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THE YALE SHAKESPEARE
Edited by
Wilbur L. Cross Tdcxee Brooke
WlLLABD HlOLEY DllUlN
Department OF EnqliSh, Yale Ukivkksity,
oh the Fond
GtVEM TO THE YaLE UNIVERSITY PRESS IK 1317
by the Members of the
Kinobley Trust Associatioh
TO COMMEMORATE THE SeVENTY-FiFTH ANNIVERSARY
OF THE FOUNDIHO OF THE SOCIETY
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The Yale Shakespeare
THE FIRST PART OF
KING HENRY THE FOURTH
With the Life and Death of
Heney, Surnamed Hotspur
EDITED BY
SAMUEL B. HEMINGWAY
NEW HAVEN ■ YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON • HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS ■ M CM XVII
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First published September, 1917
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE
The Text 1
Notes 114
Appendix A. Variants . . .129
Appendix B. Sources .... 181
Appendix C. The History of the Flay 186
Bibliography . . . . .141
Index or Words Glossed .... 142
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rivers, tie., mentioned in "The First Part of King
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[DRAMATIS PERSONS
King Henry the Fourth
Henry, Prince of Watei, I „ . _,
John o, Labdast.., f *" - "• Z *"»
Earl or Westmoreland
Sir Walter Blunt
Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester
Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland
Henry Percy turnamed Hotspur, his ton
Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March
Richard Scroop, Archbishop of York
Archibald, Earl of Douglas
Owen Glendower
Sir Richard Vernon
Sir John Fautafp
Sir Michael, a Friend to the Archbishop of York
Poins
Gadshill
Peto
Barsolph
Francis, a Drawer
Lady Percy, Wife to Hotspur, and Sister to Mortimer
Lady Mortimer, Daughter to Glendower, and Wife
to Mortimer
Mistress Quickly, Hottest of the Boar's Read
Tavern in Eattckeap
Lords, Officers, Sheriff, Vintner, Chamberlain, Draw-
ers, two Carriers, Travellers, and Attendant!
Scene: England.}
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With the bn ajtd Death or Henry, Suutamed Honm
[London. The Palace]
Enter the King, Lord John of Lancatter, Earl of
Westmoreland, with other*.
King. So shaken aa we are, so wan with care,
Find we a time for frighted peace to pant,
And breathe short-winded accents of new broils
To be commenc'd in stronds afar remote. <
No more the thirsty entrance of this soil
Shall danb her lips with her own children's blood;
No more shall trenching war channel her fields.
Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs i
Of hostile paces: those opposed eyes,
Which, like the meteors of a troubled heaven,
All of one nature, of one substance bred,
Did lately meet in the intestine shock: 11
And furious close of civil butchery,
Shall now, in mutual well-beseeming ranks,
March all one way, and be no more oppos'd
Against acquaintance, kindred, and allies: li
The edge of war, like an ill-sheathed knife,
No more shall cut his master. Therefore, friends,
5 Cf. *.
14 mutual wcll-bciccming ranki: romii a)
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As far as to the sepulchre of Christ, —
Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross :
We are impressed and engag'd to fight,, —
Forthwith a power of English shall we levy.
Whose arms were moulded in their mothers' womb
To chase these pagans in those holy fields 1
Over whose acres walk'd those blessed feet
Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd
For our advantage on the bitter cross.
But this our purpose now is twelve months old, s
And bootless 'tis to tell yon we will go:
Therefore we meet not now. Then let me hear
Of you, my gentle cousin Westmoreland,
What yesternight our council did decree I
In forwarding this dear expedience.
Wttt. My liege, this haste was hot in question,
And many limits of the charge set down
But yesternight ; when all athwart there came
A post from Wales loaden with heavy news ; s
Whose worst was, that the noble Mortimer,
Leading the men of Herefordshire to fight
Against the irregular and wild Glendower, 4
Was by the rude hands of that Welshman taken,
A thousand of his people butchered;
Upon whose dead corpse there was such misuse,
Such beastly shameless transformation 4
By those Welshwomen done, as may not be
Without much shame re-told or spoken of.
King. It seems then that the tidings of this broil
Brake off our business for the Holy Land. 4
21 Imprtmi: comptllid into servici 28 Cf.n.
29 bootlew: useless
33 dear expedience: important expedition
34 hot in queition: in hoi debati
3S charge: ixpense
3S Mortimer; cf. n.
36 mlhwart: from an unexpected quarter
40 irregular: Janiluj
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JVert. This, match' d with other, did, my gracious
lord;
For more uneven and unwelcome newa
Came from the north and thus it did import:
On Holy-rood day, the gallant Hotspur there, S2
Young Harry Percy and brave Archibald,
That ever-valiant and approved Scot,
At Holmedon met,
Where they did spend a sad and Moody honr ;
As by discharge of their artillery, st
And shape of likelihood, the news was told ;
For he that brought them, in the very heat
And pride of their contention did take horse, so
Uncertain of the issue any way.
King, Here is a dear and true industrious friend,
Sir Walter Blunt, new lighted from his horse,
Stain'd with the variation of each soil 0*
Betwixt that Holmedon and this seat of oars ;
And he hath brought as smooth and welcome news.
The Earl of Douglas is discomfited;
Ten thousand bold Scots, two and twenty knights, 68
Balk'd in their own blood did Sir Walter see
On Holmedon' s plains: of prisoners Hotspur took
Mordake the Earl of Fife, and eldest son
To beaten Douglas, and the Earls of Athol, ti
Of Murray, Angus, and Menteith.
And is not this an honourable spoil?
A gallant prize? ha, cousin, is it not?
Wat. In faith, 78
It is a conquest for a prince to boast of.
King. Yea, there thou mak'st me sad and mak'st
me sin
49 match'd: iointd SO uneven: ditconctrtine
52 Holy-rooddmy; tf. n. S3 Harrv Percy; r[. n.
54 approved: wfj-frbd 58 •hjpe of Likelihood; probability
69 b»ari:piUduf (?) 71 Moidake; cf. n.
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In envy that my Lord Northumberland
Should be the father to so blest a son, BO
f A sod who is the theme of honour's tongue;
Amongst a grove the very straightest plant;
Who is sweet Fortune's minion and her pride:
Whilst I, by looking on the praise of him, 84
See riot and dishonour stain the brow
Of my young Harry. O ! that it could be prov'd
That some night-tripping fairy had exchahg'd
In cradle-clothes onr children where they lay, 69
And call'd mine Percy, his Plantagenet.
Then would I have his Harry, and he mine.
But let him from my thoughts. What think you, coz,
Of this young Percy's pride? the prisoners, 92
Which be in this adventure hath surpris'd,
To his own use he keeps, and sends me word,
I shall have none but Mordake Earl of Fife.
West. This is his uncle's teaching, this is
Worcester, 96
Malevolent to you in all aspects ;
Which makes him prune himself, and bristle up
The crest of youth against your dignity.
King. But I have sent for him to answer this ; 100
And for this cause a while we must neglect
Our holy purpose to Jerusalem.
Cousin, on Wednesday next our council we
Will hold at Windsor ; so inform the lords : 104
But come yourself with speed to us again;
For. more is to be said and to be done
Than out of anger can be uttered.
West. I will, my liege. Exeunt.
83 minion : darling
91 coz: coutin, used by the lavireign in ad drilling any nobleman
91-95 Cf. n. 97 Cf. n, 107 uttered; cf. n.
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King Henry the Fourth, I. it 5
Scene Two
[The Same]
Enter Henry, Prince of Wale*, and Sir John Falitaff.
Fal. Now, Hal, what time of day is it, lad?
Prince. Thou art so fat-witted, with drinking
of old sack, and unbuttoning thee after supper,
and sleeping upon benches after noon, that thou
hast forgotten to demand that truly which thou
wouldst truly know. What a devil hast thou to
do with the time of the day? unless hours were
cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks
the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of
leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a
fair hot wench in flame-colour'd taffeta, I see no
reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to
demand the time of the day. is
Fal. Indeed, you come near me now, Hal;
for we that take purses go by the moon and the
seven stars, and not by Phoebus, he, 'that wan-
dering knight so fair,' And, I prithee, sweet
wag, when thou art king, — as, God save thy
Grace, — -majesty^IshouI(r~say, for grace thou
wilt have none, — 20
Prince. What! none?
Fal. No, by my troth; not so much as will
serve to be prologue to an egg and butter.
Prince. Well, how then? come, roundly,
roundly. 2S
Fal. Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art
3 uck: twtet Spaniih mint 9 bxwia: pandtri
10 leaping-houses: brotktls 16 Cf.ti. 19-33 Cf.n.
24 roundly: plainly, to sht point
26 Marry: an interjection, mtll; orijiniilij an oith, tj> tht Virgin
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king, let not us that are squires of the night's
body be called thieves of the day's beauty: let
us be Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade,
minions of the moon; and let men say, we be
men of good government, being governed as the
sea is, by oar noble and chaste mistress the
moon, under whose countenance we steal. Sf
Prince. Thou sayest well, and it holds well
too; for the fortune of us that are the moon's
men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being go-
verned as the sea is, by the moon. As for proof
now: a purse of gold most resolutely snatched
on Monday night and most dissolutely spent on
Tuesday morning; got with swearing 'Lay by;*
. and spent with crying 'Bring in:' now in as
low an ebb as the foot of the ladder, and by and
by in as high a flow as the ridge of the gallows.
Fat. By the Lord, thou sayest true, lad. And
is not my hostess of the tavern a most sweet
wench ? it
Prince. As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of
the castle. And is not a buff jerkin a most sweet
robe of durance ? «
Fat. How now, how now, mad wag! what,
in thy quips and thy quiddities? what a plague
have I to do with a buff jerkin? 02
Prince. Why, what a pox have I to do with
my hostess of the tavern?
Fal. Well, thou hast called ber to a reckon-
ing many a time and oft.
29 Diana's: the moon's 30 minions: itrvanti
40 'Lay by* : aiinls of kif/hwaymtn to thiir victimi
47 hoM/of Rybli: Steifo'nhcnt
48 huff jerkin: Ualher jaciit mor
49 durance: a itug nettd for in auratnuty
SI quips: jttts qnidditiei: ntbllttiti, p*m
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Prince. Did I ever call for thee to pay thy
part?
Fat. No; I'll give thee thy due, thou halt
paid all there. e(
Prince. Yea, and elsewhere, so far as my coin
would stretch; and where it would not, I have
used my credit.
Fat. Yea, and so used it that, were it not here
apparent that thou art heir apparent, — But, I
prithee, sweet wag, shall there be gallows stand-
ing in England when thou art king, and resolu-
tion thus fobbed as it is with the rusty curb of
old father antic the law? Do not thou, when
thou art king, hang a thief. 71
Prince. Mo; thou shalt.
Fol. Shall I? Orare! By the Lord, 111 be a
brave judge. 7]
Prince. Thou judgest false already; I mean,
thou shalt have the hanging of the thieves and
so become a rare hangman. 7<
Fol. Well, Hal, well; and in some sort it
jumps with my humour as well as waiting in
the court, I can tell you.
Prince. For obtaining of suits ? EK
Fol. Yea, for obtaining of suits, whereof the
hangman hath no lean wardrobe. 'Sblood, I
am as melancholy as a gib cat, or a lugged bear.
Prince. Or an old lion, or a lover's lute. 84
Fol. Yea, or the drone of a Lincolnshire
bagpipe.
s fobbed
8 jumps:
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2 'SbTwdl God
68 fobbed: tricked 69 intic: buff not 73 fcrMc: fir-
78 jumps: egrtei humour; Itmptramtnl, inclination
81 obtaining of suits: she chlhri of thi criminal wri Ihr hangman
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Prince. What gayest thou to a bare, or the
melancholy of Moor-ditch ? ss
Fal. Thou hast the moat unsavory similes,
and art, indeed, the most comparative, rascal-
liest, sweet young prince; but, Hal, I prithee,
trouble me no more with vanity. I would to God
thou and I knew where a commodity of good
names were to be bought. An old lord of the
council rated me the other day in the street about
you, sir, but I marked him not; and yet he
talked very wisely, but I regarded him not; and
yet he talked wisely, and in the street too. vS
Prince. Thou didst well; for wisdom cries
out in the streets, and no man regards it. 100
Fal. O! thou hast damnable iteration, and
art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast
done much harm upon me, Hal; God forgive
thee for it! Before I knew thee, Hal, I knew
nothing; and now am I, if a man should speak
truly, little better than one of the wicked. I
must give over this life, and I will give it over;
by the Lord, an I do not, I am a villain: I'll be
damned for never a king's son in Christendom.
Prince. Where shall we take a purse to-
morrow, Jack? lit
Fal. 'Zounds! where thou wilt, lad, I'll make
one; an I do not, call me a villain and baffle me.
Prince. I see a good amendment of life in
thee; from praying to purse-taking. lis
87 bin; cf. n. 88 Moor-ditch; cf. H.
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93 commodity: supply 101 damnable Iteration; cf. n.
112 'Zounit: Gtd't woundt
113 baffle: hang by "if heels <o punishment inflitttd on recreant
knighti)
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Fal. Why, Hal, 'tis my vocation, Hal; 'tis no
sin for a man to labour in his vocation.
Enter Point.
Poins ! Now shall we know if Gadshill have set
a match. ! if men were to be saved by merit,
what hole in hell were hot enough for him? This
is the most omnipotent villain that ever cried
'Stand !' to a true man. 12:
Prince. Good morrow, Ned.
Point. Good morrow, sweet Hal. What says
Monsieur Remorse? What says Sir John Sack-
and-Sugar? Jack! how agrees the devil and thee
about thy sonl, that thou soldest him on Good-
Friday last for a cup of Madeira and a cold
capon's leg? 12)
Prince. Sir John stands to his word, the devil
shall have his bargain; for he was never yet a
breaker of proverbs : he will give the devil his due.
Point. Then art thou damned for keeping thy
word with the devil.
Prince. Else he had been damned for cozen-
ing the devil. IS)
Point. But my lads, my lads, to-morrow
morning, by four o'clock, early at Gadshill!
There are pilgrims going to Canterbury with 1
rich offerings, and traders riding to London with
fat purses : I have visards for you all ; you have j
horses for yourselves. Gadshill lies to-night in [
Rochester; I have bespoke supper to-morrow
night in Eastcheap: we may do it as secure as
sleep. If you will go I will stuff your purses full
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of crowns; if you will not, tarry at home and be
hanged. 14T
Fal. Hear ye, Yedward: if I tarry at home
and go not, I'll hang yon for going.
Point. You will, chops?
Fal. Hal, wilt thou make one ?
Prince. Who, I rob? I a thief? not I, by my
faith. IDs
Fat There's neither honesty, manhood, nor
good fellowship in thee, nor thou earnest not of
the blood royal, if thou darest not stand for ten
shillings. 1ST
Prince. Well, then, once in my days I'll be a
madcap.
Fal. Why, that's well said. i«0
Prince. Well, come what will, I'll tarry at
Fal. By the Lard, I'll be a traitor then, when
thou art king. let
Prince. I care not.
Point. Sir John, I prithee, leave the prince
and me alone: I will lay him down such reasons
for this adventure that he shall go. Its
Fal. Well, God give thee the spirit of per-
suasion and him the ears of profiting, that what
thou speakest may move, and what he hears
may be believed, .that the true prince may, for
recreation sake, prove a false thief; for the poor
abuses of the time want countenance. Farewell:
you shall find me in Eastcheap. 175
Prince. Farewell, thou latter spring! Fare-
well, All-hallown summer! [Exit Falttaff.]
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Point. Now, my good swept honey lord, ride
with its to-morrow: I have a jest to execute that
I cannot manage alone. Falstaff, Bardolph,
Peto, and Gadshill shall rob those men that we
have already waylaid; yourself and I will not be
there; and when they have the booty, if yon
and I do not rob them, cut this head from my
shoulders. 189
Prince. But how shall we part with them in
setting forth?
Point. Why, we will, set forth before or after
them, and appoint them a place of meeting, *SWfcif(Eft«V
wherein it is at our pleasure to fail; and then
will they adventure upon the exploit themselves,
which they shall have no sooner achieved but I
we'll set upon them. 193
Prince. Yea, but 'tis like that they will know
us by our horses, by our habits, and by every
other appointment, to be ourselves. ia(
Point. Tut! our horses they shall not see,
I'll tie them in the wood; our vizards we will
change after we leave them; and, sirrah, I have
cases of buckram for the nonce, to inmask our
noted outward garments. 201
Prince. Yea, but I doubt they will be too
hard for us.
Point. Well, for two of them, I know them
to be as true-bred cowards as ever turned back;
and for the third, if he fight longer than he sees
reason, I'll forswear arms. The virtue of this
jest will be, the incomprehensible lies that this
: equipment 199 sirrah; rf. «.
line n for the nonce : for Ihi
201 noted" well-in own 206 the third; <■/.'«.
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same fat rogue will tell as when we meet at
sapper: bow thirty, at least, be fought with;
what wards, what blows, what extremities be
endured; and in the reproof of this lies the jest.
Prince. Well, I'll go with thee: provide as
all things necessary and meet me to-morrow
night in Eastcheap; there I'll sap. Farewell.
Point. Farewell, my lord. Exit Point,
Princi. I know yon all, and will awhile uphold 21?
The nnyok'd humour of your idleness:
Yet herein will I imitate the sun,
Who doth permit the base contagious clouds
To smother up bis beauty from the world, 221
That when he please again to be himself.
Being wanted, he may be more wonder'd at,
By breaking through the foul and ugly mists
Of vapours that did seem to strangle him^. 223
If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work ;
But when they seldom come, they wish'd for come,
And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. 229
(So, when this loose behaviour I throw off,
And pay the debt I never promised,
By how much better than my word I am 232
By so much shall I falsify men's hopes;
fend like bright metal on a sullen ground,
My reformation, glittering o'er my fault,
Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes
Than tbat which hath no foil to set it off. 237
I I'll so offend to make offence a skill ;
1 Redeeming time when men think least I will. Exit.
ncing 212 reproof: nfulation
-nrtitrointd cafricit
■: piitiltntial 229 accidenis; mints 234 aullcn: dull
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Enter the King, Northumberland, Worcetter, Hottpur,
Sir Walter Blunt, and other:
King. My blood hath been too cold and temperate,
Unapt to stir at these indignities,
And you have found me ; for accordingly
Yon tread upon my patience : but, be sure, *
I will from henceforth rather be myself,
Mighty, and to be f ear'd, than my condition,
Which hath been smooth as oil, soft as young down,
And therefore lost that title of respect 8
Which the proud soul ne'er pays bnt to the proud.
Wot. Out house, my sovereign liege, little deserves
The scourge of greatness to be us'd on it;
And that same greatness too which our own hands 12
Have holp to make so portly.
North. My lord,—
King. Worcester, get thee gone; for I do see
Danger and disobedience in thine eye. IS
O, sir, your presence is too bold and peremptory,
And majesty might never yet endure
The moody frontier of a servant brow.
You have good leave to leave us ; when we need
Your use and counsel we shall send for you. 21
Exit Worcetter.
[To Northumberland.] You were about to speak.
North. Yea, my good lord.
Those prisoners in your highness' name demanded,
Which Harry Percy here at Holmedon took, 24
3 found me: putted my character 6 condition : natural ditpotilien
13 pottij: ttateh
19 moody: angry frontier: the outworks of a fort, used ngurctiTely
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Were, as he says, not with such strength denied
As is deliver'd to your majesty:
Either envy, therefore, or misprision
Is guilty of this fault and not my son. 28
Hot. My liege, I did deny no prisoners:
Bnt I remember, when the fight was done,
When I was dry with rage and extreme toil,
Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, 33
Came there a certain lord, neat, and trimly dress'd,
Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin, new reap'd,
Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home :
He was perfumed like a milliner, 3*
And 'twist his finger and his thumb he held
A pouncet-box, which ever and anon
He gave his nose and took't away again;
Who therewith angry, when it next came there, 40
Took it in snuff: and still he smil'd and talk'd;
And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by,
He call'd them untaught knaves, unmannerly,
To bring a slovenly unhandsome corpse a
Betwixt the wind and his nobility.
With many holiday and lady terms
He question'd me; among the rest, demanded
My prisoners in your majesty's behalf. 48
I then all smarting with my wounds being cold,
To be so pester'd with a popinjay,
Out of my grief and my impatience
Answer'd neglectingly, I know not what, 52
He should, or he should not; for be made me mad
To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet
And talk so like a waiting-gentlewoman
26 deliver'd : reparled 27 mispriaion: miaapprthtnsion
36 milliner; cf. n. 38 pouncet-box: a btrforattd box for pirfumti
41 in snuff: at an offrnct (with play on the word muff)
46 holiday and lady term*: choict and ladyiikt iiprissuni
SO popinjay: parrot 51 grief: pain
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Of guns, and drums, and wounds, — God save the
mark ! — 68
And telling me the sovereign 'at thing on earth
Was parmaceti for an inward bruise ;
And that it was great pity, so it was,
This villainous saltpetre should be digg'd 80
Oat of the bowels of the harmless earth,
Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd
So cowardly; and but for these vile guns,
Me would himself have been a soldier. U
This bald unjointed chat of his, my lord,
I answer' d indirectly, as I said ;
And I beseech you, let not his report
Come current for an accusation 88
Betwixt my love and your high majesty.
Blunt. The circumstance consider' d, good my lord.
What e'er Lord Harry Percy then had said
To such a person and in such a place, 12
At such a time, with all the rest re-told,
May reasonably die and never rise
To do him wrong, or any way impeach
What then he said, so be unsay it now. 78
King. Why, yet he doth deny his prisoners,
But with proviso and exception,
That we at oar own charge shall ransom straight
His brother-in-law, the foolish Mortimer; 80
Who, on my soul, hath wilfully betray'd
The lives of those that he did lead to fight
Against that great magician, damn'd Glendower,
Whose daughter, as we hear, the Earl of March
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Hath lately married. Shall our coffers then SB
Be emptied to redeem a traitor home?
Shall ire bay treason, and indent with fears,
When they hare lost and forfeited themselves ?
No, on the barren mountains let him starve ; 89
| For I shall never hold that man my friend
| Whose tongue shall ask me for one penny cost
' To ransom home revolted Mortimer. 92
Rot. Revolted Mortimer!
He never did fall off, my sovereign liege,
But by the chance of war : to prove that true
Needs no more bnt one tongue for all those wounds, 96
Those mouthed wounds, which valiantly he took,
When on the gentle Severn's sedgy bank,
In single opposition, hand to hand,
He did confound the best part of an hour 100
In changing hardiment with great Glendower.
Three times they breath'd and three times did they
drink,
Upon agreement, of swift Severn's flood,
Who then, affrighted with their bloody looks, 104
Ban fearfully among the trembling reeds,
And hid his crisp head in the hollow bank
Blood-stained with these valiant combatants.
Never did base and rotten policy log
Colour her working with such deadly wounds ;
Nor never could the noble Mortimer
Receive so many, and all willingly:
Then let him not be slander'd with revolt. 112
King. Thou dost belie him, Percy, thou dost
belie him:
He never did encounter with Glendower:
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101 changing hardiment: exchanging vohvr
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I tell thee,
He durst as well have met the devil alone lie
As Owen Glendower for an enemy.
, Act thou not aaharo'd? But, sirrah, henceforth
.1 Let me not hear you speak of Mortimer:
I Send me your prisoners with the speediest means, 120
j Or yon shall hear in such a kind from me
* As will displease you. My Lord Northumberland,
We license your departure with your son.
Send us your prisoners, or you will hear of it. 124
Exit King [rnith Blunt and train].
Hot. An if the devil come and roar for them,
I will not send them: I will after straight
And tell him so; for I will ease my heart,
Albeit I make a hazard of my head. 128
North. What! drunk with choler? stay, and pause
awhile:
Here comes your ancle.
Enter Worcetter.
Hot. Speak of Mortimer !
'Zounds ! I will speak of him; and let my soul
Want mercy if I do not join with him: 182
In his behalf I'll empty all these veins,
And shed my dear blood drop by drop i' the dust,
But I will lift the down-trod Mortimer
As high i' the air as this unthankful king, 136
As this ingrate and canker'd Bolingbroke.
North. Brother, the king bath made your nephew
mad.
Wot. Who struck this heat up after I was gone ?
Hot. He will, forsooth, have all my prisoners ;
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And when I urg'd the ransom once again mi
Of my wife's brother, then his cheek look'd pale,
And on my face he turn'd an eye of death,
Trembling even at the name of Mortimer. 14*
Wor. I cannot blame him: was he not proclaim'd
By Richard that dead is the next of blood?
North. He was; I heard the proclamation:
And then it was when the unhappy king, — 148
Whose wrongs in ns God pardon ! — did set forth
Upon his Irish expedition;
From whence he, intercepted, did return
To be depoa'd, and shortly murdered. 152
Wor. And for whose death we in the world's wide
month
Live scandalis'd and Foully spoken of.
Hot. Bat, soft! I pray yon, did King Richard then
Proclaim my brother Edmund Mortimer ISO
Heir to the crown?
North. He did; myself did hear it.
Hot. Nay, then I cannot blame his cousin king,
That wish'd him on the barren mountains starve.
But shall it be that yon, that set the crown 100
Upon the head of this forgetful man,
And for his sake wear the detested blot
Of mnrd'rous subornation, shall it be.
That you a world of curses undergo, 104
Being the agents, or base second means,
The cords, the ladder, or the hangman rather?
O! pardon me that I descend so low,
To show the line and the predicament 168
Wherein you range under this subtle king.
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Shall it for shame be spoken in these days,
Or £11 lip chronicles in time to come,
That men of your nobility and power, 11
Did gage them both in an unjust behalf,
As both of you — God pardon it ! — hare done,
To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose,
And plant this thorn, this canker, Bolingbroke?
