Act V, Scene VI — Windsor castle.
Flourish. Enter BOLINGBROKE, YORK, with other Lords, and Attendants.[1943]
Boling. Kind uncle York, the latest news we hear[1944] Is that the rebels have consumed with fire Our town of Cicester in Gloucestershire;[1945] But whether they be ta'en or slain we hear not.
Enter NORTHUMBERLAND.[1946]
Welcome, my lord: what is the news?[1947][1948] 5
North. First, to thy sacred state wish I all happiness.[1947] The next news is, I have to London sent The heads of Oxford, Salisbury, Blunt, and Kent:[1949] The manner of their taking may appear At large discoursed in this paper here. 10
Boling. We thank thee, gentle Percy, for thy pains; And to thy worth will add right worthy gains.
Enter FITZWATER.[1950]
Fitz. My lord, I have from Oxford sent to London The heads of Brocas and Sir Bennet Seely,[1951] Two of the dangerous consorted traitors 15 That sought at Oxford thy dire overthrow.
Boling. Thy pains, Fitzwater, shall not be forgot;[1952] Right noble is thy merit, well I wot.[1953]
Enter PERCY, and the BISHOP of CARLISLE.
Percy. The grand conspirator, Abbot of Westminster, With clog of conscience and sour melancholy 20 Hath yielded up his body to the grave; But here is Carlisle living, to abide[1954] Thy kingly doom and sentence of his pride.
Boling. Carlisle, this is your doom:[1955] Choose out some secret place, some reverend room,[1956] 25 More than thou hast, and with it joy thy life;[1957] So as thou livest in peace, die free from strife: For though mine enemy thou hast ever been, High sparks of honour in thee have I seen.
Enter EXTON, with persons bearing a coffin.[1958]
Exton. Great king, within this coffin I present 30 Thy buried fear: herein all breathless lies The mightiest of thy greatest enemies,[1959] Richard of Bordeaux, by me hither brought.[1960]
Boling. Exton, I thank thee not; for thou hast wrought A deed of slander, with thy fatal hand,[1961] 35 Upon my head and all this famous land.
Exton. From your own mouth, my lord, did I this deed.[1962]
Boling. They love not poison that do poison need, Nor do I thee: though I did wish him dead, I hate the murderer, love him murdered. 40 The guilt of conscience take thou for thy labour, But neither my good word nor princely favour: With Cain go wander thorough shades of night,[1963] And never show thy head by day nor light.[1964] Lords, I protest, my soul is full of woe, 45 That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow:[1965] Come, mourn with me for that I do lament,[1966] And put on sullen black incontinent:[1967] I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land,[1968] To wash this blood off from my guilty hand: 50 March sadly after; grace my mournings here;[1969] In weeping after this untimely bier. [Exeunt.[1970]
FOOTNOTES:
[1705] ACT V. SCENE I.] Ff Q₅. ACT IV. SCENE II. Capell.
London ... Tower.] Capell. Continues in London. Pope.
Enter ... Ladies] Ff Q₅. Enter the Queene with her attendants Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ (Enter Queene Q₃ Q₄).
[1706] Enter ... Guard.] Ff Q₅. Enter Ric. Q₁ Q₂. Enter Richard. Q₃ Q₄.
[1707] Ah, thou] Thou Rowe (ed. 2). O thou Pope.
[To K. Rich. Rowe.
model] modle Q₁ Q₂.
[1708] brother, sweet] (brother sweet) Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[1709] Hie] High Ff Q₅.
[1710] stricken] Ff Q₅. thrown Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[1711] What] How Pope.
[1712] weaken'd] weak Pope, ending the line at depos'd. Qq Ff end the line at Bullingbrooke.
Bolingbroke] proud Bolingbroke Capell. this Bolingbroke Collier MS. (ending the line as Qq Ff).
[1713] thy] the Q₁.
correction mildly,] Ff Q₅. correction, mildly Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[1714] a king] the king Q₁.
beasts] beast Q₅.
[1715] but beasts] but beast Q₃ Q₄.
[1716] sometime queen,] (sometimes queene) Q₁ Q₂. _(sometime Queene)_ Q₃ Q₄ F₁ F₂ Q₅. (sometime) queen F₃ F₄.
[1717] thy] Q₁. The rest my.
[1718] thee] the Q₁.
[1719] betid] Hanmer. betidde Q₁. betide Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅.
[1720] night] om. Q₄.]
quit] Ff Q₅. quite Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. quiet Anon. conj.
griefs] griefes Q₁. griefe Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ F₁ F₂ Q₅. grief F₃ F₄.
[1721] tale] fall Ff Q₅.
[1722] For ... king] Put in the margin by Pope.
[1723] For why,] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. For why? Ff Q₅.
sympathize] simpathie Q₂. simpathy Q₃ Q₄.
[1724] The heavy] With the heavy Keightley conj.
thy] my F₂ Q₅ F₃ F₄.
[1725] and others] Capell.
[1726] SCENE II. Pope.
[1727] corruption] convulsion Collier conj.
[1728] And he] Rowe. He Qq Ff.
know'st] knowest Q₁.
[1729] wilt] will Q₃ Q₄.
[1730] urged,] urg'd, F₂ Q₅ F₃ F₄. urg'd Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ F₁.
[1731] men] friends Ff Q₅.
[1732] North.] om. Q₂.
there] there's F₄.
[1733] you] ye Ff Q₅.
[1734] marriage; 'twixt] Ff Q₅. marriage twixt Q₁. marriage, betwixt Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[1735] 'twixt] betwixt Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[To the Queen. Rowe.
[1736] wife] Queene Ff Q₅.
set] sent Anon. conj.
[1737] Hallowmas] Malone. Hollowmas Qq Ff.
short'st of day] shortest day Rowe.
[1738] Ay ... heart] Omitted by Pope.
[1739] North.] Ff Q₅. King. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[1740] Then ... part] Put in the margin by Pope.
[1741] thou] om. Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
for] for for Q₅.
[1742] off ... the near] off than neere be nere the neare Q₁. off then neere be nere the neere Q₂. off then neere be neare the neere Q₃ Q₄. off, then neere, be ne're the neere F₁ F₂ Q₅ (than F₂ Q₅) and so, substantially, F₃ F₄. off, than--near, be ne'er the near' Capell. off than near, being ne'er the near Collier (Collier MS.). See note (XXIV).
[1743] dumbly] Q₁ F₃ F₄. dumbely F₁ F₂. doubly Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
[1744] [They kiss. Rowe.
[1745] mine] my Q₃ Q₄.
[1746] [Kiss again. Rowe.
[1747] SCENE II.] SCENE III. Pope. ACT V. SCENE I. Capell.
The ... palace.] Pope. The same (i.e. London). A room in York's house. Capell.
Enter ...] Ff Q₅. Enter the Duke of Yorke and the Dutchesse. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[1748] off] of Q₁. om. Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[1749] windows']window Pope.
[1750] Whilst] Q₁. While Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅.
thee,] F₄. thee F₁ F₂ Q₅ F₃. the Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[1751] thee!] thee, Ff Q₅. the Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[1752] the one] one Ff Q₅.
[1753] Bespake] Bespeak F₄. Bespoke Rowe.
[1754] Alack] Alac Q₁. Alacke Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. Alas Ff Q₅.
rode] Q₁. rides Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅.
whilst] while Pope.
[1755] gentle Richard] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. gentle Ric. Q₁. Richard Ff Q₅. See note (XXV).
[1756] bound] bind Capell.
[1757] subjects] subject Q₃ Q₄.
[1758] for] for for F₂.
[1759] SCENE IV. Pope.
[1760] to] in F₂ F₃ F₄.
Enter Aumerle.] Ff (after line 40). Enter Aum. Q₃ Q₄ (at line 41). om. Q₁ Q₂.
[1761] are] art Q₃ Q₄.
[1762] spring?] Ff Q₅. spring Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[1763] nor ... not] nor do greatly care Hanmer.
care not] care Rowe.
[1764] hold those ...] Ff Q₅. do these ... hold Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[1765] my lord] om. Pope.
they do] om. Capell.
[1766] I know] om. Pope.
[1767] prevent] prevent me Rowe. prevent it Capell.
purpose] do purpose Grant White conj.
[1768] Yea ... let me] Yea ... come, let me Hanmer. Yea ... boy, let me Malone conj. Boy ... come, let me Rann conj.
pale?] pale, sir? Capell.
writing] writing, sir Keightley conj. See note (XXVI).
[1769] see] sees Ff Q₅.
[1770] I fear,--] I fear me-- Seymour conj.
What] You fear? What Capell.
fear?] fear, my lord? Pope.
[1771] band] bond Ff Q₅.
that he is] he's Pope.
[1772] gay] gay and fit Seymour conj.
'gainst ... day.] gainst ... day. Q₁. against the triumph. Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅. now against the triumph. Hanmer.
[1773] bound to?] Q₄ Ff Q₅. bound to. Q₁ Q₂. bound to: Q₃.
[pushing her away. Capell.
[1774] I do beseech] 'Beseech Capell. I beseech Seymour conj.
pardon me] To pardon me, my lord Seymour conj.
[1775] see it] see't Q₅.
[He ... reads it.] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. Snatches it. Ff Q₅.
[1776] What is] What's Ff Q₅.
[1777] who is] who's Ff Q₅.
Enter a Servant.] Servant appears. Capell. om. Qq Ff.
Saddle] Saddle me Hanmer.
[1778] God] Heaven Ff Q₅.
here!] Capell. here? Qq Ff.
[1779] is it] is't Ff Q₅.
[1780] [Exit Servant.] Capell.
[1781] mine] my Ff Q₅.
by my ... by my] Q₁. my ... my Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅. by my ... my Pope.
[1782] What is] What's Capell.
[1783] woman] woman, peace Seymour conj.
[1784] Aumerle] sonne F₁ F₂ Q₅. son F₃ F₄.
[1785] SCENE V. Pope.
me] om. F₂ Q₅ F₃ F₄.
Re-enter ...] Enter ... Ff Q₅ (after line 84). His man enters with his bootes. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[1786] [Speaking to the Servant. Pope.
[1787] I say] om. Pope.
[1788] thou not] not thou Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[1789] mad] and mad Q₅.
[1790] set down] set F₃ F₄. have set Rowe.
their] there Q₁.
[1791] He ... here] As one line in Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[1792] Away ... him] As in Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄; as prose in Ff Q₅; as two lines in Rowe (ed. 2), the first ending times.
[1793] Were] where F₂.
[1794] Hadst ... done] Arranged as in Rowe (ed. 2); as one line in Qq Ff.
[1795] thou wouldst] thou wouldest F₁ F₂ Q₅. thou'dst Rowe (ed. 2).
[1796] Not] Nor Rowe (ed. 2).
to] om. Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
or] Q₁. The rest nor.
[1797] Spur post] Spur, post Capell.
[1798] be gone] om. Pope.
[Exeunt.] Exit. Ff. Ex. Q₁.
[1799] SCENE III.] SCENE VI. Pope. SCENE II. Capell.
A royal Palace.] Oxford. Pope. The court at Windsor-Castle. Theobald.
Enter ...] Ff Q₅. Enter the King with his nobles. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[1800] tell me] tell Ff Q₅.
[1801] God] heaven Ff Q₅.
[1802] beat ... rob] rob ... beat Ff Q₅.
[1803] Which] While Pope. Whilst Capell.
young wanton] yong wanton Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. yong wanton, F₁ F₂. young wanton, Q₅ F₃ F₄. young, wanton Rowe.
[1804] Takes ... crew] As in Ff Q₅; as one line in Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[1805] So ... crew] See note (XXVII).
[1806] those] these Ff Q₅. the Hanmer.
[1807] unto] to Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[1808] common'st] Ff Q₅. commonest Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[1809] See note (XXVIII).
[1810] sparks] sparkles Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
sparks of better] sparks of Pope. sparkles of a better Capell (reading as one line which ... forth).
years] dayes Ff Q₅.
[1811] Enter A.] Ff Q₅. Enter Aumerle amazed. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[1812] What ... wildly?] Arranged as by Collier; as one line in Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄; as two lines in Ff Q₅, the first ending stares; as two lines in Capell, the first ending means.
[1813] our] my Q₅.
[1814] Exeunt ...] Exeunt Lords. Hanmer.
[1815] [Kneels. Rowe.
[1816] on] but Pope. of Collier (ed. 2). only Anon. conj.
[1817] I may] May Q₁.
[1818] my tale be] my tale me F₁. the tale be F₂ Q₅ F₃ F₄.
[1819] [Aumerle rises, and locks the door. Capell.
[1820] The Duke of Yorke knocks at the doore and cryeth. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ (knokes Q₁). Yorke within. Ff (at line 38).
beware ... thy self] lock to thyself; beware; Anon. conj.
thyself] thyself, my liege Capell.
[1821] [Drawing.] In act to stab. Capell.
[1822] Villain ... hand] As one line in Capell.
[1823] Stay ... fear] As in Qq; as prose in Ff.
[1824] [Within] Capell.
secure, foolhardy] secure foole, hardie Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ (hardy Q₃ Q₄).
[1825] SCENE VII. Pope.
[Opens and shuts again. Capell.
[1826] What ... danger] As in Capell; as two lines in Qq Ff, the first ending breath.
[1827] speak; Recover] speak, take Pope. Recover Capell.
[1828] treason] reason Ff Q₅.
[1829] It was, villain ... did set] Villain, it was ... set Pope.
[1830] it] om. Q₂.
[1831] not] nos Q₄.
[1832] the] thee Q₄.
[1833] sheer] clear Pope.
[1834] held] Q₁ Q₂. hald Q₃ Q₄. had Ff Q₅.
[1835] converts to bad] converts the bad Warburton (Theobald conj.). covers the bad Long MS.
[1836] thy] thine F₂ Q₅ F₃ F₄.
abundant] aboundant Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[1837] See note (XXIX).
[1838] [Within] om. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. Dutchesse within Ff (after line 72).
God's] heavens Ff Q₅.
[1839] shrill-voiced] shril voice Q₁ Q₂.
[1840] thy] thine Ff Q₅.
[1841] Our ... King] Put in the margin by Pope.
[1842] alter'd from ... thing, And now] _alter'd; from ... thing, 'Tis now_ Capell.
[1843] she is] she's Ff Q₅.
[Aumerle unlocks the door. Dyce.
[1844] this] his Pope.
[1845] fester'd] fetter'd Capell (corrected in Notes).
rest rest] rest rests Ff Q₅. rest is Pope.
[1846] SCENE VII. Pope.
hard-hearted] heard-hearted F₂.
[1847] make] do Rowe (ed. 2).
[1848] walk] kneele F₁ F₂ Q₅. kneel F₃ F₄.
[1849] give joy] give light Anon. conj.
[1850] Ill ... grace] Omitted in Ff Q₅.
[1851] do] om. Pope.
in] om. Capell.
[1852] come] do come Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[1853] shall] Ff Q₅. still Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
ground] earth Capell (corrected in Notes).
[1854] them] him Q₅.
have] crave Pope.
[1855] prayer] prayers Ff Q₅.
have] crave S. Walker conj.
[1856] Boling.] Bul. Ff Q₅. Yorke Q₁. King. Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[1857] Say ... and] But ... and Ff Q₅. But ... say Pope.
[1858] An if] Theobald. And if Qq Ff.
[1859] thee] the Q₄.
[1860] The word ... rehearse] Put in the margin by Pope. Placed by Theobald after strong, line 134.
[1861] mouths] F₃ F₄. mouthes Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. mouth's F₁ F₂ Q₅.
[1862] say] sayd F₂.
pardonne moi] pardonne moy Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. pardon'ne moy Ff Q₅. pardonnez moy Rowe. pardon,--a moi! Bubier conj.
[1863] pardon pardon to destroy?] pardon? pardon to destroy: Q₃ Q₄.
[1864] set'st] Q₅ F₂ F₃ F₄. sets Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. set's F₁.
[1865] Boling.] Yorke. Q₁.
[1866] God] heaven Ff Q₅.
[1867] With ... him] Pope. I pardon him with all my heart QqFf (al Q₁ Q₂; hart F₁).
[1868] and the] the Ff Q₅. --the Theobald. See note (XXX).
[1869] where'er ... are] where else ... be Collier MS.
[1870] They ... new] Put in the margin by Pope.
[1871] if I once know] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ F₁. once know F₂ F₃ F₄. if I once knew Q₅. so I once know Collier MS.
[1872] too] Q₅. om. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Ff. mine Collier (Collier MS.). See note (XXXI).
[1873] [Exeunt.] Exeunt. Manet sir Pierce Exton, &c. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ (Pirce Q₁). Exit. Ff Q₅.
[1874] SCENE IV.] Steevens. SCENE IX. Pope. SCENE III. Capell. SCENE continued in Ff Q₅.
Enter ...] Ff Q₅ (Servants. F₁).
[1875] king] K. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
words] works Q₃.
[1876] Ser.] Ff Q₅. Man. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[1877] These] Those Ff Q₅.
very] om. Q₅.
[1878] friend] friends F₂.
[1879] speaking it, he wistly] speaking't wistly, Seymour conj.
wistly] wishtly Q₁ Q₂. wistfully Reed (1803).
[1880] should] shall F₂ F₃ F₄.
[1881] [Exeunt] Q₃ Q₄. Exit. Ff Q₅. om. Q₁ Q₂.
[1882] SCENE V.] Steevens. Scæna Quarta. Ff Q₅. SCENE X. Pope. SCENE IV. Capell.
Pomfret castle.] A prison at Pomfret castle. Pope.
Enter ...] Enter R. alone. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. Enter R. Ff Q₅.
[1883] I may] Q₁. to Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅.
[1884] hammer it] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. hammer't Ff Q₅.
it out] on't Pope.
[1885] I'll prove] shall prove Hanmer. will prove Keightley conj.
[1886] contented] content Hanmer.
[1887] word ... word] faith ... faith Ff Q₅.
[1888] Against ... again] As in Capell; as one line in QqFf.
[1889] the] thy Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[1890] postern] small posterne Q₃ Q₄.
small] om. Ff Q₅.
[1891] through] Ff Q₅. thorow Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[1892] Nor] And Pope.
silly] Ff Q₅. seely Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[1893] refuge] refnuge Q₄.
refuge their] refuse that Q₅.
[1894] sit] set Q₁ Q₂.
[1895] misfortunes] misfortune Ff Q₅.
[1896] person] Q₁. The rest prison.
[1897] king] a king Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[1898] treasons make] treason makes Ff Q₅.
[1899] king'd] king Q₂. a king Q₃ Q₄.
[1900] be] am Ff Q₅.
[1901] With nothing] With anything Keightley conj.
[1902] hear?] heare, Q₁ Q₂. heare; Q₃ Q₄.
[Music.] musike plaies. Q₁ Q₂. Musicke playes. Q₃. Musicks plaies. Q₄. Musick. Ff Q₅ (after line 38).
[1903] ear] care Q₄.
[1904] check] heare F₁ F₂ Q₅. hear F₃ F₄.
a] om. Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
disorder'd] Ff Q₅. disordered Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[1905] me] om. Q₃ Q₄.
[1906] jar] Hanmer. jar, F₄. jarre; F₃. iarre, Qq F₁ F₂.
