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1H4  . .    0  The History of Henry the Fourth
1H4  . .    0     {Enter King Henry, Lord John of Lancaster, and the   +
1H4 1.1.    0  Earl of Westmorland, with other [lords]}
1H4 1.1.    1   KING HENRY  So shaken as we are, so wan with care,
1H4 1.1.    2  Find we a time for frighted peace to pant
1H4 1.1.    3  And breathe short-winded accents of new broils
1H4 1.1.    4  To be commenced in strands afar remote.
1H4 1.1.    5  No more the thirsty entrance of this soil
1H4 1.1.    6  Shall daub her lips with her own children's blood.
1H4 1.1.    7  No more shall trenching war channel her fields,
1H4 1.1.    8  Nor bruise her flow'rets with the armed hoofs
1H4 1.1.    9  Of hostile paces. Those opposed eyes,
1H4 1.1.   10  Which, like the meteors of a troubled heaven,
1H4 1.1.   11  All of one nature, of one substance bred,
1H4 1.1.   12  Did lately meet in the intestine shock
1H4 1.1.   13  And furious close of civil butchery,
1H4 1.1.   14  Shall now in mutual well-beseeming ranks
1H4 1.1.   15  March all one way, and be no more opposed
1H4 1.1.   16  Against acquaintance, kindred, and allies.
1H4 1.1.   17  The edge of war, like an ill-sheathed knife,
1H4 1.1.   18  No more shall cut his master. Therefore, friends,
1H4 1.1.   19  As far as to the sepulchre of Christ - 
1H4 1.1.   20  Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross
1H4 1.1.   21  We are impressed and engaged to fight - 
1H4 1.1.   22  Forthwith a power of English shall we levy,
1H4 1.1.   23  Whose arms were moulded in their mothers' womb
1H4 1.1.   24  To chase these pagans in those holy fields
1H4 1.1.   25  Over whose acres walked those blessed feet
1H4 1.1.   26  Which fourteen hundred years ago were nailed,
1H4 1.1.   27  For our advantage, on the bitter cross.
1H4 1.1.   28  But this our purpose now is twelve month old,
1H4 1.1.   29  And bootless 'tis to tell you we will go.
1H4 1.1.   30  Therefor we meet not now. Then let me hear
1H4 1.1.   31  Of you, my gentle cousin Westmorland,
1H4 1.1.   32  What yesternight our Council did decree
1H4 1.1.   33  In forwarding this dear expedience.
1H4 1.1.   34   WESTMORLAND My liege, this haste was hot in question,
1H4 1.1.   35  And many limits of the charge set down
1H4 1.1.   36  But yesternight, when all athwart there came
1H4 1.1.   37  A post from Wales, loaden with heavy news,
1H4 1.1.   38  Whose worst was that the noble Mortimer,
1H4 1.1.   39  Leading the men of Herefordshire to fight
1H4 1.1.   40  Against the irregular and wild Glyndw^r,
1H4 1.1.   41  Was by the rude hands of that Welshman taken,
1H4 1.1.   42  A thousand of his people butchered,
1H4 1.1.   43  Upon whose dead corpse' there was such misuse,
1H4 1.1.   44  Such beastly shameless transformation,
1H4 1.1.   45  By those Welshwomen done as may not be
1H4 1.1.   46  Without much shame retold or spoken of.
1H4 1.1.   47   KING HENRY It seems then that the tidings of this broil
1H4 1.1.   48  Brake off our business for the Holy Land.
1H4 1.1.   49   WESTMORLAND This matched with other did, my gracious lord,
1H4 1.1.   50  For more uneven and unwelcome news
1H4 1.1.   51  Came from the north, and thus it did import:
1H4 1.1.   52  On Holy-rood day the gallant Hotspur there - 
1H4 1.1.   53  Young Harry Percy - and brave Archibald,
1H4 1.1.   54  That ever valiant and approved Scot,
1H4 1.1.   55  At Holmedon met,
1H4 1.1.   56  Where they did spend a sad and bloody hour,
1H4 1.1.   57  As by discharge of their artillery
1H4 1.1.   58  And shape of likelihood the news was told;
1H4 1.1.   59  For he that brought them in the very heat
1H4 1.1.   60  And pride of their contention did take horse,
1H4 1.1.   61  Uncertain of the issue any way.
1H4 1.1.   62   KING HENRY Here is a dear, a true industrious friend,
1H4 1.1.   63  Sir Walter Blunt, new lighted from his horse,
1H4 1.1.   64  Stained with the variation of each soil
1H4 1.1.   65  Betwixt that Holmedon and this seat of ours;
1H4 1.1.   66  And he hath brought us smooth and welcome news.
1H4 1.1.   67  The Earl of Douglas is discomfited.
1H4 1.1.   68  Ten thousand bold Scots, two-and-twenty knights,
1H4 1.1.   69  Balked in their own blood did Sir Walter see
1H4 1.1.   70  On Holmedon's plains. Of prisoners Hotspur took
1H4 1.1.   71  Mordake the Earl of Fife and eldest son
1H4 1.1.   72  To beaten Douglas, and the Earl of Athol,
1H4 1.1.   73  Of Moray, Angus, and Menteith;
1H4 1.1.   74  And is not this an honourable spoil,
1H4 1.1.   75  A gallant prize? Ha, cousin, is it not?
1H4 1.1.   76   WESTMORLAND In faith, it is a conquest for a prince to boast of.
1H4 1.1.   77   KING HENRY Yea, there thou mak'st me sad, and mak'st me sin
1H4 1.1.   78  In envy that my lord Northumberland
1H4 1.1.   79  Should be the father to so blest a son - 
1H4 1.1.   80  A son who is the theme of honour's tongue,
1H4 1.1.   81  Amongst a grove the very straightest plant,
1H4 1.1.   82  Who is sweet Fortune's minion and her pride - 
1H4 1.1.   83  Whilst I by looking on the praise of him
1H4 1.1.   84  See riot and dishonour stain the brow
1H4 1.1.   85  Of my young Harry. O, that it could be proved
1H4 1.1.   86  That some night-tripping fairy had exchanged
1H4 1.1.   87  In cradle clothes our children where they lay,
1H4 1.1.   88  And called mine Percy, his Plantagenet!
1H4 1.1.   89  Then would I have his Harry, and he mine.
1H4 1.1.   90  But let him from my thoughts. What think you, coz,
1H4 1.1.   91  Of this young Percy's pride? The prisoners
1H4 1.1.   92  Which he in this adventure hath surprised
1H4 1.1.   93  To his own use he keeps, and sends me word
1H4 1.1.   94  I shall have none but Mordake Earl of Fife.
1H4 1.1.   95   WESTMORLAND This is his uncle's teaching. This is Worcester,
1H4 1.1.   96  Malevolent to you in all aspects,
1H4 1.1.   97  Which makes him prune himself, and bristle up
1H4 1.1.   98  The crest of youth against your dignity.
1H4 1.1.   99   KING HENRY But I have sent for him to answer this;
1H4 1.1.  100  And for this cause awhile we must neglect
1H4 1.1.  101  Our holy purpose to Jerusalem.
1H4 1.1.  102  Cousin, on Wednesday next our Council we
1H4 1.1.  103  Will hold at Windsor. So inform the lords.
1H4 1.1.  104  But come yourself with speed to us again,
1H4 1.1.  105  For more is to be said and to be done
1H4 1.1.  106  Than out of anger can be uttered.
1H4 1.1.  107A  WESTMORLAND I will, my liege. {Exeunt [King Henry,            +
1H4 1.1.  107A Lancaster, and other}
1H4 1.1.    0  {lords at one door; Westmorland at another door]}  {Enter    +
1H4 1.2.    0  Harry Prince of Wales and Sir John Oldcastle}
1H4 1.2.    1   SIR JOHN  Now, Hal, what time of day is it, lad?
1H4 1.2.    2   PRINCE HARRY Thou art so fat-witted with drinking of old
1H4 1.2.    3  sack, and unbuttoning thee after supper, and sleeping
1H4 1.2.    4  upon benches after noon, that thou hast forgotten to
1H4 1.2.    5  demand that truly which thou wouldst truly know.
1H4 1.2.    6  What a devil hast thou to do with the time of the day?
1H4 1.2.    7  Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons,
1H4 1.2.    8  and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs
1H4 1.2.    9  of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair
1H4 1.2.   10  hot wench in flame-coloured taffeta, I see no reason
1H4 1.2.   11  why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the
1H4 1.2.   12  time of the day.
1H4 1.2.   13   SIR JOHN Indeed you come near me now, Hal, for we that
1H4 1.2.   14  take purses go by the moon and the seven stars, and
1H4 1.2.   15  not `By Phoebus, he, that wand'ring knight so fair'.
1H4 1.2.   16  And I prithee, sweet wag, when thou art a king, as
1H4 1.2.   17  God save thy grace - `majesty' I should say, for grace
1H4 1.2.   18  thou wilt have none - 
1H4 1.2.   19   PRINCE HARRY What, none?
1H4 1.2.   20   SIR JOHN No, by my troth, not so much as will serve to
1H4 1.2.   21  be prologue to an egg and butter.
1H4 1.2.   22   PRINCE HARRY Well, how then? Come, roundly, roundly.
1H4 1.2.   23   SIR JOHN Marry then, sweet wag, when thou art king let
1H4 1.2.   24  not us that are squires of the night's body be called
1H4 1.2.   25  thieves of the day's beauty. Let us be `Diana's foresters',
1H4 1.2.   26  `gentlemen of the shade', `minions of the moon', and
1H4 1.2.   27  let men say we be men of good government, being
1H4 1.2.   28  governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress
1H4 1.2.   29  the moon, under whose countenance we steal.
1H4 1.2.   30   PRINCE HARRY Thou sayst well, and it holds well too, for
1H4 1.2.   31  the fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb
1H4 1.2.   32  and flow like the sea, being governed as the sea is by
1H4 1.2.   33  the moon. As for proof now: a purse of gold most
1H4 1.2.   34  resolutely snatched on Monday night, and most
1H4 1.2.   35  dissolutely spent on Tuesday morning; got with
1H4 1.2.   36  swearing `lay by!', and spent with crying `bring in!';
1H4 1.2.   37  now in as low an ebb as the foot of the ladder, and by
1H4 1.2.   38  and by in as high a flow as the ridge of the gallows.
1H4 1.2.   39   SIR JOHN By the Lord, thou sayst true, lad; and is not my
1H4 1.2.   40  Hostess of the tavern a most sweet wench?
1H4 1.2.   41   PRINCE HARRY As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the
1H4 1.2.   42  castle; and is not a buff jerkin a most sweet robe of
1H4 1.2.   43  durance?
1H4 1.2.   44   SIR JOHN How now, how now, mad wag? What, in thy
1H4 1.2.   45  quips and thy quiddities? What a plague have I to do
1H4 1.2.   46  with a buff jerkin?
1H4 1.2.   47   PRINCE HARRY Why, what a pox have I to do with my
1H4 1.2.   48  Hostess of the tavern?
1H4 1.2.   49   SIR JOHN Well, thou hast called her to a reckoning many
1H4 1.2.   50  a time and oft.
1H4 1.2.   51   PRINCE HARRY Did I ever call for thee to pay thy part?
1H4 1.2.   52   SIR JOHN No, I'll give thee thy due, thou hast paid all
1H4 1.2.   53  there.
1H4 1.2.   54   PRINCE HARRY Yea, and elsewhere so far as my coin would
1H4 1.2.   55  stretch; and where it would not, I have used my credit.
1H4 1.2.   56   SIR JOHN Yea, and so used it that were it not here apparent
1H4 1.2.   57  that thou art heir apparent - but I prithee, sweet wag,
1H4 1.2.   58  shall there be gallows standing in England when thou
1H4 1.2.   59  art king, and resolution thus fubbed as it is with the
1H4 1.2.   60  rusty curb of old father Antic the law? Do not thou
1H4 1.2.   61  when thou art king hang a thief.
1H4 1.2.   62   PRINCE HARRY No, thou shalt.
1H4 1.2.   63   SIR JOHN Shall I? O, rare! By the Lord, I'll be a brave
1H4 1.2.   64  judge!
1H4 1.2.   65   PRINCE HARRY Thou judgest false already. I mean thou
1H4 1.2.   66  shalt have the hanging of the thieves, and so become
1H4 1.2.   67  a rare hangman.
1H4 1.2.   68   SIR JOHN Well, Hal, well; and in some sort it jumps with
1H4 1.2.   69  my humour as well as waiting in the court, I can tell
1H4 1.2.   70  you.
1H4 1.2.   71   PRINCE HARRY For obtaining of suits?
1H4 1.2.   72   SIR JOHN Yea, for obtaining of suits, whereof the hangman
1H4 1.2.   73  hath no lean wardrobe. 'Sblood, I am as melancholy
1H4 1.2.   74  as a gib cat, or a lugged bear.
1H4 1.2.   75   PRINCE HARRY Or an old lion, or a lover's lute.
1H4 1.2.   76   SIR JOHN Yea, or the drone of a Lincolnshire bagpipe.
1H4 1.2.   77   PRINCE HARRY What sayst thou to a hare, or the
1H4 1.2.   78  melancholy of Moor-ditch?
1H4 1.2.   79   SIR JOHN Thou hast the most unsavoury similes, and art
1H4 1.2.   80  indeed the most comparative, rascalliest sweet young
1H4 1.2.   81  Prince. But Hal, I prithee trouble me no more with
1H4 1.2.   82  vanity. I would to God thou and I knew where a
1H4 1.2.   83  commodity of good names were to be bought. An old
1H4 1.2.   84  lord of the Council rated me the other day in the street
1H4 1.2.   85  about you, sir, but I marked him not; and yet he talked
1H4 1.2.   86  very wisely, but I regarded him not; and yet he talked
1H4 1.2.   87  wisely, and in the street too.
1H4 1.2.   88   PRINCE HARRY Thou didst well, for wisdom cries out in
1H4 1.2.   89  the streets, and no man regards it.
1H4 1.2.   90   SIR JOHN O, thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed
1H4 1.2.   91  able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm
1H4 1.2.   92  upon me, Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew
1H4 1.2.   93  thee, Hal, I knew nothing; and now am I, if a man
1H4 1.2.   94  should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.
1H4 1.2.   95  I must give over this life, and I will give it over. By the
1H4 1.2.   96  Lord, an I do not, I am a villain. I'll be damned for
1H4 1.2.   97  never a king's son in Christendom.
1H4 1.2.   98   PRINCE HARRY Where shall we take a purse tomorrow,
1H4 1.2.   99  Jack?
1H4 1.2.  100   SIR JOHN Zounds, where thou wilt, lad! I'll make one; an
1H4 1.2.  101  I do not, call me villain and baffle me.
1H4 1.2.  102   PRINCE HARRY I see a good amendment of life in thee,
1H4 1.2.  103  from praying to purse-taking.
1H4 1.2.  104   SIR JOHN Why, Hal, 'tis my vocation, Hal. 'Tis no sin for
1H4 1.2.  105  a man to labour in his vocation. {Enter Poins}
1H4 1.2.  106   Poins! Now shall we know if Gadshill have set a match.
1H4 1.2.  107  O, if men were to be saved by merit, what hole in hell
1H4 1.2.  108  were hot enough for him? This is the most omnipotent
1H4 1.2.  109  villain that ever cried `Stand!' to a true man.
1H4 1.2.  110   PRINCE HARRY Good morrow, Ned.
1H4 1.2.  111   POINS Good morrow, sweet Hal. {(To Sir John)} What   +
1H4 1.2.  111  says
1H4 1.2.  112  Monsieur Remorse? What says Sir John, sack-and-
1H4 1.2.  113  sugar Jack? How agrees the devil and thee about thy
1H4 1.2.  114  soul, that thou soldest him on Good Friday last, for a
1H4 1.2.  115  cup of Madeira and a cold capon's leg?
1H4 1.2.  116   PRINCE HARRY Sir John stands to his word, the devil shall
1H4 1.2.  117  have his bargain, for he was never yet a breaker of
1H4 1.2.  118  proverbs: he will give the devil his due.
1H4 1.2.  119   POINS  {(to Sir John)} Then art thou damned for      +
1H4 1.2.  119  keeping thy
1H4 1.2.  120  word with the devil.
1H4 1.2.  121   PRINCE HARRY Else he had been damned for cozening the
1H4 1.2.  122  devil.
1H4 1.2.  123   POINS But my lads, my lads, tomorrow morning by four
1H4 1.2.  124  o'clock early, at Gads Hill, there are pilgrims going to
1H4 1.2.  125  Canterbury with rich offerings, and traders riding to
1H4 1.2.  126  London with fat purses. I have visors for you all; you
1H4 1.2.  127  have horses for yourselves. Gadshill lies tonight in
1H4 1.2.  128  Rochester. I have bespoke supper tomorrow night in
1H4 1.2.  129  Eastcheap. We may do it as secure as sleep. If you will
1H4 1.2.  130  go, I will stuff your purses full of crowns; if you will
1H4 1.2.  131  not, tarry at home and be hanged.
1H4 1.2.  132   SIR JOHN Hear ye, Edward, if I tarry at home and go not,
1H4 1.2.  133  I'll hang you for going.
1H4 1.2.  134   POINS You will, chops?
1H4 1.2.  135   SIR JOHN Hal, wilt thou make one?
1H4 1.2.  136   PRINCE HARRY Who, I rob? I a thief? Not I, by my faith.
1H4 1.2.  137   SIR JOHN There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good
1H4 1.2.  138  fellowship in thee, nor thou camest not of the blood
1H4 1.2.  139  royal, if thou darest not stand for ten shillings.
1H4 1.2.  140   PRINCE HARRY Well then, once in my days I'll be a
1H4 1.2.  141  madcap.
1H4 1.2.  142   SIR JOHN Why, that's well said.
1H4 1.2.  143   PRINCE HARRY Well, come what will, I'll tarry at home.
1H4 1.2.  144   SIR JOHN By the Lord, I'll be a traitor then, when thou
1H4 1.2.  145  art king.
1H4 1.2.  146   PRINCE HARRY I care not.
1H4 1.2.  147   POINS Sir John, I prithee leave the Prince and me alone.
1H4 1.2.  148  I will lay him down such reasons for this adventure
1H4 1.2.  149  that he shall go.
1H4 1.2.  150   SIR JOHN Well, God give thee the spirit of persuasion and
1H4 1.2.  151  him the ears of profiting, that what thou speakest may
1H4 1.2.  152  move and what he hears may be believed, that the true
1H4 1.2.  153  prince may, for recreation' sake, prove a false thief; for
1H4 1.2.  154  the poor abuses of the time want countenance. Farewell.
1H4 1.2.  155  You shall find me in Eastcheap.
1H4 1.2.  156   PRINCE HARRY Farewell, the latter spring; farewell, All-
1H4 1.2.  157  hallown summer. {Exit Sir John}
1H4 1.2.  158   POINS  Now, my good sweet honey lord, ride with us
1H4 1.2.  159  tomorrow. I have a jest to execute that I cannot manage
1H4 1.2.  160  alone. Oldcastle, Harvey, Russell, and Gadshill shall rob
1H4 1.2.  161  those men that we have already waylaid - yourself and
1H4 1.2.  162  I will not be there - and when they have the booty, if
1H4 1.2.  163  you and I do not rob them, cut this head off from my
1H4 1.2.  164  shoulders.
1H4 1.2.  165   PRINCE HARRY But how shall we part with them in setting
1H4 1.2.  166  forth?
1H4 1.2.  167   POINS Why, we will set forth before or after them and
1H4 1.2.  168  appoint them a place of meeting, wherein it is at our
1H4 1.2.  169  pleasure to fail. And then will they adventure upon the
1H4 1.2.  170  exploit themselves, which they shall have no sooner
1H4 1.2.  171  achieved but we'll set upon them.
1H4 1.2.  172   PRINCE HARRY Ay, but 'tis like that they will know us by
1H4 1.2.  173  our horses, by our habits, and by every other
1H4 1.2.  174  appointment, to be ourselves.
1H4 1.2.  175   POINS Tut, our horses they shall not see - I'll tie them in
1H4 1.2.  176  the wood; our visors we will change after we leave
1H4 1.2.  177  them; and, sirrah, I have cases of buckram for the
1H4 1.2.  178  nonce, to immask our noted outward garments.
1H4 1.2.  179   PRINCE HARRY But I doubt they will be too hard for us.
1H4 1.2.  180   POINS Well, for two of them, I know them to be as true-
1H4 1.2.  181  bred cowards as ever turned back; and for the third,
1H4 1.2.  182  if he fight longer than he sees reason, I'll forswear
1H4 1.2.  183  arms. The virtue of this jest will be the incomprehensible
1H4 1.2.  184  lies that this same fat rogue will tell us when we meet
1H4 1.2.  185  at supper: how thirty at least he fought with, what
1H4 1.2.  186  wards, what blows, what extremities he endured; and
1H4 1.2.  187  in the reproof of this lives the jest.
1H4 1.2.  188   PRINCE HARRY Well, I'll go with thee. Provide us all things
1H4 1.2.  189  necessary, and meet me tomorrow night in Eastcheap;
1H4 1.2.  190  there I'll sup. Farewell.
1H4 1.2.  191   POINS Farewell, my lord. {Exit}
1H4 1.2.  192   PRINCE HARRY  I know you all, and will a while uphold
1H4 1.2.  193  The unyoked humour of your idleness.
1H4 1.2.  194  Yet herein will I imitate the sun,
1H4 1.2.  195  Who doth permit the base contagious clouds
1H4 1.2.  196  To smother up his beauty from the world,
1H4 1.2.  197  That when he please again to be himself,
1H4 1.2.  198  Being wanted he may be more wondered at
1H4 1.2.  199  By breaking through the foul and ugly mists
1H4 1.2.  200  Of vapours that did seem to strangle him.
1H4 1.2.  201  If all the year were playing holidays,
1H4 1.2.  202  To sport would be as tedious as to work;
1H4 1.2.  203  But when they seldom come, they wished-for come,
1H4 1.2.  204  And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
1H4 1.2.  205  So when this loose behaviour I throw off
1H4 1.2.  206  And pay the debt I never promised,
1H4 1.2.  207  By how much better than my word I am,
1H4 1.2.  208  By so much shall I falsify men's hopes;
1H4 1.2.  209  And like bright metal on a sullen ground,
1H4 1.2.  210  My reformation, glitt'ring o'er my fault,
1H4 1.2.  211  Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes
1H4 1.2.  212  Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
1H4 1.2.  213  I'll so offend to make offence a skill,
1H4 1.2.  214  Redeeming time when men think least I will. {Exit}
1H4 1.2.    0    {Enter the King, the Earls of Northumberland and           +
1H4 1.3.    0  Worcester, Hotspur, Sir Walter Blunt, with other [lords]}
1H4 1.3.    1   KING HENRY  {(to Hotspur, Northumberland, and                 +
1H4 1.3.    1  Worcester)} My blood hath been too cold and temperate,
1H4 1.3.    2  Unapt to stir at these indignities,
1H4 1.3.    3  And you have found me, for accordingly
1H4 1.3.    4  You tread upon my patience; but be sure
1H4 1.3.    5  I will from henceforth rather be myself,
1H4 1.3.    6  Mighty and to be feared, than my condition,
1H4 1.3.    7  Which hath been smooth as oil, soft as young down,
1H4 1.3.    8  And therefore lost that title of respect
1H4 1.3.    9  Which the proud soul ne'er pays but to the proud.
1H4 1.3.   10   WORCESTER Our house, my sovereign liege, little deserves
1H4 1.3.   11  The scourge of greatness to be used on it,
1H4 1.3.   12  And that same greatness too, which our own hands
1H4 1.3.   13B Have holp to make so portly. NORTHUMBERLAND  {(to the          +
1H4 1.3.   13B King)} My lord - 
1H4 1.3.   14   KING HENRY Worcester, get thee gone, for I do see
1H4 1.3.   15  Danger and disobedience in thine eye.
1H4 1.3.   16  O sir, your presence is too bold and peremptory,
1H4 1.3.   17  And majesty might never yet endure
1H4 1.3.   18  The moody frontier of a servant brow.
1H4 1.3.   19  You have good leave to leave us. When we need
1H4 1.3.   20  Your use and counsel we shall send for you. {Exit Worcester}
1H4 1.3.   21B  You were about to speak. NORTHUMBERLAND Yea, my good lord.
1H4 1.3.   22  Those prisoners in your highness' name demanded,
1H4 1.3.   23  Which Harry Percy here at Holmedon took,
1H4 1.3.   24  Were, as he says, not with such strength denied
1H4 1.3.   25  As was delivered to your majesty,
1H4 1.3.   26  Who either through envy or misprision
1H4 1.3.   27  Was guilty of this fault, and not my son.
1H4 1.3.   28   HOTSPUR  {(to the King)} My liege, I did deny no     +
1H4 1.3.   28  prisoners;
1H4 1.3.   29  But I remember, when the fight was done,
1H4 1.3.   30  When I was dry with rage and extreme toil,
1H4 1.3.   31  Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword,
1H4 1.3.   32  Came there a certain lord, neat and trimly dressed,
1H4 1.3.   33  Fresh as a bridegroom, and his chin, new-reaped,
1H4 1.3.   34  Showed like a stubble-land at harvest-home.
1H4 1.3.   35  He was perfumed like a milliner,
1H4 1.3.   36  And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held
1H4 1.3.   37  A pouncet-box, which ever and anon
1H4 1.3.   38  He gave his nose and took 't away again - 
1H4 1.3.   39  Who therewith angry, when it next came there
1H4 1.3.   40  Took it in snuff - and still he smiled and talked;
1H4 1.3.   41  And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by,
1H4 1.3.   42  He called them untaught knaves, unmannerly
1H4 1.3.   43  To bring a slovenly unhandsome corpse
1H4 1.3.   44  Betwixt the wind and his nobility.
1H4 1.3.   45  With many holiday and lady terms
1H4 1.3.   46  He questioned me; amongst the rest demanded
1H4 1.3.   47  My prisoners in your majesty's behalf.
1H4 1.3.   48  I then, all smarting with my wounds being cold - 
1H4 1.3.   49  To be so pestered with a popinjay! - 
1H4 1.3.   50  Out of my grief and my impatience
1H4 1.3.   51  Answered neglectingly, I know not what - 
1H4 1.3.   52  He should, or should not - for he made me mad
1H4 1.3.   53  To see him shine so brisk, and smell so sweet,
1H4 1.3.   54  And talk so like a waiting gentlewoman
1H4 1.3.   55  Of guns, and drums, and wounds, God save the mark!
1H4 1.3.   56  And telling me the sovereign'st thing on earth
1H4 1.3.   57  Was parmacity for an inward bruise,
1H4 1.3.   58  And that it was great pity, so it was,
1H4 1.3.   59  This villainous saltpetre should be digged
1H4 1.3.   60  Out of the bowels of the harmless earth,
1H4 1.3.   61  Which many a good tall fellow had destroyed
1H4 1.3.   62  So cowardly, and but for these vile guns
1H4 1.3.   63  He would himself have been a soldier.
1H4 1.3.   64  This bald unjointed chat of his, my lord,
1H4 1.3.   65  Made me to answer indirectly, as I said,
1H4 1.3.   66  And I beseech you, let not his report
1H4 1.3.   67  Come current for an accusation
1H4 1.3.   68  Betwixt my love and your high majesty.
1H4 1.3.   69   BLUNT  {(to the King)} The circumstance considered,  +
1H4 1.3.   69  good my lord,
1H4 1.3.   70  Whate'er Lord Harry Percy then had said
1H4 1.3.   71  To such a person, and in such a place,
1H4 1.3.   72  At such a time, with all the rest retold,
1H4 1.3.   73  May reasonably die, and never rise
1H4 1.3.   74  To do him wrong or any way impeach
1H4 1.3.   75  What then he said, so he unsay it now.
1H4 1.3.   76   KING HENRY Why, yet he doth deny his prisoners,
1H4 1.3.   77  But with proviso and exception
1H4 1.3.   78  That we at our own charge shall ransom straight
1H4 1.3.   79  His brother-in-law the foolish Mortimer,
1H4 1.3.   80  Who, on my soul, hath wilfully betrayed
1H4 1.3.   81  The lives of those that he did lead to fight
1H4 1.3.   82  Against that great magician, damned Glyndw^r - 
1H4 1.3.   83  Whose daughter, as we hear, the Earl of March
1H4 1.3.   84  Hath lately married. Shall our coffers, then,
1H4 1.3.   85  Be emptied to redeem a traitor home?
1H4 1.3.   86  Shall we buy treason, and indent with fears
1H4 1.3.   87  When they have lost and forfeited themselves?
1H4 1.3.   88  No, on the barren mountains let him starve;
1H4 1.3.   89  For I shall never hold that man my friend
1H4 1.3.   90  Whose tongue shall ask me for one penny cost
1H4 1.3.   91  To ransom home revolted Mortimer - 
1H4 1.3.   92A  HOTSPUR Revolted Mortimer?
1H4 1.3.   93  He never did fall off, my sovereign liege,
1H4 1.3.   94  But by the chance of war. To prove that true
1H4 1.3.   95  Needs no more but one tongue for all those wounds,
1H4 1.3.   96  Those mouthed wounds, which valiantly he took
1H4 1.3.   97  When on the gentle Severn's sedgy bank,
1H4 1.3.   98  In single opposition, hand to hand,
1H4 1.3.   99  He did confound the best part of an hour
1H4 1.3.  100  In changing hardiment with great Glyndw^r.
1H4 1.3.  101  Three times they breathed, and three times did they drink,
1H4 1.3.  102  Upon agreement, of swift Severn's flood,
1H4 1.3.  103  Who, then affrighted with their bloody looks,
1H4 1.3.  104  Ran fearfully among the trembling reeds,
1H4 1.3.  105  And hid his crisp head in the hollow bank,
1H4 1.3.  106  Bloodstained with these valiant combatants.
1H4 1.3.  107  Never did bare and rotten policy
1H4 1.3.  108  Colour her working with such deadly wounds,
1H4 1.3.  109  Nor never could the noble Mortimer
1H4 1.3.  110  Receive so many, and all willingly.
1H4 1.3.  111  Then let not him be slandered with revolt.
1H4 1.3.  112   KING HENRY Thou dost belie him, Percy, thou dost belie him.
1H4 1.3.  113  He never did encounter with Glyndw^r. I tell thee,
1H4 1.3.  114  He durst as well have met the devil alone
1H4 1.3.  115  As Owain Glyndw^r for an enemy.
1H4 1.3.  116  Art thou not ashamed? But, sirrah, henceforth
1H4 1.3.  117  Let me not hear you speak of Mortimer.
1H4 1.3.  118  Send me your prisoners with the speediest means,
1H4 1.3.  119  Or you shall hear in such a kind from me
1H4 1.3.  120  As will displease you. - My lord Northumberland,
1H4 1.3.  121  We license your departure with your son.
1H4 1.3.  122   {(To Hotspur)} Send us your prisoners, or you'll hear   +
1H4 1.3.  122  of it. {Exeunt all but Hotspur and Northumberland}
1H4 1.3.  123   HOTSPUR  An if the devil come and roar for them
1H4 1.3.  124  I will not send them. I will after straight
1H4 1.3.  125  And tell him so, for I will ease my heart,
1H4 1.3.  126  Although it be with hazard of my head.
1H4 1.3.  127   NORTHUMBERLAND What, drunk with choler? Stay and pause               +
1H4 1.3.  127  awhile. {Enter the Earl of Worcester}
1H4 1.3.  128B  Here comes your uncle. HOTSPUR Speak of Mortimer?
1H4 1.3.  129  Zounds, I will speak of him, and let my soul
1H4 1.3.  130  Want mercy if I do not join with him.
1H4 1.3.  131  In his behalf I'll empty all these veins,
1H4 1.3.  132  And shed my dear blood drop by drop in the dust,
1H4 1.3.  133  But I will lift the downfall Mortimer
1H4 1.3.  134  As high in the air as this unthankful King,
1H4 1.3.  135  As this ingrate and cankered Bolingbroke.
1H4 1.3.  136   NORTHUMBERLAND  {(to Worcester)} Brother, the King   +
1H4 1.3.  136  hath made your nephew mad.
1H4 1.3.  137   WORCESTER Who struck this heat up after I was gone?
1H4 1.3.  138   HOTSPUR He will forsooth have all my prisoners;
1H4 1.3.  139  And when I urged the ransom once again
1H4 1.3.  140  Of my wife's brother, then his cheek looked pale,
1H4 1.3.  141  And on my face he turned an eye of death,
1H4 1.3.  142  Trembling even at the name of Mortimer.
1H4 1.3.  143   WORCESTER I cannot blame him: was not he proclaimed
1H4 1.3.  144  By Richard, that dead is, the next of blood?
1H4 1.3.  145   NORTHUMBERLAND He was; I heard the proclamation.
1H4 1.3.  146  And then it was when the unhappy King,
1H4 1.3.  147  Whose wrongs in us God pardon, did set forth
1H4 1.3.  148  Upon his Irish expedition,
1H4 1.3.  149  From whence he, intercepted, did return
1H4 1.3.  150  To be deposed, and shortly murdered.
1H4 1.3.  151   WORCESTER And for whose death we in the world's wide mouth
1H4 1.3.  152  Live scandalized and foully spoken of.
1H4 1.3.  153   HOTSPUR But soft, I pray you; did King Richard then
1H4 1.3.  154  Proclaim my brother Edmund Mortimer
1H4 1.3.  155B Heir to the crown? NORTHUMBERLAND He did; myself did hear it.
1H4 1.3.  156   HOTSPUR Nay, then I cannot blame his cousin King
1H4 1.3.  157  That wished him on the barren mountains starve.
1H4 1.3.  158  But shall it be that you that set the crown
1H4 1.3.  159  Upon the head of this forgetful man,
1H4 1.3.  160  And for his sake wear the detested blot
1H4 1.3.  161  Of murderous subornation, shall it be
1H4 1.3.  162  That you a world of curses undergo,
1H4 1.3.  163  Being the agents or base second means,
1H4 1.3.  164  The cords, the ladder, or the hangman, rather?
1H4 1.3.  165  O, pardon me that I descend so low
1H4 1.3.  166  To show the line and the predicament
1H4 1.3.  167  Wherein you range under this subtle King!
1H4 1.3.  168  Shall it for shame be spoken in these days,
1H4 1.3.  169  Or fill up chronicles in time to come,
1H4 1.3.  170  That men of your nobility and power
1H4 1.3.  171  Did gage them both in an unjust behalf,
1H4 1.3.  172  As both of you, God pardon it, have done:
1H4 1.3.  173  To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose,
1H4 1.3.  174  And plant this thorn, this canker, Bolingbroke?
1H4 1.3.  175  And shall it in more shame be further spoken
1H4 1.3.  176  That you are fooled, discarded, and shook off
1H4 1.3.  177  By him for whom these shames ye underwent?
1H4 1.3.  178  No; yet time serves wherein you may redeem
1H4 1.3.  179  Your banished honours, and restore yourselves
1H4 1.3.  180  Into the good thoughts of the world again,
1H4 1.3.  181  Revenge the jeering and disdained contempt
1H4 1.3.  182  Of this proud King, who studies day and night
1H4 1.3.  183  To answer all the debt he owes to you
1H4 1.3.  184  Even with the bloody payment of your deaths.
1H4 1.3.  185B Therefore, I say -  WORCESTER Peace, cousin, say no more.
1H4 1.3.  186  And now I will unclasp a secret book,
1H4 1.3.  187  And to your quick-conceiving discontents
1H4 1.3.  188  I'll read you matter deep and dangerous,
1H4 1.3.  189  As full of peril and adventurous spirit
1H4 1.3.  190  As to o'erwalk a current roaring loud
1H4 1.3.  191  On the unsteadfast footing of a spear.
1H4 1.3.  192   HOTSPUR If he fall in, good night, or sink or swim.
1H4 1.3.  193  Send danger from the east unto the west,
1H4 1.3.  194  So honour cross it from the north to south;
1H4 1.3.  195  And let them grapple. O, the blood more stirs
1H4 1.3.  196  To rouse a lion than to start a hare!
1H4 1.3.  197   NORTHUMBERLAND  {(to Worcester)} Imagination of      +
1H4 1.3.  197  some great exploit
1H4 1.3.  198  Drives him beyond the bounds of patience.
1H4 1.3.  199   [HOTSPUR] By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap
1H4 1.3.  200  To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon,
1H4 1.3.  201  Or dive into the bottom of the deep,
1H4 1.3.  202  Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,
1H4 1.3.  203  And pluck up drowned honour by the locks,
1H4 1.3.  204  So he that doth redeem her thence might wear,
1H4 1.3.  205  Without corrival, all her dignities.
1H4 1.3.  206  But out upon this half-faced fellowship!
1H4 1.3.  207   WORCESTER  {(to Northumberland)} He apprehends a     +
1H4 1.3.  207  world of figures here,
1H4 1.3.  208  But not the form of what he should attend.
1H4 1.3.  209   {(To Hotspur)} Good cousin, give me audience for a      +
1H4 1.3.  209  while,
1H4 1.3.  210  And list to me.
1H4 1.3.  211B  HOTSPUR I cry you mercy. WORCESTER Those same noble Scots
1H4 1.3.  212B That are your prisoners -  HOTSPUR I'll keep them all.
1H4 1.3.  213  By God, he shall not have a Scot of them;
1H4 1.3.  214  No, if a scot would save his soul he shall not.
1H4 1.3.  215B I'll keep them, by this hand. WORCESTER You start away,
1H4 1.3.  216  And lend no ear unto my purposes.
1H4 1.3.  217B Those prisoners you shall keep. HOTSPUR Nay, I will; that's flat.
1H4 1.3.  218  He said he would not ransom Mortimer,
1H4 1.3.  219  Forbade my tongue to speak of Mortimer;
1H4 1.3.  220  But I will find him when he lies asleep,
1H4 1.3.  221  And in his ear I'll hollo `Mortimer!'
1H4 1.3.  222  Nay, I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak
1H4 1.3.  223  Nothing but `Mortimer', and give it him
1H4 1.3.  224  To keep his anger still in motion.
1H4 1.3.  225A  WORCESTER Hear you, cousin, a word.
1H4 1.3.  226   HOTSPUR All studies here I solemnly defy,
1H4 1.3.  227  Save how to gall and pinch this Bolingbroke.
1H4 1.3.  228  And that same sword-and-buckler Prince of Wales - 
1H4 1.3.  229  But that I think his father loves him not
1H4 1.3.  230  And would be glad he met with some mischance - 
1H4 1.3.  231  I would have him poisoned with a pot of ale.
1H4 1.3.  232   WORCESTER Farewell, kinsman. I'll talk to you
1H4 1.3.  233  When you are better tempered to attend.
1H4 1.3.  234   NORTHUMBERLAND  {(to Hotspur)} Why, what a           +
1H4 1.3.  234  wasp-stung and impatient fool
1H4 1.3.  235  Art thou to break into this woman's mood,
1H4 1.3.  236  Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own!
1H4 1.3.  237   HOTSPUR Why, look you, I am whipped and scourged with rods,
1H4 1.3.  238  Nettled and stung with pismires, when I hear
1H4 1.3.  239  Of this vile politician Bolingbroke.
1H4 1.3.  240  In Richard's time - what d' ye call the place?
1H4 1.3.  241  A plague upon 't, it is in Gloucestershire.
1H4 1.3.  242  'Twas where the madcap Duke his uncle kept - 
1H4 1.3.  243  His uncle York - where I first bowed my knee
1H4 1.3.  244  Unto this king of smiles, this Bolingbroke.
1H4 1.3.  245  'Sblood, when you and he came back from Ravenspurgh.
1H4 1.3.  246B  NORTHUMBERLAND At Berkeley castle. HOTSPUR You say true.
1H4 1.3.  247  Why, what a candy deal of courtesy
1H4 1.3.  248  This fawning greyhound then did proffer me!
1H4 1.3.  249  `Look when his infant fortune came to age',
1H4 1.3.  250  And `gentle Harry Percy', and `kind cousin'.
1H4 1.3.  251  O, the devil take such cozeners! - God forgive me.
1H4 1.3.  252  Good uncle, tell your tale; I have done.
1H4 1.3.  253   WORCESTER Nay, if you have not, to 't again.
1H4 1.3.  254B We'll stay your leisure. HOTSPUR I have done, i' faith.
1H4 1.3.  255   WORCESTER Then once more to your Scottish prisoners.
1H4 1.3.  256  Deliver them up without their ransom straight;
1H4 1.3.  257  And make the Douglas' son your only mean
1H4 1.3.  258  For powers in Scotland, which, for divers reasons
1H4 1.3.  259  Which I shall send you written, be assured
1H4 1.3.  260  Will easily be granted. {(To Northumberland)} You, my    +
1H4 1.3.  260  lord,
1H4 1.3.  261  Your son in Scotland being thus employed,
1H4 1.3.  262  Shall secretly into the bosom creep
1H4 1.3.  263  Of that same noble prelate well-beloved,
1H4 1.3.  264B The Archbishop. HOTSPUR Of York, is 't not? WORCESTER True, who    +
1H4 1.3.  264B bears hard
1H4 1.3.  265  His brother's death at Bristol, the Lord Scrope.
1H4 1.3.  266  I speak not this in estimation,
1H4 1.3.  267  As what I think might be, but what I know
1H4 1.3.  268  Is ruminated, plotted, and set down,
1H4 1.3.  269  And only stays but to behold the face
1H4 1.3.  270  Of that occasion that shall bring it on.
1H4 1.3.  271   HOTSPUR I smell it; upon my life, it will do well!
1H4 1.3.  272   NORTHUMBERLAND Before the game is afoot thou still lett'st slip.
1H4 1.3.  273   HOTSPUR Why, it cannot choose but be a noble plot - 
1H4 1.3.  274  And then the power of Scotland and of York
1H4 1.3.  275B To join with Mortimer, ha? WORCESTER And so they shall.
1H4 1.3.  276   HOTSPUR In faith, it is exceedingly well aimed.
1H4 1.3.  277   WORCESTER And 'tis no little reason bids us speed
1H4 1.3.  278  To save our heads by raising of a head;
1H4 1.3.  279  For, bear ourselves as even as we can,
1H4 1.3.  280  The King will always think him in our debt,
1H4 1.3.  281  And think we think ourselves unsatisfied
1H4 1.3.  282  Till he hath found a time to pay us home.
1H4 1.3.  283  And see already how he doth begin
1H4 1.3.  284  To make us strangers to his looks of love.
1H4 1.3.  285   HOTSPUR He does, he does. We'll be revenged on him.
1H4 1.3.  286   WORCESTER Cousin, farewell. No further go in this
1H4 1.3.  287  Than I by letters shall direct your course.
1H4 1.3.  288  When time is ripe, which will be suddenly,
1H4 1.3.  289  I'll steal to Glyndw^r and Lord Mortimer,
1H4 1.3.  290  Where you and Douglas and our powers at once,
1H4 1.3.  291  As I will fashion it, shall happily meet,
1H4 1.3.  292  To bear our fortunes in our own strong arms,
1H4 1.3.  293  Which now we hold at much uncertainty.
1H4 1.3.  294   NORTHUMBERLAND Farewell, good brother. We shall thrive, I trust.
1H4 1.3.  295   HOTSPUR  {(to Worcester)} Uncle, adieu. O, let the   +
1H4 1.3.  295  hours be short
1H4 1.3.  296  Till fields and blows and groans applaud our sport! {Exeunt       +
1H4 1.3.  296  [Worcester at one door, Northumberland and Hotspur at another door]}
1H4 1.3.    0     {Enter a Carrier, with a lantern in his hand}
1H4 2.1.    1   FIRST CARRIER  Heigh-ho! An 't be not four by the day, I'll
1H4 2.1.    2  be hanged. Charles's Wain is over the new chimney,
1H4 2.1.    3  and yet our horse not packed. What, ostler!
1H4 2.1.    4   OSTLER  {(within)} Anon, anon!
1H4 2.1.    5   FIRST CARRIER I prithee, Tom, beat cut's saddle, put a few
1H4 2.1.    6  flocks in the point. Poor jade is wrung in the withers,
1H4 2.1.    7  out of all cess. {Enter another Carrier}
1H4 2.1.    8   SECOND CARRIER  Peas and beans are as dank here as a
1H4 2.1.    9  dog, and that is the next way to give poor jades the
1H4 2.1.   10  bots. This house is turned upside down since Robin
1H4 2.1.   11  Ostler died.
1H4 2.1.   12   FIRST CARRIER Poor fellow never joyed since the price of
1H4 2.1.   13  oats rose; it was the death of him.
1H4 2.1.   14   SECOND CARRIER I think this be the most villainous house
1H4 2.1.   15  in all London road for fleas. I am stung like a tench.
1H4 2.1.   16   FIRST CARRIER Like a tench? By the mass, there is ne'er
1H4 2.1.   17  a king christen could be better bit than I have been
1H4 2.1.   18  since the first cock.
1H4 2.1.   19   SECOND CARRIER Why, they will allow us ne'er a jordan,
1H4 2.1.   20  and then we leak in your chimney, and your chamber-
1H4 2.1.   21  lye breeds fleas like a loach.
1H4 2.1.   22   FIRST CARRIER What, ostler! Come away, and be hanged,
1H4 2.1.   23  come away!
1H4 2.1.   24   SECOND CARRIER I have a gammon of bacon and two races
1H4 2.1.   25  of ginger to be delivered as far as Charing Cross.
1H4 2.1.   26   FIRST CARRIER God's body, the turkeys in my pannier are
1H4 2.1.   27  quite starved! What, ostler! A plague on thee, hast
1H4 2.1.   28  thou never an eye in thy head? Canst not hear? An
1H4 2.1.   29  'twere not as good deed as drink to break the pate on
1H4 2.1.   30  thee, I am a very villain. Come, and be hanged! Hast
1H4 2.1.   31  no faith in thee? {Enter Gadshill}
1H4 2.1.   32   GADSHILL  Good morrow, carriers. What's o'clock?
1H4 2.1.   33   FIRST CARRIER I think it be two o'clock.
1H4 2.1.   34   GADSHILL I prithee lend me thy lantern to see my gelding
1H4 2.1.   35  in the stable.
1H4 2.1.   36   FIRST CARRIER Nay, by God, soft. I know a trick worth
1H4 2.1.   37  two of that, i' faith.
1H4 2.1.   38   GADSHILL  {(to Second Carrier)} I pray thee, lend    +
1H4 2.1.   38  me thine.
1H4 2.1.   39   SECOND CARRIER Ay, when? Canst tell? `Lend me thy
1H4 2.1.   40  lantern,' quoth a. Marry, I'll see thee hanged first.
1H4 2.1.   41   GADSHILL Sirrah carrier, what time do you mean to come
1H4 2.1.   42  to London?
1H4 2.1.   43   SECOND CARRIER Time enough to go to bed with a candle,
1H4 2.1.   44  I warrant thee. - Come, neighbour Mugs, we'll call up
1H4 2.1.   45  the gentlemen. They will along with company, for they
1H4 2.1.   46  have great charge. {Exeunt Carriers}
1H4 2.1.   47   GADSHILL  What ho, chamberlain! {Enter Chamberlain}
1H4 2.1.   48   CHAMBERLAIN  `At hand' quoth Pickpurse.
1H4 2.1.   49   GADSHILL That's even as fair as ` ``At hand'' quoth the
1H4 2.1.   50  chamberlain', for thou variest no more from picking of
1H4 2.1.   51  purses than giving direction doth from labouring: thou
1H4 2.1.   52  layest the plot how.
1H4 2.1.   53   CHAMBERLAIN Good morrow, Master Gadshill. It holds
1H4 2.1.   54  current that I told you yesternight. There's a franklin
1H4 2.1.   55  in the Weald of Kent hath brought three hundred
1H4 2.1.   56  marks with him in gold. I heard him tell it to one of
1H4 2.1.   57  his company last night at supper - a kind of auditor,
1H4 2.1.   58  one that hath abundance of charge too, God knows
1H4 2.1.   59  what. They are up already, and call for eggs and butter;
1H4 2.1.   60  they will away presently.
1H4 2.1.   61   GADSHILL Sirrah, if they meet not with Saint Nicholas's
1H4 2.1.   62  clerks, I'll give thee this neck.
1H4 2.1.   63   CHAMBERLAIN No, I'll none of it; I pray thee keep that
1H4 2.1.   64  for the hangman, for I know thou worshippest Saint
1H4 2.1.   65  Nicholas as truly as a man of falsehood may.
1H4 2.1.   66   GADSHILL What talkest thou to me of the hangman? If I
1H4 2.1.   67  hang, I'll make a fat pair of gallows, for if I hang, old
1H4 2.1.   68  Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he's no
1H4 2.1.   69  starveling. Tut, there are other Trojans that thou
1H4 2.1.   70  dreamest not of, the which for sport' sake are content
1H4 2.1.   71  to do the profession some grace, that would, if matters
1H4 2.1.   72  should be looked into, for their own credit' sake make
1H4 2.1.   73  all whole. I am joined with no foot-landrakers, no long-
1H4 2.1.   74  staff sixpenny strikers, none of these mad mustachio
1H4 2.1.   75  purple-hued maltworms, but with nobility and tranquillity,
1H4 2.1.   76  burgomasters and great `oyez'-ers; such as can
1H4 2.1.   77  hold in, such as will strike sooner than speak, and
1H4 2.1.   78  speak sooner than drink, and drink sooner than pray.
1H4 2.1.   79  And yet, zounds, I lie, for they pray continually to their
1H4 2.1.   80  saint the commonwealth; or rather, not pray to her,
1H4 2.1.   81  but prey on her; for they ride up and down on her and
1H4 2.1.   82  make her their boots.
1H4 2.1.   83   CHAMBERLAIN What, the commonwealth their boots? Will
1H4 2.1.   84  she hold out water in foul way?
1H4 2.1.   85   GADSHILL She will, she will, justice hath liquored her. We
1H4 2.1.   86  steal as in a castle, cocksure; we have the recipe of
1H4 2.1.   87  fern-seed, we walk invisible.
1H4 2.1.   88   CHAMBERLAIN Nay, by my faith, I think you are more
1H4 2.1.   89  beholden to the night than to fern-seed for your walking
1H4 2.1.   90  invisible.
1H4 2.1.   91   GADSHILL Give me thy hand; thou shalt have a share in
1H4 2.1.   92  our purchase, as I am a true man.
1H4 2.1.   93   CHAMBERLAIN Nay, rather let me have it as you are a
1H4 2.1.   94  false thief.
1H4 2.1.   95   GADSHILL Go to, `{homo}' is a common name to all men.
1H4 2.1.   96  Bid the ostler bring my gelding out of the stable.
1H4 2.1.   97  Farewell, you muddy knave. {Exeunt [severally]}
1H4 2.1.    0    {Enter Prince Harry, Poins, Harvey, [and Russell]}
1H4 2.2.    1   POINS  Come, shelter, shelter! {[Exeunt Harvey and   +
1H4 2.2.    1  Russell at another door]}
1H4 2.2.    2   I have removed Oldcastle's horse, and he frets like a
1H4 2.2.    3  gummed velvet.
1H4 2.2.    4   PRINCE HARRY Stand close! {[Exit Poins]}
1H4 2.2.    5   {Enter Sir John Oldcastle} SIR JOHN  Poins! Poins,   +
1H4 2.2.    5  and be hanged! Poins!
1H4 2.2.    6   PRINCE HARRY Peace, ye fat-kidneyed rascal! What a
1H4 2.2.    7  brawling dost thou keep!
1H4 2.2.    8   SIR JOHN Where's Poins, Hal?
1H4 2.2.    9   PRINCE HARRY He is walked up to the top of the hill. I'll
1H4 2.2.   10  go seek him. {[Exit]}
1H4 2.2.   11   SIR JOHN  I am accursed to rob in that thief's company.
1H4 2.2.   12  The rascal hath removed my horse and tied him I know
1H4 2.2.   13  not where. If I travel but four foot by the square further
1H4 2.2.   14  afoot, I shall break my wind. Well, I doubt not but to
1H4 2.2.   15  die a fair death, for all this - if I scape hanging for
1H4 2.2.   16  killing that rogue. I have forsworn his company hourly
1H4 2.2.   17  any time this two-and-twenty years, and yet I am
1H4 2.2.   18  bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have
1H4 2.2.   19  not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be
1H4 2.2.   20  hanged. It could not be else: I have drunk medicines.
1H4 2.2.   21  Poins! Hal! A plague upon you both! Russell! Harvey!
1H4 2.2.   22  I'll starve ere I'll rob a foot further. An 'twere not as
1H4 2.2.   23  good a deed as drink to turn true man and to leave
1H4 2.2.   24  these rogues, I am the veriest varlet that ever chewed
1H4 2.2.   25  with a tooth. Eight yards of uneven ground is threescore
1H4 2.2.   26  and ten miles afoot with me, and the stony-hearted
1H4 2.2.   27  villains know it well enough. A plague upon 't when
1H4 2.2.   28  thieves cannot be true one to another! {They whistle. [Enter      +
1H4 2.2.   28  Prince Harry, Poins, Harvey, and Russell]}
1H4 2.2.   29   Whew! A plague upon you all! Give me my horse, you
1H4 2.2.   30  rogues, give me my horse, and be hanged!
1H4 2.2.   31   PRINCE HARRY Peace, ye fat-guts. Lie down, lay thine ear
1H4 2.2.   32  close to the ground, and list if thou canst hear the
1H4 2.2.   33  tread of travellers.
1H4 2.2.   34   SIR JOHN Have you any levers to lift me up again, being
1H4 2.2.   35  down? 'Sblood, I'll not bear my own flesh so far afoot
1H4 2.2.   36  again for all the coin in thy father's exchequer. What
1H4 2.2.   37  a plague mean ye to colt me thus?
1H4 2.2.   38   PRINCE HARRY Thou liest: thou art not colted, thou art
1H4 2.2.   39  uncolted.
1H4 2.2.   40   SIR JOHN I prithee, good Prince Hal, help me to my horse,
1H4 2.2.   41  good king's son.
1H4 2.2.   42   PRINCE HARRY Out, ye rogue, shall I be your ostler?
1H4 2.2.   43   SIR JOHN Hang thyself in thine own heir-apparent garters!
1H4 2.2.   44  If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this. An I have not ballads
1H4 2.2.   45  made on you all and sung to filthy tunes, let a cup of
1H4 2.2.   46  sack be my poison. When a jest is so forward, and
1H4 2.2.   47  afoot too! I hate it. {Enter Gadshill [visored]}
1H4 2.2.   48   GADSHILL  Stand!
1H4 2.2.   49   SIR JOHN So I do, against my will.
1H4 2.2.   50   POINS O, 'tis our setter, I know his voice. Gadshill, what
1H4 2.2.   51  news?
1H4 2.2.   52   [GADSHILL] Case ye, case ye, on with your visors! There's
1H4 2.2.   53  money of the King's coming down the hill; 'tis going
1H4 2.2.   54  to the King's exchequer.
1H4 2.2.   55   SIR JOHN You lie, ye rogue, 'tis going to the King's tavern.
1H4 2.2.   56   GADSHILL There's enough to make us all.
1H4 2.2.   57   SIR JOHN To be hanged. {[They put on visors]}
1H4 2.2.   58   PRINCE HARRY  Sirs, you four shall front them in the
1H4 2.2.   59  narrow lane. Ned Poins and I will walk lower. If they
1H4 2.2.   60  scape from your encounter, then they light on us.
1H4 2.2.   61   HARVEY How many be there of them?
1H4 2.2.   62   GADSHILL Some eight or ten.
1H4 2.2.   63   SIR JOHN Zounds, will they not rob us?
1H4 2.2.   64   PRINCE HARRY What, a coward, Sir John Paunch?
1H4 2.2.   65   SIR JOHN Indeed I am not John of Gaunt your grandfather,
1H4 2.2.   66  but yet no coward, Hal.
1H4 2.2.   67   PRINCE HARRY Well, we leave that to the proof.
1H4 2.2.   68   POINS Sirrah Jack, thy horse stands behind the hedge.
1H4 2.2.   69  When thou needest him, there thou shalt find him.
1H4 2.2.   70  Farewell, and stand fast.
1H4 2.2.   71   SIR JOHN Now cannot I strike him if I should be hanged.
1H4 2.2.   72   PRINCE HARRY  {(aside to Poins)} Ned, where are our  +
1H4 2.2.   72  disguises?
1H4 2.2.   73   POINS  {(aside to the Prince)} Here, hard by. Stand  +
1H4 2.2.   73  close. {[Exeunt the Prince and Poins]}
1H4 2.2.   74   SIR JOHN  Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say
1H4 2.2.   75  I; every man to his business. {[They stand aside.]}
1H4 2.2.   76  {Enter the Travellers, [amongst them the Carriers]} [FIRST] TRAVELLER+
1H4 2.2.   76    Come, neighbour, the boy shall lead
1H4 2.2.   77  our horses down the hill. We'll walk afoot a while, and
1H4 2.2.   78  ease their legs.
1H4 2.2.   79   THIEVES  {[coming forward]} Stand!
1H4 2.2.   80   [SECOND] TRAVELLER Jesus bless us!
1H4 2.2.   81   SIR JOHN Strike, down with them, cut the villains' throats!
1H4 2.2.   82  Ah, whoreson caterpillars, bacon-fed knaves! They hate
1H4 2.2.   83  us youth. Down with them, fleece them!
1H4 2.2.   84   [FIRST] TRAVELLER O, we are undone, both we and ours
1H4 2.2.   85  for ever!
1H4 2.2.   86   SIR JOHN Hang ye, gorbellied knaves, are ye undone? No,
1H4 2.2.   87  ye fat chuffs; I would your store were here. On, bacons,
1H4 2.2.   88  on! What, ye knaves! Young men must live. You are
1H4 2.2.   89  grand-jurors, are ye? We'll jure ye, faith. {Here they rob them   +
1H4 2.2.   89  and bind them. Exeunt the thieves with the travellers}
1H4 2.2.    0   {Enter Prince Harry and Poins, disguised in buckram suits}
1H4 2.3.    1   PRINCE HARRY  The thieves have bound the true men; now
1H4 2.3.    2  could thou and I rob the thieves, and go merrily to
1H4 2.3.    3  London. It would be argument for a week, laughter for
1H4 2.3.    4  a month, and a good jest for ever.
1H4 2.3.    5   POINS Stand close; I hear them coming. {They stand aside.}
1H4 2.3.    6  {Enter Sir John Oldcastle, Russell, Harvey, and Gadshill, with the       +
1H4 2.3.    6  travellers' money} SIR JOHN  Come, my masters, let us        +
1H4 2.3.    6  share, and then to
1H4 2.3.    7  horse before day. An the Prince and Poins be not two
1H4 2.3.    8  arrant cowards, there's no equity stirring. There's no
1H4 2.3.    9  more valour in that Poins than in a wild duck. {As they are       +
1H4 2.3.    9  sharing, the Prince and Poins set upon them}
1H4 2.3.   10   PRINCE HARRY  Your money!
1H4 2.3.   11   POINS Villains! {Gadshill, Russell, and Harvey run away       +
1H4 2.3.   11  [severally], and Oldcastle, after a blow or two, [roars and] runs away   +
1H4 2.3.   11  too, leaving the booty behind them}
1H4 2.3.   12   PRINCE HARRY  Got with much ease. Now merrily to horse.
1H4 2.3.   13  The thieves are all scattered, and possessed with fear
1H4 2.3.   14  So strongly that they dare not meet each other.
1H4 2.3.   15  Each takes his fellow for an officer.
1H4 2.3.   16  Away, good Ned. Oldcastle sweats to death,
1H4 2.3.   17  And lards the lean earth as he walks along.
1H4 2.3.   18  Were 't not for laughing, I should pity him.
1H4 2.3.   19   POINS How the fat rogue roared! {Exeunt with the booty}
1H4 2.3.    0    {Enter Hotspur, reading a letter}
1H4 2.4.    1   HOTSPUR  `But for mine own part, my lord, I could be well
1H4 2.4.    2  contented to be there, in respect of the love I bear your
1H4 2.4.    3  house.' - He could be contented; why is he not then?
1H4 2.4.    4  In respect of the love he bears our house! He shows in
1H4 2.4.    5  this he loves his own barn better than he loves our
1H4 2.4.    6  house. Let me see some more. - `The purpose you
1H4 2.4.    7  undertake is dangerous' - Why, that's certain: 'tis
1H4 2.4.    8  dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell
1H4 2.4.    9  you, my lord fool, out of this nettle danger we pluck
1H4 2.4.   10  this flower safety. - `The purpose you undertake is
1H4 2.4.   11  dangerous, the friends you have named uncertain, the
1H4 2.4.   12  time itself unsorted, and your whole plot too light for
1H4 2.4.   13  the counterpoise of so great an opposition.' - Say you
1H4 2.4.   14  so, say you so? I say unto you again, you are a shallow,
1H4 2.4.   15  cowardly hind, and you lie. What a lack-brain is this!
1H4 2.4.   16  By the Lord, our plot is a good plot as ever was laid,
1H4 2.4.   17  our friends true and constant; a good plot, good friends,
1H4 2.4.   18  and full of expectation; an excellent plot, very good
1H4 2.4.   19  friends. What a frosty-spirited rogue is this! Why, my
1H4 2.4.   20  lord of York commends the plot and the general course
1H4 2.4.   21  of the action. Zounds, an I were now by this rascal, I
1H4 2.4.   22  could brain him with his lady's fan! Is there not my
1H4 2.4.   23  father, my uncle, and myself? Lord Edmund Mortimer,
1H4 2.4.   24  my lord of York, and Owain Glyndw^r? Is there not
1H4 2.4.   25  besides the Douglas? Have I not all their letters, to
1H4 2.4.   26  meet me in arms by the ninth of the next month? And
1H4 2.4.   27  are they not some of them set forward already? What
1H4 2.4.   28  a pagan rascal is this, an infidel! Ha, you shall see
1H4 2.4.   29  now, in very sincerity of fear and cold heart will he to
1H4 2.4.   30  the King, and lay open all our proceedings! O, I could
1H4 2.4.   31  divide myself and go to buffets for moving such a dish
1H4 2.4.   32  of skim-milk with so honourable an action! Hang him!
1H4 2.4.   33  Let him tell the King we are prepared; I will set forward
1H4 2.4.   34  tonight. {Enter Lady Percy}
1H4 2.4.   35   How now, Kate? I must leave you within these two
1H4 2.4.   36  hours.
1H4 2.4.   37   LADY PERCY  O my good lord, why are you thus alone?
1H4 2.4.   38  For what offence have I this fortnight been
1H4 2.4.   39  A banished woman from my Harry's bed?
1H4 2.4.   40  Tell me, sweet lord, what is 't that takes from thee
1H4 2.4.   41  Thy stomach, pleasure, and thy golden sleep?
1H4 2.4.   42  Why dost thou bend thine eyes upon the earth,
1H4 2.4.   43  And start so often when thou sitt'st alone?
1H4 2.4.   44  Why hast thou lost the fresh blood in thy cheeks,
1H4 2.4.   45  And given my treasures and my rights of thee
1H4 2.4.   46  To thick-eyed musing and curst melancholy?
1H4 2.4.   47  In thy faint slumbers I by thee have watched,
1H4 2.4.   48  And heard thee murmur tales of iron wars,
1H4 2.4.   49  Speak terms of manege to thy bounding steed,
1H4 2.4.   50  Cry `Courage! To the field!' And thou hast talked
1H4 2.4.   51  Of sallies and retires, of trenches, tents,
1H4 2.4.   52  Of palisadoes, frontiers, parapets,
1H4 2.4.   53  Of basilisks, of cannon, culverin,
1H4 2.4.   54  Of prisoners ransomed, and of soldiers slain,
1H4 2.4.   55  And all the currents of a heady fight.
1H4 2.4.   56  Thy spirit within thee hath been so at war,
1H4 2.4.   57  And thus hath so bestirred thee in thy sleep,
1H4 2.4.   58  That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow
1H4 2.4.   59  Like bubbles in a late-disturbed stream;
1H4 2.4.   60  And in thy face strange motions have appeared,
1H4 2.4.   61  Such as we see when men restrain their breath
1H4 2.4.   62  On some great sudden hest. O, what portents are these?
1H4 2.4.   63  Some heavy business hath my lord in hand,
1H4 2.4.   64  And I must know it, else he loves me not.
1H4 2.4.   65B  HOTSPUR What ho! {Enter Servant} Is Gilliams with    +
1H4 2.4.   65B the packet gone?
1H4 2.4.   66   SERVANT He is, my lord, an hour ago.
1H4 2.4.   67   HOTSPUR Hath Butler brought those horses from the sheriff?
1H4 2.4.   68   SERVANT One horse, my lord, he brought even now.
1H4 2.4.   69   HOTSPUR What horse? A roan, a crop-ear, is it not?
1H4 2.4.   70B  SERVANT It is, my lord. HOTSPUR That roan shall be my throne.
1H4 2.4.   71  Well, I will back him straight. - O, {Esperance}! - 
1H4 2.4.   72  Bid Butler lead him forth into the park.
1H4 2.4.   73B  LADY PERCY But hear you, my lord. HOTSPUR What sayst thou, my     +
1H4 2.4.   73B lady?
1H4 2.4.   74B  LADY PERCY What is it carries you away? HOTSPUR Why, my horse,
1H4 2.4.   75B My love, my horse. LADY PERCY Out, you mad-headed ape!
1H4 2.4.   76  A weasel hath not such a deal of spleen
1H4 2.4.   77  As you are tossed with.
1H4 2.4.   78  In faith, I'll know your business, Harry, that I will.
1H4 2.4.   79  I fear my brother Mortimer doth stir
1H4 2.4.   80  About his title, and hath sent for you
1H4 2.4.   81  To line his enterprise; but if you go - 
1H4 2.4.   82   HOTSPUR So far afoot? I shall be weary, love.
1H4 2.4.   83   LADY PERCY Come, come, you paraquito, answer me
1H4 2.4.   84  Directly to this question that I ask.
1H4 2.4.   85  In faith, I'll break thy little finger, Harry,
1H4 2.4.   86  An if thou wilt not tell me all things true.
1H4 2.4.   87   HOTSPUR Away, away, you trifler! Love? I love thee not,
1H4 2.4.   88  I care not for thee, Kate. This is no world
1H4 2.4.   89  To play with maumets and to tilt with lips.
1H4 2.4.   90  We must have bloody noses and cracked crowns,
1H4 2.4.   91  And pass them current, too. God's me, my horse! - 
1H4 2.4.   92  What sayst thou, Kate? What wouldst thou have with me?
1H4 2.4.   93   LADY PERCY Do you not love me? Do you not indeed?
1H4 2.4.   94  Well, do not, then, for since you love me not
1H4 2.4.   95  I will not love myself. Do you not love me?
1H4 2.4.   96  Nay, tell me if you speak in jest or no.
1H4 2.4.   97A  HOTSPUR Come, wilt thou see me ride?
1H4 2.4.   98  And when I am a-horseback, I will swear
1H4 2.4.   99  I love thee infinitely. But hark you, Kate.
1H4 2.4.  100  I must not have you henceforth question me
1H4 2.4.  101  Whither I go, nor reason whereabout.
1H4 2.4.  102  Whither I must, I must; and, to conclude,
1H4 2.4.  103  This evening must I leave you, gentle Kate.
1H4 2.4.  104  I know you wise, but yet no farther wise
1H4 2.4.  105  Than Harry Percy's wife; constant you are,
1H4 2.4.  106  But yet a woman; and for secrecy
1H4 2.4.  107  No lady closer, for I well believe
1H4 2.4.  108  Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know.
1H4 2.4.  109  And so far will I trust thee, gentle Kate.
1H4 2.4.  110A  LADY PERCY How, so far?
1H4 2.4.  111   HOTSPUR Not an inch further. But hark you, Kate,
1H4 2.4.  112  Whither I go, thither shall you go too.
1H4 2.4.  113  Today will I set forth, tomorrow you.
1H4 2.4.  114B Will this content you, Kate? LADY PERCY It must, of force.     +
1H4 2.4.  114B {Exeunt}
1H4 2.4.    0    {Enter Prince Harry}
1H4 2.5.    1   PRINCE HARRY  Ned, prithee come out of that fat room,
1H4 2.5.    2  and lend me thy hand to laugh a little. {Enter Poins [at another  +
1H4 2.5.    2  door]}
1H4 2.5.    3   POINS  Where hast been, Hal?
1H4 2.5.    4   PRINCE HARRY With three or four loggerheads, amongst
1H4 2.5.    5  three or fourscore hogsheads. I have sounded the very
1H4 2.5.    6  bass-string of humility. Sirrah, I am sworn brother to
1H4 2.5.    7  a leash of drawers, and can call them all by their
1H4 2.5.    8  christen names, as `Tom', `Dick', and `Francis'. They
1H4 2.5.    9  take it already, upon their salvation, that though I be
1H4 2.5.   10  but Prince of Wales yet I am the king of courtesy, and
1H4 2.5.   11  tell me flatly I am no proud jack like Oldcastle, but a
1H4 2.5.   12  Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a good boy - by the Lord,
1H4 2.5.   13  so they call me; and when I am King of England I shall
1H4 2.5.   14  command all the good lads in Eastcheap. They call
1H4 2.5.   15  drinking deep `dyeing scarlet', and when you breathe
1H4 2.5.   16  in your watering they cry `Hem!' and bid you `Play it
1H4 2.5.   17  off!' To conclude, I am so good a proficient in one
1H4 2.5.   18  quarter of an hour that I can drink with any tinker in
1H4 2.5.   19  his own language during my life. I tell thee, Ned, thou
1H4 2.5.   20  hast lost much honour that thou wert not with me in
1H4 2.5.   21  this action. But, sweet Ned - to sweeten which name
1H4 2.5.   22  of Ned I give thee this pennyworth of sugar, clapped
1H4 2.5.   23  even now into my hand by an underskinker, one that
1H4 2.5.   24  never spake other English in his life than `Eight shillings
1H4 2.5.   25  and sixpence', and `You are welcome', with this shrill
1H4 2.5.   26  addition, `Anon, anon, sir! Score a pint of bastard in
1H4 2.5.   27  the Half-moon!' or so. But, Ned, to drive away the time
1H4 2.5.   28  till Oldcastle come, I prithee do thou stand in some
1H4 2.5.   29  by-room, while I question my puny drawer to what
1H4 2.5.   30  end he gave me the sugar, and do thou never leave
1H4 2.5.   31  calling `Francis!', that his tale to me may be nothing
1H4 2.5.   32  but `Anon!' Step aside, and I'll show thee a precedent. {Exit     +
1H4 2.5.   32  Poins}
1H4 2.5.   33   POINS  {(within)} Francis!
1H4 2.5.   34   PRINCE HARRY Thou art perfect.
1H4 2.5.   35   POINS  {(within)} Francis! {Enter Francis, a  +
1H4 2.5.   35  drawer}
1H4 2.5.   36   FRANCIS  Anon, anon, sir! - Look down into the Pomegranate,
1H4 2.5.   37  Ralph!
1H4 2.5.   38   PRINCE HARRY Come hither, Francis.
1H4 2.5.   39   FRANCIS My lord.
1H4 2.5.   40   PRINCE HARRY How long hast thou to serve, Francis?
1H4 2.5.   41   FRANCIS Forsooth, five years, and as much as to - 
1H4 2.5.   42   POINS  {(within)} Francis!
1H4 2.5.   43   FRANCIS Anon, anon, sir!
1H4 2.5.   44   PRINCE HARRY Five year! By 'r Lady, a long lease for the
1H4 2.5.   45  clinking of pewter. But Francis, darest thou be so
1H4 2.5.   46  valiant as to play the coward with thy indenture, and
1H4 2.5.   47  show it a fair pair of heels, and run from it?
1H4 2.5.   48   FRANCIS O Lord, sir, I'll be sworn upon all the books in
1H4 2.5.   49  England, I could find in my heart - 
1H4 2.5.   50   POINS  {(within)} Francis!
1H4 2.5.   51   FRANCIS Anon, sir!
1H4 2.5.   52   PRINCE HARRY How old art thou, Francis?
1H4 2.5.   53   FRANCIS Let me see, about Michaelmas next I shall be - 
1H4 2.5.   54   POINS  {(within)} Francis!
1H4 2.5.   55   FRANCIS Anon, sir! {(To the Prince)} Pray, stay a    +
1H4 2.5.   55  little, my
1H4 2.5.   56  lord.
1H4 2.5.   57   PRINCE HARRY Nay, but hark you, Francis. For the sugar
1H4 2.5.   58  thou gavest me, 'twas a pennyworth, was 't not?
1H4 2.5.   59   FRANCIS O Lord, I would it had been two!
1H4 2.5.   60   PRINCE HARRY I will give thee for it a thousand pound.
1H4 2.5.   61  Ask me when thou wilt, and thou shalt have it - 
1H4 2.5.   62   POINS  {(within)} Francis!
1H4 2.5.   63   FRANCIS Anon, anon!
1H4 2.5.   64   PRINCE HARRY Anon, Francis? No, Francis, but tomorrow,
1H4 2.5.   65  Francis; or, Francis, o' Thursday; or, indeed, Francis,
1H4 2.5.   66  when thou wilt. But Francis.
1H4 2.5.   67   FRANCIS My lord.
1H4 2.5.   68   PRINCE HARRY Wilt thou rob this leathern-jerkin, crystal-
1H4 2.5.   69  button, knot-pated, agate-ring, puke-stocking, caddis-
1H4 2.5.   70  garter, smooth-tongue, Spanish-pouch?
1H4 2.5.   71   FRANCIS O Lord, sir, who do you mean?
1H4 2.5.   72   PRINCE HARRY Why, then, your brown bastard is your
1H4 2.5.   73  only drink! For look you, Francis, your white canvas
1H4 2.5.   74  doublet will sully. In Barbary, sir, it cannot come to so
1H4 2.5.   75  much.
1H4 2.5.   76   FRANCIS What, sir?
1H4 2.5.   77   POINS  {(within)} Francis!
1H4 2.5.   78   PRINCE HARRY Away, you rogue! Dost thou not hear them
1H4 2.5.   79  call? {[As he departs] Poins and the Prince both call him. The    +
1H4 2.5.   79  Drawer stands amazed, not knowing which way to go.}
1H4 2.5.   80  {Enter Vintner} VINTNER  What, standest thou still, and      +
1H4 2.5.   80  hearest such a
1H4 2.5.   81  calling? Look to the guests within. {Exit Francis}
1H4 2.5.   82   My lord, old Sir John with half a dozen more are at
1H4 2.5.   83  the door. Shall I let them in?
1H4 2.5.   84   PRINCE HARRY Let them alone a while, and then open the
1H4 2.5.   85  door. {Exit Vintner}
1H4 2.5.   86   Poins!
1H4 2.5.   87   POINS  {[within]} Anon, anon, sir! {Enter     +
1H4 2.5.   87  Poins}
1H4 2.5.   88   PRINCE HARRY  Sirrah, Oldcastle and the rest of the         +
1H4 2.5.   88  thieves
1H4 2.5.   89  are at the door. Shall we be merry?
1H4 2.5.   90   POINS As merry as crickets, my lad. But hark ye, what
1H4 2.5.   91  cunning match have you made with this jest of the
1H4 2.5.   92  drawer? Come, what's the issue?
1H4 2.5.   93   PRINCE HARRY I am now of all humours that have showed
1H4 2.5.   94  themselves humours since the old days of goodman
1H4 2.5.   95  Adam to the pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at
1H4 2.5.   96  midnight. {[Enter Francis]}
1H4 2.5.   97   What's o'clock, Francis?
1H4 2.5.   98   FRANCIS Anon, anon, sir! {[Exit at another door]}
1H4 2.5.   99   PRINCE HARRY  That ever this fellow should have fewer
1H4 2.5.  100  words than a parrot, and yet the son of a woman! His
1H4 2.5.  101  industry is upstairs and downstairs, his eloquence the
1H4 2.5.  102  parcel of a reckoning. I am not yet of Percy's mind,
1H4 2.5.  103  the Hotspur of the North - he that kills me some six or
1H4 2.5.  104  seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his hands,
1H4 2.5.  105  and says to his wife, `Fie upon this quiet life! I want
1H4 2.5.  106  work.' `O my sweet Harry,' says she, `how many hast
1H4 2.5.  107  thou killed today?' `Give my roan horse a drench,' says
1H4 2.5.  108  he, and answers, `Some fourteen,' an hour after; `a
1H4 2.5.  109  trifle, a trifle.' I prithee call in Oldcastle. I'll play Percy,
1H4 2.5.  110  and that damned brawn shall play Dame Mortimer his
1H4 2.5.  111  wife. `Rivo!' says the drunkard. Call in Ribs, call in
1H4 2.5.  112  Tallow. {Enter Sir John Oldcastle, with sword and buckler,        +
1H4 2.5.  112  Russell, Harvey, and Gadshill, [followed by] Francis, with wine}
1H4 2.5.  113   POINS  Welcome, Jack. Where hast thou been?
1H4 2.5.  114   SIR JOHN A plague of all cowards, I say, and a vengeance
1H4 2.5.  115  too, marry and amen! - Give me a cup of sack, boy. - 
1H4 2.5.  116  Ere I lead this life long, I'll sew netherstocks, and mend
1H4 2.5.  117  them and foot them too. A plague of all cowards! - 
1H4 2.5.  118  Give me a cup of sack, rogue. Is there no virtue extant? {He      +
1H4 2.5.  118  drinketh}
1H4 2.5.  119   PRINCE HARRY  Didst thou never see Titan kiss a dish of
1H4 2.5.  120  butter - pitiful hearted Titan - that melted at the sweet
1H4 2.5.  121  tale of the sun's? If thou didst, then behold that
1H4 2.5.  122  compound.
1H4 2.5.  123   SIR JOHN  {(to Francis)} You rogue, here's lime in   +
1H4 2.5.  123  this sack
1H4 2.5.  124  too. There is nothing but roguery to be found in
1H4 2.5.  125  villainous man, yet a coward is worse than a cup of
1H4 2.5.  126  sack with lime in it. {[Exit Francis]}
1H4 2.5.  127   A villainous coward! Go thy ways, old Jack, die when
1H4 2.5.  128  thou wilt. If manhood, good manhood, be not forgot
1H4 2.5.  129  upon the face of the earth, then am I a shotten herring.
1H4 2.5.  130  There lives not three good men unhanged in England,
1H4 2.5.  131  and one of them is fat and grows old, God help the
1H4 2.5.  132  while. A bad world, I say. I would I were a weaver - I
1H4 2.5.  133  could sing psalms, or anything. A plague of all cowards,
1H4 2.5.  134  I say still.
1H4 2.5.  135   PRINCE HARRY How now, woolsack, what mutter you?
1H4 2.5.  136   SIR JOHN A king's son! If I do not beat thee out of thy
1H4 2.5.  137  kingdom with a dagger of lath, and drive all thy subjects
1H4 2.5.  138  afore thee like a flock of wild geese, I'll never wear hair
1H4 2.5.  139  on my face more. You, Prince of Wales!
1H4 2.5.  140   PRINCE HARRY Why, you whoreson round man, what's
1H4 2.5.  141  the matter?
1H4 2.5.  142   SIR JOHN Are not you a coward? Answer me to that. And
1H4 2.5.  143  Poins there?
1H4 2.5.  144   POINS Zounds, ye fat paunch, an ye call me coward, by
1H4 2.5.  145  the Lord I'll stab thee.
1H4 2.5.  146   SIR JOHN I call thee coward? I'll see thee damned ere I
1H4 2.5.  147  call thee coward, but I would give a thousand pound
1H4 2.5.  148  I could run as fast as thou canst. You are straight
1H4 2.5.  149  enough in the shoulders; you care not who sees your
1H4 2.5.  150  back. Call you that backing of your friends? A plague
1H4 2.5.  151  upon such backing! Give me them that will face me.
1H4 2.5.  152  Give me a cup of sack. I am a rogue if I drunk today.
1H4 2.5.  153   PRINCE HARRY O villain, thy lips are scarce wiped since
1H4 2.5.  154  thou drunkest last.
1H4 2.5.  155   SIR JOHN All is one for that. {He drinketh}
1H4 2.5.  156   A plague of all cowards, still say I.
1H4 2.5.  157   PRINCE HARRY What's the matter?
1H4 2.5.  158   SIR JOHN What's the matter? There be four of us here
1H4 2.5.  159  have ta'en a thousand pound this day morning.
1H4 2.5.  160   PRINCE HARRY Where is it, Jack, where is it?
1H4 2.5.  161   SIR JOHN Where is it? Taken from us it is. A hundred
1H4 2.5.  162  upon poor four of us.
1H4 2.5.  163   PRINCE HARRY What, a hundred, man?
1H4 2.5.  164   SIR JOHN I am a rogue if I were not at half-sword with a
1H4 2.5.  165  dozen of them, two hours together. I have scaped by
1H4 2.5.  166  miracle. I am eight times thrust through the doublet,
1H4 2.5.  167  four through the hose, my buckler cut through and
1H4 2.5.  168  through, my sword hacked like a handsaw. {Ecce signum.} {[He      +
1H4 2.5.  168  shows his sword]}
1H4 2.5.  169   I never dealt better since I was a man. All would not
1H4 2.5.  170  do. A plague of all cowards! {(Pointing to Gadshill,}
1H4 2.5.  171  {Harvey, and Russell)} Let them speak. If they speak more
1H4 2.5.  172  or less than truth, they are villains and the sons of
1H4 2.5.  173  darkness.
1H4 2.5.  174   [PRINCE HARRY] Speak, sirs, how was it?
1H4 2.5.  175   [GADSHILL] We four set upon some dozen - 
1H4 2.5.  176   SIR JOHN  {(to the Prince)} Sixteen at least, my     +
1H4 2.5.  176  lord.
1H4 2.5.  177   [GADSHILL] And bound them.
1H4 2.5.  178   HARVEY No, no, they were not bound.
1H4 2.5.  179   SIR JOHN You rogue, they were bound every man of them,
1H4 2.5.  180  or I am a Jew else, an Hebrew Jew.
1H4 2.5.  181   [GADSHILL] As we were sharing, some six or seven fresh
1H4 2.5.  182  men set upon us.
1H4 2.5.  183   SIR JOHN And unbound the rest; and then come in the
1H4 2.5.  184  other.
1H4 2.5.  185   PRINCE HARRY What, fought you with them all?
1H4 2.5.  186   SIR JOHN All? I know not what you call all, but if I fought
1H4 2.5.  187  not with fifty of them, I am a bunch of radish. If there
1H4 2.5.  188  were not two- or three-and-fifty upon poor old Jack,
1H4 2.5.  189  then am I no two-legged creature.
1H4 2.5.  190   PRINCE HARRY Pray God you have not murdered some of
1H4 2.5.  191  them.
1H4 2.5.  192   SIR JOHN Nay, that's past praying for. I have peppered
1H4 2.5.  193  two of them. Two I am sure I have paid - two rogues
1H4 2.5.  194  in buckram suits. I tell thee what, Hal, if I tell thee a
1H4 2.5.  195  lie, spit in my face, call me horse. Thou knowest my
1H4 2.5.  196  old ward -  {[He stands as to fight]}
1H4 2.5.  197   here I lay, and thus I bore my point. Four rogues in
1H4 2.5.  198  buckram let drive at me.
1H4 2.5.  199   PRINCE HARRY What, four? Thou saidst but two even
1H4 2.5.  200  now.
1H4 2.5.  201   SIR JOHN Four, Hal, I told thee four.
1H4 2.5.  202   POINS Ay, ay, he said four.
1H4 2.5.  203   SIR JOHN These four came all afront, and mainly thrust
1H4 2.5.  204  at me. I made me no more ado, but took all their seven
1H4 2.5.  205  points in my target, thus. {[He wards himself with his buckler]}
1H4 2.5.  206   PRINCE HARRY  Seven? Why, there were but four even
1H4 2.5.  207  now.
1H4 2.5.  208   SIR JOHN In buckram?
1H4 2.5.  209   POINS Ay, four in buckram suits.
1H4 2.5.  210   SIR JOHN Seven, by these hilts, or I am a villain else.
1H4 2.5.  211   PRINCE HARRY  {(aside to Poins)} Prithee, let him    +
1H4 2.5.  211  alone. We
1H4 2.5.  212  shall have more anon.
1H4 2.5.  213   SIR JOHN Dost thou hear me, Hal?
1H4 2.5.  214   PRINCE HARRY Ay, and mark thee too, Jack.
1H4 2.5.  215   SIR JOHN Do so, for it is worth the listening to. These nine
1H4 2.5.  216  in buckram that I told thee of - 
1H4 2.5.  217   PRINCE HARRY  {(aside to Poins)} So, two more        +
1H4 2.5.  217  already.
1H4 2.5.  218   SIR JOHN Their points being broken - 
1H4 2.5.  219   POINS  {[aside to the Prince]} Down fell their       +
1H4 2.5.  219  hose.
1H4 2.5.  220   SIR JOHN Began to give me ground. But I followed me
1H4 2.5.  221  close, came in foot and hand, and, with a thought,
1H4 2.5.  222  seven of the eleven I paid.
1H4 2.5.  223   PRINCE HARRY  {(aside to Poins)} O monstrous!        +
1H4 2.5.  223  Eleven buckram
1H4 2.5.  224  men grown out of two!
1H4 2.5.  225   SIR JOHN But, as the devil would have it, three misbegotten
1H4 2.5.  226  knaves in Kendal green came at my back and let drive
1H4 2.5.  227  at me; for it was so dark, Hal, that thou couldst not
1H4 2.5.  228  see thy hand.
1H4 2.5.  229   PRINCE HARRY These lies are like their father that begets
1H4 2.5.  230  them - gross as a mountain, open, palpable. Why, thou
1H4 2.5.  231  clay-brained guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou
1H4 2.5.  232  whoreson obscene greasy tallow-catch - 
1H4 2.5.  233   SIR JOHN What, art thou mad? Art thou mad? Is not the
1H4 2.5.  234  truth the truth?
1H4 2.5.  235   PRINCE HARRY Why, how couldst thou know these men
1H4 2.5.  236  in Kendal green when it was so dark thou couldst not
1H4 2.5.  237  see thy hand? Come, tell us your reason. What sayst
1H4 2.5.  238  thou to this?
1H4 2.5.  239   POINS Come, your reason, Jack, your reason.
1H4 2.5.  240   SIR JOHN What, upon compulsion? Zounds, an I were at
1H4 2.5.  241  the strappado, or all the racks in the world, I would
1H4 2.5.  242  not tell you on compulsion. Give you a reason on
1H4 2.5.  243  compulsion? If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries,
1H4 2.5.  244  I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I.
1H4 2.5.  245   PRINCE HARRY I'll be no longer guilty of this sin. This
1H4 2.5.  246  sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horse-back-
1H4 2.5.  247  breaker, this huge hill of flesh - 
1H4 2.5.  248   SIR JOHN 'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried
1H4 2.5.  249  neat's tongue, you bull's pizzle, you stock-fish - O, for
1H4 2.5.  250  breath to utter what is like thee! - you tailor's yard,
1H4 2.5.  251  you sheath, you bow-case, you vile standing tuck - 
1H4 2.5.  252   PRINCE HARRY Well, breathe awhile, and then to 't again,
1H4 2.5.  253  and when thou hast tired thyself in base comparisons,
1H4 2.5.  254  hear me speak but this.
1H4 2.5.  255   POINS Mark, Jack.
1H4 2.5.  256   PRINCE HARRY We two saw you four set on four, and
1H4 2.5.  257  bound them, and were masters of their wealth. - Mark
1H4 2.5.  258  now how a plain tale shall put you down. - Then did
1H4 2.5.  259  we two set on you four, and, with a word, outfaced
1H4 2.5.  260  you from your prize, and have it; yea, and can show
1H4 2.5.  261  it you here in the house. And Oldcastle, you carried
1H4 2.5.  262  your guts away as nimbly, with as quick dexterity, and
1H4 2.5.  263  roared for mercy, and still run and roared, as ever I
1H4 2.5.  264  heard bull-calf. What a slave art thou, to hack thy
1H4 2.5.  265  sword as thou hast done, and then say it was in fight!
1H4 2.5.  266  What trick, what device, what starting-hole canst thou
1H4 2.5.  267  now find out to hide thee from this open and apparent
1H4 2.5.  268  shame?
1H4 2.5.  269   POINS Come, let's hear, Jack; what trick hast thou now?
1H4 2.5.  270   SIR JOHN By the Lord, I knew ye as well as he that made
1H4 2.5.  271  ye. Why, hear you, my masters. Was it for me to kill
1H4 2.5.  272  the heir-apparent? Should I turn upon the true prince?
1H4 2.5.  273  Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules; but
1H4 2.5.  274  beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true
1H4 2.5.  275  prince - instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward
1H4 2.5.  276  on instinct. I shall think the better of myself and thee
1H4 2.5.  277  during my life - I for a valiant lion, and thou for a true
1H4 2.5.  278  prince. But by the Lord, lads, I am glad you have the
1H4 2.5.  279  money. -  {(Calling)} Hostess, clap to the doors. - Watch
1H4 2.5.  280  tonight, pray tomorrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of
1H4 2.5.  281  gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you!
1H4 2.5.  282  What, shall we be merry, shall we have a play
1H4 2.5.  283  extempore?
1H4 2.5.  284   PRINCE HARRY Content, and the argument shall be thy
1H4 2.5.  285  running away.
1H4 2.5.  286   SIR JOHN Ah, no more of that, Hal, an thou lovest me. {Enter  +
1H4 2.5.  286  Hostess}
1H4 2.5.  287   HOSTESS  O Jesu, my lord the Prince!
1H4 2.5.  288   PRINCE HARRY How now, my lady the Hostess, what sayst
1H4 2.5.  289  thou to me?
1H4 2.5.  290   HOSTESS Marry, my lord, there is a nobleman of the court
1H4 2.5.  291  at door would speak with you. He says he comes from
1H4 2.5.  292  your father.
1H4 2.5.  293   PRINCE HARRY Give him as much as will make him a
1H4 2.5.  294  royal man, and send him back again to my mother.
1H4 2.5.  295   SIR JOHN What manner of man is he?
1H4 2.5.  296   HOSTESS An old man.
1H4 2.5.  297   SIR JOHN What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight?
1H4 2.5.  298  Shall I give him his answer?
1H4 2.5.  299   PRINCE HARRY Prithee do, Jack.
1H4 2.5.  300   SIR JOHN Faith, and I'll send him packing. {Exit}
1H4 2.5.  301   PRINCE HARRY  Now, sirs; {(to Gadshill)}    +
1H4 2.5.  301  by 'r Lady, you
1H4 2.5.  302  fought fair - so did you, Harvey, so did you, Russell.
1H4 2.5.  303  You are lions too - you ran away upon instinct, you
1H4 2.5.  304  will not touch the true prince; no, fie!
1H4 2.5.  305   RUSSELL Faith, I ran when I saw others run.
1H4 2.5.  306   PRINCE HARRY Faith, tell me now in earnest, how came
1H4 2.5.  307  Oldcastle's sword so hacked?
1H4 2.5.  308   HARVEY Why, he hacked it with his dagger, and said he
1H4 2.5.  309  would swear truth out of England but he would make
1H4 2.5.  310  you believe it was done in fight, and persuaded us to
1H4 2.5.  311  do the like.
1H4 2.5.  312   RUSSELL Yea, and to tickle our noses with speargrass, to
1H4 2.5.  313  make them bleed; and then to beslubber our garments
1H4 2.5.  314  with it, and swear it was the blood of true men. I did
1H4 2.5.  315  that I did not this seven year before - I blushed to hear
1H4 2.5.  316  his monstrous devices.
1H4 2.5.  317   PRINCE HARRY O villain, thou stolest a cup of sack eighteen
1H4 2.5.  318  years ago, and wert taken with the manner, and ever
1H4 2.5.  319  since thou hast blushed extempore. Thou hadst fire and
1H4 2.5.  320  sword on thy side, and yet thou rannest away. What
1H4 2.5.  321  instinct hadst thou for it?
1H4 2.5.  322   RUSSELL  {(indicating his face)} My lord, do you     +
1H4 2.5.  322  see these
1H4 2.5.  323  meteors? Do you behold these exhalations?
1H4 2.5.  324   PRINCE HARRY I do.
1H4 2.5.  325   RUSSELL What think you they portend?
1H4 2.5.  326   PRINCE HARRY Hot livers, and cold purses.
1H4 2.5.  327   RUSSELL Choler, my lord, if rightly taken. {[Exit]}
1H4 2.5.  328   PRINCE HARRY  No, if rightly taken, halter. {Enter   +
1H4 2.5.  328  Sir John Oldcastle}
1H4 2.5.  329   Here comes lean Jack; here comes bare-bone. How
1H4 2.5.  330  now, my sweet creature of bombast? How long is 't
1H4 2.5.  331  ago, Jack, since thou sawest thine own knee?
1H4 2.5.  332   SIR JOHN My own knee? When I was about thy years,
1H4 2.5.  333  Hal, I was not an eagle's talon in the waist; I could
1H4 2.5.  334  have crept into any alderman's thumb-ring. A plague
1H4 2.5.  335  of sighing and grief - it blows a man up like a bladder.
1H4 2.5.  336  There's villainous news abroad. Here was Sir John
1H4 2.5.  337  Bracy from your father; you must to the court in the
1H4 2.5.  338  morning. That same mad fellow of the North, Percy,
1H4 2.5.  339  and he of Wales that gave Amamon the bastinado, and
1H4 2.5.  340  made Lucifer cuckold, and swore the devil his true
1H4 2.5.  341  liegeman upon the cross of a Welsh hook - what a
1H4 2.5.  342  plague call you him?
1H4 2.5.  343   POINS Owain Glyndw^r.
1H4 2.5.  344   SIR JOHN Owain, Owain, the same; and his son-in-law
1H4 2.5.  345  Mortimer, and old Northumberland, and that sprightly
1H4 2.5.  346  Scot of Scots Douglas, that runs a-horseback up a hill
1H4 2.5.  347  perpendicular - 
1H4 2.5.  348   PRINCE HARRY He that rides at high speed and with his
1H4 2.5.  349  pistol kills a sparrow flying.
1H4 2.5.  350   SIR JOHN You have hit it.
1H4 2.5.  351   PRINCE HARRY So did he never the sparrow.
1H4 2.5.  352   SIR JOHN Well, that rascal hath good mettle in him; he
1H4 2.5.  353  will not run.
1H4 2.5.  354   PRINCE HARRY Why, what a rascal art thou, then, to
1H4 2.5.  355  praise him so for running!
1H4 2.5.  356   SIR JOHN A-horseback, ye cuckoo, but afoot he will not
1H4 2.5.  357  budge a foot.
1H4 2.5.  358   PRINCE HARRY Yes, Jack, upon instinct.
1H4 2.5.  359   SIR JOHN I grant ye, upon instinct. Well, he is there too,
1H4 2.5.  360  and one Mordake, and a thousand blue-caps more.
1H4 2.5.  361  Worcester is stolen away tonight. Thy father's beard is
1H4 2.5.  362  turned white with the news. You may buy land now
1H4 2.5.  363  as cheap as stinking mackerel.
1H4 2.5.  364   PRINCE HARRY Why then, it is like, if there come a hot
1H4 2.5.  365  June and this civil buffeting hold, we shall buy
1H4 2.5.  366  maidenheads as they buy hobnails: by the hundreds.
1H4 2.5.  367   SIR JOHN By the mass, lad, thou sayst true; it is like we
1H4 2.5.  368  shall have good trading that way. But tell me, Hal, art
1H4 2.5.  369  not thou horrible afeard? Thou being heir-apparent,
1H4 2.5.  370  could the world pick thee out three such enemies again
1H4 2.5.  371  as that fiend Douglas, that spirit Percy, and that devil
1H4 2.5.  372  Glyndw^r? Art thou not horribly afraid? Doth not thy
1H4 2.5.  373  blood thrill at it?
1H4 2.5.  374   PRINCE HARRY Not a whit, i' faith. I lack some of thy
1H4 2.5.  375  instinct.
1H4 2.5.  376   SIR JOHN Well, thou wilt be horribly chid tomorrow when
1H4 2.5.  377  thou comest to thy father. If thou love me, practise an
1H4 2.5.  378  answer.
1H4 2.5.  379   PRINCE HARRY Do thou stand for my father, and examine
1H4 2.5.  380  me upon the particulars of my life.
1H4 2.5.  381   SIR JOHN Shall I? Content. This chair shall be my state,
1H4 2.5.  382  this dagger my sceptre, and this cushion my crown. {He sits}
1H4 2.5.  383   PRINCE HARRY  Thy state is taken for a joint-stool, thy
1H4 2.5.  384  golden sceptre for a leaden dagger, and thy precious
1H4 2.5.  385  rich crown for a pitiful bald crown.
1H4 2.5.  386   SIR JOHN Well, an the fire of grace be not quite out of
1H4 2.5.  387  thee, now shalt thou be moved. Give me a cup of sack
1H4 2.5.  388  to make my eyes look red, that it may be thought I
1H4 2.5.  389  have wept; for I must speak in passion, and I will do
1H4 2.5.  390  it in King Cambyses' vein.
1H4 2.5.  391   PRINCE HARRY  {(bowing)} Well, here is my leg.
1H4 2.5.  392   SIR JOHN And here is my speech. {(To Harvey, Poins, and}
1H4 2.5.  393  {Gadshill)} Stand aside, nobility.
1H4 2.5.  394   HOSTESS O Jesu, this is excellent sport, i' faith.
1H4 2.5.  395   SIR JOHN  Weep not, sweet Queen, for trickling tears are    +
1H4 2.5.  395  vain.
1H4 2.5.  396   HOSTESS  O the Father, how he holds his countenance!
1H4 2.5.  397   SIR JOHN  For God's sake, lords, convey my tristful Queen,
1H4 2.5.  398  For tears do stop the floodgates of her eyes.
1H4 2.5.  399   HOSTESS  O Jesu, he doth it as like one of these harlotry
1H4 2.5.  400  players as ever I see!
1H4 2.5.  401   SIR JOHN  Peace, good pint-pot; peace, good tickle-brain. - 
1H4 2.5.  402   Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy
1H4 2.5.  403  time, but also how thou art accompanied. For though
1H4 2.5.  404  the camomile, the more it is trodden on, the faster it
1H4 2.5.  405  grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it
1H4 2.5.  406  wears. That thou art my son I have partly thy mother's
1H4 2.5.  407  word, partly my own opinion, but chiefly a villainous
1H4 2.5.  408  trick of thine eye, and a foolish hanging of thy nether
1H4 2.5.  409  lip, that doth warrant me. If then thou be son to me,
1H4 2.5.  410  here lies the point. Why, being son to me, art thou so
1H4 2.5.  411  pointed at? Shall the blessed sun of heaven prove a
1H4 2.5.  412  micher, and eat blackberries? - A question not to be
1H4 2.5.  413  asked. Shall the son of England prove a thief, and take
1H4 2.5.  414  purses? - A question to be asked. There is a thing,
1H4 2.5.  415  Harry, which thou hast often heard of, and it is known
1H4 2.5.  416  to many in our land by the name of pitch. This pitch,
1H4 2.5.  417  as ancient writers do report, doth defile. So doth the
1H4 2.5.  418  company thou keepest. For Harry, now I do not speak
1H4 2.5.  419  to thee in drink, but in tears; not in pleasure, but in
1H4 2.5.  420  passion; not in words only, but in woes also. And yet
1H4 2.5.  421  there is a virtuous man whom I have often noted in
1H4 2.5.  422  thy company, but I know not his name.
1H4 2.5.  423   PRINCE HARRY What manner of man, an it like your
1H4 2.5.  424  majesty?
1H4 2.5.  425   SIR JOHN A goodly, portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent;
1H4 2.5.  426  of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble
1H4 2.5.  427  carriage; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by 'r
1H4 2.5.  428  Lady, inclining to threescore. And now I remember me,
1H4 2.5.  429  his name is Oldcastle. If that man should be lewdly
1H4 2.5.  430  given, he deceiveth me; for, Harry, I see virtue in his
1H4 2.5.  431  looks. If, then, the tree may be known by the fruit, as
1H4 2.5.  432  the fruit by the tree, then peremptorily I speak it - 
1H4 2.5.  433  there is virtue in that Oldcastle. Him keep with; the
1H4 2.5.  434  rest banish. And tell me now, thou naughty varlet, tell
1H4 2.5.  435  me, where hast thou been this month?
1H4 2.5.  436   PRINCE HARRY Dost thou speak like a king? Do thou stand
1H4 2.5.  437  for me, and I'll play my father.
1H4 2.5.  438   SIR JOHN  {(standing)} Depose me. If thou dost it    +
1H4 2.5.  438  half so
1H4 2.5.  439  gravely, so majestically both in word and matter, hang
1H4 2.5.  440  me up by the heels for a rabbit sucker, or a poulter's
1H4 2.5.  441  hare.
1H4 2.5.  442   PRINCE HARRY  {(sitting)} Well, here I am set.
1H4 2.5.  443   SIR JOHN And here I stand. {(To the others)} Judge,  +
1H4 2.5.  443  my
1H4 2.5.  444  masters.
1H4 2.5.  445   PRINCE HARRY Now, Harry, whence come you?
1H4 2.5.  446   SIR JOHN My noble lord, from Eastcheap.
1H4 2.5.  447   PRINCE HARRY The complaints I hear of thee are grievous.
1H4 2.5.  448   SIR JOHN 'Sblood, my lord, they are false. {[To the others]}
1H4 2.5.  449   Nay, I'll tickle ye for a young prince, i' faith.
1H4 2.5.  450   PRINCE HARRY Swearest thou, ungracious boy? Henceforth
1H4 2.5.  451  ne'er look on me. Thou art violently carried away
1H4 2.5.  452  from grace. There is a devil haunts thee in the likeness
1H4 2.5.  453  of an old fat man; a tun of man is thy companion.
1H4 2.5.  454  Why dost thou converse with that trunk of humours,
1H4 2.5.  455  that bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swollen parcel of
1H4 2.5.  456  dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak-
1H4 2.5.  457  bag of guts, that roasted Manningtree ox with the
1H4 2.5.  458  pudding in his belly, that reverend Vice, that grey
1H4 2.5.  459  Iniquity, that father Ruffian, that Vanity in Years?
1H4 2.5.  460  Wherein is he good, but to taste sack and drink it?
1H4 2.5.  461  Wherein neat and cleanly, but to carve a capon and
1H4 2.5.  462  eat it? Wherein cunning, but in craft? Wherein crafty,
1H4 2.5.  463  but in villainy? Wherein villainous, but in all things?
1H4 2.5.  464  Wherein worthy, but in nothing?
1H4 2.5.  465   SIR JOHN I would your grace would take me with you.
1H4 2.5.  466  Whom means your grace?
1H4 2.5.  467   PRINCE HARRY That villainous, abominable misleader of
1H4 2.5.  468  youth, Oldcastle; that old white-bearded Satan.
1H4 2.5.  469   SIR JOHN My lord, the man I know.
1H4 2.5.  470   PRINCE HARRY I know thou dost.
1H4 2.5.  471   SIR JOHN But to say I know more harm in him than in
1H4 2.5.  472  myself were to say more than I know. That he is old,
1H4 2.5.  473  the more the pity, his white hairs do witness it. But
1H4 2.5.  474  that he is, saving your reverence, a whoremaster, that
1H4 2.5.  475  I utterly deny. If sack and sugar be a fault, God help
1H4 2.5.  476  the wicked. If to be old and merry be a sin, then many
1H4 2.5.  477  an old host that I know is damned. If to be fat be to
1H4 2.5.  478  be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. No,
1H4 2.5.  479  my good lord, banish Harvey, banish Russell, banish
1H4 2.5.  480  Poins, but for sweet Jack Oldcastle, kind Jack Oldcastle,
1H4 2.5.  481  true Jack Oldcastle, valiant Jack Oldcastle, and therefore
1H4 2.5.  482  more valiant being, as he is, old Jack Oldcastle,
1H4 2.5.  483   Banish not him thy Harry's company,
1H4 2.5.  484  Banish not him thy Harry's company.
1H4 2.5.  485  Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.
1H4 2.5.  486   PRINCE HARRY  I do; I will. {Knocking within. [Exit  +
1H4 2.5.  486  Hostess.]}
1H4 2.5.  487  {Enter Russell, running} RUSSELL  O my lord, my lord, the    +
1H4 2.5.  487  sheriff with a most
1H4 2.5.  488  monstrous watch is at the door.
1H4 2.5.  489   SIR JOHN Out, ye rogue! Play out the play! I have much
1H4 2.5.  490  to say in the behalf of that Oldcastle. {Enter the Hostess}
1H4 2.5.  491   HOSTESS  O Jesu! My lord, my lord!
1H4 2.5.  492   PRINCE HARRY Heigh, heigh, the devil rides upon a
1H4 2.5.  493  fiddlestick! What's the matter?
1H4 2.5.  494   HOSTESS The sheriff and all the watch are at the door.
1H4 2.5.  495  They are come to search the house. Shall I let them
1H4 2.5.  496  in?
1H4 2.5.  497   SIR JOHN Dost thou hear, Hal? Never call a true piece of
1H4 2.5.  498  gold a counterfeit - thou art essentially made, without
1H4 2.5.  499  seeming so.
1H4 2.5.  500   PRINCE HARRY And thou a natural coward without
1H4 2.5.  501  instinct.
1H4 2.5.  502   SIR JOHN I deny your major. If you will deny the sheriff,
1H4 2.5.  503  so. If not, let him enter. If I become not a cart as well
1H4 2.5.  504  as another man, a plague on my bringing up. I hope I
1H4 2.5.  505  shall as soon be strangled with a halter as another.
1H4 2.5.  506   PRINCE HARRY Go, hide thee behind the arras. The rest
1H4 2.5.  507  walk up above. Now, my masters, for a true face and
1H4 2.5.  508  good conscience. {Exeunt Poins, Russell, and Gadshill}
1H4 2.5.  509   SIR JOHN  Both which I have had, but their date is out;
1H4 2.5.  510  and therefore I'll hide me. {He withdraws behind the arras}
1H4 2.5.  511   PRINCE HARRY  {(to Hostess)} Call in the             +
1H4 2.5.  511  sheriff. {Exit Hostess}
1H4 2.5.  512   {Enter Sheriff and a Carrier} Now, master sheriff,      +
1H4 2.5.  512  what is your will with me?
1H4 2.5.  513   SHERIFF First, pardon me, my lord. A hue and cry
1H4 2.5.  514  Hath followed certain men unto this house.
1H4 2.5.  515   PRINCE HARRY  What men?
1H4 2.5.  516   SHERIFF  One of them is well known, my gracious lord,
1H4 2.5.  517B A gross, fat man. CARRIER As fat as butter.
1H4 2.5.  518   PRINCE HARRY The man, I do assure you, is not here,
1H4 2.5.  519  For I myself at this time have employed him.
1H4 2.5.  520  And, sheriff, I will engage my word to thee
1H4 2.5.  521  That I will by tomorrow dinner-time
1H4 2.5.  522  Send him to answer thee, or any man,
1H4 2.5.  523  For anything he shall be charged withal.
1H4 2.5.  524  And so let me entreat you leave the house.
1H4 2.5.  525   SHERIFF I will, my lord. There are two gentlemen
1H4 2.5.  526  Have in this robbery lost three hundred marks.
1H4 2.5.  527   PRINCE HARRY It may be so. If he have robbed these men,
1H4 2.5.  528  He shall be answerable. And so, farewell.
1H4 2.5.  529A  SHERIFF Good night, my noble lord.
1H4 2.5.  530   PRINCE HARRY I think it is good morrow, is it not?
1H4 2.5.  531   SHERIFF Indeed, my lord, I think it be two o'clock. {Exeunt   +
1H4 2.5.  531  Sheriff and Carrier}
1H4 2.5.  532   PRINCE HARRY  This oily rascal is known as well as Paul's.
1H4 2.5.  533B Go call him forth. HARVEY Oldcastle! {[He draws back the       +
1H4 2.5.  533B arras, revealing Sir John asleep]} Fast asleep
1H4 2.5.  534  Behind the arras, and snorting like a horse.
1H4 2.5.  535   PRINCE HARRY Hark how hard he fetches breath. Search his             +
1H4 2.5.  535  pockets. {Harvey searcheth his pocket and findeth certain         +
1H4 2.5.  535  papers. He [closeth the arras and] cometh forward}
1H4 2.5.  536B  What hast thou found? HARVEY Nothing but papers, my lord.
1H4 2.5.  537A  PRINCE HARRY Let's see what they be. Read them.
1H4 2.5.  538   [HARVEY]  {(reads)} Item: a capon.2{s}. 2{d}.
1H4 2.5.  539  Item: sauce.4{d}.
1H4 2.5.  540  Item: sack, two gallons.5{s}. 8{d}.
1H4 2.5.  541  Item: anchovies and sack after supper.2{s}. 6{d}.
1H4 2.5.  542  Item: bread.{ob}.
1H4 2.5.  543   [PRINCE HARRY]  O monstrous! But one halfpennyworth of
1H4 2.5.  544  bread to this intolerable deal of sack! What there is
1H4 2.5.  545  else, keep close; we'll read it at more advantage. There
1H4 2.5.  546  let him sleep till day. I'll to the court in the morning.
1H4 2.5.  547  We must all to the wars, and thy place shall be
1H4 2.5.  548  honourable. I'll procure this fat rogue a charge of foot,
1H4 2.5.  549  and I know his death will be a march of twelve score.
1H4 2.5.  550  The money shall be paid back again, with advantage.
1H4 2.5.  551  Be with me betimes in the morning; and so good
1H4 2.5.  552  morrow, Harvey.
1H4 2.5.  553   HARVEY Good morrow, good my lord. {Exeunt [severally]}
1H4 2.5.    0     {Enter Hotspur, the Earl of Worcester, Lord          +
1H4 3.1.    0  Mortimer, and Owain Glyndw^r, with a map}
1H4 3.1.    1   MORTIMER  These promises are fair, the parties sure,
1H4 3.1.    2  And our induction full of prosperous hope.
1H4 3.1.    3   HOTSPUR Lord Mortimer and cousin Glyndw^r,
1H4 3.1.    4  Will you sit down? And uncle Worcester? {[Mortimer, Glyndw^r,     +
1H4 3.1.    4  and Worcester sit]}
1H4 3.1.    5   A plague upon it, I have forgot the map!
1H4 3.1.    6   GLYNDW^R No, here it is. Sit, cousin Percy, sit,
1H4 3.1.    7B Good cousin Hotspur; {[Hotspur sits]} For by that name
1H4 3.1.    8  As oft as Lancaster doth speak of you,
1H4 3.1.    9  His cheek looks pale, and with a rising sigh
1H4 3.1.   10B He wisheth you in heaven. HOTSPUR And you in hell,
1H4 3.1.   11  As oft as he hears Owain Glyndw^r spoke of.
1H4 3.1.   12   GLYNDW^R I cannot blame him. At my nativity
1H4 3.1.   13  The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes,
1H4 3.1.   14  Of burning cressets; and at my birth
1H4 3.1.   15  The frame and huge foundation of the earth
1H4 3.1.   16B Shaked like a coward. HOTSPUR Why, so it would have done
1H4 3.1.   17  At the same season if your mother's cat
1H4 3.1.   18  Had but kittened, though yourself had never been born.
1H4 3.1.   19   GLYNDW^R I say the earth did shake when I was born.
1H4 3.1.   20   HOTSPUR And I say the earth was not of my mind
1H4 3.1.   21  If you suppose as fearing you it shook.
1H4 3.1.   22   GLYNDW^R The heavens were all on fire, the earth did tremble - 
1H4 3.1.   23   HOTSPUR O, then the earth shook to see the heavens on fire,
1H4 3.1.   24  And not in fear of your nativity.
1H4 3.1.   25  Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth
1H4 3.1.   26  In strange eruptions; oft the teeming earth
1H4 3.1.   27  Is with a kind of colic pinched and vexed
1H4 3.1.   28  By the imprisoning of unruly wind
1H4 3.1.   29  Within her womb, which for enlargement striving
1H4 3.1.   30  Shakes the old beldam earth, and topples down
1H4 3.1.   31  Steeples and moss-grown towers. At your birth
1H4 3.1.   32  Our grandam earth, having this distemp'rature,
1H4 3.1.   33B In passion shook. GLYNDW^R Cousin, of many men
1H4 3.1.   34  I do not bear these crossings. Give me leave
1H4 3.1.   35  To tell you once again that at my birth
1H4 3.1.   36  The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes,
1H4 3.1.   37  The goats ran from the mountains, and the herds
1H4 3.1.   38  Were strangely clamorous to the frighted fields.
1H4 3.1.   39  These signs have marked me extraordinary,
1H4 3.1.   40  And all the courses of my life do show
1H4 3.1.   41  I am not in the roll of commen men.
1H4 3.1.   42  Where is he living, clipped in with the sea
1H4 3.1.   43  That chides the banks of England, Scotland, Wales,
1H4 3.1.   44  Which calls me pupil or hath read to me?
1H4 3.1.   45  And bring him out that is but woman's son
1H4 3.1.   46  Can trace me in the tedious ways of art,
1H4 3.1.   47  And hold me pace in deep experiments.
1H4 3.1.   48   HOTSPUR  {[standing]} I think there's no man         +
1H4 3.1.   48  speaketh better Welsh.
1H4 3.1.   49  I'll to dinner.
1H4 3.1.   50   MORTIMER Peace, cousin Percy, you will make him mad.
1H4 3.1.   51   GLYNDW^R I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
1H4 3.1.   52   HOTSPUR Why, so can I, or so can any man;
1H4 3.1.   53  But will they come when you do call for them?
1H4 3.1.   54   GLYNDW^R Why, I can teach you, cousin, to command the devil.
1H4 3.1.   55   HOTSPUR And I can teach thee, coz, to shame the devil,
1H4 3.1.   56  By telling truth: `Tell truth, and shame the devil'.
1H4 3.1.   57  If thou have power to raise him, bring him hither,
1H4 3.1.   58  And I'll be sworn I have power to shame him hence.
1H4 3.1.   59  O, while you live, tell truth and shame the devil.
1H4 3.1.   60   MORTIMER Come, come, no more of this unprofitable chat.
1H4 3.1.   61   GLYNDW^R Three times hath Henry Bolingbroke made head
1H4 3.1.   62  Against my power; thrice from the banks of Wye
1H4 3.1.   63  And sandy-bottomed Severn have I sent him
1H4 3.1.   64  Bootless home, and weather-beaten back.
1H4 3.1.   65   HOTSPUR Home without boots, and in foul weather too!
1H4 3.1.   66  How scapes he agues, in the devil's name?
1H4 3.1.   67   GLYNDW^R Come, here's the map. Shall we divide our right,
1H4 3.1.   68  According to our threefold order ta'en?
1H4 3.1.   69   MORTIMER The Archdeacon hath divided it
1H4 3.1.   70  Into three limits very equally.
1H4 3.1.   71  England from Trent and Severn hitherto
1H4 3.1.   72  By south and east is to my part assigned;
1H4 3.1.   73  All westward - Wales beyond the Severn shore
1H4 3.1.   74  And all the fertile land within that bound - 
1H4 3.1.   75  To Owain Glyndw^r; {(to Hotspur)} and, dear coz, to you
1H4 3.1.   76  The remnant northward lying off from Trent.
1H4 3.1.   77  And our indentures tripartite are drawn,
1H4 3.1.   78  Which, being sealed interchangeably - 
1H4 3.1.   79  A business that this night may execute - 
1H4 3.1.   80  Tomorrow, cousin Percy, you and I
1H4 3.1.   81  And my good lord of Worcester will set forth
1H4 3.1.   82  To meet your father and the Scottish power,
1H4 3.1.   83  As is appointed us, at Shrewsbury.
1H4 3.1.   84  My father, Glyndw^r, is not ready yet,
1H4 3.1.   85  Nor shall we need his help these fourteen days.
1H4 3.1.   86  Within that space you may have drawn together
1H4 3.1.   87  Your tenants, friends, and neighbouring gentlemen.
1H4 3.1.   88   GLYNDW^R A shorter time shall send me to you, lords;
1H4 3.1.   89  And in my conduct shall your ladies come,
1H4 3.1.   90  From whom you now must steal and take no leave;
1H4 3.1.   91  For there will be a world of water shed
1H4 3.1.   92  Upon the parting of your wives and you.
1H4 3.1.   93   HOTSPUR Methinks my moiety north from Burton here
1H4 3.1.   94  In quantity equals not one of yours.
1H4 3.1.   95  See how this river comes me cranking in,
1H4 3.1.   96  And cuts me from the best of all my land
1H4 3.1.   97  A huge half-moon, a monstrous cantle, out.
1H4 3.1.   98  I'll have the current in this place dammed up,
1H4 3.1.   99  And here the smug and silver Trent shall run
1H4 3.1.  100  In a new channel fair and evenly.
1H4 3.1.  101  It shall not wind with such a deep indent,
1H4 3.1.  102  To rob me of so rich a bottom here.
1H4 3.1.  103   GLYNDW^R Not wind? It shall, it must; you see it doth.
1H4 3.1.  104   MORTIMER Yea, but mark how he bears his course, and runs me up
1H4 3.1.  105  With like advantage on the other side,
1H4 3.1.  106  Gelding the opposed continent as much
1H4 3.1.  107  As on the other side it takes from you.
1H4 3.1.  108   WORCESTER Yea, but a little charge will trench him here,
1H4 3.1.  109  And on this north side win this cape of land,
1H4 3.1.  110  And then he runs straight and even.
1H4 3.1.  111   HOTSPUR I'll have it so; a little charge will do it.
1H4 3.1.  112A  GLYNDW^R I'll not have it altered.
1H4 3.1.  113A  HOTSPUR Will not you?
1H4 3.1.  114A  GLYNDW^R No, nor you shall not.
1H4 3.1.  115A  HOTSPUR Who shall say me nay?
1H4 3.1.  116A  GLYNDW^R Why, that will I.
1H4 3.1.  117   HOTSPUR Let me not understand you, then: speak it in Welsh.
1H4 3.1.  118   GLYNDW^R I can speak English, lord, as well as you;
1H4 3.1.  119  For I was trained up in the English court,
1H4 3.1.  120  Where, being but young, I framed to the harp
1H4 3.1.  121  Many an English ditty lovely well,
1H4 3.1.  122  And gave the tongue a helpful ornament - 
1H4 3.1.  123  A virtue that was never seen in you.
1H4 3.1.  124   HOTSPUR Marry, and I am glad of it, with all my heart.
1H4 3.1.  125  I had rather be a kitten and cry `mew'
1H4 3.1.  126  Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers.
1H4 3.1.  127  I had rather hear a brazen canstick turned,
1H4 3.1.  128  Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree,
1H4 3.1.  129  And that would set my teeth nothing on edge,
1H4 3.1.  130  Nothing so much as mincing poetry.
1H4 3.1.  131  'Tis like the forced gait of a shuffling nag.
1H4 3.1.  132A  GLYNDW^R Come, you shall have Trent turned.
1H4 3.1.  133   HOTSPUR I do not care. I'll give thrice so much land
1H4 3.1.  134  To any well-deserving friend;
1H4 3.1.  135  But in the way of bargain - mark ye me - 
1H4 3.1.  136  I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair.
1H4 3.1.  137  Are the indentures drawn? Shall we be gone?
1H4 3.1.  138   GLYNDW^R The moon shines fair. You may away by night.
1H4 3.1.  139  I'll haste the writer, and withal
1H4 3.1.  140  Break with your wives of your departure hence.
1H4 3.1.  141  I am afraid my daughter will run mad,
1H4 3.1.  142  So much she doteth on her Mortimer. {Exit}
1H4 3.1.  143   MORTIMER  Fie, cousin Percy, how you cross my father!
1H4 3.1.  144   HOTSPUR I cannot choose. Sometime he angers me
1H4 3.1.  145  With telling me of the moldwarp and the ant,
1H4 3.1.  146  Of the dreamer Merlin and his prophecies,
1H4 3.1.  147  And of a dragon and a finless fish,
1H4 3.1.  148  A clip-winged griffin and a moulten raven,
1H4 3.1.  149  A couching lion and a ramping cat,
1H4 3.1.  150  And such a deal of skimble-skamble stuff
1H4 3.1.  151  As puts me from my faith. I tell you what,
1H4 3.1.  152  He held me last night at the least nine hours
1H4 3.1.  153  In reckoning up the several devils' names
1H4 3.1.  154  That were his lackeys. I cried, `Hum!' and, `Well, go to!',
1H4 3.1.  155  But marked him not a word. O, he is as tedious
1H4 3.1.  156  As a tired horse, a railing wife,
1H4 3.1.  157  Worse than a smoky house. I had rather live
1H4 3.1.  158  With cheese and garlic, in a windmill, far,
1H4 3.1.  159  Than feed on cates and have him talk to me
1H4 3.1.  160  In any summer house in Christendom.
1H4 3.1.  161   MORTIMER In faith, he is a worthy gentleman,
1H4 3.1.  162  Exceedingly well read, and profited
1H4 3.1.  163  In strange concealments, valiant as a lion,
1H4 3.1.  164  And wondrous affable, and as bountiful
1H4 3.1.  165  As mines of India. Shall I tell you, cousin?
1H4 3.1.  166  He holds your temper in a high respect,
1H4 3.1.  167  And curbs himself even of his natural scope
1H4 3.1.  168  When you come 'cross his humour; faith, he does.
1H4 3.1.  169  I warrant you, that man is not alive
1H4 3.1.  170  Might so have tempted him as you have done
1H4 3.1.  171  Without the taste of danger and reproof.
1H4 3.1.  172  But do not use it oft, let me entreat you.
1H4 3.1.  173   WORCESTER  {(to Hotspur)} In faith, my lord, you     +
1H4 3.1.  173  are too wilful-blame,
1H4 3.1.  174  And since your coming hither have done enough
1H4 3.1.  175  To put him quite besides his patience.
1H4 3.1.  176  You must needs learn, lord, to amend this fault.
1H4 3.1.  177  Though sometimes it show greatness, courage, blood - 
1H4 3.1.  178  And that's the dearest grace it renders you - 
1H4 3.1.  179  Yet oftentimes it doth present harsh rage,
1H4 3.1.  180  Defect of manners, want of government,
1H4 3.1.  181  Pride, haughtiness, opinion, and disdain,
1H4 3.1.  182  The least of which haunting a nobleman
1H4 3.1.  183  Loseth men's hearts, and leaves behind a stain
1H4 3.1.  184  Upon the beauty of all parts besides,
1H4 3.1.  185  Beguiling them of commendation.
1H4 3.1.  186   HOTSPUR Well, I am schooled. Good manners be your speed!      +
1H4 3.1.  186  {Enter Glyndw^r with Lady Percy and Mortimer's wife}
1H4 3.1.  187   Here come our wives, and let us take our leave.         +
1H4 3.1.  187  {[Mortimer's wife weeps, and speaks to him in Welsh]}
1H4 3.1.  188   MORTIMER  This is the deadly spite that angers me:
1H4 3.1.  189  My wife can speak no English, I no Welsh.
1H4 3.1.  190   GLYNDW^R My daughter weeps she'll not part with you.
1H4 3.1.  191  She'll be a soldier, too; she'll to the wars.
1H4 3.1.  192   MORTIMER Good father, tell her that she and my aunt Percy
1H4 3.1.  193  Shall follow in your conduct speedily. {Glyndw^r speaks to her    +
1H4 3.1.  193  in Welsh, and she answers him in the same}
1H4 3.1.  194   GLYNDW^R  She is desperate here, a peevish self-willed      +
1H4 3.1.  194  harlotry,
1H4 3.1.  195  One that no persuasion can do good upon. {The lady speaks in      +
1H4 3.1.  195  Welsh}
1H4 3.1.  196   MORTIMER  I understand thy looks. That pretty Welsh
1H4 3.1.  197  Which thou down pourest from these swelling heavens
1H4 3.1.  198  I am too perfect in, and but for shame
1H4 3.1.  199  In such a parley should I answer thee. {The lady kisses him, and  +
1H4 3.1.  199  speaks again in Welsh}
1H4 3.1.  200   MORTIMER  I understand thy kisses, and thou mine,
1H4 3.1.  201  And that's a feeling disputation;
1H4 3.1.  202  But I will never be a truant, love,
1H4 3.1.  203  Till I have learnt thy language, for thy tongue
1H4 3.1.  204  Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penned,
1H4 3.1.  205  Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower
1H4 3.1.  206  With ravishing division, to her lute.
1H4 3.1.  207   GLYNDW^R Nay, if you melt, then will she run mad. {The lady   +
1H4 3.1.  207  [sits on the rushes and] speaks again in Welsh}
1H4 3.1.  208   MORTIMER  O, I am ignorance itself in this!
1H4 3.1.  209   GLYNDW^R She bids you on the wanton rushes lay you down
1H4 3.1.  210  And rest your gentle head upon her lap,
1H4 3.1.  211  And she will sing the song that pleaseth you,
1H4 3.1.  212  And on your eyelids crown the god of sleep,
1H4 3.1.  213  Charming your blood with pleasing heaviness,
1H4 3.1.  214  Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep
1H4 3.1.  215  As is the difference betwixt day and night
1H4 3.1.  216  The hour before the heavenly-harnessed team
1H4 3.1.  217  Begins his golden progress in the east.
1H4 3.1.  218   MORTIMER With all my heart, I'll sit and hear her sing.
1H4 3.1.  219  By that time will our book, I think, be drawn. {He sits,          +
1H4 3.1.  219  [resting his head on the Welsh lady's lap]}
1H4 3.1.  220   GLYNDW^R  Do so, and those musicians that shall play to     +
1H4 3.1.  220  you
1H4 3.1.  221  Hang in the air a thousand leagues from hence,
1H4 3.1.  222  And straight they shall be here. Sit and attend.
1H4 3.1.  223   HOTSPUR Come, Kate, thou art perfect in lying down.
1H4 3.1.  224  Come, quick, quick, that I may lay my head in thy lap.
1H4 3.1.  225A  LADY PERCY  {(sitting)} Go, ye giddy goose!   +
1H4 3.1.  225A {Hotspur sits, resting his head on Lady Percy's lap. The music plays}
1H4 3.1.  226   HOTSPUR  Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh;
1H4 3.1.  227  And 'tis no marvel, he is so humorous.
1H4 3.1.  228  By 'r Lady, he's a good musician.
1H4 3.1.  229   LADY PERCY Then should you be nothing but musical,
1H4 3.1.  230  For you are altogether governed by humours.
1H4 3.1.  231  Lie still, ye thief, and hear the lady sing in Welsh.
1H4 3.1.  232   HOTSPUR  I had rather hear Lady my brach howl in Irish.
1H4 3.1.  233   LADY PERCY Wouldst thou have thy head broken?
1H4 3.1.  234   HOTSPUR No.
1H4 3.1.  235   LADY PERCY Then be still.
1H4 3.1.  236   HOTSPUR Neither - 'tis a woman's fault.
1H4 3.1.  237   LADY PERCY Now God help thee!
1H4 3.1.  238   HOTSPUR To the Welsh lady's bed.
1H4 3.1.  239   LADY PERCY What's that?
1H4 3.1.  240   HOTSPUR Peace; she sings. {Here the lady sings a Welsh song}
1H4 3.1.  241   HOTSPUR  Come, Kate, I'll have your song too.
1H4 3.1.  242   LADY PERCY Not mine, in good sooth.
1H4 3.1.  243   HOTSPUR Not yours, in good sooth! Heart, you swear like
1H4 3.1.  244  a comfit-maker's wife: `Not you, in good sooth!' and
1H4 3.1.  245  `As true as I live!' and
1H4 3.1.  246   `As God shall mend me!' and `As sure as day!';
1H4 3.1.  247  And giv'st such sarcenet surety for thy oaths
1H4 3.1.  248  As if thou never walk'st further than Finsbury.
1H4 3.1.  249  Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art,
1H4 3.1.  250  A good mouth-filling oath, and leave `in sooth'
1H4 3.1.  251  And such protest of pepper gingerbread
1H4 3.1.  252  To velvet-guards and Sunday citizens.
1H4 3.1.  253  Come, sing.
1H4 3.1.  254   LADY PERCY  I will not sing.
1H4 3.1.  255   HOTSPUR 'Tis the next way to turn tailor, or be redbreast
1H4 3.1.  256  teacher. {(Rising)} An the indentures be drawn, I'll     +
1H4 3.1.  256  away
1H4 3.1.  257  within these two hours; and so come in when ye will. {Exit}
1H4 3.1.  258   GLYNDW^R  Come, come, Lord Mortimer. You are as slow
1H4 3.1.  259  As hot Lord Percy is on fire to go.
1H4 3.1.  260  By this our book is drawn. We'll but seal,
1H4 3.1.  261B And then to horse immediately. MORTIMER  {(rising)}   +
1H4 3.1.  261B With all my heart. {The ladies rise, and all exeunt}
1H4 3.1.    0    {Enter King Henry, Prince Harry, and lords}
1H4 3.2.    1   KING HENRY  Lords, give us leave - the Prince of Wales and I
1H4 3.2.    2  Must have some private conference - but be near at hand,
1H4 3.2.    3  For we shall presently have need of you. {Exeunt Lords}
1H4 3.2.    4   I know not whether God will have it so
1H4 3.2.    5  For some displeasing service I have done,
1H4 3.2.    6  That in his secret doom out of my blood
1H4 3.2.    7  He'll breed revengement and a scourge for me,
1H4 3.2.    8  But thou dost in thy passages of life
1H4 3.2.    9  Make me believe that thou art only marked
1H4 3.2.   10  For the hot vengeance and the rod of heaven
1H4 3.2.   11  To punish my mistreadings. Tell me else,
1H4 3.2.   12  Could such inordinate and low desires,
1H4 3.2.   13  Such poor, such bare, such lewd, such mean attempts,
1H4 3.2.   14  Such barren pleasures, rude society,
1H4 3.2.   15  As thou art matched withal and grafted to,
1H4 3.2.   16  Accompany the greatness of thy blood,
1H4 3.2.   17  And hold their level with thy princely heart?
1H4 3.2.   18   PRINCE HARRY So please your majesty, I would I could
1H4 3.2.   19  Quit all offences with as clear excuse
1H4 3.2.   20  As well as I am doubtless I can purge
1H4 3.2.   21  Myself of many I am charged withal;
1H4 3.2.   22  Yet such extenuation let me beg
1H4 3.2.   23  As, in reproof of many tales devised - 
1H4 3.2.   24  Which oft the ear of greatness needs must hear
1H4 3.2.   25  By smiling pickthanks and base newsmongers - 
1H4 3.2.   26  I may, for some things true wherein my youth
1H4 3.2.   27  Hath faulty wandered and irregular,
1H4 3.2.   28  Find pardon on my true submission.
1H4 3.2.   29   KING HENRY God pardon thee! Yet let me wonder, Harry,
1H4 3.2.   30  At thy affections, which do hold a wing
1H4 3.2.   31  Quite from the flight of all thy ancestors.
1H4 3.2.   32  Thy place in Council thou hast rudely lost - 
1H4 3.2.   33  Which by thy younger brother is supplied - 
1H4 3.2.   34  And art almost an alien to the hearts
1H4 3.2.   35  Of all the court and princes of my blood.
1H4 3.2.   36  The hope and expectation of thy time
1H4 3.2.   37  Is ruined, and the soul of every man
1H4 3.2.   38  Prophetically do forethink thy fall.
1H4 3.2.   39  Had I so lavish of my presence been,
1H4 3.2.   40  So common-hackneyed in the eyes of men,
1H4 3.2.   41  So stale and cheap to vulgar company,
1H4 3.2.   42  Opinion, that did help me to the crown,
1H4 3.2.   43  Had still kept loyal to possession,
1H4 3.2.   44  And left me in reputeless banishment,
1H4 3.2.   45  A fellow of no mark nor likelihood.
1H4 3.2.   46  By being seldom seen, I could not stir
1H4 3.2.   47  But, like a comet, I was wondered at,
1H4 3.2.   48  That men would tell their children `This is he.'
1H4 3.2.   49  Others would say `Where, which is Bolingbroke?'
1H4 3.2.   50  And then I stole all courtesy from heaven,
1H4 3.2.   51  And dressed myself in such humility
1H4 3.2.   52  That I did pluck allegiance from men's hearts,
1H4 3.2.   53  Loud shouts and salutations from their mouths,
1H4 3.2.   54  Even in the presence of the crowned King.
1H4 3.2.   55  Thus did I keep my person fresh and new,
1H4 3.2.   56  My presence like a robe pontifical - 
1H4 3.2.   57  Ne'er seen but wondered at - and so my state,
1H4 3.2.   58  Seldom but sumptuous, showed like a feast,
1H4 3.2.   59  And won by rareness such solemnity.
1H4 3.2.   60  The skipping King, he ambled up and down
1H4 3.2.   61  With shallow jesters and rash bavin wits,
1H4 3.2.   62  Soon kindled and soon burnt, carded his state,
1H4 3.2.   63  Mingled his royalty with cap'ring fools,
1H4 3.2.   64  Had his great name profaned with their scorns,
1H4 3.2.   65  And gave his countenance, against his name,
1H4 3.2.   66  To laugh at gibing boys, and stand the push
1H4 3.2.   67  Of every beardless vain comparative;
1H4 3.2.   68  Grew a companion to the common streets,
1H4 3.2.   69  Enfeoffed himself to popularity,
1H4 3.2.   70  That, being daily swallowed by men's eyes,
1H4 3.2.   71  They surfeited with honey, and began
1H4 3.2.   72  To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little
1H4 3.2.   73  More than a little is by much too much.
1H4 3.2.   74  So when he had occasion to be seen,
1H4 3.2.   75  He was but as the cuckoo is in June,
1H4 3.2.   76  Heard, not regarded, seen but with such eyes
1H4 3.2.   77  As, sick and blunted with community,
1H4 3.2.   78  Afford no extraordinary gaze
1H4 3.2.   79  Such as is bent on sun-like majesty
1H4 3.2.   80  When it shines seldom in admiring eyes,
1H4 3.2.   81  But rather drowsed and hung their eyelids down,
1H4 3.2.   82  Slept in his face, and rendered such aspect
1H4 3.2.   83  As cloudy men use to their adversaries,
1H4 3.2.   84  Being with his presence glutted, gorged, and full.
1H4 3.2.   85  And in that very line, Harry, standest thou;
1H4 3.2.   86  For thou hast lost thy princely privilege
1H4 3.2.   87  With vile participation. Not an eye
1H4 3.2.   88  But is a-weary of thy common sight,
1H4 3.2.   89  Save mine, which hath desired to see thee more,
1H4 3.2.   90  Which now doth that I would not have it do - 
1H4 3.2.   91  Make blind itself with foolish tenderness. {He weeps}
1H4 3.2.   92   PRINCE HARRY  I shall hereafter, my thrice-gracious lord,
1H4 3.2.   93B Be more myself. KING HENRY For all the world,
1H4 3.2.   94  As thou art to this hour was Richard then,
1H4 3.2.   95  When I from France set foot at Ravenspurgh,
1H4 3.2.   96  And even as I was then is Percy now.
1H4 3.2.   97  Now by my sceptre, and my soul to boot,
1H4 3.2.   98  He hath more worthy interest to the state
1H4 3.2.   99  Than thou, the shadow of succession;
1H4 3.2.  100  For, of no right, nor colour like to right,
1H4 3.2.  101  He doth fill fields with harness in the realm,
1H4 3.2.  102  Turns head against the lion's armed jaws,
1H4 3.2.  103  And, being no more in debt to years than thou,
1H4 3.2.  104  Leads ancient lords and reverend bishops on
1H4 3.2.  105  To bloody battles, and to bruising arms.
1H4 3.2.  106  What never-dying honour hath he got
1H4 3.2.  107  Against renowned Douglas! - whose high deeds,
1H4 3.2.  108  Whose hot incursions and great name in arms,
1H4 3.2.  109  Holds from all soldiers chief majority
1H4 3.2.  110  And military title capital
1H4 3.2.  111  Through all the kingdoms that acknowledge Christ.
1H4 3.2.  112  Thrice hath this Hotspur, Mars in swaddling-clothes,
1H4 3.2.  113  This infant warrior, in his enterprises
1H4 3.2.  114  Discomfited great Douglas; ta'en him once;
1H4 3.2.  115  Enlarged him; and made a friend of him
1H4 3.2.  116  To fill the mouth of deep defiance up,
1H4 3.2.  117  And shake the peace and safety of our throne.
1H4 3.2.  118  And what say you to this? Percy, Northumberland,
1H4 3.2.  119  The Archbishop's grace of York, Douglas, Mortimer,
1H4 3.2.  120  Capitulate against us, and are up.
1H4 3.2.  121  But wherefore do I tell these news to thee?
1H4 3.2.  122  Why, Harry, do I tell thee of my foes,
1H4 3.2.  123  Which art my near'st and dearest enemy? - 
1H4 3.2.  124  Thou that art like enough, through vassal fear,
1H4 3.2.  125  Base inclination, and the start of spleen,
1H4 3.2.  126  To fight against me under Percy's pay,
1H4 3.2.  127  To dog his heels, and curtsy at his frowns,
1H4 3.2.  128  To show how much thou art degenerate.
1H4 3.2.  129   PRINCE HARRY Do not think so; you shall not find it so.
1H4 3.2.  130  And God forgive them that so much have swayed
1H4 3.2.  131  Your majesty's good thoughts away from me.
1H4 3.2.  132  I will redeem all this on Percy's head,
1H4 3.2.  133  And in the closing of some glorious day
1H4 3.2.  134  Be bold to tell you that I am your son;
1H4 3.2.  135  When I will wear a garment all of blood,
1H4 3.2.  136  And stain my favours in a bloody mask,
1H4 3.2.  137  Which, washed away, shall scour my shame with it.
1H4 3.2.  138  And that shall be the day, whene'er it lights,
1H4 3.2.  139  That this same child of honour and renown,
1H4 3.2.  140  This gallant Hotspur, this all-praised knight,
1H4 3.2.  141  And your unthought-of Harry chance to meet.
1H4 3.2.  142  For every honour sitting on his helm,
1H4 3.2.  143  Would they were multitudes, and on my head
1H4 3.2.  144  My shames redoubled; for the time will come
1H4 3.2.  145  That I shall make this northern youth exchange
1H4 3.2.  146  His glorious deeds for my indignities.
1H4 3.2.  147  Percy is but my factor, good my lord,
1H4 3.2.  148  To engross up glorious deeds on my behalf;
1H4 3.2.  149  And I will call him to so strict account
1H4 3.2.  150  That he shall render every glory up,
1H4 3.2.  151  Yea, even the slightest worship of his time,
1H4 3.2.  152  Or I will tear the reckoning from his heart.
1H4 3.2.  153  This, in the name of God, I promise here,
1H4 3.2.  154  The which if he be pleased I shall perform,
1H4 3.2.  155  I do beseech your majesty may salve
1H4 3.2.  156  The long-grown wounds of my intemperature;
1H4 3.2.  157  If not, the end of life cancels all bonds,
1H4 3.2.  158  And I will die a hundred thousand deaths
1H4 3.2.  159  Ere break the smallest parcel of this vow.
1H4 3.2.  160   KING HENRY A hundred thousand rebels die in this.
1H4 3.2.  161  Thou shalt have charge and sovereign trust herein. {Enter Sir     +
1H4 3.2.  161  Walter Blunt}
1H4 3.2.  162   How now, good Blunt? Thy looks are full of speed.
1H4 3.2.  163   BLUNT So hath the business that I come to speak of.
1H4 3.2.  164  Lord Mortimer of Scotland hath sent word
1H4 3.2.  165  That Douglas and the English rebels met
1H4 3.2.  166  The eleventh of this month at Shrewsbury.
1H4 3.2.  167  A mighty and a fearful head they are,
1H4 3.2.  168  If promises be kept on every hand,
1H4 3.2.  169  As ever offered foul play in a state.
1H4 3.2.  170   KING HENRY The Earl of Westmorland set forth today,
1H4 3.2.  171  With him my son Lord John of Lancaster,
1H4 3.2.  172  For this advertisement is five days old.
1H4 3.2.  173  On Wednesday next, Harry, you shall set forward.
1H4 3.2.  174  On Thursday we ourselves will march.
1H4 3.2.  175  Our meeting is Bridgnorth, and, Harry, you
1H4 3.2.  176  Shall march through Gloucestershire, by which account,
1H4 3.2.  177  Our business valued, some twelve days hence
1H4 3.2.  178  Our general forces at Bridgnorth shall meet.
1H4 3.2.  179  Our hands are full of business; let's away.
1H4 3.2.  180  Advantage feeds him fat while men delay. {Exeunt}
1H4 3.2.    0    {Enter Sir John Oldcastle [with a truncheon at his         +
1H4 3.3.    0  waist], and Russell}
1H4 3.3.    1   SIR JOHN  Russell, am I not fallen away vilely since this
1H4 3.3.    2  last action? Do I not bate? Do I not dwindle? Why,
1H4 3.3.    3  my skin hangs about me like an old lady's loose gown.
1H4 3.3.    4  I am withered like an old apple-john. Well, I'll repent,
1H4 3.3.    5  and that suddenly, while I am in some liking. I shall
1H4 3.3.    6  be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no
1H4 3.3.    7  strength to repent. An I have not forgotten what the
1H4 3.3.    8  inside of a church is made of, I am a peppercorn, a
1H4 3.3.    9  brewer's horse - the inside of a church! Company,
1H4 3.3.   10  villainous company, hath been the spoil of me.
1H4 3.3.   11   RUSSELL Sir John, you are so fretful you cannot live long.
1H4 3.3.   12   SIR JOHN Why, there is it. Come, sing me a bawdy song,
1H4 3.3.   13  make me merry. I was as virtuously given as a
1H4 3.3.   14  gentleman need to be: virtuous enough; swore little;
1H4 3.3.   15  diced not - above seven times a week; went to a bawdy-
1H4 3.3.   16  house not - above once in a quarter - of an hour; paid
1H4 3.3.   17  money that I borrowed - three or four times; lived well,
1H4 3.3.   18  and in good compass. And now I live out of all order,
1H4 3.3.   19  out of all compass.
1H4 3.3.   20   RUSSELL Why, you are so fat, Sir John, that you must
1H4 3.3.   21  needs be out of all compass, out of all reasonable
1H4 3.3.   22  compass, Sir John.
1H4 3.3.   23   SIR JOHN Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life.
1H4 3.3.   24  Thou art our admiral, thou bearest the lantern in the
1H4 3.3.   25  poop - but 'tis in the nose of thee. Thou art the Knight
1H4 3.3.   26  of the Burning Lamp.
1H4 3.3.   27   RUSSELL Why, Sir John, my face does you no harm.
1H4 3.3.   28   SIR JOHN No, I'll be sworn; I make as good use of it as
1H4 3.3.   29  many a man doth of a death's head, or a {memento
1H4 3.3.   30  mori}. I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire and
1H4 3.3.   31  Dives that lived in purple - for there he is in his robes,
1H4 3.3.   32  burning, burning. If thou wert any way given to virtue,
1H4 3.3.   33  I would swear by thy face; my oath should be `By this
1H4 3.3.   34  fire that's God's angel!' But thou art altogether given
1H4 3.3.   35  over, and wert indeed, but for the light in thy face, the
1H4 3.3.   36  son of utter darkness. When thou rannest up Gads Hill
1H4 3.3.   37  in the night to catch my horse, if I did not think thou
1H4 3.3.   38  hadst been an {ignis fatuus} or a ball of wildfire, there's
1H4 3.3.   39  no purchase in money. O, thou art a perpetual triumph,
1H4 3.3.   40  an everlasting bonfire-light! Thou hast saved me a
1H4 3.3.   41  thousand marks in links and torches, walking with
1H4 3.3.   42  thee in the night betwixt tavern and tavern - but the
1H4 3.3.   43  sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me
1H4 3.3.   44  lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe.
1H4 3.3.   45  I have maintained that salamander of yours with fire
1H4 3.3.   46  any time this two-and-thirty years, God reward me
1H4 3.3.   47  for it.
1H4 3.3.   48   RUSSELL 'Sblood, I would my face were in your belly!
1H4 3.3.   49   SIR JOHN God-a-mercy! So should I be sure to be heartburnt.
1H4 3.3.   49
1H4 3.3.   51   {Enter Hostess} How now, Dame Partlet the hen, have     +
1H4 3.3.   51  you enquired
1H4 3.3.   52  yet who picked my pocket?
1H4 3.3.   53   HOSTESS Why, Sir John, what do you think, Sir John? Do
1H4 3.3.   54  you think I keep thieves in my house? I have searched,
1H4 3.3.   55  I have enquired; so has my husband, man by man,
1H4 3.3.   56  boy by boy, servant by servant. The tithe of a hair was
1H4 3.3.   57  never lost in my house before.
1H4 3.3.   58   SIR JOHN Ye lie, Hostess: Russell was shaved and lost
1H4 3.3.   59  many a hair, and I'll be sworn my pocket was picked.
1H4 3.3.   60  Go to, you are a woman, go.
1H4 3.3.   61   HOSTESS Who, I? No, I defy thee! God's light, I was never
1H4 3.3.   62  called so in mine own house before.
1H4 3.3.   63   SIR JOHN Go to, I know you well enough.
1H4 3.3.   64   HOSTESS No, Sir John, you do not know me, Sir John; I
1H4 3.3.   65  know you, Sir John. You owe me money, Sir John, and
1H4 3.3.   66  now you pick a quarrel to beguile me of it. I bought
1H4 3.3.   67  you a dozen of shirts to your back.
1H4 3.3.   68   SIR JOHN Dowlas, filthy dowlas. I have given them away
1H4 3.3.   69  to bakers' wives; they have made bolters of them.
1H4 3.3.   70   HOSTESS Now as I am a true woman, holland of eight
1H4 3.3.   71  shillings an ell. You owe money here besides, Sir John:
1H4 3.3.   72  for your diet, and by-drinkings, and money lent you,
1H4 3.3.   73  four-and-twenty pound.
1H4 3.3.   74   SIR JOHN  {(pointing at Russell)} He had his part    +
1H4 3.3.   74  of it. Let
1H4 3.3.   75  him pay.
1H4 3.3.   76   HOSTESS He? Alas, he is poor; he hath nothing.
1H4 3.3.   77   SIR JOHN How, poor? Look upon his face. What call you
1H4 3.3.   78  rich? Let them coin his nose, let them coin his cheeks,
1H4 3.3.   79  I'll not pay a denier. What, will you make a younker
1H4 3.3.   80  of me? Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn, but I
1H4 3.3.   81  shall have my pocket picked? I have lost a seal-ring of
1H4 3.3.   82  my grandfather's worth forty mark.
1H4 3.3.   83   HOSTESS O Jesu, {(to Russell)} I have heard the      +
1H4 3.3.   83  Prince tell
1H4 3.3.   84  him, I know not how oft, that that ring was copper.
1H4 3.3.   85   SIR JOHN How? The Prince is a jack, a sneak-up. {[Raising}
1H4 3.3.   86  {his truncheon]} 'Sblood, an he were here I would cudgel
1H4 3.3.   87  him like a dog if he would say so. {Enter Prince Harry and        +
1H4 3.3.   87  Harvey, marching; and Sir John Oldcastle meets them, playing upon his    +
1H4 3.3.   87  truncheon like a fife}
1H4 3.3.   88   How now, lad, is the wind in that door, i' faith? Must
1H4 3.3.   89  we all march?
1H4 3.3.   90   RUSSELL Yea, two and two, Newgate fashion.
1H4 3.3.   91   HOSTESS My lord, I pray you hear me.
1H4 3.3.   92   PRINCE HARRY  What sayst thou, Mistress Quickly? How doth   +
1H4 3.3.   92  thy husband?
1H4 3.3.   93  I love him well; he is an honest man.
1H4 3.3.   94   HOSTESS  Good my lord, hear me!
1H4 3.3.   95   SIR JOHN Prithee, let her alone, and list to me.
1H4 3.3.   96   PRINCE HARRY What sayst thou, Jack?
1H4 3.3.   97   SIR JOHN The other night I fell asleep here behind the
1H4 3.3.   98  arras, and had my pocket picked. This house is turned
1H4 3.3.   99  bawdy-house: they pick pockets.
1H4 3.3.  100   PRINCE HARRY What didst thou lose, Jack?
1H4 3.3.  101   SIR JOHN Wilt thou believe me, Hal, three or four bonds
1H4 3.3.  102  of forty pound apiece, and a seal-ring of my grandfather's.
1H4 3.3.  102
1H4 3.3.  104   PRINCE HARRY A trifle, some eightpenny matter.
1H4 3.3.  105   HOSTESS So I told him, my lord; and I said I heard your
1H4 3.3.  106  grace say so; and, my lord, he speaks most vilely of
1H4 3.3.  107  you, like a foul-mouthed man as he is, and said he
1H4 3.3.  108  would cudgel you.
1H4 3.3.  109   PRINCE HARRY What? He did not!
1H4 3.3.  110   HOSTESS There's neither faith, truth, nor womanhood in
1H4 3.3.  111  me else.
1H4 3.3.  112   SIR JOHN There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed
1H4 3.3.  113  prune, nor no more truth in thee than in a drawn fox;
1H4 3.3.  114  and, for womanhood, Maid Marian may be the deputy's
1H4 3.3.  115  wife of the ward to thee. Go, you thing, go!
1H4 3.3.  116   HOSTESS Say, what thing, what thing?
1H4 3.3.  117   SIR JOHN What thing? Why, a thing to thank God on.
1H4 3.3.  118   HOSTESS I am no thing to thank God on. I would thou
1H4 3.3.  119  shouldst know it, I am an honest man's wife; and
1H4 3.3.  120  setting thy knighthood aside, thou art a knave to call
1H4 3.3.  121  me so.
1H4 3.3.  122   SIR JOHN Setting thy womanhood aside, thou art a beast
1H4 3.3.  123  to say otherwise.
1H4 3.3.  124   HOSTESS Say, what beast, thou knave, thou?
1H4 3.3.  125   SIR JOHN What beast? Why, an otter.
1H4 3.3.  126   PRINCE HARRY An otter, Sir John? Why an otter?
1H4 3.3.  127   SIR JOHN Why? She's neither fish nor flesh; a man knows
1H4 3.3.  128  not where to have her.
1H4 3.3.  129   HOSTESS Thou art an unjust man in saying so. Thou or
1H4 3.3.  130  any man knows where to have me, thou knave, thou.
1H4 3.3.  131   PRINCE HARRY Thou sayst true, Hostess, and he slanders
1H4 3.3.  132  thee most grossly.
1H4 3.3.  133   HOSTESS So he doth you, my lord, and said this other day
1H4 3.3.  134  you owed him a thousand pound.
1H4 3.3.  135   PRINCE HARRY  {(to Sir John)} Sirrah, do I owe you   +
1H4 3.3.  135  a thousand
1H4 3.3.  136  pound?
1H4 3.3.  137   SIR JOHN A thousand pound, Hal? A million! Thy love is
1H4 3.3.  138  worth a million; thou owest me thy love.
1H4 3.3.  139   HOSTESS Nay, my lord, he called you `jack' and said he
1H4 3.3.  140  would cudgel you.
1H4 3.3.  141   SIR JOHN Did I, Russell?
1H4 3.3.  142   RUSSELL Indeed, Sir John, you said so.
