell, good brother. We shall thrive, I trust.
1H4 1.3. 295
1H4-HOTSPUR
{(to Worcester)} Uncle, adieu. O, let the +
1H4 1.3. 295 hours be short
1H4 1.3. 296 Till fields and blows and groans applaud our sport! {Exeunt +
1H4 1.3. 296 [Worcester at one door, Northumberland and Hotspur at another door]}
1H4 1.3. 0 {Enter a Carrier, with a lantern in his hand}
1H4 2.1. 1
1H4-FIRST CARRIER
Heigh-ho! An 't be not four by the day, I'll
1H4 2.1. 2 be hanged. Charles's Wain is over the new chimney,
1H4 2.1. 3 and yet our horse not packed. What, ostler!
1H4 2.1. 4
1H4-OSTLER
{(within)} Anon, anon!
1H4 2.1. 5
1H4-FIRST CARRIER
I prithee, Tom, beat cut's saddle, put a few
1H4 2.1. 6 flocks in the point. Poor jade is wrung in the withers,
1H4 2.1. 7 out of all cess. {Enter another Carrier}
1H4 2.1. 8
1H4-SECOND CARRIER
Peas and beans are as dank here as a
1H4 2.1. 9 dog, and that is the next way to give poor jades the
1H4 2.1. 10 bots. This house is turned upside down since Robin
1H4 2.1. 11 Ostler died.
1H4 2.1. 12
1H4-FIRST CARRIER
Poor fellow never joyed since the price of
1H4 2.1. 13 oats rose; it was the death of him.
1H4 2.1. 14
1H4-SECOND CARRIER
I think this be the most villainous house
1H4 2.1. 15 in all London road for fleas. I am stung like a tench.
1H4 2.1. 16
1H4-FIRST CARRIER
Like a tench? By the mass, there is ne'er
1H4 2.1. 17 a king christen could be better bit than I have been
1H4 2.1. 18 since the first cock.
1H4 2.1. 19
1H4-SECOND CARRIER
Why, they will allow us ne'er a jordan,
1H4 2.1. 20 and then we leak in your chimney, and your chamber-
1H4 2.1. 21 lye breeds fleas like a loach.
1H4 2.1. 22
1H4-FIRST CARRIER
What, ostler! Come away, and be hanged,
1H4 2.1. 23 come away!
1H4 2.1. 24
1H4-SECOND CARRIER
I have a gammon of bacon and two races
1H4 2.1. 25 of ginger to be delivered as far as Charing Cross.
1H4 2.1. 26
1H4-FIRST CARRIER
God's body, the turkeys in my pannier are
1H4 2.1. 27 quite starved! What, ostler! A plague on thee, hast
1H4 2.1. 28 thou never an eye in thy head? Canst not hear? An
1H4 2.1. 29 'twere not as good deed as drink to break the pate on
1H4 2.1. 30 thee, I am a very villain. Come, and be hanged! Hast
1H4 2.1. 31 no faith in thee? {Enter Gadshill}
1H4 2.1. 32
1H4-GADSHILL
Good morrow, carriers. What's o'clock?
1H4 2.1. 33
1H4-FIRST CARRIER
I think it be two o'clock.
1H4 2.1. 34
1H4-GADSHILL
I prithee lend me thy lantern to see my gelding
1H4 2.1. 35 in the stable.
1H4 2.1. 36
1H4-FIRST CARRIER
Nay, by God, soft. I know a trick worth
1H4 2.1. 37 two of that, i' faith.
1H4 2.1. 38
1H4-GADSHILL
{(to Second Carrier)} I pray thee, lend +
1H4 2.1. 38 me thine.
1H4 2.1. 39
1H4-SECOND CARRIER
Ay, when? Canst tell? `Lend me thy
1H4 2.1. 40 lantern,' quoth a. Marry, I'll see thee hanged first.
1H4 2.1. 41
1H4-GADSHILL
Sirrah carrier, what time do you mean to come
1H4 2.1. 42 to London?
1H4 2.1. 43
1H4-SECOND CARRIER
Time enough to go to bed with a candle,
1H4 2.1. 44 I warrant thee. - Come, neighbour Mugs, we'll call up
1H4 2.1. 45 the gentlemen. They will along with company, for they
1H4 2.1. 46 have great charge. {Exeunt Carriers}
1H4 2.1. 47
1H4-GADSHILL
What ho, chamberlain! {Enter Chamberlain}
1H4 2.1. 48
1H4-CHAMBERLAIN
`At hand' quoth Pickpurse.
1H4 2.1. 49
1H4-GADSHILL
That's even as fair as ` ``At hand'' quoth the
1H4 2.1. 50 chamberlain', for thou variest no more from picking of
1H4 2.1. 51 purses than giving direction doth from labouring: thou
1H4 2.1. 52 layest the plot how.
1H4 2.1. 53
1H4-CHAMBERLAIN
Good morrow, Master Gadshill. It holds
1H4 2.1. 54 current that I told you yesternight. There's a franklin
1H4 2.1. 55 in the Weald of Kent hath brought three hundred
1H4 2.1. 56 marks with him in gold. I heard him tell it to one of
1H4 2.1. 57 his company last night at supper - a kind of auditor,
1H4 2.1. 58 one that hath abundance of charge too, God knows
1H4 2.1. 59 what. They are up already, and call for eggs and butter;
1H4 2.1. 60 they will away presently.
1H4 2.1. 61
1H4-GADSHILL
Sirrah, if they meet not with Saint Nicholas's
1H4 2.1. 62 clerks, I'll give thee this neck.
1H4 2.1. 63
1H4-CHAMBERLAIN
No, I'll none of it; I pray thee keep that
1H4 2.1. 64 for the hangman, for I know thou worshippest Saint
1H4 2.1. 65 Nicholas as truly as a man of falsehood may.
1H4 2.1. 66
1H4-GADSHILL
What talkest thou to me of the hangman? If I
1H4 2.1. 67 hang, I'll make a fat pair of gallows, for if I hang, old
1H4 2.1. 68 Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he's no
1H4 2.1. 69 starveling. Tut, there are other Trojans that thou
1H4 2.1. 70 dreamest not of, the which for sport' sake are content
1H4 2.1. 71 to do the profession some grace, that would, if matters
1H4 2.1. 72 should be looked into, for their own credit' sake make
1H4 2.1. 73 all whole. I am joined with no foot-landrakers, no long-
1H4 2.1. 74 staff sixpenny strikers, none of these mad mustachio
1H4 2.1. 75 purple-hued maltworms, but with nobility and tranquillity,
1H4 2.1. 76 burgomasters and great `oyez'-ers; such as can
1H4 2.1. 77 hold in, such as will strike sooner than speak, and
1H4 2.1. 78 speak sooner than drink, and drink sooner than pray.
1H4 2.1. 79 And yet, zounds, I lie, for they pray continually to their
1H4 2.1. 80 saint the commonwealth; or rather, not pray to her,
1H4 2.1. 81 but prey on her; for they ride up and down on her and
1H4 2.1. 82 make her their boots.
1H4 2.1. 83
1H4-CHAMBERLAIN
What, the commonwealth their boots? Will
1H4 2.1. 84 she hold out water in foul way?
1H4 2.1. 85
1H4-GADSHILL
She will, she will, justice hath liquored her. We
1H4 2.1. 86 steal as in a castle, cocksure; we have the recipe of
1H4 2.1. 87 fern-seed, we walk invisible.
1H4 2.1. 88
1H4-CHAMBERLAIN
Nay, by my faith, I think you are more
1H4 2.1. 89 beholden to the night than to fern-seed for your walking
1H4 2.1. 90 invisible.
1H4 2.1. 91
1H4-GADSHILL
Give me thy hand; thou shalt have a share in
1H4 2.1. 92 our purchase, as I am a true man.
1H4 2.1. 93
1H4-CHAMBERLAIN
Nay, rather let me have it as you are a
1H4 2.1. 94 false thief.
1H4 2.1. 95
1H4-GADSHILL
Go to, `{homo}' is a common name to all men.
1H4 2.1. 96 Bid the ostler bring my gelding out of the stable.
1H4 2.1. 97 Farewell, you muddy knave. {Exeunt [severally]}
1H4 2.1. 0 {Enter Prince Harry, Poins, Harvey, [and Russell]}
1H4 2.2. 1
1H4-POINS
Come, shelter, shelter! {[Exeunt Harvey and +
1H4 2.2. 1 Russell at another door]}
1H4 2.2. 2 I have removed Oldcastle's horse, and he frets like a
1H4 2.2. 3 gummed velvet.
1H4 2.2. 4
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Stand close! {[Exit Poins]}
1H4 2.2. 5 {Enter Sir John Oldcastle}
1H4-SIR JOHN
Poins! Poins, +
1H4 2.2. 5 and be hanged! Poins!
1H4 2.2. 6
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Peace, ye fat-kidneyed rascal! What a
1H4 2.2. 7 brawling dost thou keep!
1H4 2.2. 8
1H4-SIR JOHN
Where's Poins, Hal?
1H4 2.2. 9
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
He is walked up to the top of the hill. I'll
1H4 2.2. 10 go seek him. {[Exit]}
1H4 2.2. 11
1H4-SIR JOHN
I am accursed to rob in that thief's company.
1H4 2.2. 12 The rascal hath removed my horse and tied him I know
1H4 2.2. 13 not where. If I travel but four foot by the square further
1H4 2.2. 14 afoot, I shall break my wind. Well, I doubt not but to
1H4 2.2. 15 die a fair death, for all this - if I scape hanging for
1H4 2.2. 16 killing that rogue. I have forsworn his company hourly
1H4 2.2. 17 any time this two-and-twenty years, and yet I am
1H4 2.2. 18 bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have
1H4 2.2. 19 not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be
1H4 2.2. 20 hanged. It could not be else: I have drunk medicines.
1H4 2.2. 21 Poins! Hal! A plague upon you both! Russell! Harvey!
1H4 2.2. 22 I'll starve ere I'll rob a foot further. An 'twere not as
1H4 2.2. 23 good a deed as drink to turn true man and to leave
1H4 2.2. 24 these rogues, I am the veriest varlet that ever chewed
1H4 2.2. 25 with a tooth. Eight yards of uneven ground is threescore
1H4 2.2. 26 and ten miles afoot with me, and the stony-hearted
1H4 2.2. 27 villains know it well enough. A plague upon 't when
1H4 2.2. 28 thieves cannot be true one to another! {They whistle. [Enter +
1H4 2.2. 28 Prince Harry, Poins, Harvey, and Russell]}
1H4 2.2. 29 Whew! A plague upon you all! Give me my horse, you
1H4 2.2. 30 rogues, give me my horse, and be hanged!
1H4 2.2. 31
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Peace, ye fat-guts. Lie down, lay thine ear
1H4 2.2. 32 close to the ground, and list if thou canst hear the
1H4 2.2. 33 tread of travellers.
1H4 2.2. 34
1H4-SIR JOHN
Have you any levers to lift me up again, being
1H4 2.2. 35 down? 'Sblood, I'll not bear my own flesh so far afoot
1H4 2.2. 36 again for all the coin in thy father's exchequer. What
1H4 2.2. 37 a plague mean ye to colt me thus?
1H4 2.2. 38
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Thou liest: thou art not colted, thou art
1H4 2.2. 39 uncolted.
1H4 2.2. 40
1H4-SIR JOHN
I prithee, good Prince Hal, help me to my horse,
1H4 2.2. 41 good king's son.
1H4 2.2. 42
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Out, ye rogue, shall I be your ostler?
1H4 2.2. 43
1H4-SIR JOHN
Hang thyself in thine own heir-apparent garters!
1H4 2.2. 44 If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this. An I have not ballads
1H4 2.2. 45 made on you all and sung to filthy tunes, let a cup of
1H4 2.2. 46 sack be my poison. When a jest is so forward, and
1H4 2.2. 47 afoot too! I hate it. {Enter Gadshill [visored]}
1H4 2.2. 48
1H4-GADSHILL
Stand!
1H4 2.2. 49
1H4-SIR JOHN
So I do, against my will.
1H4 2.2. 50
1H4-POINS
O, 'tis our setter, I know his voice. Gadshill, what
1H4 2.2. 51 news?
1H4 2.2. 52
1H4-[GADSHILL]
Case ye, case ye, on with your visors! There's
1H4 2.2. 53 money of the King's coming down the hill; 'tis going
1H4 2.2. 54 to the King's exchequer.
1H4 2.2. 55
1H4-SIR JOHN
You lie, ye rogue, 'tis going to the King's tavern.
1H4 2.2. 56
1H4-GADSHILL
There's enough to make us all.
1H4 2.2. 57
1H4-SIR JOHN
To be hanged. {[They put on visors]}
1H4 2.2. 58
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Sirs, you four shall front them in the
1H4 2.2. 59 narrow lane. Ned Poins and I will walk lower. If they
1H4 2.2. 60 scape from your encounter, then they light on us.
1H4 2.2. 61
1H4-HARVEY
How many be there of them?
1H4 2.2. 62
1H4-GADSHILL
Some eight or ten.
1H4 2.2. 63
1H4-SIR JOHN
Zounds, will they not rob us?
1H4 2.2. 64
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
What, a coward, Sir John Paunch?
1H4 2.2. 65
1H4-SIR JOHN
Indeed I am not John of Gaunt your grandfather,
1H4 2.2. 66 but yet no coward, Hal.
1H4 2.2. 67
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Well, we leave that to the proof.
1H4 2.2. 68
1H4-POINS
Sirrah Jack, thy horse stands behind the hedge.
1H4 2.2. 69 When thou needest him, there thou shalt find him.
1H4 2.2. 70 Farewell, and stand fast.
1H4 2.2. 71
1H4-SIR JOHN
Now cannot I strike him if I should be hanged.
1H4 2.2. 72
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
{(aside to Poins)} Ned, where are our +
1H4 2.2. 72 disguises?
1H4 2.2. 73
1H4-POINS
{(aside to the Prince)} Here, hard by. Stand +
1H4 2.2. 73 close. {[Exeunt the Prince and Poins]}
1H4 2.2. 74
1H4-SIR JOHN
Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say
1H4 2.2. 75 I; every man to his business. {[They stand aside.]}
1H4 2.2. 76 {Enter the Travellers, [amongst them the Carriers]}
1H4-[FIRST] TRAVELLER
1H4 2.2. 76 Come, neighbour, the boy shall lead
1H4 2.2. 77 our horses down the hill. We'll walk afoot a while, and
1H4 2.2. 78 ease their legs.
1H4 2.2. 79
1H4-THIEVES
{[coming forward]} Stand!
1H4 2.2. 80
1H4-[SECOND] TRAVELLER
Jesus bless us!
1H4 2.2. 81
1H4-SIR JOHN
Strike, down with them, cut the villains' throats!
1H4 2.2. 82 Ah, whoreson caterpillars, bacon-fed knaves! They hate
1H4 2.2. 83 us youth. Down with them, fleece them!
1H4 2.2. 84
1H4-[FIRST] TRAVELLER
O, we are undone, both we and ours
1H4 2.2. 85 for ever!
1H4 2.2. 86
1H4-SIR JOHN
Hang ye, gorbellied knaves, are ye undone? No,
1H4 2.2. 87 ye fat chuffs; I would your store were here. On, bacons,
1H4 2.2. 88 on! What, ye knaves! Young men must live. You are
1H4 2.2. 89 grand-jurors, are ye? We'll jure ye, faith. {Here they rob them +
1H4 2.2. 89 and bind them. Exeunt the thieves with the travellers}
1H4 2.2. 0 {Enter Prince Harry and Poins, disguised in buckram suits}
1H4 2.3. 1
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
The thieves have bound the true men; now
1H4 2.3. 2 could thou and I rob the thieves, and go merrily to
1H4 2.3. 3 London. It would be argument for a week, laughter for
1H4 2.3. 4 a month, and a good jest for ever.
1H4 2.3. 5
1H4-POINS
Stand close; I hear them coming. {They stand aside.}
1H4 2.3. 6 {Enter Sir John Oldcastle, Russell, Harvey, and Gadshill, with the +
1H4 2.3. 6 travellers' money}
1H4-SIR JOHN
Come, my masters, let us +
1H4 2.3. 6 share, and then to
1H4 2.3. 7 horse before day. An the Prince and Poins be not two
1H4 2.3. 8 arrant cowards, there's no equity stirring. There's no
1H4 2.3. 9 more valour in that Poins than in a wild duck. {As they are +
1H4 2.3. 9 sharing, the Prince and Poins set upon them}
1H4 2.3. 10
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Your money!
1H4 2.3. 11
1H4-POINS
Villains! {Gadshill, Russell, and Harvey run away +
1H4 2.3. 11 [severally], and Oldcastle, after a blow or two, [roars and] runs away +
1H4 2.3. 11 too, leaving the booty behind them}
1H4 2.3. 12
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Got with much ease. Now merrily to horse.
1H4 2.3. 13 The thieves are all scattered, and possessed with fear
1H4 2.3. 14 So strongly that they dare not meet each other.
1H4 2.3. 15 Each takes his fellow for an officer.
1H4 2.3. 16 Away, good Ned. Oldcastle sweats to death,
1H4 2.3. 17 And lards the lean earth as he walks along.
1H4 2.3. 18 Were 't not for laughing, I should pity him.
1H4 2.3. 19
1H4-POINS
How the fat rogue roared! {Exeunt with the booty}
1H4 2.3. 0 {Enter Hotspur, reading a letter}
1H4 2.4. 1
1H4-HOTSPUR
`But for mine own part, my lord, I could be well
1H4 2.4. 2 contented to be there, in respect of the love I bear your
1H4 2.4. 3 house.' - He could be contented; why is he not then?
1H4 2.4. 4 In respect of the love he bears our house! He shows in
1H4 2.4. 5 this he loves his own barn better than he loves our
1H4 2.4. 6 house. Let me see some more. - `The purpose you
1H4 2.4. 7 undertake is dangerous' - Why, that's certain: 'tis
1H4 2.4. 8 dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell
1H4 2.4. 9 you, my lord fool, out of this nettle danger we pluck
1H4 2.4. 10 this flower safety. - `The purpose you undertake is
1H4 2.4. 11 dangerous, the friends you have named uncertain, the
1H4 2.4. 12 time itself unsorted, and your whole plot too light for
1H4 2.4. 13 the counterpoise of so great an opposition.' - Say you
1H4 2.4. 14 so, say you so? I say unto you again, you are a shallow,
1H4 2.4. 15 cowardly hind, and you lie. What a lack-brain is this!
1H4 2.4. 16 By the Lord, our plot is a good plot as ever was laid,
1H4 2.4. 17 our friends true and constant; a good plot, good friends,
1H4 2.4. 18 and full of expectation; an excellent plot, very good
1H4 2.4. 19 friends. What a frosty-spirited rogue is this! Why, my
1H4 2.4. 20 lord of York commends the plot and the general course
1H4 2.4. 21 of the action. Zounds, an I were now by this rascal, I
1H4 2.4. 22 could brain him with his lady's fan! Is there not my
1H4 2.4. 23 father, my uncle, and myself? Lord Edmund Mortimer,
1H4 2.4. 24 my lord of York, and Owain Glyndw^r? Is there not
1H4 2.4. 25 besides the Douglas? Have I not all their letters, to
1H4 2.4. 26 meet me in arms by the ninth of the next month? And
1H4 2.4. 27 are they not some of them set forward already? What
1H4 2.4. 28 a pagan rascal is this, an infidel! Ha, you shall see
1H4 2.4. 29 now, in very sincerity of fear and cold heart will he to
1H4 2.4. 30 the King, and lay open all our proceedings! O, I could
1H4 2.4. 31 divide myself and go to buffets for moving such a dish
1H4 2.4. 32 of skim-milk with so honourable an action! Hang him!
1H4 2.4. 33 Let him tell the King we are prepared; I will set forward
1H4 2.4. 34 tonight. {Enter Lady Percy}
1H4 2.4. 35 How now, Kate? I must leave you within these two
1H4 2.4. 36 hours.
1H4 2.4. 37
1H4-LADY PERCY
O my good lord, why are you thus alone?
1H4 2.4. 38 For what offence have I this fortnight been
1H4 2.4. 39 A banished woman from my Harry's bed?
1H4 2.4. 40 Tell me, sweet lord, what is 't that takes from thee
1H4 2.4. 41 Thy stomach, pleasure, and thy golden sleep?
1H4 2.4. 42 Why dost thou bend thine eyes upon the earth,
1H4 2.4. 43 And start so often when thou sitt'st alone?
1H4 2.4. 44 Why hast thou lost the fresh blood in thy cheeks,
1H4 2.4. 45 And given my treasures and my rights of thee
1H4 2.4. 46 To thick-eyed musing and curst melancholy?
1H4 2.4. 47 In thy faint slumbers I by thee have watched,
1H4 2.4. 48 And heard thee murmur tales of iron wars,
1H4 2.4. 49 Speak terms of manege to thy bounding steed,
1H4 2.4. 50 Cry `Courage! To the field!' And thou hast talked
1H4 2.4. 51 Of sallies and retires, of trenches, tents,
1H4 2.4. 52 Of palisadoes, frontiers, parapets,
1H4 2.4. 53 Of basilisks, of cannon, culverin,
1H4 2.4. 54 Of prisoners ransomed, and of soldiers slain,
1H4 2.4. 55 And all the currents of a heady fight.
1H4 2.4. 56 Thy spirit within thee hath been so at war,
1H4 2.4. 57 And thus hath so bestirred thee in thy sleep,
1H4 2.4. 58 That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow
1H4 2.4. 59 Like bubbles in a late-disturbed stream;
1H4 2.4. 60 And in thy face strange motions have appeared,
1H4 2.4. 61 Such as we see when men restrain their breath
1H4 2.4. 62 On some great sudden hest. O, what portents are these?
1H4 2.4. 63 Some heavy business hath my lord in hand,
1H4 2.4. 64 And I must know it, else he loves me not.
1H4 2.4. 65B
1H4-HOTSPUR
What ho! {Enter Servant} Is Gilliams with +
1H4 2.4. 65B the packet gone?
1H4 2.4. 66
1H4-SERVANT
He is, my lord, an hour ago.
1H4 2.4. 67
1H4-HOTSPUR
Hath Butler brought those horses from the sheriff?
1H4 2.4. 68
1H4-SERVANT
One horse, my lord, he brought even now.
1H4 2.4. 69
1H4-HOTSPUR
What horse? A roan, a crop-ear, is it not?
1H4 2.4. 70B
1H4-SERVANT
It is, my lord.
1H4-HOTSPUR
That roan shall be my throne.
1H4 2.4. 71 Well, I will back him straight. - O, {Esperance}! -
1H4 2.4. 72 Bid Butler lead him forth into the park.
1H4 2.4. 73B
1H4-LADY PERCY
But hear you, my lord.
1H4-HOTSPUR
What sayst thou, my +
1H4 2.4. 73B lady?
1H4 2.4. 74B
1H4-LADY PERCY
What is it carries you away?
1H4-HOTSPUR
Why, my horse,
1H4 2.4. 75B My love, my horse.
1H4-LADY PERCY
Out, you mad-headed ape!
1H4 2.4. 76 A weasel hath not such a deal of spleen
1H4 2.4. 77 As you are tossed with.
1H4 2.4. 78 In faith, I'll know your business, Harry, that I will.
1H4 2.4. 79 I fear my brother Mortimer doth stir
1H4 2.4. 80 About his title, and hath sent for you
1H4 2.4. 81 To line his enterprise; but if you go -
1H4 2.4. 82
1H4-HOTSPUR
So far afoot? I shall be weary, love.
1H4 2.4. 83
1H4-LADY PERCY
Come, come, you paraquito, answer me
1H4 2.4. 84 Directly to this question that I ask.
1H4 2.4. 85 In faith, I'll break thy little finger, Harry,
1H4 2.4. 86 An if thou wilt not tell me all things true.
1H4 2.4. 87
1H4-HOTSPUR
Away, away, you trifler! Love? I love thee not,
1H4 2.4. 88 I care not for thee, Kate. This is no world
1H4 2.4. 89 To play with maumets and to tilt with lips.
1H4 2.4. 90 We must have bloody noses and cracked crowns,
1H4 2.4. 91 And pass them current, too. God's me, my horse! -
1H4 2.4. 92 What sayst thou, Kate? What wouldst thou have with me?
1H4 2.4. 93
1H4-LADY PERCY
Do you not love me? Do you not indeed?
1H4 2.4. 94 Well, do not, then, for since you love me not
1H4 2.4. 95 I will not love myself. Do you not love me?
1H4 2.4. 96 Nay, tell me if you speak in jest or no.
1H4 2.4. 97A
1H4-HOTSPUR
Come, wilt thou see me ride?
1H4 2.4. 98 And when I am a-horseback, I will swear
1H4 2.4. 99 I love thee infinitely. But hark you, Kate.
1H4 2.4. 100 I must not have you henceforth question me
1H4 2.4. 101 Whither I go, nor reason whereabout.
1H4 2.4. 102 Whither I must, I must; and, to conclude,
1H4 2.4. 103 This evening must I leave you, gentle Kate.
1H4 2.4. 104 I know you wise, but yet no farther wise
1H4 2.4. 105 Than Harry Percy's wife; constant you are,
1H4 2.4. 106 But yet a woman; and for secrecy
1H4 2.4. 107 No lady closer, for I well believe
1H4 2.4. 108 Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know.
1H4 2.4. 109 And so far will I trust thee, gentle Kate.
1H4 2.4. 110A
1H4-LADY PERCY
How, so far?
1H4 2.4. 111
1H4-HOTSPUR
Not an inch further. But hark you, Kate,
1H4 2.4. 112 Whither I go, thither shall you go too.
1H4 2.4. 113 Today will I set forth, tomorrow you.
1H4 2.4. 114B Will this content you, Kate?
1H4-LADY PERCY
It must, of force. +
1H4 2.4. 114B {Exeunt}
1H4 2.4. 0 {Enter Prince Harry}
1H4 2.5. 1
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Ned, prithee come out of that fat room,
1H4 2.5. 2 and lend me thy hand to laugh a little. {Enter Poins [at another +
1H4 2.5. 2 door]}
1H4 2.5. 3
1H4-POINS
Where hast been, Hal?
1H4 2.5. 4
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
With three or four loggerheads, amongst
1H4 2.5. 5 three or fourscore hogsheads. I have sounded the very
1H4 2.5. 6 bass-string of humility. Sirrah, I am sworn brother to
1H4 2.5. 7 a leash of drawers, and can call them all by their
1H4 2.5. 8 christen names, as `Tom', `Dick', and `Francis'. They
1H4 2.5. 9 take it already, upon their salvation, that though I be
1H4 2.5. 10 but Prince of Wales yet I am the king of courtesy, and
1H4 2.5. 11 tell me flatly I am no proud jack like Oldcastle, but a
1H4 2.5. 12 Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a good boy - by the Lord,
1H4 2.5. 13 so they call me; and when I am King of England I shall
1H4 2.5. 14 command all the good lads in Eastcheap. They call
1H4 2.5. 15 drinking deep `dyeing scarlet', and when you breathe
1H4 2.5. 16 in your watering they cry `Hem!' and bid you `Play it
1H4 2.5. 17 off!' To conclude, I am so good a proficient in one
1H4 2.5. 18 quarter of an hour that I can drink with any tinker in
1H4 2.5. 19 his own language during my life. I tell thee, Ned, thou
1H4 2.5. 20 hast lost much honour that thou wert not with me in
1H4 2.5. 21 this action. But, sweet Ned - to sweeten which name
1H4 2.5. 22 of Ned I give thee this pennyworth of sugar, clapped
1H4 2.5. 23 even now into my hand by an underskinker, one that
1H4 2.5. 24 never spake other English in his life than `Eight shillings
1H4 2.5. 25 and sixpence', and `You are welcome', with this shrill
1H4 2.5. 26 addition, `Anon, anon, sir! Score a pint of bastard in
1H4 2.5. 27 the Half-moon!' or so. But, Ned, to drive away the time
1H4 2.5. 28 till Oldcastle come, I prithee do thou stand in some
1H4 2.5. 29 by-room, while I question my puny drawer to what
1H4 2.5. 30 end he gave me the sugar, and do thou never leave
1H4 2.5. 31 calling `Francis!', that his tale to me may be nothing
1H4 2.5. 32 but `Anon!' Step aside, and I'll show thee a precedent. {Exit +
1H4 2.5. 32 Poins}
1H4 2.5. 33
1H4-POINS
{(within)} Francis!
1H4 2.5. 34
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Thou art perfect.
1H4 2.5. 35
1H4-POINS
{(within)} Francis! {Enter Francis, a +
1H4 2.5. 35 drawer}
1H4 2.5. 36
1H4-FRANCIS
Anon, anon, sir! - Look down into the Pomegranate,
1H4 2.5. 37 Ralph!
1H4 2.5. 38
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Come hither, Francis.
1H4 2.5. 39
1H4-FRANCIS
My lord.
1H4 2.5. 40
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
How long hast thou to serve, Francis?
1H4 2.5. 41
1H4-FRANCIS
Forsooth, five years, and as much as to -
1H4 2.5. 42
1H4-POINS
{(within)} Francis!
1H4 2.5. 43
1H4-FRANCIS
Anon, anon, sir!
1H4 2.5. 44
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Five year! By 'r Lady, a long lease for the
1H4 2.5. 45 clinking of pewter. But Francis, darest thou be so
1H4 2.5. 46 valiant as to play the coward with thy indenture, and
1H4 2.5. 47 show it a fair pair of heels, and run from it?
1H4 2.5. 48
1H4-FRANCIS
O Lord, sir, I'll be sworn upon all the books in
1H4 2.5. 49 England, I could find in my heart -
1H4 2.5. 50
1H4-POINS
{(within)} Francis!
1H4 2.5. 51
1H4-FRANCIS
Anon, sir!
1H4 2.5. 52
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
How old art thou, Francis?
1H4 2.5. 53
1H4-FRANCIS
Let me see, about Michaelmas next I shall be -
1H4 2.5. 54
1H4-POINS
{(within)} Francis!
1H4 2.5. 55
1H4-FRANCIS
Anon, sir! {(To the Prince)} Pray, stay a +
1H4 2.5. 55 little, my
1H4 2.5. 56 lord.
1H4 2.5. 57
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Nay, but hark you, Francis. For the sugar
1H4 2.5. 58 thou gavest me, 'twas a pennyworth, was 't not?
1H4 2.5. 59
1H4-FRANCIS
O Lord, I would it had been two!
1H4 2.5. 60
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
I will give thee for it a thousand pound.
1H4 2.5. 61 Ask me when thou wilt, and thou shalt have it -
1H4 2.5. 62
1H4-POINS
{(within)} Francis!
1H4 2.5. 63
1H4-FRANCIS
Anon, anon!
1H4 2.5. 64
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Anon, Francis? No, Francis, but tomorrow,
1H4 2.5. 65 Francis; or, Francis, o' Thursday; or, indeed, Francis,
1H4 2.5. 66 when thou wilt. But Francis.
1H4 2.5. 67
1H4-FRANCIS
My lord.
1H4 2.5. 68
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Wilt thou rob this leathern-jerkin, crystal-
1H4 2.5. 69 button, knot-pated, agate-ring, puke-stocking, caddis-
1H4 2.5. 70 garter, smooth-tongue, Spanish-pouch?
1H4 2.5. 71
1H4-FRANCIS
O Lord, sir, who do you mean?
1H4 2.5. 72
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Why, then, your brown bastard is your
1H4 2.5. 73 only drink! For look you, Francis, your white canvas
1H4 2.5. 74 doublet will sully. In Barbary, sir, it cannot come to so
1H4 2.5. 75 much.
1H4 2.5. 76
1H4-FRANCIS
What, sir?
1H4 2.5. 77
1H4-POINS
{(within)} Francis!
1H4 2.5. 78
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Away, you rogue! Dost thou not hear them
1H4 2.5. 79 call? {[As he departs] Poins and the Prince both call him. The +
1H4 2.5. 79 Drawer stands amazed, not knowing which way to go.}
1H4 2.5. 80 {Enter Vintner}
1H4-VINTNER
What, standest thou still, and +
1H4 2.5. 80 hearest such a
1H4 2.5. 81 calling? Look to the guests within. {Exit Francis}
1H4 2.5. 82 My lord, old Sir John with half a dozen more are at
1H4 2.5. 83 the door. Shall I let them in?
1H4 2.5. 84
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Let them alone a while, and then open the
1H4 2.5. 85 door. {Exit Vintner}
1H4 2.5. 86 Poins!
1H4 2.5. 87
1H4-POINS
{[within]} Anon, anon, sir! {Enter +
1H4 2.5. 87 Poins}
1H4 2.5. 88
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Sirrah, Oldcastle and the rest of the +
1H4 2.5. 88 thieves
1H4 2.5. 89 are at the door. Shall we be merry?
1H4 2.5. 90
1H4-POINS
As merry as crickets, my lad. But hark ye, what
1H4 2.5. 91 cunning match have you made with this jest of the
1H4 2.5. 92 drawer? Come, what's the issue?
1H4 2.5. 93
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
I am now of all humours that have showed
1H4 2.5. 94 themselves humours since the old days of goodman
1H4 2.5. 95 Adam to the pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at
1H4 2.5. 96 midnight. {[Enter Francis]}
1H4 2.5. 97 What's o'clock, Francis?
1H4 2.5. 98
1H4-FRANCIS
Anon, anon, sir! {[Exit at another door]}
1H4 2.5. 99
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
That ever this fellow should have fewer
1H4 2.5. 100 words than a parrot, and yet the son of a woman! His
1H4 2.5. 101 industry is upstairs and downstairs, his eloquence the
1H4 2.5. 102 parcel of a reckoning. I am not yet of Percy's mind,
1H4 2.5. 103 the Hotspur of the North - he that kills me some six or
1H4 2.5. 104 seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his hands,
1H4 2.5. 105 and says to his wife, `Fie upon this quiet life! I want
1H4 2.5. 106 work.' `O my sweet Harry,' says she, `how many hast
1H4 2.5. 107 thou killed today?' `Give my roan horse a drench,' says
1H4 2.5. 108 he, and answers, `Some fourteen,' an hour after; `a
1H4 2.5. 109 trifle, a trifle.' I prithee call in Oldcastle. I'll play Percy,
1H4 2.5. 110 and that damned brawn shall play Dame Mortimer his
1H4 2.5. 111 wife. `Rivo!' says the drunkard. Call in Ribs, call in
1H4 2.5. 112 Tallow. {Enter Sir John Oldcastle, with sword and buckler, +
1H4 2.5. 112 Russell, Harvey, and Gadshill, [followed by] Francis, with wine}
1H4 2.5. 113
1H4-POINS
Welcome, Jack. Where hast thou been?
1H4 2.5. 114
1H4-SIR JOHN
A plague of all cowards, I say, and a vengeance
1H4 2.5. 115 too, marry and amen! - Give me a cup of sack, boy. -
1H4 2.5. 116 Ere I lead this life long, I'll sew netherstocks, and mend
1H4 2.5. 117 them and foot them too. A plague of all cowards! -
1H4 2.5. 118 Give me a cup of sack, rogue. Is there no virtue extant? {He +
1H4 2.5. 118 drinketh}
1H4 2.5. 119
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Didst thou never see Titan kiss a dish of
1H4 2.5. 120 butter - pitiful hearted Titan - that melted at the sweet
1H4 2.5. 121 tale of the sun's? If thou didst, then behold that
1H4 2.5. 122 compound.
1H4 2.5. 123
1H4-SIR JOHN
{(to Francis)} You rogue, here's lime in +
1H4 2.5. 123 this sack
1H4 2.5. 124 too. There is nothing but roguery to be found in
1H4 2.5. 125 villainous man, yet a coward is worse than a cup of
1H4 2.5. 126 sack with lime in it. {[Exit Francis]}
1H4 2.5. 127 A villainous coward! Go thy ways, old Jack, die when
1H4 2.5. 128 thou wilt. If manhood, good manhood, be not forgot
1H4 2.5. 129 upon the face of the earth, then am I a shotten herring.
1H4 2.5. 130 There lives not three good men unhanged in England,
1H4 2.5. 131 and one of them is fat and grows old, God help the
1H4 2.5. 132 while. A bad world, I say. I would I were a weaver - I
1H4 2.5. 133 could sing psalms, or anything. A plague of all cowards,
1H4 2.5. 134 I say still.
1H4 2.5. 135
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
How now, woolsack, what mutter you?
1H4 2.5. 136
1H4-SIR JOHN
A king's son! If I do not beat thee out of thy
1H4 2.5. 137 kingdom with a dagger of lath, and drive all thy subjects
1H4 2.5. 138 afore thee like a flock of wild geese, I'll never wear hair
1H4 2.5. 139 on my face more. You, Prince of Wales!
1H4 2.5. 140
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Why, you whoreson round man, what's
1H4 2.5. 141 the matter?
1H4 2.5. 142
1H4-SIR JOHN
Are not you a coward? Answer me to that. And
1H4 2.5. 143 Poins there?
1H4 2.5. 144
1H4-POINS
Zounds, ye fat paunch, an ye call me coward, by
1H4 2.5. 145 the Lord I'll stab thee.
1H4 2.5. 146
1H4-SIR JOHN
I call thee coward? I'll see thee damned ere I
1H4 2.5. 147 call thee coward, but I would give a thousand pound
1H4 2.5. 148 I could run as fast as thou canst. You are straight
1H4 2.5. 149 enough in the shoulders; you care not who sees your
1H4 2.5. 150 back. Call you that backing of your friends? A plague
1H4 2.5. 151 upon such backing! Give me them that will face me.
1H4 2.5. 152 Give me a cup of sack. I am a rogue if I drunk today.
1H4 2.5. 153
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
O villain, thy lips are scarce wiped since
1H4 2.5. 154 thou drunkest last.
1H4 2.5. 155
1H4-SIR JOHN
All is one for that. {He drinketh}
1H4 2.5. 156 A plague of all cowards, still say I.
1H4 2.5. 157
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
What's the matter?
1H4 2.5. 158
1H4-SIR JOHN
What's the matter? There be four of us here
1H4 2.5. 159 have ta'en a thousand pound this day morning.
1H4 2.5. 160
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Where is it, Jack, where is it?
1H4 2.5. 161
1H4-SIR JOHN
Where is it? Taken from us it is. A hundred
1H4 2.5. 162 upon poor four of us.
1H4 2.5. 163
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
What, a hundred, man?
1H4 2.5. 164
1H4-SIR JOHN
I am a rogue if I were not at half-sword with a
1H4 2.5. 165 dozen of them, two hours together. I have scaped by
1H4 2.5. 166 miracle. I am eight times thrust through the doublet,
1H4 2.5. 167 four through the hose, my buckler cut through and
1H4 2.5. 168 through, my sword hacked like a handsaw. {Ecce signum.} {[He +
1H4 2.5. 168 shows his sword]}
1H4 2.5. 169 I never dealt better since I was a man. All would not
1H4 2.5. 170 do. A plague of all cowards! {(Pointing to Gadshill,}
1H4 2.5. 171 {Harvey, and Russell)} Let them speak. If they speak more
1H4 2.5. 172 or less than truth, they are villains and the sons of
1H4 2.5. 173 darkness.
1H4 2.5. 174
1H4-[PRINCE HARRY]
Speak, sirs, how was it?
1H4 2.5. 175
1H4-[GADSHILL]
We four set upon some dozen -
1H4 2.5. 176
1H4-SIR JOHN
{(to the Prince)} Sixteen at least, my +
1H4 2.5. 176 lord.
1H4 2.5. 177
1H4-[GADSHILL]
And bound them.
1H4 2.5. 178
1H4-HARVEY
No, no, they were not bound.
1H4 2.5. 179
1H4-SIR JOHN
You rogue, they were bound every man of them,
1H4 2.5. 180 or I am a Jew else, an Hebrew Jew.
1H4 2.5. 181
1H4-[GADSHILL]
As we were sharing, some six or seven fresh
1H4 2.5. 182 men set upon us.
1H4 2.5. 183
1H4-SIR JOHN
And unbound the rest; and then come in the
1H4 2.5. 184 other.
1H4 2.5. 185
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
What, fought you with them all?
1H4 2.5. 186
1H4-SIR JOHN
All? I know not what you call all, but if I fought
1H4 2.5. 187 not with fifty of them, I am a bunch of radish. If there
1H4 2.5. 188 were not two- or three-and-fifty upon poor old Jack,
1H4 2.5. 189 then am I no two-legged creature.
1H4 2.5. 190
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Pray God you have not murdered some of
1H4 2.5. 191 them.
1H4 2.5. 192
1H4-SIR JOHN
Nay, that's past praying for. I have peppered
1H4 2.5. 193 two of them. Two I am sure I have paid - two rogues
1H4 2.5. 194 in buckram suits. I tell thee what, Hal, if I tell thee a
1H4 2.5. 195 lie, spit in my face, call me horse. Thou knowest my
1H4 2.5. 196 old ward - {[He stands as to fight]}
1H4 2.5. 197 here I lay, and thus I bore my point. Four rogues in
1H4 2.5. 198 buckram let drive at me.
1H4 2.5. 199
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
What, four? Thou saidst but two even
1H4 2.5. 200 now.
1H4 2.5. 201
1H4-SIR JOHN
Four, Hal, I told thee four.
1H4 2.5. 202
1H4-POINS
Ay, ay, he said four.
1H4 2.5. 203
1H4-SIR JOHN
These four came all afront, and mainly thrust
1H4 2.5. 204 at me. I made me no more ado, but took all their seven
1H4 2.5. 205 points in my target, thus. {[He wards himself with his buckler]}
1H4 2.5. 206
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Seven? Why, there were but four even
1H4 2.5. 207 now.
1H4 2.5. 208
1H4-SIR JOHN
In buckram?
1H4 2.5. 209
1H4-POINS
Ay, four in buckram suits.
1H4 2.5. 210
1H4-SIR JOHN
Seven, by these hilts, or I am a villain else.
1H4 2.5. 211
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
{(aside to Poins)} Prithee, let him +
1H4 2.5. 211 alone. We
1H4 2.5. 212 shall have more anon.
1H4 2.5. 213
1H4-SIR JOHN
Dost thou hear me, Hal?
1H4 2.5. 214
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Ay, and mark thee too, Jack.
1H4 2.5. 215
1H4-SIR JOHN
Do so, for it is worth the listening to. These nine
1H4 2.5. 216 in buckram that I told thee of -
1H4 2.5. 217
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
{(aside to Poins)} So, two more +
1H4 2.5. 217 already.
1H4 2.5. 218
1H4-SIR JOHN
Their points being broken -
1H4 2.5. 219
1H4-POINS
{[aside to the Prince]} Down fell their +
1H4 2.5. 219 hose.
1H4 2.5. 220
1H4-SIR JOHN
Began to give me ground. But I followed me
1H4 2.5. 221 close, came in foot and hand, and, with a thought,
1H4 2.5. 222 seven of the eleven I paid.
1H4 2.5. 223
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
{(aside to Poins)} O monstrous! +
1H4 2.5. 223 Eleven buckram
1H4 2.5. 224 men grown out of two!
1H4 2.5. 225
1H4-SIR JOHN
But, as the devil would have it, three misbegotten
1H4 2.5. 226 knaves in Kendal green came at my back and let drive
1H4 2.5. 227 at me; for it was so dark, Hal, that thou couldst not
1H4 2.5. 228 see thy hand.
1H4 2.5. 229
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
These lies are like their father that begets
1H4 2.5. 230 them - gross as a mountain, open, palpable. Why, thou
1H4 2.5. 231 clay-brained guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou
1H4 2.5. 232 whoreson obscene greasy tallow-catch -
1H4 2.5. 233
1H4-SIR JOHN
What, art thou mad? Art thou mad? Is not the
1H4 2.5. 234 truth the truth?
1H4 2.5. 235
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Why, how couldst thou know these men
1H4 2.5. 236 in Kendal green when it was so dark thou couldst not
1H4 2.5. 237 see thy hand? Come, tell us your reason. What sayst
1H4 2.5. 238 thou to this?
1H4 2.5. 239
1H4-POINS
Come, your reason, Jack, your reason.
1H4 2.5. 240
1H4-SIR JOHN
What, upon compulsion? Zounds, an I were at
1H4 2.5. 241 the strappado, or all the racks in the world, I would
1H4 2.5. 242 not tell you on compulsion. Give you a reason on
1H4 2.5. 243 compulsion? If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries,
1H4 2.5. 244 I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I.
1H4 2.5. 245
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
I'll be no longer guilty of this sin. This
1H4 2.5. 246 sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horse-back-
1H4 2.5. 247 breaker, this huge hill of flesh -
1H4 2.5. 248
1H4-SIR JOHN
'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried
1H4 2.5. 249 neat's tongue, you bull's pizzle, you stock-fish - O, for
1H4 2.5. 250 breath to utter what is like thee! - you tailor's yard,
1H4 2.5. 251 you sheath, you bow-case, you vile standing tuck -
1H4 2.5. 252
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Well, breathe awhile, and then to 't again,
1H4 2.5. 253 and when thou hast tired thyself in base comparisons,
1H4 2.5. 254 hear me speak but this.
1H4 2.5. 255
1H4-POINS
Mark, Jack.
1H4 2.5. 256
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
We two saw you four set on four, and
1H4 2.5. 257 bound them, and were masters of their wealth. - Mark
1H4 2.5. 258 now how a plain tale shall put you down. - Then did
1H4 2.5. 259 we two set on you four, and, with a word, outfaced
1H4 2.5. 260 you from your prize, and have it; yea, and can show
1H4 2.5. 261 it you here in the house. And Oldcastle, you carried
1H4 2.5. 262 your guts away as nimbly, with as quick dexterity, and
1H4 2.5. 263 roared for mercy, and still run and roared, as ever I
1H4 2.5. 264 heard bull-calf. What a slave art thou, to hack thy
1H4 2.5. 265 sword as thou hast done, and then say it was in fight!
1H4 2.5. 266 What trick, what device, what starting-hole canst thou
1H4 2.5. 267 now find out to hide thee from this open and apparent
1H4 2.5. 268 shame?
1H4 2.5. 269
1H4-POINS
Come, let's hear, Jack; what trick hast thou now?
1H4 2.5. 270
1H4-SIR JOHN
By the Lord, I knew ye as well as he that made
1H4 2.5. 271 ye. Why, hear you, my masters. Was it for me to kill
1H4 2.5. 272 the heir-apparent? Should I turn upon the true prince?
1H4 2.5. 273 Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules; but
1H4 2.5. 274 beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true
1H4 2.5. 275 prince - instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward
1H4 2.5. 276 on instinct. I shall think the better of myself and thee
1H4 2.5. 277 during my life - I for a valiant lion, and thou for a true
1H4 2.5. 278 prince. But by the Lord, lads, I am glad you have the
1H4 2.5. 279 money. - {(Calling)} Hostess, clap to the doors. - Watch
1H4 2.5. 280 tonight, pray tomorrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of
1H4 2.5. 281 gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you!
1H4 2.5. 282 What, shall we be merry, shall we have a play
1H4 2.5. 283 extempore?
1H4 2.5. 284
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Content, and the argument shall be thy
1H4 2.5. 285 running away.
1H4 2.5. 286
1H4-SIR JOHN
Ah, no more of that, Hal, an thou lovest me. {Enter +
1H4 2.5. 286 Hostess}
1H4 2.5. 287
1H4-HOSTESS
O Jesu, my lord the Prince!
1H4 2.5. 288
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
How now, my lady the Hostess, what sayst
1H4 2.5. 289 thou to me?
1H4 2.5. 290
1H4-HOSTESS
Marry, my lord, there is a nobleman of the court
1H4 2.5. 291 at door would speak with you. He says he comes from
1H4 2.5. 292 your father.
1H4 2.5. 293
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Give him as much as will make him a
1H4 2.5. 294 royal man, and send him back again to my mother.
1H4 2.5. 295
1H4-SIR JOHN
What manner of man is he?
1H4 2.5. 296
1H4-HOSTESS
An old man.
1H4 2.5. 297
1H4-SIR JOHN
What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight?
1H4 2.5. 298 Shall I give him his answer?
1H4 2.5. 299
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Prithee do, Jack.
1H4 2.5. 300
1H4-SIR JOHN
Faith, and I'll send him packing. {Exit}
1H4 2.5. 301
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Now, sirs; {(to Gadshill)} +
1H4 2.5. 301 by 'r Lady, you
1H4 2.5. 302 fought fair - so did you, Harvey, so did you, Russell.
1H4 2.5. 303 You are lions too - you ran away upon instinct, you
1H4 2.5. 304 will not touch the true prince; no, fie!
1H4 2.5. 305
1H4-RUSSELL
Faith, I ran when I saw others run.
1H4 2.5. 306
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Faith, tell me now in earnest, how came
1H4 2.5. 307 Oldcastle's sword so hacked?
1H4 2.5. 308
1H4-HARVEY
Why, he hacked it with his dagger, and said he
1H4 2.5. 309 would swear truth out of England but he would make
1H4 2.5. 310 you believe it was done in fight, and persuaded us to
1H4 2.5. 311 do the like.
1H4 2.5. 312
1H4-RUSSELL
Yea, and to tickle our noses with speargrass, to
1H4 2.5. 313 make them bleed; and then to beslubber our garments
1H4 2.5. 314 with it, and swear it was the blood of true men. I did
1H4 2.5. 315 that I did not this seven year before - I blushed to hear
1H4 2.5. 316 his monstrous devices.
1H4 2.5. 317
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
O villain, thou stolest a cup of sack eighteen
1H4 2.5. 318 years ago, and wert taken with the manner, and ever
1H4 2.5. 319 since thou hast blushed extempore. Thou hadst fire and
1H4 2.5. 320 sword on thy side, and yet thou rannest away. What
1H4 2.5. 321 instinct hadst thou for it?
1H4 2.5. 322
1H4-RUSSELL
{(indicating his face)} My lord, do you +
1H4 2.5. 322 see these
1H4 2.5. 323 meteors? Do you behold these exhalations?
1H4 2.5. 324
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
I do.
1H4 2.5. 325
1H4-RUSSELL
What think you they portend?
1H4 2.5. 326
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Hot livers, and cold purses.
1H4 2.5. 327
1H4-RUSSELL
Choler, my lord, if rightly taken. {[Exit]}
1H4 2.5. 328
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
No, if rightly taken, halter. {Enter +
1H4 2.5. 328 Sir John Oldcastle}
1H4 2.5. 329 Here comes lean Jack; here comes bare-bone. How
1H4 2.5. 330 now, my sweet creature of bombast? How long is 't
1H4 2.5. 331 ago, Jack, since thou sawest thine own knee?
1H4 2.5. 332
1H4-SIR JOHN
My own knee? When I was about thy years,
1H4 2.5. 333 Hal, I was not an eagle's talon in the waist; I could
1H4 2.5. 334 have crept into any alderman's thumb-ring. A plague
1H4 2.5. 335 of sighing and grief - it blows a man up like a bladder.
1H4 2.5. 336 There's villainous news abroad. Here was Sir John
1H4 2.5. 337 Bracy from your father; you must to the court in the
1H4 2.5. 338 morning. That same mad fellow of the North, Percy,
1H4 2.5. 339 and he of Wales that gave Amamon the bastinado, and
1H4 2.5. 340 made Lucifer cuckold, and swore the devil his true
1H4 2.5. 341 liegeman upon the cross of a Welsh hook - what a
1H4 2.5. 342 plague call you him?
1H4 2.5. 343
1H4-POINS
Owain Glyndw^r.
1H4 2.5. 344
1H4-SIR JOHN
Owain, Owain, the same; and his son-in-law
1H4 2.5. 345 Mortimer, and old Northumberland, and that sprightly
1H4 2.5. 346 Scot of Scots Douglas, that runs a-horseback up a hill
1H4 2.5. 347 perpendicular -
1H4 2.5. 348
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
He that rides at high speed and with his
1H4 2.5. 349 pistol kills a sparrow flying.
1H4 2.5. 350
1H4-SIR JOHN
You have hit it.
1H4 2.5. 351
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
So did he never the sparrow.
1H4 2.5. 352
1H4-SIR JOHN
Well, that rascal hath good mettle in him; he
1H4 2.5. 353 will not run.
1H4 2.5. 354
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Why, what a rascal art thou, then, to
1H4 2.5. 355 praise him so for running!
1H4 2.5. 356
1H4-SIR JOHN
A-horseback, ye cuckoo, but afoot he will not
1H4 2.5. 357 budge a foot.
1H4 2.5. 358
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Yes, Jack, upon instinct.
1H4 2.5. 359
1H4-SIR JOHN
I grant ye, upon instinct. Well, he is there too,
1H4 2.5. 360 and one Mordake, and a thousand blue-caps more.
1H4 2.5. 361 Worcester is stolen away tonight. Thy father's beard is
1H4 2.5. 362 turned white with the news. You may buy land now
1H4 2.5. 363 as cheap as stinking mackerel.
1H4 2.5. 364
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Why then, it is like, if there come a hot
1H4 2.5. 365 June and this civil buffeting hold, we shall buy
1H4 2.5. 366 maidenheads as they buy hobnails: by the hundreds.
1H4 2.5. 367
1H4-SIR JOHN
By the mass, lad, thou sayst true; it is like we
1H4 2.5. 368 shall have good trading that way. But tell me, Hal, art
1H4 2.5. 369 not thou horrible afeard? Thou being heir-apparent,
1H4 2.5. 370 could the world pick thee out three such enemies again
1H4 2.5. 371 as that fiend Douglas, that spirit Percy, and that devil
1H4 2.5. 372 Glyndw^r? Art thou not horribly afraid? Doth not thy
1H4 2.5. 373 blood thrill at it?
1H4 2.5. 374
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Not a whit, i' faith. I lack some of thy
1H4 2.5. 375 instinct.
1H4 2.5. 376
1H4-SIR JOHN
Well, thou wilt be horribly chid tomorrow when
1H4 2.5. 377 thou comest to thy father. If thou love me, practise an
1H4 2.5. 378 answer.
1H4 2.5. 379
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Do thou stand for my father, and examine
1H4 2.5. 380 me upon the particulars of my life.
1H4 2.5. 381
1H4-SIR JOHN
Shall I? Content. This chair shall be my state,
1H4 2.5. 382 this dagger my sceptre, and this cushion my crown. {He sits}
1H4 2.5. 383
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Thy state is taken for a joint-stool, thy
1H4 2.5. 384 golden sceptre for a leaden dagger, and thy precious
1H4 2.5. 385 rich crown for a pitiful bald crown.
1H4 2.5. 386
1H4-SIR JOHN
Well, an the fire of grace be not quite out of
1H4 2.5. 387 thee, now shalt thou be moved. Give me a cup of sack
1H4 2.5. 388 to make my eyes look red, that it may be thought I
1H4 2.5. 389 have wept; for I must speak in passion, and I will do
1H4 2.5. 390 it in King Cambyses' vein.
1H4 2.5. 391
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
{(bowing)} Well, here is my leg.
1H4 2.5. 392
1H4-SIR JOHN
And here is my speech. {(To Harvey, Poins, and}
1H4 2.5. 393 {Gadshill)} Stand aside, nobility.
1H4 2.5. 394
1H4-HOSTESS
O Jesu, this is excellent sport, i' faith.
1H4 2.5. 395
1H4-SIR JOHN
Weep not, sweet Queen, for trickling tears are +
1H4 2.5. 395 vain.
1H4 2.5. 396
1H4-HOSTESS
O the Father, how he holds his countenance!
1H4 2.5. 397
1H4-SIR JOHN
For God's sake, lords, convey my tristful Queen,
1H4 2.5. 398 For tears do stop the floodgates of her eyes.
1H4 2.5. 399
1H4-HOSTESS
O Jesu, he doth it as like one of these harlotry
1H4 2.5. 400 players as ever I see!
1H4 2.5. 401
1H4-SIR JOHN
Peace, good pint-pot; peace, good tickle-brain. -
1H4 2.5. 402 Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy
1H4 2.5. 403 time, but also how thou art accompanied. For though
1H4 2.5. 404 the camomile, the more it is trodden on, the faster it
1H4 2.5. 405 grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it
1H4 2.5. 406 wears. That thou art my son I have partly thy mother's
1H4 2.5. 407 word, partly my own opinion, but chiefly a villainous
1H4 2.5. 408 trick of thine eye, and a foolish hanging of thy nether
1H4 2.5. 409 lip, that doth warrant me. If then thou be son to me,
1H4 2.5. 410 here lies the point. Why, being son to me, art thou so
1H4 2.5. 411 pointed at? Shall the blessed sun of heaven prove a
1H4 2.5. 412 micher, and eat blackberries? - A question not to be
1H4 2.5. 413 asked. Shall the son of England prove a thief, and take
1H4 2.5. 414 purses? - A question to be asked. There is a thing,
1H4 2.5. 415 Harry, which thou hast often heard of, and it is known
1H4 2.5. 416 to many in our land by the name of pitch. This pitch,
1H4 2.5. 417 as ancient writers do report, doth defile. So doth the
1H4 2.5. 418 company thou keepest. For Harry, now I do not speak
1H4 2.5. 419 to thee in drink, but in tears; not in pleasure, but in
1H4 2.5. 420 passion; not in words only, but in woes also. And yet
1H4 2.5. 421 there is a virtuous man whom I have often noted in
1H4 2.5. 422 thy company, but I know not his name.
1H4 2.5. 423
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
What manner of man, an it like your
1H4 2.5. 424 majesty?
1H4 2.5. 425
1H4-SIR JOHN
A goodly, portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent;
1H4 2.5. 426 of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble
1H4 2.5. 427 carriage; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by 'r
1H4 2.5. 428 Lady, inclining to threescore. And now I remember me,
1H4 2.5. 429 his name is Oldcastle. If that man should be lewdly
1H4 2.5. 430 given, he deceiveth me; for, Harry, I see virtue in his
1H4 2.5. 431 looks. If, then, the tree may be known by the fruit, as
1H4 2.5. 432 the fruit by the tree, then peremptorily I speak it -
1H4 2.5. 433 there is virtue in that Oldcastle. Him keep with; the
1H4 2.5. 434 rest banish. And tell me now, thou naughty varlet, tell
1H4 2.5. 435 me, where hast thou been this month?
1H4 2.5. 436
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Dost thou speak like a king? Do thou stand
1H4 2.5. 437 for me, and I'll play my father.
1H4 2.5. 438
1H4-SIR JOHN
{(standing)} Depose me. If thou dost it +
1H4 2.5. 438 half so
1H4 2.5. 439 gravely, so majestically both in word and matter, hang
1H4 2.5. 440 me up by the heels for a rabbit sucker, or a poulter's
1H4 2.5. 441 hare.
1H4 2.5. 442
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
{(sitting)} Well, here I am set.
1H4 2.5. 443
1H4-SIR JOHN
And here I stand. {(To the others)} Judge, +
1H4 2.5. 443 my
1H4 2.5. 444 masters.
1H4 2.5. 445
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Now, Harry, whence come you?
1H4 2.5. 446
1H4-SIR JOHN
My noble lord, from Eastcheap.
1H4 2.5. 447
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
The complaints I hear of thee are grievous.
1H4 2.5. 448
1H4-SIR JOHN
'Sblood, my lord, they are false. {[To the others]}
1H4 2.5. 449 Nay, I'll tickle ye for a young prince, i' faith.
1H4 2.5. 450
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Swearest thou, ungracious boy? Henceforth
1H4 2.5. 451 ne'er look on me. Thou art violently carried away
1H4 2.5. 452 from grace. There is a devil haunts thee in the likeness
1H4 2.5. 453 of an old fat man; a tun of man is thy companion.
1H4 2.5. 454 Why dost thou converse with that trunk of humours,
1H4 2.5. 455 that bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swollen parcel of
1H4 2.5. 456 dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak-
1H4 2.5. 457 bag of guts, that roasted Manningtree ox with the
1H4 2.5. 458 pudding in his belly, that reverend Vice, that grey
1H4 2.5. 459 Iniquity, that father Ruffian, that Vanity in Years?
1H4 2.5. 460 Wherein is he good, but to taste sack and drink it?
1H4 2.5. 461 Wherein neat and cleanly, but to carve a capon and
1H4 2.5. 462 eat it? Wherein cunning, but in craft? Wherein crafty,
1H4 2.5. 463 but in villainy? Wherein villainous, but in all things?
1H4 2.5. 464 Wherein worthy, but in nothing?
1H4 2.5. 465
1H4-SIR JOHN
I would your grace would take me with you.
1H4 2.5. 466 Whom means your grace?
1H4 2.5. 467
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
That villainous, abominable misleader of
1H4 2.5. 468 youth, Oldcastle; that old white-bearded Satan.
1H4 2.5. 469
1H4-SIR JOHN
My lord, the man I know.
1H4 2.5. 470
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
I know thou dost.
1H4 2.5. 471
1H4-SIR JOHN
But to say I know more harm in him than in
1H4 2.5. 472 myself were to say more than I know. That he is old,
1H4 2.5. 473 the more the pity, his white hairs do witness it. But
1H4 2.5. 474 that he is, saving your reverence, a whoremaster, that
1H4 2.5. 475 I utterly deny. If sack and sugar be a fault, God help
1H4 2.5. 476 the wicked. If to be old and merry be a sin, then many
1H4 2.5. 477 an old host that I know is damned. If to be fat be to
1H4 2.5. 478 be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. No,
1H4 2.5. 479 my good lord, banish Harvey, banish Russell, banish
1H4 2.5. 480 Poins, but for sweet Jack Oldcastle, kind Jack Oldcastle,
1H4 2.5. 481 true Jack Oldcastle, valiant Jack Oldcastle, and therefore
1H4 2.5. 482 more valiant being, as he is, old Jack Oldcastle,
1H4 2.5. 483 Banish not him thy Harry's company,
1H4 2.5. 484 Banish not him thy Harry's company.
1H4 2.5. 485 Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.
1H4 2.5. 486
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
I do; I will. {Knocking within. [Exit +
1H4 2.5. 486 Hostess.]}
1H4 2.5. 487 {Enter Russell, running}
1H4-RUSSELL
O my lord, my lord, the +
1H4 2.5. 487 sheriff with a most
1H4 2.5. 488 monstrous watch is at the door.
1H4 2.5. 489
1H4-SIR JOHN
Out, ye rogue! Play out the play! I have much
1H4 2.5. 490 to say in the behalf of that Oldcastle. {Enter the Hostess}
1H4 2.5. 491
1H4-HOSTESS
O Jesu! My lord, my lord!
1H4 2.5. 492
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Heigh, heigh, the devil rides upon a
1H4 2.5. 493 fiddlestick! What's the matter?
1H4 2.5. 494
1H4-HOSTESS
The sheriff and all the watch are at the door.
1H4 2.5. 495 They are come to search the house. Shall I let them
1H4 2.5. 496 in?
1H4 2.5. 497
1H4-SIR JOHN
Dost thou hear, Hal? Never call a true piece of
1H4 2.5. 498 gold a counterfeit - thou art essentially made, without
1H4 2.5. 499 seeming so.
1H4 2.5. 500
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
And thou a natural coward without
1H4 2.5. 501 instinct.
1H4 2.5. 502
1H4-SIR JOHN
I deny your major. If you will deny the sheriff,
1H4 2.5. 503 so. If not, let him enter. If I become not a cart as well
1H4 2.5. 504 as another man, a plague on my bringing up. I hope I
1H4 2.5. 505 shall as soon be strangled with a halter as another.
