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| <H3>ACT I</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. London. The palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter KING HENRY, LORD JOHN OF LANCASTER, the EARL of WESTMORELAND, SIR WALTER BLUNT, and others</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.1>So shaken as we are, so wan with care,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.2>Find we a time for frighted peace to pant,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.3>And breathe short-winded accents of new broils</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.4>To be commenced in strands afar remote.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.5>No more the thirsty entrance of this soil</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.6>Shall daub her lips with her own children's blood;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.7>Nor more shall trenching war channel her fields,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.8>Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.9>Of hostile paces: those opposed eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.10>Which, like the meteors of a troubled heaven,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.11>All of one nature, of one substance bred,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.12>Did lately meet in the intestine shock</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.13>And furious close of civil butchery</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.14>Shall now, in mutual well-beseeming ranks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.15>March all one way and be no more opposed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.16>Against acquaintance, kindred and allies:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.17>The edge of war, like an ill-sheathed knife,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.18>No more shall cut his master. Therefore, friends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.19>As far as to the sepulchre of Christ,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.20>Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.21>We are impressed and engaged to fight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.22>Forthwith a power of English shall we levy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.23>Whose arms were moulded in their mothers' womb</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.24>To chase these pagans in those holy fields</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.25>Over whose acres walk'd those blessed feet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.26>Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.27>For our advantage on the bitter cross.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.28>But this our purpose now is twelve month old,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.29>And bootless 'tis to tell you we will go:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.30>Therefore we meet not now. Then let me hear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.31>Of you, my gentle cousin Westmoreland,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.32>What yesternight our council did decree</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.33>In forwarding this dear expedience.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.34>My liege, this haste was hot in question,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.35>And many limits of the charge set down</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.36>But yesternight: when all athwart there came</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.37>A post from Wales loaden with heavy news;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.38>Whose worst was, that the noble Mortimer,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.39>Leading the men of Herefordshire to fight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.40>Against the irregular and wild Glendower,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.41>Was by the rude hands of that Welshman taken,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.42>A thousand of his people butchered;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.43>Upon whose dead corpse there was such misuse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.44>Such beastly shameless transformation,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.45>By those Welshwomen done as may not be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.46>Without much shame retold or spoken of.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.47>It seems then that the tidings of this broil</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.48>Brake off our business for the Holy Land.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.49>This match'd with other did, my gracious lord;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.50>For more uneven and unwelcome news</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.51>Came from the north and thus it did import:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.52>On Holy-rood day, the gallant Hotspur there,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.53>Young Harry Percy and brave Archibald,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.54>That ever-valiant and approved Scot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.55>At Holmedon met,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.56>Where they did spend a sad and bloody hour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.57>As by discharge of their artillery,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.58>And shape of likelihood, the news was told;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.59>For he that brought them, in the very heat</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.60>And pride of their contention did take horse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.61>Uncertain of the issue any way.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.62>Here is a dear, a true industrious friend,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.63>Sir Walter Blunt, new lighted from his horse.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.64>Stain'd with the variation of each soil</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.65>Betwixt that Holmedon and this seat of ours;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.66>And he hath brought us smooth and welcome news.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.67>The Earl of Douglas is discomfited:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.68>Ten thousand bold Scots, two and twenty knights,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.69>Balk'd in their own blood did Sir Walter see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.70>On Holmedon's plains. Of prisoners, Hotspur took</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.71>Mordake the Earl of Fife, and eldest son</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.72>To beaten Douglas; and the Earl of Athol,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.73>Of Murray, Angus, and Menteith:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.74>And is not this an honourable spoil?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.75>A gallant prize? ha, cousin, is it not?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.76>In faith,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.77>It is a conquest for a prince to boast of.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.78>Yea, there thou makest me sad and makest me sin</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.79>In envy that my Lord Northumberland</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.80>Should be the father to so blest a son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.81>A son who is the theme of honour's tongue;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.82>Amongst a grove, the very straightest plant;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.83>Who is sweet Fortune's minion and her pride:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.84>Whilst I, by looking on the praise of him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.85>See riot and dishonour stain the brow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.86>Of my young Harry. O that it could be proved</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.87>That some night-tripping fairy had exchanged</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.88>In cradle-clothes our children where they lay,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.89>And call'd mine Percy, his Plantagenet!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.90>Then would I have his Harry, and he mine.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.91>But let him from my thoughts. What think you, coz,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.92>Of this young Percy's pride? the prisoners,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.93>Which he in this adventure hath surprised,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.94>To his own use he keeps; and sends me word,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.95>I shall have none but Mordake Earl of Fife.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.96>This is his uncle's teaching; this is Worcester,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.97>Malevolent to you in all aspects;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.98>Which makes him prune himself, and bristle up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.99>The crest of youth against your dignity.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.100>But I have sent for him to answer this;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.101>And for this cause awhile we must neglect</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.102>Our holy purpose to Jerusalem.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.103>Cousin, on Wednesday next our council we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.104>Will hold at Windsor; so inform the lords:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.105>But come yourself with speed to us again;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.106>For more is to be said and to be done</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.107>Than out of anger can be uttered.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.108>I will, my liege.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. London. An apartment of the Prince's.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter the PRINCE OF WALES and FALSTAFF</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.1>Now, Hal, what time of day is it, lad?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.2>Thou art so fat-witted, with drinking of old sack</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.3>and unbuttoning thee after supper and sleeping upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.4>benches after noon, that thou hast forgotten to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.5>demand that truly which thou wouldst truly know.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.6>What a devil hast thou to do with the time of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.7>day? Unless hours were cups of sack and minutes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.8>capons and clocks the tongues of bawds and dials the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.9>signs of leaping-houses and the blessed sun himself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.10>a fair hot wench in flame-coloured taffeta, I see no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.11>reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.12>the time of the day.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.13>Indeed, you come near me now, Hal; for we that take</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.14>purses go by the moon and the seven stars, and not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.15>by Phoebus, he,'that wandering knight so fair.' And,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.16>I prithee, sweet wag, when thou art king, as, God</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.17>save thy grace,--majesty I should say, for grace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.18>thou wilt have none,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.19>What, none?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.20>No, by my troth, not so much as will serve to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.21>prologue to an egg and butter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.22>Well, how then? come, roundly, roundly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.23>Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.24>us that are squires of the night's body be called</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.25>thieves of the day's beauty: let us be Diana's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.26>foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.27>moon; and let men say we be men of good government,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.28>being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.29>chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.30>Thou sayest well, and it holds well too; for the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.31>fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.32>flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.33>by the moon. As, for proof, now: a purse of gold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.34>most resolutely snatched on Monday night and most</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.35>dissolutely spent on Tuesday morning; got with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.36>swearing 'Lay by' and spent with crying 'Bring in;'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.37>now in as low an ebb as the foot of the ladder</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.38>and by and by in as high a flow as the ridge of the gallows.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.39>By the Lord, thou sayest true, lad. And is not my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.40>hostess of the tavern a most sweet wench?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.41>As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the castle. And</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.42>is not a buff jerkin a most sweet robe of durance?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.43>How now, how now, mad wag! what, in thy quips and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.44>thy quiddities? what a plague have I to do with a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.45>buff jerkin?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.46>Why, what a pox have I to do with my hostess of the tavern?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.47>Well, thou hast called her to a reckoning many a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.48>time and oft.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.49>Did I ever call for thee to pay thy part?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.50>No; I'll give thee thy due, thou hast paid all there.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.51>Yea, and elsewhere, so far as my coin would stretch;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.52>and where it would not, I have used my credit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.53>Yea, and so used it that were it not here apparent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.54>that thou art heir apparent--But, I prithee, sweet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.55>wag, shall there be gallows standing in England when</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.56>thou art king? and resolution thus fobbed as it is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.57>with the rusty curb of old father antic the law? Do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.58>not thou, when thou art king, hang a thief.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.59>No; thou shalt.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.60>Shall I? O rare! By the Lord, I'll be a brave judge.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.61>Thou judgest false already: I mean, thou shalt have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.62>the hanging of the thieves and so become a rare hangman.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.63>Well, Hal, well; and in some sort it jumps with my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.64>humour as well as waiting in the court, I can tell</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.65>you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.66>For obtaining of suits?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.67>Yea, for obtaining of suits, whereof the hangman</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.68>hath no lean wardrobe. 'Sblood, I am as melancholy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.69>as a gib cat or a lugged bear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.70>Or an old lion, or a lover's lute.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.71>Yea, or the drone of a Lincolnshire bagpipe.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.72>What sayest thou to a hare, or the melancholy of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.73>Moor-ditch?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.74>Thou hast the most unsavoury similes and art indeed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.75>the most comparative, rascalliest, sweet young</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.76>prince. But, Hal, I prithee, trouble me no more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.77>with vanity. I would to God thou and I knew where a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.78>commodity of good names were to be bought. An old</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.79>lord of the council rated me the other day in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.80>street about you, sir, but I marked him not; and yet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.81>he talked very wisely, but I regarded him not; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.82>yet he talked wisely, and in the street too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.83>Thou didst well; for wisdom cries out in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.84>streets, and no man regards it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.85>O, thou hast damnable iteration and art indeed able</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.86>to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.87>me, Hal; God forgive thee for it! Before I knew</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.88>thee, Hal, I knew nothing; and now am I, if a man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.89>should speak truly, little better than one of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.90>wicked. I must give over this life, and I will give</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.91>it over: by the Lord, and I do not, I am a villain:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.92>I'll be damned for never a king's son in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.93>Christendom.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.94>Where shall we take a purse tomorrow, Jack?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.95>'Zounds, where thou wilt, lad; I'll make one; an I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.96>do not, call me villain and baffle me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.97>I see a good amendment of life in thee; from praying</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.98>to purse-taking.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.99>Why, Hal, 'tis my vocation, Hal; 'tis no sin for a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.100>man to labour in his vocation.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter POINS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.101>Poins! Now shall we know if Gadshill have set a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.102>match. O, if men were to be saved by merit, what</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.103>hole in hell were hot enough for him? This is the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.104>most omnipotent villain that ever cried 'Stand' to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.105>a true man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.106>Good morrow, Ned.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.107>Good morrow, sweet Hal. What says Monsieur Remorse?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.108>what says Sir John Sack and Sugar? Jack! how</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.109>agrees the devil and thee about thy soul, that thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.110>soldest him on Good-Friday last for a cup of Madeira</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.111>and a cold capon's leg?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.112>Sir John stands to his word, the devil shall have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.113>his bargain; for he was never yet a breaker of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.114>proverbs: he will give the devil his due.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.115>Then art thou damned for keeping thy word with the devil.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.116>Else he had been damned for cozening the devil.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.117>But, my lads, my lads, to-morrow morning, by four</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.118>o'clock, early at Gadshill! there are pilgrims going</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.119>to Canterbury with rich offerings, and traders</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.120>riding to London with fat purses: I have vizards</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.121>for you all; you have horses for yourselves:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.122>Gadshill lies to-night in Rochester: I have bespoke</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.123>supper to-morrow night in Eastcheap: we may do it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.124>as secure as sleep. If you will go, I will stuff</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.125>your purses full of crowns; if you will not, tarry</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.126>at home and be hanged.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.127>Hear ye, Yedward; if I tarry at home and go not,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.128>I'll hang you for going.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.129>You will, chops?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.130>Hal, wilt thou make one?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.131>Who, I rob? I a thief? not I, by my faith.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.132>There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.133>fellowship in thee, nor thou camest not of the blood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.134>royal, if thou darest not stand for ten shillings.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.135>Well then, once in my days I'll be a madcap.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.136>Why, that's well said.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.137>Well, come what will, I'll tarry at home.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.138>By the Lord, I'll be a traitor then, when thou art king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.139>I care not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.140>Sir John, I prithee, leave the prince and me alone:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.141>I will lay him down such reasons for this adventure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.142>that he shall go.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.143>Well, God give thee the spirit of persuasion and him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.144>the ears of profiting, that what thou speakest may</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.145>move and what he hears may be believed, that the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.146>true prince may, for recreation sake, prove a false</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.147>thief; for the poor abuses of the time want</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.148>countenance. Farewell: you shall find me in Eastcheap.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.149>Farewell, thou latter spring! farewell, All-hallown summer!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit Falstaff</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.150>Now, my good sweet honey lord, ride with us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.151>to-morrow: I have a jest to execute that I cannot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.152>manage alone. Falstaff, Bardolph, Peto and Gadshill</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.153>shall rob those men that we have already waylaid:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.154>yourself and I will not be there; and when they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.155>have the booty, if you and I do not rob them, cut</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.156>this head off from my shoulders.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.157>How shall we part with them in setting forth?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.158>Why, we will set forth before or after them, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.159>appoint them a place of meeting, wherein it is at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.160>our pleasure to fail, and then will they adventure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.161>upon the exploit themselves; which they shall have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.162>no sooner achieved, but we'll set upon them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.163>Yea, but 'tis like that they will know us by our</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.164>horses, by our habits and by every other</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.165>appointment, to be ourselves.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.166>Tut! our horses they shall not see: I'll tie them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.167>in the wood; our vizards we will change after we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.168>leave them: and, sirrah, I have cases of buckram</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.169>for the nonce, to immask our noted outward garments.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.170>Yea, but I doubt they will be too hard for us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.171>Well, for two of them, I know them to be as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.172>true-bred cowards as ever turned back; and for the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.173>third, if he fight longer than he sees reason, I'll</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.174>forswear arms. The virtue of this jest will be, the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.175>incomprehensible lies that this same fat rogue will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.176>tell us when we meet at supper: how thirty, at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.177>least, he fought with; what wards, what blows, what</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.178>extremities he endured; and in the reproof of this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.179>lies the jest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.180>Well, I'll go with thee: provide us all things</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.181>necessary and meet me to-morrow night in Eastcheap;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.182>there I'll sup. Farewell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.183>Farewell, my lord.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit Poins</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.184>I know you all, and will awhile uphold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.185>The unyoked humour of your idleness:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.186>Yet herein will I imitate the sun,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.187>Who doth permit the base contagious clouds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.188>To smother up his beauty from the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.189>That, when he please again to be himself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.190>Being wanted, he may be more wonder'd at,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.191>By breaking through the foul and ugly mists</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.192>Of vapours that did seem to strangle him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.193>If all the year were playing holidays,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.194>To sport would be as tedious as to work;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.195>But when they seldom come, they wish'd for come,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.196>And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.197>So, when this loose behavior I throw off</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.198>And pay the debt I never promised,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.199>By how much better than my word I am,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.200>By so much shall I falsify men's hopes;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.201>And like bright metal on a sullen ground,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.202>My reformation, glittering o'er my fault,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.203>Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.204>Than that which hath no foil to set it off.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.205>I'll so offend, to make offence a skill;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.206>Redeeming time when men think least I will.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. London. The palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter the KING, NORTHUMBERLAND, WORCESTER, HOTSPUR, SIR WALTER BLUNT, with others</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.1>My blood hath been too cold and temperate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.2>Unapt to stir at these indignities,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.3>And you have found me; for accordingly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.4>You tread upon my patience: but be sure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.5>I will from henceforth rather be myself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.6>Mighty and to be fear'd, than my condition;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.7>Which hath been smooth as oil, soft as young down,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.8>And therefore lost that title of respect</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.9>Which the proud soul ne'er pays but to the proud.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>EARL OF WORCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.10>Our house, my sovereign liege, little deserves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.11>The scourge of greatness to be used on it;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.12>And that same greatness too which our own hands</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.13>Have holp to make so portly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.14>My lord.--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.15>Worcester, get thee gone; for I do see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.16>Danger and disobedience in thine eye:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.17>O, sir, your presence is too bold and peremptory,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.18>And majesty might never yet endure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.19>The moody frontier of a servant brow.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.20>You have good leave to leave us: when we need</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.21>Your use and counsel, we shall send for you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit Worcester</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.22>You were about to speak.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To North</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.23>Yea, my good lord.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.24>Those prisoners in your highness' name demanded,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.25>Which Harry Percy here at Holmedon took,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.26>Were, as he says, not with such strength denied</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.27>As is deliver'd to your majesty:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.28>Either envy, therefore, or misprison</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.29>Is guilty of this fault and not my son.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.30>My liege, I did deny no prisoners.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.31>But I remember, when the fight was done,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.32>When I was dry with rage and extreme toil,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.33>Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.34>Came there a certain lord, neat, and trimly dress'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.35>Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new reap'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.36>Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.37>He was perfumed like a milliner;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.38>And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.39>A pouncet-box, which ever and anon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.40>He gave his nose and took't away again;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.41>Who therewith angry, when it next came there,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.42>Took it in snuff; and still he smiled and talk'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.43>And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.44>He call'd them untaught knaves, unmannerly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.45>To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.46>Betwixt the wind and his nobility.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.47>With many holiday and lady terms</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.48>He question'd me; amongst the rest, demanded</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.49>My prisoners in your majesty's behalf.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.50>I then, all smarting with my wounds being cold,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.51>To be so pester'd with a popinjay,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.52>Out of my grief and my impatience,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.53>Answer'd neglectingly I know not what,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.54>He should or he should not; for he made me mad</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.55>To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.56>And talk so like a waiting-gentlewoman</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.57>Of guns and drums and wounds,--God save the mark!--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.58>And telling me the sovereign'st thing on earth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.59>Was parmaceti for an inward bruise;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.60>And that it was great pity, so it was,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.61>This villanous salt-petre should be digg'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.62>Out of the bowels of the harmless earth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.63>Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.64>So cowardly; and but for these vile guns,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.65>He would himself have been a soldier.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.66>This bald unjointed chat of his, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.67>I answer'd indirectly, as I said;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.68>And I beseech you, let not his report</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.69>Come current for an accusation</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.70>Betwixt my love and your high majesty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>SIR WALTER BLUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.71>The circumstance consider'd, good my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.72>Whate'er Lord Harry Percy then had said</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.73>To such a person and in such a place,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.74>At such a time, with all the rest retold,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.75>May reasonably die and never rise</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.76>To do him wrong or any way impeach</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.77>What then he said, so he unsay it now.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.78>Why, yet he doth deny his prisoners,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.79>But with proviso and exception,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.80>That we at our own charge shall ransom straight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.81>His brother-in-law, the foolish Mortimer;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.82>Who, on my soul, hath wilfully betray'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.83>The lives of those that he did lead to fight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.84>Against that great magician, damn'd Glendower,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.85>Whose daughter, as we hear, the Earl of March</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.86>Hath lately married. Shall our coffers, then,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.87>Be emptied to redeem a traitor home?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.88>Shall we but treason? and indent with fears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.89>When they have lost and forfeited themselves?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.90>No, on the barren mountains let him starve;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.91>For I shall never hold that man my friend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.92>Whose tongue shall ask me for one penny cost</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.93>To ransom home revolted Mortimer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.94>Revolted Mortimer!