home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
-
-
-
- HENRY THE FOURTH PART 1
-
- Act 5 Scene 4
-
- (Alarum. Excursions. Enter King Henry, Prince Harry, wounded, Lord John
- of Lancaster, and the Earl of Westmorland)
- l1l King Henry I prithee, Harry, withdraw thyself, thou bleedÆst too much.
- l2l Lord John of Lancaster, go you with him.
- l3l John Of Lancaster Not I, my lord, unless I did bleed too.
- l4l Prince Harry (to the King) I beseech your majesty, make up,
- l5l Lest your retirement do amaze your friends.
- l6l King Henry I will do so. My lord of Westmorland,
- l7l Lead him to his tent.
- Westmorland (to the Prince)
- l8l Come, my lord, IÆll lead you to your tent.
- l9l Prince Harry Lead me, my lord? I do not need your help,
- l10l And God forbid a shallow scratch should drive
- l11l The Prince of Wales from such a field as this,
- l12l Where stained nobility lies trodden on,
- l13l And rebelsÆ arms triumph in massacres.
- l14l John Of Lancaster We breathe too long. Come, cousin Westmorland,
- l15l Our duty this way lies. For GodÆs sake, come.
- (Exeunt Lancaster and Westmorland)
- l16l Prince Harry By God, thou hast deceived me, Lancaster;
- l17l I did not think thee lord of such a spirit.
- l18l Before I loved thee as a brother, John,
- l19l But now I do respect thee as my soul.
- l20l King Henry I saw him hold Lord Percy at the point
- l21l With lustier maintenance than I did look for
- l22l Of such an ungrown warrior.
- l23l Prince Harry O, this boy lends mettle to us all!
- (Exit)
- (Enter the Earl of Douglas)
- l24l Douglas Another king! They grow like HydraÆs heads.
- l25l I am the Douglas, fatal to all those
- l26l That wear those colours on them. What art thou
- l27l That counterfeitÆst the person of a king?
- l28l King Henry The King himself, who, Douglas, grieves at heart
- l29l So many of his shadows thou hast met
- l30l And not the very King. I have two boys
- l31l Seek Percy and thyself about the field;
- l32l But seeing thou fallÆst on me so luckily,
- l33l I will assay thee; and defend thyself.
- l34l Douglas I fear thou art another counterfeit;
- l35l And yet, in faith, thou bearÆst thee like a king.
- l36l But mine I am sure thou art, whoeÆer thou be,
- l37l And thus I win thee.
- (They fight. The King being in danger, enter Prince
- Harry)
- l38l Prince Harry Hold up thy head, vile Scot, or thou art like
- l39l Never to hold it up again. The spirits
- l40l Of valiant Shirley, Stafford, Blunt, are in my arms.
- l41l It is the Prince of Wales that threatens thee,
- l42l Who never promiseth but he means to pay.
- (They fight. Douglas flieth)
- l43l Cheerly, my lord! How fares your grace?
- l44l Sir Nicholas Gawsey hath for succour sent,
- l45l And so hath Clifton. IÆll to Clifton straight.
- l46l King Henry Stay and breathe awhile.
- l47l Thou hast redeemed thy lost opinion,
- l48l And showed thou makÆst some tender of my life,
- l49l In this fair rescue thou hast brought to me.
- l50l Prince Harry O God, they did me too much injury
- l51l That ever said I hearkened for your death.
- l52l If it were so, I might have let alone
- l53l The insulting hand of Douglas over you,
- l54l Which would have been as speedy in your end
- l55l As all the poisonous potions in the world,
- l56l And saved the treacherous labour of your son.
- l57l King Henry Make up to Clifton; IÆll to Sir Nicholas Gawsey.
- (Exit)
- (Enter Hotspur)
- l58l Hotspur If I mistake not, thou art Harry Monmouth.
- l59l Prince Harry Thou speakÆst as if I would deny my name.
- l60l Hotspur My name is Harry Percy.
- Prince Harry Why then, I see
- l61l A very valiant rebel of the name.
- l62l I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy,
- l63l To share with me in glory any more.
- l64l Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere,
- l65l Nor can one England brook a double reign
- l66l Of Harry Percy and the Prince of Wales.
- l67l Hotspur Nor shall it, Harry, for the hour is come
- l68l To end the one of us, and would to God
- l69l Thy name in arms were now as great as mine.
- l70l Prince Harry IÆll make it greater ere I part from thee,
- l71l And all the budding honours on thy crest
- l72l IÆll crop to make a garland for my head.
- l73l Hotspur I can no longer brook thy vanities.
- (They fight.)
- (Enter Sir John Oldcastle)
- l74l Sir John Well said, Hal! To it, Hal! Nay, you shall find
- l75l no boyÆs play here, I can tell you.
- (Enter Douglas. He fighteth with Sir John, who falls down
- as if he were dead. Exit Douglas. The Prince killeth
- Hotspur)
- l76l Hotspur O Harry, thou hast robbed me of my youth.
- l77l I better brook the loss of brittle life
- l78l Than those proud titles thou hast won of me.
