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FRENCH'S STAND A FID DRAMA. 
 
 KING HENRY IV. 
 
 PAET I. 
 
 A TRAGEDY 
 
 IK FIVE ACTS. 
 
 BY "WILLIAM SHAKSPEAEB. 
 
 AL'SO, ' 
 
 THE STAGE BUSINESS, CASTS OF GHARACTERS, 
 COSTUMES, RELATIVE POSITIONS. ETC. 
 
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CAST OF CHARACTERS. 
 
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 Kimg Htnry IV. Mr, Eierton. Mr.Hcnkios. Hr. Heiikiui Mr. Barry. 
 
 PrimcofyfaUt. "^CKemblo. *Wlioatley. '•Thayer. " Jlield. 
 
 Prtnce JoAa " J Matthevs.'* MiiiB Price. Miss Morgan, Miss Flynn. 
 
 Sir John FaliUff '-Yntm ■• W.R.Blake. Mr. W. R Blake Mr. Hacket&Uu 
 
 Westmoreland . . " Conner. " G. Bronne. " Galladino. '* Rao. 
 
 Dovglat " Claremont. " Davenport " Wood, ** Stark. 
 
 V/orcater •' Ch<n>n|a". " McKeon. " Elesler. "Dougherty 
 
 Iforthumherland. " B Thornton.*' DntT. *' Jervis. '* Anderson. . 
 
 Hottpur •• Macready. ** J Wallack, Jr *■ JIarch. " Dyott. 
 
 Sir ^'. Blunt .. . "Conner. "Young. " Moars. " Penraon. 
 
 SirR.Ftmon.. ••Abbott. '• Brunton. ■'Worrell. ••A. Anderson 
 
 Sheriff. " Jefn-ies. ■• Neil. *• Bradford. 
 
 Poim '• Farlry. " Leman. "T. BJoluton " McDonall.- 
 
 Bardolph. ....... •• Atkius. ■• RadclilT "W. EBurton •' Fovey. 
 
 OadshUl " Eborle. " Thompson. " Heath. 
 
 Peto " Sterena. "Dickson. "Nelson. 
 
 Francit .L " Simmoni. " Chapman. Master Wood. " W Chnpmai 
 
 Fir»t Carrier... " Faucit. '■ Spear. " G Andrews 
 
 Second Carrier.. " Treby. •• 0. Faster. •■ Gallot . 
 
 Lady Pnty Miss Foote' '• HrB.J Wallack Miss Wood. .tirs. Abbott. 
 
 Dame ^icklj.. Mrs. Davenport Mrs. Jones. Mrs. Hughes. " Vernon. 
 
 COSTUMES. 
 
 KING HENKY.— Brown velvet robe, scarlet and gold trunks, puffed with white 
 
 satin, white silk pantaloons, white shoes, with scarlet roses, splendid hat, and 
 
 white plumes. 
 PRINCE OF WALES ^Biown tunic buff pantaloons, russet boots, drab colored 
 
 hat, and black plumes. Second dross. — White court dress, richly embroidered 
 
 with silver. Third dress — a complete suit of^rmour. 
 PRINCE JOHN.— Light blue jacket, white pantaloons, russet boots; round hat 
 
 and while plumes. 
 
 WORCESTER — Crimson velvet dress, crimson and gold trunks, puffed with 
 white satin, white pantaloons, russet boots, blsck hat, and white plumes. 
 
 NORTHUMBERLAND.— Green velvet dross, with trunks, &o.. (see Worcester.) 
 
 DOUGLAS. — Tartan plaid, kelt bonnet, and breast plate. 
 
 HOTSPUR. — Purple velvet jacket, richly embroidered, black satin raantk:*'. 
 scarlet pantaloons, russet boots. Second dress — corapl oto armour. 
 
 WESTMORELAND.— Crimson old English dress, black hat, and white plumeK 
 
 SIR RICHARD VERNON.— Light blue old English dicss. 
 
 SIR WALTER BLUNT.-Scarlet ditto 
 
 SIR JOHN FALSTAFF.— Buff; scarlet and white diltv 
 
 rOINS Common blue ditto. 
 
 RABY.— Light blue ditto. 
 
 FRANCIS.— Brown ditto. 
 
 I!.\RDOLPH.— Dark brown, alightlj' paiMu^ wjth Karlet 
 
 GADSHILL.— Brown PETp^BljiO common dreaie. 
 
 SHERIFF— Scarlet gown and |goId' ehiain. ' li IJ 
 
 LADY PERCY- — Plaiu white sMio, , , 
 
 OAME QUICKLY.— Scarlet stuff' petticoiit, ffoWed gown, wtiite apron, hig> f^ 
 aharp crowned bat, trimmed with scarlet. J^l 
 
EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION. 
 
 This celebrated and most attractive of all the plays of Shak- 
 ipeare is so often enacted, and it is so well known to the whole 
 world, that it is scarcely necessary to say one word in reference to 
 it, by the way of editorial introdaction. At what time the great 
 master of nature produced it, is not now known ; but it is gener. 
 ally sapposed that it was originally played in. the life-time of 
 Shakespeare ; and, there is a tradition exttat, among the writings 
 of the old players, that he himself enacted the part of Hotspur at 
 Globe Theatre, London, in the year 1597. But, as it is recorded 
 by almost all the dramatic biographical writers, from old John 
 Dennis down to Mr. Victor, that the ghost in Hamlet, wai the 
 climax of his ambition as an actor, the report referred to, does not 
 seem to be founded on probability. It is generally supposed that 
 the first and second parts of King Henry IV. were originally 
 written at the same time : the one being but a continuation of the 
 other; but, that being found too bulky for a single representation, 
 they were subsequently divided. 
 
 It is difficult to say which of the two parts is most attractive 
 
 since it is universally admitted that both contain sorne nf the 
 
 most beautiful passages of passion and poetry that can be found 
 
 in all the works of the mighty Bard of Avon. What, for instance 
 
 can be more eloquent or beautiful than Hotspur's reply, to Sir 
 
 Walter Blunt, in the First Part, when that nobleman appeals to 
 
 him in the name of royalty, to lay down the weapons of rebellion 
 
 and accept the Regal Pardon ! 
 
 Hot. The kin^ is kind : and well we know, the king 
 Knowrat what time to promise, when topayr 
 . My father, and my uncle, ana - myself 
 Did give him that same royalty he wears : 
 And — when he was not six and twenty slrongp 
 Sick in the world's re^rd, wretched and .low, 
 A poor unminded.out-law^neaking home — 
 My father gave him welcome to the shore : 
 And — when he heard him swear and vow to heafwi, 
 He came but to be Duke of Lancaster — 
 My father, in kind heart and pity moved, 
 Swore him nssistancel And performed it too, 
 Now, when the lords and bvons of the realm 
 Perceived Northumberland did lean to him, '- 
 The more and less £ame in with cap aAd-kuna. 
 Met him in boroughs, cities, vill;iges ; 
 
EDITORIAL INTKODUCTION. 
 
 Laid piAs before him, proffered liiin their oslhe, 
 Gave him their heirs ; as pages followed him. 
 Even at the heels, in golden multitudes. 
 He presently, ns greatoes-« knows itself. 
 Steps me a little higher than his vow 
 Made to my father tvhilo his blood was poort 
 Upon the naked shore at Ravenspurg-; 
 And now, forsooth, takes on him to reform 
 Some certain edicts, nud some strait deoreeS| 
 That I/O too heavy upon the commonwealth ; 
 Cries out upon abuses, seems to weep 
 Over his country's wrongs } aad by his face, 
 This seeming brow of jusliee, did be win 
 The hearts of all that he did angle for. 
 
 It were idle, however, to pause to select the beauties combined 
 in this remarkble production : it is literally a succession of poet- 
 ical diamonds. There is not a character in it, from King Henry 
 VI to Bardolph, that does not^ sparkle with the scintillations o( 
 wjt_an^poetry; and, whilst we are at one moment lost in the ad- 
 miration the bold eloquence and noble daring Hotspur elicits, 
 we are at the next convulsed with laughter, which the keen wit 
 and satire of the fat knight, Sir John FalstalT, engenders. 
 
 It is not probable that Shakspeare intended that Sir John Fal- 
 staff should carry off the glory of the piece, or be regarded as 
 the "bright particular star," who should keep a whole audience 
 in restless anxiety for his appearance before them. It is said by 
 the old chroniclers that he had a personal object, blended with re- 
 venge in view, when he introduced Falstaff to the play, who was 
 a real personage, and had incurred the displeasure of the Immor- 
 tal Bard. 
 
 But it is idle, to suppose that Shakspeare had any invidioug 
 designs in view, when he conceived and executed the character 
 of Falstaff. It is admitted on all hands that his original Sir John 
 Falstaff, died in the year 1469, ninety-five years before 
 the great Bard tvas born, and one hundred and fifty-seven in 
 anticipation of his death. It is not unlikely that he might have 
 taken the history of Falstaff for his model, inasmuch as that cel- 
 ebrated man had had his order of knighthood taken from him, by 
 the Duke of Hereford, in consequence of the cowardice he dis- 
 played in flying from Joan flf Arc, the Maid of Orleans. Sir 
 John Falstaff is now a familiar character with the public and 
 the profession, and is often attempted by actors, who do not pos- 
 sess a solitary talent for the part. Qainn, was many years tha 
 only recognised Falstaff on the English Stage, and few dared at 
 
EDITOIUAI, [NTROBIJCTION. 
 
 Icmpt the character till after that celebrated man died in tht 
 year 1676. After his death, there were numerous Falstaffs ; bat 
 Stephen Kemble, who played the part for tl;e last time in the year 
 1813, was probably the most successful in securing the fame of 
 the world. In this country, the late Mr. Warren, of Philadelphia 
 was for many years the recognised FalstaflE; though, the late* 
 John Dwyer, William Jones, and Thomas Cooper, besides many 
 others, were considered respectable, as the representatives of the 
 fat knight of the Boar's Head in East Cheap. Mr. James H. 
 Hankett, is now by many regarded, as the most perfect Falstafl 
 extant. The critics, however, differ very materially in their opfc 
 luons, and vre are not disposed to discufs the lubject 
 
KING HENRY IV. 
 
 PART I. 
 
 ACT I. 
 
 Scene I. — The Palace in London. — Flourish of Trumpett 
 and Drums. 
 
 Kino Henry, c, scaled on his Tyrone, Prince John- op 
 Lancaster, Earl op Westmoreland, Sir Richard 
 Vernon, Sir Walter Blunt, and Attendants, dis 
 covered. 
 
 King H. So shaken as we are, so wan with care, 
 Find we a time for frighted peace to pant. 
 Therefore, friends. 
 
 Forthwith a power of English shall we levy. 
 To chase these pagans from the holy fields. 
 Then let me hear 
 
 Of you, n;y gentle cousin Westmoreland, 
 Wliiit yesternight our council did decree. 
 In forwarding this dear expedience. 
 
 West, (r.) My liege, this haste was hot in questiiin, 
 And many limits of the charge set down 
 But yesternight : when, all athwart, there came 
 A post from Wales, loaden with heavy news ; 
 Whose worst was, that the noble Mortimer, 
 Leading the men of Herefordshire to figl^t 
 Againsl^he irregular and wild Glendower, 
 Was by the^rude hands of that Welchman taken, 
 And a thousand of his people butchered. 
 
 King U. It seems, then, that the tidings of this broil 
 Brake off our business for the Holy Land. 
 
 fVest. This matched with other, did, my gracious lord 
 
6 KING HENRY IV. [Act J 
 
 For more uneven and unwelcome news 
 Came from the North, and thus it did import : 
 On Holyrood day, the gallant Hotspur there, 
 Young Harry Percy, and bravo Archibald, 
 That OTer-valiant and approved Scot, 
 At Holmedon met, 
 
 Where they did spend a sad and bloody hour ! 
 As by discharge of their artillery. 
 And shape of likelihood, the news was told; 
 For he that brought them, in the veiy heat 
 And pride of their contention did take horse. 
 Uncertain of the issue any way. 
 
 King H. [Pointing, l., to Sir Walter Blunt.\ Here is a 
 dear.a true-industrious friend, 
 Sir Walter Blunt, new-lighted from his hoi-se, 
 And he hath bj'ought us smooth and welcome news. 
 The Earl of Douglas is discomfited 
 On Holmedon's plains : of prisonerei. Hotspur took 
 Mordake the Earl of Fife, and eldest sou 
 To beaten Douglas ; and the Earls 
 Of Athol, Murray, Angus, and Monteith. 
 And is not this an honourable spoil % 
 A gallant prize? ha, cousin, is it not ? 
 
 West: It is a conquest for a prince to boast of; 
 
 King H. Yea, there thou mak'st me sad, and mak'st me 
 sin, 
 In envy that my Lord Northumberland 
 Should be the father of so blessed a son. 
 Whilst I, by looking on the praise of him, 
 See riot and dishonour stain the brow 
 Of my young Hari-y. Oh, that it could be proved 
 That some night-tripping fairy had exchanged 
 In cradle-clothes our children where they lay. 
 And called mine — Percy, his — Plantaganet ! 
 Then would I have his Harry, and he mine. 
 But let him from my thoughts : — what think you, coz', 
 Of this young Percy's pride ] the prisoners. 
 Which he in this adventure hath, surprised. 
 To his own use he keeps: and sends me word, 
 I shall have none but Mordake, Earl of Fife. 
 
 West. This is his uncle's teaching, this is Worcester, 
 Malevolent to you in all aspects. 
 
SCEKB II ] KING HENRY IV. 7 
 
 > 
 King H. But 1 have sent for him to answer this ; 
 And, for this cause, [Rising.] awhile we must neglect 
 Our holy purpose to Jerusalem. 
 Cousin, on Wednesday next, our council we 
 Will hold at Windsor, so inform the lords : 
 But come yourself [Going, l.] with speed to us again ; 
 For more is to be said, and to be done. 
 Than out of anger can be uttered. 
 
 [Flourish of. Trumpets. — Exeunt, Westmoreland, ti., 
 the others, l. 
 
 Scene II. — An Apartment belonging to the Prince of 
 Wales. 
 
 JE»<er Prince. OP Wales, L., and Sir John Falstaff r. 
 
 FaL [Both R. c.) Now, Hal, what time of day is it, 
 lad? 
 
 Prince H. Thou art so fat-witted, with drinking of old 
 sack, and unbuttoning thee after supper, and sleeping up- 
 on benches after noon, that thou hast foi-gotten to demand 
 that truly which thou wouldst truly know. What a devil 
 hast thou to dp with the time of the day 1 Unless hours 
 were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the 
 tongues of bawds ; I see no reason why thou should'st be 
 so superfluous, to; demand the time of th^ day., 
 
 Fal. Indeed, you come near me now, JHal; for we, that 
 take purses, go by the moon and seven stars ; and not by 
 Phoebus— he, that wand'ring knight so fair. And, I pray 
 thee, sweet wag, when thou art king, as heaven save thy 
 grace, (majesty, I should say ; for grace thou wilt have 
 none) — 
 
 Pritire H. [Starting bdch to c] What ! none I 
 
 Fal. (r. c.)' No, by my ti-oth ; not so much as will serve 
 to be prologue to an^gg and butter. 
 
 Prince H. [Returning to Falstaff^ m. c] Well, how, 
 then ?. come, roundly, roundly. 
 
 Fal. Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let 
 not us, that- are squires of the night's body, be called 
 thieves of the day's beauty ; let us be-f-Diana foresters, 
 gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon : and let 
 men say, we be men of good government; being governed, 
 as the sea is, by our nobis and chaste mistress, the moon, 
 under whose countenance wfi— staal. 
 
r KINO IIENKY IV. [ACT I 
 
 \Piu7iing the Prince with his slick to c. 
 
 Prince H. (c.) Thou say'st well ; and itliokls well, too; 
 for the fortune of us, that arc the moon's men, doth ebb 
 and flow lik^ the sea ; being governed, as the sea is, by 
 the moop. As, for proof, now : a purse of gold most reso- 
 lutely snatched on Monday night, and most dissolutely 
 spent on Tuesday morning; got with swearing — lay by; 
 and spent with crying — bring in : now, in as low an ebb 
 as tVie foot of the ladder, and, by and by, in as high a flow 
 as the ridge of the gallows. 
 
 Fal. By the lord, thou say'st true, lad. And is not my 
 hostess of the tavern a most sweet wench 1 
 
 Prince H. As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the 
 castle. And is not a buff jerkin a most sweet robe of du- 
 rance ? [ Tapping Falstajfs ielly tcith his cane, 
 
 Fal. How now, how now, mad wag J what, in thy quips, 
 and thy quiddities ? what a plague have I to do with a 
 buff jerkin 1 
 
 Prince H. Why, what a plague have I to do with my 
 hostess of the tavern? 
 
 Fal. Well, thou hast called her to a reckoning many a 
 time and oft. 
 
 Prince H. [ Leaning on FaUtaJps shoulder J Did I ever 
 call for thee to pay thy part 1 
 
 Fol. No ; I'll give thee thy due, thou hast paid all 
 there 1 
 
 Prince H. Yea, and elsewhere, so far as my coin would 
 stretch : and, where it would not, I have used my credit. 
 
 Fal. (n.) Yea, and so used it, that, wei-e it not here 
 apparent that thou art heir apparent. But, I pr'ythee, 
 sweet wag, shall there be. gallows standing in England 
 when thou art king? and resolution thus fobbed as it is, 
 with the rusty curb of old father antick the law ? Do not 
 thou, when thou art king, hang a thief. 
 
 Prince- H. No ; thou shalt. 
 
 Fal. Shall I? Oh, rare ! By the lord, I'll be a brave 
 judge. 
 
 Prince H. Thou judgest false already ; I jrean, thou 
 shalt have the hanging of, the thieves, and so become a 
 rare hangman. 
 
 Fal. Well, Hal, well ; and in some sort it jumps with 
 my humour, as well as waiting in the court, I can tell 
 you. 
 
SCEHE IIJ KING HENRY IV. 9 
 
 Prince H. For obtaining of suits ? 
 
 Fal. Yea, for obtaining of suits; whereof the .hangman 
 hath no 'ean wardrobe. [Shaking his head and crof sing, c] 
 'Sblood, I am as melancholy as a gib-cat, or a lugged 
 bear. 
 
 Prince H. Or an old lion ; or a lover's lute. 
 
 Fal. (c.) Yea, or the drone of a Lincolnshire bagpipe. 
 
 Prince H. (n. c.) What say'st thou to a hare, or the 
 melancholy of Moor-ditch? 
 
 Fftl. Thou hast the most unsavoury similies ; and art, 
 indeed, the most comparative, rascalliest — sweet young 
 prince — ^but, Hal, I pr'ythee, trouble me no more with 
 vanity. I would to heaven thou and I knew where a com- 
 modity of good names were to be bought : an old lord of 
 the council rated me the other day in the street about you, 
 sir; but I marked him not ; andyethetalked very wisely ; 
 but I regarded him not ; and yet he talked wisely, and in 
 the street, too. 
 
 Prince H. Thou didst well ; for wisdom cries out in the 
 streets, and no man regards it. 
 
