And chid his truant youth with such a grace, Hot. Cousin, I think, thou art enamoured I will embrace him with a soldier's arm, your Enter a Messenger. Mess. My lord, here are letters for you. O gentlemen, the time of life is short; 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 [The trumpets sound. They embrace, and exeunt. SCENE III.-Plain near Shrewsbury. Excursions, and parties fighting. Alarum to the battle. Then enter DOUGLAS and BLUNT, meeting. Blunt. What is thy name, that in the battle thus Thou crossest me? What honour dost thou seek Upon my head? Doug. Know then, my name is Douglas; 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, The 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 Lord Stafford's death. [They fight, & BLUNT is slain. A gallant knight he was, his name was Blunt; Hot. The king hath many marching in his coats. Up, and away; Hot. Our soldiers stand full fairly for the day. [Exeunt. Other Alarums. Enter FALSTAFF. 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 you: 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 my own bowels. I have led my raggamuffins where they are peppered there's but three of my hundred and fifty left alive; and they are for the town's end, to beg during life. But who comes here? Enter PRINCE HENRY. P. Hen. What, stand'st thou idle here? lend me Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff [thy sword: Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies, [sword. Whose deaths are unreveng'd: Pr'ythee, lend me thy Fal. O Hal, I pr'ythee, 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. P. Hen. He is, indeed: and living to kill thee. Lend me thy sword, I pr'ythee. Fal. Nay, before God, Hal, if Percy be alive, thou get'st not my sword; but take my pistol, if thou wilt. P. Hen. Give it me: What, is it in the case? Fal. Ay, Hal; 'tis hot, 'tis hot; there's that will sack a city. [The PRINCE draws out a bottle of sack. P. Hen. What, is't a time to jest and dally now? [Throws it at him, and 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. 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. I SCENE IV. Another part of the Field. Alarums. Excursions. Enter the KING, PRINCE HENRY, PRINCE JOHN, and WESTMORELAND. K. Hen. I pr'ythee, Harry, withdraw thyself; thou bleed'st too much :Lord John of Lancaster, go you with him. P. John. Not I, my lord, unless I did bleed too. P. Hen. I do beseech your majesty, make up, Lest your retirement do amaze your friends. K. Hen. I will do so : My lord of Westmoreland, lead him to his tent. West. Come, my lord, I will lead you to your tent. P. John. We breathe too long:-Come, cousin Our duty this way lies: for God's sake come. [Exeunt PRINCE JOHN and WESTMORELAND. [caster, down as if he were dead, and erit DOUGLAS. HOTSPUR is wounded and falls. P. Hen. By heaven, thou hast deceiv'd me, Lan- | Enter DOUGLAS; he fights with FALSTAFF, who falls 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. K. Hen. I saw him hold lord Percy at the point, With lustier maintenance than I did look for Of such an ungrown warrior. P. Hen. Lends mettle to us all. O, this boy, Hot. O, Harry, thou hast robb'd me of my youth: Alarums. Enter DOUGLAS. Doug. Another King! they grow like Hydras' I am the Douglas, fatal to all those [heads: That wear those colours on them.-What art thou, That counterfeit'st the person of a king? K. Hen. The king himself; who, Douglas, grieves So many of his shadows thou hast met, [at heart, And not the very king. I have two boys, Seek Percy, and thyself, about the field: 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'st thee like a king: But mine, I am sure, thou art, whoe'er thou be, And thus I win thee. [They fight; the KING being in danger, enter PRINCE HENRY. P. Hen. Hold up thy head, vile Scot, or thou art Never to hold it up again! the spirits [like Of Shirley, Stafford, Blunt, are in my arms : It is the prince of Wales, that threatens thee; Who never promiseth, but he means to pay. [They fight; DOUGLAS flies. Cheerly, my lord; How fares your grace?— Sir Nicholas Gawsey hath for succour sent, And so hath Clifton; I'll to Clifton straight. K. Hen. Stay, and breathe awhile: Thou hast redeem'd thy lost opinion; And shew'd, thou mak'st some tender of my life, In this fair rescue thou hast brought to me. P. Hen. O heaven! they did me too much injury, That ever said, I hearken'd for your death. If it were so, I might have let alone The insulting hand of Douglas over you; Which would have been as speedy in your end, As all the poisonous potions in the world, And sav'd the treacherous labour of your son. K. Hen. Make up to Clifton, I'll to sir Nicholas Gawsey. [Exit KING HENRY. Enter HOTSPUR. Hot. If I mistake not, thou art Harry Monmouth. Why, then I see A very valiant rebel of the name. Hot. Nor shall it, Harry, for the hour is come P Hen. I'll make it greater, ere I part from thee; And all the budding honours on thy crest I'll crop to make a garland for my head. [Dies. P. Hen. For worms, brave Percy: Fare thee well, great heart! Ill-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk! Is room enough :-This earth, that bears thee dead If thou wert sensible of courtesy, I should not make so dear a show of zeal :- [He sees FALSTAFF on the ground : [Exit. Fal. [Rising slowly.] Embowell'd! if thou embowel me to-day, I'll 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 counterfeit To die is to be a counterfeit; for he is but the counterfeit of a man, who hath not the life of a man: but to counterfeit dying, when a man thereby liveth, is to be no counterfeit, but 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! I am afraid, he would prove the better counterfeit. Therefore I'll make him sure : 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, [stabbing him.] with a new wound in your thigh, come you along with me. [Takes HOTSPUR on his back. Re-enter PRINCE HENRY and PRINCE JOHN. P.Hen. Come, brother John, full bravely hast thou Thy maiden sword. [flesh'd But, soft! whom have we here? Did you not tell me this fat man was dead? P. Hen. I did; I saw him dead, breathless and Upon the ground.[bleeding P. John. Hot. I can no longer brook thy vanities. [They fight. Art thou alive? or is it phantasy Enter FALSTAFF. That plays upon our eye-sight? I pr'ythee, speak; Fal. Well said, Hal! to it, Hal!-Nay, you shall Thou art not what thou seem'st. find no boy's play here, I can tell you. Fal. No, that's certain; I am not a double man but if I be not Jack Falstaff, then am I a Jack. There | Misuse the tenor of thy kinsman's trust? P. Hen. Why, Percy I killed myself, and saw thee dead. Fal. Didst thou?--Lord, lord, how this world is given to lying!—I grant you I was down, and out of breath; and so was he: but we rose both at an instant, and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury 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 upon my death, I gave him this wound in the thigh: if the man were alive, and would deny it, I would make him eat a piece of my sword. P. John. This is the strangest tale that e'er I heard. P. Hen. This is the strangest fellow, brother John. Come, bring your luggage nobly on your back : For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have. [A retreat is sounded. The trumpet sounds retreat, the day is ours. Come, brother, let's to the highest of the field, To see what friends are living, who are dead. [Exeunt PRINCE HENRY and PRINCE JOHN. 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, bearing off the body. SCENE V.-Another part of the field. The trumpets sound. Enter KING HENRY, PRINCE HENRY, PRINCE JOHN, WESTMORELAND, and others, with WORCESTER and VERNON, prisoners. K. Hen. Thus ever did rebellion find rebuke.Ill-spirited Worcester! did we not send grace, Pardon, and terms of love to all of you? And would'st thou turn our offers contrary? If, like a christian, thou hadst truly borne P.Hen. The noble Scot, lord Douglas, when he saw K. Hen. With all my heart. P. Hen. Then, brother John of Lancaster, to you This honourable bounty shall belong: Go to the Douglas, and deliver him Up to his pleasure, ransomeless, and free: His valour, shewn upon our crests to-day, Hath taught us how to cherish such high deeds, Even in the bosom of our adversaries. [power. K. Hen. Then this remains, - that we divide our You, son John, and my cousin Westmoreland, Towards York shall bend you,with your dearest speed, To meet Northumberland, and the prelate Scroop, Who, as we hear, 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 his sway, 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. SECOND PART OF KING HENRY IV. THE first edition of this play was the quarto of 1600, in which year it was twice reprinted in the same form. As it is mentioned in Nares' Wits' Treasury, 1598, and contains an allusion to the murder of the sons of Amurath the Third by their brother Mahomet, which took place Feb. 1596; the tragedy must have been written in the intervening period. It was PERSONS REPRESENTED. KING HENRY THE FOURTH. HENRY, Prince of Wales, afterwards THOMAS, Duke of Clarence, PRINCE JOHN of Lancaster, afterwards (2 Henry V.) Duke of Bedford, PRINCE HUMPHREY of Gloster, afterwards (2 Henry V.) Duke of Gloster, entered at Stationers' Hall, August 23, 1600. The transactions comprised in the history take up almost nine years. The action commences with the account of Hotspur's being defeated and killed, 1403; and closes with the death of Henry the Fourth, and the coronation of Henry the Fifth, 1412-13. LORD CHIEF JUSTICE of the King's Bench. A Gentleman attending on the Chief Justice. TRAVERS and MORTON, domestics of Northumberland. FALSTAFF, BARDOLPH, PISTOL, and Page. POINS and PETO, attendants on Prince Henry. SHALLOW and SILENCE, country justices. This sons. DAVY, servant to Shallow. EARL OF WARWICK, EARL OF WESTMORELAND, of the King's party. GOWER, HARCOURT, EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND, SCROOP, Archbishop of York, enemies to LORD MOWBRAY, LORD HASTINGS, the King. LORD BARDOLPH, Sir JOHN COLEVILE,J ! INDUCTION. Warkworth.-Before Northumberland's Castle. That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, Among my household? Why is Rumour here? Hath beaten down young Hotspur, and his troops, Even with the rebels' blood. But what mean I wrongs. ACT I. SCENE I.-The same. [Erit. North. Now, Travers, what good tidings come with you? Tra. My lord, sir John Umfrevile turn'd me back North. North. Yea, this man's brow, like to a title-leaf, Say, Morton, didst thou come from Shrewsbury? |