And shall it in more shame be farther spoken,
That you are fool'd, discarded, and shook off
By him for whom these shames ye> underwent?
No; yet time serves wherein yon may redeem it
Your banish'd honours, and restore yourselves
Into the good thoughts of the world again;
Revenge the jeering and disdain'd contempt
Of this proud king, who studies day and night
To answer all the debt he owes to you, it
Even with the bloody payment of your deaths.
Therefore, I say, —
Wot. Peace, cousin! say no more:
And now I will unclasp a secret book, If
And to your quick-conceiving discontents
111 read you matter deep and dangerous,
As full of peril and adventurous spirit
As to o'er walk a current roaring loud, 11
On the unsteadfast footing of a spear.
Hot. If he fall in, good night! or sink or swim:
Send danger from the east unto the west,
So honour cross it from the north to south, u
And let them grapple: O! the blood more stirs
To rouse a lion than to start a bare.
North. Imagination of some great exploit
Drives him beyond the bounds of patience. M
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Hot. By heaven methinks it were an easy leap
To pluck bright honour from the pale-f ac'd moon,
Or dive into the bottom of the deep,
Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, 304
And pluck up drowned honour by the locks ;
So he that doth redeem her thence might wear
Without corrival all her dignities:
Bat out upon this half-fac'd fellowship ! 20a
Wor. He apprehends a world of figures here,
But not the form of what he should attend.
Good cousin, give me audience for a while.
Hot. I cry you mercy.
Wor. Those same noble Scots 213
That are your prisoners, —
Hot. I'll keep them all;
By God, he shall not have a Scot of them:
No, if a Scot would save his soul, he shall not:
I'll keep them, by this hand.
Wor. You start away, zi«
And lend no ear unto my purposes.
Those prisoners you shall keep.
I Hot. Nay, I will; that's flat:
■ He said he would not ransom Mortimer ;
I Forbade my tongue to speak of Mortimer; 220
I But I will find him when he lies asleep,
i And in his ear I'll holla 'Mortimer !'
Nay,
I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak 224
Nothing but 'Mortimer,' and give it him,
To keep his anger still in motion.
Wor. Hear you, cousin; a word.
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Hot. All studies here I solemnly defy, 228
Save how to gall and pinch this Bolingbroke:
And that same sword-and-buckler Prince of Wales,
But that I think his father loves him not,
And would be glad he met with some mischance,
I would have him poison'd with a pot of ale. 28*
Wot. Farewell, kinsman: I will talk to you
When you are better temper' d to attend.
North. Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient
fool 284
Art thou to break into this woman's mood,
Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own !
Hot. Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd
with rods,
Nettled, and stung with pismires, when I hear
Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke. Ml
In Richard's time, — what do ye call the place? —
A plague Upon 't — it is in Gloucestershire ;—
'Twas where the madcap duke his uncle kept,
His uncle York; where I first bow'd my knee
Unto this king of smiles, this Bolingbroke,
'Sbloodl
When you and he came back from Rarenspurgh.
North. At Berkeley Castle. 349
Hot. Yon say true.
Why, what a candy deal of courtesy
This fawning greyhound then did proffer me!
Look, 'when his infant fortune came to age,' 26s
And 'gentle Harry Percy,' and 'kind cousin.'
O ! the devil take such cozeners. God forgive me !
Good uncle, tell your tale, for I have done. 258
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Wor. Nay, if yon have not, to 't again;
Well stay your leisure.
Hot. I have done, i' faith.
Wor. Then once more to your Scottish prisoners,
Deliver them up without their ransom straight,
And make the Douglas' son your only mean 2S1
For powers in Scotland; which, for divers reasons
Which I shall send yon written, be assur'd,
Will easily be granted. [To Northumberland.] You,
my lord, 364
Your son in Scotland being thus employ'd,
Shall secretly into the bosom creep
Of that same noble prelate well belov'd,
The Archbishop. 2SS
Hot. Of York, is it not?
Wor. True; who bears hard
His brother's death at Bristol, the Lord Scroop.
I speak not this in estimation, 272
As what I think might be, but what I know
Is ruminated, plotted and set down ;
And only stays but to behold the face
Of that occasion that shall bring it on. 2T8
Hot. I smell it.
Upon my life it will do wondrous well.
North. Before the game's afoot thou still lett'st
slip.
Hot. Why, it cannot choose bnt be a noble plot: 280
And then the power of Scotland and of York,
To join with Mortimer, ha?
Wor. And so they shall.
Hot. In faith, it is exceedingly well aim'd.
Wor. And 'tis no little reason bids us speed,
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To save our beads by raising of a bead; 285
For, bear ourselves as even as we can,
The Icin g will always think him in our debt,
And think we think ourselves unsatisfied, 288
Till he hath found a time to pay us home.
And see already how he doth begin
To make us strangers to his looks of love.
Hot. He does, he does: we'll be reveng'd on
him. 292
Wot. Cousin, farewell: no further go in this,
Than I by letters shall direct your course.
When time is ripe, — which will be suddenly, —
I'll steal to Glendower and Lord Mortimer; 296
Where you and Douglas and our powers at once, —
As I will fashion it, — shall happily meet,
To bear our fortunes in our own strong arms,
Which now we hold at much uncertainty. 800
North. Farewell, good brother: we shall thrive, I
trust.
Hot. Uncle, adieu : O ! let the hours be short,
Till fields and blows and groans applaud our sport!
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ACT SECOND
Scene One
[Rochester. An Inn-Yard]
Enter a Carrier, with a lantern in his hand.
Firtt Car. Heigh-ho! An 't be not four by
the day 111 he hanged: Charles' Wain is over
the new chimney, and yet our horse not packed.
What, ostler ! 4
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Ost. [within.] Anon, anon.
First Car. I prithee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle,
put a few flocks in the point: the poor jade is
wrung in the withers out of all cess. 1
Enter another Carrier.
Sec. Car. Peas and beans are as dank here as
a dog, and that is the next way to give poor
jades the bots; this house is turned upside down
since Robin Ostler died. 11
FirttCar. Poor fellow! never joyed since the
price of oats rose ; it was the death of him.
Sec. Car. I think this be the most villainous
house in all London road for fleas: I am stung
like a tench. 1'
First Car. Like a tench ! by the mass, there
is ne'er a king christen could be better bit than
I have been since the first cock. 2<
Sec. Car. Why, they will allow us ne'er a
Jordan, and then we leak in the chimney; and
your chamber lie breeds fleas like a loach.
First Car. What, ostler ! come away and be
hanged, come away. 2!
Sec. Car. I have a gammon of bacon and
two razes of ginger, to be delivered as far as
Cbaring-cross. 3f
First Car. Godsbody! the turkeys in my
pannier are quite starved. What, ostler! A
plague on thee ! hast thou never an eye in thy
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head? canst not hear? An 'twere not as good a
deed as drink to break the pate on thee, I am a
very villain. Come, and be hanged! hast no
faith in thee?
. Enter Gadshill.
Gad*. Good morrow, carriers. What's o'clock?
Firtt Car. I think it be two o'clock. 87
Gads. I prithee, lend me thy lantern, to see
my gelding in the stable.
Firtt Car. Nay, by. God, soft: I know a
trick worth two of that, i' faith. 41
Gad*. I prithee, lend me thine.
Sec. Car. Ay, when? canst tell? Lend me '
thy lantern, quoth a'? marry, I'll see thee
hanged first. 45
Gads. Sirrah carrier, what time do yon mean
to come to London?
Sec. Car. Time enough to go to bed with a
candle, I warrant thee. Come, neighbour Mngs,
we'll call up the gentlemen: they will along
with company, for they have great charge.
Exeunt [Carrier*]. Enter Chamberlain.
Gad*. What, ho! chamberlain! 62
Cham. 'At hand, quoth pick-purse'
Gad*. That's even as fair as, 'at hand, quoth
the chamberlain' ; for thou variest no more from
picking of purses than giving direction doth
from labouring; thou layest the plot how. 87
Cham. Good morrow, Master Gadshill. It
holds current that I told you yesternight: there's
a franklin in the wild of Kent hath brought
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three hundred marks with him in gold: I heard
him tell it to one of his company last night at
sapper; a kind of auditor; one that hath abun-
dance of charge too, God knows what. They are
np already and call for eggs and butter: they
will away presently.
Gads. Sirrah, if they meet not with Saint
Nicholas' clerks, I'll give thee this neck. at
Cham. No, I'll none of it: I prithee, keep
that for the hangman; for I know thou wor-
ship's! Saint Nicholas as truly as a man of
falsehood may. Ti
Gads. What talkest thou to me of the
hangman? If I hang 111 make a fat pair of
gallows; for if I hang, old Sir John hangs with
me, and thou knowest he's no starveling. Tut!
there are other Troyans that thou dreamest not
of, the which for sport sake are content to do
the profession some grase; that would, if matters
should be looked into, for their own credit sake
make all whole. I am joined with no foot-land-
rakers, no long-staff sixpenny strikers, none of
these mad mustachio-pucple-hoed malt worms;
but. with nobility and tranquillity, burgomasters
and great oneyers, such as can hold in, snch as
will strike sooner than speak, and speak sooner
than drink, and drink sooner than pray: and
yet I lie; for they pray continually to their
saint, the commonwealth; or, rather, not pray
to her, but prey on her, for they ride up and
down on her and make her their boots.
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Cham. What! the commonwealth their
boots? will she hold oat water in fool way? »
Gad*. She will, she will; justice hath liquored
her. We steal as in a castle, cock-sure ; we have
the receipt of fern-seed, we walk invisible. so
Cham. Nay, by my faith, I think yon are
more beholding to the night than to fern-seed
for your walking invisible.
Gadt. Give me thy hand: thon shalt have a
share in our purchase, as I am a true man. 101
Cham. Nay, rather let me have it, as you are
false thief.
Gadt. Go to; homo is a common name to all
men. Bid the ostler bring my gelding out of
the stable. Farewell, you muddy knave. ids
[Exeunt.
Scene Two
[GadikSl. • The highway]
Enter Prince, Point, and Peto.
Point. Come, shelter, shelter: I have re-
moved Fal staff's lor Be, and he frets like a
gummed velvet.
Prince. Stand close. 4
Enter Falttaf.
Fal. Poins! Poins, and be hanged! Poins!
Prince. Peace, ye fat-kidneyed rascal! What
a brawling dost thou keep !
Fal. Where's Poins, Hal? 8
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Prince. He is walked up to the top of the
hill: I'll go seek him. [Withdrawn.']
Fal. I am accursed to rob in that thief's
company; the rascal hath removed my horse
and tied him I know not where. If I travel bat
four foot by the squire further afoot I shall
break my wind. Well, I doubt not but to die a
fair death for all this, if I 'scape hanging for
killing that rogue. I have forsworn his company
hourly any time this two-and-twenty years,
and yet I am bewitched with the rogue's com-
pany. If the rascal have not given me medicines
to make me love him, 111 be hanged: it could
not be else: I have drunk medicines. Poins!
Hal! a plague upon you both! Bardolph!
Peto! I'll starve ere I'll rob a foot further. An
'twere not as good a deed as drink to turn true
men and leave these rogues, I am the veriest
varlet that ever chewed with a tooth. Eight
yards of uneven ground is threescore and ten
miles afoot with me, and the stony-hearted
villains know it well enough. A plague upon 't
when thieves cannot be true one to another!
They whittle.
Whew! A plague upon you all! Give me my
horse, you rogues; give me my horse and be
hanged. 3*
Prince. [Coming forward.] Peace, ye fat-
guts! lie down: lay thine ear close to the
ground, and list if thou canst hear the tread
of travellers. 88
Fal. Have you any levers to lift me up again,
being down? 'Sblood! I'll not bear mine own
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flesh so far afoot again for all the coin in thy
father's exchequer. What a plague mean ye to
colt me thus ?
Prince. Thou liest: thou art not colted; thou
art uncoiled. 40
Fal. I prithee, good Prince Hal, help me to
my horse, good king's son.
Prince. Out, you rogue ! shall I be your ostler?
Fal. Go, hang thyself in thine own heir appa-
rent garters ! If I be ta'en I'll peach for this. An
I have nqt ballads made on you all, and sung to
filthy tunes, let a cup of sack be my poison: when
a jest is so forward, and afoot too! I hate it. 68
Enter Gadshill [and Btfttdtph].
Gad*. Stand.
Fal. So I do, against my will.
Poiitf. O! 'tis our setter: I know his voice.
Bardolph, what news? 57
Bard. Case ye, ease ye; on with your vizards:
there's money of the king's coming down the
hill; 'tis going to the king's exchequer. eo
Fal. You lie, you rogue; 'tis going to the
king's tavern. ■
Gads. There's enough to make us all.
Fal. To be hanged. 64
Prince. Sirs, yon four shall front them in the
narrow lane; Ned Poins and I will walk lower:
if they 'scape from your encounter then they
light on us. as
Peto. How many be there of them?
Gads. Some eight or ten.
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Fal. 'Zounds ! will they Dot rob us ?
Prince. What! a coward, Sir John Paunch?
Fal. Indeed, I am not John of Gaunt, your
grandfather; but yet no coward, HaL 74
Prince. Well, we leave that to the proof.
Pains. Sirrah Jack, thy horse stands behind
the hedge: when thou needst him there thou
shalt find him. Farewell, and stand fast.
[Prince and Point -withdraw.]
Fal. Now cannot I strike him if I should be
hanged. 80
Prince. Ned, where are our disguises?
Point. Here, hard by ; stand close.
Fal. Now my masters, happy man be his
dole, say I: every man to his business. SB
Enter Travellert.
Firtt Trav. Come, neighbour; the boy shall
lead our horses down the hill; well walk afoot
awhile, and ease our legs. 88
Thieves. Stand!
Travellert. Jesu bless us!
Fal. Strike; down with them; cat the vil-
lains' throats : ah ! whoreson caterpillars ! bacon-
fed knaves! they hate us youth: down with
them; fleece them.
Travellert. O! we are undone, both we and
ours for ever. 9«
Fal. Hang ye, gorbellied knaves, are ye un-
done? No, ye fat chuffs; I would your store
were here! On, bacons, on! What! ye knaves,
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young men must live. You are grand-jnrors
are ye? We'll jure ye, i' faith. 101
Here they rob them and bind them. Exeunt.
Enter the Prince and Point.
Prince. The thieves have bound the true men.
Now could thou and I rob the thieves and go
merrily to London, it would be argument for a
week, laughter for a month, and a good jest for
ever. ios
Point. Stand close; I hear them coming.
Enter the thievet again.
Fat. Come, my masters; let us share, and
then to horse before day. An the Prince and
Poins be not two arrant cowards, there's no I
equity stirring: there's no more valour in that I
Poins than in a wild duck. 112
Prince. Your money !
Point. Villains!
At they are tharing, the Prince and Point tet
upon them. They all run away; and Fal-
ttaff, after a blow or two, runt away too,
leaving the booty behind them.
Prince. Got with much ease. Now merrily to horse:
The thieves are scatter'd and possess'd with fear
So strongly that they dare not meet each other ;
Each takes his fellow for an officer.
Away, good Ned. Falstaff sweats to death
And lards the lean earth as he walks along:
Weren't not for laughing I should pity him.
Point. How the ro gue roar'd! Exeunt.
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Scene Three
[Warleworth Cattle]
Enter Hotspur, solus, reading a letter.
"But for mine own part, my lord, I could be
veil contented to be there, in respect of the lore
I bear your house."
He could be contented; why is he not then? In
respect of the love he bears our house: he shows
in this he loves his own barn better than he
loves our house. Let me see some more.
"The purpose you undertake is dangerous; — " !
Why, that's certain: 'tis dangerous to take a
cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord
fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this
flower, safety. 13
"The purpose you undertake is dangerous; the
friends you have named uncertain; the time itself
unsorted; and your whole plot too light for the
counterpoise of so great an opposition." II
Say you so, say you so? I say unto you again,
you are a shallow cowardly hind, and you lie.
What a lack-brain is this ! By the Lord, our plot
is a good plot as ever was laid; our friends true
and constant: a good plot, good friends, and full
of expectation; an excellent plot, very good
friends. What a frosty-spirited rogne is this!
Why, my Lord of York commends the plot and
the general course of the action. 'Zounds! an
I were now by this rascal, I could brain him
with his lady's fan. Is there not my father, my
uncle, and myself ? Lord Edmund Mortimer, my
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Lord of York, and Owen Glendower? Is there
not besides the Douglas? Have I not all their
letters to meet me in arms by the ninth of the
next month, and are they not some of them set
forward already? What a pagan rascal is this!
an infidel! Ha! you shall see now in very sin-
cerity of fear and cold heart, will he to the king
and lay open all our proceedings. O ! I could
divide myself and go to buffets, for moving such
a dish of skim milk with so honourable an
action. Hang him! let him tell the king; we
are prepared. I will -set forward to-night 40
Enter hit Lady.
How now, Kate ! I must leave you within these two
hours. /
Lady P. O, my good lord ! why arp'you thus alone ?
For what offence have I this fortnight been
A banish'd woman from my Harry's bed? 44
Tell me, sweet lord, what is 't that takes from thee
Thy stomach, pleasure, and thy golden sleep?
Why dost thou bend thine eyes upon the earth,
And start so often when thou sitt'st alone? 4a
Why hast thou lost the fresh blood in thy cheeks.
And given my treasures and my rights of thee
To thick-eyed musing and curst melancholy?
In thy faint slumbers I by thee have watch' d, 62
And heard thee murmur tales of iron wars,
Speak terms of manage to thy hounding steed,
Cry, 'Courage ! to the field !' And thou hast talk'd
Of sallies and retires, of trenches, tents, 53
Of palisadoes, frontiers, parapets,
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Of basilisks, of cannon, culverin,
Of prisoners' ransom, and of soldiers slain,
And all the currents of a heady fight. <w>
Thy spirit within thee hath been so at war,
And thus hath so bestirr'd thee in thy sleep,
That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow.
Like babbles in a late-disturbed stream; 64
And in thy face strange motions have appear' d,
Such as we see when men restrain their breath
On some great sudden hest. O ! what portents are
Some heavy business hath my lord in hand, as
And I must know it, else he loves me not.
Hot. What, ho! [Enter Servant.] Is GUliams
with the packet gone?
Serv. He is, my lord, an hour ago.
Hot. Hath Butler brought those horses from the
sheriff? 72
Serv. One horse, my lord, he brought even now.
Hot. What horse? a roan, a crop-ear, is it not?
Serv. It is, my lord.
Hot. That roan shall be my throne.
Well, I will back him straight: O, Etperahce!
Bid Butler lead him forth into the park.
[Exit Servant.]
Lady P. But hear you, my lord.
Hot. What sayst thou, my lady?
Lady P. What is it carries you away? bo
Hot. Why, my horse, my love, my horse.
Lady P. Out, you mad-headed ape !
A weasel hath not such a deal of spleen
As you are toss'd with. In faith, at
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67 hest: command
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I'll know your business, Harry, that I will.
I fear my brother Mortimer doth stir
About his title, and hath sent for yon
To line his enterprise. Sot if you go — 88
Hot. So far afoot, I shall be weary love.
Lady P. Come, come, you paraquito, answer me
Directly unto this question that I ask.
In faith, I'll break thy little finger, Harry, »2
An if thou wilt not tell me all things true.
Hot. Away,
Away, you trifler ! Love ! I love thee not,
I care not for thee, Kate: this is no world bo
To play with mammets and to tilt with lips:
We must have bloody noses and crack'd crowns,
And pass them current too. God's me, my horse !
What sayst thou, Kate? what wouldst thou have
with me? 100
Lady P. Do you not love me? do you not, indeed?
Well, do not, then ; for since yon love me not,
I will not love myself. Do you not love me?
Nay, tell me if you speak in jest or no. 104
Hot. Come, wilt thou see me ride ?
And when I am o' horseback, 1 will swear
I love thee infinitely. But hark you, Kate ;
I must not have you henceforth question me ios
Whither I go, nor reason whereabout.
Whither I must, I must; and, to conclude,
This evening must I leave you, gentle Kate.
I know you wise; but yet no further wise 113
Than Harry Percy's wife: constant you are,
But yet a woman: and for secrecy,
No lady closer; for I well believe
Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know ;
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And so far will I trust thee, gentle Kate. HT
Lady P. How! so far?
Hot. Not an inch farther. But, hark you, Kate ;
Whither I go, thither shall you go too; 120
To-day will I set forth, to-morrow you.
Will this content you, Kate?
Isody P. It must, of force.
Exeunt.
Scene Four
[Eaitckeap. The Boar't Head Tavern]
Enter Prince and Point.
Prince. Ned, prithee, come out of that fat
room, and lend me thy hand to laugh a little.
Point. Where hast been, Hal? 8
Prince. With three or four loggerheads a-
mongst three or four score hogsheads. I have
sounded the very base string of humility. Sir-
rah, I am sworn brother to a leash of drawers,
and can call them all by their christen names,
as Tom, Dick, and Francis. They take it already
npon their salvation, that though I be but Prince
of Wales, yet I am the king of courtesy ; and tell
me flatly I am no proud Jack, like Falstaff, but
a Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a good boy, — by
the Lord, so they call me, — and when I am king
of England, I shall command all the good lads
in Eastcheap. They call drinking deep, dyeing
scarlet; and when you breathe in your watering,
they cry 'hem!' and bid you play it off. To
1 fatroom: room conlainina rati (?), or clou, stvgyrooiH
9 take it . . . upon: swear by 13 Corinthian! good up art
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conclude, I am 90 good a proficient in one
quarter of an hour, that I can drink with any
tinker in his own language during my life. I
tell thee, Ned, thou hast lost much honour that
thou wert not with me in this action. But, sweet
Ned, — to sweeten which name of Ned, I give thee
this pennyworth of sugar, clapped even now into
my hand by an underskinker, one that never
spoke other English in his life than — 'Eight
shillings and sixpence,' and — 'You are welcome,*
with this shrill addition, — 'Anon, anon, sir!
Score s pint of bastard in the Half-moon,' or
so. But, Ned, to drive away the time till Falstaff
come, I prithee do thou stand In some by-room,
while I question my puny drawer to what end
he gave me the sugar; and do thou never leave
calling 'Francis!' that his tale to me may be
nothing but 'Anon.' Step aside, and I'll show
thee a precedent. 87
Point. Francis !
Prince. Thou art perfect.
Point. Francis ! [Exit Point.]
Enter Drawer [Francit].
Fran. Anon, anon, sir. Look down into the
Pomgarnet, Ralph.
Prince. Come hither, Francis.
Fran. My lord. 44
Prince. How long hast thou to serve, Francis?
Fran. Forsooth, five years, and as much as to —
Point [within.] Francis!
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Fran. Anon, anon, sir. it
Prince. Five years ! by'r lady a long lease for
the clinking of pewter. But, Francis, darest
thou be so valiant as to play the coward with
thy indenture and show it a fair pair of heels
and run from it? fii
Fran. Lord, sir ! I'll be sworn upon all the
books in England, I could find in my heart —
Point [within.] Francis! Bt
Fran. Anon, sir.
Prince. How old art thou, Francis?
Fran. Let me see — about Michaelmas next I
shall be — w
Point I within^. ] Francis !
Fran. Anon, sir. Pray you, stay a little, my
lord.
Prince. Nay, but hark you, Francis. For the
sugar thou gavest me, 'twas a pennyworth,
was 't not? «
Fran. O Lord, sir ! I would it had been two.
Prince. I will give thee for it a thousand
pound: ask me when thou wilt and thou shalt
have it.
Point [within.] Francis!
Fran. Anon, anon. V.
Prince. Anon, Francis ? No, Francis ; but
to-morrow, Francis ; or, Francis, o' Thurs-
day; or, indeed, Francis, when thou wilt. But,
Francis ! Tt
Fran. My lord?
Prince. Wilt thou rob this leathern-jerkin,
crystal-button, not-pated, agate-ring, pnke-
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stocking, caddis-garter, smooth-tongue, Spanish-
pouch, — 81
Fran. O Lord, sir, who do 70a mean?
Prince. Why then, your brown bastard is
your only drink; for, look you, Francis, your
white canvas doublet will sully. In Barbary, sir,
it cannot come to so much.
Fran. What, sir?
Point [within.'] Francis ! 88
Prince. Away, you rogue ! Dost thou not t
hear them call ?
Here they both call Aim; the Drawer standi
amazed, not knowing which way to go.
Enter Vintner.
Vint. What! standest thou still, and bearcat
such a calling? Look to the guests within.
[Exit Drawer.] My lord, old Sir John, with
half a dozen more, are at the door: shall I let
them in?
Prince. Let them alone awhile, and then
open the door. [ Exit Vintner.] Poins ! 9T
Enter Point.
Point. Anon, anon, sir.
Prince. Sirrah, Falstaff and the rest of the
thieves are at the door: shall we be merry? 100
Point. As merry as crickets, my lad. But
hark ye; what cunning match have you made
with this jest of the drawer? come, what's the
issue ? 104
Prince. I am now of all humours that have
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ahow'd themselves humours since the old days
of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this
present twelve o'clock at , midnight. [ Drawer
crosses the stage, with bottle*.] What's o'clock,
Francis ? 1.1.0
Fran, Anon, anon, sir. [Exit.]
Prince. That ever this fellow should have
fewer words than a parrot, and yet the son of a
woman! His industry is op-stairs and down-
stairs; his eloquence the parcel of a reckoning.