1H4 2.5. 506
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Go, hide thee behind the arras. The rest
1H4 2.5. 507 walk up above. Now, my masters, for a true face and
1H4 2.5. 508 good conscience. {Exeunt Poins, Russell, and Gadshill}
1H4 2.5. 509
1H4-SIR JOHN
Both which I have had, but their date is out;
1H4 2.5. 510 and therefore I'll hide me. {He withdraws behind the arras}
1H4 2.5. 511
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
{(to Hostess)} Call in the +
1H4 2.5. 511 sheriff. {Exit Hostess}
1H4 2.5. 512 {Enter Sheriff and a Carrier} Now, master sheriff, +
1H4 2.5. 512 what is your will with me?
1H4 2.5. 513
1H4-SHERIFF
First, pardon me, my lord. A hue and cry
1H4 2.5. 514 Hath followed certain men unto this house.
1H4 2.5. 515
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
What men?
1H4 2.5. 516
1H4-SHERIFF
One of them is well known, my gracious lord,
1H4 2.5. 517B A gross, fat man.
1H4-CARRIER
As fat as butter.
1H4 2.5. 518
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
The man, I do assure you, is not here,
1H4 2.5. 519 For I myself at this time have employed him.
1H4 2.5. 520 And, sheriff, I will engage my word to thee
1H4 2.5. 521 That I will by tomorrow dinner-time
1H4 2.5. 522 Send him to answer thee, or any man,
1H4 2.5. 523 For anything he shall be charged withal.
1H4 2.5. 524 And so let me entreat you leave the house.
1H4 2.5. 525
1H4-SHERIFF
I will, my lord. There are two gentlemen
1H4 2.5. 526 Have in this robbery lost three hundred marks.
1H4 2.5. 527
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
It may be so. If he have robbed these men,
1H4 2.5. 528 He shall be answerable. And so, farewell.
1H4 2.5. 529A
1H4-SHERIFF
Good night, my noble lord.
1H4 2.5. 530
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
I think it is good morrow, is it not?
1H4 2.5. 531
1H4-SHERIFF
Indeed, my lord, I think it be two o'clock. {Exeunt +
1H4 2.5. 531 Sheriff and Carrier}
1H4 2.5. 532
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
This oily rascal is known as well as Paul's.
1H4 2.5. 533B Go call him forth.
1H4-HARVEY
Oldcastle! {[He draws back the +
1H4 2.5. 533B arras, revealing Sir John asleep]} Fast asleep
1H4 2.5. 534 Behind the arras, and snorting like a horse.
1H4 2.5. 535
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Hark how hard he fetches breath. Search his +
1H4 2.5. 535 pockets. {Harvey searcheth his pocket and findeth certain +
1H4 2.5. 535 papers. He [closeth the arras and] cometh forward}
1H4 2.5. 536B What hast thou found?
1H4-HARVEY
Nothing but papers, my lord.
1H4 2.5. 537A
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Let's see what they be. Read them.
1H4 2.5. 538
1H4-[HARVEY]
{(reads)} Item: a capon.2{s}. 2{d}.
1H4 2.5. 539 Item: sauce.4{d}.
1H4 2.5. 540 Item: sack, two gallons.5{s}. 8{d}.
1H4 2.5. 541 Item: anchovies and sack after supper.2{s}. 6{d}.
1H4 2.5. 542 Item: bread.{ob}.
1H4 2.5. 543
1H4-[PRINCE HARRY]
O monstrous! But one halfpennyworth of
1H4 2.5. 544 bread to this intolerable deal of sack! What there is
1H4 2.5. 545 else, keep close; we'll read it at more advantage. There
1H4 2.5. 546 let him sleep till day. I'll to the court in the morning.
1H4 2.5. 547 We must all to the wars, and thy place shall be
1H4 2.5. 548 honourable. I'll procure this fat rogue a charge of foot,
1H4 2.5. 549 and I know his death will be a march of twelve score.
1H4 2.5. 550 The money shall be paid back again, with advantage.
1H4 2.5. 551 Be with me betimes in the morning; and so good
1H4 2.5. 552 morrow, Harvey.
1H4 2.5. 553
1H4-HARVEY
Good morrow, good my lord. {Exeunt [severally]}
1H4 2.5. 0 {Enter Hotspur, the Earl of Worcester, Lord +
1H4 3.1. 0 Mortimer, and Owain Glyndw^r, with a map}
1H4 3.1. 1
1H4-MORTIMER
These promises are fair, the parties sure,
1H4 3.1. 2 And our induction full of prosperous hope.
1H4 3.1. 3
1H4-HOTSPUR
Lord Mortimer and cousin Glyndw^r,
1H4 3.1. 4 Will you sit down? And uncle Worcester? {[Mortimer, Glyndw^r, +
1H4 3.1. 4 and Worcester sit]}
1H4 3.1. 5 A plague upon it, I have forgot the map!
1H4 3.1. 6
1H4-GLYNDW^R
No, here it is. Sit, cousin Percy, sit,
1H4 3.1. 7B Good cousin Hotspur; {[Hotspur sits]} For by that name
1H4 3.1. 8 As oft as Lancaster doth speak of you,
1H4 3.1. 9 His cheek looks pale, and with a rising sigh
1H4 3.1. 10B He wisheth you in heaven.
1H4-HOTSPUR
And you in hell,
1H4 3.1. 11 As oft as he hears Owain Glyndw^r spoke of.
1H4 3.1. 12
1H4-GLYNDW^R
I cannot blame him. At my nativity
1H4 3.1. 13 The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes,
1H4 3.1. 14 Of burning cressets; and at my birth
1H4 3.1. 15 The frame and huge foundation of the earth
1H4 3.1. 16B Shaked like a coward.
1H4-HOTSPUR
Why, so it would have done
1H4 3.1. 17 At the same season if your mother's cat
1H4 3.1. 18 Had but kittened, though yourself had never been born.
1H4 3.1. 19
1H4-GLYNDW^R
I say the earth did shake when I was born.
1H4 3.1. 20
1H4-HOTSPUR
And I say the earth was not of my mind
1H4 3.1. 21 If you suppose as fearing you it shook.
1H4 3.1. 22
1H4-GLYNDW^R
The heavens were all on fire, the earth did tremble -
1H4 3.1. 23
1H4-HOTSPUR
O, then the earth shook to see the heavens on fire,
1H4 3.1. 24 And not in fear of your nativity.
1H4 3.1. 25 Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth
1H4 3.1. 26 In strange eruptions; oft the teeming earth
1H4 3.1. 27 Is with a kind of colic pinched and vexed
1H4 3.1. 28 By the imprisoning of unruly wind
1H4 3.1. 29 Within her womb, which for enlargement striving
1H4 3.1. 30 Shakes the old beldam earth, and topples down
1H4 3.1. 31 Steeples and moss-grown towers. At your birth
1H4 3.1. 32 Our grandam earth, having this distemp'rature,
1H4 3.1. 33B In passion shook.
1H4-GLYNDW^R
Cousin, of many men
1H4 3.1. 34 I do not bear these crossings. Give me leave
1H4 3.1. 35 To tell you once again that at my birth
1H4 3.1. 36 The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes,
1H4 3.1. 37 The goats ran from the mountains, and the herds
1H4 3.1. 38 Were strangely clamorous to the frighted fields.
1H4 3.1. 39 These signs have marked me extraordinary,
1H4 3.1. 40 And all the courses of my life do show
1H4 3.1. 41 I am not in the roll of commen men.
1H4 3.1. 42 Where is he living, clipped in with the sea
1H4 3.1. 43 That chides the banks of England, Scotland, Wales,
1H4 3.1. 44 Which calls me pupil or hath read to me?
1H4 3.1. 45 And bring him out that is but woman's son
1H4 3.1. 46 Can trace me in the tedious ways of art,
1H4 3.1. 47 And hold me pace in deep experiments.
1H4 3.1. 48
1H4-HOTSPUR
{[standing]} I think there's no man +
1H4 3.1. 48 speaketh better Welsh.
1H4 3.1. 49 I'll to dinner.
1H4 3.1. 50
1H4-MORTIMER
Peace, cousin Percy, you will make him mad.
1H4 3.1. 51
1H4-GLYNDW^R
I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
1H4 3.1. 52
1H4-HOTSPUR
Why, so can I, or so can any man;
1H4 3.1. 53 But will they come when you do call for them?
1H4 3.1. 54
1H4-GLYNDW^R
Why, I can teach you, cousin, to command the devil.
1H4 3.1. 55
1H4-HOTSPUR
And I can teach thee, coz, to shame the devil,
1H4 3.1. 56 By telling truth: `Tell truth, and shame the devil'.
1H4 3.1. 57 If thou have power to raise him, bring him hither,
1H4 3.1. 58 And I'll be sworn I have power to shame him hence.
1H4 3.1. 59 O, while you live, tell truth and shame the devil.
1H4 3.1. 60
1H4-MORTIMER
Come, come, no more of this unprofitable chat.
1H4 3.1. 61
1H4-GLYNDW^R
Three times hath Henry Bolingbroke made head
1H4 3.1. 62 Against my power; thrice from the banks of Wye
1H4 3.1. 63 And sandy-bottomed Severn have I sent him
1H4 3.1. 64 Bootless home, and weather-beaten back.
1H4 3.1. 65
1H4-HOTSPUR
Home without boots, and in foul weather too!
1H4 3.1. 66 How scapes he agues, in the devil's name?
1H4 3.1. 67
1H4-GLYNDW^R
Come, here's the map. Shall we divide our right,
1H4 3.1. 68 According to our threefold order ta'en?
1H4 3.1. 69
1H4-MORTIMER
The Archdeacon hath divided it
1H4 3.1. 70 Into three limits very equally.
1H4 3.1. 71 England from Trent and Severn hitherto
1H4 3.1. 72 By south and east is to my part assigned;
1H4 3.1. 73 All westward - Wales beyond the Severn shore
1H4 3.1. 74 And all the fertile land within that bound -
1H4 3.1. 75 To Owain Glyndw^r; {(to Hotspur)} and, dear coz, to you
1H4 3.1. 76 The remnant northward lying off from Trent.
1H4 3.1. 77 And our indentures tripartite are drawn,
1H4 3.1. 78 Which, being sealed interchangeably -
1H4 3.1. 79 A business that this night may execute -
1H4 3.1. 80 Tomorrow, cousin Percy, you and I
1H4 3.1. 81 And my good lord of Worcester will set forth
1H4 3.1. 82 To meet your father and the Scottish power,
1H4 3.1. 83 As is appointed us, at Shrewsbury.
1H4 3.1. 84 My father, Glyndw^r, is not ready yet,
1H4 3.1. 85 Nor shall we need his help these fourteen days.
1H4 3.1. 86 Within that space you may have drawn together
1H4 3.1. 87 Your tenants, friends, and neighbouring gentlemen.
1H4 3.1. 88
1H4-GLYNDW^R
A shorter time shall send me to you, lords;
1H4 3.1. 89 And in my conduct shall your ladies come,
1H4 3.1. 90 From whom you now must steal and take no leave;
1H4 3.1. 91 For there will be a world of water shed
1H4 3.1. 92 Upon the parting of your wives and you.
1H4 3.1. 93
1H4-HOTSPUR
Methinks my moiety north from Burton here
1H4 3.1. 94 In quantity equals not one of yours.
1H4 3.1. 95 See how this river comes me cranking in,
1H4 3.1. 96 And cuts me from the best of all my land
1H4 3.1. 97 A huge half-moon, a monstrous cantle, out.
1H4 3.1. 98 I'll have the current in this place dammed up,
1H4 3.1. 99 And here the smug and silver Trent shall run
1H4 3.1. 100 In a new channel fair and evenly.
1H4 3.1. 101 It shall not wind with such a deep indent,
1H4 3.1. 102 To rob me of so rich a bottom here.
1H4 3.1. 103
1H4-GLYNDW^R
Not wind? It shall, it must; you see it doth.
1H4 3.1. 104
1H4-MORTIMER
Yea, but mark how he bears his course, and runs me up
1H4 3.1. 105 With like advantage on the other side,
1H4 3.1. 106 Gelding the opposed continent as much
1H4 3.1. 107 As on the other side it takes from you.
1H4 3.1. 108
1H4-WORCESTER
Yea, but a little charge will trench him here,
1H4 3.1. 109 And on this north side win this cape of land,
1H4 3.1. 110 And then he runs straight and even.
1H4 3.1. 111
1H4-HOTSPUR
I'll have it so; a little charge will do it.
1H4 3.1. 112A
1H4-GLYNDW^R
I'll not have it altered.
1H4 3.1. 113A
1H4-HOTSPUR
Will not you?
1H4 3.1. 114A
1H4-GLYNDW^R
No, nor you shall not.
1H4 3.1. 115A
1H4-HOTSPUR
Who shall say me nay?
1H4 3.1. 116A
1H4-GLYNDW^R
Why, that will I.
1H4 3.1. 117
1H4-HOTSPUR
Let me not understand you, then: speak it in Welsh.
1H4 3.1. 118
1H4-GLYNDW^R
I can speak English, lord, as well as you;
1H4 3.1. 119 For I was trained up in the English court,
1H4 3.1. 120 Where, being but young, I framed to the harp
1H4 3.1. 121 Many an English ditty lovely well,
1H4 3.1. 122 And gave the tongue a helpful ornament -
1H4 3.1. 123 A virtue that was never seen in you.
1H4 3.1. 124
1H4-HOTSPUR
Marry, and I am glad of it, with all my heart.
1H4 3.1. 125 I had rather be a kitten and cry `mew'
1H4 3.1. 126 Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers.
1H4 3.1. 127 I had rather hear a brazen canstick turned,
1H4 3.1. 128 Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree,
1H4 3.1. 129 And that would set my teeth nothing on edge,
1H4 3.1. 130 Nothing so much as mincing poetry.
1H4 3.1. 131 'Tis like the forced gait of a shuffling nag.
1H4 3.1. 132A
1H4-GLYNDW^R
Come, you shall have Trent turned.
1H4 3.1. 133
1H4-HOTSPUR
I do not care. I'll give thrice so much land
1H4 3.1. 134 To any well-deserving friend;
1H4 3.1. 135 But in the way of bargain - mark ye me -
1H4 3.1. 136 I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair.
1H4 3.1. 137 Are the indentures drawn? Shall we be gone?
1H4 3.1. 138
1H4-GLYNDW^R
The moon shines fair. You may away by night.
1H4 3.1. 139 I'll haste the writer, and withal
1H4 3.1. 140 Break with your wives of your departure hence.
1H4 3.1. 141 I am afraid my daughter will run mad,
1H4 3.1. 142 So much she doteth on her Mortimer. {Exit}
1H4 3.1. 143
1H4-MORTIMER
Fie, cousin Percy, how you cross my father!
1H4 3.1. 144
1H4-HOTSPUR
I cannot choose. Sometime he angers me
1H4 3.1. 145 With telling me of the moldwarp and the ant,
1H4 3.1. 146 Of the dreamer Merlin and his prophecies,
1H4 3.1. 147 And of a dragon and a finless fish,
1H4 3.1. 148 A clip-winged griffin and a moulten raven,
1H4 3.1. 149 A couching lion and a ramping cat,
1H4 3.1. 150 And such a deal of skimble-skamble stuff
1H4 3.1. 151 As puts me from my faith. I tell you what,
1H4 3.1. 152 He held me last night at the least nine hours
1H4 3.1. 153 In reckoning up the several devils' names
1H4 3.1. 154 That were his lackeys. I cried, `Hum!' and, `Well, go to!',
1H4 3.1. 155 But marked him not a word. O, he is as tedious
1H4 3.1. 156 As a tired horse, a railing wife,
1H4 3.1. 157 Worse than a smoky house. I had rather live
1H4 3.1. 158 With cheese and garlic, in a windmill, far,
1H4 3.1. 159 Than feed on cates and have him talk to me
1H4 3.1. 160 In any summer house in Christendom.
1H4 3.1. 161
1H4-MORTIMER
In faith, he is a worthy gentleman,
1H4 3.1. 162 Exceedingly well read, and profited
1H4 3.1. 163 In strange concealments, valiant as a lion,
1H4 3.1. 164 And wondrous affable, and as bountiful
1H4 3.1. 165 As mines of India. Shall I tell you, cousin?
1H4 3.1. 166 He holds your temper in a high respect,
1H4 3.1. 167 And curbs himself even of his natural scope
1H4 3.1. 168 When you come 'cross his humour; faith, he does.
1H4 3.1. 169 I warrant you, that man is not alive
1H4 3.1. 170 Might so have tempted him as you have done
1H4 3.1. 171 Without the taste of danger and reproof.
1H4 3.1. 172 But do not use it oft, let me entreat you.
1H4 3.1. 173
1H4-WORCESTER
{(to Hotspur)} In faith, my lord, you +
1H4 3.1. 173 are too wilful-blame,
1H4 3.1. 174 And since your coming hither have done enough
1H4 3.1. 175 To put him quite besides his patience.
1H4 3.1. 176 You must needs learn, lord, to amend this fault.
1H4 3.1. 177 Though sometimes it show greatness, courage, blood -
1H4 3.1. 178 And that's the dearest grace it renders you -
1H4 3.1. 179 Yet oftentimes it doth present harsh rage,
1H4 3.1. 180 Defect of manners, want of government,
1H4 3.1. 181 Pride, haughtiness, opinion, and disdain,
1H4 3.1. 182 The least of which haunting a nobleman
1H4 3.1. 183 Loseth men's hearts, and leaves behind a stain
1H4 3.1. 184 Upon the beauty of all parts besides,
1H4 3.1. 185 Beguiling them of commendation.
1H4 3.1. 186
1H4-HOTSPUR
Well, I am schooled. Good manners be your speed! +
1H4 3.1. 186 {Enter Glyndw^r with Lady Percy and Mortimer's wife}
1H4 3.1. 187 Here come our wives, and let us take our leave. +
1H4 3.1. 187 {[Mortimer's wife weeps, and speaks to him in Welsh]}
1H4 3.1. 188
1H4-MORTIMER
This is the deadly spite that angers me:
1H4 3.1. 189 My wife can speak no English, I no Welsh.
1H4 3.1. 190
1H4-GLYNDW^R
My daughter weeps she'll not part with you.
1H4 3.1. 191 She'll be a soldier, too; she'll to the wars.
1H4 3.1. 192
1H4-MORTIMER
Good father, tell her that she and my aunt Percy
1H4 3.1. 193 Shall follow in your conduct speedily. {Glyndw^r speaks to her +
1H4 3.1. 193 in Welsh, and she answers him in the same}
1H4 3.1. 194
1H4-GLYNDW^R
She is desperate here, a peevish self-willed +
1H4 3.1. 194 harlotry,
1H4 3.1. 195 One that no persuasion can do good upon. {The lady speaks in +
1H4 3.1. 195 Welsh}
1H4 3.1. 196
1H4-MORTIMER
I understand thy looks. That pretty Welsh
1H4 3.1. 197 Which thou down pourest from these swelling heavens
1H4 3.1. 198 I am too perfect in, and but for shame
1H4 3.1. 199 In such a parley should I answer thee. {The lady kisses him, and +
1H4 3.1. 199 speaks again in Welsh}
1H4 3.1. 200
1H4-MORTIMER
I understand thy kisses, and thou mine,
1H4 3.1. 201 And that's a feeling disputation;
1H4 3.1. 202 But I will never be a truant, love,
1H4 3.1. 203 Till I have learnt thy language, for thy tongue
1H4 3.1. 204 Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penned,
1H4 3.1. 205 Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower
1H4 3.1. 206 With ravishing division, to her lute.
1H4 3.1. 207
1H4-GLYNDW^R
Nay, if you melt, then will she run mad. {The lady +
1H4 3.1. 207 [sits on the rushes and] speaks again in Welsh}
1H4 3.1. 208
1H4-MORTIMER
O, I am ignorance itself in this!
1H4 3.1. 209
1H4-GLYNDW^R
She bids you on the wanton rushes lay you down
1H4 3.1. 210 And rest your gentle head upon her lap,
1H4 3.1. 211 And she will sing the song that pleaseth you,
1H4 3.1. 212 And on your eyelids crown the god of sleep,
1H4 3.1. 213 Charming your blood with pleasing heaviness,
1H4 3.1. 214 Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep
1H4 3.1. 215 As is the difference betwixt day and night
1H4 3.1. 216 The hour before the heavenly-harnessed team
1H4 3.1. 217 Begins his golden progress in the east.
1H4 3.1. 218
1H4-MORTIMER
With all my heart, I'll sit and hear her sing.
1H4 3.1. 219 By that time will our book, I think, be drawn. {He sits, +
1H4 3.1. 219 [resting his head on the Welsh lady's lap]}
1H4 3.1. 220
1H4-GLYNDW^R
Do so, and those musicians that shall play to +
1H4 3.1. 220 you
1H4 3.1. 221 Hang in the air a thousand leagues from hence,
1H4 3.1. 222 And straight they shall be here. Sit and attend.
1H4 3.1. 223
1H4-HOTSPUR
Come, Kate, thou art perfect in lying down.
1H4 3.1. 224 Come, quick, quick, that I may lay my head in thy lap.
1H4 3.1. 225A
1H4-LADY PERCY
{(sitting)} Go, ye giddy goose! +
1H4 3.1. 225A {Hotspur sits, resting his head on Lady Percy's lap. The music plays}
1H4 3.1. 226
1H4-HOTSPUR
Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh;
1H4 3.1. 227 And 'tis no marvel, he is so humorous.
1H4 3.1. 228 By 'r Lady, he's a good musician.
1H4 3.1. 229
1H4-LADY PERCY
Then should you be nothing but musical,
1H4 3.1. 230 For you are altogether governed by humours.
1H4 3.1. 231 Lie still, ye thief, and hear the lady sing in Welsh.
1H4 3.1. 232
1H4-HOTSPUR
I had rather hear Lady my brach howl in Irish.
1H4 3.1. 233
1H4-LADY PERCY
Wouldst thou have thy head broken?
1H4 3.1. 234
1H4-HOTSPUR
No.
1H4 3.1. 235
1H4-LADY PERCY
Then be still.
1H4 3.1. 236
1H4-HOTSPUR
Neither - 'tis a woman's fault.
1H4 3.1. 237
1H4-LADY PERCY
Now God help thee!
1H4 3.1. 238
1H4-HOTSPUR
To the Welsh lady's bed.
1H4 3.1. 239
1H4-LADY PERCY
What's that?
1H4 3.1. 240
1H4-HOTSPUR
Peace; she sings. {Here the lady sings a Welsh song}
1H4 3.1. 241
1H4-HOTSPUR
Come, Kate, I'll have your song too.
1H4 3.1. 242
1H4-LADY PERCY
Not mine, in good sooth.
1H4 3.1. 243
1H4-HOTSPUR
Not yours, in good sooth! Heart, you swear like
1H4 3.1. 244 a comfit-maker's wife: `Not you, in good sooth!' and
1H4 3.1. 245 `As true as I live!' and
1H4 3.1. 246 `As God shall mend me!' and `As sure as day!';
1H4 3.1. 247 And giv'st such sarcenet surety for thy oaths
1H4 3.1. 248 As if thou never walk'st further than Finsbury.
1H4 3.1. 249 Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art,
1H4 3.1. 250 A good mouth-filling oath, and leave `in sooth'
1H4 3.1. 251 And such protest of pepper gingerbread
1H4 3.1. 252 To velvet-guards and Sunday citizens.
1H4 3.1. 253 Come, sing.
1H4 3.1. 254
1H4-LADY PERCY
I will not sing.
1H4 3.1. 255
1H4-HOTSPUR
'Tis the next way to turn tailor, or be redbreast
1H4 3.1. 256 teacher. {(Rising)} An the indentures be drawn, I'll +
1H4 3.1. 256 away
1H4 3.1. 257 within these two hours; and so come in when ye will. {Exit}
1H4 3.1. 258
1H4-GLYNDW^R
Come, come, Lord Mortimer. You are as slow
1H4 3.1. 259 As hot Lord Percy is on fire to go.
1H4 3.1. 260 By this our book is drawn. We'll but seal,
1H4 3.1. 261B And then to horse immediately.
1H4-MORTIMER
{(rising)} +
1H4 3.1. 261B With all my heart. {The ladies rise, and all exeunt}
1H4 3.1. 0 {Enter King Henry, Prince Harry, and lords}
1H4 3.2. 1
1H4-KING HENRY
Lords, give us leave - the Prince of Wales and I
1H4 3.2. 2 Must have some private conference - but be near at hand,
1H4 3.2. 3 For we shall presently have need of you. {Exeunt Lords}
1H4 3.2. 4 I know not whether God will have it so
1H4 3.2. 5 For some displeasing service I have done,
1H4 3.2. 6 That in his secret doom out of my blood
1H4 3.2. 7 He'll breed revengement and a scourge for me,
1H4 3.2. 8 But thou dost in thy passages of life
1H4 3.2. 9 Make me believe that thou art only marked
1H4 3.2. 10 For the hot vengeance and the rod of heaven
1H4 3.2. 11 To punish my mistreadings. Tell me else,
1H4 3.2. 12 Could such inordinate and low desires,
1H4 3.2. 13 Such poor, such bare, such lewd, such mean attempts,
1H4 3.2. 14 Such barren pleasures, rude society,
1H4 3.2. 15 As thou art matched withal and grafted to,
1H4 3.2. 16 Accompany the greatness of thy blood,
1H4 3.2. 17 And hold their level with thy princely heart?
1H4 3.2. 18
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
So please your majesty, I would I could
1H4 3.2. 19 Quit all offences with as clear excuse
1H4 3.2. 20 As well as I am doubtless I can purge
1H4 3.2. 21 Myself of many I am charged withal;
1H4 3.2. 22 Yet such extenuation let me beg
1H4 3.2. 23 As, in reproof of many tales devised -
1H4 3.2. 24 Which oft the ear of greatness needs must hear
1H4 3.2. 25 By smiling pickthanks and base newsmongers -
1H4 3.2. 26 I may, for some things true wherein my youth
1H4 3.2. 27 Hath faulty wandered and irregular,
1H4 3.2. 28 Find pardon on my true submission.
1H4 3.2. 29
1H4-KING HENRY
God pardon thee! Yet let me wonder, Harry,
1H4 3.2. 30 At thy affections, which do hold a wing
1H4 3.2. 31 Quite from the flight of all thy ancestors.
1H4 3.2. 32 Thy place in Council thou hast rudely lost -
1H4 3.2. 33 Which by thy younger brother is supplied -
1H4 3.2. 34 And art almost an alien to the hearts
1H4 3.2. 35 Of all the court and princes of my blood.
1H4 3.2. 36 The hope and expectation of thy time
1H4 3.2. 37 Is ruined, and the soul of every man
1H4 3.2. 38 Prophetically do forethink thy fall.
1H4 3.2. 39 Had I so lavish of my presence been,
1H4 3.2. 40 So common-hackneyed in the eyes of men,
1H4 3.2. 41 So stale and cheap to vulgar company,
1H4 3.2. 42 Opinion, that did help me to the crown,
1H4 3.2. 43 Had still kept loyal to possession,
1H4 3.2. 44 And left me in reputeless banishment,
1H4 3.2. 45 A fellow of no mark nor likelihood.
1H4 3.2. 46 By being seldom seen, I could not stir
1H4 3.2. 47 But, like a comet, I was wondered at,
1H4 3.2. 48 That men would tell their children `This is he.'
1H4 3.2. 49 Others would say `Where, which is Bolingbroke?'
1H4 3.2. 50 And then I stole all courtesy from heaven,
1H4 3.2. 51 And dressed myself in such humility
1H4 3.2. 52 That I did pluck allegiance from men's hearts,
1H4 3.2. 53 Loud shouts and salutations from their mouths,
1H4 3.2. 54 Even in the presence of the crowned King.
1H4 3.2. 55 Thus did I keep my person fresh and new,
1H4 3.2. 56 My presence like a robe pontifical -
1H4 3.2. 57 Ne'er seen but wondered at - and so my state,
1H4 3.2. 58 Seldom but sumptuous, showed like a feast,
1H4 3.2. 59 And won by rareness such solemnity.
1H4 3.2. 60 The skipping King, he ambled up and down
1H4 3.2. 61 With shallow jesters and rash bavin wits,
1H4 3.2. 62 Soon kindled and soon burnt, carded his state,
1H4 3.2. 63 Mingled his royalty with cap'ring fools,
1H4 3.2. 64 Had his great name profaned with their scorns,
1H4 3.2. 65 And gave his countenance, against his name,
1H4 3.2. 66 To laugh at gibing boys, and stand the push
1H4 3.2. 67 Of every beardless vain comparative;
1H4 3.2. 68 Grew a companion to the common streets,
1H4 3.2. 69 Enfeoffed himself to popularity,
1H4 3.2. 70 That, being daily swallowed by men's eyes,
1H4 3.2. 71 They surfeited with honey, and began
1H4 3.2. 72 To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little
1H4 3.2. 73 More than a little is by much too much.
1H4 3.2. 74 So when he had occasion to be seen,
1H4 3.2. 75 He was but as the cuckoo is in June,
1H4 3.2. 76 Heard, not regarded, seen but with such eyes
1H4 3.2. 77 As, sick and blunted with community,
1H4 3.2. 78 Afford no extraordinary gaze
1H4 3.2. 79 Such as is bent on sun-like majesty
1H4 3.2. 80 When it shines seldom in admiring eyes,
1H4 3.2. 81 But rather drowsed and hung their eyelids down,
1H4 3.2. 82 Slept in his face, and rendered such aspect
1H4 3.2. 83 As cloudy men use to their adversaries,
1H4 3.2. 84 Being with his presence glutted, gorged, and full.
1H4 3.2. 85 And in that very line, Harry, standest thou;
1H4 3.2. 86 For thou hast lost thy princely privilege
1H4 3.2. 87 With vile participation. Not an eye
1H4 3.2. 88 But is a-weary of thy common sight,
1H4 3.2. 89 Save mine, which hath desired to see thee more,
1H4 3.2. 90 Which now doth that I would not have it do -
1H4 3.2. 91 Make blind itself with foolish tenderness. {He weeps}
1H4 3.2. 92
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
I shall hereafter, my thrice-gracious lord,
1H4 3.2. 93B Be more myself.
1H4-KING HENRY
For all the world,
1H4 3.2. 94 As thou art to this hour was Richard then,
1H4 3.2. 95 When I from France set foot at Ravenspurgh,
1H4 3.2. 96 And even as I was then is Percy now.
1H4 3.2. 97 Now by my sceptre, and my soul to boot,
1H4 3.2. 98 He hath more worthy interest to the state
1H4 3.2. 99 Than thou, the shadow of succession;
1H4 3.2. 100 For, of no right, nor colour like to right,
1H4 3.2. 101 He doth fill fields with harness in the realm,
1H4 3.2. 102 Turns head against the lion's armed jaws,
1H4 3.2. 103 And, being no more in debt to years than thou,
1H4 3.2. 104 Leads ancient lords and reverend bishops on
1H4 3.2. 105 To bloody battles, and to bruising arms.
1H4 3.2. 106 What never-dying honour hath he got
1H4 3.2. 107 Against renowned Douglas! - whose high deeds,
1H4 3.2. 108 Whose hot incursions and great name in arms,
1H4 3.2. 109 Holds from all soldiers chief majority
1H4 3.2. 110 And military title capital
1H4 3.2. 111 Through all the kingdoms that acknowledge Christ.
1H4 3.2. 112 Thrice hath this Hotspur, Mars in swaddling-clothes,
1H4 3.2. 113 This infant warrior, in his enterprises
1H4 3.2. 114 Discomfited great Douglas; ta'en him once;
1H4 3.2. 115 Enlarged him; and made a friend of him
1H4 3.2. 116 To fill the mouth of deep defiance up,
1H4 3.2. 117 And shake the peace and safety of our throne.
1H4 3.2. 118 And what say you to this? Percy, Northumberland,
1H4 3.2. 119 The Archbishop's grace of York, Douglas, Mortimer,
1H4 3.2. 120 Capitulate against us, and are up.
1H4 3.2. 121 But wherefore do I tell these news to thee?
1H4 3.2. 122 Why, Harry, do I tell thee of my foes,
1H4 3.2. 123 Which art my near'st and dearest enemy? -
1H4 3.2. 124 Thou that art like enough, through vassal fear,
1H4 3.2. 125 Base inclination, and the start of spleen,
1H4 3.2. 126 To fight against me under Percy's pay,
1H4 3.2. 127 To dog his heels, and curtsy at his frowns,
1H4 3.2. 128 To show how much thou art degenerate.
1H4 3.2. 129
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Do not think so; you shall not find it so.
1H4 3.2. 130 And God forgive them that so much have swayed
1H4 3.2. 131 Your majesty's good thoughts away from me.
1H4 3.2. 132 I will redeem all this on Percy's head,
1H4 3.2. 133 And in the closing of some glorious day
1H4 3.2. 134 Be bold to tell you that I am your son;
1H4 3.2. 135 When I will wear a garment all of blood,
1H4 3.2. 136 And stain my favours in a bloody mask,
1H4 3.2. 137 Which, washed away, shall scour my shame with it.
1H4 3.2. 138 And that shall be the day, whene'er it lights,
1H4 3.2. 139 That this same child of honour and renown,
1H4 3.2. 140 This gallant Hotspur, this all-praised knight,
1H4 3.2. 141 And your unthought-of Harry chance to meet.
1H4 3.2. 142 For every honour sitting on his helm,
1H4 3.2. 143 Would they were multitudes, and on my head
1H4 3.2. 144 My shames redoubled; for the time will come
1H4 3.2. 145 That I shall make this northern youth exchange
1H4 3.2. 146 His glorious deeds for my indignities.
1H4 3.2. 147 Percy is but my factor, good my lord,
1H4 3.2. 148 To engross up glorious deeds on my behalf;
1H4 3.2. 149 And I will call him to so strict account
1H4 3.2. 150 That he shall render every glory up,
1H4 3.2. 151 Yea, even the slightest worship of his time,
1H4 3.2. 152 Or I will tear the reckoning from his heart.
1H4 3.2. 153 This, in the name of God, I promise here,
1H4 3.2. 154 The which if he be pleased I shall perform,
1H4 3.2. 155 I do beseech your majesty may salve
1H4 3.2. 156 The long-grown wounds of my intemperature;
1H4 3.2. 157 If not, the end of life cancels all bonds,
1H4 3.2. 158 And I will die a hundred thousand deaths
1H4 3.2. 159 Ere break the smallest parcel of this vow.
1H4 3.2. 160
1H4-KING HENRY
A hundred thousand rebels die in this.
1H4 3.2. 161 Thou shalt have charge and sovereign trust herein. {Enter Sir +
1H4 3.2. 161 Walter Blunt}
1H4 3.2. 162 How now, good Blunt? Thy looks are full of speed.
1H4 3.2. 163
1H4-BLUNT
So hath the business that I come to speak of.
1H4 3.2. 164 Lord Mortimer of Scotland hath sent word
1H4 3.2. 165 That Douglas and the English rebels met
1H4 3.2. 166 The eleventh of this month at Shrewsbury.
1H4 3.2. 167 A mighty and a fearful head they are,
1H4 3.2. 168 If promises be kept on every hand,
1H4 3.2. 169 As ever offered foul play in a state.
1H4 3.2. 170
1H4-KING HENRY
The Earl of Westmorland set forth today,
1H4 3.2. 171 With him my son Lord John of Lancaster,
1H4 3.2. 172 For this advertisement is five days old.
1H4 3.2. 173 On Wednesday next, Harry, you shall set forward.
1H4 3.2. 174 On Thursday we ourselves will march.
1H4 3.2. 175 Our meeting is Bridgnorth, and, Harry, you
1H4 3.2. 176 Shall march through Gloucestershire, by which account,
1H4 3.2. 177 Our business valued, some twelve days hence
1H4 3.2. 178 Our general forces at Bridgnorth shall meet.
1H4 3.2. 179 Our hands are full of business; let's away.
1H4 3.2. 180 Advantage feeds him fat while men delay. {Exeunt}
1H4 3.2. 0 {Enter Sir John Oldcastle [with a truncheon at his +
1H4 3.3. 0 waist], and Russell}
1H4 3.3. 1
1H4-SIR JOHN
Russell, am I not fallen away vilely since this
1H4 3.3. 2 last action? Do I not bate? Do I not dwindle? Why,
1H4 3.3. 3 my skin hangs about me like an old lady's loose gown.
1H4 3.3. 4 I am withered like an old apple-john. Well, I'll repent,
1H4 3.3. 5 and that suddenly, while I am in some liking. I shall
1H4 3.3. 6 be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no
1H4 3.3. 7 strength to repent. An I have not forgotten what the
1H4 3.3. 8 inside of a church is made of, I am a peppercorn, a
1H4 3.3. 9 brewer's horse - the inside of a church! Company,
1H4 3.3. 10 villainous company, hath been the spoil of me.
1H4 3.3. 11
1H4-RUSSELL
Sir John, you are so fretful you cannot live long.
1H4 3.3. 12
1H4-SIR JOHN
Why, there is it. Come, sing me a bawdy song,
1H4 3.3. 13 make me merry. I was as virtuously given as a
1H4 3.3. 14 gentleman need to be: virtuous enough; swore little;
1H4 3.3. 15 diced not - above seven times a week; went to a bawdy-
1H4 3.3. 16 house not - above once in a quarter - of an hour; paid
1H4 3.3. 17 money that I borrowed - three or four times; lived well,
1H4 3.3. 18 and in good compass. And now I live out of all order,
1H4 3.3. 19 out of all compass.
1H4 3.3. 20
1H4-RUSSELL
Why, you are so fat, Sir John, that you must
1H4 3.3. 21 needs be out of all compass, out of all reasonable
1H4 3.3. 22 compass, Sir John.
1H4 3.3. 23
1H4-SIR JOHN
Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life.
1H4 3.3. 24 Thou art our admiral, thou bearest the lantern in the
1H4 3.3. 25 poop - but 'tis in the nose of thee. Thou art the Knight
1H4 3.3. 26 of the Burning Lamp.
1H4 3.3. 27
1H4-RUSSELL
Why, Sir John, my face does you no harm.
1H4 3.3. 28
1H4-SIR JOHN
No, I'll be sworn; I make as good use of it as
1H4 3.3. 29 many a man doth of a death's head, or a {memento
1H4 3.3. 30 mori}. I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire and
1H4 3.3. 31 Dives that lived in purple - for there he is in his robes,
1H4 3.3. 32 burning, burning. If thou wert any way given to virtue,
1H4 3.3. 33 I would swear by thy face; my oath should be `By this
1H4 3.3. 34 fire that's God's angel!' But thou art altogether given
1H4 3.3. 35 over, and wert indeed, but for the light in thy face, the
1H4 3.3. 36 son of utter darkness. When thou rannest up Gads Hill
1H4 3.3. 37 in the night to catch my horse, if I did not think thou
1H4 3.3. 38 hadst been an {ignis fatuus} or a ball of wildfire, there's
1H4 3.3. 39 no purchase in money. O, thou art a perpetual triumph,
1H4 3.3. 40 an everlasting bonfire-light! Thou hast saved me a
1H4 3.3. 41 thousand marks in links and torches, walking with
1H4 3.3. 42 thee in the night betwixt tavern and tavern - but the
1H4 3.3. 43 sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me
1H4 3.3. 44 lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe.
1H4 3.3. 45 I have maintained that salamander of yours with fire
1H4 3.3. 46 any time this two-and-thirty years, God reward me
1H4 3.3. 47 for it.
1H4 3.3. 48
1H4-RUSSELL
'Sblood, I would my face were in your belly!
1H4 3.3. 49
1H4-SIR JOHN
God-a-mercy! So should I be sure to be heartburnt.
1H4 3.3. 49
1H4 3.3. 51 {Enter Hostess} How now, Dame Partlet the hen, have +
1H4 3.3. 51 you enquired
1H4 3.3. 52 yet who picked my pocket?
1H4 3.3. 53
1H4-HOSTESS
Why, Sir John, what do you think, Sir John? Do
1H4 3.3. 54 you think I keep thieves in my house? I have searched,
1H4 3.3. 55 I have enquired; so has my husband, man by man,
1H4 3.3. 56 boy by boy, servant by servant. The tithe of a hair was
1H4 3.3. 57 never lost in my house before.
1H4 3.3. 58
1H4-SIR JOHN
Ye lie, Hostess: Russell was shaved and lost
1H4 3.3. 59 many a hair, and I'll be sworn my pocket was picked.
1H4 3.3. 60 Go to, you are a woman, go.
1H4 3.3. 61
1H4-HOSTESS
Who, I? No, I defy thee! God's light, I was never
1H4 3.3. 62 called so in mine own house before.
1H4 3.3. 63
1H4-SIR JOHN
Go to, I know you well enough.
1H4 3.3. 64
1H4-HOSTESS
No, Sir John, you do not know me, Sir John; I
1H4 3.3. 65 know you, Sir John. You owe me money, Sir John, and
1H4 3.3. 66 now you pick a quarrel to beguile me of it. I bought
1H4 3.3. 67 you a dozen of shirts to your back.
1H4 3.3. 68
1H4-SIR JOHN
Dowlas, filthy dowlas. I have given them away
1H4 3.3. 69 to bakers' wives; they have made bolters of them.
1H4 3.3. 70
1H4-HOSTESS
Now as I am a true woman, holland of eight
1H4 3.3. 71 shillings an ell. You owe money here besides, Sir John:
1H4 3.3. 72 for your diet, and by-drinkings, and money lent you,
1H4 3.3. 73 four-and-twenty pound.
1H4 3.3. 74
1H4-SIR JOHN
{(pointing at Russell)} He had his part +
1H4 3.3. 74 of it. Let
1H4 3.3. 75 him pay.
1H4 3.3. 76
1H4-HOSTESS
He? Alas, he is poor; he hath nothing.
1H4 3.3. 77
1H4-SIR JOHN
How, poor? Look upon his face. What call you
1H4 3.3. 78 rich? Let them coin his nose, let them coin his cheeks,
1H4 3.3. 79 I'll not pay a denier. What, will you make a younker
1H4 3.3. 80 of me? Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn, but I
1H4 3.3. 81 shall have my pocket picked? I have lost a seal-ring of
1H4 3.3. 82 my grandfather's worth forty mark.
1H4 3.3. 83
1H4-HOSTESS
O Jesu, {(to Russell)} I have heard the +
1H4 3.3. 83 Prince tell
1H4 3.3. 84 him, I know not how oft, that that ring was copper.
1H4 3.3. 85
1H4-SIR JOHN
How? The Prince is a jack, a sneak-up. {[Raising}
1H4 3.3. 86 {his truncheon]} 'Sblood, an he were here I would cudgel
1H4 3.3. 87 him like a dog if he would say so. {Enter Prince Harry and +
1H4 3.3. 87 Harvey, marching; and Sir John Oldcastle meets them, playing upon his +
1H4 3.3. 87 truncheon like a fife}
1H4 3.3. 88 How now, lad, is the wind in that door, i' faith? Must
1H4 3.3. 89 we all march?
1H4 3.3. 90
1H4-RUSSELL
Yea, two and two, Newgate fashion.
1H4 3.3. 91
1H4-HOSTESS
My lord, I pray you hear me.
1H4 3.3. 92
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
What sayst thou, Mistress Quickly? How doth +
1H4 3.3. 92 thy husband?
1H4 3.3. 93 I love him well; he is an honest man.
1H4 3.3. 94
1H4-HOSTESS
Good my lord, hear me!
1H4 3.3. 95
1H4-SIR JOHN
Prithee, let her alone, and list to me.
1H4 3.3. 96
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
What sayst thou, Jack?
1H4 3.3. 97
1H4-SIR JOHN
The other night I fell asleep here behind the
1H4 3.3. 98 arras, and had my pocket picked. This house is turned
1H4 3.3. 99 bawdy-house: they pick pockets.
1H4 3.3. 100
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
What didst thou lose, Jack?
1H4 3.3. 101
1H4-SIR JOHN
Wilt thou believe me, Hal, three or four bonds
1H4 3.3. 102 of forty pound apiece, and a seal-ring of my grandfather's.
1H4 3.3. 102
1H4 3.3. 104
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
A trifle, some eightpenny matter.
1H4 3.3. 105
1H4-HOSTESS
So I told him, my lord; and I said I heard your
1H4 3.3. 106 grace say so; and, my lord, he speaks most vilely of
1H4 3.3. 107 you, like a foul-mouthed man as he is, and said he
1H4 3.3. 108 would cudgel you.
1H4 3.3. 109
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
What? He did not!
1H4 3.3. 110
1H4-HOSTESS
There's neither faith, truth, nor womanhood in
1H4 3.3. 111 me else.
1H4 3.3. 112
1H4-SIR JOHN
There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed
1H4 3.3. 113 prune, nor no more truth in thee than in a drawn fox;
1H4 3.3. 114 and, for womanhood, Maid Marian may be the deputy's
1H4 3.3. 115 wife of the ward to thee. Go, you thing, go!
1H4 3.3. 116
1H4-HOSTESS
Say, what thing, what thing?
1H4 3.3. 117
1H4-SIR JOHN
What thing? Why, a thing to thank God on.
1H4 3.3. 118
1H4-HOSTESS
I am no thing to thank God on. I would thou
1H4 3.3. 119 shouldst know it, I am an honest man's wife; and
1H4 3.3. 120 setting thy knighthood aside, thou art a knave to call
1H4 3.3. 121 me so.
1H4 3.3. 122
1H4-SIR JOHN
Setting thy womanhood aside, thou art a beast
1H4 3.3. 123 to say otherwise.
1H4 3.3. 124
1H4-HOSTESS
Say, what beast, thou knave, thou?
1H4 3.3. 125
1H4-SIR JOHN
What beast? Why, an otter.
1H4 3.3. 126
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
An otter, Sir John? Why an otter?
1H4 3.3. 127
1H4-SIR JOHN
Why? She's neither fish nor flesh; a man knows
1H4 3.3. 128 not where to have her.
1H4 3.3. 129
1H4-HOSTESS
Thou art an unjust man in saying so. Thou or
1H4 3.3. 130 any man knows where to have me, thou knave, thou.
1H4 3.3. 131
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Thou sayst true, Hostess, and he slanders
1H4 3.3. 132 thee most grossly.
1H4 3.3. 133
1H4-HOSTESS
So he doth you, my lord, and said this other day
1H4 3.3. 134 you owed him a thousand pound.
1H4 3.3. 135
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
{(to Sir John)} Sirrah, do I owe you +
1H4 3.3. 135 a thousand
1H4 3.3. 136 pound?
1H4 3.3. 137
1H4-SIR JOHN
A thousand pound, Hal? A million! Thy love is
1H4 3.3. 138 worth a million; thou owest me thy love.
1H4 3.3. 139
1H4-HOSTESS
Nay, my lord, he called you `jack' and said he
1H4 3.3. 140 would cudgel you.
1H4 3.3. 141
1H4-SIR JOHN
Did I, Russell?
1H4 3.3. 142
1H4-RUSSELL
Indeed, Sir John, you said so.
1H4 3.3. 143
1H4-SIR JOHN
Yea, if he said my ring was copper.
1H4 3.3. 144
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
I say 'tis copper; darest thou be as good
1H4 3.3. 145 as thy word now?
1H4 3.3. 146
1H4-SIR JOHN
Why, Hal, thou knowest as thou art but man I
1H4 3.3. 147 dare, but as thou art prince, I fear thee as I fear the
1H4 3.3. 148 roaring of the lion's whelp.
1H4 3.3. 149
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
And why not as the lion?
1H4 3.3. 150
1H4-SIR JOHN
The King himself is to be feared as the lion. Dost
1H4 3.3. 151 thou think I'll fear thee as I fear thy father? Nay, an I
1H4 3.3. 152 do, I pray God my girdle break.
1H4 3.3. 153
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
O, if it should, how would thy guts fall
1H4 3.3. 154 about thy knees! But sirrah, there's no room for faith,
1H4 3.3. 155 truth, nor honesty in this bosom of thine; it is all filled
1H4 3.3. 156 up with guts and midriff. Charge an honest woman
1H4 3.3. 157 with picking thy pocket? Why, thou whoreson
1H4 3.3. 158 impudent embossed rascal, if there were anything in
1H4 3.3. 159 thy pocket but tavern reckonings, memorandums of
1H4 3.3. 160 bawdy-houses, and one poor pennyworth of sugar-
1H4 3.3. 161 candy to make thee long-winded - if thy pocket were
1H4 3.3. 162 enriched with any other injuries but these, I am a
1H4 3.3. 163 villain. And yet you will stand to it, you will not pocket
1H4 3.3. 164 up wrong. Art thou not ashamed?
1H4 3.3. 165
1H4-SIR JOHN
Dost thou hear, Hal? Thou knowest in the state
1H4 3.3. 166 of innocency Adam fell, and what should poor Jack
1H4 3.3. 167 Oldcastle do in the days of villainy? Thou seest I have
1H4 3.3. 168 more flesh than another man, and therefore more
1H4 3.3. 169 frailty. You confess, then, you picked my pocket.
1H4 3.3. 170
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
It appears so by the story.
1H4 3.3. 171
1H4-SIR JOHN
Hostess, I forgive thee. Go make ready breakfast.
1H4 3.3. 172 Love thy husband, look to thy servants, cherish thy
1H4 3.3. 173 guests. Thou shalt find me tractable to any honest
1H4 3.3. 174 reason; thou seest I am pacified still. Nay, prithee, be
1H4 3.3. 175 gone. {Exit Hostess}
1H4 3.3. 176 Now, Hal, to the news at court. For the robbery, lad,
1H4 3.3. 177 how is that answered?
1H4 3.3. 178
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
O, my sweet beef, I must still be good angel
1H4 3.3. 179 to thee. The money is paid back again.
1H4 3.3. 180
1H4-SIR JOHN
O, I do not like that paying back; 'tis a double
1H4 3.3. 181 labour.
1H4 3.3. 182
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
I am good friends with my father, and may
1H4 3.3. 183 do anything.
1H4 3.3. 184
1H4-SIR JOHN
Rob me the exchequer the first thing thou dost,
1H4 3.3. 185 and do it with unwashed hands too.
1H4 3.3. 186
1H4-RUSSELL
Do, my lord.
1H4 3.3. 187
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
I have procured thee, Jack, a charge of
1H4 3.3. 188 foot.
1H4 3.3. 189
1H4-SIR JOHN
I would it had been of horse! Where shall I find
1H4 3.3. 190 one that can steal well? O, for a fine thief of the age
1H4 3.3. 191 of two-and-twenty or thereabouts! I am heinously
1H4 3.3. 192 unprovided. Well, God be thanked for these rebels -
1H4 3.3. 193 they offend none but the virtuous. I laud them, I praise
1H4 3.3. 194 them.
1H4 3.3. 195
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Russell.
1H4 3.3. 196
1H4-RUSSELL
My lord?
1H4 3.3. 197
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
{(giving letters)} Go bear this +
1H4 3.3. 197 letter to Lord John of Lancaster,
1H4 3.3. 198 To my brother John; this to my lord of Westmorland. {Exit +
1H4 3.3. 198 Russell}
1H4 3.3. 199 Go, Harvey, to horse, to horse, for thou and I
1H4 3.3. 200 Have thirty miles to ride yet ere dinner time. {Exit Harvey}
1H4 3.3. 201 Jack, meet me tomorrow in the Temple Hall
1H4 3.3. 202 At two o'clock in the afternoon.
1H4 3.3. 203 There shalt thou know thy charge, and there receive
1H4 3.3. 204 Money and order for their furniture.
1H4 3.3. 205 The land is burning, Percy stands on high,
1H4 3.3. 206 And either we or they must lower lie. {Exit}
1H4 3.3. 207
1H4-SIR JOHN
Rare words! Brave world! +
1H4 3.3. 207 {(Calling)} Hostess, my breakfast, come! -
1H4 3.3. 208 O, I could wish this tavern were my drum! {Exit}
1H4 3.3. 0 {Enter Hotspur and the Earls of Worcester and +
1H4 4.1. 0 Douglas}
1H4 4.1. 1
1H4-HOTSPUR
Well said, my noble Scot! If speaking truth
1H4 4.1. 2 In this fine age were not thought flattery,
1H4 4.1. 3 Such attribution should the Douglas have
1H4 4.1. 4 As not a soldier of this season's stamp
1H4 4.1. 5 Should go so general current through the world.
1H4 4.1. 6 By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy
1H4 4.1. 7 The tongues of soothers, but a braver place
1H4 4.1. 8 In my heart's love hath no man than yourself.
1H4 4.1. 9 Nay, task me to my word, approve me, lord.
1H4 4.1. 10A
1H4-DOUGLAS
Thou art the king of honour.
1H4 4.1. 11 No man so potent breathes upon the ground
1H4 4.1. 12B But I will beard him.
1H4-HOTSPUR
Do so, and 'tis well. {Enter a +
1H4 4.1. 12B Messenger with letters}
1H4 4.1. 13 What letters hast thou there? I can but thank you.
1H4 4.1. 14A
1H4-MESSENGER
These letters come from your father.
1H4 4.1. 15
1H4-HOTSPUR
Letters from him? Why comes he not himself?
1H4 4.1. 16
1H4-MESSENGER
He cannot come, my lord, he is grievous sick.
1H4 4.1. 17
1H4-HOTSPUR
Zounds, how has he the leisure to be sick
1H4 4.1. 18 In such a jostling time? Who leads his power?
1H4 4.1. 19 Under whose government come they along?
1H4 4.1. 20
1H4-MESSENGER
His letters bears his mind, not I, my lord. +
1H4 4.1. 20 {Hotspur reads the letter}
1H4 4.1. 21
1H4-WORCESTER
I prithee tell me, doth he keep his bed?
1H4 4.1. 22
1H4-MESSENGER
He did, my lord, four days ere I set forth;
1H4 4.1. 23 And at the time of my departure thence
1H4 4.1. 24 He was much feared by his physicians.
1H4 4.1. 25
1H4-WORCESTER
I would the state of time had first been whole
1H4 4.1. 26 Ere he by sickness had been visited.
1H4 4.1. 27 His health was never better worth than now.
1H4 4.1. 28
1H4-HOTSPUR
Sick now? Droop now? This sickness doth infect
1H4 4.1. 29 The very life-blood of our enterprise.
1H4 4.1. 30 'Tis catching hither, even to our camp.
1H4 4.1. 31 He writes me here that inward sickness stays him,
1H4 4.1. 32 And that his friends by deputation
1H4 4.1. 33 Could not so soon be drawn; nor did he think it meet
1H4 4.1. 34 To lay so dangerous and dear a trust
1H4 4.1. 35 On any soul removed but on his own.
1H4 4.1. 36 Yet doth he give us bold advertisement
1H4 4.1. 37 That with our small conjunction we should on,
1H4 4.1. 38 To see how fortune is disposed to us;
1H4 4.1. 39 For, as he writes, there is no quailing now,
1H4 4.1. 40 Because the King is certainly possessed
1H4 4.1. 41 Of all our purposes. What say you to it?
1H4 4.1. 42
1H4-WORCESTER
Your father's sickness is a maim to us.
1H4 4.1. 43
1H4-HOTSPUR
A perilous gash, a very limb lopped off.
1H4 4.1. 44 And yet, in faith, it is not. His present want
1H4 4.1. 45 Seems more than we shall find it. Were it good
1H4 4.1. 46 To set the exact wealth of all our states
1H4 4.1. 47 All at one cast, to set so rich a main
1H4 4.1. 48 On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour?
1H4 4.1. 49 It were not good, for therein should we read
1H4 4.1. 50 The very bottom and the sole of hope,
1H4 4.1. 51 The very list, the very utmost bound,
1H4 4.1. 52 Of all our fortunes.
1H4 4.1. 53
1H4-DOUGLAS
Faith, and so we should, where now remains
1H4 4.1. 54 A sweet reversion - we may boldly spend
1H4 4.1. 55 Upon the hope of what is to come in.
1H4 4.1. 56 A comfort of retirement lives in this.
1H4 4.1. 57
1H4-HOTSPUR
A rendezvous, a home to fly unto,
1H4 4.1. 58 If that the devil and mischance look big
1H4 4.1. 59 Upon the maidenhead of our affairs.
1H4 4.1. 60
1H4-WORCESTER
But yet I would your father had been here.
1H4 4.1. 61 The quality and hair of our attempt
1H4 4.1. 62 Brooks no division. It will be thought
1H4 4.1. 63 By some that know not why he is away
1H4 4.1. 64 That wisdom, loyalty, and mere dislike
1H4 4.1. 65 Of our proceedings kept the Earl from hence;
1H4 4.1. 66 And think how such an apprehension
1H4 4.1. 67 May turn the tide of fearful faction,
1H4 4.1. 68 And breed a kind of question in our cause.
1H4 4.1. 69 For, well you know, we of the off'ring side
1H4 4.1. 70 Must keep aloof from strict arbitrement,
1H4 4.1. 71 And stop all sight-holes, every loop from whence
1H4 4.1. 72 The eye of reason may pry in upon us.
1H4 4.1. 73 This absence of your father's draws a curtain
1H4 4.1. 74 That shows the ignorant a kind of fear
1H4 4.1. 75B Before not dreamt of.
1H4-HOTSPUR
You strain too far.
1H4 4.1. 76 I rather of his absence make this use:
1H4 4.1. 77 It lends a lustre, and more great opinion,
1H4 4.1. 78 A larger dare to our great enterprise,
1H4 4.1. 79 Than if the Earl were here; for men must think
1H4 4.1. 80 If we without his help can make a head
1H4 4.1. 81 To push against a kingdom, with his help
1H4 4.1. 82 We shall o'erturn it topsy-turvy down.
1H4 4.1. 83 Yet all goes well, yet all our joints are whole.
1H4 4.1. 84
1H4-DOUGLAS
As heart can think, there is not such a word
1H4 4.1. 85 Spoke of in Scotland as this term of fear. {Enter Sir Richard +
1H4 4.1. 85 Vernon}
1H4 4.1. 86
1H4-HOTSPUR
My cousin Vernon! Welcome, by my soul!
1H4 4.1. 87
1H4-VERNON
Pray God my news be worth a welcome, lord.
1H4 4.1. 88 The Earl of Westmorland, seven thousand strong,
1H4 4.1. 89 Is marching hitherwards; with him Prince John.
1H4 4.1. 90B
1H4-HOTSPUR
No harm. What more?
1H4-VERNON
And further I have learned
1H4 4.1. 91 The King himself in person is set forth,
1H4 4.1. 92 Or hitherwards intended speedily,
1H4 4.1. 93 With strong and mighty preparation.
1H4 4.1. 94
1H4-HOTSPUR
He shall be welcome too. Where is his son,
1H4 4.1. 95 The nimble-footed madcap Prince of Wales,
1H4 4.1. 96 And his comrades that daffed the world aside
1H4 4.1. 97B And bid it pass?
1H4-VERNON
All furnished, all in arms,
1H4 4.1. 98 All plumed like ostriches, that with the wind
1H4 4.1. 99
1H4-[]
1H4 4.1. 100 Baiting like eagles having lately bathed,
1H4 4.1. 101 Glittering in golden coats like images,
1H4 4.1. 102 As full of spirit as the month of May,
1H4 4.1. 103 And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer;
1H4 4.1. 104 Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.
1H4 4.1. 105 I saw young Harry with his beaver on,
1H4 4.1. 106 His cuishes on his thighs, gallantly armed,
1H4 4.1. 107 Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury,
1H4 4.1. 108 And vaulted with such ease into his seat
1H4 4.1. 109 As if an angel dropped down from the clouds
1H4 4.1. 110 To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus,
1H4 4.1. 111 And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
1H4 4.1. 112
1H4-HOTSPUR
No more, no more! Worse than the sun in March,
1H4 4.1. 113 This praise doth nourish agues. Let them come!
1H4 4.1. 114 They come like sacrifices in their trim,
1H4 4.1. 115 And to the fire-eyed maid of smoky war
1H4 4.1. 116 All hot and bleeding will we offer them.
1H4 4.1. 117 The mailed Mars shall on his altar sit
1H4 4.1. 118 Up to the ears in blood. I am on fire
1H4 4.1. 119 To hear this rich reprisal is so nigh,
1H4 4.1. 120 And yet not ours! Come, let me taste my horse,
1H4 4.1. 121 Who is to bear me like a thunderbolt
1H4 4.1. 122 Against the bosom of the Prince of Wales.
1H4 4.1. 123 Harry to Harry shall, hot horse to horse,
1H4 4.1. 124 Meet and ne'er part till one drop down a corpse.
1H4 4.1. 125B O, that Glyndw^r were come!
1H4-VERNON
There is more news.
1H4 4.1. 126 I learned in Worcester, as I rode along,
1H4 4.1. 127 He cannot draw his power this fourteen days.
1H4 4.1. 128
1H4-DOUGLAS
That's the worst tidings that I hear of yet.
1H4 4.1. 129
1H4-WORCESTER
Ay, by my faith, that bears a frosty sound.
1H4 4.1. 130
1H4-HOTSPUR
What may the King's whole battle reach unto?
1H4 4.1. 131B
1H4-VERNON
To thirty thousand.
1H4-HOTSPUR
Forty let it be.
1H4 4.1. 132 My father and Glyndw^r being both away,
1H4 4.1. 133 The powers of us may serve so great a day.
1H4 4.1. 134 Come, let us take a muster speedily.
1H4 4.1. 135 Doomsday is near: die all, die merrily.
1H4 4.1. 136
1H4-DOUGLAS
Talk not of dying; I am out of fear
1H4 4.1. 137 Of death or death's hand for this one half year. {Exeunt}
1H4 4.1. 0 {Enter Sir John Oldcastle and Russell}
1H4 4.2. 1
1H4-SIR JOHN
Russell, get thee before to Coventry; fill me a
1H4 4.2. 2 bottle of sack. Our soldiers shall march through. We'll
1H4 4.2. 3 to Sutton Coldfield tonight.
1H4 4.2. 4
1H4-RUSSELL
Will you give me money, captain?
1H4 4.2. 5
1H4-SIR JOHN
Lay out, lay out.
1H4 4.2. 6
1H4-RUSSELL
This bottle makes an angel.
1H4 4.2. 7
1H4-SIR JOHN
{[giving Russell money]} An if it do, +
1H4 4.2. 7 take it for thy
1H4 4.2. 8 labour; an if it make twenty, take them all; I'll answer
1H4 4.2. 9 the coinage. Bid my lieutenant Harvey meet me at
1H4 4.2. 10 town's end.
1H4 4.2. 11
1H4-RUSSELL
I will, captain. Farewell. {Exit}
1H4 4.2. 12
1H4-SIR JOHN
If I be not ashamed of my soldiers, I am a +
1H4 4.2. 12 soused
1H4 4.2. 13 gurnet. I have misused the King's press damnably. I
1H4 4.2. 14 have got in exchange of one hundred and fifty soldiers
1H4 4.2. 15 three hundred and odd pounds. I press me none but
1H4 4.2. 16 good householders, yeomen's sons, enquire me out
1H4 4.2. 17 contracted bachelors, such as had been asked twice on
1H4 4.2. 18 the banns, such a commodity of warm slaves as had
1H4 4.2. 19 as lief hear the devil as a drum, such as fear the report
1H4 4.2. 20 of a caliver worse than a struck fowl or a hurt wild
1H4 4.2. 21 duck. I pressed me none but such toasts and butter,
1H4 4.2. 22 with hearts in their bellies no bigger than pins' heads,
1H4 4.2. 23 and they have bought out their services; and now my
1H4 4.2. 24 whole charge consists of ensigns, corporals, lieutenants,
1H4 4.2. 25 gentlemen of companies - slaves as ragged as Lazarus
1H4 4.2. 26 in the painted cloth, where the glutton's dogs licked
1H4 4.2. 27 his sores - and such as indeed were never soldiers, but
1H4 4.2. 28 discarded unjust servingmen, younger sons to younger
1H4 4.2. 29 brothers, revolted tapsters, and ostlers trade-fallen, the
1H4 4.2. 30 cankers of a calm world and a long peace, ten times
1H4 4.2. 31 more dishonourable-ragged than an old feazed ensign;
1H4 4.2. 32 and such have I to fill up the rooms of them as have
1H4 4.2. 33 bought out their services, that you would think that I
1H4 4.2. 34 had a hundred and fifty tattered prodigals lately come
1H4 4.2. 35 from swine-keeping, from eating draff and husks. A
1H4 4.2. 36 mad fellow met me on the way and told me I had
1H4 4.2. 37 unloaded all the gibbets and pressed the dead bodies.
