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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Act four of the second part of Henry the Fourth.
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Fourth by William Shakespeare, Act four, Scene one, Yorkshire, Within
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the forest of Galtry, Enter the Archbishop of York, Mowbray,
Hastings and others.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
What is this forest called? Tis Goltryforest? And shall please
your grace?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Here stand my lords, and send discoverers forth to know
the numbers of our enemies.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
We have sent forth.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Already tis well done, my friends and brethren, in these
great affairs. I must acquaint you that I have received
new dated letters from Northumberland, their cold intent, tenor and substance.
Thus here doth he wish his person with such powers
as might hold sortans with his quality, the which he
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could not levy. Whereupon he is retired to ripe his
growing fortunes through Scotland, and concludes in hearty prayers that
your attempts may overlive the hazard and fearful melting of
their opposite.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Thus do the hopes we have in him touch ground
and dash themselves to pieces.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Enter a messenger, Now what news west of this forest?
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Scarcely off a mile in goodly form? Comes on the enemy,
And by the ground they height, I judge their number
upon or near the rate of thirty thousand, the.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Just proportion that we gave them out. Let us sway
on and face them in the field.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Enter Westmoreland, What well appointed leader fronts us here?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
I think it is, my Lord of Westmoland.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
Health and fair greeting from our general the Prince Lord
John and Duke of Lancaster.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Say on, my Lord of Westmoreland, in peace, What doth
concern your coming?
Speaker 6 (02:01):
Then, my lord? Unto your grace, do I in chief
address the substance of my speech? If that rebellion came
like itself, in beasts and abject routes, led on by
bloody youth, guarded with rags, and countenanced by boys and beggary,
I say, if damned commotions so appeared in his true
native and most proper shape, you, Reverend Father, and these
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noble lords had not been here to dress the ugly
form of base and bloody insurrection with your fair honors,
You Lord Archbishop, whose sea is by a civil peace maintained,
Whose beard, the silver hand of peace hath touched, Whose
learning and good letters peace hath tutored, Whose white investments
figure innocence, the dove and very blessed spirit of peace.
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Wherefore you do so ill translate yourself out of the
speech of peace that bears such grace into the harsh
and boisterous tongue of war, turning your books to graves,
your ink to blood, your pens to lances, and your
tongue divine to a loud trumpet and point of war.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Wherefore do I this? So the question stands briefly to
this end, we are all diseased, and with our surfeiting
and wanton hours, have brought ourselves into a burning fever,
and we must bleed for it, of which disease our
late King Richard, being infected, died. But my most noble
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Lord of Westmoreland, I take not on me here as
a physician, nor do I, as an enemy to peace
troop in the throngs of military men, but rather show
a while like fearful war, to die at rank mind
sick of happiness, and purge the obstructions which begin to
stop our very veins of life. Hear me more plainly,
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I have in equal balance, justly weighed what wrongs our
arms may do, what wrongs we suffer, and find our
griefs heavier than our things we see, which weigh the
stream of time doth run, and are enforced from our
most quiet there by the rough torrent of occasion, and
have the summary of all our griefs, when time shall
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serve to show in articles which long ere. This we
offer to the King, and might, by no suit gain
our audience. When we are wronged, and would unfold our griefs,
we are denied access unto his person, even by those
men that most have done us wrong. The dangers of
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the days but newly gone, whose memory is written on
the earth with yet appearing blood, and the examples of
every minute's instance present now have put us in these
ill beseeming arms not to break peace or any branch
of it, but to establish here a peace indeed concurring
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both in name and quality.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
Whenever yet was your appeal denied? Wherein have you been
galled by the King? What peer hath been suborn to
great on you that you should seal this lawless, bloody
book of forged rebellion with a seal divine, and consecrate
commotion's bitter edge.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
My brother general the commonwealth, to brother born and household cruelty.
I make my quarrel in particular.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
There is no need of any such redress, or if
there were, it not belongs to.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
You, why not to him in part and to us
all that feel the bruises of the days before and
suffer the condition of these times to lay a heavy
and unequal hand upon our honors. O.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
My good Lord Mowbray, construe the times to their necessities,
and you shall say, indeed, it is the time and
not the King that does you injuries. Yet for your part,
it not appears to me, either from the King or
in the present time, that you should have an inch
of any ground to build grief on. Were you not
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restored to all the Duke of Norfolk signatories, your noble
and right well remembered fathers.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
What thing in honor had my father lost that need
to be revived and breathed in me? The King that
loved him as the state stood then was force perforce
compelled to banish him, And then that Henry Balling broke,
and he being mounted and both roused in their seats,
their name causers, daring of the spur, their armed staves
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in charge, their beavers down, their eyes of fire sparkling
through sights of steel, and the loud trumpet blowing them together.
Then then, when there was nothing could have stayed my
father from the breast of boling Broke. Oh, when the
king did throw his warder down, his own life hung
upon the staff he threw, then threw he down himself,
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and all their lives that by indictment and by deary
and a sword hath sense miscarried under Bolingbroke.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
You speak, Lord Mowbray. Now you know not what the
Earl of Hereford was reputed. Then in England, the most
valiant gentleman, who knows on whom fortune would then have smiled.
But if your father had been victor there he neer
had borne it out of Coventry. For all the country,
in a general voice, had sighted hate upon him, and
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all their prayers and love were set on Hereford, whom
they doted on and blessed and graced, indeed more than
the king. But this is mere digression from my purpose.
Here come I from our princely General, to know your griefs,
to tell you from his grace that he will give
you audience, and wherein it shall appear that your demands
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are just, you shall enjoy them. Everything set off that
might so much as think you enemies.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
But he hath forced us to compel this offer, and
it proceeds from policy, not love.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Obray you are ween to take it. So this offer
comes from mercy, not from fear. For lo with a
can our army lies upon mine honor, all too confident
to give admittance to a thought of fear. Our battle
is more full of names than yours. Our men are
more perfect in the use of arms, our armor all
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as strong, our cause the best, then reason will our
hearts should be as good. Say you not, then our
offer is compelled.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Well by my will. We shall admit no pali.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
That argues, but the shame of your offense a rotten case,
abides no handling.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Hath the Prince johnful commission in very ample virtue of
his father to hear and absolutely to determine of what
conditions we shall stand upon.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
That is intended in the General's name. I amuse you
make so slight a question.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Then take my Lord of Westmull in this schedule for
this contains our general grievances. Each several article herein redressed,
all members of our cause, both here and hence that
are insinued to this action, acquitted by a true, substantial
form and present execution of our wills to us and
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to our purposes confined, we come within our lawful banks
again and knit our powers to the arm of peace.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
This will I show the general. Please you Lords, in
sight of both our battles, we may meet and either
end in peace which God so frame, or to the
place of difference, call the swords which must decide it.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
My lord, we will do so.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Exit Westmoreland.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
There is a thing within my bosom tells me that
no conditions of our peace can stand.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Fear you not that if we can make our peace
upon such large terms and so absolute as our conditions
shall consist upon, our peace shall stand as firm as
rocky mountains.
Speaker 7 (09:57):
Yea.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
But our valuation shall be such that every slight and
false derive it cause YEA, every idle, nice and wanton
reason shall to the king taste of this action. That
were our royal faith smarters in love, we shall be
winnowed with so rough a wind that even our corn
shall seem as light as chaff, and good from bad.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Find no petition, No no, my lord, note this, the
king is weary of dainty and such picking grievances, for
he have found to end one doubt by death revives
too greater in the airs of life. And therefore will
he wipe his tables clean and keep no tell tale
to his memory that may repeat in history his loss
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to new remembrance. For full well he knows he cannot
so precisely weed this land as his misdoubts present occasion.
His foes are so enrooted with his friends that plucking
to unfix an enemy, he doth unfasten so and shake
a friend, so that this land, like an offensive wife
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that hath enraged him on to offer strokes as he
is striking, holds his infant up and hangs resolved correction
in the arm that was upreared to execution.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Besides, the king hath wasted all his rods on light offenders,
that he now doth lack the very instruments of chastisement,
so that his power, like to a fangless lion, may
offer but not hold.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Tis very true, and therefore be assured, my good Lord Marshal.
If we do now make our atonement well, our peace will,
like a broken limb united, grows stronger for the breaking
be it.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
So here is returned, my Lord of Westmoreland.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Re enter Westmoreland.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
The Prince is here at hand. Pleaseth your worship to
meet His grace at just distance between our armies.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Your grace of York in God's name. Then set forward before.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
And greef his grace. My Lord. We come exant.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Scene too, another part of the forest. Enter from one side,
Melbray attended, afterwards the Archbishop Hastings and others. From the
other side, Prince John of Lancaster, Westmoreland, officers and others.
Speaker 8 (12:21):
You are well encountered here, my cousin Mowbray. Good day
to you, gentle Lord Archbishop, and to you Lord Hastings,
and to all, My Lord of York. It better showed
with you when that your flock assembled by the bell,
encircled you to hear with reverence your exposition of the
Holy Text, than now to see you here an iron
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man cheering a rout of rebels, with your drum turning
the word to sword and life to death. That man
that sits within the reach of a monarch's heart and
ripens in the sunshine of his favor. Would he abuse
the countenance of the king a lack? What mischiefs might
he set a broach in shadow of such greatness? With you,
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Lord Bishop? It is even so, who have not heard
it spoken, how dupe you were within the books of God,
to us the speaker in his Parliament, to us the
imagined voice of God himself, the very opener and intelligencer
between the grace the sanctities of Heaven and odd our workings. Oh,
who shall believe? But you misuse the reverence of your place,
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employ the countenance and grace of Heaven as a false favorite.