I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the
North; he that kills me some sis or seven dozen
of Scots at a breakfast, washes his hands, and
says to his wife, 'Fie upon this quiet life! I
want work.' 'O my sweet Harry,' says she, 'how
many hast thou killed to-day?' 'Give my roan
horse a drench,' says he, and answers, 'Some
fourteen,' an hour after, 'a trine, a trifle.' I
prithee call in Falstaff : I'll play Percy, and that
r ' damned brawn shall play Dame Mortimer his
wife. 'Rivo!' says the drunkard. Call in ribs,
call in tallow. 127
Enter Falttaff, [Bardolph, Peto, and Gadthill. The
Drawer follows, with trine.]
Point. Welcome, Jack': where hast thou been?
Fed. A plague of all cowards, I say, and a
vengeance too! marry, and amen! Give me a
cup of sack, boy. Ere I lead this life long,
I'll sew nether-stocks and mend them and foot
them too. A plague of all cowards ! Give me a
pupil age : youthful time
parcel of a reckoning: an item on a bill
drench: fcran a«d water 125 brawn; of. h.
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King Henry the fourth, II, iv *i
cup of sack, rogue. — Is there no virtue extant?
He drinketh.
Prince. Didst thou never see Titan kiss a dish
of batter — pitiful hearted Titan — that melted at
the sweet tale of the son? if thou didst, then
behold that compound. 188
Fal. You rogue, here's lime in this sack too:
there is nothing but roguery to be found in
villainous man: yet a coward is worse than a cup
of sack with lime in it, a villainous coward! Go
thy ways, old Jack; die when thou wilt. If man-
hood, good manhood, he not forgot upon the
face of the earth, then am I a shotten herring.
There live not three good men unhanged in*_— .
England, and one of them is fat and grows old:
God help the while ! a bad world, I say, I would
I were a weaver; I could sing psalms or any-
thing. A plague of all cowards, I say still.
Prince. How now, wool-sack! what mutter
Fal. A king's son! If I do not beat thee out
of thy kingdom with a dagger of lath, and drive
all thy subjects afore thee like a flock of wild
geese, 111 never wear hair on my face more.
You Prince of Wales ! 167
Prince. Why, you whoreson round man,
what's the matter?
Fal. Are you not a coward? answer me to
that; and Poins there? 181
Point. 'Zounds! ye fat paunch, an ye call
me coward, by the Lord, I'll stab thee.
Fal. I call thee coward! I'll see thee damned
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ere I call thee coward; but I would give a thou-
sand pound I could run as fast as thou canst.
You are straight enough in the shoulders; 7011
care not who sees your back: call yon that back-
ing of your friends? A plague upon such back-
ing! give me them that will face me. Give me
a cap of sack: I am a rogue if I drunk to-
day. 172
Prince. O villain! thy lips are scarce wiped
since thou drunkest last.
Fal. All's one for that. He drinketh.
A plague of all cowards, still say I. ITS
Prince. What's the matter?
Fal. What's the matter? there be four of us
here have ta'en a thousand pound this day
morning. ISO
Prince. Where is it, Jack? where is it?
Fal. Where is it! taken from us it is: a hun-
dred upon poor four of us.
Prince. What, & hundred, man? JM
Fal. I am a rogue, if I were not at half-sword
with a dozen of them two hours together. I
have 'scap'd by miracle. I am eight times thrust
through the doublet, four through the hose ;
my buckler cut through and through; my sword
hacked like a hand-saw: ecce lignum! I never
dealt better since I was a man: all would not
do. A plague of all cowards ! Let them apeak:
if they speak more or less than truth, they are
villains and the sons of darkness.
Prince. Speak, sirs; how was it?
Gad*. We four set upon some dozen, — 1M
Fal. Sixteen, at least, my lord.
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King Henry the Fourth, II. iv *•
Gads. And bound them.
Peto. No, no, they were not bound.
Fal. Yon rogue, they were bound, every
man of them; or I am a Jew else, an Ebrew
Jew.
Gad*. As we were sharing, some six or seven
fresh men set upon us, — 204
Fal. And unbound the rest, and then come
in the other.
Prime. What, fought ye with them all?
Fal. All! I know not what ye call all; but if
I fought not with fifty of them, I am a bunch of
radish: if there were not two or three and fifty
upon poor old Jack, then am I no two-legged
creature. 212
Prince. Pray God you have not murdered
some of them.
Fal. Nay, that's past praying for: I have
peppered two of them: two I am sure I have
paid, two jroggej ■" hflckr&m suits, I tell thee
what, Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call
me horse. Thou knowest my old ward; here I
lay, and thus I bore my point. Four rogueajn,
bu ckram l et drive at me, — 221
Prince. What, four? thou saidst but two
even now.
Fal. Four, Hal; I told thee four. 224
Point. Ay, ay, he said four.
Fal. These four, came all a-front, and mainly
thrust at me, I made me no more ado but took
all their seven points in my target, thus. 22s
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Prince. Seven? why, there were but four even
now.
Fal. In buckram?
Point. Ay, four, in buckram suits. 28!
Fal. Seven, by these hilts, or I am a villain
else.
Prince. Prithee, let him alone; we shall have
more anon. 28<
Fal. Dost thou hear me, Hal?
Prince. Ay, and mark thee too, Jack.
Fid. Do so, for it is worth the listening to.
These nine in buckram t hat I told thee of, — 2U
Prince. So, two more already.
Fal. Their points being broken, —
Point. Down fell their hose.
Fal. Began to give me ground; bat I fol-
lowed me close, came in foot and hand, and
with a thought seven of the eleven I paid
Prince. O monstrous ! efeven buckram men
grown out of two. 2«
F al. But, as the devil would have it, .three
misbej£>tten_knavesjn Kendal-green came at my
back and let drive at me; for it was so dark,
Hal, that thou couldst not see thy hand. 23;
Prince. These lies are like the father that be-
gets them; gross as a mountain, open, palpable.
Why, thou clay-brained guts, thou knotty-pated
fool, thou whoreson, obscene, greasy tallow-
ketch, — 255
Fal. What, art thou mad? art thou mad?
is not the truth the truth ?
Prince. Why, how couldst thou know these
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King Henry the Fourth, II. iv «
men in Kendal- green, when it was so dark thou I
couldst not see thy hand? come, tell us your '
reason: what sayest thou to this? 293
Point. Come, your reason, Jack, your reason.
Wal. What, upon compulsion? 'Zounds! an
I were at the strappado, or all the racks in the
world, I would not tell you on compulsion. Give
you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons were as .
plenty as blackberries I would give no man a i
reason upon compulsion, I. 270 I
Prince. I'll be no longer guilty of this sin:
this sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this
horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh; — 278
Fal. 'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you
dried neat's-tongue, you bull's pizzle, you stock-
fish! 0! for breath to utter what is like thee;
you tailor's yard, you sheath, you bow-case, you
vile standing-tuck, — 273
Prince. Well, breathe awhile, and then to it
again; and when thou hast tired thyself in base
comparisons, hear me speak but this. 2S1
Point. Mark, Jack.
Prince. We two saw you four set on four and --.
you bound them, and were masters of their lAirt*E«.'7.,>.,
wealth. Mark now, how a plain tale shall put
you down. Then did we two set on you four, and,
with a word, out-faced you from your prize, and
have it; yea, and can show it you here in the
house. And, Falstaff, you carried your guts away
as nimbly, with as quick dexterity, and roared
for mercy, and still ran and roared, as ever I
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heard bull-calf. What a slave art thon, to hack
thy sword as thon hast done, and then say it
was in fight! What trick, what device, what
starting-hole canst thon now find out to hide
thee from this open and apparent shame ? 2»i
Point. Come, lefs hear, Jack; what trick
hast thon now?
Fal. By the Lord, I knew ye as well as he
that made ye. Why, hear yon, my masters : was
it for me to kill the heir-apparent? Should I turn
upon the true prince? Why, thou knowest I am
i as valiant as Hercules; but beware instinct: the
1 lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is
la great matter, I was a cowa rd_ on inatinri:. I
I shall think the better of myself and thee during
my life; I for a valiant lion, and thou for a true
prince. But, by the Lord, lads, I am glad yon
have the money. Hostess, clap to the doors:
watch to-night, pray to-morrow. - Gallants, lads,
boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellow-
ship come to yon! What! shall*we be merry?
shall we have a play extempore,? 811
Prince. Content; and the argument shall be
- thy running away.
Fal. Ah ! no more of that, Hal, an thou lovest
me! 8i'
Enter Hottest.
Host. O Jesu ! my lord the prince !
Prince. How now, my lady the hostess ! what
sayest thou to me? • 8H
Hott. Marry, my lord, there is a nobleman
of the court at door would speak with you: he
says he comes from your father.
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King Henry the Fourth, II. iv *?
Prince. Give him as much as will make him a
royal man, and send htm back again to my mother.
Fal. What manner of man is he? 820
Hott. An old man.
Fal. What doth gravity out of his bed at
midnight £ Shall I give him his answer?
Prince. Prithee, do, Jack. 880
Fal. Faith, and I'll send him packing. Exit.
Prince. Now, sirs: by'r lady, you f ought fair;
so did you, Peto; so did you, Bardolph: yon are
lions too, you ran away upon instinct, you will
not touch the true prince; no, fie!
Bard. Faith, I ran when I saw others run. S36
Prince. Faith, tell me now in earnest, how
came Falstaff's sword so hacked?
Peto. Why he hacked it with his dagger, and /
said he would swear truth out of England bnt /
he would make you believe it was done in fight,
and persuaded us to do the like. 842
Bard. Yea, and to tickle onr noses with
spear-grass to make them bleed, and then to be-
slubber our garments with it and swear it
was the blood of true men. I did that I did not
this seven year before; I blushed to hear his
monstrous devices. 848
Prince. O villain ! thou stolest a cup of sack
eighteen years ago, and wert taken with the
manner, and ever since thou hast blushed ex-
tempore. Thou hadst fire and sword on thy side,
and yet thou rannest away. What instinct
hadst thou for it.
Bard. [Pointing to hit own face.] My lord, do
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you see these meteors ? do you behold these
exhalations ? 357
Prince. I do.
Bard. What think you they portend?
Prince. Hot livers and cold parses. 3W
Bard. Choler, my lord, if rightly taken.
Prince. No, if rightly taken, halter. —
Enter Falitaff.
Here comes lean Jack, here comes bare-bone. —
How now, my sweet creature of bombast ! How
long is 't ago, Jack, since thou sawest thine own
knee? 366
Fal. My own knee! When I was about thy
years, Hal, I was not an eagle's talon in the
waist; I could have crept into any alderman's
thumb-ring. A plague of sighing and grief! it
blows a man up like a bladder. There's villain-
ous news abroad: here was Sir John Bracy from
your father: you must to the court in the morn-
ing. That same mad fellow of the north, Percy,
and he of Wales, that gave Amaimon the basti-
nado and made Lucifer cuckold, and swore
the devil his true liegeman upon the cross of a
Welsh hook — what a plague call you him? 878
Point. O, Glendower.
Fal. Owen, Owen, the same; and his son-in-
law Mortimer; and old- Northumberland; and
that sprightly Scot of Scots, Douglas, that runs
o' horseback up a hill perpendicular.
Prince. He that rides at high speed and with
his pistol kills a sparrow flying. 885
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Fal. Yon have hit it.
Prince. So did be never the sparrow.
Fal. Well, that rascal hath good mettle in
him ; he will not ran. sss
Prince. Why, what a rascal art thou then .to
praise him so for running!
Fal. O' horseback, ye cuckoo! but, afoot he
will not bodge a foot. sss
Prince. Yes, Jack, upon instinct.
Fal. I grant ye, npon instinct. Well, be is
there too, and one Mordake, and a thousand
blue-caps more. Worcester is stolen away to-
night; thy father's beard is turned white with
the news: you may buy land now as cheap as
stinking mackerel. 400
Prince. Why then, it is like, if there come a
hot June and this civil buffeting hold, we shall
'buy maidenheads as they buy hob-nails, by the
hundreds. 404
Fal. By the mass, lad, thou sayest true; it is
like we shall have good trading that way. But
tell me, Hal, art thou not horribly afeardp thou s *j* ii^
being heir apparent, could the world pick thee ■
out three such enemies again as that fiend
Douglas, that spirit Percy, and that devil Glen-
dower? Art thon not horribly afraid? doth not
thy blood thrill at it ? 4:
Prince. Not a whit, 1' faith; I lack some of \ S»->t*
thy instinct.
Fal. Well, thou wilt be horribly chid to-
morrow when thou comest to thy father: if
thou love me, practise an answer. 41T £ v*juAt t
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Prince. Do thou stand for my father, and
examine me upon the particulars of my life.
Fal. Shall I? content: this chair shall be my
state, this dagger my sceptre, and this cushion
my crown. 422
Prince. Thy state is taken for a joint-stool,
thy golden sceptre for a leaden dagger, and thy
[" precious rich crown for a pitiful bald crown! 426
Fal. Well, an the fire of grace be not quite
out of thee, now shalt thou be moved. Give me
a cup of sack to make mine eyes look red, that it
may be thought I have wept; for I must speak 1. • ■"**■
in passion, and I will do it in King Cambyses' fcAv
vein. . j .1 •' ■ ■ *vJ
Prince. Well, here is my leg.J '"' *■** -' u l
Fal. And here is my speech. Stand aside, t» «*■
nobility. 434
Hott. OJesu! This is excellent sport, i' faith !
Fal. Weep not, sweet queen, for trickling tears v-
are vain. 486
Host. O, the father! how he holds his coun-
tenance. 1 ' .' J w1
Fal. For God's sake, lords, convey my tristful - ■
queen, \ -t . „ . - .j r _ '-**
For tears do atop the flood-gates of her eyes. ' 440 !*.,,,'.
Host. O Jeau.! he doth it as like one of -$S«.i
these ha rlotry players as ever I see!
Fal. Peace, good pint-pot! peace, good tickle-/K-
brain! [Bardolpk conveys the Hottest from the
stage.'] Harry, I do not only marvel where thou
spendest thy time, but also how thou art accom
421 state: thrant af Halt 430 passion: torroa CarobyMa'; cf. *.
432 leg; boor 439 tristful: sorrowful 442 harlotry: rascally
443 tickle-brain: a itrena liquor; cf.n. 444-467 Cf. n.
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panied: for though the camomile, the more it is
f r*j^ trodden on, the faster it grows, yet youth, the . v M
Prw£» more it is wasted the sooner it wears : That thou ''
. art my son, I have partly thy mother's word, part-
v *■*"**' ly my own opinion : but chiefly, a villainous trick : h - <*
of thine eye and a foolish hanging of thy nether ■ t-
' a"* ^P» * nat ^^ Wftrrant mD ' If ^' ea thou b* 8 ™ *°
me, here lies the point; why, being son to me,
art thou so pointed at? Shall the blessed sun of
heaven prove a mic her_ and eat blackberries? a
question not to he asked. Shall the son of Eng-
land prove a thief and take purses? a question
to be asked. There is a thing, Harry, which thou
hast often heard of, and it is known to many in
onr land by the name of pitch : this pitch, as an-
cient writers do report, doth defile ; so doth the
company thou keenest; for, Harry, now I do not
speak to thee in drink, but in tears, not in plea-
sure but in passion, not in words only, but in
woes also. And yet there is a virtuous man
whom I have often noted in thy company, but I
know not his name. 4ot
Prince. What manner of man, an it like your
majesty?
jf <iiiy Fal. A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a cor-
pulent; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a I
most noble carriage; and, as I think, his age Y
some fifty, or by 'r lady, inclining to threescore; /
and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff : if
that man should be lewdly given, he deceiveth
me; for, Harry, I see virtue in his looks. If then
the tree may be known by the fruit, as the fruit
446 camomile: a .rlrcng-ictntid turb
451 nether: lower 455 raicher: truant
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by the tree, then, peremptorjty I speak it, there is
virtue in that Falstaff: him keep with, the rest
banish. And tell me now, thou naughty varlet,
tell me, where hast thou been this month?
Prince. Dost thou speak like a king? Do
thou stand for me, and 111 play my father. 488
Fal. Depose me? if thou dost it half so
gravely, so majestically, both in word and
matter, hang me up by the heels for a rabbit- ik**-*-* t
sucker or a poulter's hare.
Prince. Well, here I amdK&.M*A*JL 4 88
Fal. And here I stand. ~?udge, my masters.
Prince. Now, Harry ! whence come you ?
Fal. My noble lord, from Eastcheap.
Prince. The complaints I hear of thee are
grievous. 498
: j, Fal. 'Sblogd, my lord, they are false !
[Aside to Prince.'} Nay, I'll tickle ye for a young
' prince, i' faith. ■■■ ■ ,
Prince. Swearest thou, ungracious boy? hence- cy****'^**
forth ne'er look on me. Thou art violently car- l
ried away from grace: there is a devil haunts
thee in the likeness of an old fat man; a tun of
man is thy companion. Why dost thou con-
verse with that trunk of humours, that bolting-
hutch o f beastliness, that swoln parcel of dropsies,
that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak,-
bag of guts^ thaT roasted ManninglrWfe ox with im-S^AAj^
the pudding in his belly, that reverend vjee^ that i, QA.
grey iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in ^,,*t V-J4.
18M87 Cf. «. 495 Cf. «.*' ,l " ■
;01 trunk of humoori : chtit fuU of caPrictl boltinj-hutck : bin for
sifting meal
03 bombard; lara' Irathtr vmlfer holding liquor cloik-bag:
pertmontto*
W Manningtr™:c/. n.
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years? Wherein is he good but to taste sack and
drink it? wherein neat and cleanly but to carve C$.w.<-. My
a capon and eat it? wherein cunning but in .^oi.M.
craft? wherein crafty but in villainy? wherein
villainous but in all things? wherein worthy but
in nothing? si 2
Fal. I would your Grace would take me with
you: whom means your Grace?
*i Prince. That villainous abominable misleader
of youth, Falstaff, that old white-bearded Satan.
Fal. My lord, the man I know. sit
Prince. I know thou dost.
Fal. But to say I know more harm in him
than in myself were to say more than I know.
That he is old, the more the pity, his white
hairs do witness it; but that he is, saving yonr
reverence, a whoremaster, that I utterly deny.
If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the
f vie*"*"- wicked! If to be old and merry le a sin, then
many an old host that I know is damned: if to ■?■ t
be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine *v"*l " **
are to be loved. No, my good lord j banish Peto, "" ' ;
banish Bardolph, banish Pains; but for sweet J •■><•) a,'.,
Jack Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Fal- fe*)o*L
staff, valiant Jack Falstaff, and therefore more \\$ t„.
valiant, being, as he is, old Jack Falstaff, banish j* ' + '
not him thy Harry's company: banish not him '*
thy Harry's company : banish plump Jack, and ^-' < ■ * l '
banish all the world. 0S5
^ Prince. I do, I will.
Enter Bardolph, running.
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Bard. O ! my lord, my lord, the sheriff with a
most monstrous Avstth is at the door.
Fal. Out, ye rogue! Play out the play: I
hare ranch to say in the behalf of that Falstaff.
Enter the Hottest.
Host. O Jesa ! my lord, my lord ! 641
Prince. Heigh, heigh ! the devil rides upon a
fiddle-stick: what's the matter?
Host. The sheriff and all the watch are at
the door: they are come to search the house.
Shall I let them in ? S46
Fal. Dost thou hear, Hal? never call a true
piece of gold a counterfeit. Thou art essentially
mad without seeming so. 049
J Prince. And thou a natural coward without
instinct.
Fal. I deny your major. If yon will deny the
sheriff, so; if not, let him enter: if I become not
a cart as well as another man, a plague on my
bringing up ! I hope I shall as soon be strangled
with a halter as another. ' see
Prince. Go, hide thee behind the arras: the
rest walk up above. Now, my masters, for a
true face and good conscience.
Fal. Both which I have had; but their date
is out, and therefore 111 hide me. Exit, eai
Prince. Call in the sheriff.
Enter the Sheriff and the Carrier.
Now, master sheriff, what's your will with me?
547-549 Cf.H. 5S2 major: major premise
S54 cart: cart used for taking criminals to the aalloms
557 arras: hanging scrten of tapestry placed around the walls of a
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Sher. First, pardon me, my lord. A hue and
Hath follow 'd certain men unto this house.
Prince. What men?
Sher. One of them is well known, my gracious lord,
A gross fat man.
Car. As fat as butter. sss
Prince. The man, I do assure yon, is not here,
For I myself at this time have employ'd him.
And, sheriff, I will engage my word to thee,
That I will, by to-morrow dinner-time, 072
Send him to answer thee, or any man,
For anything he shall be charged withal:
And so let me entreat you leave the house.
Sher. I will, my lord. There are two gentle-
men 676
Have in this robbery lost three hundred marks.
Prince. It may be so: if he have robb'd these men,
He shall be answerable; and so farewell.
Sher. Good night, my noble lord. 680
Prince. I think it is good morrow, is it not?
Sher. Indeed, my lord, I think it be two o'clock.
Exit [with Carrier].
Prince. This oily rascal is known as well as Paul's.
Go, call him forth. S84
Peto. FalstalT! fast asleep behind the arras,
and snorting like a horse.
Prince. Hark, how hard he fetches breath.
Search his pockets.
He teareketh kit pockets, and findeih certain
paper I.
What hast thou found? 590
Peto. Nothing but papers, my lord.
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Prince. Let's see what they be: read them.
Peto. "Item, A Capon . . 2s.2d.
Item, Sauce id.
Item, Sack, two gallons . . St. dd.
Item, Anchovies and sack after
sapper 2s. 8d.
Item, Bread ob."
Prince. O monstrous ! bnt one half -penny-
worth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack!
What there is else, keep close; we'll read it at
more advantage. There let him sleep till day.
I'll to the court in the morning. We must all to
the wars, and thy place shall be honourable. I'll
procure this fat rogne a charge of foot; and,
I know, his death will Sea march of twelve-
score. The money shall be paid back again
with advantage. Be with me betimes in the
morning; and so good morrow, Peto. 60S
Peto. Good morrow, good my lord. Exeunt.
ACT THIRD
[Bangor. The Archdeacon's House]
Enter Hotspur, Worcester, Lord Mortimer,
Owen Glendower.
Mort. These promises are fair, the parties sure,
And our induction full of prosperous hope.
Hot. Lord Mortimer, and cousin Glendower,
Will you sit down?
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And uncle Worcester? A plague upon it !
I have forgot the map.
Glend. No, here it is.
Sit, cousin Percy; sit, good cousin Hotspur;
For by that name as oft as Lancaster e
Doth speak of you, bis cheek looks pale and with
A rising sigh he wisheth you in heaven.
Hot. And you in hell, as often as he hears
Owen Glendower spoke of. 12
Glend. I cannot blame him: at my nativity
The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes.
Of burning cressets ; and at my birth
The frame and huge foundation of the earth
Shak'd like a coward.
Hot. Why, so it would have done at the same
season, if your mother's cat had but kittened,
though yourself had never been born. 20
Glend. I say the earth did shake when I was born.
Hot. And I say the earth was not of my mind,
If you suppose as fearing you it shook.
Glend. The heavens were all on fire, the earth did
tremble. 24
Hot. O! then the earth shook to see the heavens
on fire,
And not in fear of your nativity.
Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth
In strange eruptions; oft the teeming earth 28
Is with a kind of colic pinch'd and vez'd
By the imprisoning of unruly wind
Within her womb; which, for enlargement striving.
Shakes the old beldam earth, and topples down
Steeples and moss-grown towers. At your birth S3
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Our grandam earth, having this distemperature,
In passion shook.
Glend, Cousin, of many men
I do not bear these crossings. Give me leave 88
To tell yon once again that at ray birth
The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes,
The goats ran from the mountains, and the herds
Were strangely clamorous to the frighted fields.
These signs have mark'd me extraordinary; 41
And all the courses of my life do show
I am not in the roll of common men.
Where is he living, clipp'd in with the sea 44
That chides the banks of England, Scotland, Wales,
Which calls me pupil, or hath read to me?
And bring him oat that is but woman's son
Can trace me in the tedious ways of art 48
And hold me pace In deep experiments.
Hot. I think there's no man speaks better Welsh.
111 to dinner.
Mort. Peace, cousin Percy! you will make him
mad. 03
Glend. I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hot. Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them?
Glend. Why, I can teach thee, cousin, to com-
mand G6
The devil.
. Hot. And I can teach thee, coz, to shame the devil
f By telling truth : tell truth and shame the devil.
I If thou have power to raise him, bring him hither, M
I And I'll be sworn I have power to shame him hence.
O ! while yon live, tell troth and shame the devil !
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Mori. Come, come;
No more of this unprofitable chat. M
Glend. Three times hath Henry Bolingbroke made
head
Against ray power; thrice from the banks of Wye
And sandy-bottom'd Severn have I sent him
Bootless home and weather-beaten back. 68
Hot. Home without boots, and in fool weather too !
How 'scapes he agues, in the devil's name?
Glend. Come, here's the map: shall we divide our
right
According to our threefold order ta'en? 72
Mori. The archdeacon hath divided it
Into three limits very equally.
England, from Trent and Severn hitherto,
By south and east, is to my part assign'd: 78
All westward, Wales beyond the Severn shore,
And all the fertile land within that bound,
To Owen Glendower: and, dear cos, to you
The remnant northward, lying off from Trent. 80
And our indentures tripartite are drawn,
Which being sealed interchangeably,
A business that this night may execute,
To-morrow, cousin Percy, you and I , 84
And my good Lord Worcester will set forth
To meet your father and the Scottish power,
As is appointed us, at Shrewsbury.
My father Glendower is not ready yet, 88
Nor shall we need his help these fourteen days.
Within that space you may have drawn together
Your tenants, friends, and neighbouring gentlemen.