 Fal. Oh, thou hast damnable iteration ; and art, indeed, 
 able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm up- 
 on me, Hal — [Turns to »., laughing.^ — Heaven forgive 
 thee for it ! Before I knew thee, Hal, I knew nothing ; 
 ajid now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better 
 than one of the wicked. [Crosses, r. c] I must give over 
 this life, and I will give it" over ; by the lord, an I do not I 
 am a villain ; I'll be damned for never a king's son in 
 Christendom. 
 
 Prince H. (c.) Where shall we take a purse to-morrow. 
 
 Jack? ^^^____ . 
 
 . Fal. [After a short, pause eagerly shahes hands with the 
 Prince.] Where thou wilt, lad, I'll make one ; an I do not, 
 call me villain, and baffle me. 
 
 Prince H. \ see a good amendment of life, in thee ; 
 from praying to purse-taking. 
 
 Fal. Why, Hal, 'tis my vocation, Hal ; 'tis no sin for a 
 man to labour in his vocation. 
 
 Enter Pows, l, 
 
 ,^rince H. Crood morrow, Jiled. 
 Poina. Good moviavr, sweet Hal. What says Monsieui 
 
10 KING HENKY IV. 
 
 [Act 1 
 
 Remorse 1 [Crosses to Fabtqf, n.] What says Sir John 
 Sack-and-Sugar? [Going, i,.] Bur, my lads, my lads, to- 
 morrow morniii^^, by four o'clock, early at Gadshill — There 
 are pilgriir.s going :o Cahterbury with rich offerings, and 
 traders riding to London with fat purses j I have visors for 
 you all, you h;ive horses for yourselves : (l.) Gadsbi I lies 
 to night in Rochester: I have bespoke supper in East- 
 cheap : we may do it as secure as sleep : if you will go, 
 I will stuff your purses full of crowns ; if you will not, lai'i-y 
 at home, and be hanged. 
 
 Fal. (r.) Hear me, Yedward ; if I tarry at home, and 
 go not, I'll Iiang you for going. 
 
 Poins. You will, chops ] 
 
 Fa/. [ Crnssing, c] Hal, wilt thou make one ? 
 
 Prince H. Who, I rob? I a thief? not I, by my faith. 
 
 Poins. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fel- 
 lowship in thee ; nor thou camest not of the blood royal, 
 if thou darestnot stand for ten shillings. 
 
 Prince H. Well, then, once in my days I'll be a mad 
 cap. ' 
 
 Fnl. Why, that's well said. 
 
 Prince H. [Going, r.] Well, come what will, I'll tarry at 
 home. 
 
 Fal. (l. c.) By the lord, I'll be a traitor, then, when 
 'thou art king. 
 
 Prince II. (tt. s. e.) I care. not, 
 
 [Leaning thoughtfully against a pillar. 
 
 Poins. (i.. c.) Sir John, I pr'ylhefe, leave the Prince and 
 me alone ; I will lay him down such reasons for this ad 
 venture, that he shall go. 
 
 -■— BW-Jiya]!, ."iffy^StJhnii have the spirit of piersuasion, 
 and he the ears of profiting; that what thou speakestmay 
 move, and what he hears may be belieVed; (l.) that the 
 true Prince may, "for recreation sake, prove a false thief; 
 for the poffr abuses of the time want countenance. [Prince 
 rctnrns, c] Farewell: you shall find me in Eastcfaeap. 
 
 Prirecc if. (l.) Farewell, thou latter spring ! farewell, 
 AU-hallown summer ! [Exit Fttlstaff, l. 
 
 Poins. Now, my good sweet honey lord, ride with us 
 to-morrow; I have a jest to execute, that.I carjnot ma- 
 nage alone. Falstaff, Barddlpb, Peto, and Gadshill sb:?.!! 
 rob thoB© men' that we have already- Waylaid ; yourself 
 
BCF.ME II.] 
 
 KING HENRY IV. 11 
 
 and I will not be there : and, when they have the booty, 
 if you and I do not rob them, cut this head from my 
 shoulders. 
 
 Prince H. (l. c.) But how shall we part with them in 
 setting forth 1 
 
 Poins. (c.) "Why, we will s^t forth before, or after them, 
 and appoint them a place of meeting, wherein it ia at our 
 pleasure to fail ; and then will they adventure upon the 
 exploit themselves : which they shall have -no sooner 
 achieved, but we'll set upon them. j 
 
 Prince H. Ay, but 'tis like that they will know us by 
 our horses, by our habits, and by vver^ other appointment, 
 to be ourselves. 
 
 Poins. Tut ! our horses they shall not see ;■ I'll tie them 
 in the wood ; our visors we will change, after we leave 
 them ; and I have cases of buckram, for the nonce, to un- 
 mask our noted outward garments. 
 
 Prince H. But 1 doubt they will be too hard for us. 
 
 Poins. Well, for two of them, I know them to be as 
 noted cowards as ever turned back ; and for the third, if 
 he fight longer than he sees reason, I'll forswear arms. 
 The virtue of this jest will be, the incomprehensible lies 
 that this same fat rogue will tell us wheti we meet at 
 supper ; how thirty, at least, he ifougbt with ; what wards, 
 what blows, what extremities h& endured ; and in the re- 
 proof of this lies the jest. 
 
 Prince H. Well, I'll go with thee : provide us all things 
 nee .ssary, and meet me in Eastcheap : farewell. 
 
 Poins. Farewell, my lord. [Exit, l. 
 
 Prince H. (r. c.) I know you all, and will awhile up- 
 hold 
 The unyoked humour of your idleness : 
 Yet herein will 1 imitate the sun ; 
 Who doth permit the base contagious clouds 
 To smother up his beauty from the world; 
 That when he please again to be himself, 
 Being wanted, he may be more wondered at. 
 By breaking through the foul- and ugly mists 
 Of vapours that did seem to strangle him. (c,\ 
 So, when this loose behaviour 1 throw off, 
 .And pay the debt 1 neven promised, 
 By how much better than my wordl am. 
 
12 KING HENRY IV. 
 
 [Act I 
 
 By so much shall I falsify men's hopes ; 
 
 And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, 
 
 My reformation, glittering o'er my fault. 
 
 Shall show more goodly, and attract more eyes ' 
 
 Than that which hath no foil to set it off. (l. c.) 
 
 I'll so offend, to make ofience a skill; 
 
 Redeeming time when men least think I will. [Exit, L. 
 
 SoENE III. — 7%e Council Chamber.^-Flourish of Trum 
 I pets and Drumt. 
 
 Kino Henry, Prince John, Earl op Westmoreland, 
 Earl of Worcester, E.^rl of Nortrumrerland, 
 Hotspur, Sir Walter Blunt, Sir Richard Vernon, 
 and other Gentlemen, Guards, and Attendants. 
 
 King H. I Seated on the Tyrone, c] My blood hath been 
 too cold and temperate. 
 Unapt to stir at these indignities. 
 And you have found me ; for, accordingly, 
 You tread upon my patience ; but, be sure, 
 I will from henceforth rather be myself, 
 Mighty, and to be feared, than my condition. 
 Which hath been smooth as oil, soft as young down ! 
 And therefore lost that Mtle of respect, 
 Which the proud soul ne'er pays but to the proud. 
 
 Wor, (l.) Our house, my sovereign liege, little deserves 
 The scourge of greatness to be used on it ; 
 And that same greatness, too, which our own hands 
 Have holp to make so portly. 
 
 Nor. (r. s. p.) My lord — 
 
 King H. [Hastily rising.]. Worcester; get thee gone; 
 for I do see 
 Danger and disobedience in thine eye : 
 Oh, sir. 
 
 Your presence is too bold and peremptory ; 
 And majesty might never yet endure 
 The bloody frontier of a servant brow. 
 You have good leave to leave us : when we need 
 Your use and counsel, we shall send for you. 
 
 [Sits. — Esdt Woroater, u 
 [To Northumberland.] You were about to speak. 
 
 Nor. Yea, my good lord. 
 
BCEHE Hi.] KING HENRY IV. 13 
 
 Those prisoners in your highness' name demanded 
 Which Harry Percy here at Holmedon took, 
 Were, as he says, not with such strength denied, 
 As is delivered to your Majesty. 
 
 Hot, (r.) My liege, I did deny no prisoners. 
 But, I remember, when the fight was done, 
 When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, , 
 Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword. 
 Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly dressed. 
 Fresh as a bridegroom ;, and his chin new reaped, 
 Showed like a stubble-land at harvest home : 
 He was perfumed like a milliner : 
 And 'tvrixt his finger and thumb he held 
 A pouncet-box, which ever and anon 
 He gave his nose, and took't away again ; 
 And still he smiled, and talked : 
 And, as the soldiers bore 4^d' bodies by, 
 He called themT^untaught knaves, unmannerly. 
 To bring a slovenly, linha(iid;soTOecorge 
 Betwixt the wind and his nobility. 
 With'many holiday and lady i terms 
 He questionedr me ; ampng the rest, demanded 
 My prisonersj in your Majesty's behalf 
 I then, all smarting, with my wounds being coldv 
 Out of my grief, and my impatience. 
 To be so pestered with a poppinjay, 
 Answered neglectingly, I know not what : 
 He should, or he should not ; for he made me mad. 
 To see him shine so brisk, and smell so sweet. 
 And talk, so like a waiting gentlewoman. 
 Of guns, and drums, and wounds, — (Heaven save tha 
 
 mark !) — 
 And telling me, the soveroign'st thing on earth 
 Was parmaceti for an inward bruise ; 
 And that it was great pity, so it was, 
 That villainous saltpetre should be digged 
 Out of the bowels of the harmless earth. 
 Which many a good tall fellow had destroyed 
 So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns, 
 He wpi^ld himself have been a soldier. 
 This bald unjointed ohat of his,. my lord, 
 I answered indirectly, as I said : 
 
14 KING HENRY IV. [Act I 
 
 And, I beseech j ou, let not his report 
 Come current for an accusation,^ 
 Betwixt ray love and your high majesty. 
 
 Blunt, (l.) The circumstance considered, goc d my loni. 
 Whatever Harry Percy then h^ said, 
 To. such person, and in such a place. 
 At such a time, with all the rest re-told. 
 May reasonably die, and never rise , 
 To do him wrong, or any way impeach 
 What he then said, so be unsay it now. 
 
 Sing H. Why, yet he doth deny his prisoners ; 
 But with proviso, and exception, 
 That we, at our own charge, shall ransom straight 
 His brother-in-law, the foolish Mortimer ; 
 Who, on my soul, hath wilfully betrayed 
 The lives of those that he did lead to fight 
 Against the great magician, damned Glendower : 
 Whose daughter, as we hear, the Earl of March 
 Hath lately married. Shall our coffers, then, 
 Be emptied to redeem a traitor home ] 
 Shall we buy treason 1 and indent with feara. 
 When they have lost and forfeited themselves 1 
 No, on the barren mnuntains let him starve ; 
 For I shall never hold that man my friend. 
 Whose tongue shall ask me for one penny cost 
 To ransom home revolted Mortimer. 
 
 Hot. (r.) Revolted Mortimer ! 
 He never did fall off, my sovereign liege. 
 But by the chance of war : \^Nearer the King.\ To prove 
 
 that true. 
 Needs no more but one tongue for all those wounds, 
 Those mouthed wounds, which valiantly he took, 
 When on the gentle Severn's sedgy bank, 
 In single opposition, hand to hand, 
 He did confound the best part of an hour 
 In changing hardiment with great Glendower ! 
 Three times they breathed, [Returns, r.] and three times 
 
 did they drink, 
 Upon agreement, of swift Severn's flood ; 
 Who then, affrighted with their bloody looks, 
 Ran fearfully among the trembling reeds, 
 And his crisp head in the hollow bank, 
 
Scene III.] KING HENRY V. _ 1 
 
 Blood-stained with these valiant cimbataiits. 
 Never did base and rotten policy 
 Colour her working with such deadly wounds ; 
 Nor never could the noble Mortimer 
 Receive so many, and all willingly ; 
 Then let him not be slandered with revolt. 
 King H. Thou dost belie him, Percy, [Rising.] thou' 
 
 dost belie him, 
 He never did encounter with Glendower: 
 I te)l thee, [Arlvandng, c. 
 
 He durst as well have met the devil alone. 
 As Owen Glendower for an enemy. 
 Art not' ashamed 1 But, sirrah, henceforth 
 Let me not hear you speak of Mortimer. 
 Send me your prisoners with the speediest means. 
 Or you shall hear in such a kind from me 
 As will displease you. My loi-d Northumberland, 
 We license your departure with your son : \Going, l 
 Send us your prisoners, or you'll hear of it. 
 
 [^Flourish of Trumpets and Drums. — Exeunt all hut 
 
 Northumberland and Hotspur, L. 
 Not. (l. c). And if the devil come and roar f()r them, 
 I will not send them : — \Norih. stands r.] I will after 
 
 straight, 
 And tell him so ; for I will ease my heart. 
 Although it be with hazard of my head. \Going, i,. 
 
 Nor. [Following.] What, drunk with choler 1 stay and 
 
 pause awhile; 
 Here comes your uncle. 
 
 Enter Worcester, l. 
 
 Hot. Speak of Mortimer ? 
 Yes, I will speak of him : and let my soul 
 Want mercy if I do not join with him : 
 Yea, on his part, I'll empty all these veins. 
 And shed my dear blood drop by drop i'the dust, 
 But 1 will lift the down-trod Mortimer 
 A.S high i' the air as this unthankful king, i 
 As this, ingrate and cankered Bolingbroke. 
 
 Nor. Brother, the king hath made your nephew mad. 
 
 War. Who struck this heat up after I was gone ? 
 
 Hot. (r.) I cannot blame him : was he not proclaimed 
 
10, KING HENRY IV [Act 1 
 
 By Richard that Jead is, the next of blood 1 
 
 Nor. (r.) He was ; I-heard the proclamatijn; 
 And then it was, when the unhappy king 
 (Whose wrongs in us heaven pardon!) did set forth 
 fTpou his Irish expedition ; 
 From whence he, intercepted, did return. 
 To be deposed, and, shortly, murdered. 
 
 Hot. (c.) But soft, I pray you : did King Richard then 
 Proclaim my brother Edmund Mortimer 
 Heir to the crown ] 
 
 Nor, He did ; myself did hear it. 
 
 Hot. Nay, then 1 cannot blame his cousin king. 
 That wished him on the barren mountains starved. 
 But sfaall't, for shame, be spoken in these days, 
 Or fill up chronicles in time to come. 
 That men of your nobility and power. 
 Did 'gage them both in an unjust behalf^ , 
 (As both of you, heaven pardon it ! have done), ~' 
 To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose, 
 And plant this thorn, this canker, Bolingbroke ? 
 And shall it, in more shame, be further spoken. 
 That you are fooled, discarded, and shook off 
 By him, for whom these sh'ktnes ye underwent? 
 No ; yet time serves, wherein you may redeem 
 Your banished honours, and restore yourselves 
 Into the good thoughts of the world again : 
 Revenge the jeering and disdained contempt 
 Of this unthankful king; who studies, day and night 
 To answer all the debt he owes to you. 
 Even with the bloody payment of your deaths : 
 Therefore, I say — 
 
 Wbr. Peace, cousin, say no more : 
 And now I wiMninclasp a secret book. 
 And iff your quick conceiving discontents 
 I'll read you matter deep "ind dangerous ;' 
 As full of peril, and advent'rous spirit. 
 As to o'erwalk a currentj roaring loud. 
 On the unsteddfast footing of a spear. 
 
 Hot. If he fall in, good night : — or sink, or swim • 
 Send danger from the east unto the west. 
 So honour cross it from the north to iiouth, 
 And let them grapple : — Oh ! the blood more stirs. 
 
Scene I II.] 
 
 ■KING HENKr IV. 17 
 
 To rouse a lion than to start a hare. f C/owe*, r, 
 
 Nin: (c.) IrnagitiatioB of some great exploit 
 Drives him beyond the bounds of patience. 
 
 riof. (k.) By heaven, methinks it were an easy 'eap 
 To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon ; 
 Oi- dive into the bottom of the deep, 
 Wlieie fathom-line could never touch the ground, 
 And pluck up drowned honour by the locks ; 
 So he, that doth redeem her thence, might wear. 
 Without con'ival, all her dignities : — 
 3ut out upon this half-faced fellowship ! 
 
 fVor. (r.) He apprehends a world of figures here, 
 But not the form he should attend. — 
 Good cousin,, give me audience for a while. 
 
 Hoi, I cry your mercy. 
 
 Wor. Those same noble Scots, 
 That are your prisoners — 
 
 Hot. (o.) I'll keep them all : 
 By heaven, he shall not have a Scot of them ; 
 No, if a Scot would save his soul he shall not : 
 I'll keep them, by this hand, 
 
 Wor. (l.) You start away. 
 And lend no ear unto my purposes : 
 Those prisonei's vou shall keep. 
 
 Hot. Nay, 1 will ; that's flat : — 
 He said, he would not ransom Mottimer; 
 Forbad my tongue to speak of Mortimer; 
 But I will find him when he lies asleep, 
 And in his ear I'll hylla — Moi'timer !— Nay, 
 I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak 
 Nothing but Mortimer, and give it him, 
 To keep his anger still in motion. [Crosses, r 
 
 Wor. .F{\rewell, kinsman ! I will talk to you 
 When you are better tempered to attend. 
 
 North. Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool 
 Art thou, to break into this woman's mood, 
 Tyiirg thine ear to no tongue but thine own ! 
 
 Hot. (r) Why look you, I am whipped and scourged 
 with rods. 
 Nettled, and stung with pismires, when I hear 
 Of this vile politician, Bolin^roke. (c.) 
 In Richard's time — What do you call the place ? — 
 
IS KING HENRY IV. [Acl I 
 
 A plague upon't ! — it is in Glostershire ; 
 'Twas where the mad-cap duke his ancle kept ; 
 His uncle York ; — where first I bow'd my knee 
 Unto this king of- smiles, this Bolingbroke .;— 
 When you and be came back from Ravenspurg. 
 
 North, (r. c.) At Berkley Castle. 
 
 Hot. You say true : — 
 Why, what a candy deal of courtesy 
 This fawning greyhound then did proffer me ! 
 Look — when his infant fortune came to age— 
 And — gentle Harry Percy — and, kind, cousin— 
 O, the devil take such cozeners ! Heaven forgive ma 
 Good uDcle, tell your tale, for I have dono. 
 
 iVor. (l. c.) Nay, if you have uot, to't again ; 
 We'll stay your leisure. 
 
 Hot. I have done, i'faith. 
 
 War. Then once more to your Scottish prisoners. 
 Deliver them up without their ransoms straight. 
 And make the Douglas' son your only mean 
 For powers in Scotland ; which, (for divers reasons 
 Which 1 shall send you written,) be assured. 
 Will easily be granted. — You, my lord — {To NoRTR.) 
 Your son in Scotland being thus employed— 
 Shall secretly into the bosom creep 
 Of that same noble prelate, well beloved, 
 The archbishop — 
 
 Hot. Of York, is'tnot? 
 
 Wor. True ; who bears hard 
 His brother's death at Bristol, the Lord Scroop 
 I speak not this in estimation. 
 As what I think might be, but what I know 
 Is ruminated, plotted, and set down ; 
 And only stays but to behold the face 
 Of that occasion that shall bring it on. 
 
 Hot. I smell it ; upon my life, it will do well. 
 
 North. Before the game's a^foot, thou still let'at slip 
 
 Hot. Why, it cannot choose but be a noble plot:— 
 And then the power of Scotland, and of York, 
 To join with Mortimer, ha ? 
 