1H4 4.2. 38 No eye hath seen such scarecrows. I'll not march
1H4 4.2. 39 through Coventry with them, that's flat. Nay, and the
1H4 4.2. 40 villains march wide betwixt the legs, as if they had
1H4 4.2. 41 gyves on, for indeed I had the most of them out of
1H4 4.2. 42 prison. There's not a shirt and a half in all my company;
1H4 4.2. 43 and the half-shirt is two napkins tacked together and
1H4 4.2. 44 thrown over the shoulders like a herald's coat without
1H4 4.2. 45 sleeves; and the shirt, to say the truth, stolen from my
1H4 4.2. 46 host at Saint Albans, or the red-nose innkeeper of
1H4 4.2. 47 Daventry. But that's all one; they'll find linen enough
1H4 4.2. 48 on every hedge. {Enter Prince Harry and the Earl of Westmorland}
1H4 4.2. 49
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
How now, blown Jack? How now, quilt?
1H4 4.2. 50
1H4-SIR JOHN
What, Hal! How now, mad wag? What a devil
1H4 4.2. 51 dost thou in Warwickshire? My good lord of
1H4 4.2. 52 Westmorland, I cry you mercy! I thought your honour
1H4 4.2. 53 had already been at Shrewsbury.
1H4 4.2. 54
1H4-WESTMORLAND
Faith, Sir John, 'tis more than time that I
1H4 4.2. 55 were there, and you too; but my powers are there
1H4 4.2. 56 already. The King, I can tell you, looks for us all. We
1H4 4.2. 57 must away all night.
1H4 4.2. 58
1H4-SIR JOHN
Tut, never fear me. I am as vigilant as a cat to
1H4 4.2. 59 steal cream.
1H4 4.2. 60
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
I think to steal cream indeed, for thy theft
1H4 4.2. 61 hath already made thee butter. But tell me, Jack, whose
1H4 4.2. 62 fellows are these that come after?
1H4 4.2. 63
1H4-SIR JOHN
Mine, Hal, mine.
1H4 4.2. 64
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
I did never see such pitiful rascals.
1H4 4.2. 65
1H4-SIR JOHN
Tut, tut, good enough to toss, food for powder,
1H4 4.2. 66 food for powder. They'll fill a pit as well as better. Tush,
1H4 4.2. 67 man, mortal men, mortal men.
1H4 4.2. 68
1H4-WESTMORLAND
Ay, but Sir John, methinks they are
1H4 4.2. 69 exceeding poor and bare, too beggarly.
1H4 4.2. 70
1H4-SIR JOHN
Faith, for their poverty, I know not where they
1H4 4.2. 71 had that, and for their bareness, I am sure they never
1H4 4.2. 72 learned that of me.
1H4 4.2. 73
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
No, I'll be sworn, unless you call three
1H4 4.2. 74 fingers in the ribs bare. But sirrah, make haste. Percy
1H4 4.2. 75 is already in the field. {Exit}
1H4 4.2. 76
1H4-SIR JOHN
What, is the King encamped?
1H4 4.2. 77
1H4-WESTMORLAND
He is, Sir John. I fear we shall stay too
1H4 4.2. 78 long. {[Exit]}
1H4 4.2. 79
1H4-SIR JOHN
Well, to the latter end of a fray
1H4 4.2. 80 And the beginning of a feast
1H4 4.2. 81 Fits a dull fighter and a keen guest. {Exit}
1H4 4.2. 0 {Enter Hotspur, the Earls of Worcester and Douglas, and +
1H4 4.3. 0 Sir Richard Vernon}
1H4 4.3. 1B
1H4-HOTSPUR
We'll fight with him tonight.
1H4-WORCESTER
It may +
1H4 4.3. 1B not be.
1H4 4.3. 2B
1H4-DOUGLAS
You give him then advantage.
1H4-VERNON
Not a whit.
1H4 4.3. 3
1H4-HOTSPUR
Why say you so? Looks he not for supply?
1H4 4.3. 4B
1H4-VERNON
So do we.
1H4-HOTSPUR
His is certain; ours is doubtful.
1H4 4.3. 5
1H4-WORCESTER
Good cousin, be advised. Stir not tonight.
1H4 4.3. 6B
1H4-VERNON
{(to Hotspur)} Do not, my lord.
1H4-DOUGLAS
+
1H4 4.3. 6B You do not counsel well.
1H4 4.3. 7 You speak it out of fear and cold heart.
1H4 4.3. 8
1H4-VERNON
Do me no slander, Douglas. By my life -
1H4 4.3. 9 And I dare well maintain it with my life -
1H4 4.3. 10 If well-respected honour bid me on,
1H4 4.3. 11 I hold as little counsel with weak fear
1H4 4.3. 12 As you, my lord, or any Scot that this day lives.
1H4 4.3. 13 Let it be seen tomorrow in the battle
1H4 4.3. 14 Which of us fears.
1H4 4.3. 15A
1H4-DOUGLAS
Yea, or tonight.
1H4 4.3. 16A
1H4-VERNON
Content.
1H4 4.3. 17A
1H4-HOTSPUR
Tonight, say I.
1H4 4.3. 18
1H4-VERNON
Come, come, it may not be. I wonder much,
1H4 4.3. 19 Being men of such great leading as you are,
1H4 4.3. 20 That you foresee not what impediments
1H4 4.3. 21 Drag back our expedition. Certain horse
1H4 4.3. 22 Of my cousin Vernon's are not yet come up.
1H4 4.3. 23 Your uncle Worcester's horse came but today,
1H4 4.3. 24 And now their pride and mettle is asleep,
1H4 4.3. 25 Their courage with hard labour tame and dull,
1H4 4.3. 26 That not a horse is half the half himself.
1H4 4.3. 27
1H4-HOTSPUR
So are the horses of the enemy
1H4 4.3. 28 In general journey-bated and brought low.
1H4 4.3. 29 The better part of ours are full of rest.
1H4 4.3. 30
1H4-WORCESTER
The number of the King exceedeth our.
1H4 4.3. 31 For God's sake, cousin, stay till all come in. {The trumpet +
1H4 4.3. 31 sounds a parley [within]. Enter Sir Walter Blunt}
1H4 4.3. 32
1H4-BLUNT
I come with gracious offers from the King,
1H4 4.3. 33 If you vouchsafe me hearing and respect.
1H4 4.3. 34
1H4-HOTSPUR
Welcome, Sir Walter Blunt; and would to God
1H4 4.3. 35 You were of our determination.
1H4 4.3. 36 Some of us love you well, and even those some
1H4 4.3. 37 Envy your great deservings and good name,
1H4 4.3. 38 Because you are not of our quality,
1H4 4.3. 39 But stand against us like an enemy.
1H4 4.3. 40
1H4-BLUNT
And God defend but still I should stand so,
1H4 4.3. 41 So long as out of limit and true rule
1H4 4.3. 42 You stand against anointed majesty.
1H4 4.3. 43 But to my charge. The King hath sent to know
1H4 4.3. 44 The nature of your griefs, and whereupon
1H4 4.3. 45 You conjure from the breast of civil peace
1H4 4.3. 46 Such bold hostility, teaching his duteous land
1H4 4.3. 47 Audacious cruelty. If that the King
1H4 4.3. 48 Have any way your good deserts forgot,
1H4 4.3. 49 Which he confesseth to be manifold,
1H4 4.3. 50 He bids you name your griefs, and with all speed
1H4 4.3. 51 You shall have your desires, with interest,
1H4 4.3. 52 And pardon absolute for yourself and these
1H4 4.3. 53 Herein misled by your suggestion.
1H4 4.3. 54
1H4-HOTSPUR
The King is kind, and well we know the King
1H4 4.3. 55 Knows at what time to promise, when to pay.
1H4 4.3. 56 My father and my uncle and myself
1H4 4.3. 57 Did give him that same royalty he wears;
1H4 4.3. 58 And when he was not six-and-twenty strong,
1H4 4.3. 59 Sick in the world's regard, wretched and low,
1H4 4.3. 60 A poor unminded outlaw sneaking home,
1H4 4.3. 61 My father gave him welcome to the shore;
1H4 4.3. 62 And when he heard him swear and vow to God
1H4 4.3. 63 He came but to be Duke of Lancaster,
1H4 4.3. 64 To sue his livery, and beg his peace
1H4 4.3. 65 With tears of innocency and terms of zeal,
1H4 4.3. 66 My father, in kind heart and pity moved,
1H4 4.3. 67 Swore him assistance, and performed it too.
1H4 4.3. 68 Now when the lords and barons of the realm
1H4 4.3. 69 Perceived Northumberland did lean to him,
1H4 4.3. 70 The more and less came in with cap and knee,
1H4 4.3. 71 Met him in boroughs, cities, villages,
1H4 4.3. 72 Attended him on bridges, stood in lanes,
1H4 4.3. 73 Laid gifts before him, proffered him their oaths,
1H4 4.3. 74 Gave him their heirs as pages, followed him,
1H4 4.3. 75 Even at the heels, in golden multitudes.
1H4 4.3. 76 He presently, as greatness knows itself,
1H4 4.3. 77 Steps me a little higher than his vow
1H4 4.3. 78 Made to my father while his blood was poor
1H4 4.3. 79 Upon the naked shore at Ravenspurgh,
1H4 4.3. 80 And now forsooth takes on him to reform
1H4 4.3. 81 Some certain edicts and some strait decrees
1H4 4.3. 82 That lie too heavy on the commonwealth,
1H4 4.3. 83 Cries out upon abuses, seems to weep
1H4 4.3. 84 Over his country's wrongs; and by this face,
1H4 4.3. 85 This seeming brow of justice, did he win
1H4 4.3. 86 The hearts of all that he did angle for;
1H4 4.3. 87 Proceeded further, cut me off the heads
1H4 4.3. 88 Of all the favourites that the absent King
1H4 4.3. 89 In deputation left behind him here
1H4 4.3. 90 When he was personal in the Irish war.
1H4 4.3. 91B
1H4-BLUNT
Tut, I came not to hear this.
1H4-HOTSPUR
Then to the point.
1H4 4.3. 92 In short time after, he deposed the King,
1H4 4.3. 93 Soon after that deprived him of his life,
1H4 4.3. 94 And in the neck of that tasked the whole state;
1H4 4.3. 95 To make that worse, suffered his kinsman March -
1H4 4.3. 96 Who is, if every owner were well placed,
1H4 4.3. 97 Indeed his king - to be engaged in Wales,
1H4 4.3. 98 There without ransom to lie forfeited;
1H4 4.3. 99 Disgraced me in my happy victories,
1H4 4.3. 100 Sought to entrap me by intelligence,
1H4 4.3. 101 Rated mine uncle from the Council-board,
1H4 4.3. 102 In rage dismissed my father from the court,
1H4 4.3. 103 Broke oath on oath, committed wrong on wrong,
1H4 4.3. 104 And in conclusion drove us to seek out
1H4 4.3. 105 This head of safety, and withal to pry
1H4 4.3. 106 Into his title, the which we find
1H4 4.3. 107 Too indirect for long continuance.
1H4 4.3. 108
1H4-BLUNT
Shall I return this answer to the King?
1H4 4.3. 109
1H4-HOTSPUR
Not so, Sir Walter. We'll withdraw awhile.
1H4 4.3. 110 Go to the King, and let there be impawned
1H4 4.3. 111 Some surety for a safe return again;
1H4 4.3. 112 And in the morning early shall mine uncle
1H4 4.3. 113 Bring him our purposes. And so, farewell.
1H4 4.3. 114
1H4-BLUNT
I would you would accept of grace and love.
1H4 4.3. 115B
1H4-HOTSPUR
And maybe so we shall.
1H4-BLUNT
Pray God you do. +
1H4 4.3. 115B {Exeunt [Hotspur, Worcester, Douglas, and Vernon at one door, Blunt at +
1H4 4.3. 115B another door]}
1H4 4.3. 0 {Enter the Archbishop of York, and Sir Michael}
1H4 4.4. 1
1H4-ARCHBISHOP
{(giving letters)} Hie, good Sir +
1H4 4.4. 1 Michael, bear this sealed brief
1H4 4.4. 2 With winged haste to the Lord Marshal,
1H4 4.4. 3 This to my cousin Scrope, and all the rest
1H4 4.4. 4 To whom they are directed. If you knew
1H4 4.4. 5 How much they do import, you would make haste.
1H4 4.4. 6A
1H4-SIR MICHAEL
My good lord,
1H4 4.4. 7B I guess their tenor.
1H4-ARCHBISHOP
Like enough you do.
1H4 4.4. 8 Tomorrow, good Sir Michael, is a day
1H4 4.4. 9 Wherein the fortune of ten thousand men
1H4 4.4. 10 Must bide the touch; for, sir, at Shrewsbury,
1H4 4.4. 11 As I am truly given to understand,
1H4 4.4. 12 The King with mighty and quick-raised power
1H4 4.4. 13 Meets with Lord Harry. And I fear, Sir Michael,
1H4 4.4. 14 What with the sickness of Northumberland,
1H4 4.4. 15 Whose power was in the first proportion,
1H4 4.4. 16 And what with Owain Glyndw^r's absence thence,
1H4 4.4. 17 Who with them was a rated sinew too,
1H4 4.4. 18 And comes not in, overruled by prophecies,
1H4 4.4. 19 I fear the power of Percy is too weak
1H4 4.4. 20 To wage an instant trial with the King.
1H4 4.4. 21
1H4-SIR MICHAEL
Why, my good lord, you need not fear; there is Douglas
1H4 4.4. 22B And Lord Mortimer.
1H4-ARCHBISHOP
No, Mortimer is not there.
1H4 4.4. 23
1H4-SIR MICHAEL
But there is Mordake, Vernon, Lord Harry Percy;
1H4 4.4. 24 And there is my lord of Worcester, and a head
1H4 4.4. 25 Of gallant warriors, noble gentlemen.
1H4 4.4. 26
1H4-ARCHBISHOP
And so there is; but yet the King hath drawn
1H4 4.4. 27 The special head of all the land together -
1H4 4.4. 28 The Prince of Wales, Lord John of Lancaster,
1H4 4.4. 29 The noble Westmorland, and warlike Blunt,
1H4 4.4. 30 And many more corrivals, and dear men
1H4 4.4. 31 Of estimation and command in arms.
1H4 4.4. 32
1H4-SIR MICHAEL
Doubt not, my lord, they shall be well opposed.
1H4 4.4. 33
1H4-ARCHBISHOP
I hope no less, yet needful 'tis to fear;
1H4 4.4. 34 And to prevent the worst, Sir Michael, speed.
1H4 4.4. 35 For if Lord Percy thrive not, ere the King
1H4 4.4. 36 Dismiss his power he means to visit us,
1H4 4.4. 37 For he hath heard of our confederacy,
1H4 4.4. 38 And 'tis but wisdom to make strong against him;
1H4 4.4. 39 Therefore make haste. I must go write again
1H4 4.4. 40 To other friends; and so farewell, Sir Michael. {Exeunt +
1H4 4.4. 40 [severally]}
1H4 4.4. 0 {Enter King Henry, Prince Harry, Lord John of +
1H4 5.1. 0 Lancaster, the Earl of Westmorland, Sir Walter Blunt, and Sir John +
1H4 5.1. 0 Oldcastle}
1H4 5.1. 1
1H4-KING HENRY
How bloodily the sun begins to peer
1H4 5.1. 2 Above yon bulky hill! The day looks pale
1H4 5.1. 3B At his distemp'rature.
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
The southern wind
1H4 5.1. 4 Doth play the trumpet to his purposes,
1H4 5.1. 5 And by his hollow whistling in the leaves
1H4 5.1. 6 Foretells a tempest and a blust'ring day.
1H4 5.1. 7
1H4-KING HENRY
Then with the losers let it sympathize,
1H4 5.1. 8 For nothing can seem foul to those that win. {The trumpet sounds +
1H4 5.1. 8 [a parley within]. Enter the Earl of Worcester [and Sir Richard +
1H4 5.1. 8 Vernon]}
1H4 5.1. 9 How now, my lord of Worcester? 'Tis not well
1H4 5.1. 10 That you and I should meet upon such terms
1H4 5.1. 11 As now we meet. You have deceived our trust,
1H4 5.1. 12 And made us doff our easy robes of peace
1H4 5.1. 13 To crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.
1H4 5.1. 14 This is not well, my lord, this is not well.
1H4 5.1. 15 What say you to it? Will you again unknit
1H4 5.1. 16 This churlish knot of all-abhorred war,
1H4 5.1. 17 And move in that obedient orb again
1H4 5.1. 18 Where you did give a fair and natural light,
1H4 5.1. 19 And be no more an exhaled meteor,
1H4 5.1. 20 A prodigy of fear, and a portent
1H4 5.1. 21 Of broached mischief to the unborn times?
1H4 5.1. 22A
1H4-WORCESTER
Hear me, my liege.
1H4 5.1. 23 For mine own part, I could be well content
1H4 5.1. 24 To entertain the lag-end of my life
1H4 5.1. 25 With quiet hours; for I protest,
1H4 5.1. 26 I have not sought the day of this dislike.
1H4 5.1. 27
1H4-KING HENRY
You have not sought it? How comes it, then?
1H4 5.1. 28
1H4-SIR JOHN
Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it.
1H4 5.1. 29
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Peace, chewet, peace!
1H4 5.1. 30
1H4-WORCESTER
{(to the King)} It pleased your majesty +
1H4 5.1. 30 to turn your looks
1H4 5.1. 31 Of favour from myself and all our house;
1H4 5.1. 32 And yet I must remember you, my lord,
1H4 5.1. 33 We were the first and dearest of your friends.
1H4 5.1. 34 For you my staff of office did I break
1H4 5.1. 35 In Richard's time, and posted day and night
1H4 5.1. 36 To meet you on the way and kiss your hand
1H4 5.1. 37 When yet you were in place and in account
1H4 5.1. 38 Nothing so strong and fortunate as I.
1H4 5.1. 39 It was myself, my brother, and his son
1H4 5.1. 40 That brought you home, and boldly did outdare
1H4 5.1. 41 The dangers of the time. You swore to us,
1H4 5.1. 42 And you did swear that oath at Doncaster,
1H4 5.1. 43 That you did nothing purpose 'gainst the state,
1H4 5.1. 44 Nor claim no further than your new-fall'n right,
1H4 5.1. 45 The seat of Gaunt, dukedom of Lancaster.
1H4 5.1. 46 To this we swore our aid, but in short space
1H4 5.1. 47 It rained down fortune show'ring on your head,
1H4 5.1. 48 And such a flood of greatness fell on you,
1H4 5.1. 49 What with our help, what with the absent King,
1H4 5.1. 50 What with the injuries of a wanton time,
1H4 5.1. 51 The seeming sufferances that you had borne,
1H4 5.1. 52 And the contrarious winds that held the King
1H4 5.1. 53 So long in his unlucky Irish wars
1H4 5.1. 54 That all in England did repute him dead;
1H4 5.1. 55 And from this swarm of fair advantages
1H4 5.1. 56 You took occasion to be quickly wooed
1H4 5.1. 57 To gripe the general sway into your hand,
1H4 5.1. 58 Forgot your oath to us at Doncaster,
1H4 5.1. 59 And being fed by us, you used us so
1H4 5.1. 60 As that ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird,
1H4 5.1. 61 Useth the sparrow - did oppress our nest,
1H4 5.1. 62 Grew by our feeding to so great a bulk
1H4 5.1. 63 That even our love durst not come near your sight
1H4 5.1. 64 For fear of swallowing. But with nimble wing
1H4 5.1. 65 We were enforced for safety' sake to fly
1H4 5.1. 66 Out of your sight, and raise this present head,
1H4 5.1. 67 Whereby we stand opposed by such means
1H4 5.1. 68 As you yourself have forged against yourself,
1H4 5.1. 69 By unkind usage, dangerous countenance,
1H4 5.1. 70 And violation of all faith and troth
1H4 5.1. 71 Sworn to us in your younger enterprise.
1H4 5.1. 72
1H4-KING HENRY
These things indeed you have articulate,
1H4 5.1. 73 Proclaimed at market crosses, read in churches,
1H4 5.1. 74 To face the garment of rebellion
1H4 5.1. 75 With some fine colour that may please the eye
1H4 5.1. 76 Of fickle changelings and poor discontents,
1H4 5.1. 77 Which gape and rub the elbow at the news
1H4 5.1. 78 Of hurly-burly innovation;
1H4 5.1. 79 And never yet did insurrection want
1H4 5.1. 80 Such water-colours to impaint his cause,
1H4 5.1. 81 Nor moody beggars starving for a time
1H4 5.1. 82 Of pell-mell havoc and confusion.
1H4 5.1. 83
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
In both our armies there is many a soul
1H4 5.1. 84 Shall pay full dearly for this encounter
1H4 5.1. 85 If once they join in trial. Tell your nephew
1H4 5.1. 86 The Prince of Wales doth join with all the world
1H4 5.1. 87 In praise of Henry Percy. By my hopes,
1H4 5.1. 88 This present enterprise set off his head,
1H4 5.1. 89 I do not think a braver gentleman,
1H4 5.1. 90 More active-valiant or more valiant-young,
1H4 5.1. 91 More daring, or more bold, is now alive
1H4 5.1. 92 To grace this latter age with noble deeds.
1H4 5.1. 93 For my part, I may speak it to my shame,
1H4 5.1. 94 I have a truant been to chivalry;
1H4 5.1. 95 And so I hear he doth account me too.
1H4 5.1. 96 Yet this, before my father's majesty:
1H4 5.1. 97 I am content that he shall take the odds
1H4 5.1. 98 Of his great name and estimation,
1H4 5.1. 99 And will, to save the blood on either side,
1H4 5.1. 100 Try fortune with him in a single fight.
1H4 5.1. 101
1H4-KING HENRY
And, Prince of Wales, so dare we venture thee,
1H4 5.1. 102 Albeit considerations infinite
1H4 5.1. 103 Do make against it. No, good Worcester, no.
1H4 5.1. 104 We love our people well; even those we love
1H4 5.1. 105 That are misled upon your cousin's part;
1H4 5.1. 106 And will they take the offer of our grace,
1H4 5.1. 107 Both he and they and you, yea, every man
1H4 5.1. 108 Shall be my friend again, and I'll be his.
1H4 5.1. 109 So tell your cousin, and bring me word
1H4 5.1. 110 What he will do. But if he will not yield,
1H4 5.1. 111 Rebuke and dread correction wait on us,
1H4 5.1. 112 And they shall do their office. So be gone.
1H4 5.1. 113 We will not now be troubled with reply.
1H4 5.1. 114 We offer fair; take it advisedly. {Exeunt Worcester [and +
1H4 5.1. 114 Vernon]}
1H4 5.1. 115
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
It will not be accepted, on my life.
1H4 5.1. 116 The Douglas and the Hotspur both together
1H4 5.1. 117 Are confident against the world in arms.
1H4 5.1. 118
1H4-KING HENRY
Hence, therefore, every leader to his charge,
1H4 5.1. 119 For on their answer will we set on them,
1H4 5.1. 120 And God befriend us as our cause is just! {Exeunt all but Prince +
1H4 5.1. 120 Harry and Oldcastle}
1H4 5.1. 121
1H4-SIR JOHN
Hal, if thou see me down in the battle, and
1H4 5.1. 122 bestride me, so. 'Tis a point of friendship.
1H4 5.1. 123
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Nothing but a colossus can do thee that
1H4 5.1. 124 friendship. Say thy prayers, and farewell.
1H4 5.1. 125
1H4-SIR JOHN
I would 'twere bed-time, Hal, and all well.
1H4 5.1. 126
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Why, thou owest God a death. {Exit}
1H4 5.1. 127
1H4-SIR JOHN
'Tis not due yet. I would be loath to pay him
1H4 5.1. 128 before his day. What need I be so forward with him
1H4 5.1. 129 that calls not on me? Well, 'tis no matter; honour
1H4 5.1. 130 pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off
1H4 5.1. 131 when I come on? How then? Can honour set-to a leg?
1H4 5.1. 132 No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound?
1H4 5.1. 133 No. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? No. What
1H4 5.1. 134 is honour? A word. What is in that word `honour'?
1H4 5.1. 135 What is that `honour'? Air. A trim reckoning! Who
1H4 5.1. 136 hath it? He that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it?
1H4 5.1. 137 No. Doth he hear it? No. 'Tis insensible then? Yea, to
1H4 5.1. 138 the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why?
1H4 5.1. 139 Detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of it.
1H4 5.1. 140 Honour is a mere scutcheon. And so ends my catechism. {Exit}
1H4 5.1. 0 {Enter the Earl of Worcester and Sir Richard Vernon}
1H4 5.2. 1
1H4-WORCESTER
O no, my nephew must not know, Sir Richard,
1H4 5.2. 2 The liberal and kind offer of the King.
1H4 5.2. 3B
1H4-VERNON
'Twere best he did.
1H4-WORCESTER
Then are we all undone.
1H4 5.2. 4 It is not possible, it cannot be,
1H4 5.2. 5 The King should keep his word in loving us.
1H4 5.2. 6 He will suspect us still, and find a time
1H4 5.2. 7 To punish this offence in other faults.
1H4 5.2. 8 Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes,
1H4 5.2. 9 For treason is but trusted like the fox,
1H4 5.2. 10 Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished, and locked up,
1H4 5.2. 11 Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.
1H4 5.2. 12 Look how we can, or sad or merrily,
1H4 5.2. 13 Interpretation will misquote our looks,
1H4 5.2. 14 And we shall feed like oxen at a stall,
1H4 5.2. 15 The better cherished still the nearer death.
1H4 5.2. 16 My nephew's trespass may be well forgot;
1H4 5.2. 17 It hath the excuse of youth and heat of blood,
1H4 5.2. 18 And an adopted name of privilege -
1H4 5.2. 19 A hare-brained Hotspur, governed by a spleen.
1H4 5.2. 20 All his offences live upon my head,
1H4 5.2. 21 And on his father's. We did train him on,
1H4 5.2. 22 And, his corruption being ta'en from us,
1H4 5.2. 23 We as the spring of all shall pay for all.
1H4 5.2. 24 Therefore, good cousin, let not Harry know
1H4 5.2. 25 In any case the offer of the King.
1H4 5.2. 26
1H4-VERNON
Deliver what you will; I'll say 'tis so. {Enter +
1H4 5.2. 26 Hotspur and the Earl of Douglas}
1H4 5.2. 27B Here comes your cousin.
1H4-HOTSPUR
My uncle is returned.
1H4 5.2. 28 Deliver up my lord of Westmorland.
1H4 5.2. 29 Uncle, what news?
1H4 5.2. 30
1H4-WORCESTER
The King will bid you battle presently.
1H4 5.2. 31
1H4-DOUGLAS
Defy him by the Lord of Westmorland.
1H4 5.2. 32
1H4-HOTSPUR
Lord Douglas, go you and tell him so.
1H4 5.2. 33
1H4-DOUGLAS
Marry, and shall, and very willingly. {Exit}
1H4 5.2. 34
1H4-WORCESTER
There is no seeming mercy in the King.
1H4 5.2. 35
1H4-HOTSPUR
Did you beg any? God forbid!
1H4 5.2. 36
1H4-WORCESTER
I told him gently of our grievances,
1H4 5.2. 37 Of his oath-breaking, which he mended thus:
1H4 5.2. 38 By now forswearing that he is forsworn.
1H4 5.2. 39 He calls us `rebels', `traitors', and will scourge
1H4 5.2. 40 With haughty arms this hateful name in us. {Enter the Earl of +
1H4 5.2. 40 Douglas}
1H4 5.2. 41
1H4-DOUGLAS
Arm, gentlemen, to arms, for I have thrown
1H4 5.2. 42 A brave defiance in King Henry's teeth -
1H4 5.2. 43 And Westmorland that was engaged did bear it -
1H4 5.2. 44 Which cannot choose but bring him quickly on.
1H4 5.2. 45
1H4-WORCESTER
{(to Hotspur)} The Prince of Wales +
1H4 5.2. 45 stepped forth before the King
1H4 5.2. 46 And, nephew, challenged you to single fight.
1H4 5.2. 47
1H4-HOTSPUR
O, would the quarrel lay upon our heads,
1H4 5.2. 48 And that no man might draw short breath today
1H4 5.2. 49 But I and Harry Monmouth! Tell me, tell me,
1H4 5.2. 50 How showed his tasking? Seemed it in contempt?
1H4 5.2. 51
1H4-VERNON
No, by my soul, I never in my life
1H4 5.2. 52 Did hear a challenge urged more modestly,
1H4 5.2. 53 Unless a brother should a brother dare
1H4 5.2. 54 To gentle exercise and proof of arms.
1H4 5.2. 55 He gave you all the duties of a man,
1H4 5.2. 56 Trimmed up your praises with a princely tongue,
1H4 5.2. 57 Spoke your deservings like a chronicle,
1H4 5.2. 58 Making you ever better than his praise
1H4 5.2. 59 By still dispraising praise valued with you;
1H4 5.2. 60 And, which became him like a prince indeed,
1H4 5.2. 61 He made a blushing cital of himself,
1H4 5.2. 62 And chid his truant youth with such a grace
1H4 5.2. 63 As if he mastered there a double spirit
1H4 5.2. 64 Of teaching and of learning instantly.
1H4 5.2. 65 There did he pause; but let me tell the world,
1H4 5.2. 66 If he outlive the envy of this day,
1H4 5.2. 67 England did never owe so sweet a hope,
1H4 5.2. 68 So much misconstrued in his wantonness.
1H4 5.2. 69
1H4-HOTSPUR
Cousin, I think thou art enamoured
1H4 5.2. 70 On his follies. Never did I hear
1H4 5.2. 71 Of any prince so wild a liberty.
1H4 5.2. 72 But be he as he will, yet once ere night
1H4 5.2. 73 I will embrace him with a soldier's arm,
1H4 5.2. 74 That he shall shrink under my courtesy.
1H4 5.2. 75 Arm, arm, with speed! And fellows, soldiers, friends,
1H4 5.2. 76 Better consider what you have to do
1H4 5.2. 77 Than I, that have not well the gift of tongue,
1H4 5.2. 78 Can lift your blood up with persuasion. {Enter a Messenger}
1H4 5.2. 79
1H4-MESSENGER
My lord, here are letters for you.
1H4 5.2. 80A
1H4-HOTSPUR
I cannot read them now. {[Exit Messenger]}
1H4 5.2. 81 O gentlemen, the time of life is short.
1H4 5.2. 82 To spend that shortness basely were too long
1H4 5.2. 83 If life did ride upon a dial's point,
1H4 5.2. 84 Still ending at the arrival of an hour.
1H4 5.2. 85 An if we live, we live to tread on kings;
1H4 5.2. 86 If die, brave death when princes die with us!
1H4 5.2. 87 Now for our consciences: the arms are fair
1H4 5.2. 88 When the intent of bearing them is just. {Enter another +
1H4 5.2. 88 Messenger}
1H4 5.2. 89
1H4-MESSENGER
My lord, prepare; the King comes on +
1H4 5.2. 89 apace. {[Exit]}
1H4 5.2. 90
1H4-HOTSPUR
I thank him that he cuts me from my tale,
1H4 5.2. 91 For I profess not talking, only this:
1H4 5.2. 92 Let each man do his best. And here draw I
1H4 5.2. 93 A sword whose temper I intend to stain
1H4 5.2. 94 With the best blood that I can meet withal
1H4 5.2. 95 In the adventure of this perilous day.
1H4 5.2. 96 Now {Esperance}! Percy! And set on!
1H4 5.2. 97 Sound all the lofty instruments of war,
1H4 5.2. 98 And by that music let us all embrace,
1H4 5.2. 99 For, heaven to earth, some of us never shall
1H4 5.2. 100 A second time do such a courtesy. {The trumpets sound. Here they +
1H4 5.2. 100 embrace. Exeunt}
1H4 5.2. 0 {King Henry enters with his power. Alarum, and exeunt to the +
1H4 5.3. 0 battle. Then enter the Earl of Douglas, and Sir Walter Blunt, disguised +
1H4 5.3. 0 as the King}
1H4 5.3. 1
1H4-BLUNT
What is thy name, that in the battle thus
1H4 5.3. 2 Thou crossest me? What honour dost thou seek
1H4 5.3. 3B Upon my head?
1H4-DOUGLAS
Know then my name is Douglas,
1H4 5.3. 4 And I do haunt thee in the battle thus
1H4 5.3. 5 Because some tell me that thou art a king.
1H4 5.3. 6A
1H4-BLUNT
They tell thee true.
1H4 5.3. 7
1H4-DOUGLAS
The Lord of Stafford dear today hath bought
1H4 5.3. 8 Thy likeness, for instead of thee, King Harry,
1H4 5.3. 9 This sword hath ended him. So shall it thee,
1H4 5.3. 10 Unless thou yield thee as my prisoner.
1H4 5.3. 11
1H4-BLUNT
I was not born a yielder, thou proud Scot,
1H4 5.3. 12 And thou shalt find a king that will revenge
1H4 5.3. 13 Lord Stafford's death. {They fight. Douglas kills Blunt. Then +
1H4 5.3. 13 enter Hotspur}
1H4 5.3. 14
1H4-HOTSPUR
O Douglas, hadst thou fought at Holmedon thus,
1H4 5.3. 15 I never had triumphed upon a Scot.
1H4 5.3. 16
1H4-DOUGLAS
All's done, all's won: here breathless lies the King.
1H4 5.3. 17A
1H4-HOTSPUR
Where?
1H4 5.3. 18A
1H4-DOUGLAS
Here.
1H4 5.3. 19
1H4-HOTSPUR
This, Douglas? No, I know this face full well.
1H4 5.3. 20 A gallant knight he was; his name was Blunt -
1H4 5.3. 21 Semblably furnished like the King himself.
1H4 5.3. 22
1H4-DOUGLAS
{(to Blunt's body)} A fool go with thy +
1H4 5.3. 22 soul, whither it goes!
1H4 5.3. 23 A borrowed title hast thou bought too dear.
1H4 5.3. 24 Why didst thou tell me that thou wert a king?
1H4 5.3. 25
1H4-HOTSPUR
The king hath many marching in his coats.
1H4 5.3. 26
1H4-DOUGLAS
Now by my sword, I will kill all his coats.
1H4 5.3. 27 I'll murder all his wardrobe, piece by piece,
1H4 5.3. 28B Until I meet the King.
1H4-HOTSPUR
Up and away!
1H4 5.3. 29 Our soldiers stand full fairly for the day. {Exeunt, leaving +
1H4 5.3. 29 Blunt's body}
1H4 5.3. 30 {Alarum. Enter Sir John Oldcastle}
1H4-SIR JOHN
Though +
1H4 5.3. 30 I could scape shot-free at London, I fear
1H4 5.3. 31 the shot here. Here's no scoring but upon the pate. -
1H4 5.3. 32 Soft, who are you? - Sir Walter Blunt. There's honour
1H4 5.3. 33 for you. Here's no vanity. I am as hot as molten lead,
1H4 5.3. 34 and as heavy too. God keep lead out of me; I need no
1H4 5.3. 35 more weight than mine own bowels. I have led my
1H4 5.3. 36 ragamuffins where they are peppered; there's not three
1H4 5.3. 37 of my hundred and fifty left alive, and they are for the
1H4 5.3. 38 town's end, to beg during life. {Enter Prince Harry}
1H4 5.3. 39 But who comes here?
1H4 5.3. 40
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
What, stand'st thou idle here? Lend me thy sword.
1H4 5.3. 41 Many a noble man lies stark and stiff
1H4 5.3. 42 Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies,
1H4 5.3. 43 Whose deaths as yet are unrevenged. I prithee
1H4 5.3. 44 Lend me thy sword.
1H4 5.3. 45
1H4-SIR JOHN
O Hal, I prithee give me leave to breathe awhile.
1H4 5.3. 46 Turk Gregory never did such deeds in arms
1H4 5.3. 47 As I have done this day. I have paid Percy,
1H4 5.3. 48B I have made him sure.
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
He is indeed,
1H4 5.3. 49 And living to kill thee. I prithee
1H4 5.3. 50B Lend me thy sword.
1H4-SIR JOHN
Nay, before God, Hal,
1H4 5.3. 51 If Percy be alive thou gett'st not my sword;
1H4 5.3. 52 But take my pistol if thou wilt.
1H4 5.3. 53B
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Give it me. What, is it in the case?
1H4-SIR JOHN
Ay, +
1H4 5.3. 53B Hal;
1H4 5.3. 54 'Tis hot, 'tis hot. There's that will sack a city. {The Prince +
1H4 5.3. 54 draws it out, and finds it to be a bottle of sack}
1H4 5.3. 55
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
What, is it a time to jest and dally +
1H4 5.3. 55 now? {He throws the bottle at him. Exit}
1H4 5.3. 56
1H4-SIR JOHN
Well, if Percy be alive, I'll pierce him. If he +
1H4 5.3. 56 do
1H4 5.3. 57 come in my way, so; if he do not, if I come in his
1H4 5.3. 58 willingly, let him make a carbonado of me. I like not
1H4 5.3. 59 such grinning honour as Sir Walter hath. Give me life,
1H4 5.3. 60 which if I can save, so; if not, honour comes unlooked
1H4 5.3. 61 for, and there's an end. {Exit [with Blunt's body]}
1H4 5.3. 0 {Alarum. Excursions. Enter King Henry, Prince Harry, +
1H4 5.4. 0 wounded, Lord John of Lancaster, and the Earl of Westmorland}
1H4 5.4. 1
1H4-KING HENRY
I prithee, Harry, withdraw thyself, thou +
1H4 5.4. 1 bleed'st too much.
1H4 5.4. 2 Lord John of Lancaster, go you with him.
1H4 5.4. 3
1H4-JOHN OF LANCASTER
Not I, my lord, unless I did bleed too.
1H4 5.4. 4
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
{(to the King)} I beseech your +
1H4 5.4. 4 majesty, make up,
1H4 5.4. 5 Lest your retirement do amaze your friends.
1H4 5.4. 6
1H4-KING HENRY
I will do so. My lord of Westmorland,
1H4 5.4. 7 Lead him to his tent.
1H4 5.4. 8
1H4-WESTMORLAND
{(to the Prince)} Come, my lord, I'll +
1H4 5.4. 8 lead you to your tent.
1H4 5.4. 9
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Lead me, my lord? I do not need your help,
1H4 5.4. 10 And God forbid a shallow scratch should drive
1H4 5.4. 11 The Prince of Wales from such a field as this,
1H4 5.4. 12 Where stained nobility lies trodden on,
1H4 5.4. 13 And rebels' arms triumph in massacres.
1H4 5.4. 14
1H4-JOHN OF LANCASTER
We breathe too long. Come, cousin Westmorland,
1H4 5.4. 15 Our duty this way lies. For God's sake, come. {Exeunt Lancaster +
1H4 5.4. 15 and Westmorland}
1H4 5.4. 16
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
By God, thou hast deceived me, Lancaster;
1H4 5.4. 17 I did not think thee lord of such a spirit.
1H4 5.4. 18 Before I loved thee as a brother, John,
1H4 5.4. 19 But now I do respect thee as my soul.
1H4 5.4. 20
1H4-KING HENRY
I saw him hold Lord Percy at the point
1H4 5.4. 21 With lustier maintenance than I did look for
1H4 5.4. 22 Of such an ungrown warrior.
1H4 5.4. 23
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
O, this boy lends mettle to us all! {Exit}
1H4 5.4. 24 {Enter the Earl of Douglas}
1H4-DOUGLAS
Another king! +
1H4 5.4. 24 They grow like Hydra's heads.
1H4 5.4. 25 I am the Douglas, fatal to all those
1H4 5.4. 26 That wear those colours on them. What art thou
1H4 5.4. 27 That counterfeit'st the person of a king?
1H4 5.4. 28
1H4-KING HENRY
The King himself, who, Douglas, grieves at heart
1H4 5.4. 29 So many of his shadows thou hast met
1H4 5.4. 30 And not the very King. I have two boys
1H4 5.4. 31 Seek Percy and thyself about the field;
1H4 5.4. 32 But seeing thou fall'st on me so luckily,
1H4 5.4. 33 I will assay thee; and defend thyself.
1H4 5.4. 34
1H4-DOUGLAS
I fear thou art another counterfeit;
1H4 5.4. 35 And yet, in faith, thou bear'st thee like a king.
1H4 5.4. 36 But mine I am sure thou art, whoe'er thou be,
1H4 5.4. 37 And thus I win thee. {They fight. The King being in danger, +
1H4 5.4. 37 enter Prince Harry}
1H4 5.4. 38
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Hold up thy head, vile Scot, or thou art +
1H4 5.4. 38 like
1H4 5.4. 39 Never to hold it up again. The spirits
1H4 5.4. 40 Of valiant Shirley, Stafford, Blunt, are in my arms.
1H4 5.4. 41 It is the Prince of Wales that threatens thee,
1H4 5.4. 42 Who never promiseth but he means to pay. {They fight. Douglas +
1H4 5.4. 42 flieth}
1H4 5.4. 43 Cheerly, my lord! How fares your grace?
1H4 5.4. 44 Sir Nicholas Gawsey hath for succour sent,
1H4 5.4. 45 And so hath Clifton. I'll to Clifton straight.
1H4 5.4. 46A
1H4-KING HENRY
Stay and breathe awhile.
1H4 5.4. 47 Thou hast redeemed thy lost opinion,
1H4 5.4. 48 And showed thou mak'st some tender of my life,
1H4 5.4. 49 In this fair rescue thou hast brought to me.
1H4 5.4. 50
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
O God, they did me too much injury
1H4 5.4. 51 That ever said I hearkened for your death.
1H4 5.4. 52 If it were so, I might have let alone
1H4 5.4. 53 The insulting hand of Douglas over you,
1H4 5.4. 54 Which would have been as speedy in your end
1H4 5.4. 55 As all the poisonous potions in the world,
1H4 5.4. 56 And saved the treacherous labour of your son.
1H4 5.4. 57
1H4-KING HENRY
Make up to Clifton; I'll to Sir Nicholas Gawsey. +
1H4 5.4. 57 {Exit}
1H4 5.4. 58 {Enter Hotspur}
1H4-HOTSPUR
If I mistake not, thou art +
1H4 5.4. 58 Harry Monmouth.
1H4 5.4. 59
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Thou speak'st as if I would deny my name.
1H4 5.4. 60B
1H4-HOTSPUR
My name is Harry Percy.
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Why then, I see
1H4 5.4. 61 A very valiant rebel of the name.
1H4 5.4. 62 I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy,
1H4 5.4. 63 To share with me in glory any more.
1H4 5.4. 64 Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere,
1H4 5.4. 65 Nor can one England brook a double reign
1H4 5.4. 66 Of Harry Percy and the Prince of Wales.
1H4 5.4. 67
1H4-HOTSPUR
Nor shall it, Harry, for the hour is come
1H4 5.4. 68 To end the one of us, and would to God
1H4 5.4. 69 Thy name in arms were now as great as mine.
1H4 5.4. 70
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
I'll make it greater ere I part from thee,
1H4 5.4. 71 And all the budding honours on thy crest
1H4 5.4. 72 I'll crop to make a garland for my head.
1H4 5.4. 73
1H4-HOTSPUR
I can no longer brook thy vanities. {They fight.}
1H4 5.4. 74 {Enter Sir John Oldcastle}
1H4-SIR JOHN
Well said, Hal! To it, +
1H4 5.4. 74 Hal! Nay, you shall find
1H4 5.4. 75 no boy's play here, I can tell you. {Enter Douglas. He fighteth +
1H4 5.4. 75 with Sir John, who falls down as if he were dead. Exit Douglas. The +
1H4 5.4. 75 Prince killeth Hotspur}
1H4 5.4. 76
1H4-HOTSPUR
O Harry, thou hast robbed me of my youth.
1H4 5.4. 77 I better brook the loss of brittle life
1H4 5.4. 78 Than those proud titles thou hast won of me.
1H4 5.4. 79 They wound my thoughts worse than thy sword my flesh.
1H4 5.4. 80 But thoughts, the slaves of life, and life, time's fool,
1H4 5.4. 81 And time, that takes survey of all the world,
1H4 5.4. 82 Must have a stop. O, I could prophesy,
1H4 5.4. 83 But that the earthy and cold hand of death
1H4 5.4. 84 Lies on my tongue. No, Percy, thou art dust,
1H4 5.4. 85 And food for - {He dies}
1H4 5.4. 86
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
For worms, brave Percy. Fare thee well, +
1H4 5.4. 86 great heart.
1H4 5.4. 87 Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk!
1H4 5.4. 88 When that this body did contain a spirit,
1H4 5.4. 89 A kingdom for it was too small a bound,
1H4 5.4. 90 But now two paces of the vilest earth
1H4 5.4. 91 Is room enough. This earth that bears thee dead
1H4 5.4. 92 Bears not alive so stout a gentleman.
1H4 5.4. 93 If thou wert sensible of courtesy,
1H4 5.4. 94 I should not make so dear a show of zeal;
1H4 5.4. 95 But let my favours hide thy mangled face, {He covers Hotspur's +
1H4 5.4. 95 face}
1H4 5.4. 96 And even in thy behalf I'll thank myself
1H4 5.4. 97 For doing these fair rites of tenderness.
1H4 5.4. 98 Adieu, and take thy praise with thee to heaven.
1H4 5.4. 99 Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave,
1H4 5.4. 100 But not remembered in thy epitaph. {He spieth Sir John on the +
1H4 5.4. 100 ground}
1H4 5.4. 101 What, old acquaintance! Could not all this flesh
1H4 5.4. 102 Keep in a little life? Poor Jack, farewell.
1H4 5.4. 103 I could have better spared a better man.
1H4 5.4. 104 O, I should have a heavy miss of thee,
1H4 5.4. 105 If I were much in love with vanity.
1H4 5.4. 106 Death hath not struck so fat a deer today,
1H4 5.4. 107 Though many dearer in this bloody fray.
1H4 5.4. 108 Embowelled will I see thee by and by.
1H4 5.4. 109 Till then, in blood by noble Percy lie. {Exit}
1H4 5.4. 110 {Sir John riseth up}
1H4-SIR JOHN
Embowelled? If thou +
1H4 5.4. 110 embowel me today, I'll give
1H4 5.4. 111 you leave to powder me, and eat me too, tomorrow.
1H4 5.4. 112 'Sblood, 'twas time to counterfeit, or that hot termagant
1H4 5.4. 113 Scot had paid me, scot and lot too. Counterfeit? I lie, I
1H4 5.4. 114 am no counterfeit. To die is to be a counterfeit, for he
1H4 5.4. 115 is but the counterfeit of a man who hath not the life
1H4 5.4. 116 of a man. But to counterfeit dying when a man thereby
1H4 5.4. 117 liveth is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfect
1H4 5.4. 118 image of life indeed. The better part of valour is
1H4 5.4. 119 discretion, in the which better part I have saved my
1H4 5.4. 120 life. Zounds, I am afraid of this gunpowder Percy,
1H4 5.4. 121 though he be dead. How if he should counterfeit too,
1H4 5.4. 122 and rise? By my faith, I am afraid he would prove the
1H4 5.4. 123 better counterfeit. Therefore I'll make him sure; yea,
1H4 5.4. 124 and I'll swear I killed him. Why may not he rise as
1H4 5.4. 125 well as I? Nothing confutes me but eyes, and nobody
1H4 5.4. 126 sees me. Therefore, sirrah, {(stabbing Hotspur)} with a
1H4 5.4. 127 new wound in your thigh, come you along with me. {He takes up +
1H4 5.4. 127 Hotspur on his back.}
1H4 5.4. 128 {Enter Prince Harry and Lord John of Lancaster}
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
+
1H4 5.4. 128 Come, brother John. Full bravely hast thou fleshed
1H4 5.4. 129B Thy maiden sword.
1H4-JOHN OF LANCASTER
But soft; whom have we here?
1H4 5.4. 130 Did you not tell me this fat man was dead?
1H4 5.4. 131A
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
I did; I saw him dead,
1H4 5.4. 132B Breathless and bleeding on the ground. {(To Sir John)} +
1H4 5.4. 132B Art thou alive?
1H4 5.4. 133 Or is it fantasy that plays upon our eyesight?
1H4 5.4. 134 I prithee speak; we will not trust our eyes
1H4 5.4. 135 Without our ears. Thou art not what thou seem'st.
1H4 5.4. 136
1H4-SIR JOHN
No, that's certain: I am not a double man. But
1H4 5.4. 137 if I be not Jack Oldcastle, then am I a jack. There is
1H4 5.4. 138 Percy. If your father will do me any honour, so; if not,
1H4 5.4. 139 let him kill the next Percy himself. I look to be either
1H4 5.4. 140 earl or duke, I can assure you.
1H4 5.4. 141
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Why, Percy I killed myself, and saw thee +
1H4 5.4. 141 dead.
1H4 5.4. 142
1H4-SIR JOHN
Didst thou? Lord, Lord, how this world is given
1H4 5.4. 143 to lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath,
1H4 5.4. 144 and so was he; but we rose both at an instant, and
1H4 5.4. 145 fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock. If I may be
1H4 5.4. 146 believed, so; if not, let them that should reward valour
1H4 5.4. 147 bear the sin upon their own heads. I'll take 't on my
1H4 5.4. 148 death I gave him this wound in the thigh. If the man
1H4 5.4. 149 were alive and would deny it, zounds, I would make
1H4 5.4. 150 him eat a piece of my sword.
1H4 5.4. 151
1H4-JOHN OF LANCASTER
This is the strangest tale that e'er I +
1H4 5.4. 151 heard.
1H4 5.4. 152
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
This is the strangest fellow, brother John.
1H4 5.4. 153 {(To Sir John)} Come, bring your luggage nobly on your +
1H4 5.4. 153 back.
1H4 5.4. 154 For my part, if a lie may do thee grace,
1H4 5.4. 155 I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have. {A retreat is +
1H4 5.4. 155 sounded}
1H4 5.4. 156 The trumpet sounds retreat; the day is our.
1H4 5.4. 157 Come, brother, let us to the highest of the field
1H4 5.4. 158 To see what friends are living, who are dead. {Exeunt the Prince +
1H4 5.4. 158 and Lancaster}
1H4 5.4. 159
1H4-SIR JOHN
I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that
1H4 5.4. 160 rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll
1H4 5.4. 161 grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live
1H4 5.4. 162 cleanly, as a nobleman should do. {Exit, bearing Hotspur's body}
1H4 5.4. 0 {The trumpets sound. Enter King Henry, Prince Harry, Lord +
1H4 5.5. 0 John of Lancaster, the Earl of Westmorland, with the Earl of Worcester +
1H4 5.5. 0 and Sir Richard Vernon, prisoners, [and soldiers]}
1H4 5.5. 1
1H4-KING HENRY
Thus ever did rebellion find rebuke.
1H4 5.5. 2 Ill-spirited Worcester, did not we send grace,
1H4 5.5. 3 Pardon, and terms of love to all of you?
1H4 5.5. 4 And wouldst thou turn our offers contrary,
1H4 5.5. 5 Misuse the tenor of thy kinsman's trust?
1H4 5.5. 6 Three knights upon our party slain today,
1H4 5.5. 7 A noble earl, and many a creature else,
1H4 5.5. 8 Had been alive this hour
1H4 5.5. 9 If like a Christian thou hadst truly borne
1H4 5.5. 10 Betwixt our armies true intelligence.
1H4 5.5. 11
1H4-WORCESTER
What I have done my safety urged me to,
1H4 5.5. 12 And I embrace this fortune patiently,
1H4 5.5. 13 Since not to be avoided it falls on me.
1H4 5.5. 14
1H4-KING HENRY
Bear Worcester to the death, and Vernon too.
1H4 5.5. 15 Other offenders we will pause upon. {Exeunt Worcester and +
1H4 5.5. 15 Vernon, guarded}
1H4 5.5. 16 How goes the field?
1H4 5.5. 17
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
The noble Scot Lord Douglas, when he saw
1H4 5.5. 18 The fortune of the day quite turned from him,
1H4 5.5. 19 The noble Percy slain, and all his men
1H4 5.5. 20 Upon the foot of fear, fled with the rest;
1H4 5.5. 21 And falling from a hill he was so bruised
1H4 5.5. 22 That the pursuers took him. At my tent
1H4 5.5. 23 The Douglas is, and I beseech your grace
1H4 5.5. 24 I may dispose of him.
1H4 5.5. 25A
1H4-KING HENRY
With all my heart.
1H4 5.5. 26
1H4-PRINCE HARRY
Then, brother John of Lancaster,
1H4 5.5. 27 To you this honourable bounty shall belong.
1H4 5.5. 28 Go to the Douglas, and deliver him
1H4 5.5. 29 Up to his pleasure ransomless and free.
1H4 5.5. 30 His valours shown upon our crests today
1H4 5.5. 31 Have taught us how to cherish such high deeds
1H4 5.5. 32 Even in the bosom of our adversaries.
1H4 5.5. 33
1H4-JOHN OF LANCASTER
I thank your grace for this high courtesy,
1H4 5.5. 34 Which I shall give away immediately.
1H4 5.5. 35
1H4-KING HENRY
Then this remains, that we divide our power.
1H4 5.5. 36 You, son John, and my cousin Westmorland,
1H4 5.5. 37 Towards York shall bend you with your dearest speed
1H4 5.5. 38 To meet Northumberland and the prelate Scrope,
1H4 5.5. 39 Who, as we hear, are busily in arms.
1H4 5.5. 40 Myself and you, son Harry, will towards Wales,
1H4 5.5. 41 To fight with Glyndw^r and the Earl of March.
1H4 5.5. 42 Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway,
1H4 5.5. 43 Meeting the check of such another day;
1H4 5.5. 44 And since this business so fair is done,
1H4 5.5. 45 Let us not leave till all our own be won. {Exeunt [the King, +
1H4 5.5. 45 the Prince, and their power at one door, Lancaster, Westmorland, and +
1H4 5.5. 45 their power at another door]}
1H4 5.5.
1H4
0
1H6 . . 0 The First Part of Henry the Sixth
1H6 . . 0 {Dead march. Enter the funeral of King Henry the +
1H6 1.1. 0 Fifth, attended on by the Duke of Bedford (Regent of France), the Duke +
1H6 1.1. 0 of Gloucester (Protector), the Duke of Exeter, the Earl of Warwick, the +
1H6 1.1. 0 Bishop of Winchester, and the Duke of Somerset}
1H6 1.1. 1
1H6-BEDFORD
Hung be the heavens with black! Yield, day, to +
1H6 1.1. 1 night!
1H6 1.1. 2 Comets, importing change of times and states,
1H6 1.1. 3 Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky,
1H6 1.1. 4 And with them scourge the bad revolting stars
1H6 1.1. 5 That have consented unto Henry's death -
1H6 1.1. 6 King Henry the Fifth, too famous to live long.
1H6 1.1. 7 England ne'er lost a king of so much worth.
1H6 1.1. 8
1H6-GLOUCESTER
England ne'er had a king until his time.
1H6 1.1. 9 Virtue he had, deserving to command.
1H6 1.1. 10 His brandished sword did blind men with his beams.
1H6 1.1. 11 His arms spread wider than a dragon's wings.
1H6 1.1. 12 His sparkling eyes, replete with wrathful fire,
1H6 1.1. 13 More dazzled and drove back his enemies
1H6 1.1. 14 Than midday sun, fierce bent against their faces.
1H6 1.1. 15 What should I say? His deeds exceed all speech.
1H6 1.1. 16 He ne'er lift up his hand but conquered.
1H6 1.1. 17
1H6-EXETER
We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood?
1H6 1.1. 18 Henry is dead, and never shall revive.
1H6 1.1. 19 Upon a wooden coffin we attend,
1H6 1.1. 20 And death's dishonourable victory
1H6 1.1. 21 We with our stately presence glorify,
1H6 1.1. 22 Like captives bound to a triumphant car.
1H6 1.1. 23 What, shall we curse the planets of mishap,
1H6 1.1. 24 That plotted thus our glory's overthrow?
1H6 1.1. 25 Or shall we think the subtle-witted French
1H6 1.1. 26 Conjurers and sorcerers, that, afraid of him,
1H6 1.1. 27 By magic verses have contrived his end?
1H6 1.1. 28
1H6-WINCHESTER
He was a king blest of the King of Kings.
1H6 1.1. 29 Unto the French, the dreadful judgement day
1H6 1.1. 30 So dreadful will not be as was his sight.
1H6 1.1. 31 The battles of the Lord of Hosts he fought.
1H6 1.1. 32 The Church's prayers made him so prosperous.
1H6 1.1. 33
1H6-GLOUCESTER
The Church? Where is it? Had not churchmen prayed,
1H6 1.1. 34 His thread of life had not so soon decayed.
1H6 1.1. 35 None do you like but an effeminate prince,
1H6 1.1. 36 Whom like a schoolboy you may overawe.
1H6 1.1. 37
1H6-WINCHESTER
Gloucester, whate'er we like, thou art Protector,
1H6 1.1. 38 And lookest to command the Prince and realm.
1H6 1.1. 39 Thy wife is proud: she holdeth thee in awe,
1H6 1.1. 40 More than God or religious churchmen may.
1H6 1.1. 41
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Name not religion, for thou lov'st the flesh,
1H6 1.1. 42 And ne'er throughout the year to church thou go'st,
1H6 1.1. 43 Except it be to pray against thy foes.
1H6 1.1. 44
1H6-BEDFORD
Cease, cease these jars, and rest your minds in peace.
1H6 1.1. 45 Let's to the altar. Heralds, wait on us. {[Exeunt Warwick, +
1H6 1.1. 45 Somerset, and heralds with coffin]}
1H6 1.1. 46 Instead of gold, we'll offer up our arms -
1H6 1.1. 47 Since arms avail not, now that Henry's dead.
1H6 1.1. 48 Posterity, await for wretched years,
1H6 1.1. 49 When, at their mothers' moistened eyes, babes shall suck,
1H6 1.1. 50 Our isle be made a marish of salt tears,
1H6 1.1. 51 And none but women left to wail the dead.
1H6 1.1. 52 Henry the Fifth, thy ghost I invocate:
1H6 1.1. 53 Prosper this realm; keep it from civil broils;
1H6 1.1. 54 Combat with adverse planets in the heavens.
1H6 1.1. 55 A far more glorious star thy soul will make
1H6 1.1. 56 Than Julius Caesar or bright - {Enter a Messenger}
1H6 1.1. 57
1H6-MESSENGER
My honourable lords, health to you all.
1H6 1.1. 58 Sad tidings bring I to you out of France,
1H6 1.1. 59 Of loss, of slaughter, and discomfiture.
1H6 1.1. 60 Guyenne, Compiegne, Rouen, Rheims, Orle/ans,
1H6 1.1. 61 Paris, Gisors, Poitiers are all quite lost.
1H6 1.1. 62
1H6-BEDFORD
What sayst thou, man, before dead Henry's corpse?
1H6 1.1. 63 Speak softly, or the loss of those great towns
1H6 1.1. 64 Will make him burst his lead and rise from death.
1H6 1.1. 65
1H6-GLOUCESTER
{(to the Messenger)} Is Paris lost? Is +
1H6 1.1. 65 Rouen yielded up?
1H6 1.1. 66 If Henry were recalled to life again,
1H6 1.1. 67 These news would cause him once more yield the ghost.
1H6 1.1. 68
1H6-EXETER
{(to the Messenger)} How were they lost? +
1H6 1.1. 68 What treachery was used?
1H6 1.1. 69
1H6-MESSENGER
No treachery, but want of men and money.
1H6 1.1. 70 Amongst the soldiers this is muttered:
1H6 1.1. 71 That here you maintain several factions,
1H6 1.1. 72 And whilst a field should be dispatched and fought,
1H6 1.1. 73 You are disputing of your generals.
1H6 1.1. 74 One would have ling'ring wars, with little cost;
1H6 1.1. 75 Another would fly swift, but wanteth wings;
1H6 1.1. 76 A third thinks, without expense at all,
1H6 1.1. 77 By guileful fair words peace may be obtained.
1H6 1.1. 78 Awake, awake, English nobility!
1H6 1.1. 79 Let not sloth dim your honours new-begot.
1H6 1.1. 80 Cropped are the flower-de-luces in your arms;
1H6 1.1. 81 Of England's coat, one half is cut away. {[Exit]}
1H6 1.1. 82
1H6-EXETER
Were our tears wanting to this funeral,
1H6 1.1. 83 These tidings would call forth her flowing tides.
1H6 1.1. 84
1H6-BEDFORD
Me they concern; Regent I am of France.
1H6 1.1. 85 Give me my steeled coat. I'll fight for France.
1H6 1.1. 86 Away with these disgraceful wailing robes! {[He removes his +
1H6 1.1. 86 mourning robe]}
1H6 1.1. 87 Wounds will I lend the French, instead of eyes,
1H6 1.1. 88 To weep their intermissive miseries. {Enter to them another +
1H6 1.1. 88 Messenger with letters}
1H6 1.1. 89
1H6-SECOND MESSENGER
Lords, view these letters, full of bad +
1H6 1.1. 89 mischance.
1H6 1.1. 90 France is revolted from the English quite,
1H6 1.1. 91 Except some petty towns of no import.
1H6 1.1. 92 The Dauphin Charles is crowned king in Rheims;
1H6 1.1. 93 The Bastard of Orle/ans with him is joined;
1H6 1.1. 94 Rene/, Duke of Anjou, doth take his part;
1H6 1.1. 95 The Duke of Alenc@on flyeth to his side. {Exit}
1H6 1.1. 96
1H6-EXETER
The Dauphin crowned King? All fly to him?
1H6 1.1. 97 O whither shall {we} fly from this reproach?
1H6 1.1. 98
1H6-GLOUCESTER
We will not fly, but to our enemies' throats.
1H6 1.1. 99 Bedford, if thou be slack, I'll fight it out.
1H6 1.1. 100
1H6-BEDFORD
Gloucester, why doubt'st thou of my forwardness?
1H6 1.1. 101 An army have I mustered in my thoughts,
1H6 1.1. 102 Wherewith already France is overrun. {Enter another Messenger}
1H6 1.1. 103
1H6 1.1. 103
1H6-THIRD MESSENGER
My gracious lords, to add to your +
1H6 1.1. 103 laments,
1H6 1.1. 104 Wherewith you now bedew King Henry's hearse,
1H6 1.1. 105 I must inform you of a dismal fight
1H6 1.1. 106 Betwixt the stout Lord Talbot and the French.
1H6 1.1. 107
1H6-WINCHESTER
What, wherein Talbot overcame - is 't so?