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.95>He never did fall off, my sovereign liege,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.96>But by the chance of war; to prove that true</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.97>Needs no more but one tongue for all those wounds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.98>Those mouthed wounds, which valiantly he took</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.99>When on the gentle Severn's sedgy bank,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.100>In single opposition, hand to hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.101>He did confound the best part of an hour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.102>In changing hardiment with great Glendower:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.103>Three times they breathed and three times did</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.104>they drink,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.105>Upon agreement, of swift Severn's flood;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.106>Who then, affrighted with their bloody looks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.107>Ran fearfully among the trembling reeds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.108>And hid his crisp head in the hollow bank,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.109>Bloodstained with these valiant combatants.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.110>Never did base and rotten policy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.111>Colour her working with such deadly wounds;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.112>Nor could the noble Mortimer</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.113>Receive so many, and all willingly:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.114>Then let not him be slander'd with revolt.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.115>Thou dost belie him, Percy, thou dost belie him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.116>He never did encounter with Glendower:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.117>I tell thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.118>He durst as well have met the devil alone</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.119>As Owen Glendower for an enemy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.120>Art thou not ashamed? But, sirrah, henceforth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.121>Let me not hear you speak of Mortimer:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.122>Send me your prisoners with the speediest means,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.123>Or you shall hear in such a kind from me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.124>As will displease you. My Lord Northumberland,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.125>We licence your departure with your son.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.126>Send us your prisoners, or you will hear of it.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt King Henry, Blunt, and train</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.127>An if the devil come and roar for them,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.128>I will not send them: I will after straight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.129>And tell him so; for I will ease my heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.130>Albeit I make a hazard of my head.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.131>What, drunk with choler? stay and pause awhile:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.132>Here comes your uncle.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter WORCESTER</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.133>Speak of Mortimer!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.134>'Zounds, I will speak of him; and let my soul</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.135>Want mercy, if I do not join with him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.136>Yea, on his part I'll empty all these veins,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.137>And shed my dear blood drop by drop in the dust,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.138>But I will lift the down-trod Mortimer</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.139>As high in the air as this unthankful king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.140>As this ingrate and canker'd Bolingbroke.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.141>Brother, the king hath made your nephew mad.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>EARL OF WORCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.142>Who struck this heat up after I was gone?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.143>He will, forsooth, have all my prisoners;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.144>And when I urged the ransom once again</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.145>Of my wife's brother, then his cheek look'd pale,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.146>And on my face he turn'd an eye of death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.147>Trembling even at the name of Mortimer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>EARL OF WORCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.148>I cannot blame him: was not he proclaim'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.149>By Richard that dead is the next of blood?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.150>He was; I heard the proclamation:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.151>And then it was when the unhappy king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.152>--Whose wrongs in us God pardon!--did set forth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.153>Upon his Irish expedition;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.154>From whence he intercepted did return</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.155>To be deposed and shortly murdered.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>EARL OF WORCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.156>And for whose death we in the world's wide mouth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.157>Live scandalized and foully spoken of.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.158>But soft, I pray you; did King Richard then</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.159>Proclaim my brother Edmund Mortimer</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.160>Heir to the crown?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.161>He did; myself did hear it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.162>Nay, then I cannot blame his cousin king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.163>That wished him on the barren mountains starve.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.164>But shall it be that you, that set the crown</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.165>Upon the head of this forgetful man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.166>And for his sake wear the detested blot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.167>Of murderous subornation, shall it be,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.168>That you a world of curses undergo,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.169>Being the agents, or base second means,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.170>The cords, the ladder, or the hangman rather?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.171>O, pardon me that I descend so low,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.172>To show the line and the predicament</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.173>Wherein you range under this subtle king;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.174>Shall it for shame be spoken in these days,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.175>Or fill up chronicles in time to come,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.176>That men of your nobility and power</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.177>Did gage them both in an unjust behalf,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.178>As both of you--God pardon it!--have done,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.179>To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.180>An plant this thorn, this canker, Bolingbroke?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.181>And shall it in more shame be further spoken,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.182>That you are fool'd, discarded and shook off</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.183>By him for whom these shames ye underwent?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.184>No; yet time serves wherein you may redeem</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.185>Your banish'd honours and restore yourselves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.186>Into the good thoughts of the world again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.187>Revenge the jeering and disdain'd contempt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.188>Of this proud king, who studies day and night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.189>To answer all the debt he owes to you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.190>Even with the bloody payment of your deaths:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.191>Therefore, I say--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>EARL OF WORCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.192> Peace, cousin, say no more:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.193>And now I will unclasp a secret book,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.194>And to your quick-conceiving discontents</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.195>I'll read you matter deep and dangerous,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.196>As full of peril and adventurous spirit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.197>As to o'er-walk a current roaring loud</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.198>On the unsteadfast footing of a spear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.199>If he fall in, good night! or sink or swim:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.200>Send danger from the east unto the west,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.201>So honour cross it from the north to south,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.202>And let them grapple: O, the blood more stirs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.203>To rouse a lion than to start a hare!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.204>Imagination of some great exploit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.205>Drives him beyond the bounds of patience.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.206>By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.207>To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.208>Or dive into the bottom of the deep,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.209>Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.210>And pluck up drowned honour by the locks;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.211>So he that doth redeem her thence might wear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.212>Without corrival, all her dignities:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.213>But out upon this half-faced fellowship!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>EARL OF WORCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.214>He apprehends a world of figures here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.215>But not the form of what he should attend.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.216>Good cousin, give me audience for a while.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.217>I cry you mercy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>EARL OF WORCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.218> Those same noble Scots</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.219>That are your prisoners,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.220>I'll keep them all;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.221>By God, he shall not have a Scot of them;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.222>No, if a Scot would save his soul, he shall not:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.223>I'll keep them, by this hand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>EARL OF WORCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.224>You start away</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.225>And lend no ear unto my purposes.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.226>Those prisoners you shall keep.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.227>Nay, I will; that's flat:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.228>He said he would not ransom Mortimer;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.229>Forbad my tongue to speak of Mortimer;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.230>But I will find him when he lies asleep,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.231>And in his ear I'll holla 'Mortimer!'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.232>Nay,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.233>I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.234>Nothing but 'Mortimer,' and give it him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.235>To keep his anger still in motion.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>EARL OF WORCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.236>Hear you, cousin; a word.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.237>All studies here I solemnly defy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.238>Save how to gall and pinch this Bolingbroke:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.239>And that same sword-and-buckler Prince of Wales,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.240>But that I think his father loves him not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.241>And would be glad he met with some mischance,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.242>I would have him poison'd with a pot of ale.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>EARL OF WORCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.243>Farewell, kinsman: I'll talk to you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.244>When you are better temper'd to attend.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.245>Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.246>Art thou to break into this woman's mood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.247>Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.248>Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourged with rods,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.249>Nettled and stung with pismires, when I hear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.250>Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.251>In Richard's time,--what do you call the place?--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.252>A plague upon it, it is in Gloucestershire;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.253>'Twas where the madcap duke his uncle kept,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.254>His uncle York; where I first bow'd my knee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.255>Unto this king of smiles, this Bolingbroke,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.256>'Sblood!--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.257>When you and he came back from Ravenspurgh.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.258>At Berkley castle.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.259>You say true:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.260>Why, what a candy deal of courtesy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.261>This fawning greyhound then did proffer me!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.262>Look,'when his infant fortune came to age,'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.263>And 'gentle Harry Percy,' and 'kind cousin;'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.264>O, the devil take such cozeners! God forgive me!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.265>Good uncle, tell your tale; I have done.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>EARL OF WORCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.266>Nay, if you have not, to it again;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.267>We will stay your leisure.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.268>I have done, i' faith.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>EARL OF WORCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.269>Then once more to your Scottish prisoners.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.270>Deliver them up without their ransom straight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.271>And make the Douglas' son your only mean</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.272>For powers in Scotland; which, for divers reasons</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.273>Which I shall send you written, be assured,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.274>Will easily be granted. You, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To Northumberland</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.275>Your son in Scotland being thus employ'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.276>Shall secretly into the bosom creep</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.277>Of that same noble prelate, well beloved,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.278>The archbishop.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.279>Of York, is it not?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>EARL OF WORCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.280>True; who bears hard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.281>His brother's death at Bristol, the Lord Scroop.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.282>I speak not this in estimation,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.283>As what I think might be, but what I know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.284>Is ruminated, plotted and set down,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.285>And only stays but to behold the face</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.286>Of that occasion that shall bring it on.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.287>I smell it: upon my life, it will do well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.288>Before the game is afoot, thou still let'st slip.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.289>Why, it cannot choose but be a noble plot;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.290>And then the power of Scotland and of York,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.291>To join with Mortimer, ha?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>EARL OF WORCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.292>And so they shall.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.293>In faith, it is exceedingly well aim'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>EARL OF WORCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.294>And 'tis no little reason bids us speed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.295>To save our heads by raising of a head;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.296>For, bear ourselves as even as we can,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.297>The king will always think him in our debt,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.298>And think we think ourselves unsatisfied,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.299>Till he hath found a time to pay us home:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.300>And see already how he doth begin</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.301>To make us strangers to his looks of love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.302>He does, he does: we'll be revenged on him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>EARL OF WORCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.303>Cousin, farewell: no further go in this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.304>Than I by letters shall direct your course.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.305>When time is ripe, which will be suddenly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.306>I'll steal to Glendower and Lord Mortimer;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.307>Where you and Douglas and our powers at once,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.308>As I will fashion it, shall happily meet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.309>To bear our fortunes in our own strong arms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.310>Which now we hold at much uncertainty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>NORTHUMBERLAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.311>Farewell, good brother: we shall thrive, I trust.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.312>Uncle, Adieu: O, let the hours be short</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.313>Till fields and blows and groans applaud our sport!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT II</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Rochester. An inn yard.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter a Carrier with a lantern in his hand</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>First Carrier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.1>Heigh-ho! an it be not four by the day, I'll be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.2>hanged: Charles' wain is over the new chimney, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.3>yet our horse not packed. What, ostler!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Ostler</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.4>[Within] Anon, anon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>First Carrier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.5>I prithee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.6>in the point; poor jade, is wrung in the withers out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.7>of all cess.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter another Carrier</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Second Carrier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.8>Peas and beans are as dank here as a dog, and that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.9>is the next way to give poor jades the bots: this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.10>house is turned upside down since Robin Ostler died.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>First Carrier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.11>Poor fellow, never joyed since the price of oats</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.12>rose; it was the death of him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Second Carrier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.13>I think this be the most villanous house in all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.14>London road for fleas: I am stung like a tench.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>First Carrier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.15>Like a tench! by the mass, there is ne'er a king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.16>christen could be better bit than I have been since</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.17>the first cock.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Second Carrier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.18>Why, they will allow us ne'er a jordan, and then we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.19>leak in your chimney; and your chamber-lie breeds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.20>fleas like a loach.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>First Carrier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.21>What, ostler! come away and be hanged!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Second Carrier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.22>I have a gammon of bacon and two razors of ginger,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.23>to be delivered as far as Charing-cross.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>First Carrier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.24>God's body! the turkeys in my pannier are quite</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.25>starved. What, ostler! A plague on thee! hast thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.26>never an eye in thy head? canst not hear? An</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.27>'twere not as good deed as drink, to break the pate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.28>on thee, I am a very villain. Come, and be hanged!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.29>hast thou no faith in thee?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter GADSHILL</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>GADSHILL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.30>Good morrow, carriers. What's o'clock?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>First Carrier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.31>I think it be two o'clock.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>GADSHILL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.32>I pray thee lend me thy lantern, to see my gelding</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.33>in the stable.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>First Carrier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.34>Nay, by God, soft; I know a trick worth two of that, i' faith.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>GADSHILL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.35>I pray thee, lend me thine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>Second Carrier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.36>Ay, when? can'st tell? Lend me thy lantern, quoth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.37>he? marry, I'll see thee hanged first.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>GADSHILL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.38>Sirrah carrier, what time do you mean to come to London?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>Second Carrier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.39>Time enough to go to bed with a candle, I warrant</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.40>thee. Come, neighbour Mugs, we'll call up the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.41>gentleman: they will along with company, for they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.42>have great charge.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt carriers</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>GADSHILL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.43>What, ho! chamberlain!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>Chamberlain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.44>[Within] At hand, quoth pick-purse.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>GADSHILL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.45>That's even as fair as--at hand, quoth the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.46>chamberlain; for thou variest no more from picking</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.47>of purses than giving direction doth from labouring;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.48>thou layest the plot how.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Chamberlain</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>Chamberlain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.49>Good morrow, Master Gadshill. It holds current that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.50>I told you yesternight: there's a franklin in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.51>wild of Kent hath brought three hundred marks with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.52>him in gold: I heard him tell it to one of his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.53>company last night at supper; a kind of auditor; one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.54>that hath abundance of charge too, God knows what.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.55>They are up already, and call for eggs and butter;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.56>they will away presently.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>GADSHILL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.57>Sirrah, if they meet not with Saint Nicholas'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.58>clerks, I'll give thee this neck.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>Chamberlain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.59>No, I'll none of it: I pray thee keep that for the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.60>hangman; for I know thou worshippest St. Nicholas</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.61>as truly as a man of falsehood may.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>GADSHILL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.62>What talkest thou to me of the hangman? if I hang,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.63>I'll make a fat pair of gallows; for if I hang, old</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.64>Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.65>starveling. Tut! there are other Trojans that thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.66>dreamest not of, the which for sport sake are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.67>content to do the profession some grace; that would,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.68>if matters should be looked into, for their own</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.69>credit sake, make all whole. I am joined with no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.70>foot-land rakers, no long-staff sixpenny strikers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.71>none of these mad mustachio purple-hued malt-worms;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.72>but with nobility and tranquillity, burgomasters and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.73>great oneyers, such as can hold in, such as will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.74>strike sooner than speak, and speak sooner than</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.75>drink, and drink sooner than pray: and yet, zounds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.76>I lie; for they pray continually to their saint, the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.77>commonwealth; or rather, not pray to her, but prey</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.78>on her, for they ride up and down on her and make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.79>her their boots.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>Chamberlain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.80>What, the commonwealth their boots? will she hold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.81>out water in foul way?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>GADSHILL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.82>She will, she will; justice hath liquored her. We</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.83>steal as in a castle, cocksure; we have the receipt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.84>of fern-seed, we walk invisible.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>Chamberlain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.85>Nay, by my faith, I think you are more beholding to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.86>the night than to fern-seed for your walking invisible.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>GADSHILL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.87>Give me thy hand: thou shalt have a share in our</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.88>purchase, as I am a true man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>Chamberlain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.89>Nay, rather let me have it, as you are a false thief.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>GADSHILL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.90>Go to; 'homo' is a common name to all men. Bid the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.91>ostler bring my gelding out of the stable. Farewell,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.92>you muddy knave.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. The highway, near Gadshill.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter PRINCE HENRY and POINS</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.1>Come, shelter, shelter: I have removed Falstaff's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.2>horse, and he frets like a gummed velvet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.3>Stand close.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter FALSTAFF</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.4>Poins! Poins, and be hanged! Poins!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.5>Peace, ye fat-kidneyed rascal! what a brawling dost</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.6>thou keep!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.7>Where's Poins, Hal?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.8>He is walked up to the top of the hill: I'll go seek him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.9>I am accursed to rob in that thief's company: the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.10>rascal hath removed my horse, and tied him I know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.11>not where. If I travel but four foot by the squier</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.12>further afoot, I shall break my wind. Well, I doubt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.13>not but to die a fair death for all this, if I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.14>'scape hanging for killing that rogue. I have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.15>forsworn his company hourly any time this two and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.16>twenty years, and yet I am bewitched with the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.17>rogue's company. If the rascal hath not given me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.18>medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged; it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.19>could not be else: I have drunk medicines. Poins!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.20>Hal! a plague upon you both! Bardolph! Peto!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.21>I'll starve ere I'll rob a foot further. An 'twere</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.22>not as good a deed as drink, to turn true man and to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.23>leave these rogues, I am the veriest varlet that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.24>ever chewed with a tooth. Eight yards of uneven</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.25>ground is threescore and ten miles afoot with me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.26>and the stony-hearted villains know it well enough:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.27>a plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They whistle</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.28>Whew! A plague upon you all! Give me my horse, you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.29>rogues; give me my horse, and be hanged!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.30>Peace, ye fat-guts! lie down; lay thine ear close</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.31>to the ground and list if thou canst hear the tread</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.32>of travellers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.33>Have you any levers to lift me up again, being down?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.34>'Sblood, I'll not bear mine own flesh so far afoot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.35>again for all the coin in thy father's exchequer.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.36>What a plague mean ye to colt me thus?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.37>Thou liest; thou art not colted, thou art uncolted.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.38>I prithee, good Prince Hal, help me to my horse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.39>good king's son.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.40>Out, ye rogue! shall I be your ostler?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.41>Go, hang thyself in thine own heir-apparent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.42>garters! If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this. An I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.43>have not ballads made on you all and sung to filthy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.44>tunes, let a cup of sack be my poison: when a jest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.45>is so forward, and afoot too! I hate it.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter GADSHILL, BARDOLPH and PETO</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>GADSHILL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.46>Stand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.47>So I do, against my will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.48>O, 'tis our setter: I know his voice. Bardolph,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.49>what news?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.50>Case ye, case ye; on with your vizards: there 's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.51>money of the king's coming down the hill; 'tis going</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.52>to the king's exchequer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.53>You lie, ye rogue; 'tis going to the king's tavern.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>GADSHILL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.54>There's enough to make us all.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.55>To be hanged.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.56>Sirs, you four shall front them in the narrow lane;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.57>Ned Poins and I will walk lower: if they 'scape</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.58>from your encounter, then they light on us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>PETO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.59>How many be there of them?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>GADSHILL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.60>Some eight or ten.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.61>'Zounds, will they not rob us?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.62>What, a coward, Sir John Paunch?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.63>Indeed, I am not John of Gaunt, your grandfather;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.64>but yet no coward, Hal.