 Wor. And so they shall. 
 
 Hot. In faith, it exceedingly well aimed. 
 
 Wor. And 'tis no little reason bids us speed. 
 
Scene {.J 
 
 KING HENRY IV. '9 
 
 To save o r heads by raising of a head ; 
 For, bear ourselves as even as we can, 
 The king will always think him in our debt ; 
 And think, we think ourselves unsatisfied 
 Till he had foun<i a time to pay us home. 
 And see, already, how he doth begin; 
 Aljd make us strangers to his looks of Ibve, 
 
 Hot. He does, he does; we'll be revenged on him. 
 
 Wor. Cousin, farewell : — no furthergo in this. 
 Than E by letters shall dii;ect your course. 
 
 North. Farewell, good brother; we shall thrive, I trusi 
 
 Ilot. Uncle, adieu : — O, let the hours be short, 
 Till fields, and blows, and groans applaud our sport ! 
 
 [Exeunt Northumberland and Hotspur, K., Worcist 
 ter, L. 
 
 END OF ACT I 
 
 ACT II. 
 
 SoiENB I. — An Inn Yard- at Rochester. 
 Enter a Carrier, with a lantern in his hand, r. v. e. 
 
 Car. (c.) Heigh ho I A'n't be not four by th« day, IT 
 be hanged : Charles' wain is over the new chimney, and 
 yet our horse not packed. What, osller I 
 
 Ost. ( Within, L.) Ano.n, anon. 
 
 1 Car. I pr'ythee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put « few 
 flocka.in the point; the poor jade is wrung in the wither* 
 out of all cess. 
 
 Enter anothet Carrier, with a lantern in his hand, l. 
 
 2 Car. (l. c.) Peas and beans are as dank here as a 
 dog, and thatis the next way to givei poor jades the bots : 
 this house is turned upside down, since Robin ostler died. 
 
 1 Car. Poor fellow ! never joyed since the price of oats 
 rose : it was the death of him. 
 
 2 Car. I think, this be the most villainous house in all 
 London road for fleas: I am stung like a tench. 
 
 \Catches fleas, and examines them by the tight of his 
 lantern. 
 
20 KING HENRY IV. [ACT II 
 
 1 Car. Like a tench 1 by the mass there is ne'er a king 
 in Christendoni could be better bit than I have been since 
 the first cock. What, ostler ! come away, and be hanged, 
 come away. 
 
 8 Car. I have a gammon of bacon, and two. razes of 
 ginger, to be delivered as far as Charin Cross. 
 
 1 Car. 'Odsbody ! the turkies in my pannier are quite 
 starved. — What, ostler !— i-A plague on thee ! hast thou 
 never an eye in thy head 1 canst not hear' A'n't were 
 not as good a deed as drink, to break the pate of thee, I 
 am a very Tillain. Come, and be hanged : — hast no faith 
 in thee? 
 
 Enter G&vsnij/L, l. 
 
 Gads. Good morrow, carriers. What's o'clock ? 
 1 Car. I think, it be two o'clock. 
 
 Gadt. I pr'y thee, lend me thy lantern, to see my gelding 
 .n the stable. 
 
 1 Car. Nay, soft, I pray ye ; I know a trick worth two 
 of that, i'faith. 
 
 Gads. I pr'ythee, lend me thine. 
 
 [Crossing to 2d Carrier. 
 
 2 Car. Ay, when ? canst tell 1 — Lend me thy lantern, 
 quotha 1 — ^marry, I'll see thee hanged first. 
 
 Gads. I say, sirrah carrier, what time do you mean to 
 , come to London ? 
 
 2 Car. (r.) Time enough to go to bed with a candle, I 
 warrant thee. Come neighbor Muggs, we'll call up the 
 gentlemen ; they'll along with company, for ihey havo 
 great charge. 
 
 [Bsteunt Gdrrters, i., Gadshill n. 
 
 Scene U.—T/ieRoad hy Gad's Hill. 
 
 Enter Prince of Wales and Foiks, disgfiisfd,x. 
 
 Poins. Come, shelter, shelter; I have removed Fal- 
 •taff's horse, and he frets like a gummed velvet. 
 P. Hen. Stand close. 
 
 \Bot/t retire into hack scene, among the trees. 
 
 Enter Falstapf, disguised, l. 
 Fal. Poins! Poins, and bi. hanged! Poins! 
 
ScEicE II.] KING HENRY IV. 21 
 
 P. Hen. [Coming. forward.] Peace, ye fat kidtieyeJ ras- 
 cal : — what a brawling doat thou keep ! * 
 
 Fal. What, Poins ! Hal ! 
 
 P. Hen. He is walked up to the top of the hill : I'll go 
 seek him. [ Retires again into back ground. 
 
 Fal. (l.) I am accursed, to rob in that thief's compa- 
 ny : the rascal hath removed my horse, and tied him ,1 
 know not where. If I travel but four foot by 'the square 
 fuither a-foot, I shall break my wind. Well, I doubt not 
 but to die a fair death, for all this ; if I 'scape hanging foi' 
 killing that rogue. I have forsworn his company houi'ly 
 any time this two-and-ttventy yeaz-, and yet I am bewitch- 
 ed with the rogues company, (c.) If the rascal have not 
 given me itiedicines to make me love him, I'il be hanged ; 
 it could not be else ; I have drunks medioines.^ — Ppins ! — 
 Hal ! — a plague upon you both ! Sardolph ! — Peto ! — 
 I'll starve, ere I'll rob a foot fuarthei;. An 'twere not as 
 good a deed as drink, to turn true man, and leave these 
 rogues, I am the veriest varlet that ever chewed witli g. 
 tooth, (r, c.) Eight yards of uneven ground, is three score 
 and ten miles a-foot with me ; and tlte stony-hearted vil- 
 lains know it well enough : a plague upon't; when thieves 
 cannot be true to one another ! — [ They p^iMle.] — Whew ! 
 — A plague upon you all ! Give me my Jiorse, you 
 rogues ; give me my horse, and be hanged. 
 
 P. Hen. \BacIc scene.] Peace, ye fat-guts! lie down! 
 lay thine ear close to the ground, and list if thou canst 
 hear the tread of traYellfirs. 
 
 Fal. Have you any levers to lift me up again, being 
 down ? 'Sblood, I'll not bear mine own flesh so far. a- 
 foot again, for all the coin in thy father's exchequer. — 
 What a plague mean ye, to colt me thus ] 
 
 P. Hen. Thou Hest, thou art not polled, thou art uncolt- 
 00. [Advances. 
 
 Fal. I pr'ythee, good Prince Hal, help me to my horse ; 
 — good king's son. 
 
 P. Hen. (c.) Out, you rogue ! shall I be yoiir ostler 1 
 
 Fal. (c.) G-o, hang thyself in thy own heir-apparent gai-- 
 ters! If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this. An I have not 
 ballads made on you all, and sung to filthy tunes, let a cup 
 of sack be my poison. When a jest 's so forward, and a- 
 foot too! — I .hate it. .■ . 
 
22 KING HENRY IV. 
 
 [Act II 
 
 Enter Hums, Gadshill, Bardolph, and Vara, dii- 
 guised, L. 
 
 Gads, (l.) Stand. 
 
 Fal. (c.) So I do, against ray will. 
 
 Poim. (h. c.) O, 'tis our setter ; I know his voice. 
 
 Gadi. Case ye, case ye ; on with your visors; there's 
 money of the king's coming down the hill, tis going to the 
 king's exchequer. 
 
 Pal. You lie, you rogue ; 'tis going to the king's tav- 
 ern. 
 
 Gadi. There's enough to make us all. 
 
 Fal. To be hanged. 
 
 P. Hen. Sirs, you four shall front them in the narrow 
 lane: Ned Poins and I will walk lower: if they 'scape 
 from your encounter, then they light on us. 
 
 Fal. But how many be there of them % 
 
 Gads. Some eight, or ten. 
 
 Fal. Zounds ! will they not rob us ? 
 
 P. Hen. What, a coward, Sir John Paunch • 
 
 Fal. Indeed, I am not John of Gaunt, your gi-andfather; 
 but yet no coward, Hal. 
 
 P. Hen. Well, we leave that to the pi"oof. 
 
 Poins. (r.) SiiTah Jack, thy horse stands behind the 
 nedge ; when thou need'st him, there thou shall find him. 
 Farewell, and stand fast. 
 
 Fal. Now cannot 1 strike him, if I should be hanged. 
 
 P. Hen. Ned, where ai-e our disguises? Aside. 
 
 Poins. Here, hard by ; stand close., [Aside. 
 
 [Exeunt tlie Prince and Poins, R. s. E. 
 
 Fal. Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say I ! 
 Every man to his business. — [ They -put on their masks, and 
 draw their swords. 
 
 Enter four Travellers, l. 
 
 7Vfl«. Come, neighbour ; the boy shall lead our horses 
 down the hill : weHl walk a-foot awhile, and ease our 
 legs. 
 
 Fal. Ifc. Stand. 
 
 Trav. Thieves ! Murder ! Help ! [The Travellers run 
 across and exeunt R., pursued by Bardolph, . Gadshill and 
 Peto, R.] 
 
 Fal. [Running about with his sword drawn.] Down 
 
•CEBEII.] KIN.T HENRY ;V. 23 
 
 with them ! cut the villains' throats ! ah ! whoreson cater- 
 pillars ! bacon-fed knaves ! they hate us youth : down 
 with them ! fleece them ! Young men must live : You 
 are grand-jurors, are ye ? We'll jure you, i'faith. 
 
 \Exit, K. 
 
 Enter Prince op "Wales and Voms, from tlie hack ground, 
 in bwkram suits. 
 
 P. Hen. The thieves have bound the true men ; now, 
 could thou and I rob the theivos, and go merrily to Lon- 
 "don, it would be argument for a week, laughter for a 
 month, and a good jest for ever. 
 
 Pains. Stand close, I hear them coming. \Retire again 
 into the back ground.^ 
 
 Enter Falstafp, Gadshili,, Babdolph, and Peto, with 
 lags of Money, k., laughing immoderately. 
 
 Pal. Come, my masters, let us share and then to horse 
 before day. ■ [Falstaff repeatedly holds up his booty to sur- 
 vey it, and breaks out into sudden and violent fits etf laugh- 
 ter. They sit down on the ground, in a line across c] An 
 the Prince and Poins be not two arrant cowards, there's 
 no equity stirring : there's no more valour in that Poins, 
 than in a wild duck. . 
 
 Henky and Poins advance, 
 
 P. Hen. Your money ! 
 Poins. Villains ! 
 
 [ The Prince and Poins attach them. Gadshvll, Bar- 
 dolph and Peto run away, l;, and Falstaff, after a 
 slight blow or two, runs after them, leaving the 
 booty. 
 P. Hen. (c.) Got with much ease. Now merrily to 
 horse. 
 The thieves are scattered, and "possessed with fear 
 So strongly, that they dare not meet each other. 
 Each takes his fellow for an officer. 
 Away, good Ned. Falstaff sweats to death, 
 And lards the lean earth as he walks along : 
 Were 't not for laughing, I should pity him. 
 
 Poins. (c.) How the rogue roared ! [Exeunt, l. 
 
24 KINO HENRY IV Act II 
 
 Scene III. — Warkworth. — A Room in the Castle. 
 Enter Hotspur, reading a Letter, r. 
 
 " But, for mine own part, my lord, I could be 
 
 well contented to be there, in respect of the love I bear 
 your house." — He could be contented — why is he not, 
 then ? In respect of the love he bears our house ! — ho 
 shows in this, he loves his own bam better than he loves 
 our house. Let me see some more. " The purpose you 
 undertake, is dangerous:" (c.) — Why, that's certain: 'tis 
 dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink ; but I tell' 
 you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this 
 flower, safety. " The purpose you undertake, is danger- 
 ous ; the friends you have named, uncertain ; the time it- 
 self unsorted ; and your whole plot too light, for the coun- 
 tei-poise of so great an opposition." Say you so 1 say you 
 so ? I say unto you again, you are a shallow cowardly 
 hind, and you lie. What a lack-brain is this ! By the 
 lord, our plot is as good a plot as ever was laid : our friends 
 ti-ue and constant; an excellent plot, very good friends. 
 What a frosty-spirited rogue is this ! Why, my Lord of 
 York commends the plot, and the general course of the 
 actiqp. By this band, if I were now by this rascal, 1 
 could brain him with his lady's fan. Is there not my far 
 ther, my uncle, and myself? Lord Edmund Mortimer, 
 my Lord of York, and Owen Glendower? Is there not, 
 besides, the Douglas? Have I not all their letters to meet 
 me in arras by the ninth of the next month 1 And are 
 they not, some of them, set forward already ? What a 
 Pagan rascal is this ! an infidel ! — Ha ! you shall see now,> 
 in very sincerity of fear and cold heart, will he to thes 
 king, and lay open all our proceedings. O, I could divide 
 myself, and go to buffets, for fnovirig such a dish of skitn'| 
 med milk with so honorab e an action ! Hang him ! let 
 him tell the king: we are " prepared : I will set forward 
 to-night. 
 
 Enter Lady Percy, u. 
 
 How now, Kate? I must leave you within these two- 
 hours. 
 Lady. (r. c.) O, my good lord, why are you tliiis alore ! 
 For whit offences have I, this fortnight, been 
 
SOEHE ril.] KING HENEV IV. 25 
 
 A banisbed woman from my Hari-y's bed 1 
 Tell me, sweet lord, what is't that takes from thee 
 Thy stomach, pleasure, and thy. golden sleep ? 
 Why dost tbou bend thine eyes upon the earth ; 
 And start so often, when thou sit'st alone? 
 In.thy faint slumbers, I by thee haye watched. 
 And heard thee murmur tales of iron wars : 
 Speak terms of manage to thy bounding steed: 
 Cry, Courage — to ihejleld ! And thou hast talked 
 Of prisoners' ransom, and of soldiers slain, 
 And all the currents of a beady %bt. 
 Some heavy business hath my lord in band, 
 And I must know it else he loves me not. 
 Hot. What, ho !— 
 
 Enter Rabt, l. 
 
 Is Gilliams with the packet gone 1 
 
 Rab. (l.) He is, my lord, an hour ago. 
 
 Hot. Hath Butler brought those horses from tbe Sho> 
 rifn 
 
 Rah. One horse, my lord, he brought even noWt 
 
 Hot. What hoi'se ? a roan, a ci'op-ear, is it not*? 
 
 Rab. It is, my lord. 
 
 Hot. That roan shall be my throne. — 
 Well, I will back him sti-aight. — O Esperance / 
 Bid Butler lead him fortb into the park. 
 
 [Exit Rahy, Xm 
 
 Lady, (c.) But hear you, my lord. 
 
 Hot. (c.) What say'st thou, my lady? 
 
 Lady. What is it carries you away I 
 
 Hot. Why, my horse, my love, my horse. 
 
 Lady. Out, you mad-headed ape ! 
 A weasel hath not such a deal of spleen. 
 As you are tossed with. In faith, 
 I'll know your business, Harry, that I will. 
 I fear, my brother Mortimer doth stir 
 About his title ; and hath sent foi you. 
 To line his enterprise : but if you go — 
 
 Hot, So far a-foot, I shall be weaiy, love. 
 
 Lady. Come, come, you paraquito, answer me 
 Directly to 'his question that I ask. 
 In faith, Til break thy little finger, Harry, 
 
26 KING HENRY lY. TACT II 
 
 All if thou wilt not tell me all things true. 
 
 Hot. Away, 
 Away, you trifler. Love ! I love thee not, 
 I care not for thee, Kate : this is no world 
 To play with mammets, and to tilt with lips ; 
 We must have bloody noses, and cracked crowns, 
 And pass them current too. Gods me, my horse ! 
 What say'st thou, Kate ] what would'st thou have with 
 mel 
 
 Lady. Do you not love me 1 do you not, indeed ? 
 Well, do not, then ; for, since you love me not, 
 I will not love myself. Do you not love me 1 
 Nay, tell me, if you speak in jest, or no. 
 
 Hot. Come, wilt thou see me lide ? 
 And, when I am on horseback, I will swear 
 I love thee infinitely. But, hark you, Kate ; 
 I must not have you henceforth question me 
 Whither I go, nor reason whereabout: 
 Whither I must, I must ; and, to conclude, 
 This evening must I leave you, gentle Kate. 
 I know you wise ; but yet no further wise, 
 Than Harry Percy's wife : constant you are; 
 But yet a woman : and, for secrecy, 
 No lady closer : for, I well believe, 
 Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know : 
 And so far will I trust thee, gentle Kate. 
 
 Lady. How! so far? 
 
 Hot. Not an inch further. But, hark you, Kate : 
 Whither I go, thither shall you go too ; 
 To-day will I set forth, to-morrow you. 
 Will this content you, Kate ? 
 
 Lady. It must, of force. [Exeunt, i., ^ 
 
 Scene IV. — The Boar's Head Tavern in Eastcheap. 
 
 Enter Prince op Wales, l. 
 
 Prince H. (l. c.) Ned, pr'ythee come out of that £ai' 
 room, and lend me thy hand to laugh a little. 
 
 Enter Poins, l. s. e. 
 Poins. Where hast been, Hal 1 
 Prince H. With three or four loggerheads, amongst 
 
ScekeI?.] kino henry IV. 'Jl 
 
 three or four score hogsheads. I have sounded the vej-y 
 base string of humility. Sirrah, I am sworn brother to a 
 leash of drawers, and can call them all by their Christian 
 names, as — Tom, Dick, and Francis. They take it already 
 ""■upon their salvation, that, though I be but Prince of Wales, 
 yet I am the king of courtesy ; and tell me flatly, I am no 
 proud Jack, like Falstaff; but a Corinthian, a lad of met- 
 tle, a good boy, — by the lord, so they call me, — and, when 
 I am king of England, I shall command all the good lads 
 in Eastcheap. To conclude, I am so good a proficient in 
 one quarter of an hour, that 1 can drink with any tinker in 
 his own language during my life. I tell thee, Ned, thou hast 
 lost much honour, that thou wert not with me in this ac- 
 tion. But, sweet Ned — to sweeten which name of Ned, 
 I give thee .this penny-worth of sugar, clapped evQn now 
 into my hand by an under-skinner, one that never spake 
 other English in his life, than — Eight shillings and six- 
 pence, and — You are welcome ; with this shrill addition. 
 Anon, anon. Sir, — Score a pint of bastard in the Halfi 
 Moon, or so. But, Ned, to drive away the time till Fal- 
 staff come, I pr'ythee, do thou stand in some by-room, 
 while I question my puny drawer to what end he gave me 
 the sugar ; and do thou never leave calling — ^Francis, that 
 his tale to me may be nothing but — Anon. Step aside, and 
 I'll show thee a precedent. [Exit Poins, l. s. e. 
 
 Poins. [ Within.] Francis ! 
 
 Prince H. Thou art perfect. 
 
 Poins. Francis ! 
 
 Enter Francis, l. 
 
 Fran. Anon, anon, sir. — Look down into the Pomgra- 
 nate, Ralph. . 
 ■Prince H. (c.) Come hither, Francis, 
 
 Fran. My lord. [Stands close to the l. of Prince. 
 