1H6 1.1. 108
1H6-THIRD MESSENGER
O no, wherein Lord Talbot was o'erthrown.
1H6 1.1. 109 The circumstance I'll tell you more at large.
1H6 1.1. 110 The tenth of August last, this dreadful lord,
1H6 1.1. 111 Retiring from the siege of Orle/ans,
1H6 1.1. 112 Having full scarce six thousand in his troop,
1H6 1.1. 113 By three-and-twenty thousand of the French
1H6 1.1. 114 Was round encompassed and set upon.
1H6 1.1. 115 No leisure had he to enrank his men.
1H6 1.1. 116 He wanted pikes to set before his archers -
1H6 1.1. 117 Instead whereof, sharp stakes plucked out of hedges
1H6 1.1. 118 They pitched in the ground confusedly,
1H6 1.1. 119 To keep the horsemen off from breaking in.
1H6 1.1. 120 More than three hours the fight continued,
1H6 1.1. 121 Where valiant Talbot above human thought
1H6 1.1. 122 Enacted wonders with his sword and lance.
1H6 1.1. 123 Hundreds he sent to hell, and none durst stand him;
1H6 1.1. 124 Here, there, and everywhere, enraged he slew.
1H6 1.1. 125 The French exclaimed the devil was in arms:
1H6 1.1. 126 All the whole army stood agazed on him.
1H6 1.1. 127 His soldiers, spying his undaunted spirit,
1H6 1.1. 128 `A Talbot! A Talbot!' cried out amain,
1H6 1.1. 129 And rushed into the bowels of the battle.
1H6 1.1. 130 Here had the conquest fully been sealed up,
1H6 1.1. 131 If Sir John Fastolf had not played the coward.
1H6 1.1. 132 He, being in the vanguard placed behind,
1H6 1.1. 133 With purpose to relieve and follow them,
1H6 1.1. 134 Cowardly fled, not having struck one stroke.
1H6 1.1. 135 Hence grew the general wrack and massacre.
1H6 1.1. 136 Enclosed were they with their enemies.
1H6 1.1. 137 A base Walloon, to win the Dauphin's grace,
1H6 1.1. 138 Thrust Talbot with a spear into the back -
1H6 1.1. 139 Whom all France, with their chief assembled strength,
1H6 1.1. 140 Durst not presume to look once in the face.
1H6 1.1. 141
1H6-BEDFORD
Is Talbot slain then? I will slay myself,
1H6 1.1. 142 For living idly here in pomp and ease
1H6 1.1. 143 Whilst such a worthy leader, wanting aid,
1H6 1.1. 144 Unto his dastard foemen is betrayed.
1H6 1.1. 145
1H6-THIRD MESSENGER
O no, he lives, but is took prisoner,
1H6 1.1. 146 And Lord Scales with him, and Lord Hungerford;
1H6 1.1. 147 Most of the rest slaughtered, or took likewise.
1H6 1.1. 148
1H6-BEDFORD
His ransom there is none but I shall pay.
1H6 1.1. 149 I'll hale the Dauphin headlong from his throne;
1H6 1.1. 150 His crown shall be the ransom of my friend.
1H6 1.1. 151 Four of their lords I'll change for one of ours.
1H6 1.1. 152
1H6 1.1. 152 Farewell, my masters; to my task will I.
1H6 1.1. 153 Bonfires in France forthwith I am to make,
1H6 1.1. 154 To keep our great Saint George's feast withal.
1H6 1.1. 155 Ten thousand soldiers with me I will take,
1H6 1.1. 156 Whose bloody deeds shall make all Europe quake.
1H6 1.1. 157
1H6-THIRD MESSENGER
So you had need. Fore Orle/ans, besieged,
1H6 1.1. 158 The English army is grown weak and faint.
1H6 1.1. 159 The Earl of Salisbury craveth supply,
1H6 1.1. 160 And hardly keeps his men from mutiny,
1H6 1.1. 161 Since they, so few, watch such a multitude. {[Exit]}
1H6 1.1. 162
1H6-EXETER
Remember, lords, your oaths to Henry sworn:
1H6 1.1. 163 Either to quell the Dauphin utterly,
1H6 1.1. 164 Or bring him in obedience to your yoke.
1H6 1.1. 165
1H6-BEDFORD
I do remember it, and here take my leave
1H6 1.1. 166 To go about my preparation. {Exit}
1H6 1.1. 167
1H6-GLOUCESTER
I'll to the Tower with all the haste I can,
1H6 1.1. 168 To view th' artillery and munition,
1H6 1.1. 169 And then I will proclaim young Henry king. {Exit}
1H6 1.1. 170
1H6-EXETER
To Eltham will I, where the young King is,
1H6 1.1. 171 Being ordained his special governor,
1H6 1.1. 172 And for his safety there I'll best devise. {Exit}
1H6 1.1. 173
1H6-WINCHESTER
Each hath his place and function to attend;
1H6 1.1. 174 I am left out; for me, nothing remains.
1H6 1.1. 175 But long I will not be Jack-out-of-office.
1H6 1.1. 176 The King from Eltham I intend to steal,
1H6 1.1. 177 And sit at chiefest stern of public weal. {Exit}
1H6 1.1. 0
1H6 1.1. 0 {Sound a flourish. Enter Charles the Dauphin, the Duke of +
1H6 1.2. 0 Alenc@on, and Rene/ Duke of Anjou, marching with drummer and soldiers}
1H6 1.2. 1
1H6-CHARLES
Mars his true moving - even as in the heavens,
1H6 1.2. 2 So in the earth - to this day is not known.
1H6 1.2. 3 Late did he shine upon the English side;
1H6 1.2. 4 Now we are victors: upon us he smiles.
1H6 1.2. 5 What towns of any moment but we have?
1H6 1.2. 6 At pleasure here we lie near Orle/ans
1H6 1.2. 7 Otherwhiles the famished English, like pale ghosts,
1H6 1.2. 8 Faintly besiege us one hour in a month.
1H6 1.2. 9
1H6-ALENC@ON
They want their porrage and their fat bull beeves.
1H6 1.2. 10 Either they must be dieted like mules,
1H6 1.2. 11 And have their provender tied to their mouths,
1H6 1.2. 12 Or piteous they will look, like drowned mice.
1H6 1.2. 13
1H6-RENE
Let's raise the siege. Why live we idly here?
1H6 1.2. 14 Talbot is taken, whom we wont to fear.
1H6 1.2. 15 Remaineth none but mad-brained Salisbury,
1H6 1.2. 16 And he may well in fretting spend his gall:
1H6 1.2. 17 Nor men nor money hath he to make war.
1H6 1.2. 18
1H6-CHARLES
Sound, sound, alarum! We will rush on them.
1H6 1.2. 19 Now for the honour of the forlorn French,
1H6 1.2. 20 Him I forgive my death that killeth me
1H6 1.2. 21 When he sees me go back one foot or flee. {Exeunt}
1H6 1.2. 0 {Here alarum. The French are beaten back by the English +
1H6 1.3. 0 with great loss. Enter Charles the Dauphin, the Duke of Alenc@on, and +
1H6 1.3. 0 Rene/ Duke of Anjou}
1H6 1.3. 1
1H6-CHARLES
Who ever saw the like? What men have I?
1H6 1.3. 2 Dogs, cowards, dastards! I would ne'er have fled,
1H6 1.3. 3 But that they left me 'midst my enemies.
1H6 1.3. 4
1H6-RENE
Salisbury is a desperate homicide.
1H6 1.3. 5 He fighteth as one weary of his life.
1H6 1.3. 6 The other lords, like lions wanting food,
1H6 1.3. 7 Do rush upon us as their hungry prey.
1H6 1.3. 8
1H6-ALENC@ON
Froissart, a countryman of ours, records
1H6 1.3. 9 England all Olivers and Rolands bred
1H6 1.3. 10 During the time Edward the Third did reign.
1H6 1.3. 11 More truly now may this be verified,
1H6 1.3. 12 For none but Samsons and Goliases
1H6 1.3. 13 It sendeth forth to skirmish. One to ten?
1H6 1.3. 14 Lean raw-boned rascals, who would e'er suppose
1H6 1.3. 15 They had such courage and audacity?
1H6 1.3. 16
1H6-CHARLES
Let's leave this town, for they are hare-brained slaves,
1H6 1.3. 17 And hunger will enforce them to be more eager.
1H6 1.3. 18 Of old I know them: rather with their teeth
1H6 1.3. 19 The walls they'll tear down, than forsake the siege.
1H6 1.3. 20
1H6-RENE
I think by some odd gimmers or device
1H6 1.3. 21 Their arms are set, like clocks, still to strike on,
1H6 1.3. 22 Else ne'er could they hold out so as they do.
1H6 1.3. 23 By my consent we'll even let them alone.
1H6 1.3. 24A
1H6-ALENC@ON
Be it so. {Enter the Bastard of Orle/ans}
1H6 1.3. 25
1H6-BASTARD
Where's the Prince Dauphin? I have news for him.
1H6 1.3. 26
1H6-CHARLES
Bastard of Orle/ans, thrice welcome to us.
1H6 1.3. 27
1H6-BASTARD
Methinks your looks are sad, your cheer appalled.
1H6 1.3. 28 Hath the late overthrow wrought this offence?
1H6 1.3. 29 Be not dismayed, for succour is at hand.
1H6 1.3. 30 A holy maid hither with me I bring,
1H6 1.3. 31 Which, by a vision sent to her from heaven,
1H6 1.3. 32 Ordained is to raise this tedious siege
1H6 1.3. 33 And drive the English forth the bounds of France.
1H6 1.3. 34 The spirit of deep prophecy she hath,
1H6 1.3. 35 Exceeding the nine sibyls of old Rome.
1H6 1.3. 36 What's past and what's to come she can descry.
1H6 1.3. 37 Speak: shall I call her in? Believe my words,
1H6 1.3. 38 For they are certain and unfallible.
1H6 1.3. 39B
1H6-CHARLES
Go call her in. {Exit Bastard} But first, +
1H6 1.3. 39B to try her skill,
1H6 1.3. 40 Rene/ stand thou as Dauphin in my place.
1H6 1.3. 41 Question her proudly; let thy looks be stern.
1H6 1.3. 42 By this means shall we sound what skill she hath. {Enter [the +
1H6 1.3. 42 Bastard of Orle/ans with] Joan la Pucelle, armed}
1H6 1.3. 43
1H6-RENE
{(as Charles)} Fair maid, is 't thou wilt do +
1H6 1.3. 43 these wondrous feats?
1H6 1.3. 44
1H6-JOAN
Rene/, is 't thou that thinkest to beguile me?
1H6 1.3. 45 Where is the Dauphin? {(To Charles)} Come, come from +
1H6 1.3. 45 behind.
1H6 1.3. 46 I know thee well, though never seen before.
1H6 1.3. 47 Be not amazed. There's nothing hid from me.
1H6 1.3. 48 In private will I talk with thee apart.
1H6 1.3. 49 Stand back you lords, and give us leave awhile. {Rene/, Alenc@on +
1H6 1.3. 49 [and Bastard] stand apart}
1H6 1.3. 50
1H6-RENE
{[to Alenc@on and Bastard]} She takes upon +
1H6 1.3. 50 her bravely, at first dash.
1H6 1.3. 51
1H6-JOAN
Dauphin, I am by birth a shepherd's daughter,
1H6 1.3. 52 My wit untrained in any kind of art.
1H6 1.3. 53 Heaven and our Lady gracious hath it pleased
1H6 1.3. 54 To shine on my contemptible estate.
1H6 1.3. 55 Lo, whilst I waited on my tender lambs,
1H6 1.3. 56 And to sun's parching heat displayed my cheeks,
1H6 1.3. 57 God's mother deigned to appear to me,
1H6 1.3. 58 And in a vision, full of majesty,
1H6 1.3. 59 Willed me to leave my base vocation
1H6 1.3. 60 And free my country from calamity.
1H6 1.3. 61 Her aid she promised, and assured success.
1H6 1.3. 62 In complete glory she revealed herself -
1H6 1.3. 63 And whereas I was black and swart before,
1H6 1.3. 64 With those clear rays which she infused on me
1H6 1.3. 65 That beauty am I blest with, which you may see.
1H6 1.3. 66 Ask me what question thou canst possible,
1H6 1.3. 67 And I will answer unpremeditated.
1H6 1.3. 68 My courage try by combat, if thou dar'st,
1H6 1.3. 69 And thou shalt find that I exceed my sex.
1H6 1.3. 70 Resolve on this: thou shalt be fortunate,
1H6 1.3. 71 If thou receive me for thy warlike mate.
1H6 1.3. 72
1H6-CHARLES
Thou hast astonished me with thy high terms.
1H6 1.3. 73 Only this proof I'll of thy valour make:
1H6 1.3. 74 In single combat thou shalt buckle with me.
1H6 1.3. 75 An if thou vanquishest, thy words are true;
1H6 1.3. 76 Otherwise, I renounce all confidence.
1H6 1.3. 77
1H6-JOAN
I am prepared. Here is my keen-edged sword,
1H6 1.3. 78 Decked with five flower-de-luces on each side -
1H6 1.3. 79 The which at Touraine, in Saint Katherine's churchyard,
1H6 1.3. 80 Out of a great deal of old iron I chose forth.
1H6 1.3. 81
1H6-CHARLES
Then come a God's name. I fear no woman.
1H6 1.3. 82
1H6-JOAN
And while I live, I'll ne'er fly from a man. {Here they +
1H6 1.3. 82 fight and Joan la Pucelle overcomes}
1H6 1.3. 83
1H6-CHARLES
Stay, stay thy hands! Thou art an Amazon,
1H6 1.3. 84 And fightest with the sword of Deborah.
1H6 1.3. 85
1H6-JOAN
Christ's mother helps me, else I were too weak.
1H6 1.3. 86
1H6-CHARLES
Whoe'er helps thee, 'tis thou that must help me.
1H6 1.3. 87 Impatiently I burn with thy desire.
1H6 1.3. 88 My heart and hands thou hast at once subdued.
1H6 1.3. 89 Excellent Pucelle if thy name be so,
1H6 1.3. 90 Let me thy servant, and not sovereign be.
1H6 1.3. 91 'Tis the French Dauphin sueth to thee thus.
1H6 1.3. 92
1H6-JOAN
I must not yield to any rites of love,
1H6 1.3. 93 For my profession's sacred from above.
1H6 1.3. 94 When I have chased all thy foes from hence,
1H6 1.3. 95 Then will I think upon a recompense.
1H6 1.3. 96
1H6-CHARLES
Meantime, look gracious on thy prostrate thrall.
1H6 1.3. 97
1H6-RENE
{[to the other lords apart]} My lord, +
1H6 1.3. 97 methinks, is very long in talk.
1H6 1.3. 98
1H6-ALENC@ON
Doubtless he shrives this woman to her smock,
1H6 1.3. 99 Else ne'er could he so long protract his speech.
1H6 1.3. 100
1H6-RENE
Shall we disturb him, since he keeps no mean?
1H6 1.3. 101
1H6-ALENC@ON
He may mean more than we poor men do know.
1H6 1.3. 102 These women are shrewd tempters with their tongues.
1H6 1.3. 103
1H6-RENE
{(to Charles)} My lord, where are you? What +
1H6 1.3. 103 devise you on?
1H6 1.3. 104 Shall we give o'er Orle/ans, or no?
1H6 1.3. 105
1H6-JOAN
Why, no, I say. Distrustful recreants,
1H6 1.3. 106 Fight till the last gasp; I'll be your guard.
1H6 1.3. 107
1H6-CHARLES
What she says, I'll confirm. We'll fight it out.
1H6 1.3. 108
1H6-JOAN
Assigned am I to be the English scourge.
1H6 1.3. 109 This night the siege assuredly I'll raise.
1H6 1.3. 110 Expect Saint Martin's summer, halcyon's days,
1H6 1.3. 111 Since I have entered into these wars.
1H6 1.3. 112 Glory is like a circle in the water,
1H6 1.3. 113 Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself
1H6 1.3. 114 Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.
1H6 1.3. 115 With Henry's death, the English circle ends.
1H6 1.3. 116 Dispersed are the glories it included.
1H6 1.3. 117 Now am I like that proud insulting ship
1H6 1.3. 118 Which Caesar and his fortune bore at once.
1H6 1.3. 119
1H6-CHARLES
Was Mohammed inspired with a dove?
1H6 1.3. 120 Thou with an eagle art inspired then.
1H6 1.3. 121 Helen, the mother of great Constantine,
1H6 1.3. 122 Nor yet Saint Philip's daughters were like thee.
1H6 1.3. 123 Bright star of Venus, fall'n down on the earth,
1H6 1.3. 124 How may I reverently worship thee enough?
1H6 1.3. 125
1H6-ALENC@ON
Leave off delays, and let us raise the siege.
1H6 1.3. 126
1H6-RENE
Woman, do what thou canst to save our honours.
1H6 1.3. 127 Drive them from Orle/ans, and be immortalized.
1H6 1.3. 128
1H6-CHARLES
Presently we'll try. Come, let's away about it.
1H6 1.3. 129 No prophet will I trust, if she prove false. {Exeunt}
1H6 1.3. 0 {Enter the Duke of Gloucester, with his Servingmen in +
1H6 1.4. 0 blue coats}
1H6 1.4. 1
1H6-GLOUCESTER
I am come to survey the Tower this day.
1H6 1.4. 2 Since Henry's death, I fear there is conveyance.
1H6 1.4. 3 Where be these warders, that they wait not here?
1H6-[A
Servingman] +
1H6 1.4. 3 knocketh on the gates}
1H6 1.4. 4 Open the gates: 'tis Gloucester that calls.
1H6 1.4. 5
1H6-FIRST WARDER
{[within the Tower]} Who's there that +
1H6 1.4. 5 knocketh so imperiously?
1H6 1.4. 6
1H6-GLOUCESTER
S
1H6-FIRST MAN
It is the noble Duke of Gloucester.
1H6 1.4. 7
1H6-SECOND WARDER
{[within the Tower]} Whoe'er he be, +
1H6 1.4. 7 you may not be let in.
1H6 1.4. 8
1H6-GLOUCESTER
S
1H6-FIRST MAN
Villains, answer you so the Lord Protector?
1H6 1.4. 9
1H6-FIRST WARDER
{[within the Tower]} The Lord protect +
1H6 1.4. 9 him, so we answer him.
1H6 1.4. 10 We do no otherwise than we are willed.
1H6 1.4. 11
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Who willed you? Or whose will stands, but mine?
1H6 1.4. 12 There's none Protector of the realm but I.
1H6 1.4. 13 {(To Servingmen)} Break up the gates. I'll be your +
1H6 1.4. 13 warrantize.
1H6 1.4. 14 Shall I be flouted thus by dunghill grooms? {Gloucester's men +
1H6 1.4. 14 rush at the Tower gates}
1H6 1.4. 15
1H6-WOODVILLE
{[within the Tower]} What noise is this? +
1H6 1.4. 15 What traitors have we here?
1H6 1.4. 16
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Lieutenant, is it you whose voice I hear?
1H6 1.4. 17 Open the gates! Here's Gloucester, that would enter.
1H6 1.4. 18
1H6-WOODVILLE
{[within the Tower]} Have patience, +
1H6 1.4. 18 noble duke: I may not open.
1H6 1.4. 19 My lord of Winchester forbids.
1H6 1.4. 20 From him I have express commande|ment
1H6 1.4. 21 That thou, nor none of thine, shall be let in.
1H6 1.4. 22
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Faint-hearted Woodville! Prizest him fore me? -
1H6 1.4. 23 Arrogant Winchester, that haughty prelate,
1H6 1.4. 24 Whom Henry, our late sovereign, ne'er could brook?
1H6 1.4. 25 Thou art no friend to God or to the King.
1H6 1.4. 26 Open the gates, or I'll shut thee out shortly.
1H6 1.4. 27
1H6-SERVINGMEN
Open the gates unto the Lord Protector,
1H6 1.4. 28 Or we'll burst them open, if that you come not quickly. {Enter, +
1H6 1.4. 28 to the Lord Protector at the Tower gates, the Bishop of Winchester and +
1H6 1.4. 28 his men in tawny coats}
1H6 1.4. 29
1H6-WINCHESTER
How now, ambitious vizier! What means this?
1H6 1.4. 30
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Peeled priest, dost thou command me to be shut out?
1H6 1.4. 31
1H6-WINCHESTER
I do, thou most usurping proditor,
1H6 1.4. 32 And not `Protector', of the King or realm.
1H6 1.4. 33
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Stand back, thou manifest conspirator.
1H6 1.4. 34 Thou that contrived'st to murder our dead lord,
1H6 1.4. 35 Thou that giv'st whores indulgences to sin,
1H6 1.4. 36 If thou proceed in this thy insolence -
1H6 1.4. 37
1H6-WINCHESTER
Nay, stand thou back! I will not budge a foot.
1H6 1.4. 38 This be Damascus, be thou cursed Cain,
1H6 1.4. 39 To slay thy brother Abel, if thou wilt.
1H6 1.4. 40
1H6-GLOUCESTER
I will not slay thee, but I'll drive thee back.
1H6 1.4. 41 Thy purple robes, as a child's bearing-cloth,
1H6 1.4. 42 I'll use to carry thee out of this place.
1H6 1.4. 43
1H6-WINCHESTER
Do what thou dar'st, I beard thee to thy face.
1H6 1.4. 44
1H6-GLOUCESTER
What, am I dared and bearded to my face?
1H6 1.4. 45 Draw, men, for all this privileged place. {All draw their +
1H6 1.4. 45 swords}
1H6 1.4. 46 Blue coats to tawny coats! - Priest, beware your beard.
1H6 1.4. 47 I mean to tug it, and to cuff you soundly.
1H6 1.4. 48 Under my feet I'll stamp thy bishop's mitre.
1H6 1.4. 49 In spite of Pope, or dignities of church,
1H6 1.4. 50 Here by the cheeks I'll drag thee up and down.
1H6 1.4. 51
1H6-WINCHESTER
Gloucester, thou wilt answer this before the Pope.
1H6 1.4. 52
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Winchester goose! I cry, `A rope, a rope!'
1H6 1.4. 53 {(To his Servingmen)} Now beat them hence. Why do you +
1H6 1.4. 53 let them stay?
1H6 1.4. 54 {(To Winchester)} Thee I'll chase hence, thou wolf in +
1H6 1.4. 54 sheep's array.
1H6 1.4. 55 Out, tawny coats! Out, cloaked hypocrite! {Here Gloucester's +
1H6 1.4. 55 men beat out the Bishop's men. Enter in the hurly-burly the Mayor of +
1H6 1.4. 55 London and his Officers}
1H6 1.4. 56
1H6-MAYOR
Fie, lords! - that you, being supreme magistrates,
1H6 1.4. 57 Thus contumeliously should break the peace.
1H6 1.4. 58
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Peace, mayor, thou know'st little of my wrongs.
1H6 1.4. 59 Here's Beaufort - that regards nor God nor king -
1H6 1.4. 60 Hath here distrained the Tower to his use.
1H6 1.4. 61
1H6-WINCHESTER
{(to Mayor)} Here's Gloucester - a foe to +
1H6 1.4. 61 citizens,
1H6 1.4. 62 One that still motions war, and never peace,
1H6 1.4. 63 O'ercharging your free purses with large fines -
1H6 1.4. 64 That seeks to overthrow religion,
1H6 1.4. 65 Because he is Protector of the realm,
1H6 1.4. 66 And would have armour here out of the Tower
1H6 1.4. 67 To crown himself king and suppress the Prince.
1H6 1.4. 68
1H6-GLOUCESTER
I will not answer thee with words but blows. +
1H6 1.4. 68 {Here the factions skirmish again}
1H6 1.4. 69
1H6-MAYOR
Naught rests for me, in this tumultuous strife,
1H6 1.4. 70 But to make open proclamation.
1H6 1.4. 71 Come, officer, as loud as e'er thou canst, cry.
1H6 1.4. 72
1H6-OFFICER
All manner of men, assembled here in arms this
1H6 1.4. 73 day against God's peace and the King's, we charge and
1H6 1.4. 74 command you in his highness' name to repair to your
1H6 1.4. 75 several dwelling places, and not to wear, handle, or
1H6 1.4. 76 use any sword, weapon, or dagger henceforward, upon
1H6 1.4. 77 pain of death. {The skirmishes cease}
1H6 1.4. 78
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Bishop, I'll be no breaker of the law.
1H6 1.4. 79 But we shall meet and break our minds at large.
1H6 1.4. 80
1H6-WINCHESTER
Gloucester, we'll meet to thy cost, be sure.
1H6 1.4. 81 Thy heart-blood I will have for this day's work.
1H6 1.4. 82
1H6-MAYOR
I'll call for clubs, if you will not away.
1H6 1.4. 83 {(Aside)} This bishop is more haughty than the devil.
1H6 1.4. 84
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Mayor, farewell. Thou dost but what thou mayst.
1H6 1.4. 85
1H6-WINCHESTER
Abominable Gloucester, guard thy head,
1H6 1.4. 86 For I intend to have it ere long. {Exeunt both factions +
1H6 1.4. 86 severally}
1H6 1.4. 87
1H6-MAYOR
{(to Officers)} See the coast cleared, and +
1H6 1.4. 87 then we will depart. -
1H6 1.4. 88 Good God, these nobles should such stomachs bear!
1H6 1.4. 89 I myself fight not once in forty year. {Exeunt}
1H6 1.4. 0 {Enter the Master Gunner of Orle/ans with his Boy}
1H6 1.5. 1
1H6-MASTER GUNNER
Sirrah, thou know'st how Orle/ans is +
1H6 1.5. 1 besieged,
1H6 1.5. 2 And how the English have the suburbs won.
1H6 1.5. 3
1H6-BOY
Father, I know, and oft have shot at them;
1H6 1.5. 4 Howe'er, unfortunate, I missed my aim.
1H6 1.5. 5
1H6-MASTER GUNNER
But now thou shalt not. Be thou ruled by me.
1H6 1.5. 6 Chief Master Gunner am I of this town;
1H6 1.5. 7 Something I must do to procure me grace.
1H6 1.5. 8 The Prince's spials have informed me
1H6 1.5. 9 How the English, in the suburbs close entrenched,
1H6 1.5. 10 Wont, through a secret grate of iron bars
1H6 1.5. 11 In yonder tower, to overpeer the city,
1H6 1.5. 12 And thence discover how with most advantage
1H6 1.5. 13 They may vex us with shot or with assault.
1H6 1.5. 14 To intercept this inconvenience,
1H6 1.5. 15 A piece of ordnance 'gainst it I have placed,
1H6 1.5. 16 And even these three days have I watched, if I could see them.
1H6 1.5. 17 Now do thou watch, for I can stay no longer.
1H6 1.5. 18 If thou spy'st any, run and bring me word,
1H6 1.5. 19 And thou shalt find me at the governor's.
1H6 1.5. 20
1H6-BOY
Father, I warrant you, take you no care - {[Exit Master +
1H6 1.5. 20 Gunner at one door]}
1H6 1.5. 21 I'll never trouble you, if I may spy them. {Exit [at +
1H6 1.5. 21 the other door]}
1H6 1.5. 0 {Enter the Earl of Salisbury and Lord Talbot above on the +
1H6 1.6. 0 turrets with others, among them Sir Thomas Gargrave and Sir William +
1H6 1.6. 0 Glasdale}
1H6 1.6. 1
1H6-SALISBURY
Talbot, my life, my joy, again returned?
1H6 1.6. 2 How wert thou handled, being prisoner?
1H6 1.6. 3 Or by what means got'st thou to be released?
1H6 1.6. 4 Discourse, I prithee, on this turret's top.
1H6 1.6. 5
1H6-TALBOT
The Duke of Bedford had a prisoner,
1H6 1.6. 6 Called the brave Lord Ponton de Santrailles;
1H6 1.6. 7 For him was I exchanged and ransomed.
1H6 1.6. 8 But with a baser man-of-arms by far
1H6 1.6. 9 Once in contempt they would have bartered me -
1H6 1.6. 10 Which I, disdaining, scorned, and craved death
1H6 1.6. 11 Rather than I would be so pilled esteemed.
1H6 1.6. 12 In fine, redeemed I was, as I desired.
1H6 1.6. 13 But O, the treacherous Fastolf wounds my heart,
1H6 1.6. 14 Whom with my bare fists I would execute
1H6 1.6. 15 If I now had him brought into my power.
1H6 1.6. 16
1H6-SALISBURY
Yet tell'st thou not how thou wert entertained.
1H6 1.6. 17
1H6-TALBOT
With scoffs and scorns and contumelious taunts.
1H6 1.6. 18 In open market place produced they me,
1H6 1.6. 19 To be a public spectacle to all.
1H6 1.6. 20 `Here', said they, `is the terror of the French,
1H6 1.6. 21 The scarecrow that affrights our children so.'
1H6 1.6. 22 Then broke I from the officers that led me
1H6 1.6. 23 And with my nails digged stones out of the ground
1H6 1.6. 24 To hurl at the beholders of my shame.
1H6 1.6. 25 My grisly countenance made others fly.
1H6 1.6. 26 None durst come near, for fear of sudden death.
1H6 1.6. 27 In iron walls they deemed me not secure:
1H6 1.6. 28 So great fear of my name 'mongst them were spread
1H6 1.6. 29 That they supposed I could rend bars of steel
1H6 1.6. 30 And spurn in pieces posts of adamant.
1H6 1.6. 31 Wherefore a guard of chosen shot I had
1H6 1.6. 32 That walked about me every minute while;
1H6 1.6. 33 And if I did but stir out of my bed,
1H6 1.6. 34 Ready they were to shoot me to the heart. {The Boy [passes over +
1H6 1.6. 34 the stage] with a linstock}
1H6 1.6. 35
1H6-SALISBURY
I grieve to hear what torments you endured.
1H6 1.6. 36 But we will be revenged sufficiently.
1H6 1.6. 37 Now it is supper time in Orle/ans.
1H6 1.6. 38 Here, through this grate, I count each one,
1H6 1.6. 39 And view the Frenchmen how they fortify.
1H6 1.6. 40 Let us look in: the sight will much delight thee. -
1H6 1.6. 41 Sir Thomas Gargrave and Sir William Glasdale,
1H6 1.6. 42 Let me have your express opinions
1H6 1.6. 43 Where is best place to make our batt'ry next. {[They look +
1H6 1.6. 43 through the grate]}
1H6 1.6. 44
1H6-GARGRAVE
I think at the north gate, for there stands Lou.
1H6 1.6. 45
1H6-GLASDALE
And I here, at the bulwark of the Bridge.
1H6 1.6. 46
1H6-TALBOT
For aught I see, this city must be famished
1H6 1.6. 47 Or with light skirmishes enfeebled. {Here they shoot off +
1H6 1.6. 47 chambers [within] and Salisbury and Gargrave fall down}
1H6 1.6. 48
1H6-SALISBURY
O Lord have mercy on us, wretched sinners!
1H6 1.6. 49
1H6-GARGRAVE
O Lord have mercy on me, woeful man!
1H6 1.6. 50
1H6-TALBOT
What chance is this that suddenly hath crossed us?
1H6 1.6. 51 Speak, Salisbury - at least, if thou canst, speak.
1H6 1.6. 52 How far'st thou, mirror of all martial men?
1H6 1.6. 53 One of thy eyes and thy cheek's side struck off?
1H6 1.6. 54 Accursed tower! Accursed fatal hand
1H6 1.6. 55 That hath contrived this woeful tragedy!
1H6 1.6. 56 In thirteen battles Salisbury o'ercame;
1H6 1.6. 57 Henry the Fifth he first trained to the wars;
1H6 1.6. 58 Whilst any trump did sound or drum struck up
1H6 1.6. 59 His sword did ne'er leave striking in the field.
1H6 1.6. 60 Yet liv'st thou, Salisbury? Though thy speech doth fail,
1H6 1.6. 61 One eye thou hast to look to heaven for grace.
1H6 1.6. 62 The sun with one eye vieweth all the world.
1H6 1.6. 63 Heaven, be thou gracious to none alive
1H6 1.6. 64 If Salisbury wants mercy at thy hands. -
1H6 1.6. 65 Sir Thomas Gargrave, hast thou any life?
1H6 1.6. 66 Speak unto Talbot. Nay, look up to him. -
1H6 1.6. 67 Bear hence his body; I will help to bury it. {[Exit one with +
1H6 1.6. 67 Gargrave's body]}
1H6 1.6. 68 Salisbury, cheer thy spirit with this comfort:
1H6 1.6. 69 Thou shalt not die whiles -
1H6 1.6. 70 He beckons with his hand, and smiles on me,
1H6 1.6. 71 As who should say, `When I am dead and gone,
1H6 1.6. 72 Remember to avenge me on the French.'
1H6 1.6. 73 Plantagenet, I will - and like thee, Nero,
1H6 1.6. 74 Play on the lute, beholding the towns burn.
1H6 1.6. 75 Wretched shall France be only in my name. {Here an alarum, and +
1H6 1.6. 75 it thunders and lightens}
1H6 1.6. 76 What stir is this? What tumult's in the heavens?
1H6 1.6. 77 Whence cometh this alarum and the noise? {Enter a Messenger}
1H6 1.6. 78
1H6-MESSENGER
My lord, my lord, the French have gathered +
1H6 1.6. 78 head.
1H6 1.6. 79 The Dauphin, with one Joan la Pucelle joined,
1H6 1.6. 80 A holy prophetess new risen up,
1H6 1.6. 81 Is come with a great power to raise the siege. {Here Salisbury +
1H6 1.6. 81 lifteth himself up and groans}
1H6 1.6. 82
1H6-TALBOT
Hear, hear, how dying Salisbury doth groan!
1H6 1.6. 83 It irks his heart he cannot be revenged.
1H6 1.6. 84 Frenchmen, I'll be a Salisbury to you.
1H6 1.6. 85 {Pucelle} or pucelle, Dauphin or dog-fish,
1H6 1.6. 86 Your hearts I'll stamp out with my horse's heels
1H6 1.6. 87 And make a quagmire of your mingled brains. -
1H6 1.6. 88 Convey me Salisbury into his tent,
1H6 1.6. 89 And then we'll try what these dastard Frenchmen dare. {Alarum. +
1H6 1.6. 89 Exeunt carrying Salisbury}
1H6 1.6. 0 {Here an alarum again, and Lord Talbot pursueth the +
1H6 1.7. 0 Dauphin and driveth him. Then enter Joan la Pucelle driving Englishmen +
1H6 1.7. 0 before her and [exeunt]. Then enter Lord Talbot}
1H6 1.7. 1
1H6-TALBOT
Where is my strength, my valour, and my force?
1H6 1.7. 2 Our English troops retire; I cannot stay them.
1H6 1.7. 3 A woman clad in armour chaseth men. {Enter Joan la Pucelle}
1H6 1.7. 4 Here, here she comes. {(To Joan)} I'll have a +
1H6 1.7. 4 bout with thee.
1H6 1.7. 5 Devil or devil's dam, I'll conjure thee.
1H6 1.7. 6 Blood will I draw on thee - thou art a witch -
1H6 1.7. 7 And straightway give thy soul to him thou serv'st.
1H6 1.7. 8
1H6-JOAN
Come, come, 'tis only I that must disgrace thee. {Here +
1H6 1.7. 8 they fight}
1H6 1.7. 9
1H6-TALBOT
Heavens, can you suffer hell so to prevail?
1H6 1.7. 10 My breast I'll burst with straining of my courage
1H6 1.7. 11 And from my shoulders crack my arms asunder
1H6 1.7. 12 But I will chastise this high-minded strumpet. {They fight +
1H6 1.7. 12 again}
1H6 1.7. 13
1H6-JOAN
Talbot, farewell. Thy hour is not yet come.
1H6 1.7. 14 I must go victual Orle/ans forthwith. {A short alarum, then [the +
1H6 1.7. 14 French pass over the stage and] enter the town with soldiers}
1H6 1.7. 15 O'ertake me if thou canst. I scorn thy strength.
1H6 1.7. 16 Go, go, cheer up thy hungry-starved men.
1H6 1.7. 17 Help Salisbury to make his testament.
1H6 1.7. 18 This day is ours, as many more shall be. {Exit into the town}
1H6 1.7. 19
1H6-TALBOT
My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel.
1H6 1.7. 20 I know not where I am nor what I do.
1H6 1.7. 21 A witch by fear, not force, like Hannibal
1H6 1.7. 22 Drives back our troops and conquers as she lists.
1H6 1.7. 23 So bees with smoke and doves with noisome stench
1H6 1.7. 24 Are from their hives and houses driven away.
1H6 1.7. 25 They called us, for our fierceness, English dogs;
1H6 1.7. 26 Now, like to whelps, we crying run away. {A short alarum. [Enter +
1H6 1.7. 26 English soldiers]}
1H6 1.7. 27 Hark, countrymen: either renew the fight
1H6 1.7. 28 Or tear the lions out of England's coat.
1H6 1.7. 29 Renounce your style; give sheep in lions' stead.
1H6 1.7. 30 Sheep run not half so treacherous from the wolf,
1H6 1.7. 31 Or horse or oxen from the leopard,
1H6 1.7. 32 As you fly from your oft-subdued slaves. {Alarum. Here another +
1H6 1.7. 32 skirmish}
1H6 1.7. 33 It will not be. Retire into your trenches.
1H6 1.7. 34 You all consented unto Salisbury's death,
1H6 1.7. 35 For none would strike a stroke in his revenge.
1H6 1.7. 36 Pucelle is entered into Orle/ans
1H6 1.7. 37 In spite of us or aught that we could do. {[Exeunt Soldiers]}
1H6 1.7. 38 O would I were to die with Salisbury!
1H6 1.7. 39 The shame hereof will make me hide my head. {Exit. Alarum. +
1H6 1.7. 39 Retreat}
1H6 1.7. 0 {Flourish. Enter on the walls Joan la Pucelle, Charles +
1H6 1.8. 0 the Dauphin, Rene/ Duke of Anjou, the Duke of Alenc@on and French +
1H6 1.8. 0 Soldiers [with colours]}
1H6 1.8. 1
1H6-JOAN
Advance our waving colours on the walls;
1H6 1.8. 2 Rescued is Orle/ans from the English.
1H6 1.8. 3 Thus Joan la Pucelle hath performed her word.
1H6 1.8. 4
1H6-CHARLES
Divinest creature, Astraea's daughter,
1H6 1.8. 5 How shall I honour thee for this success?
1H6 1.8. 6 Thy promises are like Adonis' garden,
1H6 1.8. 7 That one day bloomed and fruitful were the next.
1H6 1.8. 8 France, triumph in thy glorious prophetess!
1H6 1.8. 9 Recovered is the town of Orle/ans.
1H6 1.8. 10 More blessed hap did ne'er befall our state.
1H6 1.8. 11
1H6-RENE
Why ring not out the bells aloud throughout the town?
1H6 1.8. 12 Dauphin, command the citizens make bonfires
1H6 1.8. 13 And feast and banquet in the open streets
1H6 1.8. 14 To celebrate the joy that God hath given us.
1H6 1.8. 15
1H6-ALENC@ON
All France will be replete with mirth and joy
1H6 1.8. 16 When they shall hear how we have played the men.
1H6 1.8. 17
1H6-CHARLES
'Tis Joan, not we, by whom the day is won -
1H6 1.8. 18 For which I will divide my crown with her,
1H6 1.8. 19 And all the priests and friars in my realm
1H6 1.8. 20 Shall in procession sing her endless praise.
1H6 1.8. 21 A statelier pyramid to her I'll rear
1H6 1.8. 22 Than Rhodope's of Memphis ever was.
1H6 1.8. 23 In memory of her, when she is dead
1H6 1.8. 24 Her ashes, in an urn more precious
1H6 1.8. 25 Than the rich-jewelled coffer of Darius,
1H6 1.8. 26 Transported shall be at high festivals
1H6 1.8. 27 Before the kings and queens of France.
1H6 1.8. 28 No longer on Saint Denis will we cry,
1H6 1.8. 29 But Joan la Pucelle shall be France's saint.
1H6 1.8. 30 Come in, and let us banquet royally
1H6 1.8. 31 After this golden day of victory. {Flourish. Exeunt}
1H6 1.8. 0
1H6 1.8. 0 {Enter [on the walls] a French Sergeant of a band, +
1H6 2.1. 0 with two Sentinels}
1H6 2.1. 1
1H6-SERGEANT
Sirs, take your places and be vigilant.
1H6 2.1. 2 If any noise or soldier you perceive
1H6 2.1. 3 Near to the walls, by some apparent sign
1H6 2.1. 4 Let us have knowledge at the court of guard.
1H6 2.1. 5B
1H6-[A SENTINEL]
Sergeant, you shall. {Exit Sergeant} +
1H6 2.1. 5B Thus are poor servitors,
1H6 2.1. 6 When others sleep upon their quiet beds,
1H6 2.1. 7 Constrained to watch in darkness, rain, and cold. {Enter Lord +
1H6 2.1. 7 Talbot, the Dukes of Bedford and Burgundy, and soldiers with scaling +
1H6 2.1. 7 ladders, their drums beating a dead march}
1H6 2.1. 8
1H6-TALBOT
Lord regent, and redoubted Burgundy -
1H6 2.1. 9 By whose approach the regions of Artois,
1H6 2.1. 10 Wallon, and Picardy are friends to us -
1H6 2.1. 11 This happy night the Frenchmen are secure,
1H6 2.1. 12 Having all day caroused and banqueted.
1H6 2.1. 13 Embrace we then this opportunity,
1H6 2.1. 14 As fitting best to quittance their deceit,
1H6 2.1. 15 Contrived by art and baleful sorcery.
1H6 2.1. 16
1H6-BEDFORD
Coward of France! How much he wrongs his fame,
1H6 2.1. 17 Despairing of his own arms' fortitude,
1H6 2.1. 18 To join with witches and the help of hell.
1H6 2.1. 19
1H6-BURGUNDY
Traitors have never other company.
1H6 2.1. 20 But what's that `Pucelle' whom they term so pure?
1H6 2.1. 21B
1H6-TALBOT
A maid, they say.
1H6-BEDFORD
A maid? And be so martial?
1H6 2.1. 22
1H6-BURGUNDY
Pray God she prove not masculine ere long.
1H6 2.1. 23 If underneath the standard of the French
1H6 2.1. 24 She carry armour as she hath begun -
1H6 2.1. 25
1H6-TALBOT
Well, let them practise and converse with spirits.
1H6 2.1. 26 God is our fortress, in whose conquering name
1H6 2.1. 27 Let us resolve to scale their flinty bulwarks.
1H6 2.1. 28
1H6-BEDFORD
Ascend, brave Talbot. We will follow thee.
1H6 2.1. 29
1H6-TALBOT
Not all together. Better far, I guess,
1H6 2.1. 30 That we do make our entrance several ways -
1H6 2.1. 31 That, if it chance the one of us do fail,
1H6 2.1. 32 The other yet may rise against their force.
1H6 2.1. 33B
1H6-BEDFORD
Agreed. I'll to yon corner.
1H6-BURGUNDY
And I to +
1H6 2.1. 33B this. {[Exeunt severally Bedford and Burgundy with some +
1H6 2.1. 33B soldiers]}
1H6 2.1. 34
1H6-TALBOT
And here will Talbot mount, or make his grave.
1H6 2.1. 35 Now, Salisbury, for thee, and for the right
1H6 2.1. 36 Of English Henry, shall this night appear
1H6 2.1. 37 How much in duty I am bound to both. {[Talbot and his soldiers] +
1H6 2.1. 37 scale the walls}
1H6 2.1. 38
1H6-[SENTINELS]
Arm! Arm! The enemy doth make assault!
1H6 2.1. 39A
1H6-ENGLISH SOLDIERS
Saint George! A Talbot! {Exeunt above}
1H6 2.1. 40 {[Alarum.] The French [soldiers] leap o'er the walls in their +
1H6 2.1. 40 shirts [and exeunt]. Enter several ways the Bastard of Orle/ans, the +
1H6 2.1. 40 Duke of Alenc@on, and Rene/ Duke of Anjou, half ready and half +
1H6 2.1. 40 unready}
1H6-ALENC@ON
How now, my lords? What, all unready so?
1H6 2.1. 41
1H6-BASTARD
Unready? Ay, and glad we scaped so well.
1H6 2.1. 42
1H6-RENE
'Twas time, I trow, to wake and leave our beds,
1H6 2.1. 43 Hearing alarums at our chamber doors.
1H6 2.1. 44
1H6-ALENC@ON
Of all exploits since first I followed arms
1H6 2.1. 45 Ne'er heard I of a warlike enterprise
1H6 2.1. 46 More venturous or desperate than this.
1H6 2.1. 47
1H6-BASTARD
I think this Talbot be a fiend of hell.
1H6 2.1. 48
1H6-RENE
If not of hell, the heavens sure favour him.
1H6 2.1. 49
1H6-ALENC@ON
Here cometh Charles. I marvel how he sped. {Enter +
1H6 2.1. 49 Charles the Dauphin and Joan la Pucelle}
1H6 2.1. 50
1H6-BASTARD
Tut, holy Joan was his defensive guard.
1H6 2.1. 51
1H6-CHARLES
{(to Joan)} Is this thy cunning, thou +
1H6 2.1. 51 deceitful dame?
1H6 2.1. 52 Didst thou at first, to flatter us withal,
1H6 2.1. 53 Make us partakers of a little gain
1H6 2.1. 54 That now our loss might be ten times so much?
1H6 2.1. 55
1H6-JOAN
Wherefore is Charles impatient with his friend?
1H6 2.1. 56 At all times will you have my power alike?
1H6 2.1. 57 Sleeping or waking must I still prevail,
1H6 2.1. 58 Or will you blame and lay the fault on me? -
1H6 2.1. 59 Improvident soldiers, had your watch been good,
1H6 2.1. 60 This sudden mischief never could have fall'n.
1H6 2.1. 61
1H6-CHARLES
Duke of Alenc@on, this was your default,
1H6 2.1. 62 That, being captain of the watch tonight,
1H6 2.1. 63 Did look no better to that weighty charge.
1H6 2.1. 64
1H6-ALENC@ON
Had all your quarters been as safely kept
1H6 2.1. 65 As that whereof I had the government,
1H6 2.1. 66 We had not been thus shamefully surprised.
1H6 2.1. 67B
1H6-BASTARD
Mine was secure.
1H6-RENE
And so was mine, my lord.
1H6 2.1. 68
1H6-CHARLES
And for myself, most part of all this night
1H6 2.1. 69 Within her quarter and mine own precinct
1H6 2.1. 70 I was employed in passing to and fro
1H6 2.1. 71 About relieving of the sentinels.
1H6 2.1. 72 Then how or which way should they first break in?
1H6 2.1. 73
1H6-JOAN
Question, my lords, no further of the case,
1H6 2.1. 74 How or which way. 'Tis sure they found some place
1H6 2.1. 75 But weakly guarded, where the breach was made.
1H6 2.1. 76 And now there rests no other shift but this -
1H6 2.1. 77 To gather our soldiers, scattered and dispersed,
1H6 2.1. 78 And lay new platforms to endamage them. {Alarum. Enter an +
1H6 2.1. 78 English Soldier}
1H6 2.1. 79
1H6-ENGLISH SOLDIER
A Talbot! A Talbot! {The French +
1H6 2.1. 79 fly, leaving their clothes behind}
1H6 2.1. 80
1H6-ENGLISH SOLDIER
I'll be so bold to take what they have +
1H6 2.1. 80 left.
1H6 2.1. 81 The cry of `Talbot' serves me for a sword,
1H6 2.1. 82 For I have loaden me with many spoils,
1H6 2.1. 83 Using no other weapon but his name. {Exit with spoils}
1H6 2.1. 0 {Enter Lord Talbot, the Dukes of Bedford and Burgundy, a +
1H6 2.2. 0 Captain, [and soldiers]}
1H6 2.2. 1
1H6-BEDFORD
The day begins to break and night is fled,
1H6 2.2. 2 Whose pitchy mantle overveiled the earth.
1H6 2.2. 3 Here sound retreat and cease our hot pursuit. {Retreat is +
1H6 2.2. 3 sounded}
1H6 2.2. 4
1H6-TALBOT
Bring forth the body of old Salisbury
1H6 2.2. 5 And here advance it in the market place,
1H6 2.2. 6 The middle centre of this cursed town. {[Exit one or more]}
1H6 2.2. 7 Now have I paid my vow unto his soul:
1H6 2.2. 8 For every drop of blood was drawn from him
1H6 2.2. 9 There hath at least five Frenchmen died tonight.
1H6 2.2. 10 And that hereafter ages may behold
1H6 2.2. 11 What ruin happened in revenge of him,
1H6 2.2. 12 Within their chiefest temple I'll erect
1H6 2.2. 13 A tomb, wherein his corpse shall be interred -
1H6 2.2. 14 Upon the which, that everyone may read,
1H6 2.2. 15 Shall be engraved the sack of Orle/ans,
1H6 2.2. 16 The treacherous manner of his mournful death,
1H6 2.2. 17 And what a terror he had been to France.
1H6 2.2. 18 But, lords, in all our bloody massacre
1H6 2.2. 19 I muse we met not with the Dauphin's grace,
1H6 2.2. 20 His new-come champion, virtuous Joan of Arc,
1H6 2.2. 21 Nor any of his false confederates.
1H6 2.2. 22
1H6-BEDFORD
'Tis thought, Lord Talbot, when the fight began,
1H6 2.2. 23 Roused on the sudden from their drowsy beds,
1H6 2.2. 24 They did amongst the troops of armed men
1H6 2.2. 25 Leap o'er the walls for refuge in the field.
1H6 2.2. 26
1H6-BURGUNDY
Myself, as far as I could well discern
1H6 2.2. 27 For smoke and dusky vapours of the night,
1H6 2.2. 28 Am sure I scared the Dauphin and his trull,
1H6 2.2. 29 When arm-in-arm they both came swiftly running,
1H6 2.2. 30 Like to a pair of loving turtle-doves
1H6 2.2. 31 That could not live asunder day or night.
1H6 2.2. 32 After that things are set in order here,
1H6 2.2. 33 We'll follow them with all the power we have. {Enter a +
1H6 2.2. 33 Messenger}
1H6 2.2. 34
1H6-MESSENGER
All hail, my lords! Which of this princely +
1H6 2.2. 34 train
1H6 2.2. 35 Call ye the warlike Talbot, for his acts
1H6 2.2. 36 So much applauded through the realm of France?
1H6 2.2. 37
1H6-TALBOT
Here is the Talbot. Who would speak with him?
1H6 2.2. 38
1H6-MESSENGER
The virtuous lady, Countess of Auvergne,
1H6 2.2. 39 With modesty admiring thy renown,
1H6 2.2. 40 By me entreats, great lord, thou wouldst vouchsafe
1H6 2.2. 41 To visit her poor castle where she lies,
1H6 2.2. 42 That she may boast she hath beheld the man
1H6 2.2. 43 Whose glory fills the world with loud report.
1H6 2.2. 44
1H6-BURGUNDY
Is it even so? Nay, then I see our wars
1H6 2.2. 45 Will turn unto a peaceful comic sport,
1H6 2.2. 46 When ladies crave to be encountered with.
1H6 2.2. 47 You may not, my lord, despise her gentle suit.
1H6 2.2. 48
1H6-TALBOT
Ne'er trust me then, for when a world of men
1H6 2.2. 49 Could not prevail with all their oratory,
1H6 2.2. 50 Yet hath a woman's kindness overruled. -
1H6 2.2. 51 And therefore tell her I return great thanks,
1H6 2.2. 52 And in submission will attend on her. -
1H6 2.2. 53 Will not your honours bear me company?
1H6 2.2. 54
1H6-BEDFORD
No, truly, 'tis more than manners will.
1H6 2.2. 55 And I have heard it said, `Unbidden guests
1H6 2.2. 56 Are often welcomest when they are gone'.
1H6 2.2. 57
1H6-TALBOT
Well then, alone - since there's no remedy -
1H6 2.2. 58 I mean to prove this lady's courtesy.
1H6 2.2. 59B Come hither, captain. {He whispers} You perceive my +
1H6 2.2. 59B mind?
1H6 2.2. 60
1H6-CAPTAIN
I do, my lord, and mean accordingly. {Exeunt +
1H6 2.2. 60 [severally]}
1H6 2.2. 0 {Enter the Countess of Auvergne and her Porter}
1H6 2.3. 1
1H6-COUNTESS
Porter, remember what I gave in charge,
1H6 2.3. 2 And when you have done so, bring the keys to me.
1H6 2.3. 3A
1H6-PORTER
Madam, I will. {Exit}
1H6 2.3. 4
1H6-COUNTESS
The plot is laid. If all things fall out right,
1H6 2.3. 5 I shall as famous be by this exploit
1H6 2.3. 6 As Scythian Tomyris by Cyrus' death.
1H6 2.3. 7 Great is the rumour of this dreadful knight,
1H6 2.3. 8 And his achievements of no less account.
1H6 2.3. 9 Fain would mine eyes be witness with mine ears,
1H6 2.3. 10 To give their censure of these rare reports. {Enter Messenger +
1H6 2.3. 10 and Lord Talbot}
1H6 2.3. 11
1H6-MESSENGER
Madam, according as your ladyship desired,
1H6 2.3. 12 By message craved, so is Lord Talbot come.
1H6 2.3. 13
1H6-COUNTESS
And he is welcome. What, is this the man?
1H6 2.3. 14B
1H6-MESSENGER
Madam, it is.
1H6-COUNTESS
Is this the scourge of France?
1H6 2.3. 15 Is this the Talbot, so much feared abroad
1H6 2.3. 16 That with his name the mothers still their babes?
1H6 2.3. 17 I see report is fabulous and false.
1H6 2.3. 18 I thought I should have seen some Hercules,
1H6 2.3. 19 A second Hector, for his grim aspect
1H6 2.3. 20 And large proportion of his strong-knit limbs.
1H6 2.3. 21 Alas, this is a child, a seely dwarf.
1H6 2.3. 22 It cannot be this weak and writhled shrimp
1H6 2.3. 23 Should strike such terror to his enemies.
1H6 2.3. 24
1H6-TALBOT
Madam, I have been bold to trouble you.
1H6 2.3. 25 But since your ladyship is not at leisure,
1H6 2.3. 26 I'll sort some other time to visit you. {He is going}
1H6 2.3. 27
1H6-COUNTESS
{(to Messenger)} What means he now? Go +
1H6 2.3. 27 ask him whither he goes.
1H6 2.3. 28
1H6-MESSENGER
Stay, my Lord Talbot, for my lady craves
1H6 2.3. 29 To know the cause of your abrupt departure.
1H6 2.3. 30
1H6-TALBOT
Marry, for that she's in a wrong belief,
1H6 2.3. 31 I go to certify her Talbot's here. {Enter Porter with keys}
1H6 2.3. 32
1H6-COUNTESS
If thou be he, then art thou prisoner.
1H6 2.3. 33B
1H6-TALBOT
Prisoner? To whom?
1H6-COUNTESS
To me, bloodthirsty lord;
1H6 2.3. 34 And for that cause I trained thee to my house.
1H6 2.3. 35 Long time thy shadow hath been thrall to me,
1H6 2.3. 36 For in my gallery thy picture hangs;
1H6 2.3. 37 But now the substance shall endure the like,
1H6 2.3. 38 And I will chain these legs and arms of thine
1H6 2.3. 39 That hast by tyranny these many years
1H6 2.3. 40 Wasted our country, slain our citizens,
1H6 2.3. 41 And sent our sons and husbands captivate -
1H6 2.3. 42A
1H6-TALBOT
Ha, ha, ha!
1H6 2.3. 43
1H6-COUNTESS
Laughest thou, wretch? Thy mirth shall turn to moan.
1H6 2.3. 44
1H6-TALBOT
I laugh to see your ladyship so fond
1H6 2.3. 45 To think that you have aught but Talbot's shadow
1H6 2.3. 46 Whereon to practise your severity.
1H6 2.3. 47A
1H6-COUNTESS
Why? Art not thou the man?
1H6 2.3. 48A
1H6-TALBOT
I am indeed.
1H6 2.3. 49A
1H6-COUNTESS
Then have I substance too.
1H6 2.3. 50
1H6-TALBOT
No, no, I am but shadow of myself.
1H6 2.3. 51 You are deceived; my substance is not here.
1H6 2.3. 52 For what you see is but the smallest part
1H6 2.3. 53 And least proportion of humanity.
1H6 2.3. 54 I tell you, madam, were the whole frame here,
1H6 2.3. 55 It is of such a spacious lofty pitch
1H6 2.3. 56 Your roof were not sufficient to contain 't.
1H6 2.3. 57
1H6-COUNTESS
This is a riddling merchant for the nonce.
1H6 2.3. 58 He will be here, and yet he is not here.
1H6 2.3. 59 How can these contrarieties agree?
1H6 2.3. 60
1H6-TALBOT
That will I show you presently. {He winds his horn. +
1H6 2.3. 60 Within, drums strike up; a peal of ordnance. Enter English soldiers}
1H6 2.3. 61 How say you, madam? Are you now persuaded
1H6 2.3. 62 That Talbot is but shadow of himself?
1H6 2.3. 63 These are his substance, sinews, arms, and strength,
1H6 2.3. 64 With which he yoketh your rebellious necks,
1H6 2.3. 65 Razeth your cities and subverts your towns,
1H6 2.3. 66 And in a moment makes them desolate.
1H6 2.3. 67
1H6-COUNTESS
Victorious Talbot, pardon my abuse.
1H6 2.3. 68 I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited,
1H6 2.3. 69 And more than may be gathered by thy shape.
1H6 2.3. 70 Let my presumption not provoke thy wrath,
1H6 2.3. 71 For I am sorry that with reverence
1H6 2.3. 72 I did not entertain thee as thou art.
1H6 2.3. 73
1H6-TALBOT
Be not dismayed, fair lady, nor misconster
1H6 2.3. 74 The mind of Talbot, as you did mistake
1H6 2.3. 75 The outward composition of his body.
1H6 2.3. 76 What you have done hath not offended me;
1H6 2.3. 77 Nor other satisfaction do I crave
1H6 2.3. 78 But only, with your patience, that we may
1H6 2.3. 79 Taste of your wine and see what cates you have:
1H6 2.3. 80 For soldiers' stomachs always serve them well.
1H6 2.3. 81
1H6-COUNTESS
With all my heart; and think me honoured
1H6 2.3. 82 To feast so great a warrior in my house. {Exeunt}
1H6 2.3. 0
1H6 2.3. 0 {A rose brier. Enter Richard Plantagenet, the Earl of +
1H6 2.4. 0 Warwick, the Duke of Somerset, William de le Pole (the Earl of +
1H6 2.4. 0 Suffolk), Vernon, and a Lawyer}
1H6 2.4. 1
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
Great lords and gentlemen, what means +
1H6 2.4. 1 this silence?
1H6 2.4. 2 Dare no man answer in a case of truth?
1H6 2.4. 3
1H6-SUFFOLK
Within the Temple hall we were too loud.
1H6 2.4. 4 The garden here is more convenient.
1H6 2.4. 5
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
Then say at once if I maintained the truth;
1H6 2.4. 6 Or else was wrangling Somerset in th' error?
1H6 2.4. 7
1H6-SUFFOLK
Faith, I have been a truant in the law,
1H6 2.4. 8 And never yet could frame my will to it,
1H6 2.4. 9 And therefore frame the law unto my will.
1H6 2.4. 10
1H6-SOMERSET
Judge you, my lord of Warwick, then between us.
1H6 2.4. 11
1H6-WARWICK
Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch,
1H6 2.4. 12 Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth,
1H6 2.4. 13 Between two blades, which bears the better temper,
1H6 2.4. 14 Between two horses, which doth bear him best,
1H6 2.4. 15 Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye,
1H6 2.4. 16 I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgement;
1H6 2.4. 17 But in these nice sharp quillets of the law,
1H6 2.4. 18 Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.
1H6 2.4. 19
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
Tut, tut, here is a mannerly forbearance.
1H6 2.4. 20 The truth appears so naked on my side
1H6 2.4. 21 That any purblind eye may find it out.
1H6 2.4. 22
1H6-SOMERSET
And on my side it is so well apparelled,
1H6 2.4. 23 So clear, so shining, and so evident,
1H6 2.4. 24 That it will glimmer through a blind man's eye.
1H6 2.4. 25
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
Since you are tongue-tied and so loath to +
1H6 2.4. 25 speak,
1H6 2.4. 26 In dumb significants proclaim your thoughts.
1H6 2.4. 27 Let him that is a true-born gentleman
1H6 2.4. 28 And stands upon the honour of his birth,
1H6 2.4. 29 If he suppose that I have pleaded truth,
1H6 2.4. 30 From off this briar pluck a white rose with me. {He plucks a +
1H6 2.4. 30 white rose}
1H6 2.4. 31
1H6-SOMERSET
Let him that is no coward nor no flatterer,
1H6 2.4. 32 But dare maintain the party of the truth,
1H6 2.4. 33 Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me. {He plucks a red +
1H6 2.4. 33 rose}
1H6 2.4. 34
1H6-WARWICK
I love no colours, and without all colour
1H6 2.4. 35 Of base insinuating flattery
1H6 2.4. 36 I pluck this white rose with Plantagenet.
1H6 2.4. 37
1H6-SUFFOLK
I pluck this red rose with young Somerset,
1H6 2.4. 38 And say withal I think he held the right.
1H6 2.4. 39
1H6-VERNON
Stay, lords and gentlemen, and pluck no more
1H6 2.4. 40 Till you conclude that he upon whose side
1H6 2.4. 41 The fewest roses from the tree are cropped
1H6 2.4. 42 Shall yield the other in the right opinion.
1H6 2.4. 43
1H6-SOMERSET
Good Master Vernon, it is well objected.
1H6 2.4. 44 If I have fewest, I subscribe in silence.
1H6 2.4. 45A
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
And I.
1H6 2.4. 46
1H6-VERNON
Then for the truth and plainness of the case
1H6 2.4. 47 I pluck this pale and maiden blossom here,
1H6 2.4. 48 Giving my verdict on the white rose' side.
1H6 2.4. 49
1H6-SOMERSET
Prick not your finger as you pluck it off,
1H6 2.4. 50 Lest, bleeding, you do paint the white rose red,
1H6 2.4. 51 And fall on my side so against your will.
1H6 2.4. 52
1H6-VERNON
If I, my lord, for my opinion bleed,
1H6 2.4. 53 Opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt
1H6 2.4. 54 And keep me on the side where still I am.
1H6 2.4. 55A
1H6-SOMERSET
Well, well, come on! Who else?
1H6 2.4. 56
1H6-LAWYER
Unless my study and my books be false,
1H6 2.4. 57 The argument you held was wrong in law;
1H6 2.4. 58 In sign whereof I pluck a white rose too.
1H6 2.4. 59
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
Now Somerset, where is your argument?
1H6 2.4. 60
1H6-SOMERSET
Here in my scabbard, meditating that
1H6 2.4. 61 Shall dye your white rose in a bloody red.
1H6 2.4. 62
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
Meantime your cheeks do counterfeit our roses,
1H6 2.4. 63 For pale they look with fear, as witnessing
1H6 2.4. 64B The truth on our side.
1H6-SOMERSET
No, Plantagenet,
1H6 2.4. 65 'Tis not for fear, but anger, that thy cheeks
1H6 2.4. 66 Blush for pure shame to counterfeit our roses,
1H6 2.4. 67 And yet thy tongue will not confess thy error.
1H6 2.4. 68
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
Hath not thy rose a canker, Somerset?