1H4 3.3.  143   SIR JOHN Yea, if he said my ring was copper.
1H4 3.3.  144   PRINCE HARRY I say 'tis copper; darest thou be as good
1H4 3.3.  145  as thy word now?
1H4 3.3.  146   SIR JOHN Why, Hal, thou knowest as thou art but man I
1H4 3.3.  147  dare, but as thou art prince, I fear thee as I fear the
1H4 3.3.  148  roaring of the lion's whelp.
1H4 3.3.  149   PRINCE HARRY And why not as the lion?
1H4 3.3.  150   SIR JOHN The King himself is to be feared as the lion. Dost
1H4 3.3.  151  thou think I'll fear thee as I fear thy father? Nay, an I
1H4 3.3.  152  do, I pray God my girdle break.
1H4 3.3.  153   PRINCE HARRY O, if it should, how would thy guts fall
1H4 3.3.  154  about thy knees! But sirrah, there's no room for faith,
1H4 3.3.  155  truth, nor honesty in this bosom of thine; it is all filled
1H4 3.3.  156  up with guts and midriff. Charge an honest woman
1H4 3.3.  157  with picking thy pocket? Why, thou whoreson
1H4 3.3.  158  impudent embossed rascal, if there were anything in
1H4 3.3.  159  thy pocket but tavern reckonings, memorandums of
1H4 3.3.  160  bawdy-houses, and one poor pennyworth of sugar-
1H4 3.3.  161  candy to make thee long-winded - if thy pocket were
1H4 3.3.  162  enriched with any other injuries but these, I am a
1H4 3.3.  163  villain. And yet you will stand to it, you will not pocket
1H4 3.3.  164  up wrong. Art thou not ashamed?
1H4 3.3.  165   SIR JOHN Dost thou hear, Hal? Thou knowest in the state
1H4 3.3.  166  of innocency Adam fell, and what should poor Jack
1H4 3.3.  167  Oldcastle do in the days of villainy? Thou seest I have
1H4 3.3.  168  more flesh than another man, and therefore more
1H4 3.3.  169  frailty. You confess, then, you picked my pocket.
1H4 3.3.  170   PRINCE HARRY It appears so by the story.
1H4 3.3.  171   SIR JOHN Hostess, I forgive thee. Go make ready breakfast.
1H4 3.3.  172  Love thy husband, look to thy servants, cherish thy
1H4 3.3.  173  guests. Thou shalt find me tractable to any honest
1H4 3.3.  174  reason; thou seest I am pacified still. Nay, prithee, be
1H4 3.3.  175  gone. {Exit Hostess}
1H4 3.3.  176   Now, Hal, to the news at court. For the robbery, lad,
1H4 3.3.  177  how is that answered?
1H4 3.3.  178   PRINCE HARRY O, my sweet beef, I must still be good angel
1H4 3.3.  179  to thee. The money is paid back again.
1H4 3.3.  180   SIR JOHN O, I do not like that paying back; 'tis a double
1H4 3.3.  181  labour.
1H4 3.3.  182   PRINCE HARRY I am good friends with my father, and may
1H4 3.3.  183  do anything.
1H4 3.3.  184   SIR JOHN Rob me the exchequer the first thing thou dost,
1H4 3.3.  185  and do it with unwashed hands too.
1H4 3.3.  186   RUSSELL Do, my lord.
1H4 3.3.  187   PRINCE HARRY I have procured thee, Jack, a charge of
1H4 3.3.  188  foot.
1H4 3.3.  189   SIR JOHN I would it had been of horse! Where shall I find
1H4 3.3.  190  one that can steal well? O, for a fine thief of the age
1H4 3.3.  191  of two-and-twenty or thereabouts! I am heinously
1H4 3.3.  192  unprovided. Well, God be thanked for these rebels - 
1H4 3.3.  193  they offend none but the virtuous. I laud them, I praise
1H4 3.3.  194  them.
1H4 3.3.  195   PRINCE HARRY Russell.
1H4 3.3.  196   RUSSELL My lord?
1H4 3.3.  197   PRINCE HARRY  {(giving letters)} Go bear this        +
1H4 3.3.  197  letter to Lord John of Lancaster,
1H4 3.3.  198  To my brother John; this to my lord of Westmorland. {Exit         +
1H4 3.3.  198  Russell}
1H4 3.3.  199   Go, Harvey, to horse, to horse, for thou and I
1H4 3.3.  200  Have thirty miles to ride yet ere dinner time. {Exit Harvey}
1H4 3.3.  201   Jack, meet me tomorrow in the Temple Hall
1H4 3.3.  202  At two o'clock in the afternoon.
1H4 3.3.  203  There shalt thou know thy charge, and there receive
1H4 3.3.  204  Money and order for their furniture.
1H4 3.3.  205  The land is burning, Percy stands on high,
1H4 3.3.  206  And either we or they must lower lie. {Exit}
1H4 3.3.  207   SIR JOHN  Rare words! Brave world!                   +
1H4 3.3.  207  {(Calling)} Hostess, my breakfast, come! - 
1H4 3.3.  208  O, I could wish this tavern were my drum! {Exit}
1H4 3.3.    0     {Enter Hotspur and the Earls of Worcester and        +
1H4 4.1.    0  Douglas}
1H4 4.1.    1   HOTSPUR  Well said, my noble Scot! If speaking truth
1H4 4.1.    2  In this fine age were not thought flattery,
1H4 4.1.    3  Such attribution should the Douglas have
1H4 4.1.    4  As not a soldier of this season's stamp
1H4 4.1.    5  Should go so general current through the world.
1H4 4.1.    6  By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy
1H4 4.1.    7  The tongues of soothers, but a braver place
1H4 4.1.    8  In my heart's love hath no man than yourself.
1H4 4.1.    9  Nay, task me to my word, approve me, lord.
1H4 4.1.   10A  DOUGLAS Thou art the king of honour.
1H4 4.1.   11  No man so potent breathes upon the ground
1H4 4.1.   12B But I will beard him. HOTSPUR Do so, and 'tis well. {Enter a   +
1H4 4.1.   12B Messenger with letters}
1H4 4.1.   13   What letters hast thou there? I can but thank you.
1H4 4.1.   14A  MESSENGER These letters come from your father.
1H4 4.1.   15   HOTSPUR Letters from him? Why comes he not himself?
1H4 4.1.   16   MESSENGER He cannot come, my lord, he is grievous sick.
1H4 4.1.   17   HOTSPUR Zounds, how has he the leisure to be sick
1H4 4.1.   18  In such a jostling time? Who leads his power?
1H4 4.1.   19  Under whose government come they along?
1H4 4.1.   20   MESSENGER His letters bears his mind, not I, my lord.         +
1H4 4.1.   20  {Hotspur reads the letter}
1H4 4.1.   21   WORCESTER  I prithee tell me, doth he keep his bed?
1H4 4.1.   22   MESSENGER He did, my lord, four days ere I set forth;
1H4 4.1.   23  And at the time of my departure thence
1H4 4.1.   24  He was much feared by his physicians.
1H4 4.1.   25   WORCESTER I would the state of time had first been whole
1H4 4.1.   26  Ere he by sickness had been visited.
1H4 4.1.   27  His health was never better worth than now.
1H4 4.1.   28   HOTSPUR Sick now? Droop now? This sickness doth infect
1H4 4.1.   29  The very life-blood of our enterprise.
1H4 4.1.   30  'Tis catching hither, even to our camp.
1H4 4.1.   31  He writes me here that inward sickness stays him,
1H4 4.1.   32  And that his friends by deputation
1H4 4.1.   33  Could not so soon be drawn; nor did he think it meet
1H4 4.1.   34  To lay so dangerous and dear a trust
1H4 4.1.   35  On any soul removed but on his own.
1H4 4.1.   36  Yet doth he give us bold advertisement
1H4 4.1.   37  That with our small conjunction we should on,
1H4 4.1.   38  To see how fortune is disposed to us;
1H4 4.1.   39  For, as he writes, there is no quailing now,
1H4 4.1.   40  Because the King is certainly possessed
1H4 4.1.   41  Of all our purposes. What say you to it?
1H4 4.1.   42   WORCESTER Your father's sickness is a maim to us.
1H4 4.1.   43   HOTSPUR A perilous gash, a very limb lopped off.
1H4 4.1.   44  And yet, in faith, it is not. His present want
1H4 4.1.   45  Seems more than we shall find it. Were it good
1H4 4.1.   46  To set the exact wealth of all our states
1H4 4.1.   47  All at one cast, to set so rich a main
1H4 4.1.   48  On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour?
1H4 4.1.   49  It were not good, for therein should we read
1H4 4.1.   50  The very bottom and the sole of hope,
1H4 4.1.   51  The very list, the very utmost bound,
1H4 4.1.   52  Of all our fortunes.
1H4 4.1.   53   DOUGLAS Faith, and so we should, where now remains
1H4 4.1.   54  A sweet reversion - we may boldly spend
1H4 4.1.   55  Upon the hope of what is to come in.
1H4 4.1.   56  A comfort of retirement lives in this.
1H4 4.1.   57   HOTSPUR A rendezvous, a home to fly unto,
1H4 4.1.   58  If that the devil and mischance look big
1H4 4.1.   59  Upon the maidenhead of our affairs.
1H4 4.1.   60   WORCESTER But yet I would your father had been here.
1H4 4.1.   61  The quality and hair of our attempt
1H4 4.1.   62  Brooks no division. It will be thought
1H4 4.1.   63  By some that know not why he is away
1H4 4.1.   64  That wisdom, loyalty, and mere dislike
1H4 4.1.   65  Of our proceedings kept the Earl from hence;
1H4 4.1.   66  And think how such an apprehension
1H4 4.1.   67  May turn the tide of fearful faction,
1H4 4.1.   68  And breed a kind of question in our cause.
1H4 4.1.   69  For, well you know, we of the off'ring side
1H4 4.1.   70  Must keep aloof from strict arbitrement,
1H4 4.1.   71  And stop all sight-holes, every loop from whence
1H4 4.1.   72  The eye of reason may pry in upon us.
1H4 4.1.   73  This absence of your father's draws a curtain
1H4 4.1.   74  That shows the ignorant a kind of fear
1H4 4.1.   75B Before not dreamt of. HOTSPUR You strain too far.
1H4 4.1.   76  I rather of his absence make this use:
1H4 4.1.   77  It lends a lustre, and more great opinion,
1H4 4.1.   78  A larger dare to our great enterprise,
1H4 4.1.   79  Than if the Earl were here; for men must think
1H4 4.1.   80  If we without his help can make a head
1H4 4.1.   81  To push against a kingdom, with his help
1H4 4.1.   82  We shall o'erturn it topsy-turvy down.
1H4 4.1.   83  Yet all goes well, yet all our joints are whole.
1H4 4.1.   84   DOUGLAS As heart can think, there is not such a word
1H4 4.1.   85  Spoke of in Scotland as this term of fear. {Enter Sir Richard     +
1H4 4.1.   85  Vernon}
1H4 4.1.   86   HOTSPUR  My cousin Vernon! Welcome, by my soul!
1H4 4.1.   87   VERNON Pray God my news be worth a welcome, lord.
1H4 4.1.   88  The Earl of Westmorland, seven thousand strong,
1H4 4.1.   89  Is marching hitherwards; with him Prince John.
1H4 4.1.   90B  HOTSPUR No harm. What more? VERNON And further I have learned
1H4 4.1.   91  The King himself in person is set forth,
1H4 4.1.   92  Or hitherwards intended speedily,
1H4 4.1.   93  With strong and mighty preparation.
1H4 4.1.   94   HOTSPUR He shall be welcome too. Where is his son,
1H4 4.1.   95  The nimble-footed madcap Prince of Wales,
1H4 4.1.   96  And his comrades that daffed the world aside
1H4 4.1.   97B And bid it pass? VERNON All furnished, all in arms,
1H4 4.1.   98  All plumed like ostriches, that with the wind
1H4 4.1.   99  []
1H4 4.1.  100  Baiting like eagles having lately bathed,
1H4 4.1.  101  Glittering in golden coats like images,
1H4 4.1.  102  As full of spirit as the month of May,
1H4 4.1.  103  And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer;
1H4 4.1.  104  Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.
1H4 4.1.  105  I saw young Harry with his beaver on,
1H4 4.1.  106  His cuishes on his thighs, gallantly armed,
1H4 4.1.  107  Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury,
1H4 4.1.  108  And vaulted with such ease into his seat
1H4 4.1.  109  As if an angel dropped down from the clouds
1H4 4.1.  110  To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus,
1H4 4.1.  111  And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
1H4 4.1.  112   HOTSPUR No more, no more! Worse than the sun in March,
1H4 4.1.  113  This praise doth nourish agues. Let them come!
1H4 4.1.  114  They come like sacrifices in their trim,
1H4 4.1.  115  And to the fire-eyed maid of smoky war
1H4 4.1.  116  All hot and bleeding will we offer them.
1H4 4.1.  117  The mailed Mars shall on his altar sit
1H4 4.1.  118  Up to the ears in blood. I am on fire
1H4 4.1.  119  To hear this rich reprisal is so nigh,
1H4 4.1.  120  And yet not ours! Come, let me taste my horse,
1H4 4.1.  121  Who is to bear me like a thunderbolt
1H4 4.1.  122  Against the bosom of the Prince of Wales.
1H4 4.1.  123  Harry to Harry shall, hot horse to horse,
1H4 4.1.  124  Meet and ne'er part till one drop down a corpse.
1H4 4.1.  125B O, that Glyndw^r were come! VERNON There is more news.
1H4 4.1.  126  I learned in Worcester, as I rode along,
1H4 4.1.  127  He cannot draw his power this fourteen days.
1H4 4.1.  128   DOUGLAS That's the worst tidings that I hear of yet.
1H4 4.1.  129   WORCESTER Ay, by my faith, that bears a frosty sound.
1H4 4.1.  130   HOTSPUR What may the King's whole battle reach unto?
1H4 4.1.  131B  VERNON To thirty thousand. HOTSPUR Forty let it be.
1H4 4.1.  132  My father and Glyndw^r being both away,
1H4 4.1.  133  The powers of us may serve so great a day.
1H4 4.1.  134  Come, let us take a muster speedily.
1H4 4.1.  135  Doomsday is near: die all, die merrily.
1H4 4.1.  136   DOUGLAS Talk not of dying; I am out of fear
1H4 4.1.  137  Of death or death's hand for this one half year. {Exeunt}
1H4 4.1.    0    {Enter Sir John Oldcastle and Russell}
1H4 4.2.    1   SIR JOHN  Russell, get thee before to Coventry; fill me a
1H4 4.2.    2  bottle of sack. Our soldiers shall march through. We'll
1H4 4.2.    3  to Sutton Coldfield tonight.
1H4 4.2.    4   RUSSELL Will you give me money, captain?
1H4 4.2.    5   SIR JOHN Lay out, lay out.
1H4 4.2.    6   RUSSELL This bottle makes an angel.
1H4 4.2.    7   SIR JOHN  {[giving Russell money]} An if it do,      +
1H4 4.2.    7  take it for thy
1H4 4.2.    8  labour; an if it make twenty, take them all; I'll answer
1H4 4.2.    9  the coinage. Bid my lieutenant Harvey meet me at
1H4 4.2.   10  town's end.
1H4 4.2.   11   RUSSELL I will, captain. Farewell. {Exit}
1H4 4.2.   12   SIR JOHN  If I be not ashamed of my soldiers, I am a        +
1H4 4.2.   12  soused
1H4 4.2.   13  gurnet. I have misused the King's press damnably. I
1H4 4.2.   14  have got in exchange of one hundred and fifty soldiers
1H4 4.2.   15  three hundred and odd pounds. I press me none but
1H4 4.2.   16  good householders, yeomen's sons, enquire me out
1H4 4.2.   17  contracted bachelors, such as had been asked twice on
1H4 4.2.   18  the banns, such a commodity of warm slaves as had
1H4 4.2.   19  as lief hear the devil as a drum, such as fear the report
1H4 4.2.   20  of a caliver worse than a struck fowl or a hurt wild
1H4 4.2.   21  duck. I pressed me none but such toasts and butter,
1H4 4.2.   22  with hearts in their bellies no bigger than pins' heads,
1H4 4.2.   23  and they have bought out their services; and now my
1H4 4.2.   24  whole charge consists of ensigns, corporals, lieutenants,
1H4 4.2.   25  gentlemen of companies - slaves as ragged as Lazarus
1H4 4.2.   26  in the painted cloth, where the glutton's dogs licked
1H4 4.2.   27  his sores - and such as indeed were never soldiers, but
1H4 4.2.   28  discarded unjust servingmen, younger sons to younger
1H4 4.2.   29  brothers, revolted tapsters, and ostlers trade-fallen, the
1H4 4.2.   30  cankers of a calm world and a long peace, ten times
1H4 4.2.   31  more dishonourable-ragged than an old feazed ensign;
1H4 4.2.   32  and such have I to fill up the rooms of them as have
1H4 4.2.   33  bought out their services, that you would think that I
1H4 4.2.   34  had a hundred and fifty tattered prodigals lately come
1H4 4.2.   35  from swine-keeping, from eating draff and husks. A
1H4 4.2.   36  mad fellow met me on the way and told me I had
1H4 4.2.   37  unloaded all the gibbets and pressed the dead bodies.
1H4 4.2.   38  No eye hath seen such scarecrows. I'll not march
1H4 4.2.   39  through Coventry with them, that's flat. Nay, and the
1H4 4.2.   40  villains march wide betwixt the legs, as if they had
1H4 4.2.   41  gyves on, for indeed I had the most of them out of
1H4 4.2.   42  prison. There's not a shirt and a half in all my company;
1H4 4.2.   43  and the half-shirt is two napkins tacked together and
1H4 4.2.   44  thrown over the shoulders like a herald's coat without
1H4 4.2.   45  sleeves; and the shirt, to say the truth, stolen from my
1H4 4.2.   46  host at Saint Albans, or the red-nose innkeeper of
1H4 4.2.   47  Daventry. But that's all one; they'll find linen enough
1H4 4.2.   48  on every hedge. {Enter Prince Harry and the Earl of Westmorland}
1H4 4.2.   49   PRINCE HARRY  How now, blown Jack? How now, quilt?
1H4 4.2.   50   SIR JOHN What, Hal! How now, mad wag? What a devil
1H4 4.2.   51  dost thou in Warwickshire? My good lord of
1H4 4.2.   52  Westmorland, I cry you mercy! I thought your honour
1H4 4.2.   53  had already been at Shrewsbury.
1H4 4.2.   54   WESTMORLAND Faith, Sir John, 'tis more than time that I
1H4 4.2.   55  were there, and you too; but my powers are there
1H4 4.2.   56  already. The King, I can tell you, looks for us all. We
1H4 4.2.   57  must away all night.
1H4 4.2.   58   SIR JOHN Tut, never fear me. I am as vigilant as a cat to
1H4 4.2.   59  steal cream.
1H4 4.2.   60   PRINCE HARRY I think to steal cream indeed, for thy theft
1H4 4.2.   61  hath already made thee butter. But tell me, Jack, whose
1H4 4.2.   62  fellows are these that come after?
1H4 4.2.   63   SIR JOHN Mine, Hal, mine.
1H4 4.2.   64   PRINCE HARRY I did never see such pitiful rascals.
1H4 4.2.   65   SIR JOHN Tut, tut, good enough to toss, food for powder,
1H4 4.2.   66  food for powder. They'll fill a pit as well as better. Tush,
1H4 4.2.   67  man, mortal men, mortal men.
1H4 4.2.   68   WESTMORLAND Ay, but Sir John, methinks they are
1H4 4.2.   69  exceeding poor and bare, too beggarly.
1H4 4.2.   70   SIR JOHN Faith, for their poverty, I know not where they
1H4 4.2.   71  had that, and for their bareness, I am sure they never
1H4 4.2.   72  learned that of me.
1H4 4.2.   73   PRINCE HARRY No, I'll be sworn, unless you call three
1H4 4.2.   74  fingers in the ribs bare. But sirrah, make haste. Percy
1H4 4.2.   75  is already in the field. {Exit}
1H4 4.2.   76   SIR JOHN  What, is the King encamped?
1H4 4.2.   77   WESTMORLAND He is, Sir John. I fear we shall stay too
1H4 4.2.   78  long. {[Exit]}
1H4 4.2.   79   SIR JOHN  Well, to the latter end of a fray
1H4 4.2.   80  And the beginning of a feast
1H4 4.2.   81  Fits a dull fighter and a keen guest. {Exit}
1H4 4.2.    0    {Enter Hotspur, the Earls of Worcester and Douglas, and    +
1H4 4.3.    0  Sir Richard Vernon}
1H4 4.3.    1B  HOTSPUR  We'll fight with him tonight. WORCESTER It may  +
1H4 4.3.    1B not be.
1H4 4.3.    2B  DOUGLAS You give him then advantage. VERNON Not a whit.
1H4 4.3.    3   HOTSPUR Why say you so? Looks he not for supply?
1H4 4.3.    4B  VERNON So do we. HOTSPUR His is certain; ours is doubtful.
1H4 4.3.    5   WORCESTER Good cousin, be advised. Stir not tonight.
1H4 4.3.    6B  VERNON  {(to Hotspur)} Do not, my lord. DOUGLAS   +
1H4 4.3.    6B You do not counsel well.
1H4 4.3.    7  You speak it out of fear and cold heart.
1H4 4.3.    8   VERNON Do me no slander, Douglas. By my life - 
1H4 4.3.    9  And I dare well maintain it with my life - 
1H4 4.3.   10  If well-respected honour bid me on,
1H4 4.3.   11  I hold as little counsel with weak fear
1H4 4.3.   12  As you, my lord, or any Scot that this day lives.
1H4 4.3.   13  Let it be seen tomorrow in the battle
1H4 4.3.   14  Which of us fears.
1H4 4.3.   15A  DOUGLAS Yea, or tonight.
1H4 4.3.   16A  VERNON Content.
1H4 4.3.   17A  HOTSPUR Tonight, say I.
1H4 4.3.   18   VERNON Come, come, it may not be. I wonder much,
1H4 4.3.   19  Being men of such great leading as you are,
1H4 4.3.   20  That you foresee not what impediments
1H4 4.3.   21  Drag back our expedition. Certain horse
1H4 4.3.   22  Of my cousin Vernon's are not yet come up.
1H4 4.3.   23  Your uncle Worcester's horse came but today,
1H4 4.3.   24  And now their pride and mettle is asleep,
1H4 4.3.   25  Their courage with hard labour tame and dull,
1H4 4.3.   26  That not a horse is half the half himself.
1H4 4.3.   27   HOTSPUR So are the horses of the enemy
1H4 4.3.   28  In general journey-bated and brought low.
1H4 4.3.   29  The better part of ours are full of rest.
1H4 4.3.   30   WORCESTER The number of the King exceedeth our.
1H4 4.3.   31  For God's sake, cousin, stay till all come in. {The trumpet       +
1H4 4.3.   31  sounds a parley [within]. Enter Sir Walter Blunt}
1H4 4.3.   32   BLUNT  I come with gracious offers from the King,
1H4 4.3.   33  If you vouchsafe me hearing and respect.
1H4 4.3.   34   HOTSPUR Welcome, Sir Walter Blunt; and would to God
1H4 4.3.   35  You were of our determination.
1H4 4.3.   36  Some of us love you well, and even those some
1H4 4.3.   37  Envy your great deservings and good name,
1H4 4.3.   38  Because you are not of our quality,
1H4 4.3.   39  But stand against us like an enemy.
1H4 4.3.   40   BLUNT And God defend but still I should stand so,
1H4 4.3.   41  So long as out of limit and true rule
1H4 4.3.   42  You stand against anointed majesty.
1H4 4.3.   43  But to my charge. The King hath sent to know
1H4 4.3.   44  The nature of your griefs, and whereupon
1H4 4.3.   45  You conjure from the breast of civil peace
1H4 4.3.   46  Such bold hostility, teaching his duteous land
1H4 4.3.   47  Audacious cruelty. If that the King
1H4 4.3.   48  Have any way your good deserts forgot,
1H4 4.3.   49  Which he confesseth to be manifold,
1H4 4.3.   50  He bids you name your griefs, and with all speed
1H4 4.3.   51  You shall have your desires, with interest,
1H4 4.3.   52  And pardon absolute for yourself and these
1H4 4.3.   53  Herein misled by your suggestion.
1H4 4.3.   54   HOTSPUR The King is kind, and well we know the King
1H4 4.3.   55  Knows at what time to promise, when to pay.
1H4 4.3.   56  My father and my uncle and myself
1H4 4.3.   57  Did give him that same royalty he wears;
1H4 4.3.   58  And when he was not six-and-twenty strong,
1H4 4.3.   59  Sick in the world's regard, wretched and low,
1H4 4.3.   60  A poor unminded outlaw sneaking home,
1H4 4.3.   61  My father gave him welcome to the shore;
1H4 4.3.   62  And when he heard him swear and vow to God
1H4 4.3.   63  He came but to be Duke of Lancaster,
1H4 4.3.   64  To sue his livery, and beg his peace
1H4 4.3.   65  With tears of innocency and terms of zeal,
1H4 4.3.   66  My father, in kind heart and pity moved,
1H4 4.3.   67  Swore him assistance, and performed it too.
1H4 4.3.   68  Now when the lords and barons of the realm
1H4 4.3.   69  Perceived Northumberland did lean to him,
1H4 4.3.   70  The more and less came in with cap and knee,
1H4 4.3.   71  Met him in boroughs, cities, villages,
1H4 4.3.   72  Attended him on bridges, stood in lanes,
1H4 4.3.   73  Laid gifts before him, proffered him their oaths,
1H4 4.3.   74  Gave him their heirs as pages, followed him,
1H4 4.3.   75  Even at the heels, in golden multitudes.
1H4 4.3.   76  He presently, as greatness knows itself,
1H4 4.3.   77  Steps me a little higher than his vow
1H4 4.3.   78  Made to my father while his blood was poor
1H4 4.3.   79  Upon the naked shore at Ravenspurgh,
1H4 4.3.   80  And now forsooth takes on him to reform
1H4 4.3.   81  Some certain edicts and some strait decrees
1H4 4.3.   82  That lie too heavy on the commonwealth,
1H4 4.3.   83  Cries out upon abuses, seems to weep
1H4 4.3.   84  Over his country's wrongs; and by this face,
1H4 4.3.   85  This seeming brow of justice, did he win
1H4 4.3.   86  The hearts of all that he did angle for;
1H4 4.3.   87  Proceeded further, cut me off the heads
1H4 4.3.   88  Of all the favourites that the absent King
1H4 4.3.   89  In deputation left behind him here
1H4 4.3.   90  When he was personal in the Irish war.
1H4 4.3.   91B  BLUNT Tut, I came not to hear this. HOTSPUR Then to the point.
1H4 4.3.   92  In short time after, he deposed the King,
1H4 4.3.   93  Soon after that deprived him of his life,
1H4 4.3.   94  And in the neck of that tasked the whole state;
1H4 4.3.   95  To make that worse, suffered his kinsman March - 
1H4 4.3.   96  Who is, if every owner were well placed,
1H4 4.3.   97  Indeed his king - to be engaged in Wales,
1H4 4.3.   98  There without ransom to lie forfeited;
1H4 4.3.   99  Disgraced me in my happy victories,
1H4 4.3.  100  Sought to entrap me by intelligence,
1H4 4.3.  101  Rated mine uncle from the Council-board,
1H4 4.3.  102  In rage dismissed my father from the court,
1H4 4.3.  103  Broke oath on oath, committed wrong on wrong,
1H4 4.3.  104  And in conclusion drove us to seek out
1H4 4.3.  105  This head of safety, and withal to pry
1H4 4.3.  106  Into his title, the which we find
1H4 4.3.  107  Too indirect for long continuance.
1H4 4.3.  108   BLUNT Shall I return this answer to the King?
1H4 4.3.  109   HOTSPUR Not so, Sir Walter. We'll withdraw awhile.
1H4 4.3.  110  Go to the King, and let there be impawned
1H4 4.3.  111  Some surety for a safe return again;
1H4 4.3.  112  And in the morning early shall mine uncle
1H4 4.3.  113  Bring him our purposes. And so, farewell.
1H4 4.3.  114   BLUNT I would you would accept of grace and love.
1H4 4.3.  115B  HOTSPUR And maybe so we shall. BLUNT Pray God you do.      +
1H4 4.3.  115B {Exeunt [Hotspur, Worcester, Douglas, and Vernon at one door, Blunt at   +
1H4 4.3.  115B another door]}
1H4 4.3.    0    {Enter the Archbishop of York, and Sir Michael}
1H4 4.4.    1   ARCHBISHOP  {(giving letters)} Hie, good Sir         +
1H4 4.4.    1  Michael, bear this sealed brief
1H4 4.4.    2  With winged haste to the Lord Marshal,
1H4 4.4.    3  This to my cousin Scrope, and all the rest
1H4 4.4.    4  To whom they are directed. If you knew
1H4 4.4.    5  How much they do import, you would make haste.
1H4 4.4.    6A  SIR MICHAEL My good lord,
1H4 4.4.    7B I guess their tenor. ARCHBISHOP Like enough you do.
1H4 4.4.    8  Tomorrow, good Sir Michael, is a day
1H4 4.4.    9  Wherein the fortune of ten thousand men
1H4 4.4.   10  Must bide the touch; for, sir, at Shrewsbury,
1H4 4.4.   11  As I am truly given to understand,
1H4 4.4.   12  The King with mighty and quick-raised power
1H4 4.4.   13  Meets with Lord Harry. And I fear, Sir Michael,
1H4 4.4.   14  What with the sickness of Northumberland,
1H4 4.4.   15  Whose power was in the first proportion,
1H4 4.4.   16  And what with Owain Glyndw^r's absence thence,
1H4 4.4.   17  Who with them was a rated sinew too,
1H4 4.4.   18  And comes not in, overruled by prophecies,
1H4 4.4.   19  I fear the power of Percy is too weak
1H4 4.4.   20  To wage an instant trial with the King.
1H4 4.4.   21   SIR MICHAEL Why, my good lord, you need not fear; there is Douglas
1H4 4.4.   22B And Lord Mortimer. ARCHBISHOP No, Mortimer is not there.
1H4 4.4.   23   SIR MICHAEL But there is Mordake, Vernon, Lord Harry Percy;
1H4 4.4.   24  And there is my lord of Worcester, and a head
1H4 4.4.   25  Of gallant warriors, noble gentlemen.
1H4 4.4.   26   ARCHBISHOP And so there is; but yet the King hath drawn
1H4 4.4.   27  The special head of all the land together - 
1H4 4.4.   28  The Prince of Wales, Lord John of Lancaster,
1H4 4.4.   29  The noble Westmorland, and warlike Blunt,
1H4 4.4.   30  And many more corrivals, and dear men
1H4 4.4.   31  Of estimation and command in arms.
1H4 4.4.   32   SIR MICHAEL Doubt not, my lord, they shall be well opposed.
1H4 4.4.   33   ARCHBISHOP I hope no less, yet needful 'tis to fear;
1H4 4.4.   34  And to prevent the worst, Sir Michael, speed.
1H4 4.4.   35  For if Lord Percy thrive not, ere the King
1H4 4.4.   36  Dismiss his power he means to visit us,
1H4 4.4.   37  For he hath heard of our confederacy,
1H4 4.4.   38  And 'tis but wisdom to make strong against him;
1H4 4.4.   39  Therefore make haste. I must go write again
1H4 4.4.   40  To other friends; and so farewell, Sir Michael. {Exeunt           +
1H4 4.4.   40  [severally]}
1H4 4.4.    0     {Enter King Henry, Prince Harry, Lord John of        +
1H4 5.1.    0  Lancaster, the Earl of Westmorland, Sir Walter Blunt, and Sir John       +
1H4 5.1.    0  Oldcastle}
1H4 5.1.    1   KING HENRY  How bloodily the sun begins to peer
1H4 5.1.    2  Above yon bulky hill! The day looks pale
1H4 5.1.    3B At his distemp'rature. PRINCE HARRY The southern wind
1H4 5.1.    4  Doth play the trumpet to his purposes,
1H4 5.1.    5  And by his hollow whistling in the leaves
1H4 5.1.    6  Foretells a tempest and a blust'ring day.
1H4 5.1.    7   KING HENRY Then with the losers let it sympathize,
1H4 5.1.    8  For nothing can seem foul to those that win. {The trumpet sounds  +
1H4 5.1.    8  [a parley within]. Enter the Earl of Worcester [and Sir Richard          +
1H4 5.1.    8  Vernon]}
1H4 5.1.    9   How now, my lord of Worcester? 'Tis not well
1H4 5.1.   10  That you and I should meet upon such terms
1H4 5.1.   11  As now we meet. You have deceived our trust,
1H4 5.1.   12  And made us doff our easy robes of peace
1H4 5.1.   13  To crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.
1H4 5.1.   14  This is not well, my lord, this is not well.
1H4 5.1.   15  What say you to it? Will you again unknit
1H4 5.1.   16  This churlish knot of all-abhorred war,
1H4 5.1.   17  And move in that obedient orb again
1H4 5.1.   18  Where you did give a fair and natural light,
1H4 5.1.   19  And be no more an exhaled meteor,
1H4 5.1.   20  A prodigy of fear, and a portent
1H4 5.1.   21  Of broached mischief to the unborn times?
1H4 5.1.   22A  WORCESTER Hear me, my liege.
1H4 5.1.   23  For mine own part, I could be well content
1H4 5.1.   24  To entertain the lag-end of my life
1H4 5.1.   25  With quiet hours; for I protest,
1H4 5.1.   26  I have not sought the day of this dislike.
1H4 5.1.   27   KING HENRY You have not sought it? How comes it, then?
1H4 5.1.   28   SIR JOHN  Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it.
1H4 5.1.   29   PRINCE HARRY Peace, chewet, peace!
1H4 5.1.   30   WORCESTER  {(to the King)} It pleased your majesty   +
1H4 5.1.   30  to turn your looks
1H4 5.1.   31  Of favour from myself and all our house;
1H4 5.1.   32  And yet I must remember you, my lord,
1H4 5.1.   33  We were the first and dearest of your friends.
1H4 5.1.   34  For you my staff of office did I break
1H4 5.1.   35  In Richard's time, and posted day and night
1H4 5.1.   36  To meet you on the way and kiss your hand
1H4 5.1.   37  When yet you were in place and in account
1H4 5.1.   38  Nothing so strong and fortunate as I.
1H4 5.1.   39  It was myself, my brother, and his son
1H4 5.1.   40  That brought you home, and boldly did outdare
1H4 5.1.   41  The dangers of the time. You swore to us,
1H4 5.1.   42  And you did swear that oath at Doncaster,
1H4 5.1.   43  That you did nothing purpose 'gainst the state,
1H4 5.1.   44  Nor claim no further than your new-fall'n right,
1H4 5.1.   45  The seat of Gaunt, dukedom of Lancaster.
1H4 5.1.   46  To this we swore our aid, but in short space
1H4 5.1.   47  It rained down fortune show'ring on your head,
1H4 5.1.   48  And such a flood of greatness fell on you,
1H4 5.1.   49  What with our help, what with the absent King,
1H4 5.1.   50  What with the injuries of a wanton time,
1H4 5.1.   51  The seeming sufferances that you had borne,
1H4 5.1.   52  And the contrarious winds that held the King
1H4 5.1.   53  So long in his unlucky Irish wars
1H4 5.1.   54  That all in England did repute him dead;
1H4 5.1.   55  And from this swarm of fair advantages
1H4 5.1.   56  You took occasion to be quickly wooed
1H4 5.1.   57  To gripe the general sway into your hand,
1H4 5.1.   58  Forgot your oath to us at Doncaster,
1H4 5.1.   59  And being fed by us, you used us so
1H4 5.1.   60  As that ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird,
1H4 5.1.   61  Useth the sparrow - did oppress our nest,
1H4 5.1.   62  Grew by our feeding to so great a bulk
1H4 5.1.   63  That even our love durst not come near your sight
1H4 5.1.   64  For fear of swallowing. But with nimble wing
1H4 5.1.   65  We were enforced for safety' sake to fly
1H4 5.1.   66  Out of your sight, and raise this present head,
1H4 5.1.   67  Whereby we stand opposed by such means
1H4 5.1.   68  As you yourself have forged against yourself,
1H4 5.1.   69  By unkind usage, dangerous countenance,
1H4 5.1.   70  And violation of all faith and troth
1H4 5.1.   71  Sworn to us in your younger enterprise.
1H4 5.1.   72   KING HENRY These things indeed you have articulate,
1H4 5.1.   73  Proclaimed at market crosses, read in churches,
1H4 5.1.   74  To face the garment of rebellion
1H4 5.1.   75  With some fine colour that may please the eye
1H4 5.1.   76  Of fickle changelings and poor discontents,
1H4 5.1.   77  Which gape and rub the elbow at the news
1H4 5.1.   78  Of hurly-burly innovation;
1H4 5.1.   79  And never yet did insurrection want
1H4 5.1.   80  Such water-colours to impaint his cause,
1H4 5.1.   81  Nor moody beggars starving for a time
1H4 5.1.   82  Of pell-mell havoc and confusion.
1H4 5.1.   83   PRINCE HARRY In both our armies there is many a soul
1H4 5.1.   84  Shall pay full dearly for this encounter
1H4 5.1.   85  If once they join in trial. Tell your nephew
1H4 5.1.   86  The Prince of Wales doth join with all the world
1H4 5.1.   87  In praise of Henry Percy. By my hopes,
1H4 5.1.   88  This present enterprise set off his head,
1H4 5.1.   89  I do not think a braver gentleman,
1H4 5.1.   90  More active-valiant or more valiant-young,
1H4 5.1.   91  More daring, or more bold, is now alive
1H4 5.1.   92  To grace this latter age with noble deeds.
1H4 5.1.   93  For my part, I may speak it to my shame,
1H4 5.1.   94  I have a truant been to chivalry;
1H4 5.1.   95  And so I hear he doth account me too.
1H4 5.1.   96  Yet this, before my father's majesty:
1H4 5.1.   97  I am content that he shall take the odds
1H4 5.1.   98  Of his great name and estimation,
1H4 5.1.   99  And will, to save the blood on either side,
1H4 5.1.  100  Try fortune with him in a single fight.
1H4 5.1.  101   KING HENRY And, Prince of Wales, so dare we venture thee,
1H4 5.1.  102  Albeit considerations infinite
1H4 5.1.  103  Do make against it. No, good Worcester, no.
1H4 5.1.  104  We love our people well; even those we love
1H4 5.1.  105  That are misled upon your cousin's part;
1H4 5.1.  106  And will they take the offer of our grace,
1H4 5.1.  107  Both he and they and you, yea, every man
1H4 5.1.  108  Shall be my friend again, and I'll be his.
1H4 5.1.  109  So tell your cousin, and bring me word
1H4 5.1.  110  What he will do. But if he will not yield,
1H4 5.1.  111  Rebuke and dread correction wait on us,
1H4 5.1.  112  And they shall do their office. So be gone.
1H4 5.1.  113  We will not now be troubled with reply.
1H4 5.1.  114  We offer fair; take it advisedly. {Exeunt Worcester [and          +
1H4 5.1.  114  Vernon]}
1H4 5.1.  115   PRINCE HARRY  It will not be accepted, on my life.
1H4 5.1.  116  The Douglas and the Hotspur both together
1H4 5.1.  117  Are confident against the world in arms.
1H4 5.1.  118   KING HENRY Hence, therefore, every leader to his charge,
1H4 5.1.  119  For on their answer will we set on them,
1H4 5.1.  120  And God befriend us as our cause is just! {Exeunt all but Prince  +
1H4 5.1.  120  Harry and Oldcastle}
1H4 5.1.  121   SIR JOHN  Hal, if thou see me down in the battle, and
1H4 5.1.  122  bestride me, so. 'Tis a point of friendship.
1H4 5.1.  123   PRINCE HARRY Nothing but a colossus can do thee that
1H4 5.1.  124  friendship. Say thy prayers, and farewell.
1H4 5.1.  125   SIR JOHN I would 'twere bed-time, Hal, and all well.
1H4 5.1.  126   PRINCE HARRY Why, thou owest God a death. {Exit}
1H4 5.1.  127   SIR JOHN  'Tis not due yet. I would be loath to pay him
1H4 5.1.  128  before his day. What need I be so forward with him
1H4 5.1.  129  that calls not on me? Well, 'tis no matter; honour
1H4 5.1.  130  pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off
1H4 5.1.  131  when I come on? How then? Can honour set-to a leg?
1H4 5.1.  132  No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound?
1H4 5.1.  133  No. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? No. What
1H4 5.1.  134  is honour? A word. What is in that word `honour'?
1H4 5.1.  135  What is that `honour'? Air. A trim reckoning! Who
1H4 5.1.  136  hath it? He that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it?
1H4 5.1.  137  No. Doth he hear it? No. 'Tis insensible then? Yea, to
1H4 5.1.  138  the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why?
1H4 5.1.  139  Detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of it.
1H4 5.1.  140  Honour is a mere scutcheon. And so ends my catechism. {Exit}
1H4 5.1.    0    {Enter the Earl of Worcester and Sir Richard Vernon}
1H4 5.2.    1   WORCESTER  O no, my nephew must not know, Sir Richard,
1H4 5.2.    2  The liberal and kind offer of the King.
1H4 5.2.    3B  VERNON 'Twere best he did. WORCESTER Then are we all undone.
1H4 5.2.    4  It is not possible, it cannot be,
1H4 5.2.    5  The King should keep his word in loving us.
1H4 5.2.    6  He will suspect us still, and find a time
1H4 5.2.    7  To punish this offence in other faults.
1H4 5.2.    8  Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes,
1H4 5.2.    9  For treason is but trusted like the fox,
1H4 5.2.   10  Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished, and locked up,
1H4 5.2.   11  Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.
1H4 5.2.   12  Look how we can, or sad or merrily,
1H4 5.2.   13  Interpretation will misquote our looks,
1H4 5.2.   14  And we shall feed like oxen at a stall,
1H4 5.2.   15  The better cherished still the nearer death.
1H4 5.2.   16  My nephew's trespass may be well forgot;
1H4 5.2.   17  It hath the excuse of youth and heat of blood,
1H4 5.2.   18  And an adopted name of privilege - 
1H4 5.2.   19  A hare-brained Hotspur, governed by a spleen.
1H4 5.2.   20  All his offences live upon my head,
1H4 5.2.   21  And on his father's. We did train him on,
1H4 5.2.   22  And, his corruption being ta'en from us,
1H4 5.2.   23  We as the spring of all shall pay for all.
1H4 5.2.   24  Therefore, good cousin, let not Harry know
1H4 5.2.   25  In any case the offer of the King.
1H4 5.2.   26   VERNON Deliver what you will; I'll say 'tis so. {Enter        +
1H4 5.2.   26  Hotspur and the Earl of Douglas}
1H4 5.2.   27B  Here comes your cousin. HOTSPUR My uncle is returned.
1H4 5.2.   28  Deliver up my lord of Westmorland.
1H4 5.2.   29  Uncle, what news?
1H4 5.2.   30   WORCESTER The King will bid you battle presently.
1H4 5.2.   31   DOUGLAS Defy him by the Lord of Westmorland.
1H4 5.2.   32   HOTSPUR Lord Douglas, go you and tell him so.
1H4 5.2.   33   DOUGLAS Marry, and shall, and very willingly. {Exit}
1H4 5.2.   34   WORCESTER  There is no seeming mercy in the King.
1H4 5.2.   35   HOTSPUR Did you beg any? God forbid!
1H4 5.2.   36   WORCESTER I told him gently of our grievances,
1H4 5.2.   37  Of his oath-breaking, which he mended thus:
1H4 5.2.   38  By now forswearing that he is forsworn.
1H4 5.2.   39  He calls us `rebels', `traitors', and will scourge
1H4 5.2.   40  With haughty arms this hateful name in us. {Enter the Earl of     +
1H4 5.2.   40  Douglas}
1H4 5.2.   41   DOUGLAS  Arm, gentlemen, to arms, for I have thrown
1H4 5.2.   42  A brave defiance in King Henry's teeth - 
1H4 5.2.   43  And Westmorland that was engaged did bear it - 
1H4 5.2.   44  Which cannot choose but bring him quickly on.
1H4 5.2.   45   WORCESTER  {(to Hotspur)} The Prince of Wales        +
1H4 5.2.   45  stepped forth before the King
1H4 5.2.   46  And, nephew, challenged you to single fight.
1H4 5.2.   47   HOTSPUR O, would the quarrel lay upon our heads,
1H4 5.2.   48  And that no man might draw short breath today
1H4 5.2.   49  But I and Harry Monmouth! Tell me, tell me,
1H4 5.2.   50  How showed his tasking? Seemed it in contempt?
1H4 5.2.   51   VERNON No, by my soul, I never in my life
1H4 5.2.   52  Did hear a challenge urged more modestly,
1H4 5.2.   53  Unless a brother should a brother dare
1H4 5.2.   54  To gentle exercise and proof of arms.
1H4 5.2.   55  He gave you all the duties of a man,
1H4 5.2.   56  Trimmed up your praises with a princely tongue,
1H4 5.2.   57  Spoke your deservings like a chronicle,
1H4 5.2.   58  Making you ever better than his praise
1H4 5.2.   59  By still dispraising praise valued with you;
1H4 5.2.   60  And, which became him like a prince indeed,
1H4 5.2.   61  He made a blushing cital of himself,
1H4 5.2.   62  And chid his truant youth with such a grace
1H4 5.2.   63  As if he mastered there a double spirit
1H4 5.2.   64  Of teaching and of learning instantly.
1H4 5.2.   65  There did he pause; but let me tell the world,
1H4 5.2.   66  If he outlive the envy of this day,
1H4 5.2.   67  England did never owe so sweet a hope,
1H4 5.2.   68  So much misconstrued in his wantonness.
1H4 5.2.   69   HOTSPUR Cousin, I think thou art enamoured
1H4 5.2.   70  On his follies. Never did I hear
1H4 5.2.   71  Of any prince so wild a liberty.
1H4 5.2.   72  But be he as he will, yet once ere night
1H4 5.2.   73  I will embrace him with a soldier's arm,
1H4 5.2.   74  That he shall shrink under my courtesy.
1H4 5.2.   75  Arm, arm, with speed! And fellows, soldiers, friends,
1H4 5.2.   76  Better consider what you have to do
1H4 5.2.   77  Than I, that have not well the gift of tongue,
1H4 5.2.   78  Can lift your blood up with persuasion. {Enter a Messenger}
1H4 5.2.   79   MESSENGER  My lord, here are letters for you.
1H4 5.2.   80A  HOTSPUR  I cannot read them now. {[Exit Messenger]}
1H4 5.2.   81   O gentlemen, the time of life is short.
1H4 5.2.   82  To spend that shortness basely were too long
1H4 5.2.   83  If life did ride upon a dial's point,
1H4 5.2.   84  Still ending at the arrival of an hour.
1H4 5.2.   85  An if we live, we live to tread on kings;
1H4 5.2.   86  If die, brave death when princes die with us!
1H4 5.2.   87  Now for our consciences: the arms are fair
1H4 5.2.   88  When the intent of bearing them is just. {Enter another           +
1H4 5.2.   88  Messenger}
1H4 5.2.   89   MESSENGER  My lord, prepare; the King comes on              +
1H4 5.2.   89  apace. {[Exit]}
1H4 5.2.   90   HOTSPUR  I thank him that he cuts me from my tale,
1H4 5.2.   91  For I profess not talking, only this:
1H4 5.2.   92  Let each man do his best. And here draw I
1H4 5.2.   93  A sword whose temper I intend to stain
1H4 5.2.   94  With the best blood that I can meet withal
1H4 5.2.   95  In the adventure of this perilous day.
1H4 5.2.   96  Now {Esperance}! Percy! And set on!
1H4 5.2.   97  Sound all the lofty instruments of war,
1H4 5.2.   98  And by that music let us all embrace,
1H4 5.2.   99  For, heaven to earth, some of us never shall
1H4 5.2.  100  A second time do such a courtesy. {The trumpets sound. Here they  +
1H4 5.2.  100  embrace. Exeunt}
1H4 5.2.    0   {King Henry enters with his power. Alarum, and exeunt to the       +
1H4 5.3.    0  battle. Then enter the Earl of Douglas, and Sir Walter Blunt, disguised  +
1H4 5.3.    0  as the King}
1H4 5.3.    1   BLUNT  What is thy name, that in the battle thus
1H4 5.3.    2  Thou crossest me? What honour dost thou seek
1H4 5.3.    3B Upon my head? DOUGLAS Know then my name is Douglas,
1H4 5.3.    4  And I do haunt thee in the battle thus
1H4 5.3.    5  Because some tell me that thou art a king.
1H4 5.3.    6A  BLUNT They tell thee true.
1H4 5.3.    7   DOUGLAS The Lord of Stafford dear today hath bought
1H4 5.3.    8  Thy likeness, for instead of thee, King Harry,
1H4 5.3.    9  This sword hath ended him. So shall it thee,
1H4 5.3.   10  Unless thou yield thee as my prisoner.
1H4 5.3.   11   BLUNT I was not born a yielder, thou proud Scot,
1H4 5.3.   12  And thou shalt find a king that will revenge
1H4 5.3.   13  Lord Stafford's death. {They fight. Douglas kills Blunt. Then     +
1H4 5.3.   13  enter Hotspur}
1H4 5.3.   14   HOTSPUR  O Douglas, hadst thou fought at Holmedon thus,
1H4 5.3.   15  I never had triumphed upon a Scot.
1H4 5.3.   16   DOUGLAS All's done, all's won: here breathless lies the King.
1H4 5.3.   17A  HOTSPUR Where?
1H4 5.3.   18A  DOUGLAS Here.
1H4 5.3.   19   HOTSPUR This, Douglas? No, I know this face full well.
1H4 5.3.   20  A gallant knight he was; his name was Blunt - 
1H4 5.3.   21  Semblably furnished like the King himself.
1H4 5.3.   22   DOUGLAS  {(to Blunt's body)} A fool go with thy      +
1H4 5.3.   22  soul, whither it goes!
1H4 5.3.   23  A borrowed title hast thou bought too dear.
1H4 5.3.   24  Why didst thou tell me that thou wert a king?
1H4 5.3.   25   HOTSPUR The king hath many marching in his coats.
1H4 5.3.   26   DOUGLAS Now by my sword, I will kill all his coats.
1H4 5.3.   27  I'll murder all his wardrobe, piece by piece,
1H4 5.3.   28B Until I meet the King. HOTSPUR Up and away!
1H4 5.3.   29  Our soldiers stand full fairly for the day. {Exeunt, leaving      +
1H4 5.3.   29  Blunt's body}
1H4 5.3.   30   {Alarum. Enter Sir John Oldcastle} SIR JOHN  Though  +
1H4 5.3.   30  I could scape shot-free at London, I fear
1H4 5.3.   31  the shot here. Here's no scoring but upon the pate. - 
1H4 5.3.   32  Soft, who are you? - Sir Walter Blunt. There's honour
1H4 5.3.   33  for you. Here's no vanity. I am as hot as molten lead,
1H4 5.3.   34  and as heavy too. God keep lead out of me; I need no
1H4 5.3.   35  more weight than mine own bowels. I have led my
1H4 5.3.   36  ragamuffins where they are peppered; there's not three
1H4 5.3.   37  of my hundred and fifty left alive, and they are for the
1H4 5.3.   38  town's end, to beg during life. {Enter Prince Harry}
1H4 5.3.   39   But who comes here?
1H4 5.3.   40   PRINCE HARRY What, stand'st thou idle here? Lend me thy sword.
1H4 5.3.   41  Many a noble man lies stark and stiff
1H4 5.3.   42  Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies,
1H4 5.3.   43  Whose deaths as yet are unrevenged. I prithee
1H4 5.3.   44  Lend me thy sword.
1H4 5.3.   45   SIR JOHN O Hal, I prithee give me leave to breathe awhile.
1H4 5.3.   46  Turk Gregory never did such deeds in arms
1H4 5.3.   47  As I have done this day. I have paid Percy,
1H4 5.3.   48B I have made him sure. PRINCE HARRY He is indeed,
1H4 5.3.   49  And living to kill thee. I prithee
1H4 5.3.   50B Lend me thy sword. SIR JOHN Nay, before God, Hal,
1H4 5.3.   51  If Percy be alive thou gett'st not my sword;
1H4 5.3.   52  But take my pistol if thou wilt.
1H4 5.3.   53B  PRINCE HARRY Give it me. What, is it in the case? SIR JOHN Ay,    +
1H4 5.3.   53B Hal;
1H4 5.3.   54  'Tis hot, 'tis hot. There's that will sack a city. {The Prince    +
1H4 5.3.   54  draws it out, and finds it to be a bottle of sack}
1H4 5.3.   55   PRINCE HARRY  What, is it a time to jest and dally          +
1H4 5.3.   55  now? {He throws the bottle at him. Exit}
1H4 5.3.   56   SIR JOHN  Well, if Percy be alive, I'll pierce him. If he   +
1H4 5.3.   56  do
1H4 5.3.   57  come in my way, so; if he do not, if I come in his
1H4 5.3.   58  willingly, let him make a carbonado of me. I like not
1H4 5.3.   59  such grinning honour as Sir Walter hath. Give me life,
1H4 5.3.   60  which if I can save, so; if not, honour comes unlooked
1H4 5.3.   61  for, and there's an end. {Exit [with Blunt's body]}
1H4 5.3.    0    {Alarum. Excursions. Enter King Henry, Prince Harry,       +
1H4 5.4.    0  wounded, Lord John of Lancaster, and the Earl of Westmorland}
1H4 5.4.    1   KING HENRY  I prithee, Harry, withdraw thyself, thou        +
1H4 5.4.    1  bleed'st too much.
1H4 5.4.    2  Lord John of Lancaster, go you with him.
1H4 5.4.    3   JOHN OF LANCASTER Not I, my lord, unless I did bleed too.
1H4 5.4.    4   PRINCE HARRY  {(to the King)} I beseech your         +
1H4 5.4.    4  majesty, make up,
1H4 5.4.    5  Lest your retirement do amaze your friends.
1H4 5.4.    6   KING HENRY I will do so. My lord of Westmorland,
1H4 5.4.    7  Lead him to his tent.
1H4 5.4.    8   WESTMORLAND  {(to the Prince)} Come, my lord, I'll   +
1H4 5.4.    8  lead you to your tent.
1H4 5.4.    9   PRINCE HARRY Lead me, my lord? I do not need your help,
1H4 5.4.   10  And God forbid a shallow scratch should drive
1H4 5.4.   11  The Prince of Wales from such a field as this,
1H4 5.4.   12  Where stained nobility lies trodden on,
1H4 5.4.   13  And rebels' arms triumph in massacres.
1H4 5.4.   14   JOHN OF LANCASTER We breathe too long. Come, cousin Westmorland,
1H4 5.4.   15  Our duty this way lies. For God's sake, come. {Exeunt Lancaster   +
1H4 5.4.   15  and Westmorland}
1H4 5.4.   16   PRINCE HARRY  By God, thou hast deceived me, Lancaster;
1H4 5.4.   17  I did not think thee lord of such a spirit.
1H4 5.4.   18  Before I loved thee as a brother, John,
1H4 5.4.   19  But now I do respect thee as my soul.
1H4 5.4.   20   KING HENRY I saw him hold Lord Percy at the point
1H4 5.4.   21  With lustier maintenance than I did look for
1H4 5.4.   22  Of such an ungrown warrior.
1H4 5.4.   23   PRINCE HARRY O, this boy lends mettle to us all! {Exit}
1H4 5.4.   24   {Enter the Earl of Douglas} DOUGLAS  Another king!   +
1H4 5.4.   24  They grow like Hydra's heads.
1H4 5.4.   25  I am the Douglas, fatal to all those
1H4 5.4.   26  That wear those colours on them. What art thou
1H4 5.4.   27  That counterfeit'st the person of a king?
1H4 5.4.   28   KING HENRY The King himself, who, Douglas, grieves at heart
1H4 5.4.   29  So many of his shadows thou hast met
1H4 5.4.   30  And not the very King. I have two boys
1H4 5.4.   31  Seek Percy and thyself about the field;
1H4 5.4.   32  But seeing thou fall'st on me so luckily,
1H4 5.4.   33  I will assay thee; and defend thyself.
1H4 5.4.   34   DOUGLAS I fear thou art another counterfeit;
1H4 5.4.   35  And yet, in faith, thou bear'st thee like a king.
1H4 5.4.   36  But mine I am sure thou art, whoe'er thou be,
1H4 5.4.   37  And thus I win thee. {They fight. The King being in danger,       +
1H4 5.4.   37  enter Prince Harry}
1H4 5.4.   38   PRINCE HARRY  Hold up thy head, vile Scot, or thou art      +
1H4 5.4.   38  like
1H4 5.4.   39  Never to hold it up again. The spirits
1H4 5.4.   40  Of valiant Shirley, Stafford, Blunt, are in my arms.
1H4 5.4.   41  It is the Prince of Wales that threatens thee,
1H4 5.4.   42  Who never promiseth but he means to pay. {They fight. Douglas     +
1H4 5.4.   42  flieth}
1H4 5.4.   43   Cheerly, my lord! How fares your grace?
1H4 5.4.   44  Sir Nicholas Gawsey hath for succour sent,
1H4 5.4.   45  And so hath Clifton. I'll to Clifton straight.
1H4 5.4.   46A  KING HENRY Stay and breathe awhile.
1H4 5.4.   47  Thou hast redeemed thy lost opinion,
1H4 5.4.   48  And showed thou mak'st some tender of my life,
1H4 5.4.   49  In this fair rescue thou hast brought to me.
1H4 5.4.   50   PRINCE HARRY O God, they did me too much injury
1H4 5.4.   51  That ever said I hearkened for your death.
1H4 5.4.   52  If it were so, I might have let alone
1H4 5.4.   53  The insulting hand of Douglas over you,
1H4 5.4.   54  Which would have been as speedy in your end
1H4 5.4.   55  As all the poisonous potions in the world,
1H4 5.4.   56  And saved the treacherous labour of your son.
1H4 5.4.   57   KING HENRY Make up to Clifton; I'll to Sir Nicholas Gawsey.   +
1H4 5.4.   57  {Exit}
1H4 5.4.   58   {Enter Hotspur} HOTSPUR  If I mistake not, thou art  +
1H4 5.4.   58  Harry Monmouth.
1H4 5.4.   59   PRINCE HARRY Thou speak'st as if I would deny my name.
1H4 5.4.   60B  HOTSPUR My name is Harry Percy. PRINCE HARRY Why then, I see
1H4 5.4.   61  A very valiant rebel of the name.
1H4 5.4.   62  I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy,
1H4 5.4.   63  To share with me in glory any more.
1H4 5.4.   64  Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere,
1H4 5.4.   65  Nor can one England brook a double reign
1H4 5.4.   66  Of Harry Percy and the Prince of Wales.
1H4 5.4.   67   HOTSPUR Nor shall it, Harry, for the hour is come
1H4 5.4.   68  To end the one of us, and would to God
1H4 5.4.   69  Thy name in arms were now as great as mine.
1H4 5.4.   70   PRINCE HARRY I'll make it greater ere I part from thee,
1H4 5.4.   71  And all the budding honours on thy crest
1H4 5.4.   72  I'll crop to make a garland for my head.
1H4 5.4.   73   HOTSPUR I can no longer brook thy vanities. {They fight.}
1H4 5.4.   74  {Enter Sir John Oldcastle} SIR JOHN  Well said, Hal! To it,  +
1H4 5.4.   74  Hal! Nay, you shall find
1H4 5.4.   75  no boy's play here, I can tell you. {Enter Douglas. He fighteth   +
1H4 5.4.   75  with Sir John, who falls down as if he were dead. Exit Douglas. The      +
1H4 5.4.   75  Prince killeth Hotspur}
1H4 5.4.   76   HOTSPUR  O Harry, thou hast robbed me of my youth.
1H4 5.4.   77  I better brook the loss of brittle life
1H4 5.4.   78  Than those proud titles thou hast won of me.
1H4 5.4.   79  They wound my thoughts worse than thy sword my flesh.
1H4 5.4.   80  But thoughts, the slaves of life, and life, time's fool,
1H4 5.4.   81  And time, that takes survey of all the world,
1H4 5.4.   82  Must have a stop. O, I could prophesy,
1H4 5.4.   83  But that the earthy and cold hand of death
1H4 5.4.   84  Lies on my tongue. No, Percy, thou art dust,
1H4 5.4.   85  And food for -  {He dies}
1H4 5.4.   86   PRINCE HARRY  For worms, brave Percy. Fare thee well,       +
1H4 5.4.   86  great heart.
1H4 5.4.   87  Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk!
1H4 5.4.   88  When that this body did contain a spirit,
1H4 5.4.   89  A kingdom for it was too small a bound,
1H4 5.4.   90  But now two paces of the vilest earth
1H4 5.4.   91  Is room enough. This earth that bears thee dead
1H4 5.4.   92  Bears not alive so stout a gentleman.
1H4 5.4.   93  If thou wert sensible of courtesy,
1H4 5.4.   94  I should not make so dear a show of zeal;
1H4 5.4.   95  But let my favours hide thy mangled face, {He covers Hotspur's    +
1H4 5.4.   95  face}
1H4 5.4.   96   And even in thy behalf I'll thank myself
1H4 5.4.   97  For doing these fair rites of tenderness.
1H4 5.4.   98  Adieu, and take thy praise with thee to heaven.
1H4 5.4.   99  Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave,
1H4 5.4.  100  But not remembered in thy epitaph. {He spieth Sir John on the     +
1H4 5.4.  100  ground}
1H4 5.4.  101   What, old acquaintance! Could not all this flesh
1H4 5.4.  102  Keep in a little life? Poor Jack, farewell.
1H4 5.4.  103  I could have better spared a better man.
1H4 5.4.  104  O, I should have a heavy miss of thee,
1H4 5.4.  105  If I were much in love with vanity.
1H4 5.4.  106  Death hath not struck so fat a deer today,
1H4 5.4.  107  Though many dearer in this bloody fray.
1H4 5.4.  108  Embowelled will I see thee by and by.
1H4 5.4.  109  Till then, in blood by noble Percy lie. {Exit}
1H4 5.4.  110   {Sir John riseth up} SIR JOHN  Embowelled? If thou   +
1H4 5.4.  110  embowel me today, I'll give
1H4 5.4.  111  you leave to powder me, and eat me too, tomorrow.
1H4 5.4.  112  'Sblood, 'twas time to counterfeit, or that hot termagant
1H4 5.4.  113  Scot had paid me, scot and lot too. Counterfeit? I lie, I
1H4 5.4.  114  am no counterfeit. To die is to be a counterfeit, for he
1H4 5.4.  115  is but the counterfeit of a man who hath not the life
1H4 5.4.  116  of a man. But to counterfeit dying when a man thereby
1H4 5.4.  117  liveth is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfect
1H4 5.4.  118  image of life indeed. The better part of valour is
1H4 5.4.  119  discretion, in the which better part I have saved my
1H4 5.4.  120  life. Zounds, I am afraid of this gunpowder Percy,
1H4 5.4.  121  though he be dead. How if he should counterfeit too,
1H4 5.4.  122  and rise? By my faith, I am afraid he would prove the
1H4 5.4.  123  better counterfeit. Therefore I'll make him sure; yea,
1H4 5.4.  124  and I'll swear I killed him. Why may not he rise as
1H4 5.4.  125  well as I? Nothing confutes me but eyes, and nobody
1H4 5.4.  126  sees me. Therefore, sirrah, {(stabbing Hotspur)} with a
1H4 5.4.  127  new wound in your thigh, come you along with me. {He takes up     +
1H4 5.4.  127  Hotspur on his back.}
1H4 5.4.  128  {Enter Prince Harry and Lord John of Lancaster} PRINCE HARRY          +
1H4 5.4.  128   Come, brother John. Full bravely hast thou fleshed
1H4 5.4.  129B Thy maiden sword. JOHN OF LANCASTER But soft; whom have we here?
1H4 5.4.  130  Did you not tell me this fat man was dead?
1H4 5.4.  131A  PRINCE HARRY I did; I saw him dead,
1H4 5.4.  132B Breathless and bleeding on the ground. {(To Sir John)}   +
1H4 5.4.  132B Art thou alive?
1H4 5.4.  133  Or is it fantasy that plays upon our eyesight?
1H4 5.4.  134  I prithee speak; we will not trust our eyes
1H4 5.4.  135  Without our ears. Thou art not what thou seem'st.
1H4 5.4.  136   SIR JOHN  No, that's certain: I am not a double man. But
1H4 5.4.  137  if I be not Jack Oldcastle, then am I a jack. There is
1H4 5.4.  138  Percy. If your father will do me any honour, so; if not,
1H4 5.4.  139  let him kill the next Percy himself. I look to be either
1H4 5.4.  140  earl or duke, I can assure you.
1H4 5.4.  141   PRINCE HARRY  Why, Percy I killed myself, and saw thee      +
1H4 5.4.  141  dead.
1H4 5.4.  142   SIR JOHN  Didst thou? Lord, Lord, how this world is given
1H4 5.4.  143  to lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath,
1H4 5.4.  144  and so was he; but we rose both at an instant, and
1H4 5.4.  145  fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock. If I may be
1H4 5.4.  146  believed, so; if not, let them that should reward valour
1H4 5.4.  147  bear the sin upon their own heads. I'll take 't on my
1H4 5.4.  148  death I gave him this wound in the thigh. If the man
1H4 5.4.  149  were alive and would deny it, zounds, I would make
1H4 5.4.  150  him eat a piece of my sword.
1H4 5.4.  151   JOHN OF LANCASTER  This is the strangest tale that e'er I   +
1H4 5.4.  151  heard.
1H4 5.4.  152   PRINCE HARRY This is the strangest fellow, brother John.
1H4 5.4.  153   {(To Sir John)} Come, bring your luggage nobly on your  +
1H4 5.4.  153  back.
1H4 5.4.  154  For my part, if a lie may do thee grace,
1H4 5.4.  155  I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have. {A retreat is        +
1H4 5.4.  155  sounded}
1H4 5.4.  156   The trumpet sounds retreat; the day is our.
1H4 5.4.  157  Come, brother, let us to the highest of the field
1H4 5.4.  158  To see what friends are living, who are dead. {Exeunt the Prince  +
1H4 5.4.  158  and Lancaster}
1H4 5.4.  159   SIR JOHN  I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that
1H4 5.4.  160  rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll
1H4 5.4.  161  grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live
1H4 5.4.  162  cleanly, as a nobleman should do. {Exit, bearing Hotspur's body}
1H4 5.4.    0    {The trumpets sound. Enter King Henry, Prince Harry, Lord  +
1H4 5.5.    0  John of Lancaster, the Earl of Westmorland, with the Earl of Worcester   +
1H4 5.5.    0  and Sir Richard Vernon, prisoners, [and soldiers]}
1H4 5.5.    1   KING HENRY  Thus ever did rebellion find rebuke.
1H4 5.5.    2  Ill-spirited Worcester, did not we send grace,
1H4 5.5.    3  Pardon, and terms of love to all of you?
1H4 5.5.    4  And wouldst thou turn our offers contrary,
1H4 5.5.    5  Misuse the tenor of thy kinsman's trust?
1H4 5.5.    6  Three knights upon our party slain today,
1H4 5.5.    7  A noble earl, and many a creature else,
1H4 5.5.    8  Had been alive this hour
1H4 5.5.    9  If like a Christian thou hadst truly borne
1H4 5.5.   10  Betwixt our armies true intelligence.
1H4 5.5.   11   WORCESTER What I have done my safety urged me to,
1H4 5.5.   12  And I embrace this fortune patiently,
1H4 5.5.   13  Since not to be avoided it falls on me.
1H4 5.5.   14   KING HENRY Bear Worcester to the death, and Vernon too.
1H4 5.5.   15  Other offenders we will pause upon. {Exeunt Worcester and         +
1H4 5.5.   15  Vernon, guarded}
1H4 5.5.   16   How goes the field?
1H4 5.5.   17   PRINCE HARRY The noble Scot Lord Douglas, when he saw
1H4 5.5.   18  The fortune of the day quite turned from him,
1H4 5.5.   19  The noble Percy slain, and all his men
1H4 5.5.   20  Upon the foot of fear, fled with the rest;
1H4 5.5.   21  And falling from a hill he was so bruised
1H4 5.5.   22  That the pursuers took him. At my tent
1H4 5.5.   23  The Douglas is, and I beseech your grace
1H4 5.5.   24  I may dispose of him.
1H4 5.5.   25A  KING HENRY With all my heart.
1H4 5.5.   26   PRINCE HARRY Then, brother John of Lancaster,
1H4 5.5.   27  To you this honourable bounty shall belong.
1H4 5.5.   28  Go to the Douglas, and deliver him
1H4 5.5.   29  Up to his pleasure ransomless and free.
1H4 5.5.   30  His valours shown upon our crests today
1H4 5.5.   31  Have taught us how to cherish such high deeds
1H4 5.5.   32  Even in the bosom of our adversaries.
1H4 5.5.   33   JOHN OF LANCASTER I thank your grace for this high courtesy,
1H4 5.5.   34  Which I shall give away immediately.
1H4 5.5.   35   KING HENRY Then this remains, that we divide our power.
1H4 5.5.   36  You, son John, and my cousin Westmorland,
1H4 5.5.   37  Towards York shall bend you with your dearest speed
1H4 5.5.   38  To meet Northumberland and the prelate Scrope,
1H4 5.5.   39  Who, as we hear, are busily in arms.
1H4 5.5.   40  Myself and you, son Harry, will towards Wales,
1H4 5.5.   41  To fight with Glyndw^r and the Earl of March.
1H4 5.5.   42  Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway,
1H4 5.5.   43  Meeting the check of such another day;
1H4 5.5.   44  And since this business so fair is done,
1H4 5.5.   45  Let us not leave till all our own be won. {Exeunt [the King,      +
1H4 5.5.   45  the Prince, and their power at one door, Lancaster, Westmorland, and     +
1H4 5.5.   45  their power at another door]}
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1H6  . .    0  The First Part of Henry the Sixth
1H6  . .    0     {Dead march. Enter the funeral of King Henry the     +
1H6 1.1.    0  Fifth, attended on by the Duke of Bedford (Regent of France), the Duke   +
1H6 1.1.    0  of Gloucester (Protector), the Duke of Exeter, the Earl of Warwick, the  +
1H6 1.1.    0  Bishop of Winchester, and the Duke of Somerset}
1H6 1.1.    1   BEDFORD  Hung be the heavens with black! Yield, day, to     +
1H6 1.1.    1  night!
1H6 1.1.    2  Comets, importing change of times and states,
1H6 1.1.    3  Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky,
1H6 1.1.    4  And with them scourge the bad revolting stars
1H6 1.1.    5  That have consented unto Henry's death - 
1H6 1.1.    6  King Henry the Fifth, too famous to live long.
1H6 1.1.    7  England ne'er lost a king of so much worth.
1H6 1.1.    8   GLOUCESTER England ne'er had a king until his time.
1H6 1.1.    9  Virtue he had, deserving to command.
1H6 1.1.   10  His brandished sword did blind men with his beams.
1H6 1.1.   11  His arms spread wider than a dragon's wings.
1H6 1.1.   12  His sparkling eyes, replete with wrathful fire,
1H6 1.1.   13  More dazzled and drove back his enemies
1H6 1.1.   14  Than midday sun, fierce bent against their faces.
1H6 1.1.   15  What should I say? His deeds exceed all speech.
1H6 1.1.   16  He ne'er lift up his hand but conquered.
1H6 1.1.   17   EXETER We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood?
1H6 1.1.   18  Henry is dead, and never shall revive.
1H6 1.1.   19  Upon a wooden coffin we attend,
1H6 1.1.   20  And death's dishonourable victory
1H6 1.1.   21  We with our stately presence glorify,
1H6 1.1.   22  Like captives bound to a triumphant car.
1H6 1.1.   23  What, shall we curse the planets of mishap,
1H6 1.1.   24  That plotted thus our glory's overthrow?
1H6 1.1.   25  Or shall we think the subtle-witted French
1H6 1.1.   26  Conjurers and sorcerers, that, afraid of him,
1H6 1.1.   27  By magic verses have contrived his end?
1H6 1.1.   28   WINCHESTER He was a king blest of the King of Kings.
1H6 1.1.   29  Unto the French, the dreadful judgement day
1H6 1.1.   30  So dreadful will not be as was his sight.
1H6 1.1.   31  The battles of the Lord of Hosts he fought.
1H6 1.1.   32  The Church's prayers made him so prosperous.
1H6 1.1.   33   GLOUCESTER The Church? Where is it? Had not churchmen prayed,
1H6 1.1.   34  His thread of life had not so soon decayed.
1H6 1.1.   35  None do you like but an effeminate prince,
1H6 1.1.   36  Whom like a schoolboy you may overawe.
1H6 1.1.   37   WINCHESTER Gloucester, whate'er we like, thou art Protector,
1H6 1.1.   38  And lookest to command the Prince and realm.
1H6 1.1.   39  Thy wife is proud: she holdeth thee in awe,
1H6 1.1.   40  More than God or religious churchmen may.
1H6 1.1.   41   GLOUCESTER Name not religion, for thou lov'st the flesh,
1H6 1.1.   42  And ne'er throughout the year to church thou go'st,
1H6 1.1.   43  Except it be to pray against thy foes.
1H6 1.1.   44   BEDFORD Cease, cease these jars, and rest your minds in peace.
1H6 1.1.   45  Let's to the altar. Heralds, wait on us. {[Exeunt Warwick,        +
1H6 1.1.   45  Somerset, and heralds with coffin]}
1H6 1.1.   46   Instead of gold, we'll offer up our arms - 
1H6 1.1.   47  Since arms avail not, now that Henry's dead.
1H6 1.1.   48  Posterity, await for wretched years,
1H6 1.1.   49  When, at their mothers' moistened eyes, babes shall suck,
1H6 1.1.   50  Our isle be made a marish of salt tears,
1H6 1.1.   51  And none but women left to wail the dead.
1H6 1.1.   52  Henry the Fifth, thy ghost I invocate:
1H6 1.1.   53  Prosper this realm; keep it from civil broils;
1H6 1.1.   54  Combat with adverse planets in the heavens.
1H6 1.1.   55  A far more glorious star thy soul will make
1H6 1.1.   56  Than Julius Caesar or bright -  {Enter a Messenger}
1H6 1.1.   57   MESSENGER  My honourable lords, health to you all.
1H6 1.1.   58  Sad tidings bring I to you out of France,
1H6 1.1.   59  Of loss, of slaughter, and discomfiture.
1H6 1.1.   60  Guyenne, Compiegne, Rouen, Rheims, Orle/ans,
1H6 1.1.   61  Paris, Gisors, Poitiers are all quite lost.
1H6 1.1.   62   BEDFORD What sayst thou, man, before dead Henry's corpse?
1H6 1.1.   63  Speak softly, or the loss of those great towns
1H6 1.1.   64  Will make him burst his lead and rise from death.
1H6 1.1.   65   GLOUCESTER  {(to the Messenger)} Is Paris lost? Is   +
1H6 1.1.   65  Rouen yielded up?
1H6 1.1.   66  If Henry were recalled to life again,
1H6 1.1.   67  These news would cause him once more yield the ghost.
1H6 1.1.   68   EXETER  {(to the Messenger)} How were they lost?     +
1H6 1.1.   68  What treachery was used?
1H6 1.1.   69   MESSENGER No treachery, but want of men and money.
1H6 1.1.   70  Amongst the soldiers this is muttered:
1H6 1.1.   71  That here you maintain several factions,
1H6 1.1.   72  And whilst a field should be dispatched and fought,
1H6 1.1.   73  You are disputing of your generals.
1H6 1.1.   74  One would have ling'ring wars, with little cost;
1H6 1.1.   75  Another would fly swift, but wanteth wings;
1H6 1.1.   76  A third thinks, without expense at all,
1H6 1.1.   77  By guileful fair words peace may be obtained.
1H6 1.1.   78  Awake, awake, English nobility!
1H6 1.1.   79  Let not sloth dim your honours new-begot.
1H6 1.1.   80  Cropped are the flower-de-luces in your arms;
1H6 1.1.   81  Of England's coat, one half is cut away. {[Exit]}
1H6 1.1.   82   EXETER  Were our tears wanting to this funeral,
1H6 1.1.   83  These tidings would call forth her flowing tides.
1H6 1.1.   84   BEDFORD Me they concern; Regent I am of France.
1H6 1.1.   85  Give me my steeled coat. I'll fight for France.
1H6 1.1.   86  Away with these disgraceful wailing robes! {[He removes his       +
1H6 1.1.   86  mourning robe]}
1H6 1.1.   87   Wounds will I lend the French, instead of eyes,
1H6 1.1.   88  To weep their intermissive miseries. {Enter to them another       +
1H6 1.1.   88  Messenger with letters}
1H6 1.1.   89   SECOND MESSENGER  Lords, view these letters, full of bad    +
1H6 1.1.   89  mischance.
1H6 1.1.   90  France is revolted from the English quite,
1H6 1.1.   91  Except some petty towns of no import.
1H6 1.1.   92  The Dauphin Charles is crowned king in Rheims;
1H6 1.1.   93  The Bastard of Orle/ans with him is joined;
1H6 1.1.   94  Rene/, Duke of Anjou, doth take his part;
1H6 1.1.   95  The Duke of Alenc@on flyeth to his side. {Exit}
1H6 1.1.   96   EXETER  The Dauphin crowned King? All fly to him?
1H6 1.1.   97  O whither shall {we} fly from this reproach?
1H6 1.1.   98   GLOUCESTER We will not fly, but to our enemies' throats.
1H6 1.1.   99  Bedford, if thou be slack, I'll fight it out.
1H6 1.1.  100   BEDFORD Gloucester, why doubt'st thou of my forwardness?
1H6 1.1.  101  An army have I mustered in my thoughts,
1H6 1.1.  102  Wherewith already France is overrun. {Enter another Messenger}
1H6 1.1.  103  
1H6 1.1.  103   THIRD MESSENGER  My gracious lords, to add to your          +
1H6 1.1.  103  laments,
1H6 1.1.  104  Wherewith you now bedew King Henry's hearse,
1H6 1.1.  105  I must inform you of a dismal fight
1H6 1.1.  106  Betwixt the stout Lord Talbot and the French.
1H6 1.1.  107   WINCHESTER What, wherein Talbot overcame - is 't so?
1H6 1.1.  108   THIRD MESSENGER O no, wherein Lord Talbot was o'erthrown.
1H6 1.1.  109  The circumstance I'll tell you more at large.
1H6 1.1.  110  The tenth of August last, this dreadful lord,
1H6 1.1.  111  Retiring from the siege of Orle/ans,
1H6 1.1.  112  Having full scarce six thousand in his troop,
1H6 1.1.  113  By three-and-twenty thousand of the French
1H6 1.1.  114  Was round encompassed and set upon.
1H6 1.1.  115  No leisure had he to enrank his men.
1H6 1.1.  116  He wanted pikes to set before his archers - 
1H6 1.1.  117  Instead whereof, sharp stakes plucked out of hedges
1H6 1.1.  118  They pitched in the ground confusedly,
1H6 1.1.  119  To keep the horsemen off from breaking in.
1H6 1.1.  120  More than three hours the fight continued,
1H6 1.1.  121  Where valiant Talbot above human thought
1H6 1.1.  122  Enacted wonders with his sword and lance.
1H6 1.1.  123  Hundreds he sent to hell, and none durst stand him;
1H6 1.1.  124  Here, there, and everywhere, enraged he slew.
1H6 1.1.  125  The French exclaimed the devil was in arms:
1H6 1.1.  126  All the whole army stood agazed on him.
1H6 1.1.  127  His soldiers, spying his undaunted spirit,
1H6 1.1.  128  `A Talbot! A Talbot!' cried out amain,
1H6 1.1.  129  And rushed into the bowels of the battle.
1H6 1.1.  130  Here had the conquest fully been sealed up,
1H6 1.1.  131  If Sir John Fastolf had not played the coward.
1H6 1.1.  132  He, being in the vanguard placed behind,
1H6 1.1.  133  With purpose to relieve and follow them,
1H6 1.1.  134  Cowardly fled, not having struck one stroke.
1H6 1.1.  135  Hence grew the general wrack and massacre.
1H6 1.1.  136  Enclosed were they with their enemies.
1H6 1.1.  137  A base Walloon, to win the Dauphin's grace,
1H6 1.1.  138  Thrust Talbot with a spear into the back - 
1H6 1.1.  139  Whom all France, with their chief assembled strength,
1H6 1.1.  140  Durst not presume to look once in the face.
1H6 1.1.  141   BEDFORD Is Talbot slain then? I will slay myself,
1H6 1.1.  142  For living idly here in pomp and ease
1H6 1.1.  143  Whilst such a worthy leader, wanting aid,
1H6 1.1.  144  Unto his dastard foemen is betrayed.
1H6 1.1.  145   THIRD MESSENGER O no, he lives, but is took prisoner,
1H6 1.1.  146  And Lord Scales with him, and Lord Hungerford;
1H6 1.1.  147  Most of the rest slaughtered, or took likewise.
1H6 1.1.  148   BEDFORD His ransom there is none but I shall pay.
1H6 1.1.  149  I'll hale the Dauphin headlong from his throne;
1H6 1.1.  150  His crown shall be the ransom of my friend.
1H6 1.1.  151  Four of their lords I'll change for one of ours.
1H6 1.1.  152  
1H6 1.1.  152  Farewell, my masters; to my task will I.
1H6 1.1.  153  Bonfires in France forthwith I am to make,
1H6 1.1.  154  To keep our great Saint George's feast withal.
1H6 1.1.  155  Ten thousand soldiers with me I will take,
1H6 1.1.  156  Whose bloody deeds shall make all Europe quake.
1H6 1.1.  157   THIRD MESSENGER So you had need. Fore Orle/ans, besieged,
1H6 1.1.  158  The English army is grown weak and faint.
1H6 1.1.  159  The Earl of Salisbury craveth supply,
1H6 1.1.  160  And hardly keeps his men from mutiny,
1H6 1.1.  161  Since they, so few, watch such a multitude. {[Exit]}
1H6 1.1.  162   EXETER  Remember, lords, your oaths to Henry sworn:
1H6 1.1.  163  Either to quell the Dauphin utterly,
1H6 1.1.  164  Or bring him in obedience to your yoke.
1H6 1.1.  165   BEDFORD I do remember it, and here take my leave
1H6 1.1.  166  To go about my preparation. {Exit}
1H6 1.1.  167   GLOUCESTER  I'll to the Tower with all the haste I can,
1H6 1.1.  168  To view th' artillery and munition,
1H6 1.1.  169  And then I will proclaim young Henry king. {Exit}
1H6 1.1.  170   EXETER  To Eltham will I, where the young King is,
1H6 1.1.  171  Being ordained his special governor,
1H6 1.1.  172  And for his safety there I'll best devise. {Exit}
1H6 1.1.  173   WINCHESTER  Each hath his place and function to attend;
1H6 1.1.  174  I am left out; for me, nothing remains.
1H6 1.1.  175  But long I will not be Jack-out-of-office.
1H6 1.1.  176  The King from Eltham I intend to steal,
1H6 1.1.  177  And sit at chiefest stern of public weal. {Exit}
1H6 1.1.    0  
1H6 1.1.    0    {Sound a flourish. Enter Charles the Dauphin, the Duke of  +
1H6 1.2.    0  Alenc@on, and Rene/ Duke of Anjou, marching with drummer and soldiers}
1H6 1.2.    1   CHARLES  Mars his true moving - even as in the heavens,
1H6 1.2.    2  So in the earth - to this day is not known.
1H6 1.2.    3  Late did he shine upon the English side;
1H6 1.2.    4  Now we are victors: upon us he smiles.
1H6 1.2.    5  What towns of any moment but we have?
1H6 1.2.    6  At pleasure here we lie near Orle/ans
1H6 1.2.    7  Otherwhiles the famished English, like pale ghosts,
1H6 1.2.    8  Faintly besiege us one hour in a month.
1H6 1.2.    9   ALENC@ON They want their porrage and their fat bull beeves.
1H6 1.2.   10  Either they must be dieted like mules,
1H6 1.2.   11  And have their provender tied to their mouths,
1H6 1.2.   12  Or piteous they will look, like drowned mice.
1H6 1.2.   13   RENE/ Let's raise the siege. Why live we idly here?
1H6 1.2.   14  Talbot is taken, whom we wont to fear.
1H6 1.2.   15  Remaineth none but mad-brained Salisbury,
1H6 1.2.   16  And he may well in fretting spend his gall:
1H6 1.2.   17  Nor men nor money hath he to make war.
1H6 1.2.   18   CHARLES Sound, sound, alarum! We will rush on them.
1H6 1.2.   19  Now for the honour of the forlorn French,
1H6 1.2.   20  Him I forgive my death that killeth me
1H6 1.2.   21  When he sees me go back one foot or flee. {Exeunt}
1H6 1.2.    0    {Here alarum. The French are beaten back by the English    +
1H6 1.3.    0  with great loss. Enter Charles the Dauphin, the Duke of Alenc@on, and    +
1H6 1.3.    0  Rene/ Duke of Anjou}
1H6 1.3.    1   CHARLES  Who ever saw the like? What men have I?
1H6 1.3.    2  Dogs, cowards, dastards! I would ne'er have fled,
1H6 1.3.    3  But that they left me 'midst my enemies.
1H6 1.3.    4   RENE/ Salisbury is a desperate homicide.
1H6 1.3.    5  He fighteth as one weary of his life.
1H6 1.3.    6  The other lords, like lions wanting food,
1H6 1.3.    7  Do rush upon us as their hungry prey.
1H6 1.3.    8   ALENC@ON Froissart, a countryman of ours, records
1H6 1.3.    9  England all Olivers and Rolands bred
1H6 1.3.   10  During the time Edward the Third did reign.
1H6 1.3.   11  More truly now may this be verified,
1H6 1.3.   12  For none but Samsons and Goliases
1H6 1.3.   13  It sendeth forth to skirmish. One to ten?
1H6 1.3.   14  Lean raw-boned rascals, who would e'er suppose
1H6 1.3.   15  They had such courage and audacity?
1H6 1.3.   16   CHARLES Let's leave this town, for they are hare-brained slaves,
1H6 1.3.   17  And hunger will enforce them to be more eager.
1H6 1.3.   18  Of old I know them: rather with their teeth
1H6 1.3.   19  The walls they'll tear down, than forsake the siege.
1H6 1.3.   20   RENE/ I think by some odd gimmers or device
1H6 1.3.   21  Their arms are set, like clocks, still to strike on,
1H6 1.3.   22  Else ne'er could they hold out so as they do.
1H6 1.3.   23  By my consent we'll even let them alone.
1H6 1.3.   24A  ALENC@ON Be it so. {Enter the Bastard of Orle/ans}
1H6 1.3.   25   BASTARD  Where's the Prince Dauphin? I have news for him.
1H6 1.3.   26   CHARLES Bastard of Orle/ans, thrice welcome to us.
1H6 1.3.   27   BASTARD Methinks your looks are sad, your cheer appalled.
1H6 1.3.   28  Hath the late overthrow wrought this offence?
1H6 1.3.   29  Be not dismayed, for succour is at hand.
1H6 1.3.   30  A holy maid hither with me I bring,
1H6 1.3.   31  Which, by a vision sent to her from heaven,
1H6 1.3.   32  Ordained is to raise this tedious siege
1H6 1.3.   33  And drive the English forth the bounds of France.
1H6 1.3.   34  The spirit of deep prophecy she hath,
1H6 1.3.   35  Exceeding the nine sibyls of old Rome.
1H6 1.3.   36  What's past and what's to come she can descry.
1H6 1.3.   37  Speak: shall I call her in? Believe my words,
1H6 1.3.   38  For they are certain and unfallible.
1H6 1.3.   39B  CHARLES Go call her in. {Exit Bastard} But first,    +
1H6 1.3.   39B to try her skill,
1H6 1.3.   40  Rene/ stand thou as Dauphin in my place.
1H6 1.3.   41  Question her proudly; let thy looks be stern.
1H6 1.3.   42  By this means shall we sound what skill she hath. {Enter [the     +
1H6 1.3.   42  Bastard of Orle/ans with] Joan la Pucelle, armed}
1H6 1.3.   43   RENE/  {(as Charles)} Fair maid, is 't thou wilt do  +
1H6 1.3.   43  these wondrous feats?
1H6 1.3.   44   JOAN Rene/, is 't thou that thinkest to beguile me?
1H6 1.3.   45  Where is the Dauphin? {(To Charles)} Come, come from     +
1H6 1.3.   45  behind.
1H6 1.3.   46  I know thee well, though never seen before.
1H6 1.3.   47  Be not amazed. There's nothing hid from me.
1H6 1.3.   48  In private will I talk with thee apart.
1H6 1.3.   49  Stand back you lords, and give us leave awhile. {Rene/, Alenc@on  +
1H6 1.3.   49  [and Bastard] stand apart}
1H6 1.3.   50   RENE/  {[to Alenc@on and Bastard]} She takes upon    +
1H6 1.3.   50  her bravely, at first dash.
1H6 1.3.   51   JOAN Dauphin, I am by birth a shepherd's daughter,
1H6 1.3.   52  My wit untrained in any kind of art.
1H6 1.3.   53  Heaven and our Lady gracious hath it pleased
1H6 1.3.   54  To shine on my contemptible estate.
1H6 1.3.   55  Lo, whilst I waited on my tender lambs,
1H6 1.3.   56  And to sun's parching heat displayed my cheeks,
1H6 1.3.   57  God's mother deigned to appear to me,
1H6 1.3.   58  And in a vision, full of majesty,
1H6 1.3.   59  Willed me to leave my base vocation
1H6 1.3.   60  And free my country from calamity.
1H6 1.3.   61  Her aid she promised, and assured success.
1H6 1.3.   62  In complete glory she revealed herself - 
1H6 1.3.   63  And whereas I was black and swart before,
1H6 1.3.   64  With those clear rays which she infused on me
1H6 1.3.   65  That beauty am I blest with, which you may see.
1H6 1.3.   66  Ask me what question thou canst possible,
1H6 1.3.   67  And I will answer unpremeditated.
1H6 1.3.   68  My courage try by combat, if thou dar'st,
1H6 1.3.   69  And thou shalt find that I exceed my sex.
1H6 1.3.   70  Resolve on this: thou shalt be fortunate,
1H6 1.3.   71  If thou receive me for thy warlike mate.
1H6 1.3.   72   CHARLES Thou hast astonished me with thy high terms.
1H6 1.3.   73  Only this proof I'll of thy valour make:
1H6 1.3.   74  In single combat thou shalt buckle with me.
1H6 1.3.   75  An if thou vanquishest, thy words are true;
1H6 1.3.   76  Otherwise, I renounce all confidence.
1H6 1.3.   77   JOAN I am prepared. Here is my keen-edged sword,
1H6 1.3.   78  Decked with five flower-de-luces on each side - 
1H6 1.3.   79  The which at Touraine, in Saint Katherine's churchyard,
1H6 1.3.   80  Out of a great deal of old iron I chose forth.
1H6 1.3.   81   CHARLES Then come a God's name. I fear no woman.
1H6 1.3.   82   JOAN And while I live, I'll ne'er fly from a man. {Here they  +
1H6 1.3.   82  fight and Joan la Pucelle overcomes}
1H6 1.3.   83   CHARLES  Stay, stay thy hands! Thou art an Amazon,
1H6 1.3.   84  And fightest with the sword of Deborah.
1H6 1.3.   85   JOAN Christ's mother helps me, else I were too weak.
1H6 1.3.   86   CHARLES Whoe'er helps thee, 'tis thou that must help me.
1H6 1.3.   87  Impatiently I burn with thy desire.
1H6 1.3.   88  My heart and hands thou hast at once subdued.
1H6 1.3.   89  Excellent Pucelle if thy name be so,
1H6 1.3.   90  Let me thy servant, and not sovereign be.
1H6 1.3.   91  'Tis the French Dauphin sueth to thee thus.
1H6 1.3.   92   JOAN I must not yield to any rites of love,
1H6 1.3.   93  For my profession's sacred from above.
1H6 1.3.   94  When I have chased all thy foes from hence,
1H6 1.3.   95  Then will I think upon a recompense.
1H6 1.3.   96   CHARLES Meantime, look gracious on thy prostrate thrall.
1H6 1.3.   97   RENE/  {[to the other lords apart]} My lord,         +
1H6 1.3.   97  methinks, is very long in talk.
1H6 1.3.   98   ALENC@ON Doubtless he shrives this woman to her smock,
1H6 1.3.   99  Else ne'er could he so long protract his speech.
1H6 1.3.  100   RENE/ Shall we disturb him, since he keeps no mean?
1H6 1.3.  101   ALENC@ON He may mean more than we poor men do know.
1H6 1.3.  102  These women are shrewd tempters with their tongues.
1H6 1.3.  103   RENE/  {(to Charles)} My lord, where are you? What   +
1H6 1.3.  103  devise you on?
1H6 1.3.  104  Shall we give o'er Orle/ans, or no?
1H6 1.3.  105   JOAN Why, no, I say. Distrustful recreants,
1H6 1.3.  106  Fight till the last gasp; I'll be your guard.
1H6 1.3.  107   CHARLES What she says, I'll confirm. We'll fight it out.
1H6 1.3.  108   JOAN Assigned am I to be the English scourge.
1H6 1.3.  109  This night the siege assuredly I'll raise.
1H6 1.3.  110  Expect Saint Martin's summer, halcyon's days,
1H6 1.3.  111  Since I have entered into these wars.
1H6 1.3.  112  Glory is like a circle in the water,
1H6 1.3.  113  Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself
1H6 1.3.  114  Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.
1H6 1.3.  115  With Henry's death, the English circle ends.
1H6 1.3.  116  Dispersed are the glories it included.
1H6 1.3.  117  Now am I like that proud insulting ship
1H6 1.3.  118  Which Caesar and his fortune bore at once.
1H6 1.3.  119   CHARLES Was Mohammed inspired with a dove?
1H6 1.3.  120  Thou with an eagle art inspired then.
1H6 1.3.  121  Helen, the mother of great Constantine,
1H6 1.3.  122  Nor yet Saint Philip's daughters were like thee.
1H6 1.3.  123  Bright star of Venus, fall'n down on the earth,
1H6 1.3.  124  How may I reverently worship thee enough?
1H6 1.3.  125   ALENC@ON Leave off delays, and let us raise the siege.
1H6 1.3.  126   RENE/ Woman, do what thou canst to save our honours.
1H6 1.3.  127  Drive them from Orle/ans, and be immortalized.
1H6 1.3.  128   CHARLES Presently we'll try. Come, let's away about it.
1H6 1.3.  129  No prophet will I trust, if she prove false. {Exeunt}
1H6 1.3.    0    {Enter the Duke of Gloucester, with his Servingmen in      +
1H6 1.4.    0  blue coats}
1H6 1.4.    1   GLOUCESTER  I am come to survey the Tower this day.
1H6 1.4.    2  Since Henry's death, I fear there is conveyance.
1H6 1.4.    3  Where be these warders, that they wait not here? {[A Servingman]  +
1H6 1.4.    3  knocketh on the gates}
1H6 1.4.    4   Open the gates: 'tis Gloucester that calls.
1H6 1.4.    5   FIRST WARDER  {[within the Tower]} Who's there that  +
1H6 1.4.    5  knocketh so imperiously?
1H6 1.4.    6   GLOUCESTER'S FIRST MAN It is the noble Duke of Gloucester.
1H6 1.4.    7   SECOND WARDER  {[within the Tower]} Whoe'er he be,   +
1H6 1.4.    7  you may not be let in.
1H6 1.4.    8   GLOUCESTER'S FIRST MAN Villains, answer you so the Lord Protector?
1H6 1.4.    9   FIRST WARDER  {[within the Tower]} The Lord protect  +
1H6 1.4.    9  him, so we answer him.
1H6 1.4.   10  We do no otherwise than we are willed.
1H6 1.4.   11   GLOUCESTER Who willed you? Or whose will stands, but mine?
1H6 1.4.   12  There's none Protector of the realm but I.
1H6 1.4.   13   {(To Servingmen)} Break up the gates. I'll be your      +
1H6 1.4.   13  warrantize.
1H6 1.4.   14  Shall I be flouted thus by dunghill grooms? {Gloucester's men     +
1H6 1.4.   14  rush at the Tower gates}
1H6 1.4.   15   WOODVILLE  {[within the Tower]} What noise is this?  +
1H6 1.4.   15  What traitors have we here?
1H6 1.4.   16   GLOUCESTER Lieutenant, is it you whose voice I hear?
1H6 1.4.   17  Open the gates! Here's Gloucester, that would enter.
1H6 1.4.   18   WOODVILLE  {[within the Tower]} Have patience,       +
1H6 1.4.   18  noble duke: I may not open.
1H6 1.4.   19  My lord of Winchester forbids.
1H6 1.4.   20  From him I have express commande|ment
1H6 1.4.   21  That thou, nor none of thine, shall be let in.
1H6 1.4.   22   GLOUCESTER Faint-hearted Woodville! Prizest him fore me? - 
1H6 1.4.   23  Arrogant Winchester, that haughty prelate,
1H6 1.4.   24  Whom Henry, our late sovereign, ne'er could brook?
1H6 1.4.   25  Thou art no friend to God or to the King.
1H6 1.4.   26  Open the gates, or I'll shut thee out shortly.
1H6 1.4.   27   SERVINGMEN Open the gates unto the Lord Protector,
1H6 1.4.   28  Or we'll burst them open, if that you come not quickly. {Enter,   +
1H6 1.4.   28  to the Lord Protector at the Tower gates, the Bishop of Winchester and   +
1H6 1.4.   28  his men in tawny coats}
1H6 1.4.   29   WINCHESTER  How now, ambitious vizier! What means this?
1H6 1.4.   30   GLOUCESTER Peeled priest, dost thou command me to be shut out?
1H6 1.4.   31   WINCHESTER I do, thou most usurping proditor,
1H6 1.4.   32  And not `Protector', of the King or realm.
1H6 1.4.   33   GLOUCESTER Stand back, thou manifest conspirator.
1H6 1.4.   34  Thou that contrived'st to murder our dead lord,
1H6 1.4.   35  Thou that giv'st whores indulgences to sin,
1H6 1.4.   36  If thou proceed in this thy insolence - 
1H6 1.4.   37   WINCHESTER Nay, stand thou back! I will not budge a foot.
1H6 1.4.   38  This be Damascus, be thou cursed Cain,
1H6 1.4.   39  To slay thy brother Abel, if thou wilt.
1H6 1.4.   40   GLOUCESTER I will not slay thee, but I'll drive thee back.
1H6 1.4.   41  Thy purple robes, as a child's bearing-cloth,
1H6 1.4.   42  I'll use to carry thee out of this place.
1H6 1.4.   43   WINCHESTER Do what thou dar'st, I beard thee to thy face.
1H6 1.4.   44   GLOUCESTER What, am I dared and bearded to my face?
1H6 1.4.   45  Draw, men, for all this privileged place. {All draw their        +
1H6 1.4.   45  swords}
1H6 1.4.   46   Blue coats to tawny coats! - Priest, beware your beard.
1H6 1.4.   47  I mean to tug it, and to cuff you soundly.
1H6 1.4.   48  Under my feet I'll stamp thy bishop's mitre.
1H6 1.4.   49  In spite of Pope, or dignities of church,
1H6 1.4.   50  Here by the cheeks I'll drag thee up and down.
1H6 1.4.   51   WINCHESTER Gloucester, thou wilt answer this before the Pope.
1H6 1.4.   52   GLOUCESTER Winchester goose! I cry, `A rope, a rope!'
1H6 1.4.   53   {(To his Servingmen)} Now beat them hence. Why do you   +
1H6 1.4.   53  let them stay?
1H6 1.4.   54   {(To Winchester)} Thee I'll chase hence, thou wolf in   +
1H6 1.4.   54  sheep's array.
1H6 1.4.   55  Out, tawny coats! Out, cloaked hypocrite! {Here Gloucester's     +
1H6 1.4.   55  men beat out the Bishop's men. Enter in the hurly-burly the Mayor of     +
1H6 1.4.   55  London and his Officers}
1H6 1.4.   56   MAYOR  Fie, lords! - that you, being supreme magistrates,
1H6 1.4.   57  Thus contumeliously should break the peace.
1H6 1.4.   58   GLOUCESTER Peace, mayor, thou know'st little of my wrongs.
1H6 1.4.   59  Here's Beaufort - that regards nor God nor king - 
1H6 1.4.   60  Hath here distrained the Tower to his use.
1H6 1.4.   61   WINCHESTER  {(to Mayor)} Here's Gloucester - a foe to  +
1H6 1.4.   61  citizens,
1H6 1.4.   62  One that still motions war, and never peace,
1H6 1.4.   63  O'ercharging your free purses with large fines - 
1H6 1.4.   64  That seeks to overthrow religion,
1H6 1.4.   65  Because he is Protector of the realm,
1H6 1.4.   66  And would have armour here out of the Tower
1H6 1.4.   67  To crown himself king and suppress the Prince.
1H6 1.4.   68   GLOUCESTER I will not answer thee with words but blows.       +
1H6 1.4.   68  {Here the factions skirmish again}
1H6 1.4.   69   MAYOR  Naught rests for me, in this tumultuous strife,
1H6 1.4.   70  But to make open proclamation.
1H6 1.4.   71  Come, officer, as loud as e'er thou canst, cry.
1H6 1.4.   72   OFFICER  All manner of men, assembled here in arms this
1H6 1.4.   73  day against God's peace and the King's, we charge and
1H6 1.4.   74  command you in his highness' name to repair to your
1H6 1.4.   75  several dwelling places, and not to wear, handle, or
1H6 1.4.   76  use any sword, weapon, or dagger henceforward, upon
1H6 1.4.   77  pain of death. {The skirmishes cease}
1H6 1.4.   78   GLOUCESTER  Bishop, I'll be no breaker of the law.
1H6 1.4.   79  But we shall meet and break our minds at large.
1H6 1.4.   80   WINCHESTER Gloucester, we'll meet to thy cost, be sure.
1H6 1.4.   81  Thy heart-blood I will have for this day's work.
1H6 1.4.   82   MAYOR I'll call for clubs, if you will not away.
1H6 1.4.   83   {(Aside)} This bishop is more haughty than the devil.
1H6 1.4.   84   GLOUCESTER Mayor, farewell. Thou dost but what thou mayst.
1H6 1.4.   85   WINCHESTER Abominable Gloucester, guard thy head,
1H6 1.4.   86  For I intend to have it ere long. {Exeunt both factions           +
1H6 1.4.   86  severally}
1H6 1.4.   87   MAYOR  {(to Officers)} See the coast cleared, and    +
1H6 1.4.   87  then we will depart. - 
1H6 1.4.   88  Good God, these nobles should such stomachs bear!
1H6 1.4.   89  I myself fight not once in forty year. {Exeunt}
1H6 1.4.    0    {Enter the Master Gunner of Orle/ans with his Boy}
1H6 1.5.    1   MASTER GUNNER  Sirrah, thou know'st how Orle/ans is         +
1H6 1.5.    1  besieged,
1H6 1.5.    2  And how the English have the suburbs won.
1H6 1.5.    3   BOY Father, I know, and oft have shot at them;
1H6 1.5.    4  Howe'er, unfortunate, I missed my aim.
1H6 1.5.    5   MASTER GUNNER But now thou shalt not. Be thou ruled by me.
1H6 1.5.    6  Chief Master Gunner am I of this town;
1H6 1.5.    7  Something I must do to procure me grace.
1H6 1.5.    8  The Prince's spials have informed me
1H6 1.5.    9  How the English, in the suburbs close entrenched,
1H6 1.5.   10  Wont, through a secret grate of iron bars
1H6 1.5.   11  In yonder tower, to overpeer the city,
1H6 1.5.   12  And thence discover how with most advantage
1H6 1.5.   13  They may vex us with shot or with assault.
1H6 1.5.   14  To intercept this inconvenience,
1H6 1.5.   15  A piece of ordnance 'gainst it I have placed,
1H6 1.5.   16  And even these three days have I watched, if I could see them.
1H6 1.5.   17  Now do thou watch, for I can stay no longer.
1H6 1.5.   18  If thou spy'st any, run and bring me word,
1H6 1.5.   19  And thou shalt find me at the governor's.
1H6 1.5.   20   BOY Father, I warrant you, take you no care -  {[Exit Master    +
1H6 1.5.   20  Gunner at one door]}
1H6 1.5.   21   I'll never trouble you, if I may spy them. {Exit [at    +
1H6 1.5.   21  the other door]}
1H6 1.5.    0    {Enter the Earl of Salisbury and Lord Talbot above on the  +
1H6 1.6.    0  turrets with others, among them Sir Thomas Gargrave and Sir William      +
1H6 1.6.    0  Glasdale}
1H6 1.6.    1   SALISBURY  Talbot, my life, my joy, again returned?
1H6 1.6.    2  How wert thou handled, being prisoner?
1H6 1.6.    3  Or by what means got'st thou to be released?
1H6 1.6.    4  Discourse, I prithee, on this turret's top.
1H6 1.6.    5   TALBOT The Duke of Bedford had a prisoner,
1H6 1.6.    6  Called the brave Lord Ponton de Santrailles;
1H6 1.6.    7  For him was I exchanged and ransomed.
1H6 1.6.    8  But with a baser man-of-arms by far
1H6 1.6.    9  Once in contempt they would have bartered me - 
1H6 1.6.   10  Which I, disdaining, scorned, and craved death
1H6 1.6.   11  Rather than I would be so pilled esteemed.
1H6 1.6.   12  In fine, redeemed I was, as I desired.
1H6 1.6.   13  But O, the treacherous Fastolf wounds my heart,
1H6 1.6.   14  Whom with my bare fists I would execute
1H6 1.6.   15  If I now had him brought into my power.
1H6 1.6.   16   SALISBURY Yet tell'st thou not how thou wert entertained.
1H6 1.6.   17   TALBOT With scoffs and scorns and contumelious taunts.
1H6 1.6.   18  In open market place produced they me,
1H6 1.6.   19  To be a public spectacle to all.
1H6 1.6.   20  `Here', said they, `is the terror of the French,
1H6 1.6.   21  The scarecrow that affrights our children so.'
1H6 1.6.   22  Then broke I from the officers that led me
1H6 1.6.   23  And with my nails digged stones out of the ground
1H6 1.6.   24  To hurl at the beholders of my shame.
1H6 1.6.   25  My grisly countenance made others fly.
1H6 1.6.   26  None durst come near, for fear of sudden death.
1H6 1.6.   27  In iron walls they deemed me not secure:
1H6 1.6.   28  So great fear of my name 'mongst them were spread
1H6 1.6.   29  That they supposed I could rend bars of steel
1H6 1.6.   30  And spurn in pieces posts of adamant.
1H6 1.6.   31  Wherefore a guard of chosen shot I had
1H6 1.6.   32  That walked about me every minute while;
1H6 1.6.   33  And if I did but stir out of my bed,
1H6 1.6.   34  Ready they were to shoot me to the heart. {The Boy [passes over   +
1H6 1.6.   34  the stage] with a linstock}
1H6 1.6.   35   SALISBURY  I grieve to hear what torments you endured.
1H6 1.6.   36  But we will be revenged sufficiently.
1H6 1.6.   37  Now it is supper time in Orle/ans.
1H6 1.6.   38  Here, through this grate, I count each one,
1H6 1.6.   39  And view the Frenchmen how they fortify.
1H6 1.6.   40  Let us look in: the sight will much delight thee. - 
1H6 1.6.   41  Sir Thomas Gargrave and Sir William Glasdale,
1H6 1.6.   42  Let me have your express opinions
1H6 1.6.   43  Where is best place to make our batt'ry next. {[They look         +
1H6 1.6.   43  through the grate]}
1H6 1.6.   44   GARGRAVE  I think at the north gate, for there stands Lou.
1H6 1.6.   45   GLASDALE And I here, at the bulwark of the Bridge.
1H6 1.6.   46   TALBOT For aught I see, this city must be famished
1H6 1.6.   47  Or with light skirmishes enfeebled. {Here they shoot off         +
1H6 1.6.   47  chambers [within] and Salisbury and Gargrave fall down}
1H6 1.6.   48   SALISBURY  O Lord have mercy on us, wretched sinners!
1H6 1.6.   49   GARGRAVE O Lord have mercy on me, woeful man!
1H6 1.6.   50   TALBOT What chance is this that suddenly hath crossed us?
1H6 1.6.   51  Speak, Salisbury - at least, if thou canst, speak.
1H6 1.6.   52  How far'st thou, mirror of all martial men?
1H6 1.6.   53  One of thy eyes and thy cheek's side struck off?
1H6 1.6.   54  Accursed tower! Accursed fatal hand
1H6 1.6.   55  That hath contrived this woeful tragedy!
1H6 1.6.   56  In thirteen battles Salisbury o'ercame;
1H6 1.6.   57  Henry the Fifth he first trained to the wars;
1H6 1.6.   58  Whilst any trump did sound or drum struck up
1H6 1.6.   59  His sword did ne'er leave striking in the field.
1H6 1.6.   60  Yet liv'st thou, Salisbury? Though thy speech doth fail,
1H6 1.6.   61  One eye thou hast to look to heaven for grace.
1H6 1.6.   62  The sun with one eye vieweth all the world.
1H6 1.6.   63  Heaven, be thou gracious to none alive
1H6 1.6.   64  If Salisbury wants mercy at thy hands. - 
1H6 1.6.   65  Sir Thomas Gargrave, hast thou any life?
1H6 1.6.   66  Speak unto Talbot. Nay, look up to him. - 
1H6 1.6.   67  Bear hence his body; I will help to bury it. {[Exit one with      +
1H6 1.6.   67  Gargrave's body]}
1H6 1.6.   68   Salisbury, cheer thy spirit with this comfort:
1H6 1.6.   69  Thou shalt not die whiles - 
1H6 1.6.   70  He beckons with his hand, and smiles on me,
1H6 1.6.   71  As who should say, `When I am dead and gone,
1H6 1.6.   72  Remember to avenge me on the French.'
1H6 1.6.   73  Plantagenet, I will - and like thee, Nero,
1H6 1.6.   74  Play on the lute, beholding the towns burn.
1H6 1.6.   75  Wretched shall France be only in my name. {Here an alarum, and    +
1H6 1.6.   75  it thunders and lightens}
1H6 1.6.   76   What stir is this? What tumult's in the heavens?
1H6 1.6.   77  Whence cometh this alarum and the noise? {Enter a Messenger}
1H6 1.6.   78   MESSENGER  My lord, my lord, the French have gathered       +
1H6 1.6.   78  head.
1H6 1.6.   79  The Dauphin, with one Joan la Pucelle joined,
1H6 1.6.   80  A holy prophetess new risen up,
1H6 1.6.   81  Is come with a great power to raise the siege. {Here Salisbury    +
1H6 1.6.   81  lifteth himself up and groans}
1H6 1.6.   82   TALBOT  Hear, hear, how dying Salisbury doth groan!
1H6 1.6.   83  It irks his heart he cannot be revenged.
1H6 1.6.   84  Frenchmen, I'll be a Salisbury to you.
1H6 1.6.   85  {Pucelle} or pucelle, Dauphin or dog-fish,
1H6 1.6.   86  Your hearts I'll stamp out with my horse's heels
1H6 1.6.   87  And make a quagmire of your mingled brains. - 
1H6 1.6.   88  Convey me Salisbury into his tent,
1H6 1.6.   89  And then we'll try what these dastard Frenchmen dare. {Alarum.    +
1H6 1.6.   89  Exeunt carrying Salisbury}
1H6 1.6.    0    {Here an alarum again, and Lord Talbot pursueth the        +
1H6 1.7.    0  Dauphin and driveth him. Then enter Joan la Pucelle driving Englishmen   +
1H6 1.7.    0  before her and [exeunt]. Then enter Lord Talbot}
1H6 1.7.    1   TALBOT  Where is my strength, my valour, and my force?
1H6 1.7.    2  Our English troops retire; I cannot stay them.
1H6 1.7.    3  A woman clad in armour chaseth men. {Enter Joan la Pucelle}
1H6 1.7.    4   Here, here she comes. {(To Joan)} I'll have a  +
1H6 1.7.    4  bout with thee.
1H6 1.7.    5  Devil or devil's dam, I'll conjure thee.
1H6 1.7.    6  Blood will I draw on thee - thou art a witch - 
1H6 1.7.    7  And straightway give thy soul to him thou serv'st.
1H6 1.7.    8   JOAN Come, come, 'tis only I that must disgrace thee. {Here   +
1H6 1.7.    8  they fight}
1H6 1.7.    9   TALBOT  Heavens, can you suffer hell so to prevail?
1H6 1.7.   10  My breast I'll burst with straining of my courage
1H6 1.7.   11  And from my shoulders crack my arms asunder
1H6 1.7.   12  But I will chastise this high-minded strumpet. {They fight        +
1H6 1.7.   12  again}
1H6 1.7.   13   JOAN  Talbot, farewell. Thy hour is not yet come.
1H6 1.7.   14  I must go victual Orle/ans forthwith. {A short alarum, then [the  +
1H6 1.7.   14  French pass over the stage and] enter the town with soldiers}
1H6 1.7.   15   O'ertake me if thou canst. I scorn thy strength.
1H6 1.7.   16  Go, go, cheer up thy hungry-starved men.
1H6 1.7.   17  Help Salisbury to make his testament.
1H6 1.7.   18  This day is ours, as many more shall be. {Exit into the town}
1H6 1.7.   19   TALBOT  My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel.
1H6 1.7.   20  I know not where I am nor what I do.
1H6 1.7.   21  A witch by fear, not force, like Hannibal
1H6 1.7.   22  Drives back our troops and conquers as she lists.
1H6 1.7.   23  So bees with smoke and doves with noisome stench
1H6 1.7.   24  Are from their hives and houses driven away.
1H6 1.7.   25  They called us, for our fierceness, English dogs;
1H6 1.7.   26  Now, like to whelps, we crying run away. {A short alarum. [Enter  +
1H6 1.7.   26  English soldiers]}
1H6 1.7.   27   Hark, countrymen: either renew the fight
1H6 1.7.   28  Or tear the lions out of England's coat.
1H6 1.7.   29  Renounce your style; give sheep in lions' stead.
1H6 1.7.   30  Sheep run not half so treacherous from the wolf,
1H6 1.7.   31  Or horse or oxen from the leopard,
1H6 1.7.   32  As you fly from your oft-subdued slaves. {Alarum. Here another   +
1H6 1.7.   32  skirmish}
1H6 1.7.   33   It will not be. Retire into your trenches.
1H6 1.7.   34  You all consented unto Salisbury's death,
1H6 1.7.   35  For none would strike a stroke in his revenge.
1H6 1.7.   36  Pucelle is entered into Orle/ans
1H6 1.7.   37  In spite of us or aught that we could do. {[Exeunt Soldiers]}
1H6 1.7.   38   O would I were to die with Salisbury!
1H6 1.7.   39  The shame hereof will make me hide my head. {Exit. Alarum.        +
1H6 1.7.   39  Retreat}
1H6 1.7.    0    {Flourish. Enter on the walls Joan la Pucelle, Charles     +
1H6 1.8.    0  the Dauphin, Rene/ Duke of Anjou, the Duke of Alenc@on and French        +
1H6 1.8.    0  Soldiers [with colours]}
1H6 1.8.    1   JOAN  Advance our waving colours on the walls;
1H6 1.8.    2  Rescued is Orle/ans from the English.
1H6 1.8.    3  Thus Joan la Pucelle hath performed her word.
1H6 1.8.    4   CHARLES Divinest creature, Astraea's daughter,
1H6 1.8.    5  How shall I honour thee for this success?
1H6 1.8.    6  Thy promises are like Adonis' garden,
1H6 1.8.    7  That one day bloomed and fruitful were the next.
1H6 1.8.    8  France, triumph in thy glorious prophetess!
1H6 1.8.    9  Recovered is the town of Orle/ans.
1H6 1.8.   10  More blessed hap did ne'er befall our state.
1H6 1.8.   11   RENE/ Why ring not out the bells aloud throughout the town?
1H6 1.8.   12  Dauphin, command the citizens make bonfires
1H6 1.8.   13  And feast and banquet in the open streets
1H6 1.8.   14  To celebrate the joy that God hath given us.
1H6 1.8.   15   ALENC@ON All France will be replete with mirth and joy
1H6 1.8.   16  When they shall hear how we have played the men.
1H6 1.8.   17   CHARLES 'Tis Joan, not we, by whom the day is won - 
1H6 1.8.   18  For which I will divide my crown with her,
1H6 1.8.   19  And all the priests and friars in my realm
1H6 1.8.   20  Shall in procession sing her endless praise.
1H6 1.8.   21  A statelier pyramid to her I'll rear
1H6 1.8.   22  Than Rhodope's of Memphis ever was.
1H6 1.8.   23  In memory of her, when she is dead
1H6 1.8.   24  Her ashes, in an urn more precious
1H6 1.8.   25  Than the rich-jewelled coffer of Darius,
1H6 1.8.   26  Transported shall be at high festivals
1H6 1.8.   27  Before the kings and queens of France.
1H6 1.8.   28  No longer on Saint Denis will we cry,
1H6 1.8.   29  But Joan la Pucelle shall be France's saint.
1H6 1.8.   30  Come in, and let us banquet royally
1H6 1.8.   31  After this golden day of victory. {Flourish. Exeunt}
1H6 1.8.    0  
1H6 1.8.    0     {Enter [on the walls] a French Sergeant of a band,   +
1H6 2.1.    0  with two Sentinels}
1H6 2.1.    1   SERGEANT  Sirs, take your places and be vigilant.
1H6 2.1.    2  If any noise or soldier you perceive
1H6 2.1.    3  Near to the walls, by some apparent sign
1H6 2.1.    4  Let us have knowledge at the court of guard.
1H6 2.1.    5B  [A SENTINEL] Sergeant, you shall. {Exit Sergeant}    +
1H6 2.1.    5B Thus are poor servitors,
1H6 2.1.    6  When others sleep upon their quiet beds,
1H6 2.1.    7  Constrained to watch in darkness, rain, and cold. {Enter Lord     +
1H6 2.1.    7  Talbot, the Dukes of Bedford and Burgundy, and soldiers with scaling     +
1H6 2.1.    7  ladders, their drums beating a dead march}
1H6 2.1.    8   TALBOT  Lord regent, and redoubted Burgundy - 
1H6 2.1.    9  By whose approach the regions of Artois,
1H6 2.1.   10  Wallon, and Picardy are friends to us - 
1H6 2.1.   11  This happy night the Frenchmen are secure,
1H6 2.1.   12  Having all day caroused and banqueted.
1H6 2.1.   13  Embrace we then this opportunity,
1H6 2.1.   14  As fitting best to quittance their deceit,
1H6 2.1.   15  Contrived by art and baleful sorcery.
1H6 2.1.   16   BEDFORD Coward of France! How much he wrongs his fame,
1H6 2.1.   17  Despairing of his own arms' fortitude,
1H6 2.1.   18  To join with witches and the help of hell.
1H6 2.1.   19   BURGUNDY Traitors have never other company.
1H6 2.1.   20  But what's that `Pucelle' whom they term so pure?
1H6 2.1.   21B  TALBOT A maid, they say. BEDFORD A maid? And be so martial?
1H6 2.1.   22   BURGUNDY Pray God she prove not masculine ere long.
1H6 2.1.   23  If underneath the standard of the French
1H6 2.1.   24  She carry armour as she hath begun - 
1H6 2.1.   25   TALBOT Well, let them practise and converse with spirits.
1H6 2.1.   26  God is our fortress, in whose conquering name
1H6 2.1.   27  Let us resolve to scale their flinty bulwarks.
1H6 2.1.   28   BEDFORD Ascend, brave Talbot. We will follow thee.
1H6 2.1.   29   TALBOT Not all together. Better far, I guess,
1H6 2.1.   30  That we do make our entrance several ways - 
1H6 2.1.   31  That, if it chance the one of us do fail,
1H6 2.1.   32  The other yet may rise against their force.
1H6 2.1.   33B  BEDFORD Agreed. I'll to yon corner. BURGUNDY And I to             +
1H6 2.1.   33B this. {[Exeunt severally Bedford and Burgundy with some           +
1H6 2.1.   33B soldiers]}
1H6 2.1.   34   TALBOT  And here will Talbot mount, or make his grave.
1H6 2.1.   35  Now, Salisbury, for thee, and for the right
1H6 2.1.   36  Of English Henry, shall this night appear
1H6 2.1.   37  How much in duty I am bound to both. {[Talbot and his soldiers]   +
1H6 2.1.   37  scale the walls}
1H6 2.1.   38   [SENTINELS]  Arm! Arm! The enemy doth make assault!
1H6 2.1.   39A  ENGLISH SOLDIERS Saint George! A Talbot! {Exeunt above}
1H6 2.1.   40   {[Alarum.] The French [soldiers] leap o'er the walls in their    +
1H6 2.1.   40  shirts [and exeunt]. Enter several ways the Bastard of Orle/ans, the     +
1H6 2.1.   40  Duke of Alenc@on, and Rene/ Duke of Anjou, half ready and half           +
1H6 2.1.   40  unready} ALENC@ON  How now, my lords? What, all unready so?
1H6 2.1.   41   BASTARD Unready? Ay, and glad we scaped so well.
1H6 2.1.   42   RENE/ 'Twas time, I trow, to wake and leave our beds,
1H6 2.1.   43  Hearing alarums at our chamber doors.
1H6 2.1.   44   ALENC@ON Of all exploits since first I followed arms
1H6 2.1.   45  Ne'er heard I of a warlike enterprise
1H6 2.1.   46  More venturous or desperate than this.
1H6 2.1.   47   BASTARD I think this Talbot be a fiend of hell.
1H6 2.1.   48   RENE/ If not of hell, the heavens sure favour him.
1H6 2.1.   49   ALENC@ON Here cometh Charles. I marvel how he sped. {Enter    +
1H6 2.1.   49  Charles the Dauphin and Joan la Pucelle}
1H6 2.1.   50   BASTARD  Tut, holy Joan was his defensive guard.
1H6 2.1.   51   CHARLES  {(to Joan)} Is this thy cunning, thou       +
1H6 2.1.   51  deceitful dame?
1H6 2.1.   52  Didst thou at first, to flatter us withal,
1H6 2.1.   53  Make us partakers of a little gain
1H6 2.1.   54  That now our loss might be ten times so much?
1H6 2.1.   55   JOAN Wherefore is Charles impatient with his friend?
1H6 2.1.   56  At all times will you have my power alike?
1H6 2.1.   57  Sleeping or waking must I still prevail,
1H6 2.1.   58  Or will you blame and lay the fault on me? - 
1H6 2.1.   59  Improvident soldiers, had your watch been good,
1H6 2.1.   60  This sudden mischief never could have fall'n.
1H6 2.1.   61   CHARLES Duke of Alenc@on, this was your default,
1H6 2.1.   62  That, being captain of the watch tonight,
1H6 2.1.   63  Did look no better to that weighty charge.
1H6 2.1.   64   ALENC@ON Had all your quarters been as safely kept
1H6 2.1.   65  As that whereof I had the government,
1H6 2.1.   66  We had not been thus shamefully surprised.
1H6 2.1.   67B  BASTARD Mine was secure. RENE/ And so was mine, my lord.
1H6 2.1.   68   CHARLES And for myself, most part of all this night
1H6 2.1.   69  Within her quarter and mine own precinct
1H6 2.1.   70  I was employed in passing to and fro
1H6 2.1.   71  About relieving of the sentinels.
1H6 2.1.   72  Then how or which way should they first break in?
1H6 2.1.   73   JOAN Question, my lords, no further of the case,
1H6 2.1.   74  How or which way. 'Tis sure they found some place
1H6 2.1.   75  But weakly guarded, where the breach was made.
1H6 2.1.   76  And now there rests no other shift but this - 
1H6 2.1.   77  To gather our soldiers, scattered and dispersed,
1H6 2.1.   78  And lay new platforms to endamage them. {Alarum. Enter an         +
1H6 2.1.   78  English Soldier}
1H6 2.1.   79   ENGLISH SOLDIER  A Talbot! A Talbot! {The French     +
1H6 2.1.   79  fly, leaving their clothes behind}
1H6 2.1.   80   ENGLISH SOLDIER  I'll be so bold to take what they have     +
1H6 2.1.   80  left.
1H6 2.1.   81  The cry of `Talbot' serves me for a sword,
1H6 2.1.   82  For I have loaden me with many spoils,
1H6 2.1.   83  Using no other weapon but his name. {Exit with spoils}
1H6 2.1.    0    {Enter Lord Talbot, the Dukes of Bedford and Burgundy, a   +
1H6 2.2.    0  Captain, [and soldiers]}
1H6 2.2.    1   BEDFORD  The day begins to break and night is fled,
1H6 2.2.    2  Whose pitchy mantle overveiled the earth.
1H6 2.2.    3  Here sound retreat and cease our hot pursuit. {Retreat is         +
1H6 2.2.    3  sounded}
1H6 2.2.    4   TALBOT  Bring forth the body of old Salisbury
1H6 2.2.    5  And here advance it in the market place,
1H6 2.2.    6  The middle centre of this cursed town. {[Exit one or more]}
1H6 2.2.    7   Now have I paid my vow unto his soul:
1H6 2.2.    8  For every drop of blood was drawn from him
1H6 2.2.    9  There hath at least five Frenchmen died tonight.
1H6 2.2.   10  And that hereafter ages may behold
1H6 2.2.   11  What ruin happened in revenge of him,
1H6 2.2.   12  Within their chiefest temple I'll erect
1H6 2.2.   13  A tomb, wherein his corpse shall be interred - 
1H6 2.2.   14  Upon the which, that everyone may read,
1H6 2.2.   15  Shall be engraved the sack of Orle/ans,
1H6 2.2.   16  The treacherous manner of his mournful death,
1H6 2.2.   17  And what a terror he had been to France.
1H6 2.2.   18  But, lords, in all our bloody massacre
1H6 2.2.   19  I muse we met not with the Dauphin's grace,
1H6 2.2.   20  His new-come champion, virtuous Joan of Arc,
1H6 2.2.   21  Nor any of his false confederates.
1H6 2.2.   22   BEDFORD 'Tis thought, Lord Talbot, when the fight began,
1H6 2.2.   23  Roused on the sudden from their drowsy beds,
1H6 2.2.   24  They did amongst the troops of armed men
1H6 2.2.   25  Leap o'er the walls for refuge in the field.
1H6 2.2.   26   BURGUNDY Myself, as far as I could well discern
1H6 2.2.   27  For smoke and dusky vapours of the night,
1H6 2.2.   28  Am sure I scared the Dauphin and his trull,
1H6 2.2.   29  When arm-in-arm they both came swiftly running,
1H6 2.2.   30  Like to a pair of loving turtle-doves
1H6 2.2.   31  That could not live asunder day or night.
1H6 2.2.   32  After that things are set in order here,
1H6 2.2.   33  We'll follow them with all the power we have. {Enter a            +
1H6 2.2.   33  Messenger}
1H6 2.2.   34   MESSENGER  All hail, my lords! Which of this princely       +
1H6 2.2.   34  train
1H6 2.2.   35  Call ye the warlike Talbot, for his acts
1H6 2.2.   36  So much applauded through the realm of France?
1H6 2.2.   37   TALBOT Here is the Talbot. Who would speak with him?
1H6 2.2.   38   MESSENGER The virtuous lady, Countess of Auvergne,
1H6 2.2.   39  With modesty admiring thy renown,
1H6 2.2.   40  By me entreats, great lord, thou wouldst vouchsafe
1H6 2.2.   41  To visit her poor castle where she lies,
1H6 2.2.   42  That she may boast she hath beheld the man
1H6 2.2.   43  Whose glory fills the world with loud report.
1H6 2.2.   44   BURGUNDY Is it even so? Nay, then I see our wars
1H6 2.2.   45  Will turn unto a peaceful comic sport,
1H6 2.2.   46  When ladies crave to be encountered with.
1H6 2.2.   47  You may not, my lord, despise her gentle suit.
1H6 2.2.   48   TALBOT Ne'er trust me then, for when a world of men
1H6 2.2.   49  Could not prevail with all their oratory,
1H6 2.2.   50  Yet hath a woman's kindness overruled. - 
1H6 2.2.   51  And therefore tell her I return great thanks,
1H6 2.2.   52  And in submission will attend on her. - 
1H6 2.2.   53  Will not your honours bear me company?
1H6 2.2.   54   BEDFORD No, truly, 'tis more than manners will.
1H6 2.2.   55  And I have heard it said, `Unbidden guests
1H6 2.2.   56  Are often welcomest when they are gone'.
1H6 2.2.   57   TALBOT Well then, alone - since there's no remedy - 
1H6 2.2.   58  I mean to prove this lady's courtesy.
1H6 2.2.   59B Come hither, captain. {He whispers} You perceive my      +
1H6 2.2.   59B mind?
1H6 2.2.   60   CAPTAIN I do, my lord, and mean accordingly. {Exeunt          +
1H6 2.2.   60  [severally]}
1H6 2.2.    0    {Enter the Countess of Auvergne and her Porter}
1H6 2.3.    1   COUNTESS  Porter, remember what I gave in charge,
1H6 2.3.    2  And when you have done so, bring the keys to me.
1H6 2.3.    3A  PORTER Madam, I will. {Exit}
1H6 2.3.    4   COUNTESS  The plot is laid. If all things fall out right,
1H6 2.3.    5  I shall as famous be by this exploit
1H6 2.3.    6  As Scythian Tomyris by Cyrus' death.
1H6 2.3.    7  Great is the rumour of this dreadful knight,
1H6 2.3.    8  And his achievements of no less account.
1H6 2.3.    9  Fain would mine eyes be witness with mine ears,
1H6 2.3.   10  To give their censure of these rare reports. {Enter Messenger     +
1H6 2.3.   10  and Lord Talbot}
1H6 2.3.   11   MESSENGER  Madam, according as your ladyship desired,
1H6 2.3.   12  By message craved, so is Lord Talbot come.
1H6 2.3.   13   COUNTESS And he is welcome. What, is this the man?
1H6 2.3.   14B  MESSENGER Madam, it is. COUNTESS Is this the scourge of France?
1H6 2.3.   15  Is this the Talbot, so much feared abroad
1H6 2.3.   16  That with his name the mothers still their babes?
1H6 2.3.   17  I see report is fabulous and false.
1H6 2.3.   18  I thought I should have seen some Hercules,
1H6 2.3.   19  A second Hector, for his grim aspect
1H6 2.3.   20  And large proportion of his strong-knit limbs.
1H6 2.3.   21  Alas, this is a child, a seely dwarf.
1H6 2.3.   22  It cannot be this weak and writhled shrimp
1H6 2.3.   23  Should strike such terror to his enemies.
1H6 2.3.   24   TALBOT Madam, I have been bold to trouble you.
1H6 2.3.   25  But since your ladyship is not at leisure,
1H6 2.3.   26  I'll sort some other time to visit you. {He is going}
1H6 2.3.   27   COUNTESS  {(to Messenger)} What means he now? Go     +
1H6 2.3.   27  ask him whither he goes.
1H6 2.3.   28   MESSENGER Stay, my Lord Talbot, for my lady craves
1H6 2.3.   29  To know the cause of your abrupt departure.
1H6 2.3.   30   TALBOT Marry, for that she's in a wrong belief,
1H6 2.3.   31  I go to certify her Talbot's here. {Enter Porter with keys}
1H6 2.3.   32   COUNTESS  If thou be he, then art thou prisoner.
1H6 2.3.   33B  TALBOT Prisoner? To whom? COUNTESS To me, bloodthirsty lord;
1H6 2.3.   34  And for that cause I trained thee to my house.
1H6 2.3.   35  Long time thy shadow hath been thrall to me,
1H6 2.3.   36  For in my gallery thy picture hangs;
1H6 2.3.   37  But now the substance shall endure the like,
1H6 2.3.   38  And I will chain these legs and arms of thine
1H6 2.3.   39  That hast by tyranny these many years
1H6 2.3.   40  Wasted our country, slain our citizens,
1H6 2.3.   41  And sent our sons and husbands captivate - 
1H6 2.3.   42A  TALBOT Ha, ha, ha!
1H6 2.3.   43   COUNTESS Laughest thou, wretch? Thy mirth shall turn to moan.
1H6 2.3.   44   TALBOT I laugh to see your ladyship so fond
1H6 2.3.   45  To think that you have aught but Talbot's shadow
1H6 2.3.   46  Whereon to practise your severity.
1H6 2.3.   47A  COUNTESS Why? Art not thou the man?
1H6 2.3.   48A  TALBOT I am indeed.
1H6 2.3.   49A  COUNTESS Then have I substance too.
1H6 2.3.   50   TALBOT No, no, I am but shadow of myself.
1H6 2.3.   51  You are deceived; my substance is not here.
1H6 2.3.   52  For what you see is but the smallest part
1H6 2.3.   53  And least proportion of humanity.
1H6 2.3.   54  I tell you, madam, were the whole frame here,
1H6 2.3.   55  It is of such a spacious lofty pitch
1H6 2.3.   56  Your roof were not sufficient to contain 't.
1H6 2.3.   57   COUNTESS This is a riddling merchant for the nonce.
1H6 2.3.   58  He will be here, and yet he is not here.
1H6 2.3.   59  How can these contrarieties agree?
1H6 2.3.   60   TALBOT That will I show you presently. {He winds his horn.    +
1H6 2.3.   60  Within, drums strike up; a peal of ordnance. Enter English soldiers}
1H6 2.3.   61   How say you, madam? Are you now persuaded
1H6 2.3.   62  That Talbot is but shadow of himself?
1H6 2.3.   63  These are his substance, sinews, arms, and strength,
1H6 2.3.   64  With which he yoketh your rebellious necks,
1H6 2.3.   65  Razeth your cities and subverts your towns,
1H6 2.3.   66  And in a moment makes them desolate.
1H6 2.3.   67   COUNTESS Victorious Talbot, pardon my abuse.
1H6 2.3.   68  I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited,
1H6 2.3.   69  And more than may be gathered by thy shape.
1H6 2.3.   70  Let my presumption not provoke thy wrath,
1H6 2.3.   71  For I am sorry that with reverence
1H6 2.3.   72  I did not entertain thee as thou art.
1H6 2.3.   73   TALBOT Be not dismayed, fair lady, nor misconster
1H6 2.3.   74  The mind of Talbot, as you did mistake
1H6 2.3.   75  The outward composition of his body.
1H6 2.3.   76  What you have done hath not offended me;
1H6 2.3.   77  Nor other satisfaction do I crave
1H6 2.3.   78  But only, with your patience, that we may
1H6 2.3.   79  Taste of your wine and see what cates you have:
1H6 2.3.   80  For soldiers' stomachs always serve them well.
1H6 2.3.   81   COUNTESS With all my heart; and think me honoured
1H6 2.3.   82  To feast so great a warrior in my house. {Exeunt}
1H6 2.3.    0  
1H6 2.3.    0    {A rose brier. Enter Richard Plantagenet, the Earl of      +
1H6 2.4.    0  Warwick, the Duke of Somerset, William de le Pole (the Earl of           +
1H6 2.4.    0  Suffolk), Vernon, and a Lawyer}
1H6 2.4.    1   RICHARD PLANTAGENET  Great lords and gentlemen, what means  +
1H6 2.4.    1  this silence?
1H6 2.4.    2  Dare no man answer in a case of truth?
1H6 2.4.    3   SUFFOLK Within the Temple hall we were too loud.
1H6 2.4.    4  The garden here is more convenient.
1H6 2.4.    5   RICHARD PLANTAGENET Then say at once if I maintained the truth;
1H6 2.4.    6  Or else was wrangling Somerset in th' error?
1H6 2.4.    7   SUFFOLK Faith, I have been a truant in the law,
1H6 2.4.    8  And never yet could frame my will to it,
1H6 2.4.    9  And therefore frame the law unto my will.
1H6 2.4.   10   SOMERSET Judge you, my lord of Warwick, then between us.
1H6 2.4.   11   WARWICK Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch,
1H6 2.4.   12  Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth,
1H6 2.4.   13  Between two blades, which bears the better temper,
1H6 2.4.   14  Between two horses, which doth bear him best,
1H6 2.4.   15  Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye,
1H6 2.4.   16  I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgement;
1H6 2.4.   17  But in these nice sharp quillets of the law,
1H6 2.4.   18  Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.
1H6 2.4.   19   RICHARD PLANTAGENET Tut, tut, here is a mannerly forbearance.
1H6 2.4.   20  The truth appears so naked on my side
1H6 2.4.   21  That any purblind eye may find it out.
1H6 2.4.   22   SOMERSET And on my side it is so well apparelled,
1H6 2.4.   23  So clear, so shining, and so evident,
1H6 2.4.   24  That it will glimmer through a blind man's eye.
1H6 2.4.   25   RICHARD PLANTAGENET Since you are tongue-tied and so loath to        +
1H6 2.4.   25  speak,
1H6 2.4.   26  In dumb significants proclaim your thoughts.
1H6 2.4.   27  Let him that is a true-born gentleman
1H6 2.4.   28  And stands upon the honour of his birth,
1H6 2.4.   29  If he suppose that I have pleaded truth,
1H6 2.4.   30  From off this briar pluck a white rose with me. {He plucks a      +
1H6 2.4.   30  white rose}
1H6 2.4.   31   SOMERSET  Let him that is no coward nor no flatterer,
1H6 2.4.   32  But dare maintain the party of the truth,
1H6 2.4.   33  Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me. {He plucks a red    +
1H6 2.4.   33  rose}
1H6 2.4.   34   WARWICK  I love no colours, and without all colour
1H6 2.4.   35  Of base insinuating flattery
1H6 2.4.   36  I pluck this white rose with Plantagenet.
1H6 2.4.   37   SUFFOLK I pluck this red rose with young Somerset,
1H6 2.4.   38  And say withal I think he held the right.
1H6 2.4.   39   VERNON Stay, lords and gentlemen, and pluck no more
1H6 2.4.   40  Till you conclude that he upon whose side
1H6 2.4.   41  The fewest roses from the tree are cropped
1H6 2.4.   42  Shall yield the other in the right opinion.
1H6 2.4.   43   SOMERSET Good Master Vernon, it is well objected.
1H6 2.4.   44  If I have fewest, I subscribe in silence.
1H6 2.4.   45A  RICHARD PLANTAGENET And I.
1H6 2.4.   46   VERNON Then for the truth and plainness of the case
1H6 2.4.   47  I pluck this pale and maiden blossom here,
1H6 2.4.   48  Giving my verdict on the white rose' side.
1H6 2.4.   49   SOMERSET Prick not your finger as you pluck it off,
1H6 2.4.   50  Lest, bleeding, you do paint the white rose red,
1H6 2.4.   51  And fall on my side so against your will.
1H6 2.4.   52   VERNON If I, my lord, for my opinion bleed,
1H6 2.4.   53  Opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt
1H6 2.4.   54  And keep me on the side where still I am.
1H6 2.4.   55A  SOMERSET Well, well, come on! Who else?
1H6 2.4.   56   LAWYER Unless my study and my books be false,
1H6 2.4.   57  The argument you held was wrong in law;
1H6 2.4.   58  In sign whereof I pluck a white rose too.
1H6 2.4.   59   RICHARD PLANTAGENET Now Somerset, where is your argument?
1H6 2.4.   60   SOMERSET Here in my scabbard, meditating that
1H6 2.4.   61  Shall dye your white rose in a bloody red.
1H6 2.4.   62   RICHARD PLANTAGENET Meantime your cheeks do counterfeit our roses,
1H6 2.4.   63  For pale they look with fear, as witnessing
1H6 2.4.   64B The truth on our side. SOMERSET No, Plantagenet,
1H6 2.4.   65  'Tis not for fear, but anger, that thy cheeks
1H6 2.4.   66  Blush for pure shame to counterfeit our roses,
1H6 2.4.   67  And yet thy tongue will not confess thy error.
1H6 2.4.   68   RICHARD PLANTAGENET Hath not thy rose a canker, Somerset?
1H6 2.4.   69   SOMERSET Hath not thy rose a thorn, Plantagenet?
1H6 2.4.   70   RICHARD PLANTAGENET Ay, sharp and piercing, to maintain his truth,
1H6 2.4.   71  Whiles thy consuming canker eats his falsehood.
1H6 2.4.   72   SOMERSET Well, I'll find friends to wear my bleeding roses,
1H6 2.4.   73  That shall maintain what I have said is true,
1H6 2.4.   74  Where false Plantagenet dare not be seen.
1H6 2.4.   75   RICHARD PLANTAGENET Now, by this maiden blossom in my hand,
1H6 2.4.   76  I scorn thee and thy fashion, peevish boy.
1H6 2.4.   77   SUFFOLK Turn not thy scorns this way, Plantagenet.
1H6 2.4.   78   RICHARD PLANTAGENET Proud Pole, I will, and scorn both him and       +
1H6 2.4.   78  thee.
1H6 2.4.   79   SUFFOLK I'll turn my part thereof into thy throat.
1H6 2.4.   80   SOMERSET Away, away, good William de le Pole.
1H6 2.4.   81  We grace the yeoman by conversing with him.
1H6 2.4.   82   WARWICK Now, by God's will, thou wrong'st him, Somerset.
1H6 2.4.   83  His grandfather was Lionel Duke of Clarence,
1H6 2.4.   84  Third son to the third Edward, King of England.
1H6 2.4.   85  Spring crestless yeomen from so deep a root?
1H6 2.4.   86   RICHARD PLANTAGENET He bears him on the place's privilege,
1H6 2.4.   87  Or durst not for his craven heart say thus.
1H6 2.4.   88   SOMERSET By him that made me, I'll maintain my words
1H6 2.4.   89  On any plot of ground in Christendom.
1H6 2.4.   90  Was not thy father, Richard Earl of Cambridge,
1H6 2.4.   91  For treason executed in our late king's days?
1H6 2.4.   92  And by his treason stand'st not thou attainted,
1H6 2.4.   93  Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry?
1H6 2.4.   94  His trespass yet lives guilty in thy blood,
1H6 2.4.   95  And till thou be restored thou art a yeoman.
1H6 2.4.   96   RICHARD PLANTAGENET My father was attached, not attainted;
1H6 2.4.   97  Condemned to die for treason, but no traitor - 
1H6 2.4.   98  And that I'll prove on better men than Somerset,
1H6 2.4.   99  Were growing time once ripened to my will.
1H6 2.4.  100  For your partaker Pole, and you yourself,
1H6 2.4.  101  I'll note you in my book of memory,
1H6 2.4.  102  To scourge you for this apprehension.
1H6 2.4.  103  Look to it well, and say you are well warned.
1H6 2.4.  104   SOMERSET Ah, thou shalt find us ready for thee still,
1H6 2.4.  105  And know us by these colours for thy foes,
1H6 2.4.  106  For these my friends, in spite of thee, shall wear.
1H6 2.4.  107   RICHARD PLANTAGENET And, by my soul, this pale and angry rose,
1H6 2.4.  108  As cognizance of my blood-drinking hate,
1H6 2.4.  109  Will I forever, and my faction, wear
1H6 2.4.  110  Until it wither with me to my grave,
1H6 2.4.  111  Or flourish to the height of my degree.
1H6 2.4.  112   SUFFOLK Go forward, and be choked with thy ambition.
1H6 2.4.  113  And so farewell until I meet thee next. {Exit}
1H6 2.4.  114   SOMERSET  Have with thee, Pole. - Farewell, ambitious         +
1H6 2.4.  114  Richard. {Exit}
1H6 2.4.  115   RICHARD PLANTAGENET  How I am braved, and must perforce     +
1H6 2.4.  115  endure it!
1H6 2.4.  116   WARWICK This blot that they object against your house
1H6 2.4.  117  Shall be wiped out in the next parliament,
1H6 2.4.  118  Called for the truce of Winchester and Gloucester.
1H6 2.4.  119  An if thou be not then created York,
1H6 2.4.  120  I will not live to be accounted Warwick.
1H6 2.4.  121  Meantime, in signal of my love to thee,
1H6 2.4.  122  Against proud Somerset and William Pole,
1H6 2.4.  123  Will I upon thy party wear this rose.
1H6 2.4.  124  And here I prophesy: this brawl today,
1H6 2.4.  125  Grown to this faction in the Temple garden,
1H6 2.4.  126  Shall send, between the red rose and the white,
1H6 2.4.  127  A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
1H6 2.4.  128   RICHARD PLANTAGENET Good Master Vernon, I am bound to you,
1H6 2.4.  129  That you on my behalf would pluck a flower.
1H6 2.4.  130   VERNON In your behalf still will I wear the same.
1H6 2.4.  131A  LAWYER And so will I.
1H6 2.4.  132A  RICHARD PLANTAGENET Thanks, gentles.
1H6 2.4.  133  Come, let us four to dinner. I dare say
1H6 2.4.  134  This quarrel will drink blood another day. {Exeunt. The rose      +
1H6 2.4.  134  brier is removed}
1H6 2.4.    0  
1H6 2.4.    0    {Enter Edmund Mortimer, brought in a chair [by] his        +
1H6 2.5.    0  Keepers}
1H6 2.5.    1   MORTIMER  Kind keepers of my weak decaying age,
1H6 2.5.    2  Let dying Mortimer here rest himself.
1H6 2.5.    3  Even like a man new-haled from the rack,
1H6 2.5.    4  So fare my limbs with long imprisonment;
1H6 2.5.    5  And these grey locks, the pursuivants of death,
1H6 2.5.    6  Argue the end of Edmund Mortimer,
1H6 2.5.    7  Nestor-like aged in an age of care.
1H6 2.5.    8  These eyes, like lamps whose wasting oil is spent,
1H6 2.5.    9  Wax dim, as drawing to their exigent;
1H6 2.5.   10  Weak shoulders, overborne with burdening grief,
1H6 2.5.   11  And pithless arms, like to a withered vine
1H6 2.5.   12  That droops his sapless branches to the ground.
1H6 2.5.   13  Yet are these feet - whose strengthless stay is numb,
1H6 2.5.   14  Unable to support this lump of clay - 
1H6 2.5.   15  Swift-winged with desire to get a grave,
1H6 2.5.   16  As witting I no other comfort have.
1H6 2.5.   17  But tell me, keeper, will my nephew come?
1H6 2.5.   18   KEEPER Richard Plantagenet, my lord, will come.
1H6 2.5.   19  We sent unto the Temple, unto his chamber,
1H6 2.5.   20  And answer was returned that he will come.
1H6 2.5.   21   MORTIMER Enough. My soul shall then be satisfied.
1H6 2.5.   22  Poor gentleman, his wrong doth equal mine.
1H6 2.5.   23  Since Henry Monmouth first began to reign - 
1H6 2.5.   24  Before whose glory I was great in arms - 
1H6 2.5.   25  This loathsome sequestration have I had;
1H6 2.5.   26  And even since then hath Richard been obscured,
1H6 2.5.   27  Deprived of honour and inheritance.
1H6 2.5.   28  But now the arbitrator of despairs,
1H6 2.5.   29  Just Death, kind umpire of men's miseries,
1H6 2.5.   30  With sweet enlargement doth dismiss me hence.
1H6 2.5.   31  I would his troubles likewise were expired,
1H6 2.5.   32  That so he might recover what was lost. {Enter Richard            +
1H6 2.5.   32  Plantagenet}
1H6 2.5.   33   KEEPER  My lord, your loving nephew now is come.
1H6 2.5.   34   MORTIMER Richard Plantagenet, my friend, is he come?
1H6 2.5.   35   RICHARD PLANTAGENET Ay, noble uncle, thus ignobly used:
1H6 2.5.   36  Your nephew, late despised Richard, comes.
1H6 2.5.   37   MORTIMER  {(to Keepers)} Direct mine arms I may      +
1H6 2.5.   37  embrace his neck
1H6 2.5.   38  And in his bosom spend my latter gasp.
1H6 2.5.   39  O tell me when my lips do touch his cheeks,
1H6 2.5.   40  That I may kindly give one fainting kiss. {He embraces Richard}
1H6 2.5.   41   And now declare, sweet stem from York's great stock,
1H6 2.5.   42  Why didst thou say of late thou wert despised?
1H6 2.5.   43   RICHARD PLANTAGENET First lean thine aged back against mine arm,
1H6 2.5.   44  And in that ease I'll tell thee my dis-ease.
1H6 2.5.   45  This day in argument upon a case
1H6 2.5.   46  Some words there grew 'twixt Somerset and me;
1H6 2.5.   47  Among which terms he used his lavish tongue
1H6 2.5.   48  And did upbraid me with my father's death;
1H6 2.5.   49  Which obloquy set bars before my tongue,
1H6 2.5.   50  Else with the like I had requited him.
1H6 2.5.   51  Therefore, good uncle, for my father's sake,
1H6 2.5.   52  In honour of a true Plantagenet,
1H6 2.5.   53  And for alliance' sake, declare the cause
1H6 2.5.   54  My father, Earl of Cambridge, lost his head.
1H6 2.5.   55   MORTIMER That cause, fair nephew, that imprisoned me,
1H6 2.5.   56  And hath detained me all my flow'ring youth
1H6 2.5.   57  Within a loathsome dungeon, there to pine,
1H6 2.5.   58  Was cursed instrument of his decease.
1H6 2.5.   59   RICHARD PLANTAGENET Discover more at large what cause that was,
1H6 2.5.   60  For I am ignorant and cannot guess.
1H6 2.5.   61   MORTIMER I will, if that my fading breath permit
1H6 2.5.   62  And death approach not ere my tale be done.
1H6 2.5.   63  Henry the Fourth, grandfather to this King,
1H6 2.5.   64  Deposed his nephew Richard, Edward's son,
1H6 2.5.   65  The first begotten and the lawful heir
1H6 2.5.   66  Of Edward king, the third of that descent;
1H6 2.5.   67  During whose reign the Percies of the north,
1H6 2.5.   68  Finding his usurpation most unjust,
1H6 2.5.   69  Endeavoured my advancement to the throne.
1H6 2.5.   70  The reason moved these warlike lords to this
1H6 2.5.   71  Was for that - young King Richard thus removed,
1H6 2.5.   72  Leaving no heir begotten of his body - 
1H6 2.5.   73  I was the next by birth and parentage,
1H6 2.5.   74  For by my mother I derived am
1H6 2.5.   75  From Lionel Duke of Clarence, the third son
1H6 2.5.   76  To King Edward the Third - whereas the King
1H6 2.5.   77  From John of Gaunt doth bring his pedigree,
1H6 2.5.   78  Being but fourth of that heroic line.
1H6 2.5.   79  But mark: as in this haughty great attempt
1H6 2.5.   80  They laboured to plant the rightful heir,
1H6 2.5.   81  I lost my liberty, and they their lives.
