Act IV, Scene V — Another Chamber.
The KING lying on a bed: CLARENCE, GLOUCESTER, WARWICK, and others in attendance.[4181]
King. Let there be no noise made, my gentle friends; Unless some dull and favourable hand[4182] Will whisper music to my weary spirit.
War. Call for the music in the other room.
King. Set me the crown upon my pillow here. 5
Clar. His eye is hollow, and he changes much.
War. Less noise, less noise!
Enter PRINCE HENRY.[4183]
Prince. Who saw the Duke of Clarence?
Clar. I am here, brother, full of heaviness.
Prince. How now! rain within doors, and none abroad![4184] How doth the king?[4184] 10
Glou. Exceeding ill.
Prince. Heard he the good news yet?[4185] Tell it him.[4185][4186]
Glou. He alter'd much upon the hearing it.[4187]
Prince. If he be sick with joy, he'll recover without[4188][4189] physic.[4188] 15
War. Not so much noise, my lords: sweet prince, speak low;[4190] The king your father is disposed to sleep.
Clar. Let us withdraw into the other room.
War. Will't please your grace to go along with us?
Prince. No; I will sit and watch here by the king. 20
[Exeunt all except the Prince.[4191]
Why doth the crown lie there upon his pillow, Being so troublesome a bedfellow? O polish'd perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night! sleep with it now![4192] 25 Yet not so sound and half so deeply sweet[4193] As he whose brow with homely biggen bound[4194] Snores out the watch of night. O majesty! When thou dost pinch thy bearer, thou dost sit Like a rich armour worn in heat of day, 30 That scalds with safety. By his gates of breath[4195] There lies a downy feather which stirs not:[4196] Did he suspire, that light and weightless down[4197] Perforce must move. My gracious lord! my father![4198] This sleep is sound indeed; this is a sleep, 35 That from this golden rigol hath divorced[4199] So many English kings. Thy due from me[4200] Is tears and heavy sorrows of the blood, Which nature, love, and filial tenderness, Shall, O dear father, pay thee plenteously: 40 My due from thee is this imperial crown,[4201] Which, as immediate from thy place and blood, Derives itself to me. Lo, here it sits,[4202] Which God shall guard: and put the world's whole strength[4203][4204] Into one giant arm, it shall not force[4203] 45 This lineal honour from me: this from thee[4203] Will I to mine leave, as 'tis left to me.[4203] [Exit.
King. Warwick! Gloucester! Clarence!
Re-enter WARWICK, GLOUCESTER, CLARENCE, and the rest.[4205]
Clar. Doth the king call?
War. What would your majesty? How fares your grace?[4206] 50
King. Why did you leave me here alone, my lords?
Clar. We left the prince my brother here, my liege,[4207] Who undertook to sit and watch by you.[4207]
King. The Prince of Wales! Where is he? let me see him:[4207] He is not here.[4207][4208] 55
War. This door is open; he is gone this way.[4209]
Glou. He came not through the chamber where we stay'd.
King. Where is the crown? who took it from my pillow?
War. When we withdrew, my liege, we left it here.
King. The prince hath ta'en it hence: go, seek him out.[4210] 60 Is he so hasty that he doth suppose[4210] My sleep my death?[4210] Find him, my Lord of Warwick; chide him hither.[4210]
[Exit Warwick.[4210]
This part of his conjoins with my disease,[4210] And helps to end me. See, sons, what things you are![4210] 65 How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object![4211] For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care,[4212][4213] Their bones with industry;[4212] 70 For this they have engrossed and piled up[4214] The canker'd heaps of strange-achieved gold; For this they have been thoughtful to invest Their sons with arts and martial exercises: When, like the bee, culling from every flower[4215] 75 The virtuous sweets,[4216][4217][4218] Our thighs pack'd with wax, our mouths with honey,[4217][4218][4219] We bring it to the hive; and, like the bees,[4218][4220] Are murdered for our pains. This bitter taste[4218] Yield his engrossments to the ending father.[4218] 80
Re-enter WARWICK.[4221]
Now, where is he that will not stay so long Till his friend sickness hath determined me?[4222]
War. My lord, I found the prince in the next room, Washing with kindly tears his gentle cheeks, With such a deep demeanour in great sorrow 85 That tyranny, which never quaff'd but blood, Would, by beholding him, have wash'd his knife With gentle eye-drops. He is coming hither.