1H6 2.4. 69
1H6-SOMERSET
Hath not thy rose a thorn, Plantagenet?
1H6 2.4. 70
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
Ay, sharp and piercing, to maintain his truth,
1H6 2.4. 71 Whiles thy consuming canker eats his falsehood.
1H6 2.4. 72
1H6-SOMERSET
Well, I'll find friends to wear my bleeding roses,
1H6 2.4. 73 That shall maintain what I have said is true,
1H6 2.4. 74 Where false Plantagenet dare not be seen.
1H6 2.4. 75
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
Now, by this maiden blossom in my hand,
1H6 2.4. 76 I scorn thee and thy fashion, peevish boy.
1H6 2.4. 77
1H6-SUFFOLK
Turn not thy scorns this way, Plantagenet.
1H6 2.4. 78
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
Proud Pole, I will, and scorn both him and +
1H6 2.4. 78 thee.
1H6 2.4. 79
1H6-SUFFOLK
I'll turn my part thereof into thy throat.
1H6 2.4. 80
1H6-SOMERSET
Away, away, good William de le Pole.
1H6 2.4. 81 We grace the yeoman by conversing with him.
1H6 2.4. 82
1H6-WARWICK
Now, by God's will, thou wrong'st him, Somerset.
1H6 2.4. 83 His grandfather was Lionel Duke of Clarence,
1H6 2.4. 84 Third son to the third Edward, King of England.
1H6 2.4. 85 Spring crestless yeomen from so deep a root?
1H6 2.4. 86
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
He bears him on the place's privilege,
1H6 2.4. 87 Or durst not for his craven heart say thus.
1H6 2.4. 88
1H6-SOMERSET
By him that made me, I'll maintain my words
1H6 2.4. 89 On any plot of ground in Christendom.
1H6 2.4. 90 Was not thy father, Richard Earl of Cambridge,
1H6 2.4. 91 For treason executed in our late king's days?
1H6 2.4. 92 And by his treason stand'st not thou attainted,
1H6 2.4. 93 Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry?
1H6 2.4. 94 His trespass yet lives guilty in thy blood,
1H6 2.4. 95 And till thou be restored thou art a yeoman.
1H6 2.4. 96
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
My father was attached, not attainted;
1H6 2.4. 97 Condemned to die for treason, but no traitor -
1H6 2.4. 98 And that I'll prove on better men than Somerset,
1H6 2.4. 99 Were growing time once ripened to my will.
1H6 2.4. 100 For your partaker Pole, and you yourself,
1H6 2.4. 101 I'll note you in my book of memory,
1H6 2.4. 102 To scourge you for this apprehension.
1H6 2.4. 103 Look to it well, and say you are well warned.
1H6 2.4. 104
1H6-SOMERSET
Ah, thou shalt find us ready for thee still,
1H6 2.4. 105 And know us by these colours for thy foes,
1H6 2.4. 106 For these my friends, in spite of thee, shall wear.
1H6 2.4. 107
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
And, by my soul, this pale and angry rose,
1H6 2.4. 108 As cognizance of my blood-drinking hate,
1H6 2.4. 109 Will I forever, and my faction, wear
1H6 2.4. 110 Until it wither with me to my grave,
1H6 2.4. 111 Or flourish to the height of my degree.
1H6 2.4. 112
1H6-SUFFOLK
Go forward, and be choked with thy ambition.
1H6 2.4. 113 And so farewell until I meet thee next. {Exit}
1H6 2.4. 114
1H6-SOMERSET
Have with thee, Pole. - Farewell, ambitious +
1H6 2.4. 114 Richard. {Exit}
1H6 2.4. 115
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
How I am braved, and must perforce +
1H6 2.4. 115 endure it!
1H6 2.4. 116
1H6-WARWICK
This blot that they object against your house
1H6 2.4. 117 Shall be wiped out in the next parliament,
1H6 2.4. 118 Called for the truce of Winchester and Gloucester.
1H6 2.4. 119 An if thou be not then created York,
1H6 2.4. 120 I will not live to be accounted Warwick.
1H6 2.4. 121 Meantime, in signal of my love to thee,
1H6 2.4. 122 Against proud Somerset and William Pole,
1H6 2.4. 123 Will I upon thy party wear this rose.
1H6 2.4. 124 And here I prophesy: this brawl today,
1H6 2.4. 125 Grown to this faction in the Temple garden,
1H6 2.4. 126 Shall send, between the red rose and the white,
1H6 2.4. 127 A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
1H6 2.4. 128
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
Good Master Vernon, I am bound to you,
1H6 2.4. 129 That you on my behalf would pluck a flower.
1H6 2.4. 130
1H6-VERNON
In your behalf still will I wear the same.
1H6 2.4. 131A
1H6-LAWYER
And so will I.
1H6 2.4. 132A
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
Thanks, gentles.
1H6 2.4. 133 Come, let us four to dinner. I dare say
1H6 2.4. 134 This quarrel will drink blood another day. {Exeunt. The rose +
1H6 2.4. 134 brier is removed}
1H6 2.4. 0
1H6 2.4. 0 {Enter Edmund Mortimer, brought in a chair [by] his +
1H6 2.5. 0 Keepers}
1H6 2.5. 1
1H6-MORTIMER
Kind keepers of my weak decaying age,
1H6 2.5. 2 Let dying Mortimer here rest himself.
1H6 2.5. 3 Even like a man new-haled from the rack,
1H6 2.5. 4 So fare my limbs with long imprisonment;
1H6 2.5. 5 And these grey locks, the pursuivants of death,
1H6 2.5. 6 Argue the end of Edmund Mortimer,
1H6 2.5. 7 Nestor-like aged in an age of care.
1H6 2.5. 8 These eyes, like lamps whose wasting oil is spent,
1H6 2.5. 9 Wax dim, as drawing to their exigent;
1H6 2.5. 10 Weak shoulders, overborne with burdening grief,
1H6 2.5. 11 And pithless arms, like to a withered vine
1H6 2.5. 12 That droops his sapless branches to the ground.
1H6 2.5. 13 Yet are these feet - whose strengthless stay is numb,
1H6 2.5. 14 Unable to support this lump of clay -
1H6 2.5. 15 Swift-winged with desire to get a grave,
1H6 2.5. 16 As witting I no other comfort have.
1H6 2.5. 17 But tell me, keeper, will my nephew come?
1H6 2.5. 18
1H6-KEEPER
Richard Plantagenet, my lord, will come.
1H6 2.5. 19 We sent unto the Temple, unto his chamber,
1H6 2.5. 20 And answer was returned that he will come.
1H6 2.5. 21
1H6-MORTIMER
Enough. My soul shall then be satisfied.
1H6 2.5. 22 Poor gentleman, his wrong doth equal mine.
1H6 2.5. 23 Since Henry Monmouth first began to reign -
1H6 2.5. 24 Before whose glory I was great in arms -
1H6 2.5. 25 This loathsome sequestration have I had;
1H6 2.5. 26 And even since then hath Richard been obscured,
1H6 2.5. 27 Deprived of honour and inheritance.
1H6 2.5. 28 But now the arbitrator of despairs,
1H6 2.5. 29 Just Death, kind umpire of men's miseries,
1H6 2.5. 30 With sweet enlargement doth dismiss me hence.
1H6 2.5. 31 I would his troubles likewise were expired,
1H6 2.5. 32 That so he might recover what was lost. {Enter Richard +
1H6 2.5. 32 Plantagenet}
1H6 2.5. 33
1H6-KEEPER
My lord, your loving nephew now is come.
1H6 2.5. 34
1H6-MORTIMER
Richard Plantagenet, my friend, is he come?
1H6 2.5. 35
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
Ay, noble uncle, thus ignobly used:
1H6 2.5. 36 Your nephew, late despised Richard, comes.
1H6 2.5. 37
1H6-MORTIMER
{(to Keepers)} Direct mine arms I may +
1H6 2.5. 37 embrace his neck
1H6 2.5. 38 And in his bosom spend my latter gasp.
1H6 2.5. 39 O tell me when my lips do touch his cheeks,
1H6 2.5. 40 That I may kindly give one fainting kiss. {He embraces Richard}
1H6 2.5. 41 And now declare, sweet stem from York's great stock,
1H6 2.5. 42 Why didst thou say of late thou wert despised?
1H6 2.5. 43
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
First lean thine aged back against mine arm,
1H6 2.5. 44 And in that ease I'll tell thee my dis-ease.
1H6 2.5. 45 This day in argument upon a case
1H6 2.5. 46 Some words there grew 'twixt Somerset and me;
1H6 2.5. 47 Among which terms he used his lavish tongue
1H6 2.5. 48 And did upbraid me with my father's death;
1H6 2.5. 49 Which obloquy set bars before my tongue,
1H6 2.5. 50 Else with the like I had requited him.
1H6 2.5. 51 Therefore, good uncle, for my father's sake,
1H6 2.5. 52 In honour of a true Plantagenet,
1H6 2.5. 53 And for alliance' sake, declare the cause
1H6 2.5. 54 My father, Earl of Cambridge, lost his head.
1H6 2.5. 55
1H6-MORTIMER
That cause, fair nephew, that imprisoned me,
1H6 2.5. 56 And hath detained me all my flow'ring youth
1H6 2.5. 57 Within a loathsome dungeon, there to pine,
1H6 2.5. 58 Was cursed instrument of his decease.
1H6 2.5. 59
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
Discover more at large what cause that was,
1H6 2.5. 60 For I am ignorant and cannot guess.
1H6 2.5. 61
1H6-MORTIMER
I will, if that my fading breath permit
1H6 2.5. 62 And death approach not ere my tale be done.
1H6 2.5. 63 Henry the Fourth, grandfather to this King,
1H6 2.5. 64 Deposed his nephew Richard, Edward's son,
1H6 2.5. 65 The first begotten and the lawful heir
1H6 2.5. 66 Of Edward king, the third of that descent;
1H6 2.5. 67 During whose reign the Percies of the north,
1H6 2.5. 68 Finding his usurpation most unjust,
1H6 2.5. 69 Endeavoured my advancement to the throne.
1H6 2.5. 70 The reason moved these warlike lords to this
1H6 2.5. 71 Was for that - young King Richard thus removed,
1H6 2.5. 72 Leaving no heir begotten of his body -
1H6 2.5. 73 I was the next by birth and parentage,
1H6 2.5. 74 For by my mother I derived am
1H6 2.5. 75 From Lionel Duke of Clarence, the third son
1H6 2.5. 76 To King Edward the Third - whereas the King
1H6 2.5. 77 From John of Gaunt doth bring his pedigree,
1H6 2.5. 78 Being but fourth of that heroic line.
1H6 2.5. 79 But mark: as in this haughty great attempt
1H6 2.5. 80 They laboured to plant the rightful heir,
1H6 2.5. 81 I lost my liberty, and they their lives.
1H6 2.5. 82 Long after this, when Henry the Fifth,
1H6 2.5. 83 Succeeding his father Bolingbroke, did reign,
1H6 2.5. 84 Thy father, Earl of Cambridge then, derived
1H6 2.5. 85 From famous Edmund Langley, Duke of York,
1H6 2.5. 86 Marrying my sister that thy mother was,
1H6 2.5. 87 Again, in pity of my hard distress,
1H6 2.5. 88 Levied an army, weening to redeem
1H6 2.5. 89 And have installed me in the diadem;
1H6 2.5. 90 But, as the rest, so fell that noble earl,
1H6 2.5. 91 And was beheaded. Thus the Mortimers,
1H6 2.5. 92 In whom the title rested, were suppressed.
1H6 2.5. 93
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
Of which, my lord, your honour is the last.
1H6 2.5. 94
1H6-MORTIMER
True, and thou seest that I no issue have,
1H6 2.5. 95 And that my fainting words do warrant death.
1H6 2.5. 96 Thou art my heir. The rest I wish thee gather -
1H6 2.5. 97 But yet be wary in thy studious care.
1H6 2.5. 98
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
Thy grave admonishments prevail with me.
1H6 2.5. 99 But yet methinks my father's execution
1H6 2.5. 100 Was nothing less than bloody tyranny.
1H6 2.5. 101
1H6-MORTIMER
With silence, nephew, be thou politic.
1H6 2.5. 102 Strong-fixed is the house of Lancaster,
1H6 2.5. 103 And like a mountain, not to be removed.
1H6 2.5. 104 But now thy uncle is removing hence,
1H6 2.5. 105 As princes do their courts, when they are cloyed
1H6 2.5. 106 With long continuance in a settled place.
1H6 2.5. 107
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
O uncle, would some part of my young years
1H6 2.5. 108 Might but redeem the passage of your age.
1H6 2.5. 109
1H6-MORTIMER
Thou dost then wrong me, as that slaughterer doth
1H6 2.5. 110 Which giveth many wounds when one will kill.
1H6 2.5. 111 Mourn not, except thou sorrow for my good.
1H6 2.5. 112 Only give order for my funeral.
1H6 2.5. 113 And so farewell, and fair be all thy hopes,
1H6 2.5. 114 And prosperous be thy life in peace and war. {Dies}
1H6 2.5. 115
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
And peace, no war, befall thy parting +
1H6 2.5. 115 soul.
1H6 2.5. 116 In prison hast thou spent a pilgrimage,
1H6 2.5. 117 And like a hermit overpassed thy days.
1H6 2.5. 118 Well, I will lock his counsel in my breast,
1H6 2.5. 119 And what I do imagine, let that rest.
1H6 2.5. 120 Keepers, convey him hence, and I myself
1H6 2.5. 121 Will see his burial better than his life. {Exeunt Keepers with +
1H6 2.5. 121 Mortimer's body}
1H6 2.5. 122 Here dies the dusky torch of Mortimer,
1H6 2.5. 123 Choked with ambition of the meaner sort.
1H6 2.5. 124 And for those wrongs, those bitter injuries,
1H6 2.5. 125 Which Somerset hath offered to my house,
1H6 2.5. 126 I doubt not but with honour to redress.
1H6 2.5. 127 And therefore haste I to the Parliament,
1H6 2.5. 128 Either to be restored to my blood,
1H6 2.5. 129 Or make mine ill th' advantage of my good. {Exit}
1H6 2.5. 0
1H6 2.5. 0 {Flourish. Enter young King Henry, the Dukes of +
1H6 3.1. 0 Exeter and Gloucester, the Bishop of Winchester; the Duke of Somerset +
1H6 3.1. 0 and the Earl of Suffolk [with red roses]; the Earl of Warwick and +
1H6 3.1. 0 Richard Plantagenet [with white roses]. Gloucester offers to put up a +
1H6 3.1. 0 bill; Winchester snatches it, tears it}
1H6 3.1. 1
1H6-WINCHESTER
Com'st thou with deep premeditated lines?
1H6 3.1. 2 With written pamphlets studiously devised?
1H6 3.1. 3 Humphrey of Gloucester, if thou canst accuse,
1H6 3.1. 4 Or aught intend'st to lay unto my charge,
1H6 3.1. 5 Do it without invention, suddenly,
1H6 3.1. 6 As I with sudden and extemporal speech
1H6 3.1. 7 Purpose to answer what thou canst object.
1H6 3.1. 8
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Presumptuous priest, this place commands my patience,
1H6 3.1. 9 Or thou shouldst find thou hast dishonoured me.
1H6 3.1. 10 Think not, although in writing I preferred
1H6 3.1. 11 The manner of thy vile outrageous crimes,
1H6 3.1. 12 That therefore I have forged, or am not able
1H6 3.1. 13 Verbatim to rehearse the method of my pen.
1H6 3.1. 14 No, prelate, such is thy audacious wickedness,
1H6 3.1. 15 Thy lewd, pestiferous, and dissentious pranks,
1H6 3.1. 16 As very infants prattle of thy pride.
1H6 3.1. 17 Thou art a most pernicious usurer,
1H6 3.1. 18 Froward by nature, enemy to peace,
1H6 3.1. 19 Lascivious, wanton, more than well beseems
1H6 3.1. 20 A man of thy profession and degree.
1H6 3.1. 21 And for thy treachery, what's more manifest? -
1H6 3.1. 22 In that thou laid'st a trap to take my life,
1H6 3.1. 23 As well at London Bridge as at the Tower.
1H6 3.1. 24 Beside, I fear me, if thy thoughts were sifted,
1H6 3.1. 25 The King thy sovereign is not quite exempt
1H6 3.1. 26 From envious malice of thy swelling heart.
1H6 3.1. 27
1H6-WINCHESTER
Gloucester, I do defy thee. - Lords, vouchsafe
1H6 3.1. 28 To give me hearing what I shall reply.
1H6 3.1. 29 If I were covetous, ambitious, or perverse,
1H6 3.1. 30 As he will have me, how am I so poor?
1H6 3.1. 31 Or how haps it I seek not to advance
1H6 3.1. 32 Or raise myself, but keep my wonted calling?
1H6 3.1. 33 And for dissension, who preferreth peace
1H6 3.1. 34 More than I do? - except I be provoked.
1H6 3.1. 35 No, my good lords, it is not that offends;
1H6 3.1. 36 It is not that that hath incensed the Duke.
1H6 3.1. 37 It is because no one should sway but he,
1H6 3.1. 38 No one but he should be about the King -
1H6 3.1. 39 And that engenders thunder in his breast
1H6 3.1. 40 And makes him roar these accusations forth.
1H6 3.1. 41 But he shall know I am as good -
1H6 3.1. 42A
1H6-GLOUCESTER
As good? -
1H6 3.1. 43 Thou bastard of my grandfather.
1H6 3.1. 44
1H6-WINCHESTER
Ay, lordly sir; for what are you, I pray,
1H6 3.1. 45 But one imperious in another's throne?
1H6 3.1. 46
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Am I not Protector, saucy priest?
1H6 3.1. 47
1H6-WINCHESTER
And am not I a prelate of the Church?
1H6 3.1. 48
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Yes - as an outlaw in a castle keeps
1H6 3.1. 49 And useth it to patronage his theft.
1H6 3.1. 50B
1H6-WINCHESTER
Unreverent Gloucester.
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Thou art reverend
1H6 3.1. 51 Touching thy spiritual function, not thy life.
1H6 3.1. 52B
1H6-WINCHESTER
Rome shall remedy this.
1H6-[GLOUCESTER]
Roam thither +
1H6 3.1. 52B then.
1H6 3.1. 53
1H6-[WARWICK]
{(to Winchester)} My lord, it were your +
1H6 3.1. 53 duty to forbear.
1H6 3.1. 54
1H6-SOMERSET
Ay, so the bishop be not overborne:
1H6 3.1. 55 Methinks my lord should be religious,
1H6 3.1. 56 And know the office that belongs to such.
1H6 3.1. 57
1H6-WARWICK
Methinks his lordship should be humbler.
1H6 3.1. 58 It fitteth not a prelate so to plead.
1H6 3.1. 59
1H6-SOMERSET
Yes, when his holy state is touched so near.
1H6 3.1. 60
1H6-WARWICK
State holy or unhallowed, what of that?
1H6 3.1. 61 Is not his grace Protector to the King?
1H6 3.1. 62
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
{(aside)} Plantagenet, I see, +
1H6 3.1. 62 must hold his tongue,
1H6 3.1. 63 Lest it be said, `Speak, sirrah, when you should;
1H6 3.1. 64 Must your bold verdict intertalk with lords?'
1H6 3.1. 65 Else would I have a fling at Winchester.
1H6 3.1. 66
1H6-KING HENRY
Uncles of Gloucester and of Winchester,
1H6 3.1. 67 The special watchmen of our English weal,
1H6 3.1. 68 I would prevail, if prayers might prevail,
1H6 3.1. 69 To join your hearts in love and amity.
1H6 3.1. 70 O what a scandal is it to our crown
1H6 3.1. 71 That two such noble peers as ye should jar!
1H6 3.1. 72 Believe me, lords, my tender years can tell
1H6 3.1. 73 Civil dissension is a viperous worm
1H6 3.1. 74 That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth. {A noise within}
1H6 3.1. 75A
1H6-[SERVINGMEN]
{(within)} Down with the tawny coats!
1H6 3.1. 76B
1H6-KING HENRY
What tumult's this?
1H6-WARWICK
An uproar, I dare +
1H6 3.1. 76B warrant,
1H6 3.1. 77 Begun through malice of the Bishop's men. {A noise again}
1H6 3.1. 78A
1H6-[SERVINGMEN]
{(within)} Stones, stones! +
1H6 3.1. 78A {Enter the Mayor of London}
1H6 3.1. 79
1H6-MAYOR
O my good lords, and virtuous Henry,
1H6 3.1. 80 Pity the city of London, pity us!
1H6 3.1. 81 The Bishop and the Duke of Gloucester's men,
1H6 3.1. 82 Forbidden late to carry any weapon,
1H6 3.1. 83 Have filled their pockets full of pebble stones
1H6 3.1. 84 And, banding themselves in contrary parts,
1H6 3.1. 85 Do pelt so fast at one another's pate
1H6 3.1. 86 That many have their giddy brains knocked out.
1H6 3.1. 87 Our windows are broke down in every street,
1H6 3.1. 88 And we for fear compelled to shut our shops. {Enter in skirmish, +
1H6 3.1. 88 with bloody pates, Winchester's Servingmen in tawny coats and +
1H6 3.1. 88 Gloucester's in blue coats}
1H6 3.1. 89
1H6-KING HENRY
We charge you, on allegiance to ourself,
1H6 3.1. 90 To hold your slaught'ring hands and keep the peace. {[The +
1H6 3.1. 90 skirmish ceases]}
1H6 3.1. 91 Pray, Uncle Gloucester, mitigate this strife.
1H6 3.1. 92
1H6-FIRST SERVINGMAN
Nay, if we be forbidden stones, we'll
1H6 3.1. 93 fall to it with our teeth.
1H6 3.1. 94
1H6-SECOND SERVINGMAN
Do what ye dare, we are as +
1H6 3.1. 94 resolute. {Skirmish again}
1H6 3.1. 95
1H6-GLOUCESTER
You of my household, leave this peevish broil,
1H6 3.1. 96 And set this unaccustomed fight aside.
1H6 3.1. 97
1H6-THIRD SERVINGMAN
My lord, we know your grace to be a man
1H6 3.1. 98 Just and upright and, for your royal birth,
1H6 3.1. 99 Inferior to none but to his majesty;
1H6 3.1. 100 And ere that we will suffer such a prince,
1H6 3.1. 101 So kind a father of the commonweal,
1H6 3.1. 102 To be disgraced by an inkhorn mate,
1H6 3.1. 103 We and our wives and children all will fight
1H6 3.1. 104 And have our bodies slaughtered by thy foes.
1H6 3.1. 105
1H6-FIRST SERVINGMAN
Ay, and the very parings of our nails
1H6 3.1. 106B Shall pitch a field when we are dead. {They begin to skirmish +
1H6 3.1. 106B again}
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Stay, stay, I say!
1H6 3.1. 107 An if you love me as you say you do,
1H6 3.1. 108 Let me persuade you to forbear a while.
1H6 3.1. 109
1H6-KING HENRY
O how this discord doth afflict my soul!
1H6 3.1. 110 Can you, my lord of Winchester, behold
1H6 3.1. 111 My sighs and tears, and will not once relent?
1H6 3.1. 112 Who should be pitiful if you be not?
1H6 3.1. 113 Or who should study to prefer a peace,
1H6 3.1. 114 If holy churchmen take delight in broils?
1H6 3.1. 115
1H6-WARWICK
Yield, my lord Protector; yield, Winchester -
1H6 3.1. 116 Except you mean with obstinate repulse
1H6 3.1. 117 To slay your sovereign and destroy the realm.
1H6 3.1. 118 You see what mischief - and what murder, too -
1H6 3.1. 119 Hath been enacted through your enmity.
1H6 3.1. 120 Then be at peace, except ye thirst for blood.
1H6 3.1. 121
1H6-WINCHESTER
He shall submit, or I will never yield.
1H6 3.1. 122
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Compassion on the King commands me stoop,
1H6 3.1. 123 Or I would see his heart out ere the priest
1H6 3.1. 124 Should ever get that privilege of me.
1H6 3.1. 125
1H6-WARWICK
Behold, my lord of Winchester, the Duke
1H6 3.1. 126 Hath banished moody discontented fury,
1H6 3.1. 127 As by his smoothed brows it doth appear.
1H6 3.1. 128 Why look you still so stern and tragical?
1H6 3.1. 129
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Here, Winchester, I offer thee my hand.
1H6 3.1. 130
1H6-KING HENRY
{(to Winchester)} Fie, Uncle Beaufort! +
1H6 3.1. 130 I have heard you preach
1H6 3.1. 131 That malice was a great and grievous sin;
1H6 3.1. 132 And will not you maintain the thing you teach,
1H6 3.1. 133 But prove a chief offender in the same?
1H6 3.1. 134
1H6-WARWICK
Sweet King! The Bishop hath a kindly gird.
1H6 3.1. 135 For shame, my lord of Winchester, relent.
1H6 3.1. 136 What, shall a child instruct you what to do?
1H6 3.1. 137
1H6-WINCHESTER
Well, Duke of Gloucester, I will yield to thee
1H6 3.1. 138 Love for thy love, and hand for hand I give.
1H6 3.1. 139
1H6-GLOUCESTER
{(aside)} Ay, but I fear me with a +
1H6 3.1. 139 hollow heart.
1H6 3.1. 140 {(To the others)} See here, my friends and loving +
1H6 3.1. 140 countrymen,
1H6 3.1. 141 This token serveth for a flag of truce
1H6 3.1. 142 Betwixt ourselves and all our followers.
1H6 3.1. 143 So help me God, as I dissemble not.
1H6 3.1. 144
1H6-WINCHESTER
So help me God {(aside)} as I intend it +
1H6 3.1. 144 not.
1H6 3.1. 145
1H6-KING HENRY
O loving uncle, kind Duke of Gloucester,
1H6 3.1. 146 How joyful am I made by this contract!
1H6 3.1. 147 {(To Servingmen)} Away, my masters, trouble us no +
1H6 3.1. 147 more,
1H6 3.1. 148 But join in friendship as your lords have done.
1H6 3.1. 149A
1H6-FIRST SERVINGMAN
Content. I'll to the surgeon's.
1H6 3.1. 150A
1H6-SECOND SERVINGMAN
And so will I.
1H6 3.1. 151
1H6-THIRD SERVINGMAN
And I will see what physic the tavern
1H6 3.1. 152 affords. {Exeunt the Mayor and Servingmen}
1H6 3.1. 153
1H6-WARWICK
Accept this scroll, most gracious sovereign,
1H6 3.1. 154 Which in the right of Richard Plantagenet
1H6 3.1. 155 We do exhibit to your majesty.
1H6 3.1. 156
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Well urged, my lord of Warwick - for, sweet prince,
1H6 3.1. 157 An if your grace mark every circumstance,
1H6 3.1. 158 You have great reason to do Richard right,
1H6 3.1. 159 Especially for those occasions
1H6 3.1. 160 At Eltham Place I told your majesty.
1H6 3.1. 161
1H6-KING HENRY
And those occasions, uncle, were of force. -
1H6 3.1. 162 Therefore, my loving lords, our pleasure is
1H6 3.1. 163 That Richard be restored to his blood.
1H6 3.1. 164
1H6-WARWICK
Let Richard be restored to his blood.
1H6 3.1. 165 So shall his father's wrongs be recompensed.
1H6 3.1. 166
1H6-WINCHESTER
As will the rest, so willeth Winchester.
1H6 3.1. 167
1H6-KING HENRY
If Richard will be true, not that alone
1H6 3.1. 168 But all the whole inheritance I give
1H6 3.1. 169 That doth belong unto the house of York,
1H6 3.1. 170 From whence you spring by lineal descent.
1H6 3.1. 171
1H6-RICHARD PLANTAGENET
Thy humble servant vows obedience
1H6 3.1. 172 And humble service till the point of death.
1H6 3.1. 173
1H6-KING HENRY
Stoop then, and set your knee against my foot. +
1H6 3.1. 173 {Richard kneels}
1H6 3.1. 174 And in reguerdon of that duty done,
1H6 3.1. 175 I gird thee with the valiant sword of York.
1H6 3.1. 176 Rise, Richard, like a true Plantagenet,
1H6 3.1. 177 And rise created princely Duke of York.
1H6 3.1. 178
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
{(rising)} And so thrive +
1H6 3.1. 178 Richard, as thy foes may fall;
1H6 3.1. 179 And as my duty springs, so perish they
1H6 3.1. 180 That grudge one thought against your majesty.
1H6 3.1. 181
1H6-ALL BUT RICHARD AND SOMERSET
Welcome, high prince, the mighty Duke +
1H6 3.1. 181 of York!
1H6 3.1. 182
1H6-SOMERSET
{(aside)} Perish, base prince, ignoble +
1H6 3.1. 182 Duke of York!
1H6 3.1. 183
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Now will it best avail your majesty
1H6 3.1. 184 To cross the seas and to be crowned in France.
1H6 3.1. 185 The presence of a king engenders love
1H6 3.1. 186 Amongst his subjects and his loyal friends,
1H6 3.1. 187 As it disanimates his enemies.
1H6 3.1. 188
1H6-KING HENRY
When Gloucester says the word, King Henry goes,
1H6 3.1. 189 For friendly counsel cuts off many foes.
1H6 3.1. 190
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Your ships already are in readiness. {Sennet. +
1H6 3.1. 190 Exeunt all but Exeter}
1H6 3.1. 191
1H6-EXETER
Ay, we may march in England or in France,
1H6 3.1. 192 Not seeing what is likely to ensue.
1H6 3.1. 193 This late dissension grown betwixt the peers
1H6 3.1. 194 Burns under feigned ashes of forged love,
1H6 3.1. 195 And will at last break out into a flame.
1H6 3.1. 196 As festered members rot but by degree
1H6 3.1. 197 Till bones and flesh and sinews fall away,
1H6 3.1. 198 So will this base and envious discord breed.
1H6 3.1. 199 And now I fear that fatal prophecy
1H6 3.1. 200 Which, in the time of Henry named the Fifth,
1H6 3.1. 201 Was in the mouth of every sucking babe:
1H6 3.1. 202 That `Henry born at Monmouth should win all,
1H6 3.1. 203 And Henry born at Windsor should lose all' -
1H6 3.1. 204 Which is so plain that Exeter doth wish
1H6 3.1. 205 His days may finish, ere that hapless time. {Exit}
1H6 3.1. 0 {Enter Joan la Pucelle, disguised, with four French +
1H6 3.2. 0 Soldiers with sacks upon their backs}
1H6 3.2. 1
1H6-JOAN
These are the city gates, the gates of Rouen,
1H6 3.2. 2 Through which our policy must make a breach.
1H6 3.2. 3 Take heed. Be wary how you place your words.
1H6 3.2. 4 Talk like the vulgar sort of market men
1H6 3.2. 5 That come to gather money for their corn.
1H6 3.2. 6 If we have entrance, as I hope we shall,
1H6 3.2. 7 And that we find the slothful watch but weak,
1H6 3.2. 8 I'll by a sign give notice to our friends,
1H6 3.2. 9 That Charles the Dauphin may encounter them.
1H6 3.2. 10 A
1H6-SOLDIER
Our sacks shall be a mean to sack the city,
1H6 3.2. 11 And we be lords and rulers over Rouen.
1H6 3.2. 12 Therefore we'll knock. {They knock}
1H6 3.2. 13B
1H6-WATCH
{(within)} {Qui la?}
1H6-JOAN
{Paysans, la +
1H6 3.2. 13B pauvre gens de France:}
1H6 3.2. 14 Poor market folks that come to sell their corn.
1H6 3.2. 15
1H6-WATCH
{(opening the gates)} Enter, go in. The +
1H6 3.2. 15 market bell is rung.
1H6 3.2. 16
1H6-JOAN
{(aside)} Now, Rouen, I'll shake thy bulwarks +
1H6 3.2. 16 to the ground. {Exeunt}
1H6 3.2. 0 {Enter Charles the Dauphin, the Bastard of Orle/ans, [the +
1H6 3.3. 0 Duke of Alenc@on, Rene/ Duke of Anjou, and French soldiers]}
1H6 3.3. 1
1H6-CHARLES
Saint Denis bless this happy stratagem,
1H6 3.3. 2 And once again we'll sleep secure in Rouen.
1H6 3.3. 3
1H6-BASTARD
Here entered Pucelle and her practisants.
1H6 3.3. 4 Now she is there, how will she specify
1H6 3.3. 5 `Here is the best and safest passage in'?
1H6 3.3. 6
1H6-RENE
By thrusting out a torch from yonder tower -
1H6 3.3. 7 Which, once discerned, shows that her meaning is:
1H6 3.3. 8 No way to that, for weakness, which she entered. {Enter Joan la +
1H6 3.3. 8 Pucelle on the top, thrusting out a torch burning}
1H6 3.3. 9
1H6-JOAN
Behold, this is the happy wedding torch
1H6 3.3. 10 That joineth Rouen unto her countrymen,
1H6 3.3. 11 But burning fatal to the Talbonites.
1H6 3.3. 12
1H6-BASTARD
See, noble Charles, the beacon of our friend.
1H6 3.3. 13 The burning torch in yonder turret stands.
1H6 3.3. 14
1H6-CHARLES
Now shine it like a comet of revenge,
1H6 3.3. 15 A prophet to the fall of all our foes!
1H6 3.3. 16
1H6-RENE
Defer no time; delays have dangerous ends.
1H6 3.3. 17 Enter and cry, `The Dauphin!', presently,
1H6 3.3. 18 And then do execution on the watch. {Alarum. Exeunt}
1H6 3.3. 0 {An alarum. Enter Lord Talbot in an excursion}
1H6 3.4. 1
1H6-TALBOT
France, thou shalt rue this treason with thy +
1H6 3.4. 1 tears,
1H6 3.4. 2 If Talbot but survive thy treachery.
1H6 3.4. 3 Pucelle, that witch, that damned sorceress,
1H6 3.4. 4 Hath wrought this hellish mischief unawares,
1H6 3.4. 5 That hardly we escaped the pride of France. {Exit}
1H6 3.4. 0 {An alarum. Excursions. The Duke of Bedford brought in +
1H6 3.5. 0 sick, in a chair. Enter Lord Talbot and the Duke of Burgundy, without; +
1H6 3.5. 0 within, Joan la Pucelle, Charles the Dauphin, the Bastard of Orle/ans, +
1H6 3.5. 0 [the Duke of Alenc@on, and Rene/ Duke of Anjou] on the walls}
1H6 3.5. 1
1H6-JOAN
Good morrow gallants. Want ye corn for bread?
1H6 3.5. 2 I think the Duke of Burgundy will fast
1H6 3.5. 3 Before he'll buy again at such a rate.
1H6 3.5. 4 'Twas full of darnel. Do you like the taste?
1H6 3.5. 5
1H6-BURGUNDY
Scoff on, vile fiend and shameless courtesan.
1H6 3.5. 6 I trust ere long to choke thee with thine own,
1H6 3.5. 7 And make thee curse the harvest of that corn.
1H6 3.5. 8
1H6-CHARLES
Your grace may starve, perhaps, before that time.
1H6 3.5. 9
1H6-BEDFORD
O let no words, but deeds, revenge this treason.
1H6 3.5. 10
1H6-JOAN
What will you do, good graybeard? Break a lance
1H6 3.5. 11 And run a-tilt at death within a chair?
1H6 3.5. 12
1H6-TALBOT
Foul fiend of France, and hag of all despite,
1H6 3.5. 13 Encompassed with thy lustful paramours,
1H6 3.5. 14 Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age
1H6 3.5. 15 And twit with cowardice a man half dead?
1H6 3.5. 16 Damsel, I'll have a bout with you again,
1H6 3.5. 17 Or else let Talbot perish with this shame.
1H6 3.5. 18
1H6-JOAN
Are ye so hot, sir? - Yet, Pucelle, hold thy peace.
1H6 3.5. 19 If Talbot do but thunder, rain will follow. {The English whisper +
1H6 3.5. 19 together in counsel}
1H6 3.5. 20 God speed the parliament; who shall be the Speaker?
1H6 3.5. 21
1H6-TALBOT
Dare ye come forth and meet us in the field?
1H6 3.5. 22
1H6-JOAN
Belike your lordship takes us then for fools,
1H6 3.5. 23 To try if that our own be ours or no.
1H6 3.5. 24
1H6-TALBOT
I speak not to that railing Hecate
1H6 3.5. 25 But unto thee, Alenc@on, and the rest.
1H6 3.5. 26 Will ye, like soldiers, come and fight it out?
1H6 3.5. 27B
1H6-ALENC@ON
Seignieur, no.
1H6-TALBOT
Seignieur, hang! Base muleteers +
1H6 3.5. 27B of France,
1H6 3.5. 28 Like peasant footboys do they keep the walls
1H6 3.5. 29 And dare not take up arms like gentlemen.
1H6 3.5. 30
1H6-JOAN
Away, captains, let's get us from the walls,
1H6 3.5. 31 For Talbot means no goodness by his looks.
1H6 3.5. 32 Goodbye, my lord. We came but to tell you
1H6 3.5. 33 That we are here. {Exeunt French from the walls}
1H6 3.5. 34
1H6-TALBOT
And there will we be, too, ere it be long,
1H6 3.5. 35 Or else reproach be Talbot's greatest fame.
1H6 3.5. 36 Vow Burgundy, by honour of thy house,
1H6 3.5. 37 Pricked on by public wrongs sustained in France,
1H6 3.5. 38 Either to get the town again or die.
1H6 3.5. 39 And I - as sure as English Henry lives,
1H6 3.5. 40 And as his father here was conqueror;
1H6 3.5. 41 As sure as in this late betrayed town
1H6 3.5. 42 Great Coeur-de-lion's heart was buried -
1H6 3.5. 43 So sure I swear to get the town or die.
1H6 3.5. 44
1H6-BURGUNDY
My vows are equal partners with thy vows.
1H6 3.5. 45
1H6-TALBOT
But ere we go, regard this dying prince,
1H6 3.5. 46 The valiant Duke of Bedford. {(To Bedford)} Come, my +
1H6 3.5. 46 lord,
1H6 3.5. 47 We will bestow you in some better place,
1H6 3.5. 48 Fitter for sickness and for crazy age.
1H6 3.5. 49
1H6-BEDFORD
Lord Talbot, do not so dishonour me.
1H6 3.5. 50 Here will I sit before the walls of Rouen,
1H6 3.5. 51 And will be partner of your weal or woe.
1H6 3.5. 52
1H6-BURGUNDY
Courageous Bedford, let us now persuade you.
1H6 3.5. 53
1H6-BEDFORD
Not to be gone from hence; for once I read
1H6 3.5. 54 That stout Pendragon, in his litter sick,
1H6 3.5. 55 Came to the field and vanquished his foes.
1H6 3.5. 56 Methinks I should revive the soldiers' hearts,
1H6 3.5. 57 Because I ever found them as myself.
1H6 3.5. 58
1H6-TALBOT
Undaunted spirit in a dying breast!
1H6 3.5. 59 Then be it so; heavens keep old Bedford safe.
1H6 3.5. 60 And now no more ado, brave Burgundy,
1H6 3.5. 61 But gather we our forces out of hand,
1H6 3.5. 62 And set upon our boasting enemy. {Exit with Burgundy}
1H6 3.5. 63 {An alarum. Excursions. Enter Sir John Fastolf and a +
1H6 3.5. 63 Captain}
1H6-CAPTAIN
Whither away, Sir John Fastolf, in such +
1H6 3.5. 63 haste?
1H6 3.5. 64
1H6-FASTOLF
Whither away? To save myself by flight.
1H6 3.5. 65 We are like to have the overthrow again.
1H6 3.5. 66
1H6-CAPTAIN
What, will you fly, and leave Lord Talbot?
1H6 3.5. 67
1H6-FASTOLF
Ay, all the Talbots in the world, to save my life. +
1H6 3.5. 67 {Exit}
1H6 3.5. 68
1H6-CAPTAIN
Cowardly knight, ill fortune follow thee! +
1H6 3.5. 68 {Exit}
1H6 3.5. 69 {Retreat. Excursions. Joan, Alenc@on, and Charles +
1H6 3.5. 69 fly}
1H6-BEDFORD
Now, quiet soul, depart when heaven please,
1H6 3.5. 70 For I have seen our enemies' overthrow.
1H6 3.5. 71 What is the trust or strength of foolish man?
1H6 3.5. 72 They that of late were daring with their scoffs
1H6 3.5. 73 Are glad and fain by flight to save themselves. {Bedford dies, +
1H6 3.5. 73 and is carried in by two in his chair}
1H6 3.5. 0 {An alarum. Enter Lord Talbot, the Duke of Burgundy, and the rest +
1H6 3.6. 0 of the English soldiers}
1H6 3.6. 1
1H6-TALBOT
Lost and recovered in a day again!
1H6 3.6. 2 This is a double honour, Burgundy;
1H6 3.6. 3 Yet heavens have glory for this victory!
1H6 3.6. 4
1H6-BURGUNDY
Warlike and martial Talbot, Burgundy
1H6 3.6. 5 Enshrines thee in his heart, and there erects
1H6 3.6. 6 Thy noble deeds as valour's monuments.
1H6 3.6. 7
1H6-TALBOT
Thanks, gentle Duke. But where is Pucelle now?
1H6 3.6. 8 I think her old familiar is asleep.
1H6 3.6. 9 Now where's the Bastard's braves, and Charles his gleeks?
1H6 3.6. 10 What, all amort? Rouen hangs her head for grief
1H6 3.6. 11 That such a valiant company are fled.
1H6 3.6. 12 Now will we take some order in the town,
1H6 3.6. 13 Placing therein some expert officers,
1H6 3.6. 14 And then depart to Paris, to the King,
1H6 3.6. 15 For there young Henry with his nobles lie.
1H6 3.6. 16
1H6-BURGUNDY
What wills Lord Talbot pleaseth Burgundy.
1H6 3.6. 17
1H6-TALBOT
But yet, before we go, let's not forget
1H6 3.6. 18 The noble Duke of Bedford late deceased,
1H6 3.6. 19 But see his exequies fulfilled in Rouen.
1H6 3.6. 20 A braver soldier never couched lance;
1H6 3.6. 21 A gentler heart did never sway in court.
1H6 3.6. 22 But kings and mightiest potentates must die,
1H6 3.6. 23 For that's the end of human misery. {Exeunt}
1H6 3.6. 0 {Enter Charles the Dauphin, the Bastard of Orle/ans, the +
1H6 3.7. 0 Duke of Alenc@on, Joan la Pucelle, [and French soldiers]}
1H6 3.7. 1
1H6-JOAN
Dismay not, princes, at this accident,
1H6 3.7. 2 Nor grieve that Rouen is so recovered.
1H6 3.7. 3 Care is no cure, but rather corrosive,
1H6 3.7. 4 For things that are not to be remedied.
1H6 3.7. 5 Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while,
1H6 3.7. 6 And like a peacock sweep along his tail;
1H6 3.7. 7 We'll pull his plumes and take away his train,
1H6 3.7. 8 If Dauphin and the rest will be but ruled.
1H6 3.7. 9
1H6-CHARLES
We have been guided by thee hitherto,
1H6 3.7. 10 And of thy cunning had no diffidence.
1H6 3.7. 11 One sudden foil shall never breed distrust.
1H6 3.7. 12
1H6-BASTARD
{(to Joan)} Search out thy wit for secret +
1H6 3.7. 12 policies,
1H6 3.7. 13 And we will make thee famous through the world.
1H6 3.7. 14
1H6-ALENC@ON
{(to Joan)} We'll set thy statue in some +
1H6 3.7. 14 holy place
1H6 3.7. 15 And have thee reverenced like a blessed saint.
1H6 3.7. 16 Employ thee then, sweet virgin, for our good.
1H6 3.7. 17
1H6-JOAN
Then thus it must be; this doth Joan devise:
1H6 3.7. 18 By fair persuasions mixed with sugared words
1H6 3.7. 19 We will entice the Duke of Burgundy
1H6 3.7. 20 To leave the Talbot and to follow us.
1H6 3.7. 21
1H6-CHARLES
Ay, marry, sweeting, if we could do that
1H6 3.7. 22 France were no place for Henry's warriors,
1H6 3.7. 23 Nor should that nation boast it so with us,
1H6 3.7. 24 But be extirped from our provinces.
1H6 3.7. 25
1H6-ALENC@ON
For ever should they be expulsed from France
1H6 3.7. 26 And not have title of an earldom here.
1H6 3.7. 27
1H6-JOAN
Your honours shall perceive how I will work
1H6 3.7. 28 To bring this matter to the wished end. {Drum sounds afar off}
1H6 3.7. 29 Hark, by the sound of drum you may perceive
1H6 3.7. 30 Their powers are marching unto Paris-ward. {Here sound an +
1H6 3.7. 30 English march}
1H6 3.7. 31 There goes the Talbot, with his colours spread,
1H6 3.7. 32 And all the troops of English after him. {Here sound a French +
1H6 3.7. 32 march}
1H6 3.7. 33 Now in the rearward comes the Duke and his;
1H6 3.7. 34 Fortune in favour makes him lag behind.
1H6 3.7. 35 Summon a parley. We will talk with him. {Trumpets sound a +
1H6 3.7. 35 parley}
1H6 3.7. 36
1H6-CHARLES
{[calling]} A parley with the Duke of +
1H6 3.7. 36 Burgundy. {[Enter the Duke of Burgundy]}
1H6 3.7. 37
1H6-BURGUNDY
Who craves a parley with the Burgundy?
1H6 3.7. 38
1H6-JOAN
The princely Charles of France, thy countryman.
1H6 3.7. 39
1H6-BURGUNDY
What sayst thou, Charles? - for I am marching hence.
1H6 3.7. 40
1H6-CHARLES
Speak, Pucelle, and enchant him with thy words.
1H6 3.7. 41
1H6-JOAN
Brave Burgundy, undoubted hope of France,
1H6 3.7. 42 Stay. Let thy humble handmaid speak to thee.
1H6 3.7. 43
1H6-BURGUNDY
Speak on, but be not over-tedious.
1H6 3.7. 44
1H6-JOAN
Look on thy country, look on fertile France,
1H6 3.7. 45 And see the cities and the towns defaced
1H6 3.7. 46 By wasting ruin of the cruel foe.
1H6 3.7. 47 As looks the mother on her lowly babe
1H6 3.7. 48 When death doth close his tender-dying eyes,
1H6 3.7. 49 See, see the pining malady of France;
1H6 3.7. 50 Behold the wounds, the most unnatural wounds,
1H6 3.7. 51 Which thou thyself hast given her woeful breast.
1H6 3.7. 52 O turn thy edged sword another way,
1H6 3.7. 53 Strike those that hurt, and hurt not those that help.
1H6 3.7. 54 One drop of blood drawn from thy country's bosom
1H6 3.7. 55 Should grieve thee more than streams of foreign gore.
1H6 3.7. 56 Return thee, therefore, with a flood of tears,
1H6 3.7. 57 And wash away thy country's stained spots.
1H6 3.7. 58
1H6-BURGUNDY
{[aside]} Either she hath bewitched me +
1H6 3.7. 58 with her words,
1H6 3.7. 59 Or nature makes me suddenly relent.
1H6 3.7. 60
1H6-JOAN
Besides, all French and France exclaims on thee,
1H6 3.7. 61 Doubting thy birth and lawful progeny.
1H6 3.7. 62 Who join'st thou with but with a lordly nation
1H6 3.7. 63 That will not trust thee but for profit's sake?
1H6 3.7. 64 When Talbot hath set footing once in France
1H6 3.7. 65 And fashioned thee that instrument of ill,
1H6 3.7. 66 Who then but English Henry will be lord,
1H6 3.7. 67 And thou be thrust out like a fugitive?
1H6 3.7. 68 Call we to mind, and mark but this for proof:
1H6 3.7. 69 Was not the Duke of Orle/ans thy foe?
1H6 3.7. 70 And was he not in England prisoner?
1H6 3.7. 71 But when they heard he was thine enemy
1H6 3.7. 72 They set him free, without his ransom paid,
1H6 3.7. 73 In spite of Burgundy and all his friends.
1H6 3.7. 74 See, then, thou fight'st against thy countrymen,
1H6 3.7. 75 And join'st with them will be thy slaughtermen.
1H6 3.7. 76 Come, come, return; return, thou wandering lord,
1H6 3.7. 77 Charles and the rest will take thee in their arms.
1H6 3.7. 78
1H6-BURGUNDY
{[aside]} I am vanquished. These haughty +
1H6 3.7. 78 words of hers
1H6 3.7. 79 Have battered me like roaring cannon-shot
1H6 3.7. 80 And made me almost yield upon my knees.
1H6 3.7. 81 {(To the others)} Forgive me, country, and sweet +
1H6 3.7. 81 countrymen;
1H6 3.7. 82 And lords, accept this hearty kind embrace.
1H6 3.7. 83 My forces and my power of men are yours.
1H6 3.7. 84 So farewell, Talbot. I'll no longer trust thee.
1H6 3.7. 85
1H6-JOAN
Done like a Frenchman - {[aside]} turn and turn +
1H6 3.7. 85 again.
1H6 3.7. 86
1H6-CHARLES
Welcome, brave Duke. Thy friendship makes us fresh.
1H6 3.7. 87
1H6-BASTARD
And doth beget new courage in our breasts.
1H6 3.7. 88
1H6-ALENC@ON
Pucelle hath bravely played her part in this,
1H6 3.7. 89 And doth deserve a coronet of gold.
1H6 3.7. 90
1H6-CHARLES
Now let us on, my lords, and join our powers,
1H6 3.7. 91 And seek how we may prejudice the foe. {Exeunt}
1H6 3.7. 0 {[Flourish.] Enter King Henry, the Duke of Gloucester, +
1H6 3.8. 0 the Bishop of Winchester, the Duke of Exeter; Richard Duke of York, the +
1H6 3.8. 0 Earl of Warwick, and Vernon [with white roses]; the Earl of Suffolk, +
1H6 3.8. 0 the Duke of Somerset, and Basset [with red roses]. To them, with his +
1H6 3.8. 0 soldiers, enter Lord Talbot}
1H6 3.8. 1
1H6-TALBOT
My gracious prince and honourable peers,
1H6 3.8. 2 Hearing of your arrival in this realm
1H6 3.8. 3 I have a while given truce unto my wars
1H6 3.8. 4 To do my duty to my sovereign;
1H6 3.8. 5 In sign whereof, this arm that hath reclaimed
1H6 3.8. 6 To your obedience fifty fortresses,
1H6 3.8. 7 Twelve cities, and seven walled towns of strength,
1H6 3.8. 8 Beside five hundred prisoners of esteem,
1H6 3.8. 9 Lets fall his sword before your highness' feet,
1H6 3.8. 10 And with submissive loyalty of heart
1H6 3.8. 11 Ascribes the glory of his conquest got
1H6 3.8. 12 First to my God, and next unto your grace. {[He kneels]}
1H6 3.8. 13
1H6-KING HENRY
Is this the Lord Talbot, uncle Gloucester,
1H6 3.8. 14 That hath so long been resident in France?
1H6 3.8. 15
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Yes, if it please your majesty, my liege.
1H6 3.8. 16
1H6-KING HENRY
{(to Talbot)} Welcome, brave captain +
1H6 3.8. 16 and victorious lord.
1H6 3.8. 17 When I was young - as yet I am not old -
1H6 3.8. 18 I do remember how my father said
1H6 3.8. 19 A stouter champion never handled sword.
1H6 3.8. 20 Long since we were resolved of your truth,
1H6 3.8. 21 Your faithful service and your toil in war,
1H6 3.8. 22 Yet never have you tasted our reward,
1H6 3.8. 23 Or been reguerdoned with so much as thanks,
1H6 3.8. 24 Because till now we never saw your face.
1H6 3.8. 25B Therefore stand up, {Talbot rises} and for these good +
1H6 3.8. 25B deserts
1H6 3.8. 26 We here create you Earl of Shrewsbury;
1H6 3.8. 27 And in our coronation take your place. {Sennet. Exeunt all but +
1H6 3.8. 27 Vernon and Basset}
1H6 3.8. 28
1H6-VERNON
Now sir, to you that were so hot at sea,
1H6 3.8. 29 Disgracing of these colours that I wear
1H6 3.8. 30 In honour of my noble lord of York,
1H6 3.8. 31 Dar'st thou maintain the former words thou spak'st?
1H6 3.8. 32
1H6-BASSET
Yes, sir, as well as you dare patronage
1H6 3.8. 33 The envious barking of your saucy tongue
1H6 3.8. 34 Against my lord the Duke of Somerset.
1H6 3.8. 35
1H6-VERNON
Sirrah, thy lord I honour as he is.
1H6 3.8. 36
1H6-BASSET
Why, what is he? - as good a man as York.
1H6 3.8. 37
1H6-VERNON
Hark ye, not so. In witness, take ye that. {Vernon +
1H6 3.8. 37 strikes him}
1H6 3.8. 38
1H6-BASSET
Villain, thou know'st the law of arms is such
1H6 3.8. 39 That whoso draws a sword 'tis present death,
1H6 3.8. 40 Or else this blow should broach thy dearest blood.
1H6 3.8. 41 But I'll unto his majesty and crave
1H6 3.8. 42 I may have liberty to venge this wrong,
1H6 3.8. 43 When thou shalt see I'll meet thee to thy cost.
1H6 3.8. 44
1H6-VERNON
Well, miscreant, I'll be there as soon as you,
1H6 3.8. 45 And after meet you sooner than you would. {Exeunt}
1H6 3.8. 0
1H6 3.8. 0 {[Flourish.] Enter King Henry, the Duke of +
1H6 4.1. 0 Gloucester, the Bishop of Winchester, the Duke of Exeter; Richard Duke +
1H6 4.1. 0 of York, and the Earl of Warwick with white roses; the Earl of Suffolk +
1H6 4.1. 0 and the Duke of Somerset with red roses; Lord Talbot, and the Governor +
1H6 4.1. 0 of Paris}
1H6 4.1. 1
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Lord Bishop, set the crown upon his head.
1H6 4.1. 2
1H6-WINCHESTER
God save King Henry, of that name the sixth! +
1H6 4.1. 2 {Winchester crowns the King}
1H6 4.1. 3
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Now, Governor of Paris, take your oath
1H6 4.1. 4 That you elect no other king but him;
1H6 4.1. 5 Esteem none friends but such as are his friends,
1H6 4.1. 6 And none your foes but such as shall pretend
1H6 4.1. 7 Malicious practices against his state.
1H6 4.1. 8 This shall ye do, so help you righteous God. {Enter Sir John +
1H6 4.1. 8 Fastolf with a letter}
1H6 4.1. 9
1H6-FASTOLF
My gracious sovereign, as I rode from Calais
1H6 4.1. 10 To haste unto your coronation
1H6 4.1. 11 A letter was delivered to my hands, {[He presents the letter]}
1H6 4.1. 12 Writ to your grace from th' Duke of Burgundy.
1H6 4.1. 13
1H6-TALBOT
Shame to the Duke of Burgundy and thee!
1H6 4.1. 14 I vowed, base knight, when I did meet thee next,
1H6 4.1. 15 To tear the Garter from thy craven's leg, {He tears it off}
1H6 4.1. 16 Which I have done because unworthily
1H6 4.1. 17 Thou wast installed in that high degree. -
1H6 4.1. 18 Pardon me, princely Henry and the rest.
1H6 4.1. 19 This dastard at the battle of Patay
1H6 4.1. 20 When but in all I was six thousand strong,
1H6 4.1. 21 And that the French were almost ten to one,
1H6 4.1. 22 Before we met, or that a stroke was given,
1H6 4.1. 23 Like to a trusty squire did run away;
1H6 4.1. 24 In which assault we lost twelve hundred men.
1H6 4.1. 25 Myself and divers gentlemen beside
1H6 4.1. 26 Were there surprised and taken prisoners.
1H6 4.1. 27 Then judge, great lords, if I have done amiss,
1H6 4.1. 28 Or whether that such cowards ought to wear
1H6 4.1. 29 This ornament of knighthood: yea or no?
1H6 4.1. 30
1H6-GLOUCESTER
To say the truth, this fact was infamous
1H6 4.1. 31 And ill beseeming any common man,
1H6 4.1. 32 Much more a knight, a captain and a leader.
1H6 4.1. 33
1H6-TALBOT
When first this order was ordained, my lords,
1H6 4.1. 34 Knights of the Garter were of noble birth,
1H6 4.1. 35 Valiant and virtuous, full of haughty courage,
1H6 4.1. 36 Such as were grown to credit by the wars;
1H6 4.1. 37 Not fearing death nor shrinking for distress,
1H6 4.1. 38 But always resolute in most extremes.
1H6 4.1. 39 He then that is not furnished in this sort
1H6 4.1. 40 Doth but usurp the sacred name of knight,
1H6 4.1. 41 Profaning this most honourable order,
1H6 4.1. 42 And should - if I were worthy to be judge -
1H6 4.1. 43 Be quite degraded, like a hedge-born swain
1H6 4.1. 44 That doth presume to boast of gentle blood.
1H6 4.1. 45
1H6-KING HENRY
{(to Fastolf)} Stain to thy countrymen, +
1H6 4.1. 45 thou hear'st thy doom.
1H6 4.1. 46 Be packing, therefore, thou that wast a knight.
1H6 4.1. 47 Henceforth we banish thee on pain of death. {Exit Fastolf}
1H6 4.1. 48 And now, my Lord Protector, view the letter
1H6 4.1. 49 Sent from our uncle, Duke of Burgundy.
1H6 4.1. 50
1H6-GLOUCESTER
What means his grace that he hath changed his style?
1H6 4.1. 51 No more but plain and bluntly `To the King'?
1H6 4.1. 52 Hath he forgot he is his sovereign?
1H6 4.1. 53 Or doth this churlish superscription
1H6 4.1. 54 Pretend some alteration in good will?
1H6 4.1. 55 What's here? `I have upon especial cause,
1H6 4.1. 56 Moved with compassion of my country's wrack
1H6 4.1. 57 Together with the pitiful complaints
1H6 4.1. 58 Of such as your oppression feeds upon,
1H6 4.1. 59 Forsaken your pernicious faction
1H6 4.1. 60 And joined with Charles, the rightful King of France.'
1H6 4.1. 61 O monstrous treachery! Can this be so?
1H6 4.1. 62 That in alliance, amity, and oaths
1H6 4.1. 63 There should be found such false dissembling guile?
1H6 4.1. 64
1H6-KING HENRY
What? Doth my uncle Burgundy revolt?
1H6 4.1. 65
1H6-GLOUCESTER
He doth, my lord, and is become your foe.
1H6 4.1. 66
1H6-KING HENRY
Is that the worst this letter doth contain?
1H6 4.1. 67
1H6-GLOUCESTER
It is the worst, and all, my lord, he writes.
1H6 4.1. 68
1H6-KING HENRY
Why then, Lord Talbot there shall talk with him
1H6 4.1. 69 And give him chastisement for this abuse.
1H6 4.1. 70 {(To Talbot)} How say you, my lord? Are you not +
1H6 4.1. 70 content?
1H6 4.1. 71
1H6-TALBOT
Content, my liege? Yes. But that I am prevented,
1H6 4.1. 72 I should have begged I might have been employed.
1H6 4.1. 73
1H6-KING HENRY
Then gather strength and march unto him straight.
1H6 4.1. 74 Let him perceive how ill we brook his treason,
1H6 4.1. 75 And what offence it is to flout his friends.
1H6 4.1. 76
1H6-TALBOT
I go, my lord, in heart desiring still
1H6 4.1. 77 You may behold confusion of your foes. {Exit}
1H6 4.1. 78 {Enter Vernon wearing a white rose, and Basset wearing a red +
1H6 4.1. 78 rose}
1H6-VERNON
{(to King Henry)} Grant me the combat, +
1H6 4.1. 78 gracious sovereign.
1H6 4.1. 79
1H6-BASSET
{(to King Henry)} And me, my lord; grant me +
1H6 4.1. 79 the combat, too.
1H6 4.1. 80
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
{(to King Henry, pointing to +
1H6 4.1. 80 Vernon)} This is my servant; hear him, noble Prince.
1H6 4.1. 81
1H6-SOMERSET
{(to King Henry, pointing to Basset)} And +
1H6 4.1. 81 this is mine, sweet Henry; favour him.
1H6 4.1. 82
1H6-KING HENRY
Be patient, lords, and give them leave to speak.
1H6 4.1. 83 Say, gentlemen, what makes you thus exclaim,
1H6 4.1. 84 And wherefore crave you combat, or with whom?
1H6 4.1. 85
1H6-VERNON
With him, my lord; for he hath done me wrong.
1H6 4.1. 86
1H6-BASSET
And I with him; for he hath done me wrong.
1H6 4.1. 87
1H6-KING HENRY
What is that wrong whereof you both complain?
1H6 4.1. 88 First let me know, and then I'll answer you.
1H6 4.1. 89
1H6-BASSET
Crossing the sea from England into France,
1H6 4.1. 90 This fellow here with envious carping tongue
1H6 4.1. 91 Upbraided me about the rose I wear,
1H6 4.1. 92 Saying the sanguine colour of the leaves
1H6 4.1. 93 Did represent my master's blushing cheeks
1H6 4.1. 94 When stubbornly he did repugn the truth
1H6 4.1. 95 About a certain question in the law
1H6 4.1. 96 Argued betwixt the Duke of York and him,
1H6 4.1. 97 With other vile and ignominious terms;
1H6 4.1. 98 In confutation of which rude reproach,
1H6 4.1. 99 And in defence of my lord's worthiness,
1H6 4.1. 100 I crave the benefit of law of arms.
1H6 4.1. 101
1H6-VERNON
And that is my petition, noble lord;
1H6 4.1. 102 For though he seem with forged quaint conceit
1H6 4.1. 103 To set a gloss upon his bold intent,
1H6 4.1. 104 Yet know, my lord, I was provoked by him,
1H6 4.1. 105 And he first took exceptions at this badge,
1H6 4.1. 106 Pronouncing that the paleness of this flower
1H6 4.1. 107 Bewrayed the faintness of my master's heart.
1H6 4.1. 108
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
Will not this malice, Somerset, be left?
1H6 4.1. 109
1H6-SOMERSET
Your private grudge, my lord of York, will out,
1H6 4.1. 110 Though ne'er so cunningly you smother it.
1H6 4.1. 111
1H6-KING HENRY
Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men
1H6 4.1. 112 When for so slight and frivolous a cause
1H6 4.1. 113 Such factious emulations shall arise?
1H6 4.1. 114 Good cousins both of York and Somerset,
1H6 4.1. 115 Quiet yourselves, I pray, and be at peace.
1H6 4.1. 116
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
Let this dissension first be tried by fight,
1H6 4.1. 117 And then your highness shall command a peace.
1H6 4.1. 118
1H6-SOMERSET
The quarrel toucheth none but us alone;
1H6 4.1. 119 Betwixt ourselves let us decide it then.
1H6 4.1. 120
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
There is my pledge. Accept it, Somerset.
1H6 4.1. 121
1H6-VERNON
{(to King Henry)} Nay, let it rest where it +
1H6 4.1. 121 began at first.
1H6 4.1. 122
1H6-BASSET
{(to King Henry)} Confirm it so, mine +
1H6 4.1. 122 honourable lord.
1H6 4.1. 123
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Confirm it so? Confounded be your strife,
1H6 4.1. 124 And perish ye with your audacious prate!
1H6 4.1. 125 Presumptuous vassals, are you not ashamed
1H6 4.1. 126 With this immodest clamorous outrage
1H6 4.1. 127 To trouble and disturb the King and us?
