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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>