68 bootless; without advantage; cf. 1. i. 20 75 hitherto : to tkh ipot
81 indenture! tripartite: thru csfiti of tht asrremtnt
82 interchangeably : tach forty signing each copy
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Glend. A shorter time shall send me to you,
lords; 02
And in my conduct shall your ladies come,
From whom yon nor most steal and take no leave;
For there will be a world of water shed
Upon the parting of your wives and yon. 98
Hot. Methinks my moiety, north from Burton here,
In quantity equals not one of yours:
See how this river comes me cranking in,
And cuts me from the best of all my land 100
A huge half-moon, a monstrous cantle out.
I'll have the current in this place damm'd up,
And here the smug and silver Trent shall run
In a new channel, fair and evenly: 104
It shall not wind with such a deep indent,
To rob me of so rich a bottom here.
Glend. Not wind ! it shall, it must ; you see it doth.
Mart. Yea, but 108
Mark how he bears bis course, and runs me up
With like advantage on the other side;
Gelding the opposed continent as much,
As on the other side it takes from you. 112
Wor. Yea, but a little charge will trench him here,
And on this north side win this cape of land;
And then he runs straight and even.
Hot. 111 have it so; a little charge will do it.
Glend. I will not have it alter'd.
Hot. Will not you? m
Glend. No, nor yon shall not.
Hot. Who shall say me nay?
Glend. Why, that will I.
93 conduct: tscort 97 moiety: pariion 99 cranking: winding
100 the beat of all my land; cf. n. 101 cantle: pitci
103 smug: neat, trim 106 bottem: lea, rich land
111 Geldinj; cutting opposed continent: country oppositi
113 charge: npivjt
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Hot. Let me not understand you then:
Speak it in Welsh. lao
Glend. I can speak English, lord, as well as yon,
For I was train'd up in the English court';
Where, being bat young, I framed to the harp
Many an English ditty lovely well, 12*
And gave the tongue an helpful ornament;
A virtue that was never seen in yon.
Hot. Marry, and I'm glad of it with all my heart.
I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew 128
Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers;
I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd,
Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree;
And that would set my teeth nothing on edge,
Nothing so much as mincing poetry: us
'Tis like the forc'd gait of a shuffling nag.
Glend. Come, you shall have Trent turn'd.
Hot. I do not care : I'll give thrice so much land iss i
To any well-deserving friend; /
But in the way of bargain, mark you me, ""^ /
I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair. \ j
Are~the indentures drawn? sEaTf we be gone? *
Glend. The moon shines fair, you may away by
night: HI
111 haste the writer and withal
Break with your wives of your departure hence:
I am afraid my daughter will run mad, 1**
So much she doteth on her Mortimer. Exit.
Mori. Fie, cousin Percy! how you cross my father!
Hot. I cannot choose: sometimes he angers me
With telling me of the moldwarp and the ant,
Of the dreamer Merlin and his prophecies, 14S
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And of a dragon, and a unless fish,
A clip-wing' d griffin, and a moulten raven,
A coaching lion, and a ramping cat, 152
And such a deal of skimble-skamble stuff
As puts me from my faith. I'll tell thee what;
He held me last night at least nine hours
In reckoning up the several devils' names 168
That were his lackeys : I cried 'hum !' and 'well, go to.'
But mark'd him not a word. O ! he's as tedious
As a tired horse, a railing wife ;
Worse than a smoky house. I had rather live
With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far, 1S1
Than feed on cates and have him talk to me
In any summer-house in Christendom.
Mori. In faith, he is a worthy gentleman, 104
Exceedingly well read, and profited
In strange concealments, valiant as a lion
And wondrous affable, and as bountiful
As mines of India. Shall I tell yon, cousin? ies
He holds your temper in a high respect,
And curbs himself even of his natural scope
When yon do cross his humour; faith, he does.
I warrant you, that man is not alive 172
Might so have tempted him as you have done,
Without the taste of danger and reproof:
But do not use it oft, let me entreat you.
Wot. In faith, my lord, you are too wilful-
blame ; 176
And since your coming hither have done enough
To put him quite beaide his patience.
You must needs learn, lord, to amend this fault:
153 skimble-skamble: nonstnsicai 162 cates: dainlits
163 lummer-houst: country houit I6S profited: proficitnt
166 Concealments: mysliritl 170 scop*: tendencies
176 loo wilful-blame : to be blamtdfor too great mlfulntsi
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Though sometimes it show greatness, courage,
blood, — 180
And that's the dearest grace it renders you, —
Yet often times it doth present harsh rage,
Defect of manners, want of government,
Pride, haughtiness, opinion, and disdain:
The least of which haunting a nobleman
Loseth men's hearts and leaves behind a stain
Upon the beauty of all parts besides,
Beguiling them of commendation. IBS
Hot. Well, I am school'd; good manners be your
speed!
Here come our wives, and let ns take our leave.
Enter Glendower, with the Ladies.
Mori. This is the deadly spite that angers me,
My wife can speak no English, I no Welsh. 182
Glend. My daughter weeps ; she will not part with
you:
Shell be a soldier too: she'll to the wars.
Mori. Good father, tell her that she and my aunt
Percy,
Shall follow in your conduct speedily. 19B
Glendower speaks to her in Welsh, and the
answer* him in the tame.
Glend. She's desperate here; a peevish self-
will'd harlotry, one that no persuasion can do
good upon. The lady tpeatct in Welsh.
Mort. I understand thy looks: that pretty
Welsh 200
Which thou pour'st down from these swelling heavens
ISO blood: jftrif 181 dearest: moil valuable 182 present: indicate
183 government: self-control 184 opinion: arrogance
188 Beguiling: cheating 189 be TOurnpeed: brine you goad fortune
195 aunt: cf. n. on I. in. i4S-'40
198 harlotry : silly airl 200-203 Cf.n.
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I am too perfect in; and, but for shame,
In sncfa a parley would I answer thee.
The lady again in Welth.
1 understand thy kisses and thou mine, 20*
And that's a feeling disputation:
But I will never be a truant, love,
Till I have learn' d thy language ; for thy tongue
Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd,
Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower, 209
With ravishing division, to her lute.
Glend. Nay, if yon melt, then will she run mad.
The lady tpeakt again in Welth.
Mort. O ! I am ignorance itself in this. 212
Glend. She bids you
Upon the wanton rushes lay yon down
And rest your gentle head upon her lap,
And she will sing the song that pleaseth yon,
And on your eye-lids crown the god of sleep, 21T
Charming yonr blood with pleasing heaviness,
Making such difference 'twist wake and sleep
As is the difference between day and night 220
The hour before the heavenly-harness'd team
Begins his golden progress in the east.
Mort. With all my heart I'll sit and hear her sing:
By that time will our book, I think, be drawn.
Glend. Do so; 225
And those musicians that shall play to yon
Hang in the air a thousand leagues from hence,
And straight they shall be here: sit, and attend. 228
Hot. Come, Kate, thou art perfect in lying
down: come, quick, quick, that I may lay my
head in thy lap.
205 disputation: CBxVtriatie*
208 highly penn'd: writttn in high ttytt 210 diviiion: modulation
314 mnton: toft, lururiont 224 book: MmtmWI
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Lady P. Go, ye giddy goose. 283
The Mutic play*.
Hot. Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh ;
And 'tis no marvel he is so humorous.
By'r lady, he's a good musician.
Lady P. Then should you be nothing but
musical, for you are altogether governed by j
humours. Lie still, ye thief, and hear the lady |
sing in Welsh.
Hot. I had rather hear Lady, my brach, howl
in Irish. 240
Lady P. Wouldst thou have thy head broken?
Hot. No.
Lady P. Then be still.
Hot. Neither; 'tis a woman's fault. 244
Lady P. Now, God help thee !
Hot. To the Welsh lady's bed.
Lady P. What's that?
Hot. Peace! she sings. 248
Here the lady sing* a Welth tang.
Hot. Come, Kate, I'll have your song too.
Lady P. Not mine, in good sooth.
Hot. Not yours, 'in good sooth!' Heart!
yon swear like a comfit-maker's wife ! Not you
'in good sooth;' and, 'as true as I live;' and,
'as God shall mend me;' and, 'as sure as day:'
And giv'st such sarcenet surety for thy oaths,
As if thou never walk'dst further than Finsbury. 2SS
Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art,
A good mouth-filling oath ; and leave 'in sooth,'
And such protest of pepper gingerbread,
To velvet-guards and Sunday-citizens. 260
234 humorous: capricious 240 brach: a bitch-kownd
252 comfit-miker: confictio*tr 255 sarcenet: flimty;cf. n.
256 Fimbury; c/.a. 260 veWet-goard«; cf. n.
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Come, sing.
Lady P. I will not sing.
Hot. "Tis the next way to turn tailor or be
red-breast teacher. An the indentures be drawn,
I'll away within these two hoars; and so, come
in when ye will. Exit.
Glend. Come, come, Lord Mortimer; you are as
slow
As hot Lord Percy is on fire to go. 288
By this our book is drawn ; we will but seal,
And then to horse immediately.
Mori. With all my heart Exeunt.
Scene Two
[London. The Palace}
Enter ike King, Prince of Wale*, and other*.
King. Lords, give us leave; the Prince of Wales
and I
Must have some private conference: bus be near at
For we shall presently have need of you.
Exeunt Lord*.
I know not whether God will have it so, *
For some displeasing service I have done,
That, in his secret doom, out of my blood
He'll breed revengement and a scourge for me;
But thou dost in thy passages of life 8
Make me believe that thou art only mark'd
For the hot vengeance and the rod of heaven
To punish my mistreadings. Tell me else.
Could such inordinate and low desires, 12
263 tailor; cf. «. 264 red-breast teacher :.<ri»W of singing-birds
1 Rive . . . Ihvf: /mi w 3 presently: wnmtdiately
% doom: judgment 8 thy passages of life: the attiom of thy lift
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Such poor, such bare, such lewd, such mean attempts,
Such barren pleasures, rude society,
As thou art match 'd withal and grafted to,
Accompany the greatness of thy blood is
And hold their level with thy princely heart?
Prince. So please your majesty, I would I could
Quit all offences with as clear excuse
As well as I am doubtless I can purge 20
Myself of many I am charg'd withal:
Yet such extenuation let me beg,
As, in reproof of many tales devb'd,
Which oft the ear of greatness needs must hear,
By smiling pick-thanks and base newsmongers,
I may, for some things true, wherein my youth
Hath faulty wander'd and irregular.
Find pardon on my true submission. 28
King. God pardon thee ! yet let me wonder, Harry,
At thy affections, which do hold a wing
Quite from the flight of all thy ancestors.
Thy place in council thou hast rudely lost, 32
Which by thy younger brother is supplied.
And art almost an alien to the hearts
Of all the court and princes of my blood.
The hope and expectation of thy time as
Is ruin'd, and the soul of every man
Prophetically do forethink thy fall.
Had I so lavish of my presence been,
So common-hackney'd in the eyes' of men, 40
So stale and cheap to vulgar company,
Opinion, that did help me to the crown,
Had still kept loyal to possession
And left me in reputeless banishment, 44
19 Qtat: eltar myself 23 reproof : rtfutation derii'd : invented
30 affectioni: jojim 36 lime: age, reign 42 Opinion: public opinio*
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A fellow of no mark not likelihood
By being seldom seen, I could not stir,
Bnt like a comet I was wonder'd at ;
That men would tell their children, 'This is he;'
Others would say, 'Where? which is Bolingbroke?' 49
And then I stole all courtesy from heaven.
And dress'd myself in snch humility
That I did pluck allegiance from men's hearts,
Loud shouts and salutations from their months.
Even in the presence of the crowned king.
Thus did I keep my person fresh and new ;
My presence, like a robe pontifical, M
Ne'er seen but wonder'd at: and so my state,
Seldom bnt sumptuous, showed like a feast,
And won by rareness such solemnity.
The skipping king, he ambled up and down eo
With shallow jesters and rash bavin wits,
Soon kindled and soon burnt; carded his state, , A . . .
Mingled his royalty with capering fools,
Had his great name profaned with their scorns,
And gave his countenance, against his name, 60
To laugh at gibing boys and stand the posh
Of every beardless vain comparative;
Grew a companion to the common streets, 68
Enfeoff'd himself to popularity;
That, being daily swallow'd by men's eyes,
■ They surfeited with honey and began
To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little
More than a little is by much too much. 78
So, when he had occasion to be seen,
50 stole, II
c.;cf.n. 61 bavin: brushwood, ahtchsoon burns out
62 carded:
cf. n. 65 against his name : contrary to his dignity
66 Bland ft
it push: withstand the attack
67 tompar;
69 Enfeoff
itive: nif who aficts nit; cf. I.ii. go
'A himself: gov* himself up entirely popularity: Ion
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He was but as the cuckoo is in June,
Heard, not regarded; seen, bnt with snch eyes
As, sick and blunted with community, 77
Afford no extraordinary gaze,
Such as is bent on sun-like majesty
When it shines seldom in admiring eyes ; so
Bat rather drows'd and hung their eyelids down,
Slept in his face, and render'd snch aspect
As cloudy men use to their adversaries,
Being with his presence glutted, gorg'd, and full.
And in that very line, Harry, stand' st thou; so
For thou hast lost thy princely privilege
With vile participation: not an eye
But is aweary of thy common sight, 88
Save mine, which hath desir'd to see thee more;
Which now doth that I would not have it do,
Make blind itself with foolish tenderness.
Prince. I shall hereafter, my thrice gracious
lord, 02
Be more myself.
King. For all the world,
As thou art to this hour was Richard then
When I from France set foot at Ravenspurgh;
And even as I was then is Percy now. bs
Now, by my sceptre and my aoul to boot,
He hath more worthy interest to the state
Than thou the shadow of succession;
For of no right, nor colour like to right, 100
He doth fill fields with harness in the realm,
Turns head against the lion's armed jaws,
And, being no more in debt to years than thou,
S3 cloudy: sullen
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Leads ancient lords and reverend bishops on 10*
To bloody battles and to bruising arms.
What never-dying honour hath he got
Against renowned Douglas ! whose high deeds,
Whose hot incursions and great name in arms,
Holds from all soldiers chief majority, 109
And military title capital.
Through all the kingdoms that acknowledge Christ.
Thrice hath ttus__HgJapiir, Mais__m„ swathling
clothes, U2
This infant warrior, in his enterprises
Discomfited great Douglas; ta'en him once,
Enlarged him and made a friend of him,
To fill the mouth of deep defiance np 110
And shake the peace and safety of our throne.
And what say you to this ? Percy, Northumberland,
The Archbishop's Grace of York, Douglas, Mortimer,
Capitulate against us and are up. 120
But wherefore do I tell these news to thee?
Why, Harry, do I tell thee of my foes,
Which art my near'st and dearest enemy?
Thon that art like enough, through vassal fear,
Base inclination, and the start of spleen, 12S
To fight against me under Percy's pay,
To dog his heels, and curtsy at his frowns,
j. To show how much thon art degenerate. 128
Prince. Do not think so; you shall not find it so:
And God forgive them, that so much have sway'd
Your majesty's good thoughts away from me!
\ I will redeem all this on Percy's head, 182
And in the closing of some glorious day
1 Be bold to tell yon that I am your son;
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115 enlarged: released 120 Capitulate : form a league
124 vassal: slavish 125 start of spleen : impulse of ill temper
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When I will wear a garment all of blood
And stain my favours in a bloody mask, 1M
Which, wash'd away, shall scour my shame with it:
And that shall be the day, whene'er it lights,
That this same child of honour and renown,
This galla nt Hotspur, this all-prais ed k night , 140
And your untbougnt-ol Harry chance to meet.
For every honour sitting on his helm,
Would they were multitudes, and on my head
My shames redoubled t For the time will come
That I shall make this northern youth exchange 143
His glorious deeds for my indignities.
lPercy is but my factor, good my lord,
ITo engross up glorious deeds on my behalf ;
And I will call him to so strict account
That he shall render every glory up,
Yea, even the slightest worship of his time,
Or I will tear the reckoning from his heart.
This, in the name of God, I promise here:
The which, if he be pleas'd I shall perform,
I do beseech your majesty may salve Ibd
The long-grown wounds of my intemperance :
It not, the end of life cancels all bands,
And I will die a hundred thousand deaths
Ere break the smallest parcel of this vow.
King. A hundred thousand rebels die in this: 160
Thou shalt have charge and sovereign trust herein.
Enter Blunt.
How now, good Blunt ! thy looks are full of speed.
Blunt. So hath the business that I come to speak of.
Lord Mortimer of Scotland hath sent word 164
That Douglas and the English rebels met,
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The eleventh of this month at Shrewsbury.
,A mighty and a fearful head they are, —
If promises be kept on every hand, — l«8
As ever offer'd foul play in a state.
King. The Earl of Westmoreland set forth to-day,
With him my son, Lord John of Lancaster ;
For this advertisement is five days old. 172
On Wednesday next, Harry, yon shall set forward;
On Thursday we ourselves will march: our meeting
Is Bridgenorth; and Harry, you shall march
Through Gloucestershire; by which account, iTt
Our business valued, some twelve days hence
Our general forces at Bridgenorth shall meet.
Our hands are full of business: let's away;
Advantage feeds him fat while men delay. ISO
Exeunt.
Scene Three
[Eattcheap, The Boar't Head Tavern]
Enter Falttaff and Bardolph.
Fal. Bardolph, am I not fallen away vilely
since this last action? do I not bate? do I not
dwindle? Why, my skin hangs about me like an
old lady's loose gown ; I am withered like an old
' apple-john. Well, 111 repent, and that suddenly,
while I am in some liking ; I shall be out of heart
shortly, and then I shall have no strength to re-
pent. An I have not forgotten what the inside
of a church is made of, I am a peppercorn, a
172 advertisement: BfttJ 177 TOllied: taken into consideration
2 bate : fall of, gran Ihin
5 apple-john: on applt that krtps wrll but btcomts viry ihrivrllid
6 Litrng: (.good) bodily condition
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brewer's hone: the inside of a church! Com-
pany, villainous company, hath been the spoil
of me. 12
Bard. Sir John, yon are so fretful, yon can-
not live long.
Fal. Why, there is it: come, sing me a bawdy
song; make me merry. I was as virtuously given
as a gentleman need to be; virtuous enough:
swore little ; diced not — above seven times a week ;
went to a bawdy-house not above once in a
quarter — of an hour; paid money that I bor-
rowed — three or four times ; lived well and in good
compass ; and now J live out of all order, out of
all compass. 21
Bard. Why, yon are so fat, Sir John, that
you must needs be out of all compass, out of all
reasonable compass, Sir John. 29
Fal. Do thon amend thy face, and 111 amend
my life: thou art our admiral, thou bearest the
lantern in the poop, but 'tis in the nose of thee:
thou art the Knight of the Burning Lamp.
Bard. Why, Sir John, my face does you no
harm. 32
fal. No, I'll be sworn; I make as good use
of it as many a man doth of a Death's head, or
a memento mori: I never see thy face but I think
upon hell-fire and Dives that lived in purple;
for there he is in his robes, burning, burning. If
thou wert any way given to virtue, I would swear
by thy face; my oath should be, 'By this fire,
that's God's angel:' bnt thou art altogether
given over, and wert indeed, bnt for the light in
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35 MfMfnto mori; cf. n. 36 Dith; cf. n. 40 God's an eel j cf. n.
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thy face, the son of utter darkness. When thou
rannest op Gadshill in the night to catch my
horse, if I did not think thou hadst been an
ignit fatuut or a ball of wildfire, there's no
purchase in money. O! thou art a perpetual
triumph, an everlasting bonfire-light. Thou hast
saved me a thousand marks in links and torches,
walking with thee in the night betwixt tavern
and tavern: but the sack that thou hast drunk
me would have bought me lights as good cheap
at the dearest chandler's in Europe. I have
maintained that salamander of yours with fire
any time this two-and-thirty years; God reward
me for it! ss
Bard. 'Sblood, I would my face were in your
belly.
Ftd. God-a-mercy! so should I be sure to be
heart-burned.
Enter Hottett.
How now, Dame Partlet the hen! hare you
inquired yet who picked my pocket? si
Hott. Why, Sir John, what do you think,
Sir John? Do you think I keep thieves in my
house? I have searched, I have inquired, so has
my husband, man by man, boy by boy, servant
by servant: the tithe of a hair was never lost in
my house before. 8T
Fal. You lie, hostess: Bardolph was shaved
t and lost many a hair; and 111 be sworn my
j,t- pocket was picked. Go to, you are a woman ; go.
Hott. Who, I? No; I defy thee: God's light!
45 ignis fatuiii: will o' the wisp 48 link*: torch**
SI as gnod cheap: aJ as good a bargain
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I was never called so in my own house before. 72
Fal. Go to, I know yon well enough.
Hott. No, Sir John; yon do not know me,
Sir John: I know yon, Sir John: yon owe me
money, Sir John, and now yon pick a quarrel to
beguile me of it: I bought yon a dozen of shirts
to yonr back. 78
Fal. Dowlas, filthy dowlas: I have given
them away to bakers' wives, and they have
made bolters of them. 81
Hott. Now, as I am trne woman, holland* of
eight shillings an ell. Yon owe money here be-
sides, Sir John, for yonr diet and by-drinkings,
and money lent you, fonr-and-twenty pound. 80
Fal. He had his part of it ; let him pay.
Hott. He ! alas ! he is poor; he hath nothing.
Fal. How! poor? look upon bis face; what
call you rich? let them com his nose, let them
coin his cheeks. I'll not pay a denier. What!
will yon make a younker of me? shall I not take
mine ease in mine inn but I shall have my
pocket picked? I have lost a seal-ring of my y A
grandfather's worth forty mark.
Hott. Jesn! I have heard the prince tell
him, I know not how oft, that that ring was
copper. 9T
Fal. How ! the prince is s Jack, a sneak-cup ;
sblood! an he were here, I would cudgel him
like a dog, if he would say so. 100
Enter the Prince and Peto marching. Falttaff meett
them, playing on hit truncheon like a fife.
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Fal. How now, lad! is the wind in that door,
I' faith? most we all march?
Bard. Yea, two and two, Newgate fashion.
Host. My lord, I pray yon, hear me. 10/
Prince. What sayest thou, Mistress Quickly?
' How does thy husband? I love him well, he is
an honest man.
Host. Good my lord, hear me. lot
Fal. Prithee, let her alone, and list to me.
Prince. What sayest thon, Jack?
I Fal. The other night I fell asleep here behind
I the arras and had my pocket picked: this house
J is turned bawdy-house; they pick pockets. lit
Prince. What didst thon lose, Jack?
Fal. Wilt thou believe roe, Hal? three or four
bonds of forty pound a piece, and a seal-ring of
my grandfather's. IT
Prince. A trifle; some eight-penny matter.
Host. So I told him, my lord; and I said I
heard your Grace say so: and, my lord, he speaks
most vilely of you, like a foul-mouthed man as
he is, and said he would cudgel you. 12:
Prince. What! he did not?
Hott. There's neither faith, truth, nor wo-
manhood in me else. 121
Fal. There's no more faith hi thee than in a
stewed prune; nor no more truth in thee than
in a drawn fox; and for womanhood, Maid
Marian may be the deputy's wife of the ward to
thee. Go, you thing, go.
Hott. Say, what thing? what thing?
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Fal. What thing! why, a thing to thank
God on. us
Hott. I am no thing to thank God on, I
would thou shouldat know it; I am an honest
man's wife; and, setting thy knighthood aside,
thou art a knave to call me so. 1ST ,
Fal. Setting thy womanhood aside, thou art ' -
a beast to say otherwise. Akjj,"
Hott. Say, what beast, thou knave, thou?
Fal. What beast! why, an otter.
Prince. An otter, Sir John! why, an otter? '-'-*
Fal Why? she's neither fish nor flesh; a
man knows not where to hare her. 144
Hott. Thou art an unjust man in saying so:
thou or any man knows where to have me, thou
knave thou!
Prince. Thou sayest true, hostess; and he
slanders thee most grossly. 149
Hott. So he doth you, my lord; and said this P •
other day you ought him a thousand pound.
Prince. Sirrah! do I owe you a thousand
pound? 168
Fal. A thousand pound, Hal! a million: thy ^Jjj-.
love is worth a million ; >thou owest me thy love.
Hott. Nay, my lord, he called you Jack, and
said he would cudgel you. 1ST
Fal. Did I, Bardolph?
Bard. Indeed, Sir John, yon said so.
Fal. Yea; if he said my ring was copper. 160
Prince. I say 'tis copper: darest thon be as
good as thy word now ?
Fal. Why, Hal, thou knowest, as thou art
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but man, I dare; but as thou art prince, I fear
thee as I fear the roaring of the lion's whelp. ieo
Prince. And why not as the lion?
Fat. The king himself is to be feared as the
. lion: dost thou think 111 fear thee as I fear thy
J father? nay, an I do, I pray God my girdle
'■> break! 170
Prince. O! if it should, how would thy gnts
fall about thy knees. But, sirrah, there's no
room for faith, truth, or honesty in this bosom
of thine ; it is all filled up with guts and midriff.
Charge an honest woman with picking thy pocket !
Why, thou whoreson, impudent, embossed rascal,
if there were any thing in thy pocket but tavern
reckonings, memorandums of bawdy-houses, and
one poor pennyworth of sugar-candy to make
I thee long-winded; if thy pocket were enriched
/ with any other injuries but these, I am a villain.
And yet yon will stand to it, you will not pocket
j up wrong. Art thou not ashamed? 183
FaJ. Dost thou hear, Hal? thou knowest in
■ : the state of innocency Adam fell; and what
| should poor Jack Falstaff do in the days of
': villainy? Thou seest I have more flesh than
'; another man, and therefore more frailty. You
I confess then, you picked my pocket? 189
Prince. It appears so by the story.
FaL Hostess, I forgive thee. Go make ready
breakfast; love thy husband, look to thy servants,
cherish thy guests: thou shalt find me tractable
to any honest reason: thou seest I am pacified
still. Nay prithee, be gone. Exit Hostess.