King. But wherefore did he take away the crown?
Re-enter PRINCE HENRY.[4223]
Lo, where he comes. Come hither to me, Harry. 90 Depart the chamber, leave us here alone.
[Exeunt Warwick and the rest.[4224]
Prince. I never thought to hear you speak again.
King. Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought: I stay too long by thee, I weary thee. Dost thou so hunger for mine empty chair[4225] 95 That thou wilt needs invest thee with my honours[4226] Before thy hour be ripe? O foolish youth! Thou seek'st the greatness that will overwhelm thee. Stay but a little; for my cloud of dignity Is held from falling with so weak a wind 100 That it will quickly drop: my day is dim. Thou hast stolen that which after some few hours Were thine without offence; and at my death Thou hast seal'd up my expectation: Thy life did manifest thou lovedst me not, 105 And thou wilt have me die assured of it. Thou hidest a thousand daggers in thy thoughts,[4227] Which thou hast whetted on thy stony heart,[4228] To stab at half an hour of my life.[4229] What! canst thou not forbear me half an hour? 110 Then get thee gone and dig my grave thyself, And bid the merry bells ring to thine ear[4230] That thou art crowned, not that I am dead. Let all the tears that should bedew my hearse Be drops of balm to sanctify thy head: 115 Only compound me with forgotten dust; Give that which gave thee life unto the worms. Pluck down my officers, break my decrees; For now a time is come to mock at form: Harry the fifth is crown'd: up, vanity![4231] 120 Down, royal state! all you sage counsellors, hence! And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness! Now, neighbour confines, purge you of your scum: Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance,[4232] 125 Revel the night, rob, murder, and commit The oldest sins the newest kind of ways?[4233] Be happy, he will trouble you no more; England shall double gild his treble guilt,[4234] England shall give him office, honour, might; 130 For the fifth Harry from curb'd license plucks[4235] The muzzle of restraint, and the wild dog Shall flesh his tooth on every innocent.[4236] O my poor kingdom, sick with civil blows! When that my care could not withhold thy riots, 135 What wilt thou do when riot is thy care? O, thou wilt be a wilderness again, Peopled with wolves, thy old inhabitants!
Prince. O, pardon me, my liege! but for my tears,[4237] The moist impediments unto my speech,[4238] 140 I had forestall'd this dear and deep rebuke Ere you with grief had spoke and I had heard The course of it so far. There is your crown;[4239] And He that wears the crown immortally Long guard it yours! If I affect it more 145 Than as your honour and as your renown, Let me no more from this obedience rise, Which my most inward true and duteous spirit[4240] Teacheth, this prostrate and exterior bending.[4241][4242] God witness with me, when I here came in,[4242] 150 And found no course of breath within your majesty, How cold it struck my heart! If I do feign, O, let me in my present wildness die And never live to show the incredulous world The noble change that I have purposed! 155 Coming to look on you, thinking you dead, And dead almost, my liege, to think you were, I spake unto this crown as having sense,[4243] And thus upbraided it: 'The care on thee depending Hath fed upon the body of my father; 160 Therefore, thou best of gold art worst of gold:[4244] Other, less fine in carat, is more precious,[4245] Preserving life in medicine potable; But thou, most fine, most honour'd, most renown'd, Hast eat thy bearer up.' Thus, my most royal liege,[4246] 165 Accusing it, I put it on my head, To try with it, as with an enemy That had before my face murder'd my father, The quarrel of a true inheritor. But if it did infect my blood with joy, 170 Or swell my thoughts to any strain of pride; If any rebel or vain spirit of mine Did with the least affection of a welcome Give entertainment to the might of it,[4247] Let God for ever keep it from my head[4248] 175 And make me as the poorest vassal is That doth with awe and terror kneel to it!