[1907] Their] There Q₄ Q₅.
watches on] watch is on Jackson conj. motions Keightley conj.
on unto mine] to mine F₂ Q₅ F₃ F₄. on; mine Johnson conj. on mine Anon. conj.
[1908] sir] for Collier (Collier conj.).
sound ... tells] sounds ... tell Pope.
[1909] which] that Ff Q₅.
[1910] Which ... groans] Repeated in Q₂.
[1911] times, and hours] houres, and times Ff Q₅.
but] O, but F₂ Q₅ F₃ F₄.
[1912] o' the] o' th' Ff Q₅. of the Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[1913] have] hath Q₄.
holp] help'd Pope.
[1914] wise men] wise-men Ff Q₅.
[1915] brooch] broach Hunter conj. gift Anon. M.S. apud Halliwell.
all-hating] fall-hating Hanmer (Warburton conj.).
Enter ... stable.] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. Enter Groome. Ff Q₅.
[1916] SCENE XI. Pope.
[1917] Thanks ... dear.] Put in the margin by Pope.
[1918] groats] gortes Q₂.
[1919] art thou? and how] art? how Pope.
hither] hither, man Capell. in hither Keightley conj.
[1920] never] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. ever Q₄ Ff Q₅.
dog] Q₁ Q₂ F₄. dogge Q₃ Q₄ F₁ F₂ Q₅ F₃. drudge Theobald (Warburton). Doeg Becket conj.
[1921] sometimes royal] (sometimes royall) Ff Q₅. sometime Pope. sometimes Steevens.
[1922] yearn'd] F₄. ernd Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. yern'd F₁ F₂ F₃ Q₅.
[1923] bestrid] bestride Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[1924] proudly as if he] proudly as if he had Ff Q₅. proudly as he had Pope. proud as if he had Collier (Collier MS.).
[1925] Spurr'd, gall'd] Spurrde, galld Q₁ Q₂. Spurde, galde Q₃ Q₄. Spur-gall'd Ff Q₅. See note (XXXII).
jouncing] jaunting Pope.
Enter ...] Ff Q₅. Enter one to Richard with meate. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ (Richa. Q₂). (Q₃ Q₄ after line 97).
[1926] SCENE XII. Pope.
[1927] [Exit.] Ff Q₅. Exit Groome. Q₁ Q₃ Q₄. Exit Groom. Q₂ (in margin opposite line 101).
[1928] My lord] The meat, my lord Capell.
will't] wil't F₄. The rest wilt.
[1929] art] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. wert Q₄. wer't Ff Q₅. were Theobald.
[1930] As two lines, the first ending Exton, in QqFf; as prose first in Collier. Malone makes the first line end at who.
[1931] not: sir] not; for sir Pope.
Pierce] Piercie Q₂.
[1932] lately] late Pope.
[1933] Henry of] Harry Capell conj.
[1934] [Beats ...] Rowe. om. QqFf.
[1935] Enter ... Servants, armed.] Enter ... servants. Ff Q₅. The murderers rush in. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
Exton] Exton with an Halberd Long MS.
[1936] what means death ... assault?] what? mean'st death ... assault? Staunton conj. what means? Death ... assault! Bubier conj.
[1937] Villain] Wretch Pope.
thy] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. thine Q₄ Ff Q₅.
instrument.] instrument, QqFf.
[Snatching ...] Snatching an axe and killing him. Capell. om. QqFf. Snatching a sword. Pope. wrests the halberd from him and strikes at him. Long MS.
[1938] [He kills another.] Pope. om. QqFf.
Then Exton ...] Here Exton ... Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. Exton ... Ff Q₅.
[1939] Exton] om. Pope.
[1940] [Dies.] Rowe. om. QqFf.
[1941] spill'd] spilld Q₁ Q₂. spild Q₃ Q₄. spilt Ff Q₅.
[1942] [Exeunt.] Exit. Ff Q₅. om. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[1943] SCENE VI.] Steevens. SCÆNA QUINTA. Ff Q₅. SCENE XIII. Pope. SCENE V. Capell.
Windsor castle.] The Court at Windsor. Theobald. Scene changes. Pope.
Flourish. Enter ...] Ff Q₅. Enter Bullingbrooke, with the Duke of Yorke. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ (Bullbrooke Q₂).
[1944] Boling.] King. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ (and throughout the scene).
Kind] om. F₂ Q₅ F₃ F₄.
[1945] of] om. Q₄.
Cicester] Rowe. Ciceter QqFf.
[1946] Enter N.] Enter N. Q₃ Q₄ (after line 5).
[1947] Welcome ... First, to] S. Walker reads as one line.
[1948] news?] news with you? Collier (Collier MS.).
[1949] Oxford, Salisbury, Blunt] Q₁. Oxford, Salisbury Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. Salsbury, Spencer, Blunt Ff Q₅ (Salsbury F₁).
[1950] Fitzwater.] Q₅. Lord Fitzwaters. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. Fitz-waters. Ff Q₅.
[1951] Brocas] Capell. Broccas Qq Ff.
[1952] Fitzwater] Q₅. Fitz. Q₁ Q₂. Fitz: Q₃ Q₄. Fitzwaters Ff.
[1953] Enter....] Rowe. Enter Percy and Carlile. Ff Q₅ (Piercy. F₃). Enter H. Percie. Q₁ Q₂. Enter Henrie Percie. Q₃ Q₄.
[1954] living, to] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. living to Ff Q₅.
[1955] Carlisle, this is] Bishop of Carlisle, this shall be Collier MS.
[1956] reverend] reverent Q₁ Q₂.
[1957] than] Q₁ F₂ Q₅ F₃ F₄. then Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ F₁.
life] selfe F₂ Q₅. self F₃ F₄.
[1958] Enter....] Capell. Enter Exton with the Coffin. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. Enter ... a coffin. Ff Q₅.
[1959] greatest] mighty Capell conj.
[1960] Bordeaux] Burdeaux Qq Ff.
[1961] slander] slaunder Q₁. The rest slaughter.
[1962] lord] Lo. Q₁ Q₃ Q₄.
[1963] thorough shades] through shades Q₁. through the shade Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Ff Q₅. through the shades Rowe (ed. 1).
[1964] nor] or Pope.
[1965] to make] and make F₂ Q₅ F₃ F₄.
[1966] that] what Pope.
[1967] black incontinent:] black. Incontinent Collier MS.
[1968] Holy] Holly Q₁.
[1969] mournings] mourning Ff Q₅.
[1970] after] over Pope.
[Exeunt.] Ff Q₅. om. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
NOTES.
NOTE I.
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ. We have made some slight changes in the titles and order of the dramatis personæ in accordance with the suggestion of Mr George Russell French, who writes to us: "Why should Edmund Langley be placed before his elder brother John of Gaunt? The title of 'Berkely' should be simply 'Lord,' as that family were not made Earls till the time of Charles II. Shakespeare only calls him 'Lorde Barkley.' I would recommend that the name of 'Sir Pierce Exton' should be placed after that of 'Sir Stephen Scroop,' as the latter was actually a baron of Parliament. The 'Duchess of York' should have precedence over the 'Duchess of Gloucester,' whose husband was the youngest son of Edward III."
NOTE II.
I. 1. 2. Band is given by Minsheu with the sense of 'obligation' (Guide into Tongues, 1617). Both words band and bond were concurrently in use with the same sense. In this play, V. 2. 65, the first four Quartos read band, the Folios and the fifth Quarto bond, while in the 67th line both Quartos and Folios agree in bond.
NOTE III.
I. 1. 149. In this place and in several others Capell in his Various Readings has attributed the reading of the fourth Quarto to the third. The same error is found 34. 5, Brittaine; 46. 22, two; 46. 31, profession; 47. 11, impresse; 48. 21, from my; 49. 26, can cannot; 78. 17, night; 88. 30, the how; 92. 18, have holp.
NOTE IV.
SCENE II. As usual, there is no division into Acts and Scenes in the Quartos. We follow generally the Folios in their arrangement, carefully noting the exceptions.
NOTE V.
I. 2. 1. We retain here the reading of the Quartos which is doubtless what Shakespeare wrote. Probably it was altered for the stage, because 'Thomas of Woodstock' was better known to the audience by his title 'Duke of Gloucester.'
NOTE VI.
I. 2. 70. Notwithstanding the paramount authority of the first Quarto we conceive that the antithesis between there see, line 67, and hear there, is too marked to admit of a doubt that the reading of the second is to be preferred in this place.
NOTE VII.
I. 3. 7. The stage direction in the text is made up of those given in the Quartos and Folios. The first Quarto has: The trumpets sound and the King enters with his nobles; when they are set, enter the Duke of Norfolke in armes defendant.
The first Folio has: _Flourish. Enter King, Gaunt, Bushy, Bagot, Greene, and others: Then Mowbray in Armor, and Harrold._
At I. 3. 25, the first Quarto gives as the stage direction, The trumpets sound. Enter Duke of Hereford appellant in armour. The first Folio has simply, Tucket. Enter Hereford, and Harold.
NOTE VIII.
I. 3. 20. Notwithstanding that the emendation of the Folios yields an easier sense, we follow the reading of the Quartos, which may be explained, inasmuch as the Duke of Norfolk's 'succeeding issue' would be involved in the forfeiture incurred by disloyalty to his king. It may also be noted that King Richard had never any issue.
NOTE IX.
I. 3. 127. Capell's copy of the first Quarto has cruell. Another copy is said, in the Variorum edition of 1821, to have the reading civil (or civill), but we have been unable to trace it. Mr George Daniel, who possesses the only known copy besides Capell's, informs us that it has cruell.
NOTE X.
I. 3. 129-133. Pope first restored to the text the five lines omitted in the Folios and the fifth Quarto. He found them in the Quarto of 1598, which he took to be 'the first edition.' Warburton 'put them,' as he says, 'into hooks, not as spurious, but as rejected on the author's revise.' Capell omitted the five lines next following. ''Tis probable,' he says, 'that the lines now omitted were left negligently in the MS. from which the Quarto was printed; that a mark was set on them when the Folio came out, but mistook by the printer of it, who changed the sound for the unsound.'
NOTE XI.
I. 3. 150. Some commentators have quoted the second Folio as reading 'slye slow.' In Capell's copy and in Long's it is certainly 'flye slow.' Mr Collier in a letter to Notes and Queries mentions that he has found 'flye slow' in other copies.
NOTE XII.
I. 3. 239-242. Pope introduced the two last of the lines he omitted in this place at the end of Gaunt's speech after line 245. Theobald restored lines 239, 240 to their original place, but left lines 241, 242 as he found them in Pope.
NOTE XIII.
II. 1. 40-55. This royal throne ... stubborn Jewry. This passage, with the exception of line 50, is quoted in England's Parnassus, p. 348 (1600), and is there attributed to M. Dr., i.e. Michael Drayton, whose England's Heroical Epistles had been published two years before. The three lines I. 1. 177-179 are also quoted at p. 113 of the same collection.
NOTE XIV.
II. 1. 254. The Folios omitted noble, in order to correct the redundant line. But Alexandrines occur too frequently in this play to admit of the supposition that they are all due to printers' or transcribers' errors. The author probably found the occasional recurrence of a six foot line no stumbling-block in the even road of his blank verse.
NOTE XV.
II. 1. 277, 278. Pope makes a bold emendation here:
'Then thus, my friends. I have from Port le Blanc, A bay in Bretagne, had intelligence, &c.'
The first Quarto reads thus:
'Then thus, I have from le Port Blan A Bay in Brittaine receiude intelligence, &c.'
And, excepting that Q₃ reads 'Brittanie,' the rest are substantially the same.
The first Folio has 'Port le Blan' and 'Britaine.'
The arrangement of the lines in the text agrees with Capell's.
NOTE XVI.
II. 1. 279 sqq. This passage stands thus in the first Quarto:
'That Harry duke of Herford, Rainold L. Cobham That late broke from the Duke of Exeter His brother, archbishop late of Canterburie, Sir Thomas Erpingham, sir John Ramston Sir Iohn Norbery, sir Robert Waterton and Francis Coines:'
and the three following are almost the same to a letter.
For 'Ramston' and 'Coines' the first Folio has 'Rainston' and 'Quoint.'
According to Holinshed it was not Lord Cobham but 'Thomas Arundell' who escaped from the Duke of Exeter's house, where he was kept.
In order to make Shakespeare and the Chronicler agree, Capell reads:
'That Harry Hereford, Reignold lord Cobham; The archbishop late of Canterbury; his nephew That late broke from the duke of Exeter; &c.'
Malone introduces within brackets the following line:
'[The son of Richard earl of Arundel].'
His view that a line is lost seems to us more probable than Capell's transpositions, omission, and insertion. And as Shakespeare evidently wrote with Holinshed before him, it is not probable that he would have made such an error as we find in the printed text.
Ritson proposed to fill up the gap with
'[The son and heir of the late earl of Arundel],'
which is taken almost verbatim from Holinshed.
NOTE XVII.
II. 2. 109. The Quarto of 1597 reads the lines thus:
'Gentlemen, will you go muster men? If I know how or which way to order these affayres Thus, &c.'
The other editions have the same arrangement (the Folios omitting 'go' in the first line).
Pope reads:
'Gentlemen, will you go and muster men? If I know how to order these affairs, Disorderly thrust, &c.'
Capell reads:
'Gentlemen, will you muster men? if I know How, or which way, to order these affairs Thus most disorderly thrust, &c.'
Mr Dyce has:
'Gentlemen, will you go muster men? if I know How, or which way, &c.'
Mr Staunton says in a note: The redundant or which way I have always suspected to be an interlineation of the poet's, who had not decided whether to read 'how to order these affairs,' or 'which way to order.'
Perhaps the author in expressing York's agitation and perplexity, instinctively broke into irregular rhythm, and the rest of the speech might be printed as prose.
NOTE XVIII.
II. 3. 5. The fact that Drawes (not Draws) is the reading of the first Quarto tends to show that the singular is not a misprint for the plural. The construction is not unfrequent in Shakespeare nor in colloquial language even at the present time. It is as if the author had said, 'Travelling over these high wild hills, &c. Draws....'
NOTE XIX.
III. 2. 70. Theobald in a letter to Warburton, Nichols' Illustrations, Vol. II. p. 398, suggests that in lines 70, 76, 85, we should read 'forty thousand,' because Holinshed says that Lord Salisbury raised forty thousand men in Wales for the King.
But the proposed reading would not suit the metre in line 70; and it is difficult to see how the mistake should have arisen in two places if the poet had written 'forty' originally in all three.
NOTE XX.
III. 3. 52. Capell seems to have printed 'the castle's' by mistake for 'this castle's'--the reading of all the old copies. The mistake was copied in several subsequent editions.
NOTE XXI.
III. 4. 22. 'And I could sing, would weeping do me good, And never borrow any tear of thee.'
Although most editors have acquiesced in Pope's conjecture 'weep' for 'sing,' we retain 'sing,' which all the Quartos and Folios agree in. The mistake is not one which a transcriber or printer would be likely to make, and the original reading yields a very good sense. The Queen speaks with an emphasis on 'sing:' 'And I could even sing for joy if my troubles were only such as weeping could alleviate, and then I would not ask you to weep for me.'
NOTE XXII.
IV. 1. 52. Pope added to Aumerle's speech three lines he found in the Quarto, beginning 'Who sets me else ...?' without intimating that it contained other five lines, 'I task thee ... thou dar'st,' which he omitted. The omission escaped the notice of Theobald and Warburton. Johnson was the first to supply it. He added in a note: 'This speech I have restored from the first edition in humble imitation of former editors, though, I believe, against the mind of the authour. For the earth I suppose we ought to read, thy oath.'
NOTE XXIII.
IV. 1. 280 sqq. The third and fourth Quartos (the earliest editions which contain this scene) read here:
'... prosperitie. Was this the face that euery day vnder his Houshold roofe did keepe ten thousand men? Was this the face that faast so many follies, And was ...'
The first Folio has:
'... prosperitie, Thou do'st beguile me. Was this Face, the Face That every day, vnder his House-hold Roofe, Did keepe ten thousand men? Was this the Face, That like the Sunne, did make beholders winke? Is this the Face, which fac'd so many follyes, That was ...'
NOTE XXIV.
V. 1. 88. Sidney Walker (Criticisms, Vol. I. p. 189-193) has collected instances of 'near' and 'far' used in the sense of 'nearer' and 'farther.' For an instance of the latter, see Winter's Tale, IV. 4. 420, 'Far than Deucalion off.'
NOTE XXV.
V. 2. 28. Possibly 'God save him' should be printed in a line by itself.
NOTE XXVI.
V. 2. 57. Malone says of this passage: 'Perhaps like many other speeches in this scene it was not intended for verse.'
NOTE XXVII.
V. 3. 12. Mr Staunton thinks that the words 'So dissolute a crew' were part of a line which was intended to be cancelled, or to supply the place of 'even such they say,' line 8.
NOTE XXVIII.
V. 3. 21-24. Capell's arrangement is as follows:
'As dissolute as desperate: yet through both, I see some sparkles of a better hope, Which elder years may happily bring forth. But who comes here?'
NOTE XXIX.
V. 3. 66. Steevens, in his edition of 1778, says, 'The modern editors read:--transgressing.' The only edition in which we have found this reading is that of Johnson and Steevens, 1773.
NOTE XXX.
V. 3. 137. Theobald reads:
'But for our trusty brother-in-law,--the Abbot,'
and adds in a note: 'Without these marks of disjunction, ... the abbot here mention'd and Bolingbroke's brother-in-law seem to be one and the same person: but this was not the case.... The brother-in-law, meant, was John Duke of Exeter and Earl of Huntingdon, (own brother to King Richard II.) and who had married with the lady Elizabeth sister to Henry of Bolingbroke.'
NOTE XXXI.
V. 3. 144. 'Cousin too, adieu,' which is generally attributed to Theobald, is really the reading of the Quarto of 1634 (Q₅).
Perhaps the line may be amended thus:
'Uncle, farewell; farewell, aunt; cousin, adieu.'
Many as harsh-sounding lines may be found, and it seems only consonant with good manners that the king should take leave of his aunt as well as of the others. There is a propriety too in his using a colder form of leave-taking to his guilty cousin than to his uncle and aunt.
NOTE XXXII.
V. 4. 94. Mr Staunton says that Q₁ reads 'Spurn'd, gall'd.' Our copy has 'Spurrde, galld.' Though 'Spur-gall'd' is an extremely probable correction, we adhere to our rule of following the higher authority whenever it seems to yield a reasonable sense.
THE FIRST PART OF
KING HENRY THE FOURTH.
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ[I].
KING HENRY the Fourth. HENRY, Prince of Wales, } JOHN of Lancaster, } sons to the King. EARL of WESTMORELAND. SIR WALTER BLUNT. THOMAS PERCY, Earl of Worcester. HENRY PERCY, Earl of Northumberland. HENRY PERCY, surnamed HOTSPUR, his son. EDMUND MORTIMER, Earl of March. RICHARD SCROOP, Archbishop of York. ARCHIBALD, Earl of DOUGLAS. OWEN GLENDOWER. SIR RICHARD VERNON. SIR JOHN FALSTAFF. SIR MICHAEL, a friend to the Archbishop of York. POINS. GADSHILL. PETO. BARDOLPH.