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Now, Hal, to the news at court : for the robbery,
lad, bow is that answered? 197
Prince. O ! my sweet beef, I must still be good
angel to thee: the money is paid back again.
Fal. O! I do not like that paying back; 'tis
a double labour. 201
Prince. I am good friends with my father
and may do anything.
Fal. Bob me the exchequer the first thing
thou dost, and do it with unwashed bands too.
Bard. Do, my lord.
Prince. I have procured thee, Jack, a charge
of foot. 208
Fal. I would it had been of horse. Where I
shall I find one that can steal well ? O ! for a 1
fine thief, of the age of two-and-twenty, or there- I
abouts; I am heinously unprovided. Well, God ■
be thanked for these rebels; they offend none
but the virtuous: I laud them, I praise them.
Prince. Bardolph!
Bard. My lord? 218
Prince. Go bear this letter to Lord John of
Lancaster,
To my brother John; this to my Lord of West- *
moreland.
Go, Peto, to horse, to horse ! for thou and I
Have thirty miles to ride ere dinner-time. 220
Jack, meet me to-morrow in the Temple-hall
At two o'clock in the afternoon:
There shalt th ou know thy charge, and there receive
Money and order for their furniture. 224
The land is burning; Percy stands on high;
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And either we or they must lower lie.
Fal. Rare words ! brave world ! Hostess, my break-
fast ; come !
! I could wish this tavern were my dram. 228
Exeunt omnet.
ACT FOURTH
[Shrewsbury. The rebel camp]
Enter Harry Hotspur, Worcester, and Douglas.
Hot. Well said, my noble Scot: if speaking truth
In this fine age were not thought flattery,
Such attribution should the Douglas have,
As not a soldier of this season's stamp 4
Should go so general current through the world.
By God, I cannot flatter; do defy
The tongues of soothers; but a braver place
In my heart's love hath no man than yourself. 8
Nay, task, me to my word; approve me, lord.
Doug. Thou art the the king of honour;
No man so potent breathes upon the ground
But I will beard him.
Hot. Do so, and 'tis well. 12
Enter a Messenger.
What letters hast thou there? I can but thank you.
Mess. These letters come from your father.
Hot. Letters from him! why comes he not himself?
228 dram; cf.n. 3 attribution! praise 4-5 Cf. n.
6 ictj-.diipite 7 soothers: flatttrert
9 task me to my word; challengi me to maki good my word approre:
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King Henry the Fourth, IF. i 81
Meat. He cannot come, my lord: he's grievous
sick. is
Hot. 'Zounds ! how has he the leisure to be sick
In such a justling time? Who leads his power?
Under whose government come they along?
Mett. His letters bear his mind, not I, my lord. 20
Wot. I prithee, tell me, doth he keep his bed?
Met: He did, my lord, four days ere I set forth;
And at the time of my departure thence
He was much fear'd by his physicians. 24
War. I would the state of time had first been whole
Ere be by sickness had been visited:
His health was never better worth than now.
Hot. Sick now! droop now! this sickness doth
infect 28
The very life-blood of our enterprise;
'Tis catching hither, even to our camp.
He writes me here, that inward sickness
And that his friends by deputation could not 82
So soon be drawn; nor did be think it meet
To lay so dangerous and dear a trust
On any soul remov'd but on his own.
Yet doth he give us bold advertisement, ss
That with our small conjunction we should on,
To see how fortune is dispos'd to ns;
For, as he writes, there is no quailing now,
Because the king is certainly possess 'd 40
Of all our purposes. What say yon to it?
Wot. Your father's sickness is a maim to ns.
Hot. A perilous gash, a very limb lopp'd off:
And yet, in faith, 'tis not; his present want 44
Seems more than we shall rind it. Were it good
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37 conjunction: united jorcts 40 pouesi'd: tnjormcd
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To act the exact wealth of all our states
All at one cast? to set so rich a main
On the nice hazard of one doubtful hoar? 48
It were not good; for therein should we read
The very bottom and the soul of hope,
The very list, the very utmost bound
Of all our fortunes.
Doug. Faith, and so we should; 62
Where now remains a sweet reversion:
We may boldly spend upon the hope of what
Is to come in:
A comfort of retirement lives in this. OS
Hot. A rendezvous, a home to fly onto,
If that the devil and mischance look big
Upon the maidenhead of our affairs.
Wor. But yet, I would your father had been
here. eo
The quality and hair of our attempt
Brooks no division. It will be thought
By some, that know not why he is away,
That wisdom, loyalty, and mere dislike S4
Of our proceedings, kept the earl from hence.
And think how such an apprehension
May turn the tide of fearful faction
And breed a kind of question in our cause; ; 68
For well you know we of the offering side
Must keep aloof from strict arbitrement,
And stop all sight-holes, every loop from whence
The eye of reason may pry in upon us : 72
This absence of your father's draws a curtain,
That shows the ignorant a kind of fear
47 main: jfufc* 48 nice: sltnitr, brnarious
51 Wsi: limit S3, 56 Cf.n. '• -- :
67 fearful: timid 69 the offer in*
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Before not dreamt of.
Hot. You strain too far.
I rather of his absence make this use : 78
It lends a lustre and more great opinion, S
A larger dare to our great enterprise, /
Than if the earl were here ; for men must think,
If we without his help can make a head . so
To push against the kingdom, with his help
We shall o'erturn it topsy-turvy down.
Yet all goes well, yet all our joints are whole.
Doug. As heart can think: there is not such a
word 84
Spoke of in Scotland as this term of fear.
Enter Sir Richard Vernon.
Hot. My cousin Vernon I welcome, by my soul.
Ver. Pray God my news be worth a welcome, lord.
The Earl of Westmoreland, seven thousand strong,
Is marching hitherwards ; with him Prince John.
Hot. No harm: what more?'
Ver. And farther, I have learn'd,
The king himself in person is set forth,
Or hitherwards intended speedily, 92
With strong and mighty preparation.
Hot. He shall be welcome too. Where is his son,
The nimble-footed madcap Prince of Wales,
And his comrades, that daff'd the world aside, 9a
And bid it pass ?
Ver. All furnish' d, all in arms,
All plnm'd like estridges that with the wind
Baited like eagles having lately bath'd,
Gh'ttering in golden coats, like images, 100
As full of spirit as the month of May,
96 daffd: thrust
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And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer,
Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bolls.
I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, 104
His rashes on his thighs, gallantly arm'd,
Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury,
And vaulted with such ease into his seat,
As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds,
To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus iob
And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Hot. No more, no more: worse than the sun in
This praise doth nourish agues. Let them come;
They come like sacrifices in their trim, us
And to the fire-ey'd maid of smoky war
All hot and bleeding will we offer them:
The mailed Mars shall on his altar sit lis .
Up to the ears in blood. I am on fire
To hear this rich reprisal is so nigh
And yet not ours. Come, let me taste my horse,
Who is to bear me like a thunderbolt 120
Against the bosom of the Prince of Wales:
Harry to Harry shall, hot horse to horse,
Meet and ne'er part till one drop down a corse.
O! that Glendower were come.
Ver. There is more news: 124
I learn 'd in Worcester, as I rode along,
He cannot draw his power these fourteen days.
Doug. That's the worst tidings that I hear of yet.
Wot. Ay, by my faith, that bears a frosty
sound. 128
Hot. What may the king's whole battle reach unto?
Ver. To thirty thousand.
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Hot. Forty let it be:
My father and Glendower being 1 bath away,
The powers of as may serve so great a day, 132
Come, let us take a muster speedily :
Doomsday is near; die all, die merrily. _/'
Doug. Talk not of dying: I am out of fear ^^
Of death or death's hand for this one half year.
Exeunt Omnei.
Scene Two
\A Road near Coventry"]
Enter FaUtaff and Bardolph.
Fal. Bardolph, get thee before to Coventry;
fill me a bottle of sack: our soldiers shall march
through: we'll to Sutton-Co'fiT to-night.
Bard. Will you give me money, captain? 4
Fal. Lay out, lay out.
Bard. This bottle makes an angel.
Fal. An if it do, take it for thy labour; and
if it make twenty, take them all, I'll answer the
coinage. Bid my Lieutenant Peto meet me at
the town's end. 10
Bard. I will, captain: farewell. Exit.
Fal. If I be not ashamed of my soldiers, I am
a soused gurnet. I have misused the king's press
damnably. I have got, in exchange of a hundred
and fifty soldiers, three hundred and odd pounds.
I press me none but good householders, yeomen's
sons; inquire me out contracted bachelors, such
as had been asked twice on the banns; such a
3 Sutton-Co'fil'i cf. h. 6 m»kes an an gel ; cf. n.
13 soused gurnet: pictled fish king's press: royal warrant for
cantcriplinff troops
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commodity of warm slaves, as had. as lief hear the
devil as a dram; such as fear the report of a 20
caliver worse than a struck fowl or a hurt wild-
duck. I pressed me none bat such toasts-and-
batter, with hearts in their bellies no bigger than
pins' heads, and they have bought out their ser-
vices; and now my whole charge consists of
ancients, corporals, lieutenants, gentlemen of
companies, slaves as ragged as Lazarus in the
painted cloth, where the glutton's dogs licked his
sores ; and such as indeed were never soldiers, bat
discarded unjust serving-men, younger sons to SO
younger brothers, revolted tapsters and ostlers
trade-fallen, the cankers of a calm world and a
long peace ; ten times more dishonourable ragged
than an old faced 'ancient: and such have I, to
fill up the rooms of them that have bought out
their services, that you would think that I had a
hundred and fifty tattered prodigals, lately come
from swine-keeping, from eating d^aff and husks.
A mad fellow met me on the way and told me I
had unloaded all the gibbets and pressed the 40
dead bodies. No eye hath seen such scarecrows.
I'll not march through Coventry with them,
that's flat: nay, and the villains march wide be-
twixt the legs, as if they had gyves on; for, in-
deed I had the most of them out of prison.
There's but a shirt and a half in all my com-
pany; and the half shirt is two napkins tacked
together and thrown over the shoulders like a
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herald's coat without sleeves; and the shirt, to
say the truth, stolen from my host at Saint
Alban's, or the red-nose inn-keeper of Daventry.
But that's all one; they'll find linen enough on
every hedge. 68
Enter the Prince, and the Lord of Wettmoreland.
Prince. How now, blown Jackl how now,-/*
quilt!
Fal. What, Hal ! How now, mad wag ! what a
devil dost thou in Warwickshire ? My good Lord
of Westmoreland, I cry yon mercy: I thought
your honour had already been at Shrewsbury.
West. Faith, Sir John, 'tis more than time
that I were there, and you too; but my powers
are there already. The king, I can tell you, looks
for os all: we must away all night. 63
Fal. Tut, never fear me: I am as vigilant as
a cat to steal cream.
Prince. I think to steal cream indeed, for
thy theft hath already made thee butter. But
tell me, Jack, whose fellows are these that come
after?
Fal. Mine, Hal, mine. to
Prince. I did never see snch pitiful rascals.
Fal. Tut, tut; good enough to toss; food for
powder, food for powder ; they'll filf a pit as well
as better: tush, man, mortal men, mortal men.
West. Ay, but, Sir John, methinks they are
exceeding poor and bare; too beggarly. 76
Fal. Faith, for their poverty, I know not
where they had that; and for their bareness, I
am sure they never learned that of me. 79
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Prince. No, I'll be sworn; unless 7011 call
three fingers on the ribs bare. Bat sirrah, make
haste: Percy is already in the field.
Fal. What, is the king encamped?
JVett. He is, Sir John: I fear we shall stay too
long. - 84
Fal. Well,
To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a
Fits a doll fighter and a keen guest. Exeunt.
Scene Three
\Shrewtbury. The rebel camp]
Enter Hotspur, Worcester, Douglas, and Vernon.
Hot. We'll fight with him to-night.
Wot. It may not be.
Doug. You give him then advantage.
Ver. Not a whit.
Hot. Why say yon so? looks he not for supply?
Ver. So do we.
Hot. His is certain, oars is doubtful. 4
Wot. Good cousin, be advis'd: stir not to-night.
Ver. Do not, my lord.
Doug. You do not counsel well:
You speak it out of fear and cold heart.
Ver. Do me no slander, Douglas: by my life, —
And I dare well maintain it with my life, —
If well-respected honour bid me on,
I hold as little counsel with weak fear
As yon, my lord, or any Scot that this day lives:
Let it be seen to-morrow in the battle is
Which of us fears.
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Doug. Yea, or to-night.
Ver. Content.
Hot. To-night, say I.
Ver. Come, come, it may not be. I wonder
much, 16
Being men of such great leading as yon are,
That you foresee not what impediments
Drag back our expedition: certain horse
Of my cousin Vernon's are not yet come up: 20
Your uncle Worcester's horse came but to-day;
And now their pride and mettle is asleep,
Their courage with hard labour tame and dull.
That not a horse is half the half of himself. 24
Hot. So are the horses of the enemy
In general, journey-bated and brought low:
The better part of ours are full of rest.
Wot. The number of the king ezceedetb ours:
For God's sake, cousin, stay till all come in, 29
The trumpet toundi a parley.
Enter Sir Walter Blunt.
Blunt. I come with gracious offers from the king,
If you vouchsafe me hearing and respect.
Hot. Welcome, Sir Walter Blunt; and would to
God 82
You were of our determination !
Some of us love you well ; and even those some
Envy yonr great deservings and good name,
Because you are not of our quality, 36
But stand against us like an enemy.
Blunt. And God defend but still I should stand so,
So long as out of limit and true rule
Yon stand against anointed majesty. 40
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But, to my charge. The king hath sent to know
The nature of your griefs, and whereupon
You conjure from the breast of civil peace
Such bold hostility, teaching his duteous land 44
' Audacious cruelty. If that the king
Have any way your good deserts forgot, —
Which he confcsseth to be manifold, —
He bids you name your griefs ; and with all speed ' 48
You shall have your desires with interest,
And pardon absolute for yourself and these
Herein misled by your suggestion.
Hot. The king is kind; and well we know the
king S3
Knows at what time *o promise, when to pay.
My father and my uncle and myself
Did give him that same royalty he wears;
And when he was not six nnd twenty strong, oa
Sick in the world's regard, wretched and low,
A poor nnminded outlaw sneaking home,
My father gave him welcome to the shore ;
And when he heard him swear and vow to God
He came but to be Duke of Lancaster, 81
To sue his livery and beg his peace,
With tears of innocency and terms of real,
My father, in kind heart and pity mov'd, 84
Swore him assistance and perform' d it too.
Now when the lords and barons of the realm
Perceiv'd Northumberland did lean to him,
The more and less came in with cap and knee;
Met him in boroughs, cities, villages, 69
Attended him on bridges, stood in lanes,
Laid gifts before him, proffer' d him their oaths,
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Gave him their heirs aa pages, follow'd him 72
Even at the heels in golden multitudes.
He presently, as greatness knows itself,
Steps me a little higher than his vow
Made to my fattier, while his blood was poor, 70
Upon the naked shore at Ravenspurgh;
And now, forsooth, takes on him to reform
Some certain edicts and some strait decrees
That lie too heavy on the commonwealth, 80
Cries ont upon abuses, seems to weep
Over his country's wrongs; and by this face,
This seeming brow of justice, did he win
The hearts of all that he did angle for; 64
Proceeded further; cut me off the heads
Of all the favourites that the absent king
In deputation left behind him here,
When he was personal in the Irish war. 88
Blunt. Tut, I came not to hear this.
Hot. Then to the point
In short time a fter, he depos'd the king ;
Soon after that, depriv'd him of his life ;
And, in the neck of that, task'd the whole state;
To make that worse, suffer' d his kinsman March — 98
Who is, if every owner were well plac'd,
Indeed bis king — to be engag'd in Wales,
There without ransom to lie forfeited; 06
Disgrac'd me in my happy victories ;
Sought to entrap me by intelligence;
Rated my uncle from the council-board;
In rage dismiss'd my father from the court; 100
Broke oath on oath, committed wrong on wrong;
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And in conclusion drove us to seek out
This head of safety; and withal to pry
Into his title, the which we find 10*
Too indirect for long continuance.
Blunt. Shall I return this answer to the king?
Hot. Not so, Sir Walter: we'll withdraw awhile.
Go to the king; and let there be impawn'd 10s
Some surety for a safe return again,
And in the morning early shall my uncle
Bring him onr purposes ; and so farewell.
Blunt. I would you would accept of grace and
lore. lia
Hot. And may be so we shall.
Blunt. Pray God, you do!
Exeunt.
Scene Four
[York. The Archbishop'* Palace}
Enter the Archbishop of York and Sir Michael.
Arch. Hie, good Sir Michael; bear this sealed brief
With winged haste to the lord marshal;
This to my cousin Scroop, and all the rest
To whom they are directed. If yon knew *
How much they do import, you would make haste.
SirM. My good lord,
I guess their tenour.
Arch. Like enough you do.
To-morrow, good Sir Michael, is a day 8
Wherein the fortune of ten thousand men
Must bide the touch ; for, sir, at Shrewsbury,
As I am truly given to understand,
The king with mighty and quick-raised power 12
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Meets with Lord Harry: and, I fear, Sir Michael,
What with the sickness of Northumberland, —
Whose power was in the first proportion, —
And what with Owen Glendower's absence thence, is
Who with them was a rated sinew too,
And comes not in, o'er-rul'd by prophecies, —
I fear the power of Percy is too weak
To wage an instant trial with the king. ao
SirM. Why, my good lord, you need not fear:
There is the Douglas and Lord Mortimer.
Arch. No, Mortimer is not there.
SirM. But there is Mordake, Vernon, Lord Harry
Percy, 24
And there's my Lord of Worcester, and a head
Of gallant warriors, noble gentlemen.
Arch. And so there is; but yet the king hath drawn
The special head of all the land together: 28
The Prince of Wales, Lord John of Lancaster,
The noble Westmoreland, and war-like Blunt;
And many moe coTrivals and dear men
Of estimation and command in arms. 82
SirM. Doubt not, my lord, they shall be well
oppos'd.
Arch. I hope no less, yet needful 'tis to fear;
And, to prevent the worse, Sir Michael, speed:
For if Lord Percy thrive not, ere the king ao
Dismiss his power, he means to visit ns,
For he hath heard of our confederacy,
And 'tis but wisdom to make strong against him:
Therefore make haste. I must go write again 40
To other friends ; and so farewell, Sir Michael.
Exeunt.
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ACT FIFTH
Scene One
[Shrewsbury. The King's Camp)
Enter the King, Prince of Walei, Lord John of
Lancaster, Sir Walter Blunt, and Falttaff.
King. How bloodily the son begins to peer
Above yon busky hill ! the day looks pale
At his distemper aturc.
Prince. The southern wind
Doth play the trumpet to his purposes, 4
And by his hollow whistling in the leaves
Foretells a tempest and a blustering day.
King. Then with the losers let it sympathize,
For nothing can seem foul to those that win. 8
The trumpet found*.
Enter Worcester [and Vernon].
Hg^ now, my Lord of Worcester ! 'tis not well
That you and I should meet upon such terms
As now we meet. You have deceiv'd our trust,
And made us doff our easy robes of peace, 12
To crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.
This is not well, my lord ; this is not well.
What say yon to it? will you again unknit
This churlish knot of all-abhorred war, lfl
And move in that obedient orb again
Where you did give a fair and natural light,
And be no more an exhal'd meteor,
A prodigy of fear and a portent - so
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Of broached mischief to the unborn times?
Wot. Hear me, my liege.
For mine own part, I could be well content
To entertain the lag-end of my life 24
With quiet hours ; for I do protest
I have not sought the day of this dislike.
King. You have not sought it! how comes it then?
Fal. Rebellion lay ill his way, and he found it.
Prince. Peace, chewet, peace! 28
Wot. It pleas'd your majesty to turn your looks
Of favour from myself and all our house;
And yet I must remember you, my lord, 82
We were the first and dearest of your friends.
For you my staff of office did I break
In Richard's time; and posted day and night
To meet you on the way, and kiss your hand, 88
When yet you were in place and in account
Nothing so strong and fortunate as I.
It was myself, my brother, and his son,
That brought yon home and boldly did outdare
The dangers of the time. You swore to us, 4i
And you did swear that oath at Doncaster,
That you did nothing purpose 'gainst the state,
Nor claim no further than your new-fall 'n right,
The seat of Gaunt, dukedom of Lancaster. 45
To this we swore our aid: but, in short space
It rain'd down fortune showering on your head,
And such a flood of greatness fell on you, 4B
What with our help, what with the absent king,
What with the injuries of a wanton time,
The seeming sufferances that you had borne,
And the contrarious winds that held the king oa
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So long in his unlucky Irish wars,
That all in England did repute him dead:
And from this swarm of fair advantages
You took occasion to be quickly woo'd hi
To gripe the general sway into your hand;
Forgot your oath to us at Doncaster;
And being fed by us you us'd us so
As that ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird, go
Useth the sparrow: did oppress our nest,
Grew by our feeding to so great a bulk
That even our love durst not come near your sight
For fear of swallowing; hut with nimble wing u
We were enforc'd, for safety's sake, to fly
Out of your sight and raise this present head ;
Whereby we stand opposed by such means
As you yourself have forg'd against yourself 63
By unkind usage, dangerous countenance,
And violation of all faith and troth
Sworn to us in your younger enterprise.
King. These things indeed, you have articulate, 72
Proclaim'd at market-crosses, read in churches.
To face the garment of rebellion
With some fine colour that may please the eye
Of fickle changelings and poor discontents, 76
Which gape and rub the elbow at the news
Of hurlyborly innovation:
And never yet did insurrection want
Such water-colours to impaint his cause ; 80
Nor moody beggars, starving for a time
Of pell-mell havoc and confusion.
Prince. In both our armies there is many a soul
Shall pay full dearly for this encounter, m
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If once they join in trial. Tell your nephew,
The Prince of Wales doth join with all the world
In praise of Henry Percy: by my hopes,
This present enterprise set off his head, 8S
I do not think a braver gentleman,
More active- valiant, or more valiant young,
More daring or more bold, is now alive
To grace this latter age with noble deeds. 92
For my part, I may speak it to my shame,
I have a truant been to chivalry ;
And so I hear he doth account me too;
Yet this before my father's majesty: — 98
I am content that he shall take the odds
Of his great name and estimation,
And will, to save the blood on either side,
Try fortune with him in a single fight. 100
King. And, Prince of Wales, so dare we venture
thee,
Albeit considerations infinite
Do make against it. No, good Worcester, no,
We love onr people well ; even those we love 104
That are misled upon your cousin's part;
And, will they take the offer of our grace, I
Both he and they and you, yea, every man \
Shall be my friend again, and I'll be his. ids
So tell your cousin, and bring me word
What he will do ; but if he will not yield,
Rebuke and dread correction wait on us,
And they shall do their office. So, be gone: 113
We will not now be troubled with reply;
We offer fair, take it advisedly.
Exit Woreetter [with Femott],
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Prince. It will sot be accepted, on my life.
The Douglas and the Hotspur both together na
Are confident against the world in arms.
King. Hence, therefore, every leader to his charge;
For, on their answer, will we set on them;
And God befriend us, as oar cause is just! 120
Exeunt. Manet Prince and FaUiaff.
Fat. Hal, if thou see me down in the battle,
and bestride me, so; 'tis a point of friendship.
Prince. Nothing but a colossus can do thee
that friendship. Say thy prayers, and farewell.
Fal. I would it were bed-time, Hal, and all
well. 12«
Prince. Why, thou owest God a death.
[Exit Prince.]
Fal. "Tis not due yet: I would be loath to
pay him before his day. What need I be so
forward with him that calls not on me? Well,
'tis no matter; honour pricks me on. Yea, but
how/if honour prick me off when I come on?
how then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an
arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound?
No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No.
What is honour? a word. What is that word,
honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! Who hath it?
he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it?
No, Doth he hear it? No. It is insensible
then? Tea, to the dead. But will it not live
with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not
suffer it. Therefore I'll none of it: honour is a
mere scutcheon; and so ends my catechism. us
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[Skrewtburg. The Rebel Camp] ,
Enter Worcester and Sir Richard Vernon.
Wot. O, do! my nephew must not know, Sir
Richard,
The liberal kind offer of the king.
Ver. 'Twere best he did.
Wot. Then are we all undone.
It is not possible, it cannot be, *
The king should keep his word in loving us;
He will suspect us still, and find a time
To punish this offence in other faults:
Suspicion all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes ; S
For treason is but trusted like the fox,
Who, ne'er so tame, so cherish' d, and lock'd up,
Will have a wild trick of bis ancestors.
Look how we can, or sad or merrily, 12
Interpretation will misquote our looks,
And we shall feed like oxen at a stall,
The better cherish'd, still the nearer death.
My nephew's trespass may be well forgot, 13
It hath the excuse of youth and heat of blood;
And an adopted name of privilege,
A hare-brain' d Hotspur, govem'd by a spleen.
All his offences live upon my head 20
And on his father's : we did train him on ;
And, his corruption being ta'en from us,
We, as the spring of all, shall pay for all.
Therefore, good cousin, let not Harry know 34
In any case the offer of the king.
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Ver. Deliver what you will, I'll say 'tis so.
Here comes your cousin.
Enter Hottpur [and Douglas],
Hot. My uncle is return'd: deliver up ss
My Lord of Westmoreland. Uncle, what news?
Wot. The king will bid you battle presently.
Doug. Defy him by the Lord of Westmoreland.
Hot. Lord Douglas, go you and tell him so. 82
Doug. Marry, and shall, and very willingly.
Exit Douglat.
Wor. There is no seeming mercy in the king.
Hot. Did you beg any? God forbid!