Does his Prince's name indeed dishonorable? You have tain up
under the counterfeited seared of God, the subjects of his substitute,
my father and of both, against the peace of Heaven
and Him, have here upswarmed them?
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Good, My Lord of Lancaster, I am not here against
your father's peace. But, as I told my Lord of Westmoreland,
the time misorder doth in common sense crowd us and
crush us to this monstrous form. To hold our safety up,
I scent your grace the parcels in particulars of our grief,
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the which hath been with scorn shoved from the court,
whereon this hydrous son of war is born, whose dangerous
eyes may well be charmed asleep with grant of our
most just and right desires and true obedience of this
madness cured stooped tamely to the foot of majesty.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
If not we ready are to try our fortunes to
the last man.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
And though we here fall down, we have supplies to
second our attempt. If they miscarry, theirs shall second them,
and so success of mischief shall be borne, and air
from air shall hold this quarrel up, whilst England shall
have generation.
Speaker 8 (14:48):
You are too shallow hastings, much too sallow to sound
the bottom of the after times.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
Please your grace to answer them directly. How far forth
do you like their articles?
Speaker 8 (15:00):
I like them all, and do allow well, and swear
here by the honor of my blood. My father's purposes
have been mistook, and some about him have too lavishly
rested his meaning and authority. My Lord, these griefs shall
be with speed redressed upon my soul. They shall, if
this may please you, discharge your powers unto their several
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counties as we will ours. And here between the armies,
let us drink together friendly and embrace, that all their
eyes may bear these tokens home of our restored love
and amity.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
I take your princely word for these redresses.
Speaker 8 (15:41):
I give it to you, and will maintain my word.
And thereupon I drink unto your grace.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Go Captain and deliver to the army this news of peace.
Let them have pay and part. I know it will
well please them.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Hi, thee captain exit officer.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
To you, my noble Lord of Westmoreland, I pledge your grace,
And if you knew what pains I have bestowed to
breed this present peace, you would drink freely. But my
love to you shall show itself more openly hereafter.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
I do not doubt you.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
I am glad of it. Health to my lord and
gentle cousin Mowbray.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
You wish me health in a very happy season, for
I am on the sudden something.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Ill against ill chances. Men are ever marry, but heaviness
for runs the good event.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
Therefore be merry cause, since sudden sorrow serves to say,
thus some good thing comes to morrow.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Believe me, I am passing light in spirit, so much
the worse if your own rule be true.
Speaker 8 (16:45):
Shouts within the word of peace is rendered. Hark, how
they shout.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
This had been cheerful after victory.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
A piece is of the nature of a conquest. For
then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party.
Speaker 8 (17:01):
Go, my lord, and let our armies be discharged too.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Exit Westmoreland.
Speaker 8 (17:07):
And good, my lord, so please you let our trains
march by us, that we may peruse the men we
should have coped with all.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Go, good Lord, Hastings, and there they be dismissed. Let
them march.
Speaker 8 (17:20):
By Exit Hastings, I trust, lords, we shall lie tonight together.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Re enter Westmoreland.
Speaker 8 (17:28):
Now cousin wherefore stands our army still.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
The leaders, having charge from you to stand, will not
go off until they hear you speak.
Speaker 8 (17:38):
They know their duties.
Speaker 7 (17:40):
Re Enter Hastings, my Lord.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Our army is dispersed already, like youthful steers, unyoked. They
take their courses east west, north, south, or like a
school broke up. Each hurries toward his home and sporting place.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
Good tidings, my Lord, Hastings, for the which I do
arrest thee traitor of high treason, and you Lord Archbishop,
and you Lord Mowbray of capital trees, and I attach
you both.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Is this proceeding just and honorable?
Speaker 6 (18:11):
Is your assembly?
Speaker 8 (18:12):
So I pawned thee numb. I promised you address of
these same grievances whereof you did complain, which by my
honor I will perform with our most Christian care. But
for you, rebels, look to taste the dew meat for
rebellion and such acts of yours most salily did you
these arms commence fondly brought here and foolishly sent. Hence
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strike up our drums, pursue the scattered of astray God,
and not we have safely fought the day. Some guard
these traders of the block of death, Treason's true bed
and yielder of breath.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Exent Scene three, another part of the forest Alarum excursion.
Enter Falstaff and Colville meeting.
Speaker 9 (19:03):
What's your name, sir? Of what condition are you? And
of what place? I pray?
Speaker 10 (19:08):
I am a knight, sir, and my name is Colville
of the Dale.
Speaker 9 (19:13):
Well, then Colville is your name, a knight is your degree,
and your place, the Dale, Colville, shall still be your name,
a traitor your degree, and a dudgeon your place, a
place deep enough. So shall you be still Colville of
the Dale, and.
Speaker 10 (19:32):
Not you, Sir John Falstaff.
Speaker 9 (19:35):
As good a man is he, Sir? Whoe'er I am?
Do you yield, sir? Or shall I sweat for you?
If I do sweat, they are the drops of thy lovers,
and they weep for thy death. Therefore rouse up fear
and trembling, and do observance to my mercy.
Speaker 10 (19:53):
I think you are, Sir John Falstaff, And in that
thought yield me.
Speaker 9 (19:58):
I have a whole school of tongue in this valley
of mine, and not a tongue of them all speaks
any other word but my name. And I had but
a belly of any indifferency. I were simply the most
active fellow in Europe. My womb, my womb, my womb
undoes me. Here comes our general.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Enter, Prince John of Lancaster, Westmoreland, Blunt and others.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
The heat is past. Follow no further now call in
the pairs, good cousin.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Westmerland, Exit Westmoreland.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
Now, Falstaff, where have you been all this while? When
everything is ended? Then you come these tardy tricks of
yours will buy my life one time or other, break
some gallows back.
Speaker 9 (20:43):
I would be sorry, my lord, but it should be
thus I never knew yet, but rebuke and chuck was
the reward of valor. Do you think me a swallow,
an arrowl or a bullet? Have I, in my poor
and old motion the expedition of thought? I have speeded
hither with the vary extremest inch of possibility. I have
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foundered nine score and odd posts, and here travel tainted
as I am have in my pure and immaculate valor
taken Sir John Colville of the Dale, a most furious
knight and valorous enemy. But what of that he saw
me and yielded?
Speaker 11 (21:27):
That?
Speaker 9 (21:27):
I may justly say, with the hooknosed fellow of Rome
I came saw, and overcame.
Speaker 8 (21:36):
It was more of his courtesy than your deserving.
Speaker 9 (21:39):
I know not here he is, and here I yield him,
and I beseech your grace. Let it be booked with
the rest of this day's deeds, or by the Lord,
I will have it in a particular ballad, else with
mine own picture on the top, Aunt Colville kissing my
foot to the which course, if I be enforced, if
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you do not all show like guilt's twopences to me
and I in the clear sky of fame, or shine
you as much as the full moon doth the cinders
of the element, which show like pin's heads to her.
Believe not the word of the noble. Therefore, let me
have right, and let desert.
Speaker 8 (22:19):
Mount thines too heavy to.
Speaker 9 (22:21):
Mount, let it shine, then.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
Thines too thick to shine.
Speaker 9 (22:27):
Let it do something, my good lord, that may do
me good, and call it what you will.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
Is thy name Colville. It is, my lord, a famous
rebel art thou Colville.
Speaker 9 (22:39):
And a famous true subject took him.
Speaker 10 (22:42):
I am my lord. But as my betters are that
led me hither, had they been ruled by me, you
should have won them dearer than you have.
Speaker 9 (22:51):
I know not how they sold themselves. But thou, like
a kind fellow, gavest thyself away gratis, and I thank
THEE for the re Enter Westmoreland.
Speaker 8 (23:02):
Now have you left.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
Pursuit Retreat is made, and execution staid.
Speaker 8 (23:08):
Send Calver with his confederates to York to present execution Blunt.
Leave him hence and see you guard him.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Sure exit Blunt and others, and.
Speaker 8 (23:19):
Now dispatch me to the court my lords, I hear
the king my father is so sick, and you shall
go before us to his majesty, which cousin you shall
bear to comfort him, and we, with sober speed will
follow you.
Speaker 9 (23:33):
My lord, I beseech you give me leave to go
through Gloucestershire, and when you come to court, stand by
my good lord, pray in your good.
Speaker 8 (23:43):
Report, fare you well. Falstaff I, in my condition shall
better speak of you than you deserve.
Speaker 9 (23:51):
Exen all, but falstaff I would you had but the
wit tware better than your dukedom. Good fear. The same
young sober blooded boy doth not love me, nor a
man cannot make him laugh. But that's no marvel. He
drinks no wine. There's never none of these demure boys
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come to any proof. For thin drink doth so overcool
their blood, and making many fish meals that they fall
into a kind of male green sickness. And then when
they marry they get wenches. They are generally fools and cowards,
which some of us should be too. But for inflammation,
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A good sherrysh sack hath a twofold operation in it.