 Prince H. How long hast thou to serve, Francis 1 
 
 Fran. Forsooth, five years, and as much as to — 
 
 Poins. [Calls at l. s. e.] Francis 1 
 
 Fran. [Runs away.\ Anon, anon, sir. 
 
 Prince H. [Francis returns.] Five years ! by'r lady, a 
 long lease for the clinking of pewter. But, Francis, dar'st 
 thou be so valiant as to play the coward with thy inden 
 ture, aiwl show Jt a fair pair of heels, and run from it ? 
 
28 KINO HENRY IV. 
 
 [Act n 
 
 Fran. Oh, lord sir, I'll bo sworn upon all the books in 
 England, I could find in luy heart— 
 
 Poins. Francis ! 
 
 Fran, \Run» away] Anon, anon, sir. 
 
 Prince H. [Francis returns.] How old art thou, Francis 1 
 
 Fran. ■ Let me see, — about Michaelmas next 1 shall be — 
 
 Point. Francis ! 
 
 Frin. Anon, sir. [Runs away.] Pray you, stay a little, 
 my loi"d. 
 
 Prince H. Nay, but hark you, Francis : for the sugai 
 thou gav'st me — 'twas a pennywoith, was't not 1 
 
 Fran. \Returmng.] Oh, lord, sir, I would it had been 
 two. 
 
 Prince H. I will give thee for it a thousand pound : ask 
 ine when thou wilt, and thou shalt have it. 
 
 Point. Francis ! 
 
 Fran. [Standing by the Prince.] Anon, anon. 
 
 Prince H. Anon, Francis ? No, Francis ; but to-mor- 
 row, Francis, or, Francis, on Thursday ; or, indeed, Fran- 
 ciSi'when thou wilt. But, Francis, — 
 
 Fran. My lord ? 
 
 Prince H. Wilt thou rob this leather-jerkin, crystal-but- 
 ton, nott-pated, agate-ring, puke-stocking, caddis-garter, 
 smooth-tongue, Spanish-pouch — 
 
 Fran, Oh, lord, sir, who dp you mean 1 
 
 Prince H. Why, then, your brown bastard is your only 
 drink : for, look you, Francis, your white canvas doublet 
 will sully ; ip Barbary, sir, it cannot come to so much. 
 
 Fran. What, sir ? 
 
 Pains. Fi-ancis ! 
 
 Prince H. Away, you rogue : dost thou not hear them 
 cain 
 
 [Here they hath call him — Francis stands amazed he- 
 tween them, and goes to neither. 
 
 Enter Hostess, l. 
 
 Hos. What ! Btand'st thou still, and xiearest such a cal- 
 ling 1 look to the guests within. [Exit Francis, l.J My 
 lord, old Sir John, with half-a-dozen more, are at the door ; 
 shall I let them in % 
 
 Prince H. Let them alone awhile, and then open tha 
 door. — [Exit Hostess, l.] Poins ! 
 
ScKMB IV.] Km6 HEKRY IV. 29 
 
 Enter Poms, l. b. e. 
 
 Poins. [Advancing.] Anon, auon, sir. 
 
 Prijice H. Sirrah, Falstafl' and thfe rest af the tneires 
 are at the door, shall we be in^rry ? 
 
 Poins. (c.) As merry as crickets, my la^I. But hark ye; 
 what cunning match have you made with this jest of the 
 drawer ? come, what's the issue ? 
 
 Prince H. (o.) 1 am now of all humoura, that have 
 showed theipselves humours, since the old days of good- 
 man Adam, to this pupil age of this present twelve o'clock 
 o'clock at midnight. What's o'clock, Francis ? 
 
 Fran. [ Witlwut, l.] Six and eight-pence. 
 
 Prince H^ That ever this fellow should have fewer words 
 than a pan'ot, and yet the son of a woman ! His industry 
 is — up-stairs, and down-stairs; his eloquence, the parcel 
 of a reckoning. I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hot 
 spur of the , North, he that kills me some six or seven 
 dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his hands, and says 
 to his wife, — " Fie upon this quiet life ! I want work." — 
 " Oh, my sweet Harry," says she, " bow many hast thou 
 killed to-day V — " Give my roan horse a drench," says he, 
 and answers, " Some fourtaen," an hour after, " a trifle, 
 a trifle." I pr'ythee, call inFalstaff. (ii.) Call in ribs,'Cali 
 in tallow. 
 
 Enter FAtsTAPP,GADSHiLL,BARDOLPH, VwTo,and Francis, 
 L., with a tankard of Sack. 
 
 Poin-t. Welcome, Jack. Where hast thou been ? 
 
 Fill. A plague of all cowards, I say, and a vengeance, 
 too ! marry, and amen ! — [Sits, l. c] Give me a cup of 
 sack, boy. [ To Francis, on his l.] Ere I lead this life long, 
 I'll sew nether-stocks, and mend them, and foot them, too 
 A plague of all cowards ! Give' me a cup of sack, rogue. 
 [Poins goes to the. r.] Is there no virtue extant ? [ Drinks. 
 
 P. Hen. [ To Poins, leaning on his shoulder, r,] Didst 
 thou never see Titan kiss a dish of butter? pitiful-hearted 
 Titan ! that melted at the sweet tale of the sun ? If thou 
 didst, then behold that compound. 
 
 • [Pointing to Falstaff. 
 
 Fal. You rogue, here's lime in this sack too: [Flings it 
 into Francis's f (ice.] there is nothing but rogueiy to be 
 found in villainous man ; yet a coward is worse than 
 
30 KING HENKV I''. [Act 11. 
 
 a cup of sack with lime in it: a villainous coward. — Go 
 thy ways, old Jack; die when thou wilt, if manhood, good 
 manhood, be not forgot upon the face of the earth, then 
 ara I a shotten herring. There live not three good men 
 unhanged in England, and one of them is fiit, and grows 
 old, heaven help the while ! A bad world, I say ? A 
 plague of all cowards, 1 say still. 
 
 P. Hen. [Crossing to him.] How now, wool sack 1 what 
 mutter you ? 
 
 Fal. A king's son ! If I do not beat thee out of thy 
 kingdom with a dagger of lath, and drive all thy subjects 
 afore thee like a flock of wild geese, I'll never wear hair 
 on my face more. You Prince of Wales ! 
 
 P. Hen, Why, you whoreson round man ! what's the 
 matter ! 
 
 Fal. Are you not a cojyard 1 answer me that: and 
 Poins there ? 
 
 \Poins runs at kim ; Falstaff rises and retreats, l. 
 
 P. Hen. (l.) Ye fat paunch, an'' ye call me coward, I'll 
 Blab thee. 
 
 Fal. (l.) I call thee coward ! I'll see thee damned, ere 
 I call thee coward : but I would give a thousand pound, I 
 could run as fast as thou canst. [Prince crosses to c, Fal- 
 tta^ fill-owing.] You are straight enough in the shoulders, 
 you care not who sees your back : call you that backing 
 your friends ? A plague upon such backing! Give me 
 them that will face me ; give me — a cup of sack : — I am 
 a rogue if I drunk to-day. 
 
 P. Hen. (r. c.) O villain ! thy lips are scarce wiped 
 since thou drunkest last. 
 
 Enter Francis, with Sack. 
 
 Fal. (c.) All's one fofthat. A plague of all cowards, 
 still say I ! 
 
 [Drinks — Francis takes the Cup, and exit l. 
 
 P. Hen. (r. c.) What's the matter 1 
 
 Fal. What's the matter 1 Here be four of us here have 
 taken a thousand pound this morning, 
 
 P, Hen. Where is it. Jack 1 where is it 1 , 
 
 Fal. Where is it ? taken from us it is ; a hundred upon 
 poor four of us. 
 
 P. Hen. What, a hundred, man 1 
 
SciltE IV.] KING HEXBY IV. 31 
 
 Fal. I am a rogue, if I were not at half-sword with a 
 dozen of them two hours together. I hdve escaped by 
 mix-acle. I am eight times thrust through the doublet ; 
 four through the hose ; my ouckler cut through and 
 through ; my sword hacked like a hand-saw, ecce signum. 
 I never dealt better since I was a man : all would not do. 
 A plague of all cowards ! — Let them speak : if they speak" 
 more or less than truth, taey are villains, and the sons 
 of darkness. 
 
 Prince H, Speak, sirs : — f Ti> Gadahill, Ifc., l.] — how 
 was it 1 - 
 
 Gadi. (L.) We four set upon some dozen— 
 
 Fal. Sixteen, at least,- my lord. 
 
 Gadt. And bound them. 
 
 Peto. (l.) No, no, they were not bound, 
 
 Fal. You rogue, they were bound, every man of them ; 
 or I am a Jew else, an Hebrew Jew. 
 
 Gadi. As we were sharing, some some six or seven 
 fresh men set upon us — 
 
 Fal. And unbound the rest, and then came in the 
 other. 
 - Prince H. What, fought ye with them all?. 
 
 Fal. All 1 I know not ye call all ; but if I fought not 
 with fifty of them, I am a bunch of radish : if there were 
 not two or three and fifty upon poor old Jack, then am I 
 no two-legged creature. 
 
 Poins. [l. of Falsfaff".] 'Pray heaven, you have not kill* 
 ed some of them. 
 
 Fal. Nay, that's past praying for ; I have peppered two 
 of them : two, I' am sure, I have paid : two rogues in 
 buckram suits. I tell thee what, Hal---if I tell thee a lie, 
 spit in my face, call me a horse — thou knowest my old 
 ward — here I lay, and thus I bore my point : four rogues 
 in buckram let drive at me — 
 
 Prince H. What, four? thou saidst but two, even now. 
 
 Fal. Four, Hal — I told thee four. 
 
 Poins. Ay, ay, he said four. 
 
 Fal. These four came all afront, and mainly thrust at 
 me : I made no more ado, but took all their seven points 
 in my t9,rget, thus. 
 
 Pnnce H, Seven 1 why, there were but four, even 
 now. 
 
33 KING HENRY IV. [ACT li 
 
 Fal. In buckram 1 
 
 Point. Ay, four in buckram suits. 
 
 Fal. Seven, by these hilts, or I'm a villain else. 
 
 Prince H. 'Pr'ythee, let him alone : we shall have more 
 anon. 
 
 Fal. Dost thou hear me, Hal ] 
 
 Prince H. Ay, and mark thee too, Jack. 
 
 Fdl.^ Do so ; for it is worth the listening to. These nine 
 m buckram that I told thee of — 
 
 Prince H. So, two more already. 
 
 Fal. Their points being broken — 
 
 Point. Down fell their hose. 
 
 Fal. Began to give me ground : but I followed me close, 
 came in foot and hand ; and, with a thought, seven of the 
 eleven 1 paid. 
 
 Prince H. Oh, monsti-ous! eleven buckram men grown 
 out of two ! 
 
 Fal. (r. c.) But, as the devil would have it, three mis- 
 begotten knaves, in Kendall Green, came at my back, and 
 let drive at me ; — for it was so dark, Hal, that thou could'st 
 not see thy hand. 
 
 Prince H. These lies are like the father that begets 
 them ; gross as a mountain, open, palpable. Why, thou 
 clay-brsiued guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou whoreson, 
 obscene, greasy, tallow-keech — 
 
 Fal. What, art thou mad } art thou mad % is not the 
 truth the truth T 
 
 Prince H. Why, how couldst thou know these men in 
 Kendall Grreen, when it was so dark thou couldst not see 
 thy hand? Come, tell us your reason : what sayest thou 
 to this? 
 
 Point, (c.) Come, your -reason. Jack, your reason. 
 
 Fal. What, upon compulsion ? No : were I at the 
 Btrapado, or all the racks in the world, I would not tell 
 you on compulsion. Give you a reason on compulsion ! 
 if reasons were as plenty as black-berries, I would give 
 no man a reason upon compulsion, I — 
 
 Prince H. I'll be no longer guilty of this sin : this san- 
 guine coward, this bed-presser, this horse back-breaker, 
 this huge hill of flesh — [Grotdng L.] 
 
 Fal. [Following.'] Away, you starvling, you eelskin, 
 you dried neat's tongue, you stock'^sb— Oh, fur breath to 
 
bcEKE IV.] KING HKNRY IV. 33 
 
 Utter what is like thee U — you tailor's yaird, ycu sKeath, 
 you bow-caEe, you vile standing tuck. — \Siill follow ng.] 
 
 Prince H. Well, breathe awhile, and then to it again ; 
 and, when thou hast tired thyself in base comparisons, 
 hear me speak but this. 
 
 Point, (c.) Mark, Jack. 
 
 Prince H. We two sawyou four set on four ; you bound 
 them, and were masters of their wealth. Mark now, how 
 plain a tala shall put you down. Then did we two set on 
 you four ; and with a word outfaced you from your prize, 
 and have it; yea, and can show you it here in the house : 
 — and, Falstaff, you can-ied your guts away as nimbly, 
 with as quick dexterity, and roared for mercy, and still ran 
 ar)d roared, as ever I heard bull-calf. What a slave art 
 thou, to hack thy sword as thou hast done, and then say, 
 it was in fight! What trick, what device, what staiting 
 hole canst thou now find out, to hide thee fi'om this open 
 and apparent shame % 
 
 [Falstaff MdeB his face with his shield. 
 
 Poins. Come, let's hear Jack — what -trick hast thou, 
 now ? 
 
 Fal. [Peeping over his shield.] By the the lord, I knew 
 ye, as well as he that made ye. Why — hear ye, my 
 mastei-s — was it for me to kill the heir apparent ? 
 should I turn upon the true Prince 1 [ Throws away his 
 sword.] Why, thou knowest, I am as valiant as Hercules : 
 but beware instinct : the lion will not touch the true 
 Prince. Instinct is a great matter ; I was a coward on 
 instinct. I shall think the better of myself and thee dur- 
 ing my life : I, for a valiant lion,, and thou, for a true 
 Prince. [ Throws down his Shield.] But, by the lords, lads, 
 I am glad you have the money. Hostess, clap to the 
 door; watch to-night,' pray to-morrow. Grallants, lads, 
 boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come 
 to you ! What, shall we be merry % shall we have a play 
 extempore 1 
 
 Prince H. Content: and the argument shall be — thy 
 running away. 
 
 Fall (c.) Ah, tio more of that, Hal, an' thou lovest me. 
 
 £Bfcr Hostess, l 
 Hoi. (l.) My lotd, the Prjnce— 
 
34 KING HEKRY IV. [Act II 
 
 Prince H. (c.) How now, ray lady the hostess ] what 
 sayst thou to me 1 
 
 Hos. Marry, my lord, there is a nobleman of the court 
 at door, would speak with you: he says, he comes from 
 your father. 
 
 Prince H. Give him as much as will make him a royal 
 man, and send him back again to my mother. 
 
 Fal. What manner of man is he ? 
 
 Hos. An old man. 
 
 Fal. What doth gravity out of bed at midnight ? Shall 
 I give him his answer ! 
 
 Prince H. 'Pr'ythee, do, Jack. 
 
 Fal. (l.) 'Faith, and I'll sena him packing. 
 
 [Exeunt Fahtaff.and Hostess, l. 
 
 Prince H. (l. c.) Now, sirs: [To Bardolph, JJr,,] by'i 
 lady, you fought fair ; so did you, Peto ; so did you, Bar- 
 dolph ; you are lions, too, you ran away upon instinct ; you 
 will not touch the true Prince ; no — fie ! 
 
 'Bard, (l.) 'Faith, I ran, when I saw others run. 
 
 Prince H. Tell me now, in earnest-^how came Pal- 
 staff's sword so hacked 1 
 
 Peto. (l.) Why, he hacked it with his dagger ; and 
 said he would swear truth out of England, but he would 
 make you believe it was done in fight, and persuaded us to 
 do the like. 
 
 Bard. Yea, and to tickle our noses with spear grass, to 
 make them bleed ; and then to .beslubber our garments 
 with it, and to swear, it was the blood of true men ; 1 did 
 that I did not these seven years be&)re, I blushed to hear 
 his monstrous devices. 
 
 Prince H. Oh, villain ! thou stol'st a cup of sack eighteen 
 years ago, and wert taken with the manner, and ever since 
 thou hast blushed extempore; thou hads't fire and sword 
 on thy side, and yet thou rans't away :— ^what instinct 
 had'st thou for it? 
 
 Bard. My lord, do you see these meteors t Jo you be- 
 hold these exhalations? 
 
 Prince H. 1 do. 
 
 Bard. . What think you they portend ? 
 
 Prince I±. Hot livers, and cold purses. 
 
 Bard. Choler, my lord, if rightly taken. 
 
 Prinoe H. No, if rightly take/i — halter. 
 
Scene IV.] KING HENRY IV. 35 
 
 Enter Falstaff, l. 
 
 Here comes lean Jack, here comes bare-bone. How now, 
 my sweet creature of bombast ? How long is't ago, Jack, 
 -Bince thou saw'st thine own knee ? 
 
 Fal. (\i.) Mine own kneo 1 When I was about thy 
 years, Hal, I was not an eagle's talon in the waist ; I 
 could have crept into an alderman's thumb ring. A plague 
 of sighing and grief! it blows a man up like a bladder.— 
 There's villainous news abroad : here was Sir John Bracy 
 from you father ; you must to the court in the morning. 
 That same mad fellow of the north, Percy ; and he of 
 Wales, that gave Amaimon the bastinado, and made Lu- 
 cifer cuckold, and swore the devil his true liegeman upon 
 the cross of a Welsh hook — What a plague call you 
 him ?— 
 
 Poins. (r.) Ob, Glendower. 
 
 Fal. (c.) Owen, Owen ; the same : — and his son-in-law, 
 Mortimer; and old Northumberland; and that sprightly 
 Scot of Scots, Douglas, that nins , o' horseback up a hill 
 perpendicular. 
 
 Prince H. (r. c.) He that rides at high speed, and with 
 his pistol kills a sparrow flying. 
 FaL You have hit it. 
 Prince H. Sudidhe never the sparrow. 
 Fal. Well, that rascal hath good mettle in him ; he will 
 not run. 
 
 Prince IT. Why, what a rascal art thou, then, to praise 
 bim so for running ! 
 
 Fa?.. On horseback, ye cuckoo ! — but, afoot, he will not 
 budge a foot. "" 
 
 Prince H. Yes, Jack, upon instinct. 
 Fal. I grant ye, upon instinct. Well, he is there too, 
 and one Mordake, and a thousand blue caps more ; Wor- 
 cester is stolen away by night; thy father's beard is turned 
 white with the news. You may buy land now as cheap 
 as stinking mackarel. 
 
 Prince H. Then.^tis like, if there come ahot June, and 
 this civil buffeting hold, we shall buy maidens, as they do 
 hobnails, by the hundreds. 
 
 Fal. By the mass, lad, thou say'st true ; it is like we 
 ihall have -good tradjng Ihat way : — But, tell me, Hal art 
 
36 KING HENRY IV. [ACT 11 
 
 thou not horribly afeard 1 thou being heir apparent, could 
 the world pick out three such enemies again, as that fiend 
 Douglas, that spirit Percy, and that devil Glendower? 
 Art thou not honibly afraid ? doth not thy blood thrill at 
 it? 
 
 Prince H. Not a whit, i'faith ; I lack some of thy in- 
 stinct. 
 
 Fal. Well, thou wilt be horribly chid to-morrow, when 
 thou com 'at to thy father; if thou love me, practise an an- 
 swrer. 
 