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.65>Well, we leave that to the proof.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.66>Sirrah Jack, thy horse stands behind the hedge:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.67>when thou needest him, there thou shalt find him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.68>Farewell, and stand fast.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.69>Now cannot I strike him, if I should be hanged.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.70>Ned, where are our disguises?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.71>Here, hard by: stand close.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt PRINCE HENRY and POINS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.72>Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say I:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.73>every man to his business.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter the Travellers</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>First Traveller</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.74>Come, neighbour: the boy shall lead our horses down</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.75>the hill; we'll walk afoot awhile, and ease our legs.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>Thieves</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.76>Stand!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>Travellers</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.77>Jesus bless us!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.78>Strike; down with them; cut the villains' throats:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.79>ah! whoreson caterpillars! bacon-fed knaves! they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.80>hate us youth: down with them: fleece them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>Travellers</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.81>O, we are undone, both we and ours for ever!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.82>Hang ye, gorbellied knaves, are ye undone? No, ye</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.83>fat chuffs: I would your store were here! On,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.84>bacons, on! What, ye knaves! young men must live.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.85>You are Grand-jurors, are ye? we'll jure ye, 'faith.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Here they rob them and bind them. Exeunt</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter PRINCE HENRY and POINS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.86>The thieves have bound the true men. Now could thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.87>and I rob the thieves and go merrily to London, it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.88>would be argument for a week, laughter for a month</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.89>and a good jest for ever.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.90>Stand close; I hear them coming.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter the Thieves again</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.91>Come, my masters, let us share, and then to horse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.92>before day. An the Prince and Poins be not two</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.93>arrant cowards, there's no equity stirring: there's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.94>no more valour in that Poins than in a wild-duck.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.95>Your money!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.96>Villains!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>As they are sharing, the Prince and Poins set upon them; they all run away; and Falstaff, after a blow or two, runs away too, leaving the booty behind them</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.97>Got with much ease. Now merrily to horse:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.98>The thieves are all scatter'd and possess'd with fear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.99>So strongly that they dare not meet each other;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.100>Each takes his fellow for an officer.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.101>Away, good Ned. Falstaff sweats to death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.102>And lards the lean earth as he walks along:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.103>Were 't not for laughing, I should pity him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.104>How the rogue roar'd!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. Warkworth castle</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter HOTSPUR, solus, reading a letter</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.1>'But for mine own part, my lord, I could be well</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.2>contented to be there, in respect of the love I bear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.3>your house.' He could be contented: why is he not,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.4>then? In respect of the love he bears our house:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.5>he shows in this, he loves his own barn better than</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.6>he loves our house. Let me see some more. 'The</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.7>purpose you undertake is dangerous;'--why, that's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.8>certain: 'tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.9>drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.10>nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. 'The</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.11>purpose you undertake is dangerous; the friends you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.12>have named uncertain; the time itself unsorted; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.13>your whole plot too light for the counterpoise of so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.14>great an opposition.' Say you so, say you so? I say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.15>unto you again, you are a shallow cowardly hind, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.16>you lie. What a lack-brain is this! By the Lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.17>our plot is a good plot as ever was laid; our</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.18>friends true and constant: a good plot, good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.19>friends, and full of expectation; an excellent plot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.20>very good friends. What a frosty-spirited rogue is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.21>this! Why, my lord of York commends the plot and the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.22>general course of action. 'Zounds, an I were now by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.23>this rascal, I could brain him with his lady's fan.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.24>Is there not my father, my uncle and myself? lord</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.25>Edmund Mortimer, My lord of York and Owen Glendower?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.26>is there not besides the Douglas? have I not all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.27>their letters to meet me in arms by the ninth of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.28>next month? and are they not some of them set</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.29>forward already? What a pagan rascal is this! an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.30>infidel! Ha! you shall see now in very sincerity</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.31>of fear and cold heart, will he to the king and lay</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.32>open all our proceedings. O, I could divide myself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.33>and go to buffets, for moving such a dish of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.34>skim milk with so honourable an action! Hang him!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.35>let him tell the king: we are prepared. I will set</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.36>forward to-night.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter LADY PERCY</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.37>How now, Kate! I must leave you within these two hours.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>LADY PERCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.38>O, my good lord, why are you thus alone?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.39>For what offence have I this fortnight been</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.40>A banish'd woman from my Harry's bed?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.41>Tell me, sweet lord, what is't that takes from thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.42>Thy stomach, pleasure and thy golden sleep?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.43>Why dost thou bend thine eyes upon the earth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.44>And start so often when thou sit'st alone?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.45>Why hast thou lost the fresh blood in thy cheeks;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.46>And given my treasures and my rights of thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.47>To thick-eyed musing and cursed melancholy?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.48>In thy faint slumbers I by thee have watch'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.49>And heard thee murmur tales of iron wars;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.50>Speak terms of manage to thy bounding steed;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.51>Cry 'Courage! to the field!' And thou hast talk'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.52>Of sallies and retires, of trenches, tents,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.53>Of palisadoes, frontiers, parapets,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.54>Of basilisks, of cannon, culverin,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.55>Of prisoners' ransom and of soldiers slain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.56>And all the currents of a heady fight.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.57>Thy spirit within thee hath been so at war</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.58>And thus hath so bestirr'd thee in thy sleep,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.59>That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.60>Like bubbles in a late-disturbed stream;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.61>And in thy face strange motions have appear'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.62>Such as we see when men restrain their breath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.63>On some great sudden hest. O, what portents are these?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.64>Some heavy business hath my lord in hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.65>And I must know it, else he loves me not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.66>What, ho!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Servant</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.67>Is Gilliams with the packet gone?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.68>He is, my lord, an hour ago.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.69>Hath Butler brought those horses from the sheriff?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.70>One horse, my lord, he brought even now.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.71>What horse? a roan, a crop-ear, is it not?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.72>It is, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.73> That roan shall by my throne.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.74>Well, I will back him straight: O esperance!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.75>Bid Butler lead him forth into the park.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit Servant</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>LADY PERCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.76>But hear you, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.77>What say'st thou, my lady?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>LADY PERCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.78>What is it carries you away?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.79>Why, my horse, my love, my horse.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>LADY PERCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.80>Out, you mad-headed ape!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.81>A weasel hath not such a deal of spleen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.82>As you are toss'd with. In faith,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.83>I'll know your business, Harry, that I will.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.84>I fear my brother Mortimer doth stir</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.85>About his title, and hath sent for you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.86>To line his enterprise: but if you go,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.87>So far afoot, I shall be weary, love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>LADY PERCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.88>Come, come, you paraquito, answer me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.89>Directly unto this question that I ask:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.90>In faith, I'll break thy little finger, Harry,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.91>An if thou wilt not tell me all things true.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.92>Away,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.93>Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.94>I care not for thee, Kate: this is no world</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.95>To play with mammets and to tilt with lips:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.96>We must have bloody noses and crack'd crowns,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.97>And pass them current too. God's me, my horse!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.98>What say'st thou, Kate? what would'st thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.99>have with me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>LADY PERCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.100>Do you not love me? do you not, indeed?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.101>Well, do not then; for since you love me not,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.102>I will not love myself. Do you not love me?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.103>Nay, tell me if you speak in jest or no.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.104>Come, wilt thou see me ride?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.105>And when I am on horseback, I will swear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.106>I love thee infinitely. But hark you, Kate;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.107>I must not have you henceforth question me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.108>Whither I go, nor reason whereabout:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.109>Whither I must, I must; and, to conclude,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.110>This evening must I leave you, gentle Kate.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.111>I know you wise, but yet no farther wise</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.112>Than Harry Percy's wife: constant you are,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.113>But yet a woman: and for secrecy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.114>No lady closer; for I well believe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.115>Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.116>And so far will I trust thee, gentle Kate.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>LADY PERCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.117>How! so far?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.118>Not an inch further. But hark you, Kate:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.119>Whither I go, thither shall you go too;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.120>To-day will I set forth, to-morrow you.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.121>Will this content you, Kate?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>LADY PERCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.122>It must of force.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. The Boar's-Head Tavern, Eastcheap.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter PRINCE HENRY and POINS</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.1>Ned, prithee, come out of that fat room, and lend me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.2>thy hand to laugh a little.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.3>Where hast been, Hal?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.4>With three or four loggerheads amongst three or four</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.5>score hogsheads. I have sounded the very</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.6>base-string of humility. Sirrah, I am sworn brother</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.7>to a leash of drawers; and can call them all by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.8>their christen names, as Tom, Dick, and Francis.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.9>They take it already upon their salvation, that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.10>though I be but the prince of Wales, yet I am king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.11>of courtesy; and tell me flatly I am no proud Jack,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.12>like Falstaff, but a Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.13>good boy, by the Lord, so they call me, and when I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.14>am king of England, I shall command all the good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.15>lads in Eastcheap. They call drinking deep, dyeing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.16>scarlet; and when you breathe in your watering, they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.17>cry 'hem!' and bid you play it off. To conclude, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.18>am so good a proficient in one quarter of an hour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.19>that I can drink with any tinker in his own language</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.20>during my life. I tell thee, Ned, thou hast lost</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.21>much honour, that thou wert not with me in this sweet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.22>action. But, sweet Ned,--to sweeten which name of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.23>Ned, I give thee this pennyworth of sugar, clapped</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.24>even now into my hand by an under-skinker, one that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.25>never spake other English in his life than 'Eight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.26>shillings and sixpence' and 'You are welcome,' with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.27>this shrill addition, 'Anon, anon, sir! Score a pint</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.28>of bastard in the Half-Moon,' or so. But, Ned, to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.29>drive away the time till Falstaff come, I prithee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.30>do thou stand in some by-room, while I question my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.31>puny drawer to what end he gave me the sugar; and do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.32>thou never leave calling 'Francis,' that his tale</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.33>to me may be nothing but 'Anon.' Step aside, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.34>I'll show thee a precedent.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.35>Francis!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.36>Thou art perfect.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.37>Francis!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit POINS</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter FRANCIS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>FRANCIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.38>Anon, anon, sir. Look down into the Pomgarnet, Ralph.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.39>Come hither, Francis.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>FRANCIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.40>My lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.41>How long hast thou to serve, Francis?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>FRANCIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.42>Forsooth, five years, and as much as to--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.43>[Within] Francis!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>FRANCIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.44>Anon, anon, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.45>Five year! by'r lady, a long lease for the clinking</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.46>of pewter. But, Francis, darest thou be so valiant</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.47>as to play the coward with thy indenture and show it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.48>a fair pair of heels and run from it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>FRANCIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.49>O Lord, sir, I'll be sworn upon all the books in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.50>England, I could find in my heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.51>[Within] Francis!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>FRANCIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.52>Anon, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.53>How old art thou, Francis?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>FRANCIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.54>Let me see--about Michaelmas next I shall be--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.55>[Within] Francis!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>FRANCIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.56>Anon, sir. Pray stay a little, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.57>Nay, but hark you, Francis: for the sugar thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.58>gavest me,'twas a pennyworth, wast't not?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>FRANCIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.59>O Lord, I would it had been two!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.60>I will give thee for it a thousand pound: ask me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.61>when thou wilt, and thou shalt have it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.62>[Within] Francis!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>FRANCIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.63>Anon, anon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.64>Anon, Francis? No, Francis; but to-morrow, Francis;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.65>or, Francis, o' Thursday; or indeed, Francis, when</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.66>thou wilt. But, Francis!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>FRANCIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.67>My lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.68>Wilt thou rob this leathern jerkin, crystal-button,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.69>not-pated, agate-ring, puke-stocking, caddis-garter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.70>smooth-tongue, Spanish-pouch,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>FRANCIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.71>O Lord, sir, who do you mean?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.72>Why, then, your brown bastard is your only drink;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.73>for look you, Francis, your white canvas doublet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.74>will sully: in Barbary, sir, it cannot come to so much.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>FRANCIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.75>What, sir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.76>[Within] Francis!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.77>Away, you rogue! dost thou not hear them call?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Here they both call him; the drawer stands amazed, not knowing which way to go</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter Vintner</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>Vintner</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.78>What, standest thou still, and hearest such a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.79>calling? Look to the guests within.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit Francis</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.80>My lord, old Sir John, with half-a-dozen more, are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.81>at the door: shall I let them in?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.82>Let them alone awhile, and then open the door.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit Vintner</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.83>Poins!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter POINS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.84>Anon, anon, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.85>Sirrah, Falstaff and the rest of the thieves are at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.86>the door: shall we be merry?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.87>As merry as crickets, my lad. But hark ye; what</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.88>cunning match have you made with this jest of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.89>drawer? come, what's the issue?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.90>I am now of all humours that have showed themselves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.91>humours since the old days of goodman Adam to the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.92>pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at midnight.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter FRANCIS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.93>What's o'clock, Francis?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>FRANCIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.94>Anon, anon, sir.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.95>That ever this fellow should have fewer words than a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.96>parrot, and yet the son of a woman! His industry is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.97>upstairs and downstairs; his eloquence the parcel of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.98>a reckoning. I am not yet of Percy's mind, the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.99>Hotspur of the north; he that kills me some six or</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.100>seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.101>hands, and says to his wife 'Fie upon this quiet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.102>life! I want work.' 'O my sweet Harry,' says she,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.103>'how many hast thou killed to-day?' 'Give my roan</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.104>horse a drench,' says he; and answers 'Some</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.105>fourteen,' an hour after; 'a trifle, a trifle.' I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.106>prithee, call in Falstaff: I'll play Percy, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.107>that damned brawn shall play Dame Mortimer his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.108>wife. 'Rivo!' says the drunkard. Call in ribs, call in tallow.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter FALSTAFF, GADSHILL, BARDOLPH, and PETO; FRANCIS following with wine</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.109>Welcome, Jack: where hast thou been?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.110>A plague of all cowards, I say, and a vengeance too!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.111>marry, and amen! Give me a cup of sack, boy. Ere I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.112>lead this life long, I'll sew nether stocks and mend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.113>them and foot them too. A plague of all cowards!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.114>Give me a cup of sack, rogue. Is there no virtue extant?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>He drinks</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.115>Didst thou never see Titan kiss a dish of butter?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.116>pitiful-hearted Titan, that melted at the sweet tale</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.117>of the sun's! if thou didst, then behold that compound.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.118>You rogue, here's lime in this sack too: there is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.119>nothing but roguery to be found in villanous man:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.120>yet a coward is worse than a cup of sack with lime</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.121>in it. A villanous coward! Go thy ways, old Jack;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.122>die when thou wilt, if manhood, good manhood, be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.123>not forgot upon the face of the earth, then am I a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.124>shotten herring. There live not three good men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.125>unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.126>grows old: God help the while! a bad world, I say.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.127>I would I were a weaver; I could sing psalms or any</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.128>thing. A plague of all cowards, I say still.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.129>How now, wool-sack! what mutter you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.130>A king's son! If I do not beat thee out of thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.131>kingdom with a dagger of lath, and drive all thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.132>subjects afore thee like a flock of wild-geese,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.133>I'll never wear hair on my face more. You Prince of Wales!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.134>Why, you whoreson round man, what's the matter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.135>Are not you a coward? answer me to that: and Poins there?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.136>'Zounds, ye fat paunch, an ye call me coward, by the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.137>Lord, I'll stab thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.138>I call thee coward! I'll see thee damned ere I call</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.139>thee coward: but I would give a thousand pound I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.140>could run as fast as thou canst. You are straight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.141>enough in the shoulders, you care not who sees your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.142>back: call you that backing of your friends? A</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.143>plague upon such backing! give me them that will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.144>face me. Give me a cup of sack: I am a rogue, if I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.145>drunk to-day.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.146>O villain! thy lips are scarce wiped since thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.147>drunkest last.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.148>All's one for that.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>He drinks</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.149>A plague of all cowards, still say I.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.150>What's the matter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.151>What's the matter! there be four of us here have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.152>ta'en a thousand pound this day morning.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.153>Where is it, Jack? where is it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.154>Where is it! taken from us it is: a hundred upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.155>poor four of us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.156>What, a hundred, man?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.157>I am a rogue, if I were not at half-sword with a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.158>dozen of them two hours together. I have 'scaped by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.159>miracle. I am eight times thrust through the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.160>doublet, four through the hose; my buckler cut</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.161>through and through; my sword hacked like a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.162>hand-saw--ecce signum! I never dealt better since</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.163>I was a man: all would not do. A plague of all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.164>cowards! Let them speak: if they speak more or</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.165>less than truth, they are villains and the sons of darkness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.166>Speak, sirs; how was it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>GADSHILL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.167>We four set upon some dozen--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.168>Sixteen at least, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>GADSHILL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.169>And bound them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>PETO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.170>No, no, they were not bound.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.171>You rogue, they were bound, every man of them; or I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.172>am a Jew else, an Ebrew Jew.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>GADSHILL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.173>As we were sharing, some six or seven fresh men set upon us--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.174>And unbound the rest, and then come in the other.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.175>What, fought you with them all?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.176>All! I know not what you call all; but if I fought</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.177>not with fifty of them, I am a bunch of radish: if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.178>there were not two or three and fifty upon poor old</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.179>Jack, then am I no two-legged creature.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.180>Pray God you have not murdered some of them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.181>Nay, that's past praying for: I have peppered two</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.182>of them; two I am sure I have paid, two rogues</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.183>in buckram suits. I tell thee what, Hal, if I tell</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.184>thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse. Thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.185>knowest my old ward; here I lay and thus I bore my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.186>point. Four rogues in buckram let drive at me--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.187>What, four? thou saidst but two even now.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.188>Four, Hal; I told thee four.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.189>Ay, ay, he said four.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.190>These four came all a-front, and mainly thrust at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.191>me. I made me no more ado but took all their seven</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.192>points in my target, thus.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.193>Seven? why, there were but four even now.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.194>In buckram?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.195>Ay, four, in buckram suits.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.196>Seven, by these hilts, or I am a villain else.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.197>Prithee, let him alone; we shall have more anon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.198>Dost thou hear me, Hal?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.199>Ay, and mark thee too, Jack.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.200>Do so, for it is worth the listening to. These nine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.201>in buckram that I told thee of--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.202>So, two more already.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.203>Their points being broken,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.204>Down fell their hose.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.205>Began to give me ground: but I followed me close,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.206>came in foot and hand; and with a thought seven of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.207>the eleven I paid.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech89><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.208>O monstrous! eleven buckram men grown out of two!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech90><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.209>But, as the devil would have it, three misbegotten</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.210>knaves in Kendal green came at my back and let drive</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.211>at me; for it was so dark, Hal, that thou couldst</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.212>not see thy hand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech91><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.213>These lies are like their father that begets them;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.214>gross as a mountain, open, palpable. Why, thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.215>clay-brained guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.216>whoreson, obscene, grease tallow-catch,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech92><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.217>What, art thou mad? art thou mad? is not the truth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.218>the truth?