1H6 2.5.   82  Long after this, when Henry the Fifth,
1H6 2.5.   83  Succeeding his father Bolingbroke, did reign,
1H6 2.5.   84  Thy father, Earl of Cambridge then, derived
1H6 2.5.   85  From famous Edmund Langley, Duke of York,
1H6 2.5.   86  Marrying my sister that thy mother was,
1H6 2.5.   87  Again, in pity of my hard distress,
1H6 2.5.   88  Levied an army, weening to redeem
1H6 2.5.   89  And have installed me in the diadem;
1H6 2.5.   90  But, as the rest, so fell that noble earl,
1H6 2.5.   91  And was beheaded. Thus the Mortimers,
1H6 2.5.   92  In whom the title rested, were suppressed.
1H6 2.5.   93   RICHARD PLANTAGENET Of which, my lord, your honour is the last.
1H6 2.5.   94   MORTIMER True, and thou seest that I no issue have,
1H6 2.5.   95  And that my fainting words do warrant death.
1H6 2.5.   96  Thou art my heir. The rest I wish thee gather - 
1H6 2.5.   97  But yet be wary in thy studious care.
1H6 2.5.   98   RICHARD PLANTAGENET Thy grave admonishments prevail with me.
1H6 2.5.   99  But yet methinks my father's execution
1H6 2.5.  100  Was nothing less than bloody tyranny.
1H6 2.5.  101   MORTIMER With silence, nephew, be thou politic.
1H6 2.5.  102  Strong-fixed is the house of Lancaster,
1H6 2.5.  103  And like a mountain, not to be removed.
1H6 2.5.  104  But now thy uncle is removing hence,
1H6 2.5.  105  As princes do their courts, when they are cloyed
1H6 2.5.  106  With long continuance in a settled place.
1H6 2.5.  107   RICHARD PLANTAGENET O uncle, would some part of my young years
1H6 2.5.  108  Might but redeem the passage of your age.
1H6 2.5.  109   MORTIMER Thou dost then wrong me, as that slaughterer doth
1H6 2.5.  110  Which giveth many wounds when one will kill.
1H6 2.5.  111  Mourn not, except thou sorrow for my good.
1H6 2.5.  112  Only give order for my funeral.
1H6 2.5.  113  And so farewell, and fair be all thy hopes,
1H6 2.5.  114  And prosperous be thy life in peace and war. {Dies}
1H6 2.5.  115   RICHARD PLANTAGENET  And peace, no war, befall thy parting  +
1H6 2.5.  115  soul.
1H6 2.5.  116  In prison hast thou spent a pilgrimage,
1H6 2.5.  117  And like a hermit overpassed thy days.
1H6 2.5.  118  Well, I will lock his counsel in my breast,
1H6 2.5.  119  And what I do imagine, let that rest.
1H6 2.5.  120  Keepers, convey him hence, and I myself
1H6 2.5.  121  Will see his burial better than his life. {Exeunt Keepers with    +
1H6 2.5.  121  Mortimer's body}
1H6 2.5.  122   Here dies the dusky torch of Mortimer,
1H6 2.5.  123  Choked with ambition of the meaner sort.
1H6 2.5.  124  And for those wrongs, those bitter injuries,
1H6 2.5.  125  Which Somerset hath offered to my house,
1H6 2.5.  126  I doubt not but with honour to redress.
1H6 2.5.  127  And therefore haste I to the Parliament,
1H6 2.5.  128  Either to be restored to my blood,
1H6 2.5.  129  Or make mine ill th' advantage of my good. {Exit}
1H6 2.5.    0  
1H6 2.5.    0     {Flourish. Enter young King Henry, the Dukes of      +
1H6 3.1.    0  Exeter and Gloucester, the Bishop of Winchester; the Duke of Somerset    +
1H6 3.1.    0  and the Earl of Suffolk [with red roses]; the Earl of Warwick and        +
1H6 3.1.    0  Richard Plantagenet [with white roses]. Gloucester offers to put up a    +
1H6 3.1.    0  bill; Winchester snatches it, tears it}
1H6 3.1.    1   WINCHESTER  Com'st thou with deep premeditated lines?
1H6 3.1.    2  With written pamphlets studiously devised?
1H6 3.1.    3  Humphrey of Gloucester, if thou canst accuse,
1H6 3.1.    4  Or aught intend'st to lay unto my charge,
1H6 3.1.    5  Do it without invention, suddenly,
1H6 3.1.    6  As I with sudden and extemporal speech
1H6 3.1.    7  Purpose to answer what thou canst object.
1H6 3.1.    8   GLOUCESTER Presumptuous priest, this place commands my patience,
1H6 3.1.    9  Or thou shouldst find thou hast dishonoured me.
1H6 3.1.   10  Think not, although in writing I preferred
1H6 3.1.   11  The manner of thy vile outrageous crimes,
1H6 3.1.   12  That therefore I have forged, or am not able
1H6 3.1.   13  Verbatim to rehearse the method of my pen.
1H6 3.1.   14  No, prelate, such is thy audacious wickedness,
1H6 3.1.   15  Thy lewd, pestiferous, and dissentious pranks,
1H6 3.1.   16  As very infants prattle of thy pride.
1H6 3.1.   17  Thou art a most pernicious usurer,
1H6 3.1.   18  Froward by nature, enemy to peace,
1H6 3.1.   19  Lascivious, wanton, more than well beseems
1H6 3.1.   20  A man of thy profession and degree.
1H6 3.1.   21  And for thy treachery, what's more manifest? - 
1H6 3.1.   22  In that thou laid'st a trap to take my life,
1H6 3.1.   23  As well at London Bridge as at the Tower.
1H6 3.1.   24  Beside, I fear me, if thy thoughts were sifted,
1H6 3.1.   25  The King thy sovereign is not quite exempt
1H6 3.1.   26  From envious malice of thy swelling heart.
1H6 3.1.   27   WINCHESTER Gloucester, I do defy thee. - Lords, vouchsafe
1H6 3.1.   28  To give me hearing what I shall reply.
1H6 3.1.   29  If I were covetous, ambitious, or perverse,
1H6 3.1.   30  As he will have me, how am I so poor?
1H6 3.1.   31  Or how haps it I seek not to advance
1H6 3.1.   32  Or raise myself, but keep my wonted calling?
1H6 3.1.   33  And for dissension, who preferreth peace
1H6 3.1.   34  More than I do? - except I be provoked.
1H6 3.1.   35  No, my good lords, it is not that offends;
1H6 3.1.   36  It is not that that hath incensed the Duke.
1H6 3.1.   37  It is because no one should sway but he,
1H6 3.1.   38  No one but he should be about the King - 
1H6 3.1.   39  And that engenders thunder in his breast
1H6 3.1.   40  And makes him roar these accusations forth.
1H6 3.1.   41  But he shall know I am as good - 
1H6 3.1.   42A  GLOUCESTER As good? - 
1H6 3.1.   43  Thou bastard of my grandfather.
1H6 3.1.   44   WINCHESTER Ay, lordly sir; for what are you, I pray,
1H6 3.1.   45  But one imperious in another's throne?
1H6 3.1.   46   GLOUCESTER Am I not Protector, saucy priest?
1H6 3.1.   47   WINCHESTER And am not I a prelate of the Church?
1H6 3.1.   48   GLOUCESTER Yes - as an outlaw in a castle keeps
1H6 3.1.   49  And useth it to patronage his theft.
1H6 3.1.   50B  WINCHESTER Unreverent Gloucester. GLOUCESTER Thou art reverend
1H6 3.1.   51  Touching thy spiritual function, not thy life.
1H6 3.1.   52B  WINCHESTER Rome shall remedy this. [GLOUCESTER] Roam thither      +
1H6 3.1.   52B then.
1H6 3.1.   53   [WARWICK]  {(to Winchester)} My lord, it were your   +
1H6 3.1.   53  duty to forbear.
1H6 3.1.   54   SOMERSET Ay, so the bishop be not overborne:
1H6 3.1.   55  Methinks my lord should be religious,
1H6 3.1.   56  And know the office that belongs to such.
1H6 3.1.   57   WARWICK Methinks his lordship should be humbler.
1H6 3.1.   58  It fitteth not a prelate so to plead.
1H6 3.1.   59   SOMERSET Yes, when his holy state is touched so near.
1H6 3.1.   60   WARWICK State holy or unhallowed, what of that?
1H6 3.1.   61  Is not his grace Protector to the King?
1H6 3.1.   62   RICHARD PLANTAGENET  {(aside)} Plantagenet, I see,   +
1H6 3.1.   62  must hold his tongue,
1H6 3.1.   63  Lest it be said, `Speak, sirrah, when you should;
1H6 3.1.   64  Must your bold verdict intertalk with lords?'
1H6 3.1.   65  Else would I have a fling at Winchester.
1H6 3.1.   66   KING HENRY Uncles of Gloucester and of Winchester,
1H6 3.1.   67  The special watchmen of our English weal,
1H6 3.1.   68  I would prevail, if prayers might prevail,
1H6 3.1.   69  To join your hearts in love and amity.
1H6 3.1.   70  O what a scandal is it to our crown
1H6 3.1.   71  That two such noble peers as ye should jar!
1H6 3.1.   72  Believe me, lords, my tender years can tell
1H6 3.1.   73  Civil dissension is a viperous worm
1H6 3.1.   74  That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth. {A noise within}
1H6 3.1.   75A  [SERVINGMEN]  {(within)} Down with the tawny coats!
1H6 3.1.   76B  KING HENRY What tumult's this? WARWICK An uproar, I dare          +
1H6 3.1.   76B warrant,
1H6 3.1.   77  Begun through malice of the Bishop's men. {A noise again}
1H6 3.1.   78A  [SERVINGMEN]  {(within)} Stones, stones!      +
1H6 3.1.   78A {Enter the Mayor of London}
1H6 3.1.   79   MAYOR  O my good lords, and virtuous Henry,
1H6 3.1.   80  Pity the city of London, pity us!
1H6 3.1.   81  The Bishop and the Duke of Gloucester's men,
1H6 3.1.   82  Forbidden late to carry any weapon,
1H6 3.1.   83  Have filled their pockets full of pebble stones
1H6 3.1.   84  And, banding themselves in contrary parts,
1H6 3.1.   85  Do pelt so fast at one another's pate
1H6 3.1.   86  That many have their giddy brains knocked out.
1H6 3.1.   87  Our windows are broke down in every street,
1H6 3.1.   88  And we for fear compelled to shut our shops. {Enter in skirmish,  +
1H6 3.1.   88  with bloody pates, Winchester's Servingmen in tawny coats and            +
1H6 3.1.   88  Gloucester's in blue coats}
1H6 3.1.   89   KING HENRY  We charge you, on allegiance to ourself,
1H6 3.1.   90  To hold your slaught'ring hands and keep the peace. {[The         +
1H6 3.1.   90  skirmish ceases]}
1H6 3.1.   91   Pray, Uncle Gloucester, mitigate this strife.
1H6 3.1.   92   FIRST SERVINGMAN  Nay, if we be forbidden stones, we'll
1H6 3.1.   93  fall to it with our teeth.
1H6 3.1.   94   SECOND SERVINGMAN  Do what ye dare, we are as               +
1H6 3.1.   94  resolute. {Skirmish again}
1H6 3.1.   95   GLOUCESTER  You of my household, leave this peevish broil,
1H6 3.1.   96  And set this unaccustomed fight aside.
1H6 3.1.   97   THIRD SERVINGMAN My lord, we know your grace to be a man
1H6 3.1.   98  Just and upright and, for your royal birth,
1H6 3.1.   99  Inferior to none but to his majesty;
1H6 3.1.  100  And ere that we will suffer such a prince,
1H6 3.1.  101  So kind a father of the commonweal,
1H6 3.1.  102  To be disgraced by an inkhorn mate,
1H6 3.1.  103  We and our wives and children all will fight
1H6 3.1.  104  And have our bodies slaughtered by thy foes.
1H6 3.1.  105   FIRST SERVINGMAN Ay, and the very parings of our nails
1H6 3.1.  106B Shall pitch a field when we are dead. {They begin to skirmish     +
1H6 3.1.  106B again} GLOUCESTER  Stay, stay, I say!
1H6 3.1.  107  An if you love me as you say you do,
1H6 3.1.  108  Let me persuade you to forbear a while.
1H6 3.1.  109   KING HENRY O how this discord doth afflict my soul!
1H6 3.1.  110  Can you, my lord of Winchester, behold
1H6 3.1.  111  My sighs and tears, and will not once relent?
1H6 3.1.  112  Who should be pitiful if you be not?
1H6 3.1.  113  Or who should study to prefer a peace,
1H6 3.1.  114  If holy churchmen take delight in broils?
1H6 3.1.  115   WARWICK Yield, my lord Protector; yield, Winchester - 
1H6 3.1.  116  Except you mean with obstinate repulse
1H6 3.1.  117  To slay your sovereign and destroy the realm.
1H6 3.1.  118  You see what mischief - and what murder, too - 
1H6 3.1.  119  Hath been enacted through your enmity.
1H6 3.1.  120  Then be at peace, except ye thirst for blood.
1H6 3.1.  121   WINCHESTER He shall submit, or I will never yield.
1H6 3.1.  122   GLOUCESTER Compassion on the King commands me stoop,
1H6 3.1.  123  Or I would see his heart out ere the priest
1H6 3.1.  124  Should ever get that privilege of me.
1H6 3.1.  125   WARWICK Behold, my lord of Winchester, the Duke
1H6 3.1.  126  Hath banished moody discontented fury,
1H6 3.1.  127  As by his smoothed brows it doth appear.
1H6 3.1.  128  Why look you still so stern and tragical?
1H6 3.1.  129   GLOUCESTER Here, Winchester, I offer thee my hand.
1H6 3.1.  130   KING HENRY  {(to Winchester)} Fie, Uncle Beaufort!   +
1H6 3.1.  130  I have heard you preach
1H6 3.1.  131  That malice was a great and grievous sin;
1H6 3.1.  132  And will not you maintain the thing you teach,
1H6 3.1.  133  But prove a chief offender in the same?
1H6 3.1.  134   WARWICK Sweet King! The Bishop hath a kindly gird.
1H6 3.1.  135  For shame, my lord of Winchester, relent.
1H6 3.1.  136  What, shall a child instruct you what to do?
1H6 3.1.  137   WINCHESTER Well, Duke of Gloucester, I will yield to thee
1H6 3.1.  138  Love for thy love, and hand for hand I give.
1H6 3.1.  139   GLOUCESTER  {(aside)} Ay, but I fear me with a       +
1H6 3.1.  139  hollow heart.
1H6 3.1.  140   {(To the others)} See here, my friends and loving       +
1H6 3.1.  140  countrymen,
1H6 3.1.  141  This token serveth for a flag of truce
1H6 3.1.  142  Betwixt ourselves and all our followers.
1H6 3.1.  143  So help me God, as I dissemble not.
1H6 3.1.  144   WINCHESTER So help me God {(aside)} as I intend it   +
1H6 3.1.  144  not.
1H6 3.1.  145   KING HENRY O loving uncle, kind Duke of Gloucester,
1H6 3.1.  146  How joyful am I made by this contract!
1H6 3.1.  147   {(To Servingmen)} Away, my masters, trouble us no       +
1H6 3.1.  147  more,
1H6 3.1.  148  But join in friendship as your lords have done.
1H6 3.1.  149A  FIRST SERVINGMAN Content. I'll to the surgeon's.
1H6 3.1.  150A  SECOND SERVINGMAN And so will I.
1H6 3.1.  151   THIRD SERVINGMAN  And I will see what physic the tavern
1H6 3.1.  152  affords. {Exeunt the Mayor and Servingmen}
1H6 3.1.  153   WARWICK  Accept this scroll, most gracious sovereign,
1H6 3.1.  154  Which in the right of Richard Plantagenet
1H6 3.1.  155  We do exhibit to your majesty.
1H6 3.1.  156   GLOUCESTER Well urged, my lord of Warwick - for, sweet prince,
1H6 3.1.  157  An if your grace mark every circumstance,
1H6 3.1.  158  You have great reason to do Richard right,
1H6 3.1.  159  Especially for those occasions
1H6 3.1.  160  At Eltham Place I told your majesty.
1H6 3.1.  161   KING HENRY And those occasions, uncle, were of force. - 
1H6 3.1.  162  Therefore, my loving lords, our pleasure is
1H6 3.1.  163  That Richard be restored to his blood.
1H6 3.1.  164   WARWICK Let Richard be restored to his blood.
1H6 3.1.  165  So shall his father's wrongs be recompensed.
1H6 3.1.  166   WINCHESTER As will the rest, so willeth Winchester.
1H6 3.1.  167   KING HENRY If Richard will be true, not that alone
1H6 3.1.  168  But all the whole inheritance I give
1H6 3.1.  169  That doth belong unto the house of York,
1H6 3.1.  170  From whence you spring by lineal descent.
1H6 3.1.  171   RICHARD PLANTAGENET Thy humble servant vows obedience
1H6 3.1.  172  And humble service till the point of death.
1H6 3.1.  173   KING HENRY Stoop then, and set your knee against my foot.     +
1H6 3.1.  173  {Richard kneels}
1H6 3.1.  174   And in reguerdon of that duty done,
1H6 3.1.  175  I gird thee with the valiant sword of York.
1H6 3.1.  176  Rise, Richard, like a true Plantagenet,
1H6 3.1.  177  And rise created princely Duke of York.
1H6 3.1.  178   RICHARD DUKE OF YORK  {(rising)} And so thrive       +
1H6 3.1.  178  Richard, as thy foes may fall;
1H6 3.1.  179  And as my duty springs, so perish they
1H6 3.1.  180  That grudge one thought against your majesty.
1H6 3.1.  181   ALL BUT RICHARD AND SOMERSET Welcome, high prince, the mighty Duke   +
1H6 3.1.  181  of York!
1H6 3.1.  182   SOMERSET  {(aside)} Perish, base prince, ignoble     +
1H6 3.1.  182  Duke of York!
1H6 3.1.  183   GLOUCESTER Now will it best avail your majesty
1H6 3.1.  184  To cross the seas and to be crowned in France.
1H6 3.1.  185  The presence of a king engenders love
1H6 3.1.  186  Amongst his subjects and his loyal friends,
1H6 3.1.  187  As it disanimates his enemies.
1H6 3.1.  188   KING HENRY When Gloucester says the word, King Henry goes,
1H6 3.1.  189  For friendly counsel cuts off many foes.
1H6 3.1.  190   GLOUCESTER Your ships already are in readiness. {Sennet.      +
1H6 3.1.  190  Exeunt all but Exeter}
1H6 3.1.  191   EXETER  Ay, we may march in England or in France,
1H6 3.1.  192  Not seeing what is likely to ensue.
1H6 3.1.  193  This late dissension grown betwixt the peers
1H6 3.1.  194  Burns under feigned ashes of forged love,
1H6 3.1.  195  And will at last break out into a flame.
1H6 3.1.  196  As festered members rot but by degree
1H6 3.1.  197  Till bones and flesh and sinews fall away,
1H6 3.1.  198  So will this base and envious discord breed.
1H6 3.1.  199  And now I fear that fatal prophecy
1H6 3.1.  200  Which, in the time of Henry named the Fifth,
1H6 3.1.  201  Was in the mouth of every sucking babe:
1H6 3.1.  202  That `Henry born at Monmouth should win all,
1H6 3.1.  203  And Henry born at Windsor should lose all' - 
1H6 3.1.  204  Which is so plain that Exeter doth wish
1H6 3.1.  205  His days may finish, ere that hapless time. {Exit}
1H6 3.1.    0    {Enter Joan la Pucelle, disguised, with four French        +
1H6 3.2.    0  Soldiers with sacks upon their backs}
1H6 3.2.    1   JOAN  These are the city gates, the gates of Rouen,
1H6 3.2.    2  Through which our policy must make a breach.
1H6 3.2.    3  Take heed. Be wary how you place your words.
1H6 3.2.    4  Talk like the vulgar sort of market men
1H6 3.2.    5  That come to gather money for their corn.
1H6 3.2.    6  If we have entrance, as I hope we shall,
1H6 3.2.    7  And that we find the slothful watch but weak,
1H6 3.2.    8  I'll by a sign give notice to our friends,
1H6 3.2.    9  That Charles the Dauphin may encounter them.
1H6 3.2.   10   A SOLDIER Our sacks shall be a mean to sack the city,
1H6 3.2.   11  And we be lords and rulers over Rouen.
1H6 3.2.   12  Therefore we'll knock. {They knock}
1H6 3.2.   13B  WATCH  {(within)} {Qui la?} JOAN {Paysans, la    +
1H6 3.2.   13B pauvre gens de France:}
1H6 3.2.   14  Poor market folks that come to sell their corn.
1H6 3.2.   15   WATCH  {(opening the gates)} Enter, go in. The       +
1H6 3.2.   15  market bell is rung.
1H6 3.2.   16   JOAN  {(aside)} Now, Rouen, I'll shake thy bulwarks  +
1H6 3.2.   16  to the ground. {Exeunt}
1H6 3.2.    0    {Enter Charles the Dauphin, the Bastard of Orle/ans, [the  +
1H6 3.3.    0  Duke of Alenc@on, Rene/ Duke of Anjou, and French soldiers]}
1H6 3.3.    1   CHARLES  Saint Denis bless this happy stratagem,
1H6 3.3.    2  And once again we'll sleep secure in Rouen.
1H6 3.3.    3   BASTARD Here entered Pucelle and her practisants.
1H6 3.3.    4  Now she is there, how will she specify
1H6 3.3.    5  `Here is the best and safest passage in'?
1H6 3.3.    6   RENE/ By thrusting out a torch from yonder tower - 
1H6 3.3.    7  Which, once discerned, shows that her meaning is:
1H6 3.3.    8  No way to that, for weakness, which she entered. {Enter Joan la   +
1H6 3.3.    8  Pucelle on the top, thrusting out a torch burning}
1H6 3.3.    9   JOAN  Behold, this is the happy wedding torch
1H6 3.3.   10  That joineth Rouen unto her countrymen,
1H6 3.3.   11  But burning fatal to the Talbonites.
1H6 3.3.   12   BASTARD See, noble Charles, the beacon of our friend.
1H6 3.3.   13  The burning torch in yonder turret stands.
1H6 3.3.   14   CHARLES Now shine it like a comet of revenge,
1H6 3.3.   15  A prophet to the fall of all our foes!
1H6 3.3.   16   RENE/ Defer no time; delays have dangerous ends.
1H6 3.3.   17  Enter and cry, `The Dauphin!', presently,
1H6 3.3.   18  And then do execution on the watch. {Alarum. Exeunt}
1H6 3.3.    0    {An alarum. Enter Lord Talbot in an excursion}
1H6 3.4.    1   TALBOT  France, thou shalt rue this treason with thy        +
1H6 3.4.    1  tears,
1H6 3.4.    2  If Talbot but survive thy treachery.
1H6 3.4.    3  Pucelle, that witch, that damned sorceress,
1H6 3.4.    4  Hath wrought this hellish mischief unawares,
1H6 3.4.    5  That hardly we escaped the pride of France. {Exit}
1H6 3.4.    0    {An alarum. Excursions. The Duke of Bedford brought in     +
1H6 3.5.    0  sick, in a chair. Enter Lord Talbot and the Duke of Burgundy, without;   +
1H6 3.5.    0  within, Joan la Pucelle, Charles the Dauphin, the Bastard of Orle/ans,   +
1H6 3.5.    0  [the Duke of Alenc@on, and Rene/ Duke of Anjou] on the walls}
1H6 3.5.    1   JOAN  Good morrow gallants. Want ye corn for bread?
1H6 3.5.    2  I think the Duke of Burgundy will fast
1H6 3.5.    3  Before he'll buy again at such a rate.
1H6 3.5.    4  'Twas full of darnel. Do you like the taste?
1H6 3.5.    5   BURGUNDY Scoff on, vile fiend and shameless courtesan.
1H6 3.5.    6  I trust ere long to choke thee with thine own,
1H6 3.5.    7  And make thee curse the harvest of that corn.
1H6 3.5.    8   CHARLES Your grace may starve, perhaps, before that time.
1H6 3.5.    9   BEDFORD O let no words, but deeds, revenge this treason.
1H6 3.5.   10   JOAN What will you do, good graybeard? Break a lance
1H6 3.5.   11  And run a-tilt at death within a chair?
1H6 3.5.   12   TALBOT Foul fiend of France, and hag of all despite,
1H6 3.5.   13  Encompassed with thy lustful paramours,
1H6 3.5.   14  Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age
1H6 3.5.   15  And twit with cowardice a man half dead?
1H6 3.5.   16  Damsel, I'll have a bout with you again,
1H6 3.5.   17  Or else let Talbot perish with this shame.
1H6 3.5.   18   JOAN Are ye so hot, sir? - Yet, Pucelle, hold thy peace.
1H6 3.5.   19  If Talbot do but thunder, rain will follow. {The English whisper  +
1H6 3.5.   19  together in counsel}
1H6 3.5.   20   God speed the parliament; who shall be the Speaker?
1H6 3.5.   21   TALBOT Dare ye come forth and meet us in the field?
1H6 3.5.   22   JOAN Belike your lordship takes us then for fools,
1H6 3.5.   23  To try if that our own be ours or no.
1H6 3.5.   24   TALBOT I speak not to that railing Hecate
1H6 3.5.   25  But unto thee, Alenc@on, and the rest.
1H6 3.5.   26  Will ye, like soldiers, come and fight it out?
1H6 3.5.   27B  ALENC@ON Seignieur, no. TALBOT Seignieur, hang! Base muleteers    +
1H6 3.5.   27B of France,
1H6 3.5.   28  Like peasant footboys do they keep the walls
1H6 3.5.   29  And dare not take up arms like gentlemen.
1H6 3.5.   30   JOAN Away, captains, let's get us from the walls,
1H6 3.5.   31  For Talbot means no goodness by his looks.
1H6 3.5.   32  Goodbye, my lord. We came but to tell you
1H6 3.5.   33  That we are here. {Exeunt French from the walls}
1H6 3.5.   34   TALBOT  And there will we be, too, ere it be long,
1H6 3.5.   35  Or else reproach be Talbot's greatest fame.
1H6 3.5.   36  Vow Burgundy, by honour of thy house,
1H6 3.5.   37  Pricked on by public wrongs sustained in France,
1H6 3.5.   38  Either to get the town again or die.
1H6 3.5.   39  And I - as sure as English Henry lives,
1H6 3.5.   40  And as his father here was conqueror;
1H6 3.5.   41  As sure as in this late betrayed town
1H6 3.5.   42  Great Coeur-de-lion's heart was buried - 
1H6 3.5.   43  So sure I swear to get the town or die.
1H6 3.5.   44   BURGUNDY My vows are equal partners with thy vows.
1H6 3.5.   45   TALBOT But ere we go, regard this dying prince,
1H6 3.5.   46  The valiant Duke of Bedford. {(To Bedford)} Come, my     +
1H6 3.5.   46  lord,
1H6 3.5.   47  We will bestow you in some better place,
1H6 3.5.   48  Fitter for sickness and for crazy age.
1H6 3.5.   49   BEDFORD Lord Talbot, do not so dishonour me.
1H6 3.5.   50  Here will I sit before the walls of Rouen,
1H6 3.5.   51  And will be partner of your weal or woe.
1H6 3.5.   52   BURGUNDY Courageous Bedford, let us now persuade you.
1H6 3.5.   53   BEDFORD Not to be gone from hence; for once I read
1H6 3.5.   54  That stout Pendragon, in his litter sick,
1H6 3.5.   55  Came to the field and vanquished his foes.
1H6 3.5.   56  Methinks I should revive the soldiers' hearts,
1H6 3.5.   57  Because I ever found them as myself.
1H6 3.5.   58   TALBOT Undaunted spirit in a dying breast!
1H6 3.5.   59  Then be it so; heavens keep old Bedford safe.
1H6 3.5.   60  And now no more ado, brave Burgundy,
1H6 3.5.   61  But gather we our forces out of hand,
1H6 3.5.   62  And set upon our boasting enemy. {Exit with Burgundy}
1H6 3.5.   63   {An alarum. Excursions. Enter Sir John Fastolf and a             +
1H6 3.5.   63  Captain} CAPTAIN  Whither away, Sir John Fastolf, in such    +
1H6 3.5.   63  haste?
1H6 3.5.   64   FASTOLF Whither away? To save myself by flight.
1H6 3.5.   65  We are like to have the overthrow again.
1H6 3.5.   66   CAPTAIN What, will you fly, and leave Lord Talbot?
1H6 3.5.   67   FASTOLF Ay, all the Talbots in the world, to save my life.    +
1H6 3.5.   67  {Exit}
1H6 3.5.   68   CAPTAIN  Cowardly knight, ill fortune follow thee!   +
1H6 3.5.   68  {Exit}
1H6 3.5.   69   {Retreat. Excursions. Joan, Alenc@on, and Charles                +
1H6 3.5.   69  fly} BEDFORD  Now, quiet soul, depart when heaven please,
1H6 3.5.   70  For I have seen our enemies' overthrow.
1H6 3.5.   71  What is the trust or strength of foolish man?
1H6 3.5.   72  They that of late were daring with their scoffs
1H6 3.5.   73  Are glad and fain by flight to save themselves. {Bedford dies,    +
1H6 3.5.   73  and is carried in by two in his chair}
1H6 3.5.    0   {An alarum. Enter Lord Talbot, the Duke of Burgundy, and the rest  +
1H6 3.6.    0  of the English soldiers}
1H6 3.6.    1   TALBOT  Lost and recovered in a day again!
1H6 3.6.    2  This is a double honour, Burgundy;
1H6 3.6.    3  Yet heavens have glory for this victory!
1H6 3.6.    4   BURGUNDY Warlike and martial Talbot, Burgundy
1H6 3.6.    5  Enshrines thee in his heart, and there erects
1H6 3.6.    6  Thy noble deeds as valour's monuments.
1H6 3.6.    7   TALBOT Thanks, gentle Duke. But where is Pucelle now?
1H6 3.6.    8  I think her old familiar is asleep.
1H6 3.6.    9  Now where's the Bastard's braves, and Charles his gleeks?
1H6 3.6.   10  What, all amort? Rouen hangs her head for grief
1H6 3.6.   11  That such a valiant company are fled.
1H6 3.6.   12  Now will we take some order in the town,
1H6 3.6.   13  Placing therein some expert officers,
1H6 3.6.   14  And then depart to Paris, to the King,
1H6 3.6.   15  For there young Henry with his nobles lie.
1H6 3.6.   16   BURGUNDY What wills Lord Talbot pleaseth Burgundy.
1H6 3.6.   17   TALBOT But yet, before we go, let's not forget
1H6 3.6.   18  The noble Duke of Bedford late deceased,
1H6 3.6.   19  But see his exequies fulfilled in Rouen.
1H6 3.6.   20  A braver soldier never couched lance;
1H6 3.6.   21  A gentler heart did never sway in court.
1H6 3.6.   22  But kings and mightiest potentates must die,
1H6 3.6.   23  For that's the end of human misery. {Exeunt}
1H6 3.6.    0    {Enter Charles the Dauphin, the Bastard of Orle/ans, the   +
1H6 3.7.    0  Duke of Alenc@on, Joan la Pucelle, [and French soldiers]}
1H6 3.7.    1   JOAN  Dismay not, princes, at this accident,
1H6 3.7.    2  Nor grieve that Rouen is so recovered.
1H6 3.7.    3  Care is no cure, but rather corrosive,
1H6 3.7.    4  For things that are not to be remedied.
1H6 3.7.    5  Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while,
1H6 3.7.    6  And like a peacock sweep along his tail;
1H6 3.7.    7  We'll pull his plumes and take away his train,
1H6 3.7.    8  If Dauphin and the rest will be but ruled.
1H6 3.7.    9   CHARLES We have been guided by thee hitherto,
1H6 3.7.   10  And of thy cunning had no diffidence.
1H6 3.7.   11  One sudden foil shall never breed distrust.
1H6 3.7.   12   BASTARD  {(to Joan)} Search out thy wit for secret   +
1H6 3.7.   12  policies,
1H6 3.7.   13  And we will make thee famous through the world.
1H6 3.7.   14   ALENC@ON  {(to Joan)} We'll set thy statue in some   +
1H6 3.7.   14  holy place
1H6 3.7.   15  And have thee reverenced like a blessed saint.
1H6 3.7.   16  Employ thee then, sweet virgin, for our good.
1H6 3.7.   17   JOAN Then thus it must be; this doth Joan devise:
1H6 3.7.   18  By fair persuasions mixed with sugared words
1H6 3.7.   19  We will entice the Duke of Burgundy
1H6 3.7.   20  To leave the Talbot and to follow us.
1H6 3.7.   21   CHARLES Ay, marry, sweeting, if we could do that
1H6 3.7.   22  France were no place for Henry's warriors,
1H6 3.7.   23  Nor should that nation boast it so with us,
1H6 3.7.   24  But be extirped from our provinces.
1H6 3.7.   25   ALENC@ON For ever should they be expulsed from France
1H6 3.7.   26  And not have title of an earldom here.
1H6 3.7.   27   JOAN Your honours shall perceive how I will work
1H6 3.7.   28  To bring this matter to the wished end. {Drum sounds afar off}
1H6 3.7.   29   Hark, by the sound of drum you may perceive
1H6 3.7.   30  Their powers are marching unto Paris-ward. {Here sound an         +
1H6 3.7.   30  English march}
1H6 3.7.   31   There goes the Talbot, with his colours spread,
1H6 3.7.   32  And all the troops of English after him. {Here sound a French     +
1H6 3.7.   32  march}
1H6 3.7.   33   Now in the rearward comes the Duke and his;
1H6 3.7.   34  Fortune in favour makes him lag behind.
1H6 3.7.   35  Summon a parley. We will talk with him. {Trumpets sound a         +
1H6 3.7.   35  parley}
1H6 3.7.   36   CHARLES  {[calling]} A parley with the Duke of       +
1H6 3.7.   36  Burgundy. {[Enter the Duke of Burgundy]}
1H6 3.7.   37   BURGUNDY  Who craves a parley with the Burgundy?
1H6 3.7.   38   JOAN The princely Charles of France, thy countryman.
1H6 3.7.   39   BURGUNDY What sayst thou, Charles? - for I am marching hence.
1H6 3.7.   40   CHARLES Speak, Pucelle, and enchant him with thy words.
1H6 3.7.   41   JOAN Brave Burgundy, undoubted hope of France,
1H6 3.7.   42  Stay. Let thy humble handmaid speak to thee.
1H6 3.7.   43   BURGUNDY Speak on, but be not over-tedious.
1H6 3.7.   44   JOAN Look on thy country, look on fertile France,
1H6 3.7.   45  And see the cities and the towns defaced
1H6 3.7.   46  By wasting ruin of the cruel foe.
1H6 3.7.   47  As looks the mother on her lowly babe
1H6 3.7.   48  When death doth close his tender-dying eyes,
1H6 3.7.   49  See, see the pining malady of France;
1H6 3.7.   50  Behold the wounds, the most unnatural wounds,
1H6 3.7.   51  Which thou thyself hast given her woeful breast.
1H6 3.7.   52  O turn thy edged sword another way,
1H6 3.7.   53  Strike those that hurt, and hurt not those that help.
1H6 3.7.   54  One drop of blood drawn from thy country's bosom
1H6 3.7.   55  Should grieve thee more than streams of foreign gore.
1H6 3.7.   56  Return thee, therefore, with a flood of tears,
1H6 3.7.   57  And wash away thy country's stained spots.
1H6 3.7.   58   BURGUNDY  {[aside]} Either she hath bewitched me     +
1H6 3.7.   58  with her words,
1H6 3.7.   59  Or nature makes me suddenly relent.
1H6 3.7.   60   JOAN Besides, all French and France exclaims on thee,
1H6 3.7.   61  Doubting thy birth and lawful progeny.
1H6 3.7.   62  Who join'st thou with but with a lordly nation
1H6 3.7.   63  That will not trust thee but for profit's sake?
1H6 3.7.   64  When Talbot hath set footing once in France
1H6 3.7.   65  And fashioned thee that instrument of ill,
1H6 3.7.   66  Who then but English Henry will be lord,
1H6 3.7.   67  And thou be thrust out like a fugitive?
1H6 3.7.   68  Call we to mind, and mark but this for proof:
1H6 3.7.   69  Was not the Duke of Orle/ans thy foe?
1H6 3.7.   70  And was he not in England prisoner?
1H6 3.7.   71  But when they heard he was thine enemy
1H6 3.7.   72  They set him free, without his ransom paid,
1H6 3.7.   73  In spite of Burgundy and all his friends.
1H6 3.7.   74  See, then, thou fight'st against thy countrymen,
1H6 3.7.   75  And join'st with them will be thy slaughtermen.
1H6 3.7.   76  Come, come, return; return, thou wandering lord,
1H6 3.7.   77  Charles and the rest will take thee in their arms.
1H6 3.7.   78   BURGUNDY  {[aside]} I am vanquished. These haughty  +
1H6 3.7.   78  words of hers
1H6 3.7.   79  Have battered me like roaring cannon-shot
1H6 3.7.   80  And made me almost yield upon my knees.
1H6 3.7.   81   {(To the others)} Forgive me, country, and sweet        +
1H6 3.7.   81  countrymen;
1H6 3.7.   82  And lords, accept this hearty kind embrace.
1H6 3.7.   83  My forces and my power of men are yours.
1H6 3.7.   84  So farewell, Talbot. I'll no longer trust thee.
1H6 3.7.   85   JOAN Done like a Frenchman -  {[aside]} turn and turn  +
1H6 3.7.   85  again.
1H6 3.7.   86   CHARLES Welcome, brave Duke. Thy friendship makes us fresh.
1H6 3.7.   87   BASTARD And doth beget new courage in our breasts.
1H6 3.7.   88   ALENC@ON Pucelle hath bravely played her part in this,
1H6 3.7.   89  And doth deserve a coronet of gold.
1H6 3.7.   90   CHARLES Now let us on, my lords, and join our powers,
1H6 3.7.   91  And seek how we may prejudice the foe. {Exeunt}
1H6 3.7.    0    {[Flourish.] Enter King Henry, the Duke of Gloucester,     +
1H6 3.8.    0  the Bishop of Winchester, the Duke of Exeter; Richard Duke of York, the  +
1H6 3.8.    0  Earl of Warwick, and Vernon [with white roses]; the Earl of Suffolk,     +
1H6 3.8.    0  the Duke of Somerset, and Basset [with red roses]. To them, with his     +
1H6 3.8.    0  soldiers, enter Lord Talbot}
1H6 3.8.    1   TALBOT  My gracious prince and honourable peers,
1H6 3.8.    2  Hearing of your arrival in this realm
1H6 3.8.    3  I have a while given truce unto my wars
1H6 3.8.    4  To do my duty to my sovereign;
1H6 3.8.    5  In sign whereof, this arm that hath reclaimed
1H6 3.8.    6  To your obedience fifty fortresses,
1H6 3.8.    7  Twelve cities, and seven walled towns of strength,
1H6 3.8.    8  Beside five hundred prisoners of esteem,
1H6 3.8.    9  Lets fall his sword before your highness' feet,
1H6 3.8.   10  And with submissive loyalty of heart
1H6 3.8.   11  Ascribes the glory of his conquest got
1H6 3.8.   12  First to my God, and next unto your grace. {[He kneels]}
1H6 3.8.   13   KING HENRY  Is this the Lord Talbot, uncle Gloucester,
1H6 3.8.   14  That hath so long been resident in France?
1H6 3.8.   15   GLOUCESTER Yes, if it please your majesty, my liege.
1H6 3.8.   16   KING HENRY  {(to Talbot)} Welcome, brave captain     +
1H6 3.8.   16  and victorious lord.
1H6 3.8.   17  When I was young - as yet I am not old - 
1H6 3.8.   18  I do remember how my father said
1H6 3.8.   19  A stouter champion never handled sword.
1H6 3.8.   20  Long since we were resolved of your truth,
1H6 3.8.   21  Your faithful service and your toil in war,
1H6 3.8.   22  Yet never have you tasted our reward,
1H6 3.8.   23  Or been reguerdoned with so much as thanks,
1H6 3.8.   24  Because till now we never saw your face.
1H6 3.8.   25B Therefore stand up, {Talbot rises} and for these good    +
1H6 3.8.   25B deserts
1H6 3.8.   26  We here create you Earl of Shrewsbury;
1H6 3.8.   27  And in our coronation take your place. {Sennet. Exeunt all but    +
1H6 3.8.   27  Vernon and Basset}
1H6 3.8.   28   VERNON  Now sir, to you that were so hot at sea,
1H6 3.8.   29  Disgracing of these colours that I wear
1H6 3.8.   30  In honour of my noble lord of York,
1H6 3.8.   31  Dar'st thou maintain the former words thou spak'st?
1H6 3.8.   32   BASSET Yes, sir, as well as you dare patronage
1H6 3.8.   33  The envious barking of your saucy tongue
1H6 3.8.   34  Against my lord the Duke of Somerset.
1H6 3.8.   35   VERNON Sirrah, thy lord I honour as he is.
1H6 3.8.   36   BASSET Why, what is he? - as good a man as York.
1H6 3.8.   37   VERNON Hark ye, not so. In witness, take ye that. {Vernon     +
1H6 3.8.   37  strikes him}
1H6 3.8.   38   BASSET  Villain, thou know'st the law of arms is such
1H6 3.8.   39  That whoso draws a sword 'tis present death,
1H6 3.8.   40  Or else this blow should broach thy dearest blood.
1H6 3.8.   41  But I'll unto his majesty and crave
1H6 3.8.   42  I may have liberty to venge this wrong,
1H6 3.8.   43  When thou shalt see I'll meet thee to thy cost.
1H6 3.8.   44   VERNON Well, miscreant, I'll be there as soon as you,
1H6 3.8.   45  And after meet you sooner than you would. {Exeunt}
1H6 3.8.    0  
1H6 3.8.    0     {[Flourish.] Enter King Henry, the Duke of           +
1H6 4.1.    0  Gloucester, the Bishop of Winchester, the Duke of Exeter; Richard Duke   +
1H6 4.1.    0  of York, and the Earl of Warwick with white roses; the Earl of Suffolk   +
1H6 4.1.    0  and the Duke of Somerset with red roses; Lord Talbot, and the Governor   +
1H6 4.1.    0  of Paris}
1H6 4.1.    1   GLOUCESTER  Lord Bishop, set the crown upon his head.
1H6 4.1.    2   WINCHESTER God save King Henry, of that name the sixth!       +
1H6 4.1.    2  {Winchester crowns the King}
1H6 4.1.    3   GLOUCESTER  Now, Governor of Paris, take your oath
1H6 4.1.    4  That you elect no other king but him;
1H6 4.1.    5  Esteem none friends but such as are his friends,
1H6 4.1.    6  And none your foes but such as shall pretend
1H6 4.1.    7  Malicious practices against his state.
1H6 4.1.    8  This shall ye do, so help you righteous God. {Enter Sir John      +
1H6 4.1.    8  Fastolf with a letter}
1H6 4.1.    9   FASTOLF  My gracious sovereign, as I rode from Calais
1H6 4.1.   10  To haste unto your coronation
1H6 4.1.   11  A letter was delivered to my hands, {[He presents the letter]}
1H6 4.1.   12   Writ to your grace from th' Duke of Burgundy.
1H6 4.1.   13   TALBOT Shame to the Duke of Burgundy and thee!
1H6 4.1.   14  I vowed, base knight, when I did meet thee next,
1H6 4.1.   15  To tear the Garter from thy craven's leg, {He tears it off}
1H6 4.1.   16   Which I have done because unworthily
1H6 4.1.   17  Thou wast installed in that high degree. - 
1H6 4.1.   18  Pardon me, princely Henry and the rest.
1H6 4.1.   19  This dastard at the battle of Patay
1H6 4.1.   20  When but in all I was six thousand strong,
1H6 4.1.   21  And that the French were almost ten to one,
1H6 4.1.   22  Before we met, or that a stroke was given,
1H6 4.1.   23  Like to a trusty squire did run away;
1H6 4.1.   24  In which assault we lost twelve hundred men.
1H6 4.1.   25  Myself and divers gentlemen beside
1H6 4.1.   26  Were there surprised and taken prisoners.
1H6 4.1.   27  Then judge, great lords, if I have done amiss,
1H6 4.1.   28  Or whether that such cowards ought to wear
1H6 4.1.   29  This ornament of knighthood: yea or no?
1H6 4.1.   30   GLOUCESTER To say the truth, this fact was infamous
1H6 4.1.   31  And ill beseeming any common man,
1H6 4.1.   32  Much more a knight, a captain and a leader.
1H6 4.1.   33   TALBOT When first this order was ordained, my lords,
1H6 4.1.   34  Knights of the Garter were of noble birth,
1H6 4.1.   35  Valiant and virtuous, full of haughty courage,
1H6 4.1.   36  Such as were grown to credit by the wars;
1H6 4.1.   37  Not fearing death nor shrinking for distress,
1H6 4.1.   38  But always resolute in most extremes.
1H6 4.1.   39  He then that is not furnished in this sort
1H6 4.1.   40  Doth but usurp the sacred name of knight,
1H6 4.1.   41  Profaning this most honourable order,
1H6 4.1.   42  And should - if I were worthy to be judge - 
1H6 4.1.   43  Be quite degraded, like a hedge-born swain
1H6 4.1.   44  That doth presume to boast of gentle blood.
1H6 4.1.   45   KING HENRY  {(to Fastolf)} Stain to thy countrymen,  +
1H6 4.1.   45  thou hear'st thy doom.
1H6 4.1.   46  Be packing, therefore, thou that wast a knight.
1H6 4.1.   47  Henceforth we banish thee on pain of death. {Exit Fastolf}
1H6 4.1.   48   And now, my Lord Protector, view the letter
1H6 4.1.   49  Sent from our uncle, Duke of Burgundy.
1H6 4.1.   50   GLOUCESTER What means his grace that he hath changed his style?
1H6 4.1.   51  No more but plain and bluntly `To the King'?
1H6 4.1.   52  Hath he forgot he is his sovereign?
1H6 4.1.   53  Or doth this churlish superscription
1H6 4.1.   54  Pretend some alteration in good will?
1H6 4.1.   55  What's here? `I have upon especial cause,
1H6 4.1.   56  Moved with compassion of my country's wrack
1H6 4.1.   57  Together with the pitiful complaints
1H6 4.1.   58  Of such as your oppression feeds upon,
1H6 4.1.   59  Forsaken your pernicious faction
1H6 4.1.   60  And joined with Charles, the rightful King of France.'
1H6 4.1.   61  O monstrous treachery! Can this be so?
1H6 4.1.   62  That in alliance, amity, and oaths
1H6 4.1.   63  There should be found such false dissembling guile?
1H6 4.1.   64   KING HENRY What? Doth my uncle Burgundy revolt?
1H6 4.1.   65   GLOUCESTER He doth, my lord, and is become your foe.
1H6 4.1.   66   KING HENRY Is that the worst this letter doth contain?
1H6 4.1.   67   GLOUCESTER It is the worst, and all, my lord, he writes.
1H6 4.1.   68   KING HENRY Why then, Lord Talbot there shall talk with him
1H6 4.1.   69  And give him chastisement for this abuse.
1H6 4.1.   70   {(To Talbot)} How say you, my lord? Are you not         +
1H6 4.1.   70  content?
1H6 4.1.   71   TALBOT Content, my liege? Yes. But that I am prevented,
1H6 4.1.   72  I should have begged I might have been employed.
1H6 4.1.   73   KING HENRY Then gather strength and march unto him straight.
1H6 4.1.   74  Let him perceive how ill we brook his treason,
1H6 4.1.   75  And what offence it is to flout his friends.
1H6 4.1.   76   TALBOT I go, my lord, in heart desiring still
1H6 4.1.   77  You may behold confusion of your foes. {Exit}
1H6 4.1.   78   {Enter Vernon wearing a white rose, and Basset wearing a red     +
1H6 4.1.   78  rose} VERNON  {(to King Henry)} Grant me the combat,  +
1H6 4.1.   78  gracious sovereign.
1H6 4.1.   79   BASSET  {(to King Henry)} And me, my lord; grant me  +
1H6 4.1.   79  the combat, too.
1H6 4.1.   80   RICHARD DUKE OF YORK  {(to King Henry, pointing to            +
1H6 4.1.   80  Vernon)} This is my servant; hear him, noble Prince.
1H6 4.1.   81   SOMERSET  {(to King Henry, pointing to Basset)} And  +
1H6 4.1.   81  this is mine, sweet Henry; favour him.
1H6 4.1.   82   KING HENRY Be patient, lords, and give them leave to speak.
1H6 4.1.   83  Say, gentlemen, what makes you thus exclaim,
1H6 4.1.   84  And wherefore crave you combat, or with whom?
1H6 4.1.   85   VERNON With him, my lord; for he hath done me wrong.
1H6 4.1.   86   BASSET And I with him; for he hath done me wrong.
1H6 4.1.   87   KING HENRY What is that wrong whereof you both complain?
1H6 4.1.   88  First let me know, and then I'll answer you.
1H6 4.1.   89   BASSET Crossing the sea from England into France,
1H6 4.1.   90  This fellow here with envious carping tongue
1H6 4.1.   91  Upbraided me about the rose I wear,
1H6 4.1.   92  Saying the sanguine colour of the leaves
1H6 4.1.   93  Did represent my master's blushing cheeks
1H6 4.1.   94  When stubbornly he did repugn the truth
1H6 4.1.   95  About a certain question in the law
1H6 4.1.   96  Argued betwixt the Duke of York and him,
1H6 4.1.   97  With other vile and ignominious terms;
1H6 4.1.   98  In confutation of which rude reproach,
1H6 4.1.   99  And in defence of my lord's worthiness,
1H6 4.1.  100  I crave the benefit of law of arms.
1H6 4.1.  101   VERNON And that is my petition, noble lord;
1H6 4.1.  102  For though he seem with forged quaint conceit
1H6 4.1.  103  To set a gloss upon his bold intent,
1H6 4.1.  104  Yet know, my lord, I was provoked by him,
1H6 4.1.  105  And he first took exceptions at this badge,
1H6 4.1.  106  Pronouncing that the paleness of this flower
1H6 4.1.  107  Bewrayed the faintness of my master's heart.
1H6 4.1.  108   RICHARD DUKE OF YORK Will not this malice, Somerset, be left?
1H6 4.1.  109   SOMERSET Your private grudge, my lord of York, will out,
1H6 4.1.  110  Though ne'er so cunningly you smother it.
1H6 4.1.  111   KING HENRY Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men
1H6 4.1.  112  When for so slight and frivolous a cause
1H6 4.1.  113  Such factious emulations shall arise?
1H6 4.1.  114  Good cousins both of York and Somerset,
1H6 4.1.  115  Quiet yourselves, I pray, and be at peace.
1H6 4.1.  116   RICHARD DUKE OF YORK Let this dissension first be tried by fight,
1H6 4.1.  117  And then your highness shall command a peace.
1H6 4.1.  118   SOMERSET The quarrel toucheth none but us alone;
1H6 4.1.  119  Betwixt ourselves let us decide it then.
1H6 4.1.  120   RICHARD DUKE OF YORK There is my pledge. Accept it, Somerset.
1H6 4.1.  121   VERNON  {(to King Henry)} Nay, let it rest where it  +
1H6 4.1.  121  began at first.
1H6 4.1.  122   BASSET  {(to King Henry)} Confirm it so, mine        +
1H6 4.1.  122  honourable lord.
1H6 4.1.  123   GLOUCESTER Confirm it so? Confounded be your strife,
1H6 4.1.  124  And perish ye with your audacious prate!
1H6 4.1.  125  Presumptuous vassals, are you not ashamed
1H6 4.1.  126  With this immodest clamorous outrage
1H6 4.1.  127  To trouble and disturb the King and us?
1H6 4.1.  128  And you, my lords, methinks you do not well
1H6 4.1.  129  To bear with their perverse objections,
1H6 4.1.  130  Much less to take occasion from their mouths
1H6 4.1.  131  To raise a mutiny betwixt yourselves.
1H6 4.1.  132  Let me persuade you take a better course.
1H6 4.1.  133   EXETER It grieves his highness. Good my lords, be friends.
1H6 4.1.  134   KING HENRY Come hither, you that would be combatants.
1H6 4.1.  135  Henceforth I charge you, as you love our favour,
1H6 4.1.  136  Quite to forget this quarrel and the cause.
1H6 4.1.  137  And you, my lords, remember where we are - 
1H6 4.1.  138  In France, amongst a fickle wavering nation.
1H6 4.1.  139  If they perceive dissension in our looks,
1H6 4.1.  140  And that within ourselves we disagree,
1H6 4.1.  141  How will their grudging stomachs be provoked
1H6 4.1.  142  To wilful disobedience, and rebel!
1H6 4.1.  143  Beside, what infamy will there arise
1H6 4.1.  144  When foreign princes shall be certified
1H6 4.1.  145  That for a toy, a thing of no regard,
1H6 4.1.  146  King Henry's peers and chief nobility
1H6 4.1.  147  Destroyed themselves and lost the realm of France!
1H6 4.1.  148  O, think upon the conquest of my father,
1H6 4.1.  149  My tender years, and let us not forgo
1H6 4.1.  150  That for a trifle that was bought with blood.
1H6 4.1.  151  Let me be umpire in this doubtful strife.
1H6 4.1.  152  I see no reason, if I wear this rose, {He takes a red rose}
1H6 4.1.  153   That anyone should therefore be suspicious
1H6 4.1.  154  I more incline to Somerset than York.
1H6 4.1.  155  Both are my kinsmen, and I love them both.
1H6 4.1.  156  As well they may upbraid me with my crown
1H6 4.1.  157  Because, forsooth, the King of Scots is crowned.
1H6 4.1.  158  But your discretions better can persuade
1H6 4.1.  159  Than I am able to instruct or teach,
1H6 4.1.  160  And therefore, as we hither came in peace,
1H6 4.1.  161  So let us still continue peace and love.
1H6 4.1.  162  Cousin of York, we institute your grace
1H6 4.1.  163  To be our regent in these parts of France;
1H6 4.1.  164  And good my lord of Somerset, unite
1H6 4.1.  165  Your troops of horsemen with his bands of foot,
1H6 4.1.  166  And like true subjects, sons of your progenitors,
1H6 4.1.  167  Go cheerfully together and digest
1H6 4.1.  168  Your angry choler on your enemies.
1H6 4.1.  169  Ourself, my Lord Protector, and the rest,
1H6 4.1.  170  After some respite, will return to Calais,
1H6 4.1.  171  From thence to England, where I hope ere long
1H6 4.1.  172  To be presented by your victories
1H6 4.1.  173  With Charles, Alenc@on, and that traitorous rout. {Flourish.      +
1H6 4.1.  173  Exeunt all but York, Warwick, Vernon, and Exeter}
1H6 4.1.  174   WARWICK  My lord of York, I promise you, the King
1H6 4.1.  175  Prettily, methought, did play the orator.
1H6 4.1.  176   RICHARD DUKE OF YORK And so he did; but yet I like it not
1H6 4.1.  177  In that he wears the badge of Somerset.
1H6 4.1.  178   WARWICK Tush, that was but his fancy; blame him not.
1H6 4.1.  179  I dare presume, sweet Prince, he thought no harm.
1H6 4.1.  180   RICHARD DUKE OF YORK An if I wist he did - but let it rest.
1H6 4.1.  181  Other affairs must now be managed. {Exeunt all but Exeter}
1H6 4.1.  182   EXETER  Well didst thou, Richard, to suppress thy voice;
1H6 4.1.  183  For had the passions of thy heart burst out
1H6 4.1.  184  I fear we should have seen deciphered there
1H6 4.1.  185  More rancorous spite, more furious raging broils,
1H6 4.1.  186  Than yet can be imagined or supposed.
1H6 4.1.  187  But howsoe'er, no simple man that sees
1H6 4.1.  188  This jarring discord of nobility,
1H6 4.1.  189  This shouldering of each other in the court,
1H6 4.1.  190  This factious bandying of their favourites,
1H6 4.1.  191  But that it doth presage some ill event.
1H6 4.1.  192  'Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands,
1H6 4.1.  193  But more when envy breeds unkind division:
1H6 4.1.  194  There comes the ruin, there begins confusion. {Exit}
1H6 4.1.    0  
1H6 4.1.    0    {Enter Lord Talbot with a trumpeter and drummer and        +
1H6 4.2.    0  soldiers before Bordeaux}
1H6 4.2.    1   TALBOT  Go to the gates of Bordeaux, trumpeter.
1H6 4.2.    2  Summon their general unto the wall. {The trumpeter sounds a       +
1H6 4.2.    2  parley. Enter French General, aloft}
1H6 4.2.    3   English John Talbot, captain, calls you forth,
1H6 4.2.    4  Servant in arms to Harry King of England;
1H6 4.2.    5  And thus he would: open your city gates,
1H6 4.2.    6  Be humble to us, call my sovereign yours
1H6 4.2.    7  And do him homage as obedient subjects,
1H6 4.2.    8  And I'll withdraw me and my bloody power.
1H6 4.2.    9  But if you frown upon this proffered peace,
1H6 4.2.   10  You tempt the fury of my three attendants - 
1H6 4.2.   11  Lean famine, quartering steel, and climbing fire - 
1H6 4.2.   12  Who in a moment even with the earth
1H6 4.2.   13  Shall lay your stately and air-braving towers
1H6 4.2.   14  If you forsake the offer of their love.
1H6 4.2.   15   GENERAL Thou ominous and fearful owl of death,
1H6 4.2.   16  Our nation's terror and their bloody scourge,
1H6 4.2.   17  The period of thy tyranny approacheth.
1H6 4.2.   18  On us thou canst not enter but by death,
1H6 4.2.   19  For I protest we are well fortified
1H6 4.2.   20  And strong enough to issue out and fight.
1H6 4.2.   21  If thou retire, the Dauphin well appointed
1H6 4.2.   22  Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee.
1H6 4.2.   23  On either hand thee there are squadrons pitched
1H6 4.2.   24  To wall thee from the liberty of flight,
1H6 4.2.   25  And no way canst thou turn thee for redress
1H6 4.2.   26  But death doth front thee with apparent spoil,
1H6 4.2.   27  And pale destruction meets thee in the face.
1H6 4.2.   28  Ten thousand French have ta'en the sacrament
1H6 4.2.   29  To fire their dangerous artillery
1H6 4.2.   30  Upon no Christian soul but English Talbot.
1H6 4.2.   31  Lo, there thou stand'st, a breathing valiant man
1H6 4.2.   32  Of an invincible unconquered spirit.
1H6 4.2.   33  This is the latest glory of thy praise,
1H6 4.2.   34  That I thy enemy due thee withal,
1H6 4.2.   35  For ere the glass that now begins to run
1H6 4.2.   36  Finish the process of his sandy hour,
1H6 4.2.   37  These eyes that see thee now well coloured
1H6 4.2.   38  Shall see thee withered, bloody, pale, and dead. {Drum afar off}
1H6 4.2.   39   Hark, hark, the Dauphin's drum, a warning bell,
1H6 4.2.   40  Sings heavy music to thy timorous soul,
1H6 4.2.   41  And mine shall ring thy dire departure out. {Exit}
1H6 4.2.   42   TALBOT  He fables not. I hear the enemy.
1H6 4.2.   43  Out, some light horsemen, and peruse their wings. {[Exit one or   +
1H6 4.2.   43  more]}
1H6 4.2.   44   O negligent and heedless discipline,
1H6 4.2.   45  How are we parked and bounded in a pale! - 
1H6 4.2.   46  A little herd of England's timorous deer
1H6 4.2.   47  Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs.
1H6 4.2.   48  If we be English deer, be then in blood,
1H6 4.2.   49  Not rascal-like to fall down with a pinch,
1H6 4.2.   50  But rather, moody-mad and desperate stags,
1H6 4.2.   51  Turn on the bloody hounds with heads of steel
1H6 4.2.   52  And make the cowards stand aloof at bay.
1H6 4.2.   53  Sell every man his life as dear as mine
1H6 4.2.   54  And they shall find dear deer of us, my friends.
1H6 4.2.   55  God and Saint George, Talbot and England's right,
1H6 4.2.   56  Prosper our colours in this dangerous fight! {Exeunt}
1H6 4.2.    0    {Enter a Messenger that meets the Duke of York. Enter      +
1H6 4.3.    0  Richard Duke of York with a trumpeter and many soldiers}
1H6 4.3.    1   RICHARD DUKE OF YORK  Are not the speedy scouts returned    +
1H6 4.3.    1  again
1H6 4.3.    2  That dogged the mighty army of the Dauphin?
1H6 4.3.    3   MESSENGER They are returned, my lord, and give it out
1H6 4.3.    4  That he is marched to Bordeaux with his power
1H6 4.3.    5  To fight with Talbot. As he marched along,
1H6 4.3.    6  By your espials were discovered
1H6 4.3.    7  Two mightier troops than that the Dauphin led,
1H6 4.3.    8  Which joined with him and made their march for Bordeaux.
1H6 4.3.    9   RICHARD DUKE OF YORK A plague upon that villain Somerset
1H6 4.3.   10  That thus delays my promised supply
1H6 4.3.   11  Of horsemen that were levied for this siege!
1H6 4.3.   12  Renowned Talbot doth expect my aid,
1H6 4.3.   13  And I am louted by a traitor villain
1H6 4.3.   14  And cannot help the noble chevalier.
1H6 4.3.   15  God comfort him in this necessity;
1H6 4.3.   16  If he miscarry, farewell wars in France! {Enter another           +
1H6 4.3.   16  messenger, Sir William Lucy}
1H6 4.3.   17   LUCY  Thou princely leader of our English strength,
1H6 4.3.   18  Never so needful on the earth of France,
1H6 4.3.   19  Spur to the rescue of the noble Talbot,
1H6 4.3.   20  Who now is girdled with a waste of iron
1H6 4.3.   21  And hemmed about with grim destruction.
1H6 4.3.   22  To Bordeaux, warlike Duke; to Bordeaux, York,
1H6 4.3.   23  Else farewell Talbot, France, and England's honour.
1H6 4.3.   24   RICHARD DUKE OF YORK O God, that Somerset, who in proud heart
1H6 4.3.   25  Doth stop my cornets, were in Talbot's place!
1H6 4.3.   26  So should we save a valiant gentleman
1H6 4.3.   27  By forfeiting a traitor and a coward.
1H6 4.3.   28  Mad ire and wrathful fury makes me weep,
1H6 4.3.   29  That thus we die while remiss traitors sleep.
1H6 4.3.   30   LUCY O, send some succour to the distressed lord.
1H6 4.3.   31   RICHARD DUKE OF YORK He dies, we lose; I break my warlike word;
1H6 4.3.   32  We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get,
1H6 4.3.   33  All 'long of this vile traitor Somerset.
1H6 4.3.   34   LUCY Then God take mercy on brave Talbot's soul,
1H6 4.3.   35  And on his son young John, who two hours since
1H6 4.3.   36  I met in travel toward his warlike father.
1H6 4.3.   37  This seven years did not Talbot see his son,
1H6 4.3.   38  And now they meet where both their lives are done.
1H6 4.3.   39   RICHARD DUKE OF YORK Alas, what joy shall noble Talbot have
1H6 4.3.   40  To bid his young son welcome to his grave?
1H6 4.3.   41  Away - vexation almost stops my breath
1H6 4.3.   42  That sundered friends greet in the hour of death.
1H6 4.3.   43  Lucy, farewell. No more my fortune can
1H6 4.3.   44  But curse the cause I cannot aid the man.
1H6 4.3.   45  Maine, Blois, Poitiers, and Tours are won away
1H6 4.3.   46  'Long all of Somerset and his delay. {Exeunt all but Lucy}
1H6 4.3.   47   LUCY  Thus while the vulture of sedition
1H6 4.3.   48  Feeds in the bosom of such great commanders,
1H6 4.3.   49  Sleeping neglection doth betray to loss
1H6 4.3.   50  The conquest of our scarce-cold conqueror,
1H6 4.3.   51  That ever-living man of memory
1H6 4.3.   52  Henry the Fifth. Whiles they each other cross,
1H6 4.3.   53  Lives, honours, lands, and all hurry to loss. {[Exit]}
1H6 4.3.    0    {Enter the Duke of Somerset with his army}
1H6 4.4.    1   SOMERSET  {(to a Captain)} It is too late, I cannot  +
1H6 4.4.    1  send them now.
1H6 4.4.    2  This expedition was by York and Talbot
1H6 4.4.    3  Too rashly plotted. All our general force
1H6 4.4.    4  Might with a sally of the very town
1H6 4.4.    5  Be buckled with. The over-daring Talbot
1H6 4.4.    6  Hath sullied all his gloss of former honour
1H6 4.4.    7  By this unheedful, desperate, wild adventure.
1H6 4.4.    8  York set him on to fight and die in shame
1H6 4.4.    9  That, Talbot dead, great York might bear the name. {[Enter        +
1H6 4.4.    9  Lucy]}
1H6 4.4.   10   CAPTAIN  Here is Sir William Lucy, who with me
1H6 4.4.   11  Set from our o'ermatched forces forth for aid.
1H6 4.4.   12   SOMERSET How now, Sir William, whither were you sent?
1H6 4.4.   13   LUCY Whither, my lord? From bought and sold Lord Talbot,
1H6 4.4.   14  Who, ringed about with bold adversity,
1H6 4.4.   15  Cries out for noble York and Somerset
1H6 4.4.   16  To beat assailing death from his weak legions;
1H6 4.4.   17  And whiles the honourable captain there
1H6 4.4.   18  Drops bloody sweat from his war-wearied limbs
1H6 4.4.   19  And, unadvantaged, ling'ring looks for rescue,
1H6 4.4.   20  You his false hopes, the trust of England's honour,
1H6 4.4.   21  Keep off aloof with worthless emulation.
1H6 4.4.   22  Let not your private discord keep away
1H6 4.4.   23  The levied succours that should lend him aid,
1H6 4.4.   24  While he, renowned noble gentleman,
1H6 4.4.   25  Yield up his life unto a world of odds.
1H6 4.4.   26  Orle/ans the Bastard, Charles, and Burgundy,
1H6 4.4.   27  Alenc@on, Rene/, compass him about,
1H6 4.4.   28  And Talbot perisheth by your default.
1H6 4.4.   29   SOMERSET York set him on; York should have sent him aid.
1H6 4.4.   30   LUCY And York as fast upon your grace exclaims,
1H6 4.4.   31  Swearing that you withhold his levied horse
1H6 4.4.   32  Collected for this expedition.
1H6 4.4.   33   SOMERSET York lies. He might have sent and had the horse.
1H6 4.4.   34  I owe him little duty and less love,
1H6 4.4.   35  And take foul scorn to fawn on him by sending.
1H6 4.4.   36   LUCY The fraud of England, not the force of France,
1H6 4.4.   37  Hath now entrapped the noble-minded Talbot.
1H6 4.4.   38  Never to England shall he bear his life,
1H6 4.4.   39  But dies betrayed to fortune by your strife.
1H6 4.4.   40   SOMERSET Come, go. I will dispatch the horsemen straight.
1H6 4.4.   41  Within six hours they will be at his aid.
1H6 4.4.   42   LUCY Too late comes rescue. He is ta'en or slain,
1H6 4.4.   43  For fly he could not if he would have fled,
1H6 4.4.   44  And fly would Talbot never, though he might.
1H6 4.4.   45   SOMERSET If he be dead, brave Talbot, then adieu.
1H6 4.4.   46   LUCY His fame lives in the world, his shame in you. {Exeunt   +
1H6 4.4.   46  [severally]}
1H6 4.4.    0    {Enter Lord Talbot and his son John}
1H6 4.5.    1   TALBOT  O young John Talbot, I did send for thee
1H6 4.5.    2  To tutor thee in stratagems of war,
1H6 4.5.    3  That Talbot's name might be in thee revived
1H6 4.5.    4  When sapless age and weak unable limbs
1H6 4.5.    5  Should bring thy father to his drooping chair.
1H6 4.5.    6  But O - malignant and ill-boding stars! - 
1H6 4.5.    7  Now thou art come unto a feast of death,
1H6 4.5.    8  A terrible and unavoided danger.
1H6 4.5.    9  Therefore, dear boy, mount on my swiftest horse,
1H6 4.5.   10  And I'll direct thee how thou shalt escape
1H6 4.5.   11  By sudden flight. Come, dally not, be gone.
1H6 4.5.   12   JOHN Is my name Talbot, and am I your son,
1H6 4.5.   13  And shall I fly? O, if you love my mother,
1H6 4.5.   14  Dishonour not her honourable name
1H6 4.5.   15  To make a bastard and a slave of me.
1H6 4.5.   16  The world will say he is not Talbot's blood
1H6 4.5.   17  That basely fled when noble Talbot stood.
1H6 4.5.   18   TALBOT Fly to revenge my death if I be slain.
1H6 4.5.   19   JOHN He that flies so will ne'er return again.
1H6 4.5.   20   TALBOT If we both stay, we both are sure to die.
1H6 4.5.   21   JOHN Then let me stay and, father, do you fly.
1H6 4.5.   22  Your loss is great; so your regard should be.
1H6 4.5.   23  My worth unknown, no loss is known in me.
1H6 4.5.   24  Upon my death the French can little boast;
1H6 4.5.   25  In yours they will: in you all hopes are lost.
1H6 4.5.   26  Flight cannot stain the honour you have won,
1H6 4.5.   27  But mine it will, that no exploit have done.
1H6 4.5.   28  You fled for vantage, everyone will swear,
1H6 4.5.   29  But if I bow, they'll say it was for fear.
1H6 4.5.   30  There is no hope that ever I will stay
1H6 4.5.   31  If the first hour I shrink and run away.
1H6 4.5.   32  Here on my knee I beg mortality
1H6 4.5.   33  Rather than life preserved with infamy.
1H6 4.5.   34   TALBOT Shall all thy mother's hopes lie in one tomb?
1H6 4.5.   35   JOHN Ay, rather than I'll shame my mother's womb.
1H6 4.5.   36   TALBOT Upon my blessing I command thee go.
1H6 4.5.   37   JOHN To fight I will, but not to fly the foe.
1H6 4.5.   38   TALBOT Part of thy father may be saved in thee.
1H6 4.5.   39   JOHN No part of him but will be shamed in me.
1H6 4.5.   40   TALBOT Thou never hadst renown, nor canst not lose it.
1H6 4.5.   41   JOHN Yes, your renowned name - shall flight abuse it?
1H6 4.5.   42   TALBOT Thy father's charge shall clear thee from that stain.
1H6 4.5.   43   JOHN You cannot witness for me, being slain.
1H6 4.5.   44  If death be so apparent, then both fly.
1H6 4.5.   45   TALBOT And leave my followers here to fight and die?
1H6 4.5.   46  My age was never tainted with such shame.
1H6 4.5.   47   JOHN And shall my youth be guilty of such blame?
1H6 4.5.   48  No more can I be severed from your side
1H6 4.5.   49  Than can yourself your self in twain divide.
1H6 4.5.   50  Stay, go, do what you will: the like do I,
1H6 4.5.   51  For live I will not if my father die.
1H6 4.5.   52   TALBOT Then here I take my leave of thee, fair son,
1H6 4.5.   53  Born to eclipse thy life this afternoon.
1H6 4.5.   54  Come, side by side together live and die,
1H6 4.5.   55  And soul with soul from France to heaven fly. {Exeunt}
1H6 4.5.    0    {Alarum. Excursions, wherein Lord Talbot's son John is     +
1H6 4.6.    0  hemmed about by French soldiers and Talbot rescues him. [The English     +
1H6 4.6.    0  drive off the French]}
1H6 4.6.    1   TALBOT  Saint George and victory! Fight, soldiers, fight!
1H6 4.6.    2  The Regent hath with Talbot broke his word,
1H6 4.6.    3  And left us to the rage of France his sword.
1H6 4.6.    4  Where is John Talbot? {(To John)} Pause and take thy     +
1H6 4.6.    4  breath.
1H6 4.6.    5  I gave thee life, and rescued thee from death.
1H6 4.6.    6   JOHN O twice my father, twice am I thy son:
1H6 4.6.    7  The life thou gav'st me first was lost and done
1H6 4.6.    8  Till with thy warlike sword, despite of fate,
1H6 4.6.    9  To my determined time thou gav'st new date.
1H6 4.6.   10   TALBOT When from the Dauphin's crest thy sword struck fire
1H6 4.6.   11  It warmed thy father's heart with proud desire
1H6 4.6.   12  Of bold-faced victory. Then leaden age,
1H6 4.6.   13  Quickened with youthful spleen and warlike rage,
1H6 4.6.   14  Beat down Alenc@on, Orle/ans, Burgundy,
1H6 4.6.   15  And from the pride of Gallia rescued thee.
1H6 4.6.   16  The ireful Bastard Orle/ans, that drew blood
1H6 4.6.   17  From thee, my boy, and had the maidenhood
1H6 4.6.   18  Of thy first fight, I soon encountered,
1H6 4.6.   19  And interchanging blows, I quickly shed
1H6 4.6.   20  Some of his bastard blood, and in disgrace
1H6 4.6.   21  Bespoke him thus: `Contaminated, base,
1H6 4.6.   22  And misbegotten blood I spill of thine,
1H6 4.6.   23  Mean and right poor, for that pure blood of mine
1H6 4.6.   24  Which thou didst force from Talbot, my brave boy.'
1H6 4.6.   25  Here, purposing the Bastard to destroy,
1H6 4.6.   26  Came in strong rescue. Speak thy father's care:
1H6 4.6.   27  Art thou not weary, John? How dost thou fare?
1H6 4.6.   28  Wilt thou yet leave the battle, boy, and fly,
1H6 4.6.   29  Now thou art sealed the son of chivalry?
1H6 4.6.   30  Fly to revenge my death when I am dead;
1H6 4.6.   31  The help of one stands me in little stead.
1H6 4.6.   32  O, too much folly is it, well I wot,
1H6 4.6.   33  To hazard all our lives in one small boat.
1H6 4.6.   34  If I today die not with Frenchmen's rage,
1H6 4.6.   35  Tomorrow I shall die with mickle age.
1H6 4.6.   36  By me they nothing gain, and if I stay
1H6 4.6.   37  'Tis but the short'ning of my life one day.
1H6 4.6.   38  In thee thy mother dies, our household's name,
1H6 4.6.   39  My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.
1H6 4.6.   40  All these and more we hazard by thy stay;
1H6 4.6.   41  All these are saved if thou wilt fly away.
1H6 4.6.   42   JOHN The sword of Orle/ans hath not made me smart;
1H6 4.6.   43  These words of yours draw life-blood from my heart.
1H6 4.6.   44  On that advantage, bought with such a shame,
1H6 4.6.   45  To save a paltry life and slay bright fame,
1H6 4.6.   46  Before young Talbot from old Talbot fly
1H6 4.6.   47  The coward horse that bears me fall and die;
1H6 4.6.   48  And like me to the peasant boys of France,
1H6 4.6.   49  To be shame's scorn and subject of mischance!
1H6 4.6.   50  Surely, by all the glory you have won,
1H6 4.6.   51  An if I fly I am not Talbot's son.
1H6 4.6.   52  Then talk no more of flight; it is no boot.
1H6 4.6.   53  If son to Talbot, die at Talbot's foot.
1H6 4.6.   54   TALBOT Then follow thou thy desp'rate sire of Crete,
1H6 4.6.   55  Thou Icarus; thy life to me is sweet.
1H6 4.6.   56  If thou wilt fight, fight by thy father's side,
1H6 4.6.   57  And commendable proved, let's die in pride. {Exeunt}
1H6 4.6.    0    {Alarum. Excursions. Enter old Lord Talbot led by a        +
1H6 4.7.    0  Servant}
1H6 4.7.    1   TALBOT  Where is my other life? Mine own is gone.
1H6 4.7.    2  O where's young Talbot, where is valiant John?
1H6 4.7.    3  Triumphant death smeared with captivity,
1H6 4.7.    4  Young Talbot's valour makes me smile at thee.
1H6 4.7.    5  When he perceived me shrink and on my knee,
1H6 4.7.    6  His bloody sword he brandished over me,
1H6 4.7.    7  And like a hungry lion did commence
1H6 4.7.    8  Rough deeds of rage and stern impatience.
1H6 4.7.    9  But when my angry guardant stood alone,
1H6 4.7.   10  Tend'ring my ruin and assailed of none,
1H6 4.7.   11  Dizzy-eyed fury and great rage of heart
1H6 4.7.   12  Suddenly made him from my side to start
1H6 4.7.   13  Into the clust'ring battle of the French,
1H6 4.7.   14  And in that sea of blood my boy did drench
1H6 4.7.   15  His over-mounting spirit; and there died
1H6 4.7.   16  My Icarus, my blossom, in his pride. {Enter English soldiers      +
1H6 4.7.   16  with John Talbot's body, borne}
1H6 4.7.   17   SERVANT  O my dear lord, lo where your son is borne.
1H6 4.7.   18   TALBOT Thou antic death, which laugh'st us here to scorn,
1H6 4.7.   19  Anon from thy insulting tyranny,
1H6 4.7.   20  Coupled in bonds of perpetuity,
1H6 4.7.   21  Two Talbots winged through the lither sky
1H6 4.7.   22  In thy despite shall scape mortality.
1H6 4.7.   23   {(To John)} O thou whose wounds become hard-favoured    +
1H6 4.7.   23  death,
1H6 4.7.   24  Speak to thy father ere thou yield thy breath.
1H6 4.7.   25  Brave death by speaking, whether he will or no;
1H6 4.7.   26  Imagine him a Frenchman and thy foe. - 
1H6 4.7.   27  Poor boy, he smiles, methinks, as who should say
1H6 4.7.   28  `Had death been French, then death had died today'.
1H6 4.7.   29  Come, come, and lay him in his father's arms. {Soldiers lay John  +
1H6 4.7.   29  in Talbot's arms}
1H6 4.7.   30   My spirit can no longer bear these harms.
1H6 4.7.   31  Soldiers, adieu. I have what I would have,
1H6 4.7.   32  Now my old arms are young John Talbot's grave. {He dies.          +
1H6 4.7.   32  [Alarum.] Exeunt soldiers leaving the bodies}
1H6 4.7.   33  
1H6 4.7.   33   {Enter Charles the Dauphin, the dukes of Alenc@on and Burgundy,  +
1H6 4.7.   33  the Bastard of Orle/ans, and Joan la Pucelle} CHARLES  Had   +
1H6 4.7.   33  York and Somerset brought rescue in,
1H6 4.7.   34  We should have found a bloody day of this.
1H6 4.7.   35   BASTARD How the young whelp of Talbot's, raging wood,
1H6 4.7.   36  Did flesh his puny sword in Frenchmen's blood!
1H6 4.7.   37   JOAN Once I encountered him, and thus I said:
1H6 4.7.   38  `Thou maiden youth, be vanquished by a maid.'
1H6 4.7.   39  But with a proud, majestical high scorn
1H6 4.7.   40  He answered thus: `Young Talbot was not born
1H6 4.7.   41  To be the pillage of a giglot wench.'
1H6 4.7.   42  So rushing in the bowels of the French,
1H6 4.7.   43  He left me proudly, as unworthy fight.
1H6 4.7.   44   BURGUNDY Doubtless he would have made a noble knight.
1H6 4.7.   45  See where he lies inhearsed in the arms
1H6 4.7.   46  Of the most bloody nurser of his harms.
1H6 4.7.   47   BASTARD Hew them to pieces, hack their bones asunder,
1H6 4.7.   48  Whose life was England's glory, Gallia's wonder.
1H6 4.7.   49   CHARLES O no, forbear; for that which we have fled
1H6 4.7.   50  During the life, let us not wrong it dead. {Enter Sir William     +
1H6 4.7.   50  Lucy [with a French herald]}
1H6 4.7.   51   LUCY  Herald, conduct me to the Dauphin's tent
1H6 4.7.   52  To know who hath obtained the glory of the day.
1H6 4.7.   53   CHARLES On what submissive message art thou sent?
1H6 4.7.   54   LUCY Submission, Dauphin? 'Tis a mere French word.
1H6 4.7.   55  We English warriors wot not what it means.
1H6 4.7.   56  I come to know what prisoners thou hast ta'en,
1H6 4.7.   57  And to survey the bodies of the dead.
1H6 4.7.   58   CHARLES For prisoners ask'st thou? Hell our prison is.
1H6 4.7.   59  But tell me whom thou seek'st.
1H6 4.7.   60   LUCY But where's the great Alcides of the field,
1H6 4.7.   61  Valiant Lord Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury,
1H6 4.7.   62  Created for his rare success in arms
1H6 4.7.   63  Great Earl of Wexford, Waterford, and Valence,
1H6 4.7.   64  Lord Talbot of Goodrich and Urchinfield,
1H6 4.7.   65  Lord Strange of Blackmere, Lord Verdun of Alton,
1H6 4.7.   66  Lord Cromwell of Wingfield, Lord Furnival of Sheffield,
1H6 4.7.   67  The thrice victorious lord of Falconbridge,
1H6 4.7.   68  Knight of the noble order of Saint George,
1H6 4.7.   69  Worthy Saint Michael and the Golden Fleece,
1H6 4.7.   70  Great {Mare/chal} to Henry the Sixth
1H6 4.7.   71  Of all his wars within the realm of France?
1H6 4.7.   72   JOAN Here's a silly, stately style indeed.
1H6 4.7.   73  The Turk, that two-and-fifty kingdoms hath,
1H6 4.7.   74  Writes not so tedious a style as this.
1H6 4.7.   75  Him that thou magnifi'st with all these titles
1H6 4.7.   76  Stinking and flyblown lies here at our feet.
1H6 4.7.   77   LUCY Is Talbot slain, the Frenchmen's only scourge,
1H6 4.7.   78  Your kingdom's terror and black Nemesis?
1H6 4.7.   79  O, were mine eye-balls into bullets turned,
1H6 4.7.   80  That I in rage might shoot them at your faces!
1H6 4.7.   81  O, that I could but call these dead to life! - 
1H6 4.7.   82  It were enough to fright the realm of France.
1H6 4.7.   83  Were but his picture left amongst you here
1H6 4.7.   84  It would amaze the proudest of you all.
1H6 4.7.   85  Give me their bodies, that I may bear them hence
1H6 4.7.   86  And give them burial as beseems their worth.
1H6 4.7.   87   JOAN  {(to Charles)} I think this upstart is old     +
1H6 4.7.   87  Talbot's ghost,
1H6 4.7.   88  He speaks with such a proud commanding spirit.
1H6 4.7.   89  For God's sake let him have them. To keep them here
1H6 4.7.   90  They would but stink and putrefy the air.
1H6 4.7.   91A  CHARLES Go, take their bodies hence.
1H6 4.7.   92   LUCY I'll bear them hence, but from their ashes shall be reared
1H6 4.7.   93  A phoenix that shall make all France afeard.
1H6 4.7.   94   CHARLES So we be rid of them, do with them what thou wilt.    +
1H6 4.7.   94  {[Exeunt Lucy and herald with the bodies]}
1H6 4.7.   95   And now to Paris in this conquering vein.
1H6 4.7.   96  All will be ours, now bloody Talbot's slain. {Exeunt}
1H6 4.7.    0  
1H6 4.7.    0     {Sennet. Enter King Henry, the Dukes of Gloucester   +
1H6 5.1.    0  and Exeter, [and others]}
1H6 5.1.    1   KING HENRY  {(to Gloucester)} Have you perused the   +
1H6 5.1.    1  letters from the Pope,
1H6 5.1.    2  The Emperor, and the Earl of Armagnac?
1H6 5.1.    3   GLOUCESTER I have, my lord, and their intent is this:
1H6 5.1.    4  They humbly sue unto your excellence
1H6 5.1.    5  To have a godly peace concluded of
1H6 5.1.    6  Between the realms of England and of France.
1H6 5.1.    7   KING HENRY How doth your grace affect their motion?
1H6 5.1.    8   GLOUCESTER Well, my good lord, and as the only means
1H6 5.1.    9  To stop effusion of our Christian blood
1H6 5.1.   10  And 'stablish quietness on every side.
1H6 5.1.   11   KING HENRY Ay, marry, uncle; for I always thought
1H6 5.1.   12  It was both impious and unnatural
1H6 5.1.   13  That such immanity and bloody strife
1H6 5.1.   14  Should reign among professors of one faith.
1H6 5.1.   15   GLOUCESTER Beside, my lord, the sooner to effect
1H6 5.1.   16  And surer bind this knot of amity,
1H6 5.1.   17  The Earl of Armagnac, near knit to Charles - 
1H6 5.1.   18  A man of great authority in France - 
1H6 5.1.   19  Proffers his only daughter to your grace
1H6 5.1.   20  In marriage, with a large and sumptuous dowry.
1H6 5.1.   21   KING HENRY Marriage, uncle? Alas, my years are young,
1H6 5.1.   22  And fitter is my study and my books
1H6 5.1.   23  Than wanton dalliance with a paramour.
1H6 5.1.   24B Yet call th' ambassadors, {[Exit one or more]} and as    +
1H6 5.1.   24B you please,
1H6 5.1.   25  So let them have their answers every one.
1H6 5.1.   26  I shall be well content with any choice
1H6 5.1.   27  Tends to God's glory and my country's weal. {Enter the Bishop of  +
1H6 5.1.   27  Winchester, now in cardinal's habit, and three ambassadors, one a Papal  +
1H6 5.1.   27  Legate}
1H6 5.1.   28   EXETER  {(aside)} What, is my lord of Winchester     +
1H6 5.1.   28  installed
1H6 5.1.   29  And called unto a cardinal's degree?
1H6 5.1.   30  Then I perceive that will be verified
1H6 5.1.   31  Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy:
1H6 5.1.   32  `If once he come to be a cardinal,
1H6 5.1.   33  He'll make his cap co-equal with the crown.'
1H6 5.1.   34   KING HENRY My lords ambassadors, your several suits
1H6 5.1.   35  Have been considered and debated on.
1H6 5.1.   36  Your purpose is both good and reasonable,
1H6 5.1.   37  And therefore are we certainly resolved
1H6 5.1.   38  To draw conditions of a friendly peace,
1H6 5.1.   39  Which by my lord of Winchester we mean
1H6 5.1.   40  Shall be transported presently to France.
1H6 5.1.   41   GLOUCESTER  {[to ambassadors]} And for the proffer   +
1H6 5.1.   41  of my lord your master,
1H6 5.1.   42  I have informed his highness so at large
1H6 5.1.   43  As, liking of the lady's virtuous gifts,
1H6 5.1.   44  Her beauty, and the value of her dower,
1H6 5.1.   45  He doth intend she shall be England's queen.
1H6 5.1.   46   KING HENRY  {[to ambassadors]} In argument and       +
1H6 5.1.   46  proof of which contract
1H6 5.1.   47  Bear her this jewel, pledge of my affection.
1H6 5.1.   48   {(To Gloucester)} And so, my lord Protector, see them   +
1H6 5.1.   48  guarded
1H6 5.1.   49  And safely brought to Dover, wherein shipped,
1H6 5.1.   50  Commit them to the fortune of the sea. {Exeunt [severally] all    +
1H6 5.1.   50  but Winchester and [Legate]}
1H6 5.1.   51   WINCHESTER  Stay, my lord legate; you shall first receive
1H6 5.1.   52  The sum of money which I promised
1H6 5.1.   53  Should be delivered to his holiness
1H6 5.1.   54  For clothing me in these grave ornaments.
1H6 5.1.   55   LEGATE I will attend upon your lordship's leisure. {[Exit]}
1H6 5.1.   56   WINCHESTER  Now Winchester will not submit, I trow,
1H6 5.1.   57  Or be inferior to the proudest peer.
1H6 5.1.   58  Humphrey of Gloucester, thou shalt well perceive
1H6 5.1.   59  That nor in birth or for authority
1H6 5.1.   60  The Bishop will be overborne by thee.
1H6 5.1.   61  I'll either make thee stoop and bend thy knee,
1H6 5.1.   62  Or sack this country with a mutiny. {[Exit]}
1H6 5.1.    0    {Enter Charles the Dauphin [reading a letter], the Dukes   +
1H6 5.2.    0  of Burgundy and Alenc@on, the Bastard of Orle/ans, Rene/ Duke of Anjou,  +
1H6 5.2.    0  and Joan la Pucelle}
1H6 5.2.    1   CHARLES  These news, my lords, may cheer our drooping       +
1H6 5.2.    1  spirits.
1H6 5.2.    2  'Tis said the stout Parisians do revolt
1H6 5.2.    3  And turn again unto the warlike French.
1H6 5.2.    4   ALENC@ON Then march to Paris, royal Charles of France,
1H6 5.2.    5  And keep not back your powers in dalliance.
1H6 5.2.    6   JOAN Peace be amongst them if they turn to us;
1H6 5.2.    7  Else, ruin combat with their palaces! {Enter a Scout}
1H6 5.2.    8   SCOUT  Success unto our valiant general,
1H6 5.2.    9  And happiness to his accomplices.
1H6 5.2.   10   CHARLES What tidings send our scouts? I prithee speak.
1H6 5.2.   11   SCOUT The English army, that divided was
1H6 5.2.   12  Into two parties, is now conjoined in one,
1H6 5.2.   13  And means to give you battle presently.
1H6 5.2.   14   CHARLES Somewhat too sudden, sirs, the warning is;
1H6 5.2.   15  But we will presently provide for them.
1H6 5.2.   16   BURGUNDY I trust the ghost of Talbot is not there.
1H6 5.2.   17   [JOAN] Now he is gone, my lord, you need not fear.
1H6 5.2.   18  Of all base passions, fear is most accursed.
1H6 5.2.   19  Command the conquest, Charles, it shall be thine;
1H6 5.2.   20  Let Henry fret and all the world repine.
1H6 5.2.   21   CHARLES Then on, my lords; and France be fortunate! {Exeunt}
1H6 5.2.    0    {Alarum. Excursions. Enter Joan la Pucelle}
1H6 5.3.    1   JOAN  The Regent conquers, and the Frenchmen fly.
1H6 5.3.    2  Now help, ye charming spells and periapts,
1H6 5.3.    3  And ye choice spirits that admonish me
1H6 5.3.    4  And give me signs of future accidents. {Thunder}
1H6 5.3.    5   You speedy helpers, that are substitutes
1H6 5.3.    6  Under the lordly monarch of the north,
1H6 5.3.    7  Appear, and aid me in this enterprise. {Enter Fiends}
1H6 5.3.    8   This speed and quick appearance argues proof
1H6 5.3.    9  Of your accustomed diligence to me.
1H6 5.3.   10  Now, ye familiar spirits that are culled
1H6 5.3.   11  Out of the powerful regions under earth,
1H6 5.3.   12  Help me this once, that France may get the field. {They walk and  +
1H6 5.3.   12  speak not}
1H6 5.3.   13   O, hold me not with silence overlong!
1H6 5.3.   14  Where I was wont to feed you with my blood,
1H6 5.3.   15  I'll lop a member off and give it you
1H6 5.3.   16  In earnest of a further benefit,
1H6 5.3.   17  So you do condescend to help me now. {They hang their heads}
1H6 5.3.   18   No hope to have redress? My body shall
1H6 5.3.   19  Pay recompense if you will grant my suit. {They shake their       +
1H6 5.3.   19  heads}
1H6 5.3.   20   Cannot my body nor blood-sacrifice
1H6 5.3.   21  Entreat you to your wonted furtherance?
1H6 5.3.   22  Then take my soul - my body, soul, and all - 
1H6 5.3.   23  Before that England give the French the foil. {They depart}
1H6 5.3.   24   See, they forsake me. Now the time is come
1H6 5.3.   25  That France must vail her lofty-plumed crest
1H6 5.3.   26  And let her head fall into England's lap.
1H6 5.3.   27  My ancient incantations are too weak,
1H6 5.3.   28  And hell too strong for me to buckle with.
1H6 5.3.   29  Now, France, thy glory droopeth to the dust. {Exit}
1H6 5.3.    0    {Excursions. The Dukes of Burgundy and York fight hand to  +
1H6 5.4.    0  hand. The French fly. Joan la Pucelle is taken}
1H6 5.4.    1   RICHARD DUKE OF YORK  Damsel of France, I think I have you  +
1H6 5.4.    1  fast.
1H6 5.4.    2  Unchain your spirits now with spelling charms,
1H6 5.4.    3  And try if they can gain your liberty.
1H6 5.4.    4  A goodly prize, fit for the devil's grace!
1H6 5.4.    5   {[To his soldiers]} See how the ugly witch doth bend    +
1H6 5.4.    5  her brows,
1H6 5.4.    6  As if with Circe she would change my shape.
1H6 5.4.    7   JOAN Changed to a worser shape thou canst not be.
1H6 5.4.    8   RICHARD DUKE OF YORK O, Charles the Dauphin is a proper man.
1H6 5.4.    9  No shape but his can please your dainty eye.
1H6 5.4.   10   JOAN A plaguing mischief light on Charles and thee,
1H6 5.4.   11  And may ye both be suddenly surprised
1H6 5.4.   12  By bloody hands in sleeping on your beds!
1H6 5.4.   13   RICHARD DUKE OF YORK Fell banning hag, enchantress, hold thy         +
1H6 5.4.   13  tongue.
1H6 5.4.   14   JOAN I prithee give me leave to curse awhile.
1H6 5.4.   15   RICHARD DUKE OF YORK Curse, miscreant, when thou comest to the       +
1H6 5.4.   15  stake. {Exeunt}
1H6 5.4.    0    {Alarum. Enter the Earl of Suffolk with Margaret in his    +
1H6 5.5.    0  hand}
1H6 5.5.    1   SUFFOLK  Be what thou wilt, thou art my prisoner.    +
1H6 5.5.    1  {He gazes on her}
1H6 5.5.    2   O fairest beauty, do not fear nor fly,
1H6 5.5.    3  For I will touch thee but with reverent hands,
1H6 5.5.    4  And lay them gently on thy tender side.
1H6 5.5.    5  I kiss these fingers for eternal peace.
1H6 5.5.    6  Who art thou? Say, that I may honour thee.
1H6 5.5.    7   MARGARET Margaret my name, and daughter to a king,
1H6 5.5.    8  The King of Naples, whosoe'er thou art.
1H6 5.5.    9   SUFFOLK An earl I am, and Suffolk am I called.
1H6 5.5.   10  Be not offended, nature's miracle,
1H6 5.5.   11  Thou art allotted to be ta'en by me.
1H6 5.5.   12  So doth the swan his downy cygnets save,
1H6 5.5.   13  Keeping them prisoner underneath his wings.
1H6 5.5.   14  Yet if this servile usage once offend,
1H6 5.5.   15  Go, and be free again, as Suffolk's friend. {She is going}
1H6 5.5.   16   O stay! {(Aside)} I have no power to let her   +
1H6 5.5.   16  pass.
1H6 5.5.   17  My hand would free her, but my heart says no.
1H6 5.5.   18  As plays the sun upon the glassy stream,
1H6 5.5.   19  Twinkling another counterfeited beam,
1H6 5.5.   20  So seems this gorgeous beauty to mine eyes.
1H6 5.5.   21  Fain would I woo her, yet I dare not speak.
1H6 5.5.   22  I'll call for pen and ink, and write my mind.
1H6 5.5.   23  Fie, de le Pole, disable not thyself!
1H6 5.5.   24  Hast not a tongue? Is she not here to hear?
1H6 5.5.   25  Wilt thou be daunted at a woman's sight?
1H6 5.5.   26  Ay, beauty's princely majesty is such
1H6 5.5.   27  Confounds the tongue, and makes the senses rough.
1H6 5.5.   28   MARGARET Say, Earl of Suffolk - if thy name be so - 
1H6 5.5.   29  What ransom must I pay before I pass?
1H6 5.5.   30  For I perceive I am thy prisoner.
1H6 5.5.   31   SUFFOLK  {(aside)} How canst thou tell she will      +
1H6 5.5.   31  deny thy suit
1H6 5.5.   32  Before thou make a trial of her love?
1H6 5.5.   33   MARGARET Why speak'st thou not? What ransom must I pay?
1H6 5.5.   34   SUFFOLK  {(aside)} She's beautiful, and therefore    +
1H6 5.5.   34  to be wooed;
1H6 5.5.   35  She is a woman, therefore to be won.
1H6 5.5.   36   MARGARET Wilt thou accept of ransom, yea or no?
1H6 5.5.   37   SUFFOLK  {(aside)} Fond man, remember that thou      +
1H6 5.5.   37  hast a wife;
1H6 5.5.   38  Then how can Margaret be thy paramour?
1H6 5.5.   39   MARGARET  {(aside)} I were best to leave him, for    +
1H6 5.5.   39  he will not hear.
1H6 5.5.   40   SUFFOLK  {(aside)} There all is marred; there lies   +
1H6 5.5.   40  a cooling card.
1H6 5.5.   41   MARGARET  {(aside)} He talks at random; sure the     +
1H6 5.5.   41  man is mad.
1H6 5.5.   42   SUFFOLK  {(aside)} And yet a dispensation may be     +
1H6 5.5.   42  had.
1H6 5.5.   43   MARGARET And yet I would that you would answer me.
1H6 5.5.   44   SUFFOLK  {(aside)} I'll win this Lady Margaret. For  +
1H6 5.5.   44  whom?
1H6 5.5.   45  Why, for my king - tush, that's a wooden thing.
1H6 5.5.   46   MARGARET  {(aside)} He talks of wood. It is some     +
1H6 5.5.   46  carpenter.
1H6 5.5.   47   SUFFOLK  {(aside)} Yet so my fancy may be            +
1H6 5.5.   47  satisfied,
1H6 5.5.   48  And peace established between these realms.
1H6 5.5.   49  But there remains a scruple in that too,
1H6 5.5.   50  For though her father be the King of Naples,
1H6 5.5.   51  Duke of Anjou and Maine, yet is he poor,
1H6 5.5.   52  And our nobility will scorn the match.
1H6 5.5.   53   MARGARET Hear ye, captain? Are you not at leisure?
1H6 5.5.   54   SUFFOLK  {(aside)} It shall be so, disdain they      +
1H6 5.5.   54  ne'er so much.
1H6 5.5.   55  Henry is youthful, and will quickly yield.
1H6 5.5.   56   {(To Margaret)} Madam, I have a secret to reveal.
1H6 5.5.   57   MARGARET  {(aside)} What though I be enthralled, he  +
1H6 5.5.   57  seems a knight
1H6 5.5.   58  And will not any way dishonour me.
1H6 5.5.   59   SUFFOLK Lady, vouchsafe to listen what I say.
1H6 5.5.   60   MARGARET  {(aside)} Perhaps I shall be rescued by    +
1H6 5.5.   60  the French,
1H6 5.5.   61  And then I need not crave his courtesy.
1H6 5.5.   62   SUFFOLK Sweet madam, give me hearing in a cause.
1H6 5.5.   63   MARGARET  {(aside)} Tush, women have been captivate  +
1H6 5.5.   63  ere now.
1H6 5.5.   64A  SUFFOLK Lady, wherefore talk you so?
1H6 5.5.   65   MARGARET I cry you mercy, 'tis but {quid} for {quo}.
1H6 5.5.   66   SUFFOLK Say, gentle Princess, would you not suppose
1H6 5.5.   67  Your bondage happy to be made a queen?
1H6 5.5.   68   MARGARET To be a queen in bondage is more vile
1H6 5.5.   69  Than is a slave in base servility,
1H6 5.5.   70B For princes should be free. SUFFOLK And so shall you,
1H6 5.5.   71  If happy England's royal king be free.
1H6 5.5.   72   MARGARET Why, what concerns his freedom unto me?
1H6 5.5.   73   SUFFOLK I'll undertake to make thee Henry's queen,
1H6 5.5.   74  To put a golden sceptre in thy hand,
1H6 5.5.   75  And set a precious crown upon thy head,
1H6 5.5.   76B If thou wilt condescend to be my -  MARGARET What?
1H6 5.5.   77A  SUFFOLK His love.
1H6 5.5.   78   MARGARET I am unworthy to be Henry's wife.
1H6 5.5.   79   SUFFOLK No, gentle madam, I unworthy am
1H6 5.5.   80  To woo so fair a dame to be his wife
1H6 5.5.   81   {(Aside)} And have no portion in the choice myself. - 
1H6 5.5.   82  How say you, madam; are ye so content?
1H6 5.5.   83   MARGARET An if my father please, I am content.
1H6 5.5.   84   SUFFOLK Then call our captains and our colours forth,         +
1H6 5.5.   84  {[Enter captains, colours, and trumpeters]}
1H6 5.5.   85   And, madam, at your father's castle walls
1H6 5.5.   86  We'll crave a parley to confer with him. {Sound a parley. Enter   +
1H6 5.5.   86  Rene/ Duke of Anjou on the walls}
1H6 5.5.   87   See, Rene/, see thy daughter prisoner.
1H6 5.5.   88B  RENE/ To whom? SUFFOLK To me. RENE/ Suffolk, what remedy?
1H6 5.5.   89  I am a soldier, and unapt to weep
1H6 5.5.   90  Or to exclaim on fortune's fickleness.
1H6 5.5.   91   SUFFOLK Yes, there is remedy enough, my lord.
1H6 5.5.   92  Assent, and for thy honour give consent
1H6 5.5.   93  Thy daughter shall be wedded to my king,
1H6 5.5.   94  Whom I with pain have wooed and won thereto;
1H6 5.5.   95  And this her easy-held imprisonment
1H6 5.5.   96  Hath gained thy daughter princely liberty.
1H6 5.5.   97B  RENE/ Speaks Suffolk as he thinks? SUFFOLK Fair Margaret knows
1H6 5.5.   98  That Suffolk doth not flatter, face or feign.
1H6 5.5.   99   RENE/ Upon thy princely warrant I descend
1H6 5.5.  100  To give thee answer of thy just demand.
1H6 5.5.  101   SUFFOLK And here I will expect thy coming. {[Exit Rene/       +
1H6 5.5.  101  above]}
1H6 5.5.  102   {Trumpets sound. Enter Rene/} RENE/  Welcome, brave  +
1H6 5.5.  102  Earl, into our territories.
1H6 5.5.  103  Command in Anjou what your honour pleases.
1H6 5.5.  104   SUFFOLK Thanks, Rene/, happy for so sweet a child,
1H6 5.5.  105  Fit to be made companion with a king.
1H6 5.5.  106  What answer makes your grace unto my suit?
1H6 5.5.  107   RENE/ Since thou dost deign to woo her little worth
1H6 5.5.  108  To be the princely bride of such a lord,
1H6 5.5.  109  Upon condition I may quietly
1H6 5.5.  110  Enjoy mine own, the countries Maine and Anjou,
1H6 5.5.  111  Free from oppression or the stroke of war,
1H6 5.5.  112  My daughter shall be Henry's, if he please.
1H6 5.5.  113   SUFFOLK That is her ransom. I deliver her,
1H6 5.5.  114  And those two counties I will undertake
1H6 5.5.  115  Your grace shall well and quietly enjoy.
1H6 5.5.  116   RENE/ And I again in Henry's royal name,
1H6 5.5.  117  As deputy unto that gracious king,
1H6 5.5.  118  Give thee her hand for sign of plighted faith.
1H6 5.5.  119   SUFFOLK Rene/ of France, I give thee kingly thanks,
1H6 5.5.  120  Because this is in traffic of a king.
1H6 5.5.  121   {(Aside)} And yet methinks I could be well content
1H6 5.5.  122  To be mine own attorney in this case.
1H6 5.5.  123   {(To Rene/)} I'll over then to England with this news,
1H6 5.5.  124  And make this marriage to be solemnized.
1H6 5.5.  125  So farewell, Rene/; set this diamond safe
1H6 5.5.  126  In golden palaces, as it becomes.
1H6 5.5.  127   RENE/ I do embrace thee as I would embrace
1H6 5.5.  128  The Christian prince King Henry, were he here.
1H6 5.5.  129   MARGARET  {(to Suffolk)} Farewell, my lord. Good     +
1H6 5.5.  129  wishes, praise, and prayers
1H6 5.5.  130  Shall Suffolk ever have of Margaret. {She is going}
1H6 5.5.  131   SUFFOLK  Farewell, sweet madam; but hark you, Margaret - 
1H6 5.5.  132  No princely commendations to my king?
1H6 5.5.  133   MARGARET Such commendations as becomes a maid,
1H6 5.5.  134  A virgin, and his servant, say to him.
1H6 5.5.  135   SUFFOLK Words sweetly placed, and modestly directed. {[She    +
1H6 5.5.  135  is going]}
1H6 5.5.  136   But madam, I must trouble you again - 
1H6 5.5.  137  No loving token to his majesty?
1H6 5.5.  138   MARGARET Yes, my good lord: a pure unspotted heart,
1H6 5.5.  139  Never yet taint with love, I send the King.
1H6 5.5.  140A  SUFFOLK And this withal. {He kisses her}
1H6 5.5.  141   MARGARET  That for thyself; I will not so presume
1H6 5.5.  142  To send such peevish tokens to a king. {[Exeunt Rene/ and         +
1H6 5.5.  142  Margaret]}
1H6 5.5.  143   SUFFOLK  {[aside]} O, wert thou for myself! - but      +
1H6 5.5.  143  Suffolk, stay.
1H6 5.5.  144  Thou mayst not wander in that labyrinth.
1H6 5.5.  145  There Minotaurs and ugly treasons lurk.
1H6 5.5.  146  Solicit Henry with her wondrous praise.
1H6 5.5.  147  Bethink thee on her virtues that surmount,
1H6 5.5.  148  Mad natural graces that extinguish art.
1H6 5.5.  149  Repeat their semblance often on the seas,
1H6 5.5.  150  That when thou com'st to kneel at Henry's feet
1H6 5.5.  151  Thou mayst bereave him of his wits with wonder. {[Exeunt]}
1H6 5.5.    0    {Enter Richard Duke of York, the Earl of Warwick, and a    +
1H6 5.6.    0  Shepherd}
1H6 5.6.    1   RICHARD DUKE OF YORK  Bring forth that sorceress condemned  +
1H6 5.6.    1  to burn. {[Enter Joan la Pucelle guarded]}
1H6 5.6.    2   SHEPHERD  Ah, Joan, this kills thy father's heart           +
1H6 5.6.    2  outright.
1H6 5.6.    3  Have I sought every country far and near,
1H6 5.6.    4  And now it is my chance to find thee out
1H6 5.6.    5  Must I behold thy timeless cruel death?
1H6 5.6.    6  Ah Joan, sweet daughter Joan, I'll die with thee.
1H6 5.6.    7   JOAN Decrepit miser, base ignoble wretch,
1H6 5.6.    8  I am descended of a gentler blood.
1H6 5.6.    9  Thou art no father nor no friend of mine.
1H6 5.6.   10   SHEPHERD Out, out! - My lords, an 't please you, 'tis not so.
1H6 5.6.   11  I did beget her, all the parish knows.
1H6 5.6.   12  Her mother liveth yet, can testify
1H6 5.6.   13  She was the first fruit of my bach'lorship.
1H6 5.6.   14   WARWICK  {(to Joan)} Graceless, wilt thou deny thy   +
1H6 5.6.   14  parentage?
1H6 5.6.   15   RICHARD DUKE OF YORK This argues what her kind of life hath been - 
1H6 5.6.   16  Wicked and vile; and so her death concludes.
1H6 5.6.   17   SHEPHERD Fie, Joan, that thou wilt be so obstacle.
1H6 5.6.   18  God knows thou art a collop of my flesh,
1H6 5.6.   19  And for thy sake have I shed many a tear.
1H6 5.6.   20  Deny me not, I prithee, gentle Joan.
1H6 5.6.   21   JOAN Peasant, avaunt! {(To the English)} You have    +
1H6 5.6.   21  suborned this man
1H6 5.6.   22  Of purpose to obscure my noble birth.
1H6 5.6.   23   SHEPHERD  {(to the English)} 'Tis true I gave a      +
1H6 5.6.   23  noble to the priest
1H6 5.6.   24  The morn that I was wedded to her mother.
1H6 5.6.   25   {(To Joan)} Kneel down, and take my blessing, good my   +
1H6 5.6.   25  girl.
1H6 5.6.   26  Wilt thou not stoop? Now cursed be the time
1H6 5.6.   27  Of thy nativity. I would the milk
1H6 5.6.   28  Thy mother gave thee when thou sucked'st her breast
1H6 5.6.   29  Had been a little ratsbane for thy sake.
1H6 5.6.   30  Or else, when thou didst keep my lambs afield,
1H6 5.6.   31  I wish some ravenous wolf had eaten thee.
1H6 5.6.   32  Dost thou deny thy father, cursed drab?
1H6 5.6.   33   {(To the English)} O burn her, burn her! Hanging is     +
1H6 5.6.   33  too good. {Exit}
1H6 5.6.   34   RICHARD DUKE OF YORK  {(to guards)} Take her away,   +
1H6 5.6.   34  for she hath lived too long,
1H6 5.6.   35  To fill the world with vicious qualities.
1H6 5.6.   36   JOAN First let me tell you whom you have condemned:
1H6 5.6.   37  Not one begotten of a shepherd swain,
1H6 5.6.   38  But issued from the progeny of kings;
1H6 5.6.   39  Virtuous and holy, chosen from above
1H6 5.6.   40  By inspiration of celestial grace
1H6 5.6.   41  To work exceeding miracles on earth.
1H6 5.6.   42  I never had to do with wicked spirits;
1H6 5.6.   43  But you that are polluted with your lusts,
1H6 5.6.   44  Stained with the guiltless blood of innocents,
1H6 5.6.   45  Corrupt and tainted with a thousand vices - 
1H6 5.6.   46  Because you want the grace that others have,
1H6 5.6.   47  You judge it straight a thing impossible
1H6 5.6.   48  To compass wonders but by help of devils.
1H6 5.6.   49  No, misconceived Joan of Arc hath been
1H6 5.6.   50  A virgin from her tender infancy,
1H6 5.6.   51  Chaste and immaculate in very thought,
1H6 5.6.   52  Whose maiden-blood thus rigorously effused
1H6 5.6.   53  Will cry for vengeance at the gates of heaven.
1H6 5.6.   54   RICHARD DUKE OF YORK Ay, ay, {(to guards)} away      +
1H6 5.6.   54  with her to execution.
1H6 5.6.   55   WARWICK  {(to guards)} And hark ye, sirs: because    +
1H6 5.6.   55  she is a maid,
1H6 5.6.   56  Spare for no faggots. Let there be enough.
1H6 5.6.   57  Place barrels of pitch upon the fatal stake,
1H6 5.6.   58  That so her torture may be shortened.
1H6 5.6.   59   JOAN Will nothing turn your unrelenting hearts?
1H6 5.6.   60  Then Joan, discover thine infirmity,
1H6 5.6.   61  That warranteth by law to be thy privilege:
1H6 5.6.   62  I am with child, ye bloody homicides.
1H6 5.6.   63  Murder not then the fruit within my womb,
1H6 5.6.   64  Although ye hale me to a violent death.
1H6 5.6.   65   RICHARD DUKE OF YORK Now heaven forfend - the holy maid with child?
1H6 5.6.   66   WARWICK  {(to Joan)} The greatest miracle that e'er  +
1H6 5.6.   66  ye wrought.
1H6 5.6.   67  Is all your strict preciseness come to this?
1H6 5.6.   68   RICHARD DUKE OF YORK She and the Dauphin have been ingling.
1H6 5.6.   69  I did imagine what would be her refuge.
1H6 5.6.   70   WARWICK Well, go to, we will have no bastards live,
1H6 5.6.   71  Especially since Charles must father it.
1H6 5.6.   72   JOAN You are deceived. My child is none of his.
1H6 5.6.   73  It was Alenc@on that enjoyed my love.
1H6 5.6.   74   RICHARD DUKE OF YORK Alenc@on, that notorious Machiavel?
1H6 5.6.   75  It dies an if it had a thousand lives.
1H6 5.6.   76   JOAN O give me leave, I have deluded you.
1H6 5.6.   77  'Twas neither Charles nor yet the Duke I named,
1H6 5.6.   78  But Rene/ King of Naples that prevailed.
1H6 5.6.   79   WARWICK A married man? - That's most intolerable.
1H6 5.6.   80   RICHARD DUKE OF YORK Why, here's a girl; I think she knows not       +
1H6 5.6.   80  well - 
1H6 5.6.   81  There were so many - whom she may accuse.
1H6 5.6.   82   WARWICK It's sign she hath been liberal and free.
1H6 5.6.   83   RICHARD DUKE OF YORK And yet forsooth she is a virgin pure!
1H6 5.6.   84   {(To Joan)} Strumpet, thy words condemn thy brat and    +
1H6 5.6.   84  thee.
1H6 5.6.   85  Use no entreaty, for it is in vain.
1H6 5.6.   86   JOAN Then lead me hence; with whom I leave my curse.
1H6 5.6.   87  May never glorious sun reflex his beams
1H6 5.6.   88  Upon the country where you make abode,
1H6 5.6.   89  But darkness and the gloomy shade of death
1H6 5.6.   90  Environ you till mischief and despair
1H6 5.6.   91  Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves. {Enter the      +
1H6 5.6.   91  Bishop of Winchester, now Cardinal}
1H6 5.6.   92   RICHARD DUKE OF YORK  {(to Joan)} Break thou in      +
1H6 5.6.   92  pieces, and consume to ashes,
1H6 5.6.   93  Thou foul accursed minister of hell. {[Exit Joan, guarded]}
1H6 5.6.   94   WINCHESTER  Lord Regent, I do greet your excellence
1H6 5.6.   95  With letters of commission from the King.
1H6 5.6.   96  For know, my lords, the states of Christendom,
1H6 5.6.   97  Moved with remorse of these outrageous broils,
1H6 5.6.   98  Have earnestly implored a general peace
1H6 5.6.   99  Betwixt our nation and the aspiring French,
1H6 5.6.  100  And here at hand the Dauphin and his train
1H6 5.6.  101  Approacheth to confer about some matter.
1H6 5.6.  102   RICHARD DUKE OF YORK Is all our travail turned to this effect?
1H6 5.6.  103  After the slaughter of so many peers,
1H6 5.6.  104  So many captains, gentlemen, and soldiers
1H6 5.6.  105  That in this quarrel have been overthrown
1H6 5.6.  106  And sold their bodies for their country's benefit,
1H6 5.6.  107  Shall we at last conclude effeminate peace?
1H6 5.6.  108  Have we not lost most part of all the towns
1H6 5.6.  109  By treason, falsehood, and by treachery,
1H6 5.6.  110  Our great progenitors had conquered?
1H6 5.6.  111  O Warwick, Warwick, I foresee with grief
1H6 5.6.  112  The utter loss of all the realm of France!
1H6 5.6.  113   WARWICK Be patient, York. If we conclude a peace
1H6 5.6.  114  It shall be with such strict and severe covenants
1H6 5.6.  115  As little shall the Frenchmen gain thereby. {Enter Charles the    +
1H6 5.6.  115  Dauphin, the Duke of Alenc@on, the Bastard of Orle/ans, and Rene/ Duke   +
1H6 5.6.  115  of Anjou}
1H6 5.6.  116   CHARLES  Since, lords of England, it is thus agreed
1H6 5.6.  117  That peaceful truce shall be proclaimed in France,
1H6 5.6.  118  We come to be informed by yourselves
1H6 5.6.  119  What the conditions of that league must be.
1H6 5.6.  120   RICHARD DUKE OF YORK Speak, Winchester; for boiling choler chokes
1H6 5.6.  121  The hollow passage of my poisoned voice
1H6 5.6.  122  By sight of these our baleful enemies.
1H6 5.6.  123   WINCHESTER Charles and the rest, it is enacted thus:
1H6 5.6.  124  That, in regard King Henry gives consent,
1H6 5.6.  125  Of mere compassion and of lenity,
1H6 5.6.  126  To ease your country of distressful war
1H6 5.6.  127  And suffer you to breathe in fruitful peace,
1H6 5.6.  128  You shall become true liegemen to his crown.
1H6 5.6.  129  And, Charles, upon condition thou wilt swear
1H6 5.6.  130  To pay him tribute and submit thyself,
1H6 5.6.  131  Thou shalt be placed as viceroy under him,
1H6 5.6.  132  And still enjoy thy regal dignity.
1H6 5.6.  133   ALENC@ON Must he be then as shadow of himself? - 
1H6 5.6.  134  Adorn his temples with a coronet,
1H6 5.6.  135  And yet in substance and authority
1H6 5.6.  136  Retain but privilege of a private man?
1H6 5.6.  137  This proffer is absurd and reasonless.
1H6 5.6.  138   CHARLES 'Tis known already that I am possessed
1H6 5.6.  139  With more than half the Gallian territories,
1H6 5.6.  140  And therein reverenced for their lawful king.
1H6 5.6.  141  Shall I, for lucre of the rest unvanquished,
1H6 5.6.  142  Detract so much from that prerogative
1H6 5.6.  143  As to be called but viceroy of the whole?
1H6 5.6.  144  No, lord ambassador, I'll rather keep
1H6 5.6.  145  That which I have than, coveting for more,
1H6 5.6.  146  Be cast from possibility of all.
1H6 5.6.  147   RICHARD DUKE OF YORK Insulting Charles, hast thou by secret means
1H6 5.6.  148  Used intercession to obtain a league
1H6 5.6.  149  And, now the matter grows to compromise,
1H6 5.6.  150  Stand'st thou aloof upon comparison?
1H6 5.6.  151  Either accept the title thou usurp'st,
1H6 5.6.  152  Of benefit proceeding from our king
1H6 5.6.  153  And not of any challenge of desert,
1H6 5.6.  154  Or we will plague thee with incessant wars.
1H6 5.6.  155   RENE/  {(aside to Charles)} My lord, you do not      +
1H6 5.6.  155  well in obstinacy
1H6 5.6.  156  To cavil in the course of this contract.
1H6 5.6.  157  If once it be neglected, ten to one
1H6 5.6.  158  We shall not find like opportunity.
1H6 5.6.  159   ALENC@ON  {(aside to Charles)} To say the truth, it  +
1H6 5.6.  159  is your policy
1H6 5.6.  160  To save your subjects from such massacre
1H6 5.6.  161  And ruthless slaughters as are daily seen
1H6 5.6.  162  By our proceeding in hostility;
1H6 5.6.  163  And therefore take this compact of a truce,
1H6 5.6.  164  Although you break it when your pleasure serves.
1H6 5.6.  165   WARWICK How sayst thou, Charles? Shall our condition stand?
1H6 5.6.  166A  CHARLES It shall,
1H6 5.6.  167  Only reserved you claim no interest
1H6 5.6.  168  In any of our towns of garrison.
1H6 5.6.  169   RICHARD DUKE OF YORK Then swear allegiance to his majesty,
1H6 5.6.  170  As thou art knight, never to disobey
1H6 5.6.  171  Nor be rebellious to the crown of England,
1H6 5.6.  172  Thou nor thy nobles, to the crown of England. {[They swear]}
1H6 5.6.  173   So, now dismiss your army when ye please.
1H6 5.6.  174  Hang up your ensigns, let your drums be still;
1H6 5.6.  175  For here we entertain a solemn peace. {Exeunt}
1H6 5.6.    0    {Enter the Earl of Suffolk, in conference with King        +
1H6 5.7.    0  Henry, and the Dukes of Gloucester and Exeter}
1H6 5.7.    1   KING HENRY  {(to Suffolk)} Your wondrous rare        +
1H6 5.7.    1  description, noble Earl,
1H6 5.7.    2  Of beauteous Margaret hath astonished me.
1H6 5.7.    3  Her virtues graced with external gifts
1H6 5.7.    4  Do breed love's settled passions in my heart,
1H6 5.7.    5  And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts
1H6 5.7.    6  Provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide,
1H6 5.7.    7  So am I driven by breath of her renown
1H6 5.7.    8  Either to suffer shipwreck or arrive
1H6 5.7.    9  Where I may have fruition of her love.
1H6 5.7.   10   SUFFOLK Tush, my good lord, this superficial tale
1H6 5.7.   11  Is but a preface of her worthy praise.
1H6 5.7.   12  The chief perfections of that lovely dame,
1H6 5.7.   13  Had I sufficient skill to utter them,
1H6 5.7.   14  Would make a volume of enticing lines
1H6 5.7.   15  Able to ravish any dull conceit;
1H6 5.7.   16  And, which is more, she is not so divine,
1H6 5.7.   17  So full replete with choice of all delights,
1H6 5.7.   18  But with as humble lowliness of mind
1H6 5.7.   19  She is content to be at your command - 
1H6 5.7.   20  Command, I mean, of virtuous chaste intents,
1H6 5.7.   21  To love and honour Henry as her lord.
1H6 5.7.   22   KING HENRY And otherwise will Henry ne'er presume.
1H6 5.7.   23   {(To Gloucester)} Therefore, my lord Protector, give    +
1H6 5.7.   23  consent
1H6 5.7.   24  That Marg'ret may be England's royal queen.
1H6 5.7.   25   GLOUCESTER So should I give consent to flatter sin.
1H6 5.7.   26  You know, my lord, your highness is betrothed
1H6 5.7.   27  Unto another lady of esteem.
1H6 5.7.   28  How shall we then dispense with that contract
1H6 5.7.   29  And not deface your honour with reproach?
1H6 5.7.   30   SUFFOLK As doth a ruler with unlawful oaths,
1H6 5.7.   31  Or one that, at a triumph having vowed
1H6 5.7.   32  To try his strength, forsaketh yet the lists
1H6 5.7.   33  By reason of his adversary's odds.
1H6 5.7.   34  A poor earl's daughter is unequal odds,
1H6 5.7.   35  And therefore may be broke without offence.
1H6 5.7.   36   GLOUCESTER Why, what, I pray, is Margaret more than that?
1H6 5.7.   37  Her father is no better than an earl,
1H6 5.7.   38  Although in glorious titles he excel.
1H6 5.7.   39   SUFFOLK Yes, my lord; her father is a king,
1H6 5.7.   40  The King of Naples and Jerusalem,
1H6 5.7.   41  And of such great authority in France
1H6 5.7.   42  As his alliance will confirm our peace
1H6 5.7.   43  And keep the Frenchmen in allegiance.
1H6 5.7.   44   GLOUCESTER And so the Earl of Armagnac may do,
1H6 5.7.   45  Because he is near kinsman unto Charles.
1H6 5.7.   46   EXETER Beside, his wealth doth warrant a liberal dower,
1H6 5.7.   47  Where Rene/ sooner will receive than give.
1H6 5.7.   48   SUFFOLK A dower, my lords? Disgrace not so your King
1H6 5.7.   49  That he should be so abject, base, and poor
1H6 5.7.   50  To choose for wealth and not for perfect love.
1H6 5.7.   51  Henry is able to enrich his queen,
1H6 5.7.   52  And not to seek a queen to make him rich.
1H6 5.7.   53  So worthless peasants bargain for their wives,
1H6 5.7.   54  As market men for oxen, sheep, or horse.
1H6 5.7.   55  Marriage is a matter of more worth
1H6 5.7.   56  Than to be dealt in by attorneyship.
1H6 5.7.   57  Not whom {we} will but whom his grace affects
1H6 5.7.   58  Must be companion of his nuptial bed.
1H6 5.7.   59  And therefore, lords, since he affects her most,
1H6 5.7.   60  That most of all these reasons bindeth us:
1H6 5.7.   61  In our opinions she should be preferred.
1H6 5.7.   62  For what is wedlock forced but a hell,
1H6 5.7.   63  An age of discord and continual strife,
1H6 5.7.   64  Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss,
1H6 5.7.   65  And is a pattern of celestial peace.
1H6 5.7.   66  Whom should we match with Henry, being a king,
1H6 5.7.   67  But Margaret, that is daughter to a king?
1H6 5.7.   68  Her peerless feature joined with her birth
1H6 5.7.   69  Approves her fit for none but for a king.
1H6 5.7.   70  Her valiant courage and undaunted spirit,
1H6 5.7.   71  More than in women commonly is seen,
1H6 5.7.   72  Will answer our hope in issue of a king.
1H6 5.7.   73  For Henry, son unto a conqueror,
1H6 5.7.   74  Is likely to beget more conquerors
1H6 5.7.   75  If with a lady of so high resolve
1H6 5.7.   76  As is fair Margaret he be linked in love.
1H6 5.7.   77  Then yield, my lords, and here conclude with me:
1H6 5.7.   78  That Margaret shall be queen, and none but she.
1H6 5.7.   79   KING HENRY Whether it be through force of your report,
1H6 5.7.   80  My noble lord of Suffolk, or for that
1H6 5.7.   81  My tender youth was never yet attaint
1H6 5.7.   82  With any passion of inflaming love,
1H6 5.7.   83  I cannot tell; but this I am assured:
1H6 5.7.   84  I feel such sharp dissension in my breast,
1H6 5.7.   85  Such fierce alarums both of hope and fear,
1H6 5.7.   86  As I am sick with working of my thoughts.
1H6 5.7.   87  Take therefore shipping; post, my lord, to France;
1H6 5.7.   88  Agree to any covenants, and procure
1H6 5.7.   89  That Lady Margaret do vouchsafe to come
1H6 5.7.   90  To cross the seas to England and be crowned
1H6 5.7.   91  King Henry's faithful and anointed queen.
1H6 5.7.   92  For your expenses and sufficient charge,
1H6 5.7.   93  Among the people gather up a tenth.
1H6 5.7.   94  Be gone, I say; for till you do return
1H6 5.7.   95  I rest perplexed with a thousand cares.
1H6 5.7.   96   {(To Gloucester)} And you, good uncle, banish all       +
1H6 5.7.   96  offence.
1H6 5.7.   97  If you do censure me by what you were,
1H6 5.7.   98  Not what you are, I know it will excuse
1H6 5.7.   99  This sudden execution of my will.
1H6 5.7.  100  And so conduct me where from company
1H6 5.7.  101  I may revolve and ruminate my grief. {Exit [with Exeter]}
1H6 5.7.  102   GLOUCESTER  Ay, grief, I fear me, both at first and         +
1H6 5.7.  102  last. {Exit}
1H6 5.7.  103   SUFFOLK  Thus Suffolk hath prevailed, and thus he goes
1H6 5.7.  104  As did the youthful Paris once to Greece,
1H6 5.7.  105  With hope to find the like event in love,
1H6 5.7.  106  But prosper better than the Trojan did.
1H6 5.7.  107  Margaret shall now be queen and rule the King;
1H6 5.7.  108  But I will rule both her, the King, and realm. {Exit}
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2H4  . .    0  The Second Part of Henry the Fourth
2H4  . .    0     {Enter Rumour [in a robe] painted full of            +
2H4  .In.   0  tongues}
2H4  .In.   1   RUMOUR  Open your ears; for which of you will stop
2H4  .In.   2  The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks?
2H4  .In.   3  I from the orient to the drooping west,
2H4  .In.   4  Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold
2H4  .In.   5  The acts commenced on this ball of earth.
2H4  .In.   6  Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,
2H4  .In.   7  The which in every language I pronounce,
2H4  .In.   8  Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.
2H4  .In.   9  I speak of peace, while covert enmity
2H4  .In.  10  Under the smile of safety wounds the world;
2H4  .In.  11  And who but Rumour, who but only I,
2H4  .In.  12  Make fearful musters and prepared defence
2H4  .In.  13  Whiles the big year, swoll'n with some other griefs,
2H4  .In.  14  Is thought with child by the stern tyrant war,
2H4  .In.  15  And no such matter? Rumour is a pipe
2H4  .In.  16  Blown by surmises, Jealousy's conjectures,
2H4  .In.  17  And of so easy and so plain a stop
2H4  .In.  18  That the blunt monster with uncounted heads,
2H4  .In.  19  The still-discordant wav'ring multitude,
2H4  .In.  20  Can play upon it. But what need I thus
2H4  .In.  21  My well-known body to anatomize
2H4  .In.  22  Among my household? Why is Rumour here?
2H4  .In.  23  I run before King Harry's victory,
2H4  .In.  24  Who in a bloody field by Shrewsbury
2H4  .In.  25  Hath beaten down young Hotspur and his troops,
2H4  .In.  26  Quenching the flame of bold rebellion
2H4  .In.  27  Even with the rebels' blood. But what mean I
2H4  .In.  28  To speak so true at first? My office is
2H4  .In.  29  To noise abroad that Harry Monmouth fell
2H4  .In.  30  Under the wrath of noble Hotspur's sword,
2H4  .In.  31  And that the King before the Douglas' rage
2H4  .In.  32  Stooped his anointed head as low as death.
2H4  .In.  33  This have I rumoured through the peasant towns
2H4  .In.  34  Between that royal field of Shrewsbury
2H4  .In.  35  And this worm-eaten hold of ragged stone,
2H4  .In.  36  Where Hotspur's father, old Northumberland,
2H4  .In.  37  Lies crafty-sick. The posts come tiring on,
2H4  .In.  38  And not a man of them brings other news
2H4  .In.  39  Than they have learnt of me. From Rumour's tongues
2H4  .In.  40  They bring smooth comforts false, worse than true wrongs. {Exit}
2H4  .In.   0     {Enter Lord Bardolph at one door. [He crosses the    +
2H4 1.1.    0  stage to another door]}
2H4 1.1.    1B  LORD BARDOLPH  Who keeps the gate here, ho? {Enter   +
2H4 1.1.    1B Porter [above]} Where is the Earl?
2H4 1.1.    2B  PORTER What shall I say you are? LORD BARDOLPH Tell thou the      +
2H4 1.1.    2B Earl
2H4 1.1.    3  That the Lord Bardolph doth attend him here.
2H4 1.1.    4   PORTER His lordship is walked forth into the orchard.
2H4 1.1.    5  Please it your honour knock but at the gate,
2H4 1.1.    6B And he himself will answer. {Enter the Earl Northumberland [at    +
2H4 1.1.    6B the other door], as sick, with a crutch and coif} LORD BARDOLPH       +
2H4 1.1.    6B  Here comes the Earl. {[Exit Porter]}
2H4 1.1.    7   NORTHUMBERLAND  What news, Lord Bardolph? Every minute now
2H4 1.1.    8  Should be the father of some stratagem.
2H4 1.1.    9  The times are wild; contention, like a horse
2H4 1.1.   10  Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose,
2H4 1.1.   11B And bears down all before him. LORD BARDOLPH Noble Earl,
2H4 1.1.   12  I bring you certain news from Shrewsbury.
2H4 1.1.   13B  NORTHUMBERLAND Good, an God will. LORD BARDOLPH As good as heart  +
2H4 1.1.   13B can wish.
2H4 1.1.   14  The King is almost wounded to the death;
2H4 1.1.   15  And, in the fortune of my lord your son,
2H4 1.1.   16  Prince Harry slain outright; and both the Blunts
2H4 1.1.   17  Killed by the hand of Douglas; young Prince John
2H4 1.1.   18  And Westmorland and Stafford fled the field;
2H4 1.1.   19  And Harry Monmouth's brawn, the hulk Sir John,
2H4 1.1.   20  Is prisoner to your son. O, such a day,
2H4 1.1.   21  So fought, so followed, and so fairly won,
2H4 1.1.   22  Came not till now to dignify the times
2H4 1.1.   23B Since Caesar's fortunes! NORTHUMBERLAND How is this derived?
2H4 1.1.   24  Saw you the field? Came you from Shrewsbury?
2H4 1.1.   25   LORD BARDOLPH I spake with one, my lord, that came from thence,
2H4 1.1.   26  A gentleman well bred and of good name,
2H4 1.1.   27  That freely rendered me these news for true. {Enter Travers}
2H4 1.1.   28   NORTHUMBERLAND  Here comes my servant Travers, who I sent
2H4 1.1.   29  On Tuesday last to listen after news.
2H4 1.1.   30   LORD BARDOLPH My lord, I overrode him on the way,
2H4 1.1.   31  And he is furnished with no certainties
2H4 1.1.   32  More than he haply may retail from me.
2H4 1.1.   33   NORTHUMBERLAND Now, Travers, what good tidings comes with you?
2H4 1.1.   34   TRAVERS My lord, Lord Bardolph turned me back
2H4 1.1.   35  With joyful tidings, and being better horsed
2H4 1.1.   36  Outrode me. After him came spurring hard
2H4 1.1.   37  A gentleman almost forspent with speed,
2H4 1.1.   38  That stopped by me to breathe his bloodied horse.
2H4 1.1.   39  He asked the way to Chester, and of him
2H4 1.1.   40  I did demand what news from Shrewsbury.
2H4 1.1.   41  He told me that rebellion had ill luck,
2H4 1.1.   42  And that young Harry Percy's spur was cold.
2H4 1.1.   43  With that he gave his able horse the head,
2H4 1.1.   44  And, bending forward, struck his armed heels
2H4 1.1.   45  Against the panting sides of his poor jade
2H4 1.1.   46  Up to the rowel-head; and starting so,
2H4 1.1.   47  He seemed in running to devour the way,
2H4 1.1.   48B Staying no longer question. NORTHUMBERLAND Ha? Again:
2H4 1.1.   49  Said he young Harry Percy's spur was cold?
2H4 1.1.   50  Of Hotspur, `Coldspur'? that rebellion
2H4 1.1.   51B Had met ill luck? LORD BARDOLPH My lord, I'll tell you what:
2H4 1.1.   52  If my young lord your son have not the day,
2H4 1.1.   53  Upon mine honour, for a silken point
2H4 1.1.   54  I'll give my barony. Never talk of it.
2H4 1.1.   55   NORTHUMBERLAND Why should the gentleman that rode by Travers
2H4 1.1.   56B Give then such instances of loss? LORD BARDOLPH Who, he?
2H4 1.1.   57  He was some hilding fellow that had stol'n
2H4 1.1.   58  The horse he rode on, and, upon my life,
2H4 1.1.   59B Spoke at a venture. {Enter Morton} Look, here comes      +
2H4 1.1.   59B more news.
2H4 1.1.   60   NORTHUMBERLAND Yea, this man's brow, like to a title leaf,
2H4 1.1.   61  Foretells the nature of a tragic volume.
2H4 1.1.   62  So looks the strand whereon the imperious flood
2H4 1.1.   63  Hath left a witnessed usurpation.
2H4 1.1.   64  Say, Morton, didst thou come from Shrewsbury?
2H4 1.1.   65   MORTON I ran from Shrewsbury, my noble lord,
2H4 1.1.   66  Where hateful death put on his ugliest mask
2H4 1.1.   67B To fright our party. NORTHUMBERLAND How doth my son and brother?
2H4 1.1.   68  Thou tremblest, and the whiteness in thy cheek
2H4 1.1.   69  Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand.
2H4 1.1.   70  Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless,
2H4 1.1.   71  So dull, so dead in look, so woebegone,
2H4 1.1.   72  Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night,
2H4 1.1.   73  And would have told him half his Troy was burnt;
2H4 1.1.   74  But Priam found the fire ere he his tongue,
2H4 1.1.   75  And I my Percy's death ere thou report'st it.
2H4 1.1.   76  This thou wouldst say: `Your son did thus and thus,
2H4 1.1.   77  Your brother thus; so fought the noble Douglas',
2H4 1.1.   78  Stopping my greedy ear with their bold deeds;
2H4 1.1.   79  But in the end, to stop my ear indeed,
2H4 1.1.   80  Thou hast a sigh to blow away this praise,
2H4 1.1.   81  Ending with `Brother, son, and all are dead.'
2H4 1.1.   82   MORTON Douglas is living, and your brother yet;
2H4 1.1.   83B But for my lord your son -  NORTHUMBERLAND Why, he is dead.
2H4 1.1.   84  See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!
2H4 1.1.   85  He that but fears the thing he would not know
2H4 1.1.   86  Hath by instinct knowledge from others' eyes
2H4 1.1.   87  That what he feared is chanced. Yet speak, Morton.
2H4 1.1.   88  Tell thou an earl his divination lies,
2H4 1.1.   89  And I will take it as a sweet disgrace,
2H4 1.1.   90  And make thee rich for doing me such wrong.
2H4 1.1.   91   MORTON You are too great to be by me gainsaid,
2H4 1.1.   92  Your spirit is too true, your fears too certain.
2H4 1.1.   93   NORTHUMBERLAND Yet for all this, say not that Percy's dead.
2H4 1.1.   94  I see a strange confession in thine eye - 
2H4 1.1.   95  Thou shak'st thy head, and hold'st it fear or sin
2H4 1.1.   96  To speak a truth. If he be slain, say so.
2H4 1.1.   97  The tongue offends not that reports his death;
2H4 1.1.   98  And he doth sin that doth belie the dead,
2H4 1.1.   99  Not he which says the dead is not alive.
2H4 1.1.  100  Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
2H4 1.1.  101  Hath but a losing office, and his tongue
2H4 1.1.  102  Sounds ever after as a sullen bell
2H4 1.1.  103  Remembered knolling a departing friend.
2H4 1.1.  104   LORD BARDOLPH I cannot think, my lord, your son is dead.
2H4 1.1.  105   MORTON  {(to Northumberland)} I am sorry I should    +
2H4 1.1.  105  force you to believe
2H4 1.1.  106  That which I would to God I had not seen;
2H4 1.1.  107  But these mine eyes saw him in bloody state,
2H4 1.1.  108  Rend'ring faint quittance, wearied and out-breathed,
2H4 1.1.  109  To Harry Monmouth, whose swift wrath beat down
2H4 1.1.  110  The never-daunted Percy to the earth,
2H4 1.1.  111  From whence with life he never more sprung up.
2H4 1.1.  112  In few, his death, whose spirit lent a fire
2H4 1.1.  113  Even to the dullest peasant in his camp,
2H4 1.1.  114  Being bruited once, took fire and heat away
2H4 1.1.  115  From the best-tempered courage in his troops;
2H4 1.1.  116  For from his metal was his party steeled,
2H4 1.1.  117  Which once in him abated, all the rest
2H4 1.1.  118  Turned on themselves, like dull and heavy lead;
2H4 1.1.  119  And, as the thing that's heavy in itself
2H4 1.1.  120  Upon enforcement flies with greatest speed,
2H4 1.1.  121  So did our men, heavy in Hotspur's loss,
2H4 1.1.  122  Lend to this weight such lightness with their fear
2H4 1.1.  123  That arrows fled not swifter toward their aim
2H4 1.1.  124  Than did our soldiers, aiming at their safety,
2H4 1.1.  125  Fly from the field. Then was that noble Worcester
2H4 1.1.  126  Too soon ta'en prisoner; and that furious Scot
2H4 1.1.  127  The bloody Douglas, whose well-labouring sword
2H4 1.1.  128  Had three times slain th' appearance of the King,
2H4 1.1.  129  Gan vail his stomach, and did grace the shame
2H4 1.1.  130  Of those that turned their backs, and in his flight,
2H4 1.1.  131  Stumbling in fear, was took. The sum of all
2H4 1.1.  132  Is that the King hath won, and hath sent out
2H4 1.1.  133  A speedy power to encounter you, my lord,
2H4 1.1.  134  Under the conduct of young Lancaster
2H4 1.1.  135  And Westmorland. This is the news at full.
2H4 1.1.  136   NORTHUMBERLAND For this I shall have time enough to mourn.
2H4 1.1.  137  In poison there is physic; and these news,
2H4 1.1.  138  Having been well, that would have made me sick,
2H4 1.1.  139  Being sick, have in some measure made me well;
2H4 1.1.  140  And, as the wretch whose fever-weakened joints,
2H4 1.1.  141  Like strengthless hinges, buckle under life,
2H4 1.1.  142  Impatient of his fit, breaks like a fire
2H4 1.1.  143  Out of his keeper's arms, even so my limbs,
2H4 1.1.  144  Weakened with grief, being now enraged with grief,
2H4 1.1.  145B Are thrice themselves. {[He casts away his crutch]}      +
2H4 1.1.  145B Hence therefore, thou nice crutch!
2H4 1.1.  146  A scaly gauntlet now with joints of steel
2H4 1.1.  147B Must glove this hand. {[He snatches off his coif]} And   +
2H4 1.1.  147B hence, thou sickly coif!
2H4 1.1.  148  Thou art a guard too wanton for the head
2H4 1.1.  149  Which princes fleshed with conquest aim to hit.
2H4 1.1.  150  Now bind my brows with iron, and approach
2H4 1.1.  151  The ragged'st hour that time and spite dare bring
2H4 1.1.  152  To frown upon th' enraged Northumberland!
2H4 1.1.  153  Let heaven kiss earth! Now let not nature's hand
2H4 1.1.  154  Keep the wild flood confined! Let order die!
2H4 1.1.  155  And let this world no longer be a stage
2H4 1.1.  156  To feed contention in a ling'ring act;
2H4 1.1.  157  But let one spirit of the first-born Cain
2H4 1.1.  158  Reign in all bosoms, that each heart being set
2H4 1.1.  159  On bloody courses, the rude scene may end,
2H4 1.1.  160  And darkness be the burier of the dead!
2H4 1.1.  161   LORD BARDOLPH Sweet Earl, divorce not wisdom from your honour.
2H4 1.1.  162   MORTON The lives of all your loving complices
2H4 1.1.  163  Lean on your health, the which, if you give o'er
2H4 1.1.  164  To stormy passion, must perforce decay.
2H4 1.1.  165  You cast th' event of war, my noble lord,
2H4 1.1.  166  And summed the account of chance, before you said
2H4 1.1.  167  `Let us make head'. It was your presurmise
2H4 1.1.  168  That in the dole of blows your son might drop.
2H4 1.1.  169  You knew he walked o'er perils on an edge,
2H4 1.1.  170  More likely to fall in than to get o'er.
2H4 1.1.  171  You were advised his flesh was capable
2H4 1.1.  172  Of wounds and scars, and that his forward spirit
2H4 1.1.  173  Would lift him where most trade of danger ranged.
2H4 1.1.  174  Yet did you say, `Go forth'; and none of this,
2H4 1.1.  175  Though strongly apprehended, could restrain
2H4 1.1.  176  The stiff-borne action. What hath then befall'n?
2H4 1.1.  177  Or what doth this bold enterprise bring forth,
2H4 1.1.  178  More than that being which was like to be?
2H4 1.1.  179   LORD BARDOLPH We all that are engaged to this loss
2H4 1.1.  180  Knew that we ventured on such dangerous seas
2H4 1.1.  181  That if we wrought out life was ten to one;
2H4 1.1.  182  And yet we ventured for the gain proposed,
2H4 1.1.  183  Choked the respect of likely peril feared;
2H4 1.1.  184  And since we are o'erset, venture again.
2H4 1.1.  185  Come, we will all put forth body and goods.
2H4 1.1.  186   MORTON 'Tis more than time; and, my most noble lord,
2H4 1.1.  187  I hear for certain, and dare speak the truth,
2H4 1.1.  188  The gentle Archbishop of York is up
2H4 1.1.  189  With well-appointed powers. He is a man
2H4 1.1.  190  Who with a double surety binds his followers.
2H4 1.1.  191  My lord, your son had only but the corpse,
2H4 1.1.  192  But shadows and the shows of men, to fight;
2H4 1.1.  193  For that same word `rebellion' did divide
2H4 1.1.  194  The action of their bodies from their souls,
2H4 1.1.  195  And they did fight with queasiness, constrained,
2H4 1.1.  196  As men drink potions, that their weapons only
2H4 1.1.  197  Seemed on our side; but, for their spirits and souls,
2H4 1.1.  198  This word `rebellion', it had froze them up,
2H4 1.1.  199  As fish are in a pond. But now the Bishop
2H4 1.1.  200  Turns insurrection to religion.
2H4 1.1.  201  Supposed sincere and holy in his thoughts,
2H4 1.1.  202  He's followed both with body and with mind,
2H4 1.1.  203  And doth enlarge his rising with the blood
2H4 1.1.  204  Of fair King Richard, scraped from Pomfret stones;
2H4 1.1.  205  Derives from heaven his quarrel and his cause;
2H4 1.1.  206  Tells them he doth bestride a bleeding land
2H4 1.1.  207  Gasping for life under great Bolingbroke;
2H4 1.1.  208  And more and less do flock to follow him.
2H4 1.1.  209   NORTHUMBERLAND I knew of this before, but, to speak truth,
2H4 1.1.  210  This present grief had wiped it from my mind.
2H4 1.1.  211  Go in with me, and counsel every man
2H4 1.1.  212  The aptest way for safety and revenge.
2H4 1.1.  213  Get posts and letters, and make friends with speed.
2H4 1.1.  214  Never so few, and never yet more need. {Exeunt}
2H4 1.1.    0    {Enter Sir John Falstaff, [followed by] his Page bearing   +
2H4 1.2.    0  his sword and buckler}
2H4 1.2.    1   SIR JOHN  Sirrah, you giant, what says the doctor to my
2H4 1.2.    2  water?
2H4 1.2.    3   PAGE He said, sir, the water itself was a good healthy
2H4 1.2.    4  water, but, for the party that owed it, he might have
2H4 1.2.    5  more diseases than he knew for.
2H4 1.2.    6   SIR JOHN Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me. The
2H4 1.2.    7  brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able
2H4 1.2.    8  to invent anything that tends to laughter more than I
2H4 1.2.    9  invent, or is invented on me. I am not only witty in
2H4 1.2.   10  myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. I do
2H4 1.2.   11  here walk before thee like a sow that hath o'erwhelmed
2H4 1.2.   12  all her litter but one. If the Prince put thee into my
2H4 1.2.   13  service for any other reason than to set me off, why
2H4 1.2.   14  then, I have no judgement. Thou whoreson mandrake,
2H4 1.2.   15  thou art fitter to be worn in my cap than to wait at
2H4 1.2.   16  my heels. I was never manned with an agate till now;
2H4 1.2.   17  but I will set you neither in gold nor silver, but in vile
2H4 1.2.   18  apparel, and send you back again to your master for
2H4 1.2.   19  a jewel - the juvenal the Prince your master, whose
2H4 1.2.   20  chin is not yet fledge. I will sooner have a beard grow
2H4 1.2.   21  in the palm of my hand than he shall get one off his
2H4 1.2.   22  cheek; and yet he will not stick to say his face is a
2H4 1.2.   23  face-royal. God may finish it when he will; 'tis not a
2H4 1.2.   24  hair amiss yet. He may keep it still at a face-royal, for
2H4 1.2.   25  a barber shall never earn sixpence out of it. And yet
2H4 1.2.   26  he'll be crowing as if he had writ man ever since his
2H4 1.2.   27  father was a bachelor. He may keep his own grace, but
2H4 1.2.   28  he's almost out of mine, I can assure him. What said
2H4 1.2.   29  Master Dumbleton about the satin for my short cloak
2H4 1.2.   30  and slops?
2H4 1.2.   31   PAGE He said, sir, you should procure him better
2H4 1.2.   32  assurance than Bardolph. He would not take his bond
2H4 1.2.   33  and yours; he liked not the security.
2H4 1.2.   34   SIR JOHN Let him be damned like the glutton! Pray God
2H4 1.2.   35  his tongue be hotter! A whoreson Achitophel, a rascally
2H4 1.2.   36  yea-forsooth knave, to bear a gentleman in hand and
2H4 1.2.   37  then stand upon security! The whoreson smooth-pates
2H4 1.2.   38  do now wear nothing but high shoes and bunches of
2H4 1.2.   39  keys at their girdles; and if a man is through with
2H4 1.2.   40  them in honest taking-up, then they must stand upon
2H4 1.2.   41  security. I had as lief they would put ratsbane in my
2H4 1.2.   42  mouth as offer to stop it with security. I looked a should
2H4 1.2.   43  have sent me two-and-twenty yards of satin, as I am
2H4 1.2.   44  a true knight, and he sends me `security'! Well, he
2H4 1.2.   45  may sleep in security, for he hath the horn of
2H4 1.2.   46  abundance, and the lightness of his wife shines through
2H4 1.2.   47  it; and yet cannot he see, though he have his own
2H4 1.2.   48  lanthorn to light him. Where's Bardolph?
2H4 1.2.   49   PAGE He's gone in Smithfield to buy your worship a
2H4 1.2.   50  horse.
2H4 1.2.   51   SIR JOHN I bought him in Paul's, and he'll buy me a horse
2H4 1.2.   52  in Smithfield. An I could get me but a wife in the stews,
2H4 1.2.   53  I were manned, horsed, and wived. {Enter the Lord Chief Justice   +
2H4 1.2.   53  and his Servant}
2H4 1.2.   54   PAGE  Sir, here comes the nobleman that committed the
2H4 1.2.   55  Prince for striking him about Bardolph.
2H4 1.2.   56   SIR JOHN  {[moving away]} Wait close; I will not     +
2H4 1.2.   56  see him.
2H4 1.2.   57   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE  {(to his Servant)} What's he     +
2H4 1.2.   57  that goes
2H4 1.2.   58  there?
2H4 1.2.   59   SERVANT Falstaff, an 't please your lordship.
2H4 1.2.   60   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE He that was in question for the
2H4 1.2.   61  robbery?
2H4 1.2.   62   SERVANT He, my lord; but he hath since done good service
2H4 1.2.   63  at Shrewsbury, and, as I hear, is now going with some
2H4 1.2.   64  charge to the Lord John of Lancaster.
2H4 1.2.   65   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE What, to York? Call him back again.
2H4 1.2.   66   SERVANT Sir John Falstaff!
2H4 1.2.   67   SIR JOHN Boy, tell him I am deaf.
2H4 1.2.   68   PAGE  {(to the Servant)} You must speak louder; my   +
2H4 1.2.   68  master
2H4 1.2.   69  is deaf.
2H4 1.2.   70   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE I am sure he is to the hearing of
2H4 1.2.   71  anything good. {(To the Servant)} Go pluck him by the
2H4 1.2.   72  elbow; I must speak with him.
2H4 1.2.   73   SERVANT Sir John!
2H4 1.2.   74   SIR JOHN What, a young knave and begging! Is there not
2H4 1.2.   75  wars? Is there not employment? Doth not the King
2H4 1.2.   76  lack subjects? Do not the rebels want soldiers? Though
2H4 1.2.   77  it be a shame to be on any side but one, it is worse
2H4 1.2.   78  shame to beg than to be on the worst side, were it
2H4 1.2.   79  worse than the name of rebellion can tell how to make
2H4 1.2.   80  it.
2H4 1.2.   81   SERVANT You mistake me, sir.
2H4 1.2.   82   SIR JOHN Why, sir, did I say you were an honest man?
2H4 1.2.   83  Setting my knighthood and my soldiership aside, I had
2H4 1.2.   84  lied in my throat if I had said so.
2H4 1.2.   85   SERVANT I pray you, sir, then set your knighthood and
2H4 1.2.   86  your soldiership aside, and give me leave to tell you
2H4 1.2.   87  you lie in your throat if you say I am any other than
2H4 1.2.   88  an honest man.
2H4 1.2.   89   SIR JOHN I give thee leave to tell me so? I lay aside that
2H4 1.2.   90  which grows to me? If thou gettest any leave of me,
2H4 1.2.   91  hang me. If thou takest leave, thou wert better be
2H4 1.2.   92  hanged. You hunt counter. Hence, avaunt!
2H4 1.2.   93   SERVANT Sir, my lord would speak with you.
2H4 1.2.   94   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE Sir John Falstaff, a word with you.
2H4 1.2.   95   SIR JOHN My good lord! God give your lordship good time
2H4 1.2.   96  of day. I am glad to see your lordship abroad. I heard
2H4 1.2.   97  say your lordship was sick. I hope your lordship goes
2H4 1.2.   98  abroad by advice. Your lordship, though not clean past
2H4 1.2.   99  your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some
2H4 1.2.  100  relish of the saltness of time in you; and I most humbly
2H4 1.2.  101  beseech your lordship to have a reverent care of your
2H4 1.2.  102  health.