King. O my son,[4249] God put it in thy mind to take it hence,[4248][4250] That thou mightst win the more thy father's love,[4251] 180 Pleading so wisely in excuse of it! Come hither, Harry, sit thou by my bed; And hear, I think, the very latest counsel That ever I shall breathe. God knows, my son,[4248] By what by-paths and indirect crook'd ways[4252] 185 I met this crown; and I myself know well How troublesome it sat upon my head. To thee it shall descend with better quiet, Better opinion, better confirmation; For all the soil of the achievement goes 190 With me into the earth. It seem'd in me But as an honour snatch'd with boisterous hand, And I had many living to upbraid My gain of it by their assistances; Which daily grew to quarrel and to bloodshed,[4253] 195 Wounding supposed peace: all these bold fears[4254] Thou see'st with peril I have answered; For all my reign hath been but as a scene Acting that argument: and now my death Changes the mode; for what in me was purchased,[4255] 200 Falls upon thee in a more fairer sort;[4256] So thou the garland wear'st successively.[4257] Yet, though thou stand'st more sure than I could do, Thou art not firm enough, since griefs are green; And all my friends, which thou must make thy friends,[4258] 205 Have but their stings and teeth newly ta'en out;[4259] By whose fell working I was first advanced And by whose power I well might lodge a fear To be again displaced: which to avoid, I cut them off; and had a purpose now[4260] 210 To lead out many to the Holy Land,[4261] Lest rest and lying still might make them look Too near unto my state. Therefore, my Harry,[4262] Be it thy course to busy giddy minds With foreign quarrels; that action, hence borne out,[4263] 215 May waste the memory of the former days.[4264] More would I, but my lungs are wasted so That strength of speech is utterly denied me. How I came by the crown, O God forgive;[4248][4265] And grant it may with thee in true peace live![4265] 220
Prince. My gracious liege,[4266] You won it, wore it, kept it, gave it me; Then plain and right must my possession be: Which I with more than with a common pain 'Gainst all the world will rightfully maintain. 225
Enter LORD JOHN OF LANCASTER.[4267]
King. Look, look, here comes my John of Lancaster.[4268]
Lan. Health, peace, and happiness to my royal father![4269]
King. Thou bring'st me happiness and peace, son John;[4270] But health, alack, with youthful wings is flown From this bare wither'd trunk: upon thy sight 230 My worldly business makes a period. Where is my Lord of Warwick?
Prince. My Lord of Warwick!
Enter WARWICK, and others.[4271]
King. Doth any name particular belong Unto the lodging where I first did swoon?
War. 'Tis call'd Jerusalem, my noble lord. 235
King. Laud be to God! even there my life must end.[4248][4272] It hath been prophesied to me many years, I should not die but in Jerusalem; Which vainly I supposed the Holy Land: But bear me to that chamber; there I'll lie; 240 In that Jerusalem shall Harry die. [Exeunt.[4273]
FOOTNOTES:
[3990] Yorkshire. Gaultree Forest.] In Yorkshire. Pope.
Enter....] Malone. Enter the Archbishop, Mowbray, Bardolfe, Hastings, within the forrest of Gaultree. Q. Enter the Arch-bishop, Mowbray, Hastings, Westmerland, Colevile. Ff.
[3991] Arch.] Bish., or Bishop. Q Ff (passim).
[3992] Gaultree] Q. Gualtree Ff.
an't ... grace] Omitted by Pope.
[3993] numbers] number F₃ F₄.
[3994] tenour] tenure Q Ff.
[3995] Here doth he] Q F₁. How doth he F₂ F₃ F₄. How he doth Pope. Here he doth Hanmer.
[3996] a Messenger.] Ff. Messenger. Q.
[3997] Let us sway] Let us way Warburton. Let's away Collier (Collier MS.).
[3998] SCENE II. Pope.
Enter W.] Q. In Ff, after line 22.
[3999] peace: What ... coming?] Ff. peace, What ... comming? Q. peace, What ... coming. Dyce.
[4000] Then, my lord] Omitted in Q.
[4001] bloody] heady Warburton conj. moody Johnson conj. (withdrawn).
guarded] goaded Pope (ed. 2).
rags] Singer (S. Walker conj. and Collier MS.). rage Q Ff.
[4002] appear'd] Pope. appeare Q F₁ F₂. appear F₃ F₄.
[4003] ugly] F₃ F₄. owgly Q. ougly F₁ F₂.
[4004] lord] my lord Pope.
[4005] see] F₄. sea Q F₁ F₂ F₃.
[4006] figure] figures Q.
[4007] graves] graues Q. Graues F₁. glaives Hanmer (Warburton). greaves Rann (Steevens conj.). breves Jackson conj. braves Keightley conj. griefs Anon. conj.
[4008] loud] lowd Q F₁ F₄. low F₂ F₃.
a point] report Collier MS. a bruit Singer conj.