It ascends me into the brain, dries me there all
the foolish and dull and crudey vapors which environ it,
makes it apprehensive, quick, forgettive, full of nimble, fiery, and
delectable shapes which deliver it. Or to the voice, the tongue,
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which is the birth, becomes excellent wit. The second property
of your excellent Sherries is the warming of the blood,
which before cold and settled. Let the liver white and pale,
which is the badge of pusillanimity and cowardice. But the
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Sheharries warms it and makes it coarse from the inwards
to the parts extremes. It illumineth the face, which as
a beacon gives warning to all the rest of this
little kingdom man to arm. And then the vital commoners
and inland petty spirits must be all to their captain.
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The heart, who great and puffed up with his retinue,
doth any deed of courage. And this valor comes of Sherries.
So that skill in the weapon is nothing without sack,
For that sets it to work and learns a mere
horde of gold kept by a devil till sack commences
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it and sets it in act, and use hereof comes
it that Prince Harry is valiant for the cold blood
he did naturally inherit of his father. He hath like
lean sterile in bare land, manured, husbanded, and tilled, with
excellent endeavor of drinking good and good store of fertile sherries,
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that he has become very hot and valiant. If I
had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would
teach them should be to forswear thin potations, and to
addict themselves to sack.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Enter Bardolph.
Speaker 9 (26:45):
How now Bardolph.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
The army is discharged all and gone.
Speaker 9 (26:50):
Let them go. I have through Gloucestershire, and there will
I visit Master Robert shallow Esquire. I have him already
tempering between my finger and my thumb, and shortly will
I seal with him.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Come away ext Scene four Westminster, the Jerusalem Chamber, Enter
the King, Prince Thomas of Clarence, Prince Humphrey of Gloucester, Warwick,
and others now lords.
Speaker 12 (27:21):
If God doth give successful end to this debate that
bleedeth at our doors, we will our youth lead on
to higher fields and draw no swords. But what are
sanctified our navy is addressed. Our power collected, our substitutes
in absence well invested, and everything lies leveled to our wish.
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Only we want a little personal strength, and pause us
till these rebels now afoot come underneath the yoke of government.
Speaker 13 (27:51):
Both which we doubt not, but your Majesty shall soon enjoy.
Speaker 12 (27:56):
Humphrey, my son of Gloucester. Where is the Prince? Your brother?
Speaker 14 (28:00):
I think he's gone to hunt my lord at Windsor.
Speaker 12 (28:03):
And how accompanied I do not know? My Lord is
not his brother Thomas of Clarence with him.
Speaker 14 (28:09):
No, my good Lord, he is in presents here?
Speaker 7 (28:12):
What would my lord and father?
Speaker 12 (28:14):
Nothing but well to thee Thomas of Clarence. How chance
thou art not with the Prince thy brother? He loves thee,
and thou dost neglect him, Thomas, Thou hast a better
place in his affection than all thy brothers. Cherish it,
my boy, and noble offices. Thou mayest effect of mediation
after I am dead, between his Greatness and thy other brethren.
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Therefore omit him not blood, not his love, Nor lose
the good advantage of his grace by seeming cold or
careless of his will, For he is gracious if he
be observed. He hath a tear for pity and a
hand open his day for melting charity. Yet notwithstanding being incensed,
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he's flint, as humorous as winter, and as sudden as
flaws congealed in the spring of day. His temper therefore
must be well observed. Chide him for faults, and do
it reverently. When thou perceive his blood inclined to mirth,
but being moody, give him line and scope till that
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his passions, like a wail on ground, confound themselves with working.
Learn this, Thomas, and thou shalt prove a shelter to
thy friends, a hoop of gold to bend thy brothers,
in that the united vessel of their blood, mingled with
venom of suggestion, as force perforce the age will pour
it in, shall never leak, though it do work as
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strong as a conatum or rash gunpowder.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
I shall observe him with all care and love.
Speaker 12 (29:50):
Why art thou not at windsor with him, Thomas?
Speaker 7 (29:53):
He is not there to day? He dines in London.
Speaker 12 (29:56):
And how accompanied canst thou?
Speaker 7 (29:58):
Tell that with point and other his continual.
Speaker 12 (30:01):
Followers, most subject is the fattest soil to weeds, and
he the noble image of my youth is overspread with them.
Therefore my grief stretches itself beyond the hour of death.
The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape
in forms imaginary the unguided days and rotten times that
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you shall look upon when I am sleeping with my ancestors.
For when his headstrong ride hath no curb. When rage
and hot blood are as counselors, when means and lavish
manners meet together, Oh with what wings shall his affections
fly towards fronting peril and oppose decay.
Speaker 13 (30:44):
My gracious lord, you look beyond him quite the Prince
but studies his companions like a strange tongue, wherein to
gain the language tis needful that the most immodest word
be looked upon and learnt, which once attains your highness nose,
comes to no further use but to be known and hated.
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So like gross terms, the Prince will, in the perfectness
of time, cast off his followers, and their memory shall,
as a pattern or a measure, live by which his
grace must met the lives of other turning past evils
to advantages.
Speaker 12 (31:24):
Tis seldom when the bee doth leave her calm in
the dead carrion. Enter Westmoreland, who's here, Westmoreland?
Speaker 6 (31:32):
Health to my sovereign a new happiness added to that
that I am to deliver. Prince John, your son, doth
kiss your Grace's hand.
Speaker 7 (31:40):
Mowbray.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
The Bishop's group hastings and all are brought to the
correction of your law. There is not now a rebel
sword unsheathed, but peace puts forth her olive everywhere the
manner how this action hath been born here at more leisure.
May your Highness read with every course in his particular.
Speaker 12 (31:59):
Oh Morland, thou art a summer bird, which ever in
the haunch of winter, sings the lifting up of day.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Enter Harcourt.
Speaker 12 (32:08):
Look, here's more news.
Speaker 11 (32:10):
From enemies Heaven. Keep your majesty, And when they stand
against you, may they fall as those that I am
come to tell you of the Earl Northumberland and the
Lord Bardoff, with a great power of English and of Scots,
are by the Shrieve of Yorkshire overthrown the manner and
true order of the fight. This packet please it you
contains at large?
Speaker 12 (32:31):
And wherefore should these good news make me sick? Will
fortune never come? With both hands full. But write her
fair words still in foulest letters. She either gives a
stomach and no food, such are the poor in health,
or else a feast and takes away the stomach. Such
are the rich that have abundance and a joyant not.
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I should rejoice now at this happy news. And now
my sight fails, and my brain is giddy. Oh me,
come near me now I am much ill.
Speaker 14 (33:05):
Comfort your majesty, Oh my royal father, Why soorveral lord,
cheer up yourself, look up.
Speaker 13 (33:12):
Be patient, princes, you do know these fits are with
his Highness very ordinary. Stand from him, give him air.
He'll straight be well.
Speaker 7 (33:21):
No, no, he cannot long hold out these pangs. Then
cessant care and labor of his mind. Hath wrought the
mure that should confine it in so thin that life
looks through and will break out.
Speaker 14 (33:33):
The people fear me, for they do observe on fathered
airs and loathly births of nature. The seasons change their
manners as the year had found some months asleep and
leaped them.
Speaker 7 (33:44):
Over the river. Hath thrice flowed no ebb between and
the old folk times doting chronicles say it did so
a little time before that, our great grandsire Edward sicked
and died.
Speaker 13 (33:56):
Speak lower, princes, for the king recovers.
Speaker 14 (33:59):
This apoplexy will certain be his end.
Speaker 12 (34:03):
I pray you take me up and bear me heads
into some other chamber.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Softly pray exnt Scene five Westminster, another chamber, the King
lying on a bed, Clarence, Gloucester, Warwick, and others in attendance.
Speaker 12 (34:24):
Let there be no noise made, my gentle friends, unless
some dull and favorable hand will whisper music to my
weary spirit.
Speaker 13 (34:32):
Call for the music in the other room.
Speaker 12 (34:35):
Set me the crown upon my pillow.
Speaker 7 (34:37):
Here his eye is hollow, and he changes.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Much less noise, less noise, Enter Prince Henry, who saw
the Duke of Clarence.
Speaker 7 (34:48):
I am here, brother, full of heaviness.
Speaker 15 (34:52):
How now ring withindoors and then abroad? How doth the King,
exceeding a bill, heard he the good news? Yet tell
it him.
Speaker 14 (35:04):
He altered much upon the hearing it.
Speaker 15 (35:06):
If he be sick with joy, he'll recover without physic.
Speaker 13 (35:11):
Not so much noise, my lords, sweet prince, speak low.
The king your father is disposed to sleep.
Speaker 7 (35:18):
Let us withdraw into the other room.
Speaker 13 (35:21):
Wilt please your grace to go along with us.
Speaker 15 (35:24):
No, I will sit and watch here by.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
The king exit all but the prince.
Speaker 15 (35:31):
Why does the crown lie there upon his pillow, being
so troublesome a bedfellow, Oh, polished perturbation, golden care, that
keeps the ports of slumber open wide too many a
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watchful night sleep with it now yet so sound and
half so deeply sweet as he whose brow with homely
big and bound, snores out the watch of night, Oh majesty,
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when thou dost pinch thy bearer, thou dost sit like
a rich armor worn in heat of day, that skulkst
with safety by his gaits of breath. There lies a
downy feather which stirs. Not did he suspire that lighting
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weightless down perforcements move, My gracious lord, my father, this
sleep is sound. Indeed, this is a sleep that from
this golden regal hath divorced so many English kings. Thy
do from me is tears and heavy sorrows of the blood,
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which nature love and filial tenderness shall, oh dear father,
pay thee plenteously. My do from thee is this imperial crown, which,
as immediate from thy place and blood derives.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Itself to me, putting on the crown lo where it.