2H4 1.2.  103   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE Sir John, I sent for you before your
2H4 1.2.  104  expedition to Shrewsbury.
2H4 1.2.  105   SIR JOHN An 't please your lordship, I hear his majesty is
2H4 1.2.  106  returned with some discomfort from Wales.
2H4 1.2.  107   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE I talk not of his majesty. You would
2H4 1.2.  108  not come when I sent for you.
2H4 1.2.  109   SIR JOHN And I hear, moreover, his highness is fallen into
2H4 1.2.  110  this same whoreson apoplexy.
2H4 1.2.  111   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE Well, God mend him! I pray you, let
2H4 1.2.  112  me speak with you.
2H4 1.2.  113   SIR JOHN This apoplexy is, as I take it, a kind of lethargy,
2H4 1.2.  114  an 't please your lordship, a kind of sleeping in the
2H4 1.2.  115  blood, a whoreson tingling.
2H4 1.2.  116   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE What tell you me of it? Be it as it is.
2H4 1.2.  117   SIR JOHN It hath it original from much grief, from study,
2H4 1.2.  118  and perturbation of the brain. I have read the cause of
2H4 1.2.  119  his effects in Galen. It is a kind of deafness.
2H4 1.2.  120   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE I think you are fallen into the disease,
2H4 1.2.  121  for you hear not what I say to you.
2H4 1.2.  122   SIR JOHN Very well, my lord, very well. Rather, an 't please
2H4 1.2.  123  you, it is the disease of not listening, the malady of not
2H4 1.2.  124  marking, that I am troubled withal.
2H4 1.2.  125   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE To punish you by the heels would
2H4 1.2.  126  amend the attention of your ears, and I care not if I
2H4 1.2.  127  do become your physician.
2H4 1.2.  128   SIR JOHN I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient.
2H4 1.2.  129  Your lordship may minister the potion of imprisonment
2H4 1.2.  130  to me in respect of poverty; but how I should be your
2H4 1.2.  131  patient to follow your prescriptions, the wise may make
2H4 1.2.  132  some dram of a scruple, or indeed a scruple itself.
2H4 1.2.  133   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE I sent for you, when there were matters
2H4 1.2.  134  against you for your life, to come speak with me.
2H4 1.2.  135   SIR JOHN As I was then advised by my learned counsel
2H4 1.2.  136  in the laws of this land-service, I did not come.
2H4 1.2.  137   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE Well, the truth is, Sir John, you live
2H4 1.2.  138  in great infamy.
2H4 1.2.  139   SIR JOHN He that buckles himself in my belt cannot live
2H4 1.2.  140  in less.
2H4 1.2.  141   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE Your means are very slender, and
2H4 1.2.  142  your waste is great.
2H4 1.2.  143   SIR JOHN I would it were otherwise; I would my means
2H4 1.2.  144  were greater and my waist slenderer.
2H4 1.2.  145   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE You have misled the youthful Prince.
2H4 1.2.  146   SIR JOHN The young Prince hath misled me. I am the
2H4 1.2.  147  fellow with the great belly, and he my dog.
2H4 1.2.  148   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE Well, I am loath to gall a new-healed
2H4 1.2.  149  wound. Your day's service at Shrewsbury hath a little
2H4 1.2.  150  gilded over your night's exploit on Gads Hill. You may
2H4 1.2.  151  thank th' unquiet time for your quiet o'erposting that
2H4 1.2.  152  action.
2H4 1.2.  153   SIR JOHN My lord - 
2H4 1.2.  154   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE But since all is well, keep it so. Wake
2H4 1.2.  155  not a sleeping wolf.
2H4 1.2.  156   SIR JOHN To wake a wolf is as bad as smell a fox.
2H4 1.2.  157   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE What! You are as a candle, the better
2H4 1.2.  158  part burnt out.
2H4 1.2.  159   SIR JOHN A wassail candle, my lord, all tallow - if I did
2H4 1.2.  160  say of wax, my growth would approve the truth.
2H4 1.2.  161   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE There is not a white hair in your face
2H4 1.2.  162  but should have his effect of gravity.
2H4 1.2.  163   SIR JOHN His effect of gravy, gravy, gravy.
2H4 1.2.  164   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE You follow the young Prince up and
2H4 1.2.  165  down like his ill angel.
2H4 1.2.  166   SIR JOHN Not so, my lord; your ill angel is light, but I
2H4 1.2.  167  hope he that looks upon me will take me without
2H4 1.2.  168  weighing. And yet in some respects, I grant, I cannot
2H4 1.2.  169  go. I cannot tell, virtue is of so little regard in these
2H4 1.2.  170  costermongers' times that true valour is turned
2H4 1.2.  171  bearherd; pregnancy is made a tapster, and his quick
2H4 1.2.  172  wit wasted in giving reckonings; all the other gifts
2H4 1.2.  173  appertinent to man, as the malice of this age shapes
2H4 1.2.  174  them, are not worth a gooseberry. You that are old
2H4 1.2.  175  consider not the capacities of us that are young. You
2H4 1.2.  176  do measure the heat of our livers with the bitterness
2H4 1.2.  177  of your galls. And we that are in the vanguard of our
2H4 1.2.  178  youth, I must confess, are wags too.
2H4 1.2.  179   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE Do you set down your name in the
2H4 1.2.  180  scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the
2H4 1.2.  181  characters of age? Have you not a moist eye, a dry
2H4 1.2.  182  hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg,
2H4 1.2.  183  an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your
2H4 1.2.  184  wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and
2H4 1.2.  185  every part about you blasted with antiquity? And will
2H4 1.2.  186  you yet call yourself young? Fie, fie, fie, Sir John!
2H4 1.2.  187   SIR JOHN My lord, I was born about three of the clock in
2H4 1.2.  188  the afternoon with a white head, and something a
2H4 1.2.  189  round belly. For my voice, I have lost it with hallowing
2H4 1.2.  190  and singing of anthems. To approve my youth further,
2H4 1.2.  191  I will not. The truth is, I am only old in judgement
2H4 1.2.  192  and understanding; and he that will caper with me for
2H4 1.2.  193  a thousand marks, let him lend me the money, and
2H4 1.2.  194  have at him! For the box of th' ear that the Prince gave
2H4 1.2.  195  you, he gave it like a rude prince, and you took it like
2H4 1.2.  196  a sensible lord. I have checked him for it, and the
2H4 1.2.  197  young lion repents -  {[aside]} marry, not in ashes and
2H4 1.2.  198  sackcloth,
2H4 1.2.  199  but in new silk and old sack.
2H4 1.2.  200   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE Well, God send the Prince a better
2H4 1.2.  201  companion!
2H4 1.2.  202   SIR JOHN God send the companion a better prince! I
2H4 1.2.  203  cannot rid my hands of him.
2H4 1.2.  204   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE Well, the King hath severed you and
2H4 1.2.  205  Prince Harry. I hear you are going with Lord John of
2H4 1.2.  206  Lancaster against the Archbishop and the Earl of
2H4 1.2.  207  Northumberland.
2H4 1.2.  208   SIR JOHN Yea, I thank your pretty sweet wit for it. But
2H4 1.2.  209  look you pray, all you that kiss my lady Peace at home,
2H4 1.2.  210  that our armies join not in a hot day; for, by the Lord,
2H4 1.2.  211  I take but two shirts out with me, and I mean not to
2H4 1.2.  212  sweat extraordinarily. If it be a hot day and I brandish
2H4 1.2.  213  anything but my bottle, would I might never spit white
2H4 1.2.  214  again. There is not a dangerous action can peep out
2H4 1.2.  215  his head but I am thrust upon it. Well, I cannot last
2H4 1.2.  216  ever. But it was alway yet the trick of our English
2H4 1.2.  217  nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too
2H4 1.2.  218  common. If ye will needs say I am an old man, you
2H4 1.2.  219  should give me rest. I would to God my name were not
2H4 1.2.  220  so terrible to the enemy as it is. I were better to be
2H4 1.2.  221  eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing
2H4 1.2.  222  with perpetual motion.
2H4 1.2.  223   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE Well, be honest, be honest, and God
2H4 1.2.  224  bless your expedition.
2H4 1.2.  225   SIR JOHN Will your lordship lend me a thousand pound
2H4 1.2.  226  to furnish me forth?
2H4 1.2.  227   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE Not a penny, not a penny. You are
2H4 1.2.  228  too impatient to bear crosses. Fare you well. Commend
2H4 1.2.  229  me to my cousin Westmorland. {Exeunt Lord Chief Justice and his   +
2H4 1.2.  229  Servant}
2H4 1.2.  230   SIR JOHN  If I do, fillip me with a three-man beetle. A     +
2H4 1.2.  230  man
2H4 1.2.  231  can no more separate age and covetousness than a can
2H4 1.2.  232  part young limbs and lechery; but the gout galls the
2H4 1.2.  233  one and the pox pinches the other, and so both the
2H4 1.2.  234  degrees prevent my curses. Boy!
2H4 1.2.  235   PAGE Sir.
2H4 1.2.  236   SIR JOHN What money is in my purse?
2H4 1.2.  237   PAGE Seven groats and two pence.
2H4 1.2.  238   SIR JOHN I can get no remedy against this consumption
2H4 1.2.  239  of the purse. Borrowing only lingers and lingers it out,
2H4 1.2.  240  but the disease is incurable. {(Giving letters)} Go      +
2H4 1.2.  240  bear this
2H4 1.2.  241  letter to my lord of Lancaster; this to the Prince; this
2H4 1.2.  242  to the Earl of Westmorland; and this to old Mistress
2H4 1.2.  243  Ursula, whom I have weekly sworn to marry since I
2H4 1.2.  244  perceived the first white hair of my chin. About it. You
2H4 1.2.  245  know where to find me. {[Exit Page]}
2H4 1.2.  246   A pox of this gout! - or a gout of this pox! - for the
2H4 1.2.  247  one or the other plays the rogue with my great toe.
2H4 1.2.  248  'Tis no matter if I do halt; I have the wars for my
2H4 1.2.  249  colour, and my pension shall seem the more reasonable.
2H4 1.2.  250  A good wit will make use of anything. I will turn
2H4 1.2.  251  diseases to commodity. {Exit}
2H4 1.2.    0    {Enter the Archbishop of York, Thomas Mowbray the Earl     +
2H4 1.3.    0  Marshal, Lord Hastings, and Lord Bardolph}
2H4 1.3.    1   ARCHBISHOP OF YORK  Thus have you heard our cause and       +
2H4 1.3.    1  known our means,
2H4 1.3.    2  And, my most noble friends, I pray you all
2H4 1.3.    3  Speak plainly your opinions of our hopes.
2H4 1.3.    4  And first, Lord Marshal, what say you to it?
2H4 1.3.    5   MOWBRAY I well allow the occasion of our arms,
2H4 1.3.    6  But gladly would be better satisfied
2H4 1.3.    7  How in our means we should advance ourselves
2H4 1.3.    8  To look with forehead bold and big enough
2H4 1.3.    9  Upon the power and puissance of the King.
2H4 1.3.   10   HASTINGS Our present musters grow upon the file
2H4 1.3.   11  To five-and-twenty thousand men of choice,
2H4 1.3.   12  And our supplies live largely in the hope
2H4 1.3.   13  Of great Northumberland, whose bosom burns
2H4 1.3.   14  With an incensed fire of injuries.
2H4 1.3.   15   LORD BARDOLPH The question then, Lord Hastings, standeth thus:
2H4 1.3.   16  Whether our present five-and-twenty thousand
2H4 1.3.   17  May hold up head without Northumberland.
2H4 1.3.   18B  HASTINGS With him we may. LORD BARDOLPH Yea, marry, there's the   +
2H4 1.3.   18B point;
2H4 1.3.   19  But if without him we be thought too feeble,
2H4 1.3.   20  My judgement is, we should not step too far
2H4 1.3.   21  Till we had his assistance by the hand;
2H4 1.3.   22  For in a theme so bloody-faced as this,
2H4 1.3.   23  Conjecture, expectation, and surmise
2H4 1.3.   24  Of aids uncertain should not be admitted.
2H4 1.3.   25   ARCHBISHOP OF YORK 'Tis very true, Lord Bardolph, for indeed
2H4 1.3.   26  It was young Hotspur's case at Shrewsbury.
2H4 1.3.   27   LORD BARDOLPH It was, my lord; who lined himself with hope,
2H4 1.3.   28  Eating the air on promise of supply,
2H4 1.3.   29  Flatt'ring himself with project of a power
2H4 1.3.   30  Much smaller than the smallest of his thoughts;
2H4 1.3.   31  And so, with great imagination
2H4 1.3.   32  Proper to madmen, led his powers to death,
2H4 1.3.   33  And winking leapt into destruction.
2H4 1.3.   34   HASTINGS But by your leave, it never yet did hurt
2H4 1.3.   35  To lay down likelihoods and forms of hope.
2H4 1.3.   36   LORD BARDOLPH Yes, if this present quality of war - 
2H4 1.3.   37  Indeed the instant action, a cause on foot - 
2H4 1.3.   38  Lives so in hope; as in an early spring
2H4 1.3.   39  We see th' appearing buds, which to prove fruit
2H4 1.3.   40  Hope gives not so much warrant as despair
2H4 1.3.   41  That frosts will bite them. When we mean to build
2H4 1.3.   42  We first survey the plot, then draw the model;
2H4 1.3.   43  And when we see the figure of the house,
2H4 1.3.   44  Then must we rate the cost of the erection,
2H4 1.3.   45  Which if we find outweighs ability,
2H4 1.3.   46  What do we then but draw anew the model
2H4 1.3.   47  In fewer offices, or, at least, desist
2H4 1.3.   48  To build at all? Much more in this great work - 
2H4 1.3.   49  Which is almost to pluck a kingdom down
2H4 1.3.   50  And set another up - should we survey
2H4 1.3.   51  The plot of situation and the model,
2H4 1.3.   52  Consent upon a sure foundation,
2H4 1.3.   53  Question surveyors, know our own estate,
2H4 1.3.   54  How able such a work to undergo,
2H4 1.3.   55  To weigh against his opposite; or else
2H4 1.3.   56  We fortify in paper and in figures,
2H4 1.3.   57  Using the names of men instead of men,
2H4 1.3.   58  Like one that draws the model of an house
2H4 1.3.   59  Beyond his power to build it, who, half-through,
2H4 1.3.   60  Gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost
2H4 1.3.   61  A naked subject to the weeping clouds,
2H4 1.3.   62  And waste for churlish winter's tyranny.
2H4 1.3.   63   HASTINGS Grant that our hopes, yet likely of fair birth,
2H4 1.3.   64  Should be stillborn, and that we now possessed
2H4 1.3.   65  The utmost man of expectation,
2H4 1.3.   66  I think we are a body strong enough,
2H4 1.3.   67  Even as we are, to equal with the King.
2H4 1.3.   68   LORD BARDOLPH What, is the King but five-and-twenty thousand?
2H4 1.3.   69   HASTINGS To us no more, nay, not so much, Lord Bardolph;
2H4 1.3.   70  For his divisions, as the times do brawl,
2H4 1.3.   71  Are in three heads: one power against the French,
2H4 1.3.   72  And one against Glyndw^r, perforce a third
2H4 1.3.   73  Must take up us. So is the unfirm King
2H4 1.3.   74  In three divided, and his coffers sound
2H4 1.3.   75  With hollow poverty and emptiness.
2H4 1.3.   76   ARCHBISHOP OF YORK That he should draw his several strengths         +
2H4 1.3.   76  together
2H4 1.3.   77  And come against us in full puissance
2H4 1.3.   78B Need not be dreaded. HASTINGS If he should do so,
2H4 1.3.   79  He leaves his back unarmed, the French and Welsh
2H4 1.3.   80  Baying him at the heels. Never fear that.
2H4 1.3.   81   LORD BARDOLPH Who is it like should lead his forces hither?
2H4 1.3.   82   HASTINGS The Duke of Lancaster and Westmorland;
2H4 1.3.   83  Against the Welsh, himself and Harry Monmouth;
2H4 1.3.   84  But who is substituted 'gainst the French
2H4 1.3.   85B I have no certain notice. ARCHBISHOP OF YORK Let us on,
2H4 1.3.   86  And publish the occasion of our arms.
2H4 1.3.   87  The commonwealth is sick of their own choice;
2H4 1.3.   88  Their over-greedy love hath surfeited.
2H4 1.3.   89  An habitation giddy and unsure
2H4 1.3.   90  Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.
2H4 1.3.   91  O thou fond many, with what loud applause
2H4 1.3.   92  Didst thou beat heaven with blessing Bolingbroke,
2H4 1.3.   93  Before he was what thou wouldst have him be!
2H4 1.3.   94  And being now trimmed in thine own desires,
2H4 1.3.   95  Thou, beastly feeder, art so full of him
2H4 1.3.   96  That thou provok'st thyself to cast him up.
2H4 1.3.   97  So, so, thou common dog, didst thou disgorge
2H4 1.3.   98  Thy glutton bosom of the royal Richard;
2H4 1.3.   99  And now thou wouldst eat thy dead vomit up,
2H4 1.3.  100  And howl'st to find it. What trust is in these times?
2H4 1.3.  101  They that when Richard lived would have him die
2H4 1.3.  102  Are now become enamoured on his grave.
2H4 1.3.  103  Thou that threw'st dust upon his goodly head,
2H4 1.3.  104  When through proud London he came sighing on
2H4 1.3.  105  After th' admired heels of Bolingbroke,
2H4 1.3.  106  Cri'st now, `O earth, yield us that king again,
2H4 1.3.  107  And take thou this!' O thoughts of men accursed!
2H4 1.3.  108  Past and to come seems best; things present, worst.
2H4 1.3.  109   [MOWBRAY] Shall we go draw our numbers and set on?
2H4 1.3.  110   HASTINGS We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.       +
2H4 1.3.  110  {Exeunt}
2H4 1.3.    0     {Enter Mistress Quickly (the hostess of a            +
2H4 2.1.    0  tavern), and an officer, Fang [followed at a distance by] another        +
2H4 2.1.    0  officer, Snare}
2H4 2.1.    1   MISTRESS QUICKLY  Master Fang, have you entered the
2H4 2.1.    2  action?
2H4 2.1.    3   FANG It is entered.
2H4 2.1.    4   MISTRESS QUICKLY Where's your yeoman? Is 't a lusty
2H4 2.1.    5  yeoman? Will a stand to 't?
2H4 2.1.    6   FANG Sirrah! - Where's Snare?
2H4 2.1.    7   MISTRESS QUICKLY O Lord, ay, good Master Snare.
2H4 2.1.    8   SNARE  {[coming forward]} Here, here.
2H4 2.1.    9   FANG Snare, we must arrest Sir John Falstaff.
2H4 2.1.   10   MISTRESS QUICKLY Yea, good Master Snare, I have entered
2H4 2.1.   11  him and all.
2H4 2.1.   12   SNARE It may chance cost some of us our lives, for he
2H4 2.1.   13  will stab.
2H4 2.1.   14   MISTRESS QUICKLY Alas the day, take heed of him; he
2H4 2.1.   15  stabbed me in mine own house, most beastly, in good
2H4 2.1.   16  faith. A cares not what mischief he does; if his weapon
2H4 2.1.   17  be out, he will foin like any devil, he will spare neither
2H4 2.1.   18  man, woman, nor child.
2H4 2.1.   19   FANG If I can close with him, I care not for his thrust.
2H4 2.1.   20   MISTRESS QUICKLY No, nor I neither. I'll be at your elbow.
2H4 2.1.   21   FANG An I but fist him once, an a come but within my
2H4 2.1.   22  vice - 
2H4 2.1.   23   MISTRESS QUICKLY I am undone by his going, I warrant
2H4 2.1.   24  you; he's an infinitive thing upon my score. Good
2H4 2.1.   25  Master Fang, hold him sure. Good Master Snare, let
2H4 2.1.   26  him not scape. A comes continuantly to Pie Corner - 
2H4 2.1.   27  saving your manhoods - to buy a saddle, and he is
2H4 2.1.   28  indited to dinner to the Lubber's Head in Lombard
2H4 2.1.   29  Street, to Master Smooth's the silkman. I pray you,
2H4 2.1.   30  since my exion is entered, and my case so openly
2H4 2.1.   31  known to the world, let him be brought in to his
2H4 2.1.   32  answer. A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone
2H4 2.1.   33  woman to bear; and I have borne, and borne, and
2H4 2.1.   34  borne, and have been fobbed off, and fobbed off, and
2H4 2.1.   35  fobbed off, from this day to that day, that it is a shame
2H4 2.1.   36  to be thought on. There is no honesty in such dealing,
2H4 2.1.   37  unless a woman should be made an ass and a beast,
2H4 2.1.   38  to bear every knave's wrong. {Enter Sir John Falstaff, Bardolph,  +
2H4 2.1.   38  and the Page}
2H4 2.1.   39   Yonder he comes, and that arrant malmsey-nose knave
2H4 2.1.   40  Bardolph with him. Do your offices, do your offices,
2H4 2.1.   41  Master Fang and Master Snare; do me, do me, do me
2H4 2.1.   42  your offices.
2H4 2.1.   43   SIR JOHN How now, whose mare's dead? What's the
2H4 2.1.   44  matter?
2H4 2.1.   45   FANG Sir John, I arrest you at the suit of Mistress Quickly.
2H4 2.1.   46   SIR JOHN  {[drawing]} Away, varlets! Draw,           +
2H4 2.1.   46  Bardolph! Cut
2H4 2.1.   47  me off the villain's head! Throw the quean in the
2H4 2.1.   48  channel! {[Bardolph draws]}
2H4 2.1.   49   MISTRESS QUICKLY  Throw me in the channel? I'll throw
2H4 2.1.   50  thee in the channel! {A brawl}
2H4 2.1.   51   Wilt thou, wilt thou, thou bastardly rogue? Murder,
2H4 2.1.   52  murder! Ah, thou honeysuckle villain, wilt thou kill
2H4 2.1.   53  God's officers, and the King's? Ah, thou honeyseed
2H4 2.1.   54  rogue! Thou art a honeyseed, a man-queller, and a
2H4 2.1.   55  woman-queller.
2H4 2.1.   56   SIR JOHN Keep them off, Bardolph!
2H4 2.1.   57   FANG A rescue, a rescue!
2H4 2.1.   58   MISTRESS QUICKLY Good people, bring a rescue or two.
2H4 2.1.   59  Thou wot, wot thou? Thou wot, wot 'a? Do, do, thou
2H4 2.1.   60  rogue, do, thou hempseed!
2H4 2.1.   61   PAGE Away, you scullion, you rampallian, you
2H4 2.1.   62  fustilarian! I'll tickle your catastrophe! {Enter the Lord Chief  +
2H4 2.1.   62  Justice and his men}
2H4 2.1.   63   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE  What is the matter? Keep the peace      +
2H4 2.1.   63  here, ho! {Brawl ends. [Fang] seizes Sir John}
2H4 2.1.   64   MISTRESS QUICKLY  Good my lord, be good to me; I beseech
2H4 2.1.   65  you, stand to me.
2H4 2.1.   66   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE  How now, Sir John? What, are you        +
2H4 2.1.   66  brawling here?
2H4 2.1.   67  Doth this become your place, your time and business?
2H4 2.1.   68  You should have been well on your way to York.
2H4 2.1.   69   {[To Fang]} Stand from him, fellow. Wherefore hang'st   +
2H4 2.1.   69  thou upon him?
2H4 2.1.   70   MISTRESS QUICKLY  O my most worshipful lord, an 't please
2H4 2.1.   71  your grace, I am a poor widow of Eastcheap, and he
2H4 2.1.   72  is arrested at my suit.
2H4 2.1.   73A  LORD CHIEF JUSTICE  For what sum?
2H4 2.1.   74   MISTRESS QUICKLY  It is more than for some, my lord, it is
2H4 2.1.   75  for all, all I have. He hath eaten me out of house and
2H4 2.1.   76  home. He hath put all my substance into that fat belly
2H4 2.1.   77  of his; {(to Sir John)} but I will have some of it out   +
2H4 2.1.   77  again,
2H4 2.1.   78  or I will ride thee a-nights like the mare.
2H4 2.1.   79   SIR JOHN I think I am as like to ride the mare, if I have
2H4 2.1.   80  any vantage of ground to get up.
2H4 2.1.   81   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE How comes this, Sir John? Fie, what
2H4 2.1.   82  man of good temper would endure this tempest of
2H4 2.1.   83  exclamation? Are you not ashamed, to enforce a poor
2H4 2.1.   84  widow to so rough a course to come by her own?
2H4 2.1.   85   SIR JOHN  {(to the Hostess)} What is the gross sum   +
2H4 2.1.   85  that I owe
2H4 2.1.   86  thee?
2H4 2.1.   87   MISTRESS QUICKLY Marry, if thou wert an honest man,
2H4 2.1.   88  thyself, and the money too. Thou didst swear to me
2H4 2.1.   89  upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin
2H4 2.1.   90  chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon
2H4 2.1.   91  Wednesday in Wheeson week, when the Prince broke
2H4 2.1.   92  thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of
2H4 2.1.   93  Windsor - thou didst swear to me then, as I was
2H4 2.1.   94  washing thy wound, to marry me, and make me my
2H4 2.1.   95  lady thy wife. Canst thou deny it? Did not goodwife
2H4 2.1.   96  Keech the butcher's wife come in then, and call me
2H4 2.1.   97  `Gossip Quickly' - coming in to borrow a mess of
2H4 2.1.   98  vinegar, telling us she had a good dish of prawns,
2H4 2.1.   99  whereby thou didst desire to eat some, whereby I told
2H4 2.1.  100  thee they were ill for a green wound? And didst thou
2H4 2.1.  101  not, when she was gone downstairs, desire me to be
2H4 2.1.  102  no more so familiarity with such poor people, saying
2H4 2.1.  103  that ere long they should call me `madam'? And didst
2H4 2.1.  104  thou not kiss me, and bid me fetch thee thirty shillings?
2H4 2.1.  105  I put thee now to thy book-oath; deny it if thou canst. {[She     +
2H4 2.1.  105  weeps]}
2H4 2.1.  106   SIR JOHN  My lord, this is a poor mad soul, and she says
2H4 2.1.  107  up and down the town that her eldest son is like you.
2H4 2.1.  108  She hath been in good case, and the truth is, poverty
2H4 2.1.  109  hath distracted her. But for these foolish officers, I
2H4 2.1.  110  beseech you I may have redress against them.
2H4 2.1.  111   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE Sir John, Sir John, I am well acquainted
2H4 2.1.  112  with your manner of wrenching the true cause the
2H4 2.1.  113  false way. It is not a confident brow, nor the throng
2H4 2.1.  114  of words that come with such more than impudent
2H4 2.1.  115  sauciness from you, can thrust me from a level
2H4 2.1.  116  consideration. You have, as it appears to me, practised
2H4 2.1.  117  upon the easy-yielding spirit of this woman, and made
2H4 2.1.  118  her serve your uses both in purse and in person.
2H4 2.1.  119   MISTRESS QUICKLY Yea, in truth, my lord.
2H4 2.1.  120   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE Pray thee, peace. {(To Sir John)}+
2H4 2.1.  120   Pay her
2H4 2.1.  121  the debt you owe her, and unpay the villainy you have
2H4 2.1.  122  done with her. The one you may do with sterling
2H4 2.1.  123  money, and the other with current repentance.
2H4 2.1.  124   SIR JOHN My lord, I will not undergo this sneap without
2H4 2.1.  125  reply. You call honourable boldness `impudent
2H4 2.1.  126  sauciness'; if a man will make curtsy and say nothing,
2H4 2.1.  127  he is virtuous. No, my lord, my humble duty
2H4 2.1.  128  remembered, I will not be your suitor. I say to you I
2H4 2.1.  129  do desire deliverance from these officers, being upon
2H4 2.1.  130  hasty employment in the King's affairs.
2H4 2.1.  131   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE You speak as having power to do
2H4 2.1.  132  wrong; but answer in th' effect of your reputation, and
2H4 2.1.  133  satisfy the poor woman.
2H4 2.1.  134   SIR JOHN  {(drawing apart)} Come hither,             +
2H4 2.1.  134  hostess. {She goes to him.}
2H4 2.1.  135A {Enter Master Gower, a messenger} LORD CHIEF JUSTICE  Now,   +
2H4 2.1.  135A Master Gower, what news?
2H4 2.1.  136   GOWER The King, my lord, and Harry Prince of Wales
2H4 2.1.  137  Are near at hand; the rest the paper tells. {[Lord Chief Justice  +
2H4 2.1.  137  reads the paper, and converses apart with Gower]}
2H4 2.1.  138   SIR JOHN  As I am a gentleman!
2H4 2.1.  139   MISTRESS QUICKLY Faith, you said so before.
2H4 2.1.  140   SIR JOHN As I am a gentleman! Come, no more words of
2H4 2.1.  141  it.
2H4 2.1.  142   MISTRESS QUICKLY By this heavenly ground I tread on, I
2H4 2.1.  143  must be fain to pawn both my plate and the tapestry
2H4 2.1.  144  of my dining-chambers.
2H4 2.1.  145   SIR JOHN Glasses, glasses, is the only drinking; and for
2H4 2.1.  146  thy walls, a pretty slight drollery, or the story of the
2H4 2.1.  147  Prodigal, or the German hunting in waterwork, is
2H4 2.1.  148  worth a thousand of these bed-hangers and these fly-
2H4 2.1.  149  bitten tapestries. Let it be ten pound if thou canst.
2H4 2.1.  150  Come, an 'twere not for thy humours, there's not a
2H4 2.1.  151  better wench in England. Go, wash thy face, and draw
2H4 2.1.  152  the action. Come, thou must not be in this humour
2H4 2.1.  153  with me. Dost not know me? Come, I know thou wast
2H4 2.1.  154  set on to this.
2H4 2.1.  155   MISTRESS QUICKLY Pray thee, Sir John, let it be but twenty
2H4 2.1.  156  nobles. I' faith, I am loath to pawn my plate, so God
2H4 2.1.  157  save me, la!
2H4 2.1.  158   SIR JOHN Let it alone; I'll make other shift. You'll be a
2H4 2.1.  159  fool still.
2H4 2.1.  160   MISTRESS QUICKLY Well, you shall have it, though I pawn
2H4 2.1.  161  my gown. I hope you'll come to supper. You'll pay me
2H4 2.1.  162  altogether?
2H4 2.1.  163   SIR JOHN Will I live? {[To Bardolph and the Page]}   +
2H4 2.1.  163  Go with
2H4 2.1.  164  her, with her. Hook on, hook on!
2H4 2.1.  165   MISTRESS QUICKLY Will you have Doll Tearsheet meet you
2H4 2.1.  166  at supper?
2H4 2.1.  167   SIR JOHN No more words; let's have her. {Exeunt Mistress      +
2H4 2.1.  167  Quickly, Bardolph,}
2H4 2.1.  168  {the Page, Fang and Snare} LORD CHIEF JUSTICE  {(to            +
2H4 2.1.  168  Gower)} I have heard better news.
2H4 2.1.  169   SIR JOHN What's the news, my good lord?
2H4 2.1.  170   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE  {(to Gower)} Where lay the King  +
2H4 2.1.  170  tonight?
2H4 2.1.  171   GOWER At Basingstoke, my lord.
2H4 2.1.  172   SIR JOHN  {(to Lord Chief Justice)} I hope, my       +
2H4 2.1.  172  lord, all's well.
2H4 2.1.  173  What is the news, my lord?
2H4 2.1.  174A  LORD CHIEF JUSTICE  {(to Gower)} Come all his        +
2H4 2.1.  174A forces back?
2H4 2.1.  175   GOWER No; fifteen hundred foot, five hundred horse,
2H4 2.1.  176  Are marched up to my lord of Lancaster
2H4 2.1.  177  Against Northumberland and the Archbishop.
2H4 2.1.  178   SIR JOHN  {(to Lord Chief Justice)} Comes the King   +
2H4 2.1.  178  back from Wales, my noble lord?
2H4 2.1.  179   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE  {(to Gower)} You shall have      +
2H4 2.1.  179  letters of me presently.
2H4 2.1.  180  Come, go along with me, good Master Gower. {They are going}
2H4 2.1.  181   SIR JOHN  My lord!
2H4 2.1.  182   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE What's the matter?
2H4 2.1.  183   SIR JOHN Master Gower, shall I entreat you with me to
2H4 2.1.  184  dinner?
2H4 2.1.  185   GOWER I must wait upon my good lord here, I thank you,
2H4 2.1.  186  good Sir John.
2H4 2.1.  187   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE Sir John, you loiter here too long,
2H4 2.1.  188  being you are to take soldiers up in counties as you
2H4 2.1.  189  go.
2H4 2.1.  190   SIR JOHN Will you sup with me, Master Gower?
2H4 2.1.  191   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE What foolish master taught you these
2H4 2.1.  192  manners, Sir John?
2H4 2.1.  193   SIR JOHN Master Gower, if they become me not, he was
2H4 2.1.  194  a fool that taught them me. {(To Lord Chief Justice)}    +
2H4 2.1.  194  This
2H4 2.1.  195  is the right fencing grace, my lord - tap for tap, and so
2H4 2.1.  196  part fair.
2H4 2.1.  197   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE Now the Lord lighten thee; thou art
2H4 2.1.  198  a great fool. {Exeunt [Lord Chief Justice and Gower at one}
2H4 2.1.    0  {door, Sir John at another]}  {Enter Prince Harry and        +
2H4 2.2.    0  Poins}
2H4 2.2.    1   PRINCE HARRY  Before God, I am exceeding weary.
2H4 2.2.    2   POINS Is 't come to that? I had thought weariness durst
2H4 2.2.    3  not have attached one of so high blood.
2H4 2.2.    4   PRINCE HARRY Faith, it does me, though it discolours the
2H4 2.2.    5  complexion of my greatness to acknowledge it. Doth it
2H4 2.2.    6  not show vilely in me to desire small beer?
2H4 2.2.    7   POINS Why, a prince should not be so loosely studied as
2H4 2.2.    8  to remember so weak a composition.
2H4 2.2.    9   PRINCE HARRY Belike then my appetite was not princely
2H4 2.2.   10  got; for, by my troth, I do now remember the poor
2H4 2.2.   11  creature small beer. But indeed, these humble
2H4 2.2.   12  considerations make me out of love with my greatness.
2H4 2.2.   13  What a disgrace is it to me to remember thy name! Or
2H4 2.2.   14  to know thy face tomorrow! Or to take note how many
2H4 2.2.   15  pair of silk stockings thou hast - videlicet these, and
2H4 2.2.   16  those that were thy peach-coloured ones! Or to bear
2H4 2.2.   17  the inventory of thy shirts - as one for superfluity, and
2H4 2.2.   18  another for use. But that the tennis-court keeper knows
2H4 2.2.   19  better than I, for it is a low ebb of linen with thee
2H4 2.2.   20  when thou keepest not racket there; as thou hast not
2H4 2.2.   21  done a great while, because the rest of thy low countries
2H4 2.2.   22  have made a shift to eat up thy holland.
2H4 2.2.   23   POINS How ill it follows, after you have laboured so hard,
2H4 2.2.   24  you should talk so idly! Tell me, how many good young
2H4 2.2.   25  princes would do so, their fathers lying so sick as yours
2H4 2.2.   26  is?
2H4 2.2.   27   PRINCE HARRY Shall I tell thee one thing, Poins?
2H4 2.2.   28   POINS Yes, faith, and let it be an excellent good thing.
2H4 2.2.   29   PRINCE HARRY It shall serve among wits of no higher
2H4 2.2.   30  breeding than thine.
2H4 2.2.   31   POINS Go to, I stand the push of your one thing that
2H4 2.2.   32  you'll tell.
2H4 2.2.   33   PRINCE HARRY Marry, I tell thee, it is not meet that I
2H4 2.2.   34  should be sad now my father is sick; albeit I could tell
2H4 2.2.   35  to thee, as to one it pleases me, for fault of a better, to
2H4 2.2.   36  call my friend, I could be sad; and sad indeed too.
2H4 2.2.   37   POINS Very hardly, upon such a subject.
2H4 2.2.   38   PRINCE HARRY By this hand, thou thinkest me as far in
2H4 2.2.   39  the devil's book as thou and Falstaff, for obduracy and
2H4 2.2.   40  persistency. Let the end try the man. But I tell thee,
2H4 2.2.   41  my heart bleeds inwardly that my father is so sick; and
2H4 2.2.   42  keeping such vile company as thou art hath, in reason,
2H4 2.2.   43  taken from me all ostentation of sorrow.
2H4 2.2.   44   POINS The reason?
2H4 2.2.   45   PRINCE HARRY What wouldst thou think of me if I should
2H4 2.2.   46  weep?
2H4 2.2.   47   POINS I would think thee a most princely hypocrite.
2H4 2.2.   48   PRINCE HARRY It would be every man's thought, and thou
2H4 2.2.   49  art a blessed fellow to think as every man thinks. Never
2H4 2.2.   50  a man's thought in the world keeps the roadway better
2H4 2.2.   51  than thine. Every man would think me an hypocrite
2H4 2.2.   52  indeed. And what accites your most worshipful thought
2H4 2.2.   53  to think so?
2H4 2.2.   54   POINS Why, because you have been so lewd, and so much
2H4 2.2.   55  engrafted to Falstaff.
2H4 2.2.   56   PRINCE HARRY And to thee.
2H4 2.2.   57   POINS By this light, I am well spoke on; I can hear it
2H4 2.2.   58  with mine own ears. The worst that they can say of
2H4 2.2.   59  me is that I am a second brother, and that I am a
2H4 2.2.   60  proper fellow of my hands; and those two things I
2H4 2.2.   61  confess I cannot help. {Enter Bardolph [followed by] the Page}
2H4 2.2.   62   By the mass, here comes Bardolph.
2H4 2.2.   63   PRINCE HARRY And the boy that I gave Falstaff. A had
2H4 2.2.   64  him from me Christian, and look if the fat villain have
2H4 2.2.   65  not transformed him ape.
2H4 2.2.   66   BARDOLPH God save your grace!
2H4 2.2.   67   PRINCE HARRY And yours, most noble Bardolph!
2H4 2.2.   68   POINS  {(to Bardolph)} Come, you virtuous ass, you   +
2H4 2.2.   68  bashful
2H4 2.2.   69  fool, must you be blushing? Wherefore blush you now?
2H4 2.2.   70  What a maidenly man at arms are you become! Is 't
2H4 2.2.   71  such a matter to get a pottle-pot's maidenhead?
2H4 2.2.   72   PAGE A calls me e'en now, my lord, through a red lattice,
2H4 2.2.   73  and I could discern no part of his face from the window.
2H4 2.2.   74  At last I spied his eyes, and methought he had made
2H4 2.2.   75  two holes in the ale-wife's red petticoat, and so peeped
2H4 2.2.   76  through.
2H4 2.2.   77   PRINCE HARRY  {(to Poins)} Has not the boy           +
2H4 2.2.   77  profited?
2H4 2.2.   78   BARDOLPH  {(to the Page)} Away, you whoreson         +
2H4 2.2.   78  upright
2H4 2.2.   79  rabbit, away!
2H4 2.2.   80   PAGE Away, you rascally Althea's dream, away!
2H4 2.2.   81   PRINCE HARRY Instruct us, boy; what dream, boy?
2H4 2.2.   82   PAGE Marry, my lord, Althea dreamt she was delivered
2H4 2.2.   83  of a firebrand, and therefore I call him her dream.
2H4 2.2.   84   PRINCE HARRY  {(giving him money)} A crown's-worth   +
2H4 2.2.   84  of good
2H4 2.2.   85  interpretation! There 'tis, boy.
2H4 2.2.   86   POINS O, that this good blossom could be kept from
2H4 2.2.   87  cankers! {(Giving the Page money)} Well, there is        +
2H4 2.2.   87  sixpence
2H4 2.2.   88  to preserve thee.
2H4 2.2.   89   BARDOLPH An you do not make him hanged among you,
2H4 2.2.   90  the gallows shall be wronged.
2H4 2.2.   91   PRINCE HARRY And how doth thy master, Bardolph?
2H4 2.2.   92   BARDOLPH Well, my good lord. He heard of your grace's
2H4 2.2.   93  coming to town. There's a letter for you.
2H4 2.2.   94   POINS Delivered with good respect. And how doth the
2H4 2.2.   95  Martlemas your master?
2H4 2.2.   96   BARDOLPH In bodily health, sir. {Prince Harry reads the       +
2H4 2.2.   96  letter}
2H4 2.2.   97   POINS  Marry, the immortal part needs a physician, but
2H4 2.2.   98  that moves not him. Though that be sick, it dies not.
2H4 2.2.   99   PRINCE HARRY I do allow this wen to be as familiar with
2H4 2.2.  100  me as my dog; and he holds his place, for look you
2H4 2.2.  101  how he writes. {[He gives Poins the letter]}
2H4 2.2.  102   POINS  `John Falstaff, knight'. - Every man must know
2H4 2.2.  103  that, as oft as he has occasion to name himself; even
2H4 2.2.  104  like those that are kin to the King, for they never prick
2H4 2.2.  105  their finger but they say `There's some of the King's
2H4 2.2.  106  blood spilt.' `How comes that?' says he that takes upon
2H4 2.2.  107  him not to conceive. The answer is as ready as a
2H4 2.2.  108  borrower's cap: `I am the King's poor cousin, sir.'
2H4 2.2.  109   PRINCE HARRY Nay, they will be kin to us, or they will
2H4 2.2.  110  fetch it from Japhet. {(Taking the letter)} But the      +
2H4 2.2.  110  letter.
2H4 2.2.  111  `Sir John Falstaff, knight, to the son of the King nearest
2H4 2.2.  112  his father, Harry Prince of Wales, greeting.'
2H4 2.2.  113   POINS Why, this is a certificate!
2H4 2.2.  114   PRINCE HARRY Peace! - `I will imitate the honourable
2H4 2.2.  115  Romans in brevity.'
2H4 2.2.  116   POINS  {(taking the letter)} Sure he means brevity   +
2H4 2.2.  116  in breath,
2H4 2.2.  117  short winded. {(Reads)} `I commend me to thee, I
2H4 2.2.  118  commend thee, and I leave thee. Be not too familiar
2H4 2.2.  119  with Poins, for he misuses thy favours so much that
2H4 2.2.  120  he swears thou art to marry his sister Nell. Repent at
2H4 2.2.  121  idle times as thou mayst. And so, farewell.
2H4 2.2.  122  Thine by yea and no - which is as much as to
2H4 2.2.  123  say, as thou usest him - Jack Falstaff with my
2H4 2.2.  124  familiars, John with my brothers and sisters,
2H4 2.2.  125  and Sir John with all Europe.'
2H4 2.2.  126  My lord, I'll steep this letter in sack and make him eat
2H4 2.2.  127  it.
2H4 2.2.  128   PRINCE HARRY That's to make him eat twenty of his
2H4 2.2.  129  words. But do you use me thus, Ned? Must I marry
2H4 2.2.  130  your sister?
2H4 2.2.  131   POINS God send the wench no worse fortune, but I never
2H4 2.2.  132  said so.
2H4 2.2.  133   PRINCE HARRY Well, thus we play the fools with the time,
2H4 2.2.  134  and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock
2H4 2.2.  135  us. {(To Bardolph)} Is your master here in London?
2H4 2.2.  136   BARDOLPH Yea, my lord.
2H4 2.2.  137   PRINCE HARRY Where sups he? Doth the old boar feed in
2H4 2.2.  138  the old frank?
2H4 2.2.  139   BARDOLPH At the old place, my lord, in Eastcheap.
2H4 2.2.  140   PRINCE HARRY What company?
2H4 2.2.  141   PAGE Ephesians, my lord, of the old church.
2H4 2.2.  142   PRINCE HARRY Sup any women with him?
2H4 2.2.  143   PAGE None, my lord, but old Mistress Quickly and
2H4 2.2.  144  Mistress Doll Tearsheet.
2H4 2.2.  145   PRINCE HARRY What pagan may that be?
2H4 2.2.  146   PAGE A proper gentlewoman, sir, and a kinswoman of
2H4 2.2.  147  my master's.
2H4 2.2.  148   PRINCE HARRY Even such kin as the parish heifers are to
2H4 2.2.  149  the town bull. Shall we steal upon them, Ned, at
2H4 2.2.  150  supper?
2H4 2.2.  151   POINS I am your shadow, my lord; I'll follow you.
2H4 2.2.  152   PRINCE HARRY Sirrah, you, boy, and Bardolph, no word
2H4 2.2.  153  to your master that I am yet come to town. {(Giving}
2H4 2.2.  154  {money)} There's for your silence.
2H4 2.2.  155   BARDOLPH I have no tongue, sir.
2H4 2.2.  156   PAGE And for mine, sir, I will govern it.
2H4 2.2.  157   PRINCE HARRY Fare you well; go. {Exeunt Bardolph and the      +
2H4 2.2.  157  Page}
2H4 2.2.  158   This Doll Tearsheet should be some road.
2H4 2.2.  159   POINS I warrant you, as common as the way between
2H4 2.2.  160  Saint Albans and London.
2H4 2.2.  161   PRINCE HARRY How might we see Falstaff bestow himself
2H4 2.2.  162  tonight in his true colours, and not ourselves be seen?
2H4 2.2.  163   POINS Put on two leathern jerkins and aprons, and wait
2H4 2.2.  164  upon him at his table like drawers.
2H4 2.2.  165   PRINCE HARRY From a god to a bull - a heavy declension - 
2H4 2.2.  166  it was Jove's case. From a prince to a prentice - a low
2H4 2.2.  167  transformation - that shall be mine; for in everything
2H4 2.2.  168  the purpose must weigh with the folly. Follow me, Ned. {Exeunt}
2H4 2.2.    0    {Enter the Earl of Northumberland, Lady Northumberland,    +
2H4 2.3.    0  and Lady Percy}
2H4 2.3.    1   NORTHUMBERLAND  I pray thee, loving wife and gentle         +
2H4 2.3.    1  daughter,
2H4 2.3.    2  Give even way unto my rough affairs.
2H4 2.3.    3  Put not you on the visage of the times
2H4 2.3.    4  And be like them to Percy troublesome.
2H4 2.3.    5   LADY NORTHUMBERLAND I have given over; I will speak no more.
2H4 2.3.    6  Do what you will; your wisdom be your guide.
2H4 2.3.    7   NORTHUMBERLAND Alas, sweet wife, my honour is at pawn,
2H4 2.3.    8  And, but my going, nothing can redeem it.
2H4 2.3.    9   LADY PERCY O yet, for God's sake, go not to these wars!
2H4 2.3.   10  The time was, father, that you broke your word
2H4 2.3.   11  When you were more endeared to it than now - 
2H4 2.3.   12  When your own Percy, when my heart's dear Harry,
2H4 2.3.   13  Threw many a northward look to see his father
2H4 2.3.   14  Bring up his powers; but he did long in vain.
2H4 2.3.   15  Who then persuaded you to stay at home?
2H4 2.3.   16  There were two honours lost, yours and your son's.
2H4 2.3.   17  For yours, the God of heaven brighten it!
2H4 2.3.   18  For his, it stuck upon him as the sun
2H4 2.3.   19  In the grey vault of heaven, and by his light
2H4 2.3.   20  Did all the chivalry of England move
2H4 2.3.   21  To do brave acts. He was indeed the glass
2H4 2.3.   22  Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves.
2H4 2.3.   23  He had no legs that practised not his gait;
2H4 2.3.   24  And speaking thick, which nature made his blemish,
2H4 2.3.   25  Became the accents of the valiant;
2H4 2.3.   26  For those that could speak low and tardily
2H4 2.3.   27  Would turn their own perfection to abuse
2H4 2.3.   28  To seem like him. So that in speech, in gait,
2H4 2.3.   29  In diet, in affections of delight,
2H4 2.3.   30  In military rules, humours of blood,
2H4 2.3.   31  He was the mark and glass, copy and book,
2H4 2.3.   32  That fashioned others. And him - O wondrous him!
2H4 2.3.   33  O miracle of men! - him did you leave,
2H4 2.3.   34  Second to none, unseconded by you,
2H4 2.3.   35  To look upon the hideous god of war
2H4 2.3.   36  In disadvantage, to abide a field
2H4 2.3.   37  Where nothing but the sound of Hotspur's name
2H4 2.3.   38  Did seem defensible; so you left him.
2H4 2.3.   39  Never, O never do his ghost the wrong
2H4 2.3.   40  To hold your honour more precise and nice
2H4 2.3.   41  With others than with him. Let them alone.
2H4 2.3.   42  The Marshal and the Archbishop are strong.
2H4 2.3.   43  Had my sweet Harry had but half their numbers,
2H4 2.3.   44  Today might I, hanging on Hotspur's neck,
2H4 2.3.   45B Have talked of Monmouth's grave. NORTHUMBERLAND Beshrew your heart,
2H4 2.3.   46  Fair daughter, you do draw my spirits from me
2H4 2.3.   47  With new lamenting ancient oversights.
2H4 2.3.   48  But I must go and meet with danger there,
2H4 2.3.   49  Or it will seek me in another place,
2H4 2.3.   50B And find me worse provided. LADY NORTHUMBERLAND O fly to Scotland,
2H4 2.3.   51  Till that the nobles and the armed commons
2H4 2.3.   52  Have of their puissance made a little taste.
2H4 2.3.   53   LADY PERCY If they get ground and vantage of the King,
2H4 2.3.   54  Then join you with them like a rib of steel,
2H4 2.3.   55  To make strength stronger; but, for all our loves,
2H4 2.3.   56  First let them try themselves. So did your son.
2H4 2.3.   57  He was so suffered. So came I a widow,
2H4 2.3.   58  And never shall have length of life enough
2H4 2.3.   59  To rain upon remembrance with mine eyes,
2H4 2.3.   60  That it may grow and sprout as high as heaven
2H4 2.3.   61  For recordation to my noble husband.
2H4 2.3.   62   NORTHUMBERLAND Come, come, go in with me. 'Tis with my mind
2H4 2.3.   63  As with the tide swelled up unto his height,
2H4 2.3.   64  That makes a still stand, running neither way.
2H4 2.3.   65  Fain would I go to meet the Archbishop,
2H4 2.3.   66  But many thousand reasons hold me back.
2H4 2.3.   67  I will resolve for Scotland. There am I
2H4 2.3.   68  Till time and vantage crave my company. {Exeunt}
2H4 2.3.    0    {[A table and chairs set forth.] Enter a Drawer [with      +
2H4 2.4.    0  wine] and another Drawer [with a dish of apple-johns]}
2H4 2.4.    1   [FIRST DRAWER]  What the devil hast thou brought there - 
2H4 2.4.    2  apple-johns? Thou knowest Sir John cannot endure an
2H4 2.4.    3  apple-john.
2H4 2.4.    4   [SECOND DRAWER] Mass, thou sayst true. The Prince once
2H4 2.4.    5  set a dish of apple-johns before him; and told him,
2H4 2.4.    6  there were five more Sir Johns; and, putting off his
2H4 2.4.    7  hat, said `I will now take my leave of these six dry,
2H4 2.4.    8  round, old, withered knights.' It angered him to the
2H4 2.4.    9  heart. But he hath forgot that.
2H4 2.4.   10   [FIRST DRAWER] Why then, cover, and set them down;
2H4 2.4.   11  and see if thou canst find out Sneak's noise. Mistress
2H4 2.4.   12  Tearsheet would fain hear some music. {[Exit the Second Drawer]}
2H4 2.4.   13   {[The First Drawer covers the table.] [Enter the Second          +
2H4 2.4.   13  Drawer]} [SECOND DRAWER]  Sirrah, here will be the Prince    +
2H4 2.4.   13  and
2H4 2.4.   14  Master Poins anon, and they will put on two of our
2H4 2.4.   15  jerkins and aprons, and Sir John must not know of it.
2H4 2.4.   16  Bardolph hath brought word.
2H4 2.4.   17   [FIRST DRAWER] By the mass, here will be old utis! It will
2H4 2.4.   18  be an excellent stratagem.
2H4 2.4.   19   [SECOND DRAWER] I'll see if I can find out Sneak. {Exeunt}
2H4 2.4.   20   {Enter Mistress Quickly and Doll Tearsheet, drunk}               +
2H4 2.4.   20   MISTRESS QUICKLY  I' faith, sweetheart, methinks now you
2H4 2.4.   21  are in an excellent good temperality. Your pulsidge
2H4 2.4.   22  beats as extraordinarily as heart would desire, and your
2H4 2.4.   23  colour, I warrant you, is as red as any rose, in good
2H4 2.4.   24  truth, la; but i' faith, you have drunk too much
2H4 2.4.   25  canaries, and that's a marvellous searching wine, and
2H4 2.4.   26  it perfumes the blood ere we can say `What's this?'
2H4 2.4.   27  How do you now?
2H4 2.4.   28   DOLL TEARSHEET Better than I was. - Hem!
2H4 2.4.   29   MISTRESS QUICKLY Why, that's well said! A good heart's
2H4 2.4.   30  worth gold. {Enter Sir John Falstaff}
2H4 2.4.   31   Lo, here comes Sir John.
2H4 2.4.   32   SIR JOHN  {(sings)} `When Arthur first in            +
2H4 2.4.   32  court' -  {[Calls]}
2H4 2.4.   33   Empty the jordan! -  {(Sings)} `And was a        +
2H4 2.4.   33  worthy king' - 
2H4 2.4.   34  How now, Mistress Doll?
2H4 2.4.   35   MISTRESS QUICKLY Sick of a qualm, yea, good faith.
2H4 2.4.   36   SIR JOHN So is all her sect; an they be once in a calm,
2H4 2.4.   37  they are sick.
2H4 2.4.   38   DOLL TEARSHEET A pox damn you, you muddy rascal! Is
2H4 2.4.   39  that all the comfort you give me?
2H4 2.4.   40   SIR JOHN You make fat rascals, Mistress Doll.
2H4 2.4.   41   DOLL TEARSHEET I make them? Gluttony and diseases
2H4 2.4.   42  make them; I make them not.
2H4 2.4.   43   SIR JOHN If the cook help to make the gluttony, you help
2H4 2.4.   44  to make the diseases, Doll. We catch of you, Doll, we
2H4 2.4.   45  catch of you; grant that, my poor virtue, grant that.
2H4 2.4.   46   DOLL TEARSHEET Yea, Jesu, our chains and our jewels.
2H4 2.4.   47   SIR JOHN `Your brooches, pearls, and ouches' - for to
2H4 2.4.   48  serve bravely is to come halting off, you know; to come
2H4 2.4.   49  off the breach with his pike bent bravely, and to surgery
2H4 2.4.   50  bravely; to venture upon the charged chambers
2H4 2.4.   51  bravely.
2H4 2.4.   52   MISTRESS QUICKLY By my troth, this is the old fashion.
2H4 2.4.   53  You two never meet but you fall to some discord. You
2H4 2.4.   54  are both, i' good truth, as rheumatic as two dry toasts;
2H4 2.4.   55  you cannot one bear with another's confirmities. What
2H4 2.4.   56  the goodyear, one must bear, {(to Doll)} and that must
2H4 2.4.   57  be you. You are the weaker vessel, as they say, the
2H4 2.4.   58  emptier vessel.
2H4 2.4.   59   DOLL TEARSHEET Can a weak empty vessel bear such a
2H4 2.4.   60  huge full hogshead? There's a whole merchant's
2H4 2.4.   61  venture of Bordeaux stuff in him; you have not seen
2H4 2.4.   62  a hulk better stuffed in the hold. - Come, I'll be friends
2H4 2.4.   63  with thee, Jack. Thou art going to the wars, and
2H4 2.4.   64  whether I shall ever see thee again or no there is
2H4 2.4.   65  nobody cares. {Enter a Drawer}
2H4 2.4.   66   DRAWER  Sir, Ensign Pistol's below, and would speak with
2H4 2.4.   67  you.
2H4 2.4.   68   DOLL TEARSHEET Hang him, swaggering rascal, let him
2H4 2.4.   69  not come hither. It is the foul-mouthedest rogue in
2H4 2.4.   70  England.
2H4 2.4.   71   MISTRESS QUICKLY If he swagger, let him not come here.
2H4 2.4.   72  No, by my faith! I must live among my neighbours;
2H4 2.4.   73  I'll no swaggerers. I am in good name and fame with
2H4 2.4.   74  the very best. Shut the door; there comes no swaggerers
2H4 2.4.   75  here. I have not lived all this while to have swaggering
2H4 2.4.   76  now. Shut the door, I pray you.
2H4 2.4.   77   SIR JOHN Dost thou hear, hostess?
2H4 2.4.   78   MISTRESS QUICKLY Pray ye pacify yourself, Sir John. There
2H4 2.4.   79  comes no swaggerers here.
2H4 2.4.   80   SIR JOHN Dost thou hear? It is mine ensign.
2H4 2.4.   81   MISTRESS QUICKLY Tilly-fally, Sir John, ne'er tell me. Your
2H4 2.4.   82  ensign-swaggerer comes not in my doors. I was before
2H4 2.4.   83  Master Tisick the debuty t' other day, and, as he said
2H4 2.4.   84  to me - 'twas no longer ago than Wed'sday last, i' good
2H4 2.4.   85  faith - `Neighbour Quickly,' says he - Master Dumb our
2H4 2.4.   86  minister was by then - `Neighbour Quickly,' says he,
2H4 2.4.   87  `receive those that are civil, for,' said he, `you are in
2H4 2.4.   88  an ill name.' Now a said so, I can tell whereupon.
2H4 2.4.   89  `For,' says he, `you are an honest woman, and well
2H4 2.4.   90  thought on; therefore take heed what guests you
2H4 2.4.   91  receive. Receive,' says he, `no swaggering companions.'
2H4 2.4.   92  There comes none here. You would bless you to hear
2H4 2.4.   93  what he said. No, I'll no swaggerers.
2H4 2.4.   94   SIR JOHN He's no swaggerer, hostess - a tame cheater,
2H4 2.4.   95  i' faith. You may stroke him as gently as a puppy
2H4 2.4.   96  greyhound. He'll not swagger with a Barbary hen, if
2H4 2.4.   97  her feathers turn back in any show of resistance. - Call
2H4 2.4.   98  him up, drawer. {[Exit Drawer]}
2H4 2.4.   99   MISTRESS QUICKLY  Cheater call you him? I will bar no
2H4 2.4.  100  honest man my house, nor no cheater, but I do not
2H4 2.4.  101  love swaggering, by my troth, I am the worse when
2H4 2.4.  102  one says `swagger'. Feel, masters, how I shake, look
2H4 2.4.  103  you, I warrant you.
2H4 2.4.  104   DOLL TEARSHEET So you do, hostess.
2H4 2.4.  105   MISTRESS QUICKLY Do I? Yea, in very truth do I, an 'twere
2H4 2.4.  106  an aspen leaf. I cannot abide swaggerers. {Enter Pistol,          +
2H4 2.4.  106  Bardolph, and the Page}
2H4 2.4.  107   PISTOL  God save you, Sir John.
2H4 2.4.  108   SIR JOHN Welcome, Ensign Pistol. Here, Pistol, I charge
2H4 2.4.  109  you with a cup of sack. Do you discharge upon mine
2H4 2.4.  110  hostess.
2H4 2.4.  111   PISTOL I will discharge upon her, Sir John, with two
2H4 2.4.  112  bullets.
2H4 2.4.  113   SIR JOHN She is pistol-proof, sir, you shall not hardly
2H4 2.4.  114  offend her.
2H4 2.4.  115   MISTRESS QUICKLY Come, I'll drink no proofs, nor no
2H4 2.4.  116  bullets. I'll drink no more than will do me good, for no
2H4 2.4.  117  man's pleasure, I.
2H4 2.4.  118   PISTOL Then to you, Mistress Dorothy! I will charge you.
2H4 2.4.  119   DOLL TEARSHEET Charge me? I scorn you, scurvy
2H4 2.4.  120  companion. What, you poor, base, rascally, cheating,
2H4 2.4.  121  lack-linen mate! Away, you mouldy rogue, away! I
2H4 2.4.  122  am meat for your master.
2H4 2.4.  123   PISTOL I know you, Mistress Dorothy.
2H4 2.4.  124   DOLL TEARSHEET Away, you cutpurse rascal, you filthy
2H4 2.4.  125  bung, away! By this wine, I'll thrust my knife in your
2H4 2.4.  126  mouldy chaps an you play the saucy cuttle with me! {[She          +
2H4 2.4.  126  brandishes a knife]}
2H4 2.4.  127   Away, you bottle-ale rascal, you basket-hilt stale
2H4 2.4.  128  juggler, you! {[Pistol draws his sword]}
2H4 2.4.  129   Since when, I pray you, sir? God's light, with two
2H4 2.4.  130  points on your shoulder! Much!
2H4 2.4.  131   PISTOL God let me not live, but I will murder your ruff
2H4 2.4.  132  for this.
2H4 2.4.  133   MISTRESS QUICKLY No, good Captain Pistol; not here, sweet
2H4 2.4.  134  captain.
2H4 2.4.  135   DOLL TEARSHEET Captain? Thou abominable damned
2H4 2.4.  136  cheater, art thou not ashamed to be called `captain'?
2H4 2.4.  137  An captains were of my mind, they would truncheon
2H4 2.4.  138  you out, for taking their names upon you before you
2H4 2.4.  139  have earned them. You a captain? You slave! For
2H4 2.4.  140  what? For tearing a poor whore's ruff in a bawdy-
2H4 2.4.  141  house! He a captain? Hang him, rogue, he lives upon
2H4 2.4.  142  mouldy stewed prunes and dried cakes. A captain?
2H4 2.4.  143  God's light, these villains will make the word `captain'
2H4 2.4.  144  odious; therefore captains had need look to 't.
2H4 2.4.  145   BARDOLPH Pray thee, go down, good ensign.
2H4 2.4.  146   SIR JOHN Hark thee hither, Mistress Doll. {He takes her       +
2H4 2.4.  146  aside}
2H4 2.4.  147   PISTOL  Not I! I tell thee what, Corporal Bardolph, I       +
2H4 2.4.  147  could
2H4 2.4.  148  tear her! I'll be revenged of her.
2H4 2.4.  149   PAGE Pray thee, go down.
2H4 2.4.  150   PISTOL I'll see her damned first
2H4 2.4.  151   To Pluto's damned lake, by this hand,
2H4 2.4.  152  To th' infernal deep,
2H4 2.4.  153  Where Erebus, and tortures vile also.
2H4 2.4.  154  `Hold hook and line!' say I.
2H4 2.4.  155  Down, down, dogs; down, Fates.
2H4 2.4.  156  Have we not Hiren here?
2H4 2.4.  157   MISTRESS QUICKLY  Good Captain Pizzle, be quiet. 'Tis very
2H4 2.4.  158  late, i' faith. I beseek you now, aggravate your choler.
2H4 2.4.  159   PISTOL These be good humours indeed!
2H4 2.4.  160   Shall pack-horses
2H4 2.4.  161  And hollow pampered jades of Asia,
2H4 2.4.  162  Which cannot go but thirty mile a day,
2H4 2.4.  163  Compare with Caesars and with cannibals,
2H4 2.4.  164  And Trojan Greeks?
2H4 2.4.  165  Nay, rather damn them with King Cerberus,
2H4 2.4.  166  And let the welkin roar. Shall we fall foul for toys?
2H4 2.4.  167   MISTRESS QUICKLY  By my troth, captain, these are very
2H4 2.4.  168  bitter words.
2H4 2.4.  169   BARDOLPH Be gone, good ensign; this will grow to a brawl
2H4 2.4.  170  anon.
2H4 2.4.  171   PISTOL  Die men like dogs! Give crowns like pins!
2H4 2.4.  172  Have we not Hiren here?
2H4 2.4.  173   MISTRESS QUICKLY  O' my word, captain, there's none such
2H4 2.4.  174  here. What the goodyear, do you think I would deny
2H4 2.4.  175  her? For God's sake, be quiet.
2H4 2.4.  176   PISTOL  Then feed and be fat, my fair Calipolis.
2H4 2.4.  177  Come, give 's some sack.
2H4 2.4.  178  {Si fortune me tormente, sperato me contento.}
2H4 2.4.  179  Fear we broadsides? No; let the fiend give fire!
2H4 2.4.  180  Give me some sack; and, sweetheart, lie thou there. {[He lays     +
2H4 2.4.  180  down his sword]}
2H4 2.4.  181   Come we to full points here? And are etceteras                 +
2H4 2.4.  181  nothings? {[He drinks]}
2H4 2.4.  182   SIR JOHN  Pistol, I would be quiet.
2H4 2.4.  183   PISTOL Sweet knight, I kiss thy neaf. What, we have seen
2H4 2.4.  184  the seven stars!
2H4 2.4.  185   DOLL TEARSHEET For God's sake, thrust him downstairs. I
2H4 2.4.  186  cannot endure such a fustian rascal.
2H4 2.4.  187   PISTOL Thrust him downstairs? Know we not Galloway
2H4 2.4.  188  nags?
2H4 2.4.  189   SIR JOHN Quoit him down, Bardolph, like a shove-groat
2H4 2.4.  190  shilling. Nay, an a do nothing but speak nothing, a
2H4 2.4.  191  shall be nothing here.
2H4 2.4.  192   BARDOLPH  {(to Pistol)} Come, get you downstairs.
2H4 2.4.  193   PISTOL  {[taking up his sword]} What, shall we have  +
2H4 2.4.  193  incision? Shall we imbrue?
2H4 2.4.  194  Then death rock me asleep, abridge my doleful days.
2H4 2.4.  195  Why then, let grievous, ghastly, gaping wounds
2H4 2.4.  196  Untwine the Sisters Three. Come, Atropos, I say!
2H4 2.4.  197   MISTRESS QUICKLY  Here's goodly stuff toward!
2H4 2.4.  198   SIR JOHN Give me my rapier, boy.
2H4 2.4.  199   DOLL TEARSHEET I pray thee, Jack, I pray thee, do not
2H4 2.4.  200  draw.
2H4 2.4.  201   SIR JOHN  {(taking his rapier and speaking to                 +
2H4 2.4.  201  Pistol)} Get you
2H4 2.4.  202  downstairs. {Sir John, Bardolph, and Pistol brawl}
2H4 2.4.  203   MISTRESS QUICKLY  Here's a goodly tumult! I'll forswear
2H4 2.4.  204  keeping house afore I'll be in these tirrits and frights! {[Sir   +
2H4 2.4.  204  John thrusts at Pistol]}
2H4 2.4.  205   So! {[Pistol thrusts at Sir John]}
2H4 2.4.  206   Murder, I warrant now! Alas, alas, put up your naked
2H4 2.4.  207  weapons, put up your naked weapons! {Exit Pistol, pursued by      +
2H4 2.4.  207  Bardolph}
2H4 2.4.  208   DOLL TEARSHEET  I pray thee, Jack, be quiet; the rascal's
2H4 2.4.  209  gone. Ah, you whoreson little valiant villain, you!
2H4 2.4.  210   MISTRESS QUICKLY  {(to Sir John)} Are you not hurt   +
2H4 2.4.  210  i' th'
2H4 2.4.  211  groin? Methought a made a shrewd thrust at your
2H4 2.4.  212  belly. {Enter Bardolph}
2H4 2.4.  213   SIR JOHN  Have you turned him out o' doors?
2H4 2.4.  214   BARDOLPH Yea, sir. The rascal's drunk. You have hurt
2H4 2.4.  215  him, sir, i' th' shoulder.
2H4 2.4.  216   SIR JOHN A rascal, to brave me!
2H4 2.4.  217   DOLL TEARSHEET Ah, you sweet little rogue, you! Alas,
2H4 2.4.  218  poor ape, how thou sweatest! Come, let me wipe thy
2H4 2.4.  219  face; come on, you whoreson chops. Ah rogue, i' faith,
2H4 2.4.  220  I love thee. Thou art as valorous as Hector of Troy,
2H4 2.4.  221  worth five of Agamemnon, and ten times better than
2H4 2.4.  222  the Nine Worthies. Ah, villain!
2H4 2.4.  223   SIR JOHN A rascally slave! I will toss the rogue in a
2H4 2.4.  224  blanket.
2H4 2.4.  225   DOLL TEARSHEET Do, an thou darest for thy heart. An thou
2H4 2.4.  226  dost, I'll canvas thee between a pair of sheets. {Enter           +
2H4 2.4.  226  musicians}
2H4 2.4.  227   PAGE  The music is come, sir.
2H4 2.4.  228   SIR JOHN Let them play. - Play, sirs! {[Music plays]}
2H4 2.4.  229   Sit on my knee, Doll. A rascal bragging slave! The
2H4 2.4.  230  rogue fled from me like quicksilver.
2H4 2.4.  231   DOLL TEARSHEET I' faith, and thou followed'st him like a
2H4 2.4.  232  church. Thou whoreson little tidy Bartholomew boar-
2H4 2.4.  233  pig, when wilt thou leave fighting o' days, and foining
2H4 2.4.  234  o' nights, and begin to patch up thine old body for
2H4 2.4.  235  heaven? {Enter Prince Harry and Poins, disguised as drawers}
2H4 2.4.  236   SIR JOHN  Peace, good Doll, do not speak like a death's-
2H4 2.4.  237  head, do not bid me remember mine end.
2H4 2.4.  238   DOLL TEARSHEET Sirrah, what humour's the Prince of?
2H4 2.4.  239   SIR JOHN A good shallow young fellow. A would have
2H4 2.4.  240  made a good pantler; a would ha' chipped bread well.
2H4 2.4.  241   DOLL TEARSHEET They say Poins has a good wit.
2H4 2.4.  242   SIR JOHN He a good wit? Hang him, baboon! His wit's as
2H4 2.4.  243  thick as Tewkesbury mustard; there's no more conceit
2H4 2.4.  244  in him than is in a mallet.
2H4 2.4.  245   DOLL TEARSHEET Why does the Prince love him so, then?
2H4 2.4.  246   SIR JOHN Because their legs are both of a bigness, and a
2H4 2.4.  247  plays at quoits well, and eats conger and fennel, and
2H4 2.4.  248  drinks off candles' ends for flap-dragons, and rides the
2H4 2.4.  249  wild mare with the boys, and jumps upon joint-stools,
2H4 2.4.  250  and swears with a good grace, and wears his boot very
2H4 2.4.  251  smooth like unto the sign of the leg, and breeds no
2H4 2.4.  252  bate with telling of discreet stories, and such other
2H4 2.4.  253  gambol faculties a has that show a weak mind and an
2H4 2.4.  254  able body; for the which the Prince admits him; for
2H4 2.4.  255  the Prince himself is such another - the weight of a
2H4 2.4.  256  hair will turn the scales between their avoirdupois.
2H4 2.4.  257   PRINCE HARRY  {(aside to Poins)} Would not this      +
2H4 2.4.  257  nave of a
2H4 2.4.  258  wheel have his ears cut off?
2H4 2.4.  259   POINS Let's beat him before his whore.
2H4 2.4.  260   PRINCE HARRY Look whe'er the withered elder hath not
2H4 2.4.  261  his poll clawed like a parrot.
2H4 2.4.  262   POINS Is it not strange that desire should so many years
2H4 2.4.  263  outlive performance?
2H4 2.4.  264   SIR JOHN Kiss me, Doll. {They kiss}
2H4 2.4.  265   PRINCE HARRY  {(aside to Poins)} Saturn and Venus    +
2H4 2.4.  265  this year
2H4 2.4.  266  in conjunction! What says th' almanac to that?
2H4 2.4.  267   POINS And look whether the fiery Trigon his man be not
2H4 2.4.  268  lisping to his master's old tables, his note-book, his
2H4 2.4.  269  counsel-keeper!
2H4 2.4.  270   SIR JOHN  {(to Doll)} Thou dost give me flattering   +
2H4 2.4.  270  busses.
2H4 2.4.  271   DOLL TEARSHEET By my troth, I kiss thee with a most
2H4 2.4.  272  constant heart.
2H4 2.4.  273   SIR JOHN I am old, I am old.
2H4 2.4.  274   DOLL TEARSHEET I love thee better than I love e'er a scurvy
2H4 2.4.  275  young boy of them all.
2H4 2.4.  276   SIR JOHN What stuff wilt have a kirtle of? I shall receive
2H4 2.4.  277  money o' Thursday; shalt have a cap tomorrow. - A
2H4 2.4.  278  merry song! {[The music plays again]}
2H4 2.4.  279   Come, it grows late; we'll to bed. Thou'lt forget me
2H4 2.4.  280  when I am gone.
2H4 2.4.  281   DOLL TEARSHEET By my troth, thou'lt set me a-weeping
2H4 2.4.  282  an thou sayst so. Prove that ever I dress myself
2H4 2.4.  283  handsome till thy return - well, hearken a' th' end.
2H4 2.4.  284   SIR JOHN Some sack, Francis.
2H4 2.4.  285   PRINCE {AND} POINS  {(coming forward)} Anon, anon,   +
2H4 2.4.  285  sir.
2H4 2.4.  286   SIR JOHN Ha, a bastard son of the King's! - And art not
2H4 2.4.  287  thou Poins his brother?
2H4 2.4.  288   PRINCE HARRY Why, thou globe of sinful continents, what
2H4 2.4.  289  a life dost thou lead!
2H4 2.4.  290   SIR JOHN A better than thou: I am a gentleman, thou art
2H4 2.4.  291  a drawer.
2H4 2.4.  292   PRINCE HARRY Very true, sir, and I come to draw you out
2H4 2.4.  293  by the ears.
2H4 2.4.  294   MISTRESS QUICKLY O, the Lord preserve thy grace! By my
2H4 2.4.  295  troth, welcome to London! Now the Lord bless that
2H4 2.4.  296  sweet face of thine! O Jesu, are you come from Wales?
2H4 2.4.  297   SIR JOHN  {(to Prince Harry)} Thou whoreson mad      +
2H4 2.4.  297  compound
2H4 2.4.  298  of majesty! By this light - flesh and corrupt blood, thou
2H4 2.4.  299  art welcome.
2H4 2.4.  300   DOLL TEARSHEET How, you fat fool? I scorn you.
2H4 2.4.  301   POINS  {(to Prince Harry)} My lord, he will drive    +
2H4 2.4.  301  you out of
2H4 2.4.  302  your revenge and turn all to a merriment, if you take
2H4 2.4.  303  not the heat.
2H4 2.4.  304   PRINCE HARRY  {(to Sir John)} You whoreson           +
2H4 2.4.  304  candlemine you,
2H4 2.4.  305  how vilely did you speak of me now, before this honest,
2H4 2.4.  306  virtuous, civil gentlewoman!
2H4 2.4.  307   MISTRESS QUICKLY God's blessing of your good heart, and
2H4 2.4.  308  so she is, by my troth!
2H4 2.4.  309   SIR JOHN  {(to Prince Harry)} Didst thou hear me?
2H4 2.4.  310   PRINCE HARRY Yea, and you knew me as you did when
2H4 2.4.  311  you ran away by Gads Hill; you knew I was at your
2H4 2.4.  312  back, and spoke it on purpose to try my patience.
2H4 2.4.  313   SIR JOHN No, no, no, not so, I did not think thou wast
2H4 2.4.  314  within hearing.
2H4 2.4.  315   PRINCE HARRY I shall drive you, then, to confess the wilful
2H4 2.4.  316  abuse, and then I know how to handle you.
2H4 2.4.  317   SIR JOHN No abuse, Hal; o' mine honour, no abuse.
2H4 2.4.  318   PRINCE HARRY Not? To dispraise me, and call me `pantler'
2H4 2.4.  319  and `bread-chipper' and I know not what?
2H4 2.4.  320   SIR JOHN No abuse, Hal.
2H4 2.4.  321   POINS No abuse?
2H4 2.4.  322   SIR JOHN No abuse, Ned, i' th' world, honest Ned, none.
2H4 2.4.  323  I dispraised him before the wicked, that the wicked
2H4 2.4.  324  might not fall in love with him; {(to Prince Harry)} in
2H4 2.4.  325  which doing I have done the part of a careful friend
2H4 2.4.  326  and a true subject, and thy father is to give me thanks
2H4 2.4.  327  for it. No abuse, Hal; none, Ned, none; no, faith, boys,
2H4 2.4.  328  none.
2H4 2.4.  329   PRINCE HARRY See now whether pure fear and entire
2H4 2.4.  330  cowardice doth not make thee wrong this virtuous
2H4 2.4.  331  gentlewoman to close with us. Is she of the wicked? Is
2H4 2.4.  332  thine hostess here of the wicked? Or is thy boy of the
2H4 2.4.  333  wicked? Or honest Bardolph, whose zeal burns in his
2H4 2.4.  334  nose, of the wicked?
2H4 2.4.  335   POINS  {(to Sir John)} Answer, thou dead elm,        +
2H4 2.4.  335  answer.
2H4 2.4.  336   SIR JOHN The fiend hath pricked down Bardolph
2H4 2.4.  337  irrecoverable, and his face is Lucifer's privy kitchen,
2H4 2.4.  338  where he doth nothing but roast malt-worms. For the
2H4 2.4.  339  boy, there is a good angel about him, but the devil
2H4 2.4.  340  outbids him, too.
2H4 2.4.  341   PRINCE HARRY For the women?
2H4 2.4.  342   SIR JOHN For one of them, she's in hell already, and burns
2H4 2.4.  343  poor souls. For th' other, I owe her money, and whether
2H4 2.4.  344  she be damned for that I know not.
2H4 2.4.  345   MISTRESS QUICKLY No, I warrant you.
2H4 2.4.  346   SIR JOHN No, I think thou art not; I think thou art quit
2H4 2.4.  347  for that. Marry, there is another indictment upon thee,
2H4 2.4.  348  for suffering flesh to be eaten in thy house, contrary
2H4 2.4.  349  to the law, for the which I think thou wilt howl.
2H4 2.4.  350   MISTRESS QUICKLY All victuallers do so. What's a joint of
2H4 2.4.  351  mutton or two in a whole Lent?
2H4 2.4.  352   PRINCE HARRY You, gentlewoman - 
2H4 2.4.  353   DOLL TEARSHEET What says your grace?
2H4 2.4.  354   SIR JOHN His grace says that which his flesh rebels against.  +
2H4 2.4.  354  {Peto knocks at door within}
2H4 2.4.  355   MISTRESS QUICKLY  Who knocks so loud at door?        +
2H4 2.4.  355  {(Calls)}
2H4 2.4.  356   Look to th' door there, Francis. {Enter Peto}
2H4 2.4.  357   PRINCE HARRY  Peto, how now, what news?
2H4 2.4.  358   PETO  The King your father is at Westminster;
2H4 2.4.  359  And there are twenty weak and wearied posts
2H4 2.4.  360  Come from the north; and as I came along
2H4 2.4.  361  I met and overtook a dozen captains,
2H4 2.4.  362  Bareheaded, sweating, knocking at the taverns,
2H4 2.4.  363  And asking every one for Sir John Falstaff.
2H4 2.4.  364   PRINCE HARRY By heaven, Poins, I feel me much to blame
2H4 2.4.  365  So idly to profane the precious time,
2H4 2.4.  366  When tempest of commotion, like the south
2H4 2.4.  367  Borne with black vapour, doth begin to melt
2H4 2.4.  368  And drop upon our bare unarmed heads. - 
2H4 2.4.  369  Give me my sword and cloak. - Falstaff, good night. {Exeunt Prince  +
2H4 2.4.  369  Harry and Poins}
2H4 2.4.  370   SIR JOHN  Now comes in the sweetest morsel of the night,
2H4 2.4.  371  and we must hence and leave it unpicked. {Knocking within. [Exit  +
2H4 2.4.  371  Bardolph]}
2H4 2.4.  372   More knocking at the door! {Enter Bardolph}
2H4 2.4.  373   How now, what's the matter?
2H4 2.4.  374   BARDOLPH  You must away to court, sir, presently.
2H4 2.4.  375  A dozen captains stay at door for you.
2H4 2.4.  376   SIR JOHN  {[to the Page]} Pay the musicians,         +
2H4 2.4.  376  sirrah. Farewell,
2H4 2.4.  377  hostess; farewell, Doll. You see, my good wenches, how
2H4 2.4.  378  men of merit are sought after. The undeserver may
2H4 2.4.  379  sleep, when the man of action is called on. Farewell,
2H4 2.4.  380  good wenches. If I be not sent away post, I will see
2H4 2.4.  381  you again ere I go. {[Exeunt musicians]}
2H4 2.4.  382   DOLL TEARSHEET  {[weeping]} I cannot speak. If my    +
2H4 2.4.  382  heart be
2H4 2.4.  383  not ready to burst - well, sweet Jack, have a care of
2H4 2.4.  384  thyself.
2H4 2.4.  385   SIR JOHN Farewell, farewell! {Exit [with Bardolph, Peto, and  +
2H4 2.4.  385  the Page]}
2H4 2.4.  386   MISTRESS QUICKLY  Well, fare thee well. I have known thee
2H4 2.4.  387  these twenty-nine years come peascod-time, but an
2H4 2.4.  388  honester and truer-hearted man - well, fare thee well. {[Enter      +
2H4 2.4.  388  Bardolph]}
2H4 2.4.  389   BARDOLPH  Mistress Tearsheet!
2H4 2.4.  390   MISTRESS QUICKLY What's the matter?
2H4 2.4.  391   BARDOLPH Bid Mistress Tearsheet come to my master. {[Exit]}
2H4 2.4.  392   MISTRESS QUICKLY  O run, Doll; run, run, good Doll!  +
2H4 2.4.  392  {Exeunt [Doll at one door, Mistress Quickly at another door]}
2H4 2.4.    0     {Enter King Henry in his nightgown, with a page}
2H4 3.1.    1   KING HENRY  {(giving letters)} Go call the Earls of  +
2H4 3.1.    1  Surrey and of Warwick.
2H4 3.1.    2  But ere they come, bid them o'er-read these letters
2H4 3.1.    3  And well consider of them. Make good speed. {Exit page}
2H4 3.1.    4   How many thousand of my poorest subjects
2H4 3.1.    5  Are at this hour asleep? O sleep, O gentle sleep,
2H4 3.1.    6  Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,
2H4 3.1.    7  That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down
2H4 3.1.    8  And steep my senses in forgetfulness?
2H4 3.1.    9  Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs,
2H4 3.1.   10  Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee,
2H4 3.1.   11  And hushed with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber,
2H4 3.1.   12  Than in the perfumed chambers of the great,
2H4 3.1.   13  Under the canopies of costly state,
2H4 3.1.   14  And lulled with sound of sweetest melody?
2H4 3.1.   15  O thou dull god, why li'st thou with the vile
2H4 3.1.   16  In loathsome beds, and leav'st the kingly couch
2H4 3.1.   17  A watch-case, or a common 'larum-bell?
2H4 3.1.   18  Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast
2H4 3.1.   19  Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains
2H4 3.1.   20  In cradle of the rude imperious surge,
2H4 3.1.   21  And in the visitation of the winds,
2H4 3.1.   22  Who take the ruffian billows by the top,
2H4 3.1.   23  Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them
2H4 3.1.   24  With deafing clamour in the slippery clouds,
2H4 3.1.   25  That, with the hurly, death itself awakes?
2H4 3.1.   26  Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose
2H4 3.1.   27  To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude,
2H4 3.1.   28  And in the calmest and most stillest night,
2H4 3.1.   29  With all appliances and means to boot,
2H4 3.1.   30  Deny it to a king? Then happy low, lie down.
2H4 3.1.   31  Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. {Enter the Earls of      +
2H4 3.1.   31  Warwick and Surrey}
2H4 3.1.   32   WARWICK  Many good morrows to your majesty!
2H4 3.1.   33B  KING HENRY Is it good morrow, lords? WARWICK 'Tis one o'clock,    +
2H4 3.1.   33B and past.
2H4 3.1.   34   KING HENRY Why then, good morrow to you all, my lords.
2H4 3.1.   35  Have you read o'er the letter that I sent you?
2H4 3.1.   36A  WARWICK We have, my liege.
2H4 3.1.   37   KING HENRY Then you perceive the body of our kingdom,
2H4 3.1.   38  How foul it is, what rank diseases grow,
2H4 3.1.   39  And with what danger near the heart of it.
2H4 3.1.   40   WARWICK It is but as a body yet distempered,
2H4 3.1.   41  Which to his former strength may be restored
2H4 3.1.   42  With good advice and little medicine.
2H4 3.1.   43  My lord Northumberland will soon be cooled.
2H4 3.1.   44   KING HENRY O God, that one might read the book of fate,
2H4 3.1.   45  And see the revolution of the times
2H4 3.1.   46  Make mountains level, and the continent,
2H4 3.1.   47  Weary of solid firmness, melt itself
2H4 3.1.   48  Into the sea; and other times to see
2H4 3.1.   49  The beachy girdle of the ocean
2H4 3.1.   50  Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chance's mocks
2H4 3.1.   51  And changes fill the cup of alteration
2H4 3.1.   52  With divers liquors! 'Tis not ten years gone
2H4 3.1.   53  Since Richard and Northumberland, great friends,
2H4 3.1.   54  Did feast together; and in two year after
2H4 3.1.   55  Were they at wars. It is but eight years since
2H4 3.1.   56  This Percy was the man nearest my soul,
2H4 3.1.   57  Who like a brother toiled in my affairs,
2H4 3.1.   58  And laid his love and life under my foot,
2H4 3.1.   59  Yea, for my sake, even to the eyes of Richard
2H4 3.1.   60  Gave him defiance. But which of you was by - 
2H4 3.1.   61   {(To Warwick)} You, cousin Neville, as I may remember - 
2H4 3.1.   62  When Richard, with his eye brimful of tears,
2H4 3.1.   63  Then checked and rated by Northumberland,
2H4 3.1.   64  Did speak these words, now proved a prophecy? - 
2H4 3.1.   65  `Northumberland, thou ladder by the which
2H4 3.1.   66  My cousin Bolingbroke ascends my throne' - 
2H4 3.1.   67  Though then, God knows, I had no such intent,
2H4 3.1.   68  But that necessity so bowed the state
2H4 3.1.   69  That I and greatness were compelled to kiss - 
2H4 3.1.   70  `The time shall come' - thus did he follow it - 
2H4 3.1.   71  `The time will come that foul sin, gathering head,
2H4 3.1.   72  Shall break into corruption'; so went on,
2H4 3.1.   73  Foretelling this same time's condition,
2H4 3.1.   74  And the division of our amity.
2H4 3.1.   75   WARWICK There is a history in all men's lives
2H4 3.1.   76  Figuring the natures of the times deceased;
2H4 3.1.   77  The which observed, a man may prophesy,
2H4 3.1.   78  With a near aim, of the main chance of things
2H4 3.1.   79  As yet not come to life, who in their seeds
2H4 3.1.   80  And weak beginnings lie intreasured.
2H4 3.1.   81  Such things become the hatch and brood of time;
2H4 3.1.   82  And by the necessary form of this
2H4 3.1.   83  King Richard might create a perfect guess
2H4 3.1.   84  That great Northumberland, then false to him,
2H4 3.1.   85  Would of that seed grow to a greater falseness,
2H4 3.1.   86  Which should not find a ground to root upon
2H4 3.1.   87B Unless on you. KING HENRY Are these things then necessities?
2H4 3.1.   88  Then let us meet them like necessities;
2H4 3.1.   89  And that same word even now cries out on us.
2H4 3.1.   90  They say the Bishop and Northumberland
2H4 3.1.   91B Are fifty thousand strong. WARWICK It cannot be, my lord.
2H4 3.1.   92  Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo,
2H4 3.1.   93  The numbers of the feared. Please it your grace
2H4 3.1.   94  To go to bed? Upon my soul, my lord,
2H4 3.1.   95  The powers that you already have sent forth
2H4 3.1.   96  Shall bring this prize in very easily.
2H4 3.1.   97  To comfort you the more, I have received
2H4 3.1.   98  A certain instance that Glyndw^r is dead.
2H4 3.1.   99  Your majesty hath been this fortnight ill,
2H4 3.1.  100  And these unseasoned hours perforce must add
2H4 3.1.  101B Unto your sickness. KING HENRY I will take your counsel.
2H4 3.1.  102  And were these inward wars once out of hand,
2H4 3.1.  103  We would, dear lords, unto the Holy Land. {Exeunt}
2H4 3.1.    0    {Enter Justice Shallow and Justice Silence}
2H4 3.2.    1   SHALLOW  Come on, come on, come on! Give me your
2H4 3.2.    2  hand, sir, give me your hand, sir. An early stirrer, by
2H4 3.2.    3  the rood! And how doth my good cousin Silence?
2H4 3.2.    4   SILENCE Good morrow, good cousin Shallow.
2H4 3.2.    5   SHALLOW And how doth my cousin your bedfellow? And
2H4 3.2.    6  your fairest daughter and mine, my god-daughter Ellen?
2H4 3.2.    7   SILENCE Alas, a black ouzel, cousin Shallow.
2H4 3.2.    8   SHALLOW By yea and no, sir, I dare say my cousin William
2H4 3.2.    9  is become a good scholar. He is at Oxford still, is he
2H4 3.2.   10  not?
2H4 3.2.   11   SILENCE Indeed, sir, to my cost.
2H4 3.2.   12   SHALLOW A must then to the Inns o' Court shortly. I was
2H4 3.2.   13  once of Clement's Inn, where I think they will talk of
2H4 3.2.   14  mad Shallow yet.
2H4 3.2.   15   SILENCE You were called `lusty Shallow' then, cousin.
2H4 3.2.   16   SHALLOW By the mass, I was called anything; and I would
2H4 3.2.   17  have done anything indeed, too, and roundly, too.
2H4 3.2.   18  There was I, and little John Doit of Staffordshire, and
2H4 3.2.   19  black George Barnes, and Francis Pickbone, and Will
2H4 3.2.   20  Squeal, a Cotswold man; you had not four such swinge-
2H4 3.2.   21  bucklers in all the Inns o' Court again. And I may say
2H4 3.2.   22  to you, we knew where the bona-robas were, and had
2H4 3.2.   23  the best of them all at commandment. Then was Jack
2H4 3.2.   24  Falstaff, now Sir John, a boy, and page to Thomas
2H4 3.2.   25  Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk.
2H4 3.2.   26   SILENCE This Sir John, cousin, that comes hither anon
2H4 3.2.   27  about soldiers?
2H4 3.2.   28   SHALLOW The same Sir John, the very same. I see him
2H4 3.2.   29  break Scoggin's head at the court gate when a was a
2H4 3.2.   30  crack, not thus high. And the very same day did I fight
2H4 3.2.   31  with one Samson Stockfish, a fruiterer, behind Gray's
2H4 3.2.   32  Inn. Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And
2H4 3.2.   33  to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead.
2H4 3.2.   34   SILENCE We shall all follow, cousin.
2H4 3.2.   35   SHALLOW Certain, 'tis certain; very sure, very sure. Death,
2H4 3.2.   36  as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shall die.
2H4 3.2.   37  How a good yoke of bullocks at Stamford fair?
2H4 3.2.   38   SILENCE By my troth, I was not there.
2H4 3.2.   39   SHALLOW Death is certain. Is old Double of your town
2H4 3.2.   40  living yet?
2H4 3.2.   41   SILENCE Dead, sir.
2H4 3.2.   42   SHALLOW Jesu, Jesu, dead! A drew a good bow; and dead!
2H4 3.2.   43  A shot a fine shoot. John o' Gaunt loved him well, and
2H4 3.2.   44  betted much money on his head. Dead! A would have
2H4 3.2.   45  clapped i' th' clout at twelve score, and carried you a
2H4 3.2.   46  forehand shaft a fourteen and fourteen and a half, that
2H4 3.2.   47  it would have done a man's heart good to see. How a
2H4 3.2.   48  score of ewes now?
2H4 3.2.   49   SILENCE Thereafter as they be. A score of good ewes may
2H4 3.2.   50  be worth ten pounds.
2H4 3.2.   51   SHALLOW And is old Double dead? {Enter Bardolph and [the      +
2H4 3.2.   51  Page]}
2H4 3.2.   52   SILENCE  Here come two of Sir John Falstaff's men, as I
2H4 3.2.   53  think.
2H4 3.2.   54   [SHALLOW] Good morrow, honest gentlemen.
2H4 3.2.   55   BARDOLPH I beseech you, which is Justice Shallow?
2H4 3.2.   56   SHALLOW I am Robert Shallow, sir, a poor esquire of this
2H4 3.2.   57  county, and one of the King's Justices of the Peace.
2H4 3.2.   58  What is your good pleasure with me?
2H4 3.2.   59   BARDOLPH My captain, sir, commends him to you - my
2H4 3.2.   60  captain Sir John Falstaff, a tall gentleman, by heaven,
2H4 3.2.   61  and a most gallant leader.
2H4 3.2.   62   SHALLOW He greets me well, sir. I knew him a good
2H4 3.2.   63  backsword man. How doth the good knight? May I ask
2H4 3.2.   64  how my lady his wife doth?
2H4 3.2.   65   BARDOLPH Sir, pardon, a soldier is better accommodated
2H4 3.2.   66  than with a wife.
2H4 3.2.   67   SHALLOW It is well said, in faith, sir, and it is well said
2H4 3.2.   68  indeed, too. `Better accommodated' - it is good; yea,
2H4 3.2.   69  indeed is it. Good phrases are surely, and ever were,
2H4 3.2.   70  very commendable. `Accommodated' - it comes of
2H4 3.2.   71  `{accommodo}'. Very good, a good phrase.
2H4 3.2.   72   BARDOLPH Pardon, sir, I have heard the word - `phrase'
2H4 3.2.   73  call you it? - By this day, I know not the phrase; but
2H4 3.2.   74  I will maintain the word with my sword to be a soldier-
2H4 3.2.   75  like word, and a word of exceeding good command, by
2H4 3.2.   76  heaven. `Accommodated'; that is, when a man is, as
2H4 3.2.   77  they say, accommodated; or when a man is being
2H4 3.2.   78  whereby a may be thought to be accommodated; which
2H4 3.2.   79  is an excellent thing. {Enter Sir John Falstaff}
2H4 3.2.   80   SHALLOW  It is very just. Look, here comes good Sir John.
2H4 3.2.   81   {(To Sir John)} Give me your hand, give me your         +
2H4 3.2.   81  worship's
2H4 3.2.   82  good hand. By my troth, you like well, and bear your
2H4 3.2.   83  years very well. Welcome, good Sir John.
2H4 3.2.   84   SIR JOHN I am glad to see you well, good Master Robert
2H4 3.2.   85  Shallow. {(To Silence)} Master Surecard, as I think.
2H4 3.2.   86   SHALLOW No, Sir John, it is my cousin Silence, in
2H4 3.2.   87  commission with me.
2H4 3.2.   88   SIR JOHN Good Master Silence, it well befits you should
2H4 3.2.   89  be of the peace.
2H4 3.2.   90   SILENCE Your good worship is welcome.
2H4 3.2.   91   SIR JOHN Fie, this is hot weather, gentlemen. Have you
2H4 3.2.   92  provided me here half a dozen sufficient men?
2H4 3.2.   93   SHALLOW Marry, have we, sir. Will you sit?
2H4 3.2.   94   SIR JOHN Let me see them, I beseech you. {[He sits]}
2H4 3.2.   95   SHALLOW  Where's the roll, where's the roll, where's the
2H4 3.2.   96  roll? Let me see, let me see, let me see; so, so, so, so,
2H4 3.2.   97  so. Yea, marry, sir: `Ralph Mouldy'. {[To Silence]} Let
2H4 3.2.   98  them appear as I call, let them do so, let them do so.
2H4 3.2.   99  Let me see, {(calls)} where is Mouldy? {[Enter    +
2H4 3.2.   99  Mouldy]}
2H4 3.2.  100   MOULDY  Here, an 't please you.
2H4 3.2.  101   SHALLOW What think you, Sir John? A good-limbed
2H4 3.2.  102  fellow, young, strong, and of good friends.
2H4 3.2.  103   SIR JOHN Is thy name Mouldy?
2H4 3.2.  104   MOULDY Yea, an 't please you.
2H4 3.2.  105   SIR JOHN 'Tis the more time thou wert used.
2H4 3.2.  106   SHALLOW Ha, ha, ha, most excellent, i' faith! Things that
2H4 3.2.  107  are mouldy lack use. Very singular good, in faith, well
2H4 3.2.  108  said, Sir John, very well said.
2H4 3.2.  109   SIR JOHN Prick him.
2H4 3.2.  110   MOULDY I was pricked well enough before, an you could
2H4 3.2.  111  have let me alone. My old dame will be undone now
2H4 3.2.  112  for one to do her husbandry and her drudgery. You
2H4 3.2.  113  need not to have pricked me; there are other men fitter
2H4 3.2.  114  to go out than I.
2H4 3.2.  115   SIR JOHN Go to, peace, Mouldy. You shall go, Mouldy; it
2H4 3.2.  116  is time you were spent.
2H4 3.2.  117   MOULDY Spent?
2H4 3.2.  118   SHALLOW Peace, fellow, peace. Stand aside; know you
2H4 3.2.  119  where you are? {[Mouldy stands aside]}
2H4 3.2.  120   For th' other, Sir John, let me see: `Simon Shadow' - 
2H4 3.2.  121   SIR JOHN Yea, marry, let me have him to sit under. He's
2H4 3.2.  122  like to be a cold soldier.
2H4 3.2.  123   SHALLOW  {(calls)} Where's Shadow? {[Enter    +
2H4 3.2.  123  Shadow]}
2H4 3.2.  124   SHADOW  Here, sir.
2H4 3.2.  125   SIR JOHN Shadow, whose son art thou?
2H4 3.2.  126   SHADOW My mother's son, sir.
2H4 3.2.  127   SIR JOHN Thy mother's son! Like enough, and thy father's
2H4 3.2.  128  shadow. So the son of the female is the shadow of the
2H4 3.2.  129  male - it is often so indeed - but not of the father's
2H4 3.2.  130  substance.
2H4 3.2.  131   SHALLOW Do you like him, Sir John?
2H4 3.2.  132   SIR JOHN Shadow will serve for summer. Prick him, for
2H4 3.2.  133  we have a number of shadows fill up the muster book. {[Shadow     +
2H4 3.2.  133  stands aside]}
2H4 3.2.  134   SHALLOW  {(calls)} `Thomas Wart.'
2H4 3.2.  135   SIR JOHN Where's he? {[Enter Wart]}
2H4 3.2.  136   WART  Here, sir.
2H4 3.2.  137   SIR JOHN Is thy name Wart?
2H4 3.2.  138   WART Yea, sir.
2H4 3.2.  139   SIR JOHN Thou art a very ragged wart.
2H4 3.2.  140   SHALLOW Shall I prick him, Sir John?
2H4 3.2.  141   SIR JOHN It were superfluous, for his apparel is built upon
2H4 3.2.  142  his back, and the whole frame stands upon pins. Prick
2H4 3.2.  143  him no more.
2H4 3.2.  144   SHALLOW Ha, ha, ha, you can do it, sir, you can do it! I
2H4 3.2.  145  commend you well. {[Wart stands aside]}
2H4 3.2.  146   {(Calls)} `Francis Feeble.' {[Enter Feeble]}
2H4 3.2.  147   FEEBLE  Here, sir.
2H4 3.2.  148   SHALLOW What trade art thou, Feeble?
2H4 3.2.  149   FEEBLE A woman's tailor, sir.
2H4 3.2.  150   SHALLOW Shall I prick him, sir?
2H4 3.2.  151   SIR JOHN You may, but if he had been a man's tailor,
2H4 3.2.  152  he'd ha' pricked you. {(To Feeble)} Wilt thou make as
2H4 3.2.  153  many holes in an enemy's battle as thou hast done in
2H4 3.2.  154  a woman's petticoat?
2H4 3.2.  155   FEEBLE I will do my good will, sir; you can have no more.
2H4 3.2.  156   SIR JOHN Well said, good woman's tailor; well said,
2H4 3.2.  157  courageous Feeble! Thou wilt be as valiant as the
2H4 3.2.  158  wrathful dove or most magnanimous mouse. Prick the
2H4 3.2.  159  woman's tailor. Well, Master Shallow; deep, Master
2H4 3.2.  160  Shallow.
2H4 3.2.  161   FEEBLE I would Wart might have gone, sir.
2H4 3.2.  162   SIR JOHN I would thou wert a man's tailor, that thou
2H4 3.2.  163  mightst mend him and make him fit to go. I cannot
2H4 3.2.  164  put him to a private soldier that is the leader of so
2H4 3.2.  165  many thousands. Let that suffice, most forcible Feeble.
2H4 3.2.  166   FEEBLE It shall suffice, sir.
2H4 3.2.  167   SIR JOHN I am bound to thee, reverend Feeble. {[Feeble        +
2H4 3.2.  167  stands aside]}
2H4 3.2.  168   Who is next?
2H4 3.2.  169   SHALLOW  {(calls)} `Peter Bullcalf o' th' green.'
2H4 3.2.  170   SIR JOHN Yea, marry, let's see Bullcalf. {[Enter Bullcalf]}
2H4 3.2.  171   BULLCALF  Here, sir.
2H4 3.2.  172   SIR JOHN Fore God, a likely fellow! Come, prick Bullcalf
2H4 3.2.  173  till he roar again.
2H4 3.2.  174   BULLCALF O Lord, good my lord captain!
2H4 3.2.  175   SIR JOHN What, dost thou roar before thou'rt pricked?
2H4 3.2.  176   BULLCALF O Lord, sir, I am a diseased man.
2H4 3.2.  177   SIR JOHN What disease hast thou?
2H4 3.2.  178   BULLCALF A whoreson cold, sir; a cough, sir, which I
2H4 3.2.  179  caught with ringing in the King's affairs upon his
2H4 3.2.  180  coronation day, sir.
2H4 3.2.  181   SIR JOHN Come, thou shalt go to the wars in a gown. We
2H4 3.2.  182  will have away thy cold, and I will take such order
2H4 3.2.  183  that thy friends shall ring for thee. {[Bullcalf stands aside]}
2H4 3.2.  184   Is here all?
2H4 3.2.  185   SHALLOW There is two more called than your number.
2H4 3.2.  186  You must have but four here, sir, and so I pray you
2H4 3.2.  187  go in with me to dinner.
2H4 3.2.  188   SIR JOHN Come, I will go drink with you, but I cannot
2H4 3.2.  189  tarry dinner. I am glad to see you, by my troth, Master
2H4 3.2.  190  Shallow.
2H4 3.2.  191   SHALLOW O, Sir John, do you remember since we lay all
2H4 3.2.  192  night in the Windmill in Saint George's Field?
2H4 3.2.  193   SIR JOHN No more of that, good Master Shallow, no more
2H4 3.2.  194  of that.
2H4 3.2.  195   SHALLOW Ha, 'twas a merry night! And is Jane Nightwork
2H4 3.2.  196  alive?
2H4 3.2.  197   SIR JOHN She lives, Master Shallow.
2H4 3.2.  198   SHALLOW She never could away with me.
2H4 3.2.  199   SIR JOHN Never, never. She would always say she could
2H4 3.2.  200  not abide Master Shallow.
2H4 3.2.  201   SHALLOW By the mass, I could anger her to th' heart. She
2H4 3.2.  202  was then a bona-roba. Doth she hold her own well?
2H4 3.2.  203   SIR JOHN Old, old, Master Shallow.
2H4 3.2.  204   SHALLOW Nay, she must be old; she cannot choose but
2H4 3.2.  205  be old; certain she's old; and had Robin Nightwork by
2H4 3.2.  206  old Nightwork before I came to Clement's Inn.
2H4 3.2.  207   SILENCE That's fifty-five year ago.
2H4 3.2.  208   SHALLOW Ha, cousin Silence, that thou hadst seen that
2H4 3.2.  209  that this knight and I have seen! Ha, Sir John, said I
2H4 3.2.  210  well?
2H4 3.2.  211   SIR JOHN We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master
2H4 3.2.  212  Shallow.
2H4 3.2.  213   SHALLOW That we have, that we have; in faith, Sir John,
2H4 3.2.  214  we have. Our watchword was `Hem boys!' Come, let's
2H4 3.2.  215  to dinner; come, let's to dinner. Jesus, the days that
2H4 3.2.  216  we have seen! Come, come. {Exeunt Shallow, Silence, and Sir       +
2H4 3.2.  216  John}
2H4 3.2.  217   BULLCALF  {[coming forward]} Good Master Corporate
2H4 3.2.  218  Bardolph, stand my friend, and here's four Harry ten
2H4 3.2.  219  shillings in French crowns for you. In very truth, sir,
2H4 3.2.  220  I had as lief be hanged, sir, as go. And yet for mine
2H4 3.2.  221  own part, sir, I do not care; but rather because I am
2H4 3.2.  222  unwilling, and, for mine own part, have a desire to
2H4 3.2.  223  stay with my friends. Else, sir, I did not care, for mine
2H4 3.2.  224  own part, so much.
2H4 3.2.  225   BARDOLPH  {[taking the money]} Go to; stand          +
2H4 3.2.  225  aside. {[Bullcalf stands aside]}
2H4 3.2.  226   MOULDY  {[coming forward]} And, good Master          +
2H4 3.2.  226  Corporal
2H4 3.2.  227  Captain, for my old dame's sake stand my friend. She
2H4 3.2.  228  has nobody to do anything about her when I am gone,
2H4 3.2.  229  and she is old and cannot help herself. You shall have
2H4 3.2.  230  forty, sir.
2H4 3.2.  231   BARDOLPH Go to; stand aside. {[Mouldy stands aside]}
2H4 3.2.  232   FEEBLE  By my troth, I care not. A man can die but once.
2H4 3.2.  233  We owe God a death. I'll ne'er bear a base mind. An 't
2H4 3.2.  234  be my destiny, so; an 't be not, so. No man's too good
2H4 3.2.  235  to serve's prince. And let it go which way it will, he
2H4 3.2.  236  that dies this year is quit for the next.
2H4 3.2.  237   BARDOLPH Well said; thou'rt a good fellow.
2H4 3.2.  238   FEEBLE Faith, I'll bear no base mind. {Enter Sir John         +
2H4 3.2.  238  Falstaff, Shallow, and Silence}
2H4 3.2.  239   SIR JOHN  Come, sir, which men shall I have?
2H4 3.2.  240   SHALLOW Four of which you please.
2H4 3.2.  241   BARDOLPH  {(to Sir John)} Sir, a word with           +
2H4 3.2.  241  you. {(Aside to him)}
2H4 3.2.  242   I have three pound to free Mouldy and Bullcalf.
2H4 3.2.  243   SIR JOHN Go to, well.
2H4 3.2.  244   SHALLOW Come, Sir John, which four will you have?
2H4 3.2.  245   SIR JOHN Do you choose for me.
2H4 3.2.  246   SHALLOW Marry, then: Mouldy, Bullcalf, Feeble, and
2H4 3.2.  247  Shadow.
2H4 3.2.  248   SIR JOHN Mouldy and Bullcalf. For you, Mouldy, stay at
2H4 3.2.  249  home till you are past service; and for your part,
2H4 3.2.  250  Bullcalf, grow till you come unto it. I will none of you.         +
2H4 3.2.  250  {[Exeunt Bullcalf and Mouldy]}
2H4 3.2.  251   SHALLOW  Sir John, Sir John, do not yourself wrong. They
2H4 3.2.  252  are your likeliest men, and I would have you served
2H4 3.2.  253  with the best.
2H4 3.2.  254   SIR JOHN Will you tell me, Master Shallow, how to choose
2H4 3.2.  255  a man? Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature,
2H4 3.2.  256  bulk, and big assemblance of a man? Give me the spirit,
2H4 3.2.  257  Master Shallow. Here's Wart; you see what a ragged
2H4 3.2.  258  appearance it is? A shall charge you and discharge you
2H4 3.2.  259  with the motion of a pewterer's hammer, come off and
2H4 3.2.  260  on swifter than he that gibbets on the brewer's bucket.
2H4 3.2.  261  And this same half-faced fellow Shadow; give me this
2H4 3.2.  262  man. He presents no mark to the enemy; the foeman
2H4 3.2.  263  may with as great aim level at the edge of a penknife.
2H4 3.2.  264  And for a retreat, how swiftly will this Feeble the
2H4 3.2.  265  woman's tailor run off! O, give me the spare men, and
2H4 3.2.  266  spare me the great ones. - Put me a caliver into Wart's
2H4 3.2.  267  hand, Bardolph.
2H4 3.2.  268   BARDOLPH  {(giving Wart a caliver)} Hold, Wart.      +
2H4 3.2.  268  Traverse - 
2H4 3.2.  269  thas, thas, thas! {[Wart marches]}
2H4 3.2.  270   SIR JOHN  {(to Wart)} Come, manage me your caliver.  +
2H4 3.2.  270  So;
2H4 3.2.  271  very well. Go to, very good, exceeding good. O, give
2H4 3.2.  272  me always a little, lean, old, chapped, bald shot! Well
2H4 3.2.  273  said, i' faith, Wart; thou'rt a good scab. Hold; {(giving}
2H4 3.2.  274  {a coin)} there's a tester for thee.
2H4 3.2.  275   SHALLOW He is not his craft's master; he doth not do it
2H4 3.2.  276  right. I remember at Mile-End Green, when I lay at
2H4 3.2.  277  Clement's Inn - I was then Sir Dagonet in Arthur's
2H4 3.2.  278  show - there was a little quiver fellow, and a would
2H4 3.2.  279  manage you his piece thus, and a would about and
2H4 3.2.  280  about, and come you in and come you in. `Ra-ta-ta!'
2H4 3.2.  281  would a say; `Bounce!' would a say; and away again
2H4 3.2.  282  would a go; and again would a come. I shall ne'er see
2H4 3.2.  283  such a fellow.
2H4 3.2.  284   SIR JOHN These fellows will do well, Master Shallow. God
2H4 3.2.  285  keep you, Master Silence; I will not use many words
2H4 3.2.  286  with you. Fare you well, gentlemen both; I thank you.
2H4 3.2.  287  I must a dozen mile tonight. - Bardolph, give the
2H4 3.2.  288  soldiers coats.
2H4 3.2.  289   SHALLOW Sir John, the Lord bless you; God prosper your
2H4 3.2.  290  affairs! God send us peace! As you return, visit my
2H4 3.2.  291  house; let our old acquaintance be renewed.
2H4 3.2.  292  Peradventure I will with ye to the court.
2H4 3.2.  293   SIR JOHN Fore God, would you would!
2H4 3.2.  294   SHALLOW Go to, I have spoke at a word. God keep you!
2H4 3.2.  295   SIR JOHN Fare you well, gentle gentlemen. {Exeunt Shallow     +
2H4 3.2.  295  and Silence}
2H4 3.2.  296   On, Bardolph, lead the men away. {Exeunt Bardolph,      +
2H4 3.2.  296  Wart, Shadow, and Feeble}
2H4 3.2.  297   As I return, I will fetch off these justices. I do see the
2H4 3.2.  298  bottom of Justice Shallow. Lord, Lord, how subject we
2H4 3.2.  299  old men are to this vice of lying! This same starved
2H4 3.2.  300  justice hath done nothing but prate to me of the
2H4 3.2.  301  wildness of his youth and the feats he hath done about
2H4 3.2.  302  Turnbull Street; and every third word a lie, duer paid
2H4 3.2.  303  to the hearer than the Turk's tribute. I do remember
2H4 3.2.  304  him at Clement's Inn, like a man made after supper of
2H4 3.2.  305  a cheese paring. When a was naked, he was for all the
2H4 3.2.  306  world like a forked radish, with a head fantastically
2H4 3.2.  307  carved upon it with a knife. A was so forlorn that his
2H4 3.2.  308  dimensions, to any thick sight, were invisible. A was
2H4 3.2.  309  the very genius of famine. And now is this Vice's dagger
2H4 3.2.  310  become a squire, and talks as familiarly of John o'
2H4 3.2.  311  Gaunt as if he had been sworn brother to him, and I'll
2H4 3.2.  312  be sworn a ne'er saw him but once, in the Tilt-yard,
2H4 3.2.  313  and then he burst his head for crowding among the
2H4 3.2.  314  marshal's men. I saw it, and told John o' Gaunt he
2H4 3.2.  315  beat his own name; for you might have trussed him
2H4 3.2.  316  and all his apparel into an eel-skin. The case of a treble
2H4 3.2.  317  hautboy was a mansion for him, a court. And now has
2H4 3.2.  318  he land and beeves. Well, I'll be acquainted with him
2H4 3.2.  319  if I return; and 't shall go hard but I'll make him a
2H4 3.2.  320  philosopher's two stones to me. If the young dace be
2H4 3.2.  321  a bait for the old pike, I see no reason in the law of
2H4 3.2.  322  nature but I may snap at him. Let time shape, and
2H4 3.2.  323  there an end. {Exit}
2H4 3.2.    0     {Enter [in arms] the Archbishop of York, Thomas      +
2H4 4.1.    0  Mowbray, Lord Hastings, and [Coleville], within the Forest of Gaultres}
2H4 4.1.    1A  ARCHBISHOP OF YORK  What is this forest called?
2H4 4.1.    2   HASTINGS 'Tis Gaultres Forest, an 't shall please your grace.
2H4 4.1.    3   ARCHBISHOP OF YORK Here stand, my lords, and send discoverers forth
2H4 4.1.    4  To know the numbers of our enemies.
2H4 4.1.    5B  HASTINGS We have sent forth already. ARCHBISHOP OF YORK 'Tis      +
2H4 4.1.    5B well done.
2H4 4.1.    6  My friends and brethren in these great affairs,
2H4 4.1.    7  I must acquaint you that I have received
2H4 4.1.    8  New-dated letters from Northumberland,
2H4 4.1.    9  Their cold intent, tenor, and substance, thus:
2H4 4.1.   10  Here doth he wish his person, with such powers
2H4 4.1.   11  As might hold sortance with his quality,
2H4 4.1.   12  The which he could not levy; whereupon
2H4 4.1.   13  He is retired to ripe his growing fortunes
2H4 4.1.   14  To Scotland, and concludes in hearty prayers
2H4 4.1.   15  That your attempts may overlive the hazard
2H4 4.1.   16  And fearful meeting of their opposite.
2H4 4.1.   17   MOWBRAY Thus do the hopes we have in him touch ground
2H4 4.1.   18B And dash themselves to pieces. {Enter a Messenger} HASTINGS    +
2H4 4.1.   18B  Now, what news?
2H4 4.1.   19   MESSENGER West of this forest, scarcely off a mile,
2H4 4.1.   20  In goodly form comes on the enemy;
2H4 4.1.   21  And, by the ground they hide, I judge their number
2H4 4.1.   22  Upon or near the rate of thirty thousand.
2H4 4.1.   23   MOWBRAY The just proportion that we gave them out.
2H4 4.1.   24  Let us sway on, and face them in the field. {Enter the Earl of    +
2H4 4.1.   24  Westmorland}
2H4 4.1.   25   ARCHBISHOP OF YORK  What well-appointed leader fronts us    +
2H4 4.1.   25  here?
2H4 4.1.   26   MOWBRAY I think it is my lord of Westmorland.
2H4 4.1.   27   WESTMORLAND Health and fair greeting from our general,
2H4 4.1.   28  The Prince, Lord John and Duke of Lancaster.
2H4 4.1.   29   ARCHBISHOP OF YORK Say on, my lord of Westmorland, in peace,
2H4 4.1.   30B What doth concern your coming. WESTMORLAND Then, my lord,
2H4 4.1.   31  Unto your grace do I in chief address
2H4 4.1.   32  The substance of my speech. If that rebellion
2H4 4.1.   33  Came like itself, in base and abject routs,
2H4 4.1.   34  Led on by bloody youth, guarded with rags,
2H4 4.1.   35  And countenanced by boys and beggary;
2H4 4.1.   36  I say, if damned commotion so appeared
2H4 4.1.   37  In his true native and most proper shape,
2H4 4.1.   38  You, reverend father, and these noble lords
2H4 4.1.   39  Had not been here to dress the ugly form
2H4 4.1.   40  Of base and bloody insurrection
2H4 4.1.   41  With your fair honours. You, Lord Archbishop,
2H4 4.1.   42  Whose see is by a civil peace maintained,
2H4 4.1.   43  Whose beard the silver hand of peace hath touched,
2H4 4.1.   44  Whose learning and good letters peace hath tutored,
2H4 4.1.   45  Whose white investments figure innocence,
2H4 4.1.   46  The dove and very blessed spirit of peace,
2H4 4.1.   47  Wherefore do you so ill translate yourself
2H4 4.1.   48  Out of the speech of peace that bears such grace
2H4 4.1.   49  Into the harsh and boist'rous tongue of war,
2H4 4.1.   50  Turning your books to graves, your ink to blood,
2H4 4.1.   51  Your pens to lances, and your tongue divine
2H4 4.1.   52  To a loud trumpet and a point of war?
2H4 4.1.   53   ARCHBISHOP OF YORK Wherefore do I this? So the question stands.
2H4 4.1.   54  Briefly, to this end: we are all diseased,
2H4 4.1.   55  And with our surfeiting and wanton hours
2H4 4.1.   56  Have brought ourselves into a burning fever,
2H4 4.1.   57  And we must bleed for it - of which disease
2H4 4.1.   58  Our late King Richard, being infected, died.
2H4 4.1.   59  But, my most noble lord of Westmorland,
2H4 4.1.   60  I take not on me here as a physician,
2H4 4.1.   61  Nor do I as an enemy to peace
2H4 4.1.   62  Troop in the throngs of military men;
2H4 4.1.   63  But rather show a while like fearful war
2H4 4.1.   64  To diet rank minds, sick of happiness,
2H4 4.1.   65  And purge th' obstructions which begin to stop
2H4 4.1.   66  Our very veins of life. Hear me more plainly.
2H4 4.1.   67  I have in equal balance justly weighed
2H4 4.1.   68  What wrongs our arms may do, what wrongs we suffer,
2H4 4.1.   69  And find our griefs heavier than our offences.
2H4 4.1.   70  We see which way the stream of time doth run,
2H4 4.1.   71  And are enforced from our most quiet shore
2H4 4.1.   72  By the rough torrent of occasion;
2H4 4.1.   73  And have the summary of all our griefs,
2H4 4.1.   74  When time shall serve, to show in articles,
2H4 4.1.   75  Which long ere this we offered to the King,
2H4 4.1.   76  And might by no suit gain our audience.
2H4 4.1.   77  When we are wronged, and would unfold our griefs,
2H4 4.1.   78  We are denied access unto his person
2H4 4.1.   79  Even by those men that most have done us wrong.
2H4 4.1.   80  The dangers of the days but newly gone,
2H4 4.1.   81  Whose memory is written on the earth
2H4 4.1.   82  With yet appearing blood, and the examples
2H4 4.1.   83  Of every minute's instance, present now,
2H4 4.1.   84  Hath put us in these ill-beseeming arms,
2H4 4.1.   85  Not to break peace, or any branch of it,
2H4 4.1.   86  But to establish here a peace indeed,
2H4 4.1.   87  Concurring both in name and quality.
2H4 4.1.   88   WESTMORLAND Whenever yet was your appeal denied?
2H4 4.1.   89  Wherein have you been galled by the King?
2H4 4.1.   90  What peer hath been suborned to grate on you,
2H4 4.1.   91  That you should seal this lawless bloody book
2H4 4.1.   92  Of forged rebellion with a seal divine?
2H4 4.1.   93   ARCHBISHOP OF YORK My brother general, the commonwealth
2H4 4.1.   94  I make my quarrel in particular.
2H4 4.1.   95   WESTMORLAND There is no need of any such redress;
2H4 4.1.   96  Or if there were, it not belongs to you.
2H4 4.1.   97   MOWBRAY Why not to him in part, and to us all
2H4 4.1.   98  That feel the bruises of the days before,
2H4 4.1.   99  And suffer the condition of these times
2H4 4.1.  100  To lay a heavy and unequal hand
2H4 4.1.  101B Upon our honours? WESTMORLAND O my good Lord Mowbray,
2H4 4.1.  102  Construe the times to their necessities,
2H4 4.1.  103  And you shall say indeed it is the time,
2H4 4.1.  104  And not the King, that doth you injuries.
2H4 4.1.  105  Yet for your part, it not appears to me,
2H4 4.1.  106  Either from the King or in the present time,
2H4 4.1.  107  That you should have an inch of any ground
2H4 4.1.  108  To build a grief on. Were you not restored
2H4 4.1.  109  To all the Duke of Norfolk's signories,
2H4 4.1.  110  Your noble and right well-remembered father's?
2H4 4.1.  111   MOWBRAY What thing in honour had my father lost
2H4 4.1.  112  That need to be revived and breathed in me?
2H4 4.1.  113  The King that loved him, as the state stood then,
2H4 4.1.  114  Was force perforce compelled to banish him;
2H4 4.1.  115  And then that Henry Bolingbroke and he,
2H4 4.1.  116  Being mounted and both roused in their seats,
2H4 4.1.  117  Their neighing coursers daring of the spur,
2H4 4.1.  118  Their armed staves in charge, their beavers down,
2H4 4.1.  119  Their eyes of fire sparkling through sights of steel,
2H4 4.1.  120  And the loud trumpet blowing them together,
2H4 4.1.  121  Then, then, when there was nothing could have stayed
2H4 4.1.  122  My father from the breast of Bolingbroke - 
2H4 4.1.  123  O, when the King did throw his warder down,
2H4 4.1.  124  His own life hung upon the staff he threw;
2H4 4.1.  125  Then threw he down himself and all their lives
2H4 4.1.  126  That by indictment and by dint of sword
2H4 4.1.  127  Have since miscarried under Bolingbroke.
2H4 4.1.  128   WESTMORLAND You speak, Lord Mowbray, now you know not what.
2H4 4.1.  129  The Earl of Hereford was reputed then
2H4 4.1.  130  In England the most valiant gentleman.
2H4 4.1.  131  Who knows on whom fortune would then have smiled?
2H4 4.1.  132  But if your father had been victor there,
2H4 4.1.  133  He ne'er had borne it out of Coventry;
2H4 4.1.  134  For all the country in a general voice
2H4 4.1.  135  Cried hate upon him, and all their prayers and love
2H4 4.1.  136  Were set on Hereford, whom they doted on
2H4 4.1.  137  And blessed and graced, indeed, more than the King.
2H4 4.1.  138  But this is mere digression from my purpose.
2H4 4.1.  139  Here come I from our princely general
2H4 4.1.  140  To know your griefs, to tell you from his grace
2H4 4.1.  141  That he will give you audience; and wherein
2H4 4.1.  142  It shall appear that your demands are just,
2H4 4.1.  143  You shall enjoy them, everything set off
2H4 4.1.  144  That might so much as think you enemies.
2H4 4.1.  145   MOWBRAY But he hath forced us to compel this offer,
2H4 4.1.  146  And it proceeds from policy, not love.
2H4 4.1.  147   WESTMORLAND Mowbray, you overween to take it so.
2H4 4.1.  148  This offer comes from mercy, not from fear;
2H4 4.1.  149  For lo, within a ken our army lies,
2H4 4.1.  150  Upon mine honour, all too confident
2H4 4.1.  151  To give admittance to a thought of fear.
2H4 4.1.  152  Our battle is more full of names than yours,
2H4 4.1.  153  Our men more perfect in the use of arms,
2H4 4.1.  154  Our armour all as strong, our cause the best.
2H4 4.1.  155  Then reason will our hearts should be as good.
2H4 4.1.  156  Say you not then our offer is compelled.
2H4 4.1.  157   MOWBRAY Well, by my will we shall admit no parley.
2H4 4.1.  158   WESTMORLAND That argues but the shame of your offence.
2H4 4.1.  159  A rotten case abides no handling.
2H4 4.1.  160   HASTINGS Hath the Prince John a full commission,
2H4 4.1.  161  In very ample virtue of his father,
2H4 4.1.  162  To hear and absolutely to determine
2H4 4.1.  163  Of what conditions we shall stand upon?
2H4 4.1.  164   WESTMORLAND That is intended in the general's name.
2H4 4.1.  165  I muse you make so slight a question.
2H4 4.1.  166   ARCHBISHOP OF YORK Then take, my lord of Westmorland, this           +
2H4 4.1.  166  schedule;
2H4 4.1.  167  For this contains our general grievances.
2H4 4.1.  168  Each several article herein redressed,
2H4 4.1.  169  All members of our cause, both here and hence,
2H4 4.1.  170  That are ensinewed to this action
2H4 4.1.  171  Acquitted by a true substantial form,
2H4 4.1.  172  And present execution of our wills
2H4 4.1.  173  To us and to our purposes consigned,
2H4 4.1.  174  We come within our awe-full banks again,
2H4 4.1.  175  And knit our powers to the arm of peace.
2H4 4.1.  176   WESTMORLAND  {(taking the schedule)} This will I     +
2H4 4.1.  176  show the general. Please you, lords,
2H4 4.1.  177  In sight of both our battles we may meet,
2H4 4.1.  178  And either end in peace - which God so frame - 
2H4 4.1.  179  Or to the place of diff'rence call the swords
2H4 4.1.  180B Which must decide it. ARCHBISHOP OF YORK My lord, we will do          +
2H4 4.1.  180B so. {Exit Westmorland}
2H4 4.1.  181   MOWBRAY  There is a thing within my bosom tells me
2H4 4.1.  182  That no conditions of our peace can stand.
2H4 4.1.  183   HASTINGS Fear you not that. If we can make our peace
2H4 4.1.  184  Upon such large terms and so absolute
2H4 4.1.  185  As our conditions shall consist upon,
2H4 4.1.  186  Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
2H4 4.1.  187   MOWBRAY Yea, but our valuation shall be such
2H4 4.1.  188  That every slight and false-derived cause,
2H4 4.1.  189  Yea, every idle, nice, and wanton reason,
2H4 4.1.  190  Shall to the King taste of this action,
2H4 4.1.  191  That, were our royal faiths martyrs in love,
2H4 4.1.  192  We shall be winnowed with so rough a wind
2H4 4.1.  193  That even our corn shall seem as light as chaff,
2H4 4.1.  194  And good from bad find no partition.
2H4 4.1.  195   ARCHBISHOP OF YORK No, no, my lord; note this. The King is weary
2H4 4.1.  196  Of dainty and such picking grievances,
2H4 4.1.  197  For he hath found to end one doubt by death
2H4 4.1.  198  Revives two greater in the heirs of life;
2H4 4.1.  199  And therefore will he wipe his tables clean,
2H4 4.1.  200  And keep no tell-tale to his memory
2H4 4.1.  201  That may repeat and history his loss
2H4 4.1.  202  To new remembrance; for full well he knows
2H4 4.1.  203  He cannot so precisely weed this land
2H4 4.1.  204  As his misdoubts present occasion.
2H4 4.1.  205  His foes are so enrooted with his friends
2H4 4.1.  206  That, plucking to unfix an enemy,
2H4 4.1.  207  He doth unfasten so and shake a friend;
2H4 4.1.  208  So that this land, like an offensive wife
2H4 4.1.  209  That hath enraged him on to offer strokes,
2H4 4.1.  210  As he is striking, holds his infant up,
2H4 4.1.  211  And hangs resolved correction in the arm
2H4 4.1.  212  That was upreared to execution.
2H4 4.1.  213   HASTINGS Besides, the King hath wasted all his rods
2H4 4.1.  214  On late offenders, that he now doth lack
2H4 4.1.  215  The very instruments of chastisement;
2H4 4.1.  216  So that his power, like to a fangless lion,
2H4 4.1.  217B May offer, but not hold. ARCHBISHOP OF YORK 'Tis very true.
2H4 4.1.  218  And therefore be assured, my good Lord Marshal,
2H4 4.1.  219  If we do now make our atonement well,
2H4 4.1.  220  Our peace will, like a broken limb united,
2H4 4.1.  221B Grow stronger for the breaking. MOWBRAY Be it so. {Enter       +
2H4 4.1.  221B Westmorland}
2H4 4.1.  222   Here is returned my lord of Westmorland.
2H4 4.1.  223   WESTMORLAND The Prince is here at hand. Pleaseth your lordship
2H4 4.1.  224  To meet his grace just distance 'tween our armies?
2H4 4.1.  225   MOWBRAY Your grace of York, in God's name then set forward.
2H4 4.1.  226   ARCHBISHOP OF YORK Before, and greet his grace! - My lord, we          +
2H4 4.1.  226  come. {[They march over the stage.]}
2H4 4.1.  227  {Enter Prince John [with one or more soldiers carrying wine]}
2H4 4.1.  227   PRINCE JOHN  You are well encountered here, my cousin       +
2H4 4.1.  227  Mowbray.
2H4 4.1.  228  Good day to you, gentle lord Archbishop;
2H4 4.1.  229  And so to you, Lord Hastings, and to all.
2H4 4.1.  230  My lord of York, it better showed with you
2H4 4.1.  231  When that your flock, assembled by the bell,
2H4 4.1.  232  Encircled you to hear with reverence
2H4 4.1.  233  Your exposition on the holy text,
2H4 4.1.  234  Than now to see you here an iron man,
2H4 4.1.  235  Cheering a rout of rebels with your drum,
2H4 4.1.  236  Turning the word to sword, and life to death.
2H4 4.1.  237  That man that sits within a monarch's heart
2H4 4.1.  238  And ripens in the sunshine of his favour,
2H4 4.1.  239  Would he abuse the countenance of the King,
2H4 4.1.  240  Alack, what mischiefs might he set abroach
2H4 4.1.  241  In shadow of such greatness! With you, Lord Bishop,
2H4 4.1.  242  It is even so. Who hath not heard it spoken
2H4 4.1.  243  How deep you were within the books of God - 
2H4 4.1.  244  To us, the speaker in his parliament,
2H4 4.1.  245  To us, th' imagined voice of God himself,
2H4 4.1.  246  The very opener and intelligencer
2H4 4.1.  247  Between the grace, the sanctities of heaven
2H4 4.1.  248  And our dull workings? O, who shall believe
2H4 4.1.  249  But you misuse the reverence of your place,
2H4 4.1.  250  Employ the countenance and grace of heav'n
2H4 4.1.  251  As a false favourite doth his prince's name
2H4 4.1.  252  In deeds dishonourable? You have ta'en up,
2H4 4.1.  253  Under the counterfeited zeal of God,
2H4 4.1.  254  The subjects of his substitute, my father;
2H4 4.1.  255  And, both against the peace of heaven and him,
2H4 4.1.  256B Have here upswarmed them. ARCHBISHOP OF YORK Good my lord of         +
2H4 4.1.  256B Lancaster,
2H4 4.1.  257  I am not here against your father's peace;
2H4 4.1.  258  But, as I told my lord of Westmorland,
2H4 4.1.  259  The time misordered doth, in common sense,
2H4 4.1.  260  Crowd us and crush us to this monstrous form,
2H4 4.1.  261  To hold our safety up. I sent your grace
2H4 4.1.  262  The parcels and particulars of our grief,
2H4 4.1.  263  The which hath been with scorn shoved from the court,
2H4 4.1.  264  Whereon this Hydra son of war is born;
2H4 4.1.  265  Whose dangerous eyes may well be charmed asleep
2H4 4.1.  266  With grant of our most just and right desires,
2H4 4.1.  267  And true obedience, of this madness cured,
2H4 4.1.  268  Stoop tamely to the foot of majesty.
2H4 4.1.  269   MOWBRAY If not, we ready are to try our fortunes
2H4 4.1.  270B To the last man. HASTINGS And though we here fall down,
2H4 4.1.  271  We have supplies to second our attempt.
2H4 4.1.  272  If they miscarry, theirs shall second them;
2H4 4.1.  273  And so success of mischief shall be born,
2H4 4.1.  274  And heir from heir shall hold this quarrel up,
2H4 4.1.  275  Whiles England shall have generation.
2H4 4.1.  276   PRINCE JOHN You are too shallow, Hastings, much too shallow,
2H4 4.1.  277  To sound the bottom of the after-times.
2H4 4.1.  278   WESTMORLAND Pleaseth your grace to answer them directly
2H4 4.1.  279  How far forth you do like their articles?
2H4 4.1.  280   PRINCE JOHN I like them all, and do allow them well,
2H4 4.1.  281  And swear here, by the honour of my blood,
2H4 4.1.  282  My father's purposes have been mistook,
2H4 4.1.  283  And some about him have too lavishly
2H4 4.1.  284  Wrested his meaning and authority.
2H4 4.1.  285   {(To the Archbishop)} My lord, these griefs shall be    +
2H4 4.1.  285  with speed redressed;
2H4 4.1.  286  Upon my soul they shall. If this may please you,
2H4 4.1.  287  Discharge your powers unto their several counties,
2H4 4.1.  288  As we will ours; and here between the armies
2H4 4.1.  289  Let's drink together friendly and embrace,
2H4 4.1.  290  That all their eyes may bear those tokens home
2H4 4.1.  291  Of our restored love and amity.
2H4 4.1.  292   ARCHBISHOP OF YORK I take your princely word for these redresses.
2H4 4.1.  293   [PRINCE JOHN] I give it you, and will maintain my word;
2H4 4.1.  294  And thereupon I drink unto your grace. {He drinks}
2H4 4.1.  295   [HASTINGS]  {[to Coleville]} Go, captain, and        +
2H4 4.1.  295  deliver to the army
2H4 4.1.  296  This news of peace. Let them have pay, and part.
2H4 4.1.  297  I know it will well please them. Hie thee, captain. {Exit         +
2H4 4.1.  297  [Coleville]}
2H4 4.1.  298   ARCHBISHOP OF YORK  To you, my noble lord of                +
2H4 4.1.  298  Westmorland! {He drinks}
2H4 4.1.  299   WESTMORLAND  {(drinking)} I pledge your grace. An    +
2H4 4.1.  299  if you knew what pains
2H4 4.1.  300  I have bestowed to breed this present peace,
2H4 4.1.  301  You would drink freely; but my love to ye
2H4 4.1.  302  Shall show itself more openly hereafter.
2H4 4.1.  303B  ARCHBISHOP OF YORK I do not doubt you. WESTMORLAND I am glad of   +
2H4 4.1.  303B it.
2H4 4.1.  304   {(Drinking)} Health to my lord and gentle cousin        +
2H4 4.1.  304  Mowbray!
2H4 4.1.  305   MOWBRAY You wish me health in very happy season,
2H4 4.1.  306  For I am on the sudden something ill.
2H4 4.1.  307   ARCHBISHOP OF YORK Against ill chances men are ever merry;
2H4 4.1.  308  But heaviness foreruns the good event.
2H4 4.1.  309   WESTMORLAND Therefore be merry, coz, since sudden sorrow
2H4 4.1.  310  Serves to say thus: some good thing comes tomorrow.
2H4 4.1.  311   ARCHBISHOP OF YORK Believe me, I am passing light in spirit.
2H4 4.1.  312   MOWBRAY So much the worse, if your own rule be true. {Shout   +
2H4 4.1.  312  within}
2H4 4.1.  313   PRINCE JOHN  The word of peace is rendered. Hark how they   +
2H4 4.1.  313  shout.
2H4 4.1.  314   MOWBRAY This had been cheerful after victory.
2H4 4.1.  315   ARCHBISHOP OF YORK A peace is of the nature of a conquest,
2H4 4.1.  316  For then both parties nobly are subdued,
2H4 4.1.  317B And neither party loser. PRINCE JOHN  {(to                     +
2H4 4.1.  317B Westmorland)} Go, my lord,
2H4 4.1.  318  And let our army be discharged too. {Exit Westmorland}
2H4 4.1.  319   {(To the Archbishop)} And, good my lord, so please      +
2H4 4.1.  319  you, let our trains
2H4 4.1.  320  March by us, that we may peruse the men
2H4 4.1.  321B We should have coped withal. ARCHBISHOP OF YORK Go, good Lord         +
2H4 4.1.  321B Hastings,
2H4 4.1.  322  And ere they be dismissed, let them march by. {Exit Hastings}
2H4 4.1.  323   PRINCE JOHN  I trust, lords, we shall lie tonight           +
2H4 4.1.  323  together. {Enter the Earl of Westmorland, [with captains]}
2H4 4.1.  324   Now, cousin, wherefore stands our army still?
2H4 4.1.  325   WESTMORLAND The leaders, having charge from you to stand,
2H4 4.1.  326  Will not go off until they hear you speak.
2H4 4.1.  327B  PRINCE JOHN They know their duties. {Enter Lord               +
2H4 4.1.  327B Hastings} HASTINGS  {[to the Archbishop]} Our army    +
2H4 4.1.  327B is dispersed.
2H4 4.1.  328  Like youthful steers unyoked, they take their courses,
2H4 4.1.  329  East, west, north, south; or, like a school broke up,
2H4 4.1.  330  Each hurries toward his home and sporting place.
2H4 4.1.  331   WESTMORLAND Good tidings, my lord Hastings, for the which
2H4 4.1.  332  I do arrest thee, traitor, of high treason;
2H4 4.1.  333  And you, Lord Archbishop, and you, Lord Mowbray,
2H4 4.1.  334  Of capital treason I attach you both. {[The captains guard        +
2H4 4.1.  334  Hastings, the Archbishop, and Mowbray]}
2H4 4.1.  335   MOWBRAY  Is this proceeding just and honourable?
2H4 4.1.  336A  WESTMORLAND Is your assembly so?
2H4 4.1.  337A  ARCHBISHOP OF YORK Will you thus break your faith?
2H4 4.1.  338A  PRINCE JOHN I pawned thee none.
2H4 4.1.  339  I promised you redress of these same grievances
2H4 4.1.  340  Whereof you did complain; which, by mine honour,
2H4 4.1.  341  I will perform with a most Christian care.
2H4 4.1.  342  But for you rebels, look to taste the due
2H4 4.1.  343  Meet for rebellion and such acts as yours.
2H4 4.1.  344  Most shallowly did you these arms commence,
2H4 4.1.  345  Fondly brought here, and foolishly sent hence. - 
2H4 4.1.  346  Strike up our drums, pursue the scattered stray.
2H4 4.1.  347  God, and not we, hath safely fought today.
2H4 4.1.  348  Some guard these traitors to the block of death,
2H4 4.1.  349  Treason's true bed and yielder up of breath. {Exeunt}
2H4 4.1.    0    {Alarum. Excursions. Enter Sir John Falstaff and           +
2H4 4.2.    0  Coleville}
2H4 4.2.    1   SIR JOHN  What's your name, sir, of what condition are
2H4 4.2.    2  you, and of what place, I pray?
2H4 4.2.    3   COLEVILLE I am a knight, sir, and my name is Coleville
2H4 4.2.    4  of the Dale.
2H4 4.2.    5   SIR JOHN Well then, Coleville is your name, a knight is
2H4 4.2.    6  your degree, and your place the Dale. Coleville shall be
2H4 4.2.    7  still your name, a traitor your degree, and the dungeon
2H4 4.2.    8  your place - a place deep enough, so shall you be still
2H4 4.2.    9  Coleville of the Dale.
2H4 4.2.   10   COLEVILLE Are not you Sir John Falstaff?
2H4 4.2.   11   SIR JOHN As good a man as he, sir, whoe'er I am. Do ye
2H4 4.2.   12  yield, sir, or shall I sweat for you? If I do sweat, they
2H4 4.2.   13  are the drops of thy lovers, and they weep for thy
2H4 4.2.   14  death; therefore rouse up fear and trembling, and do
2H4 4.2.   15  observance to my mercy.
2H4 4.2.   16   COLEVILLE  {(kneeling)} I think you are Sir John     +
2H4 4.2.   16  Falstaff, and
2H4 4.2.   17  in that thought yield me.
2H4 4.2.   18   SIR JOHN  {(aside)} I have a whole school of         +
2H4 4.2.   18  tongues in this
2H4 4.2.   19  belly of mine, and not a tongue of them all speaks any
2H4 4.2.   20  other word but my name. An I had but a belly of any
2H4 4.2.   21  indifferency, I were simply the most active fellow in
2H4 4.2.   22  Europe. My womb, my womb, my womb undoes me. {Enter Prince John,  +
2H4 4.2.   22  the Earl of Westmorland, Sir John Blunt, and other lords and soldiers}
2H4 4.2.   23   Here comes our general.
2H4 4.2.   24   PRINCE JOHN  The heat is past; follow no further            +
2H4 4.2.   24  now. {A retreat is sounded}
2H4 4.2.   25   Call in the powers, good cousin Westmorland. {Exit      +
2H4 4.2.   25  Westmorland}
2H4 4.2.   26   Now, Falstaff, where have you been all this while?
2H4 4.2.   27  When everything is ended, then you come.
2H4 4.2.   28  These tardy tricks of yours will, on my life,
2H4 4.2.   29  One time or other break some gallows' back.
2H4 4.2.   30   SIR JOHN  I would be sorry, my lord, but it should be       +
2H4 4.2.   30  thus.
2H4 4.2.   31  I never knew yet but rebuke and check was the reward
2H4 4.2.   32  of valour. Do you think me a swallow, an arrow, or a
2H4 4.2.   33  bullet? Have I in my poor and old motion the expedition
2H4 4.2.   34  of thought? I have speeded hither with the very
2H4 4.2.   35  extremest inch of possibility; I have foundered nine-
2H4 4.2.   36  score and odd posts; and here, travel-tainted as I am,
2H4 4.2.   37  have in my pure and immaculate valour taken Sir John
2H4 4.2.   38  Coleville of the Dale, a most furious knight and valorous
2H4 4.2.   39  enemy. But what of that? He saw me, and yielded, that
2H4 4.2.   40  I may justly say, with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome,
2H4 4.2.   41  `I came, saw, and overcame.'
2H4 4.2.   42   PRINCE JOHN It was more of his courtesy than your
2H4 4.2.   43  deserving.
2H4 4.2.   44   SIR JOHN I know not. Here he is, and here I yield him;
2H4 4.2.   45  and I beseech your grace, let it be booked with the rest
2H4 4.2.   46  of this day's deeds; or, by the Lord, I will have it in a
2H4 4.2.   47  particular ballad else, with mine own picture on the
2H4 4.2.   48  top on 't, Coleville kissing my foot; to the which course
2H4 4.2.   49  if I be enforced, if you do not all show like gilt twopences
2H4 4.2.   50  to me, and I in the clear sky of fame o'ershine you as
2H4 4.2.   51  much as the full moon doth the cinders of the element,
2H4 4.2.   52  which show like pins' heads to her, believe not the
2H4 4.2.   53  word of the noble. Therefore let me have right, and let
2H4 4.2.   54  desert mount.
2H4 4.2.   55   PRINCE JOHN Thine's too heavy to mount.
2H4 4.2.   56   SIR JOHN Let it shine then.
2H4 4.2.   57   PRINCE JOHN Thine's too thick to shine.
2H4 4.2.   58   SIR JOHN Let it do something, my good lord, that may do
2H4 4.2.   59  me good, and call it what you will.
2H4 4.2.   60B  PRINCE JOHN  Is thy name Coleville? COLEVILLE It is, my  +
2H4 4.2.   60B lord.
2H4 4.2.   61   PRINCE JOHN A famous rebel art thou, Coleville.
2H4 4.2.   62   SIR JOHN  And a famous true subject took him.
2H4 4.2.   63   COLEVILLE  I am, my lord, but as my betters are
2H4 4.2.   64  That led me hither. Had they been ruled by me,
2H4 4.2.   65  You should have won them dearer than you have.
2H4 4.2.   66   SIR JOHN I know not how - they sold themselves, but thou
2H4 4.2.   67  Like a kind fellow gav'st thyself away,
2H4 4.2.   68B And I thank thee for thee. {Enter the Earl of                     +
2H4 4.2.   68B Westmorland} PRINCE JOHN  Have you left pursuit?
2H4 4.2.   69   WESTMORLAND Retreat is made, and execution stayed.
2H4 4.2.   70   PRINCE JOHN Send Coleville with his confederates
2H4 4.2.   71  To York, to present execution.
2H4 4.2.   72  Blunt, lead him hence, and see you guard him sure. {Exit Blunt,   +
2H4 4.2.   72  with Coleville}
2H4 4.2.   73   And now dispatch we toward the court, my lords.
2H4 4.2.   74  I hear the King my father is sore sick.
2H4 4.2.   75   {(To Westmorland)} Our news shall go before us to his   +
2H4 4.2.   75  majesty,
2H4 4.2.   76  Which, cousin, you shall bear to comfort him;
2H4 4.2.   77  And we with sober speed will follow you.
2H4 4.2.   78   SIR JOHN My lord, I beseech you give me leave to go
2H4 4.2.   79  Through Gloucestershire, and when you come to court
2H4 4.2.   80  Stand, my good lord, pray, in your good report.
2H4 4.2.   81   PRINCE JOHN Fare you well, Falstaff. I in my condition
2H4 4.2.   82  Shall better speak of you than you deserve. {Exeunt all but Sir   +
2H4 4.2.   82  John}
2H4 4.2.   83   SIR JOHN  I would you had but the wit; 'twere better than
2H4 4.2.   84  your dukedom. Good faith, this same young sober-
2H4 4.2.   85  blooded boy doth not love me, nor a man cannot make
2H4 4.2.   86  him laugh. But that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.
2H4 4.2.   87  There's never none of these demure boys come to any
2H4 4.2.   88  proof; for thin drink doth so overcool their blood, and
2H4 4.2.   89  making many fish meals, that they fall into a kind of
2H4 4.2.   90  male green-sickness; and then when they marry, they
2H4 4.2.   91  get wenches. They are generally fools and cowards - 
2H4 4.2.   92  which some of us should be too, but for inflammation.
2H4 4.2.   93  A good sherry-sack hath a two-fold operation in it. It
2H4 4.2.   94  ascends me into the brain, dries me there all the foolish
2H4 4.2.   95  and dull and crudy vapours which environ it, makes
2H4 4.2.   96  it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery,
2H4 4.2.   97  and delectable shapes, which, delivered o'er to the
2H4 4.2.   98  voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent
2H4 4.2.   99  wit. The second property of your excellent sherry is the
2H4 4.2.  100  warming of the blood, which, before cold and settled,
2H4 4.2.  101  left the liver white and pale, which is the badge of
2H4 4.2.  102  pusillanimity and cowardice. But the sherry warms it,
2H4 4.2.  103  and makes it course from the inwards to the parts'
2H4 4.2.  104  extremes; it illuminateth the face, which, as a beacon,
2H4 4.2.  105  gives warning to all the rest of this little kingdom, man,
2H4 4.2.  106  to arm; and then the vital commoners and inland petty
2H4 4.2.  107  spirits muster me all to their captain, the heart; who,
2H4 4.2.  108  great and puffed up with his retinue, doth any deed of
2H4 4.2.  109  courage. And this valour comes of sherry. So that skill
2H4 4.2.  110  in the weapon is nothing without sack, for that sets it
2H4 4.2.  111  a-work; and learning a mere hoard of gold kept by a
2H4 4.2.  112  devil, till sack commences it and sets it in act and use.
2H4 4.2.  113  Hereof comes it that Prince Harry is valiant; for the
2H4 4.2.  114  cold blood he did naturally inherit of his father he hath,
2H4 4.2.  115  like lean, sterile, and bare land, manured, husbanded,
2H4 4.2.  116  and tilled, with excellent endeavour of drinking good,
2H4 4.2.  117  and good store of fertile sherry, that he is become very
2H4 4.2.  118  hot and valiant. If I had a thousand sons, the first
2H4 4.2.  119  human principle I would teach them should be to
2H4 4.2.  120  forswear thin potations, and to addict themselves to
2H4 4.2.  121  sack. {Enter Bardolph}
2H4 4.2.  122   How now, Bardolph?
2H4 4.2.  123   BARDOLPH  The army is discharged all and gone.
2H4 4.2.  124   SIR JOHN  Let them go. I'll through Gloucestershire, and
2H4 4.2.  125  there will I visit Master Robert Shallow, Esquire. I have
2H4 4.2.  126  him already tempering between my finger and my
2H4 4.2.  127  thumb, and shortly will I seal with him. Come, away! {Exeunt}
2H4 4.2.    0    {Enter King Henry [in his bed], attended by the Earl of    +
2H4 4.3.    0  Warwick, Thomas Duke of Clarence, Humphrey Duke of Gloucester, [and      +
2H4 4.3.    0  others]}
2H4 4.3.    1   KING HENRY  Now, lords, if God doth give successful end
2H4 4.3.    2  To this debate that bleedeth at our doors,
2H4 4.3.    3  We will our youth lead on to higher fields,
2H4 4.3.    4  And draw no swords but what are sanctified.
2H4 4.3.    5  Our navy is addressed, our power collected,
2H4 4.3.    6  Our substitutes in absence well invested,
2H4 4.3.    7  And everything lies level to our wish;
2H4 4.3.    8  Only we want a little personal strength,
2H4 4.3.    9  And pause us till these rebels now afoot
2H4 4.3.   10  Come underneath the yoke of government.
2H4 4.3.   11   WARWICK Both which we doubt not but your majesty
2H4 4.3.   12B Shall soon enjoy. KING HENRY Humphrey, my son of Gloucester,
2H4 4.3.   13  Where is the Prince your brother?
2H4 4.3.   14   GLOUCESTER I think he's gone to hunt, my lord, at Windsor.
2H4 4.3.   15B  KING HENRY And how accompanied? GLOUCESTER I do not know, my      +
2H4 4.3.   15B lord.
2H4 4.3.   16   KING HENRY Is not his brother Thomas of Clarence with him?
2H4 4.3.   17   GLOUCESTER No, my good lord, he is in presence here.
2H4 4.3.   18A  CLARENCE What would my lord and father?
2H4 4.3.   19   KING HENRY Nothing but well to thee, Thomas of Clarence.
2H4 4.3.   20  How chance thou art not with the Prince thy brother?
2H4 4.3.   21  He loves thee, and thou dost neglect him, Thomas.
2H4 4.3.   22  Thou hast a better place in his affection
2H4 4.3.   23  Than all thy brothers. Cherish it, my boy,
2H4 4.3.   24  And noble offices thou mayst effect
2H4 4.3.   25  Of mediation, after I am dead,
2H4 4.3.   26  Between his greatness and thy other brethren.
2H4 4.3.   27  Therefore omit him not, blunt not his love,
2H4 4.3.   28  Nor lose the good advantage of his grace
2H4 4.3.   29  By seeming cold or careless of his will;
2H4 4.3.   30  For he is gracious, if he be observed;
2H4 4.3.   31  He hath a tear for pity, and a hand
2H4 4.3.   32  Open as day for melting charity.
2H4 4.3.   33  Yet notwithstanding, being incensed, he is flint,
2H4 4.3.   34  As humorous as winter, and as sudden
2H4 4.3.   35  As flaws congealed in the spring of day.
2H4 4.3.   36  His temper therefore must be well observed.
2H4 4.3.   37  Chide him for faults, and do it reverently,
2H4 4.3.   38  When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth;
2H4 4.3.   39  But being moody, give him line and scope
2H4 4.3.   40  Till that his passions, like a whale on ground,
2H4 4.3.   41  Confound themselves with working. Learn this, Thomas,
2H4 4.3.   42  And thou shalt prove a shelter to thy friends,
2H4 4.3.   43  A hoop of gold to bind thy brothers in,
2H4 4.3.   44  That the united vessel of their blood,
2H4 4.3.   45  Mingled with venom of suggestion - 
2H4 4.3.   46  As force perforce the age will pour it in - 
2H4 4.3.   47  Shall never leak, though it do work as strong
2H4 4.3.   48  As aconitum or rash gunpowder.
2H4 4.3.   49   CLARENCE I shall observe him with all care and love.