[4009] And ... wrong] Omitted in Q.
[4010] there] Ff. sphere Hanmer (Warburton). chair Collier (Theobald conj.). haven or rest Keightley conj. shore or tether Anon. conj.
[4011] our] an Collier MS.
[4012] dangers ... days] danger ... day's Rowe.
[4013] instance] instants Malone conj.
[4014] Hath] Q Ff. Have Theobald.
[4015] And ... edge] Omitted in Ff. See note (VI).
[4016] My ... commonwealth] My brother, general, the commonwealth; Rann. My brother, general! the commonwealth! Knight.
brother general, the] quarrel general, the Johnson conj. brother general [shewing Mowbray] the Capell. quarrel: and the general Singer conj. See note (XI).
[4017] To ... cruelty] Omitted in Ff. See note (XI).
[4018] To lay ... honours] As in Rowe (ed. 2). As one line in Q Ff.
[4019] a heavy] an heavie F₄.
[4020] O my good ... king.] Omitted in Q.
[4021] Either] Or Pope.
[4022] force perforce] Theobald. forc'd, perforce Ff.
[4023] then that] then, that Ff. when, that Rowe (ed. 1). then, when Pope.
Henry] Harry Theobald.
[4024] And then ... O, when] And when ... O then Staunton conj.
[4025] coursers] F₁ F₄. courses F₂ F₃.
[4026] sparkling] sparling F₂.
[4027] O, when ... down,] F₁ F₄. O when ... down. F₂ F₃. O then ... down. Capell.
[4028] and] or Pope.
[4029] Earl] duke Capell.
[4030] and all] all Pope.
[4031] Hereford] Herefold F₂.
[4032] indeed, more ... king] Theobald (Thirlby conj.). and did more ... king Ff. more than the king himself Rowe. and bid more ... king Delius conj. and eyed more ... king Edd. conj.
[4033] But this] West. But this Q.
[4034] It shall appear ... set off] It shall enjoy them, every thing set off, You shall appear, that your demands are just F₃.
[4035] think] F₃ F₄. thinke Q F₁ F₂. mark Hanmer. hint Capell.
[4036] will] wills Pope. well-- Malone conj.
[4037] parley] Ff. parlee Q.
[4038] handling] Q F₁. handing F₂ F₃ F₄.
[4039] intended] indented Becket conj.
[4040] Farmer proposed to arrange these lines as follows, 173, 174, 171, 172.
[4041] insinewed to] Ff. ensinewed to Q. insinew'd to Capell. insinewed into Hanmer.
[4042] execution] executions Rowe.
[4043] purposes confined] purposes confinde Q. purposes confin'd Ff. properties confirm'd Hanmer. properties confin'd Warburton. purposes consign'd Steevens (Johnson conj.). purposes, confirm'd Capell. purposes; confin'd Milford conj.
[4044] awful] lawful Warburton.
[4045] to] up to Capell.
[4046] meet; And either] Theobald (Thirlby conj.). meete, At either Q. meete At either Ff.
[4047] God] Q. Heaven Ff.
[4048] SCENE III. Pope.
[4049] conditions] Q F₁ F₂. condition F₃ F₄.
[4050] not that: if] Pope. not that, if F₂ F₃ F₄. not, that if Q F₁.
[4051] consist] insist Rowe.
[4052] Yea,] Q. I, Ff.
[4053] royal] loyal Hanmer.
[4054] weary Of dainty] weary of Such dainty Keightley conj.
[4055] Of ... grievances] Of picking out such dainty grievances Johnson conj.
[4056] so] too Grant White conj.
[4057] him on] her man Collier (Collier MS.).
[4058] Be ... Westmoreland] As one line in Q.
[4059] Re-enter ...] Enter ... Q Ff.
[4060] Your grace] My lord Capell.
God's] Q. heavens Ff.
set] Q. om. Ff.
[4061] [Exeunt.] Capell. om. Q Ff.
[4062] SCENE II.] Capell. SCENE IV. Pope. om. Ff.
Another part of the forest.] Steevens. The same. Another Part of it. An open Tent set up; Servants attending. Trumpets. Capell.
Enter....] Capell. Enter Prince Iohn and his armie. Q (after armies, IV. 1. 226). Enter Prince John. Ff.
[4063] You are] You're Pope.