 Enter Hostess, l. 
 
 Hos, (l.) Oh, my lord, my lord! 
 
 Fal. Heigh, heigh ! the devil rides upt>n a fiddle-stick 
 What's the matter ? 
 
 Hoi. The sheriff and all the watch are at the door 
 they are come to search the house : shall I let them in } 
 
 Fal. Hal, thou art essentially mad, without seeming so. 
 
 Prince H. And thou a natural coward, without instinct. 
 
 Fal. I deny your major : if you will deny the sheriff, 
 so ; if not, let him enter : if I become not a cart as well 
 as another man, a plague>on my bringing up ! 1 hope I shall 
 as soon be strangled with a halter as another. 
 
 Prince H. Call in the sheriff. [Exit Hostess, l.] Go, 
 hide thee behind the arras ; the rest walk up above. — 
 Now, my masters, for a tnie face and a good conscience. 
 
 Fal. (r.) Both which I have had ; but their date is out, 
 and therefore I'll hide me. 
 
 [Exeunt Falstaff, Bardolph, GadsJiiU, nnd) Peto, 
 
 R. 8. E. 
 
 Enter Sheriff, and several Travellers, l. 
 
 Prince H. (c.) Now, master sheriff — what's your will 
 with me 1 
 
 Sher. (l.) First, pardon rne, my lord : — A hue and crj 
 hath followed certain men into this house. 
 
 Prince H. What men 1 
 
 Sher. One of them is well known, my gracious lord : a 
 gross fat man. 
 
 2Vfl». (l.) As fat as butter. 
 
 Prince H. Sheriff, I do engage my word to thee 
 That I will, by to-morrow dinner-time. 
 
SCEBE IV.] KIXO HENRY IV. 37 
 
 Send him to answer thee, or any man, 
 For any thing he shall be charged withal : 
 And so, let me entreat you, leave the hoase. 
 
 Sher. I will, my lord; Here are two gentlemen 
 Have in this robbery lost three hundred marks. 
 ^ Prince H. It may Be so. If he have robbed these 
 
 men. 
 He shall be answerable; and so farewell. 
 
 Sher. Good night, my noble lord. 
 
 Prince H. I think it is good morrow — is it not? 
 
 Sher, Indeed, my lord, 1 think it be two o'clock. 
 
 N [Exeunt Sheriff and Travellers, l. 
 
 Prinee H. This oily rascal is known as well as Paul's. — 
 Go, call him forth. 
 
 Poins. (n. c.) FalstaflF! — Fast asleep behind the, arras, 
 and snorting like a horse. 
 
 Prince II. Hark, how hard he fetches his breath ! 
 Search his pockets. 
 
 [Poim goes out r. s. e. and searches his pockets. 
 What hast thou found ? 
 
 Re-enter FoiNs, r. s. e. 
 
 Poins. Nothing but papers, my lord. 
 
 Prince H. Let's see what they be : 
 [Heads.] Item, a capon, 2s. 2d. 
 Item, sauce, 4d. 
 Item, sack, two gallons, 5s. 8d. 
 [tpm, anchovies and sack, after supper, 2s. 6d. 
 Item, bread, a half-penny. 
 
 Oh, monstrous ! but one halfpennyworth of bread to this 
 intolerable deal of sack ! — What there is else, keep 
 close ; we'll read it at more advantage : there let him sleep 
 till day. I'll to the court in the morning : we must all to 
 the wars, and thy place shall be honorable. I'll procure 
 this fat rogue a charge of foot ; and, I know his death will 
 be a march of twelve score." The money shall be paid 
 back again with advantage. Be with me betimes in the 
 morning ; and so, good morrow, Poins. [Exit, i,. 
 
 Poins. Good morrow, good my lord. [Exit, k. 
 
 END OF ACT U. 
 
&8 KING IIEKKY IV. [Act III 
 
 ACT III. 
 
 Scene I. — TAe Presence Chamber. ' 
 
 Kins Henry, seated, c, Prince op Wales standing, «,, 
 Prince John, Earl of Westmoreland, Sir Walter 
 Blunt, with other Gentlemen, Guards, and Attendants. 
 
 King H. Lords, give us leave ; the Prince of Wales 
 and I 
 Must have some private conference ; but be near 
 At hand ; for we shall presently have need of you, 
 
 [Exeunt all but the King and Prince of fVal s, h. 
 I know not whether heaven will have it so. 
 For some displeasing service I have done, 
 That, in his secret doom, out of my blood 
 He'll breed revengement and a scourge for me : 
 But thou dost, in thy passages of life, 
 Make me believe that thou art only marked 
 For the hot vengeance and the rod i£ heaven, 
 To punish my mistreadings. Tell me else, 
 Could such inordinate and low desires, 
 Such barren pleasures, rude society. 
 As thou art matched withal, and grafted to, 
 Accompany the greatness of thy blood. 
 And hold their level with thy princely heart 1 
 
 Prince H. (r.) So please your majesty, I v .juld T 
 could 
 Q,uit all cffences with as clear excuse. 
 As well as, I am doubtlese, I can purge 
 Myself of many I am charged withal : 
 Yet such extenuation let me beg, 
 As, in reprroof of many tales devised, 
 I may, for some things true, wlierein my youth 
 Hath faulty wandered and in-egular. 
 Find pardon on my true submission. 
 
 [Advances a little nearer th< King. 
 
 King H. Heaven pardon thee !— Yet let me wondel|.; 
 Harry, '-'• 
 
 At thy affections, which do hold a wing ': 
 
 Q,uite from the flight of all thy ancestors. 
 Thy place ia council thou hast rudely ItfBt, •- 
 
SCEHB I.] KING HENRY IV. 3S 
 
 Which by thy younger brother is supplied ; 
 
 And art almost an alien to the hearts 
 
 Of all the court, and princes of my blood. 
 
 Had I so lavish of my presence been, 
 
 So common hackneyed in the eyes of men, 
 
 Opinion, that did help me to the crown, 
 
 Had still kept loyal to possession ; 
 
 And left me, in reputeless banishment, 
 
 A fellow of no mark nor likelihood. 
 
 By being seldom seen, I could not slir, 
 
 But, like a comet, I was wondei'ed at : 
 
 That men would tell their children, This is In ; 
 
 Others would say — Wlicrei which is Bolingbi tkel 
 
 Not an eye 
 
 But is a-weary of thy common sight, 
 
 [Prince turns away ahaslted. 
 Save mine, which hath desired to see thee more ; 
 Which now doth what I would not have it do. 
 Make blind itself with foolish tenderness. \King weeps. 
 
 Prince H. (r.) I shall hereafter, my thrice-gracious 
 lord, 
 Be more myself. 
 
 King H. F(jr all the world. 
 As thou art to this hour, was Richard then. 
 When I from France set foot at Ravenspurg ; 
 And even as I was then, is Percy now. 
 Now, by my sceptre, and my soul to boot. 
 He hath more worthy interest to the-state, 
 Than thou, the shadow of succession. 
 What never-dying honour hath he got 
 Against renowned Douglas ! 
 
 Thrice hath this Hotspur, Mars in swathing-clolhes, 
 This infant warrior in his enterprise.^. 
 Discomfited great Douglas; ta'en him once ; 
 Enlarged him, and made a friend' of him. 
 To fill the mouth of deep defiance up, 
 And shake the peace and safety of our throne. 
 And what say you to this ? Percy, Northumberland, 
 The archbishop's grace of York, Douglas, Mortimer, 
 Capitulate against us, and are up. [Prince advances. 
 
 But wherefore do I tell these news to thee ] 
 Why, Harry, do I tell thee of my foes, 
 
10 KING HENRY IV. i^^" "' 
 
 Wiiich art my nearest and dearest enemy 1 
 
 [Prinre turns awiiy. 
 Tbou — that art like enougb, tbrough vassal fear, 
 Base inclination, and the start of spleen. 
 To fight against me under Percy's pay, 
 To dog his heels, and curt'sy at his frowns, 
 To show how much thou art degenerate. 
 
 Prince H. \Nearer the King.1 Do not think so; yon 
 shall not find it so : 
 And heaven forgive thera that so much have swayed 
 Your majesty's good thoughts away from me ! 
 I will redeem all this on Percy's head ; 
 And, in the closing of some glorious day. 
 Be bold to tell you, that I am your son : 
 And that sliall be the day, whene'er it lights. 
 That this same child of honour and renown. 
 This gallant Hotspur, this all-praised knight, 
 And your unthought-of Harry chance to meet. 
 For every honour sitting on his helm, 
 Would they were multitudes ! and on my head 
 My shames redoubled ! for the time will come. 
 That I shall make this noithern youth exchange 
 His glorious deeds for my indignities. 
 Percy is but my factor, good my lord. 
 To engross up glorious deeds on my behalf: 
 And I will call him to so strict account. 
 That he shall render every glory up. 
 Yea, even the slightest worship of his time, 
 Or, I will tear the reckoning from bis heart. 
 This, in the name of heaven, I promise, here : [Kar.eU. 
 The which, if he be pleased, I shall perfurm. 
 I do beseech your majesty may salve 
 The long grown wounds of my intemperance : 
 If not, the end of life cancels all bands ; 
 And I will die a hundred thousand deaths, 
 Ere breiik the smallest parcel cf this vow. 
 
 King H. A hundred thousand rebels die in this : — 
 
 [/{ucjt, goes to the Prince and raises him. 
 Thou shalt have charge and sovereign trust herein. 
 
 Enter Sir Walter Blunt, l. 
 
 (low now, good Blunt 1 thy looks are full of speed. 
 
Scene U ( KING HENRY IV. 41 
 
 Blunt, (l.) So hath the business that I cometc sjeakof. 
 Lord Mortimer of Scotland hath sent word — 
 That Douglas and the English rebels met, 
 The eleventh of this month, at Shrewsbury, 
 A mighty and a fearful head they are. 
 If promises be kept on eveiy hand, 
 As ever offered foul play in a state. 
 
 King H. (c.) The Earl of Westmoreland sets forth to- 
 day ; 
 With him my son. Lord John of Lancaster ; 
 For this adveitisement is five days old : 
 On Wednesday next, Harry, you shall set 
 Forward ; on Thursday, we ourselves will march : 
 Our meeting is Bridgenorth : and, Haixy, you 
 Shall march through Glostershire. 
 Our hands are full of business : let's away : 
 Advantage feeds him fat, while men delay. [Exeunt, l. 
 
 Scene IL — The Boar's Head Tavern. 
 Enter Falstaff and Bardolfh, k. 
 
 Fal. Bardolph, am I not fallen away vilely since this 
 last action ? do I not bate ? do I not dwindle ? why, my 
 skin hangs about me like an old lady's loose gown ; I am 
 withered like an old apple-John. \Sits, c. — Bardolph stands 
 on Jiis R.] Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am 
 in some liking ; I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I 
 shall have no strength to repent. An' I have not forgotten 
 what the inside of a church is, I am a pepper-corn, a 
 brewer's horse. Company, villainous company hath been 
 the spoil of me. 
 
 Bardif, (r. c.) Sir John, you are so fretful, you cannot 
 live long. 
 
 Fal. Why, there is it ; come, sing me a song ; make 
 me merry. I was as virtuously given as a gentleman need 
 to be; virtuous enough; swore little; diced, not above 
 seven times a-week : went to bordello, not above once in 
 a quarter of an hour; paid money that I boiTowed, three 
 or four times ; lived well, and in good comf ass : and now 
 I live out of all ordeiv out of all compass. 
 
 Bard. Why, you are so fat, Sir John, that you must 
 needs be out of all compass; out of all reasonable com- 
 pass. Sir John. [FalstaJ' rises. 
 
12 KING HENKy IV. [Act IU 
 
 Fal. Do thou amend my face, and I'll amend my life : 
 thou art our admiral, thou bearest the lantern in the poop* 
 — but 'tis in the nose of thee ; thou art the knight of the 
 burning lamp. 
 
 Bard. Why, Sir John, my face does you no harm. 
 
 Fal. No, I'll be sworn ; I make as good use of it as 
 many a man doth of a death's- head, or a mtmtato mori : 
 I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire, and Dives 
 that lived in pui-ple ; for there he is in his robes, burning. 
 When thou ran'st up Gad's HUl in the night to catch my 
 horse, if I did not think thou hadst been an ignis Jatuus, 
 or a ball f>f vrild-iire, there's no purchase in money. 
 Oh, thou art a perpetual triumph, an everlasting bonfire- 
 light ! Thou hast saved me a thousand marks in links 
 and torches, walking with thee in the night betwixt tavern 
 and tavern : but the sack that thou hast drunk me would 
 have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chand- 
 ler's in Europe. I have maintaiued that salamander of 
 yours with fire any time this two-and-thirty years ; heaven 
 reward me for it ! [Sits again. 
 
 Bard. 'Sblood, I would my face were in your belly I 
 
 Fal. G-od-a-mercy ! so should I be sure to be heart 
 burned. 
 
 Enter Hostess, l. 
 
 How now, dame Partlet the hen 1 have you inquired yet 
 who picked my pocket ? 
 
 Host,, [l. of Fahtaff's chair.] "Why, Sir John ! what do 
 you think, Sir John ? Do you think I keep thieves in my 
 house % I have searched, I have inquired, so has my hus- 
 band, man by man, boy by boy, servant by sei'vant: the 
 tithe of a hair was never lost in my house before. 
 
 Fal. You lie, hostess ; Bardolph was shaved, and lost 
 many a hair : and I'll be sworn, my pocket was picked ; 
 go to, you are'a woman, go. 
 
 Hos. Who, I? I defy thee : I was nevor called so in 
 mine own house before, 
 
 Fal. Go to, I know you well enough. 
 
 Hos. No, Sir John ; you do not know me. Sir John : I 
 know you. Sir John : you owe me money. Sir John : and 
 now you pick a quarrel, to beguile me 5f it : I bought you 
 a dozen ef shirts to your back. 
 
 * Bardoloh has an cxtrcmclr larcn red nose. 
 
SCEKE IV.] KIXG HENRY IV. 43 
 
 Fell. Dowlas, filthy dowlar: I have given them away to 
 baker's wives, and they have made bolters of them. 
 
 Hos. Now, as I am a true woman, holland of ei»fht shil- 
 lings an ell. You owe money here besides, Sir John, for 
 your diet and by-drinkings; and money lent you,four-and- 
 twenty-pounds. 
 
 Fal. He had hi's part of it ; let him pay. 
 
 \Pointivg to Bar do! ph. 
 
 Hos. He ? alas, he is poor ; he hath nothing. 
 
 Fal. How, poor? \Iiising.\ look upon his face: what 
 call you rich ? -let them coin his nose, let them coin his 
 cheeks; I'll not pay a deneir. What, will you make a 
 younker of me I shall I not take mine ease in mine inn, 
 but I shall have my pocket picked ? I have loet a seat-ring 
 pf my grandfather's, worth forty mark. 
 
 Hos. Oh, I have heard the Prince tell him, I know not 
 how oft, that the ring was copper. 
 
 Fal. How! the Prince is a Jack, a sneak cup ; and if 
 he wero here, I would cudgel him like a dog, if he would 
 say 8o. 
 
 Enter Prince op Wales, l., indking signs of marching. — 
 Falstaff meets him, L. c. 
 
 How now, lad 1 is the wind in that door, i'faith ? — must 
 we all march 1 
 
 Bard. Yea, two and two, Newgate fashion. 
 
 Ho3. My lord, I pray you, hear me. 
 
 Prince H. What say'st thou, Mistress Quickly ] How 
 does thy husband ? I love him well, he is an honest man, 
 
 Hos. (l. c.) Good my lord, hear me. 
 
 Fol. (c.) Pr'ythee, let her alone, and list to me. 
 
 Prince H. (c.) What say'st thou, Jack 1 
 
 Fal. The other night, I fell asleep here behind the 
 horas, and had my pocket pickod : this house is turned 
 bawdy house, they pick pockets. 
 
 Prince H. What didst thou lose, Jack ? 
 
 Fal. Wilt thou believe me, Hal? three or four bonds 
 of forty pound a-piece, and a seal-ring of my grand- 
 father's. 
 
 Prin'.e H. A trifle, some eight-penny matter. 
 
 Hos. So I told him, my lord ; and I said, I heard youi 
 
44 KING HENBY IV. [Act at. 
 
 grace say bo ; and, my loi-d, he speaks mast vilely of you, 
 like a foul-mouthed man as he is : and said, he would 
 cudgel you. 
 
 Prince H. (t. c.) What ! he did not ? 
 
 Hos. (l. c.) There's neithei* faith, truth, nor womanhood 
 in me else. 
 
 Fal. There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed 
 prune ; nor more truth in thee than in a drawn fox ; and 
 for womanhood, maid Marion may be the deputy's wife 
 of the ward to thee : Go, you thing, go. 
 
 Hos. Say, what thing ? what thing J 
 
 Fal. (r. c.) What thing 1 why, a thing to thank heaven 
 on. 
 
 Hos. I am no thing to thank heaven on, I would thou 
 shouldst know it ; I am an honest man's wife : and, set- 
 ting thy knighthood aside, thou art a knave to call me so. 
 
 Fal. Setting thy womanhood aside, thou ait a beast to 
 say otherwise. 
 
 Hos. Say, what beast, thou knave thou J 
 
 Fal. *What beast ? why an otter. 
 
 Prince H. An otter, Sir John ? why an otter ? 
 
 Fal. Why ? she's neither fish, nor flesh ; a man knows 
 not where to have her. 
 
 Hos. Thou art an unjust man in saying so ; thou or any 
 man knows where to have me, thou knave thou ! 
 
 Prince H. Thou say'st true, hostess; and he slanders 
 thee most grossly. 
 
 Hos. So he doth you, my lord ; and said, this other day. 
 you ought him a thousand pound. 
 
 Prince H. Sirrah, do 1 owe y<iu a thousand pound ? 
 
 Fal. A thousand pound, Hal t a million ; thy love is 
 worth a million ; thou owest me thy love. 
 
 Hos. Nay, my lord, be called you Jack, and said, he 
 would cudgel you. 
 
 Fal. Did I, Bardolph \ [ Turning to Bardolph. 
 
 Bard, (r.) Indeed, Sir John, you said so. 
 
 Fah Yea ; if he said, my ring was copper. 
 
 Prince H. I say it is copper : darest thon be as good as 
 thy word now % 
 
 Fal. Why, Hal, thou knowest, as thou art but man, I 
 dare; but, as thou art Prince, I fear thee, as I fear tho 
 roarina; of the lion's whelp. 
 
Sotbe I.] KING HEXRV IV. 45 
 
 Prini:e. And why not, as the lion ? 
 
 Fa?. The king himself is to be feared as the lion ; dost 
 thou think I'll fear thee as I fear thy father] nay, an' if 1 
 do, let my girdle break ! 
 
 Prince. Oh, if it should, how would thy guts fall about 
 thy knees ! Charge an honest man with picking thy 
 pocket ! Why, thou whoreson, impudent, embossed rascal 
 if there were anything in thy pocket, but tavern reckon- 
 ings, menjoi'andums of " bawdy-houses, and one pool 
 pennyworth of sugar candy, to make thee long winded 
 if thy pocket were enriched with any other injuries but 
 these, I am a villain; and yet you will stand to it, you will 
 not pocket up wrong; art thomiot ashamed ? 
 