- l79l They wound my thoughts worse than thy sword my flesh.
- l80l But thoughts, the slaves of life, and life, timeÆs fool,
- l81l And time, that takes survey of all the world,
- l82l Must have a stop. O, I could prophesy,
- l83l But that the earthy and cold hand of death
- l84l Lies on my tongue. No, Percy, thou art dust,
- l85l And food forù
- (He dies)
- l86l Prince Harry For worms, brave Percy. Fare thee well, great heart.
- l87l Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk!
- l88l When that this body did contain a spirit,
- l89l A kingdom for it was too small a bound,
- l90l But now two paces of the vilest earth
- l91l Is room enough. This earth that bears thee dead
- l92l Bears not alive so stout a gentleman.
- l93l If thou wert sensible of courtesy,
- l94l I should not make so dear a show of zeal;
- l95l But let my favours hide thy mangled face,
- (He covers Hotspur's face)
- l96l And even in thy behalf IÆll thank myself
- l97l For doing these fair rites of tenderness.
- l98l Adieu, and take thy praise with thee to heaven.
- l99l Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave,
- l100l But not remembered in thy epitaph.
- (He spieth Sir John on the ground)
- l101l What, old acquaintance! Could not all this flesh
- l102l Keep in a little life? Poor Jack, farewell.
- l103l I could have better spared a better man.
- l104l O, I should have a heavy miss of thee,
- l105l If I were much in love with vanity.
- l106l Death hath not struck so fat a deer today,
- l107l Though many dearer in this bloody fray.
- l108l Embowelled will I see thee by and by.
- l109l Till then, in blood by noble Percy lie.
- (Exit)
- (Sir John riseth up)
- l110l Sir John Embowelled? If thou embowel me today, IÆll give
- l111l you leave to powder me, and eat me too, tomorrow.
- l112l ÆSblood, Ætwas time to counterfeit, or that hot termagant
- l113l Scot had paid me, scot and lot too. Counterfeit? I lie, I
- l114l am no counterfeit. To die is to be a counterfeit, for he
- l115l is but the counterfeit of a man who hath not the life
- l116l of a man. But to counterfeit dying when a man thereby
- l117l liveth is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfect
- l118l image of life indeed. The better part of valour is
- l119l discretion, in the which better part I have saved my
- l120l life. Zounds, I am afraid of this gunpowder Percy,
- l121l though he be dead. How if he should counterfeit too,
- l122l and rise? By my faith, I am afraid he would prove the
- l123l better counterfeit. Therefore IÆll make him sure; yea,
- l124l and IÆll swear I killed him. Why may not he rise as
- l125l well as I? Nothing confutes me but eyes, and nobody
- l126l sees me. Therefore, sirrah, (stabbing Hotspur) with a
- l127l new wound in your thigh, come you along with me.
- (He takes up Hotspur on his back.)
- (Enter Prince Harry and Lord John of Lancaster)
- l128l Prince Harry Come, brother John. Full bravely hast thou fleshed
- l129l Thy maiden sword.
- John Of Lancaster But soft; whom have we here?
- l130l Did you not tell me this fat man was dead?
- l131l Prince Harry I did; I saw him dead,
- l132l Breathless and bleeding on the ground.
- (To Sir John) Art thou alive?
- l133l Or is it fantasy that plays upon our eyesight?
- l134l I prithee speak; we will not trust our eyes
- l135l Without our ears. Thou art not what thou seemÆst.
- l136l Sir John No, thatÆs certain: I am not a double man. But
- l137l if I be not Jack Oldcastle, then am I a jack. There is
- l138l Percy. If your father will do me any honour, so; if not,
- l139l let him kill the next Percy himself. I look to be either
- l140l earl or duke, I can assure you.
- l141l Prince Harry Why, Percy I killed myself, and saw thee dead.
- l142l Sir John Didst thou? Lord, Lord, how this world is given
- l143l to lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath,
- l144l and so was he; but we rose both at an instant, and
- l145l fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock. If I may be
- l146l believed, so; if not, let them that should reward valour
- l147l bear the sin upon their own heads. IÆll take Æt on my
- l148l death I gave him this wound in the thigh. If the man
- l149l were alive and would deny it, zounds, I would make
- l150l him eat a piece of my sword.
- l151l John Of Lancaster This is the strangest tale that eÆer I heard.
- l152l Prince Harry This is the strangest fellow, brother John.
- (To Sir John)
- l153l Come, bring your luggage nobly on your back.
- l154l For my part, if a lie may do thee grace,
- l155l IÆll gild it with the happiest terms I have.
- (A retreat is sounded)
- l156l The trumpet sounds retreat; the day is our.
- l157l Come, brother, let us to the highest of the field
- l158l To see what friends are living, who are dead.
- (Exeunt the Prince and Lancaster)
- l159l Sir John IÆll follow, as they say, for reward. He that
- l160l rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, IÆll
- l161l grow less; for IÆll purge, and leave sack, and live
- l162l cleanly, as a nobleman should do.
- (Exit, bearing Hotspur's body)
-