LADY PERCY, wife to Hotspur, and sister to Mortimer. LADY MORTIMER, daughter to Glendower, and wife to Mortimer. MISTRESS QUICKLY, hostess of a tavern in Eastcheap.
Lords, Officers, Sheriff, Vintner, Chamberlain, Drawers, two Carriers, Travellers, and Attendants.
SCENE: England.
[I] DRAMATIS PERSONÆ. First given by Rowe. See note (I).
THE FIRST PART OF
KING HENRY IV.
Act I, Scene I — London. The palace.
Enter KING HENRY, LORD JOHN of LANCASTER, the EARL of WESTMORELAND, SIR WALTER BLUNT, and others.[1971]
King. So shaken as we are, so wan with care,[1972] Find we a time for frighted peace to pant, And breathe short-winded accents of new broils To be commenced in stronds afar remote.[1973] No more the thirsty entrance of this soil[1974] 5 Shall daub her lips with her own children's blood;[1975] No more shall trenching war channel her fields, Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs[1976][1977] Of hostile paces: those opposed eyes,[1977][1978] Which, like the meteors of a troubled heaven, 10 All of one nature, of one substance bred, Did lately meet in the intestine shock And furious close of civil butchery Shall now, in mutual well-beseeming ranks,[1979] March all one way and be no more opposed 15 Against acquaintance, kindred and allies:[1980] The edge of war, like an ill-sheathed knife, No more shall cut his master. Therefore, friends, As far as to the sepulchre of Christ, Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross[1981] 20 We are impressed and engaged to fight, Forthwith a power of English shall we levy;[1982] Whose arms were moulded in their mothers' womb[1983] To chase these pagans in those holy fields[1984] Over whose acres walk'd those blessed feet 25 Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd For our advantage on the bitter cross. But this our purpose now is twelve month old,[1985] And bootless 'tis to tell you we will go: Therefore we meet not now. Then let me hear 30 Of you, my gentle cousin Westmoreland, What yesternight our council did decree In forwarding this dear expedience.[1986]
West. My liege, this haste was hot in question, And many limits of the charge set down 35 But yesternight: when all athwart there came A post from Wales loaden with heavy news; Whose worst was, that the noble Mortimer, Leading the men of Herefordshire to fight[1987] Against the irregular and wild Glendower, 40 Was by the rude hands of that Welshman taken,[1988] A thousand of his people butchered;[1989] Upon whose dead corpse there was such misuse,[1990] Such beastly shameless transformation,[1991] By those Welshwomen done, as may not be 45 Without much shame retold or spoken of.[1992]
King. It seems then that the tidings of this broil Brake off our business for the Holy Land.
West. This match'd with other did, my gracious lord;[1993] For more uneven and unwelcome news[1994] 50 Came from the north and thus it did import:[1995] On Holy-rood day, the gallant Hotspur there, Young Harry Percy, and brave Archibald, That ever-valiant and approved Scot, At Holmedon met,[1996][1997] 55 Where they did spend a sad and bloody hour;[1996] As by discharge of their artillery, And shape of likelihood, the news was told;[1998] For he that brought them, in the very heat[1999] And pride of their contention did take horse, 60 Uncertain of the issue any way.
King. Here is a dear, a true industrious friend,[2000] Sir Walter Blunt, new lighted from his horse, Stain'd with the variation of each soil[2001] Betwixt that Holmedon and this seat of ours;[2002] 65 And he hath brought us smooth and welcome news.[2003] The Earl of Douglas is discomfited: Ten thousand bold Scots, two and twenty knights,[2004] Balk'd in their own blood did Sir Walter see[2005] On Holmedon's plains. Of prisoners, Hotspur took[2006] 70 Mordake the Earl of Fife, and eldest son[2007] To beaten Douglas; and the Earl of Athol,[2008][2009] Of Murray, Angus, and Menteith:[2009][2010] And is not this an honourable spoil? A gallant prize? ha, cousin, is it not?[2011] 75
West. In faith,[2011] It is a conquest for a prince to boast of.[2011]
King. Yea, there thou makest me sad and makest me sin In envy that my Lord Northumberland Should be the father to so blest a son,[2012] 80 A son who is the theme of honour's tongue; Amongst a grove, the very straightest plant; Who is sweet Fortune's minion and her pride: Whilst I, by looking on the praise of him, See riot and dishonour stain the brow 85 Of my young Harry. O that it could be proved[2013] That some night-tripping fairy had exchanged In cradle-clothes our children where they lay,[2014] And call'd mine Percy, his Plantagenet![2015] Then would I have his Harry, and he mine. 90 But let him from my thoughts. What think you, coz,[2016] Of this young Percy's pride? the prisoners, Which he in this adventure hath surprised, To his own use he keeps; and sends me word, I shall have none but Mordake Earl of Fife. 95
West. This is his uncle's teaching: this is Worcester, Malevolent to you in all aspects; Which makes him prune himself, and bristle up[2017] The crest of youth against your dignity.
King. But I have sent for him to answer this; 100 And for this cause awhile we must neglect Our holy purpose to Jerusalem. Cousin, on Wednesday next our council we[2018] Will hold at Windsor; so inform the lords:[2018][2019] But come yourself with speed to us again; 105 For more is to be said and to be done[2020] Than out of anger can be uttered.
West. I will, my liege. [Exeunt.
Act I, Scene II — London. An apartment of the Prince's.
Enter the PRINCE of WALES and FALSTAFF.[2021]
Fal. Now, Hal, what time of day is it, lad?
Prince. Thou art so fat-witted, with drinking of old[2022] sack and unbuttoning thee after supper and sleeping upon benches after noon, that thou hast forgotten to demand[2023] that truly which thou wouldst truly know. What a devil 5 hast thou to do with the time of the day? Unless hours were cups of sack and minutes capons and clocks the tongues of bawds and dials the signs of leaping-houses and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-coloured taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so[2024] 10 superfluous to demand the time of the day.
Fal. Indeed, you come near me now, Hal; for we that[2025] take purses go by the moon and the seven stars, and not[2026] by Phœbus, he, 'that wandering knight so fair.' And, I prithee, sweet wag, when thou art king, as, God save[2027] 15 thy grace,--majesty I should say, for grace thou wilt have none,--
Prince. What, none?
Fal. No, by my troth, not so much as will serve to[2028] be prologue to an egg and butter. 20
Prince. Well, how then? come, roundly, roundly.
Fal. Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us that are squires of the night's body be called thieves of the day's beauty: let us be Diana's foresters, gentlemen[2029] of the shade, minions of the moon; and let men say we 25 be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.[2030]
Prince. Thou sayest well, and it holds well too; for the fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and 30 flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon. As, for proof, now: a purse of gold most resolutely[2031] snatched on Monday night and most dissolutely spent on Tuesday morning; got with swearing 'Lay by' and spent[2032] with crying 'Bring in;' now in as low an ebb as the foot of 35 the ladder and by and by in as high a flow as the ridge of[2033] the gallows.
Fal. By the Lord, thou sayest true, lad. And is not[2034] my hostess of the tavern a most sweet wench?[2035]
Prince. As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the[2036] 40 castle. And is not a buff jerkin a most sweet robe of durance?
Fal. How now, how now, mad wag! what, in thy quips and thy quiddities? what a plague have I to do with a buff jerkin? 45
Prince. Why, what a pox have I to do with my hostess of the tavern?
Fal. Well, thou hast called her to a reckoning many[2037] a time and oft.
Prince. Did I ever call for thee to pay thy part? 50
Fal. No; I'll give thee thy due, thou hast paid all there.
Prince. Yea, and elsewhere, so far as my coin would stretch; and where it would not, I have used my credit.
Fal. Yea, and so used it that, were it not here apparent[2038] 55 that thou art heir apparent--But, I prithee, sweet[2039] wag, shall there be gallows standing in England when thou art king? and resolution thus fobbed as it is with the rusty[2040] curb of old father antic the law? Do not thou, when thou art king, hang a thief.[2041] 60
Prince. No; thou shalt.
Fal. Shall I? O rare! By the Lord, I'll be a brave[2042] judge.
Prince. Thou judgest false already: I mean, thou shalt have the hanging of the thieves and so become a 65 rare hangman.
Fal. Well, Hal, well; and in some sort it jumps with my humour as well as waiting in the court, I can tell you.
Prince. For obtaining of suits?
Fal. Yea, for obtaining of suits, whereof the hangman 70 hath no lean wardrobe. 'Sblood, I am as melancholy as a[2043] gib cat or a lugged bear.[2044]
Prince. Or an old lion, or a lover's lute.
Fal. Yea, or the drone of a Lincolnshire bagpipe.[2045]
Prince. What sayest thou to a hare, or the melancholy 75 of Moor-ditch?
Fal. Thou hast the most unsavoury similes and art[2046] indeed the most comparative, rascalliest, sweet young[2047] prince. But, Hal, I prithee, trouble me no more with vanity. I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity[2048] 80 of good names were to be bought. An old lord of the council rated me the other day in the street about you,[2049] sir, but I marked him not; and yet he talked very[2049] wisely, but I regarded him not; and yet he talked wisely,[2050] and in the street too.[2051] 85
Prince. Thou didst well; for wisdom cries out in the[2052] streets, and no man regards it.[2052][2053]
Fal. O, thou hast damnable iteration and art indeed[2054] able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon[2055] me, Hal; God forgive thee for it! Before I knew thee, 90 Hal, I knew nothing; and now am I, if a man should[2056] speak truly, little better than one of the wicked. I must give over this life, and I will give it over: by the Lord, an[2057] I do not, I am a villain: I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom. 95
Prince. Where shall we take a purse to-morrow, Jack?
Fal. 'Zounds, where thou wilt, lad; I'll make one; an[2058] I do not, call me villain and baffle me.
Prince. I see a good amendment of life in thee; from praying to purse-taking. 100
Fal. Why, Hal, 'tis my vocation, Hal; 'tis no sin for a man to labour in his vocation.
Enter POINS.[2059]
Poins! Now shall we know if Gadshill have set a match.[2060][2061] O, if men were to be saved by merit, what hole in hell were hot enough for him? This is the most omnipotent 105 villain that ever cried 'Stand' to a true man.
Prince. Good morrow, Ned.
Poins. Good morrow, sweet Hal. What says Monsieur Remorse? what says Sir John Sack and Sugar?[2062] Jack! how agrees the devil and thee about thy soul, that[2062][2063] 110 thou soldest him on Good-Friday last for a cup of Madeira and a cold capon's leg?
Prince. Sir John stands to his word, the devil shall have his bargain; for he was never yet a breaker of proverbs:[2064] he will give the devil his due.[2065] 115
Poins. Then art thou damned for keeping thy word with the devil.
Prince. Else he had been damned for cozening the[2066] devil.
Poins. But, my lads, my lads, to-morrow morning, by 120 four o'clock, early at Gadshill! there are pilgrims going to[2067] Canterbury with rich offerings, and traders riding to London with fat purses: I have vizards for you all; you have horses for yourselves: Gadshill lies to-night in Rochester: I have bespoke supper to-morrow night in Eastcheap: we[2068] 125 may do it as secure as sleep. If you will go, I will stuff your purses full of crowns; if you will not, tarry at home[2069] and be hanged.
Fal. Hear ye, Yedward; if I tarry at home and go[2070] not, I'll hang you for going. 130
Poins. You will, chops?
Fal. Hal, wilt thou make one?
Prince. Who, I rob? I a thief? not I, by my faith.[2071]
Fal. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee, nor thou earnest not of the blood royal, if[2072] 135 thou darest not stand for ten shillings.[2073]
Prince. Well then, once in my days I'll be a madcap.
Fal. Why, that's well said.
Prince. Well, come what will, I'll tarry at home.
Fal. By the Lord, I'll be a traitor then, when thou[2074] 140 art king.
Prince. I care not.
Poins. Sir John, I prithee, leave the prince and me[2075] alone: I will lay him down such reasons for this adventure that he shall go. 145
Fal. Well, God give thee the spirit of persuasion and[2076] him the ears of profiting, that what thou speakest may[2076] move and what he hears may be believed, that the true[2077] prince may, for recreation sake, prove a false thief; for the poor abuses of the time want countenance. Farewell: you 150 shall find me in Eastcheap.
Prince. Farewell, thou latter spring! farewell, Allhallown[2078] summer! [Exit Falstaff.[2079]
Poins. Now, my good sweet honey lord, ride with us to-morrow: I have a jest to execute that I cannot manage 155 alone. Falstaff, Bardolph, Peto and Gadshill shall rob[2080] those men that we have already waylaid; yourself and I will not be there; and when they have the booty, if you and I do not rob them, cut this head off from my shoulders.[2081]
Prince. How shall we part with them in setting[2082] 160 forth?
Poins. Why, we will set forth before or after them, and appoint them a place of meeting, wherein it is at our pleasure to fail, and then will they adventure upon the exploit themselves; which they shall have no sooner achieved, but[2083] 165 we'll set upon them.
Prince. Yea, but 'tis like that they will know us by[2084] our horses, by our habits and by every other appointment, to be ourselves.
Poins. Tut! our horses they shall not see; I'll tie 170 them in the wood; our vizards we will change after we[2085] leave them: and, sirrah, I have cases of buckram for the[2086] nonce, to immask our noted outward garments.
Prince. Yea, but I doubt they will be too hard for us.[2087]
Poins. Well, for two of them, I know them to be as[2088][2089] 175 true-bred cowards as ever turned back; and for the third,[2089] if he fight longer than he sees reason, I'll forswear arms. The virtue of this jest will be, the incomprehensible lies that this same fat rogue will tell us when we meet at supper:[2090] how thirty, at least, he fought with; what wards, what[2091] 180 blows, what extremities he endured; and in the reproof of[2092] this lies the jest.[2093]
Prince. Well, I'll go with thee: provide us all things necessary and meet me to-morrow night in Eastcheap;[2094] there I'll sup. Farewell. 185
Poins. Farewell, my lord. [Exit.
Prince. I know you all, and will awhile uphold The unyoked humour of your idleness: Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds 190 To smother up his beauty from the world, That, when he please again to be himself, Being wanted, he may be more wonder'd at, By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapours that did seem to strangle him. 195 If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But when they seldom come, they wish'd for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. So, when this loose behaviour I throw off 200 And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes;[2095] And like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, 205 Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off.[2096] I'll so offend, to make offence a skill; Redeeming time when men think least I will. [Exit.[2097]
Act I, Scene III — London. The palace.[2098]
Enter the KING, NORTHUMBERLAND, WORCESTER, HOTSPUR, SIR WALTER BLUNT, with others.
King. My blood hath been too cold and temperate, Unapt to stir at these indignities, And you have found me; for accordingly[2099] You tread upon my patience: but be sure[2100] I will from henceforth rather be myself, 5 Mighty and to be fear'd, than my condition;[2101] Which hath been smooth as oil, soft as young down,[2102] And therefore lost that title of respect[2103] Which the proud soul ne'er pays but to the proud.[2104]
Wor. Our house, my sovereign liege, little deserves 10 The scourge of greatness to be used on it; And that same greatness too which our own hands Have holp to make so portly.[2105]
North. My lord,--[2106]
King. Worcester, get thee gone; for I do see[2107] 15 Danger and disobedience in thine eye: O, sir, your presence is too bold and peremptory,[2108] And majesty might never yet endure The moody frontier of a servant brow.[2109] You have good leave to leave us: when we need 20 Your use and counsel, we shall send for you. [Exit Wor.[2110] You were about to speak. [To North.
North. Yea, my good lord.[2111] Those prisoners in your highness' name demanded,[2112] Which Harry Percy here at Holmedon took,[2113] Were, as he says, not with such strength denied[2114] 25 As is deliver'd to your majesty:[2115] Either envy, therefore, or misprision[2116] Is guilty of this fault and not my son.[2117]
Hot. My liege, I did deny no prisoners. But I remember, when the fight was done, 30 When I was dry with rage and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, and trimly dress'd,[2118] Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new reap'd Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home; 35 He was perfumed like a milliner; And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose and took 't away again;[2119] Who therewith angry, when it next came there,[2119] 40 Took it in snuff; and still he smiled and talk'd,[2119][2120] And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by,[2121] He call'd them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility. 45 With many holiday and lady terms[2122] He question'd me; amongst the rest, demanded[2123] My prisoners in your majesty's behalf. I then, all smarting with my wounds being cold,[2124] To be so pester'd with a popinjay,[2125][2126] 50 Out of my grief and my impatience,[2125] Answer'd neglectingly I know not what, He should, or he should not; for he made me mad[2127] To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet And talk so like a waiting-gentlewoman 55 Of guns and drums and wounds,--God save the mark!-- And telling me the sovereign'st thing on earth[2128] Was parmaceti for an inward bruise; And that it was great pity, so it was, This villanous salt-petre should be digg'd[2129] 60 Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly; and but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.[2130] This bald unjointed chat of his, my lord, 65 I answer'd indirectly, as I said;[2131] And I beseech you, let not his report[2132] Come current for an accusation Betwixt my love and your high majesty.
Blunt. The circumstance consider'd, good my lord, 70 Whate'er Lord Harry Percy then had said[2133] To such a person and in such a place, At such a time, with all the rest re-told, May reasonably die and never rise To do him wrong or any way impeach 75 What then he said, so he unsay it now.[2134]
King. Why, yet he doth deny his prisoners,[2135] But with proviso and exception, That we at our own charge shall ransom straight His brother-in-law, the foolish Mortimer; 80 Who, on my soul, hath wilfully betray'd[2136] The lives of those that he did lead to fight Against that great magician, damn'd Glendower,[2137] Whose daughter, as we hear, the Earl of March[2138] Hath lately married. Shall our coffers, then, 85 Be emptied to redeem a traitor home? Shall we buy treason? and indent with fears,[2139] When they have lost and forfeited themselves? No, on the barren mountains let him starve;[2140] For I shall never hold that man my friend 90 Whose tongue shall ask me for one penny cost To ransom home revolted Mortimer.
Hot. Revolted Mortimer! He never did fall off, my sovereign liege,[2141] But by the chance of war: to prove that true[2141][2142] 95 Needs no more but one tongue for all those wounds,[2143] Those mouthed wounds, which valiantly he took, When on the gentle Severn's sedgy bank,[2144] In single opposition, hand to hand, He did confound the best part of an hour 100 In changing hardiment with great Glendower: Three times they breathed and three times did they drink, Upon agreement, of swift Severn's flood; Who then, affrighted with their bloody looks, Ran fearfully among the trembling reeds, 105 And hid his crisp head in the hollow bank[2145] Bloodstained with these valiant combatants. Never did base and rotten policy[2146] Colour her working with such deadly wounds; Nor never could the noble Mortimer[2147] 110 Receive so many, and all willingly: Then let not him be slander'd with revolt.[2148]
King. Thou dost belie him, Percy, thou dost belie him;[2149] He never did encounter with Glendower: I tell thee,[2150] 115 He durst as well have met the devil alone As Owen Glendower for an enemy. Art thou not ashamed? But, sirrah, henceforth[2151] Let me not hear you speak of Mortimer: Send me your prisoners with the speediest means, 120 Or you shall hear in such a kind from me As will displease you. My Lord Northumberland,[2152] We license your departure with your son. Send us your prisoners, or you will hear of it.