Speaker 15 (37:22):
Sits, which God shall guard the world's whole strength into
one giant arm. It shall not force this lineal honor
from me. This from thee will I to mine? Leave
as tis left to me.
Speaker 12 (37:39):
Exit Warwick, Gloucester, Clarence.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Re enter Warwick, Gloucester, Clarence.
Speaker 7 (37:46):
Doth the king call?
Speaker 13 (37:48):
What would your majesty? How fares your grace?
Speaker 12 (37:51):
Why did you leave me here alone? My lords?
Speaker 7 (37:54):
We left the Prince, my brother here, my liege, who
undertook to sit and watch.
Speaker 12 (37:58):
By you the Prince of Where is he? Let me
see him? He is not here?
Speaker 13 (38:05):
This door is open. He has gone this way.
Speaker 14 (38:08):
He came, not through the chamber where we stayed.
Speaker 12 (38:10):
Where is the crown who took it from my pillow?
Speaker 13 (38:14):
When we withdrew my liege? We left it here?
Speaker 12 (38:17):
The Prince have taken it? Thence go seek him out?
Is he so hasty that he doth suppose my sleep
my death? Find him, my Lord of Warwick, Chide.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
Him hither Exit Warwick.
Speaker 12 (38:31):
This part of his conjoins with my disease and helps
to end me. See, sons, what things you are? How
quickly nature falls into revolt when gold becomes her object.
For this, the foolish over careful fathers have broke their
sleep with thoughts, their brains with care, their bones with industry.
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For this they have engrossed and piled up the cankered
heaps of strange achieved gold. For this, they have been
thoughtful to invest their sons with arts and martial exercises. When,
like the bee culling from every flower, the virtuous sweets,
our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with honey, we
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bring it to the hive, and, like the bees, are
murdered for our pains, this bitter taste yield his engrossments
to the ending father.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Re Enter Warwick.
Speaker 12 (39:27):
Now where is he that will not stay so long
till his friend's sickness hath determined me?
Speaker 13 (39:34):
My lord? I found the Prince in the next room,
washing with kindly tears, his gentle cheeks, with such a
deep demeanor, in great sorrow that tyranny, which never quaffed
but blood, would by beholding him, have washed his knife
with gentle eye drops. He is coming hither.
Speaker 12 (39:55):
But wherefore did he take away the crown?
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Re Enter Prince Henry, where.
Speaker 12 (40:00):
He comes come hither to me, Harry, depart the chamber,
leave us here.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Alone, exit all but the king and the Prince.
Speaker 15 (40:10):
I never thought to hear you speak again.
Speaker 12 (40:12):
Thy wish was father, Harry to that thought. I stay
too long by THEE. I weary THEE. Dost thou so
hunger from mine empty chair that thou wilt needs invest
THEE with my honors before thy hour be ripe, Oh
foolish youth, Thou seekest the greatness that will overwhelm THEE.
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Stay but a little, for my cloud of dignity is
held from falling with so weak a wind that it
will quickly drop. My day is dim. Thou hast stolen
that which, after some few hours were thine without offense,
And at my death thou hast sealed up my expectation.
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Thy life did manifest. Thou lovest me not, and thou
wilt have me die assured of it. Thou hidest a
thousand daggers in thy thoughts, which thou hast wetted on
thy stony heart to stab at half an hour of
my life. What canst thou not forbear me half an hour?
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Then get THEE gone, and dig my grave thyself, and
bid the merry bells ring to thine ear that thou
art crowned, not that I am dead. Let all the
tears that should bedo my hearse be drops of balm
to sanctify thy head. Only compound me with forgotten dust.
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Give that which gave thee life unto the worms. Pluck
down my officers, break my decrees. For now a time
is come to mock at form Harry the Fifth is
crowned up, Vanity down, royal state. All you say, counselors,
hence and to the English court, assemble now from every
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region apes of idleness. Now, neighbor confines, purge you of
your scum. Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance,
revel the night, rob murder, and commit the oldest sins
the newest kind of ways.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
Be happy.
Speaker 12 (42:25):
He will trouble you no more. England shall double guild
his treble guilt. England shall give him office honor might
for the fifth airy from curbed license plucks the muzzle
of restraint, and the wild dog shall flesh his tooth
on every innocent. Oh, my poor kingdom, sick with civil blows,
(42:51):
When that my care could not withhold thy riots, What
wilt thou do when riot is thy care, Oh, thou
wilt be a wilderness again, peopled with wolves, thy old inhabitants.
Speaker 15 (43:06):
Oh pardon me, my liege, but for my tears, the
moist impediments under my speech. I had this forestalled, this
dear and deep rebuke ere you with brief and spoken,
and I had heard the course of it. So far.
There is your crown, and he that wears the crown
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immortally long guarded yours kneeling if I affect it more
than as your honor and as your renown, Let me
know more from this obedience rise which my most inward
true and duteous spirit teacheth this prostrate and exterior bending.
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God witness with me when I here came in and
found no course of breath within your majesty, how cold
it struck my heart. If I do faith, Oh, let me,
in my present wildness die and never live to show
the incredulous world the noble change that I have purposed.
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Coming to look on you, thinking you dead, and did
almost my liege to think you were, I spake unto
this crown as having sense, and thus uprated it. The
care on thee depending hath fed upon the body of
my father. Therefore thou best of gold, art worst of gold,
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other less fine in carrot is more precious, preserving life
in medicine potable. But thou most fine, most honored, most renounted,
hast thy bearer up thus my most royal liege. Accusing it,
I put it on my head, and to try with it,
as with an enemy that had before my face murdered
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my father. The quarrel the true inheritable. But if it
didn't flect my blood with joy, or swell my thoughts
to any strain of pride, if any rebel or vain
spirit of mine did, with the least affection of a
welcome give entertainment to the mind of it, let God
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forever keep it from my head and make me as
the poorest vassal is that doth, with awe and terror,
kneel to it. O, my son, God put it in
thy mind to take it, hence that thou mightst.
Speaker 12 (45:33):
Win the more thy father's love. Pleading so wisely in
excuse of it, Come hither, Harry, set thou by my bed,
And here I think the very latest counsel that ever
I shall breathe. God knows my son by what bypaths
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and indirect crooked ways, I met this crown in I
myself know well how troublesome it sat upon my head.
To thee it shall descend with bitter quiet, better opinion,
better confirmation, For all the soil of the achievement goes
with me into the earth. It seem'd in me but
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as an honor snatch'd with boisterous hand. And I had
many living to upbraid my gain of it, by their assistances,
which daily grew to quarrel and to bloodshed, wounding, supposed peace.
All these bold fears thou seest with peril. I have answer'd,
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for all my reign hath been but as a scene
acting that argument. And now my death changes the mode.
For what in me was parchas falls upon thee in
a more fairer sort. So thou the garland wearest successively.
Yet though thou standest more sure than I could do,
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thou art not firm enough, Since griefs are green, and
all my friends which thou must make thy friends, have
but their stings and teeth newly taken out by whose
fell working I was first advanc'd, and by whose power
I well might lodge, a fear to be again displac'd,
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which to avoid I cut them off, and had a
purpose now to lead out many to the holy land,
lest resting lying still might make them look too near
unto my state. Therefore, my harry, be it thy course
to busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels. That action, hence
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borne out may waste the memory of the former days.
More would I, but my long are wasted, so that
strength of speeches utterly denied me. How I came by
the crown, Oh God, forgear and grant it may with
(48:12):
thee and true peace live, my gracious liege.
Speaker 15 (48:16):
You want it, wore it, kept it, gave it me? Then,
plain and right must my possession be, which I, with
more than with a common pain against all the world,
will rightfully maintain.
Speaker 1 (48:34):
Enter Prince John of Lancaster, Warwick, lords and others.
Speaker 12 (48:39):
Look, look, here comes my John of Lancaster.
Speaker 8 (48:43):
Health, peace and happiness to my royal father.
Speaker 12 (48:46):
Thou bringest me happiness and peace, Son John, But health,
a lack with youthful wings is flown from this bare
withered trunk upon thy sight. My worldly business makes a period.
Where is my Lord of Warwick.
Speaker 15 (49:04):
My Lord of Warwick.
Speaker 12 (49:06):
Doth any name particularly belong unto the lodging where I
first did swoon.
Speaker 13 (49:12):
Tis called Jerusalem, my noble Lord.
Speaker 12 (49:16):
Lord Be to God. Even there my life must end.
It hath been prophesied to me many years. I should
not die but in Jerusalem, which vainly I supposed the
Holy Land. But bear me to that chamber there I'll
lie in that Jerusalem, shall harry
Speaker 1 (49:38):
Die Exit end of Act four
Act four of the second part of Henry the Fourth.