2H4 4.3.   50   KING HENRY Why art thou not at Windsor with him, Thomas?
2H4 4.3.   51   CLARENCE He is not there today; he dines in London.
2H4 4.3.   52   KING HENRY And how accompanied? Canst thou tell that?
2H4 4.3.   53   CLARENCE With Poins and other his continual followers.
2H4 4.3.   54   KING HENRY Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds,
2H4 4.3.   55  And he, the noble image of my youth,
2H4 4.3.   56  Is overspread with them; therefore my grief
2H4 4.3.   57  Stretches itself beyond the hour of death.
2H4 4.3.   58  The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape
2H4 4.3.   59  In forms imaginary th' unguided days
2H4 4.3.   60  And rotten times that you shall look upon
2H4 4.3.   61  When I am sleeping with my ancestors;
2H4 4.3.   62  For when his headstrong riot hath no curb,
2H4 4.3.   63  When rage and hot blood are his counsellors,
2H4 4.3.   64  When means and lavish manners meet together,
2H4 4.3.   65  O, with what wings shall his affections fly
2H4 4.3.   66  Towards fronting peril and opposed decay?
2H4 4.3.   67   WARWICK My gracious lord, you look beyond him quite.
2H4 4.3.   68  The Prince but studies his companions,
2H4 4.3.   69  Like a strange tongue, wherein, to gain the language,
2H4 4.3.   70  'Tis needful that the most immodest word
2H4 4.3.   71  Be looked upon and learnt, which once attained,
2H4 4.3.   72  Your highness knows, comes to no further use
2H4 4.3.   73  But to be known and hated; so, like gross terms,
2H4 4.3.   74  The Prince will in the perfectness of time
2H4 4.3.   75  Cast off his followers, and their memory
2H4 4.3.   76  Shall as a pattern or a measure live
2H4 4.3.   77  By which his grace must mete the lives of other,
2H4 4.3.   78  Turning past evils to advantages.
2H4 4.3.   79   KING HENRY 'Tis seldom when the bee doth leave her comb
2H4 4.3.   80B In the dead carrion. {Enter the Earl of Westmorland}     +
2H4 4.3.   80B Who's here? Westmorland?
2H4 4.3.   81   WESTMORLAND Health to my sovereign, and new happiness
2H4 4.3.   82  Added to that that I am to deliver!
2H4 4.3.   83  Prince John your son doth kiss your grace's hand.
2H4 4.3.   84  Mowbray, the Bishop Scrope, Hastings, and all
2H4 4.3.   85  Are brought to the correction of your law.
2H4 4.3.   86  There is not now a rebel's sword unsheathed,
2H4 4.3.   87  But peace puts forth her olive everywhere.
2H4 4.3.   88  The manner how this action hath been borne
2H4 4.3.   89  Here at more leisure may your highness read,
2H4 4.3.   90  With every course in his particular. {He gives the King papers}
2H4 4.3.   91   KING HENRY  O Westmorland, thou art a summer bird
2H4 4.3.   92  Which ever in the haunch of winter sings
2H4 4.3.   93B The lifting up of day. {Enter Harcourt} Look, here's     +
2H4 4.3.   93B more news.
2H4 4.3.   94   HARCOURT From enemies heaven keep your majesty;
2H4 4.3.   95  And when they stand against you, may they fall
2H4 4.3.   96  As those that I am come to tell you of!
2H4 4.3.   97  The Earl Northumberland and the Lord Bardolph,
2H4 4.3.   98  With a great power of English and of Scots,
2H4 4.3.   99  Are by the sheriff of Yorkshire overthrown.
2H4 4.3.  100  The manner and true order of the fight
2H4 4.3.  101  This packet, please it you, contains at large. {He gives the      +
2H4 4.3.  101  King papers}
2H4 4.3.  102   KING HENRY  And wherefore should these good news make me    +
2H4 4.3.  102  sick?
2H4 4.3.  103  Will fortune never come with both hands full,
2H4 4.3.  104  But write her fair words still in foulest letters?
2H4 4.3.  105  She either gives a stomach and no food - 
2H4 4.3.  106  Such are the poor in health - or else a feast,
2H4 4.3.  107  And takes away the stomach - such are the rich,
2H4 4.3.  108  That have abundance and enjoy it not.
2H4 4.3.  109  I should rejoice now at this happy news,
2H4 4.3.  110  And now my sight fails, and my brain is giddy.
2H4 4.3.  111  O me! Come near me now; I am much ill. {He swoons}
2H4 4.3.  112B  GLOUCESTER  Comfort, your majesty! CLARENCE O my royal   +
2H4 4.3.  112B father!
2H4 4.3.  113   WESTMORLAND My sovereign lord, cheer up yourself, look up.
2H4 4.3.  114   WARWICK Be patient, princes; you do know these fits
2H4 4.3.  115  Are with his highness very ordinary.
2H4 4.3.  116  Stand from him, give him air; he'll straight be well.
2H4 4.3.  117   CLARENCE No, no, he cannot long hold out these pangs.
2H4 4.3.  118  Th' incessant care and labour of his mind
2H4 4.3.  119  Hath wrought the mure that should confine it in
2H4 4.3.  120  So thin that life looks through and will break out.
2H4 4.3.  121   GLOUCESTER The people fear me, for they do observe
2H4 4.3.  122  Unfathered heirs and loathly births of nature.
2H4 4.3.  123  The seasons change their manners, as the year
2H4 4.3.  124  Had found some months asleep and leaped them over.
2H4 4.3.  125   CLARENCE The river hath thrice flowed, no ebb between,
2H4 4.3.  126  And the old folk, time's doting chronicles,
2H4 4.3.  127  Say it did so a little time before
2H4 4.3.  128  That our great grandsire Edward sicked and died.
2H4 4.3.  129   WARWICK Speak lower, princes, for the King recovers.
2H4 4.3.  130   GLOUCESTER This apoplexy will certain be his end.
2H4 4.3.  131   KING HENRY I pray you take me up and bear me hence
2H4 4.3.  132  Into some other chamber; softly, pray. {[The King is carried      +
2H4 4.3.  132  over the stage in his bed]}
2H4 4.3.  133   Let there be no noise made, my gentle friends,
2H4 4.3.  134  Unless some dull and favourable hand
2H4 4.3.  135  Will whisper music to my weary spirit.
2H4 4.3.  136   WARWICK Call for the music in the other room. {[Exit one or   +
2H4 4.3.  136  more. Still music within]}
2H4 4.3.  137   KING HENRY  Set me the crown upon my pillow here.    +
2H4 4.3.  137  {[Clarence] takes the crown [from the King's head], and sets it on his   +
2H4 4.3.  137  pillow}
2H4 4.3.  138   CLARENCE  His eye is hollow, and he changes much.    +
2H4 4.3.  138  {[A noise within]}
2H4 4.3.  139B  WARWICK  Less noise, less noise! {Enter Prince       +
2H4 4.3.  139B Harry} PRINCE HARRY  Who saw the Duke of Clarence?
2H4 4.3.  140   CLARENCE I am here, brother, full of heaviness.
2H4 4.3.  141   PRINCE HARRY How now, rain within doors, and none abroad?
2H4 4.3.  142B How doth the King? GLOUCESTER Exceeding ill.
2H4 4.3.  143   PRINCE HARRY Heard he the good news yet? Tell it him.
2H4 4.3.  144   GLOUCESTER He altered much upon the hearing it.
2H4 4.3.  145   PRINCE HARRY  If he be sick with joy, he'll recover         +
2H4 4.3.  145  without
2H4 4.3.  146  physic.
2H4 4.3.  147   WARWICK  Not so much noise, my lords! Sweet prince, speak   +
2H4 4.3.  147  low.
2H4 4.3.  148  The King your father is disposed to sleep.
2H4 4.3.  149   CLARENCE Let us withdraw into the other room.
2H4 4.3.  150   WARWICK Will 't please your grace to go along with us?
2H4 4.3.  151   PRINCE HARRY No, I will sit and watch here by the King.       +
2H4 4.3.  151  {Exeunt all but the King and Prince Harry}
2H4 4.3.  152   Why doth the crown lie there upon his pillow,
2H4 4.3.  153  Being so troublesome a bedfellow?
2H4 4.3.  154  O polished perturbation, golden care,
2H4 4.3.  155  That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide
2H4 4.3.  156  To many a watchful night! - Sleep with it now;
2H4 4.3.  157  Yet not so sound, and half so deeply sweet,
2H4 4.3.  158  As he whose brow with homely biggen bound
2H4 4.3.  159  Snores out the watch of night. O majesty,
2H4 4.3.  160  When thou dost pinch thy bearer, thou dost sit
2H4 4.3.  161  Like a rich armour worn in heat of day,
2H4 4.3.  162  That scald'st with safety. - By his gates of breath
2H4 4.3.  163  There lies a downy feather which stirs not.
2H4 4.3.  164  Did he suspire, that light and weightless down
2H4 4.3.  165  Perforce must move. - My gracious lord, my father! - 
2H4 4.3.  166  This sleep is sound indeed. This is a sleep
2H4 4.3.  167  That from this golden rigol hath divorced
2H4 4.3.  168  So many English kings. - Thy due from me
2H4 4.3.  169  Is tears and heavy sorrows of the blood,
2H4 4.3.  170  Which nature, love, and filial tenderness
2H4 4.3.  171  Shall, O dear father, pay thee plenteously.
2H4 4.3.  172  My due from thee is this imperial crown,
2H4 4.3.  173  Which, as immediate from thy place and blood,
2H4 4.3.  174B Derives itself to me. {He puts the crown on his head}    +
2H4 4.3.  174B Lo where it sits,
2H4 4.3.  175  Which God shall guard; and put the world's whole strength
2H4 4.3.  176  Into one giant arm, it shall not force
2H4 4.3.  177  This lineal honour from me. This from thee
2H4 4.3.  178  Will I to mine leave, as 'tis left to me. {Exit}
2H4 4.3.  179B  {[Music ceases.] The King awakes} KING HENRY         +
2H4 4.3.  179B Warwick, Gloucester, Clarence! {Enter the Earl of Warwick, and    +
2H4 4.3.  179B the Dukes of Gloucester and Clarence} CLARENCE  Doth the     +
2H4 4.3.  179B King call?
2H4 4.3.  180   WARWICK What would your majesty? How fares your grace?
2H4 4.3.  181   KING HENRY Why did you leave me here alone, my lords?
2H4 4.3.  182   CLARENCE We left the Prince my brother here, my liege,
2H4 4.3.  183  Who undertook to sit and watch by you.
2H4 4.3.  184   KING HENRY The Prince of Wales? Where is he? Let me see him.
2H4 4.3.  185   WARWICK This door is open; he is gone this way.
2H4 4.3.  186   GLOUCESTER He came not through the chamber where we stayed.
2H4 4.3.  187   KING HENRY Where is the crown? Who took it from my pillow?
2H4 4.3.  188   WARWICK When we withdrew, my liege, we left it here.
2H4 4.3.  189   KING HENRY The Prince hath ta'en it hence. Go seek him out.
2H4 4.3.  190  Is he so hasty that he doth suppose
2H4 4.3.  191  My sleep my death?
2H4 4.3.  192  Find him, my lord of Warwick; chide him hither. {Exit Warwick}
2H4 4.3.  193   This part of his conjoins with my disease,
2H4 4.3.  194  And helps to end me. See, sons, what things you are,
2H4 4.3.  195  How quickly nature falls into revolt
2H4 4.3.  196  When gold becomes her object!
2H4 4.3.  197  For this the foolish over-careful fathers
2H4 4.3.  198  Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care,
2H4 4.3.  199  Their bones with industry; for this they have
2H4 4.3.  200  Engrossed and piled up the cankered heaps
2H4 4.3.  201  Of strange-achieved gold; for this they have
2H4 4.3.  202  Been thoughtful to invest their sons with arts
2H4 4.3.  203  And martial exercises; when, like the bee
2H4 4.3.  204  Culling from every flower the virtuous sweets,
2H4 4.3.  205  Our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with honey,
2H4 4.3.  206  We bring it to the hive; and, like the bees,
2H4 4.3.  207  Are murdered for our pains. This bitter taste
2H4 4.3.  208  Yields his engrossments to the ending father. {Enter the Earl of  +
2H4 4.3.  208  Warwick}
2H4 4.3.  209   Now where is he that will not stay so long
2H4 4.3.  210  Till his friend sickness have determined me?
2H4 4.3.  211   WARWICK My lord, I found the Prince in the next room,
2H4 4.3.  212  Washing with kindly tears his gentle cheeks
2H4 4.3.  213  With such a deep demeanour, in great sorrow,
2H4 4.3.  214  That tyranny, which never quaffed but blood,
2H4 4.3.  215  Would, by beholding him, have washed his knife
2H4 4.3.  216  With gentle eye-drops. He is coming hither.
2H4 4.3.  217   KING HENRY But wherefore did he take away the crown? {Enter   +
2H4 4.3.  217  Prince Harry with the crown}
2H4 4.3.  218   Lo where he comes. - Come hither to me, Harry.
2H4 4.3.  219   {(To the others)} Depart the chamber; leave us here     +
2H4 4.3.  219  alone. {Exeunt all but the King and Prince Harry}
2H4 4.3.  220   PRINCE HARRY  I never thought to hear you speak again.
2H4 4.3.  221   KING HENRY Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.
2H4 4.3.  222  I stay too long by thee, I weary thee.
2H4 4.3.  223  Dost thou so hunger for mine empty chair
2H4 4.3.  224  That thou wilt needs invest thee with my honours
2H4 4.3.  225  Before thy hour be ripe? O foolish youth,
2H4 4.3.  226  Thou seek'st the greatness that will overwhelm thee!
2H4 4.3.  227  Stay but a little, for my cloud of dignity
2H4 4.3.  228  Is held from falling with so weak a wind
2H4 4.3.  229  That it will quickly drop. My day is dim.
2H4 4.3.  230  Thou hast stol'n that which after some few hours
2H4 4.3.  231  Were thine without offence, and at my death
2H4 4.3.  232  Thou hast sealed up my expectation.
2H4 4.3.  233  Thy life did manifest thou loved'st me not,
2H4 4.3.  234  And thou wilt have me die assured of it.
2H4 4.3.  235  Thou hid'st a thousand daggers in thy thoughts,
2H4 4.3.  236  Whom thou hast whetted on thy stony heart
2H4 4.3.  237  To stab at half an hour of my life.
2H4 4.3.  238  What, canst thou not forbear me half an hour?
2H4 4.3.  239  Then get thee gone and dig my grave thyself,
2H4 4.3.  240  And bid the merry bells ring to thine ear
2H4 4.3.  241  That thou art crowned, not that I am dead.
2H4 4.3.  242  Let all the tears that should bedew my hearse
2H4 4.3.  243  Be drops of balm to sanctify thy head.
2H4 4.3.  244  Only compound me with forgotten dust.
2H4 4.3.  245  Give that which gave thee life unto the worms.
2H4 4.3.  246  Pluck down my officers, break my decrees;
2H4 4.3.  247  For now a time is come to mock at form - 
2H4 4.3.  248  Harry the Fifth is crowned. Up, vanity!
2H4 4.3.  249  Down, royal state! All you sage counsellors, hence!
2H4 4.3.  250  And to the English court assemble now
2H4 4.3.  251  From every region, apes of idleness!
2H4 4.3.  252  Now, neighbour confines, purge you of your scum!
2H4 4.3.  253  Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance,
2H4 4.3.  254  Revel the night, rob, murder, and commit
2H4 4.3.  255  The oldest sins the newest kind of ways?
2H4 4.3.  256  Be happy; he will trouble you no more.
2H4 4.3.  257  England shall double gild his treble guilt,
2H4 4.3.  258  England shall give him office, honour, might;
2H4 4.3.  259  For the fifth Harry from curbed licence plucks
2H4 4.3.  260  The muzzle of restraint, and the wild dog
2H4 4.3.  261  Shall flesh his tooth on every innocent.
2H4 4.3.  262  O my poor kingdom, sick with civil blows!
2H4 4.3.  263  When that my care could not withhold thy riots,
2H4 4.3.  264  What wilt thou do when riot is thy care?
2H4 4.3.  265  O, thou wilt be a wilderness again,
2H4 4.3.  266  Peopled with wolves, thy old inhabitants.
2H4 4.3.  267   PRINCE HARRY O pardon me, my liege! But for my tears,
2H4 4.3.  268  The moist impediments unto my speech,
2H4 4.3.  269  I had forestalled this dear and deep rebuke
2H4 4.3.  270  Ere you with grief had spoke and I had heard
2H4 4.3.  271  The course of it so far. There is your crown; {[He returns the    +
2H4 4.3.  271  crown and kneels]}
2H4 4.3.  272   And He that wears the crown immortally
2H4 4.3.  273  Long guard it yours! If I affect it more
2H4 4.3.  274  Than as your honour and as your renown,
2H4 4.3.  275  Let me no more from this obedience rise,
2H4 4.3.  276  Which my most true and inward duteous spirit
2H4 4.3.  277  Teacheth this prostrate and exterior bending.
2H4 4.3.  278  God witness with me, when I here came in
2H4 4.3.  279  And found no course of breath within your majesty,
2H4 4.3.  280  How cold it struck my heart. If I do feign,
2H4 4.3.  281  O, let me in my present wildness die,
2H4 4.3.  282  And never live to show th' incredulous world
2H4 4.3.  283  The noble change that I have purposed.
2H4 4.3.  284  Coming to look on you, thinking you dead,
2H4 4.3.  285  And dead almost, my liege, to think you were,
2H4 4.3.  286  I spake unto this crown as having sense,
2H4 4.3.  287  And thus upbraided it: `The care on thee depending
2H4 4.3.  288  Hath fed upon the body of my father;
2H4 4.3.  289  Therefore thou best of gold art worst of gold.
2H4 4.3.  290  Other, less fine in carat, is more precious,
2H4 4.3.  291  Preserving life in medicine potable;
2H4 4.3.  292  But thou, most fine, most honoured, most renowned,
2H4 4.3.  293  Hast eat thy bearer up.' Thus, my royal liege,
2H4 4.3.  294  Accusing it, I put it on my head,
2H4 4.3.  295  To try with it, as with an enemy
2H4 4.3.  296  That had before my face murdered my father,
2H4 4.3.  297  The quarrel of a true inheritor.
2H4 4.3.  298  But if it did infect my blood with joy
2H4 4.3.  299  Or swell my thoughts to any strain of pride,
2H4 4.3.  300  If any rebel or vain spirit of mine
2H4 4.3.  301  Did with the least affection of a welcome
2H4 4.3.  302  Give entertainment to the might of it,
2H4 4.3.  303  Let God for ever keep it from my head,
2H4 4.3.  304  And make me as the poorest vassal is,
2H4 4.3.  305  That doth with awe and terror kneel to it.
2H4 4.3.  306A  KING HENRY O my son,
2H4 4.3.  307  God put it in thy mind to take it hence,
2H4 4.3.  308  That thou mightst win the more thy father's love,
2H4 4.3.  309  Pleading so wisely in excuse of it!
2H4 4.3.  310  Come hither, Harry; sit thou by my bed,
2H4 4.3.  311  And hear, I think, the very latest counsel
2H4 4.3.  312B That ever I shall breathe. {Prince Harry [rises from kneeling     +
2H4 4.3.  312B and] sits by the bed} God knows, my son,
2H4 4.3.  313  By what bypaths and indirect crook'd ways
2H4 4.3.  314  I met this crown; and I myself know well
2H4 4.3.  315  How troublesome it sat upon my head.
2H4 4.3.  316  To thee it shall descend with better quiet,
2H4 4.3.  317  Better opinion, better confirmation;
2H4 4.3.  318  For all the soil of the achievement goes
2H4 4.3.  319  With me into the earth. It seemed in me
2H4 4.3.  320  But as an honour snatched with boist'rous hand;
2H4 4.3.  321  And I had many living to upbraid
2H4 4.3.  322  My gain of it by their assistances,
2H4 4.3.  323  Which daily grew to quarrel and to bloodshed,
2H4 4.3.  324  Wounding supposed peace. All these bold fears
2H4 4.3.  325  Thou seest with peril I have answered;
2H4 4.3.  326  For all my reign hath been but as a scene
2H4 4.3.  327  Acting that argument. And now my death
2H4 4.3.  328  Changes the mood, for what in me was purchased
2H4 4.3.  329  Falls upon thee in a more fairer sort,
2H4 4.3.  330  So thou the garland wear'st successively.
2H4 4.3.  331  Yet though thou stand'st more sure than I could do,
2H4 4.3.  332  Thou art not firm enough, since griefs are green,
2H4 4.3.  333  And all thy friends - which thou must make thy friends - 
2H4 4.3.  334  Have but their stings and teeth newly ta'en out,
2H4 4.3.  335  By whose fell working I was first advanced,
2H4 4.3.  336  And by whose power I well might lodge a fear
2H4 4.3.  337  To be again displaced; which to avoid
2H4 4.3.  338  I cut them off, and had a purpose now
2H4 4.3.  339  To lead out many to the Holy Land,
2H4 4.3.  340  Lest rest and lying still might make them look
2H4 4.3.  341  Too near unto my state. Therefore, my Harry,
2H4 4.3.  342  Be it thy course to busy giddy minds
2H4 4.3.  343  With foreign quarrels, that action hence borne out
2H4 4.3.  344  May waste the memory of the former days.
2H4 4.3.  345  More would I, but my lungs are wasted so
2H4 4.3.  346  That strength of speech is utterly denied me.
2H4 4.3.  347  How I came by the crown, O God forgive,
2H4 4.3.  348  And grant it may with thee in true peace live!
2H4 4.3.  349A  PRINCE HARRY My gracious liege,
2H4 4.3.  350  You won it, wore it, kept it, gave it me;
2H4 4.3.  351  Then plain and right must my possession be,
2H4 4.3.  352  Which I with more than with a common pain
2H4 4.3.  353  'Gainst all the world will rightfully maintain. {Enter Prince     +
2H4 4.3.  353  John of Lancaster [followed by] the Earl of Warwick [and others]}
2H4 4.3.  354   KING HENRY  Look, look, here comes my John of Lancaster.
2H4 4.3.  355   PRINCE JOHN Health, peace, and happiness to my royal father!
2H4 4.3.  356   KING HENRY Thou bring'st me happiness and peace, son John;
2H4 4.3.  357  But health, alack, with youthful wings is flown
2H4 4.3.  358  From this bare withered trunk. Upon thy sight
2H4 4.3.  359  My worldly business makes a period.
2H4 4.3.  360B Where is my lord of Warwick? PRINCE HARRY My lord of Warwick!  +
2H4 4.3.  360B {[Warwick comes forward to the King]}
2H4 4.3.  361   KING HENRY  Doth any name particular belong
2H4 4.3.  362  Unto the lodging where I first did swoon?
2H4 4.3.  363   WARWICK 'Tis called Jerusalem, my noble lord.
2H4 4.3.  364   KING HENRY Laud be to God! Even there my life must end.
2H4 4.3.  365  It hath been prophesied to me many years
2H4 4.3.  366  I should not die but in Jerusalem,
2H4 4.3.  367  Which vainly I supposed the Holy Land;
2H4 4.3.  368  But bear me to that chamber; there I'll lie;
2H4 4.3.  369  In that Jerusalem shall Harry die. {Exeunt, bearing the King in   +
2H4 4.3.  369  his bed}
2H4 4.3.    0     {Enter Shallow, [Silence,] Sir John Falstaff,        +
2H4 5.1.    0  Bardolph, and the Page}
2H4 5.1.    1   SHALLOW  {(to Sir John} ) By cock and pie, you       +
2H4 5.1.    1  shall not
2H4 5.1.    2  away tonight. - What, Davy, I say!
2H4 5.1.    3   SIR JOHN You must excuse me, Master Robert Shallow.
2H4 5.1.    4   SHALLOW I will not excuse you; you shall not be excused;
2H4 5.1.    5  excuses shall not be admitted; there is no excuse shall
2H4 5.1.    6  serve; you shall not be excused. - Why, Davy! {Enter Davy}
2H4 5.1.    7   DAVY  Here, sir.
2H4 5.1.    8   SHALLOW Davy, Davy, Davy; let me see, Davy; let me
2H4 5.1.    9  see. William Cook - bid him come hither. - Sir John,
2H4 5.1.   10  you shall not be excused.
2H4 5.1.   11   DAVY Marry, sir, thus: those precepts cannot be served.
2H4 5.1.   12  And again, sir: shall we sow the headland with wheat?
2H4 5.1.   13   SHALLOW With red wheat, Davy. But for William Cook;
2H4 5.1.   14  are there no young pigeons?
2H4 5.1.   15   DAVY Yes, sir. Here is now the smith's note for shoeing
2H4 5.1.   16  and plough-irons.
2H4 5.1.   17   SHALLOW Let it be cast and paid. Sir John, you shall not
2H4 5.1.   18  be excused.
2H4 5.1.   19   DAVY Sir, a new link to the bucket must needs be had;
2H4 5.1.   20  and, sir, do you mean to stop any of William's wages,
2H4 5.1.   21  about the sack he lost at Hinkley Fair?
2H4 5.1.   22   SHALLOW A shall answer it. Some pigeons, Davy, a couple
2H4 5.1.   23  of short-legged hens, a joint of mutton, and any pretty
2H4 5.1.   24  little tiny kickshaws, tell William Cook.
2H4 5.1.   25   DAVY Doth the man of war stay all night, sir?
2H4 5.1.   26   SHALLOW Yea, Davy. I will use him well; a friend i' th'
2H4 5.1.   27  court is better than a penny in purse. Use his men well,
2H4 5.1.   28  Davy, for they are arrant knaves, and will backbite.
2H4 5.1.   29   DAVY No worse than they are back-bitten, sir, for they
2H4 5.1.   30  have marvellous foul linen.
2H4 5.1.   31   SHALLOW Well conceited, Davy. About thy business, Davy.
2H4 5.1.   32   DAVY I beseech you, sir, to countenance William Visor of
2H4 5.1.   33  Wo'ncot against Clement Perks o' th' Hill.
2H4 5.1.   34   SHALLOW There is many complaints, Davy, against that
2H4 5.1.   35  Visor. That Visor is an arrant knave, on my knowledge.
2H4 5.1.   36   DAVY I grant your worship that he is a knave, sir; but
2H4 5.1.   37  yet God forbid, sir, but a knave should have some
2H4 5.1.   38  countenance at his friend's request. An honest man,
2H4 5.1.   39  sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. I
2H4 5.1.   40  have served your worship truly, sir, this eight years.
2H4 5.1.   41  An I cannot once or twice in a quarter bear out a
2H4 5.1.   42  knave against an honest man, I have little credit with
2H4 5.1.   43  your worship. The knave is mine honest friend, sir;
2H4 5.1.   44  therefore I beseech you let him be countenanced.
2H4 5.1.   45   SHALLOW Go to; I say he shall have no wrong. Look
2H4 5.1.   46  about, Davy. {[Exit Davy]}
2H4 5.1.   47   Where are you, Sir John? Come, off with your boots. - 
2H4 5.1.   48  Give me your hand, Master Bardolph.
2H4 5.1.   49   BARDOLPH I am glad to see your worship.
2H4 5.1.   50   SHALLOW I thank thee with all my heart, kind Master
2H4 5.1.   51  Bardolph. {[To the Page]} And welcome, my tall fellow. - 
2H4 5.1.   52  Come, Sir John.
2H4 5.1.   53   SIR JOHN I'll follow you, good Master Robert Shallow. {Exit   +
2H4 5.1.   53  Shallow [with Silence]}
2H4 5.1.   54   Bardolph, look to our horses. {Exit Bardolph [with the  +
2H4 5.1.   54  Page]}
2H4 5.1.   55   If I were sawed into quantities, I should make four
2H4 5.1.   56  dozen of such bearded hermits' staves as Master
2H4 5.1.   57  Shallow. It is a wonderful thing to see the semblable
2H4 5.1.   58  coherence of his men's spirits and his. They, by
2H4 5.1.   59  observing him, do bear themselves like foolish justices;
2H4 5.1.   60  he, by conversing with them, is turned into a justice-
2H4 5.1.   61  like servingman. Their spirits are so married in
2H4 5.1.   62  conjunction, with the participation of society, that they
2H4 5.1.   63  flock together in consent like so many wild geese. If I
2H4 5.1.   64  had a suit to Master Shallow, I would humour his men
2H4 5.1.   65  with the imputation of being near their master; if to
2H4 5.1.   66  his men, I would curry with Master Shallow that no
2H4 5.1.   67  man could better command his servants. It is certain
2H4 5.1.   68  that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught
2H4 5.1.   69  as men take diseases, one of another; therefore let men
2H4 5.1.   70  take heed of their company. I will devise matter enough
2H4 5.1.   71  out of this Shallow to keep Prince Harry in continual
2H4 5.1.   72  laughter the wearing out of six fashions - which is four
2H4 5.1.   73  terms, or two actions - and a shall laugh without
2H4 5.1.   74  intervallums. O, it is much that a lie with a slight oath,
2H4 5.1.   75  and a jest with a sad brow, will do with a fellow that
2H4 5.1.   76  never had the ache in his shoulders! O, you shall see
2H4 5.1.   77  him laugh till his face be like a wet cloak ill laid up!
2H4 5.1.   78   SHALLOW  {(within)} Sir John!
2H4 5.1.   79   SIR JOHN I come, Master Shallow; I come, Master Shallow.      +
2H4 5.1.   79  {Exit}
2H4 5.1.    0    {Enter the Earl of Warwick [at one door], and the Lord     +
2H4 5.2.    0  Chief Justice [at another door]}
2H4 5.2.    1   WARWICK  How now, my Lord Chief Justice, whither away?
2H4 5.2.    2A  LORD CHIEF JUSTICE How doth the King?
2H4 5.2.    3   WARWICK Exceeding well: his cares are now all ended.
2H4 5.2.    4B  LORD CHIEF JUSTICE I hope not dead. WARWICK He's walked the way   +
2H4 5.2.    4B of nature,
2H4 5.2.    5  And to our purposes he lives no more.
2H4 5.2.    6   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE I would his majesty had called me with him.
2H4 5.2.    7  The service that I truly did his life
2H4 5.2.    8  Hath left me open to all injuries.
2H4 5.2.    9   WARWICK Indeed I think the young King loves you not.
2H4 5.2.   10   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE I know he doth not, and do arm myself
2H4 5.2.   11  To welcome the condition of the time,
2H4 5.2.   12  Which cannot look more hideously upon me
2H4 5.2.   13  Than I have drawn it in my fantasy. {Enter Prince John of         +
2H4 5.2.   13  Lancaster, and the Dukes of Clarence and Gloucester}
2H4 5.2.   14   WARWICK  Here come the heavy issue of dead Harry.
2H4 5.2.   15  O, that the living Harry had the temper
2H4 5.2.   16  Of he the worst of these three gentlemen!
2H4 5.2.   17  How many nobles then should hold their places,
2H4 5.2.   18  That must strike sail to spirits of vile sort!
2H4 5.2.   19   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE O God, I fear all will be overturned.
2H4 5.2.   20   PRINCE JOHN Good morrow, cousin Warwick, good morrow.
2H4 5.2.   21A  GLOUCESTER {AND} CLARENCE Good morrow, cousin.
2H4 5.2.   22   PRINCE JOHN We meet like men that had forgot to speak.
2H4 5.2.   23   WARWICK We do remember, but our argument
2H4 5.2.   24  Is all too heavy to admit much talk.
2H4 5.2.   25   PRINCE JOHN Well, peace be with him that hath made us heavy!
2H4 5.2.   26   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE Peace be with us, lest we be heavier!
2H4 5.2.   27   GLOUCESTER O good my lord, you have lost a friend indeed;
2H4 5.2.   28  And I dare swear you borrow not that face
2H4 5.2.   29  Of seeming sorrow - it is sure your own.
2H4 5.2.   30   PRINCE JOHN  {(to Lord Chief Justice)} Though no     +
2H4 5.2.   30  man be assured what grace to find,
2H4 5.2.   31  You stand in coldest expectation.
2H4 5.2.   32  I am the sorrier; would 'twere otherwise.
2H4 5.2.   33   CLARENCE  {(to Lord Chief Justice)} Well, you must   +
2H4 5.2.   33  now speak Sir John Falstaff fair,
2H4 5.2.   34  Which swims against your stream of quality.
2H4 5.2.   35   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE Sweet princes, what I did I did in honour,
2H4 5.2.   36  Led by th' impartial conduct of my soul;
2H4 5.2.   37  And never shall you see that I will beg
2H4 5.2.   38  A ragged and forestalled remission.
2H4 5.2.   39  If truth and upright innocency fail me,
2H4 5.2.   40  I'll to the King my master, that is dead,
2H4 5.2.   41  And tell him who hath sent me after him. {Enter Prince Harry, as  +
2H4 5.2.   41  King}
2H4 5.2.   42A  WARWICK  Here comes the Prince.
2H4 5.2.   43   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE Good morrow, and God save your majesty!
2H4 5.2.   44   PRINCE HARRY This new and gorgeous garment, majesty,
2H4 5.2.   45  Sits not so easy on me as you think.
2H4 5.2.   46  Brothers, you mix your sadness with some fear.
2H4 5.2.   47  This is the English not the Turkish court;
2H4 5.2.   48  Not Amurath an Amurath succeeds,
2H4 5.2.   49  But Harry Harry. Yet be sad, good brothers,
2H4 5.2.   50  For, by my faith, it very well becomes you.
2H4 5.2.   51  Sorrow so royally in you appears
2H4 5.2.   52  That I will deeply put the fashion on,
2H4 5.2.   53  And wear it in my heart. Why then, be sad;
2H4 5.2.   54  But entertain no more of it, good brothers,
2H4 5.2.   55  Than a joint burden laid upon us all.
2H4 5.2.   56  For me, by heaven, I bid you be assured
2H4 5.2.   57  I'll be your father and your brother too.
2H4 5.2.   58  Let me but bear your love, I'll bear your cares.
2H4 5.2.   59  Yet weep that Harry's dead, and so will I;
2H4 5.2.   60  But Harry lives that shall convert those tears
2H4 5.2.   61  By number into hours of happiness.
2H4 5.2.   62   PRINCE JOHN, GLOUCESTER, {AND} CLARENCE We hope no other from your   +
2H4 5.2.   62  majesty.
2H4 5.2.   63   PRINCE HARRY You all look strangely on me, {(to Lord Chief    +
2H4 5.2.   63  Justice)}  and you most.
2H4 5.2.   64  You are, I think, assured I love you not.
2H4 5.2.   65   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE I am assured, if I be measured rightly,
2H4 5.2.   66  Your majesty hath no just cause to hate me.
2H4 5.2.   67   PRINCE HARRY No? How might a prince of my great hopes forget
2H4 5.2.   68  So great indignities you laid upon me?
2H4 5.2.   69  What - rate, rebuke, and roughly send to prison
2H4 5.2.   70  Th' immediate heir of England? Was this easy?
2H4 5.2.   71  May this be washed in Lethe and forgotten?
2H4 5.2.   72   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE I then did use the person of your father.
2H4 5.2.   73  The image of his power lay then in me;
2H4 5.2.   74  And in th' administration of his law,
2H4 5.2.   75  Whiles I was busy for the commonwealth,
2H4 5.2.   76  Your highness pleased to forget my place,
2H4 5.2.   77  The majesty and power of law and justice,
2H4 5.2.   78  The image of the King whom I presented,
2H4 5.2.   79  And struck me in my very seat of judgement;
2H4 5.2.   80  Whereon, as an offender to your father,
2H4 5.2.   81  I gave bold way to my authority
2H4 5.2.   82  And did commit you. If the deed were ill,
2H4 5.2.   83  Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
2H4 5.2.   84  To have a son set your decrees at naught - 
2H4 5.2.   85  To pluck down justice from your awe-full bench,
2H4 5.2.   86  To trip the course of law, and blunt the sword
2H4 5.2.   87  That guards the peace and safety of your person,
2H4 5.2.   88  Nay, more, to spurn at your most royal image,
2H4 5.2.   89  And mock your workings in a second body?
2H4 5.2.   90  Question your royal thoughts, make the case yours,
2H4 5.2.   91  Be now the father, and propose a son;
2H4 5.2.   92  Hear your own dignity so much profaned,
2H4 5.2.   93  See your most dreadful laws so loosely slighted,
2H4 5.2.   94  Behold yourself so by a son disdained;
2H4 5.2.   95  And then imagine me taking your part,
2H4 5.2.   96  And in your power soft silencing your son.
2H4 5.2.   97  After this cold considerance, sentence me;
2H4 5.2.   98  And, as you are a king, speak in your state
2H4 5.2.   99  What I have done that misbecame my place,
2H4 5.2.  100  My person, or my liege's sovereignty.
2H4 5.2.  101   PRINCE HARRY You are right Justice, and you weigh this well.
2H4 5.2.  102  Therefore still bear the balance and the sword;
2H4 5.2.  103  And I do wish your honours may increase
2H4 5.2.  104  Till you do live to see a son of mine
2H4 5.2.  105  Offend you and obey you as I did.
2H4 5.2.  106  So shall I live to speak my father's words:
2H4 5.2.  107  `Happy am I that have a man so bold
2H4 5.2.  108  That dares do justice on my proper son,
2H4 5.2.  109  And not less happy having such a son
2H4 5.2.  110  That would deliver up his greatness so
2H4 5.2.  111  Into the hands of justice.' You did commit me,
2H4 5.2.  112  For which I do commit into your hand
2H4 5.2.  113  Th' unstained sword that you have used to bear,
2H4 5.2.  114  With this remembrance: that you use the same
2H4 5.2.  115  With the like bold, just, and impartial spirit
2H4 5.2.  116  As you have done 'gainst me. There is my hand.
2H4 5.2.  117  You shall be as a father to my youth;
2H4 5.2.  118  My voice shall sound as you do prompt mine ear,
2H4 5.2.  119  And I will stoop and humble my intents
2H4 5.2.  120  To your well-practised wise directions. - 
2H4 5.2.  121  And princes all, believe me, I beseech you,
2H4 5.2.  122  My father is gone wild into his grave,
2H4 5.2.  123  For in his tomb lie my affections;
2H4 5.2.  124  And with his spirits sadly I survive
2H4 5.2.  125  To mock the expectation of the world,
2H4 5.2.  126  To frustrate prophecies, and to raze out
2H4 5.2.  127  Rotten opinion, who hath writ me down
2H4 5.2.  128  After my seeming. The tide of blood in me
2H4 5.2.  129  Hath proudly flowed in vanity till now.
2H4 5.2.  130  Now doth it turn, and ebb back to the sea,
2H4 5.2.  131  Where it shall mingle with the state of floods,
2H4 5.2.  132  And flow henceforth in formal majesty.
2H4 5.2.  133  Now call we our high court of Parliament,
2H4 5.2.  134  And let us choose such limbs of noble counsel
2H4 5.2.  135  That the great body of our state may go
2H4 5.2.  136  In equal rank with the best-governed nation;
2H4 5.2.  137  That war, or peace, or both at once, may be
2H4 5.2.  138  As things acquainted and familiar to us;
2H4 5.2.  139   {(To Lord Chief Justice)} In which you, father, shall   +
2H4 5.2.  139  have foremost hand.
2H4 5.2.  140   {(To all)} Our coronation done, we will accite,
2H4 5.2.  141  As I before remembered, all our state;
2H4 5.2.  142  And, God consigning to my good intents,
2H4 5.2.  143  No prince nor peer shall have just cause to say,
2H4 5.2.  144  `God shorten Harry's happy life one day.' {Exeunt}
2H4 5.2.    0    {[A table and chairs set forth.] Enter Sir John Falstaff,  +
2H4 5.3.    0  Shallow, Silence, Davy [with vessels for the table], Bardolph, and the   +
2H4 5.3.    0  Page}
2H4 5.3.    1   SHALLOW  {(to Sir John)} Nay, you shall see my       +
2H4 5.3.    1  orchard,
2H4 5.3.    2  where, in an arbour, we will eat a last year's pippin
2H4 5.3.    3  of mine own grafting, with a dish of caraways, and so
2H4 5.3.    4  forth - come, cousin Silence - and then to bed.
2H4 5.3.    5   SIR JOHN Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling and
2H4 5.3.    6  a rich.
2H4 5.3.    7   SHALLOW Barren, barren, barren; beggars all, beggars all,
2H4 5.3.    8  Sir John. Marry, good air. - Spread, Davy; spread, Davy. {[Davy     +
2H4 5.3.    8  begins to spread the table]}
2H4 5.3.    9   Well said, Davy.
2H4 5.3.   10   SIR JOHN This Davy serves you for good uses; he is your
2H4 5.3.   11  serving-man and your husband.
2H4 5.3.   12   SHALLOW A good varlet, a good varlet, a very good varlet,
2H4 5.3.   13  Sir John. - By the mass, I have drunk too much sack
2H4 5.3.   14  at supper. - A good varlet. Now sit down, now sit
2H4 5.3.   15  down. {(To Silence)} Come, cousin.
2H4 5.3.   16   SILENCE Ah, sirrah, quoth-a, we shall
2H4 5.3.   17   {(sings)} Do nothing but eat, and make good cheer,
2H4 5.3.   18  And praise God for the merry year,
2H4 5.3.   19  When flesh is cheap and females dear,
2H4 5.3.   20  And lusty lads roam here and there
2H4 5.3.   21  So merrily,
2H4 5.3.   22  And ever among so merrily.
2H4 5.3.   23   SIR JOHN  There's a merry heart, good Master Silence! I'll
2H4 5.3.   24  give you a health for that anon.
2H4 5.3.   25   SHALLOW Good Master Bardolph! - Some wine, Davy.
2H4 5.3.   26   DAVY  {[to Sir John]} Sweet sir, sit. {[To    +
2H4 5.3.   26  Bardolph]} I'll be with
2H4 5.3.   27  you anon. {[To Sir John]} Most sweet sir, sit. Master    +
2H4 5.3.   27  page,
2H4 5.3.   28  good master page, sit. {[All but Davy sit. Davy pours wine]}
2H4 5.3.   29   Proface! What you want in meat, we'll have in drink;
2H4 5.3.   30  but you must bear; the heart's all.
2H4 5.3.   31   SHALLOW Be merry, Master Bardolph and my little soldier
2H4 5.3.   32  there, be merry.
2H4 5.3.   33   SILENCE  {(sings)} Be merry, be merry, my wife has    +
2H4 5.3.   33  all,
2H4 5.3.   34  For women are shrews, both short and tall,
2H4 5.3.   35  'Tis merry in hall when beards wags all,
2H4 5.3.   36  And welcome merry shrovetide.
2H4 5.3.   37   Be merry, be merry.
2H4 5.3.   38   SIR JOHN I did not think Master Silence had been a man
2H4 5.3.   39  of this mettle.
2H4 5.3.   40   SILENCE Who, I? I have been merry twice and once ere
2H4 5.3.   41  now. {Enter Davy [with a dish of apples]}
2H4 5.3.   42   DAVY  There's a dish of leather-coats for you.
2H4 5.3.   43   SHALLOW Davy!
2H4 5.3.   44   DAVY Your worship! I'll be with you straight. {[To Sir}
2H4 5.3.   45  {John]} A cup of wine, sir?
2H4 5.3.   46   SILENCE  {[sings]} A cup of wine
2H4 5.3.   47  That's brisk and fine,
2H4 5.3.   48  And drink unto thee, leman mine,
2H4 5.3.   49  And a merry heart lives long-a.
2H4 5.3.   50   SIR JOHN  Well said, Master Silence.
2H4 5.3.   51   SILENCE And we shall be merry; now comes in the sweet
2H4 5.3.   52  o' th' night.
2H4 5.3.   53   SIR JOHN Health and long life to you, Master Silence! {He     +
2H4 5.3.   53  drinks}
2H4 5.3.   54   SILENCE  Fill the cup and let it come. I'll pledge you a    +
2H4 5.3.   54  mile
2H4 5.3.   55  to th' bottom.
2H4 5.3.   56   SHALLOW Honest Bardolph, welcome! If thou want'st
2H4 5.3.   57  anything and wilt not call, beshrew thy heart! {(To the}
2H4 5.3.   58  {Page)} Welcome, my little tiny thief, and welcome indeed,
2H4 5.3.   59  too! - I'll drink to Master Bardolph, and to all the
2H4 5.3.   60  cavalieros about London. {He drinks}
2H4 5.3.   61   DAVY  I hope to see London once ere I die.
2H4 5.3.   62   BARDOLPH An I might see you there, Davy!
2H4 5.3.   63   SHALLOW By the mass, you'll crack a quart together, ha,
2H4 5.3.   64  will you not, Master Bardolph?
2H4 5.3.   65   BARDOLPH Yea, sir, in a pottle-pot.
2H4 5.3.   66   SHALLOW By God's liggens, I thank thee. The knave will
2H4 5.3.   67  stick by thee, I can assure thee that; a will not out;
2H4 5.3.   68  'tis true-bred.
2H4 5.3.   69   BARDOLPH And I'll stick by him, sir.
2H4 5.3.   70   SHALLOW Why, there spoke a king! Lack nothing, be
2H4 5.3.   71  merry! {One knocks at the door within}
2H4 5.3.   72   Look who's at door there, ho! Who knocks? {[Exit        +
2H4 5.3.   72  Davy]}
2H4 5.3.   73   {[Silence drinks]} SIR JOHN  {[to Silence]}   +
2H4 5.3.   73  Why, now you have done me right!
2H4 5.3.   74   SILENCE  {[sings]} Do me right,
2H4 5.3.   75  And dub me knight - 
2H4 5.3.   76  Samingo.
2H4 5.3.   77   Is 't not so?
2H4 5.3.   78   SIR JOHN 'Tis so.
2H4 5.3.   79   SILENCE Is 't so? - Why then, say an old man can do
2H4 5.3.   80  somewhat. {[Enter Davy]}
2H4 5.3.   81   DAVY  An 't please your worship, there's one Pistol come
2H4 5.3.   82  from the court with news.
2H4 5.3.   83   SIR JOHN From the court? Let him come in. {Enter Pistol}
2H4 5.3.   84   How now, Pistol?
2H4 5.3.   85   PISTOL Sir John, God save you.
2H4 5.3.   86   SIR JOHN What wind blew you hither, Pistol?
2H4 5.3.   87   PISTOL  Not the ill wind which blows no man to good.
2H4 5.3.   88   Sweet knight, thou art now one of the greatest men in
2H4 5.3.   89  this realm.
2H4 5.3.   90   SILENCE By 'r Lady, I think a be - but goodman Puff of
2H4 5.3.   91  Bar'son.
2H4 5.3.   92   PISTOL Puff?
2H4 5.3.   93   Puff in thy teeth, most recreant coward base! - 
2H4 5.3.   94  Sir John, I am thy Pistol and thy friend,
2H4 5.3.   95  And helter-skelter have I rode to thee,
2H4 5.3.   96  And tidings do I bring, and lucky joys,
2H4 5.3.   97  And golden times, and happy news of price.
2H4 5.3.   98   SIR JOHN  I pray thee now, deliver them like a man of this
2H4 5.3.   99  world.
2H4 5.3.  100   PISTOL  A foutre for the world and worldlings base!
2H4 5.3.  101  I speak of Africa and golden joys.
2H4 5.3.  102   SIR JOHN O base Assyrian knight, what is thy news?
2H4 5.3.  103  Let King Cophetua know the truth thereof.
2H4 5.3.  104   SILENCE  {[singing]} `And Robin Hood, Scarlet, and   +
2H4 5.3.  104  John.'
2H4 5.3.  105   PISTOL Shall dunghill curs confront the Helicons?
2H4 5.3.  106  And shall good news be baffled?
2H4 5.3.  107  Then Pistol lay thy head in Furies' lap.
2H4 5.3.  108   SHALLOW  Honest gentleman, I know not your breeding.
2H4 5.3.  109A  PISTOL  Why then, lament therefor.
2H4 5.3.  110   SHALLOW  Give me pardon, sir. If, sir, you come with news
2H4 5.3.  111  from the court, I take it there's but two ways: either
2H4 5.3.  112  to utter them, or conceal them. I am, sir, under the
2H4 5.3.  113  King in some authority.
2H4 5.3.  114   PISTOL  Under which king, besonian? Speak, or die.
2H4 5.3.  115B  SHALLOW Under King Harry. PISTOL Harry the Fourth, or Fifth?
2H4 5.3.  116B  SHALLOW Harry the Fourth. PISTOL A foutre for thine office!
2H4 5.3.  117  Sir John, thy tender lambkin now is king.
2H4 5.3.  118  Harry the Fifth's the man. I speak the truth.
2H4 5.3.  119  When Pistol lies, do this, {(making the fig)} and fig    +
2H4 5.3.  119  me,
2H4 5.3.  120B Like the bragging Spaniard. SIR JOHN What, is the old King dead?
2H4 5.3.  121   PISTOL As nail in door. The things I speak are just.
2H4 5.3.  122   SIR JOHN  Away, Bardolph, saddle my horse! Master Robert
2H4 5.3.  123  Shallow, choose what office thou wilt in the land; 'tis
2H4 5.3.  124  thine. Pistol, I will double-charge thee with dignities.
2H4 5.3.  125A  BARDOLPH  O joyful day!
2H4 5.3.  126  I would not take a knighthood for my fortune.
2H4 5.3.  127A  PISTOL What, I do bring good news?
2H4 5.3.  128   SIR JOHN  {(to Davy)} Carry Master Silence to        +
2H4 5.3.  128  bed. {[Exit Davy with Silence]}
2H4 5.3.  129   Master Shallow - my lord Shallow - be what thou wilt,
2H4 5.3.  130  I am fortune's steward - get on thy boots; we'll ride
2H4 5.3.  131  all night. - O sweet Pistol! - Away, Bardolph! {[Exit Bardolph]}
2H4 5.3.  132   Come, Pistol, utter more to me, and withal devise
2H4 5.3.  133  something to do thyself good. Boot, boot, Master
2H4 5.3.  134  Shallow! I know the young King is sick for me. Let us
2H4 5.3.  135  take any man's horses - the laws of England are at my
2H4 5.3.  136  commandment. Blessed are they that have been my
2H4 5.3.  137  friends, and woe to my Lord Chief Justice.
2H4 5.3.  138   PISTOL  Let vultures vile seize on his lungs also!
2H4 5.3.  139  `Where is the life that late I led?' say they.
2H4 5.3.  140  Why, here it is. Welcome these pleasant days. {Exeunt}
2H4 5.3.    0    {Enter Beadles, dragging in Mistress Quickly and Doll      +
2H4 5.4.    0  Tearsheet}
2H4 5.4.    1   MISTRESS QUICKLY  No, thou arrant knave! I would to God
2H4 5.4.    2  that I might die, that I might have thee hanged. Thou
2H4 5.4.    3  hast drawn my shoulder out of joint.
2H4 5.4.    4   FIRST BEADLE The constables have delivered her over to
2H4 5.4.    5  me; and she shall have whipping-cheer, I warrant her.
2H4 5.4.    6  There hath been a man or two killed about her.
2H4 5.4.    7   DOLL TEARSHEET Nut-hook, nut-hook, you lie! Come on,
2H4 5.4.    8  I'll tell thee what, thou damned tripe-visaged rascal,
2H4 5.4.    9  an the child I go with do miscarry, thou wert better
2H4 5.4.   10  thou hadst struck thy mother, thou paper-faced villain.
2H4 5.4.   11   MISTRESS QUICKLY O the Lord, that Sir John were come!
2H4 5.4.   12  He would make this a bloody day to somebody. But I
2H4 5.4.   13  pray God the fruit of her womb miscarry!
2H4 5.4.   14   FIRST BEADLE If it do, you shall have a dozen of cushions
2H4 5.4.   15  again; you have but eleven now. Come, I charge you
2H4 5.4.   16  both go with me, for the man is dead that you and
2H4 5.4.   17  Pistol beat amongst you.
2H4 5.4.   18   DOLL TEARSHEET I'll tell you what, you thin man in a
2H4 5.4.   19  censer, I will have you as soundly swinged for this,
2H4 5.4.   20  you bluebottle rogue, you filthy famished correctioner!
2H4 5.4.   21  If you be not swinged, I'll forswear half-kirtles.
2H4 5.4.   22   FIRST BEADLE Come, come, you she knight-errant, come!
2H4 5.4.   23   MISTRESS QUICKLY O God, that right should thus o'ercome
2H4 5.4.   24  might! Well, of sufferance comes ease.
2H4 5.4.   25   DOLL TEARSHEET Come, you rogue, come; bring me to a
2H4 5.4.   26  justice.
2H4 5.4.   27   MISTRESS QUICKLY Ay, come, you starved bloodhound.
2H4 5.4.   28   DOLL TEARSHEET Goodman death, goodman bones!
2H4 5.4.   29   MISTRESS QUICKLY Thou atomy, thou!
2H4 5.4.   30   DOLL TEARSHEET Come, you thin thing; come, you rascal.
2H4 5.4.   31   FIRST BEADLE Very well. {Exeunt}
2H4 5.4.    0    {Enter [two] Grooms, strewing rushes}
2H4 5.5.    1   FIRST GROOM  More rushes, more rushes!
2H4 5.5.    2   SECOND GROOM The trumpets have sounded twice.
2H4 5.5.    3   [FIRST] GROOM 'Twill be two o'clock ere they come from
2H4 5.5.    4  the coronation. {Exeunt}
2H4 5.5.    5   {Enter Sir John Falstaff, Shallow, Pistol, Bardolph, and the     +
2H4 5.5.    5  Page} SIR JOHN  Stand here by me, Master Robert Shallow. I   +
2H4 5.5.    5  will
2H4 5.5.    6  make the King do you grace. I will leer upon him as a
2H4 5.5.    7  comes by, and do but mark the countenance that he
2H4 5.5.    8  will give me.
2H4 5.5.    9   PISTOL God bless thy lungs, good knight.
2H4 5.5.   10   SIR JOHN Come here, Pistol; stand behind me. {(To Shallow)}
2H4 5.5.   11   O, if I had had time to have made new liveries, I would
2H4 5.5.   12  have bestowed the thousand pound I borrowed of you!
2H4 5.5.   13  But 'tis no matter; this poor show doth better; this
2H4 5.5.   14  doth infer the zeal I had to see him.
2H4 5.5.   15   [SHALLOW] It doth so.
2H4 5.5.   16   SIR JOHN It shows my earnestness of affection - 
2H4 5.5.   17   PISTOL It doth so.
2H4 5.5.   18   SIR JOHN My devotion - 
2H4 5.5.   19   PISTOL It doth, it doth, it doth.
2H4 5.5.   20   SIR JOHN As it were, to ride day and night, and not to
2H4 5.5.   21  deliberate, not to remember, not to have patience to
2H4 5.5.   22  shift me - 
2H4 5.5.   23   SHALLOW It is most certain.
2H4 5.5.   24   [SIR JOHN] But to stand stained with travel and sweating
2H4 5.5.   25  with desire to see him, thinking of nothing else, putting
2H4 5.5.   26  all affairs in oblivion, as if there were nothing else to
2H4 5.5.   27  be done but to see him.
2H4 5.5.   28   PISTOL 'Tis {semper idem}, for {absque hoc nihil est}: 'tis all in
2H4 5.5.   29  every part.
2H4 5.5.   30   SHALLOW 'Tis so indeed.
2H4 5.5.   31   PISTOL  My knight, I will inflame thy noble liver,
2H4 5.5.   32  And make thee rage.
2H4 5.5.   33  Thy Doll, and Helen of thy noble thoughts,
2H4 5.5.   34  Is in base durance and contagious prison,
2H4 5.5.   35  Haled thither
2H4 5.5.   36  By most mechanical and dirty hand.
2H4 5.5.   37  Rouse up Revenge from ebon den with fell Alecto's snake,
2H4 5.5.   38  For Doll is in. Pistol speaks naught but truth.
2H4 5.5.   39   SIR JOHN  I will deliver her. {[Shouts within.]      +
2H4 5.5.   39  Trumpets sound}
2H4 5.5.   40   PISTOL  There roared the sea, and trumpet-clangour          +
2H4 5.5.   40  sounds! {Enter King Harry the Fifth, Prince John of Lancaster,    +
2H4 5.5.   40  the Dukes of Clarence and Gloucester, the Lord Chief Justice, [and       +
2H4 5.5.   40  others]}
2H4 5.5.   41   SIR JOHN  God save thy grace, King Hal, my royal Hal!
2H4 5.5.   42   PISTOL The heavens thee guard and keep, most royal imp of fame!
2H4 5.5.   43A  SIR JOHN God save thee, my sweet boy!
2H4 5.5.   44   KING HARRY My Lord Chief Justice, speak to that vain man.
2H4 5.5.   45   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE  {(to Sir John)} Have you your    +
2H4 5.5.   45  wits? Know you what 'tis you speak?
2H4 5.5.   46   SIR JOHN My king, my Jove, I speak to thee, my heart!
2H4 5.5.   47   KING HARRY I know thee not, old man. Fall to thy prayers.
2H4 5.5.   48  How ill white hairs becomes a fool and jester!
2H4 5.5.   49  I have long dreamt of such a kind of man,
2H4 5.5.   50  So surfeit-swelled, so old, and so profane;
2H4 5.5.   51  But being awake, I do despise my dream.
2H4 5.5.   52  Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace.
2H4 5.5.   53  Leave gormandizing; know the grave doth gape
2H4 5.5.   54  For thee thrice wider than for other men.
2H4 5.5.   55  Reply not to me with a fool-born jest.
2H4 5.5.   56  Presume not that I am the thing I was,
2H4 5.5.   57  For God doth know, so shall the world perceive,
2H4 5.5.   58  That I have turned away my former self;
2H4 5.5.   59  So will I those that kept me company.
2H4 5.5.   60  When thou dost hear I am as I have been,
2H4 5.5.   61  Approach me, and thou shalt be as thou wast,
2H4 5.5.   62  The tutor and the feeder of my riots.
2H4 5.5.   63  Till then I banish thee, on pain of death,
2H4 5.5.   64  As I have done the rest of my misleaders,
2H4 5.5.   65  Not to come near our person by ten mile.
2H4 5.5.   66  For competence of life I will allow you,
2H4 5.5.   67  That lack of means enforce you not to evils;
2H4 5.5.   68  And as we hear you do reform yourselves,
2H4 5.5.   69  We will, according to your strengths and qualities,
2H4 5.5.   70  Give you advancement. {(To Lord Chief Justice)} Be it    +
2H4 5.5.   70  your charge, my lord,
2H4 5.5.   71  To see performed the tenor of our word. {(To his train)}+
2H4 5.5.   71    Set on! {Exeunt King Harry and his train}
2H4 5.5.   72   SIR JOHN  Master Shallow, I owe you a thousand pound.
2H4 5.5.   73   SHALLOW Yea, marry, Sir John; which I beseech you to
2H4 5.5.   74  let me have home with me.
2H4 5.5.   75   SIR JOHN That can hardly be, Master Shallow. Do not you
2H4 5.5.   76  grieve at this. I shall be sent for in private to him. Look
2H4 5.5.   77  you, he must seem thus to the world. Fear not your
2H4 5.5.   78  advancements. I will be the man yet that shall make
2H4 5.5.   79  you great.
2H4 5.5.   80   SHALLOW I cannot perceive how, unless you give me your
2H4 5.5.   81  doublet and stuff me out with straw. I beseech you,
2H4 5.5.   82  good Sir John, let me have five hundred of my thousand.
2H4 5.5.   83   SIR JOHN Sir, I will be as good as my word. This that you
2H4 5.5.   84  heard was but a colour.
2H4 5.5.   85   SHALLOW A colour I fear that you will die in, Sir John.
2H4 5.5.   86   SIR JOHN Fear no colours. Go with me to dinner. Come,
2H4 5.5.   87  Lieutenant Pistol; come, Bardolph. I shall be sent for
2H4 5.5.   88  soon at night. {Enter the Lord Chief Justice and Prince John,}
2H4 5.5.   89  {with officers} LORD CHIEF JUSTICE  {(to officers)}   +
2H4 5.5.   89  Go carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet.
2H4 5.5.   90  Take all his company along with him.
2H4 5.5.   91A  SIR JOHN My lord, my lord!
2H4 5.5.   92   LORD CHIEF JUSTICE I cannot now speak. I will hear you soon. - 
2H4 5.5.   93  Take them away.
2H4 5.5.   94   PISTOL {Si fortuna me tormenta, spero me contenta}. {Exeunt   +
2H4 5.5.   94  all but Prince John}
2H4 5.5.   95  {and Lord Chief Justice} PRINCE JOHN  I like this fair       +
2H4 5.5.   95  proceeding of the King's.
2H4 5.5.   96  He hath intent his wonted followers
2H4 5.5.   97  Shall all be very well provided for,
2H4 5.5.   98  But all are banished till their conversations
2H4 5.5.   99  Appear more wise and modest to the world.
2H4 5.5.  100A  LORD CHIEF JUSTICE And so they are.
2H4 5.5.  101   PRINCE JOHN The King hath called his parliament, my lord.
2H4 5.5.  102A  LORD CHIEF JUSTICE He hath.
2H4 5.5.  103   PRINCE JOHN I will lay odds that, ere this year expire,
2H4 5.5.  104  We bear our civil swords and native fire
2H4 5.5.  105  As far as France. I heard a bird so sing,
2H4 5.5.  106  Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the King.
2H4 5.5.  107  Come, will you hence? {Exeunt}
2H4 5.5.    0     {Enter Epilogue}
2H4 5.Ep.   1   EPILOGUE  First my fear, then my curtsy, last my speech.
2H4 5.Ep.   2  My fear is your displeasure; my curtsy, my duty;
2H4 5.Ep.   3  and my speech to beg your pardons. If you look for a
2H4 5.Ep.   4  good speech now, you undo me; for what I have to
2H4 5.Ep.   5  say is of mine own making, and what indeed I should
2H4 5.Ep.   6  say will, I doubt, prove mine own marring. But to the
2H4 5.Ep.   7  purpose, and so to the venture. Be it known to you, as
2H4 5.Ep.   8  it is very well, I was lately here in the end of a
2H4 5.Ep.   9  displeasing play, to pray your patience for it, and to
2H4 5.Ep.  10  promise you a better. I did mean indeed to pay you
2H4 5.Ep.  11  with this; which, if like an ill venture it come unluckily
2H4 5.Ep.  12  home, I break, and you, my gentle creditors, lose. Here
2H4 5.Ep.  13  I promised you I would be, and here I commit my body
2H4 5.Ep.  14  to your mercies. Bate me some, and I will pay you
2H4 5.Ep.  15  some, and, as most debtors do, promise you infinitely.
2H4 5.Ep.  16  If my tongue cannot entreat you to acquit me, will
2H4 5.Ep.  17  you command me to use my legs? And yet that were
2H4 5.Ep.  18  but light payment, to dance out of your debt. But a
2H4 5.Ep.  19  good conscience will make any possible satisfaction,
2H4 5.Ep.  20  and so would I. All the gentlewomen here have forgiven
2H4 5.Ep.  21  me; if the gentlemen will not, then the gentlemen do
2H4 5.Ep.  22  not agree with the gentlewomen, which was never
2H4 5.Ep.  23  seen before in such an assembly.
2H4 5.Ep.  24  One word more, I beseech you. If you be not too
2H4 5.Ep.  25  much cloyed with fat meat, our humble author will
2H4 5.Ep.  26  continue the story with Sir John in it, and make you
2H4 5.Ep.  27  merry with fair Catherine of France; where, for
2H4 5.Ep.  28  anything I know, Falstaff shall die of a sweat - unless
2H4 5.Ep.  29  already a be killed with your hard opinions. For
2H4 5.Ep.  30  Oldcastle died a martyr, and this is not the man. My
2H4 5.Ep.  31  tongue is weary; when my legs are too, I will bid you
2H4 5.Ep.  32  good night, and so kneel down before you - but, indeed,
2H4 5.Ep.  33  to pray for the Queen. {[He dances, then kneels for applause.]    +
2H4 5.Ep.  33  Exit}
2H4 5.Ep.   0   
2H4 A.E.    0  [[Along with some substantial additions, Shakespeare probably made
2H4 A.E.    0  a number of short excisions when preparing the finished version
2H4 A.E.    0  of the play. The following, present in the Quarto but entirely or
2H4 A.E.    0  substantially omitted in the later Folio text, are the most
2H4 A.E.    0  significant:]]
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2H4 A.A.    0  [[After 2.2.22; the speech prefix is added here to assist in computer
2H4 A.A.    0  analysis]]
2H4 A.A.    1   PRINCE HARRY  And God knows whether those that bawl out the +
2H4 A.A.    1  ruins
2H4 A.A.    2  of thy linen shall inherit his kingdom - but the midwives
2H4 A.A.    3  say the children are not in the fault, whereupon the
2H4 A.A.    4  world increases, and kindreds are mightily
2H4 A.A.    5  strengthened.
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2H4 A.B.    0  [[After `liquors!', 3.1.52; the speech prefix is added here to assist in
2H4 A.B.    0  computer analysis]]
2H4 A.B.    1B  KING HENRY  O, if this were seen,
2H4 A.B.    2  The happiest youth, viewing his progress through,
2H4 A.B.    3  What perils past, what crosses to ensue,
2H4 A.B.    4  Would shut the book and sit him down and die.
2H4 A.B.    0  
2H4 A.C.    0  [[After `famine.', 3.2.309; the speech prefix is added here to assist in
2H4 A.C.    0  computer analysis]]
2H4 A.C.    1   SIR JOHN  yet lecherous as a monkey; and the whores called  +
2H4 A.C.    1  him
2H4 A.C.    2  `mandrake'. A came ever in the rearward of the fashion,
2H4 A.C.    3  and sung those tunes to the overscutched hussies that
2H4 A.C.    4  he heard the carmen whistle, and sware they were his
2H4 A.C.    5  fancies or his good-nights.
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ADO  . .    0  Much Ado About Nothing
ADO  . .    0     {Enter Leonato, governor of Messina, Hero his        +
ADO 1.1.    0  daughter, and Beatrice his niece, with a Messenger}
ADO 1.1.    1   LEONATO  I learn in this letter that Don Pedro of Aragon
ADO 1.1.    2  comes this night to Messina.
ADO 1.1.    3   MESSENGER He is very near by this. He was not three
ADO 1.1.    4  leagues off when I left him.
ADO 1.1.    5   LEONATO How many gentlemen have you lost in this
ADO 1.1.    6  action?
ADO 1.1.    7   MESSENGER But few of any sort, and none of name.
ADO 1.1.    8   LEONATO A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings
ADO 1.1.    9  home full numbers. I find here that Don Pedro hath
ADO 1.1.   10  bestowed much honour on a young Florentine called
ADO 1.1.   11  Claudio.
ADO 1.1.   12   MESSENGER Much deserved on his part, and equally
ADO 1.1.   13  remembered by Don Pedro. He hath borne himself
ADO 1.1.   14  beyond the promise of his age, doing in the figure of a
ADO 1.1.   15  lamb the feats of a lion. He hath indeed better bettered
ADO 1.1.   16  expectation than you must expect of me to tell you
ADO 1.1.   17  how.
ADO 1.1.   18   LEONATO He hath an uncle here in Messina will be very
ADO 1.1.   19  much glad of it.
ADO 1.1.   20   MESSENGER I have already delivered him letters, and there
ADO 1.1.   21  appears much joy in him - even so much that joy could
ADO 1.1.   22  not show itself modest enough without a badge of
ADO 1.1.   23  bitterness.
ADO 1.1.   24   LEONATO Did he break out into tears?
ADO 1.1.   25   MESSENGER In great measure.
ADO 1.1.   26   LEONATO A kind overflow of kindness, there are no faces
ADO 1.1.   27  truer than those that are so washed. How much better
ADO 1.1.   28  is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping!
ADO 1.1.   29   BEATRICE I pray you, is Signor Montanto returned from
ADO 1.1.   30  the wars, or no?
ADO 1.1.   31   MESSENGER I know none of that name, lady. There was
ADO 1.1.   32  none such in the army, of any sort.
ADO 1.1.   33   LEONATO What is he that you ask for, niece?
ADO 1.1.   34   HERO My cousin means Signor Benedick of Padua.
ADO 1.1.   35   MESSENGER O, he's returned, and as pleasant as ever he
ADO 1.1.   36  was.
ADO 1.1.   37   BEATRICE He set up his bills here in Messina, and
ADO 1.1.   38  challenged Cupid at the flight; and my uncle's fool,
ADO 1.1.   39  reading the challenge, subscribed for Cupid and
ADO 1.1.   40  challenged him at the bird-bolt. I pray you, how many
ADO 1.1.   41  hath he killed and eaten in these wars? But how many
ADO 1.1.   42  hath he killed? For indeed I promised to eat all of his
ADO 1.1.   43  killing.
ADO 1.1.   44   LEONATO Faith, niece, you tax Signor Benedick too much.
ADO 1.1.   45  But he'll be meet with you, I doubt it not.
ADO 1.1.   46   MESSENGER He hath done good service, lady, in these
ADO 1.1.   47  wars.
ADO 1.1.   48   BEATRICE You had musty victual, and he hath holp to eat
ADO 1.1.   49  it. He is a very valiant trencherman, he hath an
ADO 1.1.   50  excellent stomach.
ADO 1.1.   51   MESSENGER And a good soldier too, lady.
ADO 1.1.   52   BEATRICE And a good soldier to a lady, but what is he to
ADO 1.1.   53  a lord?
ADO 1.1.   54   MESSENGER A lord to a lord, a man to a man, stuffed with
ADO 1.1.   55  all honourable virtues.
ADO 1.1.   56   BEATRICE It is so, indeed. He is no less than a stuffed man.
ADO 1.1.   57  But for the stuffing - well, we are all mortal.
ADO 1.1.   58   LEONATO You must not, sir, mistake my niece. There is a
ADO 1.1.   59  kind of merry war betwixt Signor Benedick and her.
ADO 1.1.   60  They never meet but there's a skirmish of wit between
ADO 1.1.   61  them.
ADO 1.1.   62   BEATRICE Alas, he gets nothing by that. In our last conflict
ADO 1.1.   63  four of his five wits went halting off, and now is the
ADO 1.1.   64  whole man governed with one, so that if he have wit
ADO 1.1.   65  enough to keep himself warm, let him bear it for a
ADO 1.1.   66  difference between himself and his horse, for it is all
ADO 1.1.   67  the wealth that he hath left to be known a reasonable
ADO 1.1.   68  creature. Who is his companion now? He hath every
ADO 1.1.   69  month a new sworn brother.
ADO 1.1.   70   MESSENGER Is 't possible?
ADO 1.1.   71   BEATRICE Very easily possible. He wears his faith but as
ADO 1.1.   72  the fashion of his hat, it ever changes with the next
ADO 1.1.   73  block.
ADO 1.1.   74   MESSENGER I see, lady, the gentleman is not in your books.
ADO 1.1.   75   BEATRICE No. An he were, I would burn my study. But I
ADO 1.1.   76  pray you, who is his companion? Is there no young
ADO 1.1.   77  squarer now that will make a voyage with him to the
ADO 1.1.   78  devil?
ADO 1.1.   79   MESSENGER He is most in the company of the right noble
ADO 1.1.   80  Claudio.
ADO 1.1.   81   BEATRICE O Lord, he will hang upon him like a disease.
ADO 1.1.   82  He is sooner caught than the pestilence, and the taker
ADO 1.1.   83  runs presently mad. God help the noble Claudio. If he
ADO 1.1.   84  have caught the Benedick, it will cost him a thousand
ADO 1.1.   85  pound ere a be cured.
ADO 1.1.   86   MESSENGER I will hold friends with you, lady.
ADO 1.1.   87   BEATRICE Do, good friend.
ADO 1.1.   88   LEONATO You will never run mad, niece.
ADO 1.1.   89   BEATRICE No, not till a hot January.
ADO 1.1.   90   MESSENGER Don Pedro is approached. {Enter Don Pedro,          +
ADO 1.1.   90  Claudio, Benedick, Balthasar, and Don John the bastard}
ADO 1.1.   91   DON PEDRO  Good Signor Leonato, are you come to meet
ADO 1.1.   92  your trouble? The fashion of the world is to avoid cost,
ADO 1.1.   93  and you encounter it.
ADO 1.1.   94   LEONATO Never came trouble to my house in the likeness
ADO 1.1.   95  of your grace; for trouble being gone, comfort should
ADO 1.1.   96  remain, but when you depart from me, sorrow abides
ADO 1.1.   97  and happiness takes his leave.
ADO 1.1.   98   DON PEDRO You embrace your charge too willingly. I think
ADO 1.1.   99  this is your daughter.
ADO 1.1.  100   LEONATO Her mother hath many times told me so.
ADO 1.1.  101   BENEDICK Were you in doubt, sir, that you asked her?
ADO 1.1.  102   LEONATO Signor Benedick, no, for then were you a child.
ADO 1.1.  103   DON PEDRO You have it full, Benedick. We may guess by
ADO 1.1.  104  this what you are, being a man. Truly, the lady fathers
ADO 1.1.  105  herself. Be happy, lady, for you are like an honourable
ADO 1.1.  106  father.
ADO 1.1.  107   BENEDICK If Signor Leonato be her father, she would not
ADO 1.1.  108  have his head on her shoulders for all Messina, as like
ADO 1.1.  109  him as she is.
ADO 1.1.  110   BEATRICE I wonder that you will still be talking, Signor
ADO 1.1.  111  Benedick. Nobody marks you.
ADO 1.1.  112   BENEDICK What, my dear Lady Disdain! Are you yet
ADO 1.1.  113  living?
ADO 1.1.  114   BEATRICE Is it possible disdain should die while she hath
ADO 1.1.  115  such meet food to feed it as Signor Benedick? Courtesy
ADO 1.1.  116  itself must convert to disdain if you come in her
ADO 1.1.  117  presence.
ADO 1.1.  118   BENEDICK Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I
ADO 1.1.  119  am loved of all ladies, only you excepted. And I would
ADO 1.1.  120  I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart,
ADO 1.1.  121  for truly I love none.
ADO 1.1.  122   BEATRICE A dear happiness to women. They would else
ADO 1.1.  123  have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank
ADO 1.1.  124  God and my cold blood I am of your humour for that.
ADO 1.1.  125  I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man
ADO 1.1.  126  swear he loves me.
ADO 1.1.  127   BENEDICK God keep your ladyship still in that mind. So
ADO 1.1.  128  some gentleman or other shall scape a predestinate
ADO 1.1.  129  scratched face.
ADO 1.1.  130   BEATRICE Scratching could not make it worse an 'twere
ADO 1.1.  131  such a face as yours were.
ADO 1.1.  132   BENEDICK Well, you are a rare parrot-teacher.
ADO 1.1.  133   BEATRICE A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of
ADO 1.1.  134  yours.
ADO 1.1.  135   BENEDICK I would my horse had the speed of your tongue,
ADO 1.1.  136  and so good a continuer. But keep your way, o' God's
ADO 1.1.  137  name. I have done.
ADO 1.1.  138   BEATRICE You always end with a jade's trick. I know you
ADO 1.1.  139  of old.
ADO 1.1.  140   DON PEDRO That is the sum of all, Leonato. Signor Claudio
ADO 1.1.  141  and Signor Benedick, my dear friend Leonato hath
ADO 1.1.  142  invited you all. I tell him we shall stay here at the least
ADO 1.1.  143  a month, and he heartily prays some occasion may
ADO 1.1.  144  detain us longer. I dare swear he is no hypocrite, but
ADO 1.1.  145  prays from his heart.
ADO 1.1.  146   LEONATO If you swear, my lord, you shall not be forsworn.
ADO 1.1.  147   {(To Don John)} Let me bid you welcome, my lord. Being
ADO 1.1.  148  reconciled to the Prince your brother, I owe you all
ADO 1.1.  149  duty.
ADO 1.1.  150   DON JOHN I thank you. I am not of many words, but I
ADO 1.1.  151  thank you.
ADO 1.1.  152   LEONATO  {(to Don Pedro)} Please it your grace lead  +
ADO 1.1.  152  on?
ADO 1.1.  153   DON PEDRO Your hand, Leonato. We will go together. {Exeunt    +
ADO 1.1.  153  all but Benedick and Claudio}
ADO 1.1.  154   CLAUDIO  Benedick, didst thou note the daughter of Signor
ADO 1.1.  155  Leonato?
ADO 1.1.  156   BENEDICK I noted her not, but I looked on her.
ADO 1.1.  157   CLAUDIO Is she not a modest young lady?
ADO 1.1.  158   BENEDICK Do you question me as an honest man should
ADO 1.1.  159  do, for my simple true judgement, or would you have
ADO 1.1.  160  me speak after my custom, as being a professed tyrant
ADO 1.1.  161  to their sex?
ADO 1.1.  162   CLAUDIO No, I pray thee speak in sober judgement.
ADO 1.1.  163   BENEDICK Why, i' faith, methinks she's too low for a high
ADO 1.1.  164  praise, too brown for a fair praise, and too little for a
ADO 1.1.  165  great praise. Only this commendation I can afford her,
ADO 1.1.  166  that were she other than she is she were unhandsome,
ADO 1.1.  167  and being no other but as she is, I do not like her.
ADO 1.1.  168   CLAUDIO Thou thinkest I am in sport. I pray thee tell me
ADO 1.1.  169  truly how thou likest her.
ADO 1.1.  170   BENEDICK Would you buy her, that you enquire after her?
ADO 1.1.  171   CLAUDIO Can the world buy such a jewel?
ADO 1.1.  172   BENEDICK Yea, and a case to put it into. But speak you
ADO 1.1.  173  this with a sad brow, or do you play the flouting jack,
ADO 1.1.  174  to tell us Cupid is a good hare-finder and Vulcan a rare
ADO 1.1.  175  carpenter? Come, in what key shall a man take you to
ADO 1.1.  176  go in the song?
ADO 1.1.  177   CLAUDIO In mine eye she is the sweetest lady that ever I
ADO 1.1.  178  looked on.
ADO 1.1.  179   BENEDICK I can see yet without spectacles, and I see no
ADO 1.1.  180  such matter. There's her cousin, an she were not
ADO 1.1.  181  possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty
ADO 1.1.  182  as the first of May doth the last of December. But I
ADO 1.1.  183  hope you have no intent to turn husband, have you?
ADO 1.1.  184   CLAUDIO I would scarce trust myself though I had sworn
ADO 1.1.  185  the contrary, if Hero would be my wife.
ADO 1.1.  186   BENEDICK Is 't come to this? In faith, hath not the world
ADO 1.1.  187  one man but he will wear his cap with suspicion? Shall
ADO 1.1.  188  I never see a bachelor of three-score again? Go to,
ADO 1.1.  189  i' faith, an thou wilt needs thrust thy neck into a yoke,
ADO 1.1.  190  wear the print of it, and sigh away Sundays. Look, Don
ADO 1.1.  191  Pedro is returned to seek you. {Enter Don Pedro}
ADO 1.1.  192   DON PEDRO  What secret hath held you here that you
ADO 1.1.  193  followed not to Leonato's?
ADO 1.1.  194   BENEDICK I would your grace would constrain me to tell.
ADO 1.1.  195   DON PEDRO I charge thee on thy allegiance.
ADO 1.1.  196   BENEDICK You hear, Count Claudio? I can be secret as a
ADO 1.1.  197  dumb man, I would have you think so. But on my
ADO 1.1.  198  allegiance, mark you this, on my allegiance! He is in
ADO 1.1.  199  love. With who? Now that is your grace's part. Mark
ADO 1.1.  200  how short his answer is: with Hero, Leonato's short
ADO 1.1.  201  daughter.
ADO 1.1.  202   CLAUDIO If this were so, so were it uttered.
ADO 1.1.  203   BENEDICK Like the old tale, my lord - it is not so, nor
ADO 1.1.  204  'twas not so, but indeed, God forbid it should be so.
ADO 1.1.  205   CLAUDIO If my passion change not shortly, God forbid it
ADO 1.1.  206  should be otherwise.
ADO 1.1.  207   DON PEDRO Amen, if you love her, for the lady is very
ADO 1.1.  208  well worthy.
ADO 1.1.  209   CLAUDIO You speak this to fetch me in, my lord.
ADO 1.1.  210   DON PEDRO By my troth, I speak my thought.
ADO 1.1.  211   CLAUDIO And in faith, my lord, I spoke mine.
ADO 1.1.  212   BENEDICK And by my two faiths and troths, my lord, I
ADO 1.1.  213  spoke mine.
ADO 1.1.  214   CLAUDIO That I love her, I feel.
ADO 1.1.  215   DON PEDRO That she is worthy, I know.
ADO 1.1.  216   BENEDICK That I neither feel how she should be loved nor
ADO 1.1.  217  know how she should be worthy is the opinion that
ADO 1.1.  218  fire cannot melt out of me. I will die in it at the stake.
ADO 1.1.  219   DON PEDRO Thou wast ever an obstinate heretic in the
ADO 1.1.  220  despite of beauty.
ADO 1.1.  221   CLAUDIO And never could maintain his part but in the
ADO 1.1.  222  force of his will.
ADO 1.1.  223   BENEDICK That a woman conceived me, I thank her. That
ADO 1.1.  224  she brought me up, I likewise give her most humble
ADO 1.1.  225  thanks. But that I will have a recheat winded in my
ADO 1.1.  226  forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldric, all
ADO 1.1.  227  women shall pardon me. Because I will not do them
ADO 1.1.  228  the wrong to mistrust any, I will do myself the right
ADO 1.1.  229  to trust none. And the fine is - for the which I may go
ADO 1.1.  230  the finer - I will live a bachelor.
ADO 1.1.  231   DON PEDRO I shall see thee ere I die look pale with love.
ADO 1.1.  232   BENEDICK With anger, with sickness, or with hunger, my
ADO 1.1.  233  lord; not with love. Prove that ever I lose more blood
ADO 1.1.  234  with love than I will get again with drinking, pick out
ADO 1.1.  235  mine eyes with a ballad-maker's pen and hang me up
ADO 1.1.  236  at the door of a brothel house for the sign of blind
ADO 1.1.  237  Cupid.
ADO 1.1.  238   DON PEDRO Well, if ever thou dost fall from this faith thou
ADO 1.1.  239  wilt prove a notable argument.
ADO 1.1.  240   BENEDICK If I do, hang me in a bottle like a cat, and shoot
ADO 1.1.  241  at me, and he that hits me, let him be clapped on the
ADO 1.1.  242  shoulder and called Adam.
ADO 1.1.  243   DON PEDRO Well, as time shall try. `In time the savage
ADO 1.1.  244  bull doth bear the yoke.'
ADO 1.1.  245   BENEDICK The savage bull may, but if ever the sensible
ADO 1.1.  246  Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set them
ADO 1.1.  247  in my forehead, and let me be vilely painted, and in
ADO 1.1.  248  such great letters as they write `Here is good horse to
ADO 1.1.  249  hire' let them signify under my sign `Here you may see
ADO 1.1.  250  Benedick, the married man'.
ADO 1.1.  251   CLAUDIO If this should ever happen thou wouldst be horn-
ADO 1.1.  252  mad.
ADO 1.1.  253   DON PEDRO Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in
ADO 1.1.  254  Venice thou wilt quake for this shortly.
ADO 1.1.  255   BENEDICK I look for an earthquake too, then.
ADO 1.1.  256   DON PEDRO Well, you will temporize with the hours. In
ADO 1.1.  257  the mean time, good Signor Benedick, repair to
ADO 1.1.  258  Leonato's, commend me to him, and tell him I will not
ADO 1.1.  259  fail him at supper, for indeed he hath made great
ADO 1.1.  260  preparation.
ADO 1.1.  261   BENEDICK I have almost matter enough in me for such an
ADO 1.1.  262  embassage. And so I commit you - 
ADO 1.1.  263   CLAUDIO To the tuition of God, from my house if I had
ADO 1.1.  264  it - 
ADO 1.1.  265   DON PEDRO The sixth of July,
ADO 1.1.  266  Your loving friend,
ADO 1.1.  267  Benedick.
ADO 1.1.  268   BENEDICK Nay, mock not, mock not. The body of your
ADO 1.1.  269  discourse is sometime guarded with fragments, and the
ADO 1.1.  270  guards are but slightly basted on neither. Ere you flout
ADO 1.1.  271  old ends any further, examine your conscience. And
ADO 1.1.  272  so I leave you. {Exit}
ADO 1.1.  273   CLAUDIO  My liege, your highness now may do me good.
ADO 1.1.  274   DON PEDRO My love is thine to teach. Teach it but how
ADO 1.1.  275  And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn
ADO 1.1.  276  Any hard lesson that may do thee good.
ADO 1.1.  277   CLAUDIO Hath Leonato any son, my lord?
ADO 1.1.  278   DON PEDRO No child but Hero. She's his only heir.
ADO 1.1.  279B Dost thou affect her, Claudio? CLAUDIO O my lord,
ADO 1.1.  280  When you went onward on this ended action
ADO 1.1.  281  I looked upon her with a soldier's eye,
ADO 1.1.  282  That liked, but had a rougher task in hand
ADO 1.1.  283  Than to drive liking to the name of love.
ADO 1.1.  284  But now I am returned, and that war-thoughts
ADO 1.1.  285  Have left their places vacant, in their rooms
ADO 1.1.  286  Come thronging soft and delicate desires,
ADO 1.1.  287  All prompting me how fair young Hero is,
ADO 1.1.  288  Saying I liked her ere I went to wars.
ADO 1.1.  289   DON PEDRO Thou wilt be like a lover presently,
ADO 1.1.  290  And tire the hearer with a book of words.
ADO 1.1.  291  If thou dost love fair Hero, cherish it,
ADO 1.1.  292  And I will break with her, and with her father,
ADO 1.1.  293  And thou shalt have her. Was 't not to this end
ADO 1.1.  294  That thou began'st to twist so fine a story?
ADO 1.1.  295   CLAUDIO How sweetly you do minister to love,
ADO 1.1.  296  That know love's grief by his complexion!
ADO 1.1.  297  But lest my liking might too sudden seem
ADO 1.1.  298  I would have salved it with a longer treatise.
ADO 1.1.  299   DON PEDRO What need the bridge much broader than the flood?
ADO 1.1.  300  The fairest grant is the necessity.
ADO 1.1.  301  Look what will serve is fit. 'Tis once: thou lovest,
ADO 1.1.  302  And I will fit thee with the remedy.
ADO 1.1.  303  I know we shall have revelling tonight.
ADO 1.1.  304  I will assume thy part in some disguise,
ADO 1.1.  305  And tell fair Hero I am Claudio.
ADO 1.1.  306  And in her bosom I'll unclasp my heart
ADO 1.1.  307  And take her hearing prisoner with the force
ADO 1.1.  308  And strong encounter of my amorous tale.
ADO 1.1.  309  Then after to her father will I break,
ADO 1.1.  310  And the conclusion is, she shall be thine.
ADO 1.1.  311  In practice let us put it presently. {Exeunt}
ADO 1.1.    0    {Enter Leonato and Antonio, an old man brother to          +
ADO 1.2.    0  Leonato, severally}
ADO 1.2.    1   LEONATO  How now, brother, where is my cousin, your
ADO 1.2.    2  son? Hath he provided this music?
ADO 1.2.    3   ANTONIO He is very busy about it. But brother, I can tell
ADO 1.2.    4  you strange news that you yet dreamt not of.
ADO 1.2.    5   LEONATO Are they good?
ADO 1.2.    6   ANTONIO As the event stamps them. But they have a good
ADO 1.2.    7  cover, they show well outward. The Prince and Count
ADO 1.2.    8  Claudio, walking in a thick-pleached alley in mine
ADO 1.2.    9  orchard, were thus much overheard by a man of mine:
ADO 1.2.   10  the Prince discovered to Claudio that he loved my niece,
ADO 1.2.   11  your daughter, and meant to acknowledge it this night
ADO 1.2.   12  in a dance, and if he found her accordant he meant to
ADO 1.2.   13  take the present time by the top and instantly break
ADO 1.2.   14  with you of it.
ADO 1.2.   15   LEONATO Hath the fellow any wit that told you this?
ADO 1.2.   16   ANTONIO A good sharp fellow. I will send for him, and
ADO 1.2.   17  question him yourself.
ADO 1.2.   18   LEONATO No, no. We will hold it as a dream till it appear
ADO 1.2.   19  itself. But I will acquaint my daughter withal, that
ADO 1.2.   20  she may be the better prepared for an answer if
ADO 1.2.   21  peradventure this be true. Go you and tell her of it. {[Enter     +
ADO 1.2.   21  attendants]}
ADO 1.2.   22   Cousins, you know what you have to do. O, I cry you
ADO 1.2.   23  mercy, friend. Go you with me and I will use your
ADO 1.2.   24  skill. - Good cousin, have a care this busy time. {Exeunt}
ADO 1.2.    0    {Enter Don John the bastard and Conrad, his companion}
ADO 1.3.    1   CONRAD  What the goodyear, my lord, why are you thus
ADO 1.3.    2  out of measure sad?
ADO 1.3.    3   DON JOHN There is no measure in the occasion that breeds
ADO 1.3.    4  it, therefore the sadness is without limit.
ADO 1.3.    5   CONRAD You should hear reason.
ADO 1.3.    6   DON JOHN And when I have heard it, what blessing brings
ADO 1.3.    7  it?
ADO 1.3.    8   CONRAD If not a present remedy, at least a patient
ADO 1.3.    9  sufferance.
ADO 1.3.   10   DON JOHN I wonder that thou - being, as thou sayst thou
ADO 1.3.   11  art, born under Saturn - goest about to apply a moral
ADO 1.3.   12  medicine to a mortifying mischief. I cannot hide what
ADO 1.3.   13  I am. I must be sad when I have cause, and smile at
ADO 1.3.   14  no man's jests; eat when I have stomach, and wait for
ADO 1.3.   15  no man's leisure; sleep when I am drowsy, and tend
ADO 1.3.   16  on no man's business; laugh when I am merry, and
ADO 1.3.   17  claw no man in his humour.
ADO 1.3.   18   CONRAD Yea, but you must not make the full show of this
ADO 1.3.   19  till you may do it without controlment. You have of
ADO 1.3.   20  late stood out against your brother, and he hath ta'en
ADO 1.3.   21  you newly into his grace, where it is impossible you
ADO 1.3.   22  should take true root but by the fair weather that you
ADO 1.3.   23  make yourself. It is needful that you frame the season
ADO 1.3.   24  for your own harvest.
ADO 1.3.   25   DON JOHN I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a
ADO 1.3.   26  rose in his grace, and it better fits my blood to be
ADO 1.3.   27  disdained of all than to fashion a carriage to rob love
ADO 1.3.   28  from any. In this, though I cannot be said to be a
ADO 1.3.   29  flattering honest man, it must not be denied but I am
ADO 1.3.   30  a plain-dealing villain. I am trusted with a muzzle, and
ADO 1.3.   31  enfranchised with a clog. Therefore I have decreed not
ADO 1.3.   32  to sing in my cage. If I had my mouth I would bite. If
ADO 1.3.   33  I had my liberty I would do my liking. In the mean
ADO 1.3.   34  time, let me be that I am, and seek not to alter me.
ADO 1.3.   35   CONRAD Can you make no use of your discontent?
ADO 1.3.   36   DON JOHN I make all use of it, for I use it only. Who
ADO 1.3.   37  comes here? {Enter Borachio}
ADO 1.3.   38   What news, Borachio?
ADO 1.3.   39   BORACHIO I came yonder from a great supper. The Prince
ADO 1.3.   40  your brother is royally entertained by Leonato, and I
ADO 1.3.   41  can give you intelligence of an intended marriage.
ADO 1.3.   42   DON JOHN Will it serve for any model to build mischief
ADO 1.3.   43  on? What is he for a fool that betroths himself to
ADO 1.3.   44  unquietness?
ADO 1.3.   45   BORACHIO Marry, it is your brother's right hand.
ADO 1.3.   46   DON JOHN Who, the most exquisite Claudio?
ADO 1.3.   47   BORACHIO Even he.
ADO 1.3.   48   DON JOHN A proper squire. And who, and who? Which
ADO 1.3.   49  way looks he?
ADO 1.3.   50   BORACHIO Marry, on Hero, the daughter and heir of
ADO 1.3.   51  Leonato.
ADO 1.3.   52   DON JOHN A very forward March chick. How came you
ADO 1.3.   53  to this?
ADO 1.3.   54   BORACHIO Being entertained for a perfumer, as I was
ADO 1.3.   55  smoking a musty room comes me the Prince and
ADO 1.3.   56  Claudio hand in hand, in sad conference. I whipped
ADO 1.3.   57  me behind the arras, and there heard it agreed upon
ADO 1.3.   58  that the Prince should woo Hero for himself and, having
ADO 1.3.   59  obtained her, give her to Count Claudio.
ADO 1.3.   60   DON JOHN Come, come, let us thither. This may prove
ADO 1.3.   61  food to my displeasure. That young start-up hath all
ADO 1.3.   62  the glory of my overthrow. If I can cross him any way
ADO 1.3.   63  I bless myself every way. You are both sure, and will
ADO 1.3.   64  assist me?
ADO 1.3.   65   CONRAD To the death, my lord.
ADO 1.3.   66   DON JOHN Let us to the great supper. Their cheer is the
ADO 1.3.   67  greater that I am subdued. Would the cook were o' my
ADO 1.3.   68  mind. Shall we go prove what's to be done?
ADO 1.3.   69   BORACHIO We'll wait upon your lordship. {Exeunt}
ADO 1.3.    0     {Enter Leonato, Antonio his brother, Hero his        +
ADO 2.1.    0  daughter, Beatrice his niece, [Margaret, and Ursula]}
ADO 2.1.    1   LEONATO  Was not Count John here at supper?
ADO 2.1.    2   ANTONIO I saw him not.
ADO 2.1.    3   BEATRICE How tartly that gentleman looks. I never can
ADO 2.1.    4  see him but I am heartburned an hour after.
ADO 2.1.    5   HERO He is of a very melancholy disposition.
ADO 2.1.    6   BEATRICE He were an excellent man that were made just
ADO 2.1.    7  in the midway between him and Benedick. The one is
ADO 2.1.    8  too like an image and says nothing, and the other too
ADO 2.1.    9  like my lady's eldest son, evermore tattling.
ADO 2.1.   10   LEONATO Then half Signor Benedick's tongue in Count
ADO 2.1.   11  John's mouth, and half Count John's melancholy in
ADO 2.1.   12  Signor Benedick's face - 
ADO 2.1.   13   BEATRICE With a good leg and a good foot, uncle, and
ADO 2.1.   14  money enough in his purse - such a man would win
ADO 2.1.   15  any woman in the world, if a could get her good will.
ADO 2.1.   16   LEONATO By my troth, niece, thou wilt never get thee a
ADO 2.1.   17  husband if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue.
ADO 2.1.   18   ANTONIO In faith, she's too curst.
ADO 2.1.   19   BEATRICE Too curst is more than curst. I shall lessen God's
ADO 2.1.   20  sending that way, for it is said God sends a curst cow
ADO 2.1.   21  short horns, but to a cow too curst he sends none.
ADO 2.1.   22   LEONATO So, by being too curst, God will send you no
ADO 2.1.   23  horns.
ADO 2.1.   24   BEATRICE Just, if he send me no husband, for the which
ADO 2.1.   25  blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning
ADO 2.1.   26  and evening. Lord, I could not endure a husband with
ADO 2.1.   27  a beard on his face. I had rather lie in the woollen.
ADO 2.1.   28   LEONATO You may light on a husband that hath no beard.
ADO 2.1.   29   BEATRICE What should I do with him - dress him in my
ADO 2.1.   30  apparel and make him my waiting gentlewoman? He
ADO 2.1.   31  that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that
ADO 2.1.   32  hath no beard is less than a man; and he that is more
ADO 2.1.   33  than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a
ADO 2.1.   34  man, I am not for him. Therefore I will even take
ADO 2.1.   35  sixpence in earnest of the bearherd and lead his apes
ADO 2.1.   36  into hell.
ADO 2.1.   37   LEONATO Well then, go you into hell?
ADO 2.1.   38   BEATRICE No, but to the gate, and there will the devil
ADO 2.1.   39  meet me like an old cuckold with horns on his head,
ADO 2.1.   40  and say, `Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to
ADO 2.1.   41  heaven. Here's no place for you maids.' So deliver I up
ADO 2.1.   42  my apes and away to Saint Peter fore the heavens. He
ADO 2.1.   43  shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we
ADO 2.1.   44  as merry as the day is long.
ADO 2.1.   45   ANTONIO  {(to Hero)} Well, niece, I trust you will   +
ADO 2.1.   45  be ruled
ADO 2.1.   46  by your father.
ADO 2.1.   47   BEATRICE Yes, faith, it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy
ADO 2.1.   48  and say, `Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that,
ADO 2.1.   49  cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make
ADO 2.1.   50  another curtsy and say, `Father, as it please me.'
ADO 2.1.   51   LEONATO Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted
ADO 2.1.   52  with a husband.
ADO 2.1.   53   BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other mettle
ADO 2.1.   54  than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be
ADO 2.1.   55  overmastered with a piece of valiant dust? - to make
ADO 2.1.   56  an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No,
ADO 2.1.   57  uncle, I'll none. Adam's sons are my brethren, and
ADO 2.1.   58  truly I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.
ADO 2.1.   59   LEONATO  {(to Hero)} Daughter, remember what I told  +
ADO 2.1.   59  you.
ADO 2.1.   60  If the Prince do solicit you in that kind, you know your
ADO 2.1.   61  answer.
ADO 2.1.   62   BEATRICE The fault will be in the music, cousin, if you be
ADO 2.1.   63  not wooed in good time. If the Prince be too important,
ADO 2.1.   64  tell him there is measure in everything, and so dance
ADO 2.1.   65  out the answer. For hear me, Hero, wooing, wedding,
ADO 2.1.   66  and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a
ADO 2.1.   67  cinquepace. The first suit is hot and hasty, like a Scotch
ADO 2.1.   68  jig - and full as fantastical; the wedding mannerly
ADO 2.1.   69  modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry. And
ADO 2.1.   70  then comes repentance, and with his bad legs falls into
ADO 2.1.   71  the cinquepace faster and faster till he sink into his
ADO 2.1.   72  grave.
ADO 2.1.   73   LEONATO Cousin, you apprehend passing shrewdly.
ADO 2.1.   74   BEATRICE I have a good eye, uncle. I can see a church by
ADO 2.1.   75  daylight.
ADO 2.1.   76   LEONATO The revellers are entering, brother. Make good
ADO 2.1.   77  room. {Enter Don Pedro, Claudio, Benedick, and Balthasar, all     +
ADO 2.1.   77  masked, Don John, and Borachio, [with a drummer]}
ADO 2.1.   78   DON PEDRO  {(to Hero)} Lady, will you walk a bout    +
ADO 2.1.   78  with your
ADO 2.1.   79  friend?
ADO 2.1.   80   HERO So you walk softly, and look sweetly, and say
ADO 2.1.   81  nothing, I am yours for the walk; and especially when
ADO 2.1.   82  I walk away.
ADO 2.1.   83   DON PEDRO With me in your company?
ADO 2.1.   84   HERO I may say so when I please.
ADO 2.1.   85   DON PEDRO And when please you to say so?
ADO 2.1.   86   HERO When I like your favour; for God defend the lute
ADO 2.1.   87  should be like the case.
ADO 2.1.   88   DON PEDRO  My visor is Philemon's roof. Within the house    +
ADO 2.1.   88  is Jove.
ADO 2.1.   89B  HERO Why, then, your visor should be thatched. DON PEDRO Speak    +
ADO 2.1.   89B low if you speak love. {They move aside}
ADO 2.1.   90   [BALTHASAR]  {(to Margaret)} Well, I would you did   +
ADO 2.1.   90  like me.
ADO 2.1.   91   MARGARET So would not I, for your own sake, for I have
ADO 2.1.   92  many ill qualities.
ADO 2.1.   93   [BALTHASAR] Which is one?
ADO 2.1.   94   MARGARET I say my prayers aloud.
ADO 2.1.   95   [BALTHASAR] I love you the better - the hearers may cry
ADO 2.1.   96  amen.
ADO 2.1.   97   MARGARET God match me with a good dancer.
ADO 2.1.   98   BALTHASAR Amen.
ADO 2.1.   99   MARGARET And God keep him out of my sight when the
ADO 2.1.  100  dance is done. Answer, clerk.
ADO 2.1.  101   BALTHASAR No more words. The clerk is answered. {They move    +
ADO 2.1.  101  aside}
ADO 2.1.  102   URSULA  {(to Antonio)} I know you well enough, you   +
ADO 2.1.  102  are
ADO 2.1.  103  Signor Antonio.
ADO 2.1.  104   ANTONIO At a word, I am not.
ADO 2.1.  105   URSULA I know you by the waggling of your head.
ADO 2.1.  106   ANTONIO To tell you true, I counterfeit him.
ADO 2.1.  107   URSULA You could never do him so ill-well unless you
ADO 2.1.  108  were the very man. Here's his dry hand up and down.
ADO 2.1.  109  You are he, you are he.
ADO 2.1.  110   ANTONIO At a word, I am not.
ADO 2.1.  111   URSULA Come, come, do you think I do not know you by
ADO 2.1.  112  your excellent wit? Can virtue hide itself? Go to, mum,
ADO 2.1.  113  you are he. Graces will appear, and there's an end. {They move    +
ADO 2.1.  113  aside}
ADO 2.1.  114   BEATRICE  {(to Benedick)} Will you not tell me who   +
ADO 2.1.  114  told you
ADO 2.1.  115  so?
ADO 2.1.  116   BENEDICK No, you shall pardon me.
ADO 2.1.  117   BEATRICE Nor will you not tell me who you are?
ADO 2.1.  118   BENEDICK Not now.
ADO 2.1.  119   BEATRICE That I was disdainful, and that I had my good
ADO 2.1.  120  wit out of the Hundred Merry Tales - well, this was
ADO 2.1.  121  Signor Benedick that said so.
ADO 2.1.  122   BENEDICK What's he?
ADO 2.1.  123   BEATRICE I am sure you know him well enough.
ADO 2.1.  124   BENEDICK Not I, believe me.
ADO 2.1.  125   BEATRICE Did he never make you laugh?
ADO 2.1.  126   BENEDICK I pray you, what is he?
ADO 2.1.  127   BEATRICE Why, he is the Prince's jester, a very dull fool.
ADO 2.1.  128  Only his gift is in devising impossible slanders. None
ADO 2.1.  129  but libertines delight in him, and the commendation is
ADO 2.1.  130  not in his wit but in his villainy, for he both pleases
ADO 2.1.  131  men and angers them, and then they laugh at him,
ADO 2.1.  132  and beat him. I am sure he is in the fleet. I would he
ADO 2.1.  133  had boarded me.
ADO 2.1.  134   BENEDICK When I know the gentleman, I'll tell him what
ADO 2.1.  135  you say.
ADO 2.1.  136   BEATRICE Do, do. He'll but break a comparison or two on
ADO 2.1.  137  me, which peradventure not marked, or not laughed
ADO 2.1.  138  at, strikes him into melancholy, and then there's a
ADO 2.1.  139  partridge wing saved, for the fool will eat no supper
ADO 2.1.  140  that night. {[Music]}
ADO 2.1.  141   We must follow the leaders.
ADO 2.1.  142   BENEDICK In every good thing.
ADO 2.1.  143   BEATRICE Nay, if they lead to any ill I will leave them at
ADO 2.1.  144  the next turning. {Dance. Exeunt all but Don John, Borachio, and  +
ADO 2.1.  144  Claudio}
ADO 2.1.  145   DON JOHN  {(aside to Borachio)} Sure my brother is   +
ADO 2.1.  145  amorous
ADO 2.1.  146  on Hero, and hath withdrawn her father to break with
ADO 2.1.  147  him about it. The ladies follow her, and but one visor
ADO 2.1.  148  remains.
ADO 2.1.  149   BORACHIO  {(aside to Don John)} And that is          +
ADO 2.1.  149  Claudio. I know
ADO 2.1.  150  him by his bearing.
ADO 2.1.  151   DON JOHN Are not you Signor Benedick?
ADO 2.1.  152   CLAUDIO You know me well. I am he.
ADO 2.1.  153   DON JOHN Signor, you are very near my brother in his
ADO 2.1.  154  love. He is enamoured on Hero. I pray you dissuade
ADO 2.1.  155  him from her. She is no equal for his birth. You may
ADO 2.1.  156  do the part of an honest man in it.
ADO 2.1.  157   CLAUDIO How know you he loves her?
ADO 2.1.  158   DON JOHN I heard him swear his affection.
ADO 2.1.  159   BORACHIO So did I, too, and he swore he would marry
ADO 2.1.  160  her tonight.
ADO 2.1.  161   DON JOHN Come, let us to the banquet. {Exeunt all but         +
ADO 2.1.  161  Claudio}
ADO 2.1.  162   CLAUDIO  Thus answer I in name of Benedick,
ADO 2.1.  163  But hear these ill news with the ears of Claudio.
ADO 2.1.  164  'Tis certain so, the Prince woos for himself.
ADO 2.1.  165  Friendship is constant in all other things
ADO 2.1.  166  Save in the office and affairs of love.
ADO 2.1.  167  Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues.
ADO 2.1.  168  Let every eye negotiate for itself,
ADO 2.1.  169  And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch
ADO 2.1.  170  Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
ADO 2.1.  171  This is an accident of hourly proof,
ADO 2.1.  172  Which I mistrusted not. Farewell, therefore, Hero. {Enter         +
ADO 2.1.  172  Benedick}
ADO 2.1.  173   BENEDICK  Count Claudio?
ADO 2.1.  174   CLAUDIO Yea, the same.
ADO 2.1.  175   BENEDICK Come, will you go with me?
ADO 2.1.  176   CLAUDIO Whither?
ADO 2.1.  177   BENEDICK Even to the next willow, about your own
ADO 2.1.  178  business, County. What fashion will you wear the
ADO 2.1.  179  garland of? About your neck, like an usurer's chain?
ADO 2.1.  180  Or under your arm, like a lieutenant's scarf? You must
ADO 2.1.  181  wear it one way, for the Prince hath got your Hero.
ADO 2.1.  182   CLAUDIO I wish him joy of her.
ADO 2.1.  183   BENEDICK Why, that's spoken like an honest drover; so
ADO 2.1.  184  they sell bullocks. But did you think the Prince would
ADO 2.1.  185  have served you thus?
ADO 2.1.  186   CLAUDIO I pray you leave me.
ADO 2.1.  187   BENEDICK Ho, now you strike like the blind man - 'twas
ADO 2.1.  188  the boy that stole your meat, and you'll beat the post.
ADO 2.1.  189   CLAUDIO If it will not be, I'll leave you. {Exit}
ADO 2.1.  190   BENEDICK  Alas, poor hurt fowl, now will he creep into
ADO 2.1.  191  sedges. But that my Lady Beatrice should know me,
ADO 2.1.  192  and not know me! The Prince's fool! Ha, it may be I
ADO 2.1.  193  go under that title because I am merry. Yea, but so I
ADO 2.1.  194  am apt to do myself wrong. I am not so reputed. It is
ADO 2.1.  195  the base, though bitter, disposition of Beatrice that puts
ADO 2.1.  196  the world into her person, and so gives me out. Well,
ADO 2.1.  197  I'll be revenged as I may. {Enter Don Pedro the Prince}
ADO 2.1.  198   DON PEDRO  Now, signor, where's the Count? Did you see
ADO 2.1.  199  him?
ADO 2.1.  200   BENEDICK Troth, my lord, I have played the part of Lady
ADO 2.1.  201  Fame. I found him here as melancholy as a lodge in a
ADO 2.1.  202  warren. I told him - and I think I told him true - that
ADO 2.1.  203  your grace had got the good will of this young lady,
ADO 2.1.  204  and I offered him my company to a willow tree, either
ADO 2.1.  205  to make him a garland, as being forsaken, or to bind
ADO 2.1.  206  him up a rod, as being worthy to be whipped.
ADO 2.1.  207   DON PEDRO To be whipped - what's his fault?
ADO 2.1.  208   BENEDICK The flat transgression of a schoolboy who, being
ADO 2.1.  209  overjoyed with finding a bird's nest, shows it his
ADO 2.1.  210  companion, and he steals it.
ADO 2.1.  211   DON PEDRO Wilt thou make a trust a transgression? The
ADO 2.1.  212  transgression is in the stealer.
ADO 2.1.  213   BENEDICK Yet it had not been amiss the rod had been
ADO 2.1.  214  made, and the garland too, for the garland he might
ADO 2.1.  215  have worn himself, and the rod he might have bestowed
ADO 2.1.  216  on you, who, as I take it, have stolen his bird's nest.
ADO 2.1.  217   DON PEDRO I will but teach them to sing, and restore them
ADO 2.1.  218  to the owner.
ADO 2.1.  219   BENEDICK If their singing answer your saying, by my faith
ADO 2.1.  220  you say honestly.
ADO 2.1.  221   DON PEDRO The Lady Beatrice hath a quarrel to you. The
ADO 2.1.  222  gentleman that danced with her told her she is much
ADO 2.1.  223  wronged by you.
ADO 2.1.  224   BENEDICK O, she misused me past the endurance of a
ADO 2.1.  225  block. An oak but with one green leaf on it would have
ADO 2.1.  226  answered her. My very visor began to assume life and
ADO 2.1.  227  scold with her. She told me - not thinking I had been
ADO 2.1.  228  myself - that I was the Prince's jester, that I was duller
ADO 2.1.  229  than a great thaw, huddling jest upon jest with such
ADO 2.1.  230  impossible conveyance upon me that I stood like a man
ADO 2.1.  231  at a mark, with a whole army shooting at me. She
ADO 2.1.  232  speaks poniards, and every word stabs. If her breath
ADO 2.1.  233  were as terrible as her terminations, there were no
ADO 2.1.  234  living near her, she would infect to the North Star. I
ADO 2.1.  235  would not marry her though she were endowed with
ADO 2.1.  236  all that Adam had left him before he transgressed. She
ADO 2.1.  237  would have made Hercules have turned spit, yea, and
ADO 2.1.  238  have cleft his club to make the fire, too. Come, talk not
ADO 2.1.  239  of her. You shall find her the infernal Ate in good
ADO 2.1.  240  apparel. I would to God some scholar would conjure
ADO 2.1.  241  her, for certainly, while she is here a man may live as
ADO 2.1.  242  quiet in hell as in a sanctuary, and people sin upon
ADO 2.1.  243  purpose because they would go thither, so indeed all
ADO 2.1.  244  disquiet, horror, and perturbation follows her. {Enter Claudio    +
ADO 2.1.  244  and Beatrice, [and Leonato with Hero]}
ADO 2.1.  245   DON PEDRO  Look, here she comes.
ADO 2.1.  246   BENEDICK Will your grace command me any service to
ADO 2.1.  247  the world's end? I will go on the slightest errand now
ADO 2.1.  248  to the Antipodes that you can devise to send me on. I
ADO 2.1.  249  will fetch you a tooth-picker now from the furthest
ADO 2.1.  250  inch of Asia, bring you the length of Prester John's
ADO 2.1.  251  foot, fetch you a hair off the Great Cham's beard, do
ADO 2.1.  252  you any embassage to the pigmies, rather than hold
ADO 2.1.  253  three words' conference with this harpy. You have no
ADO 2.1.  254  employment for me?
ADO 2.1.  255   DON PEDRO None but to desire your good company.
ADO 2.1.  256   BENEDICK O God, sir, here's a dish I love not. I cannot
ADO 2.1.  257  endure my Lady Tongue. {Exit}
ADO 2.1.  258   DON PEDRO  Come, lady, come, you have lost the heart of
ADO 2.1.  259  Signor Benedick.
ADO 2.1.  260   BEATRICE Indeed, my lord, he lent it me a while, and I
ADO 2.1.  261  gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one.
ADO 2.1.  262  Marry, once before he won it of me, with false dice.
ADO 2.1.  263  Therefore your grace may well say I have lost it.
ADO 2.1.  264   DON PEDRO You have put him down, lady, you have put
ADO 2.1.  265  him down.
ADO 2.1.  266   BEATRICE So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest
ADO 2.1.  267  I should prove the mother of fools. I have brought
ADO 2.1.  268  Count Claudio, whom you sent me to seek.
ADO 2.1.  269   DON PEDRO Why, how now, Count, wherefore are you
ADO 2.1.  270  sad?
ADO 2.1.  271   CLAUDIO Not sad, my lord.
ADO 2.1.  272   DON PEDRO How then? Sick?
ADO 2.1.  273   CLAUDIO Neither, my lord.
ADO 2.1.  274   BEATRICE The Count is neither sad, nor sick, nor merry,
ADO 2.1.  275  nor well, but civil count, civil as an orange, and
ADO 2.1.  276  something of that jealous complexion.
ADO 2.1.  277   DON PEDRO I' faith, lady, I think your blazon to be true,
ADO 2.1.  278  though I'll be sworn, if he be so, his conceit is false.
ADO 2.1.  279  Here, Claudio, I have wooed in thy name, and fair
ADO 2.1.  280  Hero is won. I have broke with her father and his good
ADO 2.1.  281  will obtained. Name the day of marriage, and God give
ADO 2.1.  282  thee joy.
ADO 2.1.  283   LEONATO Count, take of me my daughter, and with her
ADO 2.1.  284  my fortunes. His grace hath made the match, and all
ADO 2.1.  285  grace say amen to it.
ADO 2.1.  286   BEATRICE Speak, Count, 'tis your cue.
ADO 2.1.  287   CLAUDIO Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. I were but
ADO 2.1.  288  little happy if I could say how much. {(To Hero)} Lady,
ADO 2.1.  289  as you are mine, I am yours. I give away myself for
ADO 2.1.  290  you, and dote upon the exchange.
ADO 2.1.  291   BEATRICE  {(to Hero)} Speak, cousin. Or, if you      +
ADO 2.1.  291  cannot, stop
ADO 2.1.  292  his mouth with a kiss, and let not him speak, neither.
ADO 2.1.  293   DON PEDRO In faith, lady, you have a merry heart.
ADO 2.1.  294   BEATRICE Yea, my lord, I thank it. Poor fool, it keeps on
ADO 2.1.  295  the windy side of care. - My cousin tells him in his ear
ADO 2.1.  296  that he is in her heart.
ADO 2.1.  297   CLAUDIO And so she doth, cousin.
ADO 2.1.  298   BEATRICE Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes everyone to
ADO 2.1.  299  the world but I, and I am sunburnt. I may sit in a
ADO 2.1.  300  corner and cry `Heigh-ho for a husband'.
ADO 2.1.  301   DON PEDRO Lady Beatrice, I will get you one.
ADO 2.1.  302   BEATRICE I would rather have one of your father's getting.
ADO 2.1.  303  Hath your grace ne'er a brother like you? Your father
ADO 2.1.  304  got excellent husbands if a maid could come by them.
ADO 2.1.  305   DON PEDRO Will you have me, lady?
ADO 2.1.  306   BEATRICE No, my lord, unless I might have another for
ADO 2.1.  307  working days. Your grace is too costly to wear every
ADO 2.1.  308  day. But I beseech your grace, pardon me. I was born
ADO 2.1.  309  to speak all mirth and no matter.
ADO 2.1.  310   DON PEDRO Your silence most offends me, and to be merry
ADO 2.1.  311  best becomes you; for out o' question, you were born
ADO 2.1.  312  in a merry hour.
ADO 2.1.  313   BEATRICE No, sure, my lord, my mother cried. But then
ADO 2.1.  314  there was a star danced, and under that was I born.
ADO 2.1.  315   {(To Hero and Claudio)} Cousins, God give you joy.
ADO 2.1.  316   LEONATO Niece, will you look to those things I told you
ADO 2.1.  317  of?
ADO 2.1.  318   BEATRICE I cry you mercy, uncle. {(To Don Pedro)}    +
ADO 2.1.  318  By your
ADO 2.1.  319  grace's pardon. {Exit Beatrice}
ADO 2.1.  320   DON PEDRO  By my troth, a pleasant-spirited lady.
ADO 2.1.  321   LEONATO There's little of the melancholy element in her,
ADO 2.1.  322  my lord. She is never sad but when she sleeps, and not
ADO 2.1.  323  ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say she
ADO 2.1.  324  hath often dreamt of unhappiness and waked herself
ADO 2.1.  325  with laughing.
ADO 2.1.  326   DON PEDRO She cannot endure to hear tell of a husband.
ADO 2.1.  327   LEONATO O, by no means. She mocks all her wooers out
ADO 2.1.  328  of suit.
ADO 2.1.  329   DON PEDRO She were an excellent wife for Benedick.
ADO 2.1.  330   LEONATO O Lord, my lord, if they were but a week married
ADO 2.1.  331  they would talk themselves mad.
ADO 2.1.  332   DON PEDRO County Claudio, when mean you to go to
ADO 2.1.  333  church?
ADO 2.1.  334   CLAUDIO Tomorrow, my lord. Time goes on crutches till
ADO 2.1.  335  love have all his rites.
ADO 2.1.  336   LEONATO Not till Monday, my dear son, which is hence
ADO 2.1.  337  a just sevennight, and a time too brief, too, to have all
ADO 2.1.  338  things answer my mind.
ADO 2.1.  339   DON PEDRO Come, you shake the head at so long a
ADO 2.1.  340  breathing, but I warrant thee, Claudio, the time shall
ADO 2.1.  341  not go dully by us. I will in the interim undertake one
ADO 2.1.  342  of Hercules' labours, which is to bring Signor Benedick
ADO 2.1.  343  and the Lady Beatrice into a mountain of affection
ADO 2.1.  344  th' one with th' other. I would fain have it a match, and
ADO 2.1.  345  I doubt not but to fashion it, if you three will but
ADO 2.1.  346  minister such assistance as I shall give you direction.
ADO 2.1.  347   LEONATO My lord, I am for you, though it cost me ten
ADO 2.1.  348  nights' watchings.
ADO 2.1.  349   CLAUDIO And I, my lord.
ADO 2.1.  350   DON PEDRO And you too, gentle Hero?
ADO 2.1.  351   HERO I will do any modest office, my lord, to help my
ADO 2.1.  352  cousin to a good husband.
ADO 2.1.  353   DON PEDRO And Benedick is not the unhopefullest husband
ADO 2.1.  354  that I know. Thus far can I praise him: he is of a noble
ADO 2.1.  355  strain, of approved valour and confirmed honesty. I
ADO 2.1.  356  will teach you how to humour your cousin that she
ADO 2.1.  357  shall fall in love with Benedick, and I, with your two
ADO 2.1.  358  helps, will so practise on Benedick that, in despite of
ADO 2.1.  359  his quick wit and his queasy stomach, he shall fall in
ADO 2.1.  360  love with Beatrice. If we can do this, Cupid is no longer
ADO 2.1.  361  an archer; his glory shall be ours, for we are the only
ADO 2.1.  362  love-gods. Go in with me, and I will tell you my drift. {Exeunt}
ADO 2.1.    0    {Enter Don John and Borachio}
ADO 2.2.    1   DON JOHN  It is so. The Count Claudio shall marry the
ADO 2.2.    2  daughter of Leonato.
ADO 2.2.    3   BORACHIO Yea, my lord, but I can cross it.
ADO 2.2.    4   DON JOHN Any bar, any cross, any impediment will be
ADO 2.2.    5  medicinable to me. I am sick in displeasure to him, and
ADO 2.2.    6  whatsoever comes athwart his affection ranges evenly
ADO 2.2.    7  with mine. How canst thou cross this marriage?
ADO 2.2.    8   BORACHIO Not honestly, my lord, but so covertly that no
ADO 2.2.    9  dishonesty shall appear in me.
ADO 2.2.   10   DON JOHN Show me briefly how.
ADO 2.2.   11   BORACHIO I think I told your lordship a year since how
ADO 2.2.   12  much I am in the favour of Margaret, the waiting
ADO 2.2.   13  gentlewoman to Hero.
ADO 2.2.   14   DON JOHN I remember.
ADO 2.2.   15   BORACHIO I can at any unseasonable instant of the night
ADO 2.2.   16  appoint her to look out at her lady's chamber window.
ADO 2.2.   17   DON JOHN What life is in that to be the death of this
ADO 2.2.   18  marriage?
ADO 2.2.   19   BORACHIO The poison of that lies in you to temper. Go
ADO 2.2.   20  you to the Prince your brother. Spare not to tell him
ADO 2.2.   21  that he hath wronged his honour in marrying the
ADO 2.2.   22  renowned Claudio - whose estimation do you mightily
ADO 2.2.   23  hold up - to a contaminated stale, such a one as Hero.
ADO 2.2.   24   DON JOHN What proof shall I make of that?
ADO 2.2.   25   BORACHIO Proof enough to misuse the Prince, to vex
ADO 2.2.   26  Claudio, to undo Hero, and kill Leonato. Look you for
ADO 2.2.   27  any other issue?
ADO 2.2.   28   DON JOHN Only to despite them I will endeavour anything.
ADO 2.2.   29   BORACHIO Go then. Find me a meet hour to draw Don
ADO 2.2.   30  Pedro and the Count Claudio alone. Tell them that you
ADO 2.2.   31  know that Hero loves me. Intend a kind of zeal both
ADO 2.2.   32  to the Prince and Claudio as in love of your brother's
ADO 2.2.   33  honour who hath made this match, and his friend's
ADO 2.2.   34  reputation who is thus like to be cozened with the
ADO 2.2.   35  semblance of a maid, that you have discovered thus.
ADO 2.2.   36  They will scarcely believe this without trial. Offer them
ADO 2.2.   37  instances, which shall bear no less likelihood than to
ADO 2.2.   38  see me at her chamber window, hear me call Margaret
ADO 2.2.   39  Hero, hear Margaret term me Claudio. And bring them
ADO 2.2.   40  to see this the very night before the intended wedding,
ADO 2.2.   41  for in the mean time I will so fashion the matter that
ADO 2.2.   42  Hero shall be absent, and there shall appear such
ADO 2.2.   43  seeming truth of Hero's disloyalty that jealousy shall
ADO 2.2.   44  be called assurance, and all the preparation overthrown.
ADO 2.2.   44
ADO 2.2.   46   DON JOHN Grow this to what adverse issue it can, I will
ADO 2.2.   47  put it in practice. Be cunning in the working this, and
ADO 2.2.   48  thy fee is a thousand ducats.
ADO 2.2.   49   BORACHIO Be you constant in the accusation, and my
ADO 2.2.   50  cunning shall not shame me.
ADO 2.2.   51   DON JOHN I will presently go learn their day of marriage.     +
ADO 2.2.   51  {Exeunt}
ADO 2.2.    0    {Enter Benedick}
ADO 2.3.    1   BENEDICK  Boy! {[Enter Boy]}
ADO 2.3.    2   BOY  Signor?
ADO 2.3.    3   BENEDICK In my chamber window lies a book. Bring it
ADO 2.3.    4  hither to me in the orchard.
ADO 2.3.    5   BOY I am here already, sir.
ADO 2.3.    6   BENEDICK I know that, but I would have thee hence and
ADO 2.3.    7  here again. {[Exit Boy]}
ADO 2.3.    8   I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much
ADO 2.3.    9  another man is a fool when he dedicates his behaviours
ADO 2.3.   10  to love, will, after he hath laughed at such shallow
ADO 2.3.   11  follies in others, become the argument of his own scorn
ADO 2.3.   12  by falling in love. And such a man is Claudio. I have
ADO 2.3.   13  known when there was no music with him but the
ADO 2.3.   14  drum and the fife, and now had he rather hear the
ADO 2.3.   15  tabor and the pipe. I have known when he would have
ADO 2.3.   16  walked ten mile afoot to see a good armour, and now
ADO 2.3.   17  will he lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a
ADO 2.3.   18  new doublet. He was wont to speak plain and to the
ADO 2.3.   19  purpose, like an honest man and a soldier, and now is
ADO 2.3.   20  he turned orthography. His words are a very fantastical
ADO 2.3.   21  banquet, just so many strange dishes. May I be so
ADO 2.3.   22  converted, and see with these eyes? I cannot tell. I
ADO 2.3.   23  think not. I will not be sworn but love may transform
ADO 2.3.   24  me to an oyster, but I'll take my oath on it, till he
ADO 2.3.   25  have made an oyster of me he shall never make me
ADO 2.3.   26  such a fool. One woman is fair, yet I am well. Another
ADO 2.3.   27  is wise, yet I am well. Another virtuous, yet I am well.
ADO 2.3.   28  But till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall
ADO 2.3.   29  not come in my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain.
ADO 2.3.   30  Wise, or I'll none. Virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her.
ADO 2.3.   31  Fair, or I'll never look on her. Mild, or come not near
ADO 2.3.   32  me. Noble, or not I for an angel. Of good discourse, an
ADO 2.3.   33  excellent musician, and her hair shall be of what colour
ADO 2.3.   34  it please God. Ha! The Prince and Monsieur Love. I
ADO 2.3.   35  will hide me in the arbour. {He hides.}
ADO 2.3.   36  {Enter Don Pedro the Prince, Leonato, and Claudio} DON PEDRO          +
ADO 2.3.   36   Come, shall we hear this music?
ADO 2.3.   37   CLAUDIO  Yea, my good lord. How still the evening is,
ADO 2.3.   38  As hushed on purpose to grace harmony.
ADO 2.3.   39   DON PEDRO  {(aside)} See you where Benedick hath     +
ADO 2.3.   39  hid himself?
ADO 2.3.   40   CLAUDIO  {(aside)} O, very well, my lord. The music  +
ADO 2.3.   40  ended,
ADO 2.3.   41  We'll fit the hid-fox with a pennyworth. {Enter Balthasar with    +
ADO 2.3.   41  music}
ADO 2.3.   42   DON PEDRO  Come, Balthasar, we'll hear that song again.
ADO 2.3.   43   BALTHASAR O good my lord, tax not so bad a voice
ADO 2.3.   44  To slander music any more than once.
ADO 2.3.   45   DON PEDRO It is the witness still of excellency
ADO 2.3.   46  To put a strange face on his own perfection.
ADO 2.3.   47  I pray thee sing, and let me woo no more.
ADO 2.3.   48   BALTHASAR Because you talk of wooing I will sing,
ADO 2.3.   49  Since many a wooer doth commence his suit
ADO 2.3.   50  To her he thinks not worthy, yet he woos,
ADO 2.3.   51B Yet will he swear he loves. DON PEDRO Nay pray thee, come;
ADO 2.3.   52  Or if thou wilt hold longer argument,
ADO 2.3.   53B Do it in notes. BALTHASAR Note this before my notes:
ADO 2.3.   54  There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.
ADO 2.3.   55   DON PEDRO Why, these are very crotchets that he speaks - 
ADO 2.3.   56  Note notes, forsooth, and nothing! {The accompaniment begins}
ADO 2.3.   57   BENEDICK  Now, divine air! Now is his soul ravished. Is it
ADO 2.3.   58  not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of
ADO 2.3.   59  men's bodies? Well, a horn for my money, when all's
ADO 2.3.   60  done.
ADO 2.3.   61   BALTHASAR  {(sings)} Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no    +
ADO 2.3.   61  more.
ADO 2.3.   62  Men were deceivers ever,
ADO 2.3.   63  One foot in sea, and one on shore,
ADO 2.3.   64  To one thing constant never.
ADO 2.3.   65  Then sigh not so, but let them go,
ADO 2.3.   66  And be you blithe and bonny,
ADO 2.3.   67  Converting all your sounds of woe
ADO 2.3.   68  Into hey nonny, nonny.
ADO 2.3.   69  Sing no more ditties, sing no more
ADO 2.3.   70  Of dumps so dull and heavy.
ADO 2.3.   71  The fraud of men was ever so
ADO 2.3.   72  Since summer first was leafy.
ADO 2.3.   73  Then sigh not so, but let them go,
ADO 2.3.   74  And be you blithe and bonny,
ADO 2.3.   75  Converting all your sounds of woe
ADO 2.3.   76  Into hey nonny, nonny.
ADO 2.3.   77   DON PEDRO  By my troth, a good song.
ADO 2.3.   78   BALTHASAR And an ill singer, my lord.
ADO 2.3.   79   DON PEDRO Ha, no, no, faith. Thou singest well enough
ADO 2.3.   80  for a shift.
ADO 2.3.   81   BENEDICK  {(aside)} An he had been a dog that        +
ADO 2.3.   81  should have
ADO 2.3.   82  howled thus, they would have hanged him; and I pray
ADO 2.3.   83  God his bad voice bode no mischief. I had as lief have
ADO 2.3.   84  heard the night-raven, come what plague could have
ADO 2.3.   85  come after it.
ADO 2.3.   86   DON PEDRO Yea, marry, dost thou hear, Balthasar? I pray
ADO 2.3.   87  thee get us some excellent music, for tomorrow night
ADO 2.3.   88  we would have it at the Lady Hero's chamber window.
ADO 2.3.   89   BALTHASAR The best I can, my lord. {Exit}
ADO 2.3.   90   DON PEDRO  Do so. Farewell. Come hither, Leonato. What
ADO 2.3.   91  was it you told me of today, that your niece Beatrice
ADO 2.3.   92  was in love with Signor Benedick?
ADO 2.3.   93   CLAUDIO  {(aside)} O, ay, stalk on, stalk on. The    +
ADO 2.3.   93  fowl sits. - 
ADO 2.3.   94  I did never think that lady would have loved any man.
ADO 2.3.   95   LEONATO No, nor I neither. But most wonderful that she
ADO 2.3.   96  should so dote on Signor Benedick, whom she hath in
ADO 2.3.   97  all outward behaviours seemed ever to abhor.
ADO 2.3.   98   BENEDICK  {(aside)} Is 't possible? Sits the wind    +
ADO 2.3.   98  in that corner?
ADO 2.3.   99   LEONATO By my troth, my lord, I cannot tell what to
ADO 2.3.  100  think of it. But that she loves him with an enraged
ADO 2.3.  101  affection, it is past the infinite of thought.
ADO 2.3.  102   DON PEDRO Maybe she doth but counterfeit.
ADO 2.3.  103   CLAUDIO Faith, like enough.
ADO 2.3.  104   LEONATO O God! Counterfeit? There was never counterfeit
ADO 2.3.  105  of passion came so near the life of passion as she
ADO 2.3.  106  discovers it.
ADO 2.3.  107   DON PEDRO Why, what effects of passion shows she?
ADO 2.3.  108   CLAUDIO  {(aside)} Bait the hook well. This fish     +
ADO 2.3.  108  will bite.
ADO 2.3.  109   LEONATO What effects, my lord? She will sit you - you
ADO 2.3.  110  heard my daughter tell you how.
ADO 2.3.  111   CLAUDIO She did indeed.
ADO 2.3.  112   DON PEDRO How, how, I pray you? You amaze me. I
ADO 2.3.  113  would have thought her spirit had been invincible
ADO 2.3.  114  against all assaults of affection.
ADO 2.3.  115   LEONATO I would have sworn it had, my lord, especially
ADO 2.3.  116  against Benedick.
ADO 2.3.  117   BENEDICK  {(aside)} I should think this a gull, but  +
ADO 2.3.  117  that the
ADO 2.3.  118  white-bearded fellow speaks it. Knavery cannot, sure,
ADO 2.3.  119  hide himself in such reverence.
ADO 2.3.  120   CLAUDIO  {(aside)} He hath ta'en th' infection.      +
ADO 2.3.  120  Hold it up.
ADO 2.3.  121   DON PEDRO Hath she made her affection known to
ADO 2.3.  122  Benedick?
ADO 2.3.  123   LEONATO No, and swears she never will. That's her
ADO 2.3.  124  torment.
ADO 2.3.  125   CLAUDIO 'Tis true, indeed, so your daughter says. `Shall
ADO 2.3.  126  I,' says she, `that have so oft encountered him with
ADO 2.3.  127  scorn, write to him that I love him?'
ADO 2.3.  128   LEONATO This says she now when she is beginning to
ADO 2.3.  129  write to him, for she'll be up twenty times a night, and
ADO 2.3.  130  there will she sit in her smock till she have writ a sheet
ADO 2.3.  131  of paper. My daughter tells us all.
ADO 2.3.  132   CLAUDIO Now you talk of a sheet of paper, I remember a
ADO 2.3.  133  pretty jest your daughter told us of.
ADO 2.3.  134   LEONATO O, when she had writ it and was reading it over,
ADO 2.3.  135  she found Benedick and Beatrice between the sheet.
ADO 2.3.  136   CLAUDIO That.
ADO 2.3.  137   LEONATO O, she tore the letter into a thousand halfpence,
ADO 2.3.  138  railed at herself that she should be so immodest to
ADO 2.3.  139  write to one that she knew would flout her. `I measure
ADO 2.3.  140  him,' says she, `by my own spirit, for I should flout
ADO 2.3.  141  him if he writ to me, yea, though I love him I should.'
ADO 2.3.  142   CLAUDIO Then down upon her knees she falls, weeps,
ADO 2.3.  143  sobs, beats her heart, tears her hair, prays, curses, `O
ADO 2.3.  144  sweet Benedick, God give me patience.'
ADO 2.3.  145   LEONATO She doth indeed, my daughter says so, and the
ADO 2.3.  146  ecstasy hath so much overborne her that my daughter
ADO 2.3.  147  is sometime afeard she will do a desperate outrage to
ADO 2.3.  148  herself. It is very true.
ADO 2.3.  149   DON PEDRO It were good that Benedick knew of it by some
ADO 2.3.  150  other, if she will not discover it.
ADO 2.3.  151   CLAUDIO To what end? He would make but a sport of it
ADO 2.3.  152  and torment the poor lady worse.
ADO 2.3.  153   DON PEDRO An he should, it were an alms to hang him.
ADO 2.3.  154  She's an excellent sweet lady, and, out of all suspicion,
ADO 2.3.  155  she is virtuous.
ADO 2.3.  156   CLAUDIO And she is exceeding wise.
ADO 2.3.  157   DON PEDRO In everything but in loving Benedick.
ADO 2.3.  158   LEONATO O my lord, wisdom and blood combating in so
ADO 2.3.  159  tender a body, we have ten proofs to one that blood
ADO 2.3.  160  hath the victory. I am sorry for her, as I have just
ADO 2.3.  161  cause, being her uncle and her guardian.
ADO 2.3.  162   DON PEDRO I would she had bestowed this dotage on me.
ADO 2.3.  163  I would have doffed all other respects and made her
ADO 2.3.  164  half myself. I pray you tell Benedick of it, and hear
ADO 2.3.  165  what a will say.
ADO 2.3.  166   LEONATO Were it good, think you?
ADO 2.3.  167   CLAUDIO Hero thinks surely she will die, for she says she
ADO 2.3.  168  will die if he love her not, and she will die ere she
ADO 2.3.  169  make her love known, and she will die if he woo her,
ADO 2.3.  170  rather than she will bate one breath of her accustomed
ADO 2.3.  171  crossness.
ADO 2.3.  172   DON PEDRO She doth well. If she should make tender of
ADO 2.3.  173  her love 'tis very possible he'll scorn it, for the man,
ADO 2.3.  174  as you know all, hath a contemptible spirit.
ADO 2.3.  175   CLAUDIO He is a very proper man.
ADO 2.3.  176   DON PEDRO He hath indeed a good outward happiness.
ADO 2.3.  177   CLAUDIO Before God; and in my mind, very wise.
ADO 2.3.  178   DON PEDRO He doth indeed show some sparks that are
ADO 2.3.  179  like wit.
ADO 2.3.  180   CLAUDIO And I take him to be valiant.
ADO 2.3.  181   DON PEDRO As Hector, I assure you; and in the managing
ADO 2.3.  182  of quarrels you may say he is wise, for either he avoids
ADO 2.3.  183  them with great discretion or undertakes them with a
ADO 2.3.  184  most Christianlike fear.
ADO 2.3.  185   LEONATO If he do fear God, a must necessarily keep peace.
ADO 2.3.  186  If he break the peace, he ought to enter into a quarrel
ADO 2.3.  187  with fear and trembling.
ADO 2.3.  188   DON PEDRO And so will he do, for the man doth fear God,
ADO 2.3.  189  howsoever it seems not in him by some large jests he
ADO 2.3.  190  will make. Well, I am sorry for your niece. Shall we
ADO 2.3.  191  go seek Benedick and tell him of her love?
ADO 2.3.  192   CLAUDIO Never tell him, my lord. Let her wear it out with
ADO 2.3.  193  good counsel.
ADO 2.3.  194   LEONATO Nay, that's impossible. She may wear her heart
ADO 2.3.  195  out first.
ADO 2.3.  196   DON PEDRO Well, we will hear further of it by your
ADO 2.3.  197  daughter. Let it cool the while. I love Benedick well,
ADO 2.3.  198  and I could wish he would modestly examine himself
ADO 2.3.  199  to see how much he is unworthy so good a lady.
ADO 2.3.  200   LEONATO My lord, will you walk? Dinner is ready.
ADO 2.3.  201   CLAUDIO  {(aside)} If he do not dote on her upon     +
ADO 2.3.  201  this, I will
ADO 2.3.  202  never trust my expectation.
ADO 2.3.  203   DON PEDRO  {(aside)} Let there be the same net       +
ADO 2.3.  203  spread for
ADO 2.3.  204  her, and that must your daughter and her gentlewomen
ADO 2.3.  205  carry. The sport will be when they hold one an opinion
ADO 2.3.  206  of another's dotage, and no such matter. That's the
ADO 2.3.  207  scene that I would see, which will be merely a dumb
ADO 2.3.  208  show. Let us send her to call him in to dinner. {Exeunt Don       +
ADO 2.3.  208  Pedro, Claudio, and Leonato}
ADO 2.3.  209   BENEDICK  {(coming forward)} This can be no trick.   +
ADO 2.3.  209  The
ADO 2.3.  210  conference was sadly borne. They have the truth of
ADO 2.3.  211  this from Hero. They seem to pity the lady. It seems
ADO 2.3.  212  her affections have their full bent. Love me! Why, it
ADO 2.3.  213  must be requited. I hear how I am censured. They say
ADO 2.3.  214  I will bear myself proudly if I perceive the love come
ADO 2.3.  215  from her. They say too that she will rather die than
ADO 2.3.  216  give any sign of affection. I did never think to marry.
ADO 2.3.  217  I must not seem proud. Happy are they that hear their
ADO 2.3.  218  detractions and can put them to mending. They say
ADO 2.3.  219  the lady is fair. 'Tis a truth, I can bear them witness.
ADO 2.3.  220  And virtuous - 'tis so, I cannot reprove it. And wise,
ADO 2.3.  221  but for loving me. By my troth, it is no addition to her
ADO 2.3.  222  wit - nor no great argument of her folly, for I will be
ADO 2.3.  223  horribly in love with her. I may chance have some odd
ADO 2.3.  224  quirks and remnants of wit broken on me because I
ADO 2.3.  225  have railed so long against marriage; but doth not the
ADO 2.3.  226  appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that
ADO 2.3.  227  he cannot endure in his age. Shall quips and sentences
ADO 2.3.  228  and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from
ADO 2.3.  229  the career of his humour? No. The world must be
ADO 2.3.  230  peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not
ADO 2.3.  231  think I should live till I were married. Here comes
ADO 2.3.  232  Beatrice. {Enter Beatrice}
ADO 2.3.  233   By this day, she's a fair lady. I do spy some marks of
ADO 2.3.  234  love in her.
ADO 2.3.  235   BEATRICE Against my will I am sent to bid you come in
ADO 2.3.  236  to dinner.
ADO 2.3.  237   BENEDICK  Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains.
ADO 2.3.  238   BEATRICE  I took no more pains for those thanks than you
ADO 2.3.  239  take pains to thank me. If it had been painful I would
ADO 2.3.  240  not have come.
ADO 2.3.  241   BENEDICK You take pleasure, then, in the message?
ADO 2.3.  242   BEATRICE Yea, just so much as you may take upon a
ADO 2.3.  243  knife's point and choke a daw withal. You have no
ADO 2.3.  244  stomach, signor? Fare you well. {Exit}
ADO 2.3.  245   BENEDICK  Ha! `Against my will I am sent to bid you come
ADO 2.3.  246  in to dinner.' There's a double meaning in that. `I took
ADO 2.3.  247  no more pains for those thanks than you took pains to
ADO 2.3.  248  thank me.' That's as much as to say `Any pains that I
ADO 2.3.  249  take for you is as easy as thanks.' - If I do not take
ADO 2.3.  250  pity of her I am a villain. If I do not love her I am a
ADO 2.3.  251  Jew. I will go get her picture. {Exit}
ADO 2.3.    0     {Enter Hero and two gentlewomen, Margaret and        +
ADO 3.1.    0  Ursula}
ADO 3.1.    1   HERO  Good Margaret, run thee to the parlour.
ADO 3.1.    2  There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice
ADO 3.1.    3  Proposing with the Prince and Claudio.
ADO 3.1.    4  Whisper her ear, and tell her I and Ursula
ADO 3.1.    5  Walk in the orchard, and our whole discourse
ADO 3.1.    6  Is all of her. Say that thou overheard'st us,
ADO 3.1.    7  And bid her steal into the pleached bower
ADO 3.1.    8  Where honeysuckles, ripened by the sun,
ADO 3.1.    9  Forbid the sun to enter - like favourites
ADO 3.1.   10  Made proud by princes, that advance their pride
ADO 3.1.   11  Against that power that bred it. There will she hide her
ADO 3.1.   12  To listen our propose. This is thy office.
ADO 3.1.   13  Bear thee well in it, and leave us alone.
ADO 3.1.   14   MARGARET I'll make her come, I warrant you, presently.        +
ADO 3.1.   14  {Exit}
ADO 3.1.   15   HERO  Now, Ursula, when Beatrice doth come,
ADO 3.1.   16  As we do trace this alley up and down
ADO 3.1.   17  Our talk must only be of Benedick.
ADO 3.1.   18  When I do name him, let it be thy part
ADO 3.1.   19  To praise him more than ever man did merit.
ADO 3.1.   20  My talk to thee must be how Benedick
ADO 3.1.   21  Is sick in love with Beatrice. Of this matter
ADO 3.1.   22  Is little Cupid's crafty arrow made,
ADO 3.1.   23B That only wounds by hearsay. {Enter Beatrice} Now        +
ADO 3.1.   23B begin,
ADO 3.1.   24  For look where Beatrice like a lapwing runs
ADO 3.1.   25  Close by the ground to hear our conference.
ADO 3.1.   26   URSULA The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish
ADO 3.1.   27  Cut with her golden oars the silver stream
ADO 3.1.   28  And greedily devour the treacherous bait.
ADO 3.1.   29  So angle we for Beatrice, who even now
ADO 3.1.   30  Is couched in the woodbine coverture.
ADO 3.1.   31  Fear you not my part of the dialogue.
ADO 3.1.   32   HERO Then go we near her, that her ear lose nothing
ADO 3.1.   33  Of the false-sweet bait that we lay for it. -  {They approach       +
ADO 3.1.   33  Beatrice's hiding-place}
ADO 3.1.   34   No, truly, Ursula, she is too disdainful.
ADO 3.1.   35  I know her spirits are as coy and wild
ADO 3.1.   36B As haggards of the rock. URSULA But are you sure
ADO 3.1.   37  That Benedick loves Beatrice so entirely?
ADO 3.1.   38   HERO So says the Prince and my new trothed lord.
ADO 3.1.   39   URSULA And did they bid you tell her of it, madam?
ADO 3.1.   40   HERO They did entreat me to acquaint her of it,
ADO 3.1.   41  But I persuaded them, if they loved Benedick,
ADO 3.1.   42  To wish him wrestle with affection
ADO 3.1.   43  And never to let Beatrice know of it.
ADO 3.1.   44   URSULA Why did you so? Doth not the gentleman
ADO 3.1.   45  Deserve as full as fortunate a bed
ADO 3.1.   46  As ever Beatrice shall couch upon?
ADO 3.1.   47   HERO O god of love! I know he doth deserve
ADO 3.1.   48  As much as may be yielded to a man.
ADO 3.1.   49  But nature never framed a woman's heart
ADO 3.1.   50  Of prouder stuff than that of Beatrice.
ADO 3.1.   51  Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes,
ADO 3.1.   52  Misprising what they look on, and her wit
ADO 3.1.   53  Values itself so highly that to her
ADO 3.1.   54  All matter else seems weak. She cannot love,
ADO 3.1.   55  Nor take no shape nor project of affection,
ADO 3.1.   56B She is so self-endeared. URSULA Sure, I think so.
ADO 3.1.   57  And therefore certainly it were not good
ADO 3.1.   58  She knew his love, lest she'll make sport at it.
ADO 3.1.   59   HERO Why, you speak truth. I never yet saw man,
ADO 3.1.   60  How wise, how noble, young, how rarely featured,
ADO 3.1.   61  But she would spell him backward. If fair-faced,
ADO 3.1.   62  She would swear the gentleman should be her sister.
ADO 3.1.   63  If black, why nature, drawing of an antic,
ADO 3.1.   64  Made a foul blot. If tall, a lance ill headed;
ADO 3.1.   65  If low, an agate very vilely cut;
ADO 3.1.   66  If speaking, why, a vane blown with all winds;
ADO 3.1.   67  If silent, why, a block moved with none.
ADO 3.1.   68  So turns she every man the wrong side out,
ADO 3.1.   69  And never gives to truth and virtue that
ADO 3.1.   70  Which simpleness and merit purchaseth.
ADO 3.1.   71   URSULA Sure, sure, such carping is not commendable.
ADO 3.1.   72   HERO No, not to be so odd and from all fashions
ADO 3.1.   73  As Beatrice is cannot be commendable.
ADO 3.1.   74  But who dare tell her so? If I should speak
ADO 3.1.   75  She would mock me into air, O, she would laugh me
ADO 3.1.   76  Out of myself, press me to death with wit.
ADO 3.1.   77  Therefore let Benedick, like covered fire,
ADO 3.1.   78  Consume away in sighs, waste inwardly.
ADO 3.1.   79  It were a better death than die with mocks,
ADO 3.1.   80  Which is as bad as die with tickling.
ADO 3.1.   81   URSULA Yet tell her of it, hear what she will say.
ADO 3.1.   82   HERO No. Rather I will go to Benedick
ADO 3.1.   83  And counsel him to fight against his passion.
ADO 3.1.   84  And truly, I'll devise some honest slanders
ADO 3.1.   85  To stain my cousin with. One doth not know
ADO 3.1.   86  How much an ill word may empoison liking.
ADO 3.1.   87   URSULA O, do not do your cousin such a wrong.
ADO 3.1.   88  She cannot be so much without true judgement,
ADO 3.1.   89  Having so swift and excellent a wit
ADO 3.1.   90  As she is prized to have, as to refuse
ADO 3.1.   91  So rare a gentleman as Signor Benedick.
ADO 3.1.   92   HERO He is the only man of Italy,
ADO 3.1.   93  Always excepted my dear Claudio.
ADO 3.1.   94   URSULA I pray you be not angry with me, madam,
ADO 3.1.   95  Speaking my fancy. Signor Benedick,
ADO 3.1.   96  For shape, for bearing, argument, and valour
ADO 3.1.   97  Goes foremost in report through Italy.
ADO 3.1.   98   HERO Indeed, he hath an excellent good name.
ADO 3.1.   99   URSULA His excellence did earn it ere he had it.
ADO 3.1.  100  When are you married, madam?
ADO 3.1.  101   HERO Why, every day, tomorrow. Come, go in.
ADO 3.1.  102  I'll show thee some attires and have thy counsel
ADO 3.1.  103  Which is the best to furnish me tomorrow.
ADO 3.1.  104   URSULA  {(aside)} She's limed, I warrant you. We     +
ADO 3.1.  104  have caught her, madam.
ADO 3.1.  105   HERO  {(aside)} If it prove so, then loving goes by  +
ADO 3.1.  105  haps.
ADO 3.1.  106  Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. {Exeunt Hero and   +
ADO 3.1.  106  Ursula}
ADO 3.1.  107   BEATRICE  {(coming forward)} What fire is in mine    +
ADO 3.1.  107  ears? Can this be true?
ADO 3.1.  108  Stand I condemned for pride and scorn so much?
ADO 3.1.  109  Contempt, farewell; and maiden pride, adieu.
ADO 3.1.  110  No glory lives behind the back of such.
ADO 3.1.  111  And, Benedick, love on. I will requite thee,
ADO 3.1.  112  Taming my wild heart to thy loving hand.
ADO 3.1.  113  If thou dost love, my kindness shall incite thee
ADO 3.1.  114  To bind our loves up in a holy band.
ADO 3.1.  115  For others say thou dost deserve, and I
ADO 3.1.  116  Believe it better than reportingly. {Exit}
ADO 3.1.    0    {Enter Don Pedro the Prince, Claudio, Benedick, and        +
ADO 3.2.    0  Leonato}
ADO 3.2.    1   DON PEDRO  I do but stay till your marriage be consummate,
ADO 3.2.    2  and then go I toward Aragon.
ADO 3.2.    3   CLAUDIO I'll bring you thither, my lord, if you'll vouchsafe
ADO 3.2.    4  me.
ADO 3.2.    5   DON PEDRO Nay, that would be as great a soil in the new
ADO 3.2.    6  gloss of your marriage as to show a child his new coat
ADO 3.2.    7  and forbid him to wear it. I will only be bold with
ADO 3.2.    8  Benedick for his company, for from the crown of his
ADO 3.2.    9  head to the sole of his foot he is all mirth. He hath
ADO 3.2.   10  twice or thrice cut Cupid's bow-string, and the little
ADO 3.2.   11  hangman dare not shoot at him. He hath a heart as
ADO 3.2.   12  sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper, for what
ADO 3.2.   13  his heart thinks his tongue speaks.
ADO 3.2.   14   BENEDICK Gallants, I am not as I have been.
ADO 3.2.   15   LEONATO So say I. Methinks you are sadder.
ADO 3.2.   16   CLAUDIO I hope he be in love.
ADO 3.2.   17   DON PEDRO Hang him, truant! There's no true drop of
ADO 3.2.   18  blood in him to be truly touched with love. If he be
ADO 3.2.   19  sad, he wants money.
ADO 3.2.   20   BENEDICK I have the toothache.
ADO 3.2.   21   DON PEDRO Draw it.
ADO 3.2.   22   BENEDICK Hang it.
ADO 3.2.   23   CLAUDIO You must hang it first and draw it afterwards.
ADO 3.2.   24   DON PEDRO What? Sigh for the toothache?
ADO 3.2.   25   LEONATO Where is but a humour or a worm.
ADO 3.2.   26   BENEDICK Well, everyone can master a grief but he that
ADO 3.2.   27  has it.
ADO 3.2.   28   CLAUDIO Yet say I he is in love.
ADO 3.2.   29   DON PEDRO There is no appearance of fancy in him, unless
ADO 3.2.   30  it be a fancy that he hath to strange disguises, as to
ADO 3.2.   31  be a Dutchman today, a Frenchman tomorrow, or in
ADO 3.2.   32  the shape of two countries at once, as a German from
ADO 3.2.   33  the waist downward, all slops, and a Spaniard from
ADO 3.2.   34  the hip upward, no doublet. Unless he have a fancy to
ADO 3.2.   35  this foolery, as it appears he hath, he is no fool for
ADO 3.2.   36  fancy, as you would have it appear he is.
ADO 3.2.   37   CLAUDIO If he be not in love with some woman there is
ADO 3.2.   38  no believing old signs. A brushes his hat o' mornings,
ADO 3.2.   39  what should that bode?