1H6 4.1. 128 And you, my lords, methinks you do not well
1H6 4.1. 129 To bear with their perverse objections,
1H6 4.1. 130 Much less to take occasion from their mouths
1H6 4.1. 131 To raise a mutiny betwixt yourselves.
1H6 4.1. 132 Let me persuade you take a better course.
1H6 4.1. 133
1H6-EXETER
It grieves his highness. Good my lords, be friends.
1H6 4.1. 134
1H6-KING HENRY
Come hither, you that would be combatants.
1H6 4.1. 135 Henceforth I charge you, as you love our favour,
1H6 4.1. 136 Quite to forget this quarrel and the cause.
1H6 4.1. 137 And you, my lords, remember where we are -
1H6 4.1. 138 In France, amongst a fickle wavering nation.
1H6 4.1. 139 If they perceive dissension in our looks,
1H6 4.1. 140 And that within ourselves we disagree,
1H6 4.1. 141 How will their grudging stomachs be provoked
1H6 4.1. 142 To wilful disobedience, and rebel!
1H6 4.1. 143 Beside, what infamy will there arise
1H6 4.1. 144 When foreign princes shall be certified
1H6 4.1. 145 That for a toy, a thing of no regard,
1H6 4.1. 146 King Henry's peers and chief nobility
1H6 4.1. 147 Destroyed themselves and lost the realm of France!
1H6 4.1. 148 O, think upon the conquest of my father,
1H6 4.1. 149 My tender years, and let us not forgo
1H6 4.1. 150 That for a trifle that was bought with blood.
1H6 4.1. 151 Let me be umpire in this doubtful strife.
1H6 4.1. 152 I see no reason, if I wear this rose, {He takes a red rose}
1H6 4.1. 153 That anyone should therefore be suspicious
1H6 4.1. 154 I more incline to Somerset than York.
1H6 4.1. 155 Both are my kinsmen, and I love them both.
1H6 4.1. 156 As well they may upbraid me with my crown
1H6 4.1. 157 Because, forsooth, the King of Scots is crowned.
1H6 4.1. 158 But your discretions better can persuade
1H6 4.1. 159 Than I am able to instruct or teach,
1H6 4.1. 160 And therefore, as we hither came in peace,
1H6 4.1. 161 So let us still continue peace and love.
1H6 4.1. 162 Cousin of York, we institute your grace
1H6 4.1. 163 To be our regent in these parts of France;
1H6 4.1. 164 And good my lord of Somerset, unite
1H6 4.1. 165 Your troops of horsemen with his bands of foot,
1H6 4.1. 166 And like true subjects, sons of your progenitors,
1H6 4.1. 167 Go cheerfully together and digest
1H6 4.1. 168 Your angry choler on your enemies.
1H6 4.1. 169 Ourself, my Lord Protector, and the rest,
1H6 4.1. 170 After some respite, will return to Calais,
1H6 4.1. 171 From thence to England, where I hope ere long
1H6 4.1. 172 To be presented by your victories
1H6 4.1. 173 With Charles, Alenc@on, and that traitorous rout. {Flourish. +
1H6 4.1. 173 Exeunt all but York, Warwick, Vernon, and Exeter}
1H6 4.1. 174
1H6-WARWICK
My lord of York, I promise you, the King
1H6 4.1. 175 Prettily, methought, did play the orator.
1H6 4.1. 176
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
And so he did; but yet I like it not
1H6 4.1. 177 In that he wears the badge of Somerset.
1H6 4.1. 178
1H6-WARWICK
Tush, that was but his fancy; blame him not.
1H6 4.1. 179 I dare presume, sweet Prince, he thought no harm.
1H6 4.1. 180
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
An if I wist he did - but let it rest.
1H6 4.1. 181 Other affairs must now be managed. {Exeunt all but Exeter}
1H6 4.1. 182
1H6-EXETER
Well didst thou, Richard, to suppress thy voice;
1H6 4.1. 183 For had the passions of thy heart burst out
1H6 4.1. 184 I fear we should have seen deciphered there
1H6 4.1. 185 More rancorous spite, more furious raging broils,
1H6 4.1. 186 Than yet can be imagined or supposed.
1H6 4.1. 187 But howsoe'er, no simple man that sees
1H6 4.1. 188 This jarring discord of nobility,
1H6 4.1. 189 This shouldering of each other in the court,
1H6 4.1. 190 This factious bandying of their favourites,
1H6 4.1. 191 But that it doth presage some ill event.
1H6 4.1. 192 'Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands,
1H6 4.1. 193 But more when envy breeds unkind division:
1H6 4.1. 194 There comes the ruin, there begins confusion. {Exit}
1H6 4.1. 0
1H6 4.1. 0 {Enter Lord Talbot with a trumpeter and drummer and +
1H6 4.2. 0 soldiers before Bordeaux}
1H6 4.2. 1
1H6-TALBOT
Go to the gates of Bordeaux, trumpeter.
1H6 4.2. 2 Summon their general unto the wall. {The trumpeter sounds a +
1H6 4.2. 2 parley. Enter French General, aloft}
1H6 4.2. 3 English John Talbot, captain, calls you forth,
1H6 4.2. 4 Servant in arms to Harry King of England;
1H6 4.2. 5 And thus he would: open your city gates,
1H6 4.2. 6 Be humble to us, call my sovereign yours
1H6 4.2. 7 And do him homage as obedient subjects,
1H6 4.2. 8 And I'll withdraw me and my bloody power.
1H6 4.2. 9 But if you frown upon this proffered peace,
1H6 4.2. 10 You tempt the fury of my three attendants -
1H6 4.2. 11 Lean famine, quartering steel, and climbing fire -
1H6 4.2. 12 Who in a moment even with the earth
1H6 4.2. 13 Shall lay your stately and air-braving towers
1H6 4.2. 14 If you forsake the offer of their love.
1H6 4.2. 15
1H6-GENERAL
Thou ominous and fearful owl of death,
1H6 4.2. 16 Our nation's terror and their bloody scourge,
1H6 4.2. 17 The period of thy tyranny approacheth.
1H6 4.2. 18 On us thou canst not enter but by death,
1H6 4.2. 19 For I protest we are well fortified
1H6 4.2. 20 And strong enough to issue out and fight.
1H6 4.2. 21 If thou retire, the Dauphin well appointed
1H6 4.2. 22 Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee.
1H6 4.2. 23 On either hand thee there are squadrons pitched
1H6 4.2. 24 To wall thee from the liberty of flight,
1H6 4.2. 25 And no way canst thou turn thee for redress
1H6 4.2. 26 But death doth front thee with apparent spoil,
1H6 4.2. 27 And pale destruction meets thee in the face.
1H6 4.2. 28 Ten thousand French have ta'en the sacrament
1H6 4.2. 29 To fire their dangerous artillery
1H6 4.2. 30 Upon no Christian soul but English Talbot.
1H6 4.2. 31 Lo, there thou stand'st, a breathing valiant man
1H6 4.2. 32 Of an invincible unconquered spirit.
1H6 4.2. 33 This is the latest glory of thy praise,
1H6 4.2. 34 That I thy enemy due thee withal,
1H6 4.2. 35 For ere the glass that now begins to run
1H6 4.2. 36 Finish the process of his sandy hour,
1H6 4.2. 37 These eyes that see thee now well coloured
1H6 4.2. 38 Shall see thee withered, bloody, pale, and dead. {Drum afar off}
1H6 4.2. 39 Hark, hark, the Dauphin's drum, a warning bell,
1H6 4.2. 40 Sings heavy music to thy timorous soul,
1H6 4.2. 41 And mine shall ring thy dire departure out. {Exit}
1H6 4.2. 42
1H6-TALBOT
He fables not. I hear the enemy.
1H6 4.2. 43 Out, some light horsemen, and peruse their wings. {[Exit one or +
1H6 4.2. 43 more]}
1H6 4.2. 44 O negligent and heedless discipline,
1H6 4.2. 45 How are we parked and bounded in a pale! -
1H6 4.2. 46 A little herd of England's timorous deer
1H6 4.2. 47 Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs.
1H6 4.2. 48 If we be English deer, be then in blood,
1H6 4.2. 49 Not rascal-like to fall down with a pinch,
1H6 4.2. 50 But rather, moody-mad and desperate stags,
1H6 4.2. 51 Turn on the bloody hounds with heads of steel
1H6 4.2. 52 And make the cowards stand aloof at bay.
1H6 4.2. 53 Sell every man his life as dear as mine
1H6 4.2. 54 And they shall find dear deer of us, my friends.
1H6 4.2. 55 God and Saint George, Talbot and England's right,
1H6 4.2. 56 Prosper our colours in this dangerous fight! {Exeunt}
1H6 4.2. 0 {Enter a Messenger that meets the Duke of York. Enter +
1H6 4.3. 0 Richard Duke of York with a trumpeter and many soldiers}
1H6 4.3. 1
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
Are not the speedy scouts returned +
1H6 4.3. 1 again
1H6 4.3. 2 That dogged the mighty army of the Dauphin?
1H6 4.3. 3
1H6-MESSENGER
They are returned, my lord, and give it out
1H6 4.3. 4 That he is marched to Bordeaux with his power
1H6 4.3. 5 To fight with Talbot. As he marched along,
1H6 4.3. 6 By your espials were discovered
1H6 4.3. 7 Two mightier troops than that the Dauphin led,
1H6 4.3. 8 Which joined with him and made their march for Bordeaux.
1H6 4.3. 9
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
A plague upon that villain Somerset
1H6 4.3. 10 That thus delays my promised supply
1H6 4.3. 11 Of horsemen that were levied for this siege!
1H6 4.3. 12 Renowned Talbot doth expect my aid,
1H6 4.3. 13 And I am louted by a traitor villain
1H6 4.3. 14 And cannot help the noble chevalier.
1H6 4.3. 15 God comfort him in this necessity;
1H6 4.3. 16 If he miscarry, farewell wars in France! {Enter another +
1H6 4.3. 16 messenger, Sir William Lucy}
1H6 4.3. 17
1H6-LUCY
Thou princely leader of our English strength,
1H6 4.3. 18 Never so needful on the earth of France,
1H6 4.3. 19 Spur to the rescue of the noble Talbot,
1H6 4.3. 20 Who now is girdled with a waste of iron
1H6 4.3. 21 And hemmed about with grim destruction.
1H6 4.3. 22 To Bordeaux, warlike Duke; to Bordeaux, York,
1H6 4.3. 23 Else farewell Talbot, France, and England's honour.
1H6 4.3. 24
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
O God, that Somerset, who in proud heart
1H6 4.3. 25 Doth stop my cornets, were in Talbot's place!
1H6 4.3. 26 So should we save a valiant gentleman
1H6 4.3. 27 By forfeiting a traitor and a coward.
1H6 4.3. 28 Mad ire and wrathful fury makes me weep,
1H6 4.3. 29 That thus we die while remiss traitors sleep.
1H6 4.3. 30
1H6-LUCY
O, send some succour to the distressed lord.
1H6 4.3. 31
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
He dies, we lose; I break my warlike word;
1H6 4.3. 32 We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get,
1H6 4.3. 33 All 'long of this vile traitor Somerset.
1H6 4.3. 34
1H6-LUCY
Then God take mercy on brave Talbot's soul,
1H6 4.3. 35 And on his son young John, who two hours since
1H6 4.3. 36 I met in travel toward his warlike father.
1H6 4.3. 37 This seven years did not Talbot see his son,
1H6 4.3. 38 And now they meet where both their lives are done.
1H6 4.3. 39
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
Alas, what joy shall noble Talbot have
1H6 4.3. 40 To bid his young son welcome to his grave?
1H6 4.3. 41 Away - vexation almost stops my breath
1H6 4.3. 42 That sundered friends greet in the hour of death.
1H6 4.3. 43 Lucy, farewell. No more my fortune can
1H6 4.3. 44 But curse the cause I cannot aid the man.
1H6 4.3. 45 Maine, Blois, Poitiers, and Tours are won away
1H6 4.3. 46 'Long all of Somerset and his delay. {Exeunt all but Lucy}
1H6 4.3. 47
1H6-LUCY
Thus while the vulture of sedition
1H6 4.3. 48 Feeds in the bosom of such great commanders,
1H6 4.3. 49 Sleeping neglection doth betray to loss
1H6 4.3. 50 The conquest of our scarce-cold conqueror,
1H6 4.3. 51 That ever-living man of memory
1H6 4.3. 52 Henry the Fifth. Whiles they each other cross,
1H6 4.3. 53 Lives, honours, lands, and all hurry to loss. {[Exit]}
1H6 4.3. 0 {Enter the Duke of Somerset with his army}
1H6 4.4. 1
1H6-SOMERSET
{(to a Captain)} It is too late, I cannot +
1H6 4.4. 1 send them now.
1H6 4.4. 2 This expedition was by York and Talbot
1H6 4.4. 3 Too rashly plotted. All our general force
1H6 4.4. 4 Might with a sally of the very town
1H6 4.4. 5 Be buckled with. The over-daring Talbot
1H6 4.4. 6 Hath sullied all his gloss of former honour
1H6 4.4. 7 By this unheedful, desperate, wild adventure.
1H6 4.4. 8 York set him on to fight and die in shame
1H6 4.4. 9 That, Talbot dead, great York might bear the name. {[Enter +
1H6 4.4. 9 Lucy]}
1H6 4.4. 10
1H6-CAPTAIN
Here is Sir William Lucy, who with me
1H6 4.4. 11 Set from our o'ermatched forces forth for aid.
1H6 4.4. 12
1H6-SOMERSET
How now, Sir William, whither were you sent?
1H6 4.4. 13
1H6-LUCY
Whither, my lord? From bought and sold Lord Talbot,
1H6 4.4. 14 Who, ringed about with bold adversity,
1H6 4.4. 15 Cries out for noble York and Somerset
1H6 4.4. 16 To beat assailing death from his weak legions;
1H6 4.4. 17 And whiles the honourable captain there
1H6 4.4. 18 Drops bloody sweat from his war-wearied limbs
1H6 4.4. 19 And, unadvantaged, ling'ring looks for rescue,
1H6 4.4. 20 You his false hopes, the trust of England's honour,
1H6 4.4. 21 Keep off aloof with worthless emulation.
1H6 4.4. 22 Let not your private discord keep away
1H6 4.4. 23 The levied succours that should lend him aid,
1H6 4.4. 24 While he, renowned noble gentleman,
1H6 4.4. 25 Yield up his life unto a world of odds.
1H6 4.4. 26 Orle/ans the Bastard, Charles, and Burgundy,
1H6 4.4. 27 Alenc@on, Rene/, compass him about,
1H6 4.4. 28 And Talbot perisheth by your default.
1H6 4.4. 29
1H6-SOMERSET
York set him on; York should have sent him aid.
1H6 4.4. 30
1H6-LUCY
And York as fast upon your grace exclaims,
1H6 4.4. 31 Swearing that you withhold his levied horse
1H6 4.4. 32 Collected for this expedition.
1H6 4.4. 33
1H6-SOMERSET
York lies. He might have sent and had the horse.
1H6 4.4. 34 I owe him little duty and less love,
1H6 4.4. 35 And take foul scorn to fawn on him by sending.
1H6 4.4. 36
1H6-LUCY
The fraud of England, not the force of France,
1H6 4.4. 37 Hath now entrapped the noble-minded Talbot.
1H6 4.4. 38 Never to England shall he bear his life,
1H6 4.4. 39 But dies betrayed to fortune by your strife.
1H6 4.4. 40
1H6-SOMERSET
Come, go. I will dispatch the horsemen straight.
1H6 4.4. 41 Within six hours they will be at his aid.
1H6 4.4. 42
1H6-LUCY
Too late comes rescue. He is ta'en or slain,
1H6 4.4. 43 For fly he could not if he would have fled,
1H6 4.4. 44 And fly would Talbot never, though he might.
1H6 4.4. 45
1H6-SOMERSET
If he be dead, brave Talbot, then adieu.
1H6 4.4. 46
1H6-LUCY
His fame lives in the world, his shame in you. {Exeunt +
1H6 4.4. 46 [severally]}
1H6 4.4. 0 {Enter Lord Talbot and his son John}
1H6 4.5. 1
1H6-TALBOT
O young John Talbot, I did send for thee
1H6 4.5. 2 To tutor thee in stratagems of war,
1H6 4.5. 3 That Talbot's name might be in thee revived
1H6 4.5. 4 When sapless age and weak unable limbs
1H6 4.5. 5 Should bring thy father to his drooping chair.
1H6 4.5. 6 But O - malignant and ill-boding stars! -
1H6 4.5. 7 Now thou art come unto a feast of death,
1H6 4.5. 8 A terrible and unavoided danger.
1H6 4.5. 9 Therefore, dear boy, mount on my swiftest horse,
1H6 4.5. 10 And I'll direct thee how thou shalt escape
1H6 4.5. 11 By sudden flight. Come, dally not, be gone.
1H6 4.5. 12
1H6-JOHN
Is my name Talbot, and am I your son,
1H6 4.5. 13 And shall I fly? O, if you love my mother,
1H6 4.5. 14 Dishonour not her honourable name
1H6 4.5. 15 To make a bastard and a slave of me.
1H6 4.5. 16 The world will say he is not Talbot's blood
1H6 4.5. 17 That basely fled when noble Talbot stood.
1H6 4.5. 18
1H6-TALBOT
Fly to revenge my death if I be slain.
1H6 4.5. 19
1H6-JOHN
He that flies so will ne'er return again.
1H6 4.5. 20
1H6-TALBOT
If we both stay, we both are sure to die.
1H6 4.5. 21
1H6-JOHN
Then let me stay and, father, do you fly.
1H6 4.5. 22 Your loss is great; so your regard should be.
1H6 4.5. 23 My worth unknown, no loss is known in me.
1H6 4.5. 24 Upon my death the French can little boast;
1H6 4.5. 25 In yours they will: in you all hopes are lost.
1H6 4.5. 26 Flight cannot stain the honour you have won,
1H6 4.5. 27 But mine it will, that no exploit have done.
1H6 4.5. 28 You fled for vantage, everyone will swear,
1H6 4.5. 29 But if I bow, they'll say it was for fear.
1H6 4.5. 30 There is no hope that ever I will stay
1H6 4.5. 31 If the first hour I shrink and run away.
1H6 4.5. 32 Here on my knee I beg mortality
1H6 4.5. 33 Rather than life preserved with infamy.
1H6 4.5. 34
1H6-TALBOT
Shall all thy mother's hopes lie in one tomb?
1H6 4.5. 35
1H6-JOHN
Ay, rather than I'll shame my mother's womb.
1H6 4.5. 36
1H6-TALBOT
Upon my blessing I command thee go.
1H6 4.5. 37
1H6-JOHN
To fight I will, but not to fly the foe.
1H6 4.5. 38
1H6-TALBOT
Part of thy father may be saved in thee.
1H6 4.5. 39
1H6-JOHN
No part of him but will be shamed in me.
1H6 4.5. 40
1H6-TALBOT
Thou never hadst renown, nor canst not lose it.
1H6 4.5. 41
1H6-JOHN
Yes, your renowned name - shall flight abuse it?
1H6 4.5. 42
1H6-TALBOT
Thy father's charge shall clear thee from that stain.
1H6 4.5. 43
1H6-JOHN
You cannot witness for me, being slain.
1H6 4.5. 44 If death be so apparent, then both fly.
1H6 4.5. 45
1H6-TALBOT
And leave my followers here to fight and die?
1H6 4.5. 46 My age was never tainted with such shame.
1H6 4.5. 47
1H6-JOHN
And shall my youth be guilty of such blame?
1H6 4.5. 48 No more can I be severed from your side
1H6 4.5. 49 Than can yourself your self in twain divide.
1H6 4.5. 50 Stay, go, do what you will: the like do I,
1H6 4.5. 51 For live I will not if my father die.
1H6 4.5. 52
1H6-TALBOT
Then here I take my leave of thee, fair son,
1H6 4.5. 53 Born to eclipse thy life this afternoon.
1H6 4.5. 54 Come, side by side together live and die,
1H6 4.5. 55 And soul with soul from France to heaven fly. {Exeunt}
1H6 4.5. 0 {Alarum. Excursions, wherein Lord Talbot's son John is +
1H6 4.6. 0 hemmed about by French soldiers and Talbot rescues him. [The English +
1H6 4.6. 0 drive off the French]}
1H6 4.6. 1
1H6-TALBOT
Saint George and victory! Fight, soldiers, fight!
1H6 4.6. 2 The Regent hath with Talbot broke his word,
1H6 4.6. 3 And left us to the rage of France his sword.
1H6 4.6. 4 Where is John Talbot? {(To John)} Pause and take thy +
1H6 4.6. 4 breath.
1H6 4.6. 5 I gave thee life, and rescued thee from death.
1H6 4.6. 6
1H6-JOHN
O twice my father, twice am I thy son:
1H6 4.6. 7 The life thou gav'st me first was lost and done
1H6 4.6. 8 Till with thy warlike sword, despite of fate,
1H6 4.6. 9 To my determined time thou gav'st new date.
1H6 4.6. 10
1H6-TALBOT
When from the Dauphin's crest thy sword struck fire
1H6 4.6. 11 It warmed thy father's heart with proud desire
1H6 4.6. 12 Of bold-faced victory. Then leaden age,
1H6 4.6. 13 Quickened with youthful spleen and warlike rage,
1H6 4.6. 14 Beat down Alenc@on, Orle/ans, Burgundy,
1H6 4.6. 15 And from the pride of Gallia rescued thee.
1H6 4.6. 16 The ireful Bastard Orle/ans, that drew blood
1H6 4.6. 17 From thee, my boy, and had the maidenhood
1H6 4.6. 18 Of thy first fight, I soon encountered,
1H6 4.6. 19 And interchanging blows, I quickly shed
1H6 4.6. 20 Some of his bastard blood, and in disgrace
1H6 4.6. 21 Bespoke him thus: `Contaminated, base,
1H6 4.6. 22 And misbegotten blood I spill of thine,
1H6 4.6. 23 Mean and right poor, for that pure blood of mine
1H6 4.6. 24 Which thou didst force from Talbot, my brave boy.'
1H6 4.6. 25 Here, purposing the Bastard to destroy,
1H6 4.6. 26 Came in strong rescue. Speak thy father's care:
1H6 4.6. 27 Art thou not weary, John? How dost thou fare?
1H6 4.6. 28 Wilt thou yet leave the battle, boy, and fly,
1H6 4.6. 29 Now thou art sealed the son of chivalry?
1H6 4.6. 30 Fly to revenge my death when I am dead;
1H6 4.6. 31 The help of one stands me in little stead.
1H6 4.6. 32 O, too much folly is it, well I wot,
1H6 4.6. 33 To hazard all our lives in one small boat.
1H6 4.6. 34 If I today die not with Frenchmen's rage,
1H6 4.6. 35 Tomorrow I shall die with mickle age.
1H6 4.6. 36 By me they nothing gain, and if I stay
1H6 4.6. 37 'Tis but the short'ning of my life one day.
1H6 4.6. 38 In thee thy mother dies, our household's name,
1H6 4.6. 39 My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.
1H6 4.6. 40 All these and more we hazard by thy stay;
1H6 4.6. 41 All these are saved if thou wilt fly away.
1H6 4.6. 42
1H6-JOHN
The sword of Orle/ans hath not made me smart;
1H6 4.6. 43 These words of yours draw life-blood from my heart.
1H6 4.6. 44 On that advantage, bought with such a shame,
1H6 4.6. 45 To save a paltry life and slay bright fame,
1H6 4.6. 46 Before young Talbot from old Talbot fly
1H6 4.6. 47 The coward horse that bears me fall and die;
1H6 4.6. 48 And like me to the peasant boys of France,
1H6 4.6. 49 To be shame's scorn and subject of mischance!
1H6 4.6. 50 Surely, by all the glory you have won,
1H6 4.6. 51 An if I fly I am not Talbot's son.
1H6 4.6. 52 Then talk no more of flight; it is no boot.
1H6 4.6. 53 If son to Talbot, die at Talbot's foot.
1H6 4.6. 54
1H6-TALBOT
Then follow thou thy desp'rate sire of Crete,
1H6 4.6. 55 Thou Icarus; thy life to me is sweet.
1H6 4.6. 56 If thou wilt fight, fight by thy father's side,
1H6 4.6. 57 And commendable proved, let's die in pride. {Exeunt}
1H6 4.6. 0 {Alarum. Excursions. Enter old Lord Talbot led by a +
1H6 4.7. 0 Servant}
1H6 4.7. 1
1H6-TALBOT
Where is my other life? Mine own is gone.
1H6 4.7. 2 O where's young Talbot, where is valiant John?
1H6 4.7. 3 Triumphant death smeared with captivity,
1H6 4.7. 4 Young Talbot's valour makes me smile at thee.
1H6 4.7. 5 When he perceived me shrink and on my knee,
1H6 4.7. 6 His bloody sword he brandished over me,
1H6 4.7. 7 And like a hungry lion did commence
1H6 4.7. 8 Rough deeds of rage and stern impatience.
1H6 4.7. 9 But when my angry guardant stood alone,
1H6 4.7. 10 Tend'ring my ruin and assailed of none,
1H6 4.7. 11 Dizzy-eyed fury and great rage of heart
1H6 4.7. 12 Suddenly made him from my side to start
1H6 4.7. 13 Into the clust'ring battle of the French,
1H6 4.7. 14 And in that sea of blood my boy did drench
1H6 4.7. 15 His over-mounting spirit; and there died
1H6 4.7. 16 My Icarus, my blossom, in his pride. {Enter English soldiers +
1H6 4.7. 16 with John Talbot's body, borne}
1H6 4.7. 17
1H6-SERVANT
O my dear lord, lo where your son is borne.
1H6 4.7. 18
1H6-TALBOT
Thou antic death, which laugh'st us here to scorn,
1H6 4.7. 19 Anon from thy insulting tyranny,
1H6 4.7. 20 Coupled in bonds of perpetuity,
1H6 4.7. 21 Two Talbots winged through the lither sky
1H6 4.7. 22 In thy despite shall scape mortality.
1H6 4.7. 23 {(To John)} O thou whose wounds become hard-favoured +
1H6 4.7. 23 death,
1H6 4.7. 24 Speak to thy father ere thou yield thy breath.
1H6 4.7. 25 Brave death by speaking, whether he will or no;
1H6 4.7. 26 Imagine him a Frenchman and thy foe. -
1H6 4.7. 27 Poor boy, he smiles, methinks, as who should say
1H6 4.7. 28 `Had death been French, then death had died today'.
1H6 4.7. 29 Come, come, and lay him in his father's arms. {Soldiers lay John +
1H6 4.7. 29 in Talbot's arms}
1H6 4.7. 30 My spirit can no longer bear these harms.
1H6 4.7. 31 Soldiers, adieu. I have what I would have,
1H6 4.7. 32 Now my old arms are young John Talbot's grave. {He dies. +
1H6 4.7. 32 [Alarum.] Exeunt soldiers leaving the bodies}
1H6 4.7. 33
1H6 4.7. 33 {Enter Charles the Dauphin, the dukes of Alenc@on and Burgundy, +
1H6 4.7. 33 the Bastard of Orle/ans, and Joan la Pucelle}
1H6-CHARLES
Had +
1H6 4.7. 33 York and Somerset brought rescue in,
1H6 4.7. 34 We should have found a bloody day of this.
1H6 4.7. 35
1H6-BASTARD
How the young whelp of Talbot's, raging wood,
1H6 4.7. 36 Did flesh his puny sword in Frenchmen's blood!
1H6 4.7. 37
1H6-JOAN
Once I encountered him, and thus I said:
1H6 4.7. 38 `Thou maiden youth, be vanquished by a maid.'
1H6 4.7. 39 But with a proud, majestical high scorn
1H6 4.7. 40 He answered thus: `Young Talbot was not born
1H6 4.7. 41 To be the pillage of a giglot wench.'
1H6 4.7. 42 So rushing in the bowels of the French,
1H6 4.7. 43 He left me proudly, as unworthy fight.
1H6 4.7. 44
1H6-BURGUNDY
Doubtless he would have made a noble knight.
1H6 4.7. 45 See where he lies inhearsed in the arms
1H6 4.7. 46 Of the most bloody nurser of his harms.
1H6 4.7. 47
1H6-BASTARD
Hew them to pieces, hack their bones asunder,
1H6 4.7. 48 Whose life was England's glory, Gallia's wonder.
1H6 4.7. 49
1H6-CHARLES
O no, forbear; for that which we have fled
1H6 4.7. 50 During the life, let us not wrong it dead. {Enter Sir William +
1H6 4.7. 50 Lucy [with a French herald]}
1H6 4.7. 51
1H6-LUCY
Herald, conduct me to the Dauphin's tent
1H6 4.7. 52 To know who hath obtained the glory of the day.
1H6 4.7. 53
1H6-CHARLES
On what submissive message art thou sent?
1H6 4.7. 54
1H6-LUCY
Submission, Dauphin? 'Tis a mere French word.
1H6 4.7. 55 We English warriors wot not what it means.
1H6 4.7. 56 I come to know what prisoners thou hast ta'en,
1H6 4.7. 57 And to survey the bodies of the dead.
1H6 4.7. 58
1H6-CHARLES
For prisoners ask'st thou? Hell our prison is.
1H6 4.7. 59 But tell me whom thou seek'st.
1H6 4.7. 60
1H6-LUCY
But where's the great Alcides of the field,
1H6 4.7. 61 Valiant Lord Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury,
1H6 4.7. 62 Created for his rare success in arms
1H6 4.7. 63 Great Earl of Wexford, Waterford, and Valence,
1H6 4.7. 64 Lord Talbot of Goodrich and Urchinfield,
1H6 4.7. 65 Lord Strange of Blackmere, Lord Verdun of Alton,
1H6 4.7. 66 Lord Cromwell of Wingfield, Lord Furnival of Sheffield,
1H6 4.7. 67 The thrice victorious lord of Falconbridge,
1H6 4.7. 68 Knight of the noble order of Saint George,
1H6 4.7. 69 Worthy Saint Michael and the Golden Fleece,
1H6 4.7. 70 Great {Mare/chal} to Henry the Sixth
1H6 4.7. 71 Of all his wars within the realm of France?
1H6 4.7. 72
1H6-JOAN
Here's a silly, stately style indeed.
1H6 4.7. 73 The Turk, that two-and-fifty kingdoms hath,
1H6 4.7. 74 Writes not so tedious a style as this.
1H6 4.7. 75 Him that thou magnifi'st with all these titles
1H6 4.7. 76 Stinking and flyblown lies here at our feet.
1H6 4.7. 77
1H6-LUCY
Is Talbot slain, the Frenchmen's only scourge,
1H6 4.7. 78 Your kingdom's terror and black Nemesis?
1H6 4.7. 79 O, were mine eye-balls into bullets turned,
1H6 4.7. 80 That I in rage might shoot them at your faces!
1H6 4.7. 81 O, that I could but call these dead to life! -
1H6 4.7. 82 It were enough to fright the realm of France.
1H6 4.7. 83 Were but his picture left amongst you here
1H6 4.7. 84 It would amaze the proudest of you all.
1H6 4.7. 85 Give me their bodies, that I may bear them hence
1H6 4.7. 86 And give them burial as beseems their worth.
1H6 4.7. 87
1H6-JOAN
{(to Charles)} I think this upstart is old +
1H6 4.7. 87 Talbot's ghost,
1H6 4.7. 88 He speaks with such a proud commanding spirit.
1H6 4.7. 89 For God's sake let him have them. To keep them here
1H6 4.7. 90 They would but stink and putrefy the air.
1H6 4.7. 91A
1H6-CHARLES
Go, take their bodies hence.
1H6 4.7. 92
1H6-LUCY
I'll bear them hence, but from their ashes shall be reared
1H6 4.7. 93 A phoenix that shall make all France afeard.
1H6 4.7. 94
1H6-CHARLES
So we be rid of them, do with them what thou wilt. +
1H6 4.7. 94 {[Exeunt Lucy and herald with the bodies]}
1H6 4.7. 95 And now to Paris in this conquering vein.
1H6 4.7. 96 All will be ours, now bloody Talbot's slain. {Exeunt}
1H6 4.7. 0
1H6 4.7. 0 {Sennet. Enter King Henry, the Dukes of Gloucester +
1H6 5.1. 0 and Exeter, [and others]}
1H6 5.1. 1
1H6-KING HENRY
{(to Gloucester)} Have you perused the +
1H6 5.1. 1 letters from the Pope,
1H6 5.1. 2 The Emperor, and the Earl of Armagnac?
1H6 5.1. 3
1H6-GLOUCESTER
I have, my lord, and their intent is this:
1H6 5.1. 4 They humbly sue unto your excellence
1H6 5.1. 5 To have a godly peace concluded of
1H6 5.1. 6 Between the realms of England and of France.
1H6 5.1. 7
1H6-KING HENRY
How doth your grace affect their motion?
1H6 5.1. 8
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Well, my good lord, and as the only means
1H6 5.1. 9 To stop effusion of our Christian blood
1H6 5.1. 10 And 'stablish quietness on every side.
1H6 5.1. 11
1H6-KING HENRY
Ay, marry, uncle; for I always thought
1H6 5.1. 12 It was both impious and unnatural
1H6 5.1. 13 That such immanity and bloody strife
1H6 5.1. 14 Should reign among professors of one faith.
1H6 5.1. 15
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Beside, my lord, the sooner to effect
1H6 5.1. 16 And surer bind this knot of amity,
1H6 5.1. 17 The Earl of Armagnac, near knit to Charles -
1H6 5.1. 18 A man of great authority in France -
1H6 5.1. 19 Proffers his only daughter to your grace
1H6 5.1. 20 In marriage, with a large and sumptuous dowry.
1H6 5.1. 21
1H6-KING HENRY
Marriage, uncle? Alas, my years are young,
1H6 5.1. 22 And fitter is my study and my books
1H6 5.1. 23 Than wanton dalliance with a paramour.
1H6 5.1. 24B Yet call th' ambassadors, {[Exit one or more]} and as +
1H6 5.1. 24B you please,
1H6 5.1. 25 So let them have their answers every one.
1H6 5.1. 26 I shall be well content with any choice
1H6 5.1. 27 Tends to God's glory and my country's weal. {Enter the Bishop of +
1H6 5.1. 27 Winchester, now in cardinal's habit, and three ambassadors, one a Papal +
1H6 5.1. 27 Legate}
1H6 5.1. 28
1H6-EXETER
{(aside)} What, is my lord of Winchester +
1H6 5.1. 28 installed
1H6 5.1. 29 And called unto a cardinal's degree?
1H6 5.1. 30 Then I perceive that will be verified
1H6 5.1. 31 Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy:
1H6 5.1. 32 `If once he come to be a cardinal,
1H6 5.1. 33 He'll make his cap co-equal with the crown.'
1H6 5.1. 34
1H6-KING HENRY
My lords ambassadors, your several suits
1H6 5.1. 35 Have been considered and debated on.
1H6 5.1. 36 Your purpose is both good and reasonable,
1H6 5.1. 37 And therefore are we certainly resolved
1H6 5.1. 38 To draw conditions of a friendly peace,
1H6 5.1. 39 Which by my lord of Winchester we mean
1H6 5.1. 40 Shall be transported presently to France.
1H6 5.1. 41
1H6-GLOUCESTER
{[to ambassadors]} And for the proffer +
1H6 5.1. 41 of my lord your master,
1H6 5.1. 42 I have informed his highness so at large
1H6 5.1. 43 As, liking of the lady's virtuous gifts,
1H6 5.1. 44 Her beauty, and the value of her dower,
1H6 5.1. 45 He doth intend she shall be England's queen.
1H6 5.1. 46
1H6-KING HENRY
{[to ambassadors]} In argument and +
1H6 5.1. 46 proof of which contract
1H6 5.1. 47 Bear her this jewel, pledge of my affection.
1H6 5.1. 48 {(To Gloucester)} And so, my lord Protector, see them +
1H6 5.1. 48 guarded
1H6 5.1. 49 And safely brought to Dover, wherein shipped,
1H6 5.1. 50 Commit them to the fortune of the sea. {Exeunt [severally] all +
1H6 5.1. 50 but Winchester and [Legate]}
1H6 5.1. 51
1H6-WINCHESTER
Stay, my lord legate; you shall first receive
1H6 5.1. 52 The sum of money which I promised
1H6 5.1. 53 Should be delivered to his holiness
1H6 5.1. 54 For clothing me in these grave ornaments.
1H6 5.1. 55
1H6-LEGATE
I will attend upon your lordship's leisure. {[Exit]}
1H6 5.1. 56
1H6-WINCHESTER
Now Winchester will not submit, I trow,
1H6 5.1. 57 Or be inferior to the proudest peer.
1H6 5.1. 58 Humphrey of Gloucester, thou shalt well perceive
1H6 5.1. 59 That nor in birth or for authority
1H6 5.1. 60 The Bishop will be overborne by thee.
1H6 5.1. 61 I'll either make thee stoop and bend thy knee,
1H6 5.1. 62 Or sack this country with a mutiny. {[Exit]}
1H6 5.1. 0 {Enter Charles the Dauphin [reading a letter], the Dukes +
1H6 5.2. 0 of Burgundy and Alenc@on, the Bastard of Orle/ans, Rene/ Duke of Anjou, +
1H6 5.2. 0 and Joan la Pucelle}
1H6 5.2. 1
1H6-CHARLES
These news, my lords, may cheer our drooping +
1H6 5.2. 1 spirits.
1H6 5.2. 2 'Tis said the stout Parisians do revolt
1H6 5.2. 3 And turn again unto the warlike French.
1H6 5.2. 4
1H6-ALENC@ON
Then march to Paris, royal Charles of France,
1H6 5.2. 5 And keep not back your powers in dalliance.
1H6 5.2. 6
1H6-JOAN
Peace be amongst them if they turn to us;
1H6 5.2. 7 Else, ruin combat with their palaces! {Enter a Scout}
1H6 5.2. 8
1H6-SCOUT
Success unto our valiant general,
1H6 5.2. 9 And happiness to his accomplices.
1H6 5.2. 10
1H6-CHARLES
What tidings send our scouts? I prithee speak.
1H6 5.2. 11
1H6-SCOUT
The English army, that divided was
1H6 5.2. 12 Into two parties, is now conjoined in one,
1H6 5.2. 13 And means to give you battle presently.
1H6 5.2. 14
1H6-CHARLES
Somewhat too sudden, sirs, the warning is;
1H6 5.2. 15 But we will presently provide for them.
1H6 5.2. 16
1H6-BURGUNDY
I trust the ghost of Talbot is not there.
1H6 5.2. 17
1H6-[JOAN]
Now he is gone, my lord, you need not fear.
1H6 5.2. 18 Of all base passions, fear is most accursed.
1H6 5.2. 19 Command the conquest, Charles, it shall be thine;
1H6 5.2. 20 Let Henry fret and all the world repine.
1H6 5.2. 21
1H6-CHARLES
Then on, my lords; and France be fortunate! {Exeunt}
1H6 5.2. 0 {Alarum. Excursions. Enter Joan la Pucelle}
1H6 5.3. 1
1H6-JOAN
The Regent conquers, and the Frenchmen fly.
1H6 5.3. 2 Now help, ye charming spells and periapts,
1H6 5.3. 3 And ye choice spirits that admonish me
1H6 5.3. 4 And give me signs of future accidents. {Thunder}
1H6 5.3. 5 You speedy helpers, that are substitutes
1H6 5.3. 6 Under the lordly monarch of the north,
1H6 5.3. 7 Appear, and aid me in this enterprise. {Enter Fiends}
1H6 5.3. 8 This speed and quick appearance argues proof
1H6 5.3. 9 Of your accustomed diligence to me.
1H6 5.3. 10 Now, ye familiar spirits that are culled
1H6 5.3. 11 Out of the powerful regions under earth,
1H6 5.3. 12 Help me this once, that France may get the field. {They walk and +
1H6 5.3. 12 speak not}
1H6 5.3. 13 O, hold me not with silence overlong!
1H6 5.3. 14 Where I was wont to feed you with my blood,
1H6 5.3. 15 I'll lop a member off and give it you
1H6 5.3. 16 In earnest of a further benefit,
1H6 5.3. 17 So you do condescend to help me now. {They hang their heads}
1H6 5.3. 18 No hope to have redress? My body shall
1H6 5.3. 19 Pay recompense if you will grant my suit. {They shake their +
1H6 5.3. 19 heads}
1H6 5.3. 20 Cannot my body nor blood-sacrifice
1H6 5.3. 21 Entreat you to your wonted furtherance?
1H6 5.3. 22 Then take my soul - my body, soul, and all -
1H6 5.3. 23 Before that England give the French the foil. {They depart}
1H6 5.3. 24 See, they forsake me. Now the time is come
1H6 5.3. 25 That France must vail her lofty-plumed crest
1H6 5.3. 26 And let her head fall into England's lap.
1H6 5.3. 27 My ancient incantations are too weak,
1H6 5.3. 28 And hell too strong for me to buckle with.
1H6 5.3. 29 Now, France, thy glory droopeth to the dust. {Exit}
1H6 5.3. 0 {Excursions. The Dukes of Burgundy and York fight hand to +
1H6 5.4. 0 hand. The French fly. Joan la Pucelle is taken}
1H6 5.4. 1
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
Damsel of France, I think I have you +
1H6 5.4. 1 fast.
1H6 5.4. 2 Unchain your spirits now with spelling charms,
1H6 5.4. 3 And try if they can gain your liberty.
1H6 5.4. 4 A goodly prize, fit for the devil's grace!
1H6 5.4. 5 {[To his soldiers]} See how the ugly witch doth bend +
1H6 5.4. 5 her brows,
1H6 5.4. 6 As if with Circe she would change my shape.
1H6 5.4. 7
1H6-JOAN
Changed to a worser shape thou canst not be.
1H6 5.4. 8
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
O, Charles the Dauphin is a proper man.
1H6 5.4. 9 No shape but his can please your dainty eye.
1H6 5.4. 10
1H6-JOAN
A plaguing mischief light on Charles and thee,
1H6 5.4. 11 And may ye both be suddenly surprised
1H6 5.4. 12 By bloody hands in sleeping on your beds!
1H6 5.4. 13
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
Fell banning hag, enchantress, hold thy +
1H6 5.4. 13 tongue.
1H6 5.4. 14
1H6-JOAN
I prithee give me leave to curse awhile.
1H6 5.4. 15
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
Curse, miscreant, when thou comest to the +
1H6 5.4. 15 stake. {Exeunt}
1H6 5.4. 0 {Alarum. Enter the Earl of Suffolk with Margaret in his +
1H6 5.5. 0 hand}
1H6 5.5. 1
1H6-SUFFOLK
Be what thou wilt, thou art my prisoner. +
1H6 5.5. 1 {He gazes on her}
1H6 5.5. 2 O fairest beauty, do not fear nor fly,
1H6 5.5. 3 For I will touch thee but with reverent hands,
1H6 5.5. 4 And lay them gently on thy tender side.
1H6 5.5. 5 I kiss these fingers for eternal peace.
1H6 5.5. 6 Who art thou? Say, that I may honour thee.
1H6 5.5. 7
1H6-MARGARET
Margaret my name, and daughter to a king,
1H6 5.5. 8 The King of Naples, whosoe'er thou art.
1H6 5.5. 9
1H6-SUFFOLK
An earl I am, and Suffolk am I called.
1H6 5.5. 10 Be not offended, nature's miracle,
1H6 5.5. 11 Thou art allotted to be ta'en by me.
1H6 5.5. 12 So doth the swan his downy cygnets save,
1H6 5.5. 13 Keeping them prisoner underneath his wings.
1H6 5.5. 14 Yet if this servile usage once offend,
1H6 5.5. 15 Go, and be free again, as Suffolk's friend. {She is going}
1H6 5.5. 16 O stay! {(Aside)} I have no power to let her +
1H6 5.5. 16 pass.
1H6 5.5. 17 My hand would free her, but my heart says no.
1H6 5.5. 18 As plays the sun upon the glassy stream,
1H6 5.5. 19 Twinkling another counterfeited beam,
1H6 5.5. 20 So seems this gorgeous beauty to mine eyes.
1H6 5.5. 21 Fain would I woo her, yet I dare not speak.
1H6 5.5. 22 I'll call for pen and ink, and write my mind.
1H6 5.5. 23 Fie, de le Pole, disable not thyself!
1H6 5.5. 24 Hast not a tongue? Is she not here to hear?
1H6 5.5. 25 Wilt thou be daunted at a woman's sight?
1H6 5.5. 26 Ay, beauty's princely majesty is such
1H6 5.5. 27 Confounds the tongue, and makes the senses rough.
1H6 5.5. 28
1H6-MARGARET
Say, Earl of Suffolk - if thy name be so -
1H6 5.5. 29 What ransom must I pay before I pass?
1H6 5.5. 30 For I perceive I am thy prisoner.
1H6 5.5. 31
1H6-SUFFOLK
{(aside)} How canst thou tell she will +
1H6 5.5. 31 deny thy suit
1H6 5.5. 32 Before thou make a trial of her love?
1H6 5.5. 33
1H6-MARGARET
Why speak'st thou not? What ransom must I pay?
1H6 5.5. 34
1H6-SUFFOLK
{(aside)} She's beautiful, and therefore +
1H6 5.5. 34 to be wooed;
1H6 5.5. 35 She is a woman, therefore to be won.
1H6 5.5. 36
1H6-MARGARET
Wilt thou accept of ransom, yea or no?
1H6 5.5. 37
1H6-SUFFOLK
{(aside)} Fond man, remember that thou +
1H6 5.5. 37 hast a wife;
1H6 5.5. 38 Then how can Margaret be thy paramour?
1H6 5.5. 39
1H6-MARGARET
{(aside)} I were best to leave him, for +
1H6 5.5. 39 he will not hear.
1H6 5.5. 40
1H6-SUFFOLK
{(aside)} There all is marred; there lies +
1H6 5.5. 40 a cooling card.
1H6 5.5. 41
1H6-MARGARET
{(aside)} He talks at random; sure the +
1H6 5.5. 41 man is mad.
1H6 5.5. 42
1H6-SUFFOLK
{(aside)} And yet a dispensation may be +
1H6 5.5. 42 had.
1H6 5.5. 43
1H6-MARGARET
And yet I would that you would answer me.
1H6 5.5. 44
1H6-SUFFOLK
{(aside)} I'll win this Lady Margaret. For +
1H6 5.5. 44 whom?
1H6 5.5. 45 Why, for my king - tush, that's a wooden thing.
1H6 5.5. 46
1H6-MARGARET
{(aside)} He talks of wood. It is some +
1H6 5.5. 46 carpenter.
1H6 5.5. 47
1H6-SUFFOLK
{(aside)} Yet so my fancy may be +
1H6 5.5. 47 satisfied,
1H6 5.5. 48 And peace established between these realms.
1H6 5.5. 49 But there remains a scruple in that too,
1H6 5.5. 50 For though her father be the King of Naples,
1H6 5.5. 51 Duke of Anjou and Maine, yet is he poor,
1H6 5.5. 52 And our nobility will scorn the match.
1H6 5.5. 53
1H6-MARGARET
Hear ye, captain? Are you not at leisure?
1H6 5.5. 54
1H6-SUFFOLK
{(aside)} It shall be so, disdain they +
1H6 5.5. 54 ne'er so much.
1H6 5.5. 55 Henry is youthful, and will quickly yield.
1H6 5.5. 56 {(To Margaret)} Madam, I have a secret to reveal.
1H6 5.5. 57
1H6-MARGARET
{(aside)} What though I be enthralled, he +
1H6 5.5. 57 seems a knight
1H6 5.5. 58 And will not any way dishonour me.
1H6 5.5. 59
1H6-SUFFOLK
Lady, vouchsafe to listen what I say.
1H6 5.5. 60
1H6-MARGARET
{(aside)} Perhaps I shall be rescued by +
1H6 5.5. 60 the French,
1H6 5.5. 61 And then I need not crave his courtesy.
1H6 5.5. 62
1H6-SUFFOLK
Sweet madam, give me hearing in a cause.
1H6 5.5. 63
1H6-MARGARET
{(aside)} Tush, women have been captivate +
1H6 5.5. 63 ere now.
1H6 5.5. 64A
1H6-SUFFOLK
Lady, wherefore talk you so?
1H6 5.5. 65
1H6-MARGARET
I cry you mercy, 'tis but {quid} for {quo}.
1H6 5.5. 66
1H6-SUFFOLK
Say, gentle Princess, would you not suppose
1H6 5.5. 67 Your bondage happy to be made a queen?
1H6 5.5. 68
1H6-MARGARET
To be a queen in bondage is more vile
1H6 5.5. 69 Than is a slave in base servility,
1H6 5.5. 70B For princes should be free.
1H6-SUFFOLK
And so shall you,
1H6 5.5. 71 If happy England's royal king be free.
1H6 5.5. 72
1H6-MARGARET
Why, what concerns his freedom unto me?
1H6 5.5. 73
1H6-SUFFOLK
I'll undertake to make thee Henry's queen,
1H6 5.5. 74 To put a golden sceptre in thy hand,
1H6 5.5. 75 And set a precious crown upon thy head,
1H6 5.5. 76B If thou wilt condescend to be my -
1H6-MARGARET
What?
1H6 5.5. 77A
1H6-SUFFOLK
His love.
1H6 5.5. 78
1H6-MARGARET
I am unworthy to be Henry's wife.
1H6 5.5. 79
1H6-SUFFOLK
No, gentle madam, I unworthy am
1H6 5.5. 80 To woo so fair a dame to be his wife
1H6 5.5. 81 {(Aside)} And have no portion in the choice myself. -
1H6 5.5. 82 How say you, madam; are ye so content?
1H6 5.5. 83
1H6-MARGARET
An if my father please, I am content.
1H6 5.5. 84
1H6-SUFFOLK
Then call our captains and our colours forth, +
1H6 5.5. 84 {[Enter captains, colours, and trumpeters]}
1H6 5.5. 85 And, madam, at your father's castle walls
1H6 5.5. 86 We'll crave a parley to confer with him. {Sound a parley. Enter +
1H6 5.5. 86 Rene/ Duke of Anjou on the walls}
1H6 5.5. 87 See, Rene/, see thy daughter prisoner.
1H6 5.5. 88B
1H6-RENE
To whom?
1H6-SUFFOLK
To me.
1H6-RENE
Suffolk, what remedy?
1H6 5.5. 89 I am a soldier, and unapt to weep
1H6 5.5. 90 Or to exclaim on fortune's fickleness.
1H6 5.5. 91
1H6-SUFFOLK
Yes, there is remedy enough, my lord.
1H6 5.5. 92 Assent, and for thy honour give consent
1H6 5.5. 93 Thy daughter shall be wedded to my king,
1H6 5.5. 94 Whom I with pain have wooed and won thereto;
1H6 5.5. 95 And this her easy-held imprisonment
1H6 5.5. 96 Hath gained thy daughter princely liberty.
1H6 5.5. 97B
1H6-RENE
Speaks Suffolk as he thinks?
1H6-SUFFOLK
Fair Margaret knows
1H6 5.5. 98 That Suffolk doth not flatter, face or feign.
1H6 5.5. 99
1H6-RENE
Upon thy princely warrant I descend
1H6 5.5. 100 To give thee answer of thy just demand.
1H6 5.5. 101
1H6-SUFFOLK
And here I will expect thy coming. {[Exit Rene/ +
1H6 5.5. 101 above]}
1H6 5.5. 102 {Trumpets sound. Enter Rene/}
1H6-RENE
Welcome, brave +
1H6 5.5. 102 Earl, into our territories.
1H6 5.5. 103 Command in Anjou what your honour pleases.
1H6 5.5. 104
1H6-SUFFOLK
Thanks, Rene/, happy for so sweet a child,
1H6 5.5. 105 Fit to be made companion with a king.
1H6 5.5. 106 What answer makes your grace unto my suit?
1H6 5.5. 107
1H6-RENE
Since thou dost deign to woo her little worth
1H6 5.5. 108 To be the princely bride of such a lord,
1H6 5.5. 109 Upon condition I may quietly
1H6 5.5. 110 Enjoy mine own, the countries Maine and Anjou,
1H6 5.5. 111 Free from oppression or the stroke of war,
1H6 5.5. 112 My daughter shall be Henry's, if he please.
1H6 5.5. 113
1H6-SUFFOLK
That is her ransom. I deliver her,
1H6 5.5. 114 And those two counties I will undertake
1H6 5.5. 115 Your grace shall well and quietly enjoy.
1H6 5.5. 116
1H6-RENE
And I again in Henry's royal name,
1H6 5.5. 117 As deputy unto that gracious king,
1H6 5.5. 118 Give thee her hand for sign of plighted faith.
1H6 5.5. 119
1H6-SUFFOLK
Rene/ of France, I give thee kingly thanks,
1H6 5.5. 120 Because this is in traffic of a king.
1H6 5.5. 121 {(Aside)} And yet methinks I could be well content
1H6 5.5. 122 To be mine own attorney in this case.
1H6 5.5. 123 {(To Rene/)} I'll over then to England with this news,
1H6 5.5. 124 And make this marriage to be solemnized.
1H6 5.5. 125 So farewell, Rene/; set this diamond safe
1H6 5.5. 126 In golden palaces, as it becomes.
1H6 5.5. 127
1H6-RENE
I do embrace thee as I would embrace
1H6 5.5. 128 The Christian prince King Henry, were he here.
1H6 5.5. 129
1H6-MARGARET
{(to Suffolk)} Farewell, my lord. Good +
1H6 5.5. 129 wishes, praise, and prayers
1H6 5.5. 130 Shall Suffolk ever have of Margaret. {She is going}
1H6 5.5. 131
1H6-SUFFOLK
Farewell, sweet madam; but hark you, Margaret -
1H6 5.5. 132 No princely commendations to my king?
1H6 5.5. 133
1H6-MARGARET
Such commendations as becomes a maid,
1H6 5.5. 134 A virgin, and his servant, say to him.
1H6 5.5. 135
1H6-SUFFOLK
Words sweetly placed, and modestly directed. {[She +
1H6 5.5. 135 is going]}
1H6 5.5. 136 But madam, I must trouble you again -
1H6 5.5. 137 No loving token to his majesty?
1H6 5.5. 138
1H6-MARGARET
Yes, my good lord: a pure unspotted heart,
1H6 5.5. 139 Never yet taint with love, I send the King.
1H6 5.5. 140A
1H6-SUFFOLK
And this withal. {He kisses her}
1H6 5.5. 141
1H6-MARGARET
That for thyself; I will not so presume
1H6 5.5. 142 To send such peevish tokens to a king. {[Exeunt Rene/ and +
1H6 5.5. 142 Margaret]}
1H6 5.5. 143
1H6-SUFFOLK
{[aside]} O, wert thou for myself! - but +
1H6 5.5. 143 Suffolk, stay.
1H6 5.5. 144 Thou mayst not wander in that labyrinth.
1H6 5.5. 145 There Minotaurs and ugly treasons lurk.
1H6 5.5. 146 Solicit Henry with her wondrous praise.
1H6 5.5. 147 Bethink thee on her virtues that surmount,
1H6 5.5. 148 Mad natural graces that extinguish art.
1H6 5.5. 149 Repeat their semblance often on the seas,
1H6 5.5. 150 That when thou com'st to kneel at Henry's feet
1H6 5.5. 151 Thou mayst bereave him of his wits with wonder. {[Exeunt]}
1H6 5.5. 0 {Enter Richard Duke of York, the Earl of Warwick, and a +
1H6 5.6. 0 Shepherd}
1H6 5.6. 1
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
Bring forth that sorceress condemned +
1H6 5.6. 1 to burn. {[Enter Joan la Pucelle guarded]}
1H6 5.6. 2
1H6-SHEPHERD
Ah, Joan, this kills thy father's heart +
1H6 5.6. 2 outright.
1H6 5.6. 3 Have I sought every country far and near,
1H6 5.6. 4 And now it is my chance to find thee out
1H6 5.6. 5 Must I behold thy timeless cruel death?
1H6 5.6. 6 Ah Joan, sweet daughter Joan, I'll die with thee.
1H6 5.6. 7
1H6-JOAN
Decrepit miser, base ignoble wretch,
1H6 5.6. 8 I am descended of a gentler blood.
1H6 5.6. 9 Thou art no father nor no friend of mine.
1H6 5.6. 10
1H6-SHEPHERD
Out, out! - My lords, an 't please you, 'tis not so.
1H6 5.6. 11 I did beget her, all the parish knows.
1H6 5.6. 12 Her mother liveth yet, can testify
1H6 5.6. 13 She was the first fruit of my bach'lorship.
1H6 5.6. 14
1H6-WARWICK
{(to Joan)} Graceless, wilt thou deny thy +
1H6 5.6. 14 parentage?
1H6 5.6. 15
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
This argues what her kind of life hath been -
1H6 5.6. 16 Wicked and vile; and so her death concludes.
1H6 5.6. 17
1H6-SHEPHERD
Fie, Joan, that thou wilt be so obstacle.
1H6 5.6. 18 God knows thou art a collop of my flesh,
1H6 5.6. 19 And for thy sake have I shed many a tear.
1H6 5.6. 20 Deny me not, I prithee, gentle Joan.
1H6 5.6. 21
1H6-JOAN
Peasant, avaunt! {(To the English)} You have +
1H6 5.6. 21 suborned this man
1H6 5.6. 22 Of purpose to obscure my noble birth.
1H6 5.6. 23
1H6-SHEPHERD
{(to the English)} 'Tis true I gave a +
1H6 5.6. 23 noble to the priest
1H6 5.6. 24 The morn that I was wedded to her mother.
1H6 5.6. 25 {(To Joan)} Kneel down, and take my blessing, good my +
1H6 5.6. 25 girl.
1H6 5.6. 26 Wilt thou not stoop? Now cursed be the time
1H6 5.6. 27 Of thy nativity. I would the milk
1H6 5.6. 28 Thy mother gave thee when thou sucked'st her breast
1H6 5.6. 29 Had been a little ratsbane for thy sake.
1H6 5.6. 30 Or else, when thou didst keep my lambs afield,
1H6 5.6. 31 I wish some ravenous wolf had eaten thee.
1H6 5.6. 32 Dost thou deny thy father, cursed drab?
1H6 5.6. 33 {(To the English)} O burn her, burn her! Hanging is +
1H6 5.6. 33 too good. {Exit}
1H6 5.6. 34
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
{(to guards)} Take her away, +
1H6 5.6. 34 for she hath lived too long,
1H6 5.6. 35 To fill the world with vicious qualities.
1H6 5.6. 36
1H6-JOAN
First let me tell you whom you have condemned:
1H6 5.6. 37 Not one begotten of a shepherd swain,
1H6 5.6. 38 But issued from the progeny of kings;
1H6 5.6. 39 Virtuous and holy, chosen from above
1H6 5.6. 40 By inspiration of celestial grace
1H6 5.6. 41 To work exceeding miracles on earth.
1H6 5.6. 42 I never had to do with wicked spirits;
1H6 5.6. 43 But you that are polluted with your lusts,
1H6 5.6. 44 Stained with the guiltless blood of innocents,
1H6 5.6. 45 Corrupt and tainted with a thousand vices -
1H6 5.6. 46 Because you want the grace that others have,
1H6 5.6. 47 You judge it straight a thing impossible
1H6 5.6. 48 To compass wonders but by help of devils.
1H6 5.6. 49 No, misconceived Joan of Arc hath been
1H6 5.6. 50 A virgin from her tender infancy,
1H6 5.6. 51 Chaste and immaculate in very thought,
1H6 5.6. 52 Whose maiden-blood thus rigorously effused
1H6 5.6. 53 Will cry for vengeance at the gates of heaven.
1H6 5.6. 54
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
Ay, ay, {(to guards)} away +
1H6 5.6. 54 with her to execution.
1H6 5.6. 55
1H6-WARWICK
{(to guards)} And hark ye, sirs: because +
1H6 5.6. 55 she is a maid,
1H6 5.6. 56 Spare for no faggots. Let there be enough.
1H6 5.6. 57 Place barrels of pitch upon the fatal stake,
1H6 5.6. 58 That so her torture may be shortened.
1H6 5.6. 59
1H6-JOAN
Will nothing turn your unrelenting hearts?
1H6 5.6. 60 Then Joan, discover thine infirmity,
1H6 5.6. 61 That warranteth by law to be thy privilege:
1H6 5.6. 62 I am with child, ye bloody homicides.
1H6 5.6. 63 Murder not then the fruit within my womb,
1H6 5.6. 64 Although ye hale me to a violent death.
1H6 5.6. 65
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
Now heaven forfend - the holy maid with child?
1H6 5.6. 66
1H6-WARWICK
{(to Joan)} The greatest miracle that e'er +
1H6 5.6. 66 ye wrought.
1H6 5.6. 67 Is all your strict preciseness come to this?
1H6 5.6. 68
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
She and the Dauphin have been ingling.
1H6 5.6. 69 I did imagine what would be her refuge.
1H6 5.6. 70
1H6-WARWICK
Well, go to, we will have no bastards live,
1H6 5.6. 71 Especially since Charles must father it.
1H6 5.6. 72
1H6-JOAN
You are deceived. My child is none of his.
1H6 5.6. 73 It was Alenc@on that enjoyed my love.
1H6 5.6. 74
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
Alenc@on, that notorious Machiavel?
1H6 5.6. 75 It dies an if it had a thousand lives.
1H6 5.6. 76
1H6-JOAN
O give me leave, I have deluded you.
1H6 5.6. 77 'Twas neither Charles nor yet the Duke I named,
1H6 5.6. 78 But Rene/ King of Naples that prevailed.
1H6 5.6. 79
1H6-WARWICK
A married man? - That's most intolerable.
1H6 5.6. 80
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
Why, here's a girl; I think she knows not +
1H6 5.6. 80 well -
1H6 5.6. 81 There were so many - whom she may accuse.
1H6 5.6. 82
1H6-WARWICK
It's sign she hath been liberal and free.
1H6 5.6. 83
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
And yet forsooth she is a virgin pure!
1H6 5.6. 84 {(To Joan)} Strumpet, thy words condemn thy brat and +
1H6 5.6. 84 thee.
1H6 5.6. 85 Use no entreaty, for it is in vain.
1H6 5.6. 86
1H6-JOAN
Then lead me hence; with whom I leave my curse.
1H6 5.6. 87 May never glorious sun reflex his beams
1H6 5.6. 88 Upon the country where you make abode,
1H6 5.6. 89 But darkness and the gloomy shade of death
1H6 5.6. 90 Environ you till mischief and despair
1H6 5.6. 91 Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves. {Enter the +
1H6 5.6. 91 Bishop of Winchester, now Cardinal}
1H6 5.6. 92
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
{(to Joan)} Break thou in +
1H6 5.6. 92 pieces, and consume to ashes,
1H6 5.6. 93 Thou foul accursed minister of hell. {[Exit Joan, guarded]}
1H6 5.6. 94
1H6-WINCHESTER
Lord Regent, I do greet your excellence
1H6 5.6. 95 With letters of commission from the King.
1H6 5.6. 96 For know, my lords, the states of Christendom,
1H6 5.6. 97 Moved with remorse of these outrageous broils,
1H6 5.6. 98 Have earnestly implored a general peace
1H6 5.6. 99 Betwixt our nation and the aspiring French,
1H6 5.6. 100 And here at hand the Dauphin and his train
1H6 5.6. 101 Approacheth to confer about some matter.