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech93><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.219>Why, how couldst thou know these men in Kendal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.220>green, when it was so dark thou couldst not see thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.221>hand? come, tell us your reason: what sayest thou to this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech94><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.222>Come, your reason, Jack, your reason.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech95><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.223>What, upon compulsion? 'Zounds, an I were at the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.224>strappado, or all the racks in the world, I would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.225>not tell you on compulsion. Give you a reason on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.226>compulsion! If reasons were as plentiful as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.227>blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.228>compulsion, I.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech96><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.229>I'll be no longer guilty of this sin; this sanguine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.230>coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.231>this huge hill of flesh,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech97><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.232>'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.233>neat's tongue, you bull's pizzle, you stock-fish! O</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.234>for breath to utter what is like thee! you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.235>tailor's-yard, you sheath, you bowcase; you vile</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.236>standing-tuck,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech98><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.237>Well, breathe awhile, and then to it again: and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.238>when thou hast tired thyself in base comparisons,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.239>hear me speak but this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech99><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.240>Mark, Jack.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech100><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.241>We two saw you four set on four and bound them, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.242>were masters of their wealth. Mark now, how a plain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.243>tale shall put you down. Then did we two set on you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.244>four; and, with a word, out-faced you from your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.245>prize, and have it; yea, and can show it you here in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.246>the house: and, Falstaff, you carried your guts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.247>away as nimbly, with as quick dexterity, and roared</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.248>for mercy and still run and roared, as ever I heard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.249>bull-calf. What a slave art thou, to hack thy sword</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.250>as thou hast done, and then say it was in fight!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.251>What trick, what device, what starting-hole, canst</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.252>thou now find out to hide thee from this open and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.253>apparent shame?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech101><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.254>Come, let's hear, Jack; what trick hast thou now?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech102><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.255>By the Lord, I knew ye as well as he that made ye.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.256>Why, hear you, my masters: was it for me to kill the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.257>heir-apparent? should I turn upon the true prince?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.258>why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules: but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.259>beware instinct; the lion will not touch the true</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.260>prince. Instinct is a great matter; I was now a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.261>coward on instinct. I shall think the better of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.262>myself and thee during my life; I for a valiant</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.263>lion, and thou for a true prince. But, by the Lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.264>lads, I am glad you have the money. Hostess, clap</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.265>to the doors: watch to-night, pray to-morrow.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.266>Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.267>of good fellowship come to you! What, shall we be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.268>merry? shall we have a play extempore?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech103><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.269>Content; and the argument shall be thy running away.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech104><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.270>Ah, no more of that, Hal, an thou lovest me!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Hostess</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech105><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.271>O Jesu, my lord the prince!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech106><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.272>How now, my lady the hostess! what sayest thou to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.273>me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech107><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.274>Marry, my lord, there is a nobleman of the court at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.275>door would speak with you: he says he comes from</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.276>your father.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech108><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.277>Give him as much as will make him a royal man, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.278>send him back again to my mother.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech109><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.279>What manner of man is he?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech110><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.280>An old man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech111><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.281>What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight? Shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.282>I give him his answer?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech112><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.283>Prithee, do, Jack.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech113><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.284>'Faith, and I'll send him packing.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit FALSTAFF</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech114><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.285>Now, sirs: by'r lady, you fought fair; so did you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.286>Peto; so did you, Bardolph: you are lions too, you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.287>ran away upon instinct, you will not touch the true</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.288>prince; no, fie!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech115><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.289>'Faith, I ran when I saw others run.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech116><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.290>'Faith, tell me now in earnest, how came Falstaff's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.291>sword so hacked?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech117><b>PETO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.292>Why, he hacked it with his dagger, and said he would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.293>swear truth out of England but he would make you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.294>believe it was done in fight, and persuaded us to do the like.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech118><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.295>Yea, and to tickle our noses with spear-grass to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.296>make them bleed, and then to beslubber our garments</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.297>with it and swear it was the blood of true men. I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.298>did that I did not this seven year before, I blushed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.299>to hear his monstrous devices.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech119><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.300>O villain, thou stolest a cup of sack eighteen years</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.301>ago, and wert taken with the manner, and ever since</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.302>thou hast blushed extempore. Thou hadst fire and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.303>sword on thy side, and yet thou rannest away: what</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.304>instinct hadst thou for it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech120><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.305>My lord, do you see these meteors? do you behold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.306>these exhalations?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech121><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.307>I do.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech122><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.308>What think you they portend?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech123><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.309>Hot livers and cold purses.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech124><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.310>Choler, my lord, if rightly taken.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech125><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.311>No, if rightly taken, halter.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter FALSTAFF</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.312>Here comes lean Jack, here comes bare-bone.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.313>How now, my sweet creature of bombast!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.314>How long is't ago, Jack, since thou sawest thine own knee?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech126><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.315>My own knee! when I was about thy years, Hal, I was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.316>not an eagle's talon in the waist; I could have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.317>crept into any alderman's thumb-ring: a plague of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.318>sighing and grief! it blows a man up like a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.319>bladder. There's villanous news abroad: here was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.320>Sir John Bracy from your father; you must to the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.321>court in the morning. That same mad fellow of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.322>north, Percy, and he of Wales, that gave Amamon the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.323>bastinado and made Lucifer cuckold and swore the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.324>devil his true liegeman upon the cross of a Welsh</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.325>hook--what a plague call you him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech127><b>POINS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.326>O, Glendower.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech128><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.327>Owen, Owen, the same; and his son-in-law Mortimer,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.328>and old Northumberland, and that sprightly Scot of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.329>Scots, Douglas, that runs o' horseback up a hill</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.330>perpendicular,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech129><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.331>He that rides at high speed and with his pistol</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.332>kills a sparrow flying.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech130><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.333>You have hit it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech131><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.334>So did he never the sparrow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech132><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.335>Well, that rascal hath good mettle in him; he will not run.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech133><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.336>Why, what a rascal art thou then, to praise him so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.337>for running!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech134><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.338>O' horseback, ye cuckoo; but afoot he will not budge a foot.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech135><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.339>Yes, Jack, upon instinct.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech136><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.340>I grant ye, upon instinct. Well, he is there too,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.341>and one Mordake, and a thousand blue-caps more:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.342>Worcester is stolen away to-night; thy father's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.343>beard is turned white with the news: you may buy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.344>land now as cheap as stinking mackerel.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech137><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.345>Why, then, it is like, if there come a hot June and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.346>this civil buffeting hold, we shall buy maidenheads</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.347>as they buy hob-nails, by the hundreds.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech138><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.348>By the mass, lad, thou sayest true; it is like we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.349>shall have good trading that way. But tell me, Hal,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.350>art not thou horrible afeard? thou being</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.351>heir-apparent, could the world pick thee out three</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.352>such enemies again as that fiend Douglas, that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.353>spirit Percy, and that devil Glendower? Art thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.354>not horribly afraid? doth not thy blood thrill at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.355>it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech139><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.356>Not a whit, i' faith; I lack some of thy instinct.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech140><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.357>Well, thou wert be horribly chid tomorrow when thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.358>comest to thy father: if thou love me, practise an answer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech141><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.359>Do thou stand for my father, and examine me upon the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.360>particulars of my life.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech142><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.361>Shall I? content: this chair shall be my state,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.362>this dagger my sceptre, and this cushion my crown.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech143><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.363>Thy state is taken for a joined-stool, thy golden</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.364>sceptre for a leaden dagger, and thy precious rich</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.365>crown for a pitiful bald crown!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech144><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.366>Well, an the fire of grace be not quite out of thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.367>now shalt thou be moved. Give me a cup of sack to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.368>make my eyes look red, that it may be thought I have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.369>wept; for I must speak in passion, and I will do it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.370>in King Cambyses' vein.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech145><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.371>Well, here is my leg.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech146><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.372>And here is my speech. Stand aside, nobility.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech147><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.373>O Jesu, this is excellent sport, i' faith!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech148><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.374>Weep not, sweet queen; for trickling tears are vain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech149><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.375>O, the father, how he holds his countenance!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech150><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.376>For God's sake, lords, convey my tristful queen;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.377>For tears do stop the flood-gates of her eyes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech151><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.378>O Jesu, he doth it as like one of these harlotry</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.379>players as ever I see!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech152><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.380>Peace, good pint-pot; peace, good tickle-brain.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.381>Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.382>time, but also how thou art accompanied: for though</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.383>the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.384>it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.385>sooner it wears. That thou art my son, I have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.386>partly thy mother's word, partly my own opinion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.387>but chiefly a villanous trick of thine eye and a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.388>foolish-hanging of thy nether lip, that doth warrant</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.389>me. If then thou be son to me, here lies the point;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.390>why, being son to me, art thou so pointed at? Shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.391>the blessed sun of heaven prove a micher and eat</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.392>blackberries? a question not to be asked. Shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.393>the sun of England prove a thief and take purses? a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.394>question to be asked. There is a thing, Harry,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.395>which thou hast often heard of and it is known to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.396>many in our land by the name of pitch: this pitch,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.397>as ancient writers do report, doth defile; so doth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.398>the company thou keepest: for, Harry, now I do not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.399>speak to thee in drink but in tears, not in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.400>pleasure but in passion, not in words only, but in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.401>woes also: and yet there is a virtuous man whom I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.402>have often noted in thy company, but I know not his name.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech153><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.403>What manner of man, an it like your majesty?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech154><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.404>A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent; of a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.405>cheerful look, a pleasing eye and a most noble</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.406>carriage; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.407>by'r lady, inclining to three score; and now I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.408>remember me, his name is Falstaff: if that man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.409>should be lewdly given, he deceiveth me; for, Harry,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.410>I see virtue in his looks. If then the tree may be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.411>known by the fruit, as the fruit by the tree, then,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.412>peremptorily I speak it, there is virtue in that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.413>Falstaff: him keep with, the rest banish. And tell</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.414>me now, thou naughty varlet, tell me, where hast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.415>thou been this month?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech155><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.416>Dost thou speak like a king? Do thou stand for me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.417>and I'll play my father.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech156><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.418>Depose me? if thou dost it half so gravely, so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.419>majestically, both in word and matter, hang me up by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.420>the heels for a rabbit-sucker or a poulter's hare.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech157><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.421>Well, here I am set.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech158><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.422>And here I stand: judge, my masters.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech159><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.423>Now, Harry, whence come you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech160><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.424>My noble lord, from Eastcheap.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech161><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.425>The complaints I hear of thee are grievous.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech162><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.426>'Sblood, my lord, they are false: nay, I'll tickle</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.427>ye for a young prince, i' faith.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech163><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.428>Swearest thou, ungracious boy? henceforth ne'er look</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.429>on me. Thou art violently carried away from grace:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.430>there is a devil haunts thee in the likeness of an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.431>old fat man; a tun of man is thy companion. Why</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.432>dost thou converse with that trunk of humours, that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.433>bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swollen parcel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.434>of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.435>cloak-bag of guts, that roasted Manningtree ox with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.436>the pudding in his belly, that reverend vice, that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.437>grey iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.438>years? Wherein is he good, but to taste sack and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.439>drink it? wherein neat and cleanly, but to carve a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.440>capon and eat it? wherein cunning, but in craft?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.441>wherein crafty, but in villany? wherein villanous,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.442>but in all things? wherein worthy, but in nothing?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech164><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.443>I would your grace would take me with you: whom</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.444>means your grace?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech165><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.445>That villanous abominable misleader of youth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.446>Falstaff, that old white-bearded Satan.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech166><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.447>My lord, the man I know.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech167><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.448>I know thou dost.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech168><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.449>But to say I know more harm in him than in myself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.450>were to say more than I know. That he is old, the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.451>more the pity, his white hairs do witness it; but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.452>that he is, saving your reverence, a whoremaster,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.453>that I utterly deny. If sack and sugar be a fault,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.454>God help the wicked! if to be old and merry be a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.455>sin, then many an old host that I know is damned: if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.456>to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.457>are to be loved. No, my good lord; banish Peto,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.458>banish Bardolph, banish Poins: but for sweet Jack</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.459>Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.460>valiant Jack Falstaff, and therefore more valiant,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.461>being, as he is, old Jack Falstaff, banish not him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.462>thy Harry's company, banish not him thy Harry's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.463>company: banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech169><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.464>I do, I will.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>A knocking heard</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Hostess, FRANCIS, and BARDOLPH</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter BARDOLPH, running</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech170><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.465>O, my lord, my lord! the sheriff with a most</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.466>monstrous watch is at the door.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech171><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.467>Out, ye rogue! Play out the play: I have much to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.468>say in the behalf of that Falstaff.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter the Hostess</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech172><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.469>O Jesu, my lord, my lord!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech173><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.470>Heigh, heigh! the devil rides upon a fiddlestick:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.471>what's the matter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech174><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.472>The sheriff and all the watch are at the door: they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.473>are come to search the house. Shall I let them in?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech175><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.474>Dost thou hear, Hal? never call a true piece of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.475>gold a counterfeit: thou art essentially mad,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.476>without seeming so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech176><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.477>And thou a natural coward, without instinct.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech177><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.478>I deny your major: if you will deny the sheriff,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.479>so; if not, let him enter: if I become not a cart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.480>as well as another man, a plague on my bringing up!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.481>I hope I shall as soon be strangled with a halter as another.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech178><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.482>Go, hide thee behind the arras: the rest walk up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.483>above. Now, my masters, for a true face and good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.484>conscience.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech179><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.485>Both which I have had: but their date is out, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.486>therefore I'll hide me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech180><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.487>Call in the sheriff.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt all except PRINCE HENRY and PETO</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter Sheriff and the Carrier</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.488>Now, master sheriff, what is your will with me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech181><b>Sheriff</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.489>First, pardon me, my lord. A hue and cry</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.490>Hath follow'd certain men unto this house.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech182><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.491>What men?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech183><b>Sheriff</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.492>One of them is well known, my gracious lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.493>A gross fat man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech184><b>Carrier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.494> As fat as butter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech185><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.495>The man, I do assure you, is not here;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.496>For I myself at this time have employ'd him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.497>And, sheriff, I will engage my word to thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.498>That I will, by to-morrow dinner-time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.499>Send him to answer thee, or any man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.500>For any thing he shall be charged withal:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.501>And so let me entreat you leave the house.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech186><b>Sheriff</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.502>I will, my lord. There are two gentlemen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.503>Have in this robbery lost three hundred marks.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech187><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.504>It may be so: if he have robb'd these men,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.505>He shall be answerable; and so farewell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech188><b>Sheriff</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.506>Good night, my noble lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech189><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.507>I think it is good morrow, is it not?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech190><b>Sheriff</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.508>Indeed, my lord, I think it be two o'clock.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Sheriff and Carrier</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech191><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.509>This oily rascal is known as well as Paul's. Go,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.510>call him forth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech192><b>PETO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.511>Falstaff!--Fast asleep behind the arras, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.512>snorting like a horse.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech193><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.513>Hark, how hard he fetches breath. Search his pockets.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>He searcheth his pockets, and findeth certain papers</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.514>What hast thou found?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech194><b>PETO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.515>Nothing but papers, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech195><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.516>Let's see what they be: read them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech196><b>PETO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.517>[Reads] Item, A capon,. . 2s. 2d.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.518>Item, Sauce,. . . 4d.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.519>Item, Sack, two gallons, 5s. 8d.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.520>Item, Anchovies and sack after supper, 2s. 6d.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.521>Item, Bread, ob.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech197><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.522>O monstrous! but one half-penny-worth of bread to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.523>this intolerable deal of sack! What there is else,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.524>keep close; we'll read it at more advantage: there</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.525>let him sleep till day. I'll to the court in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.526>morning. We must all to the wars, and thy place</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.527>shall be honourable. I'll procure this fat rogue a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.528>charge of foot; and I know his death will be a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.529>march of twelve-score. The money shall be paid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.530>back again with advantage. Be with me betimes in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.531>the morning; and so, good morrow, Peto.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech198><b>PETO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.532>Good morrow, good my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT III</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Bangor. The Archdeacon's house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter HOTSPUR, WORCESTER, MORTIMER, and GLENDOWER</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>MORTIMER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.1>These promises are fair, the parties sure,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.2>And our induction full of prosperous hope.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.3>Lord Mortimer, and cousin Glendower,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.4>Will you sit down?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.5>And uncle Worcester: a plague upon it!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.6>I have forgot the map.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>GLENDOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.7>No, here it is.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.8>Sit, cousin Percy; sit, good cousin Hotspur,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.9>For by that name as oft as Lancaster</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.10>Doth speak of you, his cheek looks pale and with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.11>A rising sigh he wisheth you in heaven.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.12>And you in hell, as oft as he hears Owen Glendower spoke of.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>GLENDOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.13>I cannot blame him: at my nativity</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.14>The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.15>Of burning cressets; and at my birth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.16>The frame and huge foundation of the earth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.17>Shaked like a coward.