Wot. I told him gently of our grievances, SB
Of his oath-breaking; which he mended thus,
By now forswearing that he is forsworn :
He calls us rebels, traitors ; and will scourge
With haughty arms this hateful name in us. 40
Enter Douglat.
Doug. Arm, gentlemen ! to arms ! for I have thrown
A brave defiance in King Henry's teeth,
And Westmoreland, that was engag'd, did bear it;
Which cannot choose but bring him quickly on.
Wot. The Prince of Wales stepp'd forth before the
king, 4S
And, nephew, challeng'd you to single fight.
Hot. O ! would the quarrel lay upon our heads,
And that no man might draw short breath to-day 48
But I and Harry Monmouth. Tell me, tell me,
How show'd his tasking? seem'd it in contempt?
Ver. No, by my soul ; I never in my life
Did hear a challenge urg'd more modestly, ss
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Unless a brother should a brother dare
To gentle exercise and proof of arms.
He gave yon all the duties of a man,
Trimm'd up your praises with a princely tongue.
Spoke your deservings like a chronicle,
Making you ever better than his praise,
By still dispraising praise valu'd with yon;
And, which became him like a prince indeed,
He made a blushing cital of himself,
And chid his truant youth with such a grace
As if he master'd there a doable spirit
Of teaching and of learning instantly.
There did he pause. But let me tell the world,
If he outlive the envy of this day,
England did never owe so sweet a hope,
So much misconstru'd in his wantonness.
Hot. Cousin, I think thou art enamoured
On his follies : never did I hear
Of any prince so wild a libertine.
But be he as he will, yet once ere night
I will embrace him with a soldier's arm.
That he shall shrink under my courtesy.
Arm, arm, with speed! And, fellows, soldit
friends,
Better consider what you have to do,
Than I, that have not well the gift of tongue,
Can lift your blood up with persuasion.
Enter a Messenger.
Mei*. My lord, here are letters for you.
Hot. I cannot read them now.
O gentlenien ! th e time o f life is short;
To spend_that_shprtness basely were too long,
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If life did ride upon a dial's point,
Still ending at the arrival of an hour. 84
An if we live, we live to tread on kings ;
If die, brave death, when princes die with us!
Now, for our consciences, the arms are fair,
When the intent of bearing them is just. 88
Enter another Messenger.
Mess. My lord, prepare ; the king comes on apace.
Hot. I thank him that he cuts me from my tale,
For I profess not talking. Only this, —
Let each man do his best: and here draw I 02
A sword, whose temper I intend to stain
With the best blood that I can meet withal
In the adventure of this perilous day.
Now, Esperance! Percy ! and set on. M
Sound all the lofty instruments of war,
And by that music let us all embrace ;
For, heaven to earth, some of us never shall
A second time do such a courtesy. loo
Here they embrace; the trumpets sound.
[Exeunt.]
[Scene Three
The battle field]
The King entereth ■with his power. Alarum unto the
battle. Then enter Douglas and Sir Walter *
Blunt.
Blunt. What is thy name, that in the battle thus
Thou crosses t meP what honour dost thou seek
Upon my head?
Doug. Enow then, my name is Douglas;
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And I do haunt thee in the battle thus *
Because some tell me that thou art a king.
Blunt. They tell thee true.
Doug. The Lord of Stafford dear to-day hath
bought
Thy likeness; for, instead of thee, King Harry, s
This sword hath ended him: so shall it thee,
Unless thou yield thee as my prisoner.
Blunt. I was not born a yielder, thou proud Scot;
And thou shalt find a king that will revenge 12
Lord Stafford's death.
They fight. Douglat hills Blunt.
Then enter Hottpur.
Hot. O, Douglas, hadst thou fought at Holmedon
thus,
I never had triumph'd upon a Scot.
Doug. All's done, all's won: here breathless lies
the king, la
Hot. Where?
Doug. Here.
Hot. This, Douglas! no; I know this face full
well;
A gallant knight he was, his name was Blunt; 20
Semblably fumish'd like the king himself.
Doug. A fool go with thy soul, whither it goes !
A borrow'd title hast thou bought too dear:
Why didst thou tell me that thou wert a king?
Hot. The king hath many marching in his coats. 2D ,
Doug. Now, by my sword, I will kill all his coats ;
111 murder all his wardrobe, piece by piece,
Until I meet the king.
Hot. Up, and away ! 28
Our soldiers stand full fairly for the day. Exeunt.
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Alarum, and enter Falstaff, solus.
Fal. Though I could 'scape shot-free at
London, I fear the shot here; here's no scoring
but upon the pate. Soft! who art thou? Sir
Walter Blunt: there's honour for yon! here's
no vanity! I am as hot as molten lead, and as
heavy too: God keep lead out of me! I need
no more weight than mine own bowels. I have
led my ragamuffins where they are peppered:
there's not three of my hundred and fifty left
alive, and they are for the town's end, to beg
during life. But who comes here? 40
Enter the Prince.
Prince. What ! stand' st thou idle here ? lend me thy
sword:
Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff
Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies,
Whose deaths are unreveng'd: prithee, lend me thy
sword. 44
Fal. O Hal! I prithee, give me leave to
breathe awhile. Turk Gregory never did such
deeds in arms as I have done this day. I have
paid Percy, I have made him sure. 48
Prince. He is indeed; and living to kill thee.
I prithee, lend me thy sword.
Fal. Nay, before God, Hal, if Percy he alive,
thou gett'st not my sword; but take my pistol,
if thou wilt. W
Prince. Give it me. What! is it in the case?
Fal. Ay, Hal; 'tis hot, 'tis hot: there's that
will sack a city.
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The Prince draws it out, and
find* it to be a bottle of tack.
Prince. What! is 't a time to jest and dally now?
He throws the bottle at him. Exit.
Fal. Well, if Percy be alive, I'll pierce him.
If he do come in my way, so: if he do not, if I
come in his, willingly, let him make a carbonado
of me. I like not such grinning honour as Sir
Walter hath: give me life; which if I can save,
so; if not, honour comes unlooked for, and
there's an end. Exit.
Scene [Four
The battle field]
Alarums. Excursions. Enter the King, the Prince,
Lord John of Lancaster, and Earl of Westmore-
land.
King. I prithee,
Harry, withdraw thyself; thou bleed'st too much.
Lord John of Lancaster, go you with him.
Lane. Not I, my lord, unless I did bleed too. 4
Prince. I -beseech your majesty, make up,
Lest your retirement do amaze your friends.
King. I will do so.
My Lord of Westmoreland, lead him to his tent. 8
West. Come, my lord, 111 lead yon to your tent.
Prince. Lead me, my lord? I do not need your
help:
And God forbid a shallow scratch should drive
The Prince of Wales from such a field as this, 12
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Where stain'd nobility lies trodden on,
\ And rebels' arms triumph in massacres !
Lane. We breathe too long: come, cousin West-
moreland,
Our duty this way lies: for God's sake, come. is
[Exeunt Lord John of Lancaster
and Earl of Westmoreland.]
Prince. By God, thou hast deceiv'd me, Lancaster;
2 did not think thee lord of such a spirit:
Before, I lov'd thee as a brother, John;
But now, I do respect thee as my soul. 20
King. I saw him hold Lord Percy at the point
With lustier maintenance than I did look for
Of such an ungrown warrior.
Prince. O! this boy
Lends mettle to as all. Exit.
Enter Douglas.
Doug. Another king! they grow like Hydra's
heads: 25
I am the Douglas, fatal to all those
That wear those colours on them; what art thou,
That counterfeit'st the person of a king? 28
King. The king himself; who, Douglas, grieves at
heart
So many of his shadows thou hast met
And not the very king. I have two boys
Seek Percy and thyself about the field: ss
But, seeing thou fall'st on me so luckily,
I will assay thee; so defend thyself.
Doug. I fear thou art another counterfeit;
And yet, in faith, thou bear's t thee like a king:
22 lustier maintenance: man vigorous bearing
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But mine I am sore thou art, whoe'er thou be,
And thus I win thee.
They fight. The King being
in danger, enter Prince.
Prince. Hold np thy head, vile Scot, or thou art
like
Never to hold it np again ! the spirits 40
Of valiant Shirley, St afford, . Blunt, are in my arms:
It is the Prince of Wales that threatens thee,
Who never promiseth but he means to pay.
They fight: Dottglat flieth.
Cheerly, my lord: how fares your Grace? 44
Sir Nicholas Gawsey hath for succour sent,
And so hath Clifton: I'll to Clifton straight.
King. Stay, and breathe awhile.
Thou hast redeem' d thy lost opinion, 48
And show'd thou mak'st some tender of my life,
In this fair rescue thou hast brought to me.
Prince. God! they did me too much injury
That ever said I hearken'd for your death. 52
If it were so, I might have let alone
The insulting hand of Douglas over yon;
Which would have been as speedy in yonr end
As all the poisonous potions in the world, gs
And sav'd the treacherous labour of your son.
King. Make up to Clifton: III 'a Sir Nicholas
Gawsey, Exit.
Enter Hottpttr.
Hot. If I mistake not, thou art Harry Monmouth.
Prince. Thou speak'st as if I would deny my
name. 60
Hot. My name is Harry Percy.
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Prince. Why, then, I see
A very valiant rebel of that name.
I am the Prince of Wales ; and think not, Percy,
To share with me in glory any more; M
Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere ;
Nor can one England brook a double reign,
Of Harry Percy and the Prince of Wales.
Hot. Nor shall it, Harry; for the hour is come 68
To end the one of as ; and would to God
Thy name in arms were now as great as mine !
Prince. Ill make it greater ere I part from thee;
And all the budding honours on thy crest 73
I'll crop, to make a garland for my head.
Hot. I can no longer brook thy vanities.
They fight. Enter Falttaff.
Fat. Well said, Hal! to it, Hal! Nay, you
shall find no boy's play here, I can tell you. 7«
Enter Douglas. He fights with Falttaff, who
falls down at if he were dead. [Exit
Douglas], The Prince killeth Percy.
Hot. O, Harry ! thou hast robb'd me of my youth.
I better brook the loss of brittle life
Than those proud titles thou hast won of me;
They wound my thoughts worse than thy sword my
. flesh: so
But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool;
And time, that takes survey of all the world,
Must have a stop. O ! I could prophesy,
But that the earthy and cold hand of death M
Lies on my tongue. No, Percy, thou art dust,
And food for— [D.'m.]
Prince. For worms, brave Percy. Fare thee well,
great heart!
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Ill-Weav'd ambition, how much art t.hou shrank!
When that this body did contain a spirit, so
A kingdom for it was too small a bound ;
Bat now, two paces of the vilest earth
Is room enough : this earth, that bears thee dead, 02
Bears not alive so stout a gentleman.
If thou wert sensible of courtesy,
I should not make so dear a show of zeal:
But let my favours hide thy mangled face, 86
And, even in thy behalf, I'll thank myself
For doing these fair rites of tenderness.
Adieu, and take thy praise with thee to heaven !
Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave, 100
But not remember' d in thy epitaph!
He tpieth Falitaff on the ground.
What ! old acquaintance ! could not all this flesh
Keep in a little life ? Poor Jack, farewell !
I could hare better spar'd a better man. 104
O ! I should have a heavy miss of thee
If I were much in love with vanity.
Death hath not struck so fat a deer to-day,
Though many dearer, in this bloody fray. 108
Embowell'd will I see thee by and by:
Till then in blood by noble Percy lie. Exit.
Falstaff riteth up.
Fal. Embowelled! if thou embowel me to-
day, 111 give you leave to powder me and
eat me too, to-morrow. 'Sblood! 'twas time to
counterfeit, or that hot termagant Scot had paid
me scot and lot too. Counterfeit? I lie, I am no
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counterfeit: to die, is to be a counterfeit; for he
is bat the counterfeit of a man, who hath not
the life of a man ; bat to counterfeit dying, when
a man thereby liveth, is to be no counterfeit, bat
the true and perfect image of life indeed. The
better part of valour is discretion; in the which
better part, I have saved my life. 'Zounds! I
am afraid of this gunpowder Percy though he
be dead: how, if he should counterfeit too and
rise? By my faith I am afraid he would prove
the better counterfeit. Therefore I'll make him
sore ; yea, and I'll swear I killed him. Why may
not he rise as well as I? Nothing confutes me
but eyes, and nobody sees me: therefore, sirrah,
with a new wound in your thigh come you along
with me,
He take* up Hotspur on hit back.
Enter Prince and John of Lancaster.
Prince. Come, brother John ; full bravely hast thon
flesh 'd 132
Thy maiden sword.
Lane. But, soft! whom have we here?
Did yon not tell me this fat man was dead?
Prince. I did; I saw him dead,
Breathless and bleeding on the ground. iso
Art thou alive ? or is it fantasy
That plays upon onr eyesight? I prithee, speak;
We will not trust onr eyes without our ears :
Thou art not what thon seem'st. no
Fal. No, that's certain; I am not a double
man: but if I be not Jack Falstaff, then am I a
Jack. There is Percy: if your father will do
me any honour, so; if not, let him kill the
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next Percy himself. I look to be either earl or
/duke, I can assure you.
I Prince. Why, Percy I killed myself, and saw thee
dead. 14?
Fal. Didst thou? Lord, Lord ! how this world
is given to lying. I grant yon I was down and
out of breath, and so was he; but we rose both
at an instant, and fought a long hour by Shrews-
bury clock. If I may be believed, so; if not, let
them that should reward valour bear the sin
upon their own heads. I'll take it npon my
death, I gave him this wound in the thigh; if
the man were alive and would deny it, 'zounds,
I would make him eat a piece of my sword 167
Lane. This is the strangest tale that e'er I h' d.
Prince. This is the strangest fellow, brother J an.
Come, bring your luggage nobly on your back:
For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, 16.1
111 gild it with the happiest terms I have.
A retreat » Mounded.
The trumpet sounds retreat; the day is ours.
Come, brother, let us to the highest of the field,
To see what friends are living, who are dead. 165
Exeunt.
Fal. I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He
that rewards me, God reward him ! If I do grow
great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave
sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.
Exit.
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Scene [Five
The battle field]
Enter the King, Prince of Wale*, Lord John of
Lanca$ter, Earl of Westmoreland, vnth Worces-
ter and Vernon, prisoner*.
King. Thus ever did rebellion find rebuke.
Ill-spirited Worcester! did we not send grace,
Pardon, and terms of love to all of yon?
And wouldst thon tnrn our offers contrary? 4
Misuse the tenour of thy kinsman's trust?
Three knights upon oar party slain to-day,
A noble earl and many a creature else
Had been alive this hour, 8
If like a Christian, thou hadst, truly borne
Betwixt our armies trne intelligence.
Wor. What I have done my safety urg'd me to;
And I embrace this fortune patiently, 12
Since -not to be avoided it falls on me.
King. Bear Worcester to the death and Vernon
too:
Other offenders we will pause upon.
Exit Worcetter and Vernon.
How goes the field? U
Prince. The noble Scot, Lord Douglas, when he
The fortune of the day quite turn'd from him,
The noble Percy slain, and all his men
Upon the foot of fear, fled with the rest; so
And falling from a hill he was so bruis'd
That the pursuers took him. At my tent
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The Douglas is, and I beseech your Grace
I may dispose of him.
King. With all my heart. 24
Prince. Then, brother John of Lancaster, to yon
This honourable bounty shall belong.
Go to the Douglas, and deliver him
Up to his pleasure, ransomless, and free: 28
His valour shown upon our crests to-day
' Hath taught us how to cherish such high deeds,
Even in the bosom of our adversaries.
Lane. I thank your Grace for this high cour-
tesy, 33
Which I shall give away immediately.
King. Then this remains, that we divide our power.
You, son John, and my cousin Westmoreland
Towards York shall bend you, with your dearest
speed, 30
To meet Northumberland and the prelate Scroop,
Who, as we bear, are busily in arms :
Myself and you, son Harry, will towards Wales,
To fight with Glendower and the Earl of March.
Rebellion in this land shall lose bis sway, 41
Meeting the check of such another day;
And since this business so fair is done,
Let us not leave till all our own be won. Exeunt.
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NOTES
I. i. 5. entrance of this toil. The earth is personi-
fied, and the dry surface is called her month.
I. i. 28. Cf. the last lines of Shakespeare's Richard
II, King Henry's speech when news is brought him
that, at his suggestion, King Richard, his predecessor
whose throne he has usurped, has been murdered:
Lords, I protest, my soul is full of woe
That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow:
Come, mourn with me for that I do lament
And put on sullen black incontinent:
111 make a journey to the Holy Land
To wash this blood from off my guilty hand.
During the year which has intervened, civil wars have
prevented the fulfilment of this vow.
I. i. 38. Mortimer, Earl of March, rightful heir
to the throne of England at the time of King
Richard's death (see genealogical table in note on
I. iii. 145-146), now in command of King Henry's
forces on the western front.
I. L 52. Holy-rood day. Holy Cross Day, Sep-
tember 14.
I. i. 53. Young Harry Percy. The youngest mem-
ber of the great Percy family, now in command of
the king's forces on the northern front. The Percies
(see Dramatis Persona) had been King Henry's chief
supporters in his usurpation of the throne.
I. L 71. Mordake, the Earl of Fife, was not son
to beaten Donglas, but to the Duke of Albany, regent
of Scotland. Shakespeare's error is due to a mistake
in punctuation in Holinshed's list of Hotspur's pris-
oners, which reads: 'Mordacke earle of Fife, son to
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the governour Archembald earle Dowglas, etc' A
comma was omitted after 'governour,' and Shakes-
peare understood that 'Archembald' was 'governour.'
I. i. 91-95. By the law of arms, the King might
claim only such prisoners as were of royal blood, and
the historical Hotspur was therefore entirely within
his rights in refusing to send to the king any pris-
oners except Mordake. But Shakespeare did not
know that Mordake was of royal blood (see preced-
ing note) and he was apparently ignorant of the law
of arms which gave Hotspur the right to keep the
rest of the prisoners. No attempt is made to explain
why Shakespeare's Hotspur sent Mordake to the
king— Shakespeare merely follows the facts as set
down in Holinshed. The indignation of King Henry
and Westmoreland, in this scene, at 'young Percy's
pride' ; Hotspur's conciliatory tone and his expla-
nations when he appears at court (I. iii.) ; and the
fact that neither Hotspur nor his uncle, Worcester,
the experienced diplomat, ever suggests that Hotspur
has a legal right to his prisoners ; all these things
indicate that Shakespeare's Hotspur is not within his
rights in keeping the prisoners. His refusal was, at
first, a thoughtless and impetuous act; and the
refusal once made, the shrewd Worcester saw reasons
for influencing his nephew to stand by this first hasty
reply to the king's demand.
I. i. 97. Malevolent to you in all aspect*. An
astrological allusion, referring to the supposed good
and evil influences of the planets. The king uses an
astrological figure in his address to Worcester in
V. i. 17-21.
I. i. 107. uttered is used here in its peculiar
Elizabethan sense, namely, to put into circulation or
to offer to the public. The substance of the king's
speech is: 'Dismiss the lords until Wednesday next,
but you yourself return to me at once, for more is
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to be said and done, than I can say or do m public
in my present angry condition.'
I. ii. 16. teven tlart. The Pleiades; also a com-
mon tavern-sign.
I. ii. 16. •wandering knight. El Donzel del Febo,
Knight of the Son (or Phrebus), hero of a popular
Spanish romance. This quotation is perhaps from
some contemporary ballad founded on the romance.
I. ii. 19-33. Falstaff plays on the word Grace,
nsing it first as a title, then in reference to the
spiritual state of grace, and finally as 'grace before
meat.' From this simple pun he proceeds to a more
complicated play on words. There is the obvious
play on night and knight in 1. 27, followed in 1. 28
by the play on the words body, beauty, and booty, in
each of which the vowel sound, in Shakespeare's day,
approximated the round o sound, as in note. Finally
there is the play on the phrase under whote counte-
nance.
I. ii. 49. Hal's quibble on the word durance would
have greater significance if a buff jerkin were the
costume of a prisoner instead of the ordinary dress of
a sheriff's officer. The ideas of a sheriff and 'durance
vile' are closely enough associated, however, to give
some point to the jest.
I. ii. 87. Eating the flesh of a hare was supposed
to generate melancholy.
I. ii. 88. Moor-ditch was a stagnant ditch and
morass outside the walls of London.
I. ii. 101. damnable iteration. A damnable trick
of quoting and misapplying.
I. ii. 118. GadthUl. The name of one of the rob-
bers and of the place of the robbery.
I. ii. 144. Eattcheap. The district in London
where the Boar's Head Tavern, the rendezvous of
Hal and Falstaff, was situated.
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I. ii. 177. All-hallovm tummer. The warm
weather which comes at about the time of All Saints'
Day, November first; called hi America Indian
Summer. The reference is to Falstaff's youthful
spirit in his old age.
I. ii 199. Sirrah. The ordinary form of address
to children and servants; here, a sign of Poins's undne
familiarity with the Prince.
I. ii. 206. the third, i.e., Falstaff. Shakespeare's
inaccuracy in unimportant details is well illustrated
here. He has just mentioned four robbers (11. 180-
181), and now implies, at least, that there are to be
bnt three. The phrase 'those men that we have
already waylaid' (11. 181-182) is also inaccurate and
misleading. Falstaff and his three followers both
waylay and rob the men, after Hal and Poins have
withdrawn. But Shakespeare wrote primarily for the
stage, and not for the closet, and inaccuracies of this
sort are not apparent on the stage.
I. ili. 36. milliner. In Shakespeare's time, milli-
ners, i.e., dealers in women's clothes from Milan,
were, for the most part, men.
I. iii. 56. God lave the mark. A deprecatory
expression, of obscure origin, used when reference is
made to an unpleasant subject.
I. iii 137. Bc&ingbroke. King Henry is referred
to by many names during the course of the play.
Before his accession he was commonly known as
Henry of Bolingbroke, from the fact that he was
born in Bolingbroke castle in Lincolnshire. He also
bore the titles Earl of Derby, Duke of Hereford,
and, after his father's death, Duke of Lancaster.
I. iii. 145-146. The following genealogical table
will help to make clear this question of the succession
to the English throne :
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Edward III (1827-1877)
Edward, Prince Lionel, Duke John of Gaunt,
of Wales ('the of Clarence Duke of
Black Prince') Lancaster
d. 1376
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Richard II Philippa, m. Edmund Henry IV
(1377-1399) Mortimer, Earl of (1399-1414)
March
I
RflKfitML, Earl I Edmund" M. I
of March I i
I
Edmund Mortimer, Earl
' of March, d. 1421
Elizabeth M.
a. Harry Percy
Shakespeare follows the chroniclers in confusing
Edmund Mortimer, the sod of Philippa, with
Edmund Mortimer, the son of Roger. It was Roger
Mortimer who was King Richard's heir, and was so
proclaimed in the October Parliament of 1885. At
his death in 1898, one year before King Richard's,
his a even-y ear-old son succeeded to his claim. But
it was the elder Edmund, brother to Roger, who
fought Glendower and married his daughter. Hot-
spur's brother-in-law, therefore, was not heir to the
throne. The heir, as the table shows, was the nephew
of Lady Percy, and in III. i. 195 Mortimer refers to
Lady Percy as 'my aunt Percy.' Here (1. 156), and
in 1. 80, Mortimer is represented as Hotspur's
brother-in-law.
I. iii. 245. York. Edmund of Langley, Duke of
York, younger brother to John of Gaunt, uncle to
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pointed York regent of England during the king's
absence in Ireland. Richard had previously exiled
Henry, and the latter chose this period of the king's
absence from his realm to return and claim his
father's estates, which had been unjustly confiscated
by Richard to pay for this same Irish expedition.
Henry waa met at Ravenspurgh, on the coast of
Yorkshire, by Northumberland; at Doncaster, in
southern Yorkshire, by Worcester; and finally at
Berkeley Castle, in Gloucestershire, by Hotspur.
The interview between Hotspur and Henry, from
which Hotspur quotes in his next speech, is presented
in Shakespeare's Richard II, II. iii.
I. iii. 271. the Lard Scroop. One of the adher-
ents of King Richard, executed by order of Henry;
see Richard II, III. ii.
II. i. 2. Charles' Wain. Probably a corruption of
'churl's wain' or 'countryman's wagon,' the name
given to the constellation which is now known as the
Great Bear.
II. i. 10. next, the old superlative of nigh, of which
near was the comparative. Cf. III. i. 268.
II. i. 17. There is an old superstition, referred to
in Pliny's Natural Hittory, ix. 47, that fishes are
infested with fleas. Cf. 1. 83.
II. i. 28. Charing-crost, in Shakespeare's time a
village on the road from London to Westminster;
now in the heart of Greater London.
II. i. 67. Saint Nickolai, a popular saint in the
Roman and Russian Churches, now familiarly known
as Santa Claus, was the patron saint of scholars,
children, parish clerks, travellers, sailors, and pawn-
brokers. His aid was invoked by travellers to protect
them from perils of the road, especially from robbers.
II. 1. 81 ff . foot-land-rakert, foot-pads ; long-ttaff
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tixpenny gtrikert, fellows who would knock a man
down to get sixpence from him; mustackio-pvrple-
hued malt wormt, fellows whose moustaches are so
constantly immersed in ale that they have become
purple; tranquillity, people who live at ease; great
oneycrt, great ones (with a play on the words one
and own which were pronounced alike) ; tuck a* can
hold in, such as can keep their own counsel (an
accomplishment which Gadshill seems to find it
difficult to imitate).
II. i. 94. Greasing of boots to make them water-
proof was called 'liquoring* them; the play on the
word here is obvious.