[4064] gentle] my gentle Pope.
[4065] man] man talking Q.
[4066] God] Q. Heaven Ff.
[4067] imagined] imagin'd Rowe (ed. 2). imagine Q Ff. image and Rann (Malone conj.).
God himself] Q. Heaven it selfe Ff.
[4068] Employ] Imply Q.
[4069] dishonourable? You] Ff. dishonorable you] Q.
You have] you’ve Pope.
ta'en] tane Q. taken Ff.
[4070] zeal] F₃ F₄. zeale Q F₁ F₂. seal Singer (Capell conj.). See note (XII).
God] Q. Heaven Ff.
[4071] his] Q. Heavens Ff.
[4072] sense] fence Warburton conj.
[4073] hath] have Capell.
[4074] Hydra son] Hidra, sonne Q. Hydra sonne F₁ F₂. Hydra-Son F₃ F₄.
[4075] desires] desire F₄.
[4076] success of] successive Collier conj.
[4077] this] Ff. his Q.
[4078] Whiles] While Pope.
[4079] You ... shallow] As in Q. As two lines in Ff, the first ending Hastings.
[4080] soul] soule Q. life Ff.
[4081] redresses. Lan. I give] redresses. John. I give] Ff. redresses, I give Q.
[4082] [Wine brought. Collier (Collier MS.).
[4083] [drinks, and gives the Cup to the Archbishop. Capell.
[4084] Hast.] Ff. Prince. Q.
[to an Officer. Capell.
[4085] I know ... captain] As in Q. As two lines in Ff.
[Exit Officer.] Capell. Exit. Ff. om. Q. Exit Colevile. Rowe.
[4086] [drinks, and gives to West. Capell.
[4087] I pledge ... peace] As in Q. As three lines in Ff, ending grace ... bestow’d ... peace.
[4088] to ye] to you Capell.
[4089] Serves ... thus] Seems ... this S. Walker conj.
[4090] [Shouts within.] Capell. Shout. Q. om. Ff.
[4091] how] om. Pope.
[4092] [Exit W.] Rowe. Exit. Ff (after line 94). om. Q.
[4093] our] your Capell.
[4094] [Exit. H.] Exit. Ff. om. Q.
[4095] we shall] we'll S. Walker conj.
Re-enter W.] Enter W. QFf.
[4096] SCENE X. Pope (ed. 1). SCENE V. Pope (ed. 2).
[4097] Re-enter H.] Enter H. QFf.
[4098] My lord ... already] Q. Our army is dispers'd Ff.
[4099] take their courses]Q. tooke their course Ff.
[4100] toward]Q. towards Ff.
[4101] thee] you Rowe.
[4102] these same]om. Steevens conj.
[4103] and ... yours]Ff. Omitted in Q.
[4104] God ... hath] Q. Heaven ... have Ff. Heav'n ... hath Theobald.
[4105] these traitors] Ff. this traitour Q.
[4106] SCENE III.] Capell. SCENE VI. Pope. om. Ff.
Another ...] The same. Another part. Capell.
Alarum ...] Alarum. Enter Falstaffe excursions. Q. Enter Falstaffe and Colleville. Ff.
... meeting] Capell.
[4107] I pray] Ff. om. Q.
[4108] I ... dale.] As prose in Q. As two lines, the first ending sir, in Ff.
[4109] place] dale Collier (Collier MS.).
[4110] a place] a dale Rann (Tyrwhitt conj.).
be still] still be Rowe.
[4111] Enter ...] Enter Iohn Westmerland, and the rest. Q. Enter Prince Iohn, and Westmerland. Ff.
[4112] further]Q. farther Ff.
[4113] then] thou F₂.
[4114] have] om. Rowe.
with] within Anon. conj.
[4115] inch] QF₂ F₃ F₄. ynch F₁. edge Anon. conj.
[4116] Rome, 'I came ...']Ff. Rome, there cosin, I came ... Q. Rome, there, Cæsar, I came ... Johnson. Rome, your cousin--I came ... Capell conj. Rome, my cousin, I came ... Collier conj. Rome, I ... overcame. Lan. Then, cousin, it ... Anon. conj.
[4117] by the Lord,] Q. I sweare, Ff.
[4118] else]Q. om. Ff.
on't] Q. of it Ff.
[4119] won] bought Capell conj.