1H6 5.6. 102
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
Is all our travail turned to this effect?
1H6 5.6. 103 After the slaughter of so many peers,
1H6 5.6. 104 So many captains, gentlemen, and soldiers
1H6 5.6. 105 That in this quarrel have been overthrown
1H6 5.6. 106 And sold their bodies for their country's benefit,
1H6 5.6. 107 Shall we at last conclude effeminate peace?
1H6 5.6. 108 Have we not lost most part of all the towns
1H6 5.6. 109 By treason, falsehood, and by treachery,
1H6 5.6. 110 Our great progenitors had conquered?
1H6 5.6. 111 O Warwick, Warwick, I foresee with grief
1H6 5.6. 112 The utter loss of all the realm of France!
1H6 5.6. 113
1H6-WARWICK
Be patient, York. If we conclude a peace
1H6 5.6. 114 It shall be with such strict and severe covenants
1H6 5.6. 115 As little shall the Frenchmen gain thereby. {Enter Charles the +
1H6 5.6. 115 Dauphin, the Duke of Alenc@on, the Bastard of Orle/ans, and Rene/ Duke +
1H6 5.6. 115 of Anjou}
1H6 5.6. 116
1H6-CHARLES
Since, lords of England, it is thus agreed
1H6 5.6. 117 That peaceful truce shall be proclaimed in France,
1H6 5.6. 118 We come to be informed by yourselves
1H6 5.6. 119 What the conditions of that league must be.
1H6 5.6. 120
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
Speak, Winchester; for boiling choler chokes
1H6 5.6. 121 The hollow passage of my poisoned voice
1H6 5.6. 122 By sight of these our baleful enemies.
1H6 5.6. 123
1H6-WINCHESTER
Charles and the rest, it is enacted thus:
1H6 5.6. 124 That, in regard King Henry gives consent,
1H6 5.6. 125 Of mere compassion and of lenity,
1H6 5.6. 126 To ease your country of distressful war
1H6 5.6. 127 And suffer you to breathe in fruitful peace,
1H6 5.6. 128 You shall become true liegemen to his crown.
1H6 5.6. 129 And, Charles, upon condition thou wilt swear
1H6 5.6. 130 To pay him tribute and submit thyself,
1H6 5.6. 131 Thou shalt be placed as viceroy under him,
1H6 5.6. 132 And still enjoy thy regal dignity.
1H6 5.6. 133
1H6-ALENC@ON
Must he be then as shadow of himself? -
1H6 5.6. 134 Adorn his temples with a coronet,
1H6 5.6. 135 And yet in substance and authority
1H6 5.6. 136 Retain but privilege of a private man?
1H6 5.6. 137 This proffer is absurd and reasonless.
1H6 5.6. 138
1H6-CHARLES
'Tis known already that I am possessed
1H6 5.6. 139 With more than half the Gallian territories,
1H6 5.6. 140 And therein reverenced for their lawful king.
1H6 5.6. 141 Shall I, for lucre of the rest unvanquished,
1H6 5.6. 142 Detract so much from that prerogative
1H6 5.6. 143 As to be called but viceroy of the whole?
1H6 5.6. 144 No, lord ambassador, I'll rather keep
1H6 5.6. 145 That which I have than, coveting for more,
1H6 5.6. 146 Be cast from possibility of all.
1H6 5.6. 147
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
Insulting Charles, hast thou by secret means
1H6 5.6. 148 Used intercession to obtain a league
1H6 5.6. 149 And, now the matter grows to compromise,
1H6 5.6. 150 Stand'st thou aloof upon comparison?
1H6 5.6. 151 Either accept the title thou usurp'st,
1H6 5.6. 152 Of benefit proceeding from our king
1H6 5.6. 153 And not of any challenge of desert,
1H6 5.6. 154 Or we will plague thee with incessant wars.
1H6 5.6. 155
1H6-RENE
{(aside to Charles)} My lord, you do not +
1H6 5.6. 155 well in obstinacy
1H6 5.6. 156 To cavil in the course of this contract.
1H6 5.6. 157 If once it be neglected, ten to one
1H6 5.6. 158 We shall not find like opportunity.
1H6 5.6. 159
1H6-ALENC@ON
{(aside to Charles)} To say the truth, it +
1H6 5.6. 159 is your policy
1H6 5.6. 160 To save your subjects from such massacre
1H6 5.6. 161 And ruthless slaughters as are daily seen
1H6 5.6. 162 By our proceeding in hostility;
1H6 5.6. 163 And therefore take this compact of a truce,
1H6 5.6. 164 Although you break it when your pleasure serves.
1H6 5.6. 165
1H6-WARWICK
How sayst thou, Charles? Shall our condition stand?
1H6 5.6. 166A
1H6-CHARLES
It shall,
1H6 5.6. 167 Only reserved you claim no interest
1H6 5.6. 168 In any of our towns of garrison.
1H6 5.6. 169
1H6-RICHARD DUKE OF YORK
Then swear allegiance to his majesty,
1H6 5.6. 170 As thou art knight, never to disobey
1H6 5.6. 171 Nor be rebellious to the crown of England,
1H6 5.6. 172 Thou nor thy nobles, to the crown of England. {[They swear]}
1H6 5.6. 173 So, now dismiss your army when ye please.
1H6 5.6. 174 Hang up your ensigns, let your drums be still;
1H6 5.6. 175 For here we entertain a solemn peace. {Exeunt}
1H6 5.6. 0 {Enter the Earl of Suffolk, in conference with King +
1H6 5.7. 0 Henry, and the Dukes of Gloucester and Exeter}
1H6 5.7. 1
1H6-KING HENRY
{(to Suffolk)} Your wondrous rare +
1H6 5.7. 1 description, noble Earl,
1H6 5.7. 2 Of beauteous Margaret hath astonished me.
1H6 5.7. 3 Her virtues graced with external gifts
1H6 5.7. 4 Do breed love's settled passions in my heart,
1H6 5.7. 5 And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts
1H6 5.7. 6 Provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide,
1H6 5.7. 7 So am I driven by breath of her renown
1H6 5.7. 8 Either to suffer shipwreck or arrive
1H6 5.7. 9 Where I may have fruition of her love.
1H6 5.7. 10
1H6-SUFFOLK
Tush, my good lord, this superficial tale
1H6 5.7. 11 Is but a preface of her worthy praise.
1H6 5.7. 12 The chief perfections of that lovely dame,
1H6 5.7. 13 Had I sufficient skill to utter them,
1H6 5.7. 14 Would make a volume of enticing lines
1H6 5.7. 15 Able to ravish any dull conceit;
1H6 5.7. 16 And, which is more, she is not so divine,
1H6 5.7. 17 So full replete with choice of all delights,
1H6 5.7. 18 But with as humble lowliness of mind
1H6 5.7. 19 She is content to be at your command -
1H6 5.7. 20 Command, I mean, of virtuous chaste intents,
1H6 5.7. 21 To love and honour Henry as her lord.
1H6 5.7. 22
1H6-KING HENRY
And otherwise will Henry ne'er presume.
1H6 5.7. 23 {(To Gloucester)} Therefore, my lord Protector, give +
1H6 5.7. 23 consent
1H6 5.7. 24 That Marg'ret may be England's royal queen.
1H6 5.7. 25
1H6-GLOUCESTER
So should I give consent to flatter sin.
1H6 5.7. 26 You know, my lord, your highness is betrothed
1H6 5.7. 27 Unto another lady of esteem.
1H6 5.7. 28 How shall we then dispense with that contract
1H6 5.7. 29 And not deface your honour with reproach?
1H6 5.7. 30
1H6-SUFFOLK
As doth a ruler with unlawful oaths,
1H6 5.7. 31 Or one that, at a triumph having vowed
1H6 5.7. 32 To try his strength, forsaketh yet the lists
1H6 5.7. 33 By reason of his adversary's odds.
1H6 5.7. 34 A poor earl's daughter is unequal odds,
1H6 5.7. 35 And therefore may be broke without offence.
1H6 5.7. 36
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Why, what, I pray, is Margaret more than that?
1H6 5.7. 37 Her father is no better than an earl,
1H6 5.7. 38 Although in glorious titles he excel.
1H6 5.7. 39
1H6-SUFFOLK
Yes, my lord; her father is a king,
1H6 5.7. 40 The King of Naples and Jerusalem,
1H6 5.7. 41 And of such great authority in France
1H6 5.7. 42 As his alliance will confirm our peace
1H6 5.7. 43 And keep the Frenchmen in allegiance.
1H6 5.7. 44
1H6-GLOUCESTER
And so the Earl of Armagnac may do,
1H6 5.7. 45 Because he is near kinsman unto Charles.
1H6 5.7. 46
1H6-EXETER
Beside, his wealth doth warrant a liberal dower,
1H6 5.7. 47 Where Rene/ sooner will receive than give.
1H6 5.7. 48
1H6-SUFFOLK
A dower, my lords? Disgrace not so your King
1H6 5.7. 49 That he should be so abject, base, and poor
1H6 5.7. 50 To choose for wealth and not for perfect love.
1H6 5.7. 51 Henry is able to enrich his queen,
1H6 5.7. 52 And not to seek a queen to make him rich.
1H6 5.7. 53 So worthless peasants bargain for their wives,
1H6 5.7. 54 As market men for oxen, sheep, or horse.
1H6 5.7. 55 Marriage is a matter of more worth
1H6 5.7. 56 Than to be dealt in by attorneyship.
1H6 5.7. 57 Not whom {we} will but whom his grace affects
1H6 5.7. 58 Must be companion of his nuptial bed.
1H6 5.7. 59 And therefore, lords, since he affects her most,
1H6 5.7. 60 That most of all these reasons bindeth us:
1H6 5.7. 61 In our opinions she should be preferred.
1H6 5.7. 62 For what is wedlock forced but a hell,
1H6 5.7. 63 An age of discord and continual strife,
1H6 5.7. 64 Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss,
1H6 5.7. 65 And is a pattern of celestial peace.
1H6 5.7. 66 Whom should we match with Henry, being a king,
1H6 5.7. 67 But Margaret, that is daughter to a king?
1H6 5.7. 68 Her peerless feature joined with her birth
1H6 5.7. 69 Approves her fit for none but for a king.
1H6 5.7. 70 Her valiant courage and undaunted spirit,
1H6 5.7. 71 More than in women commonly is seen,
1H6 5.7. 72 Will answer our hope in issue of a king.
1H6 5.7. 73 For Henry, son unto a conqueror,
1H6 5.7. 74 Is likely to beget more conquerors
1H6 5.7. 75 If with a lady of so high resolve
1H6 5.7. 76 As is fair Margaret he be linked in love.
1H6 5.7. 77 Then yield, my lords, and here conclude with me:
1H6 5.7. 78 That Margaret shall be queen, and none but she.
1H6 5.7. 79
1H6-KING HENRY
Whether it be through force of your report,
1H6 5.7. 80 My noble lord of Suffolk, or for that
1H6 5.7. 81 My tender youth was never yet attaint
1H6 5.7. 82 With any passion of inflaming love,
1H6 5.7. 83 I cannot tell; but this I am assured:
1H6 5.7. 84 I feel such sharp dissension in my breast,
1H6 5.7. 85 Such fierce alarums both of hope and fear,
1H6 5.7. 86 As I am sick with working of my thoughts.
1H6 5.7. 87 Take therefore shipping; post, my lord, to France;
1H6 5.7. 88 Agree to any covenants, and procure
1H6 5.7. 89 That Lady Margaret do vouchsafe to come
1H6 5.7. 90 To cross the seas to England and be crowned
1H6 5.7. 91 King Henry's faithful and anointed queen.
1H6 5.7. 92 For your expenses and sufficient charge,
1H6 5.7. 93 Among the people gather up a tenth.
1H6 5.7. 94 Be gone, I say; for till you do return
1H6 5.7. 95 I rest perplexed with a thousand cares.
1H6 5.7. 96 {(To Gloucester)} And you, good uncle, banish all +
1H6 5.7. 96 offence.
1H6 5.7. 97 If you do censure me by what you were,
1H6 5.7. 98 Not what you are, I know it will excuse
1H6 5.7. 99 This sudden execution of my will.
1H6 5.7. 100 And so conduct me where from company
1H6 5.7. 101 I may revolve and ruminate my grief. {Exit [with Exeter]}
1H6 5.7. 102
1H6-GLOUCESTER
Ay, grief, I fear me, both at first and +
1H6 5.7. 102 last. {Exit}
1H6 5.7. 103
1H6-SUFFOLK
Thus Suffolk hath prevailed, and thus he goes
1H6 5.7. 104 As did the youthful Paris once to Greece,
1H6 5.7. 105 With hope to find the like event in love,
1H6 5.7. 106 But prosper better than the Trojan did.
1H6 5.7. 107 Margaret shall now be queen and rule the King;
1H6 5.7. 108 But I will rule both her, the King, and realm. {Exit}
1H6 5.7.
1H6
0
2H4 . . 0 The Second Part of Henry the Fourth
2H4 . . 0 {Enter Rumour [in a robe] painted full of +
2H4 .In. 0 tongues}
2H4 .In. 1
2H4-RUMOUR
Open your ears; for which of you will stop
2H4 .In. 2 The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks?
2H4 .In. 3 I from the orient to the drooping west,
2H4 .In. 4 Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold
2H4 .In. 5 The acts commenced on this ball of earth.
2H4 .In. 6 Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,
2H4 .In. 7 The which in every language I pronounce,
2H4 .In. 8 Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.
2H4 .In. 9 I speak of peace, while covert enmity
2H4 .In. 10 Under the smile of safety wounds the world;
2H4 .In. 11 And who but Rumour, who but only I,
2H4 .In. 12 Make fearful musters and prepared defence
2H4 .In. 13 Whiles the big year, swoll'n with some other griefs,
2H4 .In. 14 Is thought with child by the stern tyrant war,
2H4 .In. 15 And no such matter? Rumour is a pipe
2H4 .In. 16 Blown by surmises, Jealousy's conjectures,
2H4 .In. 17 And of so easy and so plain a stop
2H4 .In. 18 That the blunt monster with uncounted heads,
2H4 .In. 19 The still-discordant wav'ring multitude,
2H4 .In. 20 Can play upon it. But what need I thus
2H4 .In. 21 My well-known body to anatomize
2H4 .In. 22 Among my household? Why is Rumour here?
2H4 .In. 23 I run before King Harry's victory,
2H4 .In. 24 Who in a bloody field by Shrewsbury
2H4 .In. 25 Hath beaten down young Hotspur and his troops,
2H4 .In. 26 Quenching the flame of bold rebellion
2H4 .In. 27 Even with the rebels' blood. But what mean I
2H4 .In. 28 To speak so true at first? My office is
2H4 .In. 29 To noise abroad that Harry Monmouth fell
2H4 .In. 30 Under the wrath of noble Hotspur's sword,
2H4 .In. 31 And that the King before the Douglas' rage
2H4 .In. 32 Stooped his anointed head as low as death.
2H4 .In. 33 This have I rumoured through the peasant towns
2H4 .In. 34 Between that royal field of Shrewsbury
2H4 .In. 35 And this worm-eaten hold of ragged stone,
2H4 .In. 36 Where Hotspur's father, old Northumberland,
2H4 .In. 37 Lies crafty-sick. The posts come tiring on,
2H4 .In. 38 And not a man of them brings other news
2H4 .In. 39 Than they have learnt of me. From Rumour's tongues
2H4 .In. 40 They bring smooth comforts false, worse than true wrongs. {Exit}
2H4 .In. 0 {Enter Lord Bardolph at one door. [He crosses the +
2H4 1.1. 0 stage to another door]}
2H4 1.1. 1B
2H4-LORD BARDOLPH
Who keeps the gate here, ho? {Enter +
2H4 1.1. 1B Porter [above]} Where is the Earl?
2H4 1.1. 2B
2H4-PORTER
What shall I say you are?
2H4-LORD BARDOLPH
Tell thou the +
2H4 1.1. 2B Earl
2H4 1.1. 3 That the Lord Bardolph doth attend him here.
2H4 1.1. 4
2H4-PORTER
His lordship is walked forth into the orchard.
2H4 1.1. 5 Please it your honour knock but at the gate,
2H4 1.1. 6B And he himself will answer. {Enter the Earl Northumberland [at +
2H4 1.1. 6B the other door], as sick, with a crutch and coif}
2H4-LORD BARDOLPH
+
2H4 1.1. 6B Here comes the Earl. {[Exit Porter]}
2H4 1.1. 7
2H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
What news, Lord Bardolph? Every minute now
2H4 1.1. 8 Should be the father of some stratagem.
2H4 1.1. 9 The times are wild; contention, like a horse
2H4 1.1. 10 Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose,
2H4 1.1. 11B And bears down all before him.
2H4-LORD BARDOLPH
Noble Earl,
2H4 1.1. 12 I bring you certain news from Shrewsbury.
2H4 1.1. 13B
2H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
Good, an God will.
2H4-LORD BARDOLPH
As good as heart +
2H4 1.1. 13B can wish.
2H4 1.1. 14 The King is almost wounded to the death;
2H4 1.1. 15 And, in the fortune of my lord your son,
2H4 1.1. 16 Prince Harry slain outright; and both the Blunts
2H4 1.1. 17 Killed by the hand of Douglas; young Prince John
2H4 1.1. 18 And Westmorland and Stafford fled the field;
2H4 1.1. 19 And Harry Monmouth's brawn, the hulk Sir John,
2H4 1.1. 20 Is prisoner to your son. O, such a day,
2H4 1.1. 21 So fought, so followed, and so fairly won,
2H4 1.1. 22 Came not till now to dignify the times
2H4 1.1. 23B Since Caesar's fortunes!
2H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
How is this derived?
2H4 1.1. 24 Saw you the field? Came you from Shrewsbury?
2H4 1.1. 25
2H4-LORD BARDOLPH
I spake with one, my lord, that came from thence,
2H4 1.1. 26 A gentleman well bred and of good name,
2H4 1.1. 27 That freely rendered me these news for true. {Enter Travers}
2H4 1.1. 28
2H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
Here comes my servant Travers, who I sent
2H4 1.1. 29 On Tuesday last to listen after news.
2H4 1.1. 30
2H4-LORD BARDOLPH
My lord, I overrode him on the way,
2H4 1.1. 31 And he is furnished with no certainties
2H4 1.1. 32 More than he haply may retail from me.
2H4 1.1. 33
2H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
Now, Travers, what good tidings comes with you?
2H4 1.1. 34
2H4-TRAVERS
My lord, Lord Bardolph turned me back
2H4 1.1. 35 With joyful tidings, and being better horsed
2H4 1.1. 36 Outrode me. After him came spurring hard
2H4 1.1. 37 A gentleman almost forspent with speed,
2H4 1.1. 38 That stopped by me to breathe his bloodied horse.
2H4 1.1. 39 He asked the way to Chester, and of him
2H4 1.1. 40 I did demand what news from Shrewsbury.
2H4 1.1. 41 He told me that rebellion had ill luck,
2H4 1.1. 42 And that young Harry Percy's spur was cold.
2H4 1.1. 43 With that he gave his able horse the head,
2H4 1.1. 44 And, bending forward, struck his armed heels
2H4 1.1. 45 Against the panting sides of his poor jade
2H4 1.1. 46 Up to the rowel-head; and starting so,
2H4 1.1. 47 He seemed in running to devour the way,
2H4 1.1. 48B Staying no longer question.
2H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
Ha? Again:
2H4 1.1. 49 Said he young Harry Percy's spur was cold?
2H4 1.1. 50 Of Hotspur, `Coldspur'? that rebellion
2H4 1.1. 51B Had met ill luck?
2H4-LORD BARDOLPH
My lord, I'll tell you what:
2H4 1.1. 52 If my young lord your son have not the day,
2H4 1.1. 53 Upon mine honour, for a silken point
2H4 1.1. 54 I'll give my barony. Never talk of it.
2H4 1.1. 55
2H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
Why should the gentleman that rode by Travers
2H4 1.1. 56B Give then such instances of loss?
2H4-LORD BARDOLPH
Who, he?
2H4 1.1. 57 He was some hilding fellow that had stol'n
2H4 1.1. 58 The horse he rode on, and, upon my life,
2H4 1.1. 59B Spoke at a venture. {Enter Morton} Look, here comes +
2H4 1.1. 59B more news.
2H4 1.1. 60
2H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
Yea, this man's brow, like to a title leaf,
2H4 1.1. 61 Foretells the nature of a tragic volume.
2H4 1.1. 62 So looks the strand whereon the imperious flood
2H4 1.1. 63 Hath left a witnessed usurpation.
2H4 1.1. 64 Say, Morton, didst thou come from Shrewsbury?
2H4 1.1. 65
2H4-MORTON
I ran from Shrewsbury, my noble lord,
2H4 1.1. 66 Where hateful death put on his ugliest mask
2H4 1.1. 67B To fright our party.
2H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
How doth my son and brother?
2H4 1.1. 68 Thou tremblest, and the whiteness in thy cheek
2H4 1.1. 69 Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand.
2H4 1.1. 70 Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless,
2H4 1.1. 71 So dull, so dead in look, so woebegone,
2H4 1.1. 72 Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night,
2H4 1.1. 73 And would have told him half his Troy was burnt;
2H4 1.1. 74 But Priam found the fire ere he his tongue,
2H4 1.1. 75 And I my Percy's death ere thou report'st it.
2H4 1.1. 76 This thou wouldst say: `Your son did thus and thus,
2H4 1.1. 77 Your brother thus; so fought the noble Douglas',
2H4 1.1. 78 Stopping my greedy ear with their bold deeds;
2H4 1.1. 79 But in the end, to stop my ear indeed,
2H4 1.1. 80 Thou hast a sigh to blow away this praise,
2H4 1.1. 81 Ending with `Brother, son, and all are dead.'
2H4 1.1. 82
2H4-MORTON
Douglas is living, and your brother yet;
2H4 1.1. 83B But for my lord your son -
2H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
Why, he is dead.
2H4 1.1. 84 See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!
2H4 1.1. 85 He that but fears the thing he would not know
2H4 1.1. 86 Hath by instinct knowledge from others' eyes
2H4 1.1. 87 That what he feared is chanced. Yet speak, Morton.
2H4 1.1. 88 Tell thou an earl his divination lies,
2H4 1.1. 89 And I will take it as a sweet disgrace,
2H4 1.1. 90 And make thee rich for doing me such wrong.
2H4 1.1. 91
2H4-MORTON
You are too great to be by me gainsaid,
2H4 1.1. 92 Your spirit is too true, your fears too certain.
2H4 1.1. 93
2H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
Yet for all this, say not that Percy's dead.
2H4 1.1. 94 I see a strange confession in thine eye -
2H4 1.1. 95 Thou shak'st thy head, and hold'st it fear or sin
2H4 1.1. 96 To speak a truth. If he be slain, say so.
2H4 1.1. 97 The tongue offends not that reports his death;
2H4 1.1. 98 And he doth sin that doth belie the dead,
2H4 1.1. 99 Not he which says the dead is not alive.
2H4 1.1. 100 Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
2H4 1.1. 101 Hath but a losing office, and his tongue
2H4 1.1. 102 Sounds ever after as a sullen bell
2H4 1.1. 103 Remembered knolling a departing friend.
2H4 1.1. 104
2H4-LORD BARDOLPH
I cannot think, my lord, your son is dead.
2H4 1.1. 105
2H4-MORTON
{(to Northumberland)} I am sorry I should +
2H4 1.1. 105 force you to believe
2H4 1.1. 106 That which I would to God I had not seen;
2H4 1.1. 107 But these mine eyes saw him in bloody state,
2H4 1.1. 108 Rend'ring faint quittance, wearied and out-breathed,
2H4 1.1. 109 To Harry Monmouth, whose swift wrath beat down
2H4 1.1. 110 The never-daunted Percy to the earth,
2H4 1.1. 111 From whence with life he never more sprung up.
2H4 1.1. 112 In few, his death, whose spirit lent a fire
2H4 1.1. 113 Even to the dullest peasant in his camp,
2H4 1.1. 114 Being bruited once, took fire and heat away
2H4 1.1. 115 From the best-tempered courage in his troops;
2H4 1.1. 116 For from his metal was his party steeled,
2H4 1.1. 117 Which once in him abated, all the rest
2H4 1.1. 118 Turned on themselves, like dull and heavy lead;
2H4 1.1. 119 And, as the thing that's heavy in itself
2H4 1.1. 120 Upon enforcement flies with greatest speed,
2H4 1.1. 121 So did our men, heavy in Hotspur's loss,
2H4 1.1. 122 Lend to this weight such lightness with their fear
2H4 1.1. 123 That arrows fled not swifter toward their aim
2H4 1.1. 124 Than did our soldiers, aiming at their safety,
2H4 1.1. 125 Fly from the field. Then was that noble Worcester
2H4 1.1. 126 Too soon ta'en prisoner; and that furious Scot
2H4 1.1. 127 The bloody Douglas, whose well-labouring sword
2H4 1.1. 128 Had three times slain th' appearance of the King,
2H4 1.1. 129 Gan vail his stomach, and did grace the shame
2H4 1.1. 130 Of those that turned their backs, and in his flight,
2H4 1.1. 131 Stumbling in fear, was took. The sum of all
2H4 1.1. 132 Is that the King hath won, and hath sent out
2H4 1.1. 133 A speedy power to encounter you, my lord,
2H4 1.1. 134 Under the conduct of young Lancaster
2H4 1.1. 135 And Westmorland. This is the news at full.
2H4 1.1. 136
2H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
For this I shall have time enough to mourn.
2H4 1.1. 137 In poison there is physic; and these news,
2H4 1.1. 138 Having been well, that would have made me sick,
2H4 1.1. 139 Being sick, have in some measure made me well;
2H4 1.1. 140 And, as the wretch whose fever-weakened joints,
2H4 1.1. 141 Like strengthless hinges, buckle under life,
2H4 1.1. 142 Impatient of his fit, breaks like a fire
2H4 1.1. 143 Out of his keeper's arms, even so my limbs,
2H4 1.1. 144 Weakened with grief, being now enraged with grief,
2H4 1.1. 145B Are thrice themselves. {[He casts away his crutch]} +
2H4 1.1. 145B Hence therefore, thou nice crutch!
2H4 1.1. 146 A scaly gauntlet now with joints of steel
2H4 1.1. 147B Must glove this hand. {[He snatches off his coif]} And +
2H4 1.1. 147B hence, thou sickly coif!
2H4 1.1. 148 Thou art a guard too wanton for the head
2H4 1.1. 149 Which princes fleshed with conquest aim to hit.
2H4 1.1. 150 Now bind my brows with iron, and approach
2H4 1.1. 151 The ragged'st hour that time and spite dare bring
2H4 1.1. 152 To frown upon th' enraged Northumberland!
2H4 1.1. 153 Let heaven kiss earth! Now let not nature's hand
2H4 1.1. 154 Keep the wild flood confined! Let order die!
2H4 1.1. 155 And let this world no longer be a stage
2H4 1.1. 156 To feed contention in a ling'ring act;
2H4 1.1. 157 But let one spirit of the first-born Cain
2H4 1.1. 158 Reign in all bosoms, that each heart being set
2H4 1.1. 159 On bloody courses, the rude scene may end,
2H4 1.1. 160 And darkness be the burier of the dead!
2H4 1.1. 161
2H4-LORD BARDOLPH
Sweet Earl, divorce not wisdom from your honour.
2H4 1.1. 162
2H4-MORTON
The lives of all your loving complices
2H4 1.1. 163 Lean on your health, the which, if you give o'er
2H4 1.1. 164 To stormy passion, must perforce decay.
2H4 1.1. 165 You cast th' event of war, my noble lord,
2H4 1.1. 166 And summed the account of chance, before you said
2H4 1.1. 167 `Let us make head'. It was your presurmise
2H4 1.1. 168 That in the dole of blows your son might drop.
2H4 1.1. 169 You knew he walked o'er perils on an edge,
2H4 1.1. 170 More likely to fall in than to get o'er.
2H4 1.1. 171 You were advised his flesh was capable
2H4 1.1. 172 Of wounds and scars, and that his forward spirit
2H4 1.1. 173 Would lift him where most trade of danger ranged.
2H4 1.1. 174 Yet did you say, `Go forth'; and none of this,
2H4 1.1. 175 Though strongly apprehended, could restrain
2H4 1.1. 176 The stiff-borne action. What hath then befall'n?
2H4 1.1. 177 Or what doth this bold enterprise bring forth,
2H4 1.1. 178 More than that being which was like to be?
2H4 1.1. 179
2H4-LORD BARDOLPH
We all that are engaged to this loss
2H4 1.1. 180 Knew that we ventured on such dangerous seas
2H4 1.1. 181 That if we wrought out life was ten to one;
2H4 1.1. 182 And yet we ventured for the gain proposed,
2H4 1.1. 183 Choked the respect of likely peril feared;
2H4 1.1. 184 And since we are o'erset, venture again.
2H4 1.1. 185 Come, we will all put forth body and goods.
2H4 1.1. 186
2H4-MORTON
'Tis more than time; and, my most noble lord,
2H4 1.1. 187 I hear for certain, and dare speak the truth,
2H4 1.1. 188 The gentle Archbishop of York is up
2H4 1.1. 189 With well-appointed powers. He is a man
2H4 1.1. 190 Who with a double surety binds his followers.
2H4 1.1. 191 My lord, your son had only but the corpse,
2H4 1.1. 192 But shadows and the shows of men, to fight;
2H4 1.1. 193 For that same word `rebellion' did divide
2H4 1.1. 194 The action of their bodies from their souls,
2H4 1.1. 195 And they did fight with queasiness, constrained,
2H4 1.1. 196 As men drink potions, that their weapons only
2H4 1.1. 197 Seemed on our side; but, for their spirits and souls,
2H4 1.1. 198 This word `rebellion', it had froze them up,
2H4 1.1. 199 As fish are in a pond. But now the Bishop
2H4 1.1. 200 Turns insurrection to religion.
2H4 1.1. 201 Supposed sincere and holy in his thoughts,
2H4 1.1. 202 He's followed both with body and with mind,
2H4 1.1. 203 And doth enlarge his rising with the blood
2H4 1.1. 204 Of fair King Richard, scraped from Pomfret stones;
2H4 1.1. 205 Derives from heaven his quarrel and his cause;
2H4 1.1. 206 Tells them he doth bestride a bleeding land
2H4 1.1. 207 Gasping for life under great Bolingbroke;
2H4 1.1. 208 And more and less do flock to follow him.
2H4 1.1. 209
2H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
I knew of this before, but, to speak truth,
2H4 1.1. 210 This present grief had wiped it from my mind.
2H4 1.1. 211 Go in with me, and counsel every man
2H4 1.1. 212 The aptest way for safety and revenge.
2H4 1.1. 213 Get posts and letters, and make friends with speed.
2H4 1.1. 214 Never so few, and never yet more need. {Exeunt}
2H4 1.1. 0 {Enter Sir John Falstaff, [followed by] his Page bearing +
2H4 1.2. 0 his sword and buckler}
2H4 1.2. 1
2H4-SIR JOHN
Sirrah, you giant, what says the doctor to my
2H4 1.2. 2 water?
2H4 1.2. 3
2H4-PAGE
He said, sir, the water itself was a good healthy
2H4 1.2. 4 water, but, for the party that owed it, he might have
2H4 1.2. 5 more diseases than he knew for.
2H4 1.2. 6
2H4-SIR JOHN
Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me. The
2H4 1.2. 7 brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able
2H4 1.2. 8 to invent anything that tends to laughter more than I
2H4 1.2. 9 invent, or is invented on me. I am not only witty in
2H4 1.2. 10 myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. I do
2H4 1.2. 11 here walk before thee like a sow that hath o'erwhelmed
2H4 1.2. 12 all her litter but one. If the Prince put thee into my
2H4 1.2. 13 service for any other reason than to set me off, why
2H4 1.2. 14 then, I have no judgement. Thou whoreson mandrake,
2H4 1.2. 15 thou art fitter to be worn in my cap than to wait at
2H4 1.2. 16 my heels. I was never manned with an agate till now;
2H4 1.2. 17 but I will set you neither in gold nor silver, but in vile
2H4 1.2. 18 apparel, and send you back again to your master for
2H4 1.2. 19 a jewel - the juvenal the Prince your master, whose
2H4 1.2. 20 chin is not yet fledge. I will sooner have a beard grow
2H4 1.2. 21 in the palm of my hand than he shall get one off his
2H4 1.2. 22 cheek; and yet he will not stick to say his face is a
2H4 1.2. 23 face-royal. God may finish it when he will; 'tis not a
2H4 1.2. 24 hair amiss yet. He may keep it still at a face-royal, for
2H4 1.2. 25 a barber shall never earn sixpence out of it. And yet
2H4 1.2. 26 he'll be crowing as if he had writ man ever since his
2H4 1.2. 27 father was a bachelor. He may keep his own grace, but
2H4 1.2. 28 he's almost out of mine, I can assure him. What said
2H4 1.2. 29 Master Dumbleton about the satin for my short cloak
2H4 1.2. 30 and slops?
2H4 1.2. 31
2H4-PAGE
He said, sir, you should procure him better
2H4 1.2. 32 assurance than Bardolph. He would not take his bond
2H4 1.2. 33 and yours; he liked not the security.
2H4 1.2. 34
2H4-SIR JOHN
Let him be damned like the glutton! Pray God
2H4 1.2. 35 his tongue be hotter! A whoreson Achitophel, a rascally
2H4 1.2. 36 yea-forsooth knave, to bear a gentleman in hand and
2H4 1.2. 37 then stand upon security! The whoreson smooth-pates
2H4 1.2. 38 do now wear nothing but high shoes and bunches of
2H4 1.2. 39 keys at their girdles; and if a man is through with
2H4 1.2. 40 them in honest taking-up, then they must stand upon
2H4 1.2. 41 security. I had as lief they would put ratsbane in my
2H4 1.2. 42 mouth as offer to stop it with security. I looked a should
2H4 1.2. 43 have sent me two-and-twenty yards of satin, as I am
2H4 1.2. 44 a true knight, and he sends me `security'! Well, he
2H4 1.2. 45 may sleep in security, for he hath the horn of
2H4 1.2. 46 abundance, and the lightness of his wife shines through
2H4 1.2. 47 it; and yet cannot he see, though he have his own
2H4 1.2. 48 lanthorn to light him. Where's Bardolph?
2H4 1.2. 49
2H4-PAGE
He's gone in Smithfield to buy your worship a
2H4 1.2. 50 horse.
2H4 1.2. 51
2H4-SIR JOHN
I bought him in Paul's, and he'll buy me a horse
2H4 1.2. 52 in Smithfield. An I could get me but a wife in the stews,
2H4 1.2. 53 I were manned, horsed, and wived. {Enter the Lord Chief Justice +
2H4 1.2. 53 and his Servant}
2H4 1.2. 54
2H4-PAGE
Sir, here comes the nobleman that committed the
2H4 1.2. 55 Prince for striking him about Bardolph.
2H4 1.2. 56
2H4-SIR JOHN
{[moving away]} Wait close; I will not +
2H4 1.2. 56 see him.
2H4 1.2. 57
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
{(to his Servant)} What's he +
2H4 1.2. 57 that goes
2H4 1.2. 58 there?
2H4 1.2. 59
2H4-SERVANT
Falstaff, an 't please your lordship.
2H4 1.2. 60
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
He that was in question for the
2H4 1.2. 61 robbery?
2H4 1.2. 62
2H4-SERVANT
He, my lord; but he hath since done good service
2H4 1.2. 63 at Shrewsbury, and, as I hear, is now going with some
2H4 1.2. 64 charge to the Lord John of Lancaster.
2H4 1.2. 65
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
What, to York? Call him back again.
2H4 1.2. 66
2H4-SERVANT
Sir John Falstaff!
2H4 1.2. 67
2H4-SIR JOHN
Boy, tell him I am deaf.
2H4 1.2. 68
2H4-PAGE
{(to the Servant)} You must speak louder; my +
2H4 1.2. 68 master
2H4 1.2. 69 is deaf.
2H4 1.2. 70
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
I am sure he is to the hearing of
2H4 1.2. 71 anything good. {(To the Servant)} Go pluck him by the
2H4 1.2. 72 elbow; I must speak with him.
2H4 1.2. 73
2H4-SERVANT
Sir John!
2H4 1.2. 74
2H4-SIR JOHN
What, a young knave and begging! Is there not
2H4 1.2. 75 wars? Is there not employment? Doth not the King
2H4 1.2. 76 lack subjects? Do not the rebels want soldiers? Though
2H4 1.2. 77 it be a shame to be on any side but one, it is worse
2H4 1.2. 78 shame to beg than to be on the worst side, were it
2H4 1.2. 79 worse than the name of rebellion can tell how to make
2H4 1.2. 80 it.
2H4 1.2. 81
2H4-SERVANT
You mistake me, sir.
2H4 1.2. 82
2H4-SIR JOHN
Why, sir, did I say you were an honest man?
2H4 1.2. 83 Setting my knighthood and my soldiership aside, I had
2H4 1.2. 84 lied in my throat if I had said so.
2H4 1.2. 85
2H4-SERVANT
I pray you, sir, then set your knighthood and
2H4 1.2. 86 your soldiership aside, and give me leave to tell you
2H4 1.2. 87 you lie in your throat if you say I am any other than
2H4 1.2. 88 an honest man.
2H4 1.2. 89
2H4-SIR JOHN
I give thee leave to tell me so? I lay aside that
2H4 1.2. 90 which grows to me? If thou gettest any leave of me,
2H4 1.2. 91 hang me. If thou takest leave, thou wert better be
2H4 1.2. 92 hanged. You hunt counter. Hence, avaunt!
2H4 1.2. 93
2H4-SERVANT
Sir, my lord would speak with you.
2H4 1.2. 94
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Sir John Falstaff, a word with you.
2H4 1.2. 95
2H4-SIR JOHN
My good lord! God give your lordship good time
2H4 1.2. 96 of day. I am glad to see your lordship abroad. I heard
2H4 1.2. 97 say your lordship was sick. I hope your lordship goes
2H4 1.2. 98 abroad by advice. Your lordship, though not clean past
2H4 1.2. 99 your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some
2H4 1.2. 100 relish of the saltness of time in you; and I most humbly
2H4 1.2. 101 beseech your lordship to have a reverent care of your
2H4 1.2. 102 health.
2H4 1.2. 103
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Sir John, I sent for you before your
2H4 1.2. 104 expedition to Shrewsbury.
2H4 1.2. 105
2H4-SIR JOHN
An 't please your lordship, I hear his majesty is
2H4 1.2. 106 returned with some discomfort from Wales.
2H4 1.2. 107
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
I talk not of his majesty. You would
2H4 1.2. 108 not come when I sent for you.
2H4 1.2. 109
2H4-SIR JOHN
And I hear, moreover, his highness is fallen into
2H4 1.2. 110 this same whoreson apoplexy.
2H4 1.2. 111
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Well, God mend him! I pray you, let
2H4 1.2. 112 me speak with you.
2H4 1.2. 113
2H4-SIR JOHN
This apoplexy is, as I take it, a kind of lethargy,
2H4 1.2. 114 an 't please your lordship, a kind of sleeping in the
2H4 1.2. 115 blood, a whoreson tingling.
2H4 1.2. 116
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
What tell you me of it? Be it as it is.
2H4 1.2. 117
2H4-SIR JOHN
It hath it original from much grief, from study,
2H4 1.2. 118 and perturbation of the brain. I have read the cause of
2H4 1.2. 119 his effects in Galen. It is a kind of deafness.
2H4 1.2. 120
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
I think you are fallen into the disease,
2H4 1.2. 121 for you hear not what I say to you.
2H4 1.2. 122
2H4-SIR JOHN
Very well, my lord, very well. Rather, an 't please
2H4 1.2. 123 you, it is the disease of not listening, the malady of not
2H4 1.2. 124 marking, that I am troubled withal.
2H4 1.2. 125
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
To punish you by the heels would
2H4 1.2. 126 amend the attention of your ears, and I care not if I
2H4 1.2. 127 do become your physician.
2H4 1.2. 128
2H4-SIR JOHN
I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient.
2H4 1.2. 129 Your lordship may minister the potion of imprisonment
2H4 1.2. 130 to me in respect of poverty; but how I should be your
2H4 1.2. 131 patient to follow your prescriptions, the wise may make
2H4 1.2. 132 some dram of a scruple, or indeed a scruple itself.
2H4 1.2. 133
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
I sent for you, when there were matters
2H4 1.2. 134 against you for your life, to come speak with me.
2H4 1.2. 135
2H4-SIR JOHN
As I was then advised by my learned counsel
2H4 1.2. 136 in the laws of this land-service, I did not come.
2H4 1.2. 137
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Well, the truth is, Sir John, you live
2H4 1.2. 138 in great infamy.
2H4 1.2. 139
2H4-SIR JOHN
He that buckles himself in my belt cannot live
2H4 1.2. 140 in less.
2H4 1.2. 141
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Your means are very slender, and
2H4 1.2. 142 your waste is great.
2H4 1.2. 143
2H4-SIR JOHN
I would it were otherwise; I would my means
2H4 1.2. 144 were greater and my waist slenderer.
2H4 1.2. 145
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
You have misled the youthful Prince.
2H4 1.2. 146
2H4-SIR JOHN
The young Prince hath misled me. I am the
2H4 1.2. 147 fellow with the great belly, and he my dog.
2H4 1.2. 148
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Well, I am loath to gall a new-healed
2H4 1.2. 149 wound. Your day's service at Shrewsbury hath a little
2H4 1.2. 150 gilded over your night's exploit on Gads Hill. You may
2H4 1.2. 151 thank th' unquiet time for your quiet o'erposting that
2H4 1.2. 152 action.
2H4 1.2. 153
2H4-SIR JOHN
My lord -
2H4 1.2. 154
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
But since all is well, keep it so. Wake
2H4 1.2. 155 not a sleeping wolf.
2H4 1.2. 156
2H4-SIR JOHN
To wake a wolf is as bad as smell a fox.
2H4 1.2. 157
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
What! You are as a candle, the better
2H4 1.2. 158 part burnt out.
2H4 1.2. 159
2H4-SIR JOHN
A wassail candle, my lord, all tallow - if I did
2H4 1.2. 160 say of wax, my growth would approve the truth.
2H4 1.2. 161
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
There is not a white hair in your face
2H4 1.2. 162 but should have his effect of gravity.
2H4 1.2. 163
2H4-SIR JOHN
His effect of gravy, gravy, gravy.
2H4 1.2. 164
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
You follow the young Prince up and
2H4 1.2. 165 down like his ill angel.
2H4 1.2. 166
2H4-SIR JOHN
Not so, my lord; your ill angel is light, but I
2H4 1.2. 167 hope he that looks upon me will take me without
2H4 1.2. 168 weighing. And yet in some respects, I grant, I cannot
2H4 1.2. 169 go. I cannot tell, virtue is of so little regard in these
2H4 1.2. 170 costermongers' times that true valour is turned
2H4 1.2. 171 bearherd; pregnancy is made a tapster, and his quick
2H4 1.2. 172 wit wasted in giving reckonings; all the other gifts
2H4 1.2. 173 appertinent to man, as the malice of this age shapes
2H4 1.2. 174 them, are not worth a gooseberry. You that are old
2H4 1.2. 175 consider not the capacities of us that are young. You
2H4 1.2. 176 do measure the heat of our livers with the bitterness
2H4 1.2. 177 of your galls. And we that are in the vanguard of our
2H4 1.2. 178 youth, I must confess, are wags too.
2H4 1.2. 179
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Do you set down your name in the
2H4 1.2. 180 scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the
2H4 1.2. 181 characters of age? Have you not a moist eye, a dry
2H4 1.2. 182 hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg,
2H4 1.2. 183 an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your
2H4 1.2. 184 wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and
2H4 1.2. 185 every part about you blasted with antiquity? And will
2H4 1.2. 186 you yet call yourself young? Fie, fie, fie, Sir John!
2H4 1.2. 187
2H4-SIR JOHN
My lord, I was born about three of the clock in
2H4 1.2. 188 the afternoon with a white head, and something a
2H4 1.2. 189 round belly. For my voice, I have lost it with hallowing
2H4 1.2. 190 and singing of anthems. To approve my youth further,
2H4 1.2. 191 I will not. The truth is, I am only old in judgement
2H4 1.2. 192 and understanding; and he that will caper with me for
2H4 1.2. 193 a thousand marks, let him lend me the money, and
2H4 1.2. 194 have at him! For the box of th' ear that the Prince gave
2H4 1.2. 195 you, he gave it like a rude prince, and you took it like
2H4 1.2. 196 a sensible lord. I have checked him for it, and the
2H4 1.2. 197 young lion repents - {[aside]} marry, not in ashes and
2H4 1.2. 198 sackcloth,
2H4 1.2. 199 but in new silk and old sack.
2H4 1.2. 200
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Well, God send the Prince a better
2H4 1.2. 201 companion!
2H4 1.2. 202
2H4-SIR JOHN
God send the companion a better prince! I
2H4 1.2. 203 cannot rid my hands of him.
2H4 1.2. 204
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Well, the King hath severed you and
2H4 1.2. 205 Prince Harry. I hear you are going with Lord John of
2H4 1.2. 206 Lancaster against the Archbishop and the Earl of
2H4 1.2. 207 Northumberland.
2H4 1.2. 208
2H4-SIR JOHN
Yea, I thank your pretty sweet wit for it. But
2H4 1.2. 209 look you pray, all you that kiss my lady Peace at home,
2H4 1.2. 210 that our armies join not in a hot day; for, by the Lord,
2H4 1.2. 211 I take but two shirts out with me, and I mean not to
2H4 1.2. 212 sweat extraordinarily. If it be a hot day and I brandish
2H4 1.2. 213 anything but my bottle, would I might never spit white
2H4 1.2. 214 again. There is not a dangerous action can peep out
2H4 1.2. 215 his head but I am thrust upon it. Well, I cannot last
2H4 1.2. 216 ever. But it was alway yet the trick of our English
2H4 1.2. 217 nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too
2H4 1.2. 218 common. If ye will needs say I am an old man, you
2H4 1.2. 219 should give me rest. I would to God my name were not
2H4 1.2. 220 so terrible to the enemy as it is. I were better to be
2H4 1.2. 221 eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing
2H4 1.2. 222 with perpetual motion.
2H4 1.2. 223
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Well, be honest, be honest, and God
2H4 1.2. 224 bless your expedition.
2H4 1.2. 225
2H4-SIR JOHN
Will your lordship lend me a thousand pound
2H4 1.2. 226 to furnish me forth?
2H4 1.2. 227
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Not a penny, not a penny. You are
2H4 1.2. 228 too impatient to bear crosses. Fare you well. Commend
2H4 1.2. 229 me to my cousin Westmorland. {Exeunt Lord Chief Justice and his +
2H4 1.2. 229 Servant}
2H4 1.2. 230
2H4-SIR JOHN
If I do, fillip me with a three-man beetle. A +
2H4 1.2. 230 man
2H4 1.2. 231 can no more separate age and covetousness than a can
2H4 1.2. 232 part young limbs and lechery; but the gout galls the
2H4 1.2. 233 one and the pox pinches the other, and so both the
2H4 1.2. 234 degrees prevent my curses. Boy!
2H4 1.2. 235
2H4-PAGE
Sir.
2H4 1.2. 236
2H4-SIR JOHN
What money is in my purse?
2H4 1.2. 237
2H4-PAGE
Seven groats and two pence.
2H4 1.2. 238
2H4-SIR JOHN
I can get no remedy against this consumption
2H4 1.2. 239 of the purse. Borrowing only lingers and lingers it out,
2H4 1.2. 240 but the disease is incurable. {(Giving letters)} Go +
2H4 1.2. 240 bear this
2H4 1.2. 241 letter to my lord of Lancaster; this to the Prince; this
2H4 1.2. 242 to the Earl of Westmorland; and this to old Mistress
2H4 1.2. 243 Ursula, whom I have weekly sworn to marry since I
2H4 1.2. 244 perceived the first white hair of my chin. About it. You
2H4 1.2. 245 know where to find me. {[Exit Page]}
2H4 1.2. 246 A pox of this gout! - or a gout of this pox! - for the
2H4 1.2. 247 one or the other plays the rogue with my great toe.
2H4 1.2. 248 'Tis no matter if I do halt; I have the wars for my
2H4 1.2. 249 colour, and my pension shall seem the more reasonable.
2H4 1.2. 250 A good wit will make use of anything. I will turn
2H4 1.2. 251 diseases to commodity. {Exit}
2H4 1.2. 0 {Enter the Archbishop of York, Thomas Mowbray the Earl +
2H4 1.3. 0 Marshal, Lord Hastings, and Lord Bardolph}
2H4 1.3. 1
2H4-ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
Thus have you heard our cause and +
2H4 1.3. 1 known our means,
2H4 1.3. 2 And, my most noble friends, I pray you all
2H4 1.3. 3 Speak plainly your opinions of our hopes.
2H4 1.3. 4 And first, Lord Marshal, what say you to it?
2H4 1.3. 5
2H4-MOWBRAY
I well allow the occasion of our arms,
2H4 1.3. 6 But gladly would be better satisfied
2H4 1.3. 7 How in our means we should advance ourselves
2H4 1.3. 8 To look with forehead bold and big enough
2H4 1.3. 9 Upon the power and puissance of the King.
2H4 1.3. 10
2H4-HASTINGS
Our present musters grow upon the file
2H4 1.3. 11 To five-and-twenty thousand men of choice,
2H4 1.3. 12 And our supplies live largely in the hope
2H4 1.3. 13 Of great Northumberland, whose bosom burns
2H4 1.3. 14 With an incensed fire of injuries.
2H4 1.3. 15
2H4-LORD BARDOLPH
The question then, Lord Hastings, standeth thus:
2H4 1.3. 16 Whether our present five-and-twenty thousand
2H4 1.3. 17 May hold up head without Northumberland.
2H4 1.3. 18B
2H4-HASTINGS
With him we may.
2H4-LORD BARDOLPH
Yea, marry, there's the +
2H4 1.3. 18B point;
2H4 1.3. 19 But if without him we be thought too feeble,
2H4 1.3. 20 My judgement is, we should not step too far
2H4 1.3. 21 Till we had his assistance by the hand;
2H4 1.3. 22 For in a theme so bloody-faced as this,
2H4 1.3. 23 Conjecture, expectation, and surmise
2H4 1.3. 24 Of aids uncertain should not be admitted.
2H4 1.3. 25
2H4-ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
'Tis very true, Lord Bardolph, for indeed
2H4 1.3. 26 It was young Hotspur's case at Shrewsbury.
2H4 1.3. 27
2H4-LORD BARDOLPH
It was, my lord; who lined himself with hope,
2H4 1.3. 28 Eating the air on promise of supply,
2H4 1.3. 29 Flatt'ring himself with project of a power
2H4 1.3. 30 Much smaller than the smallest of his thoughts;
2H4 1.3. 31 And so, with great imagination
2H4 1.3. 32 Proper to madmen, led his powers to death,
2H4 1.3. 33 And winking leapt into destruction.
2H4 1.3. 34
2H4-HASTINGS
But by your leave, it never yet did hurt
2H4 1.3. 35 To lay down likelihoods and forms of hope.
2H4 1.3. 36
2H4-LORD BARDOLPH
Yes, if this present quality of war -
2H4 1.3. 37 Indeed the instant action, a cause on foot -
2H4 1.3. 38 Lives so in hope; as in an early spring
2H4 1.3. 39 We see th' appearing buds, which to prove fruit
2H4 1.3. 40 Hope gives not so much warrant as despair
2H4 1.3. 41 That frosts will bite them. When we mean to build
2H4 1.3. 42 We first survey the plot, then draw the model;
2H4 1.3. 43 And when we see the figure of the house,
2H4 1.3. 44 Then must we rate the cost of the erection,
2H4 1.3. 45 Which if we find outweighs ability,
2H4 1.3. 46 What do we then but draw anew the model
2H4 1.3. 47 In fewer offices, or, at least, desist
2H4 1.3. 48 To build at all? Much more in this great work -
2H4 1.3. 49 Which is almost to pluck a kingdom down
2H4 1.3. 50 And set another up - should we survey
2H4 1.3. 51 The plot of situation and the model,
2H4 1.3. 52 Consent upon a sure foundation,
2H4 1.3. 53 Question surveyors, know our own estate,
2H4 1.3. 54 How able such a work to undergo,
2H4 1.3. 55 To weigh against his opposite; or else
2H4 1.3. 56 We fortify in paper and in figures,
2H4 1.3. 57 Using the names of men instead of men,
2H4 1.3. 58 Like one that draws the model of an house
2H4 1.3. 59 Beyond his power to build it, who, half-through,
2H4 1.3. 60 Gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost
2H4 1.3. 61 A naked subject to the weeping clouds,
2H4 1.3. 62 And waste for churlish winter's tyranny.
2H4 1.3. 63
2H4-HASTINGS
Grant that our hopes, yet likely of fair birth,
2H4 1.3. 64 Should be stillborn, and that we now possessed
2H4 1.3. 65 The utmost man of expectation,
2H4 1.3. 66 I think we are a body strong enough,
2H4 1.3. 67 Even as we are, to equal with the King.
2H4 1.3. 68
2H4-LORD BARDOLPH
What, is the King but five-and-twenty thousand?
2H4 1.3. 69
2H4-HASTINGS
To us no more, nay, not so much, Lord Bardolph;
2H4 1.3. 70 For his divisions, as the times do brawl,
2H4 1.3. 71 Are in three heads: one power against the French,
2H4 1.3. 72 And one against Glyndw^r, perforce a third
2H4 1.3. 73 Must take up us. So is the unfirm King
2H4 1.3. 74 In three divided, and his coffers sound
2H4 1.3. 75 With hollow poverty and emptiness.
2H4 1.3. 76
2H4-ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
That he should draw his several strengths +
2H4 1.3. 76 together
2H4 1.3. 77 And come against us in full puissance
2H4 1.3. 78B Need not be dreaded.
2H4-HASTINGS
If he should do so,
2H4 1.3. 79 He leaves his back unarmed, the French and Welsh
2H4 1.3. 80 Baying him at the heels. Never fear that.
2H4 1.3. 81
2H4-LORD BARDOLPH
Who is it like should lead his forces hither?
2H4 1.3. 82
2H4-HASTINGS
The Duke of Lancaster and Westmorland;
2H4 1.3. 83 Against the Welsh, himself and Harry Monmouth;
2H4 1.3. 84 But who is substituted 'gainst the French
2H4 1.3. 85B I have no certain notice.
2H4-ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
Let us on,
2H4 1.3. 86 And publish the occasion of our arms.
2H4 1.3. 87 The commonwealth is sick of their own choice;
2H4 1.3. 88 Their over-greedy love hath surfeited.
2H4 1.3. 89 An habitation giddy and unsure
2H4 1.3. 90 Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.
2H4 1.3. 91 O thou fond many, with what loud applause
2H4 1.3. 92 Didst thou beat heaven with blessing Bolingbroke,
2H4 1.3. 93 Before he was what thou wouldst have him be!
2H4 1.3. 94 And being now trimmed in thine own desires,
2H4 1.3. 95 Thou, beastly feeder, art so full of him
2H4 1.3. 96 That thou provok'st thyself to cast him up.
2H4 1.3. 97 So, so, thou common dog, didst thou disgorge
2H4 1.3. 98 Thy glutton bosom of the royal Richard;
2H4 1.3. 99 And now thou wouldst eat thy dead vomit up,
2H4 1.3. 100 And howl'st to find it. What trust is in these times?
2H4 1.3. 101 They that when Richard lived would have him die
2H4 1.3. 102 Are now become enamoured on his grave.
2H4 1.3. 103 Thou that threw'st dust upon his goodly head,
2H4 1.3. 104 When through proud London he came sighing on
2H4 1.3. 105 After th' admired heels of Bolingbroke,
2H4 1.3. 106 Cri'st now, `O earth, yield us that king again,
2H4 1.3. 107 And take thou this!' O thoughts of men accursed!
2H4 1.3. 108 Past and to come seems best; things present, worst.
2H4 1.3. 109
2H4-[MOWBRAY]
Shall we go draw our numbers and set on?
2H4 1.3. 110
2H4-HASTINGS
We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone. +
2H4 1.3. 110 {Exeunt}
2H4 1.3. 0 {Enter Mistress Quickly (the hostess of a +
2H4 2.1. 0 tavern), and an officer, Fang [followed at a distance by] another +
2H4 2.1. 0 officer, Snare}
2H4 2.1. 1
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Master Fang, have you entered the
2H4 2.1. 2 action?
2H4 2.1. 3
2H4-FANG
It is entered.
2H4 2.1. 4
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Where's your yeoman? Is 't a lusty
2H4 2.1. 5 yeoman? Will a stand to 't?
2H4 2.1. 6
2H4-FANG
Sirrah! - Where's Snare?
2H4 2.1. 7
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
O Lord, ay, good Master Snare.
2H4 2.1. 8
2H4-SNARE
{[coming forward]} Here, here.
2H4 2.1. 9
2H4-FANG
Snare, we must arrest Sir John Falstaff.
2H4 2.1. 10
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Yea, good Master Snare, I have entered
2H4 2.1. 11 him and all.
2H4 2.1. 12
2H4-SNARE
It may chance cost some of us our lives, for he
2H4 2.1. 13 will stab.
2H4 2.1. 14
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Alas the day, take heed of him; he
2H4 2.1. 15 stabbed me in mine own house, most beastly, in good
2H4 2.1. 16 faith. A cares not what mischief he does; if his weapon
2H4 2.1. 17 be out, he will foin like any devil, he will spare neither
2H4 2.1. 18 man, woman, nor child.
2H4 2.1. 19
2H4-FANG
If I can close with him, I care not for his thrust.
2H4 2.1. 20
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
No, nor I neither. I'll be at your elbow.
2H4 2.1. 21
2H4-FANG
An I but fist him once, an a come but within my
2H4 2.1. 22 vice -
2H4 2.1. 23
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
I am undone by his going, I warrant
2H4 2.1. 24 you; he's an infinitive thing upon my score. Good
2H4 2.1. 25 Master Fang, hold him sure. Good Master Snare, let
2H4 2.1. 26 him not scape. A comes continuantly to Pie Corner -
2H4 2.1. 27 saving your manhoods - to buy a saddle, and he is
2H4 2.1. 28 indited to dinner to the Lubber's Head in Lombard
2H4 2.1. 29 Street, to Master Smooth's the silkman. I pray you,
2H4 2.1. 30 since my exion is entered, and my case so openly
2H4 2.1. 31 known to the world, let him be brought in to his
2H4 2.1. 32 answer. A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone
2H4 2.1. 33 woman to bear; and I have borne, and borne, and
2H4 2.1. 34 borne, and have been fobbed off, and fobbed off, and
2H4 2.1. 35 fobbed off, from this day to that day, that it is a shame
2H4 2.1. 36 to be thought on. There is no honesty in such dealing,
2H4 2.1. 37 unless a woman should be made an ass and a beast,
2H4 2.1. 38 to bear every knave's wrong. {Enter Sir John Falstaff, Bardolph, +
2H4 2.1. 38 and the Page}
2H4 2.1. 39 Yonder he comes, and that arrant malmsey-nose knave
2H4 2.1. 40 Bardolph with him. Do your offices, do your offices,
2H4 2.1. 41 Master Fang and Master Snare; do me, do me, do me
2H4 2.1. 42 your offices.
2H4 2.1. 43
2H4-SIR JOHN
How now, whose mare's dead? What's the
2H4 2.1. 44 matter?
2H4 2.1. 45
2H4-FANG
Sir John, I arrest you at the suit of Mistress Quickly.
2H4 2.1. 46
2H4-SIR JOHN
{[drawing]} Away, varlets! Draw, +
2H4 2.1. 46 Bardolph! Cut
2H4 2.1. 47 me off the villain's head! Throw the quean in the
2H4 2.1. 48 channel! {[Bardolph draws]}
2H4 2.1. 49
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Throw me in the channel? I'll throw
2H4 2.1. 50 thee in the channel! {A brawl}
2H4 2.1. 51 Wilt thou, wilt thou, thou bastardly rogue? Murder,
2H4 2.1. 52 murder! Ah, thou honeysuckle villain, wilt thou kill
2H4 2.1. 53 God's officers, and the King's? Ah, thou honeyseed
2H4 2.1. 54 rogue! Thou art a honeyseed, a man-queller, and a
2H4 2.1. 55 woman-queller.
2H4 2.1. 56
2H4-SIR JOHN
Keep them off, Bardolph!
2H4 2.1. 57
2H4-FANG
A rescue, a rescue!
2H4 2.1. 58
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Good people, bring a rescue or two.
2H4 2.1. 59 Thou wot, wot thou? Thou wot, wot 'a? Do, do, thou
2H4 2.1. 60 rogue, do, thou hempseed!
2H4 2.1. 61
2H4-PAGE
Away, you scullion, you rampallian, you
2H4 2.1. 62 fustilarian! I'll tickle your catastrophe! {Enter the Lord Chief +
2H4 2.1. 62 Justice and his men}
2H4 2.1. 63
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
What is the matter? Keep the peace +
2H4 2.1. 63 here, ho! {Brawl ends. [Fang] seizes Sir John}
2H4 2.1. 64
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Good my lord, be good to me; I beseech
2H4 2.1. 65 you, stand to me.
2H4 2.1. 66
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
How now, Sir John? What, are you +
2H4 2.1. 66 brawling here?
2H4 2.1. 67 Doth this become your place, your time and business?
2H4 2.1. 68 You should have been well on your way to York.
2H4 2.1. 69 {[To Fang]} Stand from him, fellow. Wherefore hang'st +
2H4 2.1. 69 thou upon him?
2H4 2.1. 70
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
O my most worshipful lord, an 't please
2H4 2.1. 71 your grace, I am a poor widow of Eastcheap, and he
2H4 2.1. 72 is arrested at my suit.
2H4 2.1. 73A
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
For what sum?
2H4 2.1. 74
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
It is more than for some, my lord, it is
2H4 2.1. 75 for all, all I have. He hath eaten me out of house and
2H4 2.1. 76 home. He hath put all my substance into that fat belly
2H4 2.1. 77 of his; {(to Sir John)} but I will have some of it out +
2H4 2.1. 77 again,
2H4 2.1. 78 or I will ride thee a-nights like the mare.
2H4 2.1. 79
2H4-SIR JOHN
I think I am as like to ride the mare, if I have
2H4 2.1. 80 any vantage of ground to get up.
2H4 2.1. 81
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
How comes this, Sir John? Fie, what
2H4 2.1. 82 man of good temper would endure this tempest of
2H4 2.1. 83 exclamation? Are you not ashamed, to enforce a poor
2H4 2.1. 84 widow to so rough a course to come by her own?
2H4 2.1. 85
2H4-SIR JOHN
{(to the Hostess)} What is the gross sum +
2H4 2.1. 85 that I owe
2H4 2.1. 86 thee?