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.18>Why, so it would have done at the same season, if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.19>your mother's cat had but kittened, though yourself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.20>had never been born.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>GLENDOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.21>I say the earth did shake when I was born.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.22>And I say the earth was not of my mind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.23>If you suppose as fearing you it shook.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>GLENDOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.24>The heavens were all on fire, the earth did tremble.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.25>O, then the earth shook to see the heavens on fire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.26>And not in fear of your nativity.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.27>Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.28>In strange eruptions; oft the teeming earth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.29>Is with a kind of colic pinch'd and vex'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.30>By the imprisoning of unruly wind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.31>Within her womb; which, for enlargement striving,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.32>Shakes the old beldam earth and topples down</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.33>Steeples and moss-grown towers. At your birth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.34>Our grandam earth, having this distemperature,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.35>In passion shook.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>GLENDOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.36> Cousin, of many men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.37>I do not bear these crossings. Give me leave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.38>To tell you once again that at my birth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.39>The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.40>The goats ran from the mountains, and the herds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.41>Were strangely clamorous to the frighted fields.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.42>These signs have mark'd me extraordinary;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.43>And all the courses of my life do show</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.44>I am not in the roll of common men.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.45>Where is he living, clipp'd in with the sea</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.46>That chides the banks of England, Scotland, Wales,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.47>Which calls me pupil, or hath read to me?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.48>And bring him out that is but woman's son</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.49>Can trace me in the tedious ways of art</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.50>And hold me pace in deep experiments.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.51>I think there's no man speaks better Welsh.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.52>I'll to dinner.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>MORTIMER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.53>Peace, cousin Percy; you will make him mad.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>GLENDOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.54>I can call spirits from the vasty deep.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.55>Why, so can I, or so can any man;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.56>But will they come when you do call for them?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>GLENDOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.57>Why, I can teach you, cousin, to command</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.58>The devil.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.59>And I can teach thee, coz, to shame the devil</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.60>By telling truth: tell truth and shame the devil.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.61>If thou have power to raise him, bring him hither,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.62>And I'll be sworn I have power to shame him hence.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.63>O, while you live, tell truth and shame the devil!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>MORTIMER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.64>Come, come, no more of this unprofitable chat.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>GLENDOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.65>Three times hath Henry Bolingbroke made head</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.66>Against my power; thrice from the banks of Wye</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.67>And sandy-bottom'd Severn have I sent him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.68>Bootless home and weather-beaten back.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.69>Home without boots, and in foul weather too!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.70>How 'scapes he agues, in the devil's name?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>GLENDOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.71>Come, here's the map: shall we divide our right</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.72>According to our threefold order ta'en?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>MORTIMER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.73>The archdeacon hath divided it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.74>Into three limits very equally:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.75>England, from Trent and Severn hitherto,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.76>By south and east is to my part assign'd:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.77>All westward, Wales beyond the Severn shore,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.78>And all the fertile land within that bound,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.79>To Owen Glendower: and, dear coz, to you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.80>The remnant northward, lying off from Trent.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.81>And our indentures tripartite are drawn;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.82>Which being sealed interchangeably,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.83>A business that this night may execute,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.84>To-morrow, cousin Percy, you and I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.85>And my good Lord of Worcester will set forth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.86>To meet your father and the Scottish power,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.87>As is appointed us, at Shrewsbury.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.88>My father Glendower is not ready yet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.89>Not shall we need his help these fourteen days.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.90>Within that space you may have drawn together</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.91>Your tenants, friends and neighbouring gentlemen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>GLENDOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.92>A shorter time shall send me to you, lords:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.93>And in my conduct shall your ladies come;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.94>From whom you now must steal and take no leave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.95>For there will be a world of water shed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.96>Upon the parting of your wives and you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.97>Methinks my moiety, north from Burton here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.98>In quantity equals not one of yours:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.99>See how this river comes me cranking in,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.100>And cuts me from the best of all my land</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.101>A huge half-moon, a monstrous cantle out.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.102>I'll have the current in this place damm'd up;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.103>And here the smug and silver Trent shall run</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.104>In a new channel, fair and evenly;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.105>It shall not wind with such a deep indent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.106>To rob me of so rich a bottom here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>GLENDOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.107>Not wind? it shall, it must; you see it doth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>MORTIMER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.108>Yea, but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.109>Mark how he bears his course, and runs me up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.110>With like advantage on the other side;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.111>Gelding the opposed continent as much</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.112>As on the other side it takes from you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>EARL OF WORCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.113>Yea, but a little charge will trench him here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.114>And on this north side win this cape of land;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.115>And then he runs straight and even.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.116>I'll have it so: a little charge will do it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>GLENDOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.117>I'll not have it alter'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.118>Will not you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>GLENDOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.119>No, nor you shall not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.120>Who shall say me nay?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>GLENDOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.121>Why, that will I.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.122>Let me not understand you, then; speak it in Welsh.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>GLENDOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.123>I can speak English, lord, as well as you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.124>For I was train'd up in the English court;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.125>Where, being but young, I framed to the harp</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.126>Many an English ditty lovely well</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.127>And gave the tongue a helpful ornament,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.128>A virtue that was never seen in you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.129>Marry,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.130>And I am glad of it with all my heart:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.131>I had rather be a kitten and cry mew</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.132>Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.133>I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.134>Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.135>And that would set my teeth nothing on edge,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.136>Nothing so much as mincing poetry:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.137>'Tis like the forced gait of a shuffling nag.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>GLENDOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.138>Come, you shall have Trent turn'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.139>I do not care: I'll give thrice so much land</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.140>To any well-deserving friend;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.141>But in the way of bargain, mark ye me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.142>I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.143>Are the indentures drawn? shall we be gone?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>GLENDOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.144>The moon shines fair; you may away by night:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.145>I'll haste the writer and withal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.146>Break with your wives of your departure hence:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.147>I am afraid my daughter will run mad,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.148>So much she doteth on her Mortimer.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit GLENDOWER</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>MORTIMER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.149>Fie, cousin Percy! how you cross my father!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.150>I cannot choose: sometime he angers me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.151>With telling me of the mouldwarp and the ant,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.152>Of the dreamer Merlin and his prophecies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.153>And of a dragon and a finless fish,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.154>A clip-wing'd griffin and a moulten raven,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.155>A couching lion and a ramping cat,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.156>And such a deal of skimble-skamble stuff</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.157>As puts me from my faith. I tell you what;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.158>He held me last night at least nine hours</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.159>In reckoning up the several devils' names</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.160>That were his lackeys: I cried 'hum,' and 'well, go to,'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.161>But mark'd him not a word. O, he is as tedious</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.162>As a tired horse, a railing wife;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.163>Worse than a smoky house: I had rather live</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.164>With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.165>Than feed on cates and have him talk to me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.166>In any summer-house in Christendom.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>MORTIMER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.167>In faith, he is a worthy gentleman,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.168>Exceedingly well read, and profited</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.169>In strange concealments, valiant as a lion</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.170>And as wondrous affable and as bountiful</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.171>As mines of India. Shall I tell you, cousin?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.172>He holds your temper in a high respect</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.173>And curbs himself even of his natural scope</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.174>When you come 'cross his humour; faith, he does:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.175>I warrant you, that man is not alive</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.176>Might so have tempted him as you have done,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.177>Without the taste of danger and reproof:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.178>But do not use it oft, let me entreat you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>EARL OF WORCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.179>In faith, my lord, you are too wilful-blame;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.180>And since your coming hither have done enough</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.181>To put him quite beside his patience.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.182>You must needs learn, lord, to amend this fault:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.183>Though sometimes it show greatness, courage, blood,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.184>And that's the dearest grace it renders you,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.185>Yet oftentimes it doth present harsh rage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.186>Defect of manners, want of government,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.187>Pride, haughtiness, opinion and disdain:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.188>The least of which haunting a nobleman</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.189>Loseth men's hearts and leaves behind a stain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.190>Upon the beauty of all parts besides,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.191>Beguiling them of commendation.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.192>Well, I am school'd: good manners be your speed!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.193>Here come our wives, and let us take our leave.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter GLENDOWER with the ladies</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>MORTIMER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.194>This is the deadly spite that angers me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.195>My wife can speak no English, I no Welsh.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>GLENDOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.196>My daughter weeps: she will not part with you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.197>She'll be a soldier too, she'll to the wars.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>MORTIMER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.198>Good father, tell her that she and my aunt Percy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.199>Shall follow in your conduct speedily.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Glendower speaks to her in Welsh, and she answers him in the same</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>GLENDOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.200>She is desperate here; a peevish self-wind harlotry,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.201>one that no persuasion can do good upon.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>The lady speaks in Welsh</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>MORTIMER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.202>I understand thy looks: that pretty Welsh</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.203>Which thou pour'st down from these swelling heavens</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.204>I am too perfect in; and, but for shame,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.205>In such a parley should I answer thee.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>The lady speaks again in Welsh</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.206>I understand thy kisses and thou mine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.207>And that's a feeling disputation:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.208>But I will never be a truant, love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.209>Till I have learned thy language; for thy tongue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.210>Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.211>Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.212>With ravishing division, to her lute.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>GLENDOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.213>Nay, if you melt, then will she run mad.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>The lady speaks again in Welsh</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>MORTIMER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.214>O, I am ignorance itself in this!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>GLENDOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.215>She bids you on the wanton rushes lay you down</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.216>And rest your gentle head upon her lap,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.217>And she will sing the song that pleaseth you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.218>And on your eyelids crown the god of sleep.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.219>Charming your blood with pleasing heaviness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.220>Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.221>As is the difference betwixt day and night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.222>The hour before the heavenly-harness'd team</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.223>Begins his golden progress in the east.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>MORTIMER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.224>With all my heart I'll sit and hear her sing:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.225>By that time will our book, I think, be drawn</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>GLENDOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.226>Do so;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.227>And those musicians that shall play to you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.228>Hang in the air a thousand leagues from hence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.229>And straight they shall be here: sit, and attend.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.230>Come, Kate, thou art perfect in lying down: come,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.231>quick, quick, that I may lay my head in thy lap.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>LADY PERCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.232>Go, ye giddy goose.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>The music plays</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.233>Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.234>And 'tis no marvel he is so humorous.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.235>By'r lady, he is a good musician.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>LADY PERCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.236>Then should you be nothing but musical for you are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.237>altogether governed by humours. Lie still, ye thief,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.238>and hear the lady sing in Welsh.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.239>I had rather hear Lady, my brach, howl in Irish.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>LADY PERCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.240>Wouldst thou have thy head broken?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.241>No.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>LADY PERCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.242>Then be still.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.243>Neither;'tis a woman's fault.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>LADY PERCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.244>Now God help thee!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.245>To the Welsh lady's bed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>LADY PERCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.246>What's that?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.247>Peace! she sings.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Here the lady sings a Welsh song</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.248>Come, Kate, I'll have your song too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>LADY PERCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.249>Not mine, in good sooth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.250>Not yours, in good sooth! Heart! you swear like a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.251>comfit-maker's wife. 'Not you, in good sooth,' and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.252>'as true as I live,' and 'as God shall mend me,' and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.253>'as sure as day,'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.254>And givest such sarcenet surety for thy oaths,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.255>As if thou never walk'st further than Finsbury.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.256>Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.257>A good mouth-filling oath, and leave 'in sooth,'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.258>And such protest of pepper-gingerbread,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.259>To velvet-guards and Sunday-citizens.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.260>Come, sing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>LADY PERCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.261>I will not sing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.262>'Tis the next way to turn tailor, or be red-breast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.263>teacher. An the indentures be drawn, I'll away</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.264>within these two hours; and so, come in when ye will.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>GLENDOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.265>Come, come, Lord Mortimer; you are as slow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.266>As hot Lord Percy is on fire to go.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.267>By this our book is drawn; we'll but seal,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.268>And then to horse immediately.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>MORTIMER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.269>With all my heart.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. London. The palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter KING HENRY IV, PRINCE HENRY, and others</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.1>Lords, give us leave; the Prince of Wales and I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.2>Must have some private conference; but be near at hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.3>For we shall presently have need of you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Lords</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.4>I know not whether God will have it so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.5>For some displeasing service I have done,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.6>That, in his secret doom, out of my blood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.7>He'll breed revengement and a scourge for me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.8>But thou dost in thy passages of life</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.9>Make me believe that thou art only mark'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.10>For the hot vengeance and the rod of heaven</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.11>To punish my mistreadings. Tell me else,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.12>Could such inordinate and low desires,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.13>Such poor, such bare, such lewd, such mean attempts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.14>Such barren pleasures, rude society,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.15>As thou art match'd withal and grafted to,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.16>Accompany the greatness of thy blood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.17>And hold their level with thy princely heart?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.18>So please your majesty, I would I could</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.19>Quit all offences with as clear excuse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.20>As well as I am doubtless I can purge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.21>Myself of many I am charged withal:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.22>Yet such extenuation let me beg,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.23>As, in reproof of many tales devised,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.24>which oft the ear of greatness needs must hear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.25>By smiling pick-thanks and base news-mongers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.26>I may, for some things true, wherein my youth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.27>Hath faulty wander'd and irregular,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.28>Find pardon on my true submission.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.29>God pardon thee! yet let me wonder, Harry,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.30>At thy affections, which do hold a wing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.31>Quite from the flight of all thy ancestors.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.32>Thy place in council thou hast rudely lost.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.33>Which by thy younger brother is supplied,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.34>And art almost an alien to the hearts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.35>Of all the court and princes of my blood:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.36>The hope and expectation of thy time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.37>Is ruin'd, and the soul of every man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.38>Prophetically doth forethink thy fall.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.39>Had I so lavish of my presence been,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.40>So common-hackney'd in the eyes of men,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.41>So stale and cheap to vulgar company,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.42>Opinion, that did help me to the crown,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.43>Had still kept loyal to possession</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.44>And left me in reputeless banishment,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.45>A fellow of no mark nor likelihood.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.46>By being seldom seen, I could not stir</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.47>But like a comet I was wonder'd at;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.48>That men would tell their children 'This is he;'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.49>Others would say 'Where, which is Bolingbroke?'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.50>And then I stole all courtesy from heaven,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.51>And dress'd myself in such humility</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.52>That I did pluck allegiance from men's hearts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.53>Loud shouts and salutations from their mouths,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.54>Even in the presence of the crowned king.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.55>Thus did I keep my person fresh and new;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.56>My presence, like a robe pontifical,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.57>Ne'er seen but wonder'd at: and so my state,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.58>Seldom but sumptuous, showed like a feast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.59>And won by rareness such solemnity.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.60>The skipping king, he ambled up and down</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.61>With shallow jesters and rash bavin wits,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.62>Soon kindled and soon burnt; carded his state,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.63>Mingled his royalty with capering fools,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.64>Had his great name profaned with their scorns</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.65>And gave his countenance, against his name,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.66>To laugh at gibing boys and stand the push</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.67>Of every beardless vain comparative,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.68>Grew a companion to the common streets,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.69>Enfeoff'd himself to popularity;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.70>That, being daily swallow'd by men's eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.71>They surfeited with honey and began</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.72>To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.73>More than a little is by much too much.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.74>So when he had occasion to be seen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.75>He was but as the cuckoo is in June,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.76>Heard, not regarded; seen, but with such eyes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.77>As, sick and blunted with community,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.78>Afford no extraordinary gaze,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.79>Such as is bent on sun-like majesty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.80>When it shines seldom in admiring eyes;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.81>But rather drowzed and hung their eyelids down,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.82>Slept in his face and render'd such aspect</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.83>As cloudy men use to their adversaries,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.84>Being with his presence glutted, gorged and full.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.85>And in that very line, Harry, standest thou;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.86>For thou has lost thy princely privilege</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.87>With vile participation: not an eye</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.88>But is a-weary of thy common sight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.89>Save mine, which hath desired to see thee more;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.90>Which now doth that I would not have it do,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.91>Make blind itself with foolish tenderness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.92>I shall hereafter, my thrice gracious lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.93>Be more myself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.94> For all the world</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.95>As thou art to this hour was Richard then</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.96>When I from France set foot at Ravenspurgh,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.97>And even as I was then is Percy now.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.98>Now, by my sceptre and my soul to boot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.99>He hath more worthy interest to the state</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.100>Than thou the shadow of succession;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.101>For of no right, nor colour like to right,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.102>He doth fill fields with harness in the realm,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.103>Turns head against the lion's armed jaws,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.104>And, being no more in debt to years than thou,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.105>Leads ancient lords and reverend bishops on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.106>To bloody battles and to bruising arms.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.107>What never-dying honour hath he got</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.108>Against renowned Douglas! whose high deeds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.109>Whose hot incursions and great name in arms</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.110>Holds from all soldiers chief majority</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.111>And military title capital</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.112>Through all the kingdoms that acknowledge Christ:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.113>Thrice hath this Hotspur, Mars in swathling clothes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.114>This infant warrior, in his enterprises</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.115>Discomfited great Douglas, ta'en him once,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.116>Enlarged him and made a friend of him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.117>To fill the mouth of deep defiance up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.118>And shake the peace and safety of our throne.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.119>And what say you to this? Percy, Northumberland,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.120>The Archbishop's grace of York, Douglas, Mortimer,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.121>Capitulate against us and are up.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.122>But wherefore do I tell these news to thee?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.123>Why, Harry, do I tell thee of my foes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.124>Which art my near'st and dearest enemy?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.125>Thou that art like enough, through vassal fear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.126>Base inclination and the start of spleen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.127>To fight against me under Percy's pay,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.128>To dog his heels and curtsy at his frowns,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.129>To show how much thou art degenerate.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.130>Do not think so; you shall not find it so:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.131>And God forgive them that so much have sway'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.132>Your majesty's good thoughts away from me!