ADO 3.2.   40   DON PEDRO Hath any man seen him at the barber's?
ADO 3.2.   41   CLAUDIO No, but the barber's man hath been seen with
ADO 3.2.   42  him, and the old ornament of his cheek hath already
ADO 3.2.   43  stuffed tennis balls.
ADO 3.2.   44   LEONATO Indeed, he looks younger than he did by the
ADO 3.2.   45  loss of a beard.
ADO 3.2.   46   DON PEDRO Nay, a rubs himself with civet. Can you smell
ADO 3.2.   47  him out by that?
ADO 3.2.   48   CLAUDIO That's as much as to say the sweet youth's in
ADO 3.2.   49  love.
ADO 3.2.   50   DON PEDRO The greatest note of it is his melancholy.
ADO 3.2.   51   CLAUDIO And when was he wont to wash his face?
ADO 3.2.   52   DON PEDRO Yea, or to paint himself? - for the which I
ADO 3.2.   53  hear what they say of him.
ADO 3.2.   54   CLAUDIO Nay, but his jesting spirit, which is now crept
ADO 3.2.   55  into a lute-string, and now governed by stops.
ADO 3.2.   56   DON PEDRO Indeed, that tells a heavy tale for him.
ADO 3.2.   57  Conclude, conclude, he is in love.
ADO 3.2.   58   CLAUDIO Nay, but I know who loves him.
ADO 3.2.   59   DON PEDRO That would I know, too. I warrant, one that
ADO 3.2.   60  knows him not.
ADO 3.2.   61   CLAUDIO Yes, and his ill conditions, and in despite of all,
ADO 3.2.   62  dies for him.
ADO 3.2.   63   DON PEDRO She shall be buried with her face upwards.
ADO 3.2.   64   BENEDICK Yet is this no charm for the toothache. Old
ADO 3.2.   65  signor, walk aside with me. I have studied eight or
ADO 3.2.   66  nine wise words to speak to you which these hobby-
ADO 3.2.   67  horses must not hear. {Exeunt Benedick and Leonato}
ADO 3.2.   68   DON PEDRO  For my life, to break with him about Beatrice.
ADO 3.2.   69   CLAUDIO 'Tis even so. Hero and Margaret have by this
ADO 3.2.   70  played their parts with Beatrice, and then the two bears
ADO 3.2.   71  will not bite one another when they meet. {Enter Don John the     +
ADO 3.2.   71  bastard}
ADO 3.2.   72   DON JOHN  My lord, and brother, God save you.
ADO 3.2.   73   DON PEDRO Good-e'en, brother.
ADO 3.2.   74   DON JOHN If your leisure served I would speak with you.
ADO 3.2.   75   DON PEDRO In private?
ADO 3.2.   76   DON JOHN If it please you. Yet Count Claudio may hear,
ADO 3.2.   77  for what I would speak of concerns him.
ADO 3.2.   78   DON PEDRO What's the matter?
ADO 3.2.   79   DON JOHN  {(to Claudio)} Means your lordship to be   +
ADO 3.2.   79  married
ADO 3.2.   80  tomorrow?
ADO 3.2.   81   DON PEDRO You know he does.
ADO 3.2.   82   DON JOHN I know not that when he knows what I know.
ADO 3.2.   83   CLAUDIO If there be any impediment, I pray you discover
ADO 3.2.   84  it.
ADO 3.2.   85   DON JOHN You may think I love you not. Let that appear
ADO 3.2.   86  hereafter, and aim better at me by that I now will
ADO 3.2.   87  manifest. For my brother, I think he holds you well
ADO 3.2.   88  and in dearness of heart hath holp to effect your
ADO 3.2.   89  ensuing marriage - surely suit ill spent, and labour ill
ADO 3.2.   90  bestowed.
ADO 3.2.   91   DON PEDRO Why, what's the matter?
ADO 3.2.   92   DON JOHN I came hither to tell you, and, circumstances
ADO 3.2.   93  shortened - for she has been too long a-talking of - the
ADO 3.2.   94  lady is disloyal.
ADO 3.2.   95   CLAUDIO Who, Hero?
ADO 3.2.   96   DON JOHN Even she. Leonato's Hero, your Hero, every
ADO 3.2.   97  man's Hero.
ADO 3.2.   98   CLAUDIO Disloyal?
ADO 3.2.   99   DON JOHN The word is too good to paint out her
ADO 3.2.  100  wickedness. I could say she were worse. Think you of
ADO 3.2.  101  a worse title, and I will fit her to it. Wonder not till
ADO 3.2.  102  further warrant. Go but with me tonight, you shall see
ADO 3.2.  103  her chamber window entered, even the night before
ADO 3.2.  104  her wedding day. If you love her then, tomorrow wed
ADO 3.2.  105  her. But it would better fit your honour to change your
ADO 3.2.  106  mind.
ADO 3.2.  107   CLAUDIO May this be so?
ADO 3.2.  108   DON PEDRO I will not think it.
ADO 3.2.  109   DON JOHN If you dare not trust that you see, confess not
ADO 3.2.  110  that you know. If you will follow me I will show you
ADO 3.2.  111  enough, and when you have seen more and heard
ADO 3.2.  112  more, proceed accordingly.
ADO 3.2.  113   CLAUDIO If I see anything tonight why I should not marry
ADO 3.2.  114  her, tomorrow, in the congregation where I should
ADO 3.2.  115  wed, there will I shame her.
ADO 3.2.  116   DON PEDRO And as I wooed for thee to obtain her, I will
ADO 3.2.  117  join with thee to disgrace her.
ADO 3.2.  118   DON JOHN I will disparage her no farther till you are my
ADO 3.2.  119  witnesses. Bear it coldly but till midnight, and let the
ADO 3.2.  120  issue show itself.
ADO 3.2.  121   DON PEDRO O day untowardly turned!
ADO 3.2.  122   CLAUDIO O mischief strangely thwarting!
ADO 3.2.  123   DON JOHN O plague right well prevented! - So will you
ADO 3.2.  124  say when you have seen the sequel. {Exeunt}
ADO 3.2.    0    {Enter Dogberry and his compartner Verges, with the        +
ADO 3.3.    0  Watch}
ADO 3.3.    1   DOGBERRY  Are you good men and true?
ADO 3.3.    2   VERGES Yea, or else it were pity but they should suffer
ADO 3.3.    3  salvation, body and soul.
ADO 3.3.    4   DOGBERRY Nay, that were a punishment too good for them
ADO 3.3.    5  if they should have any allegiance in them, being
ADO 3.3.    6  chosen for the Prince's watch.
ADO 3.3.    7   VERGES Well, give them their charge, neighbour Dogberry.
ADO 3.3.    8   DOGBERRY First, who think you the most desertless man
ADO 3.3.    9  to be constable?
ADO 3.3.   10   SECOND WATCHMAN Hugh Oatcake, sir, or George Seacoal,
ADO 3.3.   11  for they can write and read.
ADO 3.3.   12   DOGBERRY Come hither, neighbour Seacoal, God hath blest
ADO 3.3.   13  you with a good name. To be a well-favoured man is
ADO 3.3.   14  the gift of fortune, but to write and read comes by
ADO 3.3.   15  nature.
ADO 3.3.   16   FIRST WATCHMAN Both which, Master Constable - 
ADO 3.3.   17   DOGBERRY You have. I knew it would be your answer.
ADO 3.3.   18  Well, for your favour, sir, why, give God thanks, and
ADO 3.3.   19  make no boast of it. And for your writing and reading,
ADO 3.3.   20  let that appear when there is no need of such vanity.
ADO 3.3.   21  You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit
ADO 3.3.   22  man for the constable of the watch, therefore bear you
ADO 3.3.   23  the lantern. This is your charge: you shall comprehend
ADO 3.3.   24  all vagrom men. You are to bid any man stand, in the
ADO 3.3.   25  Prince's name.
ADO 3.3.   26   FIRST WATCHMAN How if a will not stand?
ADO 3.3.   27   DOGBERRY Why then take no note of him, but let him go,
ADO 3.3.   28  and presently call the rest of the watch together, and
ADO 3.3.   29  thank God you are rid of a knave.
ADO 3.3.   30   VERGES If he will not stand when he is bidden he is none
ADO 3.3.   31  of the Prince's subjects.
ADO 3.3.   32   DOGBERRY True, and they are to meddle with none but
ADO 3.3.   33  the Prince's subjects. - You shall also make no noise
ADO 3.3.   34  in the streets, for for the watch to babble and to talk
ADO 3.3.   35  is most tolerable and not to be endured.
ADO 3.3.   36   A WATCHMAN We will rather sleep than talk. We know
ADO 3.3.   37  what belongs to a watch.
ADO 3.3.   38   DOGBERRY Why, you speak like an ancient and most quiet
ADO 3.3.   39  watchman, for I cannot see how sleeping should offend.
ADO 3.3.   40  Only have a care that your bills be not stolen. Well,
ADO 3.3.   41  you are to call at all the alehouses and bid those that
ADO 3.3.   42  are drunk get them to bed.
ADO 3.3.   43   A WATCHMAN How if they will not?
ADO 3.3.   44   DOGBERRY Why then, let them alone till they are sober.
ADO 3.3.   45  If they make you not then the better answer, you may
ADO 3.3.   46  say they are not the men you took them for.
ADO 3.3.   47   A WATCHMAN Well, sir.
ADO 3.3.   48   DOGBERRY If you meet a thief you may suspect him, by
ADO 3.3.   49  virtue of your office, to be no true man; and for such
ADO 3.3.   50  kind of men, the less you meddle or make with them
ADO 3.3.   51  why, the more is for your honesty.
ADO 3.3.   52   A WATCHMAN If we know him to be a thief, shall we not
ADO 3.3.   53  lay hands on him?
ADO 3.3.   54   DOGBERRY Truly, by your office you may, but I think they
ADO 3.3.   55  that touch pitch will be defiled. The most peaceable
ADO 3.3.   56  way for you if you do take a thief is to let him show
ADO 3.3.   57  himself what he is, and steal out of your company.
ADO 3.3.   58   VERGES You have been always called a merciful man,
ADO 3.3.   59  partner.
ADO 3.3.   60   DOGBERRY Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will,
ADO 3.3.   61  much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
ADO 3.3.   62   VERGES If you hear a child cry in the night you must call
ADO 3.3.   63  to the nurse and bid her still it.
ADO 3.3.   64   A WATCHMAN How if the nurse be asleep and will not
ADO 3.3.   65  hear us?
ADO 3.3.   66   DOGBERRY Why then, depart in peace and let the child
ADO 3.3.   67  wake her with crying, for the ewe that will not hear
ADO 3.3.   68  her lamb when it baes will never answer a calf when
ADO 3.3.   69  he bleats.
ADO 3.3.   70   VERGES 'Tis very true.
ADO 3.3.   71   DOGBERRY This is the end of the charge. You, constable,
ADO 3.3.   72  are to present the Prince's own person. If you meet the
ADO 3.3.   73  Prince in the night you may stay him.
ADO 3.3.   74   VERGES Nay, by 'r Lady, that I think a cannot.
ADO 3.3.   75   DOGBERRY Five shillings to one on 't with any man that
ADO 3.3.   76  knows the statutes he may stay him. Marry, not without
ADO 3.3.   77  the Prince be willing, for indeed the watch ought to
ADO 3.3.   78  offend no man, and it is an offence to stay a man
ADO 3.3.   79  against his will.
ADO 3.3.   80   VERGES By 'r Lady, I think it be so.
ADO 3.3.   81   DOGBERRY Ha ha ha! Well, masters, good night. An there
ADO 3.3.   82  be any matter of weight chances, call up me. Keep
ADO 3.3.   83  your fellows' counsels, and your own, and good night.
ADO 3.3.   84  Come, neighbour.
ADO 3.3.   85   [FIRST] WATCHMAN Well, masters, we hear our charge.
ADO 3.3.   86  Let us go sit here upon the church bench till two, and
ADO 3.3.   87  then all to bed.
ADO 3.3.   88   DOGBERRY One word more, honest neighbours. I pray you
ADO 3.3.   89  watch about Signor Leonato's door, for the wedding
ADO 3.3.   90  being there tomorrow, there is a great coil tonight.
ADO 3.3.   91  Adieu. Be vigitant, I beseech you. {Exeunt Dogberry and Verges.   +
ADO 3.3.   91  [The Watch sit]}
ADO 3.3.   92   {Enter Borachio and Conrad} BORACHIO  What, Conrad!
ADO 3.3.   93   [FIRST] WATCHMAN  {(aside)} Peace, stir not.
ADO 3.3.   94   BORACHIO Conrad, I say.
ADO 3.3.   95   CONRAD Here, man, I am at thy elbow.
ADO 3.3.   96   BORACHIO Mass, an my elbow itched, I thought there
ADO 3.3.   97  would a scab follow.
ADO 3.3.   98   CONRAD I will owe thee an answer for that. And now,
ADO 3.3.   99  forward with thy tale.
ADO 3.3.  100   BORACHIO Stand thee close, then, under this penthouse,
ADO 3.3.  101  for it drizzles rain, and I will, like a true drunkard,
ADO 3.3.  102  utter all to thee.
ADO 3.3.  103   A WATCHMAN  {(aside)} Some treason, masters. Yet     +
ADO 3.3.  103  stand
ADO 3.3.  104  close.
ADO 3.3.  105   BORACHIO Therefore, know I have earned of Don John a
ADO 3.3.  106  thousand ducats.
ADO 3.3.  107   CONRAD Is it possible that any villainy should be so dear?
ADO 3.3.  108   BORACHIO Thou shouldst rather ask if it were possible any
ADO 3.3.  109  villainy should be so rich. For when rich villains have
ADO 3.3.  110  need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price
ADO 3.3.  111  they will.
ADO 3.3.  112   CONRAD I wonder at it.
ADO 3.3.  113   BORACHIO That shows thou art unconfirmed. Thou
ADO 3.3.  114  knowest that the fashion of a doublet, or a hat, or a
ADO 3.3.  115  cloak is nothing to a man.
ADO 3.3.  116   CONRAD Yes, it is apparel.
ADO 3.3.  117   BORACHIO I mean the fashion.
ADO 3.3.  118   CONRAD Yes, the fashion is the fashion.
ADO 3.3.  119   BORACHIO Tush, I may as well say the fool's the fool. But
ADO 3.3.  120  seest thou not what a deformed thief this fashion is?
ADO 3.3.  121   A WATCHMAN  {(aside)} I know that Deformed. A has    +
ADO 3.3.  121  been
ADO 3.3.  122  a vile thief this seven year. A goes up and down like a
ADO 3.3.  123  gentleman. I remember his name.
ADO 3.3.  124   BORACHIO Didst thou not hear somebody?
ADO 3.3.  125   CONRAD No, 'twas the vane on the house.
ADO 3.3.  126   BORACHIO Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief
ADO 3.3.  127  this fashion is, how giddily a turns about all the hot-
ADO 3.3.  128  bloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty, sometimes
ADO 3.3.  129  fashioning them like Pharaoh's soldiers in the reechy
ADO 3.3.  130  painting, sometime like god Bel's priests in the old
ADO 3.3.  131  church window, sometime like the shaven Hercules in
ADO 3.3.  132  the smirched, worm-eaten tapestry, where his codpiece
ADO 3.3.  133  seems as massy as his club?
ADO 3.3.  134   CONRAD All this I see, and I see that the fashion wears
ADO 3.3.  135  out more apparel than the man. But art not thou
ADO 3.3.  136  thyself giddy with the fashion, too, that thou hast
ADO 3.3.  137  shifted out of thy tale into telling me of the fashion?
ADO 3.3.  138   BORACHIO Not so, neither. But know that I have tonight
ADO 3.3.  139  wooed Margaret, the Lady Hero's gentlewoman, by the
ADO 3.3.  140  name of Hero. She leans me out at her mistress'
ADO 3.3.  141  chamber window, bids me a thousand times good
ADO 3.3.  142  night - I tell this tale vilely, I should first tell thee how
ADO 3.3.  143  the Prince, Claudio, and my master, planted and placed
ADO 3.3.  144  and possessed by my master, Don John, saw afar off in
ADO 3.3.  145  the orchard this amiable encounter.
ADO 3.3.  146   CONRAD And thought they Margaret was Hero?
ADO 3.3.  147   BORACHIO Two of them did, the Prince and Claudio, but
ADO 3.3.  148  the devil my master knew she was Margaret, and partly
ADO 3.3.  149  by his oaths, which first possessed them, partly by the
ADO 3.3.  150  dark night, which did deceive them, but chiefly by my
ADO 3.3.  151  villainy, which did confirm any slander that Don John
ADO 3.3.  152  had made, away went Claudio enraged, swore he would
ADO 3.3.  153  meet her as he was appointed next morning at the
ADO 3.3.  154  temple, and there, before the whole congregation,
ADO 3.3.  155  shame her with what he saw o'ernight, and send her
ADO 3.3.  156  home again without a husband.
ADO 3.3.  157   [FIRST] WATCHMAN  {(coming forward)} We charge you   +
ADO 3.3.  157  in the
ADO 3.3.  158  Prince's name. Stand.
ADO 3.3.  159   [A WATCHMAN] Call up the right Master Constable. We
ADO 3.3.  160  have here recovered the most dangerous piece of lechery
ADO 3.3.  161  that ever was known in the commonwealth.
ADO 3.3.  162   [FIRST] WATCHMAN And one Deformed is one of them. I
ADO 3.3.  163  know him - a wears a lock.
ADO 3.3.  164   CONRAD Masters, masters!
ADO 3.3.  165   [A WATCHMAN] You'll be made bring Deformed forth, I
ADO 3.3.  166  warrant you.
ADO 3.3.  167   [CONRAD] Masters - 
ADO 3.3.  168   [A WATCHMAN] Never speak. We charge you. Let us obey
ADO 3.3.  169  you to go with us.
ADO 3.3.  170   BORACHIO  {(to Conrad)} We are like to prove a       +
ADO 3.3.  170  goodly
ADO 3.3.  171  commodity, being taken up of these men's bills.
ADO 3.3.  172   CONRAD A commodity in question, I warrant you. Come,
ADO 3.3.  173  we'll obey you. {Exeunt}
ADO 3.3.    0    {Enter Hero, Margaret, and Ursula}
ADO 3.4.    1   HERO  Good Ursula, wake my cousin Beatrice, and desire
ADO 3.4.    2  her to rise.
ADO 3.4.    3   URSULA I will, lady.
ADO 3.4.    4   HERO And bid her come hither.
ADO 3.4.    5   URSULA Well. {Exit}
ADO 3.4.    6   MARGARET  Troth, I think your other rebato were better.
ADO 3.4.    7   HERO No, pray thee, good Meg, I'll wear this.
ADO 3.4.    8   MARGARET By my troth, 's not so good, and I warrant
ADO 3.4.    9  your cousin will say so.
ADO 3.4.   10   HERO My cousin's a fool, and thou art another: I'll wear
ADO 3.4.   11  none but this.
ADO 3.4.   12   MARGARET I like the new tire within excellently, if the
ADO 3.4.   13  hair were a thought browner. And your gown's a most
ADO 3.4.   14  rare fashion, i' faith. I saw the Duchess of Milan's gown
ADO 3.4.   15  that they praise so.
ADO 3.4.   16   HERO O, that exceeds, they say.
ADO 3.4.   17   MARGARET By my troth, 's but a night-gown in respect
ADO 3.4.   18  of yours - cloth o' gold, and cuts, and laced with silver,
ADO 3.4.   19  set with pearls, down sleeves, side sleeves, and skirts
ADO 3.4.   20  round underborne with a bluish tinsel. But for a fine,
ADO 3.4.   21  quaint, graceful, and excellent fashion, yours is worth
ADO 3.4.   22  ten on 't.
ADO 3.4.   23   HERO God give me joy to wear it, for my heart is exceeding
ADO 3.4.   24  heavy.
ADO 3.4.   25   MARGARET 'Twill be heavier soon by the weight of a man.
ADO 3.4.   26   HERO Fie upon thee, art not ashamed?
ADO 3.4.   27   MARGARET Of what, lady? Of speaking honourably? Is not
ADO 3.4.   28  marriage honourable in a beggar? Is not your lord
ADO 3.4.   29  honourable without marriage? I think you would have
ADO 3.4.   30  me say `saving your reverence, a husband'. An bad
ADO 3.4.   31  thinking do not wrest true speaking, I'll offend nobody.
ADO 3.4.   32  Is there any harm in `the heavier for a husband'?
ADO 3.4.   33  None, I think, an it be the right husband and the right
ADO 3.4.   34  wife - otherwise 'tis light and not heavy. Ask my Lady
ADO 3.4.   35  Beatrice else. Here she comes. {Enter Beatrice}
ADO 3.4.   36   HERO  Good morrow, coz.
ADO 3.4.   37   BEATRICE Good morrow, sweet Hero.
ADO 3.4.   38   HERO Why, how now? Do you speak in the sick tune?
ADO 3.4.   39   BEATRICE I am out of all other tune, methinks.
ADO 3.4.   40   MARGARET Clap 's into `Light o' love'. That goes without
ADO 3.4.   41  a burden. Do you sing it, and I'll dance it.
ADO 3.4.   42   BEATRICE Ye light o' love with your heels. Then if your
ADO 3.4.   43  husband have stables enough, you'll see he shall lack
ADO 3.4.   44  no barns.
ADO 3.4.   45   MARGARET O illegitimate construction! I scorn that with
ADO 3.4.   46  my heels.
ADO 3.4.   47   BEATRICE  {(to Hero)} 'Tis almost five o'clock,      +
ADO 3.4.   47  cousin. 'Tis
ADO 3.4.   48  time you were ready. By my troth, I am exceeding ill.
ADO 3.4.   49  Heigh-ho!
ADO 3.4.   50   MARGARET For a hawk, a horse, or a husband?
ADO 3.4.   51   BEATRICE For the letter that begins them all - h.
ADO 3.4.   52   MARGARET Well, an you be not turned Turk, there's no
ADO 3.4.   53  more sailing by the star.
ADO 3.4.   54   BEATRICE What means the fool, trow?
ADO 3.4.   55   MARGARET Nothing, I. But God send everyone their heart's
ADO 3.4.   56  desire.
ADO 3.4.   57   HERO These gloves the Count sent me, they are an
ADO 3.4.   58  excellent perfume.
ADO 3.4.   59   BEATRICE I am stuffed, cousin. I cannot smell.
ADO 3.4.   60   MARGARET A maid, and stuffed! There's goodly catching
ADO 3.4.   61  of cold.
ADO 3.4.   62   BEATRICE O, God help me, God help me. How long have
ADO 3.4.   63  you professed apprehension?
ADO 3.4.   64   MARGARET Ever since you left it. Doth not my wit become
ADO 3.4.   65  me rarely?
ADO 3.4.   66   BEATRICE It is not seen enough. You should wear it in
ADO 3.4.   67  your cap. By my troth, I am sick.
ADO 3.4.   68   MARGARET Get you some of this distilled {carduus benedictus},
ADO 3.4.   69  and lay it to your heart. It is the only thing for a
ADO 3.4.   70  qualm.
ADO 3.4.   71   HERO There thou prickest her with a thistle.
ADO 3.4.   72   BEATRICE Benedictus - why Benedictus? You have some
ADO 3.4.   73  moral in this Benedictus.
ADO 3.4.   74   MARGARET Moral? No, by my troth, I have no moral
ADO 3.4.   75  meaning. I meant plain holy-thistle. You may think
ADO 3.4.   76  perchance that I think you are in love. Nay, by 'r Lady,
ADO 3.4.   77  I am not such a fool to think what I list, nor I list not
ADO 3.4.   78  to think what I can, nor indeed I cannot think, if I
ADO 3.4.   79  would think my heart out of thinking, that you are in
ADO 3.4.   80  love, or that you will be in love, or that you can be in
ADO 3.4.   81  love. Yet Benedick was such another, and now is he
ADO 3.4.   82  become a man. He swore he would never marry, and
ADO 3.4.   83  yet now in despite of his heart he eats his meat without
ADO 3.4.   84  grudging. And how you may be converted I know not,
ADO 3.4.   85  but methinks you look with your eyes, as other women
ADO 3.4.   86  do.
ADO 3.4.   87   BEATRICE What pace is this that thy tongue keeps?
ADO 3.4.   88   MARGARET Not a false gallop. {Enter Ursula}
ADO 3.4.   89   URSULA  {(to Hero)} Madam, withdraw. The Prince,     +
ADO 3.4.   89  the
ADO 3.4.   90  Count, Signor Benedick, Don John, and all the gallants
ADO 3.4.   91  of the town are come to fetch you to church.
ADO 3.4.   92   HERO Help to dress me, good coz, good Meg, good Ursula.       +
ADO 3.4.   92  {Exeunt}
ADO 3.4.    0    {Enter Leonato, and Dogberry the constable, and Verges     +
ADO 3.5.    0  the headborough}
ADO 3.5.    1   LEONATO  What would you with me, honest neighbour?
ADO 3.5.    2   DOGBERRY Marry, sir, I would have some confidence with
ADO 3.5.    3  you that decerns you nearly.
ADO 3.5.    4   LEONATO Brief I pray you, for you see it is a busy time
ADO 3.5.    5  with me.
ADO 3.5.    6   DOGBERRY Marry, this it is, sir.
ADO 3.5.    7   VERGES Yes, in truth it is, sir.
ADO 3.5.    8   LEONATO What is it, my good friends?
ADO 3.5.    9   DOGBERRY Goodman Verges, sir, speaks a little off the
ADO 3.5.   10  matter - an old man, sir, and his wits are not so blunt
ADO 3.5.   11  as, God help, I would desire they were. But in faith,
ADO 3.5.   12  honest as the skin between his brows.
ADO 3.5.   13   VERGES Yes, I thank God, I am as honest as any man
ADO 3.5.   14  living that is an old man and no honester than I.
ADO 3.5.   15   DOGBERRY Comparisons are odorous. Palabras, neighbour
ADO 3.5.   16  Verges.
ADO 3.5.   17   LEONATO Neighbours, you are tedious.
ADO 3.5.   18   DOGBERRY It pleases your worship to say so, but we are
ADO 3.5.   19  the poor Duke's officers. But truly, for mine own part,
ADO 3.5.   20  if I were as tedious as a king I could find in my heart
ADO 3.5.   21  to bestow it all of your worship.
ADO 3.5.   22   LEONATO All thy tediousness on me, ah?
ADO 3.5.   23   DOGBERRY Yea, an 'twere a thousand pound more than
ADO 3.5.   24  'tis, for I hear as good exclamation on your worship
ADO 3.5.   25  as of any man in the city, and though I be but a poor
ADO 3.5.   26  man, I am glad to hear it.
ADO 3.5.   27   VERGES And so am I.
ADO 3.5.   28   LEONATO I would fain know what you have to say.
ADO 3.5.   29   VERGES Marry, sir, our watch tonight, excepting your
ADO 3.5.   30  worship's presence, ha' ta'en a couple of as arrant
ADO 3.5.   31  knaves as any in Messina.
ADO 3.5.   32   DOGBERRY A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As
ADO 3.5.   33  they say, when the age is in, the wit is out. God help
ADO 3.5.   34  us, it is a world to see. Well said, i' faith, neighbour
ADO 3.5.   35  Verges. Well, God's a good man. An two men ride of
ADO 3.5.   36  a horse, one must ride behind. An honest soul, i' faith,
ADO 3.5.   37  sir, by my troth he is, as ever broke bread. But, God is
ADO 3.5.   38  to be worshipped, all men are not alike, alas, good
ADO 3.5.   39  neighbour.
ADO 3.5.   40   LEONATO Indeed, neighbour, he comes too short of you.
ADO 3.5.   41   DOGBERRY Gifts that God gives!
ADO 3.5.   42   LEONATO I must leave you.
ADO 3.5.   43   DOGBERRY One word, sir. Our watch, sir, have indeed
ADO 3.5.   44  comprehended two auspicious persons, and we would
ADO 3.5.   45  have them this morning examined before your worship.
ADO 3.5.   46   LEONATO Take their examination yourself, and bring it
ADO 3.5.   47  me. I am now in great haste, as it may appear unto
ADO 3.5.   48  you.
ADO 3.5.   49   DOGBERRY It shall be suffigance.
ADO 3.5.   50   LEONATO Drink some wine ere you go. Fare you well. {Enter a   +
ADO 3.5.   50  Messenger}
ADO 3.5.   51   MESSENGER  My lord, they stay for you to give your
ADO 3.5.   52  daughter to her husband.
ADO 3.5.   53   LEONATO I'll wait upon them, I am ready. {Exeunt Leonato and  +
ADO 3.5.   53  Messenger}
ADO 3.5.   54   DOGBERRY  Go, good partner, go get you to Francis Seacoal,
ADO 3.5.   55  bid him bring his pen and inkhorn to the jail. We are
ADO 3.5.   56  now to examination these men.
ADO 3.5.   57   VERGES And we must do it wisely.
ADO 3.5.   58   DOGBERRY We will spare for no wit, I warrant you. Here's
ADO 3.5.   59  that shall drive some of them to a non-com. Only get
ADO 3.5.   60  the learned writer to set down our excommunication,
ADO 3.5.   61  and meet me at the jail. {Exeunt}
ADO 3.5.    0     {Enter Don Pedro the Prince, Don John the bastard,   +
ADO 4.1.    0  Leonato, Friar Francis, Claudio, Benedick, Hero, and Beatrice}
ADO 4.1.    1   LEONATO  Come, Friar Francis, be brief. Only to the plain
ADO 4.1.    2  form of marriage, and you shall recount their particular
ADO 4.1.    3  duties afterwards.
ADO 4.1.    4   FRIAR  {(to Claudio)} You come hither, my lord, to   +
ADO 4.1.    4  marry
ADO 4.1.    5  this lady?
ADO 4.1.    6   CLAUDIO No.
ADO 4.1.    7   LEONATO To be married to her. Friar, you come to marry
ADO 4.1.    8  her.
ADO 4.1.    9   FRIAR  {(to Hero)} Lady, you come hither to be       +
ADO 4.1.    9  married to
ADO 4.1.   10  this count?
ADO 4.1.   11   HERO I do.
ADO 4.1.   12   FRIAR If either of you know any inward impediment why
ADO 4.1.   13  you should not be conjoined, I charge you on your
ADO 4.1.   14  souls to utter it.
ADO 4.1.   15   CLAUDIO Know you any, Hero?
ADO 4.1.   16   HERO None, my lord.
ADO 4.1.   17   FRIAR Know you any, Count?
ADO 4.1.   18   LEONATO I dare make his answer - none.
ADO 4.1.   19   CLAUDIO O, what men dare do! What men may do! What
ADO 4.1.   20  men daily do, not knowing what they do!
ADO 4.1.   21   BENEDICK How now! Interjections? Why then, some be of
ADO 4.1.   22  laughing, as `ah, ha, he!'
ADO 4.1.   23   CLAUDIO  Stand thee by, Friar. Father, by your leave,
ADO 4.1.   24  Will you with free and unconstrained soul
ADO 4.1.   25  Give me this maid, your daughter?
ADO 4.1.   26   LEONATO As freely, son, as God did give her me.
ADO 4.1.   27   CLAUDIO And what have I to give you back whose worth
ADO 4.1.   28  May counterpoise this rich and precious gift?
ADO 4.1.   29   DON PEDRO Nothing, unless you render her again.
ADO 4.1.   30   CLAUDIO Sweet Prince, you learn me noble thankfulness.
ADO 4.1.   31  There, Leonato, take her back again.
ADO 4.1.   32  Give not this rotten orange to your friend.
ADO 4.1.   33  She's but the sign and semblance of her honour.
ADO 4.1.   34  Behold how like a maid she blushes here!
ADO 4.1.   35  O, what authority and show of truth
ADO 4.1.   36  Can cunning sin cover itself withal!
ADO 4.1.   37  Comes not that blood as modest evidence
ADO 4.1.   38  To witness simple virtue? Would you not swear,
ADO 4.1.   39  All you that see her, that she were a maid,
ADO 4.1.   40  By these exterior shows? But she is none.
ADO 4.1.   41  She knows the heat of a luxurious bed.
ADO 4.1.   42  Her blush is guiltiness, not modesty.
ADO 4.1.   43B  LEONATO What do you mean, my lord? CLAUDIO Not to be married,
ADO 4.1.   44  Not to knit my soul to an approved wanton.
ADO 4.1.   45   LEONATO Dear my lord, if you in your own proof
ADO 4.1.   46  Have vanquished the resistance of her youth
ADO 4.1.   47  And made defeat of her virginity - 
ADO 4.1.   48   CLAUDIO I know what you would say. If I have known her,
ADO 4.1.   49  You will say she did embrace me as a husband,
ADO 4.1.   50  And so extenuate the forehand sin.
ADO 4.1.   51  No, Leonato,
ADO 4.1.   52  I never tempted her with word too large,
ADO 4.1.   53  But as a brother to his sister showed
ADO 4.1.   54  Bashful sincerity and comely love.
ADO 4.1.   55   HERO And seemed I ever otherwise to you?
ADO 4.1.   56   CLAUDIO Out on thee, seeming! I will write against it.
ADO 4.1.   57  You seem to me as Dian in her orb,
ADO 4.1.   58  As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown.
ADO 4.1.   59  But you are more intemperate in your blood
ADO 4.1.   60  Than Venus or those pampered animals
ADO 4.1.   61  That rage in savage sensuality.
ADO 4.1.   62   HERO Is my lord well that he doth speak so wide?
ADO 4.1.   63B  LEONATO Sweet Prince, why speak not you? DON PEDRO What should I  +
ADO 4.1.   63B speak?
ADO 4.1.   64  I stand dishonoured, that have gone about
ADO 4.1.   65  To link my dear friend to a common stale.
ADO 4.1.   66   LEONATO Are these things spoken, or do I but dream?
ADO 4.1.   67   DON JOHN Sir, they are spoken, and these things are true.
ADO 4.1.   68A  BENEDICK This looks not like a nuptial.
ADO 4.1.   69A  HERO `True'! O God!
ADO 4.1.   70A  CLAUDIO Leonato, stand I here?
ADO 4.1.   71  Is this the Prince? Is this the Prince's brother?
ADO 4.1.   72  Is this face Hero's? Are our eyes our own?
ADO 4.1.   73   LEONATO All this is so. But what of this, my lord?
ADO 4.1.   74   CLAUDIO Let me but move one question to your daughter,
ADO 4.1.   75  And by that fatherly and kindly power
ADO 4.1.   76  That you have in her, bid her answer truly.
ADO 4.1.   77   LEONATO  {(to Hero)} I charge thee do so, as thou    +
ADO 4.1.   77  art my child.
ADO 4.1.   78   HERO O God defend me, how am I beset!
ADO 4.1.   79  What kind of catechizing call you this?
ADO 4.1.   80   CLAUDIO To make you answer truly to your name.
ADO 4.1.   81   HERO Is it not Hero? Who can blot that name
ADO 4.1.   82B With any just reproach? CLAUDIO Marry, that can Hero.
ADO 4.1.   83  Hero itself can blot out Hero's virtue.
ADO 4.1.   84  What man was he talked with you yesternight
ADO 4.1.   85  Out at your window betwixt twelve and one?
ADO 4.1.   86  Now if you are a maid, answer to this.
ADO 4.1.   87   HERO I talked with no man at that hour, my lord.
ADO 4.1.   88   DON PEDRO Why, then are you no maiden. Leonato,
ADO 4.1.   89  I am sorry you must hear. Upon mine honour,
ADO 4.1.   90  Myself, my brother, and this grieved Count
ADO 4.1.   91  Did see her, hear her, at that hour last night
ADO 4.1.   92  Talk with a ruffian at her chamber window,
ADO 4.1.   93  Who hath indeed, most like a liberal villain,
ADO 4.1.   94  Confessed the vile encounters they have had
ADO 4.1.   95B A thousand times in secret. DON JOHN Fie, fie, they are
ADO 4.1.   96  Not to be named, my lord, not to be spoke of.
ADO 4.1.   97  There is not chastity enough in language
ADO 4.1.   98  Without offence to utter them. Thus, pretty lady,
ADO 4.1.   99  I am sorry for thy much misgovernment.
ADO 4.1.  100   CLAUDIO O Hero! What a Hero hadst thou been
ADO 4.1.  101  If half thy outward graces had been placed
ADO 4.1.  102  About thy thoughts and counsels of thy heart!
ADO 4.1.  103  But fare thee well, most foul, most fair, farewell
ADO 4.1.  104  Thou pure impiety and impious purity.
ADO 4.1.  105  For thee I'll lock up all the gates of love,
ADO 4.1.  106  And on my eyelids shall conjecture hang
ADO 4.1.  107  To turn all beauty into thoughts of harm,
ADO 4.1.  108  And never shall it more be gracious.
ADO 4.1.  109   LEONATO Hath no man's dagger here a point for me? {Hero       +
ADO 4.1.  109  falls to the ground}
ADO 4.1.  110   BEATRICE  Why, how now, cousin, wherefore sink you down?
ADO 4.1.  111   DON JOHN Come. Let us go. These things come thus to light
ADO 4.1.  112  Smother her spirits up. {Exeunt Don Pedro, Don John, and          +
ADO 4.1.  112  Claudio}
ADO 4.1.  113B  BENEDICK  How doth the lady? BEATRICE Dead, I think.     +
ADO 4.1.  113B Help, uncle.
ADO 4.1.  114  Hero, why Hero! Uncle, Signor Benedick, Friar - 
ADO 4.1.  115   LEONATO O fate, take not away thy heavy hand.
ADO 4.1.  116  Death is the fairest cover for her shame
ADO 4.1.  117B That may be wished for. BEATRICE How now, cousin Hero?
ADO 4.1.  118A  FRIAR  {(to Hero)} Have comfort, lady.
ADO 4.1.  119A  LEONATO  {(to Hero)} Dost thou look up?
ADO 4.1.  120A  FRIAR Yea, wherefore should she not?
ADO 4.1.  121   LEONATO Wherefore? Why, doth not every earthly thing
ADO 4.1.  122  Cry shame upon her? Could she here deny
ADO 4.1.  123  The story that is printed in her blood?
ADO 4.1.  124  Do not live, Hero, do not ope thine eyes,
ADO 4.1.  125  For did I think thou wouldst not quickly die,
ADO 4.1.  126  Thought I thy spirits were stronger than thy shames,
ADO 4.1.  127  Myself would on the rearward of reproaches
ADO 4.1.  128  Strike at thy life. Grieved I I had but one?
ADO 4.1.  129  Chid I for that at frugal nature's frame?
ADO 4.1.  130  O one too much by thee! Why had I one?
ADO 4.1.  131  Why ever wast thou lovely in my eyes?
ADO 4.1.  132  Why had I not with charitable hand
ADO 4.1.  133  Took up a beggar's issue at my gates,
ADO 4.1.  134  Who smirched thus and mired with infamy,
ADO 4.1.  135  I might have said `No part of it is mine,
ADO 4.1.  136  This shame derives itself from unknown loins.'
ADO 4.1.  137  But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised,
ADO 4.1.  138  And mine that I was proud on, mine so much
ADO 4.1.  139  That I myself was to myself not mine,
ADO 4.1.  140  Valuing of her - why she, O she is fallen
ADO 4.1.  141  Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea
ADO 4.1.  142  Hath drops too few to wash her clean again,
ADO 4.1.  143  And salt too little which may season give
ADO 4.1.  144B To her foul tainted flesh. BENEDICK Sir, sir, be patient.
ADO 4.1.  145  For my part, I am so attired in wonder
ADO 4.1.  146  I know not what to say.
ADO 4.1.  147   BEATRICE O, on my soul, my cousin is belied.
ADO 4.1.  148   BENEDICK Lady, were you her bedfellow last night?
ADO 4.1.  149   BEATRICE No, truly not, although until last night
ADO 4.1.  150  I have this twelvemonth been her bedfellow.
ADO 4.1.  151   LEONATO Confirmed, confirmed. O, that is stronger made
ADO 4.1.  152  Which was before barred up with ribs of iron.
ADO 4.1.  153  Would the two princes lie? And Claudio lie,
ADO 4.1.  154  Who loved her so that, speaking of her foulness,
ADO 4.1.  155  Washed it with tears? Hence from her, let her die.
ADO 4.1.  156A  FRIAR Hear me a little,
ADO 4.1.  157  For I have only been silent so long
ADO 4.1.  158  And given way unto this course of fortune
ADO 4.1.  159  []
ADO 4.1.  160  By noting of the lady. I have marked
ADO 4.1.  161  A thousand blushing apparitions
ADO 4.1.  162  To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames
ADO 4.1.  163  In angel whiteness beat away those blushes,
ADO 4.1.  164  And in her eye there hath appeared a fire
ADO 4.1.  165  To burn the errors that these princes hold
ADO 4.1.  166  Against her maiden truth. Call me a fool,
ADO 4.1.  167  Trust not my reading nor my observations,
ADO 4.1.  168  Which with experimental seal doth warrant
ADO 4.1.  169  The tenor of my book. Trust not my age,
ADO 4.1.  170  My reverence, calling, nor divinity,
ADO 4.1.  171  If this sweet lady lie not guiltless here
ADO 4.1.  172B Under some biting error. LEONATO Friar, it cannot be.
ADO 4.1.  173  Thou seest that all the grace that she hath left
ADO 4.1.  174  Is that she will not add to her damnation
ADO 4.1.  175  A sin of perjury. She not denies it.
ADO 4.1.  176  Why seek'st thou then to cover with excuse
ADO 4.1.  177  That which appears in proper nakedness?
ADO 4.1.  178   FRIAR  {(to Hero)} Lady, what man is he you are      +
ADO 4.1.  178  accused of?
ADO 4.1.  179   HERO They know that do accuse me. I know none.
ADO 4.1.  180  If I know more of any man alive
ADO 4.1.  181  Than that which maiden modesty doth warrant,
ADO 4.1.  182  Let all my sins lack mercy. O my father,
ADO 4.1.  183  Prove you that any man with me conversed
ADO 4.1.  184  At hours unmeet, or that I yesternight
ADO 4.1.  185  Maintained the change of words with any creature,
ADO 4.1.  186  Refuse me, hate me, torture me to death.
ADO 4.1.  187   FRIAR There is some strange misprision in the princes.
ADO 4.1.  188   BENEDICK Two of them have the very bent of honour,
ADO 4.1.  189  And if their wisdoms be misled in this
ADO 4.1.  190  The practice of it lives in John the bastard,
ADO 4.1.  191  Whose spirits toil in frame of villainies.
ADO 4.1.  192   LEONATO I know not. If they speak but truth of her
ADO 4.1.  193  These hands shall tear her. If they wrong her honour
ADO 4.1.  194  The proudest of them shall well hear of it.
ADO 4.1.  195  Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine,
ADO 4.1.  196  Nor age so eat up my invention,
ADO 4.1.  197  Nor fortune made such havoc of my means,
ADO 4.1.  198  Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends,
ADO 4.1.  199  But they shall find awaked in such a kind
ADO 4.1.  200  Both strength of limb and policy of mind,
ADO 4.1.  201  Ability in means, and choice of friends,
ADO 4.1.  202B To quit me of them throughly. FRIAR Pause awhile,
ADO 4.1.  203  And let my counsel sway you in this case.
ADO 4.1.  204  Your daughter here the princes left for dead,
ADO 4.1.  205  Let her a while be secretly kept in,
ADO 4.1.  206  And publish it that she is dead indeed.
ADO 4.1.  207  Maintain a mourning ostentation,
ADO 4.1.  208  And on your family's old monument
ADO 4.1.  209  Hang mournful epitaphs, and do all rites
ADO 4.1.  210  That appertain unto a burial.
ADO 4.1.  211   LEONATO What shall become of this? What will this do?
ADO 4.1.  212   FRIAR Marry, this, well carried, shall on her behalf
ADO 4.1.  213  Change slander to remorse. That is some good.
ADO 4.1.  214  But not for that dream I on this strange course,
ADO 4.1.  215  But on this travail look for greater birth.
ADO 4.1.  216  She - dying, as it must be so maintained,
ADO 4.1.  217  Upon the instant that she was accused - 
ADO 4.1.  218  Shall be lamented, pitied, and excused
ADO 4.1.  219  Of every hearer. For it so falls out
ADO 4.1.  220  That what we have, we prize not to the worth
ADO 4.1.  221  Whiles we enjoy it, but, being lacked and lost,
ADO 4.1.  222  Why then we rack the value, then we find
ADO 4.1.  223  The virtue that possession would not show us
ADO 4.1.  224  Whiles it was ours. So will it fare with Claudio.
ADO 4.1.  225  When he shall hear she died upon his words,
ADO 4.1.  226  Th' idea of her life shall sweetly creep
ADO 4.1.  227  Into his study of imagination,
ADO 4.1.  228  And every lovely organ of her life
ADO 4.1.  229  Shall come apparelled in more precious habit,
ADO 4.1.  230  More moving-delicate, and full of life,
ADO 4.1.  231  Into the eye and prospect of his soul
ADO 4.1.  232  Than when she lived indeed. Then shall he mourn,
ADO 4.1.  233  If ever love had interest in his liver,
ADO 4.1.  234  And wish he had not so accused her,
ADO 4.1.  235  No, though he thought his accusation true.
ADO 4.1.  236  Let this be so, and doubt not but success
ADO 4.1.  237  Will fashion the event in better shape
ADO 4.1.  238  Than I can lay it down in likelihood.
ADO 4.1.  239  But if all aim but this be levelled false,
ADO 4.1.  240  The supposition of the lady's death
ADO 4.1.  241  Will quench the wonder of her infamy.
ADO 4.1.  242  And if it sort not well, you may conceal her,
ADO 4.1.  243  As best befits her wounded reputation,
ADO 4.1.  244  In some reclusive and religious life,
ADO 4.1.  245  Out of all eyes, tongues, minds, and injuries.
ADO 4.1.  246   BENEDICK Signor Leonato, let the Friar advise you.
ADO 4.1.  247  And though you know my inwardness and love
ADO 4.1.  248  Is very much unto the Prince and Claudio,
ADO 4.1.  249  Yet, by mine honour, I will deal in this
ADO 4.1.  250  As secretly and justly as your soul
ADO 4.1.  251  Should with your body.
ADO 4.1.  252A  LEONATO Being that I flow in grief,
ADO 4.1.  253A The smallest twine may lead me.
ADO 4.1.  254   FRIAR 'Tis well consented. Presently away,
ADO 4.1.  255  For to strange sores strangely they strain the cure.
ADO 4.1.  256   {(To Hero)} Come, lady, die to live. This wedding day
ADO 4.1.  257  Perhaps is but prolonged. Have patience, and endure. {Exeunt all  +
ADO 4.1.  257  but Beatrice and Benedick}
ADO 4.1.  258   BENEDICK  Lady Beatrice, have you wept all this while?
ADO 4.1.  259   BEATRICE Yea, and I will weep a while longer.
ADO 4.1.  260   BENEDICK I will not desire that.
ADO 4.1.  261   BEATRICE You have no reason, I do it freely.
ADO 4.1.  262   BENEDICK Surely I do believe your fair cousin is wronged.
ADO 4.1.  263   BEATRICE Ah, how much might the man deserve of me
ADO 4.1.  264  that would right her!
ADO 4.1.  265   BENEDICK Is there any way to show such friendship?
ADO 4.1.  266   BEATRICE A very even way, but no such friend.
ADO 4.1.  267   BENEDICK May a man do it?
ADO 4.1.  268   BEATRICE It is a man's office, but not yours.
ADO 4.1.  269   BENEDICK I do love nothing in the world so well as you.
ADO 4.1.  270  Is not that strange?
ADO 4.1.  271   BEATRICE As strange as the thing I know not. It were as
ADO 4.1.  272  possible for me to say I loved nothing so well as you,
ADO 4.1.  273  but believe me not, and yet I lie not. I confess nothing
ADO 4.1.  274  nor I deny nothing. I am sorry for my cousin.
ADO 4.1.  275   BENEDICK By my sword, Beatrice, thou lovest me.
ADO 4.1.  276   BEATRICE Do not swear and eat it.
ADO 4.1.  277   BENEDICK I will swear by it that you love me, and I will
ADO 4.1.  278  make him eat it that says I love not you.
ADO 4.1.  279   BEATRICE Will you not eat your word?
ADO 4.1.  280   BENEDICK With no sauce that can be devised to it. I protest
ADO 4.1.  281  I love thee.
ADO 4.1.  282   BEATRICE Why then, God forgive me.
ADO 4.1.  283   BENEDICK What offence, sweet Beatrice?
ADO 4.1.  284   BEATRICE You have stayed me in a happy hour. I was
ADO 4.1.  285  about to protest I loved you.
ADO 4.1.  286   BENEDICK And do it with all thy heart.
ADO 4.1.  287   BEATRICE I love you with so much of my heart that none
ADO 4.1.  288  is left to protest.
ADO 4.1.  289   BENEDICK Come, bid me do anything for thee.
ADO 4.1.  290   BEATRICE Kill Claudio.
ADO 4.1.  291   BENEDICK Ha! Not for the wide world.
ADO 4.1.  292   BEATRICE You kill me to deny it. Farewell.
ADO 4.1.  293   BENEDICK Tarry, sweet Beatrice.
ADO 4.1.  294   BEATRICE I am gone though I am here. There is no love
ADO 4.1.  295  in you. - Nay, I pray you, let me go.
ADO 4.1.  296   BENEDICK Beatrice.
ADO 4.1.  297   BEATRICE In faith, I will go.
ADO 4.1.  298   BENEDICK We'll be friends first.
ADO 4.1.  299   BEATRICE You dare easier be friends with me than fight
ADO 4.1.  300  with mine enemy.
ADO 4.1.  301   BENEDICK Is Claudio thine enemy?
ADO 4.1.  302   BEATRICE Is a not approved in the height a villain, that
ADO 4.1.  303  hath slandered, scorned, dishonoured my kinswoman?
ADO 4.1.  304  O that I were a man! What, bear her in hand until
ADO 4.1.  305  they come to take hands, and then with public
ADO 4.1.  306  accusation, uncovered slander, unmitigated rancour - 
ADO 4.1.  307  O God that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the
ADO 4.1.  308  market place.
ADO 4.1.  309   BENEDICK Hear me, Beatrice.
ADO 4.1.  310   BEATRICE Talk with a man out at a window - a proper
ADO 4.1.  311  saying!
ADO 4.1.  312   BENEDICK Nay, but Beatrice.
ADO 4.1.  313   BEATRICE Sweet Hero, she is wronged, she is slandered,
ADO 4.1.  314  she is undone.
ADO 4.1.  315   BENEDICK Beat - 
ADO 4.1.  316   BEATRICE Princes and counties! Surely a princely testimony,
ADO 4.1.  317  a goodly count, Count Comfit, a sweet gallant,
ADO 4.1.  318  surely. O that I were a man for his sake! Or that I had
ADO 4.1.  319  any friend would be a man for my sake! But manhood
ADO 4.1.  320  is melted into courtesies, valour into compliment, and
ADO 4.1.  321  men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.
ADO 4.1.  322  He is now as valiant as Hercules that only tells a lie
ADO 4.1.  323  and swears it. I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore
ADO 4.1.  324  I will die a woman with grieving.
ADO 4.1.  325   BENEDICK Tarry, good Beatrice. By this hand, I love thee.
ADO 4.1.  326   BEATRICE Use it for my love some other way than swearing
ADO 4.1.  327  by it.
ADO 4.1.  328   BENEDICK Think you in your soul the Count Claudio hath
ADO 4.1.  329  wronged Hero?
ADO 4.1.  330   BEATRICE Yea, as sure as I have a thought or a soul.
ADO 4.1.  331   BENEDICK Enough, I am engaged, I will challenge him. I
ADO 4.1.  332  will kiss your hand, and so I leave you. By this hand,
ADO 4.1.  333  Claudio shall render me a dear account. As you hear
ADO 4.1.  334  of me, so think of me. Go comfort your cousin. I must
ADO 4.1.  335  say she is dead. And so, farewell. {Exeunt}
ADO 4.1.    0    {Enter Dogberry and Verges the constables, and the         +
ADO 4.2.    0  Sexton, in gowns, and the Watch, with Conrad and Borachio}
ADO 4.2.    1   DOGBERRY  Is our whole dissembly appeared?
ADO 4.2.    2   VERGES O, a stool and a cushion for the Sexton.
ADO 4.2.    3   SEXTON  {[sits]} Which be the malefactors?
ADO 4.2.    4   DOGBERRY Marry, that am I, and my partner.
ADO 4.2.    5   VERGES Nay, that's certain, we have the exhibition to
ADO 4.2.    6  examine.
ADO 4.2.    7   SEXTON But which are the offenders that are to be
ADO 4.2.    8  examined? Let them come before Master Constable.
ADO 4.2.    9   DOGBERRY Yea, marry, let them come before me. What is
ADO 4.2.   10  your name, friend?
ADO 4.2.   11   BORACHIO Borachio.
ADO 4.2.   12   DOGBERRY  {(to the Sexton)} Pray write down          +
ADO 4.2.   12  `Borachio'. {(To}
ADO 4.2.   13  {Conrad)} Yours, sirrah?
ADO 4.2.   14   CONRAD I am a gentleman, sir, and my name is Conrad.
ADO 4.2.   15   DOGBERRY Write down `Master Gentleman Conrad'. - 
ADO 4.2.   16  Masters, do you serve God?
ADO 4.2.   17   CONRAD {AND} BORACHIO Yea, sir, we hope.
ADO 4.2.   18   DOGBERRY Write down that they hope they serve God.
ADO 4.2.   19  And write `God' first, for God defend but God should
ADO 4.2.   20  go before such villains. Masters, it is proved already
ADO 4.2.   21  that you are little better than false knaves, and it will
ADO 4.2.   22  go near to be thought so shortly. How answer you for
ADO 4.2.   23  yourselves?
ADO 4.2.   24   CONRAD Marry, sir, we say we are none.
ADO 4.2.   25   DOGBERRY A marvellous witty fellow, I assure you, but I
ADO 4.2.   26  will go about with him. Come you hither, sirrah. A
ADO 4.2.   27  word in your ear, sir. I say to you it is thought you
ADO 4.2.   28  are false knaves.
ADO 4.2.   29   BORACHIO Sir, I say to you we are none.
ADO 4.2.   30   DOGBERRY Well, stand aside. Fore God, they are both in
ADO 4.2.   31  a tale. Have you writ down that they are none?
ADO 4.2.   32   SEXTON Master Constable, you go not the way to examine.
ADO 4.2.   33  You must call forth the watch that are their accusers.
ADO 4.2.   34   DOGBERRY Yea, marry, that's the eftest way. Let the watch
ADO 4.2.   35  come forth. Masters, I charge you in the Prince's name
ADO 4.2.   36  accuse these men.
ADO 4.2.   37   FIRST WATCHMAN This man said, sir, that Don John, the
ADO 4.2.   38  Prince's brother, was a villain.
ADO 4.2.   39   DOGBERRY Write down Prince John a villain. Why, this is
ADO 4.2.   40  flat perjury, to call a prince's brother villain.
ADO 4.2.   41   BORACHIO Master Constable.
ADO 4.2.   42   DOGBERRY Pray thee, fellow, peace. I do not like thy look,
ADO 4.2.   43  I promise thee.
ADO 4.2.   44   SEXTON What heard you him say else?
ADO 4.2.   45   SECOND WATCHMAN Marry, that he had received a
ADO 4.2.   46  thousand ducats of Don John for accusing the Lady
ADO 4.2.   47  Hero wrongfully.
ADO 4.2.   48   DOGBERRY Flat burglary, as ever was committed.
ADO 4.2.   49   VERGES Yea, by mass, that it is.
ADO 4.2.   50   SEXTON What else, fellow?
ADO 4.2.   51   FIRST WATCHMAN And that Count Claudio did mean upon
ADO 4.2.   52  his words to disgrace Hero before the whole assembly,
ADO 4.2.   53  and not marry her.
ADO 4.2.   54   DOGBERRY O villain! Thou wilt be condemned into everlasting
ADO 4.2.   55  redemption for this.
ADO 4.2.   56   SEXTON What else?
ADO 4.2.   57   WATCH This is all.
ADO 4.2.   58   SEXTON And this is more, masters, than you can deny.
ADO 4.2.   59  Prince John is this morning secretly stolen away. Hero
ADO 4.2.   60  was in this manner accused, in this very manner
ADO 4.2.   61  refused, and upon the grief of this suddenly died. Master
ADO 4.2.   62  Constable, let these men be bound and brought to
ADO 4.2.   63  Leonato's. I will go before and show him their
ADO 4.2.   64  examination. {Exit}
ADO 4.2.   65   DOGBERRY  Come, let them be opinioned.
ADO 4.2.   66   VERGES Let them be, in the hands - 
ADO 4.2.   67   [CONRAD] Off, coxcomb!
ADO 4.2.   68   DOGBERRY God's my life, where's the Sexton? Let him
ADO 4.2.   69  write down the Prince's officer coxcomb. Come, bind
ADO 4.2.   70  them. Thou naughty varlet!
ADO 4.2.   71   CONRAD Away, you are an ass, you are an ass.
ADO 4.2.   72   DOGBERRY Dost thou not suspect my place? Dost thou not
ADO 4.2.   73  suspect my years? O that he were here to write me
ADO 4.2.   74  down an ass! But masters, remember that I am an ass.
ADO 4.2.   75  Though it be not written down, yet forget not that I
ADO 4.2.   76  am an ass. No, thou villain, thou art full of piety, as
ADO 4.2.   77  shall be proved upon thee by good witness. I am a wise
ADO 4.2.   78  fellow, and which is more, an officer, and which is
ADO 4.2.   79  more, a householder, and which is more, as pretty a
ADO 4.2.   80  piece of flesh as any is in Messina, and one that knows
ADO 4.2.   81  the law, go to, and a rich fellow enough, go to, and a
ADO 4.2.   82  fellow that hath had losses, and one that hath two
ADO 4.2.   83  gowns, and everything handsome about him. Bring
ADO 4.2.   84  him away. O that I had been writ down an ass! {Exeunt}
ADO 4.2.    0     {Enter Leonato and Antonio his brother}
ADO 5.1.    1   ANTONIO  If you go on thus, you will kill yourself,
ADO 5.1.    2  And 'tis not wisdom thus to second grief
ADO 5.1.    3B Against yourself. LEONATO I pray thee cease thy counsel,
ADO 5.1.    4  Which falls into mine ears as profitless
ADO 5.1.    5  As water in a sieve. Give not me counsel,
ADO 5.1.    6  Nor let no comforter delight mine ear
ADO 5.1.    7  But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine.
ADO 5.1.    8  Bring me a father that so loved his child,
ADO 5.1.    9  Whose joy of her is overwhelmed like mine,
ADO 5.1.   10  And bid him speak of patience.
ADO 5.1.   11  Measure his woe the length and breadth of mine,
ADO 5.1.   12  And let it answer every strain for strain,
ADO 5.1.   13  As thus for thus, and such a grief for such,
ADO 5.1.   14  In every lineament, branch, shape, and form.
ADO 5.1.   15  If such a one will smile and stroke his beard,
ADO 5.1.   16  Bid sorrow wag, cry `hem' when he should groan,
ADO 5.1.   17  Patch grief with proverbs, make misfortune drunk
ADO 5.1.   18  With candle-wasters, bring him yet to me,
ADO 5.1.   19  And I of him will gather patience.
ADO 5.1.   20  But there is no such man, for, brother, men
ADO 5.1.   21  Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief
ADO 5.1.   22  Which they themselves not feel, but tasting it
ADO 5.1.   23  Their counsel turns to passion, which before
ADO 5.1.   24  Would give preceptial medicine to rage,
ADO 5.1.   25  Fetter strong madness in a silken thread,
ADO 5.1.   26  Charm ache with air and agony with words.
ADO 5.1.   27  No, no, 'tis all men's office to speak patience
ADO 5.1.   28  To those that wring under the load of sorrow,
ADO 5.1.   29  But no man's virtue nor sufficiency
ADO 5.1.   30  To be so moral when he shall endure
ADO 5.1.   31  The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel.
ADO 5.1.   32  My griefs cry louder than advertisement.
ADO 5.1.   33   ANTONIO Therein do men from children nothing differ.
ADO 5.1.   34   LEONATO I pray thee peace, I will be flesh and blood,
ADO 5.1.   35  For there was never yet philosopher
ADO 5.1.   36  That could endure the toothache patiently,
ADO 5.1.   37  However they have writ the style of gods,
ADO 5.1.   38  And made a pish at chance and sufferance.
ADO 5.1.   39   ANTONIO Yet bend not all the harm upon yourself.
ADO 5.1.   40  Make those that do offend you suffer, too.
ADO 5.1.   41   LEONATO There thou speak'st reason, nay I will do so.
ADO 5.1.   42  My soul doth tell me Hero is belied,
ADO 5.1.   43  And that shall Claudio know, so shall the Prince,
ADO 5.1.   44  And all of them that thus dishonour her. {Enter Don Pedro the     +
ADO 5.1.   44  Prince and Claudio}
ADO 5.1.   45   ANTONIO  Here comes the Prince and Claudio hastily.
ADO 5.1.   46B  DON PEDRO Good e'en, good e'en. CLAUDIO Good day to both of you.
ADO 5.1.   47B  LEONATO Hear you, my lords? DON PEDRO We have some haste,         +
ADO 5.1.   47B Leonato.
ADO 5.1.   48   LEONATO Some haste, my lord! Well, fare you well, my lord.
ADO 5.1.   49  Are you so hasty now? Well, all is one.
ADO 5.1.   50   DON PEDRO Nay, do not quarrel with us, good old man.
ADO 5.1.   51   ANTONIO If he could right himself with quarrelling,
ADO 5.1.   52B Some of us would lie low. CLAUDIO Who wrongs him?
ADO 5.1.   53   LEONATO Marry, thou dost wrong me, thou dissembler, thou.
ADO 5.1.   54  Nay, never lay thy hand upon thy sword,
ADO 5.1.   55B I fear thee not. CLAUDIO Marry, beshrew my hand
ADO 5.1.   56  If it should give your age such cause of fear.
ADO 5.1.   57  In faith, my hand meant nothing to my sword.
ADO 5.1.   58   LEONATO Tush, tush, man, never fleer and jest at me.
ADO 5.1.   59  I speak not like a dotard nor a fool,
ADO 5.1.   60  As under privilege of age to brag
ADO 5.1.   61  What I have done being young, or what would do
ADO 5.1.   62  Were I not old. Know Claudio to thy head,
ADO 5.1.   63  Thou hast so wronged mine innocent child and me
ADO 5.1.   64  That I am forced to lay my reverence by
ADO 5.1.   65  And with grey hairs and bruise of many days
ADO 5.1.   66  Do challenge thee to trial of a man.
ADO 5.1.   67  I say thou hast belied mine innocent child.
ADO 5.1.   68  Thy slander hath gone through and through her heart,
ADO 5.1.   69  And she lies buried with her ancestors,
ADO 5.1.   70  O, in a tomb where never scandal slept
ADO 5.1.   71  Save this of hers, framed by thy villainy.
ADO 5.1.   72B  CLAUDIO My villainy? LEONATO Thine, Claudio, thine I say.
ADO 5.1.   73B  DON PEDRO You say not right, old man. LEONATO My lord, my lord,
ADO 5.1.   74  I'll prove it on his body if he dare,
ADO 5.1.   75  Despite his nice fence and his active practice,
ADO 5.1.   76  His May of youth and bloom of lustihood.
ADO 5.1.   77   CLAUDIO Away, I will not have to do with you.
ADO 5.1.   78   LEONATO Canst thou so doff me? Thou hast killed my child.
ADO 5.1.   79  If thou kill'st me, boy, thou shalt kill a man.
ADO 5.1.   80   ANTONIO He shall kill two of us, and men indeed.
ADO 5.1.   81  But that's no matter, let him kill one first.
ADO 5.1.   82  Win me and wear me. Let him answer me.
ADO 5.1.   83  Come follow me boy, come sir boy, come follow me,
ADO 5.1.   84  Sir boy, I'll whip you from your foining fence.
ADO 5.1.   85  Nay, as I am a gentleman, I will.
ADO 5.1.   86A  LEONATO Brother.
ADO 5.1.   87   ANTONIO Content yourself. God knows, I loved my niece,
ADO 5.1.   88  And she is dead, slandered to death by villains
ADO 5.1.   89  That dare as well answer a man indeed
ADO 5.1.   90  As I dare take a serpent by the tongue.
ADO 5.1.   91  Boys, apes, braggarts, jacks, milksops!
ADO 5.1.   92A  LEONATO Brother Antony - 
ADO 5.1.   93   ANTONIO Hold you content. What, man, I know them, yea
ADO 5.1.   94  And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple.
ADO 5.1.   95  Scambling, outfacing, fashion-monging boys,
ADO 5.1.   96  That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave, and slander,
ADO 5.1.   97  Go anticly, and show an outward hideousness,
ADO 5.1.   98  And speak off half a dozen dangerous words,
ADO 5.1.   99  How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst,
ADO 5.1.  100  And this is all.
ADO 5.1.  101A  LEONATO But brother Antony - 
ADO 5.1.  102A  ANTONIO Come, 'tis no matter,
ADO 5.1.  103  Do not you meddle, let me deal in this.
ADO 5.1.  104   DON PEDRO Gentlemen both, we will not wake your patience.
ADO 5.1.  105  My heart is sorry for your daughter's death,
ADO 5.1.  106  But on my honour she was charged with nothing
ADO 5.1.  107  But what was true and very full of proof.
ADO 5.1.  108B  LEONATO My lord, my lord -  DON PEDRO I will not hear you.
ADO 5.1.  109   LEONATO No? Come brother, away. I will be heard.
ADO 5.1.  110   ANTONIO And shall, or some of us will smart for it. {Exeunt   +
ADO 5.1.  110  Leonato and Antonio}
ADO 5.1.  111   {Enter Benedick} DON PEDRO  See, see, here comes     +
ADO 5.1.  111  the man we went to seek.
ADO 5.1.  112   CLAUDIO  Now signor, what news?
ADO 5.1.  113   BENEDICK  {(to Don Pedro)} Good day, my lord.
ADO 5.1.  114   DON PEDRO Welcome, signor. You are almost come to part
ADO 5.1.  115  almost a fray.
ADO 5.1.  116   CLAUDIO We had liked to have had our two noses snapped
ADO 5.1.  117  off with two old men without teeth.
ADO 5.1.  118   DON PEDRO Leonato and his brother. What thinkest thou?
ADO 5.1.  119  Had we fought, I doubt we should have been too young
ADO 5.1.  120  for them.
ADO 5.1.  121   BENEDICK In a false quarrel there is no true valour. I came
ADO 5.1.  122  to seek you both.
ADO 5.1.  123   CLAUDIO We have been up and down to seek thee, for we
ADO 5.1.  124  are high-proof melancholy and would fain have it
ADO 5.1.  125  beaten away. Wilt thou use thy wit?
ADO 5.1.  126   BENEDICK It is in my scabbard. Shall I draw it?
ADO 5.1.  127   DON PEDRO Dost thou wear thy wit by thy side?
ADO 5.1.  128   CLAUDIO Never any did so, though very many have been
ADO 5.1.  129  beside their wit. I will bid thee draw as we do the
ADO 5.1.  130  minstrels, draw to pleasure us.
ADO 5.1.  131   DON PEDRO As I am an honest man he looks pale. Art
ADO 5.1.  132  thou sick, or angry?
ADO 5.1.  133   CLAUDIO What, courage, man. What though care killed
ADO 5.1.  134  a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.
ADO 5.1.  135   BENEDICK Sir, I shall meet your wit in the career an you
ADO 5.1.  136  charge it against me. I pray you choose another subject.
ADO 5.1.  137   CLAUDIO Nay then, give him another staff. This last was
ADO 5.1.  138  broke cross.
ADO 5.1.  139   DON PEDRO By this light, he changes more and more. I
ADO 5.1.  140  think he be angry indeed.
ADO 5.1.  141   CLAUDIO If he be, he knows how to turn his girdle.
ADO 5.1.  142   BENEDICK  {(aside to Claudio)} Shall I speak a word  +
ADO 5.1.  142  in your
ADO 5.1.  143  ear?
ADO 5.1.  144   CLAUDIO God bless me from a challenge.
ADO 5.1.  145   BENEDICK You are a villain. I jest not. I will make it good
ADO 5.1.  146  how you dare, with what you dare, and when you
ADO 5.1.  147  dare. Do me right, or I will protest your cowardice.
ADO 5.1.  148  You have killed a sweet lady, and her death shall fall
ADO 5.1.  149  heavy on you. Let me hear from you.
ADO 5.1.  150   CLAUDIO Well, I will meet you, so I may have good cheer.
ADO 5.1.  151   DON PEDRO What, a feast, a feast?
ADO 5.1.  152   CLAUDIO I' faith, I thank him, he hath bid me to a calf's
ADO 5.1.  153  head and a capon, the which if I do not carve most
ADO 5.1.  154  curiously, say my knife's naught. Shall I not find a
ADO 5.1.  155  woodcock too?
ADO 5.1.  156   BENEDICK Sir, your wit ambles well, it goes easily.
ADO 5.1.  157   DON PEDRO I'll tell thee how Beatrice praised thy wit the
ADO 5.1.  158  other day. I said thou hadst a fine wit. `True,' said she,
ADO 5.1.  159  `a fine little one.' `No,' said I, `a great wit.' `Right,'
ADO 5.1.  160  says she, `a great gross one.' `Nay,' said I, `a good wit.'
ADO 5.1.  161  `Just,' said she, `it hurts nobody.' `Nay,' said I, `the
ADO 5.1.  162  gentleman is wise.' `Certain,' said she, `a wise gentleman.'
ADO 5.1.  163  `Nay,' said I, `he hath the tongues.' `That I
ADO 5.1.  164  believe,' said she, `for he swore a thing to me on
ADO 5.1.  165  Monday night which he forswore on Tuesday morning.
ADO 5.1.  166  There's a double tongue, there's two tongues.' Thus
ADO 5.1.  167  did she an hour together trans-shape thy particular
ADO 5.1.  168  virtues, yet at last she concluded with a sigh thou wast
ADO 5.1.  169  the properest man in Italy.
ADO 5.1.  170   CLAUDIO For the which she wept heartily and said she
ADO 5.1.  171  cared not.
ADO 5.1.  172   DON PEDRO Yea, that she did. But yet for all that, an if
ADO 5.1.  173  she did not hate him deadly she would love him dearly.
ADO 5.1.  174  The old man's daughter told us all.
ADO 5.1.  175   CLAUDIO All, all. And moreover, God saw him when he
ADO 5.1.  176  was hid in the garden.
ADO 5.1.  177   DON PEDRO But when shall we set the savage bull's horns
ADO 5.1.  178  on the sensible Benedick's head?
ADO 5.1.  179   CLAUDIO Yea, and text underneath, `Here dwells Benedick
ADO 5.1.  180  the married man'.
ADO 5.1.  181   BENEDICK Fare you well, boy, you know my mind. I will
ADO 5.1.  182  leave you now to your gossip-like humour. You break
ADO 5.1.  183  jests as braggarts do their blades which, God be
ADO 5.1.  184  thanked, hurt not. {(To Don Pedro)} My lord, for your
ADO 5.1.  185  many courtesies I thank you. I must discontinue your
ADO 5.1.  186  company. Your brother the bastard is fled from Messina.
ADO 5.1.  187  You have among you killed a sweet and innocent lady.
ADO 5.1.  188  For my lord Lackbeard there, he and I shall meet, and
ADO 5.1.  189  till then, peace be with him. {Exit}
ADO 5.1.  190   DON PEDRO  He is in earnest.
ADO 5.1.  191   CLAUDIO In most profound earnest, and, I'll warrant you,
ADO 5.1.  192  for the love of Beatrice.
ADO 5.1.  193   DON PEDRO And hath challenged thee.
ADO 5.1.  194   CLAUDIO Most sincerely.
ADO 5.1.  195   DON PEDRO What a pretty thing man is when he goes in
ADO 5.1.  196  his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit! {Enter Dogberry and  +
ADO 5.1.  196  Verges the constables, the Watch, Conrad, and Borachio}
ADO 5.1.  197   CLAUDIO  He is then a giant to an ape. But then is an ape
ADO 5.1.  198  a doctor to such a man.
ADO 5.1.  199   DON PEDRO But soft you, let me be. Pluck up, my heart,
ADO 5.1.  200  and be sad. Did he not say my brother was fled?
ADO 5.1.  201   DOGBERRY Come you sir, if justice cannot tame you, she
ADO 5.1.  202  shall ne'er weigh more reasons in her balance. Nay, an
ADO 5.1.  203  you be a cursing hypocrite once, you must be looked to.
ADO 5.1.  204   DON PEDRO How now, two of my brother's men bound?
ADO 5.1.  205  Borachio one.
ADO 5.1.  206   CLAUDIO Hearken after their offence, my lord.
ADO 5.1.  207   DON PEDRO Officers, what offence have these men done?
ADO 5.1.  208   DOGBERRY Marry, sir, they have committed false report,
ADO 5.1.  209  moreover they have spoken untruths, secondarily they
ADO 5.1.  210  are slanders, sixth and lastly they have belied a lady,
ADO 5.1.  211  thirdly they have verified unjust things, and to
ADO 5.1.  212  conclude, they are lying knaves.
ADO 5.1.  213   DON PEDRO First I ask thee what they have done, thirdly
ADO 5.1.  214  I ask thee what's their offence, sixth and lastly why
ADO 5.1.  215  they are committed, and to conclude, what you lay to
ADO 5.1.  216  their charge.
ADO 5.1.  217   CLAUDIO Rightly reasoned, and in his own division. And
ADO 5.1.  218  by my troth there's one meaning well suited.
ADO 5.1.  219   DON PEDRO  {(to Conrad and Borachio)} Who have you
ADO 5.1.  220  offended, masters, that you are thus bound to your
ADO 5.1.  221  answer? This learned constable is too cunning to be
ADO 5.1.  222  understood. What's your offence?
ADO 5.1.  223   BORACHIO Sweet Prince, let me go no farther to mine
ADO 5.1.  224  answer. Do you hear me, and let this Count kill me. I
ADO 5.1.  225  have deceived even your very eyes. What your wisdoms
ADO 5.1.  226  could not discover, these shallow fools have brought
ADO 5.1.  227  to light, who in the night overheard me confessing to
ADO 5.1.  228  this man how Don John your brother incensed me to
ADO 5.1.  229  slander the Lady Hero, how you were brought into the
ADO 5.1.  230  orchard and saw me court Margaret in Hero's garments,
ADO 5.1.  231  how you disgraced her when you should marry her.
ADO 5.1.  232  My villainy they have upon record, which I had rather
ADO 5.1.  233  seal with my death than repeat over to my shame. The
ADO 5.1.  234  lady is dead upon mine and my master's false
ADO 5.1.  235  accusation, and briefly, I desire nothing but the reward
ADO 5.1.  236  of a villain.
ADO 5.1.  237   DON PEDRO  {(to Claudio)} Runs not this speech like  +
ADO 5.1.  237  iron through your blood?
ADO 5.1.  238   CLAUDIO I have drunk poison whiles he uttered it.
ADO 5.1.  239   DON PEDRO  {(to Borachio)} But did my brother set    +
ADO 5.1.  239  thee on to this?
ADO 5.1.  240   BORACHIO Yea, and paid me richly for the practice of it.
ADO 5.1.  241   DON PEDRO He is composed and framed of treachery,
ADO 5.1.  242  And fled he is upon this villainy.
ADO 5.1.  243   CLAUDIO Sweet Hero, now thy image doth appear
ADO 5.1.  244  In the rare semblance that I loved it first.
ADO 5.1.  245   DOGBERRY  Come, bring away the plaintiffs. By this time
ADO 5.1.  246  our Sexton hath reformed Signor Leonato of the matter.
ADO 5.1.  247  And masters, do not forget to specify, when time and
ADO 5.1.  248  place shall serve, that I am an ass.
ADO 5.1.  249   VERGES Here, here comes Master Signor Leonato, and the
ADO 5.1.  250  Sexton, too. {Enter Leonato, Antonio his brother, and the         +
ADO 5.1.  250  Sexton}
ADO 5.1.  251   LEONATO  Which is the villain? Let me see his eyes,
ADO 5.1.  252  That when I note another man like him
ADO 5.1.  253  I may avoid him. Which of these is he?
ADO 5.1.  254   BORACHIO If you would know your wronger, look on me.
ADO 5.1.  255   LEONATO Art thou the slave that with thy breath hast killed
ADO 5.1.  256B Mine innocent child? BORACHIO Yea, even I alone.
ADO 5.1.  257   LEONATO No, not so, villain, thou beliest thyself.
ADO 5.1.  258  Here stand a pair of honourable men.
ADO 5.1.  259  A third is fled that had a hand in it.
ADO 5.1.  260  I thank you, Princes, for my daughter's death.
ADO 5.1.  261  Record it with your high and worthy deeds.
ADO 5.1.  262  'Twas bravely done, if you bethink you of it.
ADO 5.1.  263   CLAUDIO I know not how to pray your patience,
ADO 5.1.  264  Yet I must speak. Choose your revenge yourself,
ADO 5.1.  265  Impose me to what penance your invention
ADO 5.1.  266  Can lay upon my sin. Yet sinned I not
ADO 5.1.  267B But in mistaking. DON PEDRO By my soul, nor I,
ADO 5.1.  268  And yet to satisfy this good old man
ADO 5.1.  269  I would bend under any heavy weight
ADO 5.1.  270  That he'll enjoin me to.
ADO 5.1.  271   LEONATO I cannot bid you bid my daughter live - 
ADO 5.1.  272  That were impossible - but I pray you both
ADO 5.1.  273  Possess the people in Messina here
ADO 5.1.  274  How innocent she died, and if your love
ADO 5.1.  275  Can labour aught in sad invention,
ADO 5.1.  276  Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb
ADO 5.1.  277  And sing it to her bones, sing it tonight.
ADO 5.1.  278  Tomorrow morning come you to my house,
ADO 5.1.  279  And since you could not be my son-in-law,
ADO 5.1.  280  Be yet my nephew. My brother hath a daughter,
ADO 5.1.  281  Almost the copy of my child that's dead,
ADO 5.1.  282  And she alone is heir to both of us.
ADO 5.1.  283  Give her the right you should have giv'n her cousin,
ADO 5.1.  284B And so dies my revenge. CLAUDIO O noble sir!
ADO 5.1.  285  Your overkindness doth wring tears from me.
ADO 5.1.  286  I do embrace your offer; and dispose
ADO 5.1.  287  For henceforth of poor Claudio.
ADO 5.1.  288   LEONATO Tomorrow then I will expect your coming.
ADO 5.1.  289  Tonight I take my leave. This naughty man
ADO 5.1.  290  Shall face to face be brought to Margaret,
ADO 5.1.  291  Who I believe was packed in all this wrong,
ADO 5.1.  292B Hired to it by your brother. BORACHIO No, by my soul, she was not,
ADO 5.1.  293  Nor knew not what she did when she spoke to me,
ADO 5.1.  294  But always hath been just and virtuous
ADO 5.1.  295  In anything that I do know by her.
ADO 5.1.  296   DOGBERRY  {(to Leonato)} Moreover, sir, which        +
ADO 5.1.  296  indeed is not
ADO 5.1.  297  under white and black, this plaintiff here, the offender,
ADO 5.1.  298  did call me ass. I beseech you let it be remembered in
ADO 5.1.  299  his punishment. And also the watch heard them talk
ADO 5.1.  300  of one Deformed. They say he wears a key in his ear
ADO 5.1.  301  and a lock hanging by it, and borrows money in God's
ADO 5.1.  302  name, the which he hath used so long and never paid
ADO 5.1.  303  that now men grow hard-hearted and will lend nothing
ADO 5.1.  304  for God's sake. Pray you examine him upon that point.
ADO 5.1.  305   LEONATO  I thank thee for thy care and honest pains.
ADO 5.1.  306   DOGBERRY  Your worship speaks like a most thankful and
ADO 5.1.  307  reverend youth, and I praise God for you.
ADO 5.1.  308   LEONATO  {(giving him money)} There's for thy        +
ADO 5.1.  308  pains.
ADO 5.1.  309   DOGBERRY God save the foundation.
ADO 5.1.  310   LEONATO Go. I discharge thee of thy prisoner, and I thank
ADO 5.1.  311  thee.
ADO 5.1.  312   DOGBERRY I leave an arrant knave with your worship,
ADO 5.1.  313  which I beseech your worship to correct yourself, for
ADO 5.1.  314  the example of others. God keep your worship, I wish
ADO 5.1.  315  your worship well. God restore you to health. I humbly
ADO 5.1.  316  give you leave to depart, and if a merry meeting may
ADO 5.1.  317  be wished, God prohibit it. Come, neighbour. {Exeunt Dogberry     +
ADO 5.1.  317  and Verges}
ADO 5.1.  318   LEONATO  Until tomorrow morning, lords, farewell.
ADO 5.1.  319   ANTONIO Farewell, my lords. We look for you tomorrow.
ADO 5.1.  320B  DON PEDRO We will not fail. CLAUDIO Tonight I'll mourn with       +
ADO 5.1.  320B Hero.
ADO 5.1.  321   LEONATO  {(to the Watch)} Bring you these fellows    +
ADO 5.1.  321  on. - We'll talk with Margaret
ADO 5.1.  322  How her acquaintance grew with this lewd fellow. {Exeunt}
ADO 5.1.    0    {Enter Benedick and Margaret}
ADO 5.2.    1   BENEDICK  Pray thee, sweet Mistress Margaret, deserve well
ADO 5.2.    2  at my hands by helping me to the speech of Beatrice.
ADO 5.2.    3   MARGARET Will you then write me a sonnet in praise of
ADO 5.2.    4  my beauty?
ADO 5.2.    5   BENEDICK In so high a style, Margaret, that no man living
ADO 5.2.    6  shall come over it, for in most comely truth, thou
ADO 5.2.    7  deservest it.
ADO 5.2.    8   MARGARET To have no man come over me - why, shall I
ADO 5.2.    9  always keep below stairs?
ADO 5.2.   10   BENEDICK Thy wit is as quick as the greyhound's mouth,
ADO 5.2.   11  it catches.
ADO 5.2.   12   MARGARET And yours as blunt as the fencer's foils, which
ADO 5.2.   13  hit but hurt not.
ADO 5.2.   14   BENEDICK A most manly wit, Margaret, it will not hurt a
ADO 5.2.   15  woman. And so I pray thee call Beatrice. I give thee
ADO 5.2.   16  the bucklers.
ADO 5.2.   17   MARGARET Give us the swords. We have bucklers of our
ADO 5.2.   18  own.
ADO 5.2.   19   BENEDICK If you use them, Margaret, you must put in the
ADO 5.2.   20  pikes with a vice - and they are dangerous weapons
ADO 5.2.   21  for maids.
ADO 5.2.   22   MARGARET Well, I will call Beatrice to you, who I think
ADO 5.2.   23  hath legs. {Exit}
ADO 5.2.   24   BENEDICK  And therefore will come.
ADO 5.2.   25   {(Sings)} The god of love
ADO 5.2.   26  That sits above,
ADO 5.2.   27  And knows me, and knows me,
ADO 5.2.   28  How pitiful I deserve - 
ADO 5.2.   29   I mean in singing; but in loving, Leander the good
ADO 5.2.   30  swimmer, Troilus the first employer of panders, and a
ADO 5.2.   31  whole book full of these quondam carpet-mongers
ADO 5.2.   32  whose names yet run smoothly in the even road of a
ADO 5.2.   33  blank verse, why they were never so truly turned over
ADO 5.2.   34  and over as my poor self in love. Marry, I cannot show
ADO 5.2.   35  it in rhyme. I have tried. I can find out no rhyme to
ADO 5.2.   36  `lady' but `baby', an innocent rhyme; for `scorn' `horn',
ADO 5.2.   37  a hard rhyme; for `school' `fool', a babbling rhyme.
ADO 5.2.   38  Very ominous endings. No, I was not born under a
ADO 5.2.   39  rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo in festival terms. {Enter        +
ADO 5.2.   39  Beatrice}
ADO 5.2.   40   Sweet Beatrice, wouldst thou come when I called thee?
ADO 5.2.   41   BEATRICE Yea, signor, and depart when you bid me.
ADO 5.2.   42   BENEDICK O, stay but till then.
ADO 5.2.   43   BEATRICE `Then' is spoken. Fare you well now. And yet
ADO 5.2.   44  ere I go, let me go with that I came for, which is with
ADO 5.2.   45  knowing what hath passed between you and Claudio.
ADO 5.2.   46   BENEDICK Only foul words, and thereupon I will kiss thee.
ADO 5.2.   47   BEATRICE Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is
ADO 5.2.   48  but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome, therefore
ADO 5.2.   49  I will depart unkissed.
ADO 5.2.   50   BENEDICK Thou hast frighted the word out of his right
ADO 5.2.   51  sense, so forcible is thy wit. But I must tell thee plainly,
ADO 5.2.   52  Claudio undergoes my challenge, and either I must
ADO 5.2.   53  shortly hear from him or I will subscribe him a coward.
ADO 5.2.   54  And I pray thee now tell me, for which of my bad parts
ADO 5.2.   55  didst thou first fall in love with me?
ADO 5.2.   56   BEATRICE For them all together, which maintain so politic
ADO 5.2.   57  a state of evil that they will not admit any good part
ADO 5.2.   58  to intermingle with them. But for which of my good
ADO 5.2.   59  parts did you first suffer love for me?
ADO 5.2.   60   BENEDICK Suffer love - a good epithet. I do suffer love
ADO 5.2.   61  indeed, for I love thee against my will.
ADO 5.2.   62   BEATRICE In spite of your heart, I think. Alas, poor heart.
ADO 5.2.   63  If you spite it for my sake I will spite it for yours, for I
ADO 5.2.   64  will never love that which my friend hates.
ADO 5.2.   65   BENEDICK Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.
ADO 5.2.   66   BEATRICE It appears not in this confession. There's not
ADO 5.2.   67  one wise man among twenty that will praise himself.
ADO 5.2.   68   BENEDICK An old, an old instance, Beatrice, that lived in
ADO 5.2.   69  the time of good neighbours. If a man do not erect in
ADO 5.2.   70  this age his own tomb ere he dies, he shall live no
ADO 5.2.   71  longer in monument than the bell rings and the widow
ADO 5.2.   72  weeps.
ADO 5.2.   73   BEATRICE And how long is that, think you?
ADO 5.2.   74   BENEDICK Question - why, an hour in clamour and a
ADO 5.2.   75  quarter in rheum. Therefore is it most expedient for the
ADO 5.2.   76  wise, if Don Worm - his conscience - find no impediment
ADO 5.2.   77  to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own
ADO 5.2.   78  virtues, as I am to myself. So much for praising myself
ADO 5.2.   79  who, I myself will bear witness, is praiseworthy. And
ADO 5.2.   80  now tell me, how doth your cousin?
ADO 5.2.   81   BEATRICE Very ill.
ADO 5.2.   82   BENEDICK And how do you?
ADO 5.2.   83   BEATRICE Very ill too.
ADO 5.2.   84   BENEDICK Serve God, love me, and mend. There will I
ADO 5.2.   85  leave you too, for here comes one in haste. {Enter Ursula}
ADO 5.2.   86   URSULA  Madam, you must come to your uncle. Yonder's
ADO 5.2.   87  old coil at home. It is proved my lady Hero hath been
ADO 5.2.   88  falsely accused, the Prince and Claudio mightily abused,
ADO 5.2.   89  and Don John is the author of all, who is fled and gone.
ADO 5.2.   90  Will you come presently?
ADO 5.2.   91   BEATRICE Will you go hear this news, signor?
ADO 5.2.   92   BENEDICK I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be
ADO 5.2.   93  buried in thy eyes. And moreover, I will go with thee
ADO 5.2.   94  to thy uncle's. {Exeunt}
ADO 5.2.    0    {Enter Claudio, Don Pedro the Prince, and three or four    +
ADO 5.3.    0  with tapers, all in black}
ADO 5.3.    1   CLAUDIO  Is this the monument of Leonato?
ADO 5.3.    2   A LORD It is, my lord.
ADO 5.3.    3   [CLAUDIO  {(reading from a scroll)]} Done to death    +
ADO 5.3.    3  by slanderous tongues
ADO 5.3.    4  Was the Hero that here lies.
ADO 5.3.    5  Death in guerdon of her wrongs
ADO 5.3.    6  Gives her fame which never dies.
ADO 5.3.    7  So the life that died with shame
ADO 5.3.    8  Lives in death with glorious fame. {He hangs the epitaph on the   +
ADO 5.3.    8  tomb}
ADO 5.3.    9   Hang thou there upon the tomb,
ADO 5.3.   10  Praising her when I am dumb.
ADO 5.3.   11   Now music sound, and sing your solemn hymn.
ADO 5.3.   12   {Song} Pardon, goddess of the night,
ADO 5.3.   13  Those that slew thy virgin knight,
ADO 5.3.   14  For the which with songs of woe
ADO 5.3.   15  Round about her tomb they go.
ADO 5.3.   16  Midnight, assist our moan,
ADO 5.3.   17  Help us to sigh and groan,
ADO 5.3.   18  Heavily, heavily.
ADO 5.3.   19  Graves yawn, and yield your dead
ADO 5.3.   20  Till death be uttered,
ADO 5.3.   21  Heavily, heavily.
ADO 5.3.   22   [CLAUDIO]  Now, unto thy bones good night.
ADO 5.3.   23  Yearly will I do this rite.
ADO 5.3.   24   DON PEDRO Good morrow, masters, put your torches out.
ADO 5.3.   25  The wolves have preyed, and look, the gentle day
ADO 5.3.   26  Before the wheels of Phoebus round about
ADO 5.3.   27  Dapples the drowsy east with spots of grey.
ADO 5.3.   28  Thanks to you all, and leave us. Fare you well.
ADO 5.3.   29   CLAUDIO Good morrow, masters. Each his several way.
ADO 5.3.   30   DON PEDRO Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds,
ADO 5.3.   31  And then to Leonato's we will go.
ADO 5.3.   32   CLAUDIO And Hymen now with luckier issue speed 's
ADO 5.3.   33  Than this for whom we rendered up this woe. {Exeunt}
ADO 5.3.    0    {Enter Leonato, Antonio, Benedick, Beatrice, Margaret,     +
ADO 5.4.    0  Ursula, Friar Francis, and Hero}
ADO 5.4.    1   FRIAR  Did I not tell you she was innocent?
ADO 5.4.    2   LEONATO So are the Prince and Claudio who accused her
ADO 5.4.    3  Upon the error that you heard debated.
ADO 5.4.    4  But Margaret was in some fault for this,
ADO 5.4.    5  Although against her will as it appears
ADO 5.4.    6  In the true course of all the question.
ADO 5.4.    7   ANTONIO Well, I am glad that all things sorts so well.
ADO 5.4.    8   BENEDICK And so am I, being else by faith enforced
ADO 5.4.    9  To call young Claudio to a reckoning for it.
ADO 5.4.   10   LEONATO Well, daughter, and you gentlewomen all,
ADO 5.4.   11  Withdraw into a chamber by yourselves,
ADO 5.4.   12  And when I send for you come hither masked. {Exeunt Beatrice,     +
ADO 5.4.   12  Hero, Margaret, and Ursula}
ADO 5.4.   13   The Prince and Claudio promised by this hour
ADO 5.4.   14  To visit me. You know your office, brother,
ADO 5.4.   15  You must be father to your brother's daughter,
ADO 5.4.   16  And give her to young Claudio.
ADO 5.4.   17   ANTONIO Which I will do with confirmed countenance.
ADO 5.4.   18   BENEDICK Friar, I must entreat your pains, I think.
ADO 5.4.   19A  FRIAR To do what, signor?
ADO 5.4.   20   BENEDICK To bind me or undo me, one of them.
ADO 5.4.   21  Signor Leonato, truth it is, good signor,
ADO 5.4.   22  Your niece regards me with an eye of favour.
ADO 5.4.   23   LEONATO That eye my daughter lent her, 'tis most true.
ADO 5.4.   24   BENEDICK And I do with an eye of love requite her.
ADO 5.4.   25   LEONATO The sight whereof I think you had from me,
ADO 5.4.   26  From Claudio and the Prince. But what's your will?
ADO 5.4.   27   BENEDICK Your answer, sir, is enigmatical.
ADO 5.4.   28  But for my will, my will is your good will
ADO 5.4.   29  May stand with ours this day to be conjoined
ADO 5.4.   30  In the state of honourable marriage,
ADO 5.4.   31  In which, good Friar, I shall desire your help.
ADO 5.4.   32B  LEONATO My heart is with your liking. FRIAR And my help.
ADO 5.4.   33  Here comes the Prince and Claudio. {Enter Don Pedro and Claudio   +
ADO 5.4.   33  with attendants}
ADO 5.4.   34   DON PEDRO  Good morrow to this fair assembly.
ADO 5.4.   35   LEONATO Good morrow, Prince. Good morrow, Claudio.
ADO 5.4.   36  We here attend you. Are you yet determined
ADO 5.4.   37  Today to marry with my brother's daughter?
ADO 5.4.   38   CLAUDIO I'll hold my mind, were she an Ethiope.
ADO 5.4.   39   LEONATO Call her forth, brother, here's the Friar ready.      +
ADO 5.4.   39  {Exit Antonio}
ADO 5.4.   40   DON PEDRO  Good morrow, Benedick. Why, what's the matter
ADO 5.4.   41  That you have such a February face,
ADO 5.4.   42  So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?
ADO 5.4.   43   CLAUDIO I think he thinks upon the savage bull.
ADO 5.4.   44  Tush, fear not, man, we'll tip thy horns with gold,
ADO 5.4.   45  And all Europa shall rejoice at thee
ADO 5.4.   46  As once Europa did at lusty Jove
ADO 5.4.   47  When he would play the noble beast in love.
ADO 5.4.   48   BENEDICK Bull Jove, sir, had an amiable low,
ADO 5.4.   49  And some such strange bull leapt your father's cow
ADO 5.4.   50  And got a calf in that same noble feat
ADO 5.4.   51  Much like to you, for you have just his bleat. {Enter Antonio     +
ADO 5.4.   51  with Hero, Beatrice, Margaret, and Ursula, masked}
ADO 5.4.   52   CLAUDIO  For this I owe you. Here comes other reck'nings.
ADO 5.4.   53  Which is the lady I must seize upon?
ADO 5.4.   54   [ANTONIO] This same is she, and I do give you her.
ADO 5.4.   55   CLAUDIO Why then, she's mine. Sweet, let me see your face.
ADO 5.4.   56   LEONATO No, that you shall not till you take her hand
ADO 5.4.   57  Before this Friar and swear to marry her.
ADO 5.4.   58   CLAUDIO  {(to Hero)} Give me your hand before this   +
ADO 5.4.   58  holy friar.
ADO 5.4.   59  I am your husband if you like of me.
ADO 5.4.   60   HERO  {(unmasking)} And when I lived I was your      +
ADO 5.4.   60  other wife;
ADO 5.4.   61  And when you loved, you were my other husband.
ADO 5.4.   62B  CLAUDIO Another Hero! HERO Nothing certainer.
ADO 5.4.   63  One Hero died defiled, but I do live,
ADO 5.4.   64  And surely as I live, I am a maid.
ADO 5.4.   65   DON PEDRO The former Hero, Hero that is dead!
ADO 5.4.   66   LEONATO She died, my lord, but whiles her slander lived.
ADO 5.4.   67   FRIAR All this amazement can I qualify
ADO 5.4.   68  When after that the holy rites are ended
ADO 5.4.   69  I'll tell you largely of fair Hero's death.
ADO 5.4.   70  Meantime, let wonder seem familiar,
ADO 5.4.   71  And to the chapel let us presently.
ADO 5.4.   72   BENEDICK Soft and fair, Friar, which is Beatrice?
ADO 5.4.   73   BEATRICE  {(unmasking)} I answer to that name, what  +
ADO 5.4.   73  is your will?
ADO 5.4.   74B  BENEDICK Do not you love me? BEATRICE Why no, no more than        +
ADO 5.4.   74B reason.
ADO 5.4.   75   BENEDICK Why then, your uncle and the Prince and Claudio
ADO 5.4.   76  Have been deceived. They swore you did.
ADO 5.4.   77B  BEATRICE Do not you love me? BENEDICK Troth no, no more than      +
ADO 5.4.   77B reason.
ADO 5.4.   78   BEATRICE Why then, my cousin, Margaret, and Ursula
ADO 5.4.   79  Are much deceived, for they did swear you did.
ADO 5.4.   80   BENEDICK They swore that you were almost sick for me.
ADO 5.4.   81   BEATRICE They swore that you were wellnigh dead for me.
ADO 5.4.   82   BENEDICK 'Tis no such matter. Then you do not love me?
ADO 5.4.   83   BEATRICE No, truly, but in friendly recompense.
ADO 5.4.   84   LEONATO Come, cousin, I am sure you love the gentleman.
ADO 5.4.   85   CLAUDIO And I'll be sworn upon 't that he loves her,
ADO 5.4.   86  For here's a paper written in his hand,
ADO 5.4.   87  A halting sonnet of his own pure brain,
ADO 5.4.   88B Fashioned to Beatrice. HERO And here's another,
ADO 5.4.   89  Writ in my cousin's hand, stol'n from her pocket,
ADO 5.4.   90  Containing her affection unto Benedick.
ADO 5.4.   91   BENEDICK  A miracle! Here's our own hands against our
ADO 5.4.   92  hearts. Come, I will have thee, but by this light, I take
ADO 5.4.   93  thee for pity.
ADO 5.4.   94   BEATRICE I would not deny you, but by this good day, I
ADO 5.4.   95  yield upon great persuasion, and partly to save your
ADO 5.4.   96  life, for I was told you were in a consumption.
ADO 5.4.   97   BENEDICK  {(kissing her)} Peace, I will stop your    +
ADO 5.4.   97  mouth.
ADO 5.4.   98   DON PEDRO  How dost thou, Benedick the married man?
ADO 5.4.   99   BENEDICK  I'll tell thee what, Prince: a college of wit-
ADO 5.4.  100  crackers cannot flout me out of my humour. Dost thou
ADO 5.4.  101  think I care for a satire or an epigram? No, if a man
ADO 5.4.  102  will be beaten with brains, a shall wear nothing
ADO 5.4.  103  handsome about him. In brief, since I do purpose to
ADO 5.4.  104  marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the
ADO 5.4.  105  world can say against it, and therefore never flout at
ADO 5.4.  106  me for what I have said against it. For man is a giddy
ADO 5.4.  107  thing, and this is my conclusion. For thy part, Claudio,
ADO 5.4.  108  I did think to have beaten thee, but in that thou art
ADO 5.4.  109  like to be my kinsman, live unbruised, and love my
ADO 5.4.  110  cousin.
ADO 5.4.  111   CLAUDIO I had well hoped thou wouldst have denied
ADO 5.4.  112  Beatrice, that I might have cudgelled thee out of thy
ADO 5.4.  113  single life to make thee a double dealer, which out of
ADO 5.4.  114  question thou wilt be, if my cousin do not look
ADO 5.4.  115  exceeding narrowly to thee.
ADO 5.4.  116   BENEDICK Come, come, we are friends, let's have a dance
ADO 5.4.  117  ere we are married, that we may lighten our own
ADO 5.4.  118  hearts and our wives' heels.
ADO 5.4.  119   LEONATO We'll have dancing afterward.
ADO 5.4.  120   BENEDICK First, of my word. Therefore play, music. {(To}
ADO 5.4.  121  {Don Pedro)} Prince, thou art sad, get thee a wife, get
ADO 5.4.  122  thee a wife. There is no staff more reverend than one
ADO 5.4.  123  tipped with horn. {Enter Messenger}
ADO 5.4.  124   MESSENGER  My lord, your brother John is ta'en in flight,
ADO 5.4.  125  And brought with armed men back to Messina.
ADO 5.4.  126   BENEDICK  Think not on him till tomorrow, I'll devise thee
ADO 5.4.  127  brave punishments for him. Strike up, pipers.
ADO 5.4.  127   {Dance, and exeunt}
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AIT  . .    0  All Is True
AIT  . .    0     {Enter Prologue}
AIT  .Pr.   1   PROLOGUE  I come no more to make you laugh. Things now
AIT  .Pr.   2  That bear a weighty and a serious brow,
AIT  .Pr.   3  Sad, high, and working, full of state and woe - 
AIT  .Pr.   4  Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow
AIT  .Pr.   5  We now present. Those that can pity here
AIT  .Pr.   6  May, if they think it well, let fall a tear.
AIT  .Pr.   7  The subject will deserve it. Such as give
AIT  .Pr.   8  Their money out of hope they may believe,
AIT  .Pr.   9  May here find truth, too. Those that come to see
AIT  .Pr.  10  Only a show or two, and so agree
AIT  .Pr.  11  The play may pass, if they be still, and willing,
AIT  .Pr.  12  I'll undertake may see away their shilling
AIT  .Pr.  13  Richly in two short hours. Only they
AIT  .Pr.  14  That come to hear a merry bawdy play,
AIT  .Pr.  15  A noise of targets, or to see a fellow
AIT  .Pr.  16  In a long motley coat guarded with yellow,
AIT  .Pr.  17  Will be deceived. For, gentle hearers, know
AIT  .Pr.  18  To rank our chosen truth with such a show
AIT  .Pr.  19  As fool and fight is, beside forfeiting
AIT  .Pr.  20  Our own brains, and the opinion that we bring
AIT  .Pr.  21  To make that only true we now intend,
AIT  .Pr.  22  Will leave us never an understanding friend.
AIT  .Pr.  23  Therefore, for goodness' sake, and as you are known
AIT  .Pr.  24  The first and happiest hearers of the town,
AIT  .Pr.  25  Be sad as we would make ye. Think ye see
AIT  .Pr.  26  The very persons of our noble story
AIT  .Pr.  27  As they were living; think you see them great,
AIT  .Pr.  28  And followed with the general throng and sweat
AIT  .Pr.  29  Of thousand friends; then, in a moment, see
AIT  .Pr.  30  How soon this mightiness meets misery.
AIT  .Pr.  31  And if you can be merry then, I'll say
AIT  .Pr.  32  A man may weep upon his wedding day. {Exit}
AIT  .Pr.   0  
AIT  .Pr.   0     {[A cloth of state throughout the play.] Enter the   +
AIT 1.1.    0  Duke of Norfolk at one door; at the other door enter the Duke of         +
AIT 1.1.    0  Buckingham and the Lord Abergavenny}
AIT 1.1.    1   BUCKINGHAM  {(to Norfolk)} Good morrow, and well     +
AIT 1.1.    1  met. How have ye done
AIT 1.1.    2B Since last we saw in France? NORFOLK I thank your grace,
AIT 1.1.    3  Healthful, and ever since a fresh admirer
AIT 1.1.    4B Of what I saw there. BUCKINGHAM An untimely ague
AIT 1.1.    5  Stayed me a prisoner in my chamber when
AIT 1.1.    6  Those suns of glory, those two lights of men,
AIT 1.1.    7B Met in the vale of Ardres. NORFOLK 'Twixt Guisnes and Ardres.
AIT 1.1.    8  I was then present, saw them salute on horseback,
AIT 1.1.    9  Beheld them when they lighted, how they clung
AIT 1.1.   10  In their embracement as they grew together,
AIT 1.1.   11  Which had they, what four throned ones could have weighed
AIT 1.1.   12B Such a compounded one? BUCKINGHAM All the whole time
AIT 1.1.   13B I was my chamber's prisoner. NORFOLK Then you lost
AIT 1.1.   14  The view of earthly glory. Men might say
AIT 1.1.   15  Till this time pomp was single, but now married
AIT 1.1.   16  To one above itself. Each following day
AIT 1.1.   17  Became the next day's master, till the last
AIT 1.1.   18  Made former wonders its. Today the French,
AIT 1.1.   19  All clinquant all in gold, like heathen gods
AIT 1.1.   20  Shone down the English; and tomorrow they
AIT 1.1.   21  Made Britain India. Every man that stood
AIT 1.1.   22  Showed like a mine. Their dwarfish pages were
AIT 1.1.   23  As cherubim, all gilt; the {mesdames}, too,
AIT 1.1.   24  Not used to toil, did almost sweat to bear
AIT 1.1.   25  The pride upon them, that their very labour
AIT 1.1.   26  Was to them as a painting. Now this masque
AIT 1.1.   27  Was cried incomparable, and th' ensuing night
AIT 1.1.   28  Made it a fool and beggar. The two kings
AIT 1.1.   29  Equal in lustre, were now best, now worst,
AIT 1.1.   30  As presence did present them. Him in eye
AIT 1.1.   31  Still him in praise, and being present both,
AIT 1.1.   32  'Twas said they saw but one, and no discerner
AIT 1.1.   33  Durst wag his tongue in censure. When these suns - 
AIT 1.1.   34  For so they phrase 'em - by their heralds challenged
AIT 1.1.   35  The noble spirits to arms, they did perform
AIT 1.1.   36  Beyond thought's compass, that former fabulous story
AIT 1.1.   37  Being now seen possible enough, got credit
AIT 1.1.   38B That {Bevis} was believed. BUCKINGHAM O, you go far!
AIT 1.1.   39   NORFOLK As I belong to worship, and affect
AIT 1.1.   40  In honour honesty, the tract of ev'rything
AIT 1.1.   41  Would by a good discourser lose some life
AIT 1.1.   42  Which action's self was tongue to. All was royal.
AIT 1.1.   43  To the disposing of it naught rebelled.
AIT 1.1.   44  Order gave each thing view. The office did
AIT 1.1.   45B Distinctly his full function. BUCKINGHAM Who did guide - 
AIT 1.1.   46  I mean, who set the body and the limbs
AIT 1.1.   47  Of this great sport together, as you guess?
AIT 1.1.   48   NORFOLK One, certes, that promises no element
AIT 1.1.   49B In such a business. BUCKINGHAM I pray you who, my lord?
AIT 1.1.   50   NORFOLK All this was ordered by the good discretion
AIT 1.1.   51  Of the right reverend Cardinal of York.
AIT 1.1.   52   BUCKINGHAM The devil speed him! No man's pie is freed
AIT 1.1.   53  From his ambitious finger. What had he
AIT 1.1.   54  To do in these fierce vanities? I wonder
AIT 1.1.   55  That such a keech can, with his very bulk,
AIT 1.1.   56  Take up the rays o' th' beneficial sun,
AIT 1.1.   57B And keep it from the earth. NORFOLK Surely, sir,
AIT 1.1.   58  There's in him stuff that puts him to these ends.
AIT 1.1.   59  For being not propped by ancestry, whose grace
AIT 1.1.   60  Chalks successors their way, nor called upon
AIT 1.1.   61  For high feats done to th' crown, neither allied
AIT 1.1.   62  To eminent assistants, but spider-like,
AIT 1.1.   63  Out of his self-drawing web, a gives us note
AIT 1.1.   64  The force of his own merit makes his way - 
AIT 1.1.   65  A gift that heaven gives for him which buys
AIT 1.1.   66B A place next to the King. ABERGAVENNY I cannot tell
AIT 1.1.   67  What heaven hath given him - let some graver eye
AIT 1.1.   68  Pierce into that; but I can see his pride
AIT 1.1.   69  Peep through each part of him. Whence has he that?
AIT 1.1.   70  If not from hell, the devil is a niggard
AIT 1.1.   71  Or has given all before, and he begins
AIT 1.1.   72B A new hell in himself. BUCKINGHAM Why the devil,
AIT 1.1.   73  Upon this French going out, took he upon him
AIT 1.1.   74  Without the privity o' th' King t' appoint
AIT 1.1.   75  Who should attend on him? He makes up the file
AIT 1.1.   76  Of all the gentry, for the most part such
AIT 1.1.   77  To whom as great a charge as little honour
AIT 1.1.   78  He meant to lay upon; and his own letter,
AIT 1.1.   79  The honourable board of council out,
AIT 1.1.   80B Must fetch him in, he papers. ABERGAVENNY I do know
AIT 1.1.   81  Kinsmen of mine - three at the least - that have
AIT 1.1.   82  By this so sickened their estates that never
AIT 1.1.   83B They shall abound as formerly. BUCKINGHAM O, many
AIT 1.1.   84  Have broke their backs with laying manors on 'em
AIT 1.1.   85  For this great journey. What did this vanity
AIT 1.1.   86  But minister communication of
AIT 1.1.   87B A most poor issue? NORFOLK Grievingly I think
AIT 1.1.   88  The peace between the French and us not values
AIT 1.1.   89B The cost that did conclude it. BUCKINGHAM Every man,
AIT 1.1.   90  After the hideous storm that followed, was
AIT 1.1.   91  A thing inspired, and, not consulting, broke
AIT 1.1.   92  Into a general prophecy - that this tempest,
AIT 1.1.   93  Dashing the garment of this peace, aboded
AIT 1.1.   94B The sudden breach on 't. NORFOLK Which is budded out - 
AIT 1.1.   95  For France hath flawed the league, and hath attached
AIT 1.1.   96B Our merchants' goods at Bordeaux. ABERGAVENNY Is it therefore
AIT 1.1.   97B Th' ambassador is silenced? NORFOLK Marry is 't.
AIT 1.1.   98   ABERGAVENNY A proper title of a peace, and purchased
AIT 1.1.   99B At a superfluous rate. BUCKINGHAM Why, all this business
AIT 1.1.  100B Our reverend Cardinal carried. NORFOLK Like it your grace,
AIT 1.1.  101  The state takes notice of the private difference
AIT 1.1.  102  Betwixt you and the Cardinal. I advise you - 
AIT 1.1.  103  And take it from a heart that wishes towards you
AIT 1.1.  104  Honour and plenteous safety - that you read
AIT 1.1.  105  The Cardinal's malice and his potency
AIT 1.1.  106  Together; to consider further that
AIT 1.1.  107  What his high hatred would effect wants not
AIT 1.1.  108  A minister in his power. You know his nature,
AIT 1.1.  109  That he's revengeful; and I know his sword
AIT 1.1.  110  Hath a sharp edge - it's long, and 't may be said
AIT 1.1.  111  It reaches far; and where 'twill not extend
AIT 1.1.  112  Thither he darts it. Bosom up my counsel,
AIT 1.1.  113  You'll find it wholesome. Lo, where comes that rock
AIT 1.1.  114  That I advise your shunning. {Enter Cardinal Wolsey, the purse    +
AIT 1.1.  114  containing the great seal borne before him. Enter with him certain of    +
AIT 1.1.  114  the guard, and two secretaries with papers. The}
AIT 1.1.  115  {Cardinal in his passage fixeth his eye on Buckingham and Buckingham on  +
AIT 1.1.  115  him, both full of disdain} CARDINAL WOLSEY  {(to a             +
AIT 1.1.  115  secretary)} The Duke of Buckingham's surveyor, ha?
AIT 1.1.  116B Where's his examination? SECRETARY Here, so please you.
AIT 1.1.  117B  CARDINAL WOLSEY Is he in person ready? SECRETARY Ay, please your  +
AIT 1.1.  117B grace.
AIT 1.1.  118   CARDINAL WOLSEY Well, we shall then know more, and Buckingham
AIT 1.1.  119  Shall lessen this big look. {Exeunt Wolsey and his train}
AIT 1.1.  120   BUCKINGHAM  This butcher's cur is venom-mouthed, and I
AIT 1.1.  121  Have not the power to muzzle him; therefore best
AIT 1.1.  122  Not wake him in his slumber. A beggar's book
AIT 1.1.  123B Outworths a noble's blood. NORFOLK What, are you chafed?
AIT 1.1.  124  Ask God for temp'rance; that's th' appliance only
AIT 1.1.  125B Which your disease requires. BUCKINGHAM I read in 's looks
AIT 1.1.  126  Matter against me, and his eye reviled
AIT 1.1.  127  Me as his abject object. At this instant
AIT 1.1.  128  He bores me with some trick. He's gone to th' King - 
AIT 1.1.  129B I'll follow, and outstare him. NORFOLK Stay, my lord,
AIT 1.1.  130  And let your reason with your choler question
AIT 1.1.  131  What 'tis you go about. To climb steep hills
AIT 1.1.  132  Requires slow pace at first. Anger is like
AIT 1.1.  133  A full hot horse who, being allowed his way,
AIT 1.1.  134  Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England
AIT 1.1.  135  Can advise me like you. Be to yourself
AIT 1.1.  136B As you would to your friend. BUCKINGHAM I'll to the King,
AIT 1.1.  137  And from a mouth of honour quite cry down
AIT 1.1.  138  This Ipswich fellow's insolence, or proclaim
AIT 1.1.  139B There's difference in no persons. NORFOLK Be advised.
AIT 1.1.  140  Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
AIT 1.1.  141  That it do singe yourself. We may outrun
AIT 1.1.  142  By violent swiftness that which we run at,
AIT 1.1.  143  And lose by over-running. Know you not
AIT 1.1.  144  The fire that mounts the liquor till 't run o'er
AIT 1.1.  145  In seeming to augment it wastes it? Be advised.
AIT 1.1.  146  I say again there is no English soul
AIT 1.1.  147  More stronger to direct you than yourself,
AIT 1.1.  148  If with the sap of reason you would quench
AIT 1.1.  149B Or but allay the fire of passion. BUCKINGHAM Sir,
AIT 1.1.  150  I am thankful to you, and I'll go along
AIT 1.1.  151  By your prescription; but this top-proud fellow - 
AIT 1.1.  152  Whom from the flow of gall I name not, but
AIT 1.1.  153  From sincere motions - by intelligence,
AIT 1.1.  154  And proofs as clear as founts in July when
AIT 1.1.  155  We see each grain of gravel, I do know
AIT 1.1.  156B To be corrupt and treasonous. NORFOLK Say not `treasonous'.
AIT 1.1.  157   BUCKINGHAM To th' King I'll say 't, and make my vouch as strong
AIT 1.1.  158  As shore of rock. Attend: this holy fox,
AIT 1.1.  159  Or wolf, or both - for he is equal rav'nous
AIT 1.1.  160  As he is subtle, and as prone to mischief
AIT 1.1.  161  As able to perform 't, his mind and place
AIT 1.1.  162  Infecting one another, yea, reciprocally - 
AIT 1.1.  163  Only to show his pomp as well in France
AIT 1.1.  164  As here at home, suggests the King our master
AIT 1.1.  165  To this last costly treaty, th' interview
AIT 1.1.  166  That swallowed so much treasure and, like a glass,
AIT 1.1.  167B Did break i' th' rinsing. NORFOLK Faith, and so it did.
AIT 1.1.  168   BUCKINGHAM Pray give me favour, sir. This cunning Cardinal,
AIT 1.1.  169  The articles o' th' combination drew
AIT 1.1.  170  As himself pleased, and they were ratified
AIT 1.1.  171  As he cried `Thus let be', to as much end
AIT 1.1.  172  As give a crutch to th' dead. But our count-Cardinal
AIT 1.1.  173  Has done this, and 'tis well for worthy Wolsey,
AIT 1.1.  174  Who cannot err, he did it. Now this follows - 
AIT 1.1.  175  Which, as I take it, is a kind of puppy
AIT 1.1.  176  To th' old dam, treason - Charles the Emperor,
AIT 1.1.  177  Under pretence to see the Queen his aunt - 
AIT 1.1.  178  For 'twas indeed his colour, but he came
AIT 1.1.  179  To whisper Wolsey - here makes visitation.
AIT 1.1.  180  His fears were that the interview betwixt
AIT 1.1.  181  England and France might through their amity
AIT 1.1.  182  Breed him some prejudice, for from this league
AIT 1.1.  183  Peeped harms that menaced him. Privily he
AIT 1.1.  184  Deals with our Cardinal and, as I trow - 
AIT 1.1.  185  Which I do well, for I am sure the Emperor
AIT 1.1.  186  Paid ere he promised, whereby his suit was granted
AIT 1.1.  187  Ere it was asked - but when the way was made,
AIT 1.1.  188  And paved with gold, the Emperor thus desired
AIT 1.1.  189  That he would please to alter the King's course
AIT 1.1.  190  And break the foresaid peace. Let the King know,
AIT 1.1.  191  As soon he shall by me, that thus the Cardinal
AIT 1.1.  192  Does buy and sell his honour as he pleases,
AIT 1.1.  193B And for his own advantage. NORFOLK I am sorry
AIT 1.1.  194  To hear this of him, and could wish he were
AIT 1.1.  195B Something mistaken in 't. BUCKINGHAM No, not a syllable.
AIT 1.1.  196  I do pronounce him in that very shape
AIT 1.1.  197  He shall appear in proof. {Enter Brandon, a serjeant-at-arms      +
AIT 1.1.  197  before him, and two or three of the guard}
AIT 1.1.  198B  BRANDON  Your office, serjeant, execute it. SERJEANT     +
AIT 1.1.  198B Sir.
AIT 1.1.  199   {(To Buckingham)} My lord the Duke of Buckingham and    +
AIT 1.1.  199  Earl
AIT 1.1.  200  Of Hereford, Stafford, and Northampton, I
AIT 1.1.  201  Arrest thee of high treason in the name
AIT 1.1.  202B Of our most sovereign King. BUCKINGHAM  {[to                   +
AIT 1.1.  202B Norfolk]} Lo you, my lord,
AIT 1.1.  203  The net has fall'n upon me. I shall perish
AIT 1.1.  204B Under device and practice. BRANDON I am sorry
AIT 1.1.  205  To see you ta'en from liberty to look on
AIT 1.1.  206  The business present. 'Tis his highness' pleasure
AIT 1.1.  207B You shall to th' Tower. BUCKINGHAM It will help me nothing
AIT 1.1.  208  To plead mine innocence, for that dye is on me
AIT 1.1.  209  Which makes my whit'st part black. The will of heav'n
AIT 1.1.  210  Be done in this and all things. I obey.
AIT 1.1.  211  O, my lord Abergavenny, fare you well.
AIT 1.1.  212B  BRANDON Nay, he must bear you company. {(To                   +
AIT 1.1.  212B Abergavenny)} The King
AIT 1.1.  213  Is pleased you shall to th' Tower till you know
AIT 1.1.  214B How he determines further. ABERGAVENNY As the Duke said,
AIT 1.1.  215  The will of heaven be done and the King's pleasure
AIT 1.1.  216B By me obeyed. BRANDON Here is a warrant from
AIT 1.1.  217  The King t' attach Lord Montague and the bodies
AIT 1.1.  218  Of the duke's confessor, John de la Car,
AIT 1.1.  219B One Gilbert Perk, his chancellor -  BUCKINGHAM So, so;
AIT 1.1.  220  These are the limbs o' th' plot. No more, I hope.
AIT 1.1.  221B  BRANDON A monk o' th' Chartreux. BUCKINGHAM O, Nicholas Hopkins?
AIT 1.1.  222A  BRANDON He.
AIT 1.1.  223   BUCKINGHAM My surveyor is false. The o'er-great Cardinal
AIT 1.1.  224  Hath showed him gold. My life is spanned already.
AIT 1.1.  225  I am the shadow of poor Buckingham,
AIT 1.1.  226  Whose figure even this instant cloud puts on
AIT 1.1.  227  By dark'ning my clear sun. {(To Norfolk)} My lord,       +
AIT 1.1.  227  farewell. {Exeunt [Norfolk at one door, Buckingham and            +
AIT 1.1.  227  Abergavenny under guard at another]}
AIT 1.1.    0    {Cornetts. Enter King Henry leaning on Cardinal Wolsey's   +
AIT 1.2.    0  shoulder. Enter with them Wolsey's two secretaries, the nobles, and Sir  +
AIT 1.2.    0  Thomas Lovell. The King ascends to his seat under the cloth of           +
AIT 1.2.    0  state; Wolsey places himself under the King's feet on his right side}
AIT 1.2.    1   KING HENRY  {[to Wolsey]} My life itself and the     +
AIT 1.2.    1  best heart of it
AIT 1.2.    2  Thanks you for this great care. I stood i' th' level
AIT 1.2.    3  Of a full-charged confederacy, and give thanks
AIT 1.2.    4  To you that choked it. Let be called before us
AIT 1.2.    5  That gentleman of Buckingham's. In person
AIT 1.2.    6  I'll hear him his confessions justify,
AIT 1.2.    7  And point by point the treasons of his master
AIT 1.2.    8  He shall again relate.
AIT 1.2.    9   [CRIER]  {(within)} Room for the Queen, ushered by   +
AIT 1.2.    9  the Duke of Norfolk. {Enter Queen Katherine, the Duke of          +
AIT 1.2.    9  Norfolk, and the Duke of Suffolk. She kneels. King Henry riseth from     +
AIT 1.2.    9  his state, takes her up, and kisses her}
AIT 1.2.   10   QUEEN KATHERINE  Nay, we must longer kneel. I am a suitor.
AIT 1.2.   11B  KING HENRY Arise, and take place by us. {He placeth her by    +
AIT 1.2.   11B him} Half your suit
AIT 1.2.   12  Never name to us. You have half our power,
AIT 1.2.   13  The other moiety ere you ask is given.
AIT 1.2.   14B Repeat your will and take it. QUEEN KATHERINE Thank your majesty.
AIT 1.2.   15  That you would love yourself, and in that love
AIT 1.2.   16  Not unconsidered leave your honour nor
AIT 1.2.   17  The dignity of your office, is the point
AIT 1.2.   18B Of my petition. KING HENRY Lady mine, proceed.
AIT 1.2.   19   QUEEN KATHERINE I am solicited, not by a few,
AIT 1.2.   20  And those of true condition, that your subjects
AIT 1.2.   21  Are in great grievance. There have been commissions
AIT 1.2.   22  Sent down among 'em which hath flawed the heart
AIT 1.2.   23  Of all their loyalties; wherein, although,
AIT 1.2.   24  My good lord Cardinal, they vent reproaches
AIT 1.2.   25  Most bitterly on you, as putter-on
AIT 1.2.   26  Of these exactions, yet the King our master - 
AIT 1.2.   27  Whose honour heaven shield from soil - even he escapes not
AIT 1.2.   28  Language unmannerly, yea, such which breaks
AIT 1.2.   29  The sides of loyalty, and almost appears
AIT 1.2.   30B In loud rebellion. NORFOLK Not `almost appears' - 
AIT 1.2.   31  It doth appear; for upon these taxations
AIT 1.2.   32  The clothiers all, not able to maintain
AIT 1.2.   33  The many to them 'longing, have put off
AIT 1.2.   34  The spinsters, carders, fullers, weavers, who,
AIT 1.2.   35  Unfit for other life, compelled by hunger
AIT 1.2.   36  And lack of other means, in desperate manner
AIT 1.2.   37  Daring th' event to th' teeth, are all in uproar,
AIT 1.2.   38B And danger serves among them. KING HENRY Taxation?
AIT 1.2.   39  Wherein, and what taxation? My lord Cardinal,
AIT 1.2.   40  You that are blamed for it alike with us,
AIT 1.2.   41B Know you of this taxation? CARDINAL WOLSEY Please you, sir,
AIT 1.2.   42  I know but of a single part in aught
AIT 1.2.   43  Pertains to th' state, and front but in that file
AIT 1.2.   44B Where others tell steps with me. QUEEN KATHERINE No, my lord?
AIT 1.2.   45  You know no more than others? But you frame
AIT 1.2.   46  Things that are known alike, which are not wholesome
AIT 1.2.   47  To those which would not know them, and yet must
AIT 1.2.   48  Perforce be their acquaintance. These exactions
AIT 1.2.   49  Whereof my sovereign would have note, they are
AIT 1.2.   50  Most pestilent to th' hearing, and to bear 'em
AIT 1.2.   51  The back is sacrifice to th' load. They say
AIT 1.2.   52  They are devised by you, or else you suffer
AIT 1.2.   53B Too hard an exclamation. KING HENRY Still exaction!
AIT 1.2.   54  The nature of it? In what kind, let's know,
AIT 1.2.   55B Is this exaction? QUEEN KATHERINE I am much too venturous
AIT 1.2.   56  In tempting of your patience, but am boldened
AIT 1.2.   57  Under your promised pardon. The subjects' grief
AIT 1.2.   58  Comes through commissions which compels from each
AIT 1.2.   59  The sixth part of his substance to be levied
AIT 1.2.   60  Without delay, and the pretence for this
AIT 1.2.   61  Is named your wars in France. This makes bold mouths.
AIT 1.2.   62  Tongues spit their duties out, and cold hearts freeze
AIT 1.2.   63  Allegiance in them. Their curses now
AIT 1.2.   64  Live where their prayers did, and it's come to pass
AIT 1.2.   65  This tractable obedience is a slave
AIT 1.2.   66  To each incensed will. I would your highness
AIT 1.2.   67  Would give it quick consideration, for
AIT 1.2.   68B There is no primer business. KING HENRY By my life,
AIT 1.2.   69B This is against our pleasure. CARDINAL WOLSEY And for me,
AIT 1.2.   70  I have no further gone in this than by
AIT 1.2.   71  A single voice, and that not passed me but
AIT 1.2.   72  By learned approbation of the judges. If I am
AIT 1.2.   73  Traduced by ignorant tongues, which neither know
AIT 1.2.   74  My faculties nor person yet will be
AIT 1.2.   75  The chronicles of my doing, let me say
AIT 1.2.   76  'Tis but the fate of place, and the rough brake
AIT 1.2.   77  That virtue must go through. We must not stint
AIT 1.2.   78  Our necessary actions in the fear
AIT 1.2.   79  To cope malicious censurers, which ever,
AIT 1.2.   80  As rav'nous fishes, do a vessel follow
AIT 1.2.   81  That is new trimmed, but benefit no further
AIT 1.2.   82  Than vainly longing. What we oft do best,
AIT 1.2.   83  By sick interpreters, once weak ones, is
AIT 1.2.   84  Not ours or not allowed; what worst, as oft,
AIT 1.2.   85  Hitting a grosser quality, is cried up
AIT 1.2.   86  For our best act. If we shall stand still,
AIT 1.2.   87  In fear our motion will be mocked or carped at,
AIT 1.2.   88  We should take root here where we sit,
AIT 1.2.   89B Or sit state-statues only. KING HENRY Things done well,
AIT 1.2.   90  And with a care, exempt themselves from fear;
AIT 1.2.   91  Things done without example, in their issue
AIT 1.2.   92  Are to be feared. Have you a precedent
AIT 1.2.   93  Of this commission? I believe not any.
AIT 1.2.   94  We must not rend our subjects from our laws
AIT 1.2.   95  And stick them in our will. Sixth part of each?
AIT 1.2.   96  A trembling contribution! Why, we take
AIT 1.2.   97  From every tree lop, bark, and part o' th' timber,
AIT 1.2.   98  And though we leave it with a root, thus hacked
AIT 1.2.   99  The air will drink the sap. To every county
AIT 1.2.  100  Where this is questioned send our letters with
AIT 1.2.  101  Free pardon to each man that has denied
AIT 1.2.  102  The force of this commission. Pray look to 't - 
AIT 1.2.  103B I put it to your care. CARDINAL WOLSEY  {(to a                 +
AIT 1.2.  103B secretary)} A word with you.
AIT 1.2.  104  Let there be letters writ to every shire
AIT 1.2.  105B Of the King's grace and pardon. {(Aside to the                    +
AIT 1.2.  105B secretary)} The grieved commons
AIT 1.2.  106  Hardly conceive of me. Let it be noised
AIT 1.2.  107  That through our intercession this revokement
AIT 1.2.  108  And pardon comes. I shall anon advise you
AIT 1.2.  109  Further in the proceeding. {Exit secretary}
AIT 1.2.  110   {Enter Buckingham's Surveyor} QUEEN KATHERINE  {(to    +
AIT 1.2.  110  the King)} I am sorry that the Duke of Buckingham
AIT 1.2.  111B Is run in your displeasure. KING HENRY It grieves many.
AIT 1.2.  112  The gentleman is learned, and a most rare speaker,
AIT 1.2.  113  To nature none more bound; his training such
AIT 1.2.  114  That he may furnish and instruct great teachers
AIT 1.2.  115  And never seek for aid out of himself. Yet see,
AIT 1.2.  116  When these so noble benefits shall prove
AIT 1.2.  117  Not well disposed, the mind growing once corrupt,
AIT 1.2.  118  They turn to vicious forms ten times more ugly
AIT 1.2.  119  Than ever they were fair. This man so complete,
AIT 1.2.  120  Who was enrolled 'mongst wonders - and when we
AIT 1.2.  121  Almost with ravished list'ning could not find
AIT 1.2.  122  His hour of speech a minute - he, my lady,
AIT 1.2.  123  Hath into monstrous habits put the graces
AIT 1.2.  124  That once were his, and is become as black
AIT 1.2.  125  As if besmeared in hell. Sit by us. You shall hear - 
AIT 1.2.  126  This was his gentleman in trust of him - 
AIT 1.2.  127B Things to strike honour sad. {(To Wolsey)} Bid him       +
AIT 1.2.  127B recount
AIT 1.2.  128  The fore-recited practices whereof
AIT 1.2.  129  We cannot feel too little, hear too much.
AIT 1.2.  130   CARDINAL WOLSEY  {(to the Surveyor)} Stand forth,    +
AIT 1.2.  130  and with bold spirit relate what you
AIT 1.2.  131  Most like a careful subject have collected
AIT 1.2.  132B Out of the Duke of Buckingham. KING HENRY  {(to the            +
AIT 1.2.  132B Surveyor)} Speak freely.
AIT 1.2.  133   BUCKINGHAM'S SURVEYOR First, it was usual with him, every day
AIT 1.2.  134  It would infect his speech, that if the King
AIT 1.2.  135  Should without issue die, he'll carry it so
AIT 1.2.  136  To make the sceptre his. These very words
AIT 1.2.  137  I've heard him utter to his son-in-law,
AIT 1.2.  138  Lord Abergavenny, to whom by oath he menaced
AIT 1.2.  139B Revenge upon the Cardinal. CARDINAL WOLSEY  {(to the           +
AIT 1.2.  139B King)} Please your highness note
AIT 1.2.  140  His dangerous conception in this point,
AIT 1.2.  141  Not friended by his wish to your high person.
AIT 1.2.  142  His will is most malignant, and it stretches
AIT 1.2.  143B Beyond you to your friends. QUEEN KATHERINE My learned Lord           +
AIT 1.2.  143B Cardinal,
AIT 1.2.  144B Deliver all with charity. KING HENRY  {(to the                 +
AIT 1.2.  144B Surveyor)} Speak on.
AIT 1.2.  145  How grounded he his title to the crown
AIT 1.2.  146  Upon our fail? To this point hast thou heard him
AIT 1.2.  147B At any time speak aught? BUCKINGHAM'S SURVEYOR He was brought to      +
AIT 1.2.  147B this
AIT 1.2.  148  By a vain prophecy of Nicholas Hopkins.
AIT 1.2.  149B  KING HENRY What was that Hopkins? BUCKINGHAM'S SURVEYOR Sir, a    +
AIT 1.2.  149B Chartreux friar,
AIT 1.2.  150  His confessor, who fed him every minute
AIT 1.2.  151B With words of sovereignty. KING HENRY How know'st thou this?
AIT 1.2.  152   BUCKINGHAM'S SURVEYOR Not long before your highness sped to France,
AIT 1.2.  153  The Duke being at the Rose, within the parish
AIT 1.2.  154  Saint Lawrence Poutney, did of me demand
AIT 1.2.  155  What was the speech among the Londoners
AIT 1.2.  156  Concerning the French journey. I replied
AIT 1.2.  157  Men feared the French would prove perfidious,
AIT 1.2.  158  To the King's danger; presently the Duke
AIT 1.2.  159  Said 'twas the fear indeed, and that he doubted
AIT 1.2.  160  'Twould prove the verity of certain words
AIT 1.2.  161  Spoke by a holy monk that oft, says he,
AIT 1.2.  162  `Hath sent to me, wishing me to permit
AIT 1.2.  163  John de la Car, my chaplain, a choice hour
AIT 1.2.  164  To hear from him a matter of some moment;
AIT 1.2.  165  Whom after under the confession's seal
AIT 1.2.  166  He solemnly had sworn, that what he spoke
AIT 1.2.  167  My chaplain to no creature living but
AIT 1.2.  168  To me should utter, with demure confidence
AIT 1.2.  169  This pausingly ensued: ``neither the King nor 's heirs'',
AIT 1.2.  170  Tell you the Duke, ``shall prosper. Bid him strive
AIT 1.2.  171  To win the love o' th' commonalty. The Duke
AIT 1.2.  172B Shall govern England.'' ' QUEEN KATHERINE If I know you well,
AIT 1.2.  173  You were the Duke's surveyor, and lost your office
AIT 1.2.  174  On the complaint o' th' tenants. Take good heed
AIT 1.2.  175  You charge not in your spleen a noble person
AIT 1.2.  176  And spoil your nobler soul. I say, take heed;
AIT 1.2.  177B Yes, heartily beseech you. KING HENRY Let him on.
AIT 1.2.  178B  {(To the Surveyor)} Go forward.                         +
AIT 1.2.  178B  BUCKINGHAM'S SURVEYOR On my soul I'll speak but truth.
AIT 1.2.  179  I told my lord the Duke, by th' devil's illusions
AIT 1.2.  180  The monk might be deceived, and that 'twas dangerous
AIT 1.2.  181  To ruminate on this so far until
AIT 1.2.  182  It forged him some design which, being believed,
AIT 1.2.  183  It was much like to do. He answered, `Tush,
AIT 1.2.  184  It can do me no damage', adding further
AIT 1.2.  185  That had the King in his last sickness failed,
AIT 1.2.  186  The Cardinal's and Sir Thomas Lovell's heads
AIT 1.2.  187B Should have gone off. KING HENRY Ha? What, so rank? Ah, ha!
AIT 1.2.  188  There's mischief in this man. Canst thou say further?
AIT 1.2.  189B  BUCKINGHAM'S SURVEYOR I can, my liege. KING HENRY                 +
AIT 1.2.  189B Proceed. BUCKINGHAM'S SURVEYOR Being at Greenwich,
AIT 1.2.  190  After your highness had reproved the Duke
AIT 1.2.  191B About Sir William Bulmer -  KING HENRY I remember
AIT 1.2.  192  Such a time, being my sworn servant,
AIT 1.2.  193  The Duke retained him his. But on - what hence?
AIT 1.2.  194   BUCKINGHAM'S SURVEYOR `If', quoth he, `I for this had been           +
AIT 1.2.  194  committed' - 
AIT 1.2.  195  As to the Tower, I thought - `I would have played
AIT 1.2.  196  The part my father meant to act upon
AIT 1.2.  197  Th' usurper Richard who, being at Salisbury,
AIT 1.2.  198  Made suit to come in 's presence; which if granted,
AIT 1.2.  199  As he made semblance of his duty, would
AIT 1.2.  200B Have put his knife into him.' KING HENRY A giant traitor!
AIT 1.2.  201   CARDINAL WOLSEY  {(to the Queen)} Now, madam, may    +
AIT 1.2.  201  his highness live in freedom,
AIT 1.2.  202B And this man out of prison? QUEEN KATHERINE God mend all.
AIT 1.2.  203   KING HENRY  {(to the Surveyor)} There's something    +
AIT 1.2.  203  more would out of thee - what sayst?
AIT 1.2.  204   BUCKINGHAM'S SURVEYOR After `the Duke his father', with `the         +
AIT 1.2.  204  knife',
AIT 1.2.  205  He stretched him, and with one hand on his dagger,
AIT 1.2.  206  Another spread on 's breast, mounting his eyes,
AIT 1.2.  207  He did discharge a horrible oath whose tenor
AIT 1.2.  208  Was, were he evil used, he would outgo
AIT 1.2.  209  His father by as much as a performance
AIT 1.2.  210B Does an irresolute purpose. KING HENRY There's his period - 
AIT 1.2.  211  To sheathe his knife in us. He is attached.
AIT 1.2.  212  Call him to present trial. If he may
AIT 1.2.  213  Find mercy in the law, 'tis his; if none,
AIT 1.2.  214  Let him not seek 't of us. By day and night,
AIT 1.2.  215  He's traitor to th' height. {[Flourish.] Exeunt}
AIT 1.2.    0  
AIT 1.2.    0    {Enter the Lord Chamberlain and Lord Sands}
AIT 1.3.    1   LORD CHAMBERLAIN  Is 't possible the spells of France       +
AIT 1.3.    1  should juggle
AIT 1.3.    2B Men into such strange mysteries? SANDS New customs,
AIT 1.3.    3  Though they be never so ridiculous - 
AIT 1.3.    4  Nay, let 'em be unmanly - yet are followed.
AIT 1.3.    5   LORD CHAMBERLAIN As far as I see, all the good our English
AIT 1.3.    6  Have got by the late voyage is but merely
AIT 1.3.    7  A fit or two o' th' face. But they are shrewd ones,
AIT 1.3.    8  For when they hold 'em you would swear directly
AIT 1.3.    9  Their very noses had been counsellors
AIT 1.3.   10  To Pe/pin or Clotharius, they keep state so.
AIT 1.3.   11   SANDS They have all new legs, and lame ones; one would take it,
AIT 1.3.   12  That never see 'em pace before, the spavin
AIT 1.3.   13B Or spring-halt reigned among 'em. LORD CHAMBERLAIN Death, my lord,
AIT 1.3.   14  Their clothes are after such a pagan cut to 't
AIT 1.3.   15B That sure they've worn out Christendom. {Enter Sir Thomas         +
AIT 1.3.   15B Lovell} How now - 
AIT 1.3.   16B What news, Sir Thomas Lovell? LOVELL Faith, my lord,
AIT 1.3.   17  I hear of none but the new proclamation
AIT 1.3.   18B That's clapped upon the court gate. LORD CHAMBERLAIN What is 't for?
AIT 1.3.   19   LOVELL The reformation of our travelled gallants
AIT 1.3.   20  That fill the court with quarrels, talk, and tailors.
AIT 1.3.   21   LORD CHAMBERLAIN I'm glad 'tis there. Now I would pray our           +
AIT 1.3.   21  `{messieurs}'
AIT 1.3.   22  To think an English courtier may be wise
AIT 1.3.   23B And never see the Louvre. LOVELL They must either,
AIT 1.3.   24  For so run the conditions, leave those remnants
AIT 1.3.   25  Of fool and feather that they got in France,
AIT 1.3.   26  With all their honourable points of ignorance
AIT 1.3.   27  Pertaining thereunto - as fights and fireworks,
AIT 1.3.   28  Abusing better men than they can be
AIT 1.3.   29  Out of a foreign wisdom, renouncing clean
AIT 1.3.   30  The faith they have in tennis and tall stockings,
AIT 1.3.   31  Short blistered breeches, and those types of travel - 
AIT 1.3.   32  And understand again like honest men,
AIT 1.3.   33  Or pack to their old playfellows. There, I take it,
AIT 1.3.   34  They may, {cum privilegio}, `{oui}' away
AIT 1.3.   35  The lag end of their lewdness and be laughed at.
AIT 1.3.   36   SANDS 'Tis time to give 'em physic, their diseases
AIT 1.3.   37B Are grown so catching. LORD CHAMBERLAIN What a loss our ladies
AIT 1.3.   38B Will have of these trim vanities! LOVELL Ay, marry,
AIT 1.3.   39  There will be woe indeed, lords. The sly whoresons
AIT 1.3.   40  Have got a speeding trick to lay down ladies.
AIT 1.3.   41  A French song and a fiddle has no fellow.
AIT 1.3.   42   SANDS The devil fiddle 'em! I am glad they are going,
AIT 1.3.   43  For sure there's no converting of 'em. Now
AIT 1.3.   44  An honest country lord, as I am, beaten
AIT 1.3.   45  A long time out of play, may bring his plainsong
AIT 1.3.   46  And have an hour of hearing, and, by 'r Lady,
AIT 1.3.   47B Held current music, too. LORD CHAMBERLAIN Well said, Lord Sands.
AIT 1.3.   48B Your colt's tooth is not cast yet? SANDS No, my lord,
AIT 1.3.   49B Nor shall not while I have a stump. LORD CHAMBERLAIN  {(to     +
AIT 1.3.   49B Lovell)} Sir Thomas,
AIT 1.3.   50B Whither were you a-going? LOVELL To the Cardinal's.
AIT 1.3.   51B Your lordship is a guest too. LORD CHAMBERLAIN O, 'tis true.
AIT 1.3.   52  This night he makes a supper, and a great one,
AIT 1.3.   53  To many lords and ladies. There will be
AIT 1.3.   54  The beauty of this kingdom, I'll assure you.
AIT 1.3.   55   LOVELL That churchman bears a bounteous mind indeed,
AIT 1.3.   56  A hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us.
AIT 1.3.   57B His dews fall everywhere. LORD CHAMBERLAIN No doubt he's noble.
AIT 1.3.   58  He had a black mouth that said other of him.
AIT 1.3.   59   SANDS He may, my lord; he's wherewithal. In him
AIT 1.3.   60  Sparing would show a worse sin than ill doctrine.
AIT 1.3.   61  Men of his way should be most liberal.
AIT 1.3.   62B They are set here for examples. LORD CHAMBERLAIN True, they are so,
AIT 1.3.   63  But few now give so great ones. My barge stays.
AIT 1.3.   64  Your lordship shall along. {(To Lovell)} Come, good Sir  +
AIT 1.3.   64  Thomas,
AIT 1.3.   65  We shall be late else, which I would not be,
AIT 1.3.   66  For I was spoke to, with Sir Henry Guildford,
AIT 1.3.   67B This night to be comptrollers. SANDS I am your lordship's.     +
AIT 1.3.   67B {Exeunt}
AIT 1.3.    0    {Hautboys. [Enter servants with] a small table for         +
AIT 1.4.    0  Cardinal Wolsey [which they place] under the cloth of state, and a       +
AIT 1.4.    0  longer table for the guests. Then enter at one door Anne Boleyn and      +
AIT 1.4.    0  divers other ladies and gentlemen as guests, and at another door enter   +
AIT 1.4.    0  Sir Henry Guildford}
AIT 1.4.    1   GUILDFORD  Ladies, a general welcome from his grace
AIT 1.4.    2  Salutes ye all. This night he dedicates
AIT 1.4.    3  To fair content and you. None here, he hopes,
AIT 1.4.    4  In all this noble bevy, has brought with her
AIT 1.4.    5  One care abroad. He would have all as merry
AIT 1.4.    6  As feast, good company, good wine, good welcome
AIT 1.4.    7B Can make good people. {Enter the Lord Chamberlain, Lord Sands,    +
AIT 1.4.    7B and Sir Thomas Lovell} {(To the Lord Chamberlain)} O,    +
AIT 1.4.    7B my lord, you're tardy.
AIT 1.4.    8  The very thought of this fair company
AIT 1.4.    9B Clapped wings to me. LORD CHAMBERLAIN You are young, Sir Harry        +
AIT 1.4.    9B Guildford.
AIT 1.4.   10   SANDS Sir Thomas Lovell, had the Cardinal
AIT 1.4.   11  But half my lay thoughts in him, some of these
AIT 1.4.   12  Should find a running banquet, ere they rested,
AIT 1.4.   13  I think would better please 'em. By my life,
AIT 1.4.   14  They are a sweet society of fair ones.
AIT 1.4.   15   LOVELL O, that your lordship were but now confessor
AIT 1.4.   16B To one or two of these. SANDS I would I were.
AIT 1.4.   17B They should find easy penance. LOVELL Faith, how easy?
AIT 1.4.   18   SANDS As easy as a down bed would afford it.
AIT 1.4.   19B  LORD CHAMBERLAIN Sweet ladies, will it please you sit? {(To   +
AIT 1.4.   19B Guildford)} Sir Harry,
AIT 1.4.   20  Place you that side, I'll take the charge of this. {They sit      +
AIT 1.4.   20  about the longer table. [A noise within]}
AIT 1.4.   21   His grace is ent'ring. Nay, you must not freeze - 
AIT 1.4.   22  Two women placed together makes cold weather.
AIT 1.4.   23  My lord Sands, you are one will keep 'em waking.
AIT 1.4.   24B Pray sit between these ladies. SANDS By my faith,
AIT 1.4.   25B And thank your lordship. {He sits between Anne and                +
AIT 1.4.   25B another} By your leave, sweet ladies.
AIT 1.4.   26  If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me.
AIT 1.4.   27B I had it from my father. ANNE Was he mad, sir?
AIT 1.4.   28   SANDS O, very mad; exceeding mad - in love, too.
AIT 1.4.   29  But he would bite none. Just as I do now,
AIT 1.4.   30B He would kiss you twenty with a breath. {He kisses her}           +
AIT 1.4.   30B  LORD CHAMBERLAIN  Well said, my lord.
AIT 1.4.   31  So now you're fairly seated. Gentlemen,
AIT 1.4.   32  The penance lies on you if these fair ladies
AIT 1.4.   33  Pass away frowning.
AIT 1.4.   34A  SANDS For my little cure,
AIT 1.4.   35  Let me alone. {Hautboys. Enter Cardinal Wolsey who takes his      +
AIT 1.4.   35  seat at the small table under the state}
AIT 1.4.   36   CARDINAL WOLSEY  You're welcome, my fair guests. That       +
AIT 1.4.   36  noble lady
AIT 1.4.   37  Or gentleman that is not freely merry
AIT 1.4.   38  Is not my friend. This, to confirm my welcome,
AIT 1.4.   39B And to you all, good health! {He drinks} SANDS  Your  +
AIT 1.4.   39B grace is noble.
AIT 1.4.   40  Let me have such a bowl may hold my thanks,
AIT 1.4.   41B And save me so much talking. CARDINAL WOLSEY My lord Sands,
AIT 1.4.   42  I am beholden to you. Cheer your neighbours.
AIT 1.4.   43  Ladies, you are not merry! Gentlemen,
AIT 1.4.   44B Whose fault is this? SANDS The red wine first must rise
AIT 1.4.   45  In their fair cheeks, my lord, then we shall have 'em
AIT 1.4.   46B Talk us to silence. ANNE You are a merry gamester,
AIT 1.4.   47B My lord Sands. SANDS Yes, if I make my play.
AIT 1.4.   48  Here's to your ladyship; and pledge it, madam,
AIT 1.4.   49B For 'tis to such a thing -  ANNE You cannot show me.
AIT 1.4.   50B  SANDS  {(to Wolsey)} I told your grace they would    +
AIT 1.4.   50B talk anon. {Drum and trumpet. Chambers discharged}                +
AIT 1.4.   50B  CARDINAL WOLSEY  What's that?
AIT 1.4.   51B  LORD CHAMBERLAIN  {(to the servants)} Look out       +
AIT 1.4.   51B there, some of ye. {Exit a servant} CARDINAL WOLSEY   +
AIT 1.4.   51B What warlike voice,
AIT 1.4.   52  And to what end is this? Nay, ladies, fear not.
AIT 1.4.   53  By all the laws of war you're privileged. {Enter the servant}
AIT 1.4.   54B  LORD CHAMBERLAIN  How now - what is 't? SERVANT A noble    +
AIT 1.4.   54B troop of strangers,
AIT 1.4.   55  For so they seem. They've left their barge and landed,
AIT 1.4.   56  And hither make as great ambassadors
AIT 1.4.   57B From foreign princes. CARDINAL WOLSEY Good Lord Chamberlain,
AIT 1.4.   58  Go give 'em welcome - you can speak the French tongue.
AIT 1.4.   59  And pray receive 'em nobly, and conduct 'em
AIT 1.4.   60  Into our presence where this heaven of beauty
AIT 1.4.   61  Shall shine at full upon them. Some attend him. {Exit             +
AIT 1.4.   61  Chamberlain, attended}
AIT 1.4.   62   {All rise, and some servants remove the tables} You     +
AIT 1.4.   62  have now a broken banquet, but we'll mend it.
AIT 1.4.   63  A good digestion to you all, and once more
AIT 1.4.   64  I shower a welcome on ye - welcome all. {Hautboys. Enter, ushered   +
AIT 1.4.   64  by the Lord Chamberlain, King Henry and others as masquers habited like  +
AIT 1.4.   64  shepherds. They pass directly before Cardinal Wolsey and gracefully      +
AIT 1.4.   64  salute him}
AIT 1.4.   65   A noble company. What are their pleasures?
AIT 1.4.   66   LORD CHAMBERLAIN Because they speak no English, thus they prayed
AIT 1.4.   67  To tell your grace, that, having heard by fame
AIT 1.4.   68  Of this so noble and so fair assembly
AIT 1.4.   69  This night to meet here, they could do no less,
AIT 1.4.   70  Out of the great respect they bear to beauty,
AIT 1.4.   71  But leave their flocks, and, under your fair conduct,
AIT 1.4.   72  Crave leave to view these ladies, and entreat
AIT 1.4.   73B An hour of revels with 'em. CARDINAL WOLSEY Say, Lord Chamberlain,
AIT 1.4.   74  They have done my poor house grace, for which I pay 'em
AIT 1.4.   75  A thousand thanks, and pray 'em take their pleasures. {The        +
AIT 1.4.   75  masquers choose ladies. The King chooses Anne Boleyn}
AIT 1.4.   76   KING HENRY  {(to Anne)} The fairest hand I ever      +
AIT 1.4.   76  touched. O beauty,
AIT 1.4.   77  Till now I never knew thee. {Music. They dance}
AIT 1.4.   78A  CARDINAL WOLSEY  {(to the Lord Chamberlain)} My      +
AIT 1.4.   78A lord.
AIT 1.4.   79A  LORD CHAMBERLAIN Your grace.
AIT 1.4.   80A  CARDINAL WOLSEY Pray tell 'em thus much from me.
AIT 1.4.   81  There should be one amongst 'em by his person
AIT 1.4.   82  More worthy this place than myself, to whom,
AIT 1.4.   83  If I but knew him, with my love and duty
AIT 1.4.   84B I would surrender it. LORD CHAMBERLAIN I will, my lord. {[He   +
AIT 1.4.   84B whispers with the masquers]}
AIT 1.4.   85B  CARDINAL WOLSEY  What say they? LORD CHAMBERLAIN Such a  +
AIT 1.4.   85B one they all confess
AIT 1.4.   86  There is indeed, which they would have your grace
AIT 1.4.   87B Find out, and he will take it. CARDINAL WOLSEY                 +
AIT 1.4.   87B {[standing]} Let me see then.
AIT 1.4.   88  By all your good leaves, gentlemen, here I'll make
AIT 1.4.   89B My royal choice. {[He bows before the King]} KING HENRY        +
AIT 1.4.   89B  {[unmasking]} Ye have found him, Cardinal.
AIT 1.4.   90  You hold a fair assembly. You do well, lord.
AIT 1.4.   91  You are a churchman, or I'll tell you, Cardinal,
AIT 1.4.   92B I should judge now unhappily. CARDINAL WOLSEY I am glad
AIT 1.4.   93B Your grace is grown so pleasant. KING HENRY My Lord Chamberlain,
AIT 1.4.   94B Prithee come hither. {(Gesturing towards Anne)} What     +
AIT 1.4.   94B fair lady's that?
AIT 1.4.   95   LORD CHAMBERLAIN An 't please your grace, Sir Thomas Boleyn's        +
AIT 1.4.   95  daughter - 
AIT 1.4.   96  The Viscount Rochford - one of her highness' women.