[4120] gratis] Q. om. Ff. gratis; and om. Anon. conj. (reading 65-68 as verse).
[4121] Re-enter ...] Enter ... Q Ff.
[4122] SCENE VII. Pope.
Now] Q. om. Ff.
[4123] Colevile] Coleville then Pope. Coleville here Capell.
[4124] [Exeunt ...] Exit with Collevile. Ff. om. Q.
[4125] My lord, ... report.]As verse first by Dyce (Collier conj.). As prose in Q Ff.
[4126] I beseech] 'beseech S. Walker conj.
[4127] Stand ... report] 'pray, stand in your good report, my lord Pope.
pray] 'pray Ff. om. Q.
[4128] Fare ... deserve.] As verse in Ff. As prose in Q.
[4129] [Exeunt ...] Capell. Exit. Ff. om. Q.
[4130] but] Ff. om. Q.
[4131] nor] om. Pope.
[4132] none] Q. any Ff.
[4133] drink ... fish-meals] drink and ... fishmeals doth ... blood Anon. conj.
[4134] and dull] dull Pope.
[4135] crudy] cruddie F₁.
[4136] the tongue] in the tongue Hanmer.
[4137] becomes] become Hanmer.
[4138] extreme] F₃ F₄. extremes Q F₁ F₂.
illumineth] Q. illuminateth Ff.
[4139] this retinue] Q. his retinue Ff.
[4140] hoard] F₃ F₄. whoord Q. hoord F₁ F₂.
commences] commerces Heath conj. conjures Jervis conj.
[4141] humane] Q. om. Ff. human Johnson.
[4142] Enter B.] Ff. Enter B. (after next line) Q.
[4143] [Exeunt.] Ff. om. Q.
[4144] SCENE IV.] Capell. Scæena Secunda. Ff. SCENE VIII. Pope.
Westminster ...] The Palace at Westminster. Theobald. See note (XIII).
Enter ...] Enter the King, Warwike, Kent, Thomas duke of Clarence, Humphrey of Gloucester. Q. Enter King, Warwicke, Clarence, Gloucester. Ff.
... and others] Capell.
[4145] God] Q. heaven Ff.
[4146] bleedeth] breedeth Anon. conj.
[4147] Humphrey ... brother?]As prose in QFf. First as verse by Pope.
[4148] melting] Ff. meeting Q.
[4149] humorous] tumourous Jackson conj.
[4150] congealed] congested Singer conj. (withdrawn).
[4151] line] Ff. time Q.
[4152] strong] stong F₂.
[4153] Clar.] Tho. Q.
[4154] canst ... that?] Omitted in Q.
[4155] further] Q. farther Ff.
[4156] others] Ff. other Q.
[4157] seldom when] seldome when Q. seldome, when F₁ F₂ F₃. seldom, when F₄. seldom-when Singer.
[4158] Enter W.] Ff. Enter W. (after the end of the line) Q.
[4159] SCENE IX. Pope.
[4160] that that] that, which Pope.
[4161] Bishop Scroop] Theobald. Bishop, Scroope QFf.
[4162] his] this Johnson conj.
[4163] Enter H.] Ff. Enter Harcor. Q (after news).
[4164] heaven] Ff. heavens Q.
[4165] sheriff] F₃ F₄. shrieve Q. sherife F₁ F₂.
[4166] [kneels, and delivers it. Capell.
[4167] And ... sick?] As one line in Q. As two, the first ending news, in Ff.
[4168] write] Ff. wet Q.
letters] Ff. termes Q.
[4169] are] om. Pope.
[4170] [Sinks and falls into a Fit. Capell.
[4171] Glo.] Ff. Hum. Q (and throughout the Scene).
[4172] Stand ... well.] As one line in Q. As two, the first ending air, in Ff.
[4173] hold out these] Q. hold out: these Ff.
[4174] and will break out] Ff. Omitted in Q.
[4175] fear me] fear it Hanmer.
[4176] Unfathered] Unfeatur'd Becket conj.
births] birds Johnson.
[4177] months] F₄. moneths Q F₁ F₂. monthes F₃.
[4178] great-grandsire] grand-sire F₃ F₄.
[4179] apoplexy] F₂ F₃ F₄. apoplexi Q. apoplexie F₁. apoplex Pope.
[4180] softly, pray] softly 'pray Ff. Omitted in Q.
