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- HENRY THE FOURTH PART 1
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- Act 2 Scene 2
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- (Enter Prince Harry, Poins, Harvey, and Russell)
- l1l Poins Come, shelter, shelter!
- (Exeunt Harvey and Russell at another door)
- l2l I have removed OldcastleÆs horse, and he frets like a
- l3l gummed velvet.
- l4l Prince Harry Stand close!
- (Exit Poins)
- (Enter Sir John Oldcastle)
- l5l Sir John Poins! Poins, and be hanged! Poins!
- l6l Prince Harry Peace, ye fat-kidneyed rascal! What a
- l7l brawling dost thou keep!
- l8l Sir John WhereÆs Poins, Hal?
- l9l Prince Harry He is walked up to the top of the hill. IÆll
- l10l go seek him.
- (Exit)
- l11l Sir John I am accursed to rob in that thiefÆs company.
- l12l The rascal hath removed my horse and tied him I know
- l13l not where. If I travel but four foot by the square further
- l14l afoot, I shall break my wind. Well, I doubt not but to
- l15l die a fair death, for all thisùif I scape hanging for
- l16l killing that rogue. I have forsworn his company hourly
- l17l any time this two-and-twenty years, and yet I am
- l18l bewitched with the rogueÆs company. If the rascal have
- l19l not given me medicines to make me love him, IÆll be
- l20l hanged. It could not be else: I have drunk medicines.
- l21l Poins! Hal! A plague upon you both! Russell! Harvey!
- l22l IÆll starve ere IÆll rob a foot further. An Ætwere not as
- l23l good a deed as drink to turn true man and to leave
- l24l these rogues, I am the veriest varlet that ever chewed
- l25l with a tooth. Eight yards of uneven ground is threescore
- l26l and ten miles afoot with me, and the stony-hearted
- l27l villains know it well enough. A plague upon Æt when
- l28l thieves cannot be true one to another!
- (They whistle. Enter Prince Harry, Poins, Harvey, and
- Russell)
- l29l Whew! A plague upon you all! Give me my horse, you
- l30l rogues, give me my horse, and be hanged!
- l31l Prince Harry Peace, ye fat-guts. Lie down, lay thine ear
- l32l close to the ground, and list if thou canst hear the
- l33l tread of travellers.
- l34l Sir John Have you any levers to lift me up again, being
- l35l down? ÆSblood, IÆll not bear my own flesh so far afoot
- l36l again for all the coin in thy fatherÆs exchequer. What
- l37l a plague mean ye to colt me thus?
- l38l Prince Harry Thou liest: thou art not colted, thou art
- l39l uncolted.
- l40l Sir John I prithee, good Prince Hal, help me to my horse,
- l41l good kingÆs son.
- l42l Prince Harry Out, ye rogue, shall I be your ostler?
- l43l Sir John Hang thyself in thine own heir-apparent garters!
- l44l If I be taÆen, IÆll peach for this. An I have not ballads
- l45l made on you all and sung to filthy tunes, let a cup of
- l46l sack be my poison. When a jest is so forward, and
- l47l afoot too! I hate it.
- (Enter Gadshill visored)
- l48l Gadshill Stand!
- l49l Sir John So I do, against my will.
- l50l Poins O, Ætis our setter, I know his voice. Gadshill, what
- l51l news?
- l52l [Gadshill] Case ye, case ye, on with your visors! ThereÆs
- l53l money of the KingÆs coming down the hill; Ætis going
- l54l to the KingÆs exchequer.
- l55l Sir John You lie, ye rogue, Ætis going to the KingÆs tavern.
- l56l Gadshill ThereÆs enough to make us all.
- l57l Sir John To be hanged.
- (They put on visors)
- l58l Prince Harry Sirs, you four shall front them in the
- l59l narrow lane. Ned Poins and I will walk lower. If they
- l60l scape from your encounter, then they light on us.
- l61l Harvey How many be there of them?
- l62l Gadshill Some eight or ten.
- l63l Sir John Zounds, will they not rob us?
- l64l Prince Harry What, a coward, Sir John Paunch?
- l65l Sir John Indeed I am not John of Gaunt your grandfather,
- l66l but yet no coward, Hal.
- l67l Prince Harry Well, we leave that to the proof.
- l68l Poins Sirrah Jack, thy horse stands behind the hedge.
- l69l When thou needest him, there thou shalt find him.
- l70l Farewell, and stand fast.
- l71l Sir John Now cannot I strike him if I should be hanged.
- l72l Prince Harry (aside to Poins) Ned, where are our disguises?
- l73l Poins (aside to the Prince) Here, hard by. Stand close.
- (Exeunt the Prince and Poins)
- l74l Sir John Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say
- l75l I; every man to his business.
- (They stand aside.)
- (Enter the Travellers, amongst them the Carriers)
- l76l [First] Traveller Come, neighbour, the boy shall lead
- l77l our horses down the hill. WeÆll walk afoot a while, and
- l78l ease their legs.
- l79l Thieves (coming forward) Stand!
- l80l [Second] Traveller Jesus bless us!
- l81l Sir John Strike, down with them, cut the villainsÆ throats!
- l82l Ah, whoreson caterpillars, bacon-fed knaves! They hate
- l83l us youth. Down with them, fleece them!
- l84l [First] Traveller O, we are undone, both we and ours
- l85l for ever!
- l86l Sir John Hang ye, gorbellied knaves, are ye undone? No,
- l87l ye fat chuffs; I would your store were here. On, bacons,
- l88l on! What, ye knaves! Young men must live. You are
- l89l grand-jurors, are ye? WeÆll jure ye, faith.
- (Here they rob them and bind them. Exeunt the thieves
- with the travellers)
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