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.133>I will redeem all this on Percy's head</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.134>And in the closing of some glorious day</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.135>Be bold to tell you that I am your son;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.136>When I will wear a garment all of blood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.137>And stain my favours in a bloody mask,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.138>Which, wash'd away, shall scour my shame with it:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.139>And that shall be the day, whene'er it lights,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.140>That this same child of honour and renown,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.141>This gallant Hotspur, this all-praised knight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.142>And your unthought-of Harry chance to meet.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.143>For every honour sitting on his helm,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.144>Would they were multitudes, and on my head</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.145>My shames redoubled! for the time will come,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.146>That I shall make this northern youth exchange</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.147>His glorious deeds for my indignities.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.148>Percy is but my factor, good my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.149>To engross up glorious deeds on my behalf;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.150>And I will call him to so strict account,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.151>That he shall render every glory up,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.152>Yea, even the slightest worship of his time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.153>Or I will tear the reckoning from his heart.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.154>This, in the name of God, I promise here:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.155>The which if He be pleased I shall perform,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.156>I do beseech your majesty may salve</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.157>The long-grown wounds of my intemperance:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.158>If not, the end of life cancels all bands;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.159>And I will die a hundred thousand deaths</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.160>Ere break the smallest parcel of this vow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.161>A hundred thousand rebels die in this:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.162>Thou shalt have charge and sovereign trust herein.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter BLUNT</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.163>How now, good Blunt? thy looks are full of speed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>SIR WALTER BLUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.164>So hath the business that I come to speak of.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.165>Lord Mortimer of Scotland hath sent word</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.166>That Douglas and the English rebels met</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.167>The eleventh of this month at Shrewsbury</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.168>A mighty and a fearful head they are,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.169>If promises be kept on every hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.170>As ever offer'd foul play in the state.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.171>The Earl of Westmoreland set forth to-day;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.172>With him my son, Lord John of Lancaster;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.173>For this advertisement is five days old:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.174>On Wednesday next, Harry, you shall set forward;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.175>On Thursday we ourselves will march: our meeting</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.176>Is Bridgenorth: and, Harry, you shall march</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.177>Through Gloucestershire; by which account,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.178>Our business valued, some twelve days hence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.179>Our general forces at Bridgenorth shall meet.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.180>Our hands are full of business: let's away;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.181>Advantage feeds him fat, while men delay.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Scene III</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.182>Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter FALSTAFF and BARDOLPH</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.183>Bardolph, am I not fallen away vilely since this last</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.184>action? do I not bate? do I not dwindle? Why my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.185>skin hangs about me like an like an old lady's loose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.186>gown; I am withered like an old apple-john. Well,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.187>I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.188>liking; I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.189>shall have no strength to repent. An I have not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.190>forgotten what the inside of a church is made of, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.191>am a peppercorn, a brewer's horse: the inside of a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.192>church! Company, villanous company, hath been the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.193>spoil of me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.194>Sir John, you are so fretful, you cannot live long.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.195>Why, there is it: come sing me a bawdy song; make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.196>me merry. I was as virtuously given as a gentleman</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.197>need to be; virtuous enough; swore little; diced not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.198>above seven times a week; went to a bawdy-house once</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.199>in a quarter--of an hour; paid money that I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.200>borrowed, three of four times; lived well and in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.201>good compass: and now I live out of all order, out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.202>of all compass.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.203>Why, you are so fat, Sir John, that you must needs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.204>be out of all compass, out of all reasonable</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.205>compass, Sir John.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.206>Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.207>thou art our admiral, thou bearest the lantern in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.208>the poop, but 'tis in the nose of thee; thou art the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.209>Knight of the Burning Lamp.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.210>Why, Sir John, my face does you no harm.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.211>No, I'll be sworn; I make as good use of it as many</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.212>a man doth of a Death's-head or a memento mori: I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.213>never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.214>Dives that lived in purple; for there he is in his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.215>robes, burning, burning. If thou wert any way</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.216>given to virtue, I would swear by thy face; my oath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.217>should be 'By this fire, that's God's angel:' but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.218>thou art altogether given over; and wert indeed, but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.219>for the light in thy face, the son of utter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.220>darkness. When thou rannest up Gadshill in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.221>night to catch my horse, if I did not think thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.222>hadst been an ignis fatuus or a ball of wildfire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.223>there's no purchase in money. O, thou art a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.224>perpetual triumph, an everlasting bonfire-light!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.225>Thou hast saved me a thousand marks in links and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.226>torches, walking with thee in the night betwixt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.227>tavern and tavern: but the sack that thou hast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.228>drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.229>at the dearest chandler's in Europe. I have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.230>maintained that salamander of yours with fire any</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.231>time this two and thirty years; God reward me for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.232>it!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.233>'Sblood, I would my face were in your belly!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.234>God-a-mercy! so should I be sure to be heart-burned.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Hostess</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.235>How now, Dame Partlet the hen! have you inquired</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.236>yet who picked my pocket?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.237>Why, Sir John, what do you think, Sir John? do you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.238>think I keep thieves in my house? I have searched,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.239>I have inquired, so has my husband, man by man, boy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.240>by boy, servant by servant: the tithe of a hair</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.241>was never lost in my house before.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.242>Ye lie, hostess: Bardolph was shaved and lost many</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.243>a hair; and I'll be sworn my pocket was picked. Go</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.244>to, you are a woman, go.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.245>Who, I? no; I defy thee: God's light, I was never</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.246>called so in mine own house before.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.247>Go to, I know you well enough.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.248>No, Sir John; You do not know me, Sir John. I know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.249>you, Sir John: you owe me money, Sir John; and now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.250>you pick a quarrel to beguile me of it: I bought</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.251>you a dozen of shirts to your back.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.252>Dowlas, filthy dowlas: I have given them away to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.253>bakers' wives, and they have made bolters of them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.254>Now, as I am a true woman, holland of eight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.255>shillings an ell. You owe money here besides, Sir</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.256>John, for your diet and by-drinkings, and money lent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.257>you, four and twenty pound.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.258>He had his part of it; let him pay.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.259>He? alas, he is poor; he hath nothing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.260>How! poor? look upon his face; what call you rich?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.261>let them coin his nose, let them coin his cheeks:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.262>Ill not pay a denier. What, will you make a younker</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.263>of me? shall I not take mine case in mine inn but I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.264>shall have my pocket picked? I have lost a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.265>seal-ring of my grandfather's worth forty mark.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.266>O Jesu, I have heard the prince tell him, I know not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.267>how oft, that ring was copper!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.268>How! the prince is a Jack, a sneak-cup: 'sblood, an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.269>he were here, I would cudgel him like a dog, if he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.270>would say so.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter PRINCE HENRY and PETO, marching, and FALSTAFF meets them playing on his truncheon like a life</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.271>How now, lad! is the wind in that door, i' faith?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.272>must we all march?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.273>Yea, two and two, Newgate fashion.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.274>My lord, I pray you, hear me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.275>What sayest thou, Mistress Quickly? How doth thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.276>husband? I love him well; he is an honest man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.277>Good my lord, hear me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.278>Prithee, let her alone, and list to me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.279>What sayest thou, Jack?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.280>The other night I fell asleep here behind the arras</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.281>and had my pocket picked: this house is turned</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.282>bawdy-house; they pick pockets.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.283>What didst thou lose, Jack?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.284>Wilt thou believe me, Hal? three or four bonds of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.285>forty pound apiece, and a seal-ring of my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.286>grandfather's.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.287>A trifle, some eight-penny matter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.288>So I told him, my lord; and I said I heard your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.289>grace say so: and, my lord, he speaks most vilely</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.290>of you, like a foul-mouthed man as he is; and said</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.291>he would cudgel you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.292>What! he did not?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.293>There's neither faith, truth, nor womanhood in me else.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.294>There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.295>prune; nor no more truth in thee than in a drawn</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.296>fox; and for womanhood, Maid Marian may be the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.297>deputy's wife of the ward to thee. Go, you thing,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.298>go</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.299>Say, what thing? what thing?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.300>What thing! why, a thing to thank God on.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.301>I am no thing to thank God on, I would thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.302>shouldst know it; I am an honest man's wife: and,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.303>setting thy knighthood aside, thou art a knave to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.304>call me so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.305>Setting thy womanhood aside, thou art a beast to say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.306>otherwise.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.307>Say, what beast, thou knave, thou?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.308>What beast! why, an otter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.309>An otter, Sir John! Why an otter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.310>Why, she's neither fish nor flesh; a man knows not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.311>where to have her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.312>Thou art an unjust man in saying so: thou or any</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.313>man knows where to have me, thou knave, thou!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.314>Thou sayest true, hostess; and he slanders thee most grossly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.315>So he doth you, my lord; and said this other day you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.316>ought him a thousand pound.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.317>Sirrah, do I owe you a thousand pound?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.318>A thousand pound, Ha! a million: thy love is worth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.319>a million: thou owest me thy love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.320>Nay, my lord, he called you Jack, and said he would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.321>cudgel you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.322>Did I, Bardolph?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.323>Indeed, Sir John, you said so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.324>Yea, if he said my ring was copper.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.325>I say 'tis copper: darest thou be as good as thy word now?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.326>Why, Hal, thou knowest, as thou art but man, I dare:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.327>but as thou art prince, I fear thee as I fear the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.328>roaring of a lion's whelp.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.329>And why not as the lion?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.330>The king is to be feared as the lion: dost thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.331>think I'll fear thee as I fear thy father? nay, an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.332>I do, I pray God my girdle break.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.333>O, if it should, how would thy guts fall about thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.334>knees! But, sirrah, there's no room for faith,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.335>truth, nor honesty in this bosom of thine; it is all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.336>filled up with guts and midriff. Charge an honest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.337>woman with picking thy pocket! why, thou whoreson,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.338>impudent, embossed rascal, if there were anything in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.339>thy pocket but tavern-reckonings, memorandums of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.340>bawdy-houses, and one poor penny-worth of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.341>sugar-candy to make thee long-winded, if thy pocket</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.342>were enriched with any other injuries but these, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.343>am a villain: and yet you will stand to if; you will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.344>not pocket up wrong: art thou not ashamed?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.345>Dost thou hear, Hal? thou knowest in the state of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.346>innocency Adam fell; and what should poor Jack</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.347>Falstaff do in the days of villany? Thou seest I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.348>have more flesh than another man, and therefore more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.349>frailty. You confess then, you picked my pocket?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.350>It appears so by the story.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.351>Hostess, I forgive thee: go, make ready breakfast;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.352>love thy husband, look to thy servants, cherish thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.353>guests: thou shalt find me tractable to any honest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.354>reason: thou seest I am pacified still. Nay,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.355>prithee, be gone.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit Hostess</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.356>Now Hal, to the news at court: for the robbery,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.357>lad, how is that answered?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.358>O, my sweet beef, I must still be good angel to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.359>thee: the money is paid back again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.360>O, I do not like that paying back; 'tis a double labour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.361>I am good friends with my father and may do any thing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.362>Rob me the exchequer the first thing thou doest, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.363>do it with unwashed hands too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.364>Do, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.365>I have procured thee, Jack, a charge of foot.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.366>I would it had been of horse. Where shall I find</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.367>one that can steal well? O for a fine thief, of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.368>age of two and twenty or thereabouts! I am</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.369>heinously unprovided. Well, God be thanked for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.370>these rebels, they offend none but the virtuous: I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.371>laud them, I praise them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.372>Bardolph!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.373>My lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.374>Go bear this letter to Lord John of Lancaster, to my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.375>brother John; this to my Lord of Westmoreland.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit Bardolph</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.376>Go, Peto, to horse, to horse; for thou and I have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.377>thirty miles to ride yet ere dinner time.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit Peto</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.378>Jack, meet me to-morrow in the temple hall at two</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.379>o'clock in the afternoon.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.380>There shalt thou know thy charge; and there receive</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.381>Money and order for their furniture.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.382>The land is burning; Percy stands on high;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.383>And either we or they must lower lie.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit PRINCE HENRY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.384>Rare words! brave world! Hostess, my breakfast, come!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.385>O, I could wish this tavern were my drum!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT IV</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. The rebel camp near Shrewsbury.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter HOTSPUR, WORCESTER, and DOUGLAS</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.1>Well said, my noble Scot: if speaking truth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.2>In this fine age were not thought flattery,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.3>Such attribution should the Douglas have,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.4>As not a soldier of this season's stamp</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.5>Should go so general current through the world.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.6>By God, I cannot flatter; I do defy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.7>The tongues of soothers; but a braver place</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.8>In my heart's love hath no man than yourself:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.9>Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>EARL OF DOUGLAS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.10>Thou art the king of honour:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.11>No man so potent breathes upon the ground</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.12>But I will beard him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.13>Do so, and 'tis well.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Messenger with letters</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.14>What letters hast thou there?--I can but thank you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.15>These letters come from your father.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.16>Letters from him! why comes he not himself?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.17>He cannot come, my lord; he is grievous sick.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.18>'Zounds! how has he the leisure to be sick</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.19>In such a rustling time? Who leads his power?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.20>Under whose government come they along?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.21>His letters bear his mind, not I, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>EARL OF WORCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.22>I prithee, tell me, doth he keep his bed?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.23>He did, my lord, four days ere I set forth;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.24>And at the time of my departure thence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.25>He was much fear'd by his physicians.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>EARL OF WORCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.26>I would the state of time had first been whole</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.27>Ere he by sickness had been visited:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.28>His health was never better worth than now.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.29>Sick now! droop now! this sickness doth infect</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.30>The very life-blood of our enterprise;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.31>'Tis catching hither, even to our camp.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.32>He writes me here, that inward sickness--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.33>And that his friends by deputation could not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.34>So soon be drawn, nor did he think it meet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.35>To lay so dangerous and dear a trust</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.36>On any soul removed but on his own.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.37>Yet doth he give us bold advertisement,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.38>That with our small conjunction we should on,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.39>To see how fortune is disposed to us;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.40>For, as he writes, there is no quailing now.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.41>Because the king is certainly possess'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.42>Of all our purposes. What say you to it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>EARL OF WORCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.43>Your father's sickness is a maim to us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.44>A perilous gash, a very limb lopp'd off:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.45>And yet, in faith, it is not; his present want</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.46>Seems more than we shall find it: were it good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.47>To set the exact wealth of all our states</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.48>All at one cast? to set so rich a main</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.49>On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.50>It were not good; for therein should we read</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.51>The very bottom and the soul of hope,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.52>The very list, the very utmost bound</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.53>Of all our fortunes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>EARL OF DOUGLAS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.54>'Faith, and so we should;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.55>Where now remains a sweet reversion:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.56>We may boldly spend upon the hope of what</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.57>Is to come in:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.58>A comfort of retirement lives in this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.59>A rendezvous, a home to fly unto.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.60>If that the devil and mischance look big</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.61>Upon the maidenhead of our affairs.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>EARL OF WORCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.62>But yet I would your father had been here.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.63>The quality and hair of our attempt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.64>Brooks no division: it will be thought</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.65>By some, that know not why he is away,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.66>That wisdom, loyalty and mere dislike</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.67>Of our proceedings kept the earl from hence:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.68>And think how such an apprehension</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.69>May turn the tide of fearful faction</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.70>And breed a kind of question in our cause;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.71>For well you know we of the offering side</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.72>Must keep aloof from strict arbitrement,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.73>And stop all sight-holes, every loop from whence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.74>The eye of reason may pry in upon us:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.75>This absence of your father's draws a curtain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.76>That shows the ignorant a kind of fear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.77>Before not dreamt of.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.78>You strain too far.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.79>I rather of his absence make this use:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.80>It lends a lustre and more great opinion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.81>A larger dare to our great enterprise,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.82>Than if the earl were here; for men must think,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.83>If we without his help can make a head</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.84>To push against a kingdom, with his help</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.85>We shall o'erturn it topsy-turvy down.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.86>Yet all goes well, yet all our joints are whole.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>EARL OF DOUGLAS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.87>As heart can think: there is not such a word</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.88>Spoke of in Scotland as this term of fear.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter SIR RICHARD VERNON</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.89>My cousin Vernon, welcome, by my soul.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>VERNON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.90>Pray God my news be worth a welcome, lord.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.91>The Earl of Westmoreland, seven thousand strong,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.92>Is marching hitherwards; with him Prince John.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.93>No harm: what more?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>VERNON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.94>And further, I have learn'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.95>The king himself in person is set forth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.96>Or hitherwards intended speedily,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.97>With strong and mighty preparation.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.98>He shall be welcome too. Where is his son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.99>The nimble-footed madcap Prince of Wales,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.100>And his comrades, that daff'd the world aside,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.101>And bid it pass?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>VERNON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.102> All furnish'd, all in arms;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.103>All plumed like estridges that with the wind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.104>Baited like eagles having lately bathed;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.105>Glittering in golden coats, like images;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.106>As full of spirit as the month of May,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.107>And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.108>Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.109>I saw young Harry, with his beaver on,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.110>His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.111>Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.112>And vaulted with such ease into his seat,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.113>As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.114>To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.115>And witch the world with noble horsemanship.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.116>No more, no more: worse than the sun in March,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.117>This praise doth nourish agues. Let them come:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.118>They come like sacrifices in their trim,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.119>And to the fire-eyed maid of smoky war</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.120>All hot and bleeding will we offer them:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.121>The mailed Mars shall on his altar sit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.122>Up to the ears in blood. I am on fire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.123>To hear this rich reprisal is so nigh</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.124>And yet not ours. Come, let me taste my horse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.125>Who is to bear me like a thunderbolt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.126>Against the bosom of the Prince of Wales:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.127>Harry to Harry shall, hot horse to horse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.128>Meet and ne'er part till one drop down a corse.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.129>O that Glendower were come!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>VERNON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.130>There is more news:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.131>I learn'd in Worcester, as I rode along,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.132>He cannot draw his power this fourteen days.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>EARL OF DOUGLAS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.133>That's the worst tidings that I hear of yet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>WORCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.134>Ay, by my faith, that bears a frosty sound.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.135>What may the king's whole battle reach unto?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>VERNON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.136>To thirty thousand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.137>Forty let it be:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.138>My father and Glendower being both away,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.139>The powers of us may serve so great a day</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.140>Come, let us take a muster speedily:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.141>Doomsday is near; die all, die merrily.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>EARL OF DOUGLAS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.142>Talk not of dying: I am out of fear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.143>Of death or death's hand for this one-half year.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. A public road near Coventry.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter FALSTAFF and BARDOLPH</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.1>Bardolph, get thee before to Coventry; fill me a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.2>bottle of sack: our soldiers shall march through;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.3>we'll to Sutton Co'fil' tonight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.4>Will you give me money, captain?