[Exeunt King Henry, Blunt, and train.[2153]
Hot. An if the devil come and roar for them,[2154] 125 I will not send them: I will after straight And tell him so; for I will ease my heart, Albeit I make a hazard of my head.[2155]
North. What, drunk with choler? stay and pause awhile: Here comes your uncle.
Re-enter WORCESTER.[2156]
Hot. Speak of 130 'Zounds, I will speak of him; and let my soul[2157] Want mercy, if I do not join with him: Yea, on his part I'll empty all these veins,[2158] And shed my dear blood drop by drop in the dust,[2159] But I will lift the down-trod Mortimer[2160] 135 As high in the air as this unthankful king,[2161] As this ingrate and canker'd Bolingbroke.
North. Brother, the king hath made your nephew mad.
Wor. Who struck this heat up after I was gone?
Hot. He will, forsooth, have all my prisoners; 140 And when I urged the ransom once again Of my wife's brother, then his cheek look'd pale, And on my face he turn'd an eye of death, Trembling even at the name of Mortimer.
Wor. I cannot blame him: was not he proclaim'd[2162] 145 By Richard that dead is the next of blood?[2163]
North. He was; I heard the proclamation: And then it was when the unhappy king,-- Whose wrongs in us God pardon!--did set forth Upon his Irish expedition; 150 From whence he intercepted did return To be deposed and shortly murdered.
Wor. And for whose death we in the world's wide mouth Live scandalized and foully spoken of.[2164]
Hot. But, soft, I pray you; did King Richard then 155 Proclaim my brother Edmund Mortimer[2165] Heir to the crown?
North. He did; myself did hear it.
Hot. Nay, then I cannot blame his cousin king, That wish'd him on the barren mountains starve.[2166] But shall it be, that you, that set the crown 160 Upon the head of this forgetful man And for his sake wear the detested blot[2167] Of murderous subornation, shall it be,[2168] That you a world of curses undergo, Being the agents, or base second means, 165 The cords, the ladder, or the hangman rather?[2169] O, pardon me that I descend so low,[2170] To show the line and the predicament Wherein you range under this subtle king; Shall it for shame be spoken in these days, 170 Or fill up chronicles in time to come, That men of your nobility and power Did gage them both in an unjust behalf,[2171] As both of you--God pardon it!--have done, To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose, 175 And plant this thorn, this canker, Bolingbroke? And shall it in more shame be further spoken, That you are fool'd, discarded and shook off By him for whom these shames ye underwent? No; yet time serves wherein you may redeem 180 Your banish'd honours and restore yourselves[2172] Into the good thoughts of the world again, Revenge the jeering and disdain'd contempt Of this proud king, who studies day and night To answer all the debt he owes to you[2173] 185 Even with the bloody payment of your deaths:[2174] Therefore, I say,--
Wor. Peace, cousin, say no more: And now I will unclasp a secret book,[2175] And to your quick-conceiving discontents[2176] I'll read you matter deep and dangerous,[2177] 190 As full of peril and adventurous spirit As to o'er-walk a current roaring loud[2178] On the unsteadfast footing of a spear.[2179]
Hot. If he fall in, good night! or sink or swim:[2180] Send danger from the east unto the west, 195 So honour cross it from the north to south,[2181] And let them grapple: O, the blood more stirs[2182] To rouse a lion than to start a hare!
North. Imagination of some great exploit Drives him beyond the bounds of patience. 200
Hot. By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap,[2183] To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks; 205 So he that doth redeem her thence might wear Without corrival all her dignities:[2184] But out upon this half-faced fellowship!
Wor. He apprehends a world of figures here, But not the form of what he should attend.[2185] 210 Good cousin, give me audience for a while.[2186]
Hot. I cry you mercy.
Wor. Those same noble Scots[2187] That are your prisoners,--[2187]
Hot. I'll keep them all; By God, he shall not have a Scot of them;[2188] No, if a Scot would save his soul, he shall not: 215 I'll keep them, by this hand.
Wor. You start away And lend no ear unto my purposes. Those prisoners you shall keep.
Hot. Nay, I will; that's flat:[2189] He said he would not ransom Mortimer; Forbad my tongue to speak of Mortimer; 220 But I will find him when he lies asleep, And in his ear I'll holla 'Mortimer!'[2190] Nay,[2191] I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak[2191] Nothing but 'Mortimer,' and give it him,[2192] 225 To keep his anger still in motion.
Wor. Hear you, cousin; a word.[2193]
Hot. All studies here I solemnly defy, Save how to gall and pinch this Bolingbroke: And that same sword-and-buckler Prince of Wales, 230 But that I think his father loves him not And would be glad he met with some mischance, I would have him poison'd with a pot of ale.[2194]
Wor. Farewell, kinsman: I'll talk to you[2195] When you are better temper'd to attend. 235
North. Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool[2196] Art thou to break into this woman's mood, Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own![2197]
Hot. Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourged with rods, Nettled, and stung with pismires, when I hear 240 Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke. In Richard's time,--what do you call the place?--[2198] A plague upon it, it is in Gloucestershire;[2199] 'Twas where the madcap duke his uncle kept. His uncle York; where I first bow'd my knee 245 Unto this king of smiles, this Bolingbroke,--[2200] 'Sblood!--[2201] When you and he came back from Ravenspurgh.
North. At Berkley-castle.
Hot. You say true: 250 Why, what a candy deal of courtesy[2202] This fawning greyhound then did proffer me![2203] Look, 'when his infant fortune came to age,'[2204] And 'gentle Harry Percy,' and 'kind cousin;' O, the devil take such cozeners! God forgive me![2205] 255 Good uncle, tell your tale; I have done.[2206][2207]
Wor. Nay, if you have not, to it again;[2206][2208][2209] We will stay your leisure.[2206][2208]
Hot. I have done, i' faith.[2210]
Wor. Then once more to your Scottish prisoners. Deliver them up without their ransom straight, 260 And make the Douglas' son your only mean[2211] For powers in Scotland; which, for divers reasons Which I shall send you written, be assured, Will easily be granted. You, my lord,[2212] [To Northumberland. Your son in Scotland being thus employ'd, 265 Shall secretly into the bosom creep[2213] Of that same noble prelate, well beloved, The archbishop.
Hot. Of York, is it not?[2214]
Wor. True; who bears hard 270 His brother's death at Bristol, the Lord Scroop.[2215] I speak not this in estimation, As what I think might be, but what I know Is ruminated, plotted and set down, And only stays but to behold the face 275 Of that occasion that shall bring it on.
Hot. I smell it: upon my life, it will do well.[2216]
North. Before the game is a-foot, thou still let'st slip.[2217]
Hot. Why, it cannot choose but be a noble plot:[2218] And then the power of Scotland and of York, 280 To join with Mortimer, ha?
Wor. And so they shall.[2219]
Hot. In faith, it is exceedingly well aim'd.
Wor. And 'tis no little reason bids us speed, To save our heads by raising of a head; For, bear ourselves as even as we can, 285 The king will always think him in our debt, And think we think ourselves unsatisfied,[2220] Till he hath found a time to pay us home:[2221] And see already how he doth begin[2222] To make us strangers to his looks of love. 290
Hot. He does, he does: we'll be revenged on him.
Wor. Cousin, farewell: no further go in this Than I by letters shall direct your course.[2223] When time is ripe, which will be suddenly,[2223] I'll steal to Glendower and Lord Mortimer;[2224] 295 Where you and Douglas and our powers at once, As I will fashion it, shall happily meet, To bear our fortunes in our own strong arms, Which now we hold at much uncertainty.
North. Farewell, good brother: we shall thrive, I trust. 300
Hot. Uncle, adieu: O, let the hours be short[2225] Till fields and blows and groans applaud our sport! [Exeunt.[2226]
FOOTNOTES:
[1971] SC. I. London ...] London. Pope. The court in London. Theobald.
Earl of Westmoreland] om. Capell.
Sir Walter Blunt] Capell and Dering MS. om. Qq Ff. See note (XXI).
[1972] wan] worn Collier MS.
[1973] stronds] strands Capell.
[1974] thirsty entrance] thrifty earers Anon. conj.]
entrance] entrails F₄. entrants Steevens conj. Erinnys Steevens, 1793 (Mason conj.). bosom Dering MS. Johnson supposes a line or two to be lost.
[1975] daub] dawbe Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₇ Q₈. daube Q₅ Q₆ F₁. dambe F₂ F₃. damb F₄. damp Theobald. trempe Warburton.
her lips] his lips Q₈.
[1976] flowerets] flowers Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
[1977] hoofs ... paces] pace ... hoofs Seymour conj.
[1978] eyes] arms Hanmer. files Warburton.
[1979] mutual] naturall Q₈.
[1980] allies] all eyes Q₄.
[1981] soldier] souldiers Q₈.
[1982] Forthwith a] Forth with a Q₃. Forthwith.--A Jackson conj.
levy] leavy Q₁. lead Capell.
[1983] mothers'] mother's F₄.
womb] wombs Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
[1984] these] the Long MS.
in those] from those Heath conj. and Dering MS.
[1985] now is twelve month] Q₁ Q₂. is twelve month Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. is a twelvemonth Ff. is but twelvemonths Q₇ Q₈. now is twelve months Staunton. See note (II).
[1986] this] his Q₇ Q₈.
[1987] Herefordshire] Hertfordshire Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
[1988] hands] bands Anon. conj.
[1989] A thousand] Qq. And a thousand Ff. And a full thousand Capell.
[1990] corpse] corps Qq F₃ F₄. corpes F₁ F₂. corpse' Dyce (S. Walker conj.). corses Staunton conj.
[1991] beastly shameless] beastly-shameless S. Walker conj.
[1992] retold] Qq. re-told Ff. be told Rowe (ed. 2).
[1993] other did] Q₁ Q₂. The rest other like.
[1994] For more] Far more Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈ F₃ F₄. Farre more F₁ F₂. Farther Hanmer.
[1995] import] report Q₅ Q₆ Ff Q₇ Q₈.
[1996] Arranged as in Capell. The first line ends at spend in Qq Ff. At Holmedon spent a sad and bloody hour Pope.
[1997] met] met in arms with all their powers Keightley conj.
[1998] the] om. Q₈.
[1999] them] it Pope.
[2000] a dear, a true] Q₃ Q₄. deere, a true Q₁. deare, a true Q₂. a deare and true Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Ff Q₈. See note (III).
[2001] Stain'd] Strain'd F₁ and Dering MS.
variation] variations Q₇ Q₈.
[2002] that] tha F₂. the F₃ F₄.
[2003] welcome] welcomes F₁.
[2004] two] three Theobald.
[2005] Balk'd] Bak'd Grey conj. Bath'd Heath conj. Balk'd, Warton conj. Bask'd Jackson conj. Bark'd Grant White conj.
blood did] bloud. Did Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[2006] Holmedon's] Holmedon S. Walker conj.
[2007] the] Pope. om. Qq Ff.
and] and th' Anon. conj.
[2008] To] The Theobald conj. (supposing a line lost after son). Unto the Hanmer.
Earl] F₄. Earle Qq F₁ F₂ F₃. Earls Pope.
[2009] Arranged as in Qq Ff. _Unto the beaten ... earls Of Athol, Murray...._ Hanmer. _To ... and with him the earls Of Athol, Murray...._ Capell. See note (IV).
[2010] Murray] Murrey Qq. Murry F₁. Marry F₂ F₃ F₄.
Angus] and of Angus Keightley conj.
and] and the bold Collier MS.
[2011] See note (V).
[2012] to] of Q₅ Q₆ Ff Q₇ Q₈.
[2013] that it could] could it Pope.
[2014] lay] say Q₂.
[2015] call'd] call Warburton (a misprint).
[2016] coz] cousin Pope.
[2017] prune] plume Hanmer.
[2018] Arranged as in Pope. The first line ends at hold in Qq Ff. On ... hold At Windsor, cousin: so.... Capell conj.
[2019] so] and so F₁.
inform] informer Q₅.
[2020] said ... done] done said Anon. conj.
[2021] An ... Prince's] Theobald. The same: another Room. Capell. An apartment in a tavern. Staunton.
Enter....] Enter Prince of Wales and sir John Falstaffe. Qq (Falstaffe Q₂). Enter Henry Prince of Wales, Sir John Falstaffe and Pointz. Ff.
[2022] of] om. Pope.
[2023] after noon] Qq. in the afternoone Ff.
[2024] so] Q₁ Ff. om. Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
[2025] come] came F₂ F₃ F₄.
[2026] the seven] seven Q₅ Q₆ Ff Q₇ Q₈.
[2027] prithee] pray thee F₂ F₃ F₄.
king] a king Q₁.
[2028] by my troth] Qq. Omitted in Ff.
[2029] beauty] booty Theobald.
[2030] we steal] we--steal Pope.
[2031] proof, now: a] Rowe. proofe. Now a Qq Ff (proofe: Q₇ Q₈).
[2032] 'Lay by'] Layd by F₂ F₃ F₄. lug out Hanmer.
[2033] ridge] ride F₂ F₃ F₄. tide Rowe (ed. 2).
[2034] By the Lord] Qq. Omitted in Ff.
[2035] my] mine Pope.
[2036] As the] Qq. As is the Ff.
of Hybla] Qq. Omitted in Ff.
[2037] called her] been called by her Bubier conj.
[2038] were it not] Qq. were it Ff. it is Collier MS.
[2039] apparent--But] Rowe. apparant. But Qq Ff.
[2040] fobbed] fobb'd Ff. fubd Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. snubd Q₇. snub'd Q₈.
[2041] king] Q₁ Q₂ Q₇ Q₈. a king Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Ff. See note (VI).
[2042] By the Lord] Omitted in Ff.
[2043] 'Sblood] Omitted in Ff.
[2044] gib cat] glib'd cat Tollet conj.
[2045] Lincolnshire] Linconshirs Q₄.
[2046] similes] Q₅ F₂ F₃ F₄. The rest smiles.
[2047] comparative] incomparative Hanmer.
rascalliest] Q₁ Q₂. The rest rascallest.
[2048] to God] Omitted in Ff.
[2049] you, sir] you Capell conj.
[2050] but ... talked wisely,] Omitted by Rowe (ed. 2).
[2051] and in] in Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
[2052] wisdom ... and] Omitted in Ff.
[2053] streets] Qq. street Pope.
[2054] iteration] attraction Hanmer. irritation Heath conj.
[2055] upon] Q₁. The rest unto.
[2056] am I] I am Ff.
[2057] over: by the Lord,] Qq. over by the lord; Pope.
by the Lord] Omitted in Ff.
an] Pope. and Qq Ff.
[2058] 'Zounds] Omitted in Ff.
an] Q₁ Q₂. The rest and.
[2059] Enter P.] Qq. om. Ff. Enter P. at a distance. Capell (after line 93).
[2060] SCENE III. Pope.
Poins!] Poynes Q₁. Poynes, Q₂. See note (VII).
[2061] match] Qq. watch Ff.
[2062] Sugar? Jack!] Rowe. Sugar Iacke? Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _Sugar, Iacke?_ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. Sugar: Iacke? F₁. Sugar. Iacke? F₂. _Sugar, Jack?_ F₃ F₄.
[2063] agrees ... thee] agree ... thou Pope.
[2064] yet] om. Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
[2065] he ... due] Printed in italics in Ff.
[2066] been] om. F₁.
[2067] early] be you early Capell conj.
[2068] to-morrow night] Qq. to morrow Ff.
[2069] your] you F₂.
[2070] ye] me Steevens (1793).
[2071] Who,] Who I, Anon. conj.
by my faith] Omitted in Ff.
[2072] nor] om. Pope.
[2073] stand] cry, stand, Pope.
[2074] By the Lord] Omitted in Ff.
[2075] prithee] pray thee F₂ F₃.
[2076] God give thee ... and him] Qq. maist thou have ... and he Ff.
[2077] true] om. Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
[2078] Farewell, thou] Pope. Farewell the Qq Ff. Farewell, Capell. Fare thee well, or Farewell to thee, Anon. conj.
Allhallown] Alhollowne Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. Allhollown Q₆ Ff.
[2079] Exit Fal.] F₂ F₃ F₄. om. Qq F₁.
[2080] Bardolph, Peto] Theobald. Harvey, Rossill Qq Ff. See note (VIII).
[2081] off from] Q₁ Q₂. The rest from.
[2082] How] Qq. But how Ff.
[2083] shall] om. F₂ F₃ F₄.
[2084] Yea] Qq. I Ff.
[2085] vizards] vizard Q₆.
[2086] them:] then: F₂.
[2087] Yea, but] Qq. But Ff.
[2088] know them to] know to Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
[2089] two ... third] three ... fourth Farmer conj. MS.
[2090] same] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. om. Q₅ Q₆ Ff Q₇ Q₈.
[2091] wards] words Rowe.
[2092] extremities] extermities Q₄.
[2093] lies] lives Q₁.
[2094] me to-morrow] me. To morrow Knight.
to-morrow night] to-night Capell. See note (IX).
[2095] hopes] fears Warburton.
[2096] foil] foile Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. soile Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. soyle F₁ Q₇ F₂. soyl Q₈ F₃ F₄.
[2097] [Exit.] Qq. om. Ff.
[2098] SCENE III.] SCENE IV. Pope.
The palace.] Changes to an apartment in the palace. Theobald. ... with others.] Qq.... and others. Ff.
[2099] me; for] me so Keightley conj.
[2100] tread] trade Anon. conj.
[2101] than] in Hanmer. than as Keightley conj.
[2102] young] dove's Grey conj.
[2103] that] the F₂ F₃ F₄.
[2104] soul] om. F₂ F₃ F₄.
ne'er] never Long MS.
[2105] holp] hope Q₇ Q₈. help'd Pope.
[2106] My lord] My good lord Pope. Good, my lord Seymour conj.
[2107] Worcester] Hence, Worcester Hanmer. Lord Worcester Collier MS.
I do see] I see Steevens (ed. 1793), ending lines 15, 16 at danger ... sir.
[2108] bold and peremptory] bold-peremptory Anon. conj.
[2109] frontier] frontlet Warburton. fronting Bubier conj.
servant] servants Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
[2110] [Exit Wor.] Qq. om. Ff.
[2111] [To North.] Rowe.
Yea] Yes Rowe (ed. 2).
[2112] name] om. Ff.
[2113] Holmedon] Holmsdon Q₈.
[2114] Were] Where Q₆ Q₇.
[2115] is] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. he Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. was Ff.
[2116] Either envy, therefore] Qq. Who either through envy Ff. Who ever through envy Rowe (ed. 2). Or envy therefore Pope.
[2117] Is] Qq. Was Ff.
and not] 'twas not Rowe (ed. 2).
[2118] and trimly] trimly Pope. and trim Capell.
[2119] and took't ... snuff] Put in the margin by Pope.
[2120] Took it] Tookt it Q₅.
snuff] suff Q₂.
[2121] bore] Qq. bare Ff.
[2122] terms] tearme F₁.
[2123] amongst] Q₁ Q₂. The rest among.
[2124] I then,] Qq Ff. I, then Pope. I then Rowe (ed. 2).
wounds being cold] wounds; being gal'd Warburton.