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Fourth by William Shakespeare, Act four, Scene one, Yorkshire, Within
(00:22):
the forest of Galtry, Enter the Archbishop of York, Mowbray,
Hastings and others.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
What is this forest called? Tis Goltryforest? And shall please
your grace?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Here stand my lords, and send discoverers forth to know
the numbers of our enemies.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
We have sent forth.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Already tis well done, my friends and brethren, in these
great affairs. I must acquaint you that I have received
new dated letters from Northumberland, their cold intent, tenor and substance.
Thus here doth he wish his person with such powers
as might hold sortans with his quality, the which he
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could not levy. Whereupon he is retired to ripe his
growing fortunes through Scotland, and concludes in hearty prayers that
your attempts may overlive the hazard and fearful melting of
their opposite.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Thus do the hopes we have in him touch ground
and dash themselves to pieces.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Enter a messenger, Now what news west of this forest?
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Scarcely off a mile in goodly form? Comes on the enemy,
And by the ground they height, I judge their number
upon or near the rate of thirty thousand, the.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Just proportion that we gave them out. Let us sway
on and face them in the field.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Enter Westmoreland, What well appointed leader fronts us here?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
I think it is, my Lord of Westmoland.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
Health and fair greeting from our general the Prince Lord
John and Duke of Lancaster.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Say on, my Lord of Westmoreland, in peace, What doth
concern your coming?
Speaker 6 (02:01):
Then, my lord? Unto your grace, do I in chief
address the substance of my speech? If that rebellion came
like itself, in beasts and abject routes, led on by
bloody youth, guarded with rags, and countenanced by boys and beggary,
I say, if damned commotions so appeared in his true
native and most proper shape, you, Reverend Father, and these
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noble lords had not been here to dress the ugly
form of base and bloody insurrection with your fair honors,
You Lord Archbishop, whose sea is by a civil peace maintained,
Whose beard, the silver hand of peace hath touched, Whose
learning and good letters peace hath tutored, Whose white investments
figure innocence, the dove and very blessed spirit of peace.
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Wherefore you do so ill translate yourself out of the
speech of peace that bears such grace into the harsh
and boisterous tongue of war, turning your books to graves,
your ink to blood, your pens to lances, and your
tongue divine to a loud trumpet and point of war.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Wherefore do I this? So the question stands briefly to
this end, we are all diseased, and with our surfeiting
and wanton hours, have brought ourselves into a burning fever,
and we must bleed for it, of which disease our
late King Richard, being infected, died. But my most noble
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Lord of Westmoreland, I take not on me here as
a physician, nor do I, as an enemy to peace
troop in the throngs of military men, but rather show
a while like fearful war, to die at rank mind
sick of happiness, and purge the obstructions which begin to
stop our very veins of life. Hear me more plainly,
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I have in equal balance, justly weighed what wrongs our
arms may do, what wrongs we suffer, and find our
griefs heavier than our things we see, which weigh the
stream of time doth run, and are enforced from our
most quiet there by the rough torrent of occasion, and
have the summary of all our griefs, when time shall
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serve to show in articles which long ere. This we
offer to the King, and might, by no suit gain
our audience. When we are wronged, and would unfold our griefs,
we are denied access unto his person, even by those
men that most have done us wrong. The dangers of
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the days but newly gone, whose memory is written on
the earth with yet appearing blood, and the examples of
every minute's instance present now have put us in these
ill beseeming arms not to break peace or any branch
of it, but to establish here a peace indeed concurring
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both in name and quality.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
Whenever yet was your appeal denied? Wherein have you been
galled by the King? What peer hath been suborn to
great on you that you should seal this lawless, bloody
book of forged rebellion with a seal divine, and consecrate
commotion's bitter edge.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
My brother general the commonwealth, to brother born and household cruelty.
I make my quarrel in particular.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
There is no need of any such redress, or if
there were, it not belongs to.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
You, why not to him in part and to us
all that feel the bruises of the days before and
suffer the condition of these times to lay a heavy
and unequal hand upon our honors. O.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
My good Lord Mowbray, construe the times to their necessities,
and you shall say, indeed, it is the time and
not the King that does you injuries. Yet for your part,
it not appears to me, either from the King or
in the present time, that you should have an inch
of any ground to build grief on. Were you not
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restored to all the Duke of Norfolk signatories, your noble
and right well remembered fathers.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
What thing in honor had my father lost that need
to be revived and breathed in me? The King that
loved him as the state stood then was force perforce
compelled to banish him, And then that Henry Balling broke,
and he being mounted and both roused in their seats,
their name causers, daring of the spur, their armed staves
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in charge, their beavers down, their eyes of fire sparkling
through sights of steel, and the loud trumpet blowing them together.
Then then, when there was nothing could have stayed my
father from the breast of boling Broke. Oh, when the
king did throw his warder down, his own life hung
upon the staff he threw, then threw he down himself,
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and all their lives that by indictment and by deary
and a sword hath sense miscarried under Bolingbroke.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
You speak, Lord Mowbray. Now you know not what the
Earl of Hereford was reputed. Then in England, the most
valiant gentleman, who knows on whom fortune would then have smiled.
But if your father had been victor there he neer
had borne it out of Coventry. For all the country,
in a general voice, had sighted hate upon him, and
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all their prayers and love were set on Hereford, whom
they doted on and blessed and graced, indeed more than
the king. But this is mere digression from my purpose.
Here come I from our princely General, to know your griefs,
to tell you from his grace that he will give
you audience, and wherein it shall appear that your demands
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are just, you shall enjoy them. Everything set off that
might so much as think you enemies.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
But he hath forced us to compel this offer, and
it proceeds from policy, not love.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Obray you are ween to take it. So this offer
comes from mercy, not from fear. For lo with a
can our army lies upon mine honor, all too confident
to give admittance to a thought of fear. Our battle
is more full of names than yours. Our men are
more perfect in the use of arms, our armor all
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as strong, our cause the best, then reason will our
hearts should be as good. Say you not, then our
offer is compelled.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Well by my will. We shall admit no pali.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
That argues, but the shame of your offense a rotten case,
abides no handling.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Hath the Prince johnful commission in very ample virtue of
his father to hear and absolutely to determine of what
conditions we shall stand upon.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
That is intended in the General's name. I amuse you
make so slight a question.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Then take my Lord of Westmull in this schedule for
this contains our general grievances. Each several article herein redressed,
all members of our cause, both here and hence that
are insinued to this action, acquitted by a true, substantial
form and present execution of our wills to us and
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to our purposes confined, we come within our lawful banks
again and knit our powers to the arm of peace.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
This will I show the general. Please you Lords, in
sight of both our battles, we may meet and either
end in peace which God so frame, or to the
place of difference, call the swords which must decide it.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
My lord, we will do so.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Exit Westmoreland.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
There is a thing within my bosom tells me that
no conditions of our peace can stand.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Fear you not that if we can make our peace
upon such large terms and so absolute as our conditions
shall consist upon, our peace shall stand as firm as
rocky mountains.
Speaker 7 (09:57):
Yea.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
But our valuation shall be such that every slight and
false derive it cause YEA, every idle, nice and wanton
reason shall to the king taste of this action. That
were our royal faith smarters in love, we shall be
winnowed with so rough a wind that even our corn
shall seem as light as chaff, and good from bad.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Find no petition, No no, my lord, note this, the
king is weary of dainty and such picking grievances, for
he have found to end one doubt by death revives
too greater in the airs of life. And therefore will
he wipe his tables clean and keep no tell tale
to his memory that may repeat in history his loss
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to new remembrance. For full well he knows he cannot
so precisely weed this land as his misdoubts present occasion.
His foes are so enrooted with his friends that plucking
to unfix an enemy, he doth unfasten so and shake
a friend, so that this land, like an offensive wife
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that hath enraged him on to offer strokes as he
is striking, holds his infant up and hangs resolved correction
in the arm that was upreared to execution.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Besides, the king hath wasted all his rods on light offenders,
that he now doth lack the very instruments of chastisement,
so that his power, like to a fangless lion, may
offer but not hold.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Tis very true, and therefore be assured, my good Lord Marshal.
If we do now make our atonement well, our peace will,
like a broken limb united, grows stronger for the breaking
be it.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
So here is returned, my Lord of Westmoreland.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Re enter Westmoreland.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
The Prince is here at hand. Pleaseth your worship to
meet His grace at just distance between our armies.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Your grace of York in God's name. Then set forward before.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
And greef his grace. My Lord. We come exant.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Scene too, another part of the forest. Enter from one side,
Melbray attended, afterwards the Archbishop Hastings and others. From the
other side, Prince John of Lancaster, Westmoreland, officers and others.
Speaker 8 (12:21):
You are well encountered here, my cousin Mowbray. Good day
to you, gentle Lord Archbishop, and to you Lord Hastings,
and to all, My Lord of York. It better showed
with you when that your flock assembled by the bell,
encircled you to hear with reverence your exposition of the
Holy Text, than now to see you here an iron
(12:44):
man cheering a rout of rebels, with your drum turning
the word to sword and life to death. That man
that sits within the reach of a monarch's heart and
ripens in the sunshine of his favor. Would he abuse
the countenance of the king a lack? What mischiefs might
he set a broach in shadow of such greatness? With you,
(13:06):
Lord Bishop? It is even so, who have not heard
it spoken, how dupe you were within the books of God,
to us the speaker in his Parliament, to us the
imagined voice of God himself, the very opener and intelligencer
between the grace the sanctities of Heaven and odd our workings. Oh,
who shall believe? But you misuse the reverence of your place,
(13:30):
employ the countenance and grace of Heaven as a false favorite.