 Fal. Dost thou hear; Hall thou knowest, in the state 
 of innocency, Adam fell ; and what should poor Jack 
 Palstaff do in the days of' villainy ? Thou seest, I have 
 more flesh than another man ; and therefore more frailty. 
 You confess then, you picked my pocket ? 
 
 Prince. It appears so by the story. 
 
 Fal. Hostess, [Cro.ising l.] I forgive thee : go, make 
 ready breakfast; love thy husband, look to thy servants, 
 cherish thy guests; thou shalt find me tractable to any 
 honest reason ; thou seest, I am pacified. Still 1 — Nay, 
 pr'ythee, bo gone. [Kisses her. — Exit Hostess, l.] Now, 
 Hal, to the news at court : — for the robbery, lad — how is 
 that answered ? 
 
 Prince. The money is paid back again. 
 
 Fal. Oh, I do not like that paying back: it is a double 
 labour. 
 
 Prince. I am good with my father, and may do any- 
 thing. 
 
 Fal. Rob me the exchequer the first thing thou dost, 
 and do it with unwashed hands, too. 
 
 Bard. [Eagerly.] Do my lord. 
 
 P-^ince. 1 have procured thee, Jack, a charge of foot. 
 
 Fal. I would it had been of horse. Where shall I find 
 one that can steal well ? Oh, for a fine thief, of the age 
 of two and twenty, or thereabouts ! I am heinously un- 
 provided. Well, heaven be thanked for these rebels, they 
 ofiend none but the virtuous : I laud them, I praise them. 
 
 Prince, (c.) Bardolph — 
 
 Bard, (r.c.) My lord. 
 
4<3 KfNG UliNKV IV. [Act IV 
 
 Prince H. Go, bear this letter to Lord John of Lan- 
 caster, 
 My brother John ; this to my lord of Westmoreland. 
 
 [Exit Bardolph, l. 
 Jack, 
 
 Meet me to-morrow in the Temple-hall, 
 At two o'clock i'the afternoon : 
 
 There shall thou know thy charge; and there receive 
 Money, and order for their furniture. [Going, l. 
 
 The landis burning ; Percy stands on high ; 
 And either they or we must lower lie. [Exit, I.. 
 
 Fal. Rare words ! brave world ? — Hostess, my break- 
 fast ; come : — 
 Oh, I could wish this tavern were my drum ! [Exit, l. 
 
 END OF ACT III. 
 
 ACT IV. 
 
 Scene I. — Hottpur't Camp, near Shrewibury, — Flourish 
 of Ttumpcls and Drums. 
 
 Enter Earl op Worcester, Hotspur, Earl op Doug- 
 las, Gentlemen, and Soldiers with Banners ^c, r. 
 
 Hot. (c.) Well said, my noble Scot : if speaking truth 
 In this fine age, were not thought flattery. 
 Such attribution should the Douglas have. 
 As not a soldier of this season's stamp 
 Should go so general current through the world. 
 By heaven, I cannot flatter ; I defy 
 The tongues of soothers ; but a braver place 
 In my heart's love, hath no man than yourself: 
 -Nay, task me to the woi'd : approve me, lord. 
 
 Doug. Thoji art the king of honour : 
 No man so potent breathes upon the groundf 
 But I will beard him. 
 
 Hot. Do SCI and 'tis well : — 
 
 Enter Haby, l. 
 What letters hast thou there 1 
 
SCEifE I.] KING HENRY IV. 47 
 
 Rab. (l.) These letters come from your father. 
 
 Hot. (l. c.) Letters from hiiti ! why comes he not him> 
 self? 
 
 Rah. He cannot come, my lord ; he's -grievofts sick. 
 
 Jfo*. Sick ! how has he leisure to be sick, '; - 
 In such a jostling time ? Who leads his power ? 
 Under whose government come they along 1 
 
 Rab. (l, o.) His letters bear his mind, not I. 
 
 Hot. (c.) His mind ! 
 
 Wor. I pr'ythee, tell me, dqth he keep his bed ? 
 
 Rab. He did, my loi'd, four days ere I set forth ; 
 And, at the time of my departure thence, 
 He was much feared by his physicians. 
 
 Wor. I would, the state of time had first been whole, 
 Ere he by sickness had been visited? 
 His health was never better worth than now. 
 
 Hot. (k.) Sick now! droop now! This sickness doth 
 infect - ' 
 
 The very life-blood of our efiterjfiri&e— 
 'Tis catching hither, even to our camja — 
 He writes me here — that inward sickness^ 
 And his friends, by deputation, coald not 
 So soon be drawn ; — 
 Yet doth he give us bold advertisement, 
 That, with our small conjunction, we should on. 
 To see how fortune is disposed to us : (c.) 
 For, as he writes, there' is no quailing now; 
 Eecause the king is ceitainly possessed 
 Of all our purposes. What say you to it 1 ' 
 
 Wor. (l. c.) Your father's sickness is a maim to us. 
 It will be thought 
 
 By some, that knov/ not why he is away. 
 That wisdom, loyalty, and mere dislike 
 Of our proceedings kepi 'the earl from hetice: 
 This absence of your Stthe'r draws a curtain. 
 That shows the ignorant a kind of fejr 
 Before not dreampt .of. 
 
 Hot. (l. c.) You strain too far.' 
 I; rather, of his absence, make thus usBj — 
 It lends a lustre, and more great opiniott, 
 A larger dare to our great enterprise. ^— 
 Than if the earl were here ; for men must tliink. 
 
4S KING HE^fKY I^'. [Act III 
 
 If we, without his help, can make a head 
 To push against the kipgdom, with his help, 
 We shall o'erturn it topsy tuvvj down. 
 Yet all goes well, yet aJl our joints are whole 
 Doug, (k.) As heart can think : there is .nc t such a 
 word 
 Spoke of in Scotland, as this term of fear. 
 
 [Trumpet soundt, l. 
 
 Enttr Sir Richard Vernon, and two Gentlemen, i,. 
 
 Hot. My cousin Vernon ! welcome, by my soul. 
 
 Ver. (l.) Pray heaven, my news be worth a welcome, 
 lord. 
 The Earl of Westmoreland, seven thousand strong, 
 Is marching hitherwards ; with him. Prince John. 
 
 Hot. (h. c.) No harm : what more ? 
 
 Ver. And further I have learned — 
 The king himself in person is set forth, 
 Or hitherwards intended speedily, 
 With strong and mighty preparation. 
 
 Hot. He shall be welcome, too. Where is his son. 
 The nimble-footed, mad-cap Prince of Wales, 
 And his comrades, that dafled the world aside, 
 And bid it pass 1 
 
 Ver. All furnished, all in arms : 
 All plumed like estridges, that with the wind 
 Bated, like eagles having lately bathed : 
 Glittering in gojden coats, like images ; 
 As full of spirit as the month of May, 
 And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer ; 
 Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls. 
 I saw young Harry, with his beaver on. 
 His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly armed. 
 Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury, 
 And vaulted with such ease into his seat. 
 As if an angel dropt down from the clouds, 
 To turn and wind a ifery Pegasus, 
 .^nd witch the world with noble hoisemansh p. 
 
 Hci. No more, no more : worse than the sun in March 
 This praise doth nourish agues. Let them come ; 
 They come like sacrifices in their trim, 
 Al}4 to tlip fir(!-eyed i^iaid of smoky war. 
 
ScEHE IV.l KING HEKRT IV. 49 
 
 All hot and bleeding, will we offer them : 
 
 The mailed Mars shall on his altar sit, 
 
 Up lo the ears in blood. I am on firo^ 
 
 To hear this rich reprisal is so nigh, 
 
 And yet not ours : (b.) come, let me take mj- home 
 
 Who is to bear me, like a thunderbolt, 
 
 Against the bosom of the Prince of Wales : (r.) 
 
 Han"y to Harry shall — hot horse to horse — 
 
 Meet, and ne'er part till one drop down a corse. 
 
 Oh, that Glehdower were come ! 
 
 Mer. There is more news : 
 I learned in Worcester, as I rode along. 
 He cannot draw his power these fourteen days. 
 
 Doug. That's the worst tidings that I hear of yet. 
 
 Wor. (r. c.) Ay, by my faith, that bears a frosty sound. 
 
 Hot. (c.) What may the kitig's whole battle reacn 
 unto 1 
 
 Yer. To thirty thousand. 
 
 Hot. Forty let it be : 
 My father and Glendower, being both away. 
 The powers of us may serve so great a day. 
 Come, let us make a muster speedily ; 
 Dooms-day is near ; (k.) die all, die merrily. 
 
 \Flottrish of Trumpets and Drums. — Exeunt, R. 
 
 Scene II. — The Road near Coventry. 
 Enter Falstaff and Bardolph, l. 
 
 Fal. (c.) Bardolph, get thee before to Coventry; fill ■ 
 me a bottle of sack; [Gives his flas1c.\ o\xv soldiers shall 
 march through ; we'll to Sutton Colfield to-night. 
 
 Bard. (r. c.) Will you give me money, captain ] 
 
 Fal. Lay out, lay out. 
 
 Bard. This bottle makes an angel. 
 
 Fal. An' it do, lake it for thy labour; and, if it make 
 twenty, take them all ; I'll answer-the coinage. Bid my 
 lietutenant Peto meet me at the town's end. 
 
 Bard, (r.) I will, captain : farewell. [Exit, n. 
 
 Fal. [Pointing l. and Itanghing.] If t be not ashamed 
 )f my soldiers, I am a souced gurnet. I have misused the 
 king's press damnably. I have got, in exchange of a hun- 
 dred and iifty soldiers, three hundred and odd pooinds, I 
 
50 K.NG HEKRY IV. [Act II 
 
 presd me none but good householdei'S, yeoraens' sois : in- 
 quire me out contracted bachelor^ such as have been i^sked 
 twice on the bans ; such a commodity of warm slaves, as 
 had as lief hear the devil as a drum ; such as fear the re- 
 port of a caliver, worse than a struck fowl, or a hurt wild 
 duck. I press me none but such toasts and butter, with hearts 
 in their bellies no bigger than pins' heads, and they have 
 bought out their services , and now my whole chjarge con- 
 sists of ancients, corporals, lieutenabts, gentlemen of com- 
 panies, slaves as ragged as Lazarus in Sne painted cloth ; 
 and such as, indeed, were never soldiers ; but discarded 
 unjust serving-men, younger sons to younger brothers, 
 revolted tapsters, and ostlers trade-fallen ; the cankers of 
 a calm world, and a long peace ; and au^b have I, to fill 
 up the rooms of them (hat have bought out theii; services, 
 that you would think, I had a hundred and fifty tattered 
 prodigals lately come from swine-keeping &omeating draff 
 and husks. A mad fellow met me on the way, and told 
 me, I had unloaded all the gibbets, . and pressed the dead 
 bodies. No eye hath seen such scare-crows. I'll not 
 march through Coventry with them, that's flat. Nay, and 
 the villians march wide betwixt the legs, as if they bad 
 gyves on ; for, indeed, I had the most of them ou: of prison. 
 There's but a shirt and a half in all my company ; and the 
 half shirt is two napkins tacked together, and thrown over 
 the shoulders, like a herald's coat without sleeves, and 
 the shirt, to say the truth, stolen from my host of Saint 
 Alban's, or the red-nose innkeeper of Daintry. But that's 
 all one ; they'll find linen enough on every hedge. 
 
 Enter Prince op Wales, and the Earl op Westmor- 
 land, X. 
 
 P. Hen. (l.) How now, blown Jack} how now, quilt ? 
 
 Fal. What, Hal 1 How now, mad wag J what a devil 
 dost thou in Warwickshire 1 My good lord of Westmore- 
 land, I cry your mercy ; I thought your honour had already 
 been at Shrewabuiy. 
 
 Wett. (c.) 'Faith, Sir John, 'tis more than time that 1 
 were there, and you too : but my powers are there already. 
 The King, I can tell you, looks for us all j we must away 
 all night. 
 
 Fal. Tut, never fear me ; I am as vigilent as a cat to 
 •teal cream. 
 
SCEREIII] KING HENRY IV. 51 
 
 Prince H. (l. c.) i think, to steal cream, indeer. ; for 
 thy theft hath made thee butter. But toll me, Jack-^ 
 whose fellows are the^e that come after. 
 
 Fal. Mine, Hal, mine. 
 
 Prince H. I did never see such pitiful rascals. 
 
 Fal. Tut, tut; good enough, to toss fi^food for powder, 
 food "for powder ; they'll fill a pit, as well.as better ; tush, 
 man, mortal men, mortal-men. ' ■. 
 
 West. Ay, but. Sir John, methinks,' they are e^Loeding 
 poor and bear — too beggarly. 
 
 Fal. 'Faith, for their poverty — I know not where thiey 
 had that : and for their bareness — I am sure, they never 
 learned thatof me. , ■ 
 
 Prince H. No, I'll be sworn ; unless you call three fin- 
 gers on the ribs,' bare. B^Ut, au'rab^ make ihaste; Percy 
 is already Jfa the field. • 
 
 Fal. What, is the king csBcamped ] ; ' • : tt ^ 
 
 West. He is, Sir John j I fear we shall stay too Itong. 
 [Exeuni Prince and Westmoreland, r. 
 
 Fal. Well, . 
 
 The latter end of a fray* and the beginning of a feast, 
 Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest. [Exit, r. 
 
 Scene III. — Another part of Hotspwr's Camja. — Flourish 
 • ' • ■' of Trumpets and lirimis -' ■'■'■'•- 
 
 Enter Hotspur, Harl op Worcester, Sir Bicoard 
 Vernon, Earl op XJouolas, G'efitlemefi, iafid Soldiet*,. 
 , with fiofmers, v.. 
 
 Hot. (c.) "W'e'll fight with him to-night. 
 
 War. (r. cJ It may not, be. ' 
 
 Doug. tR. ^) You give hirar then, advantage. « 
 
 Ver. (r.) Not a wMt,, ; ' 
 
 Hot. Why, say you so !; looks he not for sv pply % 
 
 Ver. So do we. 
 
 iro<,.Hi8:is certain, ours is donbtfi)!, 
 
 Wor. Good cousin, be advised ; stir not to-night. 
 
 Yer. Do not, my lord. 
 
 Dong, (c.) You do not counsel well. 
 You speak it out of fear and. cold, heart. _^.... , 
 
 Ver. (c.) Do me no slander, Douglas : by my "life, . 
 And I dare welV maintain it with my life, 
 
52 KING HKKKY IV. [Aor '» 
 
 If well-respcted honour bid mo on, 
 I hold as little counsel with weak fear. 
 As you, my lord,- or any Scot that lives ; 
 Let it be seen to-morrow in the battle. 
 Which of us fears. 
 
 Doug. Yea, or to-night. 
 
 Ver. Content. 
 
 Hot. To-night, say I. 
 
 Ver. Come, come, it may not be. I wonder much, 
 Being men of such great leading as you are. 
 That you forsee not what impediments 
 Drag back our e:ipedition : Certain horse 
 Of my cousin Vernon's are not yet come up ; 
 Your uncle Worcester's horse came but to-day ; 
 And now their pride and mettle is asleep. 
 Their courage with hard labour tame and dull. 
 That not a horse is half the half of himself. 
 
 Hot. (r. c.) So are the horses of the enemy 
 In general journey-bated, and brought low ; 
 The better part of ours are full of rest. 
 
 Wor. (l. c.) The number of the king exceedeth ours : 
 For heaven's sake, cousin, stay till all come in. 
 
 [ Trumpets sound a parley 
 
 Enter Sik Walter Blunt, two Gentleman, and a flag of 
 Truce, L. all take off their hatt. 
 
 Blunt, (l.) I come with gracious offers from the king. 
 If you vouchsafe me hearing and respect. 
 
 Hot. (r. c.) Welcome, Sir Walter Blunt ; And 'would 
 to heaven. 
 You were of our determination ! ^ 
 
 Some oRhis love you well : and even those some 
 Envy your great deserving and good name ; 
 Because you are not of our quality; 
 But stand against us like an enemy. 
 
 Blunt. And heaven defend, but still I should stand so. 
 So long as, out of limit, and true rule. 
 You stand against anointed majesty ! 
 
 \Put on tlitir hatt. 
 But, to my charge. — Thie king hath sent to know 
 The nature of your griefs ; and whereupon 
 You conjure from the breast of civil peace 
 
S«E(tE III.] KING HENRY IV. 53 
 
 Such bold hostilities, teaching his duteous land 
 Audacious ci'uelty : If that the king 
 Hare any way your good deserts forgot — 
 Which he confesseth to be manifold, 
 He bids you name your griefb ; and, with all speedy . 
 You shall have your desires, with interest ; 
 And pardon absolute for yourself, and these 
 Herein misled by your suggestion. ; 
 
 Bot. The king is kind : and,w^ell we know, the king 
 Knows at what time to promise, when to pay. 
 My father, and my uncle, and myself 
 Did give him that same royalty he wears: 
 And — when he was not six and twenty strong, 
 Sick in the world's regard, wretched low, 
 A poor unminded outlaw sneaking home — 
 My father gave him welcome to the shore ; 
 And — when he heard him swear and vovy to heaven. 
 He came but to be Duke of Lancaster — 
 My father, in kind heart and pity mov'd. 
 Swore him assistance, and perform'd it too. 
 Now, when the lords and barons of the realm 
 Perceiv'd Northumberland did lean to him. 
 The more and less came in with cap and knee ; 
 Met him in boroughs, cities, villages ; 
 Laid gifts before him, proffer'd him their oaths. 
 Gave him their heirs ; as pages follow'd him. 
 Even at the at the heels, in golden multitudes. 
 He presently (c.) as greatness knows itself — 
 Steps me a little higher than his vow 
 Made to my father, while his blood was poor. 
 Upon the naked shore at Ravenspurg; 
 And now, fosooth, takes on him to reform 
 Some certain edicts, and some stiait decrees. 
 That lie too heavy on the commonwealth ; 
 Cries out upon abuses, secms'to weep 
 Over his country's wi'ongs; (l. c.) and by tliis face. 
 This seeming brow, of justice, did he win 
 The hearts of all that he did angle for. 
 
 Blunt. I came not to hear this. 
 
 Hut. (r. c.) Then to the point : 
 In short time after, he deposed the king; 
 Soon after that, deprived him of his life j 
 
54 KING HE!*KY IT. [AcT V 
 
 And, in the neck of that, tasked the wliole state ; 
 
 To make that worse, suflered his kinsman March 
 
 (Who is, if every owner were well placed, 
 
 Indeed his king,) to he encaged in Wales, 
 
 There without ranlom to lie forfeited : {h. B.) 
 
 Disgraced me in my happy victories . 
 
 Sought to entrap me by inteligence ; 
 
 Rated my uncle from the council-board ; 
 
 In rage dismissed my father from the couit : 
 
 Broke oath on oath, committed wrong on wrong ; 
 
 And in conclusion, drove us to seek out 
 
 This head of safety ; and withall, to pry 
 
 Into bis title too, the which we find 
 
 To indirect for long continuance. \ Crones, o 
 
 Blunt. Shall I return this answer to the king 1 
 
 Hot. Not so, Sir Walter : we'll withdraw a while. 
 Go to the kiiig; and let there be impawned 
 Some surtety for a safe return again, 
 And in the morning early shall my uncle 
 Bring him our purposes : and so farewell. 
 
 Blunt. I would you would accept of grace and love. 
 