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.5>Lay out, lay out.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.6>This bottle makes an angel.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.7>An if it do, take it for thy labour; and if it make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.8>twenty, take them all; I'll answer the coinage. Bid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.9>my lieutenant Peto meet me at town's end.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.10>I will, captain: farewell.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.11>If I be not ashamed of my soldiers, I am a soused</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.12>gurnet. I have misused the king's press damnably.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.13>I have got, in exchange of a hundred and fifty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.14>soldiers, three hundred and odd pounds. I press me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.15>none but good house-holders, yeoman's sons; inquire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.16>me out contracted bachelors, such as had been asked</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.17>twice on the banns; such a commodity of warm slaves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.18>as had as lieve hear the devil as a drum; such as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.19>fear the report of a caliver worse than a struck</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.20>fowl or a hurt wild-duck. I pressed me none but such</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.21>toasts-and-butter, with hearts in their bellies no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.22>bigger than pins' heads, and they have bought out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.23>their services; and now my whole charge consists of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.24>ancients, corporals, lieutenants, gentlemen of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.25>companies, slaves as ragged as Lazarus in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.26>painted cloth, where the glutton's dogs licked his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.27>sores; and such as indeed were never soldiers, but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.28>discarded unjust serving-men, younger sons to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.29>younger brothers, revolted tapsters and ostlers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.30>trade-fallen, the cankers of a calm world and a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.31>long peace, ten times more dishonourable ragged than</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.32>an old faced ancient: and such have I, to fill up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.33>the rooms of them that have bought out their</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.34>services, that you would think that I had a hundred</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.35>and fifty tattered prodigals lately come from</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.36>swine-keeping, from eating draff and husks. A mad</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.37>fellow met me on the way and told me I had unloaded</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.38>all the gibbets and pressed the dead bodies. No eye</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.39>hath seen such scarecrows. I'll not march through</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.40>Coventry with them, that's flat: nay, and the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.41>villains march wide betwixt the legs, as if they had</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.42>gyves on; for indeed I had the most of them out of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.43>prison. There's but a shirt and a half in all my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.44>company; and the half shirt is two napkins tacked</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.45>together and thrown over the shoulders like an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.46>herald's coat without sleeves; and the shirt, to say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.47>the truth, stolen from my host at Saint Alban's, or</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.48>the red-nose innkeeper of Daventry. But that's all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.49>one; they'll find linen enough on every hedge.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter the PRINCE and WESTMORELAND</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.50>How now, blown Jack! how now, quilt!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.51>What, Hal! how now, mad wag! what a devil dost thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.52>in Warwickshire? My good Lord of Westmoreland, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.53>cry you mercy: I thought your honour had already been</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.54>at Shrewsbury.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.55>Faith, Sir John,'tis more than time that I were</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.56>there, and you too; but my powers are there already.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.57>The king, I can tell you, looks for us all: we must</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.58>away all night.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.59>Tut, never fear me: I am as vigilant as a cat to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.60>steal cream.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.61>I think, to steal cream indeed, for thy theft hath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.62>already made thee butter. But tell me, Jack, whose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.63>fellows are these that come after?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.64>Mine, Hal, mine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.65>I did never see such pitiful rascals.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.66>Tut, tut; good enough to toss; food for powder, food</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.67>for powder; they'll fill a pit as well as better:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.68>tush, man, mortal men, mortal men.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.69>Ay, but, Sir John, methinks they are exceeding poor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.70>and bare, too beggarly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.71>'Faith, for their poverty, I know not where they had</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.72>that; and for their bareness, I am sure they never</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.73>learned that of me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.74>No I'll be sworn; unless you call three fingers on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.75>the ribs bare. But, sirrah, make haste: Percy is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.76>already in the field.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.77>What, is the king encamped?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.78>He is, Sir John: I fear we shall stay too long.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.79>Well,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.80>To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.81>Fits a dull fighter and a keen guest.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. The rebel camp near Shrewsbury.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter HOTSPUR, WORCESTER, DOUGLAS, and VERNON</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.1>We'll fight with him to-night.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>EARL OF WORCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.2>It may not be.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>EARL OF DOUGLAS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.3>You give him then the advantage.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>VERNON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.4>Not a whit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.5>Why say you so? looks he not for supply?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>VERNON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.6>So do we.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.7> His is certain, ours is doubtful.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>EARL OF WORCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.8>Good cousin, be advised; stir not tonight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>VERNON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.9>Do not, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>EARL OF DOUGLAS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.10> You do not counsel well:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.11>You speak it out of fear and cold heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>VERNON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.12>Do me no slander, Douglas: by my life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.13>And I dare well maintain it with my life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.14>If well-respected honour bid me on,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.15>I hold as little counsel with weak fear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.16>As you, my lord, or any Scot that this day lives:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.17>Let it be seen to-morrow in the battle</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.18>Which of us fears.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>EARL OF DOUGLAS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.19> Yea, or to-night.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>VERNON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.20>Content.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.21>To-night, say I.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>VERNON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.22>Come, come it nay not be. I wonder much,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.23>Being men of such great leading as you are,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.24>That you foresee not what impediments</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.25>Drag back our expedition: certain horse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.26>Of my cousin Vernon's are not yet come up:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.27>Your uncle Worcester's horse came but today;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.28>And now their pride and mettle is asleep,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.29>Their courage with hard labour tame and dull,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.30>That not a horse is half the half of himself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.31>So are the horses of the enemy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.32>In general, journey-bated and brought low:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.33>The better part of ours are full of rest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>EARL OF WORCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.34>The number of the king exceedeth ours:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.35>For God's sake. cousin, stay till all come in.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>The trumpet sounds a parley</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter SIR WALTER BLUNT</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>SIR WALTER BLUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.36>I come with gracious offers from the king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.37>if you vouchsafe me hearing and respect.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.38>Welcome, Sir Walter Blunt; and would to God</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.39>You were of our determination!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.40>Some of us love you well; and even those some</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.41>Envy your great deservings and good name,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.42>Because you are not of our quality,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.43>But stand against us like an enemy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>SIR WALTER BLUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.44>And God defend but still I should stand so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.45>So long as out of limit and true rule</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.46>You stand against anointed majesty.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.47>But to my charge. The king hath sent to know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.48>The nature of your griefs, and whereupon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.49>You conjure from the breast of civil peace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.50>Such bold hostility, teaching his duteous land</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.51>Audacious cruelty. If that the king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.52>Have any way your good deserts forgot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.53>Which he confesseth to be manifold,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.54>He bids you name your griefs; and with all speed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.55>You shall have your desires with interest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.56>And pardon absolute for yourself and these</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.57>Herein misled by your suggestion.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.58>The king is kind; and well we know the king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.59>Knows at what time to promise, when to pay.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.60>My father and my uncle and myself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.61>Did give him that same royalty he wears;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.62>And when he was not six and twenty strong,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.63>Sick in the world's regard, wretched and low,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.64>A poor unminded outlaw sneaking home,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.65>My father gave him welcome to the shore;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.66>And when he heard him swear and vow to God</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.67>He came but to be Duke of Lancaster,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.68>To sue his livery and beg his peace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.69>With tears of innocency and terms of zeal,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.70>My father, in kind heart and pity moved,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.71>Swore him assistance and perform'd it too.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.72>Now when the lords and barons of the realm</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.73>Perceived Northumberland did lean to him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.74>The more and less came in with cap and knee;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.75>Met him in boroughs, cities, villages,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.76>Attended him on bridges, stood in lanes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.77>Laid gifts before him, proffer'd him their oaths,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.78>Gave him their heirs, as pages follow'd him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.79>Even at the heels in golden multitudes.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.80>He presently, as greatness knows itself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.81>Steps me a little higher than his vow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.82>Made to my father, while his blood was poor,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.83>Upon the naked shore at Ravenspurgh;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.84>And now, forsooth, takes on him to reform</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.85>Some certain edicts and some strait decrees</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.86>That lie too heavy on the commonwealth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.87>Cries out upon abuses, seems to weep</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.88>Over his country's wrongs; and by this face,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.89>This seeming brow of justice, did he win</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.90>The hearts of all that he did angle for;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.91>Proceeded further; cut me off the heads</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.92>Of all the favourites that the absent king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.93>In deputation left behind him here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.94>When he was personal in the Irish war.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>SIR WALTER BLUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.95>Tut, I came not to hear this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.96>Then to the point.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.97>In short time after, he deposed the king;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.98>Soon after that, deprived him of his life;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.99>And in the neck of that, task'd the whole state:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.100>To make that worse, suffer'd his kinsman March,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.101>Who is, if every owner were well placed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.102>Indeed his king, to be engaged in Wales,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.103>There without ransom to lie forfeited;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.104>Disgraced me in my happy victories,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.105>Sought to entrap me by intelligence;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.106>Rated mine uncle from the council-board;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.107>In rage dismiss'd my father from the court;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.108>Broke oath on oath, committed wrong on wrong,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.109>And in conclusion drove us to seek out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.110>This head of safety; and withal to pry</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.111>Into his title, the which we find</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.112>Too indirect for long continuance.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>SIR WALTER BLUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.113>Shall I return this answer to the king?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.114>Not so, Sir Walter: we'll withdraw awhile.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.115>Go to the king; and let there be impawn'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.116>Some surety for a safe return again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.117>And in the morning early shall my uncle</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.118>Bring him our purposes: and so farewell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>SIR WALTER BLUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.119>I would you would accept of grace and love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.120>And may be so we shall.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>SIR WALTER BLUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.121>Pray God you do.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. York. The ARCHBISHOP'S palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF YORK and SIR MICHAEL</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.1>Hie, good Sir Michael; bear this sealed brief</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.2>With winged haste to the lord marshal;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.3>This to my cousin Scroop, and all the rest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.4>To whom they are directed. If you knew</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.5>How much they do to import, you would make haste.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>SIR MICHAEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.6>My good lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.7>I guess their tenor.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.8>Like enough you do.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.9>To-morrow, good Sir Michael, is a day</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.10>Wherein the fortune of ten thousand men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.11>Must bide the touch; for, sir, at Shrewsbury,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.12>As I am truly given to understand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.13>The king with mighty and quick-raised power</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.14>Meets with Lord Harry: and, I fear, Sir Michael,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.15>What with the sickness of Northumberland,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.16>Whose power was in the first proportion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.17>And what with Owen Glendower's absence thence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.18>Who with them was a rated sinew too</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.19>And comes not in, o'er-ruled by prophecies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.20>I fear the power of Percy is too weak</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.21>To wage an instant trial with the king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>SIR MICHAEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.22>Why, my good lord, you need not fear;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.23>There is Douglas and Lord Mortimer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.24>No, Mortimer is not there.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>SIR MICHAEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.25>But there is Mordake, Vernon, Lord Harry Percy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.26>And there is my Lord of Worcester and a head</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.27>Of gallant warriors, noble gentlemen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.28>And so there is: but yet the king hath drawn</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.29>The special head of all the land together:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.30>The Prince of Wales, Lord John of Lancaster,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.31>The noble Westmoreland and warlike Blunt;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.32>And moe corrivals and dear men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.33>Of estimation and command in arms.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>SIR MICHAEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.34>Doubt not, my lord, they shall be well opposed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>ARCHBISHOP OF YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.35>I hope no less, yet needful 'tis to fear;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.36>And, to prevent the worst, Sir Michael, speed:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.37>For if Lord Percy thrive not, ere the king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.38>Dismiss his power, he means to visit us,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.39>For he hath heard of our confederacy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.40>And 'tis but wisdom to make strong against him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.41>Therefore make haste. I must go write again</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.42>To other friends; and so farewell, Sir Michael.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT V</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. KING HENRY IV's camp near Shrewsbury.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter KING HENRY, PRINCE HENRY, Lord John of LANCASTER, EARL OF WESTMORELAND, SIR WALTER BLUNT, and FALSTAFF</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.1>How bloodily the sun begins to peer</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.2>Above yon busky hill! the day looks pale</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.3>At his distemperature.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.4>The southern wind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.5>Doth play the trumpet to his purposes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.6>And by his hollow whistling in the leaves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.7>Foretells a tempest and a blustering day.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.8>Then with the losers let it sympathize,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.9>For nothing can seem foul to those that win.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>The trumpet sounds</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter WORCESTER and VERNON</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.10>How now, my Lord of Worcester! 'tis not well</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.11>That you and I should meet upon such terms</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.12>As now we meet. You have deceived our trust,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.13>And made us doff our easy robes of peace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.14>To crush our old limbs in ungentle steel:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.15>This is not well, my lord, this is not well.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.16>What say you to it? will you again unknit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.17>This curlish knot of all-abhorred war?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.18>And move in that obedient orb again</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.19>Where you did give a fair and natural light,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.20>And be no more an exhaled meteor,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.21>A prodigy of fear and a portent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.22>Of broached mischief to the unborn times?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>EARL OF WORCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.23>Hear me, my liege:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.24>For mine own part, I could be well content</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.25>To entertain the lag-end of my life</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.26>With quiet hours; for I do protest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.27>I have not sought the day of this dislike.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.28>You have not sought it! how comes it, then?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.29>Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.30>Peace, chewet, peace!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>EARL OF WORCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.31>It pleased your majesty to turn your looks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.32>Of favour from myself and all our house;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.33>And yet I must remember you, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.34>We were the first and dearest of your friends.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.35>For you my staff of office did I break</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.36>In Richard's time; and posted day and night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.37>to meet you on the way, and kiss your hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.38>When yet you were in place and in account</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.39>Nothing so strong and fortunate as I.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.40>It was myself, my brother and his son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.41>That brought you home and boldly did outdare</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.42>The dangers of the time. You swore to us,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.43>And you did swear that oath at Doncaster,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.44>That you did nothing purpose 'gainst the state;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.45>Nor claim no further than your new-fall'n right,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.46>The seat of Gaunt, dukedom of Lancaster:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.47>To this we swore our aid. But in short space</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.48>It rain'd down fortune showering on your head;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.49>And such a flood of greatness fell on you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.50>What with our help, what with the absent king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.51>What with the injuries of a wanton time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.52>The seeming sufferances that you had borne,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.53>And the contrarious winds that held the king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.54>So long in his unlucky Irish wars</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.55>That all in England did repute him dead:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.56>And from this swarm of fair advantages</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.57>You took occasion to be quickly woo'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.58>To gripe the general sway into your hand;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.59>Forget your oath to us at Doncaster;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.60>And being fed by us you used us so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.61>As that ungentle hull, the cuckoo's bird,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.62>Useth the sparrow; did oppress our nest;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.63>Grew by our feeding to so great a bulk</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.64>That even our love durst not come near your sight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.65>For fear of swallowing; but with nimble wing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.66>We were enforced, for safety sake, to fly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.67>Out of sight and raise this present head;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.68>Whereby we stand opposed by such means</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.69>As you yourself have forged against yourself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.70>By unkind usage, dangerous countenance,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.71>And violation of all faith and troth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.72>Sworn to us in your younger enterprise.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.73>These things indeed you have articulate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.74>Proclaim'd at market-crosses, read in churches,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.75>To face the garment of rebellion</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.76>With some fine colour that may please the eye</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.77>Of fickle changelings and poor discontents,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.78>Which gape and rub the elbow at the news</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.79>Of hurlyburly innovation:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.80>And never yet did insurrection want</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.81>Such water-colours to impaint his cause;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.82>Nor moody beggars, starving for a time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.83>Of pellmell havoc and confusion.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.84>In both your armies there is many a soul</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.85>Shall pay full dearly for this encounter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.86>If once they join in trial. Tell your nephew,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.87>The Prince of Wales doth join with all the world</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.88>In praise of Henry Percy: by my hopes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.89>This present enterprise set off his head,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.90>I do not think a braver gentleman,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.91>More active-valiant or more valiant-young,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.92>More daring or more bold, is now alive</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.93>To grace this latter age with noble deeds.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.94>For my part, I may speak it to my shame,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.95>I have a truant been to chivalry;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.96>And so I hear he doth account me too;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.97>Yet this before my father's majesty--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.98>I am content that he shall take the odds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.99>Of his great name and estimation,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.100>And will, to save the blood on either side,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.101>Try fortune with him in a single fight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.102>And, Prince of Wales, so dare we venture thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.103>Albeit considerations infinite</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.104>Do make against it. No, good Worcester, no,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.105>We love our people well; even those we love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.106>That are misled upon your cousin's part;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.107>And, will they take the offer of our grace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.108>Both he and they and you, every man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.109>Shall be my friend again and I'll be his:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.110>So tell your cousin, and bring me word</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.111>What he will do: but if he will not yield,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.112>Rebuke and dread correction wait on us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.113>And they shall do their office. So, be gone;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.114>We will not now be troubled with reply:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.115>We offer fair; take it advisedly.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt WORCESTER and VERNON</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.116>It will not be accepted, on my life:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.117>The Douglas and the Hotspur both together</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.118>Are confident against the world in arms.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.119>Hence, therefore, every leader to his charge;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.120>For, on their answer, will we set on them:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.121>And God befriend us, as our cause is just!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt all but PRINCE HENRY and FALSTAFF</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.122>Hal, if thou see me down in the battle and bestride</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.123>me, so; 'tis a point of friendship.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.124>Nothing but a colossus can do thee that friendship.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.125>Say thy prayers, and farewell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.126>I would 'twere bed-time, Hal, and all well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.127>Why, thou owest God a death.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit PRINCE HENRY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.128>'Tis not due yet; I would be loath to pay him before</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.129>his day. What need I be so forward with him that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.130>calls not on me? Well, 'tis no matter; honour pricks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.131>me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.132>come on? how then? Can honour set to a leg? no: or</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.133>an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.134>Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.135>honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.136>is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.137>he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.138>Doth he hear it? no. 'Tis insensible, then. Yea,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.139>to the dead. But will it not live with the living?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.140>no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.141>I'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon: and so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.142>ends my catechism.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. The rebel camp.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter WORCESTER and VERNON</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>EARL OF WORCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.1>O, no, my nephew must not know, Sir Richard,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.2>The liberal and kind offer of the king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>VERNON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.3>'Twere best he did.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>EARL OF WORCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.4>Then are we all undone.