[2125] Capell (Edwards conj.) transposes these lines: Out ... impatience, To ... popinjay.
[2126] popinjay] Q₇ Q₈. The rest popingay.
[2127] or he] Qq. or Ff. he Capell.
[2128] sovereign'st] soveraignest Q₁ Q₂ Q₅ Q₆.
[2129] This] Qq. That Ff.
[2130] himself have been] have been himselfe Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
[2131] I answer'd] I answered Qq. Made me to answer Ff.
[2132] his] Q₁. The rest this.
[2133] Whate'er Lord] What ere Q₁. What e're Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. What ever Ff.
[2134] so he unsay] see, he unsays Warburton.
[2135] he] om. F₁.
[2136] on] Q₁ Q₂. The rest in.
[2137] that] Q₁ Q₂. The rest the.
[2138] the] that Q₁.
[2139] indent] in debt Jackson conj.
with fears] with foes Hanmer. with peers Johnson conj. for foes Mason conj. with feres Knight.
[2140] mountains] mountaines Q₁. The rest mountaine or mountain.
[2141] liege, But ... war: to] liege. But ... war--To Upton conj.
[2142] by] 'bides Warburton conj. bore Hanmer.
[2143] tongue for] tongue, for Rowe. tongue: for Qq. _tongue. For_ Ff.
[2144] sedgy] sedgie F₄. siedgie or siedgy Qq F₁ F₂ F₃.
[2145] crisp head] crispe-head Qq F₁. crisped-head F₂ F₃ F₄.
[2146] base and] Ff. bare and Qq. barren Jackson conj.
[2147] never] ever Rowe.
[2148] not him] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. him not Q₆ Ff Q₇ Q₈.
[2149] Percy, thou dost belie] Percy, thou beliest Pope.
[2150] I tell thee] Omitted by Pope; placed in a separate line by Steevens.
[2151] Art ... ashamed?] Art not asham'd? Pope. Art not asham'd to say't? Capell.
sirrah, henceforth] sirrah, from this hour Pope. from this hour, sir Hanmer. sirrah, from henceforth Keightley conj.
[2152] you] Qq. ye Ff.
[2153] you will] Qq. you'l F₁ F₂. you'll F₃ F₄.
[Exeunt ...] Capell. Exit King. Qq Ff.
[2154] An if] Capell. And if Qq Ff.
[2155] Albeit I make a] Qq. Although it be with Ff. Albeit it be with Singer.
[2156] Re-enter W.] Enter Worcester. Ff. Enter Wor. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. The rest omit.
[2157] 'Zounds] Qq. Yes Ff.
[2158] Yea, on his part] Qq. In his behalf Ff.
these] those F₂ F₃ F₄.
[2159] in the] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. i'th Q₅ Q₆ F₁ Q₇ F₂ Q₈ F₃. i'th' F₄. in Pope.
[2160] down-trod] Qq. downfall F₁ F₂ F₃. downfaln F₄.
[2161] in the] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. in'th Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. i'th F₁ F₂ F₃. i'th' F₄.
[2162] not he] Qq. he not Ff.
[2163] dead is] is dead S. Walker conj.
[2164] Live] Live so F₂ F₃ F₄.
[2165] Proclaim ... Mortimer] Proclaim my brother Mortimer as lawful Hanmer.
brother] cousin Anon. apud Rann. conj.
Edmund] Q₁. The rest omit.
[2166] starve] Qq. starv'd Ff.
[2167] wear] Qq. wore Ff.
[2168] subornation] subornations F₂ F₃ F₄. subordinations Rowe (ed. 2).
[2169] hangman] hangmen Hanmer.
[2170] me] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. if Q₅ Q₆ Ff Q₇ Q₈.
[2171] Did gage] Ingag'd Pope.
[2172] banish'd] tarnish'd Collier MS.
[2173] to you] Qq. unto you Ff.
[2174] payment] payments F₂ F₃ F₄.
deaths] heads Capell conj.
[2175] And now] For now Capell.
[2176] quick-conceiving] quick conveying Rowe.
discontents] discontent S. Walker conj.
[2177] you] your Q₅ Q₆ Q₇.
[2178] current] torrent Keightley conj.
[2179] unsteadfast] unsteadfull Q₇ Q₈.
footing] foording Theobald conj.
[2180] he] we Hanmer (Theobald conj.).
swim] swime Q₄. swimd Q₅ Q₆.
[2181] it] in F₂ F₃ F₄.
[2182] O] om. Q₅ Q₆ Ff Q₇ Q₈.
[2183] Hot.] om. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. Continuing the speech 201-208 to Northumberland.
an] no Becket conj.
[2184] corrival] corrivall Qq. corivall F₁ F₂ F₃. co-rival F₄.
all] of Capell (corrected in Notes).
[2185] attend] attend to Keightley conj.
[2186] After this line Ff insert And list to me.
[2187] Those ... prisoners] As in Ff; as one line in Qq.
[2188] God] Qq. heaven Ff.
[2189] Nay] om. Pope.
[2190] holla] Ff. hollow Q₁ Q₂. hollo Q₃ Q₄. hallow Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
[2191] Nay, I'll ... speak] As in Reed (1803); as one line in Qq Ff.
[2192] I'll] I will Pope.
shall be] om. Pope.
[2193] Hear] Heere Q₄.
[2194] I would] I'd Pope.
him poison'd] Qq. poison'd him Ff.
[2195] Farewell, kinsman: I'll] Farewel, my kinsman; I will Pope. Fare you well, kinsman, I will Capell.
[2196] wasp-stung] Q₁. waspe-tongue Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. wasp-tongue Q₇ Q₈. waspe-tongu'd F₁ F₂. wasp-tongu'd F₃ F₄.
[2197] Tying] Turning Keightley conj.
[2198] do you] Qq. de'ye Ff. do ye Pope.
[2199] upon it] Qq. upon't Ff.
[2200] this king] the king F₃ F₄.
[2201] 'Sblood] om. Ff. Capell puts it at the end of line 246.
[2202] candy deal of] caudie deale of F₁ F₂. gaudie deal of F₃. gaudy deal of F₄. deal of candied Pope. candied deal of Collier MS.
[2203] greyhound] spaniel Grey conj.
[2204] his] this Q₃ Q₄.
[2205] O] om. Pope.
[2206] Good ... leisure] As two lines, ending if ... leisure. Keightley conj.
[2207] I have] Qq. for I have Ff.
[2208] Nay ... stay] As one line in Hanmer.
[2209] not] not, sir Capell.
to it] Qq. too't F₁ F₂. to't F₃ F₄.
[2210] We will] Qq. Wee'l F₁ F₂. We'l F₃ F₄.
i' faith] Qq. insooth Ff.
[2211] the Douglas'] the regent's Rann (Capell conj.). See note (IV).
[2212] granted. You, my lord,] Theobald (Thirlby conj.). granted you my lord. Q₁ Q₄. granted you: my lord. Q₈. The rest granted you, my lord.
[2213] into] in F₂ F₃ F₄.
[2214] Of] om. Pope.
is it] Qq. is't Ff.
[2215] Bristol] Pope. Bristow Qq Ff.
[2216] Hot.] om. Johnson (1771), continuing the speech to Wor.
upon] on Pope.
well] Qq. wond'rous well Ff, reading Upon ... well as one line.
[2217] game is] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. The rest game's (gam's F₂).
[2218] Why] om. Pope.
cannot] can't Anon. conj.
[2219] And] om. Pope.
[2220] we think] we deem Pope.
[2221] he] he he F₂.
[2222] he] it Q₈.
[2223] course. When ... suddenly] course; When ... suddenly, F₄. course when ... suddenly, Q₁. course when ... suddenly: Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ F₁ Q₇ F₂ Q₈ F₃ (sodainly F₁. sodainely F₂).
[2224] Lord] Lo: Q₁. loe, Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ F₁ Q₇ F₂. to Q₈. lo, F₃ F₄.
Mortimer] After this Keightley supposes a line to be lost.
[2225] the] om. F₂ F₃ F₄.
[2226] groans] groues Q₇. groves Q₈.
[Exeunt.] Qq. Exit. Ff.
Act II, Scene I — Rochester. An inn yard.
Enter a Carrier with a lantern in his hand.[2227]
First Car. Heigh-ho! an it be not four by the day,[2228] I'll be hanged: Charles' wain is over the new chimney, and yet our horse not packed. What, ostler!
Ost. [Within] Anon, anon.[2229]
First Car. I prithee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a 5 few flocks in the point; poor jade, is wrung in the withers[2230] out of all cess.
Enter another Carrier.[2231]
Sec. Car. Peas and beans are as dank here as a dog,[2232] and that is the next way to give poor jades the bots: this[2233] house is turned upside down since Robin Ostler died.[2234] 10
First Car. Poor fellow, never joyed since the price of[2235] oats rose; it was the death of him.
Sec. Car. I think this be the most villanous house in[2236] all London road for fleas: I am stung like a tench.[2237]
First Car. Like a tench! by the mass, there is ne'er a[2237][2238] 15 king christen could be better bit than I have been since[2239] the first cock.
Sec. Car. Why, they will allow us ne'er a jordan, and[2240] then we leak in your chimney; and your chamber-lie breeds[2241] fleas like a loach. 20
First Car. What, ostler! come away and be hanged! come away.
Sec. Car. I have a gammon of bacon and two razes of[2242] ginger, to be delivered as far as Charing-cross.
First Car. God's body! the turkeys in my pannier are[2243] 25 quite starved. What, ostler! A plague on thee! hast thou never an eye in thy head? canst not hear? An 'twere not[2244] as good deed as drink, to break the pate on thee, I am a[2245] very villain. Come, and be hanged! hast no faith in thee?
Enter GADSHILL.[2246]
Gads. Good morrow, carriers. What's o'clock? 30
First Car. I think it be two o'clock.
Gads. I prithee, lend me thy lantern, to see my gelding in the stable.
First Car. Nay, by God, soft; I know a trick worth[2247] two of that, i' faith.[2248] 35
Gads. I pray thee, lend me thine.[2249]
Sec. Car. Ay, when? canst tell? Lend me thy lantern, quoth he? marry, I'll see thee hanged first.[2250]
Gads. Sirrah carrier, what time do you mean to come to London? 40
Sec. Car. Time enough to go to bed with a candle, I warrant thee. Come, neighbour Mugs, we'll call up the gentlemen: they will along with company, for they have great charge. [Exeunt Carriers.[2251]
Gads. What, ho! chamberlain![2252] 45
Cham. [Within] At hand, quoth pick-purse.[2253]
Gads. That's even as fair as--at hand, quoth the[2254] chamberlain; for thou variest no more from picking of purses than giving direction doth from labouring; thou layest the plot how.[2255] 50
Enter Chamberlain.
Cham. Good morrow, Master Gadshill. It holds current that I told you yesternight: there's a franklin in the wild of Kent hath brought three hundred marks with him in gold: I heard him tell it to one of his company last night at supper; a kind of auditor; one that hath abundance 55 of charge too, God knows what. They are up already, and call for eggs and butter: they will away presently.
Gads. Sirrah, if they meet not with Saint Nicholas' clerks, I'll give thee this neck.
Cham. No, I'll none of it: I pray thee, keep that for[2256] 60 the hangman; for I know thou worshippest Saint Nicholas as truly as a man of falsehood may.
Gads. What talkest thou to me of the hangman? if I hang, I'll make a fat pair of gallows; for if I hang, old Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no starveling[2257] 65 Tut! there are other Trojans that thou dreamest not of, the which for sport sake are content to do the profession some grace; that would, if matters should be looked into, for their own credit sake, make all whole. I am joined[2258] with no foot-land rakers, no long-staff sixpenny strikers,[2259] 70 none of these mad mustachio purple-hued malt-worms; but[2260] with nobility and tranquillity, burgomasters and great oneyers,[2261][2262] such as can hold in, such as will strike sooner than[2262][2263] speak, and speak sooner than drink, and drink sooner than[2263][2264] pray: and yet, 'zounds, I lie; for they pray continually to[2265] 75 their saint, the commonwealth; or rather, not pray to her,[2266][2267] but prey on her, for they ride up and down on her and[2267][2268] make her their boots.[2268]
Cham. What, the commonwealth their boots? will she hold out water in foul way? 80
Gads. She will, she will; justice hath liquored her. We steal as in a castle, cock-sure; we have the receipt of fern-seed, we walk invisible.
Cham. Nay, by my faith, I think you are more beholding[2269] to the night than to fern-seed for your walking invisible.[2270] 85
Gads. Give me thy hand: thou shalt have a share in our purchase, as I am a true man.[2271]
Cham. Nay, rather let me have it, as you are a false thief.
Gads. Go to; 'homo' is a common name to all men. 90 Bid the ostler bring my gelding out of the stable. Farewell,[2272] you muddy knave. [Exeunt.[2273]
Act II, Scene II — The highway, near Gadshill.
Enter PRINCE HENRY and POINS.[2274]
Poins. Come, shelter, shelter: I have removed Falstaff's horse, and he frets like a gummed velvet.
Prince. Stand close.
Enter FALSTAFF.[2275]
Fal. Poins! Poins, and be hanged! Poins!
Prince. Peace, ye fat-kidneyed rascal! what a brawling[2276] 5 dost thou keep!
Fal. Where's Poins, Hal?[2277]
Prince. He is walked up to the top of the hill: I'll go seek him.[2278]
Fal. I am accursed to rob in that thief's company: the[2279] 10 rascal hath removed my horse, and tied him I know not[2280] where. If I travel but four foot by the squier further afoot,[2281] I shall break my wind. Well, I doubt not but to die a fair death for all this, if I 'scape hanging for killing that rogue. I have forsworn his company hourly any time this two and[2282] 15 twenty years, and yet I am bewitched with the rogue's[2282][2283] company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged; it could not be else; I have drunk medicines. Poins! Hal! a plague upon you[2284] both! Bardolph! Peto! I'll starve ere I'll rob a foot further.[2285] 20 An 'twere not as good a deed as drink, to turn true[2286] man and to leave these rogues, I am the veriest varlet that[2287] ever chewed with a tooth. Eight yards of uneven ground is threescore and ten miles afoot with me; and the stony-hearted villains know it well enough: a plague upon it[2288] 25 when thieves cannot be true one to another! [They whistle.][2289] Whew! A plague upon you all! Give me my horse, you[2290] rogues; give me my horse, and be hanged!
Prince. Peace, ye fat-guts! lie down; lay thine ear close to the ground and list if thou canst hear the tread of[2291] 30 travellers.
Fal. Have you any levers to lift me up again, being down? 'Sblood, I'll not bear mine own flesh so far afoot[2292] again for all the coin in thy father's exchequer. What a plague mean ye to colt me thus? 35
Prince. Thou liest; thou art not colted, thou art uncolted.
Fal. I prithee, good Prince Hal, help me to my horse, good king's son.
Prince. Out, ye rogue! shall I be your ostler?[2293] 40
Fal. Go, hang thyself in thine own heir-apparent garters![2294] If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this. An I have not ballads made[2295] on you all and sung to filthy tunes, let a cup of sack be my[2296] poison: when a jest is so forward, and afoot too! I hate it.[2297]
Enter GADSHILL, BARDOLPH and PETO with him.[2298]
Gads. Stand. 45
Fal. So I do, against my will.
Poins. O, 'tis our setter: I know his voice. Bardolph,[2299] what news?[2299]
Bard. Case ye, case ye; on with your vizards: there's[2300] money of the king's coming down the hill; 'tis going to the 50 king's exchequer.
Fal. You lie, ye rogue; 'tis going to the king's tavern.[2301]
Gads. There's enough to make us all.[2302]
Fal. To be hanged.
Prince. Sirs, you four shall front them in the narrow[2303] 55 lane; Ned Poins and I will walk lower: if they 'scape from[2304] your encounter, then they light on us.
Peto. How many be there of them?[2305]
Gads. Some eight or ten.
Fal.'Zounds, will they not rob us?[2306] 60
Prince. What, a coward, Sir John Paunch?
Fal. Indeed, I am not John of Gaunt, your grandfather;[2307] but yet no coward, Hal.
Prince. Well, we leave that to the proof.[2308]
Poins. Sirrah Jack, thy horse stands behind the hedge: 65 when thou needest him, there thou shalt find him. Farewell,[2309] and stand fast.
Fal. Now cannot I strike him, if I should be hanged.
Prince. Ned, where are our disguises?
Poins. Here, hard by: stand close. 70
[Exeunt Prince and Poins.[2310]
Fal. Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say I:[2311] every man to his business.
Enter the Travellers.[73]
First Trav. Come, neighbour: the boy shall lead our[2312][2313][2314] horses down the hill; we'll walk afoot awhile, and ease[2314] our legs.[2314] 75
Thieves. Stand![2314][2315]
Travellers. Jesus bless us![2314][2316]
Fal. Strike; down with them; cut the villains' throats:[2314] ah! whoreson caterpillars! bacon-fed knaves! they hate us[2314][2317] youth: down with them; fleece them.[2314] 80
Travellers. O, we are undone, both we and ours for ever![2314]
Fal. Hang ye, gorbellied knaves, are ye undone? No,[2314][2318] ye fat chuffs; I would your store were here! On, bacons,[2314] on! What, ye knaves! young men must live. You are[2314][2319] grandjurors, are ye? we'll jure ye, 'faith.[2314] 85
[Here they rob them and bind them. Exeunt.
Re-enter PRINCE HENRY and POINS.[2320]
Prince. The thieves have bound the true men. Now[2321] could thou and I rob the thieves and go merrily to London, it would be argument for a week, laughter for a month and a good jest for ever.
Poins. Stand close; I hear them coming.[2322] 90
Enter the Thieves again.[2323]
Fal. Come, my masters, let us share, and then to horse before day. An the Prince and Poins be not two[2295] arrant cowards, there's no equity stirring: there's no more[2324] valour in that Poins than in a wild-duck.
Prince. Your money! 95
Poins. Villains!
[36.34] [As they are sharing, the Prince and Poins set upon them; they all run away; and Falstaff, after a blow or two, runs away too, leaving the booty behind them.[2325]
Prince. Got with much ease. Now merrily to horse: The thieves are all scatter'd and possess'd with fear[2326][2327] So strongly that they dare not meet each other;[2326] Each takes his fellow for an officer.[2326][2328] 100 Away, good Ned. Falstaff sweats to death,[2326][2329] And lards the lean earth as he walks along:[2326] Were 't not for laughing, I should pity him.[2326]
Poins. How the rogue roar'd! [Exeunt.
Act II, Scene III — Warkworth Castle.[2330]
Enter HOTSPUR solus, reading a letter.