2H4 2.1. 87
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Marry, if thou wert an honest man,
2H4 2.1. 88 thyself, and the money too. Thou didst swear to me
2H4 2.1. 89 upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin
2H4 2.1. 90 chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon
2H4 2.1. 91 Wednesday in Wheeson week, when the Prince broke
2H4 2.1. 92 thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of
2H4 2.1. 93 Windsor - thou didst swear to me then, as I was
2H4 2.1. 94 washing thy wound, to marry me, and make me my
2H4 2.1. 95 lady thy wife. Canst thou deny it? Did not goodwife
2H4 2.1. 96 Keech the butcher's wife come in then, and call me
2H4 2.1. 97 `Gossip Quickly' - coming in to borrow a mess of
2H4 2.1. 98 vinegar, telling us she had a good dish of prawns,
2H4 2.1. 99 whereby thou didst desire to eat some, whereby I told
2H4 2.1. 100 thee they were ill for a green wound? And didst thou
2H4 2.1. 101 not, when she was gone downstairs, desire me to be
2H4 2.1. 102 no more so familiarity with such poor people, saying
2H4 2.1. 103 that ere long they should call me `madam'? And didst
2H4 2.1. 104 thou not kiss me, and bid me fetch thee thirty shillings?
2H4 2.1. 105 I put thee now to thy book-oath; deny it if thou canst. {[She +
2H4 2.1. 105 weeps]}
2H4 2.1. 106
2H4-SIR JOHN
My lord, this is a poor mad soul, and she says
2H4 2.1. 107 up and down the town that her eldest son is like you.
2H4 2.1. 108 She hath been in good case, and the truth is, poverty
2H4 2.1. 109 hath distracted her. But for these foolish officers, I
2H4 2.1. 110 beseech you I may have redress against them.
2H4 2.1. 111
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Sir John, Sir John, I am well acquainted
2H4 2.1. 112 with your manner of wrenching the true cause the
2H4 2.1. 113 false way. It is not a confident brow, nor the throng
2H4 2.1. 114 of words that come with such more than impudent
2H4 2.1. 115 sauciness from you, can thrust me from a level
2H4 2.1. 116 consideration. You have, as it appears to me, practised
2H4 2.1. 117 upon the easy-yielding spirit of this woman, and made
2H4 2.1. 118 her serve your uses both in purse and in person.
2H4 2.1. 119
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Yea, in truth, my lord.
2H4 2.1. 120
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Pray thee, peace. {(To Sir John)}+
2H4 2.1. 120 Pay her
2H4 2.1. 121 the debt you owe her, and unpay the villainy you have
2H4 2.1. 122 done with her. The one you may do with sterling
2H4 2.1. 123 money, and the other with current repentance.
2H4 2.1. 124
2H4-SIR JOHN
My lord, I will not undergo this sneap without
2H4 2.1. 125 reply. You call honourable boldness `impudent
2H4 2.1. 126 sauciness'; if a man will make curtsy and say nothing,
2H4 2.1. 127 he is virtuous. No, my lord, my humble duty
2H4 2.1. 128 remembered, I will not be your suitor. I say to you I
2H4 2.1. 129 do desire deliverance from these officers, being upon
2H4 2.1. 130 hasty employment in the King's affairs.
2H4 2.1. 131
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
You speak as having power to do
2H4 2.1. 132 wrong; but answer in th' effect of your reputation, and
2H4 2.1. 133 satisfy the poor woman.
2H4 2.1. 134
2H4-SIR JOHN
{(drawing apart)} Come hither, +
2H4 2.1. 134 hostess. {She goes to him.}
2H4 2.1. 135A {Enter Master Gower, a messenger}
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Now, +
2H4 2.1. 135A Master Gower, what news?
2H4 2.1. 136
2H4-GOWER
The King, my lord, and Harry Prince of Wales
2H4 2.1. 137 Are near at hand; the rest the paper tells. {[Lord Chief Justice +
2H4 2.1. 137 reads the paper, and converses apart with Gower]}
2H4 2.1. 138
2H4-SIR JOHN
As I am a gentleman!
2H4 2.1. 139
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Faith, you said so before.
2H4 2.1. 140
2H4-SIR JOHN
As I am a gentleman! Come, no more words of
2H4 2.1. 141 it.
2H4 2.1. 142
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
By this heavenly ground I tread on, I
2H4 2.1. 143 must be fain to pawn both my plate and the tapestry
2H4 2.1. 144 of my dining-chambers.
2H4 2.1. 145
2H4-SIR JOHN
Glasses, glasses, is the only drinking; and for
2H4 2.1. 146 thy walls, a pretty slight drollery, or the story of the
2H4 2.1. 147 Prodigal, or the German hunting in waterwork, is
2H4 2.1. 148 worth a thousand of these bed-hangers and these fly-
2H4 2.1. 149 bitten tapestries. Let it be ten pound if thou canst.
2H4 2.1. 150 Come, an 'twere not for thy humours, there's not a
2H4 2.1. 151 better wench in England. Go, wash thy face, and draw
2H4 2.1. 152 the action. Come, thou must not be in this humour
2H4 2.1. 153 with me. Dost not know me? Come, I know thou wast
2H4 2.1. 154 set on to this.
2H4 2.1. 155
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Pray thee, Sir John, let it be but twenty
2H4 2.1. 156 nobles. I' faith, I am loath to pawn my plate, so God
2H4 2.1. 157 save me, la!
2H4 2.1. 158
2H4-SIR JOHN
Let it alone; I'll make other shift. You'll be a
2H4 2.1. 159 fool still.
2H4 2.1. 160
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Well, you shall have it, though I pawn
2H4 2.1. 161 my gown. I hope you'll come to supper. You'll pay me
2H4 2.1. 162 altogether?
2H4 2.1. 163
2H4-SIR JOHN
Will I live? {[To Bardolph and the Page]} +
2H4 2.1. 163 Go with
2H4 2.1. 164 her, with her. Hook on, hook on!
2H4 2.1. 165
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Will you have Doll Tearsheet meet you
2H4 2.1. 166 at supper?
2H4 2.1. 167
2H4-SIR JOHN
No more words; let's have her. {Exeunt Mistress +
2H4 2.1. 167 Quickly, Bardolph,}
2H4 2.1. 168 {the Page, Fang and Snare}
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
{(to +
2H4 2.1. 168 Gower)} I have heard better news.
2H4 2.1. 169
2H4-SIR JOHN
What's the news, my good lord?
2H4 2.1. 170
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
{(to Gower)} Where lay the King +
2H4 2.1. 170 tonight?
2H4 2.1. 171
2H4-GOWER
At Basingstoke, my lord.
2H4 2.1. 172
2H4-SIR JOHN
{(to Lord Chief Justice)} I hope, my +
2H4 2.1. 172 lord, all's well.
2H4 2.1. 173 What is the news, my lord?
2H4 2.1. 174A
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
{(to Gower)} Come all his +
2H4 2.1. 174A forces back?
2H4 2.1. 175
2H4-GOWER
No; fifteen hundred foot, five hundred horse,
2H4 2.1. 176 Are marched up to my lord of Lancaster
2H4 2.1. 177 Against Northumberland and the Archbishop.
2H4 2.1. 178
2H4-SIR JOHN
{(to Lord Chief Justice)} Comes the King +
2H4 2.1. 178 back from Wales, my noble lord?
2H4 2.1. 179
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
{(to Gower)} You shall have +
2H4 2.1. 179 letters of me presently.
2H4 2.1. 180 Come, go along with me, good Master Gower. {They are going}
2H4 2.1. 181
2H4-SIR JOHN
My lord!
2H4 2.1. 182
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
What's the matter?
2H4 2.1. 183
2H4-SIR JOHN
Master Gower, shall I entreat you with me to
2H4 2.1. 184 dinner?
2H4 2.1. 185
2H4-GOWER
I must wait upon my good lord here, I thank you,
2H4 2.1. 186 good Sir John.
2H4 2.1. 187
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Sir John, you loiter here too long,
2H4 2.1. 188 being you are to take soldiers up in counties as you
2H4 2.1. 189 go.
2H4 2.1. 190
2H4-SIR JOHN
Will you sup with me, Master Gower?
2H4 2.1. 191
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
What foolish master taught you these
2H4 2.1. 192 manners, Sir John?
2H4 2.1. 193
2H4-SIR JOHN
Master Gower, if they become me not, he was
2H4 2.1. 194 a fool that taught them me. {(To Lord Chief Justice)} +
2H4 2.1. 194 This
2H4 2.1. 195 is the right fencing grace, my lord - tap for tap, and so
2H4 2.1. 196 part fair.
2H4 2.1. 197
2H4-LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Now the Lord lighten thee; thou art
2H4 2.1. 198 a great fool. {Exeunt [Lord Chief Justice and Gower at one}
2H4 2.1. 0 {door, Sir John at another]} {Enter Prince Harry and +
2H4 2.2. 0 Poins}
2H4 2.2. 1
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Before God, I am exceeding weary.
2H4 2.2. 2
2H4-POINS
Is 't come to that? I had thought weariness durst
2H4 2.2. 3 not have attached one of so high blood.
2H4 2.2. 4
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Faith, it does me, though it discolours the
2H4 2.2. 5 complexion of my greatness to acknowledge it. Doth it
2H4 2.2. 6 not show vilely in me to desire small beer?
2H4 2.2. 7
2H4-POINS
Why, a prince should not be so loosely studied as
2H4 2.2. 8 to remember so weak a composition.
2H4 2.2. 9
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Belike then my appetite was not princely
2H4 2.2. 10 got; for, by my troth, I do now remember the poor
2H4 2.2. 11 creature small beer. But indeed, these humble
2H4 2.2. 12 considerations make me out of love with my greatness.
2H4 2.2. 13 What a disgrace is it to me to remember thy name! Or
2H4 2.2. 14 to know thy face tomorrow! Or to take note how many
2H4 2.2. 15 pair of silk stockings thou hast - videlicet these, and
2H4 2.2. 16 those that were thy peach-coloured ones! Or to bear
2H4 2.2. 17 the inventory of thy shirts - as one for superfluity, and
2H4 2.2. 18 another for use. But that the tennis-court keeper knows
2H4 2.2. 19 better than I, for it is a low ebb of linen with thee
2H4 2.2. 20 when thou keepest not racket there; as thou hast not
2H4 2.2. 21 done a great while, because the rest of thy low countries
2H4 2.2. 22 have made a shift to eat up thy holland.
2H4 2.2. 23
2H4-POINS
How ill it follows, after you have laboured so hard,
2H4 2.2. 24 you should talk so idly! Tell me, how many good young
2H4 2.2. 25 princes would do so, their fathers lying so sick as yours
2H4 2.2. 26 is?
2H4 2.2. 27
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Shall I tell thee one thing, Poins?
2H4 2.2. 28
2H4-POINS
Yes, faith, and let it be an excellent good thing.
2H4 2.2. 29
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
It shall serve among wits of no higher
2H4 2.2. 30 breeding than thine.
2H4 2.2. 31
2H4-POINS
Go to, I stand the push of your one thing that
2H4 2.2. 32 you'll tell.
2H4 2.2. 33
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Marry, I tell thee, it is not meet that I
2H4 2.2. 34 should be sad now my father is sick; albeit I could tell
2H4 2.2. 35 to thee, as to one it pleases me, for fault of a better, to
2H4 2.2. 36 call my friend, I could be sad; and sad indeed too.
2H4 2.2. 37
2H4-POINS
Very hardly, upon such a subject.
2H4 2.2. 38
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
By this hand, thou thinkest me as far in
2H4 2.2. 39 the devil's book as thou and Falstaff, for obduracy and
2H4 2.2. 40 persistency. Let the end try the man. But I tell thee,
2H4 2.2. 41 my heart bleeds inwardly that my father is so sick; and
2H4 2.2. 42 keeping such vile company as thou art hath, in reason,
2H4 2.2. 43 taken from me all ostentation of sorrow.
2H4 2.2. 44
2H4-POINS
The reason?
2H4 2.2. 45
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
What wouldst thou think of me if I should
2H4 2.2. 46 weep?
2H4 2.2. 47
2H4-POINS
I would think thee a most princely hypocrite.
2H4 2.2. 48
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
It would be every man's thought, and thou
2H4 2.2. 49 art a blessed fellow to think as every man thinks. Never
2H4 2.2. 50 a man's thought in the world keeps the roadway better
2H4 2.2. 51 than thine. Every man would think me an hypocrite
2H4 2.2. 52 indeed. And what accites your most worshipful thought
2H4 2.2. 53 to think so?
2H4 2.2. 54
2H4-POINS
Why, because you have been so lewd, and so much
2H4 2.2. 55 engrafted to Falstaff.
2H4 2.2. 56
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
And to thee.
2H4 2.2. 57
2H4-POINS
By this light, I am well spoke on; I can hear it
2H4 2.2. 58 with mine own ears. The worst that they can say of
2H4 2.2. 59 me is that I am a second brother, and that I am a
2H4 2.2. 60 proper fellow of my hands; and those two things I
2H4 2.2. 61 confess I cannot help. {Enter Bardolph [followed by] the Page}
2H4 2.2. 62 By the mass, here comes Bardolph.
2H4 2.2. 63
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
And the boy that I gave Falstaff. A had
2H4 2.2. 64 him from me Christian, and look if the fat villain have
2H4 2.2. 65 not transformed him ape.
2H4 2.2. 66
2H4-BARDOLPH
God save your grace!
2H4 2.2. 67
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
And yours, most noble Bardolph!
2H4 2.2. 68
2H4-POINS
{(to Bardolph)} Come, you virtuous ass, you +
2H4 2.2. 68 bashful
2H4 2.2. 69 fool, must you be blushing? Wherefore blush you now?
2H4 2.2. 70 What a maidenly man at arms are you become! Is 't
2H4 2.2. 71 such a matter to get a pottle-pot's maidenhead?
2H4 2.2. 72
2H4-PAGE
A calls me e'en now, my lord, through a red lattice,
2H4 2.2. 73 and I could discern no part of his face from the window.
2H4 2.2. 74 At last I spied his eyes, and methought he had made
2H4 2.2. 75 two holes in the ale-wife's red petticoat, and so peeped
2H4 2.2. 76 through.
2H4 2.2. 77
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
{(to Poins)} Has not the boy +
2H4 2.2. 77 profited?
2H4 2.2. 78
2H4-BARDOLPH
{(to the Page)} Away, you whoreson +
2H4 2.2. 78 upright
2H4 2.2. 79 rabbit, away!
2H4 2.2. 80
2H4-PAGE
Away, you rascally Althea's dream, away!
2H4 2.2. 81
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Instruct us, boy; what dream, boy?
2H4 2.2. 82
2H4-PAGE
Marry, my lord, Althea dreamt she was delivered
2H4 2.2. 83 of a firebrand, and therefore I call him her dream.
2H4 2.2. 84
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
{(giving him money)} A crown's-worth +
2H4 2.2. 84 of good
2H4 2.2. 85 interpretation! There 'tis, boy.
2H4 2.2. 86
2H4-POINS
O, that this good blossom could be kept from
2H4 2.2. 87 cankers! {(Giving the Page money)} Well, there is +
2H4 2.2. 87 sixpence
2H4 2.2. 88 to preserve thee.
2H4 2.2. 89
2H4-BARDOLPH
An you do not make him hanged among you,
2H4 2.2. 90 the gallows shall be wronged.
2H4 2.2. 91
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
And how doth thy master, Bardolph?
2H4 2.2. 92
2H4-BARDOLPH
Well, my good lord. He heard of your grace's
2H4 2.2. 93 coming to town. There's a letter for you.
2H4 2.2. 94
2H4-POINS
Delivered with good respect. And how doth the
2H4 2.2. 95 Martlemas your master?
2H4 2.2. 96
2H4-BARDOLPH
In bodily health, sir. {Prince Harry reads the +
2H4 2.2. 96 letter}
2H4 2.2. 97
2H4-POINS
Marry, the immortal part needs a physician, but
2H4 2.2. 98 that moves not him. Though that be sick, it dies not.
2H4 2.2. 99
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
I do allow this wen to be as familiar with
2H4 2.2. 100 me as my dog; and he holds his place, for look you
2H4 2.2. 101 how he writes. {[He gives Poins the letter]}
2H4 2.2. 102
2H4-POINS
`John Falstaff, knight'. - Every man must know
2H4 2.2. 103 that, as oft as he has occasion to name himself; even
2H4 2.2. 104 like those that are kin to the King, for they never prick
2H4 2.2. 105 their finger but they say `There's some of the King's
2H4 2.2. 106 blood spilt.' `How comes that?' says he that takes upon
2H4 2.2. 107 him not to conceive. The answer is as ready as a
2H4 2.2. 108 borrower's cap: `I am the King's poor cousin, sir.'
2H4 2.2. 109
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Nay, they will be kin to us, or they will
2H4 2.2. 110 fetch it from Japhet. {(Taking the letter)} But the +
2H4 2.2. 110 letter.
2H4 2.2. 111 `Sir John Falstaff, knight, to the son of the King nearest
2H4 2.2. 112 his father, Harry Prince of Wales, greeting.'
2H4 2.2. 113
2H4-POINS
Why, this is a certificate!
2H4 2.2. 114
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Peace! - `I will imitate the honourable
2H4 2.2. 115 Romans in brevity.'
2H4 2.2. 116
2H4-POINS
{(taking the letter)} Sure he means brevity +
2H4 2.2. 116 in breath,
2H4 2.2. 117 short winded. {(Reads)} `I commend me to thee, I
2H4 2.2. 118 commend thee, and I leave thee. Be not too familiar
2H4 2.2. 119 with Poins, for he misuses thy favours so much that
2H4 2.2. 120 he swears thou art to marry his sister Nell. Repent at
2H4 2.2. 121 idle times as thou mayst. And so, farewell.
2H4 2.2. 122 Thine by yea and no - which is as much as to
2H4 2.2. 123 say, as thou usest him - Jack Falstaff with my
2H4 2.2. 124 familiars, John with my brothers and sisters,
2H4 2.2. 125 and Sir John with all Europe.'
2H4 2.2. 126 My lord, I'll steep this letter in sack and make him eat
2H4 2.2. 127 it.
2H4 2.2. 128
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
That's to make him eat twenty of his
2H4 2.2. 129 words. But do you use me thus, Ned? Must I marry
2H4 2.2. 130 your sister?
2H4 2.2. 131
2H4-POINS
God send the wench no worse fortune, but I never
2H4 2.2. 132 said so.
2H4 2.2. 133
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Well, thus we play the fools with the time,
2H4 2.2. 134 and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock
2H4 2.2. 135 us. {(To Bardolph)} Is your master here in London?
2H4 2.2. 136
2H4-BARDOLPH
Yea, my lord.
2H4 2.2. 137
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Where sups he? Doth the old boar feed in
2H4 2.2. 138 the old frank?
2H4 2.2. 139
2H4-BARDOLPH
At the old place, my lord, in Eastcheap.
2H4 2.2. 140
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
What company?
2H4 2.2. 141
2H4-PAGE
Ephesians, my lord, of the old church.
2H4 2.2. 142
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Sup any women with him?
2H4 2.2. 143
2H4-PAGE
None, my lord, but old Mistress Quickly and
2H4 2.2. 144 Mistress Doll Tearsheet.
2H4 2.2. 145
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
What pagan may that be?
2H4 2.2. 146
2H4-PAGE
A proper gentlewoman, sir, and a kinswoman of
2H4 2.2. 147 my master's.
2H4 2.2. 148
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Even such kin as the parish heifers are to
2H4 2.2. 149 the town bull. Shall we steal upon them, Ned, at
2H4 2.2. 150 supper?
2H4 2.2. 151
2H4-POINS
I am your shadow, my lord; I'll follow you.
2H4 2.2. 152
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Sirrah, you, boy, and Bardolph, no word
2H4 2.2. 153 to your master that I am yet come to town. {(Giving}
2H4 2.2. 154 {money)} There's for your silence.
2H4 2.2. 155
2H4-BARDOLPH
I have no tongue, sir.
2H4 2.2. 156
2H4-PAGE
And for mine, sir, I will govern it.
2H4 2.2. 157
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Fare you well; go. {Exeunt Bardolph and the +
2H4 2.2. 157 Page}
2H4 2.2. 158 This Doll Tearsheet should be some road.
2H4 2.2. 159
2H4-POINS
I warrant you, as common as the way between
2H4 2.2. 160 Saint Albans and London.
2H4 2.2. 161
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
How might we see Falstaff bestow himself
2H4 2.2. 162 tonight in his true colours, and not ourselves be seen?
2H4 2.2. 163
2H4-POINS
Put on two leathern jerkins and aprons, and wait
2H4 2.2. 164 upon him at his table like drawers.
2H4 2.2. 165
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
From a god to a bull - a heavy declension -
2H4 2.2. 166 it was Jove's case. From a prince to a prentice - a low
2H4 2.2. 167 transformation - that shall be mine; for in everything
2H4 2.2. 168 the purpose must weigh with the folly. Follow me, Ned. {Exeunt}
2H4 2.2. 0 {Enter the Earl of Northumberland, Lady Northumberland, +
2H4 2.3. 0 and Lady Percy}
2H4 2.3. 1
2H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
I pray thee, loving wife and gentle +
2H4 2.3. 1 daughter,
2H4 2.3. 2 Give even way unto my rough affairs.
2H4 2.3. 3 Put not you on the visage of the times
2H4 2.3. 4 And be like them to Percy troublesome.
2H4 2.3. 5
2H4-LADY NORTHUMBERLAND
I have given over; I will speak no more.
2H4 2.3. 6 Do what you will; your wisdom be your guide.
2H4 2.3. 7
2H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
Alas, sweet wife, my honour is at pawn,
2H4 2.3. 8 And, but my going, nothing can redeem it.
2H4 2.3. 9
2H4-LADY PERCY
O yet, for God's sake, go not to these wars!
2H4 2.3. 10 The time was, father, that you broke your word
2H4 2.3. 11 When you were more endeared to it than now -
2H4 2.3. 12 When your own Percy, when my heart's dear Harry,
2H4 2.3. 13 Threw many a northward look to see his father
2H4 2.3. 14 Bring up his powers; but he did long in vain.
2H4 2.3. 15 Who then persuaded you to stay at home?
2H4 2.3. 16 There were two honours lost, yours and your son's.
2H4 2.3. 17 For yours, the God of heaven brighten it!
2H4 2.3. 18 For his, it stuck upon him as the sun
2H4 2.3. 19 In the grey vault of heaven, and by his light
2H4 2.3. 20 Did all the chivalry of England move
2H4 2.3. 21 To do brave acts. He was indeed the glass
2H4 2.3. 22 Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves.
2H4 2.3. 23 He had no legs that practised not his gait;
2H4 2.3. 24 And speaking thick, which nature made his blemish,
2H4 2.3. 25 Became the accents of the valiant;
2H4 2.3. 26 For those that could speak low and tardily
2H4 2.3. 27 Would turn their own perfection to abuse
2H4 2.3. 28 To seem like him. So that in speech, in gait,
2H4 2.3. 29 In diet, in affections of delight,
2H4 2.3. 30 In military rules, humours of blood,
2H4 2.3. 31 He was the mark and glass, copy and book,
2H4 2.3. 32 That fashioned others. And him - O wondrous him!
2H4 2.3. 33 O miracle of men! - him did you leave,
2H4 2.3. 34 Second to none, unseconded by you,
2H4 2.3. 35 To look upon the hideous god of war
2H4 2.3. 36 In disadvantage, to abide a field
2H4 2.3. 37 Where nothing but the sound of Hotspur's name
2H4 2.3. 38 Did seem defensible; so you left him.
2H4 2.3. 39 Never, O never do his ghost the wrong
2H4 2.3. 40 To hold your honour more precise and nice
2H4 2.3. 41 With others than with him. Let them alone.
2H4 2.3. 42 The Marshal and the Archbishop are strong.
2H4 2.3. 43 Had my sweet Harry had but half their numbers,
2H4 2.3. 44 Today might I, hanging on Hotspur's neck,
2H4 2.3. 45B Have talked of Monmouth's grave.
2H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
Beshrew your heart,
2H4 2.3. 46 Fair daughter, you do draw my spirits from me
2H4 2.3. 47 With new lamenting ancient oversights.
2H4 2.3. 48 But I must go and meet with danger there,
2H4 2.3. 49 Or it will seek me in another place,
2H4 2.3. 50B And find me worse provided.
2H4-LADY NORTHUMBERLAND
O fly to Scotland,
2H4 2.3. 51 Till that the nobles and the armed commons
2H4 2.3. 52 Have of their puissance made a little taste.
2H4 2.3. 53
2H4-LADY PERCY
If they get ground and vantage of the King,
2H4 2.3. 54 Then join you with them like a rib of steel,
2H4 2.3. 55 To make strength stronger; but, for all our loves,
2H4 2.3. 56 First let them try themselves. So did your son.
2H4 2.3. 57 He was so suffered. So came I a widow,
2H4 2.3. 58 And never shall have length of life enough
2H4 2.3. 59 To rain upon remembrance with mine eyes,
2H4 2.3. 60 That it may grow and sprout as high as heaven
2H4 2.3. 61 For recordation to my noble husband.
2H4 2.3. 62
2H4-NORTHUMBERLAND
Come, come, go in with me. 'Tis with my mind
2H4 2.3. 63 As with the tide swelled up unto his height,
2H4 2.3. 64 That makes a still stand, running neither way.
2H4 2.3. 65 Fain would I go to meet the Archbishop,
2H4 2.3. 66 But many thousand reasons hold me back.
2H4 2.3. 67 I will resolve for Scotland. There am I
2H4 2.3. 68 Till time and vantage crave my company. {Exeunt}
2H4 2.3. 0
2H4-[A
table and chairs set forth.] Enter a Drawer [with +
2H4 2.4. 0 wine] and another Drawer [with a dish of apple-johns]}
2H4 2.4. 1
2H4-[FIRST DRAWER]
What the devil hast thou brought there -
2H4 2.4. 2 apple-johns? Thou knowest Sir John cannot endure an
2H4 2.4. 3 apple-john.
2H4 2.4. 4
2H4-[SECOND DRAWER]
Mass, thou sayst true. The Prince once
2H4 2.4. 5 set a dish of apple-johns before him; and told him,
2H4 2.4. 6 there were five more Sir Johns; and, putting off his
2H4 2.4. 7 hat, said `I will now take my leave of these six dry,
2H4 2.4. 8 round, old, withered knights.' It angered him to the
2H4 2.4. 9 heart. But he hath forgot that.
2H4 2.4. 10
2H4-[FIRST DRAWER]
Why then, cover, and set them down;
2H4 2.4. 11 and see if thou canst find out Sneak's noise. Mistress
2H4 2.4. 12 Tearsheet would fain hear some music. {[Exit the Second Drawer]}
2H4 2.4. 13 {[The First Drawer covers the table.] [Enter the Second +
2H4 2.4. 13 Drawer]}
2H4-[SECOND DRAWER]
Sirrah, here will be the Prince +
2H4 2.4. 13 and
2H4 2.4. 14 Master Poins anon, and they will put on two of our
2H4 2.4. 15 jerkins and aprons, and Sir John must not know of it.
2H4 2.4. 16 Bardolph hath brought word.
2H4 2.4. 17
2H4-[FIRST DRAWER]
By the mass, here will be old utis! It will
2H4 2.4. 18 be an excellent stratagem.
2H4 2.4. 19
2H4-[SECOND DRAWER]
I'll see if I can find out Sneak. {Exeunt}
2H4 2.4. 20 {Enter Mistress Quickly and Doll Tearsheet, drunk} +
2H4 2.4. 20
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
I' faith, sweetheart, methinks now you
2H4 2.4. 21 are in an excellent good temperality. Your pulsidge
2H4 2.4. 22 beats as extraordinarily as heart would desire, and your
2H4 2.4. 23 colour, I warrant you, is as red as any rose, in good
2H4 2.4. 24 truth, la; but i' faith, you have drunk too much
2H4 2.4. 25 canaries, and that's a marvellous searching wine, and
2H4 2.4. 26 it perfumes the blood ere we can say `What's this?'
2H4 2.4. 27 How do you now?
2H4 2.4. 28
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
Better than I was. - Hem!
2H4 2.4. 29
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Why, that's well said! A good heart's
2H4 2.4. 30 worth gold. {Enter Sir John Falstaff}
2H4 2.4. 31 Lo, here comes Sir John.
2H4 2.4. 32
2H4-SIR JOHN
{(sings)} `When Arthur first in +
2H4 2.4. 32 court' - {[Calls]}
2H4 2.4. 33 Empty the jordan! - {(Sings)} `And was a +
2H4 2.4. 33 worthy king' -
2H4 2.4. 34 How now, Mistress Doll?
2H4 2.4. 35
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Sick of a qualm, yea, good faith.
2H4 2.4. 36
2H4-SIR JOHN
So is all her sect; an they be once in a calm,
2H4 2.4. 37 they are sick.
2H4 2.4. 38
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
A pox damn you, you muddy rascal! Is
2H4 2.4. 39 that all the comfort you give me?
2H4 2.4. 40
2H4-SIR JOHN
You make fat rascals, Mistress Doll.
2H4 2.4. 41
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
I make them? Gluttony and diseases
2H4 2.4. 42 make them; I make them not.
2H4 2.4. 43
2H4-SIR JOHN
If the cook help to make the gluttony, you help
2H4 2.4. 44 to make the diseases, Doll. We catch of you, Doll, we
2H4 2.4. 45 catch of you; grant that, my poor virtue, grant that.
2H4 2.4. 46
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
Yea, Jesu, our chains and our jewels.
2H4 2.4. 47
2H4-SIR JOHN
`Your brooches, pearls, and ouches' - for to
2H4 2.4. 48 serve bravely is to come halting off, you know; to come
2H4 2.4. 49 off the breach with his pike bent bravely, and to surgery
2H4 2.4. 50 bravely; to venture upon the charged chambers
2H4 2.4. 51 bravely.
2H4 2.4. 52
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
By my troth, this is the old fashion.
2H4 2.4. 53 You two never meet but you fall to some discord. You
2H4 2.4. 54 are both, i' good truth, as rheumatic as two dry toasts;
2H4 2.4. 55 you cannot one bear with another's confirmities. What
2H4 2.4. 56 the goodyear, one must bear, {(to Doll)} and that must
2H4 2.4. 57 be you. You are the weaker vessel, as they say, the
2H4 2.4. 58 emptier vessel.
2H4 2.4. 59
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
Can a weak empty vessel bear such a
2H4 2.4. 60 huge full hogshead? There's a whole merchant's
2H4 2.4. 61 venture of Bordeaux stuff in him; you have not seen
2H4 2.4. 62 a hulk better stuffed in the hold. - Come, I'll be friends
2H4 2.4. 63 with thee, Jack. Thou art going to the wars, and
2H4 2.4. 64 whether I shall ever see thee again or no there is
2H4 2.4. 65 nobody cares. {Enter a Drawer}
2H4 2.4. 66
2H4-DRAWER
Sir, Ensign Pistol's below, and would speak with
2H4 2.4. 67 you.
2H4 2.4. 68
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
Hang him, swaggering rascal, let him
2H4 2.4. 69 not come hither. It is the foul-mouthedest rogue in
2H4 2.4. 70 England.
2H4 2.4. 71
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
If he swagger, let him not come here.
2H4 2.4. 72 No, by my faith! I must live among my neighbours;
2H4 2.4. 73 I'll no swaggerers. I am in good name and fame with
2H4 2.4. 74 the very best. Shut the door; there comes no swaggerers
2H4 2.4. 75 here. I have not lived all this while to have swaggering
2H4 2.4. 76 now. Shut the door, I pray you.
2H4 2.4. 77
2H4-SIR JOHN
Dost thou hear, hostess?
2H4 2.4. 78
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Pray ye pacify yourself, Sir John. There
2H4 2.4. 79 comes no swaggerers here.
2H4 2.4. 80
2H4-SIR JOHN
Dost thou hear? It is mine ensign.
2H4 2.4. 81
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Tilly-fally, Sir John, ne'er tell me. Your
2H4 2.4. 82 ensign-swaggerer comes not in my doors. I was before
2H4 2.4. 83 Master Tisick the debuty t' other day, and, as he said
2H4 2.4. 84 to me - 'twas no longer ago than Wed'sday last, i' good
2H4 2.4. 85 faith - `Neighbour Quickly,' says he - Master Dumb our
2H4 2.4. 86 minister was by then - `Neighbour Quickly,' says he,
2H4 2.4. 87 `receive those that are civil, for,' said he, `you are in
2H4 2.4. 88 an ill name.' Now a said so, I can tell whereupon.
2H4 2.4. 89 `For,' says he, `you are an honest woman, and well
2H4 2.4. 90 thought on; therefore take heed what guests you
2H4 2.4. 91 receive. Receive,' says he, `no swaggering companions.'
2H4 2.4. 92 There comes none here. You would bless you to hear
2H4 2.4. 93 what he said. No, I'll no swaggerers.
2H4 2.4. 94
2H4-SIR JOHN
He's no swaggerer, hostess - a tame cheater,
2H4 2.4. 95 i' faith. You may stroke him as gently as a puppy
2H4 2.4. 96 greyhound. He'll not swagger with a Barbary hen, if
2H4 2.4. 97 her feathers turn back in any show of resistance. - Call
2H4 2.4. 98 him up, drawer. {[Exit Drawer]}
2H4 2.4. 99
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Cheater call you him? I will bar no
2H4 2.4. 100 honest man my house, nor no cheater, but I do not
2H4 2.4. 101 love swaggering, by my troth, I am the worse when
2H4 2.4. 102 one says `swagger'. Feel, masters, how I shake, look
2H4 2.4. 103 you, I warrant you.
2H4 2.4. 104
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
So you do, hostess.
2H4 2.4. 105
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Do I? Yea, in very truth do I, an 'twere
2H4 2.4. 106 an aspen leaf. I cannot abide swaggerers. {Enter Pistol, +
2H4 2.4. 106 Bardolph, and the Page}
2H4 2.4. 107
2H4-PISTOL
God save you, Sir John.
2H4 2.4. 108
2H4-SIR JOHN
Welcome, Ensign Pistol. Here, Pistol, I charge
2H4 2.4. 109 you with a cup of sack. Do you discharge upon mine
2H4 2.4. 110 hostess.
2H4 2.4. 111
2H4-PISTOL
I will discharge upon her, Sir John, with two
2H4 2.4. 112 bullets.
2H4 2.4. 113
2H4-SIR JOHN
She is pistol-proof, sir, you shall not hardly
2H4 2.4. 114 offend her.
2H4 2.4. 115
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Come, I'll drink no proofs, nor no
2H4 2.4. 116 bullets. I'll drink no more than will do me good, for no
2H4 2.4. 117 man's pleasure, I.
2H4 2.4. 118
2H4-PISTOL
Then to you, Mistress Dorothy! I will charge you.
2H4 2.4. 119
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
Charge me? I scorn you, scurvy
2H4 2.4. 120 companion. What, you poor, base, rascally, cheating,
2H4 2.4. 121 lack-linen mate! Away, you mouldy rogue, away! I
2H4 2.4. 122 am meat for your master.
2H4 2.4. 123
2H4-PISTOL
I know you, Mistress Dorothy.
2H4 2.4. 124
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
Away, you cutpurse rascal, you filthy
2H4 2.4. 125 bung, away! By this wine, I'll thrust my knife in your
2H4 2.4. 126 mouldy chaps an you play the saucy cuttle with me! {[She +
2H4 2.4. 126 brandishes a knife]}
2H4 2.4. 127 Away, you bottle-ale rascal, you basket-hilt stale
2H4 2.4. 128 juggler, you! {[Pistol draws his sword]}
2H4 2.4. 129 Since when, I pray you, sir? God's light, with two
2H4 2.4. 130 points on your shoulder! Much!
2H4 2.4. 131
2H4-PISTOL
God let me not live, but I will murder your ruff
2H4 2.4. 132 for this.
2H4 2.4. 133
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
No, good Captain Pistol; not here, sweet
2H4 2.4. 134 captain.
2H4 2.4. 135
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
Captain? Thou abominable damned
2H4 2.4. 136 cheater, art thou not ashamed to be called `captain'?
2H4 2.4. 137 An captains were of my mind, they would truncheon
2H4 2.4. 138 you out, for taking their names upon you before you
2H4 2.4. 139 have earned them. You a captain? You slave! For
2H4 2.4. 140 what? For tearing a poor whore's ruff in a bawdy-
2H4 2.4. 141 house! He a captain? Hang him, rogue, he lives upon
2H4 2.4. 142 mouldy stewed prunes and dried cakes. A captain?
2H4 2.4. 143 God's light, these villains will make the word `captain'
2H4 2.4. 144 odious; therefore captains had need look to 't.
2H4 2.4. 145
2H4-BARDOLPH
Pray thee, go down, good ensign.
2H4 2.4. 146
2H4-SIR JOHN
Hark thee hither, Mistress Doll. {He takes her +
2H4 2.4. 146 aside}
2H4 2.4. 147
2H4-PISTOL
Not I! I tell thee what, Corporal Bardolph, I +
2H4 2.4. 147 could
2H4 2.4. 148 tear her! I'll be revenged of her.
2H4 2.4. 149
2H4-PAGE
Pray thee, go down.
2H4 2.4. 150
2H4-PISTOL
I'll see her damned first
2H4 2.4. 151 To Pluto's damned lake, by this hand,
2H4 2.4. 152 To th' infernal deep,
2H4 2.4. 153 Where Erebus, and tortures vile also.
2H4 2.4. 154 `Hold hook and line!' say I.
2H4 2.4. 155 Down, down, dogs; down, Fates.
2H4 2.4. 156 Have we not Hiren here?
2H4 2.4. 157
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Good Captain Pizzle, be quiet. 'Tis very
2H4 2.4. 158 late, i' faith. I beseek you now, aggravate your choler.
2H4 2.4. 159
2H4-PISTOL
These be good humours indeed!
2H4 2.4. 160 Shall pack-horses
2H4 2.4. 161 And hollow pampered jades of Asia,
2H4 2.4. 162 Which cannot go but thirty mile a day,
2H4 2.4. 163 Compare with Caesars and with cannibals,
2H4 2.4. 164 And Trojan Greeks?
2H4 2.4. 165 Nay, rather damn them with King Cerberus,
2H4 2.4. 166 And let the welkin roar. Shall we fall foul for toys?
2H4 2.4. 167
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
By my troth, captain, these are very
2H4 2.4. 168 bitter words.
2H4 2.4. 169
2H4-BARDOLPH
Be gone, good ensign; this will grow to a brawl
2H4 2.4. 170 anon.
2H4 2.4. 171
2H4-PISTOL
Die men like dogs! Give crowns like pins!
2H4 2.4. 172 Have we not Hiren here?
2H4 2.4. 173
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
O' my word, captain, there's none such
2H4 2.4. 174 here. What the goodyear, do you think I would deny
2H4 2.4. 175 her? For God's sake, be quiet.
2H4 2.4. 176
2H4-PISTOL
Then feed and be fat, my fair Calipolis.
2H4 2.4. 177 Come, give 's some sack.
2H4 2.4. 178 {Si fortune me tormente, sperato me contento.}
2H4 2.4. 179 Fear we broadsides? No; let the fiend give fire!
2H4 2.4. 180 Give me some sack; and, sweetheart, lie thou there. {[He lays +
2H4 2.4. 180 down his sword]}
2H4 2.4. 181 Come we to full points here? And are etceteras +
2H4 2.4. 181 nothings? {[He drinks]}
2H4 2.4. 182
2H4-SIR JOHN
Pistol, I would be quiet.
2H4 2.4. 183
2H4-PISTOL
Sweet knight, I kiss thy neaf. What, we have seen
2H4 2.4. 184 the seven stars!
2H4 2.4. 185
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
For God's sake, thrust him downstairs. I
2H4 2.4. 186 cannot endure such a fustian rascal.
2H4 2.4. 187
2H4-PISTOL
Thrust him downstairs? Know we not Galloway
2H4 2.4. 188 nags?
2H4 2.4. 189
2H4-SIR JOHN
Quoit him down, Bardolph, like a shove-groat
2H4 2.4. 190 shilling. Nay, an a do nothing but speak nothing, a
2H4 2.4. 191 shall be nothing here.
2H4 2.4. 192
2H4-BARDOLPH
{(to Pistol)} Come, get you downstairs.
2H4 2.4. 193
2H4-PISTOL
{[taking up his sword]} What, shall we have +
2H4 2.4. 193 incision? Shall we imbrue?
2H4 2.4. 194 Then death rock me asleep, abridge my doleful days.
2H4 2.4. 195 Why then, let grievous, ghastly, gaping wounds
2H4 2.4. 196 Untwine the Sisters Three. Come, Atropos, I say!
2H4 2.4. 197
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Here's goodly stuff toward!
2H4 2.4. 198
2H4-SIR JOHN
Give me my rapier, boy.
2H4 2.4. 199
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
I pray thee, Jack, I pray thee, do not
2H4 2.4. 200 draw.
2H4 2.4. 201
2H4-SIR JOHN
{(taking his rapier and speaking to +
2H4 2.4. 201 Pistol)} Get you
2H4 2.4. 202 downstairs. {Sir John, Bardolph, and Pistol brawl}
2H4 2.4. 203
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Here's a goodly tumult! I'll forswear
2H4 2.4. 204 keeping house afore I'll be in these tirrits and frights! {[Sir +
2H4 2.4. 204 John thrusts at Pistol]}
2H4 2.4. 205 So! {[Pistol thrusts at Sir John]}
2H4 2.4. 206 Murder, I warrant now! Alas, alas, put up your naked
2H4 2.4. 207 weapons, put up your naked weapons! {Exit Pistol, pursued by +
2H4 2.4. 207 Bardolph}
2H4 2.4. 208
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
I pray thee, Jack, be quiet; the rascal's
2H4 2.4. 209 gone. Ah, you whoreson little valiant villain, you!
2H4 2.4. 210
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
{(to Sir John)} Are you not hurt +
2H4 2.4. 210 i' th'
2H4 2.4. 211 groin? Methought a made a shrewd thrust at your
2H4 2.4. 212 belly. {Enter Bardolph}
2H4 2.4. 213
2H4-SIR JOHN
Have you turned him out o' doors?
2H4 2.4. 214
2H4-BARDOLPH
Yea, sir. The rascal's drunk. You have hurt
2H4 2.4. 215 him, sir, i' th' shoulder.
2H4 2.4. 216
2H4-SIR JOHN
A rascal, to brave me!
2H4 2.4. 217
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
Ah, you sweet little rogue, you! Alas,
2H4 2.4. 218 poor ape, how thou sweatest! Come, let me wipe thy
2H4 2.4. 219 face; come on, you whoreson chops. Ah rogue, i' faith,
2H4 2.4. 220 I love thee. Thou art as valorous as Hector of Troy,
2H4 2.4. 221 worth five of Agamemnon, and ten times better than
2H4 2.4. 222 the Nine Worthies. Ah, villain!
2H4 2.4. 223
2H4-SIR JOHN
A rascally slave! I will toss the rogue in a
2H4 2.4. 224 blanket.
2H4 2.4. 225
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
Do, an thou darest for thy heart. An thou
2H4 2.4. 226 dost, I'll canvas thee between a pair of sheets. {Enter +
2H4 2.4. 226 musicians}
2H4 2.4. 227
2H4-PAGE
The music is come, sir.
2H4 2.4. 228
2H4-SIR JOHN
Let them play. - Play, sirs! {[Music plays]}
2H4 2.4. 229 Sit on my knee, Doll. A rascal bragging slave! The
2H4 2.4. 230 rogue fled from me like quicksilver.
2H4 2.4. 231
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
I' faith, and thou followed'st him like a
2H4 2.4. 232 church. Thou whoreson little tidy Bartholomew boar-
2H4 2.4. 233 pig, when wilt thou leave fighting o' days, and foining
2H4 2.4. 234 o' nights, and begin to patch up thine old body for
2H4 2.4. 235 heaven? {Enter Prince Harry and Poins, disguised as drawers}
2H4 2.4. 236
2H4-SIR JOHN
Peace, good Doll, do not speak like a death's-
2H4 2.4. 237 head, do not bid me remember mine end.
2H4 2.4. 238
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
Sirrah, what humour's the Prince of?
2H4 2.4. 239
2H4-SIR JOHN
A good shallow young fellow. A would have
2H4 2.4. 240 made a good pantler; a would ha' chipped bread well.
2H4 2.4. 241
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
They say Poins has a good wit.
2H4 2.4. 242
2H4-SIR JOHN
He a good wit? Hang him, baboon! His wit's as
2H4 2.4. 243 thick as Tewkesbury mustard; there's no more conceit
2H4 2.4. 244 in him than is in a mallet.
2H4 2.4. 245
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
Why does the Prince love him so, then?
2H4 2.4. 246
2H4-SIR JOHN
Because their legs are both of a bigness, and a
2H4 2.4. 247 plays at quoits well, and eats conger and fennel, and
2H4 2.4. 248 drinks off candles' ends for flap-dragons, and rides the
2H4 2.4. 249 wild mare with the boys, and jumps upon joint-stools,
2H4 2.4. 250 and swears with a good grace, and wears his boot very
2H4 2.4. 251 smooth like unto the sign of the leg, and breeds no
2H4 2.4. 252 bate with telling of discreet stories, and such other
2H4 2.4. 253 gambol faculties a has that show a weak mind and an
2H4 2.4. 254 able body; for the which the Prince admits him; for
2H4 2.4. 255 the Prince himself is such another - the weight of a
2H4 2.4. 256 hair will turn the scales between their avoirdupois.
2H4 2.4. 257
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
{(aside to Poins)} Would not this +
2H4 2.4. 257 nave of a
2H4 2.4. 258 wheel have his ears cut off?
2H4 2.4. 259
2H4-POINS
Let's beat him before his whore.
2H4 2.4. 260
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Look whe'er the withered elder hath not
2H4 2.4. 261 his poll clawed like a parrot.
2H4 2.4. 262
2H4-POINS
Is it not strange that desire should so many years
2H4 2.4. 263 outlive performance?
2H4 2.4. 264
2H4-SIR JOHN
Kiss me, Doll. {They kiss}
2H4 2.4. 265
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
{(aside to Poins)} Saturn and Venus +
2H4 2.4. 265 this year
2H4 2.4. 266 in conjunction! What says th' almanac to that?
2H4 2.4. 267
2H4-POINS
And look whether the fiery Trigon his man be not
2H4 2.4. 268 lisping to his master's old tables, his note-book, his
2H4 2.4. 269 counsel-keeper!
2H4 2.4. 270
2H4-SIR JOHN
{(to Doll)} Thou dost give me flattering +
2H4 2.4. 270 busses.
2H4 2.4. 271
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
By my troth, I kiss thee with a most
2H4 2.4. 272 constant heart.
2H4 2.4. 273
2H4-SIR JOHN
I am old, I am old.
2H4 2.4. 274
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
I love thee better than I love e'er a scurvy
2H4 2.4. 275 young boy of them all.
2H4 2.4. 276
2H4-SIR JOHN
What stuff wilt have a kirtle of? I shall receive
2H4 2.4. 277 money o' Thursday; shalt have a cap tomorrow. - A
2H4 2.4. 278 merry song! {[The music plays again]}
2H4 2.4. 279 Come, it grows late; we'll to bed. Thou'lt forget me
2H4 2.4. 280 when I am gone.
2H4 2.4. 281
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
By my troth, thou'lt set me a-weeping
2H4 2.4. 282 an thou sayst so. Prove that ever I dress myself
2H4 2.4. 283 handsome till thy return - well, hearken a' th' end.
2H4 2.4. 284
2H4-SIR JOHN
Some sack, Francis.
2H4 2.4. 285
2H4-PRINCE
2H4-AND
2H4-POINS
{(coming forward)} Anon, anon, +
2H4 2.4. 285 sir.
2H4 2.4. 286
2H4-SIR JOHN
Ha, a bastard son of the King's! - And art not
2H4 2.4. 287 thou Poins his brother?
2H4 2.4. 288
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Why, thou globe of sinful continents, what
2H4 2.4. 289 a life dost thou lead!
2H4 2.4. 290
2H4-SIR JOHN
A better than thou: I am a gentleman, thou art
2H4 2.4. 291 a drawer.
2H4 2.4. 292
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Very true, sir, and I come to draw you out
2H4 2.4. 293 by the ears.
2H4 2.4. 294
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
O, the Lord preserve thy grace! By my
2H4 2.4. 295 troth, welcome to London! Now the Lord bless that
2H4 2.4. 296 sweet face of thine! O Jesu, are you come from Wales?
2H4 2.4. 297
2H4-SIR JOHN
{(to Prince Harry)} Thou whoreson mad +
2H4 2.4. 297 compound
2H4 2.4. 298 of majesty! By this light - flesh and corrupt blood, thou
2H4 2.4. 299 art welcome.
2H4 2.4. 300
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
How, you fat fool? I scorn you.
2H4 2.4. 301
2H4-POINS
{(to Prince Harry)} My lord, he will drive +
2H4 2.4. 301 you out of
2H4 2.4. 302 your revenge and turn all to a merriment, if you take
2H4 2.4. 303 not the heat.
2H4 2.4. 304
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
{(to Sir John)} You whoreson +
2H4 2.4. 304 candlemine you,
2H4 2.4. 305 how vilely did you speak of me now, before this honest,
2H4 2.4. 306 virtuous, civil gentlewoman!
2H4 2.4. 307
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
God's blessing of your good heart, and
2H4 2.4. 308 so she is, by my troth!
2H4 2.4. 309
2H4-SIR JOHN
{(to Prince Harry)} Didst thou hear me?
2H4 2.4. 310
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Yea, and you knew me as you did when
2H4 2.4. 311 you ran away by Gads Hill; you knew I was at your
2H4 2.4. 312 back, and spoke it on purpose to try my patience.
2H4 2.4. 313
2H4-SIR JOHN
No, no, no, not so, I did not think thou wast
2H4 2.4. 314 within hearing.
2H4 2.4. 315
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
I shall drive you, then, to confess the wilful
2H4 2.4. 316 abuse, and then I know how to handle you.
2H4 2.4. 317
2H4-SIR JOHN
No abuse, Hal; o' mine honour, no abuse.
2H4 2.4. 318
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Not? To dispraise me, and call me `pantler'
2H4 2.4. 319 and `bread-chipper' and I know not what?
2H4 2.4. 320
2H4-SIR JOHN
No abuse, Hal.
2H4 2.4. 321
2H4-POINS
No abuse?
2H4 2.4. 322
2H4-SIR JOHN
No abuse, Ned, i' th' world, honest Ned, none.
2H4 2.4. 323 I dispraised him before the wicked, that the wicked
2H4 2.4. 324 might not fall in love with him; {(to Prince Harry)} in
2H4 2.4. 325 which doing I have done the part of a careful friend
2H4 2.4. 326 and a true subject, and thy father is to give me thanks
2H4 2.4. 327 for it. No abuse, Hal; none, Ned, none; no, faith, boys,
2H4 2.4. 328 none.
2H4 2.4. 329
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
See now whether pure fear and entire
2H4 2.4. 330 cowardice doth not make thee wrong this virtuous
2H4 2.4. 331 gentlewoman to close with us. Is she of the wicked? Is
2H4 2.4. 332 thine hostess here of the wicked? Or is thy boy of the
2H4 2.4. 333 wicked? Or honest Bardolph, whose zeal burns in his
2H4 2.4. 334 nose, of the wicked?
2H4 2.4. 335
2H4-POINS
{(to Sir John)} Answer, thou dead elm, +
2H4 2.4. 335 answer.
2H4 2.4. 336
2H4-SIR JOHN
The fiend hath pricked down Bardolph
2H4 2.4. 337 irrecoverable, and his face is Lucifer's privy kitchen,
2H4 2.4. 338 where he doth nothing but roast malt-worms. For the
2H4 2.4. 339 boy, there is a good angel about him, but the devil
2H4 2.4. 340 outbids him, too.
2H4 2.4. 341
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
For the women?
2H4 2.4. 342
2H4-SIR JOHN
For one of them, she's in hell already, and burns
2H4 2.4. 343 poor souls. For th' other, I owe her money, and whether
2H4 2.4. 344 she be damned for that I know not.
2H4 2.4. 345
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
No, I warrant you.
2H4 2.4. 346
2H4-SIR JOHN
No, I think thou art not; I think thou art quit
2H4 2.4. 347 for that. Marry, there is another indictment upon thee,
2H4 2.4. 348 for suffering flesh to be eaten in thy house, contrary
2H4 2.4. 349 to the law, for the which I think thou wilt howl.
2H4 2.4. 350
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
All victuallers do so. What's a joint of
2H4 2.4. 351 mutton or two in a whole Lent?
2H4 2.4. 352
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
You, gentlewoman -
2H4 2.4. 353
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
What says your grace?
2H4 2.4. 354
2H4-SIR JOHN
His grace says that which his flesh rebels against. +
2H4 2.4. 354 {Peto knocks at door within}
2H4 2.4. 355
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Who knocks so loud at door? +
2H4 2.4. 355 {(Calls)}
2H4 2.4. 356 Look to th' door there, Francis. {Enter Peto}
2H4 2.4. 357
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
Peto, how now, what news?
2H4 2.4. 358
2H4-PETO
The King your father is at Westminster;
2H4 2.4. 359 And there are twenty weak and wearied posts
2H4 2.4. 360 Come from the north; and as I came along
2H4 2.4. 361 I met and overtook a dozen captains,
2H4 2.4. 362 Bareheaded, sweating, knocking at the taverns,
2H4 2.4. 363 And asking every one for Sir John Falstaff.
2H4 2.4. 364
2H4-PRINCE HARRY
By heaven, Poins, I feel me much to blame
2H4 2.4. 365 So idly to profane the precious time,
2H4 2.4. 366 When tempest of commotion, like the south
2H4 2.4. 367 Borne with black vapour, doth begin to melt
2H4 2.4. 368 And drop upon our bare unarmed heads. -
2H4 2.4. 369 Give me my sword and cloak. - Falstaff, good night. {Exeunt Prince +
2H4 2.4. 369 Harry and Poins}
2H4 2.4. 370
2H4-SIR JOHN
Now comes in the sweetest morsel of the night,
2H4 2.4. 371 and we must hence and leave it unpicked. {Knocking within. [Exit +
2H4 2.4. 371 Bardolph]}
2H4 2.4. 372 More knocking at the door! {Enter Bardolph}
2H4 2.4. 373 How now, what's the matter?
2H4 2.4. 374
2H4-BARDOLPH
You must away to court, sir, presently.
2H4 2.4. 375 A dozen captains stay at door for you.
2H4 2.4. 376
2H4-SIR JOHN
{[to the Page]} Pay the musicians, +
2H4 2.4. 376 sirrah. Farewell,
2H4 2.4. 377 hostess; farewell, Doll. You see, my good wenches, how
2H4 2.4. 378 men of merit are sought after. The undeserver may
2H4 2.4. 379 sleep, when the man of action is called on. Farewell,
2H4 2.4. 380 good wenches. If I be not sent away post, I will see
2H4 2.4. 381 you again ere I go. {[Exeunt musicians]}
2H4 2.4. 382
2H4-DOLL TEARSHEET
{[weeping]} I cannot speak. If my +
2H4 2.4. 382 heart be
2H4 2.4. 383 not ready to burst - well, sweet Jack, have a care of
2H4 2.4. 384 thyself.
2H4 2.4. 385
2H4-SIR JOHN
Farewell, farewell! {Exit [with Bardolph, Peto, and +
2H4 2.4. 385 the Page]}
2H4 2.4. 386
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
Well, fare thee well. I have known thee
2H4 2.4. 387 these twenty-nine years come peascod-time, but an
2H4 2.4. 388 honester and truer-hearted man - well, fare thee well. {[Enter +
2H4 2.4. 388 Bardolph]}
2H4 2.4. 389
2H4-BARDOLPH
Mistress Tearsheet!
2H4 2.4. 390
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
What's the matter?
2H4 2.4. 391
2H4-BARDOLPH
Bid Mistress Tearsheet come to my master. {[Exit]}
2H4 2.4. 392
2H4-MISTRESS QUICKLY
O run, Doll; run, run, good Doll! +
2H4 2.4. 392 {Exeunt [Doll at one door, Mistress Quickly at another door]}
2H4 2.4. 0 {Enter King Henry in his nightgown, with a page}
2H4 3.1. 1
2H4-KING HENRY
{(giving letters)} Go call the Earls of +
2H4 3.1. 1 Surrey and of Warwick.
2H4 3.1. 2 But ere they come, bid them o'er-read these letters
2H4 3.1. 3 And well consider of them. Make good speed. {Exit page}
2H4 3.1. 4 How many thousand of my poorest subjects
2H4 3.1. 5 Are at this hour asleep? O sleep, O gentle sleep,
2H4 3.1. 6 Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,
2H4 3.1. 7 That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down
2H4 3.1. 8 And steep my senses in forgetfulness?
2H4 3.1. 9 Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs,
2H4 3.1. 10 Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee,
2H4 3.1. 11 And hushed with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber,
2H4 3.1. 12 Than in the perfumed chambers of the great,
2H4 3.1. 13 Under the canopies of costly state,
2H4 3.1. 14 And lulled with sound of sweetest melody?
2H4 3.1. 15 O thou dull god, why li'st thou with the vile
2H4 3.1. 16 In loathsome beds, and leav'st the kingly couch
2H4 3.1. 17 A watch-case, or a common 'larum-bell?
2H4 3.1. 18 Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast
2H4 3.1. 19 Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains
2H4 3.1. 20 In cradle of the rude imperious surge,
2H4 3.1. 21 And in the visitation of the winds,
2H4 3.1. 22 Who take the ruffian billows by the top,
2H4 3.1. 23 Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them
2H4 3.1. 24 With deafing clamour in the slippery clouds,
2H4 3.1. 25 That, with the hurly, death itself awakes?
2H4 3.1. 26 Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose
2H4 3.1. 27 To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude,
2H4 3.1. 28 And in the calmest and most stillest night,
2H4 3.1. 29 With all appliances and means to boot,
2H4 3.1. 30 Deny it to a king? Then happy low, lie down.
2H4 3.1. 31 Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. {Enter the Earls of +
2H4 3.1. 31 Warwick and Surrey}
2H4 3.1. 32
2H4-WARWICK
Many good morrows to your majesty!
2H4 3.1. 33B
2H4-KING HENRY
Is it good morrow, lords?
2H4-WARWICK
'Tis one o'clock, +
2H4 3.1. 33B and past.
2H4 3.1. 34
2H4-KING HENRY
Why then, good morrow to you all, my lords.
2H4 3.1. 35 Have you read o'er the letter that I sent you?
2H4 3.1. 36A
2H4-WARWICK
We have, my liege.
2H4 3.1. 37
2H4-KING HENRY
Then you perceive the body of our kingdom,
2H4 3.1. 38 How foul it is, what rank diseases grow,
2H4 3.1. 39 And with what danger near the heart of it.
2H4 3.1. 40
2H4-WARWICK
It is but as a body yet distempered,
2H4 3.1. 41 Which to his former strength may be restored
2H4 3.1. 42 With good advice and little medicine.
2H4 3.1. 43 My lord Northumberland will soon be cooled.
2H4 3.1. 44
2H4-KING HENRY
O God, that one might read the book of fate,
2H4 3.1. 45 And see the revolution of the times
2H4 3.1. 46 Make mountains level, and the continent,
2H4 3.1. 47 Weary of solid firmness, melt itself
2H4 3.1. 48 Into the sea; and other times to see
2H4 3.1. 49 The beachy girdle of the ocean
2H4 3.1. 50 Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chance's mocks
2H4 3.1. 51 And changes fill the cup of alteration
2H4 3.1. 52 With divers liquors! 'Tis not ten years gone
2H4 3.1. 53 Since Richard and Northumberland, great friends,
2H4 3.1. 54 Did feast together; and in two year after
2H4 3.1. 55 Were they at wars. It is but eight years since
2H4 3.1. 56 This Percy was the man nearest my soul,
2H4 3.1. 57 Who like a brother toiled in my affairs,
2H4 3.1. 58 And laid his love and life under my foot,
2H4 3.1. 59 Yea, for my sake, even to the eyes of Richard
2H4 3.1. 60 Gave him defiance. But which of you was by -
2H4 3.1. 61 {(To Warwick)} You, cousin Neville, as I may remember -
2H4 3.1. 62 When Richard, with his eye brimful of tears,
2H4 3.1. 63 Then checked and rated by Northumberland,
2H4 3.1. 64 Did speak these words, now proved a prophecy? -
2H4 3.1. 65 `Northumberland, thou ladder by the which
2H4 3.1. 66 My cousin Bolingbroke ascends my throne' -
2H4 3.1. 67 Though then, God knows, I had no such intent,
2H4 3.1. 68 But that necessity so bowed the state
2H4 3.1. 69 That I and greatness were compelled to kiss -
2H4 3.1. 70 `The time shall come' - thus did he follow it -
2H4 3.1. 71 `The time will come that foul sin, gathering head,
2H4 3.1. 72 Shall break into corruption'; so went on,
2H4 3.1. 73 Foretelling this same time's condition,
2H4 3.1. 74 And the division of our amity.
2H4 3.1. 75
2H4-WARWICK
There is a history in all men's lives
2H4 3.1. 76 Figuring the natures of the times deceased;
2H4 3.1. 77 The which observed, a man may prophesy,
2H4 3.1. 78 With a near aim, of the main chance of things
2H4 3.1. 79 As yet not come to life, who in their seeds
2H4 3.1. 80 And weak beginnings lie intreasured.
2H4 3.1. 81 Such things become the hatch and brood of time;
2H4 3.1. 82 And by the necessary form of this
2H4 3.1. 83 King Richard might create a perfect guess
2H4 3.1. 84 That great Northumberland, then false to him,
2H4 3.1. 85 Would of that seed grow to a greater falseness,
2H4 3.1. 86 Which should not find a ground to root upon
2H4 3.1. 87B Unless on you.
2H4-KING HENRY
Are these things then necessities?
2H4 3.1. 88 Then let us meet them like necessities;
2H4 3.1. 89 And that same word even now cries out on us.
2H4 3.1. 90 They say the Bishop and Northumberland
2H4 3.1. 91B Are fifty thousand strong.
2H4-WARWICK
It cannot be, my lord.
2H4 3.1. 92 Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo,
2H4 3.1. 93 The numbers of the feared. Please it your grace
2H4 3.1. 94 To go to bed? Upon my soul, my lord,
2H4 3.1. 95 The powers that you already have sent forth
2H4 3.1. 96 Shall bring this prize in very easily.
2H4 3.1. 97 To comfort you the more, I have received
2H4 3.1. 98 A certain instance that Glyndw^r is dead.
2H4 3.1. 99 Your majesty hath been this fortnight ill,
2H4 3.1. 100 And these unseasoned hours perforce must add
2H4 3.1. 101B Unto your sickness.
2H4-KING HENRY
I will take your counsel.
2H4 3.1. 102 And were these inward wars once out of hand,
2H4 3.1. 103 We would, dear lords, unto the Holy Land. {Exeunt}
2H4 3.1. 0 {Enter Justice Shallow and Justice Silence}
2H4 3.2. 1
2H4-SHALLOW
Come on, come on, come on! Give me your
2H4 3.2. 2 hand, sir, give me your hand, sir. An early stirrer, by
2H4 3.2. 3 the rood! And how doth my good cousin Silence?
2H4 3.2. 4
2H4-SILENCE
Good morrow, good cousin Shallow.
2H4 3.2. 5
2H4-SHALLOW
And how doth my cousin your bedfellow? And
2H4 3.2. 6 your fairest daughter and mine, my god-daughter Ellen?
2H4 3.2. 7
2H4-SILENCE
Alas, a black ouzel, cousin Shallow.
2H4 3.2. 8
2H4-SHALLOW
By yea and no, sir, I dare say my cousin William
2H4 3.2. 9 is become a good scholar. He is at Oxford still, is he
2H4 3.2. 10 not?
2H4 3.2. 11
2H4-SILENCE
Indeed, s