II. i. 96. receipt of fern-Meed. According to popu-
lar superstition, fern-seed was visible only on Saint
John's Eye (June 28), and those who gathered it
then, according to a certain rite, were themselves
rendered invisible.
II. ii. 2. freti like a gummed velvet. Velvet
stiffened with gum very soon chafed.
II. iii. 1. The writer of this letter is not specified.
II. iii. 37. I could divide myself into two parts
and then fight with myself.
II. iii. 41. Kate. The actual Hotspur's wife's
name was Elizabeth, not Kate; cf. genealogical table
on page 118. Shakespeare seems to have had a
peculiar fondness for the name Kate.
II, iii. 50-51. Why have you allowed musing and
melancholy, which have made you 'thick-eyed,' i.e.,
blind to all outward things, to make you forget your
attention to me, which is my 'treasure' ?
II. iii. 58. The basilisk cannon was named from
the fabulous monster whose look was reputed to kill.
The culverin is also named from a serpent.
II. iii. 98. crown*. Used quibblingly: broken
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heads, or damaged coin, still in circulation, 'passing
current'
II. iv. 21. tinker. Tinkers were famous for their
capacity for strong drink and for their picturesque
vocabulary.
II. iv. 59. Michaelmas. The feast of St. Michael,
September 29; one of the four quarter days of the
English business year.
II. iv. 83 ff. Hal here talks nonsense, with the
express purpose of confusing Francis still more
II. iv. 125. brawn. The fleshy part of the body,
especially the calf of the leg or the buttocks. Falstaff
is again referred to as a "brawn* in Henry IV, Pt. II.
I. i. 19: 'Harry Monmouth's brawn, the bulk Sir
John.'
II. iv. 135. Titan. The sun. Mispunctuation has
resulted in making this speech of Prince Hal's
obscure in moat modern editions. The phrase
'pitiful-hearted Titan' is obviously parenthetical, as
Warburton first suggested, and the clause beginning
'that melted' refers to 'butter.'
II. iv. 149. weaver. Elizabethan weavers were,
for the most part, 'psalm-singing Puritans,' who had
fled to England from the religious persecutions in
the Low Countries.
II. iv. 242. points. Falstaff refers to the points
of swords. Poins, in his reply, quibblingly interprets
points in another sense, namely, garter*.
II. iv. 250. Kendal-green. A dark green woolen
cloth made at Kendal in Westmoreland; the tradi-
tional costume of Robin Hood.
II. iv. 266. strappado. A military punishment
which consisted of fastening a rope under the arms
of the offender, drawing him up by a pulley to the
top of a high beam and then suddenly letting him
down with a jerk.
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II. iv. 268. reason*. A play on the words reason*
and ratlins, which were pronounced alike.
II. iv. 325. royal. A royal was 10s.; a noble
6s. 8d.
II. iv. 355-362. Bardolph becomes angry and
adopts a threatening attitude. 'My red face,' he
implies, 'portends choler (anger).' Hal finds it
merely a sign of a hot liver (caused by drinking) and
an empty purse (also caused by drink). When Bar-
dolph insists that it is choler, Hal quibblingly inter-
prets choler as collar, and suggests that if his face
were rightly taken, it would be taken by a halter.
II. iv. 430. King Cambyses. A ranting bombastic
tragedy by Thomas Preston (1670). Line 436 shows
that Falstaff knew more than the name of the play,
one line of which reads: '(At this tale tolde let ike
Queene ■weep.)
Queene: These wordes to hear makes stilling teares
issue from chriatal eyes.'
II. iv. 443. Falstaff may be referring to the
Hostess as a pint-pot always well filled with tickle-
brain, or he may be using tickle-brain not in its
technical sense, but merely as an appropriate word
for describing the flighty character of the Hostess.
II. iv. 444 ff. Falstaff is here burlesquing the
somewhat pompous and artificial style of King Henry,
and Shakespeare is, at the same time, burlesquing the
fashionable and artificial prose style of his own con-
temporaries, known as Euphuism. This style was
exemplified in John Lyly's Eupkues (1578-1580),
and its chief characteristics are: (1) The constant
use of antithesis, (2) The use of alliteration to
emphasize the antithetic clauses, (8) The frequent
use of a long string of similes all relating to the
same subject, often taken from the fabulous qualities
ascribed to plants, animals, and minerals, (4) The
constant use of rhetorical questions, (5) Frequent
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quotation of proverbs. FalsUff's first figure is taken
directly from Eupkuei (ed. Bond, vol. I, p. 196):
'Though the Camomill the more it is trodden and
pressed downe, the more it spreadeth, yet the Violet
the oftner it is handeled and touched, the sooner it
withereth and decayeth.' The following passages
are good examples of Euphuism (Bond, I. 222);
'Though thou haue eaten the seedes of Rockatte
which breede incontinencie, yet haue I chewed the
leafe Cresse which mainteineth modestie. Though
thou beare in thy bosome the hearbe Araxa moat
noisome to virginitie, yet haue I the stone that
groweth in the moonte Tmolus, the vpholder of
chastitie.' 'Well doth he know that the glass once
erased will with the least clappe be cracked . . .
But can Euphues conuince me of fleetinge, seeing for
his sake I breake my fidelitie? Can he condemne
me of disloyaltie, when he is the only cause of my
dislyking? May he condemn me of trecherye, who
hath this testimony as tryall of my good will? Doth
he not remember that . . . though the Spyder poyson
the Flye, she cannot infect the Bee? That though
I have bene light to Philautus, yet I may be louely
to Euphues?' (Bond, I. 205-206.)
II. iv. 486-487. Falstaff is comparing himself with
the thinnest things he can think of, a young sucking
rabbit, or a hare hung up in a poulterer's shop.
II. iv. 495. I'll tickle ye, etc. This is obviously
an aside to Hal, and not part of Falstaff' g speech in
bis role of Prince. As he begins his performance, he
whispers to Hal, 'My acting of the part of a young
prince will tickle you, i' faith.'
II. Iv. 504. Manningtree ox. Manningtree is a
town in Essex, famous for its fairs at which oxen
were roasted whole.
II. iv. 527. Pharaoh's lean lcine. Ct. Genesis 41.
19.
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IL iv. 547-549. There are two possible interpre-
tations of this speech. The first (Malone's) is that
Falstaff is referring here to the real danger which
now confronts them; the second (Wright's) is that
Falstaff, all absorbed in 'playing out the play," waves
the Hostess aside and continues bis defence of him-
self. If we accept the first interpretation, we may
paraphrase Falstaffs speech as follows: 'Dost thou
hear that, Half Don't yield to one of your mad
impulses now, and make light of a serious matter.'
Hal's reply would tend to support this interpretation.
II. iv. 557-558. Falstaff hides behind the curtain
which divided the outer from the inner stage in the
Elizabethan theatre; the others 'walk above,' i.e., on
the balcony above the inner stage.
III. i. 100. the best of all my land. All Lincoln-
shire and part of Nottinghamshire. See map.
III. i. 148-152. The division of the kingdom waa
made by the conspirators, according to Holinshed,
'through a foolish credit given to a vain prophecy'
that Henry was a moldwarp (a mole) whose king-
dom should be divided among a wolf, a dragon, and
a lion. This cryptic prophecy was attributed to
Merlin, and is referred to in The Mirror for Magis-
trate* (1559):
r ...r call.
Accursed of God, that must be brought in thrall
By a wulf, a dragon, and a lyon strong,
Which shvild devlde his klngdome them amongc
Hotspur evidently has not shared in the 'foolish
credit' given to the 'vain prophecy' and his only
memory of the discussion is that Glendower talked
a lot of Celtic nonsense.
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III. i. 200-203. Mortimer seems to be trying to say
that though be does not understand bis wife's speech,
he understands her looks, and that he is 'too per-
fect' in the language of tears (i.e., 'the pretty
Welsh' which she pours down from her swollen
eyes). So near to tears is the bridegroom himself
that shame alone prevents his answering bis wife's
tears with tears.
III. i. 256. Finsbury. Archery grounds just out-
side of London, a favorite resort of respectable
middle-class citizens.
III. i. 260. velvet-guards. Velvet trimmings;
hence women that wear such finery, notably wives of
aldermen.
III. i. 263. tailor. Tailors, like weavers (cf. II.
iv. 149 n.), were noted for singing at their work.
III. li. 50. I assumed, or took upon myself, a
heavenly graciousness of bearing.
III. ii. 62. carded. To card was to mix different
kinds of drink; so King Richard mixed his high state
and dignity with baseness.
III. ii. 99. Hal's claim to the crown is shadowy
compared with Hotspur's, for Hal's claim is that of
inheritance from a usurper who has been rewarded
with the crown for his services to the state; whereas
Hotspur's claim is that of efficient public service,
performed by himself.
III. iii. 10. brewer 1 * horse. The point of this
comparison lies probably in the fact that a brewer's
horse carries good liquor on bis back, instead of in
his belly.
III. iii. 35. It was the fashion to wear, as a
memento mori, reminder of death, a ring or pin on
the stone of which was engraved a skull and cross-
Ill, iii. 36. See St. Luke's Gospel, 16. 19-81.
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III. iii. 40. Cf. Psalm 104. 4: Who maketh bis
angels spirits; his ministers a naming fire.
III. lit. 60. Partlet. The name of the hen in the
famous story of the Cock and the Fox ; cf. Chaucer's
Nonne Preettei Tale. The hen-like characteristics
of the hostess are apparent in the conversation imme-
diately following.
III. iii. 128-129. Maid Marian. The mistress of
Robin Hood, often impersonated by a man in the
morris-dances, in which she was traditionally a rather
disreputable person. 'As regards womanliness,' says
Falstaff to the hostess, 'in comparison with you, Maid
Marian is as respectable a person as the wife of the
deputy-alderman of this ward.'
III. iii. 181. injuries. 'As the pocketing of in-
juries was a common phrase, I suppose the Prince
calls the contents of Falstaff's pockets injuries.'
(Steevens.) Cf. 182-188.
III. iii. 205. unwashed hand*. Without stopping
to wash your hands, i.e., at once; or, possibly, without
any over- fastidious scruples.
III. iii. 228. drum. Used here in the sense of
rallying-point or recruiting station.
IV. i. 4-5. Another figurative expression referring
to coinage; cf. II. iii. 97-99. 'Your fame would
circulate more widely than that of any soldier of this -
season's coinage.'
IV. i. 53. 'Whereas now we have the pleasant
prospect of future possession.'
IV. i. 56. 'The comfort of having something to
fall back upon.'
IV. i. 98-99. 'All plumed like ostriches that flap
their wings in the wind like eagles that ha\e lately
bathed.' The obscurity of this passage is caused by
the double comparison, of men with ostriches, and
ostriches with eagles. Bate means literally to beat
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the wings impatiently and flutter away from a perch.
Three ostrich plumes have always been the cognizance
of the Prince of Wales.
IV. i. 100. image*. The reference is probably to
the festival robes which adorn the images of the
saints on holy days.
IV. i. 111-112. 'Your praise of him causes me
greater pain than the ague in the Spring.'
IV. i. 114. maid. Bellona, goddess of war.
IV. ii. 3. Sutton-Co'fl'. Sutton-Coldfield, a town
twenty-four miles northwest of Coventry.
IV. ii. 6. 'makes an angel, or ten shillings, that
I have spent'
IV. ii. 18-19. 'Whose banns had been twice pub-
lished,' i.e., they were to be married immediately.
IV. ii. 37. St. Luke's Gospel, 15. 15-16.
V. i. 13. old limbt. The historical King Henry
was thirty-seven years old at the time of the battle
of Shrewsbury; the historical Hotspur was forty;
and the historical Prince Hal seventeen. The King
of Shakespeare's play is, however, an elderly man,
and Hotspur and Hal are both young. I. i. 87-89
shows that Shakespeare regarded his two youthful
heroes as of the same age; and III. ii. 112-118 would
indicate that they were very young.
V. i. 60-61. The cuckoo frequently lays her eggs
in the hedge-sparrow's nest; and the hedge-sparrow
brings np the young cuckoos, until they have 'grown
to such a bulk' that they destroy their foster-parents.
Cf. Lear, I. Iv. 285:
V. i. 127-128. There is probably a pun here on
the words death and debt which were pronounced
alike.
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V. iii. 46, Turk Gregory. Editors all agree that
Falstaff here refers to Pope Gregory VII, Hilde-
btandj who, as a friar, was famous for military ex-
ploits. Attempts to explain the appellation Turk
are not very satisfactory. Falstaff perhaps has in
mind the phrase 'to fight like a Turk.'
V. iii. 58. Another pun. The -ie- of pierce was
pronounced like the -e- of Percy.
V. iv. 65. A reference to Ptolemaic astronomy,
according to which each planet was fixed in a crystal
sphere with which it revolved.
V. iv. 81-83. 'The glory of the Prince wounds
his thought*; but thought, being dependent on life,
mnst cease with it, and will soon be at an end. Life,
on which thought depends, is itself of no great value,
being the fool and sport of time; of time, which, with
all its dominion over sublunary things, mutt itself at
last be stopped.' (Johnson.)
V. iv. 114. termagant. Name of one of the fabled
idols worshipped by Mohammedans, according to the
Mediaeval Romance.
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APPENDIX A
VARIANTS
The text used in this edition is that of Craig's
Oxford Shakespeare (Oxford University Press),
which follows, almost invariably, the First Quarto,
the best early text of Henry IV, Part I. The stage-
directions are not those of the Oxford Shakespeare,
but are for the most part from either the First
Quarto or the First Folio; stage-directions which are
bracketed are modern.
Occasionally the Oxford Shakespeare departs from
the reading of the First Quarto, and substitutes an
inferior reading from the First Folio. In such cases
I have restored the Quarto readings, as noted below,
I have taken the title of the play from the First
Folio. The First Quarto title, which omits the
phrase 'The first part,' is as follows:
THE | HISTORY OF | HENRIE THE I
FOURTH; | With the battell at Shrewsburie |
betweene the King and Lord | Henry Percy, surnamed
Henrie Hotspur of the North | With the humorous
conceits of Sir | Iohn Falstaffe.
In the Dramatis Persona, the Oxford Shakespeare
omits the name of Francis, although in all stage-
directions and before' speeches it uses the name
Francis instead of the word 'Drawer' which is used
in Quartos and Folios.
The list of my departures from the Oxford text
follows:
Yale Oxfomi
I. L 98 now Is twelve months Ql Is a twelvemonth Fl
I. f. 49 A hundred Ql And a hundred Fl
I. L 49 with Other, did, Ql with other like Fl
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I. UL 71 Whate'er Lord Ql Whatever Fl
I. ili. 83 that Ql the Fl
I. iii. 134 70a will Ql you'll Fl
II. 1. SB and 44 lantern Ql, Fl lanthorn
II. ii. 57 Bardolph, what news?
Ql Fl fiord. What news?
II. iv. 163 by the Lord, 111 stab
thee Ql I'll stab thee Fl
II. It. 379 O, Glendower Ql, Fl Owen Glendower
A\. iv. 499 an old fat man Ql a fat old man Fl
III. L 10 wisheth Ql, Fl wishes
III. Hi. 18 not— above not above Ql, Fl
III. iii. 21 borrowed— three borrowed three Ql, Fl
III. UL 29 lantern Ql, Fl lanthorn
III. iii. 194 pacified still Ql, Fl pacified. Still 1
III. UL 3t9 Peto Ql, Fl Poina
IV. L 98 with the wind Ql, Fl wing the wind
V. Iv. 100 ignominy Ql ignoroy Fl
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APPENDIX B
SOURCES
The sources of the serious plot of both parts of
Shakespeare's Henry IV are (1) the 1587 edition of
The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland
by Raphael Holinshed 'of Bromecote in the County
of Warr(wick)'; and (2) either Samuel Daniel's
poem, The Civill Wart of England (1595) or some
lost poem, play, or chronicle followed by both Daniel
and Shakespeare.
The source of the comic plot is a crude and slight
chronicle play called The Famout Victorie* of
Henry V, first acted in 1888, licensed to 1594, and
published in 1598.
Selections prom Holinshed's Account or the
Battle of Shrewsbury
The next daie in the morning earlie, being the even
of Marie Magdalene (July 21. 1408), they set their
battells in order on both aides, and now, whilest the>
warriors looked when the token of battel! should be
given, the abbat of Shrewesburie, and one of the
clerks of the privie seale, were sent from the king
vnto the Persies, to offer them pardon, if they would
come to any reasonable agreement. By their per-
suasions, the lord Henrie Persie began to give ear
vnto the kings offers, & so sent with them his vncle
the earle of Worcester, to declare vnto the king the
causes of those troubles. . . .
It was reported for a truth, that now when the king
had condescended vnto all that was reasonable at his
hands to be required, and seemed to humble himself
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more than was meet for his estate, the earle of
Worcester vpon his return to his nephue made
relation cleane contrarie to that the king had said,
in such sort that he set lib nephues hart more in
displeasure toward the king than ever it was before ;
driving him by that means to fight whether he would
or not. . . .
And forthwith the lord Persie, as a capteine of
high courage, began to exhort the capteines and
sonldiers to prepare themselves to battell, sith the
matter was grown to that point, that by no meanea
it could be avoided, "so that," said he, "this daie
shall either bring va all to advancement & honor, or
else if it shall chance vs to be overcome, shall deliver
us from the kings spiteful] malice and cruell disdaine :
for plaieng the men, as we ought to doo, better it is
to die in battell for the commonwealths cause, than
through cowardlike feare ( to prolong life, which after
shall be taken from us by the sentence of the
enimie. . . .
Then suddenlie blew the trumpets, the kings part
crieng, "St. George! Upon them!" the adversaries
cried "Etperancel PeriieV and so the two armies
fnriouslie ioined. . . .
/ The prince that daie holpe his father like a Iustie
yoong gentleman; for although he was hurt in the
face with an arrow, so that diuerse noblemen, that
were aboute him, would have conveyed him foorth
from the field, yet he would not suffer them so to
doo, least his departure from amongst his men might
happilie have stricken some feare into their harts:
and so without regard of his hurt, he continued with
his men, and never ceassed either to fight where the
battell was most hot, or to incourage his men where
i it seemed most need.
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Selections from Daniej/s Citilj, Wars, Book IV
(The battle of Shrewsbury)
No. 3T
And yet, undaunted Hotspur, seeing the King
So neere arrlv'd; leaving the work in hand, . . .
Brings on his army, eger vnto fight;
And plact the same before the king in sight
No. 38
'This day (salth be) my valiant trusty friends,
"Whatever it shall give, shal glory give;
"This day, with honor, frees our state, or ends
"Our misery with fame, that still shat live:
"And duo but thlnke, how well the same he spends,
"Who spends his blood, his Country to relieve.
"What? Have we hands, and shall we servile bee?
"Why were swordes made? but, to preserve men free.
No. 45
Forthwith, began these fury-moving sounds,
The notes of wrath, the muslcke brought from Hell,
The ratling drums (which trumpets voyce confounds)
The cryes, tb' Incouragements, the shouting shrill;
That, all about, the beaten ayre rebounds
Confused thundring-murmurs horrible. . . .
No. 48
There, lo that new-appearing glorious starre,
Wonder of armes, the terror of the field,
Young Henrie, labouring where the stoutest are,
And even the stoutest forceth backe to yeeld. . . .
No. 59 (
And never worthy Prince a day did quit
With greater hazard, and with more renowne
Than thou didst, mighty "Henrie, in this fight;
Which onely made thee owner of thine owne. . . .
No. 53
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Great Stafford, thy high Constable lyes dead.
With Shorly, Clifton, GawseU, Calveriy,
And many more; whose brave deaths witnessed
Their noble valour and fidelitie:
And many more had left their dearest bloud
Behind, that day, had Hotspur longer stood.
No. S4
But he, as Dowglas, with a furie ledde,
Rushing into the thickest woods of speares,
And brakes of swordes, still laying at the Head
(The life of th' army) whiles he nothing feares
Or spares his owne, conies all fnvironed
With multitude of power, that overbeares
His manly worth: who yeeldes not in his lull;
Bat fighting dyes, and dying kils withaL
Selection from the Famous Victories or
Henry V
The following is the first conversation between
Prince Hal and Falstaff (Sir John Oldcastle) :
Enter Sir Iohn Old-Castle.
Hen. 5. How now sir Iohn Old-Castle,
What newes with you ?
Ioh. Old. I am glad to see your grace at libertie,"
I was come, I, to visit yon in prison.
Hen. 6. To visit me? Didst thou not know that I
am a Princes son. . . But I tell you, sirs,
when I am king we will have no such things.
But, my lads, if the old king, my father, were
dead, we should all be kings.
Ioh. Old. Hee is a goode olde man, God take him to
bis mercy the sooner.
Hen. 5. But, Ned, so soone as I am King, the first
thing I will do, sbal be to put my lord chief
> the Fleet for
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Justice out of office. And thou shalt be my
Lord chief e Justice of England.
Ned. Shall I be Lord chief e Justice?
By gogs wounds, ile be the bravest Lord
chief e Justice
That ever was in England.
Hen. 6. Thou shalt hang none but picke purses and
horse stealers, and such base-minded vil-
laines. But that fellow that will stand by
the high way side couragiously with his sword
and buckler and take a purse, that fellow
give him commendations, beside that send
him to me and I will give him an annual
pension out of my Exchequer,
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APPENDIX C
the history of the play
1. Date of Composition
King Henry IF, Part I, was apparently written in
the year 1596-1597, when Shakespeare was in his
thirty-third year. He had probably already produced
nine successful plays, among them Romeo and Juliet
and The Merchant of Venice. The year 1596 had
witnessed the English expedition to Spain and the
destruction of the city of Cadiz; the year 1597 saw
the destruction of the second Spanish Armada.
English patriotism never found nobler expression
than in the historical plays of Shakespeare written
during these years of national trial and endeavour.
2. Early Editions
The popularity of this play is attested by the large
number of early editions, no less than six appearing
before the publication of the first Folio in 1628. The
first Quarto appeared in 1598, and was followed by
others in 1599, 1604, 1608, 1618, and 1622. The
first Quarto furnishes the best text. The text of the
first Folio was apparently based upon the fifth
Quarto.
8. Sir John Oldcastle and Sir John Falbtaff
In Shakespeare's first version of the play he evi-
dently retained the name Oldcastle for the fat knight
who attended the Prince. Hal's pun, 'my old lad
of the castle' (I. ii.) bears witness to this, as does
the metrical imperfection in the line
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Away good Ned, Falstaff sweats to death (II. ii.)
which would be corrected by the substitution of the
word Oldcastle for Falstaff. In the first Quarto of
Henry IV, Part II, the prefix Old. is found instead
of Fal. before Fulstaff'a speech in I. ii. 187, and in the
Epilogue to this play the author explicitly states that
the Falstaff of the play is not the Oldcastle who 'died
a martyr.'
Oldcastle was a famous Lollard, and according to
.tradition many Elizabethan Protestants protested
against Shakespeare's 'degradation' of an honorable
name, and 'some of that family being then remain-
ing, the Queen was pleased to command him to alter
it.' It is at least a singular coincidence that Shake-
speare substituted the name of a Lollard sympathizer,
Sir John Fastolfe, in slightly disguised form. The
Falstaff of the play bears no resemblance, save in
name, to either Sir John Oldcastle or Sir John
Fastolfe.
4. Stage History
Of the first performances and the first players of
Henry IV no records are extant ; but the large number
of contemporary references add their testimony to
the fact of the play's popularity. Ben Jonson
alludes to the fatness of Sir John Falstaff in Every
Man out of hit Humour, and in Beaumont and
Fletcher's Knight of the Burning Pettle, Ralph, the
apprentice, when asked to 'speak a huffing part,'
declaims Hotspur's speech on honor, with variations.
Shakespeare's chief rivals, the Lord Admiral's play-
ers, in 1699 paid him the compliment of producing a
play of their own on The Life of Sir John Oldcastle ;
and even during the period of the Commonwealth,
Puritan legislation failed to prevent the clandestine
performance of a farcical abridgment of Shake-
speare's play, known as The Bouncing Knight.
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John Lowin (1676-1659) is the earliest actor whose
name is associated with the play. James Wright in
his Hittoria Hittrionica (1699) says that "before the ,
wars' Lowin acted Falstaff 'with mighty applause.'
Lowin seems to have joined Shakespeare's company
in 160S, six or seven years after the probable date
of the first performance of Henry IV.
This play was one of the first to be revived pub-
licly after the Restoration. Pepys first saw it in
December, 1660, and was disappointed, — 'my expec-
tation being too great, . . . and my having a book I
believe did spoil it a little.' The nest spring, how-
ever, Pepys saw it again, and pronounced it 'a good
play.' In November, 1667, and September, 1668,
Pepys attended performances again, and 'contrary
to expectation was pleased in nothing more than in
Cartwright's speaking of Falstaff 's speech about
"What is Honour?"'
During the seventies John Lacey succeeded Cart-
wright in the role of Falstaff; and in 1682, the year
after Lacey's death, at the time of the union of the
King's and the Duke's players, the great Thomas
Betterton appeared as Hotspur. Eighteen years
later, at the age of sixty-five, Betterton appeared as
Falstaff 'which drew all the town more than any new
play produced of late. . . . The critics allow that
Betterton has hit the humour of Falstaff better than
any that have aimed at it before, . . . though he
lacks the waggery of Estcourt, the drollery of
Harper, and the salaciousness of Jack Evans.'
{Genett, II. 881; V. 596.) Six notable Falstaffs in
one generation is a record of which the seventeenth
century may be proud.
Betterton's acting version of the play was pub-
lished in 1700. Genett notes that he 'judiciously
retains' the conversation of Falstaff and the Prince
in Act II, and also the first scene in Act III,
although he omits the character of Lady Mortimer.