Hot. +'But, for mine own part, my lord, I could be well contented+ +to be there, in respect of the love I bear your house.'+ He[2331] could be contented: why is he not, then? In respect of[2332] the love he bears our house: he shows in this, he loves his own barn better than he loves our house. Let me 5 see some more. +'The purpose you undertake is dangerous;'+--why, that's certain: 'tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. +'The purpose you undertake[2333]+ +is dangerous; the friends you have named uncertain; the time[2334]+ 10 +itself unsorted; and your whole plot too light for the counterpoise+ +of so great an opposition.'+ Say you so, say you so? I say unto you again, you are a shallow cowardly hind, and you lie. What a lack-brain is this! By the Lord, our plot is[2335] a good plot as ever was laid; our friends true and constant:[2336] 15 a good plot, good friends, and full of expectation; an excellent plot, very good friends. What a frosty-spirited rogue is this! Why, my lord of York commends the plot and the general course of the action. 'Zounds, an I were[2337] now by this rascal, I could brain him with his lady's fan. 20 Is there not my father, my uncle, and myself? lord Edmund Mortimer, my lord of York, and Owen Glendower? is there not besides the Douglas? have I not all their letters to meet me in arms by the ninth of the next month? and are they not some of them set forward already?[2338] 25 What a pagan rascal is this! an infidel! Ha! you shall[2339] see now in very sincerity of fear and cold heart, will he to the king, and lay open all our proceedings. O, I could divide myself, and go to buffets, for moving such a dish of skim milk with so honourable an action! Hang him! let[2340] 30 him tell the king: we are prepared. I will set forward[2341] to-night.
Enter LADY PERCY.[2342]
How now, Kate! I must leave you within these two hours.[2343]
Lady. O, my good Lord, why are you thus alone? For what offence have I this fortnight been 35 A banish'd woman from my Harry's bed? Tell me, sweet lord, what is 't that takes from thee Thy stomach, pleasure, and thy golden sleep? Why dost thou bend thine eyes upon the earth,[2344] And start so often when thou sit'st alone? 40 Why hast thou lost the fresh blood in thy cheeks; And given my treasures and my rights of thee To thick-eyed musing and cursed melancholy? In thy faint slumbers I by thee have watch'd,[2345] And heard thee murmur tales of iron wars;[2346] 45 Speak terms of manage to thy bounding steed; Cry 'Courage! to the field!' And thou hast talk'd Of sallies and retires, of trenches, tents,[2347] Of palisadoes, frontiers, parapets,[2348] Of basilisks, of cannon, culverin, 50 Of prisoners' ransom, and of soldiers slain,[2349] And all the currents of a heady fight.[2350] Thy spirit within thee hath been so at war[2351] And thus hath so bestirred thee in thy sleep,[2352] That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow,[2353] 55 Like bubbles in a late-disturbed stream;[2354] And in thy face strange motions have appear'd, Such as we see when men restrain their breath On some great sudden hest. O, what portents are these?[2355] Some heavy business hath my lord in hand, 60 And I must know it, else he loves me not.
Hot. What, ho!
Enter Servant.[2356]
Is Gilliams with the packet gone?
Serv. He is, my lord, an hour ago.[2357]
Hot. Hath Butler brought those horses from the sheriff?[2358]
Serv. One horse, my lord, he brought even now.[2359] 65
Hot. What horse? a roan, a crop-ear, is it not?[2360][2361]
Serv. It is, my lord.[2361]
Hot. That roan shall be my throne.[2362] Well, I will back him straight: O esperance![2362][2363] Bid Butler lead him forth into the park.[2362][2364] [Exit Servant.
Lady. But hear you, my lord. 70
Hot. What say'st thou, my lady?
Lady. What is it carries you away?
Hot. Why, my horse, my love, my horse.[2365]
Lady. Out, you mad-headed ape![2366] A weasel hath not such a deal of spleen[2366] 75 As you are toss'd with. In faith,[2366][2367] I'll know your business, Harry, that I will.[2366] I fear my brother Mortimer doth stir[2366] About his title, and hath sent for you[2366] To line his enterprize: but if you go,--[2366] 80
Hot. So far afoot, I shall be weary, love.
Lady. Come, come, you paraquito, answer me[2368] Directly unto this question that I ask:[2368][2369] In faith, I'll break thy little finger, Harry,[2368][2370] An if thou wilt not tell me all things true.[2368][2371] 85
Hot. Away,[2372] Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not,[2372][2373] I care not for thee, Kate: this is no world To play with mammets and to tilt with lips:[2374] We must have bloody noses and crack'd crowns, 90 And pass them current too. God's me, my horse! What say'st thou, Kate? what would'st thou have with me?[2375]
Lady. Do you not love me? do you not, indeed?[2376] Well, do not then; for since you love me not, I will not love myself. Do you not love me? 95 Nay, tell me if you speak in jest or no.[2377]
Hot. Come, wilt thou see me ride?[2378] And when I am o' horseback, I will swear[2379] I love thee infinitely. But hark you, Kate; I must not have you henceforth question me 100 Whither I go, nor reason whereabout:[2380] Whither I must, I must; and, to conclude,[2380] This evening must I leave you, gentle Kate.[2381] I know you wise, but yet no farther wise[2382] Than Harry Percy's wife: constant you are, 105 But yet a woman: and for secrecy, No lady closer; for I well believe[2383] Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know; And so far will I trust thee, gentle Kate.[2384]
Lady. How! so far?[2385] 110
Hot. Not an inch further. But hark you, Kate:[2386] Whither I go, thither shall you go too; To-day will I set forth, to-morrow you.[2387] Will this content you, Kate?
Lady. It must of force. [Exeunt.
Act II, Scene IV — The Boar's-Head Tavern, Eastcheap.[2388]
Enter the PRINCE, and POINS.
Prince. Ned, prithee, come out of that fat room, and[2389] lend me thy hand to laugh a little.
Poins. Where hast been, Hal?
Prince. With three or four loggerheads amongst three[2390] or fourscore hogsheads. I have sounded the very base-string[2391] 5 of humility. Sirrah, I am sworn brother to a leash of drawers; and can call them all by their christen[2392] names, as Tom, Dick, and Francis. They take it already upon their salvation, that though I be but Prince of Wales,[2393] yet I am the king of courtesy; and tell me flatly I am no[2394] 10 proud Jack, like Falstaff, but a Corinthian, a lad of mettle,[2395] a good boy, by the Lord, so they call me, and when I am[2396] king of England, I shall command all the good lads in Eastcheap. They call drinking deep, dyeing scarlet; and when you breathe in your watering, they cry 'hem!' and[2397] 15 bid you play it off. To conclude, I am so good a proficient in one quarter of an hour, that I can drink with any tinker in his own language during my life. I tell thee,[2398] Ned, thou hast lost much honour, that thou wert not with me in this action. But, sweet Ned,--to sweeten which 20 name of Ned, I give thee this pennyworth of sugar, clapped even now into my hand by an under-skinker, one that never spake other English in his life than 'Eight shillings and sixpence,' and 'You are welcome,' with this[2399] shrill addition, 'Anon, anon, sir! Score a pint of bastard[2400] 25 in the Half-moon,' or so. But, Ned, to drive away the[2401] time till Falstaff come, I prithee, do thou stand in some[2401] by-room, while I question my puny drawer to what end he gave me the sugar; and do thou never leave calling[2402] 'Francis,' that his tale to me may be nothing but 'Anon.' 30 Step aside, and I'll show thee a precedent.[2403]
Poins. Francis!
Prince. Thou art perfect.
Poins. Francis! [Exit Poins.[2404]
Enter FRANCIS.
Fran. Anon, anon, sir. Look down into the Pomgarnet,[2405] 35 Ralph.
Prince. Come hither, Francis.
Fran. My lord?
Prince. How long hast thou to serve, Francis?
Fran. Forsooth, five years, and as much as to-- 40
Poins. [Within] Francis![2406]
Fran. Anon, anon, sir.
Prince. Five year! by'r lady, a long lease for the[2407] clinking of pewter. But, Francis, darest thou be so valiant[2408] as to play the coward with thy indenture and show it a 45 fair pair of heels and run from it?[2409]
Fran. O Lord, sir, I'll be sworn upon all the books in[2410] England, I could find in my heart.[2411]
Poins. [Within] Francis![2406]
Fran. Anon, sir.[2412] 50
Prince. How old art thou, Francis?
Fran. Let me see--about Michaelmas next I shall be--
Poins. [Within] Francis![2406]
Fran. Anon, sir. Pray stay a little, my lord.[2413]
Prince. Nay, but hark you, Francis: for the sugar 55 thou gavest me, 'twas a pennyworth, was't not?[2414]
Fran. O Lord, I would it had been two![2415]
Prince. I will give thee for it a thousand pound: ask me when thou wilt, and thou shalt have it.
Poins. [Within] Francis![2406] 60
Fran. Anon, anon.
Prince. Anon, Francis? No, Francis; but to-morrow, Francis; or Francis, o' Thursday; or indeed, Francis,[2416] when thou wilt. But, Francis!
Fran. My lord? 65
Prince. Wilt thou rob this leathern jerkin, crystal-button, not-pated, agate-ring, puke-stocking, caddis-garter,[2417] smooth-tongue, Spanish-pouch,--
Fran. O lord, sir, who do you mean?
Prince. Why, then, your brown bastard is your only 70 drink; for look you, Francis, your white canvas doublet will sully: in Barbary, sir, it cannot come to so much.[2418]
Fran. What, sir?
Poins. [Within] Francis![2406]
Prince. Away, you rogue! dost thou not hear them[2419] 75 call?
[Here they both call him; the drawer stands amazed, not knowing which way to go.[2420]
Enter Vintner.
Vint. What, standest thou still, and hearest such a calling? Look to the guests within. [Exit Francis.] My[2421] lord, old Sir John, with half-a-dozen more, are at the door: shall I let them in? 80
Prince. Let them alone awhile, and then open the[2422] door. [Exit Vintner.] Poins![2423]
Re-enter POINS.
Poins. Anon, anon, sir.
Prince. Sirrah, Falstaff and the rest of the thieves are at the door: shall we be merry? 85
Poins. As merry as crickets, my lad. But hark ye; what cunning match have you made with this jest of the drawer? come, what's the issue?
Prince. I am now of all humours that have showed themselves humours since the old days of goodman Adam 90 to the pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at midnight.[2424]
Re-enter FRANCIS.
What's o'clock, Francis?
Fran. Anon, anon, sir. [Exit.[2425]
Prince. That ever this fellow should have fewer words than a parrot, and yet the son of a woman! His industry 95 is up-stairs and down-stairs; his eloquence the parcel of a reckoning. I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the north; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his hands, and says[2426] to his wife 'Fie upon this quiet life! I want work.' 'O 100 my sweet Harry,' says she, 'how many hast thou killed to-day?' 'Give my roan horse a drench,' says he; and answers 'Some fourteen,' an hour after; 'a trifle, a trifle.' I prithee, call in Falstaff: I'll play Percy, and that damned brawn shall play Dame Mortimer his wife. 'Rivo!' says[2427] 105 the drunkard. Call in ribs, call in tallow.
Enter FALSTAFF, GADSHILL, BARDOLPH, and PETO; FRANCIS following with wine.[2428]
Poins. Welcome, Jack: where hast thou been?
Fal. A plague of all cowards, I say, and a vengeance too! marry, and amen! Give me a cup of sack, boy. Ere I lead this life long, I'll sew nether stocks and mend[2429] 110 them and foot them too. A plague of all cowards! Give[2430] me a cup of sack, rogue. Is there no virtue extant? [He drinks.[2431]
Prince. Didst thou never see Titan kiss a dish of[2432] butter? pitiful-hearted Titan, that melted at the sweet tale[2432][2433][2434] of the sun's! if thou didst, then behold that compound.[2434][2435] 115
Fal. You rogue, here's lime in this sack too: there is nothing but roguery to be found in villanous man: yet[2436] a coward is worse than a cup of sack with lime in it. A[2437] villanous coward! Go thy ways, old Jack; die when thou wilt, if manhood, good manhood, be not forgot upon the 120 face of the earth, then am I a shotten herring. There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat, and grows old: God help the while! a bad world, I say. I would I were a weaver; I could sing psalms or any thing. A plague of all cowards, I say still.[2438] 125
Prince. How now, wool-sack! what mutter you?
Fal. A king's son! If I do not beat thee out of thy kingdom with a dagger of lath, and drive all thy subjects afore thee like a flock of wild-geese, I'll never wear hair on my face more. You Prince of Wales! 130
Prince. Why, you whoreson round man, what's the[2439] matter?
Fal. Are not you a coward? answer me to that: and[2440] Poins there?
Poins. 'Zounds, ye fat paunch, an ye call me coward,[2441] 135 by the Lord, I'll stab thee.[2442]
Fal. I call thee coward! I'll see thee damned ere I call thee coward: but I would give a thousand pound I could run as fast as thou canst. You are straight enough in the shoulders, you care not who sees your back: call you 140 that backing of your friends? A plague upon such backing! give me them that will face me. Give me a cup of sack: I am a rogue, if I drunk to-day.
Prince. O villain! thy lips are scarce wiped since thou drunkest last. 145
Fal. All's one for that. [He drinks.] A plague of all[2443] cowards, still say I.
Prince. What's the matter?
Fal. What's the matter! there be four of us here have[2444] ta'en a thousand pound this day morning.[2445] 150
Prince. Where is it, Jack? where is it?
Fal. Where is it! taken from us it is: a hundred upon poor four of us.[2446]
Prince. What, a hundred, man?
Fal. I am a rogue, if I were not at half-sword with a[2447] 155 dozen of them two hours together. I have 'scaped by miracle.[2448] I am eight times thrust through the doublet, four through the hose; my buckler cut through and through; my sword hacked like a hand-saw--ecce signum! I never dealt better since I was a man: all would not do. A 160 plague of all cowards! Let them speak: if they speak more or less than truth, they are villains and the sons of darkness.
Prince. Speak, sirs; how was it?[2449]
Gads. We four set upon some dozen--[2450][2451] 165
Fal. Sixteen at least, my lord.
Gads. And bound them.[2450]
Peto. No, no, they were not bound.
Fal. You rogue, they were bound, every man of them; or I am a Jew else, an Ebrew Jew.[2452] 170
Gads. As we were sharing, some six or seven fresh[2450][2453] men set upon us--
Fal. And unbound the rest, and then come in the[2454] other.[2455]
Prince. What, fought you with them all?[2456] 175
Fal. All! I know not what you call all; but if I fought[2457] not with fifty of them, I am a bunch of radish: if there were[2458] not two or three and fifty upon poor old Jack, then am I no two-legged creature.
Prince. Pray God you have not murdered some of[2459] 180 them.
Fal. Nay, that's past praying for: I have peppered two of them; two I am sure I have paid, two rogues in buckram suits. I tell thee what, Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse. Thou knowest my old 185 ward; here I lay, and thus I bore my point. Four rogues[2460] in buckram let drive at me--
Prince. What, four? thou saidst but two even now.
Fal. Four, Hal; I told thee four.
Poins. Ay, ay, he said four. 190
Fal. These four came all a-front, and mainly thrust at me. I made me no more ado but took all their seven[2461] points in my target, thus.[2462]
Prince. Seven? why, there were but four even now.
Fal. In buckram?[2463] 195
Poins. Ay, four, in buckram suits.
Fal. Seven, by these hilts, or I am a villain else.
Prince. Prithee, let him alone; we shall have more anon.
Fal. Dost thou hear me, Hal? 200
Prince. Ay, and mark thee too, Jack.
Fal. Do so, for it is worth the listening to. These nine in buckram that I told thee of--
Prince. So, two more already.
Fal. Their points being broken,-- 205
Poins. Down fell their hose.[2464]
Fal. Began to give me ground: but I followed me[2465] close, came in foot and hand; and with a thought seven of the eleven I paid.
Prince. O monstrous! eleven buckram men grown out 210 of two!
Fal. But, as the devil would have it, three misbegotten knaves in Kendal green came at my back and let drive at me; for it was so dark, Hal, that thou couldst not see thy hand. 215
Prince. These lies are like their father that begets[2466] them; gross as a mountain, open, palpable. Why, thou clay-brained guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou whoreson,[2467] obscene, greasy tallow-catch,--[2468]
Fal. What, art thou mad? art thou mad? is not the 220 truth the truth?
Prince. Why, how couldst thou know these men in Kendal green, when it was so dark thou couldst not see thy hand? come, tell us your reason: what sayest thou to this? 225
Poins. Come, your reason, Jack, your reason.
Fal. What, upon compulsion? 'Zounds, an I were at[2469] the strappado, or all the racks in the world, I would not tell you on compulsion. Give you a reason on compulsion! if reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no[2470] 230 man a reason upon compulsion, I.
Prince. I'll be no longer guilty of this sin; this sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horse-back-breaker,[2471] this huge hill of flesh,--
Fal. 'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried[2472] 235 neat's tongue, you bull's pizzle, you stock-fish! O for[2473] breath to utter what is like thee! you tailor's-yard, you[2474] sheath, you bow-case, you vile standing-tuck,--
Prince. Well, breathe awhile, and then to it again:[2475] and when thou hast tired thyself in base comparisons, hear[2476] 240 me speak but this.[2477]
Poins. Mark, Jack.
Prince. We two saw you four set on four and bound[2478] them, and were masters of their wealth. Mark now, how a plain tale shall put you down. Then did we two set on[2479] 245 you four; and, with a word, out-faced you from your prize,[2480] and have it; yea, and can show it you here in the house:[2481] and, Falstaff, you carried your guts away as nimbly, with as quick dexterity, and roared for mercy and still run and[2482] roared, as ever I heard bull-calf. What a slave art thou, to[2483] 250 hack thy sword as thou hast done, and then say it was in fight! What trick, what device, what starting-hole, canst thou now find out to hide thee from this open and apparent shame?
Poins. Come, let's hear, Jack; what trick hast thou 255 now?
Fal. By the Lord, I knew ye as well as he that made[2484] ye. Why, hear you, my masters: was it for me to kill the[2485] heir-apparent? should I turn upon the true prince? why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules: but beware instinct;[2486] 260 the lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter; I was now a coward on instinct. I shall[2487] think the better of myself and thee during my life; I for a valiant lion, and thou for a true prince. But, by the Lord, lads, I am glad you have the money. Hostess, clap[2485] 265 to the doors: watch to-night, pray to-morrow. Gallants,[2488] lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship[2489] come to you! What, shall we be merry? shall we have a play extempore?[2490]
Prince. Content; and the argument shall be thy 270 running away.
Fal. Ah, no more of that, Hal, an thou lovest me!
Enter Hostess.[2491]
Host. O Jesu, my lord the prince![2492]
Prince. How now, my lady the hostess! what sayest thou to me? 275
Host. Marry, my lord, there is a nobleman of the[2493] court at door would speak with you: he says he comes from your father.
Prince. Give him as much as will make him a royal man, and send him back again to my mother. 280
Fal. What manner of man is he?
Host. An old man.
Fal. What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight? Shall I give him his answer?
Prince. Prithee, do, Jack. 285
Fal. 'Faith, and I'll send him packing. [Exit.
Prince. Now, sirs: by'r lady, you fought fair; so did[2494] you, Peto; so did you, Bardolph: you are lions too, you[2495] ran away upon instinct, you will not touch the true prince; no, fie! 290
Bard. Faith, I ran when I saw others run.
Prince. Faith, tell me now in earnest, how came Falstaff's[2496] sword so hacked?
Peto. Why, he hacked it with his dagger, and said he would swear truth out of England but he would make you 295 believe it was done in fight, and persuaded us to do the like.