 Hot. And, may be, so we shall. 
 
 Blunt. 'Pray heaven, you do ! 
 
 ^Flouriah of Trumpet! and Drums.— Exeunt, 'Sir IV. 
 Blunt, Gentlemen, and hit Attendants,!,, Hotspur, 
 and his friends, r. 
 
 END OP ACT rv. 
 
 AC T V. 
 
 Scene I. — Bang Henry's Tent. — Flourish of Trumpets 
 and-Drums, 
 
 King Henrt, Prixce of Waies, Prince John of Lan- 
 caster, Sir Walter Bi,unt,,Sir John Falstapf, 
 Gentlemen, standards, and soldiers, discovered. 
 
 King H. [Seated.] How bloodily the sun begins to peet 
 Above yon busky hill ! the day looks pale 
 At his disteJEaperature. 
 
SciTE t.l 
 
 KING BEMRY IV. S5 
 
 Priar^ H. (r. P,)- The southern wind 
 Doth play the trumpet to his purposes ; 
 And, by hia hollow whistling in the leaves, 
 Foretells a tempest and a blustering day, 
 
 . {A Trumpet lounda a parley. 
 
 Sntcr Earl or Worcester, Sir Richard Vernon, and 
 ajlag of Truce, l. 
 
 King H. IIow now, my Lord of Worcester 1 'tis not 
 well — ^— 
 
 That you and I should meet upon such terms 
 As now we meet : You have deceived our trust ; 
 And made us dofifour easy robes of peace. 
 To crust our old limbs in urigentle steel : 
 This is not well, my lord, this is not well. 
 What say you to't? 
 
 Wor. (l.) Hear me, my liege : — 
 For mine own part, I could be well content 
 To entertain the lag-end of my life 
 With quiet hours ; for, I do protest, ^ 
 I have not sought the day of this dislike. ' 
 
 King H. You have not sought it, sir ! how come* it 
 then?. 
 
 Fal. (r.) Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it. 
 
 Prince H. [To Faltta^.] Peace, chewet, peace. 
 
 Wor. It pleated your majesty, to turn your Iook« 
 Of favour from myself; and all our house: 
 And yet I must remember you, ray' lord, 
 We were the first and dearest of your friends. 
 For you, my staff of office did I break 
 In Richard's time ; and posted day and night 
 To meet you on the way, and kiss your hand. 
 When yet you were in place and in account 
 Nothing so strong and foitdnate as I. 
 It was myself, my'bfothet, and'his son 
 That brought you hofne, and boldly did butdaiw 
 The dangers of the time : you swore to us, 
 And you did swear thttt Oath at Doncaster, 
 That you did nothing purpose 'gainst the state ; 
 Nor claim no farther than your new-fallen right. 
 The seat of Gaunt, dukedom of Lancaster : 
 To this we sware our aid. But, in short space, 
 
S6 KINK HENRY IV. JAci 1 
 
 It rained dowi. fortune showering on youi head ; 
 
 And such a flood of greatness foil on you — 
 
 What with our help, what with the absent king— 
 
 You took occasion to be quickly wooed 
 
 To gripe the general sway into your hand ; 
 
 Forgot your oath to us at Doncaster ; 
 
 And, being fed by us, you used us so 
 
 As that ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird 
 
 Useth the sparrow; did opress our nest; 
 
 Grew by our feeding to so great a bulk. 
 
 That even our love durst not come near your sight, 
 
 For fear of swallowing; but, with nimble wing 
 
 We were enforced, for safety sake, to fly 
 
 Out of your sight, and raise this present head,. 
 
 Whereby we stand opposed by such means 
 
 As you yourself have forged against yourself ; 
 
 By unkind usages, dangerous countenence. 
 
 And violation of all faith and troth 
 
 Sworn to us in your younger enterprise. 
 
 Sing H. These things, indeed, ^ou have articulateiti.< 
 Proclaimed at market crosses, read in churches. 
 To face the garment of rebellion 
 With some fine colour that may please the eye 
 Of fickle changlings, and poor discontents, 
 Which gape, and rub the elbow, at the news 
 Of hurly-burly innovation; 
 And never yet did iaaarrection want 
 Such water colours, to impaint his cause ; 
 Nor moody beggarif, starving for a time 
 Of pell mell havoc and confusion. 
 
 Prince H. In both our armies there is many a soul 
 Shall pay full dearly for this encounter, 
 If once they join in trial. Tell your nephew, 
 The Prince of Wales doth join with all the world 
 In praise of Henry Percy : by my hopea— 
 This present enterprise set off his head— 
 I do not think, a braver gentleman. 
 More daring, or more boTdi is now aUve, 
 To grace this latter age with noble deeds. 
 For my part, (r/) J. may apeak it to my shatne, 
 I have a truant been to chiyaliy,; 
 And so, I beAT he dotli account me too : 
 
<$CEHE Ilti KING HENRY IV.* 57 
 
 Yet this, before my father's majesty, 
 
 I am content that be shall take the odds 
 Of bis great name and estimation ; 
 And will, to save the blood on either side, 
 Try fortune with him in a single fights 
 
 King H. [Rising.\ And Prince of Wales so dare wa 
 venture thee ; __ \Adva7ieing- 
 
 Albeit considerations infinite 
 
 Do make against it : — No, good Worcester, no ; (c.) 
 We love our people well ; even those we love. 
 That are misled upon your cousin's part : 
 And, will they take the offer of our grace. 
 Both he, and they, and you, yea, every man 
 Shall be my friend again, and I'll be his : 
 So tell your cousin, and bring me word 
 What he will do : — But, if he will not yield, 
 Rebuke and dread correction wait on us. 
 And they shall do their office. So be gone ; 
 We will not now be troubled with reply ; 
 We offer fair; take it advisedly. 
 
 [Exeunt Worcester, Vernon, and fiag of Truce, l. 
 
 Prince H. It will not be accepted, on my life: 
 The Douglas and the Hotspur, both together, 
 Are confident against the world in arms. 
 
 King H. Hence, therefore, every leader to his charge ; 
 For, on their answer, will we set on them ; 
 And heaven befriend us, as our cause is just ! 
 
 [Exeunt the King, Prince JoIim, Sir Walter Blunt 
 Gentlemen and soldiers, l 
 
 Fal. [ Tapping the Prince mi the back as he is going, l. | 
 Hal, if thou see me down in the battle, and bestride me, 
 BO : 'tis a point of friendship. 
 
 Prince H. (l. c.) Nothing but a colossus can do thee 
 that friendship. Say thy prayers, and farewell. 
 
 Fal. (l.) I would it were bed time, Hal, and all well,- 
 
 Prince H. Why, thou owest heaven a death. [Exit, i,. 
 
 Fal. (c.) 'Tis not due yet ; I would be loth to pay him 
 before his day. What need I be so forward with bim that 
 calls not on me ? Well, 'tis no mattea- ; Honour pricks 
 me on. Yea ; but how if honour prick me off when T come 
 on t How then ? Can honour set-to a leg? No. Or an 
 u-JB ? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? Nor 
 
5S KING HEKRY IV. [Act V 
 
 Honour hath no skill in surgerjr then i No. What is 
 honour? A word. What is that word honour ? Air. A 
 trim reckoning ! Who hath it'1 He that died o' Wednes- 
 day. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it ? No. Is 
 it insensible then ] Yea, to the dead. But will it not live 
 with the living 1 No. Why ] Detraction will not suffer 
 it ; therefore I'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon 
 and so ends my catechism. , [Exit, l. 
 
 Scene IT. — Hotspur's Camp. 
 
 Enter Earl of Worcester and Sir Richard Ver- 
 non, L, 
 
 War. O, no ; my nephew must not know, Sir Richaril, 
 The liberal kind offer of the king. 
 
 Ver. 'Twere best he did. 
 
 War. Then are we all undone : 
 It is not possible, it cannot be, 
 The king should keep his word in loving us ; 
 He will suspect us still, and find a time 
 To punish this offence in other faults : 
 My nephew's trespass may be well forgot ; 
 It hath the excuse of youth, and heat blood. 
 And an adopted name of privilege ; — 
 A hair-brained Hotspur, governed by a spleen : 
 All his offences live upon my head 
 And on his father's : we did train him on ; 
 And, his corruption being ta'en from us. 
 We, as the spring of all, shall pay for all : 
 Therefore good cousin, let not Harry know, 
 In any case, the offer of the king. 
 
 Ver. Deliver what you will : I'll say, 'tis so. 
 Here comes your cousin. 
 
 Enter Hotsfub, Earl of Douglas, Gentlemen, Standards, 
 and Soldiers &, 
 
 Hot. (o.) My uncle is returned ; deliver up 
 My Lord of Westmoreland.— Uncle, what news ? 
 War (r.) This king will bid you battle presently. 
 Doug: '(k. c.) Defy him "by the Lord of Westmoreland. 
 Hot. Lord Douglas, then go you aiid tell him go. 
 Dmtg. Matiy, and shall, and very willingly. 
 
 \ExU, B. 
 
SCEBE II.] KIKG HENRY IV. 69 
 
 Wor. There is no seeming mercy in the king 
 
 Hot. Did you beg any ? Heaven forbid ! 
 
 Wbr. I toldliim gently of our grievances, 
 Of his oath-breaking; which he mended thus — 
 By novf forswearing that he is foresworn" 
 He calls us rebels, traitors, and will scourge 
 With haughty arms this hateful name in us. 
 The Prince of Wales stepped forth before the king, 
 And, nephew, challenged you to single fight. 
 
 Hot. "(r. c.) O, 'would the quarrel.lay upon our heads; 
 And that no man might draw short breath to day. 
 But 1 and Harry Monmouth ! Tell me, tell me. 
 How showed his talking 1 seemed it in contempt ? 
 
 Ver. (l.) No, by my soul : I never in my life 
 Did hear a challenge urged more modestly ; 
 Unless a brother should a brother dare 
 To gentle exercise and proof of arms. 
 He gave you all the duties of a man ; 
 Trimmed up your praises with a princely tongue ; 
 Spoke yourdeservings like a chronicle. 
 Making you ever better than his praise : 
 And, which became him like a prince indeed, 
 He made a blushing, cital of himself; 
 And chid his ti-uant youth with such a grace. 
 As if he mastered there a double spirit, 
 Of teaching, and of learning, instantly. 
 There did he pause : but let me tell the world, 
 If he out-lived the envy of this day, 
 England did never owe so sweet a hope. 
 So much misconstructed in his wantonness. 
 Hot. Cousin, I thiiik thou art enamoured 
 Upon his follies. 
 
 But, be he as he will, yet once ere night 
 I will embrace him with a soldier's arm, 
 That he shall shrink under my courtesy. 
 
 Enlir Earl of Douglas, r. 
 
 Doug. Arm, gentleman, to arms ! for I haye thrown 
 A brave defiance in King Henry's teeth 
 And Westmoreland, that was engaged did bear it ; 
 Which cannot choose but bring him quiclfly.on, ', 
 
 Hot. Arm, arm with speed !— 
 
80 KING HENRY IV. 
 
 [An 1 
 
 O, gentleman, the limi of life is short ; 
 
 To spend that shortness basely, were too 1 )ng, 
 
 If life did ride upon a dial's point. 
 
 Still ending at the arrival of an hour. 
 
 And if we live, we live to tread on kings ; 
 
 If die — brave death, when princes die with us ! 
 
 Enter Raby, r. 
 
 Rab. I have a letter. 
 
 Hot. Away, I have not time to read the;_ 
 
 Rah. My lord, prepare ; the king comes on apace. 
 
 Hot. I tliank him, that he cuts me from my talc ; 
 For I profess not talking : only this — 
 Let each man do his best : and here draw I 
 A Bword, whose temper I intend to stain 
 With the best blood that I can meet withal 
 In the adventure of this perilons day. 
 Sound all the lofty instruments of war. 
 And by that music let us all embrace ; 
 For, heaven to earth, some of us never shall 
 A second time do such courtesy. 
 
 f The druTns, trumpets, !fc. sound — They emhract 
 Now — Esperance ! — Percy ! — and set on. 
 
 [Tfumjiets, drums, SfCj — Exeunt, l. 
 
 Scene HI, — T/ie Field of Battle near SArewsburt/.: — 
 Alaru7ns, 
 
 Enter Earl of Douglas, r. and Sir Walter Blunt, l. 
 
 Blunt. What is thy name, that in the battle thus 
 Thou Grossest me 1 what honour dost thou seek 
 Upon my head j 
 
 Doug. Know then, my name is Douglas; 
 And I do haunt thee in the battle thus. 
 Because some tell me that thou art a king. 
 
 Blunt. They tell thee true. 
 
 Doug. The Ltird of Stafford dear to-day hath bought 
 Thy likeness; for, in stead of thee, KingHarry* 
 This sword hath ended him : so shall it thee, ^ 
 Unless thou yield thee as my prisoner. 
 
 Blunt. I was not born a yielder, thou proud Scot ; 
 And thou shall find a king^ that will revenge 
 Lord Stafford's death. 
 
 [Alarums. — Tlicy fight. — Blunt is slain. 
 
Scene III.] KINU HRSKV IV. (51 
 
 Enter IJ.otspiir, l. 
 
 Hot. O Douglas, hadst thou fought at Homedou thus, 
 I never had triumphed upon a Scot. 
 . Doug. All's done, all's won ; here breathless lies the 
 
 king. 
 Hot. Where? 
 JDoug. Here. 
 
 Hot. This, Douglas ? no, T know this face full well : 
 A gallant knight he was, his name was Blunt, 
 Semblably furnished like the king himself. 
 Up, and a'vay j 
 Our soldiers stand full fairly for the day.** 
 
 [Alarums.— Exeunt, r. 
 
 Enter Falstaff, p. l. s. b. 
 
 Fal. Though I could 'scape shot free at London, I fear 
 the shot here ; here's no scoring, but upon the pate. 
 Soft ! who are thou ? Sir .Walter Blunt : — There's ho- 
 nour for you ! Here's no vanity ! — 1 am as hot as molten 
 lead — Heaven keep lead out of me ! I need no more 
 weight than mine own bowels. — I have led my ragamuffins 
 where they are peppered i there's but three of my hun 
 dred and fifty left alive ; and they are for the town's end, 
 to beg during life. But who comes here ] 
 
 Enter Prince op Wales, with Jus tioord broken, l. 
 
 Prince H. (c.) What, standest thou idle here 1 lend me 
 . thy sword. ' ' 
 
 Many a nobleman: lies stark and stiff 
 Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies. 
 Whose death are unrevenged : lend me thy sword. 
 
 Fal. (r.) O, Hal, I pr'ythe give me leave to breathe 
 "awhile. Turk Gregory never did such deed in arms, as I 
 have done this day. I have pajd Percy, I have made him 
 sure. 
 
 Prince H. (n. c.) He is, indeed; and living to kill thee. 
 I pr'ythee lend me thy sword. 
 
 ^Fali Nay, Hal, if Percy be alive, thou gettest not my 
 sword : but, take my .pistol, if thou wilt. . 
 
 Prince H. Give it me ; what, is it in the case 1 
 
 Fal. Ay, Hal; 'tis hot, 'tis hot ; there's that will sack a 
 city. [The Prince dram* out a bottle of Sack, 
 
62 KING HENRY IV. [Act ill. 
 
 Prince H. What, isit time to jest and dally now 1 
 
 [ Throws it nroay, and exit, l. 
 Fal. If Percy be alive, I'll pierce him. If he do coma 
 in my way, so; if he do not — if I come in his, willingly, 
 let him malce a carbonado of me. I like not such grinning 
 honour as Sir Walter hath ; give me life ; which if I can 
 save, so; if not, honour comes unlooked for, and 
 there's an end, 
 
 [Alaranu. — Exit, h 
 
 Soldiers niter, R. i:. K. dinl hour off lUunt's body. 
 
 Scene W.-^-Anutlier part -nf the Field of Battle. 
 (Aliiriim!.) 
 
 Enter Prince of Walks, i.. and Hotspur, b. 
 
 Hot. If I mistake not, thou art Harry Monmouth; 
 
 Prince H. Thou speakest as if 1 Would deny my name. 
 
 Hot. My name is- Harry Pei'cy. 
 
 Prince H. Why, then I see 
 A very valiant rebel of the name. 
 I am the Prince of Wales: and think not, Percy, 
 To share with me in glory any more : 
 Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere ; 
 Nor can one England brook a double reign. 
 Of Harry Percy and the Prince of Wales. 
 
 Hot. Nor shall it, Harry ; for the hour is come 
 To end the one of us : and wotfld to Heaven, 
 Thy name in arms were now as great as mine ! 
 
 Prince H. I'll make it greater, ere I part from thee ; 
 And all the budding honours on thy crest 
 I'll crop, to make a garland for my bead. 
 
 Hot. I can no longer book thy vanities. 
 
 \They fight 
 
 Enter Fal staff, l. 
 
 Fal. Well said, Hal ! to it, Hal !— Nay, you shall find 
 DO boy's play here, I can tell you. 
 
 Enter Earl of Douglas, l. v. e. he itrilces at Falstaff, 
 whofy-lls, his head covered loith his shield, as if dead, 
 • near i, s, n.—Bxit. Donglas, R. u. e. Hotspur is wound- 
 ed,, andfqlls near r. u. e. 
 
SCEHEIII.] KING HENRY IV. 63 
 
 Hot O Hairy, thou hast robbed, me of my ysuth; 
 I better brook thes lo^s pf.bi'Utle.life, 
 Than those pi'oud titles thou hast won of me ; 
 They wound my thoughts, worse than thy sword my 
 
 flesh ; — 
 O, I could prophesy, 
 
 But that the earthy and cold hand of death 
 Lies on my tongue : — No, Percy, thou art dust, 
 And food for * \Die>. 
 
 Prince H. (Bending over him.) For woi-ms, brave Percy : 
 fare thee well, great heart ! 
 
 111-weaved ambition,'how much art thou shrunk 1 
 What that this body did contain a spirit, 
 A kingdom for it was teo small a bound ; 
 But now, two paces of the vilest earth ■ 
 Is room enough : — this earth that bears thee dead, 
 Bears, not alive so stout a gentle.maii. 
 A'dieu, and take thy praise with thee to heaven I 
 Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave, 
 But not remembered in. thy epitaph ! 
 
 \Seea FaUtaff on the grtnma. 
 What ! old acquaintance ! Could not all this, flesh 
 Keep in a little life ? Poor Jack, farewell I 
 I could have better spared a better man. 
 O, I sDould have a heavy miss of thee, 
 If I were much in love with vanity. 
 Death hath not struck so fat a deer to-day ; 
 Though many dearer. In this bloody fray : 
 Embowelled will I see thee by and by; 
 Till tben, in blood by noble Percy lie. 
 
 [ trumpets and Drums SQund ttvicf, h. 
 