AIT 1.4.   97   KING HENRY By heaven, she is a dainty one. {(To               +
AIT 1.4.   97  Anne)} Sweetheart,
AIT 1.4.   98  I were unmannerly to take you out
AIT 1.4.   99  And not to kiss you {[kisses her]} . A health,           +
AIT 1.4.   99  gentlemen; {[He drinks]}
AIT 1.4.  100   Let it go round.
AIT 1.4.  101   CARDINAL WOLSEY Sir Thomas Lovell, is the banquet ready
AIT 1.4.  102B I' th' privy chamber? LOVELL Yes, my lord. CARDINAL WOLSEY         +
AIT 1.4.  102B  {(to the King)} Your grace
AIT 1.4.  103  I fear with dancing is a little heated.
AIT 1.4.  104A  KING HENRY I fear too much.
AIT 1.4.  105A  CARDINAL WOLSEY There's fresher air, my lord,
AIT 1.4.  106  In the next chamber.
AIT 1.4.  107   KING HENRY Lead in your ladies, every one. {(To               +
AIT 1.4.  107  Anne)} Sweet partner,
AIT 1.4.  108  I must not yet forsake you. {(To Wolsey)} Let's be       +
AIT 1.4.  108  merry,
AIT 1.4.  109  Good my lord Cardinal. I have half a dozen healths
AIT 1.4.  110  To drink to these fair ladies, and a measure
AIT 1.4.  111  To lead 'em once again, and then let's dream
AIT 1.4.  112  Who's best in favour. Let the music knock it. {Exeunt with        +
AIT 1.4.  112  trumpets}
AIT 1.4.  112  [[ACT INTERVAL]]
AIT 1.4.    0  
AIT 1.4.    0     {Enter two Gentlemen, at several doors}
AIT 2.1.    1B  FIRST GENTLEMAN  Whither away so fast? SECOND GENTLEMAN  +
AIT 2.1.    1B O, God save ye.
AIT 2.1.    2  Ev'n to the hall to hear what shall become
AIT 2.1.    3B Of the great Duke of Buckingham. FIRST GENTLEMAN I'll save you
AIT 2.1.    4  That labour, sir. All's now done but the ceremony
AIT 2.1.    5B Of bringing back the prisoner. SECOND GENTLEMAN Were you there?
AIT 2.1.    6B  FIRST GENTLEMAN Yes, indeed was I. SECOND GENTLEMAN Pray speak    +
AIT 2.1.    6B what has happened.
AIT 2.1.    7B  FIRST GENTLEMAN You may guess quickly what. SECOND GENTLEMAN Is   +
AIT 2.1.    7B he found guilty?
AIT 2.1.    8   FIRST GENTLEMAN Yes, truly is he, and condemned upon 't.
AIT 2.1.    9A  SECOND GENTLEMAN I am sorry for 't.
AIT 2.1.   10A  FIRST GENTLEMAN So are a number more.
AIT 2.1.   11A  SECOND GENTLEMAN But pray, how passed it?
AIT 2.1.   12   FIRST GENTLEMAN I'll tell you in a little. The great Duke
AIT 2.1.   13  Came to the bar, where to his accusations
AIT 2.1.   14  He pleaded still not guilty, and alleged
AIT 2.1.   15  Many sharp reasons to defeat the law.
AIT 2.1.   16  The King's attorney, on the contrary,
AIT 2.1.   17  Urged on the examinations, proofs, confessions,
AIT 2.1.   18  Of divers witnesses, which the Duke desired
AIT 2.1.   19  To him brought {viva voce} to his face - 
AIT 2.1.   20  At which appeared against him his surveyor,
AIT 2.1.   21  Sir Gilbert Perk his chancellor, and John Car,
AIT 2.1.   22  Confessor to him, with that devil-monk,
AIT 2.1.   23B Hopkins, that made this mischief. SECOND GENTLEMAN That was he
AIT 2.1.   24B That fed him with his prophecies. FIRST GENTLEMAN The same.
AIT 2.1.   25  All these accused him strongly, which he fain
AIT 2.1.   26  Would have flung from him, but indeed he could not.
AIT 2.1.   27  And so his peers, upon this evidence,
AIT 2.1.   28  Have found him guilty of high treason. Much
AIT 2.1.   29  He spoke, and learnedly, for life, but all
AIT 2.1.   30  Was either pitied in him or forgotten.
AIT 2.1.   31   SECOND GENTLEMAN After all this, how did he bear himself?
AIT 2.1.   32   FIRST GENTLEMAN When he was brought again to th' bar to hear
AIT 2.1.   33  His knell rung out, his judgement, he was stirred
AIT 2.1.   34  With such an agony he sweat extremely,
AIT 2.1.   35  And something spoke in choler, ill and hasty;
AIT 2.1.   36  But he fell to himself again, and sweetly
AIT 2.1.   37  In all the rest showed a most noble patience.
AIT 2.1.   38B  SECOND GENTLEMAN I do not think he fears death. FIRST GENTLEMAN   +
AIT 2.1.   38B Sure he does not.
AIT 2.1.   39  He never was so womanish. The cause
AIT 2.1.   40B He may a little grieve at. SECOND GENTLEMAN Certainly
AIT 2.1.   41B The Cardinal is the end of this. FIRST GENTLEMAN 'Tis likely
AIT 2.1.   42  By all conjectures: first, Kildare's attainder,
AIT 2.1.   43  Then deputy of Ireland, who, removed,
AIT 2.1.   44  Earl Surrey was sent thither - and in haste, too,
AIT 2.1.   45B Lest he should help his father. SECOND GENTLEMAN That trick of state
AIT 2.1.   46B Was a deep envious one. FIRST GENTLEMAN At his return
AIT 2.1.   47  No doubt he will requite it. This is noted,
AIT 2.1.   48  And generally: whoever the King favours,
AIT 2.1.   49  The Card'nal instantly will find employment - 
AIT 2.1.   50B And far enough from court, too. SECOND GENTLEMAN All the commons
AIT 2.1.   51  Hate him perniciously and, o' my conscience,
AIT 2.1.   52  Wish him ten fathom deep. This Duke as much
AIT 2.1.   53  They love and dote on, call him `bounteous Buckingham,
AIT 2.1.   54B The mirror of all courtesy' -  {Enter the Duke of Buckingham from   +
AIT 2.1.   54B his arraignment, tipstaves before him, the axe with the edge towards     +
AIT 2.1.   54B him, halberdiers on each side, accompanied with Sir Thomas Lovell, Sir   +
AIT 2.1.   54B Nicholas Vaux, Sir William Sands, and common people} FIRST GENTLEMAN  +
AIT 2.1.   54B  Stay there, sir,
AIT 2.1.   55  And see the noble ruined man you speak of.
AIT 2.1.   56B  SECOND GENTLEMAN Let's stand close and behold him. {They      +
AIT 2.1.   56B stand apart} BUCKINGHAM  {(to the common people)}     +
AIT 2.1.   56B All good people,
AIT 2.1.   57  You that thus far have come to pity me,
AIT 2.1.   58  Hear what I say, and then go home and lose me.
AIT 2.1.   59  I have this day received a traitor's judgement,
AIT 2.1.   60  And by that name must die. Yet, heaven bear witness,
AIT 2.1.   61  And if I have a conscience let it sink me,
AIT 2.1.   62  Even as the axe falls, if I be not faithful.
AIT 2.1.   63  The law I bear no malice for my death.
AIT 2.1.   64  'T has done, upon the premises, but justice.
AIT 2.1.   65  But those that sought it I could wish more Christians.
AIT 2.1.   66  Be what they will, I heartily forgive 'em.
AIT 2.1.   67  Yet let 'em look they glory not in mischief,
AIT 2.1.   68  Nor build their evils on the graves of great men,
AIT 2.1.   69  For then my guiltless blood must cry against 'em.
AIT 2.1.   70  For further life in this world I ne'er hope,
AIT 2.1.   71  Nor will I sue, although the King have mercies
AIT 2.1.   72  More than I dare make faults. You few that loved me,
AIT 2.1.   73  And dare be bold to weep for Buckingham,
AIT 2.1.   74  His noble friends and fellows, whom to leave
AIT 2.1.   75  Is only bitter to him, only dying,
AIT 2.1.   76  Go with me like good angels to my end,
AIT 2.1.   77  And, as the long divorce of steel falls on me,
AIT 2.1.   78  Make of your prayers one sweet sacrifice,
AIT 2.1.   79  And lift my soul to heaven. {(To the guard)} Lead on,    +
AIT 2.1.   79  i' God's name.
AIT 2.1.   80   LOVELL I do beseech your grace, for charity,
AIT 2.1.   81  If ever any malice in your heart
AIT 2.1.   82  Were hid against me, now to forgive me frankly.
AIT 2.1.   83   BUCKINGHAM Sir Thomas Lovell, I as free forgive you
AIT 2.1.   84  As I would be forgiven. I forgive all.
AIT 2.1.   85  There cannot be those numberless offences
AIT 2.1.   86  'Gainst me that I cannot take peace with. No black envy
AIT 2.1.   87  Shall mark my grave. Commend me to his grace,
AIT 2.1.   88  And if he speak of Buckingham, pray tell him
AIT 2.1.   89  You met him half in heaven. My vows and prayers
AIT 2.1.   90  Yet are the King's, and, till my soul forsake,
AIT 2.1.   91  Shall cry for blessings on him. May he live
AIT 2.1.   92  Longer than I have time to tell his years;
AIT 2.1.   93  Ever beloved and loving may his rule be;
AIT 2.1.   94  And, when old time shall lead him to his end,
AIT 2.1.   95  Goodness and he fill up one monument.
AIT 2.1.   96   LOVELL To th' waterside I must conduct your grace,
AIT 2.1.   97  Then give my charge up to Sir Nicholas Vaux,
AIT 2.1.   98B Who undertakes you to your end. VAUX  {(to an                  +
AIT 2.1.   98B attendant)} Prepare there - 
AIT 2.1.   99  The Duke is coming. See the barge be ready,
AIT 2.1.  100  And fit it with such furniture as suits
AIT 2.1.  101B The greatness of his person. BUCKINGHAM Nay, Sir Nicholas,
AIT 2.1.  102  Let it alone. My state now will but mock me.
AIT 2.1.  103  When I came hither I was Lord High Constable
AIT 2.1.  104  And Duke of Buckingham; now, poor Edward Bohun.
AIT 2.1.  105  Yet I am richer than my base accusers,
AIT 2.1.  106  That never knew what truth meant. I now seal it,
AIT 2.1.  107  And with that blood will make 'em one day groan for 't.
AIT 2.1.  108  My noble father, Henry of Buckingham,
AIT 2.1.  109  Who first raised head against usurping Richard,
AIT 2.1.  110  Flying for succour to his servant Banister,
AIT 2.1.  111  Being distressed, was by that wretch betrayed,
AIT 2.1.  112  And without trial fell. God's peace be with him.
AIT 2.1.  113  Henry the Seventh succeeding, truly pitying
AIT 2.1.  114  My father's loss, like a most royal prince,
AIT 2.1.  115  Restored me to my honours, and out of ruins
AIT 2.1.  116  Made my name once more noble. Now his son,
AIT 2.1.  117  Henry the Eighth, life, honour, name, and all
AIT 2.1.  118  That made me happy, at one stroke has taken
AIT 2.1.  119  For ever from the world. I had my trial,
AIT 2.1.  120  And must needs say a noble one; which makes me
AIT 2.1.  121  A little happier than my wretched father.
AIT 2.1.  122  Yet thus far we are one in fortunes: both
AIT 2.1.  123  Fell by our servants, by those men we loved most - 
AIT 2.1.  124  A most unnatural and faithless service.
AIT 2.1.  125  Heaven has an end in all. Yet, you that hear me,
AIT 2.1.  126  This from a dying man receive as certain - 
AIT 2.1.  127  Where you are liberal of your loves and counsels,
AIT 2.1.  128  Be sure you be not loose; for those you make friends
AIT 2.1.  129  And give your hearts to, when they once perceive
AIT 2.1.  130  The least rub in your fortunes, fall away
AIT 2.1.  131  Like water from ye, never found again
AIT 2.1.  132  But where they mean to sink ye. All good people
AIT 2.1.  133  Pray for me. I must now forsake ye. The last hour
AIT 2.1.  134  Of my long weary life is come upon me.
AIT 2.1.  135  Farewell, and when you would say something that is sad,
AIT 2.1.  136  Speak how I fell. I have done, and God forgive me. {Exeunt        +
AIT 2.1.  136  Buckingham and train}
AIT 2.1.  137   {The two Gentlemen come forward} FIRST GENTLEMAN     +
AIT 2.1.  137  O, this is full of pity, sir; it calls,
AIT 2.1.  138  I fear, too many curses on their heads
AIT 2.1.  139B That were the authors. SECOND GENTLEMAN If the Duke be guiltless,
AIT 2.1.  140  'Tis full of woe. Yet I can give you inkling
AIT 2.1.  141  Of an ensuing evil, if it fall,
AIT 2.1.  142B Greater than this. FIRST GENTLEMAN Good angels keep it from us.
AIT 2.1.  143  What may it be? You do not doubt my faith, sir?
AIT 2.1.  144   SECOND GENTLEMAN This secret is so weighty, 'twill require
AIT 2.1.  145B A strong faith to conceal it. FIRST GENTLEMAN Let me have it - 
AIT 2.1.  146B I do not talk much. SECOND GENTLEMAN I am confident;
AIT 2.1.  147  You shall, sir. Did you not of late days hear
AIT 2.1.  148  A buzzing of a separation
AIT 2.1.  149B Between the King and Katherine? FIRST GENTLEMAN Yes, but it held      +
AIT 2.1.  149B not.
AIT 2.1.  150  For when the King once heard it, out of anger
AIT 2.1.  151  He sent command to the Lord Mayor straight
AIT 2.1.  152  To stop the rumour and allay those tongues
AIT 2.1.  153B That durst disperse it. SECOND GENTLEMAN But that slander, sir,
AIT 2.1.  154  Is found a truth now, for it grows again
AIT 2.1.  155  Fresher than e'er it was, and held for certain
AIT 2.1.  156  The King will venture at it. Either the Cardinal
AIT 2.1.  157  Or some about him near have, out of malice
AIT 2.1.  158  To the good Queen, possessed him with a scruple
AIT 2.1.  159  That will undo her. To confirm this, too,
AIT 2.1.  160  Cardinal Campeius is arrived, and lately,
AIT 2.1.  161B As all think, for this business. FIRST GENTLEMAN 'Tis the Cardinal;
AIT 2.1.  162  And merely to revenge him on the Emperor
AIT 2.1.  163  For not bestowing on him at his asking
AIT 2.1.  164  The Archbishopric of Toledo this is purposed.
AIT 2.1.  165   SECOND GENTLEMAN I think you have hit the mark. But is 't not cruel
AIT 2.1.  166  That she should feel the smart of this? The Cardinal
AIT 2.1.  167B Will have his will, and she must fall. FIRST GENTLEMAN 'Tis woeful.
AIT 2.1.  168  We are too open here to argue this.
AIT 2.1.  169  Let's think in private more. {Exeunt}
AIT 2.1.    0    {Enter the Lord Chamberlain with a letter}
AIT 2.2.    1   LORD CHAMBERLAIN  {(reads)} `My lord, the horses     +
AIT 2.2.    1  your
AIT 2.2.    2  lordship sent for, with all the care I had, I saw well
AIT 2.2.    3  chosen, ridden, and furnished. They were young and
AIT 2.2.    4  handsome, and of the best breed in the north. When
AIT 2.2.    5  they were ready to set out for London, a man of my
AIT 2.2.    6  lord Cardinal's, by commission and main power, took
AIT 2.2.    7  'em from me with this reason - his master would be
AIT 2.2.    8  served before a subject, if not before the King; which
AIT 2.2.    9  stopped our mouths, sir.'
AIT 2.2.   10   I fear he will indeed. Well, let him have them.
AIT 2.2.   11  He will have all, I think. {Enter to the Lord Chamberlain the     +
AIT 2.2.   11  Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk}
AIT 2.2.   12A  NORFOLK  Well met, my Lord Chamberlain.
AIT 2.2.   13A  LORD CHAMBERLAIN Good day to both your graces.
AIT 2.2.   14B  SUFFOLK How is the King employed? LORD CHAMBERLAIN I left him     +
AIT 2.2.   14B private,
AIT 2.2.   15B Full of sad thoughts and troubles. NORFOLK What's the cause?
AIT 2.2.   16   LORD CHAMBERLAIN It seems the marriage with his brother's wife
AIT 2.2.   17B Has crept too near his conscience. SUFFOLK No, his conscience
AIT 2.2.   18B Has crept too near another lady. NORFOLK 'Tis so.
AIT 2.2.   19  This is the Cardinal's doing. The King-Cardinal,
AIT 2.2.   20  That blind priest, like the eldest son of fortune,
AIT 2.2.   21  Turns what he list. The King will know him one day.
AIT 2.2.   22   SUFFOLK Pray God he do. He'll never know himself else.
AIT 2.2.   23   NORFOLK How holily he works in all his business,
AIT 2.2.   24  And with what zeal! For now he has cracked the league
AIT 2.2.   25  Between us and the Emperor, the Queen's great- nephew,
AIT 2.2.   26  He dives into the King's soul and there scatters
AIT 2.2.   27  Dangers, doubts, wringing of the conscience,
AIT 2.2.   28  Fears, and despairs - and all these for his marriage.
AIT 2.2.   29  And out of all these, to restore the King,
AIT 2.2.   30  He counsels a divorce - a loss of her
AIT 2.2.   31  That like a jewel has hung twenty years
AIT 2.2.   32  About his neck, yet never lost her lustre;
AIT 2.2.   33  Of her that loves him with that excellence
AIT 2.2.   34  That angels love good men with; even of her
AIT 2.2.   35  That, when the greatest stroke of fortune falls,
AIT 2.2.   36  Will bless the King - and is not this course pious?
AIT 2.2.   37   LORD CHAMBERLAIN Heaven keep me from such counsel! 'Tis most true - 
AIT 2.2.   38  These news are everywhere, every tongue speaks 'em,
AIT 2.2.   39  And every true heart weeps for 't. All that dare
AIT 2.2.   40  Look into these affairs see this main end - 
AIT 2.2.   41  The French king's sister. Heaven will one day open
AIT 2.2.   42  The King's eyes, that so long have slept, upon
AIT 2.2.   43  This bold bad man.
AIT 2.2.   44A  SUFFOLK And free us from his slavery.
AIT 2.2.   45A  NORFOLK We had need pray,
AIT 2.2.   46  And heartily, for our deliverance,
AIT 2.2.   47  Or this imperious man will work us all
AIT 2.2.   48  From princes into pages. All men's honours
AIT 2.2.   49  Lie like one lump before him, to be fashioned
AIT 2.2.   50B Into what pitch he please. SUFFOLK For me, my lords,
AIT 2.2.   51  I love him not, nor fear him - there's my creed.
AIT 2.2.   52  As I am made without him, so I'll stand,
AIT 2.2.   53  If the King please. His curses and his blessings
AIT 2.2.   54  Touch me alike; they're breath I not believe in.
AIT 2.2.   55  I knew him, and I know him; so I leave him
AIT 2.2.   56B To him that made him proud - the Pope. NORFOLK Let's in,
AIT 2.2.   57  And with some other business put the King
AIT 2.2.   58  From these sad thoughts that work too much upon him.
AIT 2.2.   59B  {(To the Lord Chamberlain)} My lord, you'll bear us     +
AIT 2.2.   59B company? LORD CHAMBERLAIN Excuse me,
AIT 2.2.   60  The King has sent me otherwhere. Besides,
AIT 2.2.   61  You'll find a most unfit time to disturb him.
AIT 2.2.   62B Health to your lordships. NORFOLK Thanks, my good Lord                +
AIT 2.2.   62B Chamberlain. {Exit the Lord Chamberlain}
AIT 2.2.   63   {King Henry draws the curtain, and sits reading                  +
AIT 2.2.   63  pensively} SUFFOLK  How sad he looks! Sure he is much        +
AIT 2.2.   63  afflicted.
AIT 2.2.   64B  KING HENRY Who's there? Ha? NORFOLK Pray God he be not angry.
AIT 2.2.   65   KING HENRY Who's there, I say? How dare you thrust yourselves
AIT 2.2.   66  Into my private meditations!
AIT 2.2.   67  Who am I? Ha?
AIT 2.2.   68   NORFOLK A gracious king that pardons all offences
AIT 2.2.   69  Malice ne'er meant. Our breach of duty this way
AIT 2.2.   70  Is business of estate, in which we come
AIT 2.2.   71B To know your royal pleasure. KING HENRY Ye are too bold.
AIT 2.2.   72  Go to, I'll make ye know your times of business.
AIT 2.2.   73  Is this an hour for temporal affairs? Ha? {Enter Cardinal Wolsey  +
AIT 2.2.   73  and Cardinal Campeius, the latter with a commission}
AIT 2.2.   74   Who's there? My good lord Cardinal? O, my Wolsey,
AIT 2.2.   75  The quiet of my wounded conscience,
AIT 2.2.   76B Thou art a cure fit for a king. {(To Campeius)} You're   +
AIT 2.2.   76B welcome,
AIT 2.2.   77  Most learned reverend sir, into our kingdom.
AIT 2.2.   78  Use us, and it. {(To Wolsey)} My good lord, have great   +
AIT 2.2.   78  care
AIT 2.2.   79B I be not found a talker. CARDINAL WOLSEY Sir, you cannot.
AIT 2.2.   80  I would your grace would give us but an hour
AIT 2.2.   81B Of private conference. KING HENRY  {(to Norfolk and            +
AIT 2.2.   81B Suffolk)} We are busy; go. {Norfolk and Suffolk speak    +
AIT 2.2.   81B privately to one another as they depart}
AIT 2.2.   82B  NORFOLK  This priest has no pride in him! SUFFOLK Not    +
AIT 2.2.   82B to speak of.
AIT 2.2.   83  I would not be so sick, though, for his place - 
AIT 2.2.   84B But this cannot continue. NORFOLK If it do
AIT 2.2.   85B I'll venture one have-at-him. SUFFOLK I another. {Exeunt       +
AIT 2.2.   85B Norfolk and Suffolk}
AIT 2.2.   86   CARDINAL WOLSEY  {(to the King)} Your grace has      +
AIT 2.2.   86  given a precedent of wisdom
AIT 2.2.   87  Above all princes in committing freely
AIT 2.2.   88  Your scruple to the voice of Christendom.
AIT 2.2.   89  Who can be angry now? What envy reach you?
AIT 2.2.   90  The Spaniard, tied by blood and favour to her,
AIT 2.2.   91  Must now confess, if they have any goodness,
AIT 2.2.   92  The trial just and noble. All the clerks - 
AIT 2.2.   93  I mean the learned ones in Christian kingdoms - 
AIT 2.2.   94  Have their free voices. Rome, the nurse of judgement,
AIT 2.2.   95  Invited by your noble self, hath sent
AIT 2.2.   96  One general tongue unto us: this good man,
AIT 2.2.   97  This just and learned priest, Card'nal Campeius,
AIT 2.2.   98  Whom once more I present unto your highness.
AIT 2.2.   99   KING HENRY  {(embracing Campeius)} And once more in  +
AIT 2.2.   99  mine arms I bid him welcome,
AIT 2.2.  100  And thank the holy conclave for their loves.
AIT 2.2.  101  They have sent me such a man I would have wished for.
AIT 2.2.  102   CARDINAL CAMPEIUS Your grace must needs deserve all strangers'       +
AIT 2.2.  102  loves,
AIT 2.2.  103  You are so noble. To your highness' hand
AIT 2.2.  104B I tender my commission, {He gives the commission to the           +
AIT 2.2.  104B King} {(To Wolsey)} by whose virtue,
AIT 2.2.  105  The Court of Rome commanding, you, my lord
AIT 2.2.  106  Cardinal of York, are joined with me their servant
AIT 2.2.  107  In the unpartial judging of this business.
AIT 2.2.  108   KING HENRY Two equal men. The Queen shall be acquainted
AIT 2.2.  109  Forthwith for what you come. Where's Gardiner?
AIT 2.2.  110   CARDINAL WOLSEY I know your majesty has always loved her
AIT 2.2.  111  So dear in heart not to deny her that
AIT 2.2.  112  A woman of less place might ask by law - 
AIT 2.2.  113  Scholars allowed freely to argue for her.
AIT 2.2.  114   KING HENRY Ay, and the best she shall have, and my favour
AIT 2.2.  115  To him that does best, God forbid else. Cardinal,
AIT 2.2.  116  Prithee call Gardiner to me, my new secretary. {Cardinal Wolsey   +
AIT 2.2.  116  goes to the door and calls Gardiner}
AIT 2.2.  117   I find him a fit fellow. {Enter Gardiner}
AIT 2.2.  118   CARDINAL WOLSEY  {(aside to Gardiner)} Give me your  +
AIT 2.2.  118  hand. Much joy and favour to you.
AIT 2.2.  119B You are the King's now. GARDINER  {(aside to Wolsey)}+
AIT 2.2.  119B  But to be commanded
AIT 2.2.  120  For ever by your grace, whose hand has raised me.
AIT 2.2.  121A  KING HENRY Come hither, Gardiner. {The King walks with        +
AIT 2.2.  121A Gardiner and whispers with him}
AIT 2.2.  122   CARDINAL CAMPEIUS  {(to Wolsey)} My lord of York,    +
AIT 2.2.  122  was not one Doctor Pace
AIT 2.2.  123B In this man's place before him? CARDINAL WOLSEY Yes, he was.
AIT 2.2.  124B  CARDINAL CAMPEIUS Was he not held a learned man? CARDINAL WOLSEY+
AIT 2.2.  124B  Yes, surely.
AIT 2.2.  125   CARDINAL CAMPEIUS Believe me, there's an ill opinion spread then,
AIT 2.2.  126B Even of yourself, lord Cardinal. CARDINAL WOLSEY How? Of me?
AIT 2.2.  127   CARDINAL CAMPEIUS They will not stick to say you envied him,
AIT 2.2.  128  And fearing he would rise, he was so virtuous,
AIT 2.2.  129  Kept him a foreign man still, which so grieved him
AIT 2.2.  130B That he ran mad and died. CARDINAL WOLSEY Heav'n's peace be with      +
AIT 2.2.  130B him - 
AIT 2.2.  131  That's Christian care enough. For living murmurers
AIT 2.2.  132  There's places of rebuke. He was a fool,
AIT 2.2.  133B For he would needs be virtuous. {(Gesturing towards               +
AIT 2.2.  133B Gardiner)} That good fellow,
AIT 2.2.  134  If I command him, follows my appointment.
AIT 2.2.  135  I will have none so near else. Learn this, brother:
AIT 2.2.  136  We live not to be griped by meaner persons.
AIT 2.2.  137   KING HENRY  {(to Gardiner)} Deliver this with        +
AIT 2.2.  137  modesty to th' Queen. {Exit Gardiner}
AIT 2.2.  138   The most convenient place that I can think of
AIT 2.2.  139  For such receipt of learning is Blackfriars;
AIT 2.2.  140  There ye shall meet about this weighty business.
AIT 2.2.  141  My Wolsey, see it furnished. O, my lord,
AIT 2.2.  142  Would it not grieve an able man to leave
AIT 2.2.  143  So sweet a bedfellow? But conscience, conscience - 
AIT 2.2.  144  O, 'tis a tender place, and I must leave her. {Exeunt}
AIT 2.2.    0  
AIT 2.2.    0    {Enter Anne Boleyn and an Old Lady}
AIT 2.3.    1   ANNE  Not for that neither. Here's the pang that pinches - 
AIT 2.3.    2  His highness having lived so long with her, and she
AIT 2.3.    3  So good a lady that no tongue could ever
AIT 2.3.    4  Pronounce dishonour of her - by my life,
AIT 2.3.    5  She never knew harm-doing - O now, after
AIT 2.3.    6  So many courses of the sun enthroned,
AIT 2.3.    7  Still growing in a majesty and pomp the which
AIT 2.3.    8  To leave a thousandfold more bitter than
AIT 2.3.    9  'Tis sweet at first t' acquire - after this process,
AIT 2.3.   10  To give her the avaunt, it is a pity
AIT 2.3.   11B Would move a monster. OLD LADY Hearts of most hard temper
AIT 2.3.   12B Melt and lament for her. ANNE O, God's will! Much better
AIT 2.3.   13  She ne'er had known pomp; though 't be temporal,
AIT 2.3.   14  Yet if that quarrel, fortune, do divorce
AIT 2.3.   15  It from the bearer, 'tis a sufferance panging
AIT 2.3.   16B As soul and bodies severing. OLD LADY Alas, poor lady!
AIT 2.3.   17B She's a stranger now again. ANNE So much the more
AIT 2.3.   18  Must pity drop upon her. Verily,
AIT 2.3.   19  I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born
AIT 2.3.   20  And range with humble livers in content
AIT 2.3.   21  Than to be perked up in a glist'ring grief
AIT 2.3.   22B And wear a golden sorrow. OLD LADY Our content
AIT 2.3.   23B Is our best having. ANNE By my troth and maidenhead,
AIT 2.3.   24B I would not be a queen. OLD LADY Beshrew me, I would - 
AIT 2.3.   25  And venture maidenhead for 't; and so would you,
AIT 2.3.   26  For all this spice of your hypocrisy.
AIT 2.3.   27  You, that have so fair parts of woman on you,
AIT 2.3.   28  Have, too, a woman's heart which ever yet
AIT 2.3.   29  Affected eminence, wealth, sovereignty;
AIT 2.3.   30  Which, to say sooth, are blessings; and which gifts,
AIT 2.3.   31  Saving your mincing, the capacity
AIT 2.3.   32  Of your soft cheveril conscience would receive
AIT 2.3.   33B If you might please to stretch it. ANNE Nay, good troth.
AIT 2.3.   34   OLD LADY Yes, troth and troth. You would not be a queen?
AIT 2.3.   35   ANNE No, not for all the riches under heaven.
AIT 2.3.   36   OLD LADY 'Tis strange. A threepence bowed would hire me,
AIT 2.3.   37  Old as I am, to queen it. But I pray you,
AIT 2.3.   38  What think you of a duchess? Have you limbs
AIT 2.3.   39B To bear that load of title? ANNE No, in truth.
AIT 2.3.   40   OLD LADY Then you are weakly made. Pluck off a little;
AIT 2.3.   41  I would not be a young count in your way
AIT 2.3.   42  For more than blushing comes to. If your back
AIT 2.3.   43  Cannot vouchsafe this burden, 'tis too weak
AIT 2.3.   44B Ever to get a boy. ANNE How you do talk!
AIT 2.3.   45  I swear again, I would not be a queen
AIT 2.3.   46B For all the world. OLD LADY In faith, for little England
AIT 2.3.   47  You'd venture an emballing; I myself
AIT 2.3.   48  Would for Caernarfonshire, although there 'longed
AIT 2.3.   49  No more to th' crown but that. Lo, who comes here? {Enter the     +
AIT 2.3.   49  Lord Chamberlain}
AIT 2.3.   50   LORD CHAMBERLAIN  Good morrow, ladies. What were 't worth   +
AIT 2.3.   50  to know
AIT 2.3.   51B The secret of your conference? ANNE My good lord,
AIT 2.3.   52  Not your demand; it values not your asking.
AIT 2.3.   53  Our mistress' sorrows we were pitying.
AIT 2.3.   54   LORD CHAMBERLAIN It was a gentle business, and becoming
AIT 2.3.   55  The action of good women. There is hope
AIT 2.3.   56B All will be well. ANNE Now I pray God, amen.
AIT 2.3.   57   LORD CHAMBERLAIN You bear a gentle mind, and heav'nly blessings
AIT 2.3.   58  Follow such creatures. That you may, fair lady,
AIT 2.3.   59  Perceive I speak sincerely, and high note's
AIT 2.3.   60  Ta'en of your many virtues, the King's majesty
AIT 2.3.   61  Commends his good opinion of you, and
AIT 2.3.   62  Does purpose honour to you no less flowing
AIT 2.3.   63  Than Marchioness of Pembroke; to which title
AIT 2.3.   64  A thousand pound a year annual support
AIT 2.3.   65B Out of his grace he adds. ANNE I do not know
AIT 2.3.   66  What kind of my obedience I should tender.
AIT 2.3.   67  More than my all is nothing; nor my prayers
AIT 2.3.   68  Are not words duly hallowed, nor my wishes
AIT 2.3.   69  More worth than empty vanities; yet prayers and wishes
AIT 2.3.   70  Are all I can return. Beseech your lordship,
AIT 2.3.   71  Vouchsafe to speak my thanks and my obedience,
AIT 2.3.   72  As from a blushing handmaid to his highness,
AIT 2.3.   73B Whose health and royalty I pray for. LORD CHAMBERLAIN Lady,
AIT 2.3.   74  I shall not fail t' approve the fair conceit
AIT 2.3.   75  The King hath of you. {(Aside)} I have perused her       +
AIT 2.3.   75  well.
AIT 2.3.   76  Beauty and honour in her are so mingled
AIT 2.3.   77  That they have caught the King, and who knows yet
AIT 2.3.   78  But from this lady may proceed a gem
AIT 2.3.   79  To lighten all this isle. {(To Anne)} I'll to the King
AIT 2.3.   80  And say I spoke with you.
AIT 2.3.   81A  ANNE My honoured lord. {Exit the Lord Chamberlain}
AIT 2.3.   82A  OLD LADY  Why, this it is - see, see!
AIT 2.3.   83  I have been begging sixteen years in court,
AIT 2.3.   84  Am yet a courtier beggarly, nor could
AIT 2.3.   85  Come pat betwixt too early and too late
AIT 2.3.   86  For any suit of pounds; and you - O, fate! - 
AIT 2.3.   87  A very fresh fish here - fie, fie upon
AIT 2.3.   88  This compelled fortune! - have your mouth filled up
AIT 2.3.   89B Before you open it. ANNE This is strange to me.
AIT 2.3.   90   OLD LADY How tastes it? Is it bitter? Forty pence, no.
AIT 2.3.   91  There was a lady once - 'tis an old story - 
AIT 2.3.   92  That would not be a queen, that would she not,
AIT 2.3.   93  For all the mud in Egypt. Have you heard it?
AIT 2.3.   94B  ANNE Come, you are pleasant. OLD LADY With your theme I could
AIT 2.3.   95  O'ermount the lark. The Marchioness of Pembroke?
AIT 2.3.   96  A thousand pounds a year, for pure respect?
AIT 2.3.   97  No other obligation? By my life,
AIT 2.3.   98  That promises more thousands. Honour's train
AIT 2.3.   99  Is longer than his foreskirt. By this time
AIT 2.3.  100  I know your back will bear a duchess. Say,
AIT 2.3.  101B Are you not stronger than you were? ANNE Good lady,
AIT 2.3.  102  Make yourself mirth with your particular fancy,
AIT 2.3.  103  And leave me out on 't. Would I had no being,
AIT 2.3.  104  If this salute my blood a jot. It faints me
AIT 2.3.  105  To think what follows.
AIT 2.3.  106  The Queen is comfortless, and we forgetful
AIT 2.3.  107  In our long absence. Pray do not deliver
AIT 2.3.  108B What here you've heard to her. OLD LADY What do you think me -   +
AIT 2.3.  108B {Exeunt}
AIT 2.3.    0    {Trumpets: sennet. Then cornetts. Enter two vergers with   +
AIT 2.4.    0  short silver wands; next them two Scribes in the habit of doctors;       +
AIT 2.4.    0  after them the Archbishop of Canterbury alone; after him the Bishops of  +
AIT 2.4.    0  Lincoln, Ely, Rochester, and Saint Asaph; next them, with some small     +
AIT 2.4.    0  distance, follows a gentleman bearing both the purse containing the      +
AIT 2.4.    0  great seal and a cardinal's hat; then two priests bearing each a silver  +
AIT 2.4.    0  cross; then a gentleman usher, bare-headed, accompanied with a           +
AIT 2.4.    0  serjeant-at-arms bearing a silver mace; then two gentlemen bearing two   +
AIT 2.4.    0  great silver pillars; after them, side by side, the two cardinals,       +
AIT 2.4.    0  Wolsey and Campeius; then two noblemen with the sword and mace. The      +
AIT 2.4.    0  King [ascends] to his seat under the cloth of state; the two cardinals   +
AIT 2.4.    0  sit under him as judges; the Queen, attended by Griffith her gentleman   +
AIT 2.4.    0  usher, takes place some distance from the King; the Bishops place        +
AIT 2.4.    0  themselves on each side the court in the manner of a consistory; below   +
AIT 2.4.    0  them, the Scribes. The lords sit next the Bishops. The rest of the       +
AIT 2.4.    0  attendants stand in convenient order about the stage}
AIT 2.4.    1   CARDINAL WOLSEY  Whilst our commission from Rome is read
AIT 2.4.    2B Let silence be commanded. KING HENRY What's the need?
AIT 2.4.    3  It hath already publicly been read,
AIT 2.4.    4  And on all sides th' authority allowed.
AIT 2.4.    5B You may then spare that time. CARDINAL WOLSEY Be 't so. Proceed.
AIT 2.4.    6   SCRIBE  {(to the Crier)} Say, `Henry, King of        +
AIT 2.4.    6  England, come into the court'.
AIT 2.4.    7   CRIER Henry, King of England, come into the court.
AIT 2.4.    8A  KING HENRY Here.
AIT 2.4.    9   SCRIBE  {(to the Crier)} Say, `Katherine, Queen of   +
AIT 2.4.    9  England, come into the court'.
AIT 2.4.   10   CRIER Katherine, Queen of England, come into the court. {The  +
AIT 2.4.   10  Queen makes no answer, but rises out of her chair, goes about the        +
AIT 2.4.   10  court, comes to the King, and kneels at his feet. Then she speaks}
AIT 2.4.   11   QUEEN KATHERINE  Sir, I desire you do me right and          +
AIT 2.4.   11  justice,
AIT 2.4.   12  And to bestow your pity on me; for
AIT 2.4.   13  I am a most poor woman, and a stranger,
AIT 2.4.   14  Born out of your dominions, having here
AIT 2.4.   15  No judge indifferent, nor no more assurance
AIT 2.4.   16  Of equal friendship and proceeding. Alas, sir,
AIT 2.4.   17  In what have I offended you? What cause
AIT 2.4.   18  Hath my behaviour given to your displeasure
AIT 2.4.   19  That thus you should proceed to put me off,
AIT 2.4.   20  And take your good grace from me? Heaven witness
AIT 2.4.   21  I have been to you a true and humble wife,
AIT 2.4.   22  At all times to your will conformable,
AIT 2.4.   23  Ever in fear to kindle your dislike,
AIT 2.4.   24  Yea, subject to your countenance, glad or sorry
AIT 2.4.   25  As I saw it inclined. When was the hour
AIT 2.4.   26  I ever contradicted your desire,
AIT 2.4.   27  Or made it not mine too? Or which of your friends
AIT 2.4.   28  Have I not strove to love, although I knew
AIT 2.4.   29  He were mine enemy? What friend of mine
AIT 2.4.   30  That had to him derived your anger did I
AIT 2.4.   31  Continue in my liking? Nay, gave notice
AIT 2.4.   32  He was from thence discharged? Sir, call to mind
AIT 2.4.   33  That I have been your wife in this obedience
AIT 2.4.   34  Upward of twenty years, and have been blessed
AIT 2.4.   35  With many children by you. If, in the course
AIT 2.4.   36  And process of this time, you can report - 
AIT 2.4.   37  And prove it, too - against mine honour aught,
AIT 2.4.   38  My bond to wedlock, or my love and duty
AIT 2.4.   39  Against your sacred person, in God's name
AIT 2.4.   40  Turn me away, and let the foul'st contempt
AIT 2.4.   41  Shut door upon me, and so give me up
AIT 2.4.   42  To the sharp'st kind of justice. Please you, sir,
AIT 2.4.   43  The King your father was reputed for
AIT 2.4.   44  A prince most prudent, of an excellent
AIT 2.4.   45  And unmatched wit and judgement. Ferdinand
AIT 2.4.   46  My father, King of Spain, was reckoned one
AIT 2.4.   47  The wisest prince that there had reigned by many
AIT 2.4.   48  A year before. It is not to be questioned
AIT 2.4.   49  That they had gathered a wise council to them
AIT 2.4.   50  Of every realm, that did debate this business,
AIT 2.4.   51  Who deemed our marriage lawful. Wherefore I humbly
AIT 2.4.   52  Beseech you, sir, to spare me till I may
AIT 2.4.   53  Be by my friends in Spain advised, whose counsel
AIT 2.4.   54  I will implore. If not, i' th' name of God,
AIT 2.4.   55B Your pleasure be fulfilled. CARDINAL WOLSEY You have here, lady,
AIT 2.4.   56  And of your choice, these reverend fathers, men
AIT 2.4.   57  Of singular integrity and learning,
AIT 2.4.   58  Yea, the elect o' th' land, who are assembled
AIT 2.4.   59  To plead your cause. It shall be therefore bootless
AIT 2.4.   60  That longer you desire the court, as well
AIT 2.4.   61  For your own quiet, as to rectify
AIT 2.4.   62B What is unsettled in the King. CARDINAL CAMPEIUS His grace
AIT 2.4.   63  Hath spoken well and justly. Therefore, madam,
AIT 2.4.   64  It's fit this royal session do proceed,
AIT 2.4.   65  And that without delay their arguments
AIT 2.4.   66B Be now produced and heard. QUEEN KATHERINE  {(to               +
AIT 2.4.   66B Wolsey)} Lord Cardinal,
AIT 2.4.   67B To you I speak. CARDINAL WOLSEY Your pleasure, madam.                 +
AIT 2.4.   67B  QUEEN KATHERINE Sir,
AIT 2.4.   68  I am about to weep, but thinking that
AIT 2.4.   69  We are a queen, or long have dreamed so, certain
AIT 2.4.   70  The daughter of a king, my drops of tears
AIT 2.4.   71B I'll turn to sparks of fire. CARDINAL WOLSEY Be patient yet.
AIT 2.4.   72   QUEEN KATHERINE I will when you are humble! Nay, before,
AIT 2.4.   73  Or God will punish me. I do believe,
AIT 2.4.   74  Induced by potent circumstances, that
AIT 2.4.   75  You are mine enemy, and make my challenge
AIT 2.4.   76  You shall not be my judge. For it is you
AIT 2.4.   77  Have blown this coal betwixt my lord and me,
AIT 2.4.   78  Which God's dew quench. Therefore I say again,
AIT 2.4.   79  I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul,
AIT 2.4.   80  Refuse you for my judge, whom yet once more
AIT 2.4.   81  I hold my most malicious foe, and think not
AIT 2.4.   82B At all a friend to truth. CARDINAL WOLSEY I do profess
AIT 2.4.   83  You speak not like yourself, who ever yet
AIT 2.4.   84  Have stood to charity, and displayed th' effects
AIT 2.4.   85  Of disposition gentle and of wisdom
AIT 2.4.   86  O'er-topping woman's power. Madam, you do me wrong.
AIT 2.4.   87  I have no spleen against you, nor injustice
AIT 2.4.   88  For you or any. How far I have proceeded,
AIT 2.4.   89  Or how far further shall, is warranted
AIT 2.4.   90  By a commission from the consistory,
AIT 2.4.   91  Yea, the whole consistory of Rome. You charge me
AIT 2.4.   92  That I `have blown this coal'. I do deny it.
AIT 2.4.   93  The King is present. If it be known to him
AIT 2.4.   94  That I gainsay my deed, how may he wound,
AIT 2.4.   95  And worthily, my falsehood - yea, as much
AIT 2.4.   96  As you have done my truth. If he know
AIT 2.4.   97  That I am free of your report, he knows
AIT 2.4.   98  I am not of your wrong. Therefore in him
AIT 2.4.   99  It lies to cure me, and the cure is to
AIT 2.4.  100  Remove these thoughts from you. The which before
AIT 2.4.  101  His highness shall speak in, I do beseech
AIT 2.4.  102  You, gracious madam, to unthink your speaking,
AIT 2.4.  103B And to say so no more. QUEEN KATHERINE My lord, my lord - 
AIT 2.4.  104  I am a simple woman, much too weak
AIT 2.4.  105  T' oppose your cunning. You're meek and humble-mouthed;
AIT 2.4.  106  You sign your place and calling, in full seeming,
AIT 2.4.  107  With meekness and humility - but your heart
AIT 2.4.  108  Is crammed with arrogancy, spleen, and pride.
AIT 2.4.  109  You have by fortune and his highness' favours
AIT 2.4.  110  Gone slightly o'er low steps, and now are mounted
AIT 2.4.  111  Where powers are your retainers, and your words,
AIT 2.4.  112  Domestics to you, serve your will as 't please
AIT 2.4.  113  Yourself pronounce their office. I must tell you,
AIT 2.4.  114  You tender more your person's honour than
AIT 2.4.  115  Your high profession spiritual, that again
AIT 2.4.  116  I do refuse you for my judge, and here,
AIT 2.4.  117  Before you all, appeal unto the Pope,
AIT 2.4.  118  To bring my whole cause 'fore his holiness,
AIT 2.4.  119B And to be judged by him. {She curtsies to the King and begins to  +
AIT 2.4.  119B depart} CARDINAL CAMPEIUS  The Queen is obstinate,
AIT 2.4.  120  Stubborn to justice, apt to accuse it, and
AIT 2.4.  121  Disdainful to be tried by 't. 'Tis not well.
AIT 2.4.  122B She's going away. KING HENRY  {(to the Crier)} Call   +
AIT 2.4.  122B her again.
AIT 2.4.  123   CRIER Katherine, Queen of England, come into the court.
AIT 2.4.  124A  GRIFFITH  {(to the Queen)} Madam, you are called     +
AIT 2.4.  124A back.
AIT 2.4.  125   QUEEN KATHERINE What need you note it? Pray you keep your way.
AIT 2.4.  126  When {you} are called, return. Now the Lord help.
AIT 2.4.  127  They vex me past my patience. Pray you, pass on.
AIT 2.4.  128  I will not tarry; no, nor ever more
AIT 2.4.  129  Upon this business my appearance make
AIT 2.4.  130B In any of their courts. {Exeunt Queen Katherine and her           +
AIT 2.4.  130B attendants} KING HENRY  Go thy ways, Kate.
AIT 2.4.  131  That man i' th' world who shall report he has
AIT 2.4.  132  A better wife, let him in naught be trusted
AIT 2.4.  133  For speaking false in that. Thou art alone - 
AIT 2.4.  134  If thy rare qualities, sweet gentleness,
AIT 2.4.  135  Thy meekness saint-like, wife-like government,
AIT 2.4.  136  Obeying in commanding, and thy parts
AIT 2.4.  137  Sovereign and pious else could speak thee out - 
AIT 2.4.  138  The queen of earthly queens. She's noble born,
AIT 2.4.  139  And like her true nobility she has
AIT 2.4.  140B Carried herself towards me. CARDINAL WOLSEY Most gracious sir,
AIT 2.4.  141  In humblest manner I require your highness
AIT 2.4.  142  That it shall please you to declare in hearing
AIT 2.4.  143  Of all these ears - for where I am robbed and bound,
AIT 2.4.  144  There must I be unloosed, although not there
AIT 2.4.  145  At once and fully satisfied - whether ever I
AIT 2.4.  146  Did broach this business to your highness, or
AIT 2.4.  147  Laid any scruple in your way which might
AIT 2.4.  148  Induce you to the question on 't, or ever
AIT 2.4.  149  Have to you, but with thanks to God for such
AIT 2.4.  150  A royal lady, spake one the least word that might
AIT 2.4.  151  Be to the prejudice of her present state,
AIT 2.4.  152B Or touch of her good person? KING HENRY My lord Cardinal,
AIT 2.4.  153  I do excuse you; yea, upon mine honour,
AIT 2.4.  154  I free you from 't. You are not to be taught
AIT 2.4.  155  That you have many enemies that know not
AIT 2.4.  156  Why they are so, but, like to village curs,
AIT 2.4.  157  Bark when their fellows do. By some of these
AIT 2.4.  158  The Queen is put in anger. You're excused.
AIT 2.4.  159  But will you be more justified? You ever
AIT 2.4.  160  Have wished the sleeping of this business, never desired
AIT 2.4.  161  It to be stirred, but oft have hindered, oft,
AIT 2.4.  162  The passages made toward it. On my honour
AIT 2.4.  163  I speak my good lord Card'nal to this point,
AIT 2.4.  164  And thus far clear him. Now, what moved me to 't,
AIT 2.4.  165  I will be bold with time and your attention.
AIT 2.4.  166  Then mark th' inducement. Thus it came - give heed to 't.
AIT 2.4.  167  My conscience first received a tenderness,
AIT 2.4.  168  Scruple, and prick, on certain speeches uttered
AIT 2.4.  169  By th' Bishop of Bayonne, then French Ambassador,
AIT 2.4.  170  Who had been hither sent on the debating
AIT 2.4.  171  A marriage 'twixt the Duke of Orle/ans and
AIT 2.4.  172  Our daughter Mary. I' th' progress of this business,
AIT 2.4.  173  Ere a determinate resolution, he - 
AIT 2.4.  174  I mean the Bishop - did require a respite
AIT 2.4.  175  Wherein he might the King his lord advertise
AIT 2.4.  176  Whether our daughter were legitimate,
AIT 2.4.  177  Respecting this our marriage with the dowager,
AIT 2.4.  178  Sometimes our brother's wife. This respite shook
AIT 2.4.  179  The bosom of my conscience, entered me,
AIT 2.4.  180  Yea, with a spitting power, and made to tremble
AIT 2.4.  181  The region of my breast; which forced such way
AIT 2.4.  182  That many mazed considerings did throng
AIT 2.4.  183  And prest in with this caution. First, methought
AIT 2.4.  184  I stood not in the smile of heaven, who had
AIT 2.4.  185  Commanded nature that my lady's womb,
AIT 2.4.  186  If it conceived a male child by me, should
AIT 2.4.  187  Do no more offices of life to 't than
AIT 2.4.  188  The grave does yield to th' dead. For her male issue
AIT 2.4.  189  Or died where they were made, or shortly after
AIT 2.4.  190  This world had aired them. Hence I took a thought
AIT 2.4.  191  This was a judgement on me that my kingdom,
AIT 2.4.  192  Well worthy the best heir o' th' world, should not
AIT 2.4.  193  Be gladded in 't by me. Then follows that
AIT 2.4.  194  I weighed the danger which my realms stood in
AIT 2.4.  195  By this my issue's fail, and that gave to me
AIT 2.4.  196  Many a groaning throe. Thus hulling in
AIT 2.4.  197  The wild sea of my conscience, I did steer
AIT 2.4.  198  Toward this remedy, whereupon we are
AIT 2.4.  199  Now present here together - that's to say
AIT 2.4.  200  I meant to rectify my conscience, which
AIT 2.4.  201  I then did feel full sick, and yet not well,
AIT 2.4.  202  By all the reverend fathers of the land
AIT 2.4.  203  And doctors learned. First I began in private
AIT 2.4.  204  With you, my lord of Lincoln. You remember
AIT 2.4.  205  How under my oppression I did reek
AIT 2.4.  206B When I first moved you. LINCOLN Very well, my liege.
AIT 2.4.  207   KING HENRY I have spoke long. Be pleased yourself to say
AIT 2.4.  208B How far you satisfied me. LINCOLN So please your highness,
AIT 2.4.  209  The question did at first so stagger me,
AIT 2.4.  210  Bearing a state of mighty moment in 't
AIT 2.4.  211  And consequence of dread, that I committed
AIT 2.4.  212  The daring'st counsel which I had to doubt,
AIT 2.4.  213  And did entreat your highness to this course
AIT 2.4.  214B Which you are running here. KING HENRY  {(to                   +
AIT 2.4.  214B Canterbury)} I then moved you,
AIT 2.4.  215  My lord of Canterbury, and got your leave
AIT 2.4.  216  To make this present summons. Unsolicited
AIT 2.4.  217  I left no reverend person in this court,
AIT 2.4.  218  But by particular consent proceeded
AIT 2.4.  219  Under your hands and seals. Therefore, go on,
AIT 2.4.  220  For no dislike i' th' world against the person
AIT 2.4.  221  Of the good Queen, but the sharp thorny points
AIT 2.4.  222  Of my alleged reasons, drives this forward.
AIT 2.4.  223  Prove but our marriage lawful, by my life
AIT 2.4.  224  And kingly dignity, we are contented
AIT 2.4.  225  To wear our mortal state to come with her,
AIT 2.4.  226  Katherine, our queen, before the primest creature
AIT 2.4.  227B That's paragoned o' th' world. CARDINAL CAMPEIUS So please your       +
AIT 2.4.  227B highness,
AIT 2.4.  228  The Queen being absent, 'tis a needful fitness
AIT 2.4.  229  That we adjourn this court till further day.
AIT 2.4.  230  Meanwhile must be an earnest motion
AIT 2.4.  231  Made to the Queen to call back her appeal
AIT 2.4.  232B She intends unto his holiness. KING HENRY  {(aside)}  +
AIT 2.4.  232B I may perceive
AIT 2.4.  233  These cardinals trifle with me. I abhor
AIT 2.4.  234  This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.
AIT 2.4.  235  My learned and well-beloved servant, Cranmer,
AIT 2.4.  236  Prithee return. With thy approach I know
AIT 2.4.  237  My comfort comes along. {(Aloud)} Break up the court.
AIT 2.4.  238  I say, set on. {Exeunt in manner as they entered}
AIT 2.4.  238  [[ACT INTERVAL]]
AIT 2.4.    0  
AIT 2.4.    0     {Enter Queen Katherine and her women, as at work}
AIT 3.1.    1   QUEEN KATHERINE  Take thy lute, wench. My soul grows sad    +
AIT 3.1.    1  with troubles.
AIT 3.1.    2  Sing, and disperse 'em if thou canst. Leave working.
AIT 3.1.    3   GENTLEWOMAN  {(sings)} Orpheus with his lute made     +
AIT 3.1.    3  trees,
AIT 3.1.    4  And the mountain tops that freeze,
AIT 3.1.    5  Bow themselves when he did sing.
AIT 3.1.    6  To his music plants and flowers
AIT 3.1.    7  Ever sprung, as sun and showers
AIT 3.1.    8  There had made a lasting spring.
AIT 3.1.    9  Everything that heard him play,
AIT 3.1.   10  Even the billows of the sea,
AIT 3.1.   11  Hung their heads, and then lay by.
AIT 3.1.   12  In sweet music is such art,
AIT 3.1.   13  Killing care and grief of heart
AIT 3.1.   14  Fall asleep, or hearing, die. {Enter [Griffith,] a gentleman}
AIT 3.1.   15A  QUEEN KATHERINE  How now?
AIT 3.1.   16   [GRIFFITH] An 't please your grace, the two great cardinals
AIT 3.1.   17B Wait in the presence. QUEEN KATHERINE Would they speak with me?
AIT 3.1.   18B  [GRIFFITH] They willed me say so, madam. QUEEN KATHERINE Pray     +
AIT 3.1.   18B their graces
AIT 3.1.   19B To come near. {[Exit Griffith]} What can be their        +
AIT 3.1.   19B business
AIT 3.1.   20  With me, a poor weak woman, fall'n from favour?
AIT 3.1.   21  I do not like their coming, now I think on 't;
AIT 3.1.   22  They should be good men, their affairs as righteous - 
AIT 3.1.   23B But all hoods make not monks. {Enter the two cardinals, Wolsey    +
AIT 3.1.   23B and Campeius, [ushered by Griffith]} CARDINAL WOLSEY  Peace  +
AIT 3.1.   23B to your highness.
AIT 3.1.   24   QUEEN KATHERINE Your graces find me here part of a housewife - 
AIT 3.1.   25  I would be all, against the worst may happen.
AIT 3.1.   26  What are your pleasures with me, reverend lords?
AIT 3.1.   27   CARDINAL WOLSEY May it please you, noble madam, to withdraw
AIT 3.1.   28  Into your private chamber, we shall give you
AIT 3.1.   29B The full cause of our coming. QUEEN KATHERINE Speak it here.
AIT 3.1.   30  There's nothing I have done yet, o' my conscience,
AIT 3.1.   31  Deserves a corner. Would all other women
AIT 3.1.   32  Could speak this with as free a soul as I do.
AIT 3.1.   33  My lords, I care not - so much I am happy
AIT 3.1.   34  Above a number - if my actions
AIT 3.1.   35  Were tried by ev'ry tongue, ev'ry eye saw 'em,
AIT 3.1.   36  Envy and base opinion set against 'em,
AIT 3.1.   37  I know my life so even. If your business
AIT 3.1.   38  Seek me out and that way I am wife in,
AIT 3.1.   39  Out with it boldly. Truth loves open dealing.
AIT 3.1.   40   CARDINAL WOLSEY {Tanta est erga te mentis integritas, Regina         +
AIT 3.1.   40  serenissima} - 
AIT 3.1.   41A  QUEEN KATHERINE O, good my lord, no Latin.
AIT 3.1.   42  I am not such a truant since my coming
AIT 3.1.   43  As not to know the language I have lived in.
AIT 3.1.   44  A strange tongue makes my cause more strange suspicious - 
AIT 3.1.   45  Pray, speak in English. Here are some will thank you,
AIT 3.1.   46  If you speak truth, for their poor mistress' sake.
AIT 3.1.   47  Believe me, she has had much wrong. Lord Cardinal,
AIT 3.1.   48  The willing'st sin I ever yet committed
AIT 3.1.   49B May be absolved in English. CARDINAL WOLSEY Noble lady,
AIT 3.1.   50  I am sorry my integrity should breed - 
AIT 3.1.   51  And service to his majesty and you - 
AIT 3.1.   52  So deep suspicion, where all faith was meant.
AIT 3.1.   53  We come not by the way of accusation,
AIT 3.1.   54  To taint that honour every good tongue blesses,
AIT 3.1.   55  Nor to betray you any way to sorrow - 
AIT 3.1.   56  You have too much, good lady - but to know
AIT 3.1.   57  How you stand minded in the weighty difference
AIT 3.1.   58  Between the King and you, and to deliver,
AIT 3.1.   59  Like free and honest men, our just opinions
AIT 3.1.   60B And comforts to your cause. CARDINAL CAMPEIUS Most honoured madam,
AIT 3.1.   61  My lord of York, out of his noble nature,
AIT 3.1.   62  Zeal, and obedience he still bore your grace,
AIT 3.1.   63  Forgetting, like a good man, your late censure
AIT 3.1.   64  Both of his truth and him - which was too far - 
AIT 3.1.   65  Offers, as I do, in a sign of peace,
AIT 3.1.   66B His service and his counsel. QUEEN KATHERINE                   +
AIT 3.1.   66B {(aside)} To betray me.
AIT 3.1.   67   {(Aloud)} My lords, I thank you both for your good      +
AIT 3.1.   67  wills.
AIT 3.1.   68  Ye speak like honest men - pray God ye prove so.
AIT 3.1.   69  But how to make ye suddenly an answer
AIT 3.1.   70  In such a point of weight, so near mine honour - 
AIT 3.1.   71  More near my life, I fear - with my weak wit,
AIT 3.1.   72  And to such men of gravity and learning,
AIT 3.1.   73  In truth I know not. I was set at work
AIT 3.1.   74  Among my maids, full little - God knows - looking
AIT 3.1.   75  Either for such men or such business.
AIT 3.1.   76  For her sake that I have been - for I feel
AIT 3.1.   77  The last fit of my greatness - good your graces,
AIT 3.1.   78  Let me have time and counsel for my cause.
AIT 3.1.   79  Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless.
AIT 3.1.   80   CARDINAL WOLSEY Madam, you wrong the King's love with these fears.
AIT 3.1.   81B Your hopes and friends are infinite. QUEEN KATHERINE In England
AIT 3.1.   82  But little for my profit. Can you think, lords,
AIT 3.1.   83  That any Englishman dare give me counsel,
AIT 3.1.   84  Or be a known friend 'gainst his highness' pleasure - 
AIT 3.1.   85  Though he be grown so desperate to be honest - 
AIT 3.1.   86  And live a subject? Nay, forsooth, my friends,
AIT 3.1.   87  They that must weigh out my afflictions,
AIT 3.1.   88  They that my trust must grow to, live not here.
AIT 3.1.   89  They are, as all my other comforts, far hence,
AIT 3.1.   90B In mine own country, lords. CARDINAL CAMPEIUS I would your grace
AIT 3.1.   91B Would leave your griefs and take my counsel. QUEEN KATHERINE How,     +
AIT 3.1.   91B sir?
AIT 3.1.   92   CARDINAL CAMPEIUS Put your main cause into the King's protection.
AIT 3.1.   93  He's loving and most gracious. 'Twill be much
AIT 3.1.   94  Both for your honour better and your cause,
AIT 3.1.   95  For if the trial of the law o'ertake ye
AIT 3.1.   96B You'll part away disgraced. CARDINAL WOLSEY  {(to the          +
AIT 3.1.   96B Queen)} He tells you rightly.
AIT 3.1.   97   QUEEN KATHERINE Ye tell me what ye wish for both - my ruin.
AIT 3.1.   98  Is this your Christian counsel? Out upon ye!
AIT 3.1.   99  Heaven is above all yet - there sits a judge
AIT 3.1.  100B That no king can corrupt. CARDINAL CAMPEIUS Your rage mistakes us.
AIT 3.1.  101   QUEEN KATHERINE The more shame for ye! Holy men I thought ye,
AIT 3.1.  102  Upon my soul, two reverend cardinal virtues - 
AIT 3.1.  103  But cardinal sins and hollow hearts I fear ye.
AIT 3.1.  104  Mend 'em, for shame, my lords! Is this your comfort?
AIT 3.1.  105  The cordial that ye bring a wretched lady,
AIT 3.1.  106  A woman lost among ye, laughed at, scorned?
AIT 3.1.  107  I will not wish ye half my miseries - 
AIT 3.1.  108  I have more charity. But say I warned ye.
AIT 3.1.  109  Take heed, for heaven's sake take heed, lest at once
AIT 3.1.  110  The burden of my sorrows fall upon ye.
AIT 3.1.  111   CARDINAL WOLSEY Madam, this is a mere distraction.
AIT 3.1.  112  You turn the good we offer into envy.
AIT 3.1.  113   QUEEN KATHERINE Ye turn me into nothing. Woe upon ye,
AIT 3.1.  114  And all such false professors. Would you have me - 
AIT 3.1.  115  If you have any justice, any pity,
AIT 3.1.  116  If ye be anything but churchmen's habits - 
AIT 3.1.  117  Put my sick cause into his hands that hates me?
AIT 3.1.  118  Alas, he's banished me his bed already - 
AIT 3.1.  119  His love, too, long ago. I am old, my lords,
AIT 3.1.  120  And all the fellowship I hold now with him
AIT 3.1.  121  Is only my obedience. What can happen
AIT 3.1.  122  To me above this wretchedness? All your studies
AIT 3.1.  123B Make me accursed like this. CARDINAL CAMPEIUS Your fears are worse.
AIT 3.1.  124   QUEEN KATHERINE Have I lived thus long - let me speak myself,
AIT 3.1.  125  Since virtue finds no friends - a wife, a true one?
AIT 3.1.  126  A woman, I dare say, without vainglory,
AIT 3.1.  127  Never yet branded with suspicion?
AIT 3.1.  128  Have I with all my full affections
AIT 3.1.  129  Still met the King, loved him next heav'n, obeyed him,
AIT 3.1.  130  Been out of fondness superstitious to him,
AIT 3.1.  131  Almost forgot my prayers to content him?
AIT 3.1.  132  And am I thus rewarded? 'Tis not well, lords.
AIT 3.1.  133  Bring me a constant woman to her husband,
AIT 3.1.  134  One that ne'er dreamed a joy beyond his pleasure,
AIT 3.1.  135  And to that woman when she has done most,
AIT 3.1.  136  Yet will I add an honour, a great patience.
AIT 3.1.  137   CARDINAL WOLSEY Madam, you wander from the good we aim at.
AIT 3.1.  138   QUEEN KATHERINE My lord, I dare not make myself so guilty
AIT 3.1.  139  To give up willingly that noble title
AIT 3.1.  140  Your master wed me to. Nothing but death
AIT 3.1.  141B Shall e'er divorce my dignities. CARDINAL WOLSEY Pray, hear me.
AIT 3.1.  142   QUEEN KATHERINE Would I had never trod this English earth,
AIT 3.1.  143  Or felt the flatteries that grow upon it.
AIT 3.1.  144  Ye have angels' faces, but heaven knows your hearts.
AIT 3.1.  145  What will become of me now, wretched lady?
AIT 3.1.  146  I am the most unhappy woman living.
AIT 3.1.  147   {(To her women)} Alas, poor wenches, where are now      +
AIT 3.1.  147  your fortunes?
AIT 3.1.  148  Shipwrecked upon a kingdom where no pity,
AIT 3.1.  149  No friends, no hope, no kindred weep for me?
AIT 3.1.  150  Almost no grave allowed me? Like the lily,
AIT 3.1.  151  That once was mistress of the field and flourished,
AIT 3.1.  152B I'll hang my head and perish. CARDINAL WOLSEY If your grace
AIT 3.1.  153  Could but be brought to know our ends are honest,
AIT 3.1.  154  You'd feel more comfort. Why should we, good lady,
AIT 3.1.  155  Upon what cause, wrong you? Alas, our places,
AIT 3.1.  156  The way of our profession, is against it.
AIT 3.1.  157  We are to cure such sorrows, not to sow 'em.
AIT 3.1.  158  For goodness' sake, consider what you do,
AIT 3.1.  159  How you may hurt yourself, ay, utterly
AIT 3.1.  160  Grow from the King's acquaintance by this carriage.
AIT 3.1.  161  The hearts of princes kiss obedience,
AIT 3.1.  162  So much they love it, but to stubborn spirits
AIT 3.1.  163  They swell and grow as terrible as storms.
AIT 3.1.  164  I know you have a gentle noble temper,
AIT 3.1.  165  A soul as even as a calm. Pray, think us
AIT 3.1.  166  Those we profess - peacemakers, friends, and servants.
AIT 3.1.  167   CARDINAL CAMPEIUS Madam, you'll find it so. You wrong your virtues
AIT 3.1.  168  With these weak women's fears. A noble spirit,
AIT 3.1.  169  As yours was put into you, ever casts
AIT 3.1.  170  Such doubts as false coin from it. The King loves you.
AIT 3.1.  171  Beware you lose it not. For us, if you please
AIT 3.1.  172  To trust us in your business, we are ready
AIT 3.1.  173  To use our utmost studies in your service.
AIT 3.1.  174   QUEEN KATHERINE Do what ye will, my lords, and pray forgive me.
AIT 3.1.  175  If I have used myself unmannerly,
AIT 3.1.  176  You know I am a woman, lacking wit
AIT 3.1.  177  To make a seemly answer to such persons.
AIT 3.1.  178  Pray do my service to his majesty.
AIT 3.1.  179  He has my heart yet, and shall have my prayers
AIT 3.1.  180  While I shall have my life. Come, reverend fathers,
AIT 3.1.  181  Bestow your counsels on me. She now begs
AIT 3.1.  182  That little thought, when she set footing here,
AIT 3.1.  183  She should have bought her dignities so dear. {Exeunt}
AIT 3.1.    0  
AIT 3.1.    0    {Enter the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke of Suffolk, Lord      +
AIT 3.2.    0  Surrey, and the Lord Chamberlain}
AIT 3.2.    1   NORFOLK  If you will now unite in your complaints,
AIT 3.2.    2  And force them with a constancy, the Cardinal
AIT 3.2.    3  Cannot stand under them. If you omit
AIT 3.2.    4  The offer of this time, I cannot promise
AIT 3.2.    5  But that you shall sustain more new disgraces
AIT 3.2.    6B With these you bear already. SURREY I am joyful
AIT 3.2.    7  To meet the least occasion that may give me
AIT 3.2.    8  Remembrance of my father-in-law the Duke,
AIT 3.2.    9B To be revenged on him. SUFFOLK Which of the peers
AIT 3.2.   10  Have uncontemned gone by him, or at least
AIT 3.2.   11  Strangely neglected? When did he regard
AIT 3.2.   12  The stamp of nobleness in any person
AIT 3.2.   13B Out of himself? LORD CHAMBERLAIN My lords, you speak your pleasures.
AIT 3.2.   14  What he deserves of you and me I know;
AIT 3.2.   15  What we can do to him - though now the time
AIT 3.2.   16  Gives way to us - I much fear. If you cannot
AIT 3.2.   17  Bar his access to th' King, never attempt
AIT 3.2.   18  Anything on him, for he hath a witchcraft
AIT 3.2.   19B Over the King in 's tongue. NORFOLK O, fear him not.
AIT 3.2.   20  His spell in that is out. The King hath found
AIT 3.2.   21  Matter against him that for ever mars
AIT 3.2.   22  The honey of his language. No, he's settled,
AIT 3.2.   23B Not to come off, in his displeasure. SURREY Sir,
AIT 3.2.   24  I should be glad to hear such news as this
AIT 3.2.   25B Once every hour. NORFOLK Believe it, this is true.
AIT 3.2.   26  In the divorce his contrary proceedings
AIT 3.2.   27  Are all unfolded, wherein he appears
AIT 3.2.   28B As I would wish mine enemy. SURREY How came
AIT 3.2.   29B His practices to light? SUFFOLK Most strangely. SURREY O, how,     +
AIT 3.2.   29B how?
AIT 3.2.   30   SUFFOLK The Cardinal's letters to the Pope miscarried,
AIT 3.2.   31  And came to th' eye o' th' King, wherein was read
AIT 3.2.   32  How that the Cardinal did entreat his holiness
AIT 3.2.   33  To stay the judgement o' th' divorce, for if
AIT 3.2.   34  It did take place, `I do', quoth he, `perceive
AIT 3.2.   35  My king is tangled in affection to
AIT 3.2.   36  A creature of the Queen's, Lady Anne Boleyn'.
AIT 3.2.   37B  SURREY Has the King this? SUFFOLK Believe it. SURREY Will      +
AIT 3.2.   37B this work?
AIT 3.2.   38   LORD CHAMBERLAIN The King in this perceives him how he coasts
AIT 3.2.   39  And hedges his own way. But in this point
AIT 3.2.   40  All his tricks founder, and he brings his physic
AIT 3.2.   41  After his patient's death. The King already
AIT 3.2.   42B Hath married the fair lady. SURREY Would he had.
AIT 3.2.   43   SUFFOLK May you be happy in your wish, my lord,
AIT 3.2.   44B For I profess you have it. SURREY Now all my joy
AIT 3.2.   45B Trace the conjunction. SUFFOLK My amen to 't. NORFOLK All men's.
AIT 3.2.   46   SUFFOLK There's order given for her coronation.
AIT 3.2.   47  Marry, this is yet but young, and may be left
AIT 3.2.   48  To some ears unrecounted. But, my lords,
AIT 3.2.   49  She is a gallant creature, and complete
AIT 3.2.   50  In mind and feature. I persuade me, from her
AIT 3.2.   51  Will fall some blessing to this land which shall
AIT 3.2.   52B In it be memorized. SURREY But will the King
AIT 3.2.   53  Digest this letter of the Cardinal's?
AIT 3.2.   54B The Lord forbid! NORFOLK Marry, amen. SUFFOLK No, no - 
AIT 3.2.   55  There be more wasps that buzz about his nose
AIT 3.2.   56  Will make this sting the sooner. Cardinal Campeius
AIT 3.2.   57  Is stol'n away to Rome; hath ta'en no leave;
AIT 3.2.   58  Has left the cause o' th' King unhandled, and
AIT 3.2.   59  Is posted as the agent of our Cardinal
AIT 3.2.   60  To second all his plot. I do assure you
AIT 3.2.   61B The King cried `Ha!' at this. LORD CHAMBERLAIN Now God incense him,
AIT 3.2.   62B And let him cry `Ha!' louder. NORFOLK But, my lord,
AIT 3.2.   63  When returns Cranmer?
AIT 3.2.   64   SUFFOLK He is returned in his opinions, which
AIT 3.2.   65  Have satisfied the King for his divorce,
AIT 3.2.   66  Together with all famous colleges,
AIT 3.2.   67  Almost, in Christendom. Shortly, I believe,
AIT 3.2.   68  His second marriage shall be published, and
AIT 3.2.   69  Her coronation. Katherine no more
AIT 3.2.   70  Shall be called `Queen', but `Princess Dowager',
AIT 3.2.   71B And `widow to Prince Arthur'. NORFOLK This same Cranmer's
AIT 3.2.   72  A worthy fellow, and hath ta'en much pain
AIT 3.2.   73B In the King's business. SUFFOLK He has, and we shall see him
AIT 3.2.   74B For it an archbishop. NORFOLK So I hear. SUFFOLK 'Tis so.   +
AIT 3.2.   74B {Enter Cardinal Wolsey and Cromwell}
AIT 3.2.   75B  The Cardinal. NORFOLK Observe, observe - he's moody.   +
AIT 3.2.   75B {They stand apart and observe Wolsey and Cromwell}
AIT 3.2.   76   CARDINAL WOLSEY  {(to Cromwell)} The packet,         +
AIT 3.2.   76  Cromwell - gave 't you the King?
AIT 3.2.   77B  CROMWELL To his own hand, in 's bedchamber. CARDINAL WOLSEY       +
AIT 3.2.   77B Looked he
AIT 3.2.   78B O' th' inside of the paper? CROMWELL Presently
AIT 3.2.   79  He did unseal them, and the first he viewed
AIT 3.2.   80  He did it with a serious mind; a heed
AIT 3.2.   81  Was in his countenance. You he bade
AIT 3.2.   82B Attend him here this morning. CARDINAL WOLSEY Is he ready
AIT 3.2.   83  To come abroad?
AIT 3.2.   84A  CROMWELL I think by this he is.
AIT 3.2.   85A  CARDINAL WOLSEY Leave me a while. {Exit Cromwell}
AIT 3.2.   86   {(Aside)} It shall be to the Duchess of Alenc@on,
AIT 3.2.   87  The French King's sister - he shall marry her.
AIT 3.2.   88  Anne Boleyn? No, I'll no Anne Boleyns for him.
AIT 3.2.   89  There's more in 't than fair visage. Boleyn?
AIT 3.2.   90  No, we'll no Boleyns. Speedily I wish
AIT 3.2.   91  To hear from Rome. The Marchioness of Pembroke? {The nobles       +
AIT 3.2.   91  speak among themselves}
AIT 3.2.   92B  NORFOLK  He's discontented. SUFFOLK Maybe he hears the   +
AIT 3.2.   92B King
AIT 3.2.   93B Does whet his anger to him. SURREY Sharp enough,
AIT 3.2.   94  Lord, for thy justice.
AIT 3.2.   95   CARDINAL WOLSEY  {(aside)} The late Queen's          +
AIT 3.2.   95  gentlewoman? A knight's daughter
AIT 3.2.   96  To be her mistress' mistress? The Queen's queen?
AIT 3.2.   97  This candle burns not clear; 'tis I must snuff it,
AIT 3.2.   98  Then out it goes. What though I know her virtuous
AIT 3.2.   99  And well deserving? Yet I know her for
AIT 3.2.  100  A spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to
AIT 3.2.  101  Our cause, that she should lie i' th' bosom of
AIT 3.2.  102  Our hard-ruled King. Again, there is sprung up
AIT 3.2.  103  An heretic, an arch-one, Cranmer, one
AIT 3.2.  104  Hath crawled into the favour of the King
AIT 3.2.  105B And is his oracle. {The nobles speak among themselves} NORFOLK+
AIT 3.2.  105B   He is vexed at something. {Enter King Henry reading a  +
AIT 3.2.  105B schedule, and Lovell with him}
AIT 3.2.  106   SURREY  I would 'twere something that would fret the        +
AIT 3.2.  106  string,
AIT 3.2.  107B The master-cord on 's heart! SUFFOLK The King, the King!
AIT 3.2.  108   KING HENRY  {[aside]} What piles of wealth hath he   +
AIT 3.2.  108  accumulated
AIT 3.2.  109  To his own portion? And what expense by th' hour
AIT 3.2.  110  Seems to flow from him? How i' th' name of thrift
AIT 3.2.  111  Does he rake this together? {(To the nobles)} Now, my    +
AIT 3.2.  111  lords,
AIT 3.2.  112B Saw you the Cardinal? NORFOLK My lord, we have
AIT 3.2.  113  Stood here observing him. Some strange commotion
AIT 3.2.  114  Is in his brain. He bites his lip, and starts,
AIT 3.2.  115  Stops on a sudden, looks upon the ground,
AIT 3.2.  116  Then lays his finger on his temple, straight
AIT 3.2.  117  Springs out into fast gait, then stops again,
AIT 3.2.  118  Strikes his breast hard, and anon he casts
AIT 3.2.  119  His eye against the moon. In most strange postures
AIT 3.2.  120B We have seen him set himself. KING HENRY It may well be
AIT 3.2.  121  There is a mutiny in 's mind. This morning
AIT 3.2.  122  Papers of state he sent me to peruse
AIT 3.2.  123  As I required, and wot you what I found
AIT 3.2.  124  There, on my conscience put unwittingly?
AIT 3.2.  125  Forsooth, an inventory thus importing
AIT 3.2.  126  The several parcels of his plate, his treasure,
AIT 3.2.  127  Rich stuffs, and ornaments of household which
AIT 3.2.  128  I find at such proud rate that it outspeaks
AIT 3.2.  129B Possession of a subject. NORFOLK It's heaven's will.
AIT 3.2.  130  Some spirit put this paper in the packet
AIT 3.2.  131B To bless your eye withal. KING HENRY If we did think
AIT 3.2.  132  His contemplation were above the earth
AIT 3.2.  133  And fixed on spiritual object, he should still
AIT 3.2.  134  Dwell in his musings. But I am afraid
AIT 3.2.  135  His thinkings are below the moon, not worth
AIT 3.2.  136B His serious considering. {The King takes his seat and whispers    +
AIT 3.2.  136B with Lovell, who then goes to the Cardinal} CARDINAL WOLSEY +
AIT 3.2.  136B  Heaven forgive me!
AIT 3.2.  137B  {[To the King]} Ever God bless your highness!           +
AIT 3.2.  137B  KING HENRY Good my lord,
AIT 3.2.  138  You are full of heavenly stuff, and bear the inventory
AIT 3.2.  139  Of your best graces in your mind, the which
AIT 3.2.  140  You were now running o'er. You have scarce time
AIT 3.2.  141  To steal from spiritual leisure a brief span
AIT 3.2.  142  To keep your earthly audit. Sure, in that,
AIT 3.2.  143  I deem you an ill husband, and am glad
AIT 3.2.  144B To have you therein my companion. CARDINAL WOLSEY Sir,
AIT 3.2.  145  For holy offices I have a time; a time
AIT 3.2.  146  To think upon the part of business which
AIT 3.2.  147  I bear i' th' state; and nature does require
AIT 3.2.  148  Her times of preservation which, perforce,
AIT 3.2.  149  I, her frail son, amongst my brethren mortal,
AIT 3.2.  150B Must give my tendance to. KING HENRY You have said well.
AIT 3.2.  151   CARDINAL WOLSEY And ever may your highness yoke together,
AIT 3.2.  152  As I will lend you cause, my doing well
AIT 3.2.  153B With my well-saying. KING HENRY 'Tis well said again,
AIT 3.2.  154  And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well - 
AIT 3.2.  155  And yet words are no deeds. My father loved you.
AIT 3.2.  156  He said he did, and with his deed did crown
AIT 3.2.  157  His word upon you. Since I had my office,
AIT 3.2.  158  I have kept you next my heart, have not alone
AIT 3.2.  159  Employed you where high profits might come home,
AIT 3.2.  160  But pared my present havings to bestow
AIT 3.2.  161B My bounties upon you. CARDINAL WOLSEY  {(aside)}      +
AIT 3.2.  161B What should this mean?
AIT 3.2.  162B  SURREY  {[aside]} The Lord increase this             +
AIT 3.2.  162B business! KING HENRY Have I not made you
AIT 3.2.  163  The prime man of the state? I pray you tell me
AIT 3.2.  164  If what I now pronounce you have found true,
AIT 3.2.  165  And, if you may confess it, say withal
AIT 3.2.  166  If you are bound to us or no. What say you?
AIT 3.2.  167   CARDINAL WOLSEY My sovereign, I confess your royal graces
AIT 3.2.  168  Showered on me daily have been more than could
AIT 3.2.  169  My studied purposes requite, which went
AIT 3.2.  170  Beyond all man's endeavours. My endeavours
AIT 3.2.  171  Have ever come too short of my desires,
AIT 3.2.  172  Yet filed with my abilities. Mine own ends
AIT 3.2.  173  Have been mine so that evermore they pointed
AIT 3.2.  174  To th' good of your most sacred person and
AIT 3.2.  175  The profit of the state. For your great graces
AIT 3.2.  176  Heaped upon me, poor undeserver, I
AIT 3.2.  177  Can nothing render but allegiant thanks,
AIT 3.2.  178  My prayers to heaven for you, my loyalty,
AIT 3.2.  179  Which ever has and ever shall be growing,
AIT 3.2.  180B Till death, that winter, kill it. KING HENRY Fairly answered.
AIT 3.2.  181  A loyal and obedient subject is
AIT 3.2.  182  Therein illustrated. The honour of it
AIT 3.2.  183  Does pay the act of it, as, i' th' contrary,
AIT 3.2.  184  The foulness is the punishment. I presume
AIT 3.2.  185  That as my hand has opened bounty to you,
AIT 3.2.  186  My heart dropped love, my power rained honour, more
AIT 3.2.  187  On you than any, so your hand and heart,
AIT 3.2.  188  Your brain, and every function of your power,
AIT 3.2.  189  Should, notwithstanding that your bond of duty,
AIT 3.2.  190  As 'twere in love's particular, be more
AIT 3.2.  191B To me, your friend, than any. CARDINAL WOLSEY I do profess
AIT 3.2.  192  That for your highness' good I ever laboured
AIT 3.2.  193  More than mine own; that am, have, and will be - 
AIT 3.2.  194  Though all the world should crack their duty to you,
AIT 3.2.  195  And throw it from their soul, though perils did
AIT 3.2.  196  Abound, as thick as thought could make 'em, and
AIT 3.2.  197  Appear in forms more horrid - yet, my duty,
AIT 3.2.  198  As doth a rock against the chiding flood,
AIT 3.2.  199  Should the approach of this wild river break,
AIT 3.2.  200B And stand unshaken yours. KING HENRY 'Tis nobly spoken.
AIT 3.2.  201  Take notice, lords, he has a loyal breast,
AIT 3.2.  202  For you have seen him open 't. {(To Wolsey)} Read o'er   +
AIT 3.2.  202  this, {He gives him a paper}
AIT 3.2.  203   And after this {(giving him another paper)} ,  +
AIT 3.2.  203  and then to breakfast with
AIT 3.2.  204B What appetite you have. {Exit King Henry, frowning upon           +
AIT 3.2.  204B the Cardinal. The nobles throng after the King, smiling and              +
AIT 3.2.  204B whispering}                                                              +
AIT 3.2.  204B                                                          +
AIT 3.2.  204B  CARDINAL WOLSEY  What should this mean?
AIT 3.2.  205  What sudden anger's this? How have I reaped it?
AIT 3.2.  206  He parted frowning from me, as if ruin
AIT 3.2.  207  Leaped from his eyes. So looks the chafed lion
AIT 3.2.  208  Upon the daring huntsman that has galled him,
AIT 3.2.  209  Then makes him nothing. I must read this paper - 
AIT 3.2.  210B I fear, the story of his anger. {He reads one of the              +
AIT 3.2.  210B papers} 'Tis so.
AIT 3.2.  211  This paper has undone me. 'Tis th' account
AIT 3.2.  212  Of all that world of wealth I have drawn together
AIT 3.2.  213  For mine own ends - indeed, to gain the popedom,
AIT 3.2.  214  And fee my friends in Rome. O negligence,
AIT 3.2.  215  Fit for a fool to fall by! What cross devil
AIT 3.2.  216  Made me put this main secret in the packet
AIT 3.2.  217  I sent the King? Is there no way to cure this?
AIT 3.2.  218  No new device to beat this from his brains?
AIT 3.2.  219  I know 'twill stir him strongly. Yet I know
AIT 3.2.  220  A way, if it take right, in spite of fortune
AIT 3.2.  221B Will bring me off again. What's this? {He reads the other         +
AIT 3.2.  221B paper} `To th' Pope'?
AIT 3.2.  222  The letter, as I live, with all the business
AIT 3.2.  223  I writ to 's holiness. Nay then, farewell.
AIT 3.2.  224  I have touched the highest point of all my greatness,
AIT 3.2.  225  And from that full meridian of my glory
AIT 3.2.  226  I haste now to my setting. I shall fall
AIT 3.2.  227  Like a bright exhalation in the evening,
AIT 3.2.  228  And no man see me more. {Enter to Cardinal Wolsey the Dukes of    +
AIT 3.2.  228  Norfolk and}
AIT 3.2.  229  {Suffolk, the Earl of Surrey, and the Lord Chamberlain} NORFOLK       +
AIT 3.2.  229   Hear the King's pleasure, Cardinal, who commands you
AIT 3.2.  230  To render up the great seal presently
AIT 3.2.  231  Into our hands, and to confine yourself
AIT 3.2.  232  To Asher House, my lord of Winchester's,
AIT 3.2.  233B Till you hear further from his highness. CARDINAL WOLSEY Stay - 
AIT 3.2.  234  Where's your commission, lords? Words cannot carry
AIT 3.2.  235B Authority so weighty. SUFFOLK Who dare cross 'em
AIT 3.2.  236  Bearing the King's will from his mouth expressly?
AIT 3.2.  237   CARDINAL WOLSEY Till I find more than will or words to do it - 
AIT 3.2.  238  I mean your malice - know, officious lords,
AIT 3.2.  239  I dare and must deny it. Now I feel
AIT 3.2.  240  Of what coarse metal ye are moulded - envy.
AIT 3.2.  241  How eagerly ye follow my disgraces
AIT 3.2.  242  As if it fed ye, and how sleek and wanton
AIT 3.2.  243  Ye appear in everything may bring my ruin!
AIT 3.2.  244  Follow your envious courses, men of malice.
AIT 3.2.  245  You have Christian warrant for 'em, and no doubt
AIT 3.2.  246  In time will find their fit rewards. That seal
AIT 3.2.  247  You ask with such a violence, the King,
AIT 3.2.  248  Mine and your master, with his own hand gave me,
AIT 3.2.  249  Bade me enjoy it, with the place and honours,
AIT 3.2.  250  During my life; and, to confirm his goodness,
AIT 3.2.  251  Tied it by letters patents. Now, who'll take it?
AIT 3.2.  252B  SURREY The King that gave it. CARDINAL WOLSEY It must be himself  +
AIT 3.2.  252B then.
AIT 3.2.  253B  SURREY Thou art a proud traitor, priest. CARDINAL WOLSEY Proud    +
AIT 3.2.  253B lord, thou liest.
AIT 3.2.  254  Within these forty hours Surrey durst better
AIT 3.2.  255B Have burnt that tongue than said so. SURREY Thy ambition,
AIT 3.2.  256  Thou scarlet sin, robbed this bewailing land
AIT 3.2.  257  Of noble Buckingham, my father-in-law.
AIT 3.2.  258  The heads of all thy brother cardinals
AIT 3.2.  259  With thee and all thy best parts bound together
AIT 3.2.  260  Weighed not a hair of his. Plague of your policy,
AIT 3.2.  261  You sent me deputy for Ireland,
AIT 3.2.  262  Far from his succour, from the King, from all
AIT 3.2.  263  That might have mercy on the fault thou gav'st him;
AIT 3.2.  264  Whilst your great goodness, out of holy pity,
AIT 3.2.  265B Absolved him with an axe. CARDINAL WOLSEY This, and all else
AIT 3.2.  266  This talking lord can lay upon my credit,
AIT 3.2.  267  I answer is most false. The Duke by law
AIT 3.2.  268  Found his deserts. How innocent I was
AIT 3.2.  269  From any private malice in his end,
AIT 3.2.  270  His noble jury and foul cause can witness.
AIT 3.2.  271  If I loved many words, lord, I should tell you
AIT 3.2.  272  You have as little honesty as honour,
AIT 3.2.  273  That in the way of loyalty and truth
AIT 3.2.  274  Toward the King, my ever royal master,
AIT 3.2.  275  Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be,
AIT 3.2.  276B And all that love his follies. SURREY By my soul,
AIT 3.2.  277  Your long coat, priest, protects you; thou shouldst feel
AIT 3.2.  278  My sword i' th' life-blood of thee else. My lords,
AIT 3.2.  279  Can ye endure to hear this arrogance,
AIT 3.2.  280  And from this fellow? If we live thus tamely,
AIT 3.2.  281  To be thus jaded by a piece of scarlet,
AIT 3.2.  282  Farewell nobility. Let his grace go forward
AIT 3.2.  283B And dare us with his cap, like larks. CARDINAL WOLSEY All goodness
AIT 3.2.  284B Is poison to thy stomach. SURREY Yes, that goodness
AIT 3.2.  285  Of gleaning all the land's wealth into one,
AIT 3.2.  286  Into your own hands, Card'nal, by extortion;
AIT 3.2.  287  The goodness of your intercepted packets
AIT 3.2.  288  You writ to th' Pope against the King; your goodness - 
AIT 3.2.  289  Since you provoke me - shall be most notorious.
AIT 3.2.  290  My lord of Norfolk, as you are truly noble,
AIT 3.2.  291  As you respect the common good, the state
AIT 3.2.  292  Of our despised nobility, our issues - 
AIT 3.2.  293  Whom if he live will scarce be gentlemen - 
AIT 3.2.  294  Produce the grand sum of his sins, the articles
AIT 3.2.  295  Collected from his life. {(To Wolsey)} I'll startle you
AIT 3.2.  296  Worse than the sacring-bell when the brown wench
AIT 3.2.  297  Lay kissing in your arms, lord Cardinal.
AIT 3.2.  298   CARDINAL WOLSEY  {[aside]} How much, methinks, I     +
AIT 3.2.  298  could despise this man,
AIT 3.2.  299  But that I am bound in charity against it.
AIT 3.2.  300   NORFOLK  {(to Surrey)} Those articles, my lord, are  +
AIT 3.2.  300  in the King's hand;
AIT 3.2.  301B But thus much - they are foul ones. CARDINAL WOLSEY So much fairer
AIT 3.2.  302  And spotless shall mine innocence arise
AIT 3.2.  303B When the King knows my truth. SURREY This cannot save you.
AIT 3.2.  304  I thank my memory I yet remember
AIT 3.2.  305  Some of these articles, and out they shall.
AIT 3.2.  306  Now, if you can blush and cry `Guilty', Cardinal,
AIT 3.2.  307B You'll show a little honesty. CARDINAL WOLSEY Speak on, sir;
AIT 3.2.  308  I dare your worst objections. If I blush,
AIT 3.2.  309  It is to see a nobleman want manners.
AIT 3.2.  310   SURREY I had rather want those than my head. Have at you!
AIT 3.2.  311  First, that without the King's assent or knowledge
AIT 3.2.  312  You wrought to be a legate, by which power
AIT 3.2.  313  You maimed the jurisdiction of all bishops.
AIT 3.2.  314   NORFOLK  {(to Wolsey)} Then, that in all you writ    +
AIT 3.2.  314  to Rome, or else
AIT 3.2.  315  To foreign princes, `{Ego et Rex meus}'
AIT 3.2.  316  Was still inscribed - in which you brought the King
AIT 3.2.  317B To be your servant. SUFFOLK  {(to Wolsey)} Then,      +
AIT 3.2.  317B that without the knowledge
AIT 3.2.  318  Either of King or Council, when you went
AIT 3.2.  319  Ambassador to the Emperor, you made bold
AIT 3.2.  320  To carry into Flanders the great seal.
AIT 3.2.  321   SURREY  {(to Wolsey)} Item, you sent a large         +
AIT 3.2.  321  commission
AIT 3.2.  322  To Gregory de Cassado, to conclude,
AIT 3.2.  323  Without the King's will or the state's allowance,
AIT 3.2.  324  A league between his highness and Ferrara.
AIT 3.2.  325   SUFFOLK  {(to Wolsey)} That out of mere ambition     +
AIT 3.2.  325  you have caused
AIT 3.2.  326  Your holy hat to be stamped on the King's coin.
AIT 3.2.  327   SURREY  {(to Wolsey)} Then, that you have sent       +
AIT 3.2.  327  innumerable substance - 
AIT 3.2.  328  By what means got, I leave to your own conscience - 
AIT 3.2.  329  To furnish Rome, and to prepare the ways
AIT 3.2.  330  You have for dignities to the mere undoing
AIT 3.2.  331  Of all the kingdom. Many more there are,
AIT 3.2.  332  Which since they are of you, and odious,
AIT 3.2.  333B I will not taint my mouth with. LORD CHAMBERLAIN O, my lord,
AIT 3.2.  334  Press not a falling man too far. 'Tis virtue.
AIT 3.2.  335  His faults lie open to the laws. Let them,
AIT 3.2.  336  Not you, correct him. My heart weeps to see him
AIT 3.2.  337B So little of his great self. SURREY I forgive him.
AIT 3.2.  338   SUFFOLK Lord Cardinal, the King's further pleasure is - 
AIT 3.2.  339  Because all those things you have done of late,
AIT 3.2.  340  By your power legantine within this kingdom,
AIT 3.2.  341  Fall into th' compass of a praemunire - 
AIT 3.2.  342  That therefore such a writ be sued against you,
AIT 3.2.  343  To forfeit all your goods, lands, tenements,
AIT 3.2.  344  Chattels, and whatsoever, and to be
AIT 3.2.  345  Out of the King's protection. This is my charge.
AIT 3.2.  346   NORFOLK  {(to Wolsey)} And so we'll leave you to     +
AIT 3.2.  346  your meditations
AIT 3.2.  347  How to live better. For your stubborn answer
AIT 3.2.  348  About the giving back the great seal to us,
AIT 3.2.  349  The King shall know it and, no doubt, shall thank you.
AIT 3.2.  350  So fare you well, my little good lord Cardinal. {Exeunt all but   +
AIT 3.2.  350  Wolsey}
AIT 3.2.  351   CARDINAL WOLSEY  So farewell - to the little good you bear    +
AIT 3.2.  351  me.
AIT 3.2.  352  Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness!
AIT 3.2.  353  This is the state of man. Today he puts forth
AIT 3.2.  354  The tender leaves of hopes; tomorrow blossoms,
AIT 3.2.  355  And bears his blushing honours thick upon him;
AIT 3.2.  356  The third day comes a frost, a killing frost,
AIT 3.2.  357  And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely
AIT 3.2.  358  His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root,
AIT 3.2.  359  And then he falls, as I do. I have ventured,
AIT 3.2.  360  Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,
AIT 3.2.  361  This many summers in a sea of glory,
AIT 3.2.  362  But far beyond my depth; my high-blown pride
AIT 3.2.  363  At length broke under me, and now has left me
AIT 3.2.  364  Weary, and old with service, to the mercy
AIT 3.2.  365  Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.
AIT 3.2.  366  Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye!
AIT 3.2.  367  I feel my heart new opened. O, how wretched
AIT 3.2.  368  Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours!
AIT 3.2.  369  There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to,
AIT 3.2.  370  That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,
AIT 3.2.  371  More pangs and fears than wars or women have,
AIT 3.2.  372  And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,
AIT 3.2.  373B Never to hope again. {Enter Cromwell, who then stands             +
AIT 3.2.  373B amazed} Why, how now, Cromwell?
AIT 3.2.  374B  CROMWELL I have no power to speak, sir. CARDINAL WOLSEY What,     +
AIT 3.2.  374B amazed
AIT 3.2.  375  At my misfortunes? Can thy spirit wonder
AIT 3.2.  376B A great man should decline? {[Cromwell begins to weep]}  +
AIT 3.2.  376B Nay, an you weep
AIT 3.2.  377B I am fall'n indeed. CROMWELL How does your grace? CARDINAL WOLSEY  +
AIT 3.2.  377B Why, well - 
AIT 3.2.  378  Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell.
AIT 3.2.  379  I know myself now, and I feel within me
AIT 3.2.  380  A peace above all earthly dignities,
AIT 3.2.  381  A still and quiet conscience. The King has cured me.
AIT 3.2.  382  I humbly thank his grace, and from these shoulders,
AIT 3.2.  383  These ruined pillars, out of pity, taken
AIT 3.2.  384  A load would sink a navy - too much honour.
AIT 3.2.  385  O, 'tis a burden, Cromwell, 'tis a burden
AIT 3.2.  386  Too heavy for a man that hopes for heaven.
AIT 3.2.  387   CROMWELL I am glad your grace has made that right use of it.
AIT 3.2.  388   CARDINAL WOLSEY I hope I have. I am able now, methinks,
AIT 3.2.  389  Out of a fortitude of soul I feel,
AIT 3.2.  390  To endure more miseries and greater far
AIT 3.2.  391  Than my weak-hearted enemies dare offer.
AIT 3.2.  392B What news abroad? CROMWELL The heaviest and the worst
AIT 3.2.  393B Is your displeasure with the King. CARDINAL WOLSEY God bless him.
AIT 3.2.  394   CROMWELL The next is that Sir Thomas More is chosen
AIT 3.2.  395B Lord Chancellor in your place. CARDINAL WOLSEY That's somewhat        +
AIT 3.2.  395B sudden.
AIT 3.2.  396  But he's a learned man. May he continue
AIT 3.2.  397  Long in his highness' favour, and do justice
AIT 3.2.  398  For truth's sake and his conscience, that his bones,
AIT 3.2.  399  When he has run his course and sleeps in blessings,
AIT 3.2.  400  May have a tomb of orphans' tears wept on him.
AIT 3.2.  401B What more? CROMWELL That Cranmer is returned with welcome,
AIT 3.2.  402  Installed lord Archbishop of Canterbury.
AIT 3.2.  403B  CARDINAL WOLSEY That's news indeed. CROMWELL Last, that the Lady  +
AIT 3.2.  403B Anne,
AIT 3.2.  404  Whom the King hath in secrecy long married,
AIT 3.2.  405  This day was viewed in open as his queen,
AIT 3.2.  406  Going to chapel, and the voice is now
AIT 3.2.  407  Only about her coronation.
AIT 3.2.  408   CARDINAL WOLSEY There was the weight that pulled me down. O,         +
AIT 3.2.  408  Cromwell,
AIT 3.2.  409  The King has gone beyond me. All my glories
AIT 3.2.  410  In that one woman I have lost for ever.
AIT 3.2.  411  No sun shall ever usher forth mine honours,
AIT 3.2.  412  Or gild again the noble troops that waited
AIT 3.2.  413  Upon my smiles. Go, get thee from me, Cromwell.
AIT 3.2.  414  I am a poor fall'n man, unworthy now
AIT 3.2.  415  To be thy lord and master. Seek the King - 
AIT 3.2.  416  That sun I pray may never set - I have told him
AIT 3.2.  417  What and how true thou art. He will advance thee.
AIT 3.2.  418  Some little memory of me will stir him.
AIT 3.2.  419  I know his noble nature not to let
AIT 3.2.  420  Thy hopeful service perish too. Good Cromwell,
AIT 3.2.  421  Neglect him not. Make use now, and provide
AIT 3.2.  422B For thine own future safety. CROMWELL  {[weeping]}    +
AIT 3.2.  422B O, my lord,
AIT 3.2.  423  Must I then leave you? Must I needs forgo
AIT 3.2.  424  So good, so noble, and so true a master?
AIT 3.2.  425  Bear witness, all that have not hearts of iron,
AIT 3.2.  426  With what a sorrow Cromwell leaves his lord.
AIT 3.2.  427  The King shall have my service, but my prayers
AIT 3.2.  428  For ever and for ever shall be yours.
AIT 3.2.  429   CARDINAL WOLSEY  {(weeping)} Cromwell, I did not     +
AIT 3.2.  429  think to shed a tear
AIT 3.2.  430  In all my miseries, but thou hast forced me,
AIT 3.2.  431  Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman.
AIT 3.2.  432  Let's dry our eyes, and thus far hear me, Cromwell,
AIT 3.2.  433  And when I am forgotten, as I shall be,
AIT 3.2.  434  And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention
AIT 3.2.  435  Of me more must be heard of, say I taught thee - 
AIT 3.2.  436  Say Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory,
AIT 3.2.  437  And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour,
AIT 3.2.  438  Found thee a way, out of his wreck, to rise in,
AIT 3.2.  439  A sure and safe one, though thy master missed it.
AIT 3.2.  440  Mark but my fall, and that that ruined me.
AIT 3.2.  441  Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition.
AIT 3.2.  442  By that sin fell the angels. How can man, then,
AIT 3.2.  443  The image of his maker, hope to win by it?
AIT 3.2.  444  Love thyself last. Cherish those hearts that hate thee.
AIT 3.2.  445  Corruption wins not more than honesty.
AIT 3.2.  446  Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace
AIT 3.2.  447  To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not.
AIT 3.2.  448  Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's,
AIT 3.2.  449  Thy God's, and truth's. Then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell,
AIT 3.2.  450  Thou fall'st a blessed martyr.
AIT 3.2.  451  Serve the King. And prithee, lead me in - 
AIT 3.2.  452  There take an inventory of all I have:
AIT 3.2.  453  To the last penny 'tis the King's. My robe,
AIT 3.2.  454  And my integrity to heaven, is all
AIT 3.2.  455  I dare now call mine own. O Cromwell, Cromwell,
AIT 3.2.  456  Had I but served my God with half the zeal
AIT 3.2.  457  I served my King, He would not in mine age
AIT 3.2.  458  Have left me naked to mine enemies.
AIT 3.2.  459B  CROMWELL Good sir, have patience. CARDINAL WOLSEY So I have.      +
AIT 3.2.  459B Farewell
AIT 3.2.  460  The hopes of court; my hopes in heaven do dwell. {Exeunt}
AIT 3.2.  460  [[ACT INTERVAL]]
AIT 3.2.    0     {Enter the two Gentlemen meeting one another. The    +
AIT 4.1.    0  first holds a paper}
AIT 4.1.    1B  FIRST GENTLEMAN  You're well met once again.                +
AIT 4.1.    1B  SECOND GENTLEMAN So are you.
AIT 4.1.    2   FIRST GENTLEMAN You come to take your stand here and behold
AIT 4.1.    3  The Lady Anne pass from her coronation?
AIT 4.1.    4   SECOND GENTLEMAN 'Tis all my business. At our last encounter
AIT 4.1.    5  The Duke of Buckingham came from his trial.
AIT 4.1.    6   FIRST GENTLEMAN 'Tis very true. But that time offered sorrow,
AIT 4.1.    7B This, general joy. SECOND GENTLEMAN 'Tis well. The citizens,
AIT 4.1.    8  I am sure, have shown at full their royal minds - 
AIT 4.1.    9  As, let 'em have their rights, they are ever forward - 
AIT 4.1.   10  In celebration of this day with shows,
AIT 4.1.   11B Pageants, and sights of honour. FIRST GENTLEMAN Never greater,
AIT 4.1.   12  Nor, I'll assure you, better taken, sir.
AIT 4.1.   13   SECOND GENTLEMAN May I be bold to ask what that contains,
AIT 4.1.   14B That paper in your hand? FIRST GENTLEMAN Yes, 'tis the list
AIT 4.1.   15  Of those that claim their offices this day
AIT 4.1.   16  By custom of the coronation.
AIT 4.1.   17  The Duke of Suffolk is the first, and claims
AIT 4.1.   18  To be High Steward; next, the Duke of Norfolk,
AIT 4.1.   19  He to be Earl Marshal. You may read the rest. {He gives him the   +
AIT 4.1.   19  paper}
AIT 4.1.   20   SECOND GENTLEMAN  I thank you, sir. Had I not known those   +
AIT 4.1.   20  customs,
AIT 4.1.   21  I should have been beholden to your paper.
AIT 4.1.   22  But I beseech you, what's become of Katherine,
AIT 4.1.   23  The Princess Dowager? How goes her business?
AIT 4.1.   24   FIRST GENTLEMAN That I can tell you too. The Archbishop
AIT 4.1.   25  Of Canterbury, accompanied with other
AIT 4.1.   26  Learned and reverend fathers of his order,
AIT 4.1.   27  Held a late court at Dunstable, six miles off
AIT 4.1.   28  From Ampthill, where the Princess lay; to which
AIT 4.1.   29  She was often cited by them, but appeared not.
AIT 4.1.   30  And, to be short, for not appearance, and
AIT 4.1.   31  The King's late scruple, by the main assent
AIT 4.1.   32  Of all these learned men, she was divorced,
AIT 4.1.   33  And the late marriage made of none effect,
AIT 4.1.   34  Since which she was removed to Kimbolton,
AIT 4.1.   35B Where she remains now sick. SECOND GENTLEMAN Alas, good lady!  +
AIT 4.1.   35B {Flourish of trumpets within}
AIT 4.1.   36   The trumpets sound. Stand close. The Queen is coming.   +
AIT 4.1.   36  {Enter the coronation procession, which passes over the stage in order   +
AIT 4.1.   36  and state. Hautboys, within, [play during the procession]}
AIT 4.1.   37   {the order of the coronation} {1. First, [enter]          +
AIT 4.1.   37  trumpeters, who play a lively flourish. 2. Then, enter two judges. 3.    +
AIT 4.1.   37  Then, enter the Lord Chancellor, with both the purse containing the      +
AIT 4.1.   37  great seal and the mace borne before him. 4. Then, enter choristers      +
AIT 4.1.   37  singing; [with them, musicians playing.] 5. Then, enter the Lord Mayor   +
AIT 4.1.   37  of London bearing the mace, followed by Garter King-of-Arms wearing his  +
AIT 4.1.   37  coat of arms and a gilt copper crown. 6. Then, enter Marquis Dorset      +
AIT 4.1.   37  bearing a sceptre of gold, and wearing, on his head, a demi-coronal of   +
AIT 4.1.   37  gold and, about his neck, a collar of esses. With him enter the Earl     +
AIT 4.1.   37  of Surrey bearing the rod of silver with the dove, crowned with an       +
AIT 4.1.   37  earl's coronet, and also wearing a collar of esses. 7. Next, enter the   +
AIT 4.1.   37  Duke of Suffolk as High Steward, in his robe of estate, with his         +
AIT 4.1.   37  coronet on his head, and bearing a long white wand. With him, enter the  +
AIT 4.1.   37  Duke of Norfolk with the rod of marshalship and a coronet on his head.   +
AIT 4.1.   37  Each wears a collar of esses. 8. Then, under a canopy borne by four      +
AIT 4.1.   37  barons of the Cinque Ports, enter Anne, the new Queen, in her robe. Her  +
AIT 4.1.   37  hair, which hangs loose, is richly adorned with pearl. She wears a       +
AIT 4.1.   37  crown. Accompanying her on either side are the Bishops of London and     +
AIT 4.1.   37  Winchester. 9. Next, enter the old Duchess of Norfolk, in a coronal of   +
AIT 4.1.   37  gold wrought with flowers, bearing the Queen's train. 10. Finally,       +
AIT 4.1.   37  enter certain ladies or countesses, with plain circlets of gold without  +
AIT 4.1.   37  flowers. The two Gentlemen comment on the procession as it passes over   +
AIT 4.1.   37  the stage} SECOND GENTLEMAN  A royal train, believe me.      +
AIT 4.1.   37  These I know.
AIT 4.1.   38B Who's that that bears the sceptre? FIRST GENTLEMAN Marquis Dorset.
AIT 4.1.   39  And that, the Earl of Surrey with the rod.
AIT 4.1.   40   SECOND GENTLEMAN A bold brave gentleman. That should be
AIT 4.1.   41B The Duke of Suffolk? FIRST GENTLEMAN 'Tis the same: High Steward.
AIT 4.1.   42B  SECOND GENTLEMAN And that, my lord of Norfolk? FIRST GENTLEMAN    +
AIT 4.1.   42B Yes. SECOND GENTLEMAN  {(seeing Anne)} Heaven bless   +
AIT 4.1.   42B thee!
AIT 4.1.   43  Thou hast the sweetest face I ever looked on.
AIT 4.1.   44  Sir, as I have a soul, she is an angel.
AIT 4.1.   45  Our King has all the Indies in his arms,
AIT 4.1.   46  And more, and richer, when he strains that lady.
AIT 4.1.   47B I cannot blame his conscience. FIRST GENTLEMAN They that bear
AIT 4.1.   48  The cloth of honour over her are four barons
AIT 4.1.   49  Of the Cinque Ports.
AIT 4.1.   50A  SECOND GENTLEMAN Those men are happy,
AIT 4.1.   51  And so are all are near her.
AIT 4.1.   52  I take it she that carries up the train
AIT 4.1.   53  Is that old noble lady, Duchess of Norfolk.
AIT 4.1.   54   FIRST GENTLEMAN It is. And all the rest are countesses.
AIT 4.1.   55   SECOND GENTLEMAN Their coronets say so. These are stars indeed - 
AIT 4.1.   56B  [FIRST GENTLEMAN] And sometimes falling ones. SECOND GENTLEMAN    +
AIT 4.1.   56B No more of that. {Exit the last of the procession, and then}
AIT 4.1.   57  {a great flourish of trumpets within} {Enter a third Gentleman    +
AIT 4.1.   57  [in a sweat]} FIRST GENTLEMAN  God save you, sir. Where      +
AIT 4.1.   57  have you been broiling?
AIT 4.1.   58   THIRD GENTLEMAN Among the crowd i' th' Abbey, where a finger
AIT 4.1.   59  Could not be wedged in more. I am stifled
AIT 4.1.   60  With the mere rankness of their joy.
AIT 4.1.   61B  SECOND GENTLEMAN You saw the ceremony? THIRD GENTLEMAN That I     +
AIT 4.1.   61B did.
AIT 4.1.   62A  FIRST GENTLEMAN How was it?
AIT 4.1.   63B  THIRD GENTLEMAN Well worth the seeing. SECOND GENTLEMAN Good      +
AIT 4.1.   63B sir, speak it to us.
AIT 4.1.   64   THIRD GENTLEMAN As well as I am able. The rich stream
AIT 4.1.   65  Of lords and ladies, having brought the Queen
AIT 4.1.   66  To a prepared place in the choir, fell off
AIT 4.1.   67  A distance from her, while her grace sat down
AIT 4.1.   68  To rest a while - some half an hour or so - 
AIT 4.1.   69  In a rich chair of state, opposing freely
AIT 4.1.   70  The beauty of her person to the people.
AIT 4.1.   71  Believe me, sir, she is the goodliest woman
AIT 4.1.   72  That ever lay by man; which when the people
AIT 4.1.   73  Had the full view of, such a noise arose
AIT 4.1.   74  As the shrouds make at sea in a stiff tempest,
AIT 4.1.   75  As loud and to as many tunes. Hats, cloaks - 
AIT 4.1.   76  Doublets, I think - flew up, and had their faces
AIT 4.1.   77  Been loose, this day they had been lost. Such joy
AIT 4.1.   78  I never saw before. Great-bellied women,
AIT 4.1.   79  That had not half a week to go, like rams
AIT 4.1.   80  In the old time of war, would shake the press,
AIT 4.1.   81  And make 'em reel before 'em. No man living
AIT 4.1.   82  Could say `This is my wife' there, all were woven
AIT 4.1.   83B So strangely in one piece. SECOND GENTLEMAN But what followed?
AIT 4.1.   84   THIRD GENTLEMAN At length her grace rose, and with modest paces
AIT 4.1.   85  Came to the altar, where she kneeled, and saint-like
AIT 4.1.   86  Cast her fair eyes to heaven, and prayed devoutly,
AIT 4.1.   87  Then rose again, and bowed her to the people,
AIT 4.1.   88  When by the Archbishop of Canterbury
AIT 4.1.   89  She had all the royal makings of a queen,
AIT 4.1.   90  As holy oil, Edward Confessor's crown,
AIT 4.1.   91  The rod and bird of peace, and all such emblems
AIT 4.1.   92  Laid nobly on her. Which performed, the choir,
AIT 4.1.   93  With all the choicest music of the kingdom,
AIT 4.1.   94  Together sung {Te Deum}. So she parted,
AIT 4.1.   95  And with the same full state paced back again
AIT 4.1.   96B To York Place, where the feast is held. FIRST GENTLEMAN Sir,
AIT 4.1.   97  You must no more call it York Place - that's past,
AIT 4.1.   98  For since the Cardinal fell, that title's lost.
AIT 4.1.   99B 'Tis now the King's, and called Whitehall. THIRD GENTLEMAN I know     +
AIT 4.1.   99B it,
AIT 4.1.  100  But 'tis so lately altered that the old name
AIT 4.1.  101B Is fresh about me. SECOND GENTLEMAN What two reverend bishops
AIT 4.1.  102  Were those that went on each side of the Queen?
AIT 4.1.  103   THIRD GENTLEMAN Stokesley and Gardiner, the one of Winchester - 
AIT 4.1.  104  Newly preferred from the King's secretary - 
AIT 4.1.  105B The other London. SECOND GENTLEMAN He of Winchester
AIT 4.1.  106  Is held no great good lover of the Archbishop's,
AIT 4.1.  107B The virtuous Cranmer. THIRD GENTLEMAN All the land knows that.
AIT 4.1.  108  However, yet there is no great breach. When it comes,
AIT 4.1.  109  Cranmer will find a friend will not shrink from him.
AIT 4.1.  110B  SECOND GENTLEMAN Who may that be, I pray you? THIRD GENTLEMAN     +
AIT 4.1.  110B Thomas Cromwell,
AIT 4.1.  111  A man in much esteem with th' King, and truly
AIT 4.1.  112  A worthy friend. The King has made him
AIT 4.1.  113  Master o' th' Jewel House,
AIT 4.1.  114  And one already of the Privy Council.
AIT 4.1.  115B  SECOND GENTLEMAN He will deserve more. THIRD GENTLEMAN Yes,       +
AIT 4.1.  115B without all doubt.
AIT 4.1.  116  Come, gentlemen, ye shall go my way,
AIT 4.1.  117  Which is to th' court, and there ye shall be my guests.
AIT 4.1.  118  Something I can command. As I walk thither
AIT 4.1.  119B I'll tell ye more. FIRST {AND} SECOND GENTLEMEN You may command us,   +
AIT 4.1.  119B sir. {Exeunt}
AIT 4.1.    0    {[Three chairs.] Enter Katherine Dowager, sick, led        +
AIT 4.2.    0  between Griffith her gentleman usher, and Patience her woman}
AIT 4.2.    1B  GRIFFITH  How does your grace? KATHERINE O Griffith,     +
AIT 4.2.    1B sick to death.
AIT 4.2.    2  My legs, like loaden branches, bow to th' earth,
AIT 4.2.    3  Willing to leave their burden. Reach a chair. {A chair is         +
AIT 4.2.    3  brought to her. She sits}
AIT 4.2.    4   So now, methinks, I feel a little ease.
AIT 4.2.    5  Didst thou not tell me, Griffith, as thou led'st me,
AIT 4.2.    6  That the great child of honour, Cardinal Wolsey,
AIT 4.2.    7B Was dead? GRIFFITH Yes, madam, but I think your grace,
AIT 4.2.    8  Out of the pain you suffered, gave no ear to 't.
AIT 4.2.    9   KATHERINE Prithee, good Griffith, tell me how he died.
AIT 4.2.   10  If well, he stepped before me happily
AIT 4.2.   11B For my example. GRIFFITH Well, the voice goes, madam.
AIT 4.2.   12  For after the stout Earl Northumberland
AIT 4.2.   13  Arrested him at York, and brought him forward,
AIT 4.2.   14  As a man sorely tainted, to his answer,
AIT 4.2.   15  He fell sick, suddenly, and grew so ill
AIT 4.2.   16B He could not sit his mule. KATHERINE Alas, poor man.
AIT 4.2.   17   GRIFFITH At last, with easy roads, he came to Leicester,
AIT 4.2.   18  Lodged in the abbey, where the reverend abbot,
AIT 4.2.   19  With all his convent, honourably received him,
AIT 4.2.   20  To whom he gave these words: `O father abbot,
AIT 4.2.   21  An old man broken with the storms of state
AIT 4.2.   22  Is come to lay his weary bones among ye.
AIT 4.2.   23  Give him a little earth, for charity.'
AIT 4.2.   24  So went to bed, where eagerly his sickness
AIT 4.2.   25  Pursued him still, and three nights after this,
AIT 4.2.   26  About the hour of eight, which he himself
AIT 4.2.   27  Foretold should be his last, full of repentance,
AIT 4.2.   28  Continual meditations, tears, and sorrows,
AIT 4.2.   29  He gave his honours to the world again,
AIT 4.2.   30  His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace.
AIT 4.2.   31   KATHERINE So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him.
AIT 4.2.   32  Yet thus far, Griffith, give me leave to speak him,
AIT 4.2.   33  And yet with charity. He was a man
AIT 4.2.   34  Of an unbounded stomach, ever ranking
AIT 4.2.   35  Himself with princes; one that by suggestion
AIT 4.2.   36  Tied all the kingdom. Simony was fair play.
AIT 4.2.   37  His own opinion was his law. I' th' presence
AIT 4.2.   38  He would say untruths, and be ever double
AIT 4.2.   39  Both in his words and meaning. He was never,
AIT 4.2.   40  But where he meant to ruin, pitiful.
AIT 4.2.   41  His promises were, as he then was, mighty;
AIT 4.2.   42  But his performance, as he is now, nothing.
AIT 4.2.   43  Of his own body he was ill, and gave
AIT 4.2.   44B The clergy ill example. GRIFFITH Noble madam,
AIT 4.2.   45  Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues
AIT 4.2.   46  We write in water. May it please your highness
AIT 4.2.   47B To hear me speak his good now? KATHERINE Yes, good Griffith,
AIT 4.2.   48B I were malicious else. GRIFFITH This cardinal,
AIT 4.2.   49  Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly
AIT 4.2.   50  Was fashioned to much honour. From his cradle
AIT 4.2.   51  He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one,
AIT 4.2.   52  Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading;
AIT 4.2.   53  Lofty and sour to them that loved him not,
AIT 4.2.   54  But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.
AIT 4.2.   55  And though he were unsatisfied in getting - 
AIT 4.2.   56  Which was a sin - yet in bestowing, madam,
AIT 4.2.   57  He was most princely: ever witness for him
AIT 4.2.   58  Those twins of learning that he raised in you,
AIT 4.2.   59  Ipswich and Oxford - one of which fell with him,
AIT 4.2.   60  Unwilling to outlive the good that did it;
AIT 4.2.   61  The other, though unfinished, yet so famous,
AIT 4.2.   62  So excellent in art, and still so rising,
AIT 4.2.   63  That Christendom shall ever speak his virtue.
AIT 4.2.   64  His overthrow heaped happiness upon him,
AIT 4.2.   65  For then, and not till then, he felt himself,
AIT 4.2.   66  And found the blessedness of being little.
AIT 4.2.   67  And to add greater honours to his age
AIT 4.2.   68  Than man could give him, he died fearing God.
AIT 4.2.   69   KATHERINE After my death I wish no other herald,
AIT 4.2.   70  No other speaker of my living actions
AIT 4.2.   71  To keep mine honour from corruption
AIT 4.2.   72  But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.
AIT 4.2.   73  Whom I most hated living, thou hast made me,
AIT 4.2.   74  With thy religious truth and modesty,
AIT 4.2.   75  Now in his ashes honour. Peace be with him.
AIT 4.2.   76   {(To her woman)} Patience, be near me still, and set    +
AIT 4.2.   76  me lower.
AIT 4.2.   77  I have not long to trouble thee. Good Griffith,
AIT 4.2.   78  Cause the musicians play me that sad note
AIT 4.2.   79  I named my knell, whilst I sit meditating
AIT 4.2.   80  On that celestial harmony I go to. {Sad and solemn music.         +
AIT 4.2.   80  Katherine sleeps}
AIT 4.2.   81   GRIFFITH  {(to the woman)} She is asleep. Good       +
AIT 4.2.   81  wench, let's sit down quiet
AIT 4.2.   82  For fear we wake her. Softly, gentle Patience. {They sit}
AIT 4.2.   83   {the vision} {Enter, solemnly tripping one after          +
AIT 4.2.   83  another, six personages clad in white robes, wearing on their heads      +
AIT 4.2.   83  garlands of bays, and golden visors on their faces. They carry branches  +
AIT 4.2.   83  of bays or palm in their hands. They first conge/ unto Katherine,        +
AIT 4.2.   83  then dance; and, at certain changes, the first two hold a spare          +
AIT 4.2.   83  garland over her head at which the other four make reverent curtsies.    +
AIT 4.2.   83  Then the two that held the garland deliver the same to the other next    +
AIT 4.2.   83  two, who observe the same order in their changes and holding the         +
AIT 4.2.   83  garland over her head. Which done, they deliver the same garland to the  +
AIT 4.2.   83  last two who likewise observe the same order. At which, as it were by    +
AIT 4.2.   83  inspiration, she makes in her sleep signs of rejoicing, and holdeth up   +
AIT 4.2.   83  her hands to heaven. And so in their dancing vanish, carrying the        +
AIT 4.2.   83  garland with them. The music continues} KATHERINE              +
AIT 4.2.   83  {(waking)} Spirits of peace, where are ye? Are ye all gone,
AIT 4.2.   84  And leave me here in wretchedness behind ye? {Griffith and        +
AIT 4.2.   84  Patience rise and come forward}
AIT 4.2.   85B  GRIFFITH  Madam, we are here. KATHERINE It is not you I  +
AIT 4.2.   85B call for.
AIT 4.2.   86B Saw ye none enter since I slept? GRIFFITH None, madam.
AIT 4.2.   87   KATHERINE No? Saw you not even now a blessed troop
AIT 4.2.   88  Invite me to a banquet, whose bright faces
AIT 4.2.   89  Cast thousand beams upon me, like the sun?
AIT 4.2.   90  They promised me eternal happiness,
AIT 4.2.   91  And brought me garlands, Griffith, which I feel
AIT 4.2.   92  I am not worthy yet to wear. I shall,
AIT 4.2.   93  Assuredly.
AIT 4.2.   94   GRIFFITH I am most joyful, madam, such good dreams
AIT 4.2.   95B Possess your fancy. KATHERINE Bid the music leave.
AIT 4.2.   96B They are harsh and heavy to me. {Music ceases} PATIENCE        +
AIT 4.2.   96B  {(to Griffith)} Do you note
AIT 4.2.   97  How much her grace is altered on the sudden?
AIT 4.2.   98  How long her face is drawn? How pale she looks,
AIT 4.2.   99  And of an earthy colour? Mark her eyes?
AIT 4.2.  100B  GRIFFITH She is going, wench. Pray, pray. PATIENCE Heaven         +
AIT 4.2.  100B comfort her. {Enter a Messenger}
AIT 4.2.  101B  MESSENGER  {(to Katherine)} An 't like your          +
AIT 4.2.  101B grace -  KATHERINE You are a saucy fellow - 
AIT 4.2.  102B Deserve we no more reverence? GRIFFITH  {(to the               +
AIT 4.2.  102B Messenger)} You are to blame,
AIT 4.2.  103  Knowing she will not lose her wonted greatness,
AIT 4.2.  104  To use so rude behaviour. Go to, kneel.
AIT 4.2.  105   MESSENGER  {(kneeling before Katherine)} I humbly    +
AIT 4.2.  105  do entreat your highness' pardon.
AIT 4.2.  106  My haste made me unmannerly. There is staying
AIT 4.2.  107  A gentleman sent from the King to see you.
AIT 4.2.  108   KATHERINE Admit him entrance, Griffith. But this fellow
AIT 4.2.  109B Let me ne'er see again. {Exit Messenger} {Enter Lord       +
AIT 4.2.  109B Caputius [ushered by Griffith]} If my sight fail not,
AIT 4.2.  110  You should be lord ambassador from the Emperor,
AIT 4.2.  111  My royal nephew, and your name Caputius.
AIT 4.2.  112B  CAPUTIUS Madam, the same, {[bowing]} your            +
AIT 4.2.  112B servant. KATHERINE O, my lord,
AIT 4.2.  113  The times and titles now are altered strangely
AIT 4.2.  114  With me since first you knew me. But I pray you,
AIT 4.2.  115B What is your pleasure with me? CAPUTIUS Noble lady,
AIT 4.2.  116  First mine own service to your grace; the next,
AIT 4.2.  117  The King's request that I would visit you,
AIT 4.2.  118  Who grieves much for your weakness, and by me
AIT 4.2.  119  Sends you his princely commendations,
AIT 4.2.  120  And heartily entreats you take good comfort.
AIT 4.2.  121   KATHERINE O, my good lord, that comfort comes too late,
AIT 4.2.  122  'Tis like a pardon after execution.
AIT 4.2.  123  That gentle physic, given in time, had cured me;
AIT 4.2.  124  But now I am past all comforts here but prayers.
AIT 4.2.  125B How does his highness? CAPUTIUS Madam, in good health.
AIT 4.2.  126   KATHERINE So may he ever do, and ever flourish
AIT 4.2.  127  When I shall dwell with worms, and my poor name
AIT 4.2.  128  Banished the kingdom. {(To her woman)} Patience, is      +
AIT 4.2.  128  that letter
AIT 4.2.  129B I caused you write yet sent away? PATIENCE No, madam.
AIT 4.2.  130   KATHERINE  {(to Caputius)} Sir, I most humbly pray   +
AIT 4.2.  130  you to deliver
AIT 4.2.  131B This to my lord the King. {The letter is given to                 +
AIT 4.2.  131B Caputius} CAPUTIUS  Most willing, madam.
AIT 4.2.  132   KATHERINE In which I have commended to his goodness
AIT 4.2.  133  The model of our chaste loves, his young daughter - 
AIT 4.2.  134  The dews of heaven fall thick in blessings on her - 
AIT 4.2.  135  Beseeching him to give her virtuous breeding.
AIT 4.2.  136  She is young, and of a noble modest nature.
AIT 4.2.  137  I hope she will deserve well - and a little
AIT 4.2.  138  To love her for her mother's sake, that loved him,
AIT 4.2.  139  Heaven knows how dearly. My next poor petition
AIT 4.2.  140  Is that his noble grace would have some pity
AIT 4.2.  141  Upon my wretched women, that so long
AIT 4.2.  142  Have followed both my fortunes faithfully;
AIT 4.2.  143  Of which there is not one, I dare avow - 
AIT 4.2.  144  And now I should not lie - but will deserve,
AIT 4.2.  145  For virtue and true beauty of the soul,
AIT 4.2.  146  For honesty and decent carriage,
AIT 4.2.  147  A right good husband. Let him be a noble,
AIT 4.2.  148  And sure those men are happy that shall have 'em.
AIT 4.2.  149  The last is for my men - they are the poorest,
AIT 4.2.  150  But poverty could never draw 'em from me - 
AIT 4.2.  151  That they may have their wages duly paid 'em,
AIT 4.2.  152  And something over to remember me by.
AIT 4.2.  153  If heaven had pleased to have given me longer life,
AIT 4.2.  154  And able means, we had not parted thus.
AIT 4.2.  155  These are the whole contents; and, good my lord,
AIT 4.2.  156  By that you love the dearest in this world,
AIT 4.2.  157  As you wish Christian peace to souls departed,
AIT 4.2.  158  Stand these poor people's friend and urge the King
AIT 4.2.  159B To do me this last rite. CAPUTIUS By heaven I will,
AIT 4.2.  160  Or let me lose the fashion of a man.
AIT 4.2.  161   KATHERINE I thank you, honest lord. Remember me
AIT 4.2.  162  In all humility unto his highness.
AIT 4.2.  163  Say his long trouble now is passing
AIT 4.2.  164  Out of this world. Tell him, in death I blessed him,
AIT 4.2.  165  For so I will. Mine eyes grow dim. Farewell,
AIT 4.2.  166B My lord. Griffith, farewell. {(To her woman)} Nay,       +
AIT 4.2.  166B Patience,
AIT 4.2.  167  You must not leave me yet. I must to bed.
AIT 4.2.  168  Call in more women. When I am dead, good wench,
AIT 4.2.  169  Let me be used with honour. Strew me over
AIT 4.2.  170  With maiden flowers, that all the world may know
AIT 4.2.  171  I was a chaste wife to my grave. Embalm me,
AIT 4.2.  172  Then lay me forth. Although unqueened, yet like
AIT 4.2.  173  A queen and daughter to a king inter me.
AIT 4.2.  174  I can no more. {Exeunt [Caputius and Griffith at one door;        +
AIT 4.2.  174  Patience] leading Katherine [at another]}
AIT 4.2.  174  [[ACT INTERVAL]]
AIT 4.2.    0  
AIT 4.2.    0     {Enter [at one door] Gardiner, Bishop of             +
AIT 5.1.    0  Winchester; before him, a Page with a torch}
AIT 5.1.    1B  GARDINER  It's one o'clock, boy, is 't not? PAGE It      +
AIT 5.1.    1B hath struck.
AIT 5.1.    2   GARDINER These should be hours for necessities,
AIT 5.1.    3  Not for delights; times to repair our nature
AIT 5.1.    4  With comforting repose, and not for us
AIT 5.1.    5B To waste these times. {Enter [at another door] Sir Thomas         +
AIT 5.1.    5B Lovell, meeting them} Good hour of night, Sir Thomas!
AIT 5.1.    6B Whither so late? LOVELL Came you from the King, my lord?
AIT 5.1.    7   GARDINER I did, Sir Thomas, and left him at primero
AIT 5.1.    8B With the Duke of Suffolk. LOVELL I must to him too,
AIT 5.1.    9  Before he go to bed. I'll take my leave.
AIT 5.1.   10   GARDINER Not yet, Sir Thomas Lovell - what's the matter?
AIT 5.1.   11  It seems you are in haste. An if there be
AIT 5.1.   12  No great offence belongs to 't, give your friend
AIT 5.1.   13  Some touch of your late business. Affairs that walk,
AIT 5.1.   14  As they say spirits do, at midnight, have
AIT 5.1.   15  In them a wilder nature than the business
AIT 5.1.   16B That seeks dispatch by day. LOVELL My lord, I love you,
AIT 5.1.   17  And durst commend a secret to your ear
AIT 5.1.   18  Much weightier than this work. The Queen's in labour - 
AIT 5.1.   19  They say in great extremity - and feared
AIT 5.1.   20B She'll with the labour end. GARDINER The fruit she goes with
AIT 5.1.   21  I pray for heartily, that it may find
AIT 5.1.   22  Good time, and live. But, for the stock, Sir Thomas,
AIT 5.1.   23B I wish it grubbed up now. LOVELL Methinks I could
AIT 5.1.   24  Cry the amen, and yet my conscience says
AIT 5.1.   25  She's a good creature and, sweet lady, does
AIT 5.1.   26B Deserve our better wishes. GARDINER But sir, sir,
AIT 5.1.   27  Hear me, Sir Thomas. You're a gentleman
AIT 5.1.   28  Of mine own way. I know you wise, religious.
AIT 5.1.   29  And let me tell you, it will ne'er be well - 
AIT 5.1.   30  'Twill not, Sir Thomas Lovell, take 't of me - 
AIT 5.1.   31  Till Cranmer, Cromwell - her two hands - and she,
AIT 5.1.   32B Sleep in their graves. LOVELL Now, sir, you speak of two
AIT 5.1.   33  The most remarked i' th' kingdom. As for Cromwell,
AIT 5.1.   34  Beside that of the Jewel House is made Master
AIT 5.1.   35  O' th' Rolls and the King's secretary. Further, sir,
AIT 5.1.   36  Stands in the gap and trade of more preferments
AIT 5.1.   37  With which the time will load him. Th' Archbishop
AIT 5.1.   38  Is the King's hand and tongue, and who dare speak
AIT 5.1.   39B One syllable against him? GARDINER Yes, yes, Sir Thomas - 
AIT 5.1.   40  There are that dare, and I myself have ventured
AIT 5.1.   41  To speak my mind of him, and, indeed, this day,
AIT 5.1.   42  Sir - I may tell it you, I think - I have
AIT 5.1.   43  Incensed the lords o' th' Council that he is - 
AIT 5.1.   44  For so I know he is, they know he is - 
AIT 5.1.   45  A most arch heretic, a pestilence
AIT 5.1.   46  That does infect the land; with which they, moved,
AIT 5.1.   47  Have broken with the King, who hath so far
AIT 5.1.   48  Given ear to our complaint, of his great grace
AIT 5.1.   49  And princely care, foreseeing those fell mischiefs
AIT 5.1.   50  Our reasons laid before him, hath commanded
AIT 5.1.   51  Tomorrow morning to the Council board
AIT 5.1.   52  He be convented. He's a rank weed, Sir Thomas,
AIT 5.1.   53  And we must root him out. From your affairs
AIT 5.1.   54  I hinder you too long. Good night, Sir Thomas.
AIT 5.1.   55   LOVELL Many good nights, my lord; I rest your servant.        +
AIT 5.1.   55  {Exeunt Gardiner and Page at one door}
AIT 5.1.   56   {Enter King Henry and Suffolk at another door} KING HENRY     +
AIT 5.1.   56   {(to Suffolk)} Charles, I will play no more tonight.
AIT 5.1.   57  My mind's not on 't. You are too hard for me.
AIT 5.1.   58   SUFFOLK Sir, I did never win of you before.
AIT 5.1.   59A  KING HENRY But little, Charles,
AIT 5.1.   60  Nor shall not when my fancy's on my play.
AIT 5.1.   61  Now, Lovell, from the Queen what is the news?
AIT 5.1.   62   LOVELL I could not personally deliver to her
AIT 5.1.   63  What you commanded me, but by her woman
AIT 5.1.   64  I sent your message, who returned her thanks
AIT 5.1.   65  In the great'st humbleness, and desired your highness
AIT 5.1.   66B Most heartily to pray for her. KING HENRY What sayst thou? Ha?
AIT 5.1.   67  To pray for her? What, is she crying out?
AIT 5.1.   68   LOVELL So said her woman, and that her suffrance made
AIT 5.1.   69B Almost each pang a death. KING HENRY Alas, good lady.
AIT 5.1.   70   SUFFOLK God safely quit her of her burden, and
AIT 5.1.   71  With gentle travail, to the gladding of
AIT 5.1.   72B Your highness with an heir. KING HENRY 'Tis midnight, Charles.
AIT 5.1.   73  Prithee to bed, and in thy prayers remember
AIT 5.1.   74  Th' estate of my poor queen. Leave me alone,
AIT 5.1.   75  For I must think of that which company
AIT 5.1.   76B Would not be friendly to. SUFFOLK I wish your highness
AIT 5.1.   77  A quiet night, and my good mistress will
AIT 5.1.   78B Remember in my prayers. KING HENRY Charles, good night. {Exit  +
AIT 5.1.   78B Suffolk}
AIT 5.1.   79   {Enter Sir Anthony Denny} Well, sir, what follows?
AIT 5.1.   80   DENNY Sir, I have brought my lord the Archbishop,
AIT 5.1.   81B As you commanded me. KING HENRY Ha, Canterbury?
AIT 5.1.   82B  DENNY Ay, my good lord. KING HENRY 'Tis true - where is he, Denny?
AIT 5.1.   83B  DENNY He attends your highness' pleasure. KING HENRY Bring him    +
AIT 5.1.   83B to us. {Exit Denny}
AIT 5.1.   84   LOVELL  {(aside)} This is about that which the       +
AIT 5.1.   84  Bishop spake.
AIT 5.1.   85  I am happily come hither. {Enter Cranmer the Archbishop, ushered  +
AIT 5.1.   85  by Denny}
AIT 5.1.   86A  KING HENRY  {(to Lovell and Denny)} Avoid the        +
AIT 5.1.   86A gallery. {[Denny begins to depart.] Lovell seems to stay}
AIT 5.1.   87   Ha? I have said. Be gone.
AIT 5.1.   88B What? {Exeunt Lovell and Denny} CRANMER                 +
AIT 5.1.   88B {(aside)} I am fearful. Wherefore frowns he thus?
AIT 5.1.   89  'Tis his aspect of terror. All's not well.
AIT 5.1.   90   KING HENRY How now, my lord? You do desire to know
AIT 5.1.   91B Wherefore I sent for you. CRANMER  {(kneeling)} It    +
AIT 5.1.   91B is my duty
AIT 5.1.   92B T' attend your highness' pleasure. KING HENRY Pray you, arise,
AIT 5.1.   93  My good and gracious Lord of Canterbury.
AIT 5.1.   94  Come, you and I must walk a turn together.
AIT 5.1.   95  I have news to tell you. Come, come - give me your hand. {[Cranmer  +
AIT 5.1.   95  rises. They walk]}
AIT 5.1.   96   Ah, my good lord, I grieve at what I speak,
AIT 5.1.   97  And am right sorry to repeat what follows.
AIT 5.1.   98  I have, and most unwillingly, of late
AIT 5.1.   99  Heard many grievous - I do say, my lord,
AIT 5.1.  100  Grievous - complaints of you, which, being considered,
AIT 5.1.  101  Have moved us and our Council that you shall
AIT 5.1.  102  This morning come before us, where I know
AIT 5.1.  103  You cannot with such freedom purge yourself
AIT 5.1.  104  But that, till further trial in those charges
AIT 5.1.  105  Which will require your answer, you must take
AIT 5.1.  106  Your patience to you, and be well contented
AIT 5.1.  107  To make your house our Tower. You a brother of us,
AIT 5.1.  108  It fits we thus proceed, or else no witness
AIT 5.1.  109B Would come against you. CRANMER  {(kneeling)} I       +
AIT 5.1.  109B humbly thank your highness,
AIT 5.1.  110  And am right glad to catch this good occasion
AIT 5.1.  111  Most throughly to be winnowed, where my chaff
AIT 5.1.  112  And corn shall fly asunder. For I know
AIT 5.1.  113  There's none stands under more calumnious tongues
AIT 5.1.  114B Than I myself, poor man. KING HENRY Stand up, good Canterbury.
AIT 5.1.  115  Thy truth and thy integrity is rooted
AIT 5.1.  116  In us, thy friend. Give me thy hand. Stand up.
AIT 5.1.  117B Prithee, let's walk. {Cranmer rises. They walk} Now, by  +
AIT 5.1.  117B my halidom,
AIT 5.1.  118  What manner of man are you? My lord, I looked
AIT 5.1.  119  You would have given me your petition that
AIT 5.1.  120  I should have ta'en some pains to bring together
AIT 5.1.  121  Yourself and your accusers, and to have heard you
AIT 5.1.  122B Without indurance further. CRANMER Most dread liege,
AIT 5.1.  123  The good I stand on is my truth and honesty.
AIT 5.1.  124  If they shall fail, I with mine enemies
AIT 5.1.  125  Will triumph o'er my person, which I weigh not,
AIT 5.1.  126  Being of those virtues vacant. I fear nothing
AIT 5.1.  127B What can be said against me. KING HENRY Know you not
AIT 5.1.  128  How your state stands i' th' world, with the whole world?
AIT 5.1.  129  Your enemies are many, and not small; their practices
AIT 5.1.  130  Must bear the same proportion, and not ever
AIT 5.1.  131  The justice and the truth o' th' question carries
AIT 5.1.  132  The dew o' th' verdict with it. At what ease
AIT 5.1.  133  Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt
AIT 5.1.  134  To swear against you? Such things have been done.
AIT 5.1.  135  You are potently opposed, and with a malice
AIT 5.1.  136  Of as great size. Ween you of better luck,
AIT 5.1.  137  I mean in perjured witness, than your master,
AIT 5.1.  138  Whose minister you are, whiles here he lived
AIT 5.1.  139  Upon this naughty earth? Go to, go to.
AIT 5.1.  140  You take a precipice for no leap of danger,
AIT 5.1.  141B And woo your own destruction. CRANMER God and your majesty
AIT 5.1.  142  Protect mine innocence, or I fall into
AIT 5.1.  143B The trap is laid for me. KING HENRY Be of good cheer.
AIT 5.1.  144  They shall no more prevail than we give way to.
AIT 5.1.  145  Keep comfort to you, and this morning see
AIT 5.1.  146  You do appear before them. If they shall chance,
AIT 5.1.  147  In charging you with matters, to commit you,
AIT 5.1.  148  The best persuasions to the contrary
AIT 5.1.  149  Fail not to use, and with what vehemency
AIT 5.1.  150  Th' occasion shall instruct you. If entreaties
AIT 5.1.  151  Will render you no remedy, {[giving his ring]} this      +
AIT 5.1.  151  ring
AIT 5.1.  152  Deliver them, and your appeal to us
AIT 5.1.  153B There make before them. {Cranmer weeps} Look, the good   +
AIT 5.1.  153B man weeps.
AIT 5.1.  154  He's honest, on mine honour. God's blest mother,
AIT 5.1.  155  I swear he is true-hearted, and a soul
AIT 5.1.  156  None better in my kingdom. Get you gone,
AIT 5.1.  157B And do as I have bid you. {Exit Cranmer} He has          +
AIT 5.1.  157B strangled
AIT 5.1.  158B His language in his tears. {Enter the Old Lady} [LOVELL]       +
AIT 5.1.  158B  {(within)} Come back! What mean you? {[Enter     +
AIT 5.1.  158B Lovell, following her]}
AIT 5.1.  159   OLD LADY  I'll not come back. The tidings that I bring
AIT 5.1.  160  Will make my boldness manners. {(To the King)} Now good  +
AIT 5.1.  160  angels
AIT 5.1.  161  Fly o'er thy royal head, and shade thy person
AIT 5.1.  162B Under their blessed wings. KING HENRY Now by thy looks
AIT 5.1.  163  I guess thy message. Is the Queen delivered?
AIT 5.1.  164B Say, `Ay, and of a boy.' OLD LADY Ay, ay, my liege,
AIT 5.1.  165  And of a lovely boy. The God of heaven
AIT 5.1.  166  Both now and ever bless her! 'Tis a girl
AIT 5.1.  167  Promises boys hereafter. Sir, your queen
AIT 5.1.  168  Desires your visitation, and to be
AIT 5.1.  169  Acquainted with this stranger. 'Tis as like you
AIT 5.1.  170B As cherry is to cherry. KING HENRY Lovell -  LOVELL Sir?
AIT 5.1.  171   KING HENRY Give her an hundred marks. I'll to the Queen.      +
AIT 5.1.  171  {Exit}
AIT 5.1.  172   OLD LADY  An hundred marks? By this light, I'll ha' more.
AIT 5.1.  173  An ordinary groom is for such payment.
AIT 5.1.  174  I will have more, or scold it out of him.
AIT 5.1.  175  Said I for this the girl was like to him? I'll
AIT 5.1.  176  Have more, or else unsay 't; and now, while 'tis hot,
AIT 5.1.  177  I'll put it to the issue. {Exeunt}
AIT 5.1.    0  
AIT 5.1.    0    {Enter [pursuivants, pages, footboys, and grooms. Then     +
AIT 5.2.    0  enter] Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury}
AIT 5.2.    1   CRANMER  I hope I am not too late, and yet the gentleman
AIT 5.2.    2  That was sent to me from the council prayed me
AIT 5.2.    3  To make great haste. All fast? What means this? { (Calling at     +
AIT 5.2.    3  the door)} Ho!
AIT 5.2.    4B Who waits there? {Enter a Doorkeeper} Sure you know      +
AIT 5.2.    4B me? DOORKEEPER Yes, my lord,
AIT 5.2.    5B But yet I cannot help you. CRANMER Why? {[Enter Doctor Butts,  +
AIT 5.2.    5B passing over the stage]}
AIT 5.2.    6B  DOORKEEPER  Your grace must wait till you be called         +
AIT 5.2.    6B for. CRANMER So.
AIT 5.2.    7   BUTTS  {(aside)} This is a piece of malice. I am     +
AIT 5.2.    7  glad
AIT 5.2.    8  I came this way so happily. The King
AIT 5.2.    9B Shall understand it presently. {Exit} CRANMER           +
AIT 5.2.    9B {(aside)} 'Tis Butts,
AIT 5.2.   10  The King's physician. As he passed along
AIT 5.2.   11  How earnestly he cast his eyes upon me!
AIT 5.2.   12  Pray heaven he found not my disgrace. For certain
AIT 5.2.   13  This is of purpose laid by some that hate me - 
AIT 5.2.   14  God turn their hearts, I never sought their malice - 
AIT 5.2.   15  To quench mine honour. They would shame to make me
AIT 5.2.   16  Wait else at door, a fellow Councillor,
AIT 5.2.   17  'Mong boys, grooms, and lackeys. But their pleasures
AIT 5.2.   18  Must be fulfilled, and I attend with patience. {Enter King Henry  +
AIT 5.2.   18  and Doctor Butts at a window, above}
AIT 5.2.   19B  BUTTS  I'll show your grace the strangest sight -             +
AIT 5.2.   19B  KING HENRY What's that, Butts?
AIT 5.2.   20   BUTTS I think your highness saw this many a day.
AIT 5.2.   21B  KING HENRY Body o' me, where is it? BUTTS  {(pointing at   +
AIT 5.2.   21B Cranmer, below)} There, my lord.
AIT 5.2.   22  The high promotion of his grace of Canterbury,
AIT 5.2.   23  Who holds his state at door, 'mongst pursuivants,
AIT 5.2.   24B Pages, and footboys. KING HENRY Ha? 'Tis he indeed.
AIT 5.2.   25  Is this the honour they do one another?
AIT 5.2.   26  'Tis well there's one above 'em yet. I had thought
AIT 5.2.   27  They had parted so much honesty among 'em - 
AIT 5.2.   28  At least good manners - as not thus to suffer
AIT 5.2.   29  A man of his place and so near our favour
AIT 5.2.   30  To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures,
AIT 5.2.   31  And at the door, too, like a post with packets!
AIT 5.2.   32  By holy Mary, Butts, there's knavery!
AIT 5.2.   33  Let 'em alone, and draw the curtain close.
AIT 5.2.   34  We shall hear more anon. {[Cranmer and the doorkeeper stand to    +
AIT 5.2.   34  one side. Exeunt the lackeys]}
AIT 5.2.   35   {Above, Butts [partly] draws the curtain close. Below, a         +
AIT 5.2.   35  council table is brought in along with chairs and stools, and placed     +
AIT 5.2.   35  under the cloth of state. Enter the Lord Chancellor, who places himself  +
AIT 5.2.   35  at the upper end of the table, on the left hand, leaving a seat void     +
AIT 5.2.   35  above him at the table's head as for Canterbury's seat. The Duke of      +
AIT 5.2.   35  Suffolk, the Duke of Norfolk, the Earl of Surrey, the Lord               +
AIT 5.2.   35  Chamberlain, and Gardiner, the Bishop of Winchester, seat themselves     +
AIT 5.2.   35  in order on each side of the table. Cromwell sits at the lower end, and  +
AIT 5.2.   35  acts as secretary} LORD CHANCELLOR  {(to Cromwell)}   +
AIT 5.2.   35  Speak to the business, master secretary.
AIT 5.2.   36B Why are we met in council? CROMWELL Please your honours,
AIT 5.2.   37  The chief cause concerns his grace of Canterbury.
AIT 5.2.   38B  GARDINER Has he had knowledge of it? CROMWELL Yes. NORFOLK     +
AIT 5.2.   38B  {(to the Doorkeeper)} Who waits there?
AIT 5.2.   39B  DOORKEEPER  {[coming forward]} Without, my noble     +
AIT 5.2.   39B lords? GARDINER Yes. DOORKEEPER My lord Archbishop;
AIT 5.2.   40  And has done half an hour, to know your pleasures.
AIT 5.2.   41B  LORD CHANCELLOR Let him come in. DOORKEEPER  {(to          +
AIT 5.2.   41B Cranmer)} Your grace may enter now. {Cranmer approaches  +
AIT 5.2.   41B the Council table}
AIT 5.2.   42   LORD CHANCELLOR  My good lord Archbishop, I'm very sorry
AIT 5.2.   43  To sit here at this present and behold
AIT 5.2.   44  That chair stand empty, but we all are men
AIT 5.2.   45  In our own natures frail, and capable
AIT 5.2.   46  Of our flesh; few are angels; out of which frailty
AIT 5.2.   47  And want of wisdom, you, that best should teach us,
AIT 5.2.   48  Have misdemeaned yourself, and not a little,
AIT 5.2.   49  Toward the King first, then his laws, in filling
AIT 5.2.   50  The whole realm, by your teaching and your chaplains' - 
AIT 5.2.   51  For so we are informed - with new opinions,
AIT 5.2.   52  Diverse and dangerous, which are heresies,
AIT 5.2.   53  And, not reformed, may prove pernicious.
AIT 5.2.   54   GARDINER Which reformation must be sudden too,
AIT 5.2.   55  My noble lords; for those that tame wild horses
AIT 5.2.   56  Pace 'em not in their hands to make 'em gentle,
AIT 5.2.   57  But stop their mouths with stubborn bits and spur 'em
AIT 5.2.   58  Till they obey the manege. If we suffer,
AIT 5.2.   59  Out of our easiness and childish pity
AIT 5.2.   60  To one man's honour, this contagious sickness,
AIT 5.2.   61  Farewell all physic - and what follows then?
AIT 5.2.   62  Commotions, uproars - with a general taint
AIT 5.2.   63  Of the whole state, as of late days our neighbours,
AIT 5.2.   64  The upper Germany, can dearly witness,
AIT 5.2.   65  Yet freshly pitied in our memories.
AIT 5.2.   66   CRANMER My good lords, hitherto in all the progress
AIT 5.2.   67  Both of my life and office, I have laboured,
AIT 5.2.   68  And with no little study, that my teaching
AIT 5.2.   69  And the strong course of my authority
AIT 5.2.   70  Might go one way, and safely; and the end
AIT 5.2.   71  Was ever to do well. Nor is there living - 
AIT 5.2.   72  I speak it with a single heart, my lords - 
AIT 5.2.   73  A man that more detests, more stirs against,
AIT 5.2.   74  Both in his private conscience and his place,
AIT 5.2.   75  Defacers of a public peace than I do.
AIT 5.2.   76  Pray heaven the King may never find a heart
AIT 5.2.   77  With less allegiance in it. Men that make
AIT 5.2.   78  Envy and crooked malice nourishment
AIT 5.2.   79  Dare bite the best. I do beseech your lordships
AIT 5.2.   80  That, in this case of justice, my accusers,
AIT 5.2.   81  Be what they will, may stand forth face to face,
AIT 5.2.   82B And freely urge against me. SUFFOLK Nay, my lord,
AIT 5.2.   83  That cannot be. You are a Councillor,
AIT 5.2.   84  And by that virtue no man dare accuse you.
AIT 5.2.   85   GARDINER  {(to Cranmer)} My lord, because we have    +
AIT 5.2.   85  business of more moment,
AIT 5.2.   86  We will be short with you. 'Tis his highness' pleasure
AIT 5.2.   87  And our consent, for better trial of you,
AIT 5.2.   88  From hence you be committed to the Tower
AIT 5.2.   89  Where, being but a private man again,
AIT 5.2.   90  You shall know many dare accuse you boldly,
AIT 5.2.   91  More than, I fear, you are provided for.
AIT 5.2.   92   CRANMER Ah, my good lord of Winchester, I thank you.