Bard. Yea, and to tickle our noses with spear-grass to[2497] make them bleed, and then to beslubber our garments[2498] with it and swear it was the blood of true men. I did that I did not this seven year before, I blushed to hear his[2499] 300 monstrous devices.[2500]
Prince. O villain, thou stolest a cup of sack eighteen years ago, and wert taken with the manner, and ever since[2501] thou hast blushed extempore. Thou hadst fire and sword on thy side, and yet thou rannest away: what instinct 305 hadst thou for it?
Bard. My lord, do you see these meteors? do you behold these exhalations?
Prince. I do.
Bard. What think you they portend? 310
Prince. Hot livers and cold purses.
Bard. Choler, my lord, if rightly taken.
Prince. No, if rightly taken, halter.
Re-enter FALSTAFF.[2502]
Here comes lean Jack, here comes bare-bone. How now,[2503] my sweet creature of bombast! How long is't ago, Jack,[2504] 315 since thou sawest thine own knee?
Fal. My own knee! when I was about thy years, Hal, I was not an eagle's talon in the waist; I could have crept[2505] into any alderman's thumb-ring: a plague of sighing and[2506] grief! it blows a man up like a bladder. There's villanous 320 news abroad: here was Sir John Bracy from your father;[2507] you must to the court in the morning. That same mad[2508] fellow of the north, Percy, and he of Wales, that gave Amamon the bastinado and made Lucifer cuckold and[2509] swore the devil his true liegeman upon the cross of a Welsh 325 hook--what a plague call you him?
Poins. O, Glendower.[2510]
Fal. Owen, Owen, the same; and his son-in-law Mortimer,[2511] and old Northumberland, and that sprightly Scot[2512] of Scots, Douglas, that runs o' horseback up a hill[2513] 330 perpendicular,--
Prince. He that rides at high speed and with his[2514] pistol kills a sparrow flying.
Fal. You have hit it.
Prince. So did he never the sparrow. 335
Fal. Well, that rascal hath good mettle in him; he[2515] will not run.
Prince. Why, what a rascal art thou then, to praise him so for running!
Fal. O' horseback, ye cuckoo; but afoot he will not[2516] 340 budge a foot.
Prince. Yes, Jack, upon instinct.
Fal. I grant ye, upon instinct. Well, he is there too, and one Mordake, and a thousand blue-caps more: Worcester is stolen away to-night; thy father's beard is turned[2517] 345 white with the news: you may buy land now as cheap as stinking mackerel.
Prince. Why, then, it is like, if there come a hot[2518] June and this civil buffeting hold, we shall buy maidenheads[2519] as they buy hob-nails, by the hundreds.[2520] 350
Fal. By the mass, lad, thou sayest true; it is like we shall have good trading that way. But tell me, Hal, art not[2521][2522] thou horrible afeard? thou being heir-apparent, could the[2522][2523] world pick thee out three such enemies again as that fiend Douglas, that spirit Percy, and that devil Glendower? art 355 thou not horribly afraid? doth not thy blood thrill at it?[2524]
Prince. Not a whit, i' faith; I lack some of thy instinct.[2525]
Fal. Well, thou wilt be horribly chid to-morrow when[2526] thou comest to thy father: if thou love me, practise an[2527] answer. 360
Prince. Do thou stand for my father, and examine me upon the particulars of my life.
Fal. Shall I? content: this chair shall be my state, this dagger my sceptre, and this cushion my crown.
Prince. Thy state is taken for a joined-stool, thy[2528] 365 golden sceptre for a leaden dagger, and thy precious rich crown for a pitiful bald crown!
Fal. Well, an the fire of grace be not quite out of[2529] thee, now shalt thou be moved. Give me a cup of sack to make my eyes look red, that it may be thought I have[2530] 370 wept; for I must speak in passion, and I will do it in King Cambyses' vein.
Prince. Well, here is my leg.[2531]
Fal. And here is my speech. Stand aside, nobility.
Host. O Jesu, this is excellent sport, i' faith![2532] 375
Fal. Weep not, sweet queen; for trickling tears are vain.[2533]
Host. O, the father, how he holds his countenance![2534]
Fal. For God's sake, lords, convey my tristful queen;[2535] For tears do stop the flood-gates of her eyes.
Host. O Jesu, he doth it as like one of these harlotry[2536] 380 players as ever I see!
Fal. Peace, good pint-pot; peace, good tickle-brain. Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy time, but also how thou art accompanied: for though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet[2537] 385 youth, the more it is wasted the sooner it wears. That thou[2538] art my son, I have partly thy mother's word, partly my own opinion, but chiefly a villanous trick of thine eye and[2539] a foolish hanging of thy nether lip, that doth warrant me.[2540] If then thou be son to me, here lies the point; why, being[2541] 390 son to me, art thou so pointed at? Shall the blessed sun[2542] of heaven prove a micher and eat blackberries? a question not to be asked. Shall the son of England prove a thief and take purses? a question to be asked. There is a thing, Harry, which thou hast often heard of and it is known to 395 many in our land by the name of pitch: this pitch, as ancient writers do report, doth defile; so doth the company thou keepest: for, Harry, now I do not speak to thee in drink but in tears, not in pleasure but in passion, not in words only, but in woes also: and yet there is a virtuous man 400 whom I have often noted in thy company, but I know not his name.
Prince. What manner of man, an it like your majesty?[2543]
Fal. A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent; of[2544] a cheerful look, a pleasing eye and a most noble carriage; 405 and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by'r lady, inclining to three score; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff: if that man should be lewdly given, he deceiveth me; for,[2545] Harry, I see virtue in his looks. If then the tree may be[2546] known by the fruit, as the fruit by the tree, then,[2546] 410 peremptorily I speak it, there is virtue in that Falstaff: him keep with, the rest banish. And tell me now, thou naughty[2547] varlet, tell me, where hast thou been this month?
Prince. Dost thou speak like a king? Do thou stand for me, and I'll play my father. 415
Fal. Depose me? if thou dost it half so gravely, so[2548] majestically, both in word and matter, hang me up by the[2549] heels for a rabbit-sucker or a poulter's hare.[2550]
Prince. Well, here I am set.
Fal. And here I stand: judge, my masters. 420
Prince. Now, Harry, whence come you?
Fal. My noble lord, from Eastcheap.
Prince. The complaints I hear of thee are grievous.
Fal. 'Sblood, my lord, they are false: nay, I'll tickle ye[2551] for a young prince, i' faith.[2552] 425
Prince. Swearest thou, ungracious boy? henceforth ne'er look on me. Thou art violently carried away from grace: there is a devil haunts thee in the likeness of an old[2553] fat man; a tun of man is thy companion. Why dost thou[2553] converse with that trunk of humours, that bolting-hutch of[2554] 430 beastliness, that swollen parcel of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak-bag of guts, that roasted Manningtree ox with the pudding in his belly, that[2555] reverend vice, that grey iniquity, that father ruffian, that[2556] vanity in years? Wherein is he good, but to taste sack 435 and drink it? wherein neat and cleanly, but to carve a capon and eat it? wherein cunning, but in craft? wherein crafty, but in villany? wherein villanous, but in all things? wherein worthy, but in nothing?
Fal. I would your grace would take me with you: 440 whom means your grace?
Prince. That villanous abominable misleader of youth, Falstaff, that old white-bearded Satan.[2557]
Fal. My lord, the man I know.
Prince. I know thou dost. 445
Fal. But to say I know more harm in him than in myself, were to say more than I know. That he is old, the more the pity, his white hairs do witness it; but that he is,[2558] saving your reverence, a whoremaster, that I utterly deny. If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! if to be[2559] 450 old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned: if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. No, my good lord; banish Peto, banish Bardolph, banish Poins: but for sweet Jack Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff, valiant Jack Falstaff, 455 and therefore more valiant, being, as he is, old Jack Falstaff, banish not him thy Harry's company, banish not him[2560] thy Harry's company: banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.
Prince. I do, I will. [A knocking-heard.[2561] 460
[Exeunt Hostess, Francis, and Bardolph.
Re-enter BARDOLPH, running.[2562]
Bard. O, my lord, my lord! the sheriff with a most[2563] monstrous watch is at the door.[2564]
Fal. Out, ye rogue! Play out the play: I have much[2565] to say in the behalf of that Falstaff.
Re-enter the Hostess.[2566]
Host. O Jesu, my lord, my lord!--[2567] 465
Prince. Heigh, heigh! the devil rides upon a[2568] fiddlestick: what's the matter?
Host. The sheriff and all the watch are at the door: they are come to search the house. Shall I let them in?
Fal. Dost thou hear, Hal? never call a true piece of gold[2569] 470 a counterfeit: thou art essentially mad, without seeming so.[2570]
Prince. And thou a natural coward, without instinct.[2571]
Fal. I deny your major: if you will deny the sheriff, so; if not, let him enter: if I become not a cart as well as another man, a plague on my bringing up! I hope I shall as 475 soon be strangled with a halter as another.
Prince. Go, hide thee behind the arras: the rest walk up above. Now, my masters, for a true face and good[2572] conscience.
Fal. Both which I have had: but their date is out, and 480 therefore I'll hide me.
Prince. Call in the sheriff.
[Exeunt all except the Prince and Peto.
Enter Sheriff and the Carrier.[2573]
Now, master sheriff, what is your will with me?[2574]
Sher. First, pardon me, my lord. A hue and cry[2575] Hath follow'd certain men unto this house.[2575] 485
Prince. What men?
Sher. One of them is well known, my gracious lord,[2575][2576] A gross fat man.[2575][2577]
Car. As fat as butter.
Prince. The man, I do assure you, is not here; For I myself at this time have employ'd him. 490 And, sheriff, I will engage my word to thee[2578] That I will, by to-morrow dinner-time, Send him to answer thee, or any man, For any thing he shall be charged withal: And so let me entreat you leave the house. 495
Sher. I will, my lord. There are two gentlemen Have in this robbery lost three hundred marks.[2579]
Prince. It may be so: if he have robb'd these men, He shall be answerable; and so farewell.
Sher. Good night, my noble lord. 500
Prince. I think it is good morrow, is it not?
Sher. Indeed, my lord, I think it be two o'clock.
[Exeunt Sheriff and Carrier.[2580]
Prince. This oily rascal is known as well as Paul's. Go, call him forth.
Peto. Falstaff!--Fast asleep behind the arras, and[2581] 505 snorting like a horse.
Prince. Hark, how hard he fetches breath. Search[2582] his pockets. [He searcheth his pockets, and findeth certain[2583] papers.] What hast thou found?
Peto. Nothing but papers, my lord.[2581] 510
Prince. Let's see what they be: read them.[2584]
Peto. [reads] +Item, A capon, 2s. 2d.+[2585] +Item, Sauce, 4d.+ +Item, Sack, two gallons, 5s. 8d.+ +Item, Anchovies and sack after supper, 2s. 6d.+[2586] 515 +Item, Bread, ob.+[2587]
Prince. O monstrous! but one half-pennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack! What there is else, keep close; we'll read it at more advantage: there let him sleep till day. I'll to the court in the morning. We must all to 520 the wars, and thy place shall be honourable. I'll procure this fat rogue a charge of foot; and I know his death will be a march of twelve-score. The money shall be paid back[2588] again with advantage. Be with me betimes in the morning; and so, good morrow, Peto.[2589] [Exeunt. 525
Peto. Good morrow, good my lord.[2581]
FOOTNOTES:
[2227] Rochester ... yard.] Capell. An Inne. Pope. An Inn at Rochester. Theobald.
Enter....] Qq Ff.
[2228] an it] Qq. an't Ff.
[2229] [Within] Theobald.
[2230] poor] Qq. the poor Ff. See note (X).
[2231] cess] case Hanmer.
Enter....] Qq Ff.
[2232] dog] bog Becket conj. dock Barry conj.
[2233] that] Qq. this Ff.
[2234] Ostler] Qq. the Ostler Ff.
[2235] never] he never Collier MS.
[2236] be] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. to be Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. is Ff.
[2237] tench ... tench] trout ... trout Farmer conj.
[2238] by the mass] Omitted in Ff.
[2239] christen] Qq. in Christendom Ff.
[2240] they] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. thou Q₄. you Q₅ Q₆ Ff Q₇ Q₈.
[2241] your] the Hanmer.
[2242] razes] Qq Ff. races Dyce.
[2243] God's body] Qq. om. Ff. 'Odsbody Pope.
pannier] panniers F₂ F₃ F₄.
[2244] An] Pope. And Qq Ff.
[2245] deed] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest a deed.
on] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. The rest of.
[2246] Enter....] Qq Ff.
[2247] by God, soft] Qq. soft I pray ye Ff.
[2248] i' faith] Qq. om. Ff.
[2249] pray thee] Q₁ Q₂. The rest prethee.
[2250] quoth he] Qq. quoth-a Ff.
[2251] [Exeunt Carriers.] Exeunt Qq Ff.
[2252] SCENE II. Pope.
[2253] [Within] Capell.
[2254] quoth] qd. Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
[2255] Enter....] Qq Ff (after line 44).
[2256] pray thee] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest prethee.
[2257] knowest] knowes Q₅ Q₆.
he is] Qq. hee's F₁ F₂. he's F₃ F₄.
[2258] own] om. Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
[2259] foot-land rakers] footlande rakers Q₁. footland rakers Q₂. foote-land rakers Q₃. foot land rakers Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. foot-land-rakers Ff. foot land-rakers Theobald.
[2260] these] those Rowe.
[2261] tranquillity] sanguinity Collier conj. gentility Keightley conj.
[2262] oneyers] oneyres Q₁. oneeyers Pope. oneraires Id. conj. moneyers Theobald (Hardinge conj.). seignors Theobald conj. owners Hanmer. one-eers Johnson conj. mynheers Capell. onyers Malone conj. ones, yes Collier MS. wan-dyers Jackson conj. See note (XI).
[2263] strike ... speak, and speak ... drink, and drink] strike ... drink, and drink ... speak, and speak Seymour conj.
[2264] drink ... drink] think ... think Hanmer (Warburton). swink ... swink Becket conj.
[2265] 'zounds] Qq. om. Ff.
to] Qq. unto Ff.
[2266] pray] Qq. to pray Ff.
[2267] pray ... prey] Q₅ Q₆ F₁ Q₇ Q₈ F₃ F₄. pray ... pray Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. prey ... pray F₂.
[2268] and make] or make Hanmer.
[2269] by my faith] Qq. om. Ff.
I think] Qq. I think rather Ff.
beholding] beholden Pope.
[2270] to fern-seed] Qq. to the fern seed F₁. the fern seed F₂. the fern-seed F₃ F₄.
[2271] purchase] Qq. purpose Ff, reading lines 86, 87 as three lines, ending hand ... purpose ... man.
[2272] my] Qq. the Ff.
[2273] you] Q₁. The rest ye.
[Exeunt.] Ff. om. Qq.
[2274] SCENE II.] SCENE III. Pope.]
The highway ...] The highway. Pope. Gadshill. The road down it. Capell.
Enter ...] Capell. Enter Prince, Poines, and Peto, &c. Qq. Enter Prince, Poynes, and Peto. Ff.
[2275] [Putting himself before him. Capell.
[2276] brawling] bawling Rowe.
[2277] Where's] Q₁. The rest What.
[2278] [Feigning to go. Capell.
[2279] thief's] theefe F₁.
the] Qq. that Ff.
[2280] him] them Q₆.
[2281] squier] squaire Q₈. square F₃ F₄. The rest squire.
[2282] two and twenty] Ff. xxii. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. 22. Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
[2283] years] yeares Q₁. The rest yeare, year, or yeer.
[2284] upon] on Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
[2285] Bardolph] Ff. Bardoll Qq.
I'll rob] I rob Ff.
rob] rub Johnson conj.
[2286] An] Pope. And QqFf.
as drink] Qq. as to drinke Ff.
[2287] to leave] leave Reed (1813).
these] those F₂.
[2288] upon it] Qq. upon't Ff.
[2289] [They whistle.] QqFf.
[2290] plague] Qq. plague light Ff.
Give me] Give F₁ F₂.
[2291] canst] Q₁. The rest can.
[2292] 'Sblood] om. Ff.
[2293] ye] Q₁. The rest you.
[2294] Go] om. Q₁ Q₂. thine] thy F₄. garters] garter Farmer conj. MS.
[2295] An] Pope. And QqFf.
[2296] on you all] Q₁ Q₂. The rest on all.
[2297] a jest] Q₁ Ff. jest Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
[2298] Enter ... him.] Capell. Enter Gadshill. QqFf. Enter Gadshill and Bardolph. Rowe.
[2299] Bardolph, what news?] Bard. What news? Johnson. See note (XII).
[2300] Bard.] Gadsh. Johnson conj.
[2301] ye rogue] Q₁ Q₂. The rest you rogue.
[2302] all.] all: Q₁ Q₂.
[2303] Sirs] Q₁ Q₂. The rest omit.
[2304] Poins] Qq. om. Ff.
[2305] How ... there] Q₁. How ... they Q₂. But how ... they Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. But how many be Ff.
[2306] 'Zounds] om. Ff.
[2307] your] our Q₅ Q₆ Q₇.
[2308] Well, we] Q₁ Q₂. Well, weele Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. Wee'l F₁ F₂. We'll F₃ F₄.
[2309] thou shalt] shalt thou F₂ F₃ F₄.
[2310] Exeunt ...] Malone. Retiring, to put them on. Capell. om. Qq Ff.
[2311] I] om. Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
[2312] Enter the ...] Qq. Enter ... Ff.
[2313] SCENE IV. Pope.
First Trav.] I. T. Capell. Travel., Travai. or Tra. Qq Ff (and in lines 77, 81).
[2314] Printed as verse by Capell.
[2315] Stand] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. Stay Q₅ Q₆ Ff Q₇ Q₈.
[2316] Jesus] Qq. Jesu Ff.
[2317] ah!] Rowe. a Qq Ff.
[2318] are ye] Qq. are you Ff.
[2319] knaves!] knaves!--on, I say; Capell.
[2320] are ye] om. F₂ F₃ F₄.
ye, 'faith] ye faith Q₁ Q₂. yee yfaith Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. ye yfaith Q₆. you, yfayth Q₇. you, yfaith Q₈. ye ifaith F₁ F₂ F₃. ye i'faith F₄.
Here ...them.] Qq Ff.
Exeunt.] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest omit.
Here ... Exeunt.] Exeunt, driving them out. Capell.
Re-enter ... disguised.] Enter the Prince and Poynes. Qq Ff. om. Capell.
[2321] [looking out. Capell.
[2322] [retire again. Capell.
[2323] Enter the Thieves again.] Qq. Enter Theeves again. Ff.
[2324] arrant] arrand Q₃ Ff.
more] moe Ff. om. Q₈.
[2325] As ... them] Qq. and Falstaff ... too] omitted in Ff.
[2326] The thieves ... him.] Printed as prose in Qq Ff. First as verse by Pope.
[2327] all] Q₁. The rest omit.
[2328] takes] take Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
[2329] Falstaff] Now Falstaff Pope. Fat Falstaff Capell.
sweats] sweares Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. sweare Q₆.
[2330] SCENE III.] SCENE V. Pope.
Warkworth Castle.] Warkworth. A room in the Castle. Capell. Lord Percy's house. Pope.
[2331] bear] boar Q₈.