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The obvious inference to be drawn from Genett'*
opening remark is indeed astounding, namely, that
it had been the custom, before Betterton's time, to
cut the great Boar's Head Tavern scene. But it
was after Betterton's time that, according to Genett,
a 'happy (sic) addition' was made to Falstaff 's
speech which begins 'By the Lord, I knew ye as
well as be that made ye' by prefixing the question
'Do ye think that I did not know ye?' This sin-
gularly infelicitous addition to Shakespeare's text
was retained by Sir Herbert Tree in his performance
of the Boar's Head Tavern scene at the Shakespeare
Tercentenary Festival in the New Amsterdam
Theatre, New York, in April, 1916.
Verbruggen was Betterton's Hotspur, and accord-
ing to Genett (II. 881) be was 'nature without
extravagance, and freedom without licentiousness, —
he was vociferous without bellowing.' The inference
to be drawn with respect to former performances is
again interesting.
Twenty other actors are known to have played
Falstaff between 1700 and 1750, and the play-bills
of twenty performances of Henry IF, Part I, between
1706 and 1886 are in existence. Six of these per-
formances were at the Haymarket, seven at Druxy
Lane, two at Lincoln's Inn Fields, and five at Covent
Garden.
Garrick first appeared as Hotspur at the Covent
Garden performance in 1746, his great rival, Quin,
appearing as Falstaff, a role in which he had made
himself a great name eight years before. We are
told that 'the advantage was greatly on Quin's side,
as the part of Hotspnr was not suited to Garrick' s
figure or style of acting.'
Henderson was the great Falstaff of the latter half
of the eighteenth century, and played at the Hay-
market, Drnry Lane, and Covent Garden. He is
said to have made Falstaff 'neither very vulgar nor
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very polite.' An entirely unique performance must
have been that of 1786 when Mrs. Webb appeared
as Falstaff in a 'benefit' for herself.
In the 1824 production at Covent Garden, Charles
Kemble appeared as Falstaff. 'He endeavored to
rescue the part from coarseness. In the presence of
the King and in the conversation with Westmoreland,
he invested it with gentility and courtly bearing.'
The Drury Lane production two years later was made
notable by the appearance of Macready as Hotspur.
A popular Falstaff of the early nineteenth century
was Bartley, who made his first appearance in the
role in 1815. 'His success was equal to his most
sanguine expectations, and richly merited.' Bartley
made a triumphal tour of America in 1818-1819, and
gave instruction in reading and elocution in many
American colleges. In 'Hertford,' the capital of
Connecticut, he and his accomplished wife were
arrested for indulging in dramatic readings, one
Ebenezcr Huntington, a Puritanical Attorney Gen-
eral, having resurrected one of Connecticut's famous
blue laws for this purpose.
Since Bartley's farewell performance in 1852, there
have been few revivals of Henri/ IF. For two cen-
turies the play was revived in almost every decade;
since I860 it has been practically ignored. In recent
years it has formed part of the repertoire of Sir
Herbert Tree and of Sir Francis Benson's company
at the Stratford Memorial Theatre. Miss Julia Mar-
lowe appeared as Prince Hal in an abridgement of the
two parts of the play in New York in 1895-1896, with
William F. Owen as Falstaff. Professor Grander
Matthews has recorded some excellent stage business
of Owen's in an essay on Stage Traditions, published
in Shakespearean Studies, Columbia University Press,
1916. The play has been revived in England and
America by University Dramatic Associations, at
Cambridge in 1886 and at Yale in 1906.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Maurice Morgann: An Essay on the Dramatic
Character of Str John Falttaff. London, 1777.
2. William Magimi: Shakespeare Papers, Falttaff.
New York, 1856.
8. E. E. Stoll: Falttaff. Modern Philology, Octo-
ber, 1914. (Full of useful information, but
a notable example of the insufficiency of mere
"scientific" treatment of literature.)
I. Prince Hal.
1. A. C. Bradley: Oxford Lecture* on Poetry.
The Rejection of Falttaff. London, 1909.
II. General Criticism.
1. William Ha«litt: The Character* of Shaket- '
peare't Plays. London, 1817.
2. Henry N. Hudson: Shakespeare, kit Life, Art,
and Characters. Boston, 1872.
8. Edward Dowden: Shakespeare, a Critical Study.
London, 1880.
4. George Brandes: William Shakespeare. A
Critical Study. Translated into English by
William Archer. London, 1897.
5. John Masefield: William Shakespeare. New
York, 1911.
6. Stopford Brooke: Ten More Playt of Shakes-
peare. London, 1918.
V. Miscellaneous.
1. Beverley E. Warner: English History in-
Shakespeare's Plays. New York, 1894.
/2. Brander Matthews: Stage Traditions in Shakes-
peare Studies by the English Faculty of
Columbia University. New York, 1916.
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adopted: 99 (V. 1L 18)
advantage: 06 (II. It. 607)
Advertisement! 72 (III. 1L
179) ; SI (IV. L 36)
All-nallown Summer: 10 (I.
li. 177)
Amalmon: 48 (II. ir. 375)
amaze: 109 (V. It. 6)
ancient: M (IV. II. 96, 34)
angd: 66 (IV. il. 6)
an If: 17 (I. ill. 195)
antic: 7 (I. II. 66)
apple-john: 72 (III. tfi. 6)
appointment: 11 (I. 11. 196)
apprehends: SO (I. ill. 909)
approve: 80 (IV. L 9)
argument: 81 (II. IL 104)
arras: 64 (II. It. 557)
art: 08 (III. i. 48)
articulate: 96 (V. L 79)
aspects: « (I. 1. 97)
attended: 90 (IV. Hi. 70)
athwart: 9 (I. L 36)
attribution: 80 (IV. 1. 3)
bacons: 30 (II. il. 99)
baffle: 8 (I. il. 113)
baited: SS (IV. L 99)
balk'd: 3 (1.1.69)
bands: 71 (III. II. 157)
bavin: 88 (III. U. 61)
bawds: S (I. ii. 9)
heaven 84 (IV. L 104)
beguiling: S3 (III. 1. 188)
beholding: 97 (II. IL 98)
beldam! 07 (III. 1. 39)
bide the touch: 89 (IV. Iv.
blood: 83 (III. i. 180)
blown: 87 (IV. li. 54)
blue-caps: 49 (II. iv. 397)
Bollngbroke: 17 (I. Hi. 137)
bolters: 78 (III. ill. 81)
bolting-hutch: 63 (II. It.
501)
bombard: 03 (II. It. SOS)
bombast: 48 (II. It. 364)
book: 84 (III. 1. 994)
bootless: 9 (I. 1. 29); 69
(III. 1. 68)
boots: 98 (II. I. 91)
bote: 24 (II. I. 11)
bottom: 80 (III. L 106)
brach: 60 (III. 1. 340)
brave: 7 (I. 11. 73)
brawn: 40 (II. It. 195)
break with: 61 (III. i. 143)
brewer's horse: 78 (III. lii.
10)
brief: SS (IV. Iv. I)
bring in: 8 (I. il. 41)
broached: 80 (V. L 91)
buckler: 91 (I. til. 930)
buckram: 11 (I. IL 900)
buff jerkin: C (I. ii 48)
buskvi 84 (V. i. 9)
caddis: 39 (II. ir. 80)
ealiver: 86 (IV. 11. 91)
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camomile: 51 (II. It. 446}
candy: SI (I. Mi. 351)
canker: IS (I. iii. ITS); 66
(IV. ii. S3)
cantle: 60 (III. L 101)
capital) 70 (III. ii. 110)
capitulatet 70 (III. ii. 130)
carbonado: 106 (V. iii. 60)
carded: 68 (III. Ii. 63)
cart: M (II. iv. 554)
case: SB (II. ii. 58)
cases: 11 (I. ii. 300)
cates: 63 (III. 1. 163)
cess: 24 (II. i. 8)
chamberlain: 85 (II. L 53)
chamber-lie; 24 (II. L 33)
changing: 16 (I. iii. 101)
channel: 1 (I. L 7)
charge: S (I. 1.35); t5 (II.
1. 51)j 60 (III. i. 113)
charge of foot: 56 (II. Iv.
604)
Charing-cross: 24 (II. i 36)
Charles' wain: 38 (II. L B)
cheap: 7* (III. iii. 51)
chewet: 85 (V. I. 39)
chides: 58 (III. 1 45)
choler: 17 (I. Mi. 139)
chops: 10 (I. ii. 150)
chuffs: 30 (II. M. 98)
cital: 101 (V. U. 61)
clerks: S6 (II. I. 87)
clipp'd in: SB (III. L 44)
cloak-bag: 52 (II. It. 503)
dose: 1 (I. i. IS); S7 (II.
' a. 4)
cloudy: 68 (III. Ii. 83)
colour: 16 (I. ill. 109); 68
(III. U. 100)
colt: 39 (II. ii. 43)
comfit-maker i 65 (III. 1.
community: 69 (III. ii. TT)
comparative: 8 (I. Ii. 90);
68 (III. ii. 67)
concealments: 68 (III. L
166)
condition: 18 (I. Ml. 6)
conduct: 60 (III. i. 93)
confound: 18 (I. iii. 100)
conjunction: 81 (IV. I. 37)
contagious: IS (I. ii. 330)
continent: 60 (III. I. Ill)
contracted: 85 (IV. 11. 17)
Corinthian: 86 (II. iv. 13)
corrivah 90 (I. iii. 307)
countenance: 6 (I. ii. 33)
cousin: 33 (I. Iii. 393)
cot. 4 (I. i. 91)
cozeners: SI (I. MI. 355)
cozening: 8 (I. 11. 135)
crack'd crowns: 85 (II. iii
cranking: 60 (III. 1. 99)
cressets: 57 (III. 1. IS)
crisp i 18 (I. 111. 106)
cry you mercy: 87 (IV. iL
:ry you
58)
current; 85 (II. L 59); 80
(IV. L 5)
currents: 34 (II. Iii. 60)
curst: 33 (II. iii. 51)
coshes: 84 (IV. i. 105)
Cut: 24 (II. 1. 6)
dafTd: 83 (IV. 1. 96)
damnable Iteration: 8 (I. M.
101)
dangerous: 88 (V. i. 69)
dank: 84 (II. i. 9)
deal: 81 (I. iii. 351)
dear: 8 (I. L 33) ; 98 (IV.
IV. 31) ; 109 (V. Iv. 95)
dearest: 63 (III. i 181) ;
118 (V. v. 38)
defend: 89 (IV. 1U. 38)
defy: 81 (I. ill. 338); 80
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devis'd: 87 (III.
dial's point; 103 (V. il. 83)
Diana's: 6 (I. 11. 99)
disdain'd: 18 (I. 111. 183)
disputation: 64 (III. 1. SOS)
dlstemperature: 94 (V. L 3)
Dives: 73 (III. 111. 36)
division: 84 (III. L 910)
dole: 30 (II. ii. 84)
doom: 66 (III. il. 6)
dowlas: 75 (III. iii. 79)
draff: 86 (IV. ii. 38)
draws: 82 (IV. L 73)
drawers: 36 (II. iv. 7)
drawn fox: 76 (III. Iii. 198)
drench: 40 (II. iv. 199)
drum: BO (III. ill. 998)
durance: 6 (I. 11. 49)
duties: 101 (V. ii. 55)
Earl of March: IB (I. iii.
84)
Eastcheap: 8 (I. ii. 144)
see* Hjnum; 43 (II. Iv. 190)
ell: 75 (III. 111. 83)
embossed: 73 (III. iii. 176)
emboweU'd: 109 (V. iv. 109)
enfeofTd: 68 (III. ii. 69)
engag'd: 81 (IV. iii. 95)
engross up: 71 (III. il. 148)
enlarged: 70 (III. IL 115)
enlargement: 57 (III. 1. 31)
Etperanct: 34 (II. iii. 76)
estimation: S3 (I. Hi. 972);
83 (IV. iv. 39)
estridges: 83 (IV. I. 98)
even: 33 (I. iii. 986)
exhal'd: 84 (V. 1. 19)
exhalations: 48 (II. Iv. 357)
expedience: 8 (1. 1. 33)
face: 98 (V. L 74)
faced ancient: 86 (IV. ii.
34)
factor: 71 (III. ii. 147)
fall off: 16 (I. Iii. 94)
Ftnsbu
fat room: SB (II. iv. 1)
favours: 71 (III. ii. 13G);
108 (V. iv. 06)
fearful: 83 (IV. i 67)
fernseed: 37 (II. 1. 86)
" ires: SO (I. ill. 909)
isburv: 85 (III. i. 956)
flocks: 34 (II. i. T)
' " * ~ (I. 11. 68)
ir: 118 (V. v. 80)
foot-land-rakers: 86 (II. 1.
81)
forward: 38 (II. ii. 53)
found me: 13 (I. iii. 3)
franklin: 35 (II. i. 60)
frontier: 13 (I. iii. 19) ; 33
(II. iii. 57)
fnmish'd: S3 (IV. 1. 97);
103 (V. ill. 31)
furniture: 78 (III. iii. 994)
(I. ii. 99)
gib cat: 7 (I. ii. 83)
give leave: 66 (111. ii. 1)
God save the mark: 18 (I.
iii. 56)
gorbellied: 30 (II. IL 97)
government: 63 (III. L 183)
grace: 6 (I. ii. 19)
grief: 14 (I. III. 51)
gull: 96 (V. 1. 60)
gummed velvet: 27 (II. IL
gyves: 86 (IV. U. 44)
habits: 11 (I. il. 195)
hair: 83 (IV. 1. 61)
half-fac'd: SO (I. ill. 908)
Half-moon: 87 (II. Iv. SO)
happy man be his dole: 80
(II. iL 84)
hardiment: 16 (I. iii. 101)
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hare: 8 (I. U. ST)
harlotry: 50 (II. Iv. 449);
63 (III. i. 196)
harness: 69 (III. ii. 101)
Harry Percy: 3 (I. I. 53)
hazard: 17 (I. Hi. 138)
head: S3 (I. 111. 885); 92
(IV. 111. 103)
heady; 34 (II. 111. 60)
hearken'd for: 107 {V. Iv.
52)
hest: 34 (II. ill. 67)
highly penn'd: 84 (HI. L
908)
bind: 88 (II. 111. 18)
hitherto: S9 (III. 1. 75)
holds current: SO (II. 1 59)
holiday terms: 14 (I. 111. 46)
holland: 73 (III. 111. 83)
Holy-rood day: 3 (I. 1. 69)
hot In question: 2 (I. i. 34)
humour: IS (I. U. 918); 52
(II. iv. 501)
humorous: 85 (III. i. 934)
Hybla: 6 (I. 11. 47)
Hydro's: 109 (V. lv. 95)
iff«i» fatutu: 74 (III. ill.
45)
Images: S3 (IV. 1. 100)
Impeach: 10 (I. 111. 75)
Impressed; 8 (I. L 91)
Indent: 18 (I. 111. 87)
Indentures: 59 (III. i. 81)
Indirect: 92 (IV. 111. 105)
induction: 56 (III. 1. 9)
injuries: 78 (III. ill. 181)
innovation; 98 (V. 1. TB)
Intelligence: 91 (IV. 111. 98)
interchangeably: 09 (III. 1.
89)
interest: 89 (III. 11. 98)
Intestine: 1 (I. I. 13)
Irregular: 2 (I. I. 40)
Iteration: 9 (I. ii. 101)
Jordan: 24 (II. 1. 99)
journey-Jjated; 89 (IV. ill.
28)
jumps: 7 (I. Ii. 78)
jure: 81 (II. ii. 101)
justling; 81 (IV. i 18)
Kendal-green: 44 (II. Iv.
350)
kept: 21 (I. ill. 344)
kind: 17 (I. iil. 191)
king christen: 24 (II. i. 19)
king's press: 80 (IV. U. 13)
knotty-pated: 44 (II. iv.
255)
Lancaster: 57 (III. i. 8)
lay by: 8 (I. ii. 40)
Laiarus: 86 (IV. ii. 37)
leading: 89 (IV. ill. 17)
leaping-houses: (I. ii. 10)
leash: 36 (II. It. 7)
leg: 00 (II. It. 433)
lett'st slip: 22 (I. iil. 379)
liking: 72 (HI. iii. 6)
line: IS (I. iii. 168) ; 30 (II.
Hi 88)
links: 74 (III. 111. 48)
liquored: 27 (II. 1. 94)
list: 82 (IV. 1. 51)
livery: 90 (IV. iii. 69)
loach: 24 (II. i. 93)
long-staff sixpenny strikers:
28 (II. i. 89)
lugged bear: 7 (I. 11. 83)
lustier: 106 (V. Iv. 33)
Maid Marian: 78 (III. lit
128)
main: 82 (IV. 1. 47)
mainly: 43 (II. Iv. 336)
major: 04 (II. iv. 659)
majority: 70 (III. 11. 109)
makes an angel: 80 (IV. ii.
6)
make up: 106 (V. Iv. 6)
mak'st some tender: 107 (V.
iv. 49)
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malevolent: 4 (I. I. 97)
'-: 35 (II. iii. 97)
Ingtree: 38 (II. Iv.
504)
marks: 38 (II. I. 61)
Marry; 6 (I. 1L 36)
match: 39 (II. It. 103)
match'd: 8 (I. 1. 49)
medicines: 28 (II. ii. 30)
memento mart; 73 (III. Iii.
: 38 (II. iv. 69)
micher: 61 (II. iv. 468)
milliner: 14 (I. liL 36)
mincing.- 61 (III. i. 133)
minion: 4 (I. I. 83); 8 (I.
ii. 30)
misprision: 14 (I. UL 87)
moe: 93 (IV. It. 31)
moiety: 60 (III. i. 97)
moWwarpj 61 (III. i. 148)
moody: 13 (I. iii. 19)
Moor-ditch: 8 (I. ii 88)
Mordake: 3 (I. L 71)
more and less: 90 (IV. iii.
68)
Mortimer: 3 (I. 1. 38)
rourd'rous subornation: 18
(I. iii. 163)
rnustachio-purple-hued malt
worms: 26 (II. L 83)
mutual well-beseeming
ranks: 1 (I. L 14)
neat's-tonfjue: 4S (II. Iv.
375)
nether: 51 (II. iv. 461)
nether-stocks: 40 (II. ly.
133)
Newgate: 76 (III. ill. 103)
next: 24 (II. 1 10)
nice: 32 (IV. L 48)
nonce; 11 (I. ii. 300)
noted: 11 (I. ii. 301)
not-pated: 38 (II. iv. 79)
ob.: 58 (II. Iv. 698)
obedient orb; 94 (V. L 17)
offering side: 82 (IV. L 69)
oneyers: 26 (II. i. 86)
opinion: 83 (III. i. 184); 67
(III. 1L 43); 33 (IV. L
77)
opposed continent: 80 (III.
i. Ill)
ought: 77 (III. Hi. 161)
out-faced: 46 (II. iv. 387)
owe: 101 (V. IL 67)
paid: 43 (II. iv. 917)
painted clothi 86 (IV. ii.
38)
palisadoes: 33 (II. iii. 57)
parcel: 40 (II. iv. lis)
parmaceti: IS (I. ill. 58)
participation: 69 (III. ii.
87)
Partiet: 74 (III. 11!. 60)
passages of life: 68 (III. ii.
8)
passion: 00 (II. iv. 430); 58
(III. I. 35)
Paul's: SO (II. iv. 583)
peach: 28 (II. ii. 60)
peppercorn: 72 (III. ML 9)
personal: 81 (IV. iii 88)
pierce: 105 (V. iii. 68)
pismires: 21 (I. ill. 240)
play: 38 (II. iv. 18)
point: 34 (II. i. 7)
points: 44 (II. iv. 943)
Pomgarnet: 37 (II. iv. 43)
popinjay: 14 (I. Hi. 50)
popularity: 68 (III. U. 69)
portly: 13 (I. iii. IS)
poBSeas'd: 81 (IV. L 40)
possession: 67 (III. ii. 43)
pouncet-box: 14 (I. Iii. 38)
powder: 108 (V. iv. 113)
precedent: 37 (II. iv. S7)
predicament: 18 (I. ML
168)
present: 83 (III. i. 183)
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present want: 81 (IV. i
H)
-; 86 (III. 11. S)
it 88 (IV. li. 37)
62 (III. i. 166)
I. 3T)
, - I 185)
proof; 80 (II. H. 75)
puke: 38 (II. It. 79)
pupil age: 40 (II. Iv. 107)
purchase: 27 (II. t 101)
push: 08 (HI. ii. 66)
I. 36)
quiddities: 8 (I. li. Gl)
quips: 6 (I. 11. SI)
quit: 67 (III. 11. 10)
range: 18 (I. lit 169)
rated: 91 (IV. ill. 99); 83
(IV. It. 17)
rases: 24 (II. i. 97)
read: SB (III. 1. 46)
reasons: 48 (II. It. 968)
receipt of fernseed: 27 (II.
i 96)
reckoning: 40 (II. It. 115)
red-breast teacher: 66 (III.
L 363)
reprisal: 84 (IV. L 118)
reproof: 11 (I. ii. 313); 67
(III. ii. 33)
resolution: 7 (I. ii. 67)
respect: 89 (IV. ill. 31)
retires: 33 (II. iii. 56)
RIto: 40 (II. It. 136)
roundly: 5 (I. ii. 34)
royal: 47 (II. It. 335)
sack: S (I. ii. S)
St. Nicholas: 28 (II. i. 67)
salamander: 74 (III. Iii. 58)
sanguine: 45 (IT. It. 373)
sarcenet: 65 (III. 1. 355)
saying your reverence: 53
(II. It. 539)
"Sblood: 7 (I. li. 83)
scope: 62 (III. t 170)
scot and lot: 109 (V. It.
115)
Scroop: 22 (I. iii. 971)
scutcheon: 98 (V. i. 143)
sembably fumish'd: 103 (V.
iii. 31)
set a match: 9 (I. 11. 118)
set off his head: 87 (V. 1.
(III. 11. 99)
shape of likelihood: 8 (I. i.
58)
shot-free: 104 (V. iii. 30)
shorten herring: 41 (II. It.
145)
sinew: 98 (IV. It. 17)
sirrah: 11 (I. ii. 199)
skimble-skamble: 62 (III. L
153)
slip: (I. iii 179)
smug: 60 (III. i. 103)
sneak-cup: 75 (in. ill. 98)
snuff: 14 (I. iii. 41)
soothers: 80 (I" '
soused gurnet:
13)
soTeretgn'st: 16 (I. Iii. 57)
Spanish-pouch: 89 (II. It.
speed: 63 (III. 1. 189)
spleen: 34 (II. ill. 63)
squire: 28 (II. ii. 14)
stand the push: 68 (III. U.
66)
standing-tuck: 45 (II. It.
378)
starling: 20 (I. ill. 394)
start of spleen: 70 (III. H.
135)
starting-hole: 46 (II. It.
995)
state: 50 (II. It. 431)
stay: 22 (I. iii. 358); 89
(IV. ii. 84)
still: 22 (I. iii. 279)
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stomach: 33 (II. iii. 46)
stout: 109 (V. iv. 93)
straight: 17 (I. iii. 126)
strait: 91 (IV. iii. T9)
strappado: 46 (II. ir. 966)
stronds: 1 (I. i. 4)
subornation: IS (I. iii. 163)
sue his livery: 90 (IV. iii.
summer-house: 69 (III. i.
163)
Sutton-Co'fll': 85 (IV. ii. 3)
sword and buckler: XI (I.
iii. 930)
tailor: «6 (III. i. 963)
take It upon: 36 (II. Iv. 9)
take me with you: S3 (II.
Iv. 513)
taken with the manner: 47
(II. iv. 340)
tail: IS (I. iii. 69)
tallow-ketch: 44 (II. iv.
956)
target: 43 (II. iv. 99S)
task me to my word: 80
(IV. i. 9)
task'd: 91 (IV. Hi. 99)
tasking: 100 (V. ii. SO)
tench: 24 (II. i. IT)
termagant: 109 (V. It. 114)
tickle-brain: SO (II. Iv. 443)
tune: 67 (III. ii. 36)
tinker: 87 (II. iv. 91)
Titan: 41 (II. iv. 135)
toss: 87 (IV. II. 79)
trace: 58 (III. 1. 49)
trenching: 1 (I. i. T)
trim: 84 (IV. i. 113)
The First Part of
tristful: 60 (II. Iv. 439)
Trojans: 96 (II. i. T7)
trunk of humours: 52 (II.
Iv. 501)
Turk Gregoryi 104 {V. iii.
46)
undersldnker: 87 (II. iv. 96)
uneven: 8 (I. i. 50)
unsorted: 89 (II. iii. 16)
unwashed: 7ft (III. iii. 905)
unyok'r): 12 (I. ii. 918)
uttered: 4 (I. i. 107)
valued: 78 (III. Ii. 177)
vassal: 70 (III. ii. 194)
velvet-guards > 05 (III. L
960)
visards: 9 (I. H. 141)
wait on us: 97 (V. I. Ill)
want: 81 (IV. i. 44)
wanton: 94 (III. 1. 914)
wanton time: »S (V. 1. SO)
wards: 19 (I. ii. 911)
warm: SB (IV. ii. 19)
watering: 88 (II. Iv. 17)
weaver: 41 (II. iv. 149)
well-respected: 88 (IV. iii.
10)
Welsh hook: 48 (II. iv. 378)
whoreson: 90 (II. ii. 99)
wild: 25 (II. I. 60)
wilful-blame: 69 (III. I
176)
wind: M (IV. i. 109)
withers: 24 (II. I. 8)
worship: 71 (III. ii. 151)
wrung: 24 (II. i. 8)
yeoman's: 85 (IV. it. 16)
York: 21 (I. iii. 945)
younker: 75 (III. HI. 91)
'Zounds: 8 (I. ii. 119)
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