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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.