[2332] contented] contented to be there Pope.
In respect] Q₆ Ff Q₇ Q₈. In the respect Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
[2333] we] we'll Collier MS.
pluck] pluckt Q₇ Q₈.
[2334] have om. Q₇ Q₈.
[2335] By the Lord] Qq. I protest Ff.
[2336] a good] Qq. as good a Ff.
our friends] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ F₃ F₄. our friend Q₄ Q₆ F₁ Q₇ F₂ Q₈. our frind Q₅.
[2337] 'Zounds]Qq. By this hand Ff.
an] Capell. and Qq. if Ff.
[2338] are they] are there F₂ F₃ F₄.
[2339] an] Q₁. An Ff. and Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇. & Q₈.
[2340] skim] Qq. skim'd Ff.
[2341] king: we] king. We Pope. King, we Qq. King we Ff.
forward] Qq. forwards Ff.
[2342] Enter Lady Percy.] Enter his Lady. Qq Ff.
[2343] SCENE VI. Pope.
these] this Q₈.
[2344] thine] thy F₃ F₄.
upon] unto Q₈.
[2345] thy faint] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest my faint. My feign'd Anon. conj.
have] om. Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
[2346] thee murmur] the murmur, Q₁.
[2347] of trenches] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest trenches.
tents] and tents Q₈.
[2348] frontiers] fortins Hanmer. rondeurs Warburton conj.
[2349] prisoners' ransom] prisoners ransom'd Capell conj.
[2350] currents] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. current, Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. current Ff Q₇ Q₈. 'currents Capell. occurrents Collier MS.
[2351] spirit] spirt F₂.
[2352] thus hath] thou hast Capell conj. this hath Anon conj.
thus ... bestirr'd] thought ... disturb’d Johnson conj.
[2353] beads] Q₁. The rest beds.
have] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₇ Q₈. hath Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Ff.
[2354] in] on Long MS.
[2355] sudden] om. Steevens conj.
hest] Q₁. haste Q₂ Q₃ Q₇ Q₈ F₃ F₄. hast Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ F₁ F₂.
[2356] Enter Servant.] Rowe, after the line. Enter a Servant. Dering MS., before the line. om. Qq Ff.
[2357] an hour] above an hour Steevens conj.
ago] agone Ff.
[2358] brought] bought F₂. hath brought Keightley conj.
sheriff] sheriffes Q₇ Q₈.
[2359] even now] but even now Capell.
[2360] a roan] roane Q₁ Q₂.
[2361] is it not? Serv. It is] is't not? Serv. 'Tis S. Walker conj., reading What horse ... lord as one line.
[2362] That ... park] Printed as prose in Qq Ff. First as verse by Pope.
[2363] O] om. Q₅ Q₆ Ff Q₇ Q₈.
[2364] [Exit Servant.] Hanmer and Dering MS. om. Qq Ff.
[2365] Why] om. Steevens, reading 72, 73, 74 as two lines.
[2366] Out ... go] As in Malone. Printed as prose in Qq Ff. Pope ends the lines, not ... with ... will (omitting Harry in line 77). Hanmer ends hath ... with ... will. Johnson ends ape ... spleen ... with ... will, (omitting Harry).
[2367] In faith] Qq. In sooth Ff. Now, in sooth, in sooth Capell.
[2368] Come ... true] First as verse by Pope. As prose in Qq Ff.
[2369] unto] to Pope.
that I ask] I shall ask Pope.
ask] Q₁. The rest shall ask.
[2370] In faith] Qq. Indeede Ff. om. Pope.
[2371] An if] Capell. And if Qq. if Ff.
all things] Omitted in Ff.
[2372] As one line in Qq Ff.
Away, Away] Away Hanmer.
Hot. Away ... not] Hot. Away, you trifler. Lady. Love! Hot. I ... not. Johnson conj.
[2373] Love,] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Ff. Love; The rest. Love! Rowe. love? Malone.
[2374] mammets] mammels Anon. (ap. Gent. Mag.) conj.
[2375] what wouldst] would'st F₂.
[2376] you ... you] Qq. ye ... ye F₁. ye ... you F₂ F₃ F₄.
[2377] you speak] Qq. thou speak'st Ff.
[2378] Come] Come to the park, Kate Collier MS.
[2379] o'] Theobald. a Qq Ff.
[2380] Whither] Qq F₂ F₄. Whether F₁ F₃.
[2381] you] Qq. thee Ff.
[2382] farther] Qq. further Ff.
[2383] well] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest will.
[2384] far will] farewill Q₅. farre, wilt F₁.
[2385] How! so far?] How, so far. Q₁. How, so far? the other Quartos. How so farre? Ff. So far? Capell.
[2386] further] Qq Ff.
hark you] hark you me Hanmer.
[2387] forth] forward Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
[2388] SCENE IV.] SCENE VII. Pope.
[2389] fat] hot Keightley conj.
[2390] three] 3. F₁ F₂.
[2391] sounded] founded Q₆ Q₇.
[2392] all] Qq. om. Ff.
christen] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. Christian Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. om. Ff.
[2393] salvation] Qq. confidence Ff. conscience Pope.
but] om. Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
[2394] and tell] Qq. telling Ff.
no] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ F₁. The rest not.
[2395] Jack, like] like Jack F₄. Jack, like Jack Pope.
[2396] by ... me] Omitted in Ff.
[2397] breathe] breake F₂. break F₃ F₄.
they] Qq. then they Ff.
hem] pem F₂ F₃ F₄.
[2398] tell] will tell Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
[2399] welcome] welcome, Sir Rowe.
[2400] Anon, anon] Anon Sir, anon F₃ F₄.
[2401] the time] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest time.
[2402] thou] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest omit.
[2403] precedent] Pope. president Ff. present Qq.
[P. retires. Theobald.
[2404] [Exit P.] Capell. om. Qq Ff.
[2405] Enter Francis.] Enter Drawer. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Ff. om. Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
[SCENE VIII.] Pope.
Pomgarnet] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Ff. Pomgranet Q₆. pomegranat Q₇ Q₈.
[2406] [Within] Capell.
[2407] year] yeare Q₁. yeere Q₂. The rest yeares, yeeres, or years.
by'r lady] Pope. berlady Qq Ff.
[2408] clinking] chincking Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
[2409] heels] heele F₂.
[2410] the books] bookes Q₄ Q₅.
[2411] find] find it Collier MS.
[2412] Anon] Qq. Anon, anon Ff.
[2413] Pray] Q₁. The rest Pray you.
[2414] a] but a Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
[2415] I] Qq. sir, I Ff.
[2416] o'] a Q₁ Q₂. The rest on.
[2417] not-pated] Qq Ff. knot-pated Pope. notty-patted Keightley conj.
puke stocking] poke-stocking Capell conj.
[2418] Barbary] Barbican Grey conj.
[2419] not] om. Ff.
[2420] Here....] Qq Ff.
[2421] [Exit F.] Exit Drawer. Capell. om. Qq Ff.
[2422] them] then Q₄.
[2423] [Exit Vintner.] Theobald. om. Qq Ff.
Re-enter P.] Enter P. Qq Ff.
[2424] clock] cloke Q₆.
Re-enter F.] Re-enter Drawer with bottles. Capell. om. QqFf.
[2425] Fran.] Fran. [Within. Dering MS.
[Exit.] Delius. om. QqFf.
[2426] at a] after Anon. conj.
[2427] Rivo] Ribi Hanmer. Bibo Collier conj.
[2428] Enter ...wine.] Edd. Enter ... Peto. Theobald. Enter Falstaffe. QqFf.
Act II, Scene IX — Pope
[2429] stocks] socks Rowe.
[2430] and foot them] Qq. Omitted in Ff.
[2431] [He drinks.] He drinketh. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. The rest omit.
[2432] Titan ... Titan] Titan, pitiful-hearted Titan, kiss a dish of butter Jervis conj.
[2433] pitiful-hearted Titan] pitiful-hearted butter Theobald. (pitiful hearted Titan!) Warburton. pitiful-hearted Titaness Anon. apud Fras. Mag. conj.
at the] at that or at a Anon. conj.
[2434] sweet tale of the sun's] sweet face of the sun Hanmer. sweet ale of the 'Sun' Jackson conj.
[2435] the sun's] the sonnes Q₁ Q₂. the sunne Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ F₁ F₂. the sun Q₆ Q₇ Q₈ F₃ F₄. his son Steevens conj. the son Malone. thy son Id. conj. the sons Boswell (1821).
didst] didst never Keightley conj.
then] there Mitford conj.
[2436] villanous] a villanous F₂.
[2437] in it] om. Ff.
[2438] psalms or any thing] Qq all manner of songs Ff. psalms and all manner of songs Pope.
[2439] round man] round-man Q₁ Q₂ Q₃.
[2440] not you] Q₁. The rest you not.
[2441] Poins.] Prin. Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈ Ff.
'Zounds] Qq. om. Ff.
fat] fatch F₁ F₂.
an] Pope. and QqFf.
[2442] by the Lord] Qq. om. Ff.
[2443] All's] All is Q₁ Q₂.
[He drinks.] Q₅ Q₆ Ff Q₇ Q₈. He drinketh. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[2444] there] Q₁ Q₂. The rest here.
here] Q₁ Q₂. The rest omit.
[2445] day] Q₁ Q₂. The rest omit.
[2446] of] om. Malone.
[2447] at] a Q₆.
[2448] 'scaped] escaped F₃ F₄. The rest scaped.
[2449] Prince.] Ff. Gad. Qq.
[2450] Gads.] Gad. Ff. Ross. Qq. Bard. Collier.
[2451] some] a Q₇ Q₈.
[2452] an Ebrew] and Ebrew Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. an Hebrew Q₇ Q₈.
[2453] six or seven] 6. or 7. Q₃ Q₄ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
[2454] come] came Q₈ F₃ F₄.
[2455] other] others Capell conj.
[2456] you] Q₁. The rest yee or ye.
[2457] you] Q₁ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. ye Q₂ F₂ F₃ F₄.] yee Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ F₁.
[2458] of radish] radish Q₆.
[2459] Prince.] Q₄. Prin. Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. Poines. Q₅. Poin. Q₆ Ff Q₇ Q₈.
God] Qq. Heaven Ff.
[2460] ward] Q₃. warde Q₁ Q₂ Q₄. The rest word.
[2461] me] Q₁ Q₂. The rest omit.
[2462] points] point Q₈.
[2463] Fal.] Continue to Prince. Malone conj.
buckram?] Capell (Whalley conj.). buckrom. QqFf (buccorom. Q₆).
[2464] their] Q₁. The rest his.
[2465] followed me] followed 'em Delius conj.
[2466] their] Q₁. The rest the.
[2467] knotty-pated] Qq Ff. nott-pated Dyce (Douce conj.).
[2468] tallow-catch] tallow chest Dering MS. (correction), tallow-ketch Hanmer. tallow-keech Steevens (Johnson conj.). tallow-cask Smyth conj. MS.
[2469] 'Zounds, an I were] Zoundes, and I were Qq. No: were I Ff.
[2470] plentiful] Q₁. plentie Q₂ F₁. The rest plenty.
[2471] bed-presser] bed-pressen Q₄.
horse-back-breaker] horse'-back-breaker Dyce (S. Walker conj.).
[2472] 'Sblood] Zbloud or Zblood Qq. Away Ff.
elf-skin] eel-skin Hanmer. elf-kin Johnson conj. elfin Rann conj.
[2473] tongue, you] Q₁ Q₂. The rest omit you.
[2474] utter what ... thee!] utter what ... thee, Q₁. utter, what ... thee? Q₂. utter! what ... thee? Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. utter what ... thee? Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. utter. What ... thee? Ff.
[2475] to it] Qq. to't Ff.
[2476] tired] tried Q₅.
[2477] this] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest thus.
[2478] four and] Qq Ff. four, you Pope. four, and you Delius.
bound] bind Collier (ed. 2).
[2479] a plain] plain a Capell (corrected in his Notes). See note (XIII).
[2480] your] om. Q₈.
[2481] here] om. Ff.
[2482] run] Qq. ran Ff.
[2483] roared] roard Q₁. roare Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. roar'd Ff.
[2484] By the Lord] Omitted in Ff.
[2485] you] Qq. ye Ff.
my] om. Q₇ Q₈.
[2486] beware] by mere Long MS.
[2487] now] Q₁. The rest omit.
[2488] [to Hostess within. Dyce.
[2489] titles of good] Qq. good titles of Ff.
[2490] extempore] extempory F₁ F₂ F₃.
[2491] Ah] A Qq Ff.
an] Capell. and Qq F₁ F₂. if F₃ F₄.
Enter Hostess.] Qq Ff. Capell puts it after lads, line 265.
[2492] SCENE X. Pope.
O Jesu] omitted in Ff.
[2493] lord] Lord Ff. Lo. Q₁. The rest L.
[2494] by’r lady] birlady Qq. om. Ff.
[2495] did you] did yon F₂.
lions too, you] lions, to you Q₁. lions to, you] Q₂.
[2496] Faith, tell] Tell Ff.
[2497] Bard.] Ff. Bar. Q₁. The rest Car.
to tickle] tickle F₃ F₄.
[2498] to beslubber] beslubber F₂ F₃ F₄.
[2499] year] yeares or years Q₄ Q₅ F₁ Q₈.
blushed] blush Q₇ Q₈.
[2500] devices] devizes Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆.
[2501] with the manner] in the manner Pope. in the manour Hanmer.
[2502] Re-enter F.] Enter F. Ff. Enter F. Qq (after line 312).
[2503] bare-bone] bare-bones Q₈.
Act II, Scene XI — Pope
[2504] my] om. Q₈.
bombast] bumbast Q₁ Q₂ Q₃.
[2505] talon] F₄. tallon Q₇ Q₈. The rest talent.
[2506] alderman’s] alderma’s Q₄. aldermas Q₅ Q₆.
[2507] Bracy] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest Braby.
[2508] to] goo to Q₅. goe to Q₆ F₁ Q₇ F₂ Q₈. go to F₃ F₄.
That] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. The rest The.
[2509] Amamon] Amaimon Capell.
[2510] O,] Owen Dering MS.
[2511] Owen, Owen] Owen Glendower Q₇ Q₈.
[2512] that] Q₁ Q₂. The rest the.
sprightly] sprightie Q₃. sprighly Q₄ Q₅ Q₆.
[2513] o'] Capell. a Qq Ff.
[2514] his] Q₁ Q₂. The rest a.
[2515] hath] had Warburton.
[2516] O'] Capell. A Qq Ff.
afoot] on foot Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.
[2517] to-night] to night Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. The rest by night.
[2518] Why] Q₁ Q₂. The rest omit.
it is] Q₁ Q₂. The rest tis or 'tis.
[2519] June] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. Sun Q₄ F₃ F₄. The rest Sunne.
[2520] hundreds] hundred Rowe (ed. 2).
[2521] art] are F₂.
[2522] not thou] thou not Capell.
[2523] horrible] horribly Q₃ Q₇ Q₈.
[2524] thou not] not thou Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ F₁.
horribly] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₇ Q₈. The rest horrible.
[2525] i' faith] om. Ff.
[2526] horribly] Q₂ Q₃ Q₇ Q₈. horriblie Q₁. horrible Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Ff.
[2527] love] Q₁ Q₂. The rest doe love.
[2528] stool] stole Q₅.
[2529] Fal.] Prin. F₂.
an] Pope. and Qq Ff.
[2530] my] Q₁ Q₂. The rest mine.
[2531] is my leg] it is, my liege Long MS.
[2532] O Jesu] om. Ff.
[2533] As prose in Ff.
[2534] how] how how Q₃ Q₄.
[2535] tristful] Rowe and Dering MS. trustfull Qq Ff.
[2536] O Jesu] Qq. O rare Ff.
these] those Rowe (ed. 2).
[2537] on] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. The rest omit.
yet] so Q₁ Q₂.
[2538] That thou] Q₁ Q₂. The rest Thou.
[2539] own] Q₁ Q₂. The rest omit.
[2540] thy] the Q₄.
[2541] lies] Q₁ Q₂. The rest lieth or lyeth.
[2542] sun] sunne Q₁. The rest sonne (son F₄).
[2543] an] Pope, and Qq Ff.
[2544] goodly] good Malone.
[2545] deceiveth] Q₁ Q₂. The rest deceives.
[2546] tree ... fruit ... fruit ... tree] fruit ... tree ... tree ... fruit Hanmer.
[2547] with] with thee Keightley conj.
[2548] me?] Theobald. me, Q₁ Q₂ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. me; Q₃ Q₄. me: Ff.
[2549] matter] manner Capell conj.
[2550] poulter's] poulterer's Rowe.
[2551] 'Sblood] Yfaith F₁ F₂. Ifaith F₃. I' faith F₄.
[2552] i' faith] om. Ff.
[2553] an old fat] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. The rest a fat old.
[2554] trunk] hulk Collier MS.
[2555] pudding] Qq F₁. puddings F₂ F₃ F₄.
[2556] reverend] Ff. reverent Qq.
[2557] Falstaff] that Falstaff Keightley conj.
[2558] more] more's F₃ F₄.
[2559] God] Qq. Heaven Ff.
[2560] banish ... company,] om. Pope.
[2561] [A knocking heard. Exeunt....] om. Qq Ff. A great knocking heard: Exeunt Hostess and Drawer; Bardolph follows. Capell, after valiant Jack Falstaff, line 455.
[2562] Re-enter....] Enter.... Qq Ff.
[2563] sheriff] shriefe Q₅ Q₇ Q₈.
[2564] the door] thee door F₂.
[2565] ye] Q₁. The rest you.
[2566] Re-enter....] Enter.... Qq Ff.
[2567] Jesu] om. Ff.
[2568] Prince.] Q₂ Q₃. Prin. Q₁. Poyn. Deryng MS. The rest give the speech to Falstaff.
[2569] thou] if thou dost, thou Capell.
[2570] mad] F₃ F₄. The rest made.
[2571] thou] thou art Q₈.
[2572] up] om. Rowe.
good] a good Collier MS.
[2573] [Exeunt....] Malone. Exit. Ff. om. Qq. See note (XIV).]
Enter....] Qq Ff.
[2574] SCENE XII. Pope.
[2575] As verse first by Pope. As prose in Qq Ff.
[2576] well] will Q₇.
gracious] om. Steevens conj.
[2577] butter] butter, sir Capell.
[2578] will] om. Pope.
[2579] three hundred] Ff. 3000. Q₈. The rest 300.
[2580] it be] it is Q₇ Q₈.]
[Exeunt....] Hammer. Exit. Qq Ff.
[2581] Peto.] Qq Ff. Poin. Steevens (Johnson conj.).
[2582] fetches] fetches his F₃ F₄.
[2583] [He ... pockets....] QqFf (pocket Q₁ Q₂ Q₃).
[2584] they be] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest be they.
[2585] Peto.] Ff. om. Qq. Poins. Steevens (Johnson conj.).
[reads] Capell.
[2586] Anchovies] Capell. Anchaves Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. The rest Anchoves.
[2587] ob.] a halfpenny Rowe (ed. 2).
[2588] march] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₈ F₃ F₄. match Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ F₁ Q₇ F₂.
[2589] Peto] Qq Ff. Poins Steevens (Johnson conj.).