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.5>It is not possible, it cannot be,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.6>The king should keep his word in loving us;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.7>He will suspect us still and find a time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.8>To punish this offence in other faults:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.9>Suspicion all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.10>For treason is but trusted like the fox,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.11>Who, ne'er so tame, so cherish'd and lock'd up,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.12>Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.13>Look how we can, or sad or merrily,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.14>Interpretation will misquote our looks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.15>And we shall feed like oxen at a stall,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.16>The better cherish'd, still the nearer death.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.17>My nephew's trespass may be well forgot;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.18>it hath the excuse of youth and heat of blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.19>And an adopted name of privilege,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.20>A hair-brain'd Hotspur, govern'd by a spleen:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.21>All his offences live upon my head</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.22>And on his father's; we did train him on,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.23>And, his corruption being ta'en from us,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.24>We, as the spring of all, shall pay for all.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.25>Therefore, good cousin, let not Harry know,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.26>In any case, the offer of the king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>VERNON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.27>Deliver what you will; I'll say 'tis so.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.28>Here comes your cousin.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter HOTSPUR and DOUGLAS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.29>My uncle is return'd:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.30>Deliver up my Lord of Westmoreland.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.31>Uncle, what news?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>EARL OF WORCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.32>The king will bid you battle presently.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>EARL OF DOUGLAS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.33>Defy him by the Lord of Westmoreland.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.34>Lord Douglas, go you and tell him so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>EARL OF DOUGLAS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.35>Marry, and shall, and very willingly.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>EARL OF WORCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.36>There is no seeming mercy in the king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.37>Did you beg any? God forbid!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>EARL OF WORCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.38>I told him gently of our grievances,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.39>Of his oath-breaking; which he mended thus,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.40>By now forswearing that he is forsworn:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.41>He calls us rebels, traitors; and will scourge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.42>With haughty arms this hateful name in us.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter the EARL OF DOUGLAS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>EARL OF DOUGLAS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.43>Arm, gentlemen; to arms! for I have thrown</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.44>A brave defiance in King Henry's teeth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.45>And Westmoreland, that was engaged, did bear it;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.46>Which cannot choose but bring him quickly on.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>EARL OF WORCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.47>The Prince of Wales stepp'd forth before the king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.48>And, nephew, challenged you to single fight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.49>O, would the quarrel lay upon our heads,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.50>And that no man might draw short breath today</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.51>But I and Harry Monmouth! Tell me, tell me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.52>How show'd his tasking? seem'd it in contempt?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>VERNON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.53>No, by my soul; I never in my life</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.54>Did hear a challenge urged more modestly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.55>Unless a brother should a brother dare</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.56>To gentle exercise and proof of arms.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.57>He gave you all the duties of a man;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.58>Trimm'd up your praises with a princely tongue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.59>Spoke to your deservings like a chronicle,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.60>Making you ever better than his praise</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.61>By still dispraising praise valued in you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.62>And, which became him like a prince indeed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.63>He made a blushing cital of himself;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.64>And chid his truant youth with such a grace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.65>As if he master'd there a double spirit.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.66>Of teaching and of learning instantly.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.67>There did he pause: but let me tell the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.68>If he outlive the envy of this day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.69>England did never owe so sweet a hope,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.70>So much misconstrued in his wantonness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.71>Cousin, I think thou art enamoured</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.72>On his follies: never did I hear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.73>Of any prince so wild a libertine.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.74>But be he as he will, yet once ere night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.75>I will embrace him with a soldier's arm,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.76>That he shall shrink under my courtesy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.77>Arm, arm with speed: and, fellows, soldiers, friends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.78>Better consider what you have to do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.79>Than I, that have not well the gift of tongue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.80>Can lift your blood up with persuasion.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.81>My lord, here are letters for you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.82>I cannot read them now.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.83>O gentlemen, the time of life is short!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.84>To spend that shortness basely were too long,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.85>If life did ride upon a dial's point,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.86>Still ending at the arrival of an hour.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.87>An if we live, we live to tread on kings;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.88>If die, brave death, when princes die with us!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.89>Now, for our consciences, the arms are fair,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.90>When the intent of bearing them is just.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter another Messenger</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.91>My lord, prepare; the king comes on apace.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.92>I thank him, that he cuts me from my tale,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.93>For I profess not talking; only this--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.94>Let each man do his best: and here draw I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.95>A sword, whose temper I intend to stain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.96>With the best blood that I can meet withal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.97>In the adventure of this perilous day.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.98>Now, Esperance! Percy! and set on.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.99>Sound all the lofty instruments of war,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.100>And by that music let us all embrace;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.101>For, heaven to earth, some of us never shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.102>A second time do such a courtesy.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>The trumpets sound. They embrace, and exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. Plain between the camps.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>KING HENRY enters with his power. Alarum to the battle. Then enter DOUGLAS and SIR WALTER BLUNT</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>SIR WALTER BLUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.1>What is thy name, that in the battle thus</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.2>Thou crossest me? what honour dost thou seek</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.3>Upon my head?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>EARL OF DOUGLAS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.4> Know then, my name is Douglas;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.5>And I do haunt thee in the battle thus</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.6>Because some tell me that thou art a king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>SIR WALTER BLUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.7>They tell thee true.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>EARL OF DOUGLAS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.8>The Lord of Stafford dear to-day hath bought</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.9>Thy likeness, for instead of thee, King Harry,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.10>This sword hath ended him: so shall it thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.11>Unless thou yield thee as my prisoner.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>SIR WALTER BLUNT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.12>I was not born a yielder, thou proud Scot;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.13>And thou shalt find a king that will revenge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.14>Lord Stafford's death.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They fight. DOUGLAS kills SIR WALTER BLUNT. Enter HOTSPUR</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.15>O Douglas, hadst thou fought at Holmedon thus,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.16>never had triumph'd upon a Scot.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>EARL OF DOUGLAS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.17>All's done, all's won; here breathless lies the king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.18>Where?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>EARL OF DOUGLAS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.19>Here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.20>This, Douglas? no: I know this face full well:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.21>A gallant knight he was, his name was Blunt;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.22>Semblably furnish'd like the king himself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>EARL OF DOUGLAS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.23>A fool go with thy soul, whither it goes!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.24>A borrow'd title hast thou bought too dear:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.25>Why didst thou tell me that thou wert a king?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.26>The king hath many marching in his coats.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>EARL OF DOUGLAS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.27>Now, by my sword, I will kill all his coats;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.28>I'll murder all his wardrobe, piece by piece,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.29>Until I meet the king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.30>Up, and away!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.31>Our soldiers stand full fairly for the day.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Alarum. Enter FALSTAFF, solus</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.32>Though I could 'scape shot-free at London, I fear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.33>the shot here; here's no scoring but upon the pate.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.34>Soft! who are you? Sir Walter Blunt: there's honour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.35>for you! here's no vanity! I am as hot as moulten</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.36>lead, and as heavy too: God keep lead out of me! I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.37>need no more weight than mine own bowels. I have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.38>led my ragamuffins where they are peppered: there's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.39>not three of my hundred and fifty left alive; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.40>they are for the town's end, to beg during life.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.41>But who comes here?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter PRINCE HENRY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.42>What, stand'st thou idle here? lend me thy sword:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.43>Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.44>Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.45>Whose deaths are yet unrevenged: I prithee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.46>lend me thy sword.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.47>O Hal, I prithee, give me leave to breathe awhile.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.48>Turk Gregory never did such deeds in arms as I have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.49>done this day. I have paid Percy, I have made him sure.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.50>He is, indeed; and living to kill thee. I prithee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.51>lend me thy sword.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.52>Nay, before God, Hal, if Percy be alive, thou get'st</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.53>not my sword; but take my pistol, if thou wilt.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.54>Give it to me: what, is it in the case?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.55>Ay, Hal; 'tis hot, 'tis hot; there's that will sack a city.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>PRINCE HENRY draws it out, and finds it to be a bottle of sack</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.56>What, is it a time to jest and dally now?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>He throws the bottle at him. Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.57>Well, if Percy be alive, I'll pierce him. If he do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.58>come in my way, so: if he do not, if I come in his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.59>willingly, let him make a carbonado of me. I like</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.60>not such grinning honour as Sir Walter hath: give me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.61>life: which if I can save, so; if not, honour comes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.62>unlooked for, and there's an end.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit FALSTAFF</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. Another part of the field.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Alarum. Excursions. Enter PRINCE HENRY, LORD JOHN OF LANCASTER, and EARL OF WESTMORELAND</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.1>I prithee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.2>Harry, withdraw thyself; thou bleed'st too much.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.3>Lord John of Lancaster, go you with him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>LANCASTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.4>Not I, my lord, unless I did bleed too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.5>I beseech your majesty, make up,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.6>Lest your retirement do amaze your friends.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.7>I will do so.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.8>My Lord of Westmoreland, lead him to his tent.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.9>Come, my lord, I'll lead you to your tent.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.10>Lead me, my lord? I do not need your help:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.11>And God forbid a shallow scratch should drive</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.12>The Prince of Wales from such a field as this,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.13>Where stain'd nobility lies trodden on,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.14>and rebels' arms triumph in massacres!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>LANCASTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.15>We breathe too long: come, cousin Westmoreland,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.16>Our duty this way lies; for God's sake come.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt LANCASTER and WESTMORELAND</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.17>By God, thou hast deceived me, Lancaster;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.18>I did not think thee lord of such a spirit:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.19>Before, I loved thee as a brother, John;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.20>But now, I do respect thee as my soul.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.21>I saw him hold Lord Percy at the point</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.22>With lustier maintenance than I did look for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.23>Of such an ungrown warrior.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.24>O, this boy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.25>Lends mettle to us all!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter DOUGLAS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>EARL OF DOUGLAS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.26>Another king! they grow like Hydra's heads:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.27>I am the Douglas, fatal to all those</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.28>That wear those colours on them: what art thou,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.29>That counterfeit'st the person of a king?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.30>The king himself; who, Douglas, grieves at heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.31>So many of his shadows thou hast met</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.32>And not the very king. I have two boys</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.33>Seek Percy and thyself about the field:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.34>But, seeing thou fall'st on me so luckily,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.35>I will assay thee: so, defend thyself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>EARL OF DOUGLAS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.36>I fear thou art another counterfeit;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.37>And yet, in faith, thou bear'st thee like a king:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.38>But mine I am sure thou art, whoe'er thou be,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.39>And thus I win thee.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They fight. KING HENRY being in danger, PRINCE HENRY enters</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.40>Hold up thy head, vile Scot, or thou art like</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.41>Never to hold it up again! the spirits</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.42>Of valiant Shirley, Stafford, Blunt, are in my arms:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.43>It is the Prince of Wales that threatens thee;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.44>Who never promiseth but he means to pay.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They fight: DOUGLAS flies</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.45>Cheerly, my lord how fares your grace?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.46>Sir Nicholas Gawsey hath for succor sent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.47>And so hath Clifton: I'll to Clifton straight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.48>Stay, and breathe awhile:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.49>Thou hast redeem'd thy lost opinion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.50>And show'd thou makest some tender of my life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.51>In this fair rescue thou hast brought to me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.52>O God! they did me too much injury</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.53>That ever said I hearken'd for your death.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.54>If it were so, I might have let alone</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.55>The insulting hand of Douglas over you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.56>Which would have been as speedy in your end</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.57>As all the poisonous potions in the world</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.58>And saved the treacherous labour of your son.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.59>Make up to Clifton: I'll to Sir Nicholas Gawsey.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter HOTSPUR</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.60>If I mistake not, thou art Harry Monmouth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.61>Thou speak'st as if I would deny my name.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.62>My name is Harry Percy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.63>Why, then I see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.64>A very valiant rebel of the name.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.65>I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.66>To share with me in glory any more:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.67>Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.68>Nor can one England brook a double reign,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.69>Of Harry Percy and the Prince of Wales.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.70>Nor shall it, Harry; for the hour is come</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.71>To end the one of us; and would to God</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.72>Thy name in arms were now as great as mine!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.73>I'll make it greater ere I part from thee;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.74>And all the budding honours on thy crest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.75>I'll crop, to make a garland for my head.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.76>I can no longer brook thy vanities.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They fight</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter FALSTAFF</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.77>Well said, Hal! to it Hal! Nay, you shall find no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.78>boy's play here, I can tell you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter DOUGLAS; he fights with FALSTAFF, who falls down as if he were dead, and exit DOUGLAS. HOTSPUR is wounded, and falls</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>HOTSPUR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.79>O, Harry, thou hast robb'd me of my youth!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.80>I better brook the loss of brittle life</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.81>Than those proud titles thou hast won of me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.82>They wound my thoughts worse than sword my flesh:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.83>But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.84>And time, that takes survey of all the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.85>Must have a stop. O, I could prophesy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.86>But that the earthy and cold hand of death</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.87>Lies on my tongue: no, Percy, thou art dust</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.88>And food for--</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Dies</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.89>For worms, brave Percy: fare thee well, great heart!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.90>Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.91>When that this body did contain a spirit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.92>A kingdom for it was too small a bound;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.93>But now two paces of the vilest earth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.94>Is room enough: this earth that bears thee dead</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.95>Bears not alive so stout a gentleman.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.96>If thou wert sensible of courtesy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.97>I should not make so dear a show of zeal:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.98>But let my favours hide thy mangled face;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.99>And, even in thy behalf, I'll thank myself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.100>For doing these fair rites of tenderness.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.101>Adieu, and take thy praise with thee to heaven!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.102>Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.103>But not remember'd in thy epitaph!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>He spieth FALSTAFF on the ground</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.104>What, old acquaintance! could not all this flesh</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.105>Keep in a little life? Poor Jack, farewell!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.106>I could have better spared a better man:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.107>O, I should have a heavy miss of thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.108>If I were much in love with vanity!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.109>Death hath not struck so fat a deer to-day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.110>Though many dearer, in this bloody fray.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.111>Embowell'd will I see thee by and by:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.112>Till then in blood by noble Percy lie.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit PRINCE HENRY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.113>[Rising up] Embowelled! if thou embowel me to-day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.114>I'll give you leave to powder me and eat me too</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.115>to-morrow. 'Sblood,'twas time to counterfeit, or</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.116>that hot termagant Scot had paid me scot and lot too.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.117>Counterfeit? I lie, I am no counterfeit: to die,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.118>is to be a counterfeit; for he is but the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.119>counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.120>but to counterfeit dying, when a man thereby</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.121>liveth, is to be no counterfeit, but the true and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.122>perfect image of life indeed. The better part of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.123>valour is discretion; in the which better part I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.124>have saved my life.'Zounds, I am afraid of this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.125>gunpowder Percy, though he be dead: how, if he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.126>should counterfeit too and rise? by my faith, I am</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.127>afraid he would prove the better counterfeit.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.128>Therefore I'll make him sure; yea, and I'll swear I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.129>killed him. Why may not he rise as well as I?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.130>Nothing confutes me but eyes, and nobody sees me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.131>Therefore, sirrah,</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Stabbing him</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.132>with a new wound in your thigh, come you along with me.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Takes up HOTSPUR on his back</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter PRINCE HENRY and LORD JOHN OF LANCASTER</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.133>Come, brother John; full bravely hast thou flesh'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.134>Thy maiden sword.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>LANCASTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.135> But, soft! whom have we here?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.136>Did you not tell me this fat man was dead?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.137>I did; I saw him dead,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.138>Breathless and bleeding on the ground. Art</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.139>thou alive?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.140>Or is it fantasy that plays upon our eyesight?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.141>I prithee, speak; we will not trust our eyes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.142>Without our ears: thou art not what thou seem'st.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.143>No, that's certain; I am not a double man: but if I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.144>be not Jack Falstaff, then am I a Jack. There is Percy:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Throwing the body down</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.145>if your father will do me any honour, so; if not, let</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.146>him kill the next Percy himself. I look to be either</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.147>earl or duke, I can assure you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.148>Why, Percy I killed myself and saw thee dead.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.149>Didst thou? Lord, Lord, how this world is given to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.150>lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.151>and so was he: but we rose both at an instant and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.152>fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock. If I may be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.153>believed, so; if not, let them that should reward</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.154>valour bear the sin upon their own heads. I'll take</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.155>it upon my death, I gave him this wound in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.156>thigh: if the man were alive and would deny it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.157>'zounds, I would make him eat a piece of my sword.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>LANCASTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.158>This is the strangest tale that ever I heard.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.159>This is the strangest fellow, brother John.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.160>Come, bring your luggage nobly on your back:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.161>For my part, if a lie may do thee grace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.162>I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>A retreat is sounded</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.163>The trumpet sounds retreat; the day is ours.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.164>Come, brother, let us to the highest of the field,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.165>To see what friends are living, who are dead.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt PRINCE HENRY and LANCASTER</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>FALSTAFF</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.166>I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.167>rewards me, God reward him! If I do grow great,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.168>I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.169>live cleanly as a nobleman should do.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE V. Another part of the field.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>The trumpets sound. Enter KING HENRY IV, PRINCE HENRY, LORD JOHN LANCASTER, EARL OF WESTMORELAND, with WORCESTER and VERNON prisoners</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.1>Thus ever did rebellion find rebuke.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.2>Ill-spirited Worcester! did not we send grace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.3>Pardon and terms of love to all of you?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.4>And wouldst thou turn our offers contrary?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.5>Misuse the tenor of thy kinsman's trust?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.6>Three knights upon our party slain to-day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.7>A noble earl and many a creature else</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.8>Had been alive this hour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.9>If like a Christian thou hadst truly borne</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.10>Betwixt our armies true intelligence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>EARL OF WORCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.11>What I have done my safety urged me to;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.12>And I embrace this fortune patiently,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.13>Since not to be avoided it falls on me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.14>Bear Worcester to the death and Vernon too:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.15>Other offenders we will pause upon.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt WORCESTER and VERNON, guarded</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.16>How goes the field?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.17>The noble Scot, Lord Douglas, when he saw</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.18>The fortune of the day quite turn'd from him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.19>The noble Percy slain, and all his men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.20>Upon the foot of fear, fled with the rest;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.21>And falling from a hill, he was so bruised</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.22>That the pursuers took him. At my tent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.23>The Douglas is; and I beseech your grace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.24>I may dispose of him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.25>With all my heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>PRINCE HENRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.26>Then, brother John of Lancaster, to you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.27>This honourable bounty shall belong:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.28>Go to the Douglas, and deliver him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.29>Up to his pleasure, ransomless and free:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.30>His valour shown upon our crests to-day</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.31>Hath taught us how to cherish such high deeds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.32>Even in the bosom of our adversaries.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>LANCASTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.33>I thank your grace for this high courtesy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.34>Which I shall give away immediately.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>KING HENRY IV</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.35>Then this remains, that we divide our power.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.36>You, son John, and my cousin Westmoreland</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.37>Towards York shall bend you with your dearest speed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.38>To meet Northumberland and the prelate Scroop,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.39>Who, as we hear, are busily in arms:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.40>Myself and you, son Harry, will towards Wales,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.41>To fight with Glendower and the Earl of March.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.42>Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.43>Meeting the cheque of such another day:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.44>And since this business so fair is done,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.45>Let us not leave till all our own be won.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
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