| And hold their level with thy princely heart? | |
| PRINCE HENRY So please your majesty, I would I could | |
| Quit all offences with as clear excuse | |
| As well as I am doubtless I can purge | |
| Myself of many I am charged withal: | |
| Yet such extenuation let me beg, | |
| As, in reproof of many tales devised, | |
| which oft the ear of greatness needs must hear, | |
| By smiling pick-thanks and base news-mongers, | |
| I may, for some things true, wherein my youth | |
| Hath faulty wander'd and irregular, | |
| Find pardon on my true submission. | |
| KING HENRY IV God pardon thee! yet let me wonder, Harry, | |
| At thy affections, which do hold a wing | |
| Quite from the flight of all thy ancestors. | |
| Thy place in council thou hast rudely lost. | |
| Which by thy younger brother is supplied, | |
| And art almost an alien to the hearts | |