 Fal. [Falstaff" makes several attempts to rise, but on 
 hearing the drums, ' d^rops under his shield) again : — at 
 length, getting on his knees, he proceeds.] Embowelled ! ' 
 if thou embowel me to day, I'll give you leave to powder 
 me, and eat me too, to-morrow. [Stands up, c.\ 'Sbli^, 
 'twas time to counterfeit, or that hpt termagant' Scol^ad 
 paid me scot and lot, too. Counterfeit? 1 lie; I. am no 
 counterfeit ; for he is but the counterfeit of a m^Hj who 
 hath not the life of a man : but to pcanterfeit dyiiog, when 
 a man thereby liveth, is to be no counterfeit, bu,t the true 
 and perfect image oflife, indeed. The better part of va)- 
 
ScebkV.] king henry IV. 6-1 
 
 our 18 discretion; in the which better part I huvc RuveJ 
 my life. — 1 am afraid of this gunpowder Percy, though he 
 be dead : how if he sliould counterfeit too, and rise 1 I 
 am afraid he would prove the better counterfeit ; there- 
 fore, I'll make him sui'e ; yea, and I'll swear I killed him. 
 'Why may not he nse, as well as I ? Nothing confutes me 
 but eyes ; and nobody sees me : therefore, sirrah, [Stab» 
 Hnliipur.\ with a new wound in your thigh, come you along 
 with me. [Faltfaff here makes a variety of fruitless at- 
 tempts to to take vp the ilead body of Hotspur ; at length 
 he sits down between the the legs of the corpse,and with one 
 of its arms over each of his shoulders, he is attempting to get 
 up.\ 
 
 Enter PniNCE op Wales, Prince John op Lancaster, 
 and Jour Soldiers, l. 
 
 Prince H. Come, brother John, full bravely hast thou 
 flesh'd 
 Thy maiden sword. 
 
 Prince J. But, soft ! what have we here? 
 Did not you tell me this fat man was dead ? 
 
 Prince H. I did ; I saw him dead, breathless and bleed 
 ing 
 On the ground. — 
 Art thou alive ? or is it phantasy 
 That plays upon our sight 1 'Pr'ythee speak : 
 'We will not trust our eyes, without our ears; 
 Thou art not what thoa seem'st. 
 
 Fah No that's certain ; 1 am not a double man : but if 
 I be not Jack Falstaff, [ Throws the body down.] There h 
 Percy. If your father will do me any honour, so ; if no'r 
 let him kill the next Percy himself I look to be either 
 earl or duke, I can assure you. 
 
 Prince H. Why, Percy I killed myself, and saw thee 
 dead. 
 
 Fal. Didst thou 1 Lord, lord, how this world is given 
 to lying ! I grant you, I was down, and out of breath ; and 
 so was he; but we rose both at instant, and fought a long 
 hour by Shrewsbury clock. If l may be believed, so; if 
 not, let them, that should reward valour, bear the sin upon 
 theit own heads, I'll take it upon my death, I gave him 
 this wound-in the thigh : if the man were alive, and would 
 deny it, I would make him eat a peace of my sword. 
 
85 KINO IIENRV IV. [AoiT 
 
 Prince J. This is the strangest tale that e're I heard. 
 Prinie H. This is the strangest fellow, brother John. 
 For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, 
 I'll gulp it -vith the haopiest terms I have. 
 
 [ Trumpet sounds a retreat. 
 Tho trumpets sounds retreat ; the day is oui-s. 
 Come, brother, let's to the highest of the field, 
 To see what friends are living, who are dead. 
 
 [Exeunt Prince Henry, Prince John, l. 
 Fal. I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that re- 
 wards me, heaven rewaivJ him! If I do gi-ow great, I'll 
 grow less ; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, 
 as a nobleman should do. 
 
 [Flourish of Drums and Trumpets. — Exeunt Falstajj 
 and four Soldiers, bearing Hotspur's hodu, r, 
 
 SceneV. — King Henry's Tent. — Flourish ttf Drums and 
 Trumpets. 
 
 King HKNnv, seated, Pkince of Wales, Prince John 
 OP Lancaster, Earl of Westmorkland, Gentlemen 
 and Soldiers, loith Worcester, Vernon, and othert. 
 Prisoners. 
 
 King H. Thus ever did rebellion find rebuke. * 
 
 I'll-spirited Worcester ! did we not send ^race. 
 Pardon, and terms of love to all of you ? 
 And wouldst thou turn oft'ers contrary ? 
 
 Wor. What I have done, my safety urged me to; 
 And I embraced this fortune patiently 
 Since not to be avoided it falls on me. 
 
 King H. Bear Worcester to the death, and. Vernon 
 too ; — Other offenders we will pause upon — - 
 
 [Exeunt, Two Officers, Worcester, Ve rnon, and Fowi 
 Gentlemen, guarded hy Six Soldiers, l. n. 
 
 Rebellion in this l^nd shall lose his sway, 
 
 Meeting the check of such another day ; 
 
 And, since this business so far fair is done. 
 
 Let us not leave till all our own be won. — 
 
 [Flourish of trumpets and drum*. 
 
 THE END. 
 
Why is It 
 
 THAT people mil neglect to proyide themselves with Buch Biniple preven- 
 tives as Dame Nature has placed at their diapoeal, until they are prostrated 
 flat on their backs by fevers, and forced to take " peroic doses" of powerful 
 minerals, and pay the enormous bills of doctors, when a reasonable supply of 
 
 Plantation Bitters, 
 
 taken according to directions, three times a day, will prevent each and all of 
 the Uliom diseases liable to attack the system during the changes which take 
 place at the breaking up of winter and the inauguration of Spring and Sum- 
 mer heats. 
 
 The world is undoubtedly physiced to death. The best physicians give the 
 least physic— and all sensible doctora will readily agree that the best way to 
 bafile the effects, is to anticipate their insidious attacks, and with an oimce of 
 preventive we save often more than a ^oumZ of cure. Between the retreat of 
 cold weather and the adv&ce of warm or cold, the whole human system 
 undergoes a change— no greater is the metamorphosis in tiie physical world 
 than it Is in the human. Now, the most important mission of the medical pro- 
 fession is to prevent sickness, and not to cure it. Bemedial agents would never 
 be needed, provided timely antidotes were used to avert diseases. 
 
 Vegetable me^cines have long been regarded as superior to mineral. The 
 
 Plantation Bitters 
 
 are composed whoUy of those well-known vegetable ingredients which long ages 
 of science and experience, (which is the best teacher after all,) have recognized 
 as the best stomach regulators and appetizers in the known world. As a pro- 
 tective medicine, for male and female, old and young, these Bzttebs stand 
 alone without a rival in the known world. To enable the system to resist the 
 ill effects of exposure to a change of climate, and as a vitalizing and strength- 
 renewing^nd imparting agent, the medical fi'atemity have recommended Piah- 
 TATioH BiTTEBB to their patlcnts, as the best Tonic and Alterative, now offered 
 to an appreciative public. 
 
 At one era in the medical world, practitioners resorted almost exclusively to 
 powerful mineral poisons, and to blistering, bleeding, salivation, violent emetics 
 or purgation, or to stupifying narcotics, to relieve their patients. But we are 
 happy to chronicle the demise of all these barbarous practices. 'Tie no longer 
 necessary to *' throw the patient in fits" in order to cure him. The wonderful 
 GALISAX4, Babe, united with the other properties of the 
 
 Plantation Bitters, 
 
 if taken in time, and according to printed directions, will not only do away with 
 the lancet, cantharides plaster, calomel, and the whole catalogue of drugs 
 which pute money into the pockets of the apothecaries and doctors, but puts 
 the sufferer into the hands of the undertaker— we say the Bittees will not only 
 do away with these evil practices and save innumerable good people from filling 
 premature graves, but they will impart a vital energy to those who use them 
 which, with restored health, imports new tone and beauty to the skin ; lustre to 
 the eye, and elasticity to tho step. 
 
Nervous Headache, liver Complaint, &c., &c. 
 
 nnHE brain, being the moat delicate and Bensitire of all onr orKans, is 
 X necessarily more or leas affected by all bodily ailments. A liead- 
 ache is often the first symptom of a serious disease. If the nervous 
 system is affected, there is always trouble at its'aource in the pencra- 
 mum. And it may here be remarked that as the nervous fibre pervades 
 the entire frame, no part of physical structure can be affected without 
 the nerves suffering sympaihetically. Liver complaint of every type 
 affects the brain. Sometimes the effect is stupor, confusion of ideas, 
 hypochondriasis : aometimea persistent or periodical headache. In any 
 case, the best remedy that can be taken is Plantation Bitters. In head- 
 ache proceeding from indigestion or bihouaneaa, or both, the stomaomo 
 and anti-bilioua properties of the preparation will aoon reheve the tor- 
 ture, by removing its cause. If Tihe complaint is purely nervous— m 
 other worda, if it has originated in the nervous system, and is not tne 
 result of sympatliy, the Bitters will be equaUy efficaoious. for of aU 
 remedies, this rare combination of vegetable tonics, is the most reuame. 
 Ladies who are aubiect to headache in consequence of functional de- 
 rangements of a special nature, will find the- Bitters aapeoiflcfor the 
 agony they endure. They require an alterative and regulating medicine 
 to do awav with the cause of pain, a tonic to invigorate the nervous 
 system : and Plantation Bitters being at once an alterative, regulator 
 and tonic, is exactly tiie preparation they need. 
 
 Plantation Bitters as an Appetizer. 
 
 WANT of appetite is a sure sign that the stonmchis out of ordw. 
 All persons in perfect health relish their food, and it may be 
 regarded as a rule to which there are no exceptions, that individuala 
 who are never hungry cannot be entirely well. To eat without enjoy- 
 ment, is a penance, and sustenance taken into the atpmaoh agiunat the 
 indination, does not nourish the system as it ought to do. 1 he best 
 known remedy for. a distaste or disinclination for food, is Plantation 
 Bitters. A wiie-glassfal taken half an hour before breakfast, dinner, or 
 supper, quickens the flow of the gastric juice, and thereby provokes 
 hunger—for the palate sympathizes with the stomach. _ Nor can Oie ap- 
 petife thus created be calfed a false appetite, for it is the legitimate 
 eonsequence of a new energy impai-ted to the digeative organs by thiB 
 wholesale medicated stimulant. Baw spirits are often taken to provoke 
 an appetite, and sometimes produce that effect. But the remedy in 
 this ^ise is worse than the complaint, for the fiery and tmtempOTed 
 alcohol irritates and inflames the coat of the stomach, and the reaction 
 that subsequently takes place weakens the digestion and aggravates, 
 what was, in the beginning, merely a disindinalaon to eat, into a positive 
 loathing for even the simplest aliment. It is beoauae the Bitters per- 
 manenfly tone and bra9e the organs which aaeomilate the food, that tne 
 dormant appetite is qmckened by their use. 
 
 Plantation Bitters 
 
 AEE the very elixir of life ; mild and agreeable to the taste, and gently 
 stimulatmg in their action upon all the vital organs of the human 
 system. Sold by all Druggists of reputation, throughout the avihzed 
 world. 
 
^^NUNQ UAM DO RMIO." 
 
 BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER, 
 
 708 BROAli^WAY, ISTew York, 
 
 (Sm-lf i^pHtUb th<l New Turk BUM). 
 
 In PEEIODICAL SUPPLIES 
 BEBNTANO,aH " The Trade Jlautvies I 
 In SuifUBR, WmTEBj'SPiiiira and Fall, 
 His Bttsinesb takes the lead of ALL t 
 And rumi (his enterprise id Such), 
 He 'b fairly doing ^'tui tu mwh 
 In Bo6E8 and Papbbs tis he ^m I 
 Indeed, there 's not another man 
 Alike endow'd:^ith eeot-^nd sk0,—. 
 Ahd energy, — ^his place to fllL 
 
 AtTQ-UST BRElSTTAOSrO. 
 
 ^okseller and Stiiti(»ier, 
 
 708 BBOADHTAT, New York. 
 
 Save Money in MYiNti Cmromos, 
 
 By going np Stairs. 
 
 1. & H. T. ANTHONY k CO., 
 
 501 BROADWAY, . 
 
 OPPOSITE METBOFoiirri^ ao^mL 
 
 STEKEOSCOPES, 
 VHSWS, 
 
 ALBUMS, 
 
 FRAMES. 
 
m 
 
 Jhe J'irst J^'a.rt of 
 
 KING HENRY IV, 
 
 CA-STr 
 
 KIWG HKNRY the Fourth, - - - - Mb. A. W. TENNO. 
 
 HEIVRY, Prince of Wales, 1 " THEO. HAMILTON. 
 
 ,„ I sons to the KlnK. 
 
 JOHSr orliuncaster, ) " C. J. DADE. 
 
 EARL. OF IVKSTMORBIiAND, ... " J. P. DEUEL. 
 
 SIR AVAIiTER BliUlVT, - . . - . ■■ HENBY L. HINTON. 
 
 THOniAS PERCY, Earl of Worceator, . ■• W. NELSON DECKBB' 
 
 HENRY PERCY, Earl of .Northnmberland, - -.. T. J. HIND. 
 
 HENRY PERCY, xurnameil HOT.SPUB, hta xon, i " D. W. WALLER. 
 
 ARCHIBALD, Earl of Douglas, . - 7 " ^- MATHISON. 
 
 SIR RICHARD VERNON, .... " AUG. piTON. 
 
 SIR JOHN FALSTAFF, . - .- - - . " JAMES H. HACKETT. 
 
 POIWS,'. , . - . . . . . .•..'■. CHARLES NOBBIS. \ 
 
 GADSHIIiIi,' .--.---." T. F. BRENNAN. 1 
 
 PBTO, .-.--. ... " J. L.- FEEDOLL. 
 
 BARDOIiPH, ......--"0. ROSENE. 
 
 FRANCIS, . . . - -';■'- - - •■ CHARLES PJETEESt" 
 
 liADY PERCY, wife to Hotspur, ' . - >■ MB8. W. WINTER. 
 MISTRESS q,VICKI.Y, hostess of a Tavern 
 
 In Eastcheaiis,'^ ■''.'' '- '' . . . . MIB8 FANNY MOBANT. 
 
 ^"'"■^"A ";' ', liiX'd'st Officers, Travellers and Attendants. 
 
Of Remarkable Brilliancy and Purity. 
 
 CANieOS AND INTAGLIOS, 
 
 Copies of the ^ntiCLue, f5rom the best cutters ofEurope. 
 
 "V^ .A. T? O H E3 JS 
 
 rKOM THB BetT KO&OfEAS ANO AldBBteAS MASOrACTOBeR«. 
 
 SILYEH ANB PLATEB WARE, 
 
 A Choice and Varied Selection. 
 
 PABTIOULAB ATTENTIOK GIVEN TO TnB RESETTING OF DIAMONDS AND OTIIKB GE51S 
 IN THB HOST ABTISTIG MANNEB, AT 
 
 C. A. STEVENS & Co., 
 
 40 East l'4th Street.— Union Square. 
 
 Russian Vapor Baths. 
 
 Kept at difibrent temperatniea to suit the weak and the strong. 
 tTuequaled. as a I'reventive of a.n.(^ Cure for 
 
 Rhenmatism, NenraJgia, Catarrh, Cold, Constipation, 
 Piles, Diseased Liver, Kidneys, etc. 
 
 An experienced PhysiciUn alwaja in attendance, and a comnetent Female 
 Physician to attend the liaSies. \ 
 
 HOUBS OF ADMISSION. ^\ 
 
 For Ladies : from 10 to 12 A. M. 
 
 For Gentlemen : from 7 to 9 A; M. , and 1 to 8 P. M. 
 On Sundays for Gentlemen only ftdm 7 to 11 A. M. 
 
 D. M. P. BROWNING & CO., 
 
 33 & 25 East Fonrth St.", bet. Broadway and Bowery. 
 
JUST PUBLISHED. 
 
 A 9INK TORVttAIT OV 
 
 ON STEEL. ,; 
 
 nnuKfed by F, Halpin, num a PhotogtspB In tBe (tosMiMlati of Mr. Bootft. 
 
 ABTISITS' PaOOfS, oT vhUth there Are Oaly S&tty Itasredtloiiti, ...$ 2 00 
 INDIA PROOVSi with/oc aimtit of Mr. Booth's Autograpl; ,., 1 00 
 
 f To be had of the PttbliAer, B. I. HXHTOK : 
 
 At JIURS & HOUGHTON'S, 459 Sboouis Sibeet ; or of^ Clerk at 
 the Box Office oi Booth's Theatre. 
 
CIALLENGE ! 
 
 THE PATENTEE NOW 
 
 CHALLENGES THE WOKLD 
 
 For the Sum of $2,000 to Produce a 
 
 FURNACE AND STOVE 
 
 Manufactured in the United States or Else- 
 where, to Equal them for Burning Anthra- 
 cite and Bituminous Coal. 
 
 MANUFACTURED BY 
 
 310 and 312 Third Ave., 
 
 NEW youk:. 
 
 I^Send for Circular. 
 
"\7^ .A. ■!■ El n. S ' 
 
 NEW SCALE PIANOS, 
 
 4BU^ lion gxram, Sfanstrdng $Bgii 8nb ^gta& fritgt. 
 
 am GABIIT OeSANS. 
 
 the Best Mannfftctured. Warranted for Six Years, 
 
 nPIAlVOS, MELODEONS and ORGANS. 
 
 Prices Greatly Rednced for Caaln.' 
 
 New 7-Octave Pianos for t275 and upward. New Cab- 
 inet Organs for 845 and upward. Second-hand Instru- 
 ments- from $40 to 8175. Monthly instalments ret5di?ed, 
 alid Ih^trumelits for ReHit. Illustraited Ostalogiro mailed. 
 
 Warerooms 481 Broadway, New York. 
 
 _^_^_^__ HOB^CE WATEBS. 
 
 The Waters Pianos are known as among the very best. We are 
 enabled'to Bpeal of '{hese mstramentg wiibcoafidence, from personal 
 knowledge.— 3V. f. SvangeUtt. 
 
 We can gpesk 6l (he merits of the Waters Pianos from personal 
 knowledge, as being of the very best quality. — CtrnxUani Inielligeiwer. 
 
 MvsioAL Doings. — Since Mr. Waters gave up publishing sheet mn- 
 d<;,^'haB SeTdteiS all his Capital and atteiition to the maaufaoture 
 and sale of Pianos and Melodeons. He has just issued a catalogue 
 of hisneW inatrumeuts, giving a new scale of pripes, which -'bMowb a 
 marked reduction from former rates, and his Pianos have recently 
 been awarded the First Premium at several FaiiB. Iiliiny people of 
 the present dayiVho-aretilHiracttlsd, if not confused, with the flaming 
 advertisements of rival piano houses, probably overloook a modest, 
 manufacturer like Mr. Waters ; ~but we happen to know that his in- 
 atiumente earned him « good reputation loi^ before Expositions and 
 " honors " c<mil*ted -tlwrewith were ever thought of; indeedi we 
 have one of Mr. Waters' Piano-Fortes now in our residence (where 
 it'haSTStoQd,^ vears), of which any manufacturer in the world 
 migtk w«ll)e plimcl''' We' have alw^jfii^ been delighted with it as a. 
 sweetr^ned andjpowerfol instrument, and^'th6re irii0<d«uBt,pf,i^_ 
 durability ; more than this, some of the best amateur players in me 
 city, as well as several celebrated . pianists, have performed on the 
 said piano, vaA all pronounce it a superior and fibsi-class instru- 
 ment. Strdiiger indorsement we could not giye. — B>me Journal. ! 
 
 Horace WateaB, 481 Broadway, is famed fijr the excellence of his 
 Fiands anclKJtgtins. — IBBenkig Pott. 
 
 The Waters Piano;^nks with the best manufactured in Americir^ 
 — r%< &d^aident, Jf^Tj,^ 
 

 
 
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