AIT 5.2.   93  You are always my good friend. If your will pass,
AIT 5.2.   94  I shall both find your lordship judge and juror,
AIT 5.2.   95  You are so merciful. I see your end - 
AIT 5.2.   96  'Tis my undoing. Love and meekness, lord,
AIT 5.2.   97  Become a churchman better than ambition.
AIT 5.2.   98  Win straying souls with modesty again;
AIT 5.2.   99  Cast none away. That I shall clear myself,
AIT 5.2.  100  Lay all the weight ye can upon my patience,
AIT 5.2.  101  I make as little doubt as you do conscience
AIT 5.2.  102  In doing daily wrongs. I could say more,
AIT 5.2.  103  But reverence to your calling makes me modest.
AIT 5.2.  104   GARDINER My lord, my lord - you are a sectary,
AIT 5.2.  105  That's the plain truth. Your painted gloss discovers,
AIT 5.2.  106  To men that understand you, words and weakness.
AIT 5.2.  107   CROMWELL  {(to Gardiner)} My lord of Winchester,     +
AIT 5.2.  107  you're a little,
AIT 5.2.  108  By your good favour, too sharp. Men so noble,
AIT 5.2.  109  However faulty, yet should find respect
AIT 5.2.  110  For what they have been. 'Tis a cruelty
AIT 5.2.  111B To load a falling man. GARDINER Good master secretary,
AIT 5.2.  112  I cry your honour mercy. You may worst
AIT 5.2.  113B Of all this table say so. CROMWELL Why, my lord?
AIT 5.2.  114   GARDINER Do not I know you for a favourer
AIT 5.2.  115B Of this new sect? Ye are not sound. CROMWELL Not sound?
AIT 5.2.  116B  GARDINER Not sound, I say. CROMWELL Would you were half so        +
AIT 5.2.  116B honest!
AIT 5.2.  117  Men's prayers then would seek you, not their fears.
AIT 5.2.  118B  GARDINER I shall remember this bold language. CROMWELL Do.
AIT 5.2.  119B Remember your bold life, too. LORD CHANCELLOR This is too much.
AIT 5.2.  120B Forbear, for shame, my lords. GARDINER I have done. CROMWELL And   +
AIT 5.2.  120B I.
AIT 5.2.  121   LORD CHANCELLOR  {(to Cranmer)} Then thus for you,   +
AIT 5.2.  121  my lord. It stands agreed,
AIT 5.2.  122  I take it, by all voices, that forthwith
AIT 5.2.  123  You be conveyed to th' Tower a prisoner,
AIT 5.2.  124  There to remain till the King's further pleasure
AIT 5.2.  125  Be known unto us. Are you all agreed, lords?
AIT 5.2.  126B  ALL THE COUNCIL We are. CRANMER Is there no other way of mercy,
AIT 5.2.  127B But I must needs to th' Tower, my lords? GARDINER What other
AIT 5.2.  128  Would you expect? You are strangely troublesome.
AIT 5.2.  129B Let some o' th' guard be ready there. {Enter the guard}           +
AIT 5.2.  129B   CRANMER  For me?
AIT 5.2.  130B Must I go like a traitor thither? GARDINER  {(to the           +
AIT 5.2.  130B guard)} Receive him,
AIT 5.2.  131B And see him safe i' th' Tower. CRANMER Stay, good my lords.
AIT 5.2.  132  I have a little yet to say. Look there, my lords -  {He shows the   +
AIT 5.2.  132  King's ring}
AIT 5.2.  133   By virtue of that ring I take my cause
AIT 5.2.  134  Out of the grips of cruel men, and give it
AIT 5.2.  135  To a most noble judge, the King my master.
AIT 5.2.  136B  LORD CHAMBERLAIN This is the King's ring. SURREY 'Tis no          +
AIT 5.2.  136B counterfeit.
AIT 5.2.  137   SUFFOLK 'Tis the right ring, by heav'n. I told ye all
AIT 5.2.  138  When we first put this dangerous stone a-rolling
AIT 5.2.  139B 'Twould fall upon ourselves. NORFOLK Do you think, my lords,
AIT 5.2.  140  The King will suffer but the little finger
AIT 5.2.  141B Of this man to be vexed? LORD CHAMBERLAIN 'Tis now too certain.
AIT 5.2.  142  How much more is his life in value with him!
AIT 5.2.  143B Would I were fairly out on 't. {[Exit King with Butts             +
AIT 5.2.  143B above]} CROMWELL  My mind gave me,
AIT 5.2.  144  In seeking tales and informations
AIT 5.2.  145  Against this man, whose honesty the devil
AIT 5.2.  146  And his disciples only envy at,
AIT 5.2.  147  Ye blew the fire that burns ye. Now have at ye! {Enter, below,    +
AIT 5.2.  147  King Henry frowning on them. He takes his seat}
AIT 5.2.  148   GARDINER  Dread sovereign, how much are we bound to heaven
AIT 5.2.  149  In daily thanks, that gave us such a prince,
AIT 5.2.  150  Not only good and wise, but most religious.
AIT 5.2.  151  One that in all obedience makes the church
AIT 5.2.  152  The chief aim of his honour, and, to strengthen
AIT 5.2.  153  That holy duty, out of dear respect,
AIT 5.2.  154  His royal self in judgement comes to hear
AIT 5.2.  155  The cause betwixt her and this great offender.
AIT 5.2.  156   KING HENRY You were ever good at sudden commendations,
AIT 5.2.  157  Bishop of Winchester. But know I come not
AIT 5.2.  158  To hear such flattery now; and in my presence
AIT 5.2.  159  They are too thin and base to hide offences.
AIT 5.2.  160  To me you cannot reach. You play the spaniel,
AIT 5.2.  161  And think with wagging of your tongue to win me.
AIT 5.2.  162  But whatsoe'er thou tak'st me for, I'm sure
AIT 5.2.  163  Thou hast a cruel nature and a bloody.
AIT 5.2.  164B  {(To Cranmer)} Good man, sit down. {Cranmer      +
AIT 5.2.  164B takes his seat at the head of the Council table} Now let me     +
AIT 5.2.  164B see the proudest,
AIT 5.2.  165  He that dares most, but wag his finger at thee.
AIT 5.2.  166  By all that's holy, he had better starve
AIT 5.2.  167  Than but once think this place becomes thee not.
AIT 5.2.  168B  SURREY May it please your grace -  KING HENRY No, sir, it does not  +
AIT 5.2.  168B please me!
AIT 5.2.  169  I had thought I had had men of some understanding
AIT 5.2.  170  And wisdom of my Council, but I find none.
AIT 5.2.  171  Was it discretion, lords, to let this man,
AIT 5.2.  172  This good man - few of you deserve that title - 
AIT 5.2.  173  This honest man, wait like a lousy footboy
AIT 5.2.  174  At chamber door? And one as great as you are?
AIT 5.2.  175  Why, what a shame was this! Did my commission
AIT 5.2.  176  Bid ye so far forget yourselves? I gave ye
AIT 5.2.  177  Power as he was a Councillor to try him,
AIT 5.2.  178  Not as a groom. There's some of ye, I see,
AIT 5.2.  179  More out of malice than integrity,
AIT 5.2.  180  Would try him to the utmost, had ye mean;
AIT 5.2.  181B Which ye shall never have while I live. LORD CHANCELLOR Thus far,
AIT 5.2.  182  My most dread sovereign, may it like your grace
AIT 5.2.  183  To let my tongue excuse all. What was purposed
AIT 5.2.  184  Concerning his imprisonment was rather - 
AIT 5.2.  185  If there be faith in men - meant for his trial
AIT 5.2.  186  And fair purgation to the world than malice,
AIT 5.2.  187B I'm sure, in me. KING HENRY Well, well, my lords - respect him.
AIT 5.2.  188  Take him and use him well, he's worthy of it.
AIT 5.2.  189  I will say thus much for him - if a prince
AIT 5.2.  190  May be beholden to a subject, I
AIT 5.2.  191  Am for his love and service so to him.
AIT 5.2.  192  Make me no more ado, but all embrace him.
AIT 5.2.  193  Be friends, for shame, my lords. {(To Cranmer)} My lord  +
AIT 5.2.  193  of Canterbury,
AIT 5.2.  194  I have a suit which you must not deny me:
AIT 5.2.  195  That is a fair young maid that yet wants baptism - 
AIT 5.2.  196  You must be godfather, and answer for her.
AIT 5.2.  197   CRANMER The greatest monarch now alive may glory
AIT 5.2.  198  In such an honour; how may I deserve it,
AIT 5.2.  199  That am a poor and humble subject to you?
AIT 5.2.  200   KING HENRY  Come, come, my lord - you'd spare your
AIT 5.2.  201  spoons. You shall have two noble partners with you - 
AIT 5.2.  202  the old Duchess of Norfolk and Lady Marquis Dorset.
AIT 5.2.  203  Will these please you?
AIT 5.2.  204   {(To Gardiner)} Once more, my lord of Winchester, I     +
AIT 5.2.  204  charge you
AIT 5.2.  205B Embrace and love this man. GARDINER With a true heart
AIT 5.2.  206B And brother-love I do it. {[Gardiner and Cranmer                  +
AIT 5.2.  206B embrace]} CRANMER  {(weeping)} And let heaven
AIT 5.2.  207  Witness how dear I hold this confirmation.
AIT 5.2.  208   KING HENRY Good man, those joyful tears show thy true heart.
AIT 5.2.  209  The common voice, I see, is verified
AIT 5.2.  210  Of thee which says thus, `Do my lord of Canterbury
AIT 5.2.  211  A shrewd turn, and he's your friend for ever.'
AIT 5.2.  212  Come, lords, we trifle time away. I long
AIT 5.2.  213  To have this young one made a Christian.
AIT 5.2.  214  As I have made ye one, lords, one remain - 
AIT 5.2.  215  So I grow stronger, you more honour gain. {Exeunt}
AIT 5.2.    0    {Noise and tumult within. Enter Porter [with rushes] and   +
AIT 5.3.    0  his man [with a broken cudgel]}
AIT 5.3.    1   PORTER  {(to those within)} You'll leave your noise  +
AIT 5.3.    1  anon, ye rascals. Do you take
AIT 5.3.    2  The court for Paris Garden, ye rude slaves?
AIT 5.3.    3  Leave your gaping.
AIT 5.3.    4   ONE  {(within)} Good master porter, I belong to th'  +
AIT 5.3.    4  larder.
AIT 5.3.    5   PORTER Belong to th' gallows, and be hanged, ye rogue!
AIT 5.3.    6  Is this a place to roar in?
AIT 5.3.    7   {(To his man)} Fetch me a dozen crab-tree staves, and   +
AIT 5.3.    7  strong ones,
AIT 5.3.    8B  {[Raising his rushes]} These are but switches to        +
AIT 5.3.    8B 'em. {(To those within)} I'll scratch your heads.
AIT 5.3.    9  You must be seeing christenings? Do you look
AIT 5.3.   10  For ale and cakes here, you rude rascals?
AIT 5.3.   11   MAN Pray, sir, be patient. 'Tis as much impossible,
AIT 5.3.   12  Unless we sweep 'em from the door with cannons,
AIT 5.3.   13  To scatter 'em as 'tis to make 'em sleep
AIT 5.3.   14  On May-day morning - which will never be.
AIT 5.3.   15  We may as well push against Paul's as stir 'em.
AIT 5.3.   16A  PORTER How got they in, and be hanged?
AIT 5.3.   17   MAN Alas, I know not. How gets the tide in?
AIT 5.3.   18  As much as one sound cudgel of four foot -  {He raises his cudgel}
AIT 5.3.   19   You see the poor remainder - could distribute,
AIT 5.3.   20B I made no spare, sir. PORTER You did nothing, sir.
AIT 5.3.   21   MAN I am not Samson, nor Sir Guy, nor Colbrand,
AIT 5.3.   22  To mow 'em down before me; but if I spared any
AIT 5.3.   23  That had a head to hit, either young or old,
AIT 5.3.   24  He or she, cuckold or cuckold-maker,
AIT 5.3.   25  Let me ne'er hope to see a chine again - 
AIT 5.3.   26  And that I would not for a cow, God save her!
AIT 5.3.   27A  ONE  {(within)} Do you hear, master porter?
AIT 5.3.   28   PORTER I shall be with you presently,
AIT 5.3.   29  Good master puppy. {(To his man)} Keep the door close,   +
AIT 5.3.   29  sirrah.
AIT 5.3.   30B  MAN What would you have me do? PORTER What should you do,
AIT 5.3.   31   but knock 'em down by th' dozens? Is this Moorfields
AIT 5.3.   32  to muster in? Or have we some strange Indian with
AIT 5.3.   33  the great tool come to court, the women so besiege us?
AIT 5.3.   34  Bless me, what a fry of fornication is at door! On my
AIT 5.3.   35  Christian conscience, this one christening will beget a
AIT 5.3.   36  thousand. Here will be father, godfather, and all
AIT 5.3.   37  together.
AIT 5.3.   38   MAN The spoons will be the bigger, sir. There is a fellow
AIT 5.3.   39  somewhat near the door, he should be a brazier by his
AIT 5.3.   40  face, for o' my conscience twenty of the dog-days now
AIT 5.3.   41  reign in 's nose. All that stand about him are under the
AIT 5.3.   42  line - they need no other penance. That fire-drake did
AIT 5.3.   43  I hit three times on the head, and three times was his
AIT 5.3.   44  nose discharged against me. He stands there like a
AIT 5.3.   45  mortar-piece, to blow us. There was a haberdasher's
AIT 5.3.   46  wife of small wit near him, that railed upon me till her
AIT 5.3.   47  pinked porringer fell off her head, for kindling such a
AIT 5.3.   48  combustion in the state. I missed the meteor once, and
AIT 5.3.   49  hit that woman, who cried out `Clubs!', when I might
AIT 5.3.   50  see from far some forty truncheoners draw to her
AIT 5.3.   51  succour, which were the hope o' th' Strand, where she
AIT 5.3.   52  was quartered. They fell on. I made good my place. At
AIT 5.3.   53  length they came to th' broomstaff to me. I defied 'em
AIT 5.3.   54  still, when suddenly a file of boys behind 'em, loose
AIT 5.3.   55  shot, delivered such a shower of pebbles that I was fain
AIT 5.3.   56  to draw mine honour in and let 'em win the work. The
AIT 5.3.   57  devil was amongst 'em, I think, surely.
AIT 5.3.   58   PORTER These are the youths that thunder at a playhouse,
AIT 5.3.   59  and fight for bitten apples, that no audience but the
AIT 5.3.   60  tribulation of Tower Hill or the limbs of Limehouse,
AIT 5.3.   61  their dear brothers, are able to endure. I have some of
AIT 5.3.   62  'em in {limbo patrum}, and there they are like to dance
AIT 5.3.   63  these three days, besides the running banquet of two
AIT 5.3.   64  beadles that is to come. {Enter the Lord Chamberlain}
AIT 5.3.   65   LORD CHAMBERLAIN  Mercy o' me, what a multitude are here!
AIT 5.3.   66  They grow still, too - from all parts they are coming,
AIT 5.3.   67  As if we kept a fair here! Where are these porters,
AIT 5.3.   68  These lazy knaves? {(To the Porter and his man)} You've  +
AIT 5.3.   68  made a fine hand, fellows!
AIT 5.3.   69  There's a trim rabble let in - are all these
AIT 5.3.   70  Your faithful friends o' th' suburbs? We shall have
AIT 5.3.   71  Great store of room, no doubt, left for the ladies
AIT 5.3.   72B When they pass back from the christening! PORTER An 't please your    +
AIT 5.3.   72B honour,
AIT 5.3.   73  We are but men, and what so many may do,
AIT 5.3.   74  Not being torn a-pieces, we have done.
AIT 5.3.   75B An army cannot rule 'em. LORD CHAMBERLAIN As I live,
AIT 5.3.   76  If the King blame me for 't, I'll lay ye all
AIT 5.3.   77  By th' heels, and suddenly - and on your heads
AIT 5.3.   78  Clap round fines for neglect. You're lazy knaves,
AIT 5.3.   79  And here ye lie baiting of bombards when
AIT 5.3.   80B Ye should do service. {Flourish of trumpets within}      +
AIT 5.3.   80B Hark, the trumpets sound.
AIT 5.3.   81  They're come, already, from the christening.
AIT 5.3.   82  Go break among the press, and find a way out
AIT 5.3.   83  To let the troop pass fairly, or I'll find
AIT 5.3.   84  A Marshalsea shall hold ye play these two months. {[As they       +
AIT 5.3.   84  leave, the Porter and his man call within]}
AIT 5.3.   85B  PORTER  Make way there for the Princess! MAN You great   +
AIT 5.3.   85B fellow,
AIT 5.3.   86  Stand close up, or I'll make your head ache.
AIT 5.3.   87   PORTER You i' th' camlet, get up o' th' rail - 
AIT 5.3.   88  I'll peck you o'er the pales else. {Exeunt}
AIT 5.3.    0    {Enter trumpeters, sounding. Then enter two aldermen, the  +
AIT 5.4.    0  Lord Mayor of London, Garter King-of-Arms, Cranmer the Archbishop of     +
AIT 5.4.    0  Canterbury, the Duke of Norfolk with his marshal's staff, the Duke       +
AIT 5.4.    0  of Suffolk, two noblemen bearing great standing bowls for the            +
AIT 5.4.    0  christening gifts; then enter four noblemen bearing a canopy, under      +
AIT 5.4.    0  which is the Duchess of Norfolk, godmother, bearing the                  +
AIT 5.4.    0  child Elizabeth richly habited in a mantle, whose train is borne by a    +
AIT 5.4.    0  lady. Then follows the Marchioness Dorset, the other godmother, and      +
AIT 5.4.    0  ladies. The troop pass once about the stage and Garter speaks}
AIT 5.4.    1   GARTER  Heaven, from thy endless goodness send
AIT 5.4.    2  prosperous life, long, and ever happy, to the high and
AIT 5.4.    3  mighty Princess of England, Elizabeth. {Flourish. Enter King      +
AIT 5.4.    3  Henry and guard}
AIT 5.4.    4   CRANMER  {(kneeling)} And to your royal grace, and   +
AIT 5.4.    4  the good Queen!
AIT 5.4.    5  My noble partners and myself thus pray
AIT 5.4.    6  All comfort, joy, in this most gracious lady,
AIT 5.4.    7  Heaven ever laid up to make parents happy,
AIT 5.4.    8B May hourly fall upon ye. KING HENRY Thank you, good lord Archbishop.
AIT 5.4.    9B What is her name? CRANMER Elizabeth. KING HENRY Stand up,          +
AIT 5.4.    9B lord. {Cranmer rises}
AIT 5.4.   10B  {(To the child)} With this kiss take my                 +
AIT 5.4.   10B blessing -  {He kisses the child} God protect thee,
AIT 5.4.   11B Into whose hand I give thy life. CRANMER Amen.
AIT 5.4.   12   KING HENRY  {(to Cranmer, old Duchess, and                    +
AIT 5.4.   12  Marchioness)} My noble gossips, you've been too prodigal.
AIT 5.4.   13  I thank ye heartily. So shall this lady,
AIT 5.4.   14B When she has so much English. CRANMER Let me speak, sir,
AIT 5.4.   15  For heaven now bids me, and the words I utter
AIT 5.4.   16  Let none think flattery, for they'll find 'em truth.
AIT 5.4.   17  This royal infant - heaven still move about her - 
AIT 5.4.   18  Though in her cradle, yet now promises
AIT 5.4.   19  Upon this land a thousand thousand blessings
AIT 5.4.   20  Which time shall bring to ripeness. She shall be - 
AIT 5.4.   21  But few now living can behold that goodness - 
AIT 5.4.   22  A pattern to all princes living with her,
AIT 5.4.   23  And all that shall succeed. Saba was never
AIT 5.4.   24  More covetous of wisdom and fair virtue
AIT 5.4.   25  Than this pure soul shall be. All princely graces
AIT 5.4.   26  That mould up such a mighty piece as this is,
AIT 5.4.   27  With all the virtues that attend the good,
AIT 5.4.   28  Shall still be doubled on her. Truth shall nurse her,
AIT 5.4.   29  Holy and heavenly thoughts still counsel her.
AIT 5.4.   30  She shall be loved and feared. Her own shall bless her;
AIT 5.4.   31  Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn,
AIT 5.4.   32  And hang their heads with sorrow. Good grows with her.
AIT 5.4.   33  In her days every man shall eat in safety
AIT 5.4.   34  Under his own vine what he plants, and sing
AIT 5.4.   35  The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours.
AIT 5.4.   36  God shall be truly known, and those about her
AIT 5.4.   37  From her shall read the perfect ways of honour,
AIT 5.4.   38  And by those claim their greatness, not by blood.
AIT 5.4.   39  Nor shall this peace sleep with her, but, as when
AIT 5.4.   40  The bird of wonder dies - the maiden phoenix - 
AIT 5.4.   41  Her ashes new create another heir
AIT 5.4.   42  As great in admiration as herself,
AIT 5.4.   43  So shall she leave her blessedness to one,
AIT 5.4.   44  When heaven shall call her from this cloud of darkness,
AIT 5.4.   45  Who from the sacred ashes of her honour
AIT 5.4.   46  Shall star-like rise as great in fame as she was,
AIT 5.4.   47  And so stand fixed. Peace, plenty, love, truth, terror,
AIT 5.4.   48  That were the servants to this chosen infant,
AIT 5.4.   49  Shall then be his, and, like a vine, grow to him.
AIT 5.4.   50  Wherever the bright sun of heaven shall shine,
AIT 5.4.   51  His honour and the greatness of his name
AIT 5.4.   52  Shall be, and make new nations. He shall flourish,
AIT 5.4.   53  And like a mountain cedar reach his branches
AIT 5.4.   54  To all the plains about him. Our children's children
AIT 5.4.   55B Shall see this, and bless heaven. KING HENRY Thou speakest wonders.
AIT 5.4.   56   CRANMER She shall be, to the happiness of England,
AIT 5.4.   57  An aged princess. Many days shall see her,
AIT 5.4.   58  And yet no day without a deed to crown it.
AIT 5.4.   59  Would I had known no more. But she must die - 
AIT 5.4.   60  She must, the saints must have her - yet a virgin,
AIT 5.4.   61  A most unspotted lily shall she pass
AIT 5.4.   62  To th' ground, and all the world shall mourn her.
AIT 5.4.   63A  KING HENRY O lord Archbishop,
AIT 5.4.   64  Thou hast made me now a man. Never before
AIT 5.4.   65  This happy child did I get anything.
AIT 5.4.   66  This oracle of comfort has so pleased me
AIT 5.4.   67  That when I am in heaven I shall desire
AIT 5.4.   68  To see what this child does, and praise my maker.
AIT 5.4.   69  I thank ye all. To you, my good Lord Mayor,
AIT 5.4.   70  And your good brethren, I am much beholden.
AIT 5.4.   71  I have received much honour by your presence,
AIT 5.4.   72  And ye shall find me thankful. Lead the way, lords.
AIT 5.4.   73  Ye must all see the Queen, and she must thank ye.
AIT 5.4.   74  She will be sick else. This day, no man think
AIT 5.4.   75  He's business at his house, for all shall stay - 
AIT 5.4.   76  This little one shall make it holiday. {[Flourish.] Exeunt}
AIT 5.4.    0  
AIT 5.4.    0     {Enter Epilogue}
AIT 5.Ep.   1   EPILOGUE  'Tis ten to one this play can never please
AIT 5.Ep.   2  All that are here. Some come to take their ease,
AIT 5.Ep.   3  And sleep an act or two; but those, we fear,
AIT 5.Ep.   4  We've frighted with our trumpets; so, 'tis clear,
AIT 5.Ep.   5  They'll say 'tis naught. Others to hear the city
AIT 5.Ep.   6  Abused extremely, and to cry `That's witty!' - 
AIT 5.Ep.   7  Which we have not done neither; that, I fear,
AIT 5.Ep.   8  All the expected good we're like to hear
AIT 5.Ep.   9  For this play at this time is only in
AIT 5.Ep.  10  The merciful construction of good women,
AIT 5.Ep.  11  For such a one we showed 'em. If they smile,
AIT 5.Ep.  12  And say `'Twill do', I know within a while
AIT 5.Ep.  13  All the best men are ours - for 'tis ill hap
AIT 5.Ep.  14  If they hold when their ladies bid 'em clap. {Exit}
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ANT  . .    0  The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra
ANT  . .    0     {Enter Demetrius and Philo}
ANT 1.1.    1   PHILO  Nay, but this dotage of our General's
ANT 1.1.    2  O'erflows the measure. Those his goodly eyes,
ANT 1.1.    3  That o'er the files and musters of the war
ANT 1.1.    4  Have glowed like plated Mars, now bend, now turn
ANT 1.1.    5  The office and devotion of their view
ANT 1.1.    6  Upon a tawny front. His captain's heart,
ANT 1.1.    7  Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst
ANT 1.1.    8  The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper,
ANT 1.1.    9  And is become the bellows and the fan
ANT 1.1.   10B To cool a gipsy's lust. {Flourish. Enter Antony, Cleopatra, her   +
ANT 1.1.   10B ladies, the train, with eunuchs fanning her} Look where they    +
ANT 1.1.   10B come.
ANT 1.1.   11  Take but good note, and you shall see in him
ANT 1.1.   12  The triple pillar of the world transformed
ANT 1.1.   13  Into a strumpet's fool. Behold and see.
ANT 1.1.   14   CLEOPATRA  {(to Antony)} If it be love indeed, tell  +
ANT 1.1.   14  me how much.
ANT 1.1.   15   ANTONY There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned.
ANT 1.1.   16   CLEOPATRA I'll set a bourn how far to be beloved.
ANT 1.1.   17   ANTONY Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth.   +
ANT 1.1.   17  {Enter a Messenger}
ANT 1.1.   18A  MESSENGER  News, my good lord, from Rome.
ANT 1.1.   19A  ANTONY Grates me: the sum.
ANT 1.1.   20A  CLEOPATRA Nay, hear them, Antony.
ANT 1.1.   21  Fulvia perchance is angry; or who knows
ANT 1.1.   22  If the scarce-bearded Caesar have not sent
ANT 1.1.   23  His powerful mandate to you: `Do this, or this,
ANT 1.1.   24  Take in that kingdom and enfranchise that.
ANT 1.1.   25  Perform 't, or else we damn thee.'
ANT 1.1.   26A  ANTONY How, my love?
ANT 1.1.   27A  CLEOPATRA Perchance? Nay, and most like.
ANT 1.1.   28  You must not stay here longer. Your dismission
ANT 1.1.   29  Is come from Caesar, therefore hear it, Antony.
ANT 1.1.   30  Where's Fulvia's process - Caesar's, I would say -  both?
ANT 1.1.   31  Call in the messengers. As I am Egypt's queen,
ANT 1.1.   32  Thou blushest, Antony, and that blood of thine
ANT 1.1.   33  Is Caesar's homager; else so thy cheek pays shame
ANT 1.1.   34  When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds. The messengers!
ANT 1.1.   35   ANTONY Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch
ANT 1.1.   36  Of the ranged empire fall. Here is my space.
ANT 1.1.   37  Kingdoms are clay. Our dungy earth alike
ANT 1.1.   38  Feeds beast as man. The nobleness of life
ANT 1.1.   39  Is to do thus; when such a mutual pair
ANT 1.1.   40  And such a twain can do 't - in which I bind
ANT 1.1.   41  On pain of punishment the world to weet - 
ANT 1.1.   42B We stand up peerless. CLEOPATRA  {[aside]} Excellent  +
ANT 1.1.   42B falsehood!
ANT 1.1.   43  Why did he marry Fulvia and not love her?
ANT 1.1.   44  I'll seem the fool I am not. {(To Antony)} Antony
ANT 1.1.   45B Will be himself. ANTONY But stirred by Cleopatra.
ANT 1.1.   46  Now, for the love of Love and her soft hours
ANT 1.1.   47  Let's not confound the time with conference harsh.
ANT 1.1.   48  There's not a minute of our lives should stretch
ANT 1.1.   49  Without some pleasure now. What sport tonight?
ANT 1.1.   50B  CLEOPATRA Hear the ambassadors. ANTONY Fie, wrangling queen,
ANT 1.1.   51  Whom everything becomes - to chide, to laugh,
ANT 1.1.   52  To weep; how every passion fully strives
ANT 1.1.   53  To make itself, in thee, fair and admired!
ANT 1.1.   54  No messenger but thine; and all alone
ANT 1.1.   55  Tonight we'll wander through the streets and note
ANT 1.1.   56  The qualities of people. Come, my queen.
ANT 1.1.   57  Last night you did desire it. {(To the Messenger)}       +
ANT 1.1.   57  Speak not to us. {Exeunt Antony and Cleopatra with the train,     +
ANT 1.1.   57  [and by another door the Messenger]}
ANT 1.1.   58   DEMETRIUS  Is Caesar with Antonius prized so slight?
ANT 1.1.   59   PHILO Sir, sometimes when he is not Antony
ANT 1.1.   60  He comes too short of that great property
ANT 1.1.   61B Which still should go with Antony. DEMETRIUS I am full sorry
ANT 1.1.   62  That he approves the common liar who
ANT 1.1.   63  Thus speaks of him at Rome; but I will hope
ANT 1.1.   64  Of better deeds tomorrow. Rest you happy. {Exeunt}
ANT 1.1.    0    {Enter Enobarbus, a Soothsayer, Charmian, Iras, Mardian    +
ANT 1.2.    0  the eunuch, Alexas, [and attendants]}
ANT 1.2.    1   CHARMIAN  Lord Alexas, sweet Alexas, most anything
ANT 1.2.    2  Alexas, almost most absolute Alexas, where's the
ANT 1.2.    3  soothsayer that you praised so to th' Queen?
ANT 1.2.    4   O that I knew this husband, which you say
ANT 1.2.    5B Must charge his horns with garlands! ALEXAS Soothsayer!
ANT 1.2.    6A  SOOTHSAYER Your will?
ANT 1.2.    7   CHARMIAN Is this the man? Is 't you, sir, that know things?
ANT 1.2.    8   SOOTHSAYER In nature's infinite book of secrecy
ANT 1.2.    9  A little I can read.
ANT 1.2.   10A  ALEXAS  {(to Charmian)} Show him your hand.
ANT 1.2.   11A  ENOBARBUS  {(calling)} Bring in the banquet          +
ANT 1.2.   11A quickly,
ANT 1.2.   12  Wine enough Cleopatra's health to drink. {[Enter servants with    +
ANT 1.2.   12  food and wine, and exeunt]}
ANT 1.2.   13A  CHARMIAN  {(to Soothsayer)} Good sir, give me good   +
ANT 1.2.   13A fortune.
ANT 1.2.   14A  SOOTHSAYER I make not, but foresee.
ANT 1.2.   15B  CHARMIAN Pray then, foresee me one. SOOTHSAYER You shall be yet
ANT 1.2.   16B Far fairer than you are. CHARMIAN He means in flesh.
ANT 1.2.   17B  IRAS No, you shall paint when you are old. CHARMIAN Wrinkles      +
ANT 1.2.   17B forbid!
ANT 1.2.   18B  ALEXAS Vex not his prescience. Be attentive. CHARMIAN Hush!
ANT 1.2.   19   SOOTHSAYER You shall be more beloving than beloved.
ANT 1.2.   20   CHARMIAN  I had rather heat my liver with drinking.
ANT 1.2.   21   ALEXAS Nay, hear him.
ANT 1.2.   22   CHARMIAN Good now, some excellent fortune! Let me be
ANT 1.2.   23  married to three kings in a forenoon and widow them
ANT 1.2.   24  all. Let me have a child at fifty to whom Herod of Jewry
ANT 1.2.   25  may do homage. Find me to marry me with Octavius
ANT 1.2.   26  Caesar, and companion me with my mistress.
ANT 1.2.   27   SOOTHSAYER  You shall outlive the lady whom you serve.
ANT 1.2.   28   CHARMIAN  O, excellent! I love long life better than figs.
ANT 1.2.   29   SOOTHSAYER  You have seen and proved a fairer former        +
ANT 1.2.   29  fortune
ANT 1.2.   30  Than that which is to approach.
ANT 1.2.   31   CHARMIAN  Then belike my children shall have no names.
ANT 1.2.   32  Prithee, how many boys and wenches must I have?
ANT 1.2.   33   SOOTHSAYER  If every of your wishes had a womb,
ANT 1.2.   34  And fertile every wish, a million.
ANT 1.2.   35   CHARMIAN  Out, fool - I forgive thee for a witch.
ANT 1.2.   36   ALEXAS You think none but your sheets are privy to your
ANT 1.2.   37  wishes.
ANT 1.2.   38A  CHARMIAN  {(to the Soothsayer)} Nay, come, tell      +
ANT 1.2.   38A Iras hers.
ANT 1.2.   39   ALEXAS  We'll know all our fortunes.
ANT 1.2.   40   ENOBARBUS Mine, and most of our fortunes, tonight shall
ANT 1.2.   41  be drunk to bed.
ANT 1.2.   42   IRAS  {(showing her hand to the Soothsayer)}         +
ANT 1.2.   42  There's a palm
ANT 1.2.   43  presages chastity, if nothing else.
ANT 1.2.   44   CHARMIAN E'en as the o'erflowing Nilus presageth famine.
ANT 1.2.   45   IRAS Go, you wild bedfellow, you cannot soothsay.
ANT 1.2.   46   CHARMIAN Nay, if an oily palm be not a fruitful prognostication,
ANT 1.2.   47  I cannot scratch mine ear. {(To the Soothsayer)}
ANT 1.2.   48   Prithee, tell her but a workaday fortune.
ANT 1.2.   49A  SOOTHSAYER  Your fortunes are alike.
ANT 1.2.   50   IRAS But how, but how? Give me particulars.
ANT 1.2.   51A  SOOTHSAYER I have said.
ANT 1.2.   52   IRAS  Am I not an inch of fortune better than she?
ANT 1.2.   53   CHARMIAN Well, if you were but an inch of fortune better
ANT 1.2.   54  than I, where would you choose it?
ANT 1.2.   55   IRAS Not in my husband's nose.
ANT 1.2.   56   CHARMIAN Our worser thoughts heavens mend! Alexas - 
ANT 1.2.   57  come, his fortune, his fortune. O, let him marry a
ANT 1.2.   58  woman that cannot go, sweet Isis, I beseech thee, and
ANT 1.2.   59  let her die too, and give him a worse, and let worse
ANT 1.2.   60  follow worse till the worst of all follow him laughing
ANT 1.2.   61  to his grave, fiftyfold a cuckold. Good Isis, hear me this
ANT 1.2.   62  prayer, though thou deny me a matter of more weight;
ANT 1.2.   63  good Isis, I beseech thee.
ANT 1.2.   64   IRAS Amen, dear goddess, hear that prayer of the people.
ANT 1.2.   65  For as it is a heart-breaking to see a handsome man
ANT 1.2.   66  loose-wived, so it is a deadly sorrow to behold a foul
ANT 1.2.   67  knave uncuckolded. Therefore, dear Isis, keep decorum,
ANT 1.2.   68  and fortune him accordingly.
ANT 1.2.   69   CHARMIAN Amen.
ANT 1.2.   70   ALEXAS Lo now, if it lay in their hands to make me a
ANT 1.2.   71  cuckold, they would make themselves whores but
ANT 1.2.   72  they'd do 't. {Enter Cleopatra}
ANT 1.2.   73B  ENOBARBUS  Hush, here comes Antony. CHARMIAN Not he,     +
ANT 1.2.   73B the Queen.
ANT 1.2.   74B  CLEOPATRA Saw you my lord? ENOBARBUS No, lady. CLEOPATRA Was   +
ANT 1.2.   74B he not here?
ANT 1.2.   75A  CHARMIAN No, madam.
ANT 1.2.   76   CLEOPATRA He was disposed to mirth, but on the sudden
ANT 1.2.   77  A Roman thought hath struck him. Enobarbus!
ANT 1.2.   78A  ENOBARBUS Madam?
ANT 1.2.   79   CLEOPATRA Seek him, and bring him hither. Where's Alexas?
ANT 1.2.   80   ALEXAS Here at your service. My lord approaches. {Enter       +
ANT 1.2.   80  Antony with a Messenger}
ANT 1.2.   81   CLEOPATRA  We will not look upon him. Go with us.    +
ANT 1.2.   81  {Exeunt all but Antony and the Messenger}
ANT 1.2.   82   MESSENGER  Fulvia thy wife first came into the field.
ANT 1.2.   83A  ANTONY Against my brother Lucius?
ANT 1.2.   84   MESSENGER Ay, but soon that war had end, and the time's state
ANT 1.2.   85  Made friends of them, jointing their force 'gainst Caesar,
ANT 1.2.   86  Whose better issue in the war from Italy
ANT 1.2.   87B Upon the first encounter drave them. ANTONY Well, what worst?
ANT 1.2.   88   MESSENGER The nature of bad news infects the teller.
ANT 1.2.   89   ANTONY When it concerns the fool or coward. On.
ANT 1.2.   90  Things that are past are done. With me 'tis thus:
ANT 1.2.   91  Who tells me true, though in his tale lie death,
ANT 1.2.   92B I hear him as he flattered. MESSENGER Labienus - 
ANT 1.2.   93  This is stiff news - hath with his Parthian force
ANT 1.2.   94  Extended Asia; from Euphrates
ANT 1.2.   95  His conquering banner shook, from Syria
ANT 1.2.   96  To Lydia and to Ionia,
ANT 1.2.   97B Whilst -  ANTONY Antony, thou wouldst say -  MESSENGER O, my lord!
ANT 1.2.   98   ANTONY Speak to me home. Mince not the general tongue.
ANT 1.2.   99  Name Cleopatra as she is called in Rome.
ANT 1.2.  100  Rail thou in Fulvia's phrase, and taunt my faults
ANT 1.2.  101  With such full licence as both truth and malice
ANT 1.2.  102  Have power to utter. O, then we bring forth weeds
ANT 1.2.  103  When our quick winds lie still, and our ills told us
ANT 1.2.  104  Is as our earing. Fare thee well a while.
ANT 1.2.  105A  MESSENGER At your noble pleasure. {Exit Messenger}
ANT 1.2.  106   {Enter another Messenger} ANTONY  From Sicyon, ho,   +
ANT 1.2.  106  the news? Speak there.
ANT 1.2.  107B  [SECOND MESSENGER] The man from Sicyon -  [ANTONY] Is there such a  +
ANT 1.2.  107B one?
ANT 1.2.  108B  [SECOND MESSENGER] He stays upon your will. ANTONY Let him        +
ANT 1.2.  108B appear. {Exit Second Messenger}
ANT 1.2.  109   These strong Egyptian fetters I must break,
ANT 1.2.  110B Or lose myself in dotage. {Enter another Messenger with a         +
ANT 1.2.  110B letter} What are you?
ANT 1.2.  111B  [THIRD MESSENGER] Fulvia thy wife is dead. ANTONY Where died      +
ANT 1.2.  111B she?
ANT 1.2.  112A  THIRD MESSENGER In Sicyon.
ANT 1.2.  113  Her length of sickness, with what else more serious
ANT 1.2.  114B Importeth thee to know, this bears. {He gives Antony the          +
ANT 1.2.  114B letter} ANTONY  Forbear me. {[Exit Third Messenger]}
ANT 1.2.  115   There's a great spirit gone. Thus did I desire it.
ANT 1.2.  116  What our contempts doth often hurl from us
ANT 1.2.  117  We wish it ours again. The present pleasure,
ANT 1.2.  118  By revolution low'ring, does become
ANT 1.2.  119  The opposite of itself. She's good being gone;
ANT 1.2.  120  The hand could pluck her back that shoved her on.
ANT 1.2.  121  I must from this enchanting queen break off.
ANT 1.2.  122  Ten thousand harms more than the ills I know
ANT 1.2.  123  My idleness doth hatch. How now, Enobarbus! {[Enter Enobarbus]}
ANT 1.2.  124B  ENOBARBUS  What's your pleasure, sir? ANTONY I must      +
ANT 1.2.  124B with haste from hence.
ANT 1.2.  125   ENOBARBUS  Why, then we kill all our women. We see
ANT 1.2.  126  how mortal an unkindness is to them; if they suffer
ANT 1.2.  127  our departure, death's the word.
ANT 1.2.  128A  ANTONY  I must be gone.
ANT 1.2.  129   ENOBARBUS  Under a compelling occasion let women die.
ANT 1.2.  130  It were pity to cast them away for nothing, though
ANT 1.2.  131  between them and a great cause they should be
ANT 1.2.  132  esteemed nothing. Cleopatra catching but the least
ANT 1.2.  133  noise of this dies instantly. I have seen her die twenty
ANT 1.2.  134  times upon far poorer moment. I do think there is
ANT 1.2.  135  mettle in death, which commits some loving act upon
ANT 1.2.  136  her, she hath such a celerity in dying.
ANT 1.2.  137A  ANTONY  She is cunning past man's thought.
ANT 1.2.  138   ENOBARBUS  Alack, sir, no. Her passions are made of
ANT 1.2.  139  nothing but the finest part of pure love. We cannot call
ANT 1.2.  140  her winds and waters sighs and tears; they are greater
ANT 1.2.  141  storms and tempests than almanacs can report. This
ANT 1.2.  142  cannot be cunning in her; if it be, she makes a shower
ANT 1.2.  143  of rain as well as Jove.
ANT 1.2.  144A  ANTONY  Would I had never seen her!
ANT 1.2.  145   ENOBARBUS  O, sir, you had then left unseen a wonderful
ANT 1.2.  146  piece of work, which not to have been blessed withal
ANT 1.2.  147  would have discredited your travel.
ANT 1.2.  148   ANTONY Fulvia is dead.
ANT 1.2.  149   ENOBARBUS Sir.
ANT 1.2.  150   ANTONY Fulvia is dead.
ANT 1.2.  151   ENOBARBUS Fulvia?
ANT 1.2.  152   ANTONY Dead.
ANT 1.2.  153   ENOBARBUS Why, sir, give the gods a thankful sacrifice.
ANT 1.2.  154  When it pleaseth their deities to take the wife of a man
ANT 1.2.  155  from him, it shows to man the tailors of the earth;
ANT 1.2.  156  comforting therein that when old robes are worn out
ANT 1.2.  157  there are members to make new. If there were no more
ANT 1.2.  158  women but Fulvia, then had you indeed a cut, and the
ANT 1.2.  159  case to be lamented. This grief is crowned with consolation;
ANT 1.2.  160  your old smock brings forth a new petticoat, and
ANT 1.2.  161  indeed the tears live in an onion that should water this
ANT 1.2.  162  sorrow.
ANT 1.2.  163   ANTONY  The business she hath broached in the state
ANT 1.2.  164  Cannot endure my absence.
ANT 1.2.  165   ENOBARBUS  And the business you have broached here
ANT 1.2.  166  cannot be without you, especially that of Cleopatra's,
ANT 1.2.  167  which wholly depends on your abode.
ANT 1.2.  168   ANTONY  No more light answers. Let our officers
ANT 1.2.  169  Have notice what we purpose. I shall break
ANT 1.2.  170  The cause of our expedience to the Queen,
ANT 1.2.  171  And get her leave to part; for not alone
ANT 1.2.  172  The death of Fulvia, with more urgent touches,
ANT 1.2.  173  Do strongly speak to us, but the letters too
ANT 1.2.  174  Of many our contriving friends in Rome
ANT 1.2.  175  Petition us at home. Sextus Pompeius
ANT 1.2.  176  Hath given the dare to Caesar and commands
ANT 1.2.  177  The empire of the sea. Our slippery people,
ANT 1.2.  178  Whose love is never linked to the deserver
ANT 1.2.  179  Till his deserts are past, begin to throw
ANT 1.2.  180  Pompey the Great and all his dignities
ANT 1.2.  181  Upon his son, who - high in name and power,
ANT 1.2.  182  Higher than both in blood and life - stands up
ANT 1.2.  183  For the main soldier; whose quality, going on,
ANT 1.2.  184  The sides o' th' world may danger. Much is breeding
ANT 1.2.  185  Which, like the courser's hair, hath yet but life,
ANT 1.2.  186  And not a serpent's poison. Say our pleasure,
ANT 1.2.  187  To such whose place is under us, requires
ANT 1.2.  188B Our quick remove from hence. ENOBARBUS I shall do 't. {Exeunt  +
ANT 1.2.  188B severally}
ANT 1.2.    0    {Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Alexas, and Iras}
ANT 1.3.    1B  CLEOPATRA  Where is he? CHARMIAN I did not see him       +
ANT 1.3.    1B since.
ANT 1.3.    2   CLEOPATRA  {[to Alexas]} See where he is, who's      +
ANT 1.3.    2  with him, what he does.
ANT 1.3.    3  I did not send you. If you find him sad,
ANT 1.3.    4  Say I am dancing; if in mirth, report
ANT 1.3.    5  That I am sudden sick. Quick, and return. {Exit [Alexas]}
ANT 1.3.    6   CHARMIAN  Madam, methinks, if you did love him dearly,
ANT 1.3.    7  You do not hold the method to enforce
ANT 1.3.    8B The like from him. CLEOPATRA What should I do I do not?
ANT 1.3.    9   CHARMIAN In each thing give him way; cross him in nothing.
ANT 1.3.   10   CLEOPATRA Thou teachest like a fool, the way to lose him.
ANT 1.3.   11   CHARMIAN Tempt him not so too far. Iwis, forbear.
ANT 1.3.   12  In time we hate that which we often fear. {Enter Antony}
ANT 1.3.   13B  But here comes Antony. CLEOPATRA I am sick and sullen.
ANT 1.3.   14   ANTONY I am sorry to give breathing to my purpose.
ANT 1.3.   15   CLEOPATRA Help me away, dear Charmian, I shall fall.
ANT 1.3.   16  It cannot be thus long - the sides of nature
ANT 1.3.   17B Will not sustain it. ANTONY Now, my dearest queen.
ANT 1.3.   18B  CLEOPATRA Pray you, stand farther from me. ANTONY What's the      +
ANT 1.3.   18B matter?
ANT 1.3.   19   CLEOPATRA I know by that same eye there's some good news.
ANT 1.3.   20  What says the married woman - you may go?
ANT 1.3.   21  Would she had never given you leave to come.
ANT 1.3.   22  Let her not say 'tis I that keep you here.
ANT 1.3.   23  I have no power upon you; hers you are.
ANT 1.3.   24B  ANTONY The gods best know -  CLEOPATRA O, never was there queen
ANT 1.3.   25  So mightily betrayed! Yet at the first
ANT 1.3.   26B I saw the treasons planted. ANTONY Cleopatra - 
ANT 1.3.   27   CLEOPATRA Why should I think you can be mine and true - 
ANT 1.3.   28  Though you in swearing shake the throned gods - 
ANT 1.3.   29  Who have been false to Fulvia? Riotous madness,
ANT 1.3.   30  To be entangled with those mouth-made vows
ANT 1.3.   31B Which break themselves in swearing. ANTONY Most sweet queen - 
ANT 1.3.   32   CLEOPATRA Nay, pray you, seek no colour for your going,
ANT 1.3.   33  But bid farewell and go. When you sued staying,
ANT 1.3.   34  Then was the time for words; no going then.
ANT 1.3.   35  Eternity was in our lips and eyes,
ANT 1.3.   36  Bliss in our brow's bent; none our parts so poor
ANT 1.3.   37  But was a race of heaven. They are so still,
ANT 1.3.   38  Or thou, the greatest soldier of the world,
ANT 1.3.   39B Art turned the greatest liar. ANTONY How now, lady!
ANT 1.3.   40   CLEOPATRA I would I had thy inches. Thou shouldst know
ANT 1.3.   41B There were a heart in Egypt. ANTONY Hear me, Queen.
ANT 1.3.   42  The strong necessity of time commands
ANT 1.3.   43  Our services a while, but my full heart
ANT 1.3.   44  Remains in use with you. Our Italy
ANT 1.3.   45  Shines o'er with civil swords. Sextus Pompeius
ANT 1.3.   46  Makes his approaches to the port of Rome.
ANT 1.3.   47  Equality of two domestic powers
ANT 1.3.   48  Breed scrupulous faction. The hated, grown to strength,
ANT 1.3.   49  Are newly grown to love. The condemned Pompey,
ANT 1.3.   50  Rich in his father's honour, creeps apace
ANT 1.3.   51  Into the hearts of such as have not thrived
ANT 1.3.   52  Upon the present state, whose numbers threaten;
ANT 1.3.   53  And quietness, grown sick of rest, would purge
ANT 1.3.   54  By any desperate change. My more particular,
ANT 1.3.   55  And that which most with you should safe my going,
ANT 1.3.   56  Is Fulvia's death.
ANT 1.3.   57   CLEOPATRA Though age from folly could not give me freedom,
ANT 1.3.   58  It does from childishness. Can Fulvia die?
ANT 1.3.   59A  ANTONY She's dead, my queen. {He offers letters}
ANT 1.3.   60   Look here, and at thy sovereign leisure read
ANT 1.3.   61  The garboils she awaked. At the last, best,
ANT 1.3.   62B See when and where she died. CLEOPATRA O most false love!
ANT 1.3.   63  Where be the sacred vials thou shouldst fill
ANT 1.3.   64  With sorrowful water? Now I see, I see,
ANT 1.3.   65  In Fulvia's death how mine received shall be.
ANT 1.3.   66   ANTONY Quarrel no more, but be prepared to know
ANT 1.3.   67  The purposes I bear, which are or cease
ANT 1.3.   68  As you shall give th' advice. By the fire
ANT 1.3.   69  That quickens Nilus' slime, I go from hence
ANT 1.3.   70  Thy soldier-servant, making peace or war
ANT 1.3.   71B As thou affects. CLEOPATRA Cut my lace, Charmian, come.
ANT 1.3.   72  But let it be. I am quickly ill and well;
ANT 1.3.   73B So Antony loves. ANTONY My precious queen, forbear,
ANT 1.3.   74  And give true evidence to his love, which stands
ANT 1.3.   75B An honourable trial. CLEOPATRA So Fulvia told me.
ANT 1.3.   76  I prithee turn aside and weep for her,
ANT 1.3.   77  Then bid adieu to me, and say the tears
ANT 1.3.   78  Belong to Egypt. Good now, play one scene
ANT 1.3.   79  Of excellent dissembling, and let it look
ANT 1.3.   80B Like perfect honour. ANTONY You'll heat my blood. No more.
ANT 1.3.   81   CLEOPATRA You can do better yet; but this is meetly.
ANT 1.3.   82B  ANTONY Now by my sword -  CLEOPATRA And target. Still he mends.
ANT 1.3.   83  But this is not the best. Look, prithee, Charmian,
ANT 1.3.   84  How this Herculean Roman does become
ANT 1.3.   85  The carriage of his chafe.
ANT 1.3.   86A  ANTONY I'll leave you, lady.
ANT 1.3.   87A  CLEOPATRA Courteous lord, one word.
ANT 1.3.   88  Sir, you and I must part; but that's not it.
ANT 1.3.   89  Sir, you and I have loved; but there's not it;
ANT 1.3.   90  That you know well. Something it is I would - 
ANT 1.3.   91  O, my oblivion is a very Antony,
ANT 1.3.   92B And I am all forgotten. ANTONY But that your royalty
ANT 1.3.   93  Holds idleness your subject, I should take you
ANT 1.3.   94B For idleness itself. CLEOPATRA 'Tis sweating labour
ANT 1.3.   95  To bear such idleness so near the heart
ANT 1.3.   96  As Cleopatra this. But sir, forgive me,
ANT 1.3.   97  Since my becomings kill me when they do not
ANT 1.3.   98  Eye well to you. Your honour calls you hence,
ANT 1.3.   99  Therefore be deaf to my unpitied folly,
ANT 1.3.  100  And all the gods go with you. Upon your sword
ANT 1.3.  101  Sit laurel victory, and smooth success
ANT 1.3.  102B Be strewed before your feet. ANTONY Let us go.
ANT 1.3.  103  Come. Our separation so abides and flies
ANT 1.3.  104  That thou residing here goes yet with me,
ANT 1.3.  105  And I hence fleeting, here remain with thee.
ANT 1.3.  106  Away. {Exeunt severally}
ANT 1.3.    0    {Enter Octavius reading a letter, Lepidus, and their       +
ANT 1.4.    0  train}
ANT 1.4.    1   CAESAR  You may see, Lepidus, and henceforth know,
ANT 1.4.    2  It is not Caesar's natural vice to hate
ANT 1.4.    3  Our great competitor. From Alexandria
ANT 1.4.    4  This is the news: he fishes, drinks, and wastes
ANT 1.4.    5  The lamps of night in revel; is not more manlike
ANT 1.4.    6  Than Cleopatra, nor the queen of Ptolemy
ANT 1.4.    7  More womanly than he; hardly gave audience
ANT 1.4.    8  Or vouchsafed to think he had partners. You shall find there
ANT 1.4.    9  A man who is the abstract of all faults
ANT 1.4.   10B That all men follow. LEPIDUS I must not think there are
ANT 1.4.   11  Evils enough to darken all his goodness.
ANT 1.4.   12  His faults in him seem as the spots of heaven,
ANT 1.4.   13  More fiery by night's blackness; hereditary
ANT 1.4.   14  Rather than purchased; what he cannot change
ANT 1.4.   15  Than what he chooses.
ANT 1.4.   16   CAESAR You are too indulgent. Let's grant it is not
ANT 1.4.   17  Amiss to tumble on the bed of Ptolemy,
ANT 1.4.   18  To give a kingdom for a mirth, to sit
ANT 1.4.   19  And keep the turn of tippling with a slave,
ANT 1.4.   20  To reel the streets at noon, and stand the buffet
ANT 1.4.   21  With knaves that smells of sweat. Say this becomes him - 
ANT 1.4.   22  As his composure must be rare indeed
ANT 1.4.   23  Whom these things cannot blemish - yet must Antony
ANT 1.4.   24  No way excuse his foils when we do bear
ANT 1.4.   25  So great weight in his lightness. If he filled
ANT 1.4.   26  His vacancy with his voluptuousness,
ANT 1.4.   27  Full surfeits and the dryness of his bones
ANT 1.4.   28  Call on him for 't. But to confound such time
ANT 1.4.   29  That drums him from his sport, and speaks as loud
ANT 1.4.   30  As his own state and ours - 'tis to be chid
ANT 1.4.   31  As we rate boys who, being mature in knowledge,
ANT 1.4.   32  Pawn their experience to their present pleasure,
ANT 1.4.   33B And so rebel to judgement. {Enter a Messenger} LEPIDUS         +
ANT 1.4.   33B  Here's more news.
ANT 1.4.   34   MESSENGER Thy biddings have been done, and every hour,
ANT 1.4.   35  Most noble Caesar, shalt thou have report
ANT 1.4.   36  How 'tis abroad. Pompey is strong at sea,
ANT 1.4.   37  And it appears he is beloved of those
ANT 1.4.   38  That only have feared Caesar. To the ports
ANT 1.4.   39  The discontents repair, and men's reports
ANT 1.4.   40B Give him much wronged. {[Exit]} CAESAR  I should      +
ANT 1.4.   40B have known no less.
ANT 1.4.   41  It hath been taught us from the primal state
ANT 1.4.   42  That he which is was wished until he were,
ANT 1.4.   43  And the ebbed man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love,
ANT 1.4.   44  Comes deared by being lacked. This common body,
ANT 1.4.   45  Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream,
ANT 1.4.   46  Goes to, and back, lackeying the varying tide,
ANT 1.4.   47B To rot itself with motion. {[Enter a second Messenger]}           +
ANT 1.4.   47B  SECOND MESSENGER  Caesar, I bring thee word
ANT 1.4.   48  Menecrates and Menas, famous pirates,
ANT 1.4.   49  Makes the sea serve them, which they ear and wound
ANT 1.4.   50  With keels of every kind. Many hot inroads
ANT 1.4.   51  They make in Italy. The borders maritime
ANT 1.4.   52  Lack blood to think on 't, and flush youth revolt.
ANT 1.4.   53  No vessel can peep forth but 'tis as soon
ANT 1.4.   54  Taken as seen; for Pompey's name strikes more
ANT 1.4.   55B Than could his war resisted. {[Exit]} CAESAR          +
ANT 1.4.   55B Antony,
ANT 1.4.   56  Leave thy lascivious wassails. When thou once
ANT 1.4.   57  Was beaten from Modena, where thou slew'st
ANT 1.4.   58  Hirtius and Pansa, consuls, at thy heel
ANT 1.4.   59  Did famine follow, whom thou fought'st against - 
ANT 1.4.   60  Though daintily brought up - with patience more
ANT 1.4.   61  Than savages could suffer. Thou didst drink
ANT 1.4.   62  The stale of horses, and the gilded puddle
ANT 1.4.   63  Which beasts would cough at. Thy palate then did deign
ANT 1.4.   64  The roughest berry on the rudest hedge.
ANT 1.4.   65  Yea, like the stag when snow the pasture sheets,
ANT 1.4.   66  The barks of trees thou browsed. On the Alps
ANT 1.4.   67  It is reported thou didst eat strange flesh,
ANT 1.4.   68  Which some did die to look on; and all this - 
ANT 1.4.   69  It wounds thine honour that I speak it now - 
ANT 1.4.   70  Was borne so like a soldier that thy cheek
ANT 1.4.   71  So much as lanked not.
ANT 1.4.   72A  LEPIDUS 'Tis pity of him.
ANT 1.4.   73A  CAESAR Let his shames quickly
ANT 1.4.   74  Drive him to Rome. 'Tis time we twain
ANT 1.4.   75  Did show ourselves i' th' field; and to that end
ANT 1.4.   76  Assemble we immediate council. Pompey
ANT 1.4.   77B Thrives in our idleness. LEPIDUS Tomorrow, Caesar,
ANT 1.4.   78  I shall be furnished to inform you rightly
ANT 1.4.   79  Both what by sea and land I can be able
ANT 1.4.   80B To front this present time. CAESAR Till which encounter
ANT 1.4.   81  It is my business, too. Farewell.
ANT 1.4.   82   LEPIDUS Farewell, my lord. What you shall know meantime
ANT 1.4.   83  Of stirs abroad I shall beseech you, sir,
ANT 1.4.   84  To let me be partaker.
ANT 1.4.   85   CAESAR Doubt not, sir. I knew it for my bond. {Exeunt}
ANT 1.4.    0    {Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras, and Mardian}
ANT 1.5.    1A  CLEOPATRA  Charmian!
ANT 1.5.    2A  CHARMIAN Madam?
ANT 1.5.    3   CLEOPATRA  {(yawning)} Ha, ha. Give me to drink      +
ANT 1.5.    3  mandragora.
ANT 1.5.    4A  CHARMIAN Why, madam?
ANT 1.5.    5   CLEOPATRA That I might sleep out this great gap of time
ANT 1.5.    6B My Antony is away. CHARMIAN You think of him too much.
ANT 1.5.    7B  CLEOPATRA O, 'tis treason! CHARMIAN Madam, I trust not so.
ANT 1.5.    8B  CLEOPATRA Thou, eunuch Mardian! MARDIAN What's your highness'     +
ANT 1.5.    8B pleasure?
ANT 1.5.    9   CLEOPATRA Not now to hear thee sing. I take no pleasure
ANT 1.5.   10  In aught an eunuch has. 'Tis well for thee
ANT 1.5.   11  That, being unseminared, thy freer thoughts
ANT 1.5.   12  May not fly forth of Egypt. Hast thou affections?
ANT 1.5.   13A  MARDIAN Yes, gracious madam.
ANT 1.5.   14A  CLEOPATRA Indeed?
ANT 1.5.   15   MARDIAN Not in deed, madam, for I can do nothing
ANT 1.5.   16  But what indeed is honest to be done.
ANT 1.5.   17  Yet have I fierce affections, and think
ANT 1.5.   18B What Venus did with Mars. CLEOPATRA O, Charmian,
ANT 1.5.   19  Where think'st thou he is now? Stands he or sits he?
ANT 1.5.   20  Or does he walk? Or is he on his horse?
ANT 1.5.   21  O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!
ANT 1.5.   22  Do bravely, horse, for wot'st thou whom thou mov'st? - 
ANT 1.5.   23  The demi-Atlas of this earth, the arm
ANT 1.5.   24  And burgonet of men. He's speaking now,
ANT 1.5.   25  Or murmuring `Where's my serpent of old Nile?' - 
ANT 1.5.   26  For so he calls me. Now I feed myself
ANT 1.5.   27  With most delicious poison. Think on me,
ANT 1.5.   28  That am with Phoebus' amorous pinches black,
ANT 1.5.   29  And wrinkled deep in time. Broad-fronted Caesar,
ANT 1.5.   30  When thou wast here above the ground I was
ANT 1.5.   31  A morsel for a monarch, and great Pompey
ANT 1.5.   32  Would stand and make his eyes grow in my brow.
ANT 1.5.   33  There would he anchor his aspect, and die
ANT 1.5.   34B With looking on his life. {Enter Alexas} ALEXAS       +
ANT 1.5.   34B Sovereign of Egypt, hail!
ANT 1.5.   35   CLEOPATRA How much unlike art thou Mark Antony!
ANT 1.5.   36  Yet, coming from him, that great medicine hath
ANT 1.5.   37  With his tinct gilded thee. How goes it
ANT 1.5.   38B With my brave Mark Antony? ALEXAS Last thing he did, dear Queen,
ANT 1.5.   39  He kissed - the last of many doubled kisses - 
ANT 1.5.   40  This orient pearl. His speech sticks in my heart.
ANT 1.5.   41B  CLEOPATRA Mine ear must pluck it thence. ALEXAS `Good friend,'    +
ANT 1.5.   41B quoth he,
ANT 1.5.   42  `Say the firm Roman to great Egypt sends
ANT 1.5.   43  This treasure of an oyster; at whose foot,
ANT 1.5.   44  To mend the petty present, I will piece
ANT 1.5.   45  Her opulent throne with kingdoms. All the East,
ANT 1.5.   46  Say thou, shall call her mistress.' So he nodded,
ANT 1.5.   47  And soberly did mount an arm-jaunced steed,
ANT 1.5.   48  Who neighed so high that what I would have spoke
ANT 1.5.   49B Was beastly dumbed by him. CLEOPATRA What, was he sad or merry?
ANT 1.5.   50   ALEXAS Like to the time o' th' year between the extremes
ANT 1.5.   51  Of hot and cold, he was nor sad nor merry.
ANT 1.5.   52   CLEOPATRA O well divided disposition! Note him,
ANT 1.5.   53  Note him, good Charmian, 'tis the man; but note him.
ANT 1.5.   54  He was not sad, for he would shine on those
ANT 1.5.   55  That make their looks by his; he was not merry,
ANT 1.5.   56  Which seemed to tell them his remembrance lay
ANT 1.5.   57  In Egypt with his joy; but between both.
ANT 1.5.   58  O heavenly mingle! Be'st thou sad or merry,
ANT 1.5.   59  The violence of either thee becomes;
ANT 1.5.   60  So does it no man else. Met'st thou my posts?
ANT 1.5.   61   ALEXAS Ay, madam, twenty several messengers.
ANT 1.5.   62B Why do you send so thick? CLEOPATRA Who's born that day
ANT 1.5.   63  When I forget to send to Antony
ANT 1.5.   64  Shall die a beggar. Ink and paper, Charmian!
ANT 1.5.   65  Welcome, my good Alexas. Did I, Charmian,
ANT 1.5.   66B Ever love Caesar so? CHARMIAN O, that brave Caesar!
ANT 1.5.   67   CLEOPATRA Be choked with such another emphasis!
ANT 1.5.   68B Say `the brave Antony'. CHARMIAN The valiant Caesar.
ANT 1.5.   69   CLEOPATRA By Isis, I will give thee bloody teeth
ANT 1.5.   70  If thou with Caesar paragon again
ANT 1.5.   71B My man of men. CHARMIAN By your most gracious pardon,
ANT 1.5.   72B I sing but after you. CLEOPATRA My salad days,
ANT 1.5.   73  When I was green in judgement, cold in blood,
ANT 1.5.   74  To say as I said then. But come, away,
ANT 1.5.   75  Get me ink and paper.
ANT 1.5.   76  He shall have every day a several greeting,
ANT 1.5.   77  Or I'll unpeople Egypt. {Exeunt}
ANT 1.5.    0     {Enter Pompey, Menecrates, and Menas, in warlike     +
ANT 2.1.    0  manner}
ANT 2.1.    1   POMPEY  If the great gods be just, they shall assist
ANT 2.1.    2B The deeds of justest men. [MENECRATES] Know, worthy Pompey,
ANT 2.1.    3  That what they do delay they not deny.
ANT 2.1.    4   POMPEY Whiles we are suitors to their throne, decays
ANT 2.1.    5B The thing we sue for. [MENECRATES] We, ignorant of ourselves,
ANT 2.1.    6  Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers
ANT 2.1.    7  Deny us for our good; so find we profit
ANT 2.1.    8B By losing of our prayers. POMPEY I shall do well.
ANT 2.1.    9  The people love me, and the sea is mine.
ANT 2.1.   10  My powers are crescent, and my auguring hope
ANT 2.1.   11  Says it will come to th' full. Mark Antony
ANT 2.1.   12  In Egypt sits at dinner, and will make
ANT 2.1.   13  No wars without doors. Caesar gets money where
ANT 2.1.   14  He loses hearts. Lepidus flatters both,
ANT 2.1.   15  Of both is flattered; but he neither loves,
ANT 2.1.   16B Nor either cares for him. [MENAS] Caesar and Lepidus
ANT 2.1.   17  Are in the field; a mighty strength they carry.
ANT 2.1.   18B  POMPEY Where have you this? 'Tis false. [MENAS] From Silvius,     +
ANT 2.1.   18B sir.
ANT 2.1.   19   POMPEY He dreams. I know they are in Rome together,
ANT 2.1.   20  Looking for Antony. But all the charms of love,
ANT 2.1.   21  Salt Cleopatra, soften thy waned lip.
ANT 2.1.   22  Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both
ANT 2.1.   23  Tie up the libertine, in a field of feasts
ANT 2.1.   24  Keep his brain fuming; Epicurean cooks
ANT 2.1.   25  Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite,
ANT 2.1.   26  That sleep and feeding may prorogue his honour
ANT 2.1.   27B Even till a Lethe'd dullness -  {Enter Varrius} How now,   +
ANT 2.1.   27B Varrius?
ANT 2.1.   28   VARRIUS This is most certain that I shall deliver:
ANT 2.1.   29  Mark Antony is every hour in Rome
ANT 2.1.   30  Expected. Since he went from Egypt, 'tis
ANT 2.1.   31B A space for farther travel. POMPEY I could have given less matter
ANT 2.1.   32  A better ear. Menas, I did not think
ANT 2.1.   33  This amorous surfeiter would have donned his helm
ANT 2.1.   34  For such a petty war. His soldiership
ANT 2.1.   35  Is twice the other twain. But let us rear
ANT 2.1.   36  The higher our opinion, that our stirring
ANT 2.1.   37  Can from the lap of Egypt's widow pluck
ANT 2.1.   38B The ne'er lust-wearied Antony. MENAS I cannot hope
ANT 2.1.   39  Caesar and Antony shall well greet together.
ANT 2.1.   40  His wife that's dead did trespasses to Caesar,
ANT 2.1.   41  His brother warred upon him, although, I think,
ANT 2.1.   42B Not moved by Antony. POMPEY I know not, Menas,
ANT 2.1.   43  How lesser enmities may give way to greater.
ANT 2.1.   44  Were 't not that we stand up against them all,
ANT 2.1.   45  'Twere pregnant they should square between themselves,
ANT 2.1.   46  For they have entertained cause enough
ANT 2.1.   47  To draw their swords. But how the fear of us
ANT 2.1.   48  May cement their divisions, and bind up
ANT 2.1.   49  The petty difference, we yet not know.
ANT 2.1.   50  Be 't as our gods will have 't; it only stands
ANT 2.1.   51  Our lives upon to use our strongest hands.
ANT 2.1.   52  Come, Menas. {Exeunt}
ANT 2.1.    0    {Enter Enobarbus and Lepidus}
ANT 2.2.    1   LEPIDUS  Good Enobarbus, 'tis a worthy deed,
ANT 2.2.    2  And shall become you well, to entreat your captain
ANT 2.2.    3B To soft and gentle speech. ENOBARBUS I shall entreat him
ANT 2.2.    4  To answer like himself. If Caesar move him,
ANT 2.2.    5  Let Antony look over Caesar's head
ANT 2.2.    6  And speak as loud as Mars. By Jupiter,
ANT 2.2.    7  Were I the wearer of Antonio's beard
ANT 2.2.    8B I would not shave 't today. LEPIDUS 'Tis not a time
ANT 2.2.    9B For private stomaching. ENOBARBUS Every time
ANT 2.2.   10  Serves for the matter that is then born in 't.
ANT 2.2.   11   LEPIDUS But small to greater matters must give way.
ANT 2.2.   12B  ENOBARBUS Not if the small come first. LEPIDUS Your speech is     +
ANT 2.2.   12B passion.
ANT 2.2.   13  But pray you, stir no embers up. Here comes
ANT 2.2.   14B The noble Antony. {Enter at one door Antony and                   +
ANT 2.2.   14B Ventidius} ENOBARBUS  And yonder Caesar. {Enter at    +
ANT 2.2.   14B another door Caesar, Maecenas, and Agrippa}
ANT 2.2.   15   ANTONY  {(to Ventidius)} If we compose well here,    +
ANT 2.2.   15  to Parthia.
ANT 2.2.   16B Hark, Ventidius. CAESAR I do not know,
ANT 2.2.   17B Maecenas; ask Agrippa. LEPIDUS  {(to Caesar and                +
ANT 2.2.   17B Antony)} Noble friends,
ANT 2.2.   18  That which combined us was most great; and let not
ANT 2.2.   19  A leaner action rend us. What's amiss,
ANT 2.2.   20  May it be gently heard. When we debate
ANT 2.2.   21  Our trivial difference loud, we do commit
ANT 2.2.   22  Murder in healing wounds. Then, noble partners,
ANT 2.2.   23  The rather for I earnestly beseech,
ANT 2.2.   24  Touch you the sourest points with sweetest terms,
ANT 2.2.   25B Nor curstness grow to th' matter. ANTONY 'Tis spoken well.
ANT 2.2.   26  Were we before our armies, and to fight,
ANT 2.2.   27  I should do thus. {[Antony and Caesar embrace.] Flourish}
ANT 2.2.   28A  CAESAR  Welcome to Rome.
ANT 2.2.   29A  ANTONY Thank you.
ANT 2.2.   30A  CAESAR Sit.
ANT 2.2.   31A  ANTONY Sit, sir.
ANT 2.2.   32A  CAESAR Nay then. {They sit}
ANT 2.2.   33   ANTONY  I learn you take things ill which are not so,
ANT 2.2.   34B Or being, concern you not. CAESAR I must be laughed at
ANT 2.2.   35  If or for nothing or a little I
ANT 2.2.   36  Should say myself offended, and with you
ANT 2.2.   37  Chiefly i' th' world; more laughed at that I should
ANT 2.2.   38  Once name you derogately, when to sound your name
ANT 2.2.   39  It not concerned me.
ANT 2.2.   40   ANTONY My being in Egypt, Caesar, what was 't to you?
ANT 2.2.   41   CAESAR No more than my residing here at Rome
ANT 2.2.   42  Might be to you in Egypt. Yet if you there
ANT 2.2.   43  Did practise on my state, your being in Egypt
ANT 2.2.   44B Might be my question. ANTONY How intend you `practised'?
ANT 2.2.   45   CAESAR You may be pleased to catch at mine intent
ANT 2.2.   46  By what did here befall me. Your wife and brother
ANT 2.2.   47  Made wars upon me, and their contestation
ANT 2.2.   48  Was theme for you. You were the word of war.
ANT 2.2.   49   ANTONY You do mistake the business. My brother never
ANT 2.2.   50  Did urge me in his act. I did enquire it,
ANT 2.2.   51  And have my learning from some true reports
ANT 2.2.   52  That drew their swords with you. Did he not rather
ANT 2.2.   53  Discredit my authority with yours,
ANT 2.2.   54  And make the wars alike against my stomach,
ANT 2.2.   55  Having alike your cause? Of this, my letters
ANT 2.2.   56  Before did satisfy you. If you'll patch a quarrel,
ANT 2.2.   57  As matter whole you have to make it with,
ANT 2.2.   58B It must not be with this. CAESAR You praise yourself
ANT 2.2.   59  By laying defects of judgement to me, but
ANT 2.2.   60B You patched up your excuses. ANTONY Not so, not so.
ANT 2.2.   61  I know you could not lack, I am certain on 't,
ANT 2.2.   62  Very necessity of this thought, that I,
ANT 2.2.   63  Your partner in the cause 'gainst which he fought,
ANT 2.2.   64  Could not with graceful eyes attend those wars
ANT 2.2.   65  Which fronted mine own peace. As for my wife,
ANT 2.2.   66  I would you had her spirit in such another.
ANT 2.2.   67  The third o' th' world is yours, which with a snaffle
ANT 2.2.   68  You may pace easy, but not such a wife.
ANT 2.2.   69   ENOBARBUS  Would we had all such wives, that the men
ANT 2.2.   70  might go to wars with the women.
ANT 2.2.   71   ANTONY  So much uncurbable, her garboils, Caesar,
ANT 2.2.   72  Made out of her impatience - which not wanted
ANT 2.2.   73  Shrewdness of policy too - I grieving grant
ANT 2.2.   74  Did you too much disquiet, for that you must
ANT 2.2.   75B But say I could not help it. CAESAR I wrote to you
ANT 2.2.   76  When, rioting in Alexandria, you
ANT 2.2.   77  Did pocket up my letters, and with taunts
ANT 2.2.   78  Did gibe my missive out of audience.
ANT 2.2.   79   ANTONY Sir, he fell upon me ere admitted, then.
ANT 2.2.   80  Three kings I had newly feasted, and did want
ANT 2.2.   81  Of what I was i' th' morning; but next day
ANT 2.2.   82  I told him of myself, which was as much
ANT 2.2.   83  As to have asked him pardon. Let this fellow
ANT 2.2.   84  Be nothing of our strife. If we contend,
ANT 2.2.   85B Out of our question wipe him. CAESAR You have broken
ANT 2.2.   86  The article of your oath, which you shall never
ANT 2.2.   87  Have tongue to charge me with.
ANT 2.2.   88A  LEPIDUS Soft, Caesar.
ANT 2.2.   89A  ANTONY No, Lepidus, let him speak.
ANT 2.2.   90  The honour is sacred which he talks on now,
ANT 2.2.   91  Supposing that I lacked it. But on, Caesar:
ANT 2.2.   92  The article of my oath - 
ANT 2.2.   93   CAESAR To lend me arms and aid when I required them,
ANT 2.2.   94B The which you both denied. ANTONY Neglected, rather,
ANT 2.2.   95  And then when poisoned hours had bound me up
ANT 2.2.   96  From mine own knowledge. As nearly as I may
ANT 2.2.   97  I'll play the penitent to you, but mine honesty
ANT 2.2.   98  Shall not make poor my greatness, nor my power
ANT 2.2.   99  Work without it. Truth is that Fulvia,
ANT 2.2.  100  To have me out of Egypt, made wars here,
ANT 2.2.  101  For which myself, the ignorant motive, do
ANT 2.2.  102  So far ask pardon as befits mine honour
ANT 2.2.  103B To stoop in such a case. LEPIDUS 'Tis noble spoken.
ANT 2.2.  104   MAECENAS If it might please you to enforce no further
ANT 2.2.  105  The griefs between ye; to forget them quite
ANT 2.2.  106  Were to remember that the present need
ANT 2.2.  107B Speaks to atone you. LEPIDUS Worthily spoken, Maecenas.
ANT 2.2.  108   ENOBARBUS  Or if you borrow one another's love for the
ANT 2.2.  109  instant, you may, when you hear no more words of
ANT 2.2.  110  Pompey, return it again. You shall have time to wrangle
ANT 2.2.  111  in when you have nothing else to do.
ANT 2.2.  112   ANTONY  Thou art a soldier only. Speak no more.
ANT 2.2.  113   ENOBARBUS  That truth should be silent I had almost         +
ANT 2.2.  113  forgot.
ANT 2.2.  114   ANTONY  You wrong this presence, therefore speak no more.
ANT 2.2.  115   ENOBARBUS  Go to, then; your considerate stone.
ANT 2.2.  116   CAESAR  I do not much dislike the matter, but
ANT 2.2.  117  The manner of his speech, for 't cannot be
ANT 2.2.  118  We shall remain in friendship, our conditions
ANT 2.2.  119  So diff'ring in their acts. Yet if I knew
ANT 2.2.  120  What hoop should hold us staunch, from edge to edge
ANT 2.2.  121  O' th' world I would pursue it.
ANT 2.2.  122A  AGRIPPA Give me leave, Caesar.
ANT 2.2.  123A  CAESAR Speak, Agrippa.
ANT 2.2.  124   AGRIPPA Thou hast a sister by the mother's side,
ANT 2.2.  125  Admired Octavia. Great Mark Antony
ANT 2.2.  126B Is now a widower. CAESAR Say not so, Agrippa.
ANT 2.2.  127  If Cleopatra heard you, your reproof
ANT 2.2.  128  Were well deserved of rashness.
ANT 2.2.  129   ANTONY I am not married, Caesar. Let me hear
ANT 2.2.  130  Agrippa further speak.
ANT 2.2.  131   AGRIPPA To hold you in perpetual amity,
ANT 2.2.  132  To make you brothers, and to knit your hearts
ANT 2.2.  133  With an unslipping knot, take Antony
ANT 2.2.  134  Octavia to his wife; whose beauty claims
ANT 2.2.  135  No worse a husband than the best of men;
ANT 2.2.  136  Whose virtue and whose general graces speak
ANT 2.2.  137  That which none else can utter. By this marriage
ANT 2.2.  138  All little jealousies which now seem great,
ANT 2.2.  139  And all great fears which now import their dangers,
ANT 2.2.  140  Would then be nothing. Truths would be tales
ANT 2.2.  141  Where now half-tales be truths. Her love to both
ANT 2.2.  142  Would each to other and all loves to both
ANT 2.2.  143  Draw after her. Pardon what I have spoke,
ANT 2.2.  144  For 'tis a studied, not a present thought,
ANT 2.2.  145B By duty ruminated. ANTONY Will Caesar speak?
ANT 2.2.  146   CAESAR Not till he hears how Antony is touched
ANT 2.2.  147  With what is spoke already.
ANT 2.2.  148A  ANTONY What power is in Agrippa,
ANT 2.2.  149  If I would say `Agrippa, be it so',
ANT 2.2.  150B To make this good? CAESAR The power of Caesar,
ANT 2.2.  151B And his power unto Octavia. ANTONY May I never
ANT 2.2.  152  To this good purpose, that so fairly shows,
ANT 2.2.  153  Dream of impediment! Let me have thy hand.
ANT 2.2.  154  Further this act of grace, and from this hour
ANT 2.2.  155  The heart of brothers govern in our loves
ANT 2.2.  156B And sway our great designs. CAESAR There's my hand. {Antony    +
ANT 2.2.  156B and Caesar clasp hands}
ANT 2.2.  157   A sister I bequeath you whom no brother
ANT 2.2.  158  Did ever love so dearly. Let her live
ANT 2.2.  159  To join our kingdoms and our hearts; and never
ANT 2.2.  160B Fly off our loves again. LEPIDUS Happily, amen.
ANT 2.2.  161   ANTONY I did not think to draw my sword 'gainst Pompey,
ANT 2.2.  162  For he hath laid strange courtesies and great
ANT 2.2.  163  Of late upon me. I must thank him only,
ANT 2.2.  164  Lest my remembrance suffer ill report;
ANT 2.2.  165B At heel of that, defy him. LEPIDUS Time calls upon 's.
ANT 2.2.  166  Of us must Pompey presently be sought,
ANT 2.2.  167B Or else he seeks out us. ANTONY Where lies he?
ANT 2.2.  168B  CAESAR About the Mount Misena. ANTONY What is his strength
ANT 2.2.  169B By land? CAESAR Great and increasing, but by sea
ANT 2.2.  170B He is an absolute master. ANTONY So is the fame.
ANT 2.2.  171  Would we had spoke together. Haste we for it;
ANT 2.2.  172  Yet ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we
ANT 2.2.  173B The business we have talked of. CAESAR With most gladness,
ANT 2.2.  174  And do invite you to my sister's view,
ANT 2.2.  175B Whither straight I'll lead you. ANTONY Let us, Lepidus,
ANT 2.2.  176B Not lack your company. LEPIDUS Noble Antony,
ANT 2.2.  177  Not sickness should detain me. {Flourish. Exeunt all but          +
ANT 2.2.  177  Enobarbus, Agrippa, and Maecenas}
ANT 2.2.  178   MAECENAS  {(to Enobarbus)} Welcome from Egypt, sir.
ANT 2.2.  179   ENOBARBUS Half the heart of Caesar, worthy Maecenas!
ANT 2.2.  180  My honourable friend, Agrippa!
ANT 2.2.  181   AGRIPPA Good Enobarbus!
ANT 2.2.  182   MAECENAS We have cause to be glad that matters are so
ANT 2.2.  183  well digested. You stayed well by 't in Egypt.
ANT 2.2.  184   ENOBARBUS Ay, sir, we did sleep day out of countenance,
ANT 2.2.  185  and made the night light with drinking.
ANT 2.2.  186   MAECENAS Eight wild boars roasted whole at a breakfast
ANT 2.2.  187  and but twelve persons there - is this true?
ANT 2.2.  188   ENOBARBUS This was but as a fly by an eagle. We had
ANT 2.2.  189  much more monstrous matter of feast, which worthily
ANT 2.2.  190  deserved noting.
ANT 2.2.  191   MAECENAS She's a most triumphant lady, if report be
ANT 2.2.  192  square to her.
ANT 2.2.  193   ENOBARBUS When she first met Mark Antony, she pursed
ANT 2.2.  194  up his heart upon the river of Cydnus.
ANT 2.2.  195   AGRIPPA There she appeared indeed, or my reporter
ANT 2.2.  196  devised well for her.
ANT 2.2.  197A  ENOBARBUS  I will tell you.
ANT 2.2.  198  The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne
ANT 2.2.  199  Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold;
ANT 2.2.  200  Purple the sails, and so perfumed that
ANT 2.2.  201  The winds were love-sick with them. The oars were silver,
ANT 2.2.  202  Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made
ANT 2.2.  203  The water which they beat to follow faster,
ANT 2.2.  204  As amorous of their strokes. For her own person,
ANT 2.2.  205  It beggared all description. She did lie
ANT 2.2.  206  In her pavilion - cloth of gold, of tissue - 
ANT 2.2.  207  O'er-picturing that Venus where we see
ANT 2.2.  208  The fancy outwork nature. On each side her
ANT 2.2.  209  Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids,
ANT 2.2.  210  With divers-coloured fans whose wind did seem
ANT 2.2.  211  To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool,
ANT 2.2.  212B And what they undid did. AGRIPPA O, rare for Antony!
ANT 2.2.  213   ENOBARBUS Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides,
ANT 2.2.  214  So many mermaids, tended her i' th' eyes,
ANT 2.2.  215  And made their bends adornings. At the helm
ANT 2.2.  216  A seeming mermaid steers. The silken tackle
ANT 2.2.  217  Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands
ANT 2.2.  218  That yarely frame the office. From the barge
ANT 2.2.  219  A strange invisible perfume hits the sense
ANT 2.2.  220  Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast
ANT 2.2.  221  Her people out upon her, and Antony,
ANT 2.2.  222  Enthroned i' th' market-place, did sit alone,
ANT 2.2.  223  Whistling to th' air, which but for vacancy
ANT 2.2.  224  Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too,
ANT 2.2.  225B And made a gap in nature. AGRIPPA Rare Egyptian!
ANT 2.2.  226   ENOBARBUS Upon her landing Antony sent to her,
ANT 2.2.  227  Invited her to supper. She replied
ANT 2.2.  228  It should be better he became her guest,
ANT 2.2.  229  Which she entreated. Our courteous Antony,
ANT 2.2.  230  Whom ne'er the word of `No' woman heard speak,
ANT 2.2.  231  Being barbered ten times o'er, goes to the feast,
ANT 2.2.  232  And for his ordinary pays his heart
ANT 2.2.  233B For what his eyes eat only. AGRIPPA Royal wench!
ANT 2.2.  234  She made great Caesar lay his sword to bed.
ANT 2.2.  235B He ploughed her, and she cropped. ENOBARBUS I saw her once
ANT 2.2.  236  Hop forty paces through the public street,
ANT 2.2.  237  And having lost her breath, she spoke and panted,
ANT 2.2.  238  That she did make defect perfection,
ANT 2.2.  239B And breathless, pour breath forth. MAECENAS Now Antony
ANT 2.2.  240B Must leave her utterly. ENOBARBUS Never. He will not.
ANT 2.2.  241  Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
ANT 2.2.  242  Her infinite variety. Other women cloy
ANT 2.2.  243  The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry
ANT 2.2.  244  Where most she satisfies. For vilest things
ANT 2.2.  245  Become themselves in her, that the holy priests
ANT 2.2.  246  Bless her when she is riggish.
ANT 2.2.  247   MAECENAS If beauty, wisdom, modesty can settle
ANT 2.2.  248  The heart of Antony, Octavia is
ANT 2.2.  249B A blessed lottery to him. AGRIPPA Let us go.
ANT 2.2.  250  Good Enobarbus, make yourself my guest
ANT 2.2.  251B Whilst you abide here. ENOBARBUS Humbly, sir, I thank you.     +
ANT 2.2.  251B {Exeunt}
ANT 2.2.    0    {Enter Antony and Caesar; Octavia between them}
ANT 2.3.    1   ANTONY  The world and my great office will sometimes
ANT 2.3.    2B Divide me from your bosom. OCTAVIA All which time,
ANT 2.3.    3  Before the gods my knee shall bow my prayers
ANT 2.3.    4B To them for you. ANTONY Good night, sir. My Octavia,
ANT 2.3.    5  Read not my blemishes in the world's report.
ANT 2.3.    6  I have not kept my square, but that to come
ANT 2.3.    7  Shall all be done by th' rule. Good night, dear lady.
ANT 2.3.    8  Good night, sir.
ANT 2.3.    9A  CAESAR Good night. {Exeunt Caesar and Octavia}
ANT 2.3.   10   {Enter Soothsayer} ANTONY  Now, sirrah. You do wish  +
ANT 2.3.   10  yourself in Egypt?
ANT 2.3.   11   SOOTHSAYER Would I had never come from thence, nor you
ANT 2.3.   12B Gone thither. ANTONY If you can, your reason?
ANT 2.3.   13   SOOTHSAYER I see it in my motion, have it not in my tongue.
ANT 2.3.   14B But yet hie you to Egypt again. ANTONY Say to me
ANT 2.3.   15  Whose fortunes shall rise higher: Caesar's or mine?
ANT 2.3.   16   SOOTHSAYER Caesar's. Therefore, O Antony, stay not by his side.
ANT 2.3.   17  Thy daemon, that thy spirit which keeps thee, is
ANT 2.3.   18  Noble, courageous, high, unmatchable,
ANT 2.3.   19  Where Caesar's is not. But near him thy angel
ANT 2.3.   20  Becomes afeard, as being o'erpowered. Therefore
ANT 2.3.   21B Make space enough between you. ANTONY Speak this no more.
ANT 2.3.   22   SOOTHSAYER To none but thee; no more but when to thee.
ANT 2.3.   23  If thou dost play with him at any game
ANT 2.3.   24  Thou art sure to lose; and of that natural luck
ANT 2.3.   25  He beats thee 'gainst the odds. Thy lustre thickens
ANT 2.3.   26  When he shines by. I say again, thy spirit
ANT 2.3.   27  Is all afraid to govern thee near him;
ANT 2.3.   28B But he away, 'tis noble. ANTONY Get thee gone.
ANT 2.3.   29  Say to Ventidius I would speak with him. {Exit Soothsayer}
ANT 2.3.   30   He shall to Parthia; be it art or hap,
ANT 2.3.   31  He hath spoken true. The very dice obey him,
ANT 2.3.   32  And in our sports my better cunning faints
ANT 2.3.   33  Under his chance. If we draw lots, he speeds.
ANT 2.3.   34  His cocks do win the battle still of mine
ANT 2.3.   35  When it is all to nought, and his quails ever
ANT 2.3.   36  Beat mine, inhooped, at odds. I will to Egypt;
ANT 2.3.   37  And though I make this marriage for my peace,
ANT 2.3.   38B I' th' East my pleasure lies. {Enter Ventidius} O, come, +
ANT 2.3.   38B Ventidius.
ANT 2.3.   39  You must to Parthia, your commission's ready.
ANT 2.3.   40  Follow me, and receive 't. {Exeunt}
ANT 2.3.    0    {Enter Lepidus, Maecenas, and Agrippa}
ANT 2.4.    1   LEPIDUS  Trouble yourselves no further. Pray you, hasten
ANT 2.4.    2B Your generals after. AGRIPPA Sir, Mark Antony
ANT 2.4.    3  Will e'en but kiss Octavia, and we'll follow.
ANT 2.4.    4   LEPIDUS Till I shall see you in your soldier's dress,
ANT 2.4.    5B Which will become you both, farewell. MAECENAS We shall,
ANT 2.4.    6  As I conceive the journey, be at the Mount
ANT 2.4.    7B Before you, Lepidus. LEPIDUS Your way is shorter.
ANT 2.4.    8  My purposes do draw me much about.
ANT 2.4.    9B You'll win two days upon me. MAECENAS {AND} AGRIPPA Sir, good         +
ANT 2.4.    9B success.
ANT 2.4.   10A  LEPIDUS Farewell. {Exeunt Maecenas and Agrippa at one door,   +
ANT 2.4.   10A Lepidus at another}
ANT 2.4.    0    {Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras, and Alexas}
ANT 2.5.    1   CLEOPATRA  Give me some music - music, moody food
ANT 2.5.    2B Of us that trade in love. CHARMIAN, IRAS, {AND} ALEXAS The music,     +
ANT 2.5.    2B ho! {Enter Mardian, the eunuch}
ANT 2.5.    3   CLEOPATRA  Let it alone. Let's to billiards. Come,          +
ANT 2.5.    3  Charmian.
ANT 2.5.    4   CHARMIAN My arm is sore. Best play with Mardian.
ANT 2.5.    5   CLEOPATRA As well a woman with an eunuch played
ANT 2.5.    6  As with a woman. Come, you'll play with me, sir?
ANT 2.5.    7A  MARDIAN As well as I can, madam.
ANT 2.5.    8   CLEOPATRA And when good will is showed, though 't come too short
ANT 2.5.    9  The actor may plead pardon. I'll none now.
ANT 2.5.   10  Give me mine angle. We'll to th' river. There,
ANT 2.5.   11  My music playing far off, I will betray
ANT 2.5.   12  Tawny-finned fishes. My bended hook shall pierce
ANT 2.5.   13  Their slimy jaws, and as I draw them up
ANT 2.5.   14  I'll think them every one an Antony,
ANT 2.5.   15B And say `Ah ha, you're caught!' CHARMIAN 'Twas merry when
ANT 2.5.   16  You wagered on your angling, when your diver
ANT 2.5.   17  Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he
ANT 2.5.   18B With fervency drew up. CLEOPATRA That time - O times! - 
ANT 2.5.   19  I laughed him out of patience, and that night
ANT 2.5.   20  I laughed him into patience, and next morn,
ANT 2.5.   21  Ere the ninth hour, I drunk him to his bed,
ANT 2.5.   22  Then put my tires and mantles on him whilst
ANT 2.5.   23B I wore his sword Philippan. {Enter a Messenger} O, from  +
ANT 2.5.   23B Italy.
ANT 2.5.   24  Ram thou thy fruitful tidings in mine ears,
ANT 2.5.   25B That long time have been barren. MESSENGER Madam, madam!
ANT 2.5.   26   CLEOPATRA Antonio's dead. If thou say so, villain,
ANT 2.5.   27  Thou kill'st thy mistress; but well and free,
ANT 2.5.   28  If thou so yield him, there is gold, and here
ANT 2.5.   29  My bluest veins to kiss - a hand that kings
ANT 2.5.   30B Have lipped, and trembled kissing. MESSENGER First, madam, he is      +
ANT 2.5.   30B well.
ANT 2.5.   31   CLEOPATRA Why, there's more gold. But, sirrah, mark: we use
ANT 2.5.   32  To say the dead are well. Bring it to that,
ANT 2.5.   33  The gold I give thee will I melt and pour
ANT 2.5.   34  Down thy ill-uttering throat.
ANT 2.5.   35A  MESSENGER Good madam, hear me.
ANT 2.5.   36A  CLEOPATRA Well, go to, I will.
ANT 2.5.   37  But there's no goodness in thy face. If Antony
ANT 2.5.   38  Be free and healthful, so tart a favour
ANT 2.5.   39  To trumpet such good tidings! If not well,
ANT 2.5.   40  Thou shouldst come like a Fury crowned with snakes,
ANT 2.5.   41B Not like a formal man. MESSENGER Will 't please you hear me?
ANT 2.5.   42   CLEOPATRA I have a mind to strike thee ere thou speak'st.
ANT 2.5.   43  Yet if thou say Antony lives, is well,
ANT 2.5.   44  Or friends with Caesar, or not captive to him,
ANT 2.5.   45  I'll set thee in a shower of gold, and hail
ANT 2.5.   46B Rich pearls upon thee. MESSENGER Madam, he's well. CLEOPATRA Well  +
ANT 2.5.   46B said.
ANT 2.5.   47B  MESSENGER And friends with Caesar. CLEOPATRA Thou'rt an honest    +
ANT 2.5.   47B man.
ANT 2.5.   48   MESSENGER Caesar and he are greater friends than ever.
ANT 2.5.   49B  CLEOPATRA Make thee a fortune from me. MESSENGER But yet, madam - 
ANT 2.5.   50   CLEOPATRA I do not like `But yet'; it does allay
ANT 2.5.   51  The good precedence. Fie upon `But yet'.
ANT 2.5.   52  `But yet' is as a jailer to bring forth
ANT 2.5.   53  Some monstrous malefactor. Prithee, friend,
ANT 2.5.   54  Pour out the pack of matter to mine ear,
ANT 2.5.   55  The good and bad together. He's friends with Caesar,
ANT 2.5.   56  In state of health, thou sayst; and, thou sayst, free.
ANT 2.5.   57   MESSENGER Free, madam? No, I made no such report.
ANT 2.5.   58B He's bound unto Octavia. CLEOPATRA For what good turn?
ANT 2.5.   59B  MESSENGER For the best turn i' th' bed. CLEOPATRA I am pale,      +
ANT 2.5.   59B Charmian.
ANT 2.5.   60   MESSENGER Madam, he's married to Octavia.
ANT 2.5.   61   CLEOPATRA The most infectious pestilence upon thee! {She      +
ANT 2.5.   61  strikes him down}
ANT 2.5.   62B  MESSENGER  Good madam, patience! CLEOPATRA What say      +
ANT 2.5.   62B you? {She strikes him}
ANT 2.5.   63   Hence, horrible villain, or I'll spurn thine eyes
ANT 2.5.   64  Like balls before me. I'll unhair thy head, {She hales him up     +
ANT 2.5.   64  and down}
ANT 2.5.   65   Thou shalt be whipped with wire and stewed in brine,
ANT 2.5.   66B Smarting in ling'ring pickle. MESSENGER Gracious madam,
ANT 2.5.   67  I that do bring the news made not the match.
ANT 2.5.   68   CLEOPATRA Say 'tis not so, a province I will give thee,
ANT 2.5.   69  And make thy fortunes proud. The blow thou hadst
ANT 2.5.   70  Shall make thy peace for moving me to rage,
ANT 2.5.   71  And I will boot thee with what gift beside
ANT 2.5.   72B Thy modesty can beg. MESSENGER He's married, madam.
ANT 2.5.   73B  CLEOPATRA Rogue, thou hast lived too long. {She draws a       +
ANT 2.5.   73B knife} MESSENGER  Nay then, I'll run.
ANT 2.5.   74  What mean you, madam? I have made no fault. {Exit}
ANT 2.5.   75   CHARMIAN  Good madam, keep yourself within yourself.
ANT 2.5.   76  The man is innocent.
ANT 2.5.   77   CLEOPATRA Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.
ANT 2.5.   78  Melt Egypt into Nile, and kindly creatures
ANT 2.5.   79  Turn all to serpents! Call the slave again.
ANT 2.5.   80  Though I am mad I will not bite him. Call!
ANT 2.5.   81B  CHARMIAN He is afeard to come. CLEOPATRA I will not hurt          +
ANT 2.5.   81B him. {[Exit Charmian]}
ANT 2.5.   82   These hands do lack nobility that they strike
ANT 2.5.   83  A meaner than myself, since I myself
ANT 2.5.   84B Have given myself the cause. {Enter the Messenger again [with     +
ANT 2.5.   84B Charmian]} Come hither, sir.
ANT 2.5.   85  Though it be honest, it is never good
ANT 2.5.   86  To bring bad news. Give to a gracious message
ANT 2.5.   87  An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell
ANT 2.5.   88  Themselves when they be felt.
ANT 2.5.   89A  MESSENGER I have done my duty.
ANT 2.5.   90A  CLEOPATRA Is he married?
ANT 2.5.   91  I cannot hate thee worser than I do
ANT 2.5.   92B If thou again say `Yes'. MESSENGER He's married, madam.
ANT 2.5.   93   CLEOPATRA The gods confound thee! Dost thou hold there still?
ANT 2.5.   94B  MESSENGER Should I lie, madam? CLEOPATRA O, I would thou didst,
ANT 2.5.   95  So half my Egypt were submerged and made
ANT 2.5.   96  A cistern for scaled snakes. Go, get thee hence.
ANT 2.5.   97  Hadst thou Narcissus in thy face, to me
ANT 2.5.   98  Thou wouldst appear most ugly. He is married?
ANT 2.5.   99B  MESSENGER I crave your highness' pardon. CLEOPATRA He is          +
ANT 2.5.   99B married?
ANT 2.5.  100   MESSENGER Take no offence that I would not offend you.
ANT 2.5.  101  To punish me for what you make me do
ANT 2.5.  102  Seems much unequal. He's married to Octavia.
ANT 2.5.  103   CLEOPATRA O that his fault should make a knave of thee,
ANT 2.5.  104  That act not what thou'rt sure of! Get thee hence.
ANT 2.5.  105  The merchandise which thou hast brought from Rome
ANT 2.5.  106  Are all too dear for me. Lie they upon thy hand,
ANT 2.5.  107B And be undone by 'em. {Exit Messenger} CHARMIAN       +
ANT 2.5.  107B Good your highness, patience.
ANT 2.5.  108   CLEOPATRA In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.
ANT 2.5.  109A  CHARMIAN Many times, madam.
ANT 2.5.  110   CLEOPATRA I am paid for 't now. Lead me from hence.
ANT 2.5.  111  I faint. O Iras, Charmian - 'tis no matter.
ANT 2.5.  112  Go to the fellow, good Alexas, bid him
ANT 2.5.  113  Report the feature of Octavia: her years,
ANT 2.5.  114  Her inclination; let him not leave out
ANT 2.5.  115  The colour of her hair. Bring me word quickly. {Exit Alexas}
ANT 2.5.  116   Let him for ever go - let him not, Charmian;
ANT 2.5.  117  Though he be painted one way like a Gorgon,
ANT 2.5.  118  The other way's a Mars. {[To Mardian]} Bid you Alexas
ANT 2.5.  119  Bring me word how tall she is. Pity me, Charmian,
ANT 2.5.  120  But do not speak to me. Lead me to my chamber. {Exeunt}
ANT 2.5.    0    {Flourish. Enter Pompey and Menas at one door, with a      +
ANT 2.6.    0  drummer and a trumpeter; at another, Caesar, Lepidus, Antony,            +
ANT 2.6.    0  Enobarbus, Maecenas, Agrippa, with soldiers marching}
ANT 2.6.    1   POMPEY  Your hostages I have, so have you mine,
ANT 2.6.    2B And we shall talk before we fight. CAESAR Most meet
ANT 2.6.    3  That first we come to words, and therefore have we
ANT 2.6.    4  Our written purposes before us sent,
ANT 2.6.    5  Which if thou hast considered, let us know
ANT 2.6.    6  If 'twill tie up thy discontented sword
ANT 2.6.    7  And carry back to Sicily much tall youth
ANT 2.6.    8B That else must perish here. POMPEY To you all three,
ANT 2.6.    9  The senators alone of this great world,
ANT 2.6.   10  Chief factors for the gods: I do not know
ANT 2.6.   11  Wherefore my father should revengers want,
ANT 2.6.   12  Having a son and friends, since Julius Caesar,
ANT 2.6.   13  Who at Philippi the good Brutus ghosted,
ANT 2.6.   14  There saw you labouring for him. What was 't
ANT 2.6.   15  That moved pale Cassius to conspire? And what
ANT 2.6.   16  Made the all-honoured, honest Roman Brutus,
ANT 2.6.   17  With the armed rest, courtiers of beauteous freedom,
ANT 2.6.   18  To drench the Capitol but that they would
ANT 2.6.   19  Have one man but a man? And that is it
ANT 2.6.   20  Hath made me rig my navy, at whose burden
ANT 2.6.   21  The angered ocean foams; with which I meant
ANT 2.6.   22  To scourge th' ingratitude that despiteful Rome
ANT 2.6.   23B Cast on my noble father. CAESAR Take your time.
ANT 2.6.   24   ANTONY Thou canst not fear us, Pompey, with thy sails.
ANT 2.6.   25  We'll speak with thee at sea. At land thou know'st
ANT 2.6.   26B How much we do o'ercount thee. POMPEY At land indeed
ANT 2.6.   27  Thou dost o'ercount me of my father's house,
ANT 2.6.   28  But since the cuckoo builds not for himself,
ANT 2.6.   29B Remain in 't as thou mayst. LEPIDUS Be pleased to tell us - 
ANT 2.6.   30  For this is from the present - how you take
ANT 2.6.   31B The offers we have sent you. CAESAR There's the point.
ANT 2.6.   32   ANTONY Which do not be entreated to, but weigh
ANT 2.6.   33B What it is worth, embraced. CAESAR And what may follow,
ANT 2.6.   34B To try a larger fortune? POMPEY You have made me offer
ANT 2.6.   35  Of Sicily, Sardinia; and I must
ANT 2.6.   36  Rid all the sea of pirates; then to send
ANT 2.6.   37  Measures of wheat to Rome; this 'greed upon,
ANT 2.6.   38  To part with unhacked edges, and bear back
ANT 2.6.   39B Our targes undinted. CAESAR, ANTONY, {AND} LEPIDUS That's our         +
ANT 2.6.   39B offer. POMPEY Know, then,
ANT 2.6.   40  I came before you here a man prepared
ANT 2.6.   41  To take this offer. But Mark Antony
ANT 2.6.   42  Put me to some impatience. Though I lose
ANT 2.6.   43  The praise of it by telling, you must know,
ANT 2.6.   44  When Caesar and your brother were at blows,
ANT 2.6.   45  Your mother came to Sicily, and did find
ANT 2.6.   46B Her welcome friendly. ANTONY I have heard it, Pompey,
ANT 2.6.   47  And am well studied for a liberal thanks
ANT 2.6.   48B Which I do owe you. POMPEY Let me have your hand. {Pompey and  +
ANT 2.6.   48B Antony shake hands}
ANT 2.6.   49   I did not think, sir, to have met you here.
ANT 2.6.   50   ANTONY The beds i' th' East are soft; and thanks to you,
ANT 2.6.   51  That called me timelier than my purpose hither;
ANT 2.6.   52B For I have gained by 't. CAESAR  {(to Pompey)} Since  +
ANT 2.6.   52B I saw you last
ANT 2.6.   53B There is a change upon you. POMPEY Well, I know not
ANT 2.6.   54  What counts harsh fortune casts upon my face,
ANT 2.6.   55  But in my bosom shall she never come
ANT 2.6.   56B To make my heart her vassal. LEPIDUS Well met here.
ANT 2.6.   57   POMPEY I hope so, Lepidus. Thus we are agreed.
ANT 2.6.   58  I crave our composition may be written
ANT 2.6.   59B And sealed between us. CAESAR That's the next to do.
ANT 2.6.   60   POMPEY We'll feast each other ere we part, and let's
ANT 2.6.   61  Draw lots who shall begin.
ANT 2.6.   62A  ANTONY That will I, Pompey.
ANT 2.6.   63A  POMPEY No, Antony, take the lot.
ANT 2.6.   64  But, first or last, your fine Egyptian cookery
ANT 2.6.   65  Shall have the fame. I have heard that Julius Caesar
ANT 2.6.   66B Grew fat with feasting there. ANTONY You have heard much.
ANT 2.6.   67A  POMPEY I have fair meanings, sir.
ANT 2.6.   68A  ANTONY And fair words to them.
ANT 2.6.   69A  POMPEY Then so much have I heard,
ANT 2.6.   70  And I have heard Apollodorus carried - 
ANT 2.6.   71B  ENOBARBUS No more o' that, he did so. POMPEY What, I pray you?
ANT 2.6.   72   ENOBARBUS A certain queen to Caesar in a mattress.
ANT 2.6.   73   POMPEY I know thee now. How far'st thou, soldier?
ANT 2.6.   74   ENOBARBUS Well, and well am like to do, for I perceive
ANT 2.6.   75B Four feasts are toward. POMPEY Let me shake thy hand. {Pompey  +
ANT 2.6.   75B and Enobarbus shake hands}
ANT 2.6.   76   I never hated thee. I have seen thee fight
ANT 2.6.   77  When I have envied thy behaviour.
ANT 2.6.   78   ENOBARBUS Sir, I never loved you much, but I ha' praised ye
ANT 2.6.   79  When you have well deserved ten times as much
ANT 2.6.   80  As I have said you did.
ANT 2.6.   81   POMPEY Enjoy thy plainness. It nothing ill becomes thee.
ANT 2.6.   82  Aboard my galley I invite you all.
ANT 2.6.   83B Will you lead, lords? CAESAR, ANTONY, {AND} LEPIDUS Show 's the way,  +
ANT 2.6.   83B sir. POMPEY Come. {Exeunt all but Enobarbus and Menas}
ANT 2.6.   84   MENAS  {(aside)} Thy father, Pompey, would ne'er     +
ANT 2.6.   84  have made this treaty.
ANT 2.6.   85   {(To Enobarbus)} You and I have known, sir.
ANT 2.6.   86   ENOBARBUS At sea, I think.
ANT 2.6.   87   MENAS We have, sir.
ANT 2.6.   88   ENOBARBUS You have done well by water.
ANT 2.6.   89   MENAS And you by land.
ANT 2.6.   90   ENOBARBUS I will praise any man that will praise me,
ANT 2.6.   91  though it cannot be denied what I have done by land.
ANT 2.6.   92   MENAS Nor what I have done by water.
ANT 2.6.   93   ENOBARBUS Yes, something you can deny for your own
ANT 2.6.   94  safety. You have been a great thief by sea.
ANT 2.6.   95   MENAS And you by land.
ANT 2.6.   96   ENOBARBUS There I deny my land service; but give me
ANT 2.6.   97  your hand, Menas. If our eyes had authority, here they
ANT 2.6.   98  might take two thieves kissing. {They shake hands}
ANT 2.6.   99   MENAS  All men's faces are true, whatsome'er their hands
ANT 2.6.  100  are.
ANT 2.6.  101   ENOBARBUS But there is never a fair woman has a true
ANT 2.6.  102  face.
ANT 2.6.  103   MENAS No slander; they steal hearts.
ANT 2.6.  104   ENOBARBUS We came hither to fight with you.
ANT 2.6.  105   MENAS For my part, I am sorry it is turned to a drinking.
ANT 2.6.  106  Pompey doth this day laugh away his fortune.
ANT 2.6.  107   ENOBARBUS If he do, sure he cannot weep 't back again.
ANT 2.6.  108   MENAS You've said, sir. We looked not for Mark Antony
ANT 2.6.  109  here. Pray you, is he married to Cleopatra?
ANT 2.6.  110   ENOBARBUS Caesar's sister is called Octavia.
ANT 2.6.  111   MENAS True, sir. She was the wife of Caius Marcellus.
ANT 2.6.  112   ENOBARBUS But she is now the wife of Marcus Antonius.
ANT 2.6.  113   MENAS Pray ye, sir?
ANT 2.6.  114   ENOBARBUS 'Tis true.
ANT 2.6.  115   MENAS Then is Caesar and he for ever knit together.
ANT 2.6.  116   ENOBARBUS If I were bound to divine of this unity I would
ANT 2.6.  117  not prophesy so.
ANT 2.6.  118   MENAS I think the policy of that purpose made more in
ANT 2.6.  119  the marriage than the love of the parties.
ANT 2.6.  120   ENOBARBUS I think so, too. But you shall find the band
ANT 2.6.  121  that seems to tie their friendship together will be the
ANT 2.6.  122  very strangler of their amity. Octavia is of a holy, cold,
ANT 2.6.  123  and still conversation.
ANT 2.6.  124   MENAS Who would not have his wife so?
ANT 2.6.  125   ENOBARBUS Not he that himself is not so, which is Mark
ANT 2.6.  126  Antony. He will to his Egyptian dish again; then shall
ANT 2.6.  127  the sighs of Octavia blow the fire up in Caesar, and, as
ANT 2.6.  128  I said before, that which is the strength of their amity
ANT 2.6.  129  shall prove the immediate author of their variance.
ANT 2.6.  130  Antony will use his affection where it is. He married
ANT 2.6.  131  but his occasion here.
ANT 2.6.  132   MENAS And thus it may be. Come, sir, will you aboard?
ANT 2.6.  133  I have a health for you.
ANT 2.6.  134   ENOBARBUS I shall take it, sir. We have used our throats
ANT 2.6.  135  in Egypt.
ANT 2.6.  136   MENAS Come, let's away. {Exeunt}
ANT 2.6.    0    {Music plays. Enter two or three Servants with a banquet}
ANT 2.7.    1   FIRST SERVANT  Here they'll be, man. Some o' their plants
ANT 2.7.    2  are ill rooted already; the least wind i' th' world will
ANT 2.7.    3  blow them down.
ANT 2.7.    4   SECOND SERVANT Lepidus is high-coloured.
ANT 2.7.    5   FIRST SERVANT They have made him drink alms-drink.
ANT 2.7.    6   SECOND SERVANT As they pinch one another by the
ANT 2.7.    7  disposition, he cries out `No more!' - reconciles them
ANT 2.7.    8  to his entreaty and himself to th' drink.
ANT 2.7.    9   FIRST SERVANT But it raises the greater war between him
ANT 2.7.   10  and his discretion.
ANT 2.7.   11   SECOND SERVANT Why, this it is to have a name in great
ANT 2.7.   12  men's fellowship. I had as lief have a reed that will do
ANT 2.7.   13  me no service as a partisan I could not heave.
ANT 2.7.   14   FIRST SERVANT To be called into a huge sphere and not
ANT 2.7.   15  to be seen to move in 't, are the holes where eyes should
ANT 2.7.   16  be which pitifully disaster the cheeks. {A sennet sounded. Enter  +
ANT 2.7.   16  Caesar, Antony, Pompey, Lepidus, Agrippa, Maecenas, Enobarbus, and       +
ANT 2.7.   16  Menas, with other captains [and a boy]}
ANT 2.7.   17   ANTONY  {(to Caesar)} Thus do they, sir: they take   +
ANT 2.7.   17  the flow o' th' Nile
ANT 2.7.   18  By certain scales i' th' pyramid. They know
ANT 2.7.   19  By th' height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth
ANT 2.7.   20  Or foison follow. The higher Nilus swells
ANT 2.7.   21  The more it promises; as it ebbs, the seedsman
ANT 2.7.   22  Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain,
ANT 2.7.   23  And shortly comes to harvest.
ANT 2.7.   24A  LEPIDUS You've strange serpents there?
ANT 2.7.   25A  ANTONY Ay, Lepidus.
ANT 2.7.   26   LEPIDUS  Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud
ANT 2.7.   27  by the operation of your sun; so is your crocodile.
ANT 2.7.   28   ANTONY They are so.
ANT 2.7.   29   POMPEY  Sit, and some wine. A health to Lepidus!     +
ANT 2.7.   29  {[Antony, Pompey, and Lepidus sit]}
ANT 2.7.   30   LEPIDUS  I am not so well as I should be, but I'll ne'er    +
ANT 2.7.   30  out.
ANT 2.7.   31   ENOBARBUS Not till you have slept - I fear me you'll be in
ANT 2.7.   32  till then.
ANT 2.7.   33   LEPIDUS Nay, certainly, I have heard the Ptolemies'
ANT 2.7.   34  pyramises are very goodly things: without contradiction
ANT 2.7.   35  I have heard that.
ANT 2.7.   36B  MENAS  {(aside to Pompey)} Pompey, a word. POMPEY+
ANT 2.7.   36B   {(aside to Menas)} Say in mine ear; what is 't?
ANT 2.7.   37   MENAS  {(aside to Pompey)} Forsake thy seat, I do    +
ANT 2.7.   37  beseech thee, captain,
ANT 2.7.   38B And hear me speak a word. POMPEY  {(aside to Menas)}  +
ANT 2.7.   38B Forbear me till anon.
ANT 2.7.   39   {(Aloud)} This wine for Lepidus! {Menas          +
ANT 2.7.   39  whispers in Pompey's ear}
ANT 2.7.   40   LEPIDUS  What manner o' thing is your crocodile?
ANT 2.7.   41   ANTONY It is shaped, sir, like itself, and it is as broad as
ANT 2.7.   42  it hath breadth. It is just so high as it is, and moves
ANT 2.7.   43  with it own organs. It lives by that which nourisheth
ANT 2.7.   44  it, and the elements once out of it, it transmigrates.
ANT 2.7.   45   LEPIDUS What colour is it of?
ANT 2.7.   46   ANTONY Of it own colour, too.
ANT 2.7.   47   LEPIDUS 'Tis a strange serpent.
ANT 2.7.   48   ANTONY 'Tis so, and the tears of it are wet.
ANT 2.7.   49   CAESAR  {(to Antony)} Will this description satisfy  +
ANT 2.7.   49  him?
ANT 2.7.   50   ANTONY  With the health that Pompey gives him; else he
ANT 2.7.   51  is a very epicure.
ANT 2.7.   52   POMPEY  {(aside to Menas)} Go hang, sir, hang! Tell  +
ANT 2.7.   52  me of that? Away,
ANT 2.7.   53  Do as I bid you. {(Aloud)} Where's this cup I called     +
ANT 2.7.   53  for?
ANT 2.7.   54   MENAS  {(aside to Pompey)} If for the sake of merit  +
ANT 2.7.   54  thou wilt hear me,
ANT 2.7.   55B Rise from thy stool. POMPEY  {[rising]} I think       +
ANT 2.7.   55B thou'rt mad. The matter? {[Menas and Pompey stand apart]}
ANT 2.7.   56   MENAS  I have ever held my cap off to thy fortunes.
ANT 2.7.   57   POMPEY Thou hast served me with much faith. What's else to say?
ANT 2.7.   58B Be jolly, lords. ANTONY These quicksands, Lepidus,
ANT 2.7.   59  Keep off them, for you sink.
ANT 2.7.   60B  MENAS Wilt thou be lord of all the world? POMPEY What sayst       +
ANT 2.7.   60B thou?
ANT 2.7.   61   MENAS Wilt thou be lord of the whole world? That's twice.
ANT 2.7.   62B  POMPEY How should that be? MENAS But entertain it
ANT 2.7.   63  And, though thou think me poor, I am the man
ANT 2.7.   64B Will give thee all the world. POMPEY Hast thou drunk well?
ANT 2.7.   65   MENAS No, Pompey, I have kept me from the cup.
ANT 2.7.   66  Thou art, if thou dar'st be, the earthly Jove.
ANT 2.7.   67  Whate'er the ocean pales or sky inclips
ANT 2.7.   68B Is thine, if thou wilt ha 't. POMPEY Show me which way!
ANT 2.7.   69   MENAS These three world-sharers, these competitors,
ANT 2.7.   70  Are in thy vessel. Let me cut the cable;
ANT 2.7.   71  And when we are put off, fall to their throats.
ANT 2.7.   72B All there is thine. POMPEY Ah, this thou shouldst have done
ANT 2.7.   73  And not have spoke on 't. In me 'tis villainy,
ANT 2.7.   74  In thee 't had been good service. Thou must know
ANT 2.7.   75  'Tis not my profit that does lead mine honour;
ANT 2.7.   76  Mine honour, it. Repent that e'er thy tongue
ANT 2.7.   77  Hath so betrayed thine act. Being done unknown,
ANT 2.7.   78  I should have found it afterwards well done,
ANT 2.7.   79  But must condemn it now. Desist, and drink. {He returns to the    +
ANT 2.7.   79  others}
ANT 2.7.   80   MENAS  {(aside)} For this, I'll never follow thy     +
ANT 2.7.   80  palled fortunes more.
ANT 2.7.   81  Who seeks and will not take when once 'tis offered,
ANT 2.7.   82B Shall never find it more. POMPEY This health to Lepidus!
ANT 2.7.   83   ANTONY Bear him ashore. - I'll pledge it for him, Pompey.
ANT 2.7.   84B  ENOBARBUS Here's to thee, Menas! MENAS Enobarbus, welcome.
ANT 2.7.   85B  POMPEY Fill till the cup be hid. {One lifts Lepidus, drunk,   +
ANT 2.7.   85B and carries him off} ENOBARBUS  There's a strong fellow,     +
ANT 2.7.   85B Menas.
ANT 2.7.   86A  MENAS Why?
ANT 2.7.   87   ENOBARBUS A bears the third part of the world, man; seest not?
ANT 2.7.   88   MENAS The third part then is drunk. Would it were all,
ANT 2.7.   89B That it might go on wheels. ENOBARBUS Drink thou, increase the        +
ANT 2.7.   89B reels.
ANT 2.7.   90A  MENAS Come.
ANT 2.7.   91   POMPEY This is not yet an Alexandrian feast.
ANT 2.7.   92   ANTONY It ripens towards it. Strike the vessels, ho!
ANT 2.7.   93B Here's to Caesar! CAESAR I could well forbear 't.
ANT 2.7.   94  It's monstrous labour when I wash my brain,
ANT 2.7.   95  An it grow fouler.
ANT 2.7.   96A  ANTONY Be a child o' th' time.
ANT 2.7.   97A  CAESAR Possess it, I'll make answer.
ANT 2.7.   98  But I had rather fast from all, four days,
ANT 2.7.   99B Than drink so much in one. ENOBARBUS  {(to Antony)}   +
ANT 2.7.   99B Ha, my brave Emperor,
ANT 2.7.  100  Shall we dance now the Egyptian bacchanals,
ANT 2.7.  101  And celebrate our drink?
ANT 2.7.  102A  POMPEY Let's ha 't, good soldier.
ANT 2.7.  103A  ANTONY Come, let's all take hands
ANT 2.7.  104  Till that the conquering wine hath steeped our sense
ANT 2.7.  105B In soft and delicate Lethe. ENOBARBUS All take hands.
ANT 2.7.  106  Make battery to our ears with the loud music.
ANT 2.7.  107  The while I'll place you, then the boy shall sing.
ANT 2.7.  108  The holding every man shall beat as loud
ANT 2.7.  109  As his strong sides can volley. {Music plays. Enobarbus places    +
ANT 2.7.  109  them hand in hand}
ANT 2.7.  110   [BOY]  {(sings)} Come, thou monarch of the vine,
ANT 2.7.  111  Plumpy Bacchus, with pink eyne!
ANT 2.7.  112  In thy vats our cares be drowned,
ANT 2.7.  113  With thy grapes our hairs be crowned!
ANT 2.7.  114  Cup us till the world go round,
ANT 2.7.  115  Cup us till the world go round!
ANT 2.7.  116B  CAESAR  What would you more? Pompey, good night.     +
ANT 2.7.  116B {(To Antony)} Good-brother,
ANT 2.7.  117  Let me request you off. Our graver business
ANT 2.7.  118  Frowns at this levity. Gentle lords, let's part.
ANT 2.7.  119  You see we have burnt our cheeks. Strong Enobarb
ANT 2.7.  120  Is weaker than the wine, and mine own tongue
ANT 2.7.  121  Splits what it speaks. The wild disguise hath almost
ANT 2.7.  122  Anticked us all. What needs more words? Good night.
ANT 2.7.  123B Good Antony, your hand. POMPEY I'll try you on the shore.
ANT 2.7.  124B  ANTONY And shall, sir. Give 's your hand. POMPEY O Antony,
ANT 2.7.  125  You have my father's house. But what, we are friends!
ANT 2.7.  126  Come down into the boat. {Exeunt all but Enobarbus and Menas}
ANT 2.7.  127B  ENOBARBUS  Take heed you fall not, Menas. MENAS I'll     +
ANT 2.7.  127B not on shore.
ANT 2.7.  128  No, to my cabin. These drums, these trumpets, flutes, what!
ANT 2.7.  129  Let Neptune hear we bid a loud farewell
ANT 2.7.  130  To these great fellows. Sound and be hanged, sound out! {Sound a  +
ANT 2.7.  130  flourish, with drums}
ANT 2.7.  131B  ENOBARBUS  {(throwing his cap in the air)} Hoo,      +
ANT 2.7.  131B says a! There's my cap. MENAS Ho, noble captain, come!         +
ANT 2.7.  131B {Exeunt}
ANT 2.7.    0     {Enter Ventidius, with Silius and other Roman        +
ANT 3.1.    0  soldiers, as it were in triumph; the dead body of Pacorus borne before   +
ANT 3.1.    0  him}
ANT 3.1.    1   VENTIDIUS  Now, darting Parthia, art thou struck; and now
ANT 3.1.    2  Pleased fortune does of Marcus Crassus' death
ANT 3.1.    3  Make me revenger. Bear the King's son's body
ANT 3.1.    4  Before our army. Thy Pacorus, Orodes,
ANT 3.1.    5B Pays this for Marcus Crassus. SILIUS Noble Ventidius,
ANT 3.1.    6  Whilst yet with Parthian blood thy sword is warm,
ANT 3.1.    7  The fugitive Parthians follow. Spur through Media,
ANT 3.1.    8  Mesopotamia, and the shelters whither
ANT 3.1.    9  The routed fly. So thy grand captain, Antony,
ANT 3.1.   10  Shall set thee on triumphant chariots and
ANT 3.1.   11B Put garlands on thy head. VENTIDIUS O Silius, Silius,
ANT 3.1.   12  I have done enough. A lower place, note well,
ANT 3.1.   13  May make too great an act. For learn this, Silius:
ANT 3.1.   14  Better to leave undone than by our deed
ANT 3.1.   15  Acquire too high a fame when him we serve's away.
ANT 3.1.   16  Caesar and Antony have ever won
ANT 3.1.   17  More in their officer than person. Sossius,
ANT 3.1.   18  One of my place in Syria, his lieutenant,
ANT 3.1.   19  For quick accumulation of renown,
ANT 3.1.   20  Which he achieved by th' minute, lost his favour.
ANT 3.1.   21  Who does i' th' wars more than his captain can
ANT 3.1.   22  Becomes his captain's captain; and ambition,
ANT 3.1.   23  The soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss
ANT 3.1.   24  Than gain which darkens him.
ANT 3.1.   25  I could do more to do Antonius good,
ANT 3.1.   26  But 'twould offend him, and in his offence
ANT 3.1.   27B Should my performance perish. SILIUS Thou hast, Ventidius, that
ANT 3.1.   28  Without the which a soldier and his sword
ANT 3.1.   29  Grants scarce distinction. Thou wilt write to Antony?
ANT 3.1.   30   VENTIDIUS I'll humbly signify what in his name,
ANT 3.1.   31  That magical word of war, we have effected;
ANT 3.1.   32  How, with his banners and his well-paid ranks,
ANT 3.1.   33  The ne'er-yet-beaten horse of Parthia
ANT 3.1.   34B We have jaded out o' th' field. SILIUS Where is he now?
ANT 3.1.   35   VENTIDIUS He purposeth to Athens; whither, with what haste
ANT 3.1.   36  The weight we must convey with 's will permit,
ANT 3.1.   37  We shall appear before him. - On there; pass along. {Exeunt}
ANT 3.1.    0    {Enter Agrippa at one door, Enobarbus at another}
ANT 3.2.    1A  AGRIPPA  What, are the brothers parted?
ANT 3.2.    2   ENOBARBUS They have dispatched with Pompey; he is gone.
ANT 3.2.    3  The other three are sealing. Octavia weeps
ANT 3.2.    4  To part from Rome, Caesar is sad, and Lepidus
ANT 3.2.    5  Since Pompey's feast, as Menas says, is troubled
ANT 3.2.    6B With the green-sickness. AGRIPPA 'Tis a noble Lepidus.
ANT 3.2.    7   ENOBARBUS A very fine one. O, how he loves Caesar!
ANT 3.2.    8   AGRIPPA Nay, but how dearly he adores Mark Antony!
ANT 3.2.    9   ENOBARBUS Caesar? Why, he's the Jupiter of men.
ANT 3.2.   10   AGRIPPA What's Antony - the god of Jupiter?
ANT 3.2.   11   ENOBARBUS Spake you of Caesar? How, the nonpareil?
ANT 3.2.   12   AGRIPPA O Antony, O thou Arabian bird!
ANT 3.2.   13   ENOBARBUS Would you praise Caesar, say `Caesar'; go no further.
ANT 3.2.   14   AGRIPPA Indeed, he plied them both with excellent praises.
ANT 3.2.   15   ENOBARBUS But he loves Caesar best; yet he loves Antony - 
ANT 3.2.   16  Hoo! Hearts, tongues, figures, scribes, bards, poets, cannot
ANT 3.2.   17  Think, speak, cast, write, sing, number - hoo! - 
ANT 3.2.   18  His love to Antony. But as for Caesar - 
ANT 3.2.   19B Kneel down, kneel down, and wonder. AGRIPPA Both he loves.
ANT 3.2.   20B  ENOBARBUS They are his shards, and he their beetle.           +
ANT 3.2.   20B {[Trumpet within]} So,
ANT 3.2.   21  This is to horse. Adieu, noble Agrippa.
ANT 3.2.   22   AGRIPPA Good fortune, worthy soldier, and farewell. {Enter    +
ANT 3.2.   22  Caesar, Antony, Lepidus, and Octavia}
ANT 3.2.   23A  ANTONY  {(to Caesar)} No further, sir.
ANT 3.2.   24   CAESAR You take from me a great part of myself.
ANT 3.2.   25  Use me well in 't. Sister, prove such a wife
ANT 3.2.   26  As my thoughts make thee, and as my farthest bond
ANT 3.2.   27  Shall pass on thy approof. Most noble Antony,
ANT 3.2.   28  Let not the piece of virtue which is set
ANT 3.2.   29  Betwixt us as the cement of our love
ANT 3.2.   30  To keep it builded, be the ram to batter
ANT 3.2.   31  The fortress of it; for better might we
ANT 3.2.   32  Have loved without this mean if on both parts
ANT 3.2.   33B This be not cherished. ANTONY Make me not offended
ANT 3.2.   34B In your distrust. CAESAR I have said. ANTONY You shall not find,
ANT 3.2.   35  Though you be therein curious, the least cause
ANT 3.2.   36  For what you seem to fear. So, the gods keep you,
ANT 3.2.   37  And make the hearts of Romans serve your ends.
ANT 3.2.   38  We will here part.
ANT 3.2.   39   CAESAR Farewell, my dearest sister, fare thee well.
ANT 3.2.   40  The elements be kind to thee, and make
ANT 3.2.   41  Thy spirits all of comfort. Fare thee well.
ANT 3.2.   42A  OCTAVIA  {(weeping)} My noble brother!
ANT 3.2.   43   ANTONY The April's in her eyes; it is love's spring,
ANT 3.2.   44  And these the showers to bring it on. Be cheerful.
ANT 3.2.   45   OCTAVIA Sir, look well to my husband's house, and - 
ANT 3.2.   46B  CAESAR What, Octavia? OCTAVIA I'll tell you in your ear.   +
ANT 3.2.   46B {She whispers to Caesar}
ANT 3.2.   47   ANTONY  Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can
ANT 3.2.   48  Her heart inform her tongue - the swan's-down feather,
ANT 3.2.   49  That stands upon the swell at full of tide,
ANT 3.2.   50  And neither way inclines.
ANT 3.2.   51A  ENOBARBUS  {(aside to Agrippa)} Will Caesar weep?
ANT 3.2.   52A  AGRIPPA  {(aside to Enobarbus)} He has a cloud       +
ANT 3.2.   52A in 's face.
ANT 3.2.   53   ENOBARBUS  {(aside to Agrippa)} He were the worse    +
ANT 3.2.   53  for that were he a horse;
ANT 3.2.   54B So is he, being a man. AGRIPPA  {(aside to                     +
ANT 3.2.   54B Enobarbus)} Why, Enobarbus,
ANT 3.2.   55  When Antony found Julius Caesar dead
ANT 3.2.   56  He cried almost to roaring, and he wept
ANT 3.2.   57  When at Philippi he found Brutus slain.
ANT 3.2.   58   ENOBARBUS  {(aside to Agrippa)} That year indeed he  +
ANT 3.2.   58  was troubled with a rheum.
ANT 3.2.   59  What willingly he did confound he wailed,
ANT 3.2.   60B Believe 't, till I wept too. CAESAR No, sweet Octavia,
ANT 3.2.   61  You shall hear from me still. The time shall not
ANT 3.2.   62B Outgo my thinking on you. ANTONY Come, sir, come,
ANT 3.2.   63  I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love.
ANT 3.2.   64  Look, here I have you {(embracing Caesar)} ; thus I let  +
ANT 3.2.   64  you go,
ANT 3.2.   65B And give you to the gods. CAESAR Adieu, be happy.
ANT 3.2.   66   LEPIDUS Let all the number of the stars give light
ANT 3.2.   67B To thy fair way. CAESAR Farewell, farewell. {He kisses         +
ANT 3.2.   67B Octavia} ANTONY  Farewell.
ANT 3.2.    0    {Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras, and Alexas}
ANT 3.3.    1B  CLEOPATRA  Where is the fellow? ALEXAS Half afeard to    +
ANT 3.3.    1B come.
ANT 3.3.    2B  CLEOPATRA Go to, go to. {Enter the Messenger as               +
ANT 3.3.    2B before} Come hither, sir. ALEXAS Good majesty,
ANT 3.3.    3  Herod of Jewry dare not look upon you
ANT 3.3.    4B But when you are well pleased. CLEOPATRA That Herod's head
ANT 3.3.    5  I'll have; but how, when Antony is gone,
ANT 3.3.    6B Through whom I might command it? {(To the Messenger)}    +
ANT 3.3.    6B Come thou near.
ANT 3.3.    7B  MESSENGER Most gracious majesty! CLEOPATRA Didst thou behold
ANT 3.3.    8B Octavia? MESSENGER Ay, dread Queen. CLEOPATRA Where? MESSENGER  +
ANT 3.3.    8B Madam, in Rome.
ANT 3.3.    9  I looked her in the face, and saw her led
ANT 3.3.   10  Between her brother and Mark Antony.
ANT 3.3.   11B  CLEOPATRA Is she as tall as me? MESSENGER She is not, madam.
ANT 3.3.   12   CLEOPATRA Didst hear her speak? Is she shrill-tongued or low?
ANT 3.3.   13   MESSENGER Madam, I heard her speak. She is low-voiced.
ANT 3.3.   14   CLEOPATRA That's not so good. He cannot like her long.
ANT 3.3.   15   CHARMIAN Like her? O Isis, 'tis impossible!
ANT 3.3.   16   CLEOPATRA I think so, Charmian. Dull of tongue, and dwarfish.
ANT 3.3.   17  What majesty is in her gait? Remember
ANT 3.3.   18B If e'er thou looked'st on majesty. MESSENGER She creeps.
ANT 3.3.   19  Her motion and her station are as one.
ANT 3.3.   20  She shows a body rather than a life,
ANT 3.3.   21B A statue than a breather. CLEOPATRA Is this certain?
ANT 3.3.   22B  MESSENGER Or I have no observance. CHARMIAN Three in Egypt
ANT 3.3.   23B Cannot make better note. CLEOPATRA He's very knowing,
ANT 3.3.   24  I do perceive 't. There's nothing in her yet.
ANT 3.3.   25B The fellow has good judgement. CHARMIAN Excellent.
ANT 3.3.   26B  CLEOPATRA  {(to the Messenger)} Guess at her years,  +
ANT 3.3.   26B I prithee. MESSENGER Madam,
ANT 3.3.   27B She was a widow -  CLEOPATRA Widow? Charmian, hark.
ANT 3.3.   28A  MESSENGER And I do think she's thirty.
ANT 3.3.   29   CLEOPATRA Bear'st thou her face in mind? Is 't long or round?
ANT 3.3.   30A  MESSENGER Round, even to faultiness.
ANT 3.3.   31   CLEOPATRA For the most part, too, they are foolish that are so.
ANT 3.3.   32B Her hair - what colour? MESSENGER Brown, madam; and her forehead
ANT 3.3.   33B As low as she would wish it. CLEOPATRA  {(giving               +
ANT 3.3.   33B money)} There's gold for thee.
ANT 3.3.   34  Thou must not take my former sharpness ill.
ANT 3.3.   35  I will employ thee back again. I find thee
ANT 3.3.   36  Most fit for business. Go, make thee ready.
ANT 3.3.   37B Our letters are prepared. {Exit Messenger} CHARMIAN   +
ANT 3.3.   37B A proper man.
ANT 3.3.   38   CLEOPATRA Indeed he is so. I repent me much
ANT 3.3.   39  That so I harried him. Why, methinks, by him,
ANT 3.3.   40B This creature's no such thing. CHARMIAN Nothing, madam.
ANT 3.3.   41   CLEOPATRA The man hath seen some majesty, and should know.
ANT 3.3.   42   CHARMIAN Hath he seen majesty? Isis else defend,
ANT 3.3.   43  And serving you so long!
ANT 3.3.   44   CLEOPATRA I have one thing more to ask him yet, good Charmian.
ANT 3.3.   45  But 'tis no matter. Thou shalt bring him to me
ANT 3.3.   46  Where I will write. All may be well enough.
ANT 3.3.   47A  CHARMIAN I warrant you, madam. {Exeunt}
ANT 3.3.    0    {Enter Antony and Octavia}
ANT 3.4.    1   ANTONY  Nay, nay, Octavia, not only that,
ANT 3.4.    2  That were excusable, that and thousands more
ANT 3.4.    3  Of semblable import; but he hath waged
ANT 3.4.    4  New wars 'gainst Pompey, made his will and read it
ANT 3.4.    5  To public ear, spoke scantly of me;
ANT 3.4.    6  When perforce he could not
ANT 3.4.    7  But pay me terms of honour, cold and sickly
ANT 3.4.    8  He vented them, most narrow measure lent me.
ANT 3.4.    9  When the best hint was given him, he not took 't,
ANT 3.4.   10B Or did it from his teeth. OCTAVIA O my good lord,
ANT 3.4.   11  Believe not all, or if you must believe,
ANT 3.4.   12  Stomach not all. A more unhappy lady,
ANT 3.4.   13  If this division chance, ne'er stood between,
ANT 3.4.   14  Praying for both parts.
ANT 3.4.   15  The good gods will mock me presently,
ANT 3.4.   16  When I shall pray `O, bless my lord and husband!',
ANT 3.4.   17  Undo that prayer by crying out as loud
ANT 3.4.   18  `O, bless my brother!' Husband win, win brother
ANT 3.4.   19  Prays and destroys the prayer; no midway
ANT 3.4.   20B 'Twixt these extremes at all. ANTONY Gentle Octavia,
ANT 3.4.   21  Let your best love draw to that point which seeks
ANT 3.4.   22  Best to preserve it. If I lose mine honour,
ANT 3.4.   23  I lose myself. Better I were not yours
ANT 3.4.   24  Than yours so branchless. But, as you requested,
ANT 3.4.   25  Yourself shall go between 's. The meantime, lady,
ANT 3.4.   26  I'll raise the preparation of a war
ANT 3.4.   27  Shall stain your brother. Make your soonest haste;
ANT 3.4.   28B So your desires are yours. OCTAVIA Thanks to my lord.
ANT 3.4.   29  The Jove of power make me most weak, most weak,
ANT 3.4.   30  Your reconciler! Wars 'twixt you twain would be
ANT 3.4.   31  As if the world should cleave, and that slain men
ANT 3.4.   32  Should solder up the rift.
ANT 3.4.   33   ANTONY When it appears to you where this begins,
ANT 3.4.   34  Turn your displeasure that way, for our faults
ANT 3.4.   35  Can never be so equal that your love
ANT 3.4.   36  Can equally move with them. Provide your going,
ANT 3.4.   37  Choose your own company, and command what cost
ANT 3.4.   38  Your heart has mind to. {Exeunt}
ANT 3.4.    0    {Enter Enobarbus and Eros, meeting}
ANT 3.5.    1   ENOBARBUS  How now, friend Eros?
ANT 3.5.    2   EROS There's strange news come, sir.
ANT 3.5.    3   ENOBARBUS What, man?
ANT 3.5.    4   EROS Caesar and Lepidus have made wars upon Pompey.
ANT 3.5.    5   ENOBARBUS This is old. What is the success?
ANT 3.5.    6   EROS Caesar, having made use of him in the wars 'gainst
ANT 3.5.    7  Pompey, presently denied him rivality, would not let
ANT 3.5.    8  him partake in the glory of the action, and, not resting
ANT 3.5.    9  here, accuses him of letters he had formerly wrote to
ANT 3.5.   10  Pompey; upon his own appeal seizes him; so the poor
ANT 3.5.   11  third is up, till death enlarge his confine.
ANT 3.5.   12   ENOBARBUS  Then, world, thou hast a pair of chops, no       +
ANT 3.5.   12  more,
ANT 3.5.   13  And throw between them all the food thou hast,
ANT 3.5.   14  They'll grind the one the other. Where's Antony?
ANT 3.5.   15   EROS He's walking in the garden, thus, and spurns
ANT 3.5.   16  The rush that lies before him, cries `Fool Lepidus!'
ANT 3.5.   17  And threats the throat of that his officer
ANT 3.5.   18B That murdered Pompey. ENOBARBUS Our great navy's rigged.
ANT 3.5.   19   EROS For Italy and Caesar. More, Domitius:
ANT 3.5.   20  My lord desires you presently. My news
ANT 3.5.   21B I might have told hereafter. ENOBARBUS 'Twill be naught.
ANT 3.5.   22B But let it be; bring me to Antony. EROS Come, sir. {Exeunt}
ANT 3.5.    0    {Enter Agrippa, Maecenas, and Caesar}
ANT 3.6.    1   CAESAR  Contemning Rome, he has done all this and more
ANT 3.6.    2  In Alexandria. Here's the manner of 't:
ANT 3.6.    3  I' th' market place on a tribunal silvered,
ANT 3.6.    4  Cleopatra and himself in chairs of gold
ANT 3.6.    5  Were publicly enthroned. At the feet sat
ANT 3.6.    6  Caesarion, whom they call my father's son,
ANT 3.6.    7  And all the unlawful issue that their lust
ANT 3.6.    8  Since then hath made between them. Unto her
ANT 3.6.    9  He gave the stablishment of Egypt; made her
ANT 3.6.   10  Of lower Syria, Cyprus, Lydia,
ANT 3.6.   11B Absolute queen. MAECENAS This in the public eye?
ANT 3.6.   12   CAESAR I' th' common showplace, where they exercise.
ANT 3.6.   13  His sons he there proclaimed the kings of kings;
ANT 3.6.   14  Great Media, Parthia, and Armenia
ANT 3.6.   15  He gave to Alexander. To Ptolemy he assigned
ANT 3.6.   16  Syria, Cilicia, and Phoenicia. She
ANT 3.6.   17  In th' habiliments of the goddess Isis
ANT 3.6.   18  That day appeared, and oft before gave audience,
ANT 3.6.   19B As 'tis reported, so. MAECENAS Let Rome be thus informed.
ANT 3.6.   20   AGRIPPA Who, queasy with his insolence already,
ANT 3.6.   21B Will their good thoughts call from him. CAESAR The people knows it,
ANT 3.6.   22  And have now received his accusations.
ANT 3.6.   23A  AGRIPPA Who does he accuse?
ANT 3.6.   24   CAESAR Caesar, and that having in Sicily
ANT 3.6.   25  Sextus Pompeius spoiled, we had not rated him
ANT 3.6.   26  His part o' th' isle. Then does he say he lent me
ANT 3.6.   27  Some shipping, unrestored. Lastly, he frets
ANT 3.6.   28  That Lepidus of the triumvirate
ANT 3.6.   29  Should be deposed; and being, that we detain
ANT 3.6.   30B All his revenue. AGRIPPA Sir, this should be answered.
ANT 3.6.   31   CAESAR 'Tis done already, and the messenger gone.
ANT 3.6.   32  I have told him Lepidus was grown too cruel,
ANT 3.6.   33  That he his high authority abused
ANT 3.6.   34  And did deserve his change. For what I have conquered,
ANT 3.6.   35  I grant him part; but then in his Armenia,
ANT 3.6.   36  And other of his conquered kingdoms,
ANT 3.6.   37B I demand the like. MAECENAS He'll never yield to that.
ANT 3.6.   38   CAESAR Nor must not then be yielded to in this. {Enter        +
ANT 3.6.   38  Octavia with her train}
ANT 3.6.   39   OCTAVIA  Hail, Caesar, and my lord; hail, most dear         +
ANT 3.6.   39  Caesar!
ANT 3.6.   40   CAESAR That ever I should call thee castaway!
ANT 3.6.   41   OCTAVIA You have not called me so, nor have you cause.
ANT 3.6.   42   CAESAR Why have you stol'n upon us thus? You come not
ANT 3.6.   43  Like Caesar's sister. The wife of Antony
ANT 3.6.   44  Should have an army for an usher, and
ANT 3.6.   45  The neighs of horse to tell of her approach
ANT 3.6.   46  Long ere she did appear. The trees by th' way
ANT 3.6.   47  Should have borne men, and expectation fainted,
ANT 3.6.   48  Longing for what it had not. Nay, the dust
ANT 3.6.   49  Should have ascended to the roof of heaven,
ANT 3.6.   50  Raised by your populous troops. But you are come
ANT 3.6.   51  A market maid to Rome, and have prevented
ANT 3.6.   52  The ostentation of our love; which, left unshown,
ANT 3.6.   53  Is often left unloved. We should have met you
ANT 3.6.   54  By sea and land, supplying every stage
ANT 3.6.   55B With an augmented greeting. OCTAVIA Good my lord,
ANT 3.6.   56  To come thus was I not constrained, but did it
ANT 3.6.   57  On my free will. My lord, Mark Antony,
ANT 3.6.   58  Hearing that you prepared for war, acquainted
ANT 3.6.   59  My grieved ear withal, whereon I begged
ANT 3.6.   60B His pardon for return. CAESAR Which soon he granted,
ANT 3.6.   61  Being an obstruct 'tween his lust and him.
ANT 3.6.   62B  OCTAVIA Do not say so, my lord. CAESAR I have eyes upon him,
ANT 3.6.   63  And his affairs come to me on the wind.
ANT 3.6.   64B Where is he now? OCTAVIA My lord, in Athens.
ANT 3.6.   65   CAESAR No, my most wronged sister. Cleopatra
ANT 3.6.   66  Hath nodded him to her. He hath given his empire
ANT 3.6.   67  Up to a whore; who now are levying
ANT 3.6.   68  The kings o' th' earth for war. He hath assembled
ANT 3.6.   69  Bocchus, the King of Libya; Archelaus
ANT 3.6.   70  Of Cappadocia; Philadelphos, King
ANT 3.6.   71  Of Paphlagonia; the Thracian King Adallas;
ANT 3.6.   72  King Malchus of Arabia; King of Pont;
ANT 3.6.   73  Herod of Jewry; Mithridates, King
ANT 3.6.   74  Of Comagene; Polemon and Amyntas,
ANT 3.6.   75  The Kings of Mede and Lycaonia;
ANT 3.6.   76B With a more larger list of sceptres. OCTAVIA Ay me most wretched,
ANT 3.6.   77  That have my heart parted betwixt two friends
ANT 3.6.   78B That does afflict each other! CAESAR Welcome hither.
ANT 3.6.   79  Your letters did withhold our breaking forth
ANT 3.6.   80  Till we perceived both how you were wrong led
ANT 3.6.   81  And we in negligent danger. Cheer your heart.
ANT 3.6.   82  Be you not troubled with the time, which drives
ANT 3.6.   83  O'er your content these strong necessities;
ANT 3.6.   84  But let determined things to destiny
ANT 3.6.   85  Hold unbewailed their way. Welcome to Rome;
ANT 3.6.   86  Nothing more dear to me. You are abused
ANT 3.6.   87  Beyond the mark of thought, and the high gods,
ANT 3.6.   88  To do you justice, makes their ministers
ANT 3.6.   89  Of us and those that love you. Best of comfort,
ANT 3.6.   90B And ever welcome to us. AGRIPPA Welcome, lady.
ANT 3.6.   91A  MAECENAS Welcome, dear madam.
ANT 3.6.   92  Each heart in Rome does love and pity you.
ANT 3.6.   93  Only th' adulterous Antony, most large
ANT 3.6.   94  In his abominations, turns you off,
ANT 3.6.   95  And gives his potent regiment to a trull
ANT 3.6.   96B That noises it against us. OCTAVIA Is it so, sir?
ANT 3.6.   97   CAESAR Most certain. Sister, welcome. Pray you
ANT 3.6.   98  Be ever known to patience. My dear'st sister! {Exeunt}
ANT 3.6.    0    {Enter Cleopatra and Enobarbus}
ANT 3.7.    1   CLEOPATRA  I will be even with thee, doubt it not.
ANT 3.7.    2A  ENOBARBUS But why, why, why?
ANT 3.7.    3   CLEOPATRA Thou hast forspoke my being in these wars,
ANT 3.7.    4B And sayst it is not fit. ENOBARBUS Well, is it, is it?
ANT 3.7.    5   CLEOPATRA Is 't not denounced against us? Why should not we
ANT 3.7.    6B Be there in person? ENOBARBUS  {[aside]} Well, I      +
ANT 3.7.    6B could reply
ANT 3.7.    7  If we should serve with horse and mares together,
ANT 3.7.    8  The horse were merely lost; the mares would bear
ANT 3.7.    9B A soldier and his horse. CLEOPATRA What is 't you say?
ANT 3.7.   10   ENOBARBUS Your presence needs must puzzle Antony,
ANT 3.7.   11  Take from his heart, take from his brain, from 's time
ANT 3.7.   12  What should not then be spared. He is already
ANT 3.7.   13  Traduced for levity; and 'tis said in Rome
ANT 3.7.   14  That Photinus, an eunuch, and your maids
ANT 3.7.   15B Manage this war. CLEOPATRA Sink Rome, and their tongues rot
ANT 3.7.   16  That speak against us! A charge we bear i' th' war,
ANT 3.7.   17  And as the president of my kingdom will
ANT 3.7.   18  Appear there for a man. Speak not against it.
ANT 3.7.   19B I will not stay behind. {Enter Antony and Camidius} ENOBARBUS  +
ANT 3.7.   19B  Nay, I have done.
ANT 3.7.   20B Here comes the Emperor. ANTONY Is it not strange, Camidius,
ANT 3.7.   21  That from Tarentum and Brundisium
ANT 3.7.   22  He could so quickly cut the Ionian Sea
ANT 3.7.   23  And take in Toryne? - You have heard on 't, sweet?
ANT 3.7.   24   CLEOPATRA Celerity is never more admired
ANT 3.7.   25B Than by the negligent. ANTONY A good rebuke,
ANT 3.7.   26  Which might have well becomed the best of men
ANT 3.7.   27  To taunt at slackness. Camidius, we
ANT 3.7.   28B Will fight with him by sea. CLEOPATRA By sea - what else?
ANT 3.7.   29B  CAMIDIUS Why will my lord do so? ANTONY For that he dares us      +
ANT 3.7.   29B to 't.
ANT 3.7.   30   ENOBARBUS So hath my lord dared him to single fight.
ANT 3.7.   31   CAMIDIUS Ay, and to wage this battle at Pharsalia,
ANT 3.7.   32  Where Caesar fought with Pompey. But these offers
ANT 3.7.   33  Which serve not for his vantage, he shakes off,
ANT 3.7.   34B And so should you. ENOBARBUS Your ships are not well manned,
ANT 3.7.   35  Your mariners are muleters, reapers, people
ANT 3.7.   36  Engrossed by swift impress. In Caesar's fleet
ANT 3.7.   37  Are those that often have 'gainst Pompey fought.
ANT 3.7.   38  Their ships are yare, yours heavy. No disgrace
ANT 3.7.   39  Shall fall you for refusing him at sea,
ANT 3.7.   40B Being prepared for land. ANTONY By sea, by sea.
ANT 3.7.   41   ENOBARBUS Most worthy sir, you therein throw away
ANT 3.7.   42  The absolute soldiership you have by land;
ANT 3.7.   43  Distract your army, which doth most consist
ANT 3.7.   44  Of war-marked footmen; leave unexecuted
ANT 3.7.   45  Your own renowned knowledge; quite forgo
ANT 3.7.   46  The way which promises assurance, and
ANT 3.7.   47  Give up yourself merely to chance and hazard
ANT 3.7.   48B From firm security. ANTONY I'll fight at sea.
ANT 3.7.   49   CLEOPATRA I have sixty sails, Caesar none better.
ANT 3.7.   50   ANTONY Our overplus of shipping will we burn,
ANT 3.7.   51  And with the rest full-manned, from th' head of Actium
ANT 3.7.   52  Beat th' approaching Caesar. But if we fail,
ANT 3.7.   53B We then can do 't at land. {Enter a Messenger} Thy       +
ANT 3.7.   53B business?
ANT 3.7.   54   MESSENGER The news is true, my lord. He is descried.
ANT 3.7.   55  Caesar has taken Toryne.
ANT 3.7.   56   ANTONY Can he be there in person? 'Tis impossible;
ANT 3.7.   57  Strange that his power should be. Camidius,
ANT 3.7.   58  Our nineteen legions thou shalt hold by land,
ANT 3.7.   59  And our twelve thousand horse. We'll to our ship.
ANT 3.7.   60B Away, my Thetis! {Enter a Soldier} How now, worthy       +
ANT 3.7.   60B soldier?
ANT 3.7.   61   SOLDIER O noble Emperor, do not fight by sea.
ANT 3.7.   62  Trust not to rotten planks. Do you misdoubt
ANT 3.7.   63  This sword and these my wounds? Let th' Egyptians
ANT 3.7.   64  And the Phoenicians go a-ducking; we
ANT 3.7.   65  Have used to conquer standing on the earth,
ANT 3.7.   66B And fighting foot to foot. ANTONY Well, well; away! {Exeunt    +
ANT 3.7.   66B Antony, Cleopatra, and Enobarbus}
ANT 3.7.   67   SOLDIER  By Hercules, I think I am i' th' right.
ANT 3.7.   68   CAMIDIUS Soldier, thou art; but his whole action grows
ANT 3.7.   69  Not in the power on 't. So our leader's led,
ANT 3.7