Does his Prince's name indeed dishonorable? You have tain up
under the counterfeited seared of God, the subjects of his substitute,
my father and of both, against the peace of Heaven
and Him, have here upswarmed them?
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Good, My Lord of Lancaster, I am not here against
your father's peace. But, as I told my Lord of Westmoreland,
the time misorder doth in common sense crowd us and
crush us to this monstrous form. To hold our safety up,
I scent your grace the parcels in particulars of our grief,
(14:07):
the which hath been with scorn shoved from the court,
whereon this hydrous son of war is born, whose dangerous
eyes may well be charmed asleep with grant of our
most just and right desires and true obedience of this
madness cured stooped tamely to the foot of majesty.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
If not we ready are to try our fortunes to
the last man.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
And though we here fall down, we have supplies to
second our attempt. If they miscarry, theirs shall second them,
and so success of mischief shall be borne, and air
from air shall hold this quarrel up, whilst England shall
have generation.
Speaker 8 (14:48):
You are too shallow hastings, much too sallow to sound
the bottom of the after times.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
Please your grace to answer them directly. How far forth
do you like their articles?
Speaker 8 (15:00):
I like them all, and do allow well, and swear
here by the honor of my blood. My father's purposes
have been mistook, and some about him have too lavishly
rested his meaning and authority. My Lord, these griefs shall
be with speed redressed upon my soul. They shall, if
this may please you, discharge your powers unto their several
(15:24):
counties as we will ours. And here between the armies,
let us drink together friendly and embrace, that all their
eyes may bear these tokens home of our restored love
and amity.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
I take your princely word for these redresses.
Speaker 8 (15:41):
I give it to you, and will maintain my word.
And thereupon I drink unto your grace.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Go Captain and deliver to the army this news of peace.
Let them have pay and part. I know it will
well please them.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Hi, thee captain exit officer.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
To you, my noble Lord of Westmoreland, I pledge your grace,
And if you knew what pains I have bestowed to
breed this present peace, you would drink freely. But my
love to you shall show itself more openly hereafter.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
I do not doubt you.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
I am glad of it. Health to my lord and
gentle cousin Mowbray.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
You wish me health in a very happy season, for
I am on the sudden something.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Ill against ill chances. Men are ever marry, but heaviness
for runs the good event.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
Therefore be merry cause, since sudden sorrow serves to say,
thus some good thing comes to morrow.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Believe me, I am passing light in spirit, so much
the worse if your own rule be true.
Speaker 8 (16:45):
Shouts within the word of peace is rendered. Hark, how
they shout.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
This had been cheerful after victory.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
A piece is of the nature of a conquest. For
then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party.
Speaker 8 (17:01):
Go, my lord, and let our armies be discharged too.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Exit Westmoreland.
Speaker 8 (17:07):
And good, my lord, so please you let our trains
march by us, that we may peruse the men we
should have coped with all.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Go, good Lord, Hastings, and there they be dismissed. Let
them march.
Speaker 8 (17:20):
By Exit Hastings, I trust, lords, we shall lie tonight together.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Re enter Westmoreland.
Speaker 8 (17:28):
Now cousin wherefore stands our army still.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
The leaders, having charge from you to stand, will not
go off until they hear you speak.
Speaker 8 (17:38):
They know their duties.
Speaker 7 (17:40):
Re Enter Hastings, my Lord.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Our army is dispersed already, like youthful steers, unyoked. They
take their courses east west, north, south, or like a
school broke up. Each hurries toward his home and sporting place.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
Good tidings, my Lord, Hastings, for the which I do
arrest thee traitor of high treason, and you Lord Archbishop,
and you Lord Mowbray of capital trees, and I attach
you both.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Is this proceeding just and honorable?
Speaker 6 (18:11):
Is your assembly?
Speaker 8 (18:12):
So I pawned thee numb. I promised you address of
these same grievances whereof you did complain, which by my
honor I will perform with our most Christian care. But
for you, rebels, look to taste the dew meat for
rebellion and such acts of yours most salily did you
these arms commence fondly brought here and foolishly sent. Hence
(18:36):
strike up our drums, pursue the scattered of astray God,
and not we have safely fought the day. Some guard
these traders of the block of death, Treason's true bed
and yielder of breath.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Exent Scene three, another part of the forest Alarum excursion.
Enter Falstaff and Colville meeting.
Speaker 9 (19:03):
What's your name, sir? Of what condition are you? And
of what place? I pray?
Speaker 10 (19:08):
I am a knight, sir, and my name is Colville
of the Dale.
Speaker 9 (19:13):
Well, then Colville is your name, a knight is your degree,
and your place, the Dale, Colville, shall still be your name,
a traitor your degree, and a dudgeon your place, a
place deep enough. So shall you be still Colville of
the Dale, and.
Speaker 10 (19:32):
Not you, Sir John Falstaff.
Speaker 9 (19:35):
As good a man is he, Sir? Whoe'er I am?
Do you yield, sir? Or shall I sweat for you?
If I do sweat, they are the drops of thy lovers,
and they weep for thy death. Therefore rouse up fear
and trembling, and do observance to my mercy.
Speaker 10 (19:53):
I think you are, Sir John Falstaff, And in that
thought yield me.
Speaker 9 (19:58):
I have a whole school of tongue in this valley
of mine, and not a tongue of them all speaks
any other word but my name. And I had but
a belly of any indifferency. I were simply the most
active fellow in Europe. My womb, my womb, my womb
undoes me. Here comes our general.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Enter, Prince John of Lancaster, Westmoreland, Blunt and others.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
The heat is past. Follow no further now call in
the pairs, good cousin.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Westmerland, Exit Westmoreland.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
Now, Falstaff, where have you been all this while? When
everything is ended? Then you come these tardy tricks of
yours will buy my life one time or other, break
some gallows back.
Speaker 9 (20:43):
I would be sorry, my lord, but it should be
thus I never knew yet, but rebuke and chuck was
the reward of valor. Do you think me a swallow,
an arrowl or a bullet? Have I, in my poor
and old motion the expedition of thought? I have speeded
hither with the vary extremest inch of possibility. I have
(21:06):
foundered nine score and odd posts, and here travel tainted
as I am have in my pure and immaculate valor
taken Sir John Colville of the Dale, a most furious
knight and valorous enemy. But what of that he saw
me and yielded?
Speaker 11 (21:27):
That?
Speaker 9 (21:27):
I may justly say, with the hooknosed fellow of Rome
I came saw, and overcame.
Speaker 8 (21:36):
It was more of his courtesy than your deserving.
Speaker 9 (21:39):
I know not here he is, and here I yield him,
and I beseech your grace. Let it be booked with
the rest of this day's deeds, or by the Lord,
I will have it in a particular ballad, else with
mine own picture on the top, Aunt Colville kissing my
foot to the which course, if I be enforced, if
(21:59):
you do not all show like guilt's twopences to me
and I in the clear sky of fame, or shine
you as much as the full moon doth the cinders
of the element, which show like pin's heads to her.
Believe not the word of the noble. Therefore, let me
have right, and let desert.
Speaker 8 (22:19):
Mount thines too heavy to.
Speaker 9 (22:21):
Mount, let it shine, then.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
Thines too thick to shine.
Speaker 9 (22:27):
Let it do something, my good lord, that may do
me good, and call it what you will.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
Is thy name Colville. It is, my lord, a famous
rebel art thou Colville.
Speaker 9 (22:39):
And a famous true subject took him.
Speaker 10 (22:42):
I am my lord. But as my betters are that
led me hither, had they been ruled by me, you
should have won them dearer than you have.
Speaker 9 (22:51):
I know not how they sold themselves. But thou, like
a kind fellow, gavest thyself away gratis, and I thank
THEE for the re Enter Westmoreland.
Speaker 8 (23:02):
Now have you left.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
Pursuit Retreat is made, and execution staid.
Speaker 8 (23:08):
Send Calver with his confederates to York to present execution Blunt.
Leave him hence and see you guard him.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Sure exit Blunt and others, and.
Speaker 8 (23:19):
Now dispatch me to the court my lords, I hear
the king my father is so sick, and you shall
go before us to his majesty, which cousin you shall
bear to comfort him, and we, with sober speed will
follow you.
Speaker 9 (23:33):
My lord, I beseech you give me leave to go
through Gloucestershire, and when you come to court, stand by
my good lord, pray in your good.
Speaker 8 (23:43):
Report, fare you well. Falstaff I, in my condition shall
better speak of you than you deserve.
Speaker 9 (23:51):
Exen all, but falstaff I would you had but the
wit tware better than your dukedom. Good fear. The same
young sober blooded boy doth not love me, nor a
man cannot make him laugh. But that's no marvel. He
drinks no wine. There's never none of these demure boys
(24:14):
come to any proof. For thin drink doth so overcool
their blood, and making many fish meals that they fall
into a kind of male green sickness. And then when
they marry they get wenches. They are generally fools and cowards,
which some of us should be too. But for inflammation,
(24:38):
A good sherrysh sack hath a twofold operation in it.
