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- {\pard\f0\fs28{\fs48 1 Henry IV
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- {\b\fs36 5.5}
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- {\i The trumpets sound. Enter King Henry, Prince\
- Harry, Lord John of Lancaster, the Earl of\
- Westmorland, with the Earl of Worcester and Sir\
- Richard Vernon, prisoners, [and soldiers]\
- }{\b \fs24 KING HENRY\
- } Thus ever did rebellion find rebuke.\
- Ill-spirited Worcester, did not we send grace,\
- Pardon, and terms of love to all of you?\
- And wouldst thou turn our offers contrary,\
- Misuse the tenor of thy kinsman's trust? {\fs20 5}\
- Three knights upon our party slain today,\
- A noble earl, and many a creature else,\
- Had been alive this hour\
- If like a Christian thou hadst truly borne\
- Betwixt our armies true intelligence. {\fs20 10}\
- {\b \fs24 WORCESTER\
- } What I have done my safety urged me to,\
- And I embrace this fortune patiently,\
- Since not to be avoided it falls on me.\
- {\b \fs24 KING HENRY\
- } Bear Worcester to the death, and Vernon too.\
- Other offenders we will pause upon. {\fs20 15}\
- {\i Exeunt Worcester and Vernon, guarded\
- } How goes the field?\
- {\b \fs24 PRINCE HARRY\
- } The noble Scot Lord Douglas, when he saw\
- The fortune of the day quite turned from him,\
- The noble Percy slain, and all his men\
- Upon the foot of fear, fled with the rest; {\fs20 20}\
- And falling from a hill he was so bruised\
- That the pursuers took him. At my tent\
- The Douglas is, and I beseech your grace\
- I may dispose of him.\
- {\b \fs24 KING HENRY} With all my heart. {\fs20 25}\
- {\b \fs24 PRINCE HARRY\
- } Then, brother John of Lancaster,\
- To you this honourable bounty shall belong.\
- Go to the Douglas, and deliver him\
- Up to his pleasure ransomless and free.\
- His valours shown upon our crests today {\fs20 30}\
- Have taught us how to cherish such high deeds\
- Even in the bosom of our adversaries.\
- {\b \fs24 JOHN OF LANCASTER\
- } I thank your grace for this high courtesy,\
- Which I shall give away immediately.\
- {\b \fs24 KING HENRY\
- } Then this remains, that we divide our power. {\fs20 35}\
- You, son John, and my cousin Westmorland,\
- Towards York shall bend you with your dearest speed\
- To meet Northumberland and the prelate Scrope,\
- Who, as we hear, are busily in arms.\
- Myself and you, son Harry, will towards Wales, {\fs20 40}\
- To fight with Glyndw\'c3r and the Earl of March.\
- Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway,\
- Meeting the check of such another day;\
- And since this business so fair is done,\
- Let us not leave till all our own be won. {\fs20 45}\
- Exeunt [the King, the Prince, and their power\
- at one door, Lancaster, Westmorland, and their\
- power at another door]\
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