Thou hast redeem'd thy lost opinion, And show'd thou makest some tender of my life, King. Make up to Clifton: I'll to Sir Nicholas Gawsey. Enter HOTSPUR. 50. [Exit. Hot. If I mistake not, thou art Harry Monmouth. Prince. A very valiant rebel of the name. Why, then I see I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy, Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere; Hot. Nor shall it, Harry; for the hour is come Enter FALSTAFF. ΤΟ • [They fight. Fal. Well said, Hal! to it, Hal! Nay, you shall find no boy's play here, I can tell you. Re-enter DOUGLAS; he fights with FALSTAFF, who falls down as if he were dead, and exit DOUGLAS. wounded, and falls. HOTSPUR is 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: 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, Lies on my tongue: no, Percy, thou art dust, 81 And food for [Dies. Prince. For worms, brave Percy: fare thee well, great heart! Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk! A kingdom for it was too small a bound; 90 Is room enough; this earth that bears thee dead I should not make so dear a show of zeal: 100 [He spieth Falstaff on the ground. What, old acquaintance! could not all this flesh [Exit. 110 I could have better spared a better man: 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. Embowell'd will I see thee by and by: Till then in blood by noble Percy lie. **Fal. [Rising up] Embowelled! if thou embowel me today, I'll give you leave to powder me and eat me too tomorrow. '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? by my faith, 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 up Hotspur on his back. Re-enter the PRINCE OF WALES and LORD JOHN OF LAN CASTER. Prince. Come, brother John; full bravely hast thou flesh'd Thy maiden sword. Lan. But, soft! whom have we here? Did you not tell me this fat man was dead? Prince. I did; I saw him dead, Breathless and bleeding on the ground. Art thou alive? 140 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 [throwing the body down]: if your father will do me any honour, so; if not, let him kill the next Percy himself. I look to be either earl or duke, I can assure you. Prince. 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, 'zounds, I would make him eat a piece of my sword. Lan. This is the strangest tale that ever I heard. 160 [A retreat is sounded. 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. [Exeunt Prince of Wales and Lancaster. 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. SCENE V. Another part of the field. The trumpets sound. [Exit. Enter the KING, PRINCE OF WALES, LORD JOHN OF LANCASTER, EARL OF WESTMORELAND, with WORCESTER and VERNON prisoners. King. Thus ever did rebellion find rebuke. Ill-spirited Worcester! did not we send grace, Pardon and terms of love to all of you? If like a Christian thou hadst truly borne 10 Wor. What I have done my safety urged me to; And I embrace this fortune patiently, Since not to be avoided it falls on me. King. Bear Worcester to the death and Vernon too: Other offenders we will pause upon. How goes the field? [Exeunt Worcester and Vernon, guarded. Prince. The noble Scot, Lord Douglas, when he saw King. With all my heart. Prince. Then, brother John of Lancaster, to you This honourable bounty shall belong: Go to the Douglas, and deliver him 20 Up to his pleasure, ransomless and free: His valour shown upon our crests to-day Hath taught us how to cherish such high deeds 30 Lan. I thank your grace for this high courtesy, Which I shall give away immediately. King. Then this remains, that we divide our power. Towards York shall bend you with your dearest speed, Who, as we hear, are busily in arms: Myself and you, son Harry, will towards Wales, 40 Let us not leave till all our own be won. [Excunt. BLUNT. SHALLOW, SILENCE, country justices. DAVY, Servant to Shallow MOULDY, SHADOW, WART, Feeble, and BULLCALF, recruits. FANG and SNARE, sheriff's officers. LADY NORTHUMBERLAND. LADY PERCY. Lord Chief-Justice of the King's MISTRESS QUICKLY. hostess of a Bench. A Servant of the Chief-Justice. SCROOP, Archbishop of York. LORD HASTINGS. LORD BARDOLPH. tavern in Eastcheap. Lords and Attendants; Porter, A Dancer, speaker of the epilogue. SCENE: England. INDUCTION. Warkworth. Before the castle. Enter Rumour, painted full of tongues. Rum. Open your ears; for which of you will stop |