It ascends me into the brain, dries me there all
the foolish and dull and crudey vapors which environ it,
makes it apprehensive, quick, forgettive, full of nimble, fiery, and
delectable shapes which deliver it. Or to the voice, the tongue,
(25:01):
which is the birth, becomes excellent wit. The second property
of your excellent Sherries is the warming of the blood,
which before cold and settled. Let the liver white and pale,
which is the badge of pusillanimity and cowardice. But the
(25:21):
Sheharries warms it and makes it coarse from the inwards
to the parts extremes. It illumineth the face, which as
a beacon gives warning to all the rest of this
little kingdom man to arm. And then the vital commoners
and inland petty spirits must be all to their captain.
(25:42):
The heart, who great and puffed up with his retinue,
doth any deed of courage. And this valor comes of Sherries.
So that skill in the weapon is nothing without sack,
For that sets it to work and learns a mere
horde of gold kept by a devil till sack commences
(26:04):
it and sets it in act, and use hereof comes
it that Prince Harry is valiant for the cold blood
he did naturally inherit of his father. He hath like
lean sterile in bare land, manured, husbanded, and tilled, with
excellent endeavor of drinking good and good store of fertile sherries,
(26:26):
that he has become very hot and valiant. If I
had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would
teach them should be to forswear thin potations, and to
addict themselves to sack.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Enter Bardolph.
Speaker 9 (26:45):
How now Bardolph.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
The army is discharged all and gone.
Speaker 9 (26:50):
Let them go. I have through Gloucestershire, and there will
I visit Master Robert shallow Esquire. I have him already
tempering between my finger and my thumb, and shortly will
I seal with him.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Come away ext Scene four Westminster, the Jerusalem Chamber, Enter
the King, Prince Thomas of Clarence, Prince Humphrey of Gloucester, Warwick,
and others now lords.
Speaker 12 (27:21):
If God doth give successful end to this debate that
bleedeth at our doors, we will our youth lead on
to higher fields and draw no swords. But what are
sanctified our navy is addressed. Our power collected, our substitutes
in absence well invested, and everything lies leveled to our wish.
(27:41):
Only we want a little personal strength, and pause us
till these rebels now afoot come underneath the yoke of government.
Speaker 13 (27:51):
Both which we doubt not, but your Majesty shall soon enjoy.
Speaker 12 (27:56):
Humphrey, my son of Gloucester. Where is the Prince? Your brother?
Speaker 14 (28:00):
I think he's gone to hunt my lord at Windsor.
Speaker 12 (28:03):
And how accompanied I do not know? My Lord is
not his brother Thomas of Clarence with him.
Speaker 14 (28:09):
No, my good Lord, he is in presents here?
Speaker 7 (28:12):
What would my lord and father?
Speaker 12 (28:14):
Nothing but well to thee Thomas of Clarence. How chance
thou art not with the Prince thy brother? He loves thee,
and thou dost neglect him, Thomas, Thou hast a better
place in his affection than all thy brothers. Cherish it,
my boy, and noble offices. Thou mayest effect of mediation
after I am dead, between his Greatness and thy other brethren.
(28:39):
Therefore omit him not blood, not his love, Nor lose
the good advantage of his grace by seeming cold or
careless of his will, For he is gracious if he
be observed. He hath a tear for pity and a
hand open his day for melting charity. Yet notwithstanding being incensed,
(29:00):
he's flint, as humorous as winter, and as sudden as
flaws congealed in the spring of day. His temper therefore
must be well observed. Chide him for faults, and do
it reverently. When thou perceive his blood inclined to mirth,
but being moody, give him line and scope till that
(29:21):
his passions, like a wail on ground, confound themselves with working.
Learn this, Thomas, and thou shalt prove a shelter to
thy friends, a hoop of gold to bend thy brothers,
in that the united vessel of their blood, mingled with
venom of suggestion, as force perforce the age will pour
it in, shall never leak, though it do work as
(29:44):
strong as a conatum or rash gunpowder.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
I shall observe him with all care and love.
Speaker 12 (29:50):
Why art thou not at windsor with him, Thomas?
Speaker 7 (29:53):
He is not there to day? He dines in London.
Speaker 12 (29:56):
And how accompanied canst thou?
Speaker 7 (29:58):
Tell that with point and other his continual.
Speaker 12 (30:01):
Followers, most subject is the fattest soil to weeds, and
he the noble image of my youth is overspread with them.
Therefore my grief stretches itself beyond the hour of death.
The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape
in forms imaginary the unguided days and rotten times that
(30:23):
you shall look upon when I am sleeping with my ancestors.
For when his headstrong ride hath no curb. When rage
and hot blood are as counselors, when means and lavish
manners meet together, Oh with what wings shall his affections
fly towards fronting peril and oppose decay.
Speaker 13 (30:44):
My gracious lord, you look beyond him quite the Prince
but studies his companions like a strange tongue, wherein to
gain the language tis needful that the most immodest word
be looked upon and learnt, which once attains your highness nose,
comes to no further use but to be known and hated.
(31:06):
So like gross terms, the Prince will, in the perfectness
of time, cast off his followers, and their memory shall,
as a pattern or a measure, live by which his
grace must met the lives of other turning past evils
to advantages.
Speaker 12 (31:24):
Tis seldom when the bee doth leave her calm in
the dead carrion. Enter Westmoreland, who's here, Westmoreland?
Speaker 6 (31:32):
Health to my sovereign a new happiness added to that
that I am to deliver. Prince John, your son, doth
kiss your Grace's hand.
Speaker 7 (31:40):
Mowbray.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
The Bishop's group hastings and all are brought to the
correction of your law. There is not now a rebel
sword unsheathed, but peace puts forth her olive everywhere the
manner how this action hath been born here at more leisure.
May your Highness read with every course in his particular.
Speaker 12 (31:59):
Oh Morland, thou art a summer bird, which ever in
the haunch of winter, sings the lifting up of day.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Enter Harcourt.
Speaker 12 (32:08):
Look, here's more news.
Speaker 11 (32:10):
From enemies Heaven. Keep your majesty, And when they stand
against you, may they fall as those that I am
come to tell you of the Earl Northumberland and the
Lord Bardoff, with a great power of English and of Scots,
are by the Shrieve of Yorkshire overthrown the manner and
true order of the fight. This packet please it you
contains at large?
Speaker 12 (32:31):
And wherefore should these good news make me sick? Will
fortune never come? With both hands full. But write her
fair words still in foulest letters. She either gives a
stomach and no food, such are the poor in health,
or else a feast and takes away the stomach. Such
are the rich that have abundance and a joyant not.
(32:54):
I should rejoice now at this happy news. And now
my sight fails, and my brain is giddy. Oh me,
come near me now I am much ill.
Speaker 14 (33:05):
Comfort your majesty, Oh my royal father, Why soorveral lord,
cheer up yourself, look up.
Speaker 13 (33:12):
Be patient, princes, you do know these fits are with
his Highness very ordinary. Stand from him, give him air.
He'll straight be well.
Speaker 7 (33:21):
No, no, he cannot long hold out these pangs. Then
cessant care and labor of his mind. Hath wrought the
mure that should confine it in so thin that life
looks through and will break out.
Speaker 14 (33:33):
The people fear me, for they do observe on fathered
airs and loathly births of nature. The seasons change their
manners as the year had found some months asleep and
leaped them.
Speaker 7 (33:44):
Over the river. Hath thrice flowed no ebb between and
the old folk times doting chronicles say it did so
a little time before that, our great grandsire Edward sicked
and died.
Speaker 13 (33:56):
Speak lower, princes, for the king recovers.
Speaker 14 (33:59):
This apoplexy will certain be his end.
Speaker 12 (34:03):
I pray you take me up and bear me heads
into some other chamber.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Softly pray exnt Scene five Westminster, another chamber, the King
lying on a bed, Clarence, Gloucester, Warwick, and others in attendance.
Speaker 12 (34:24):
Let there be no noise made, my gentle friends, unless
some dull and favorable hand will whisper music to my
weary spirit.
Speaker 13 (34:32):
Call for the music in the other room.
Speaker 12 (34:35):
Set me the crown upon my pillow.
Speaker 7 (34:37):
Here his eye is hollow, and he changes.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Much less noise, less noise, Enter Prince Henry, who saw
the Duke of Clarence.
Speaker 7 (34:48):
I am here, brother, full of heaviness.
Speaker 15 (34:52):
How now ring withindoors and then abroad? How doth the King,
exceeding a bill, heard he the good news? Yet tell
it him.
Speaker 14 (35:04):
He altered much upon the hearing it.
Speaker 15 (35:06):
If he be sick with joy, he'll recover without physic.
Speaker 13 (35:11):
Not so much noise, my lords, sweet prince, speak low.
The king your father is disposed to sleep.
Speaker 7 (35:18):
Let us withdraw into the other room.
Speaker 13 (35:21):
Wilt please your grace to go along with us.
Speaker 15 (35:24):
No, I will sit and watch here by.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
The king exit all but the prince.
Speaker 15 (35:31):
Why does the crown lie there upon his pillow, being
so troublesome a bedfellow, Oh, polished perturbation, golden care, that
keeps the ports of slumber open wide too many a
(35:52):
watchful night sleep with it now yet so sound and
half so deeply sweet as he whose brow with homely
big and bound, snores out the watch of night, Oh majesty,
(36:13):
when thou dost pinch thy bearer, thou dost sit like
a rich armor worn in heat of day, that skulkst
with safety by his gaits of breath. There lies a
downy feather which stirs. Not did he suspire that lighting
(36:36):
weightless down perforcements move, My gracious lord, my father, this
sleep is sound. Indeed, this is a sleep that from
this golden regal hath divorced so many English kings. Thy
do from me is tears and heavy sorrows of the blood,
(37:00):
which nature love and filial tenderness shall, oh dear father,
pay thee plenteously. My do from thee is this imperial crown, which,
as immediate from thy place and blood derives.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Itself to me, putting on the crown lo where it.
Speaker 15 (37:22):
Sits, which God shall guard the world's whole strength into
one giant arm. It shall not force this lineal honor
from me. This from thee will I to mine? Leave
as tis left to me.
Speaker 12 (37:39):
Exit Warwick, Gloucester, Clarence.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Re enter Warwick, Gloucester, Clarence.
Speaker 7 (37:46):
Doth the king call?
Speaker 13 (37:48):
What would your majesty? How fares your grace?
Speaker 12 (37:51):
Why did you leave me here alone? My lords?
Speaker 7 (37:54):
We left the Prince, my brother here, my liege, who
undertook to sit and watch.
Speaker 12 (37:58):
By you the Prince of Where is he? Let me
see him? He is not here?
Speaker 13 (38:05):
This door is open. He has gone this way.
Speaker 14 (38:08):
He came, not through the chamber where we stayed.
Speaker 12 (38:10):
Where is the crown who took it from my pillow?
Speaker 13 (38:14):
When we withdrew my liege? We left it here?
Speaker 12 (38:17):
The Prince have taken it? Thence go seek him out?
Is he so hasty that he doth suppose my sleep
my death? Find him, my Lord of Warwick, Chide.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
Him hither Exit Warwick.
Speaker 12 (38:31):
This part of his conjoins with my disease and helps
to end me. See, sons, what things you are? How
quickly nature falls into revolt when gold becomes her object.
For this, the foolish over careful fathers have broke their
sleep with thoughts, their brains with care, their bones with industry.
(38:55):
For this they have engrossed and piled up the cankered
heaps of strange achieved gold. For this, they have been
thoughtful to invest their sons with arts and martial exercises. When,
like the bee culling from every flower, the virtuous sweets,
our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with honey, we
(39:16):
bring it to the hive, and, like the bees, are
murdered for our pains, this bitter taste yield his engrossments
to the ending father.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Re Enter Warwick.
Speaker 12 (39:27):
Now where is he that will not stay so long
till his friend's sickness hath determined me?
Speaker 13 (39:34):
My lord? I found the Prince in the next room,
washing with kindly tears, his gentle cheeks, with such a
deep demeanor, in great sorrow that tyranny, which never quaffed
but blood, would by beholding him, have washed his knife
with gentle eye drops. He is coming hither.
Speaker 12 (39:55):
But wherefore did he take away the crown?
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Re Enter Prince Henry, where.
Speaker 12 (40:00):
He comes come hither to me, Harry, depart the chamber,
leave us here.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Alone, exit all but the king and the Prince.
Speaker 15 (40:10):
I never thought to hear you speak again.
Speaker 12 (40:12):
Thy wish was father, Harry to that thought. I stay
too long by THEE. I weary THEE. Dost thou so
hunger from mine empty chair that thou wilt needs invest
THEE with my honors before thy hour be ripe, Oh
foolish youth, Thou seekest the greatness that will overwhelm THEE.
(40:36):
Stay but a little, for my cloud of dignity is
held from falling with so weak a wind that it
will quickly drop. My day is dim. Thou hast stolen
that which, after some few hours were thine without offense,
And at my death thou hast sealed up my expectation.
(40:58):
Thy life did manifest. Thou lovest me not, and thou
wilt have me die assured of it. Thou hidest a
thousand daggers in thy thoughts, which thou hast wetted on
thy stony heart to stab at half an hour of
my life. What canst thou not forbear me half an hour?
(41:19):
Then get THEE gone, and dig my grave thyself, and
bid the merry bells ring to thine ear that thou
art crowned, not that I am dead. Let all the
tears that should bedo my hearse be drops of balm
to sanctify thy head. Only compound me with forgotten dust.
(41:41):
Give that which gave thee life unto the worms. Pluck
down my officers, break my decrees. For now a time
is come to mock at form Harry the Fifth is
crowned up, Vanity down, royal state. All you say, counselors,
hence and to the English court, assemble now from every
(42:05):
region apes of idleness. Now, neighbor confines, purge you of
your scum. Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance,
revel the night, rob murder, and commit the oldest sins
the newest kind of ways.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
Be happy.
Speaker 12 (42:25):
He will trouble you no more. England shall double guild
his treble guilt. England shall give him office honor might
for the fifth airy from curbed license plucks the muzzle
of restraint, and the wild dog shall flesh his tooth
on every innocent. Oh, my poor kingdom, sick with civil blows,
(42:51):
When that my care could not withhold thy riots, What
wilt thou do when riot is thy care, Oh, thou
wilt be a wilderness again, peopled with wolves, thy old inhabitants.
Speaker 15 (43:06):
Oh pardon me, my liege, but for my tears, the
moist impediments under my speech. I had this forestalled, this
dear and deep rebuke ere you with brief and spoken,
and I had heard the course of it. So far.
There is your crown, and he that wears the crown
(43:27):
immortally long guarded yours kneeling if I affect it more
than as your honor and as your renown, Let me
know more from this obedience rise which my most inward
true and duteous spirit teacheth this prostrate and exterior bending.
(43:48):
God witness with me when I here came in and
found no course of breath within your majesty, how cold
it struck my heart. If I do faith, Oh, let me,
in my present wildness die and never live to show
the incredulous world the noble change that I have purposed.
(44:10):
Coming to look on you, thinking you dead, and did
almost my liege to think you were, I spake unto
this crown as having sense, and thus uprated it. The
care on thee depending hath fed upon the body of
my father. Therefore thou best of gold, art worst of gold,
(44:31):
other less fine in carrot is more precious, preserving life
in medicine potable. But thou most fine, most honored, most renounted,
hast thy bearer up thus my most royal liege. Accusing it,
I put it on my head, and to try with it,
as with an enemy that had before my face murdered
(44:54):
my father. The quarrel the true inheritable. But if it
didn't flect my blood with joy, or swell my thoughts
to any strain of pride, if any rebel or vain
spirit of mine did, with the least affection of a
welcome give entertainment to the mind of it, let God
(45:18):
forever keep it from my head and make me as
the poorest vassal is that doth, with awe and terror,
kneel to it. O, my son, God put it in
thy mind to take it, hence that thou mightst.
Speaker 12 (45:33):
Win the more thy father's love. Pleading so wisely in
excuse of it, Come hither, Harry, set thou by my bed,
And here I think the very latest counsel that ever
I shall breathe. God knows my son by what bypaths
(45:54):
and indirect crooked ways, I met this crown in I
myself know well how troublesome it sat upon my head.
To thee it shall descend with bitter quiet, better opinion,
better confirmation, For all the soil of the achievement goes
with me into the earth. It seem'd in me but
(46:18):
as an honor snatch'd with boisterous hand. And I had
many living to upbraid my gain of it, by their assistances,
which daily grew to quarrel and to bloodshed, wounding, supposed peace.
All these bold fears thou seest with peril. I have answer'd,
(46:40):
for all my reign hath been but as a scene
acting that argument. And now my death changes the mode.
For what in me was parchas falls upon thee in
a more fairer sort. So thou the garland wearest successively.
Yet though thou standest more sure than I could do,
(47:04):
thou art not firm enough, Since griefs are green, and
all my friends which thou must make thy friends, have
but their stings and teeth newly taken out by whose
fell working I was first advanc'd, and by whose power
I well might lodge, a fear to be again displac'd,
(47:27):
which to avoid I cut them off, and had a
purpose now to lead out many to the holy land,
lest resting lying still might make them look too near
unto my state. Therefore, my harry, be it thy course
to busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels. That action, hence
(47:52):
borne out may waste the memory of the former days.
More would I, but my long are wasted, so that
strength of speeches utterly denied me. How I came by
the crown, Oh God, forgear and grant it may with
(48:12):
thee and true peace live, my gracious liege.
Speaker 15 (48:16):
You want it, wore it, kept it, gave it me? Then,
plain and right must my possession be, which I, with
more than with a common pain against all the world,
will rightfully maintain.
Speaker 1 (48:34):
Enter Prince John of Lancaster, Warwick, lords and others.
Speaker 12 (48:39):
Look, look, here comes my John of Lancaster.
Speaker 8 (48:43):
Health, peace and happiness to my royal father.
Speaker 12 (48:46):
Thou bringest me happiness and peace, Son John, But health,
a lack with youthful wings is flown from this bare
withered trunk upon thy sight. My worldly business makes a period.
Where is my Lord of Warwick.
Speaker 15 (49:04):
My Lord of Warwick.
Speaker 12 (49:06):
Doth any name particularly belong unto the lodging where I
first did swoon.
Speaker 13 (49:12):
Tis called Jerusalem, my noble Lord.
Speaker 12 (49:16):
Lord Be to God. Even there my life must end.
It hath been prophesied to me many years. I should
not die but in Jerusalem, which vainly I supposed the
Holy Land. But bear me to that chamber there I'll
lie in that Jerusalem, shall harry
Speaker 1 (49:38):
Die Exit end of Act four
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