[4181] SCENE V.] Edd. See note (XIV). SCENE X.] Pope.
The King lying on a bed: Clarence, Gloucester, Warwick, and others in attendance.] Edd. Attendants, and Lords, take the King up; convey him into an inner Room, and lay him upon a Bed. Capell. om. Q Ff.
[4182] dull and] slow and Pope. doleing Warburton. dulcet Becket conj.
[4183] Enter ...] Ff. Enter Harry. Q.
Act IV, Scene X — ] Pope
[4184] How now!... king?] As in Q. As prose in Ff.
[4185] Heard ... him.]As in Ff. As one line in Q.
[4186] Tell it ... upon the] Tell't ... in Steevens conj.
[4187] He] He is told, and Capell (ending the line at much).
alter'd] altred Q (Capell's copy). utter'd Q (apud Collier). vttred Q (apud Halliwell).
[4188] If he ... physic.] As prose in Q. As two lines, the first ending joy, in Ff.
[4189] he'll] he will Capell, reading With joy ... physic as one line.
[4190] Not ... low] As in Pope. As prose in Q. As two lines in Ff.
[4191] Exeunt ...] Rowe. om. QFf.
[4192] To many] Too many Becket conj.
sleep with it] he sleeps with 't Hanmer.
[4193] and] nor Anon. conj.
[4194] whose] who his Keightley conj.
[4195] scalds] Theobald. scaldst Q. scald'st Ff.
[4196] downy] F₄. dowlny Q. dowlney F₁ F₂ F₃.
[4197] down] F₄. dowlne Q F₁ F₂. dowln F₃.
[4198] move. My] Ff. move my Q.
[calling loud, and stirring him. Capell.
[4199] rigol] F₄. rigoll Q F₁ F₂ F₃. regale Warburton conj. ringol Grant White (Malone conj.).
[4200] due] deaw Q.
[4201] [kneels, and kisses him. Capell.
[4202] here] Ff. where Q.
[4203] Which ... to me] As in Q. As five lines in Ff, ending guard ... ... arm ... from me ... leave ... to me.
[4204] God] Q. Heaven Ff.
[4205] SCENE XI. Pope.
[waking. Capell.
Re-enter ...] Re-enter Warwick, and the rest, hastily. Capell. Enter Warwicke, Gloucester, Clarence. QFf (before line 48).
[4206] How ... grace] Omitted in Q.
[4207] We left ... not here] As prose in Q.
[4208] He is not here] Q. Omitted in Ff.
[4209] This] The Rowe.
[4210] The prince ... are!] Arranged as by Capell. As five lines in Q, ending out ... death?... hither ... disease ... are. As seven lines in Ff, ending hence ... out ... suppose ... Warwick ... conioynes ... me ... are. See note (XIV).
[4211] object!] object! Yet, for this, Capell conj.
[4212] Have ... industry]Arranged as by Pope. As two lines in QFf, the first ending thoughts.
[4213] sleep ... thoughts] sleepe ... thoughts Q. sleepes ... thoughts Ff. sleeps ... thought Rowe.
thoughts] thoughts, and wearied out Anon. conj.
[4214] piled] pilld Q.
[4215] bee] bees Keightley conj.
culling] Ff. toling Q. toyling Dering MS.
[4216] The virtuous sweets] Ff. Omitted in Q.
[4217] The virtuous ... honey] Their virtuous sweets, all through the day, our thighs Packed with wax, our mouths with honey fill’d Keightley conj.
[4218] The ... father] Arranged as by Capell. As five lines in Ff, ending wax ... hive ... paines ... engrossements ... father.
[4219] Our thighs pack'd] Our thighes packt Ff. Our thigh, packt Q. Our thighs are packt Pope. Our thighs all pack'd Hanmer. Packing our thighs Capell.
Our ... honey] Our thighs with wax, our mouths with honey pack'd Dyce conj.
[4220] and] we Capell.
[4221] Yield] Rowe. Yeelds Q. Yields Ff.
ending] dying Pope.
Re-enter W.] Enter W. Ff. Enter W. Q (after line 82).
[4222] hath] Ff. hands Q.
[4223] Re-enter Prince Henry.] Enter Prince Henry. Ff. Enter Harry. Q (after line 88).
[4224] Exeunt ...] Capell. exeunt. Q. Exit. Ff.
[4225] mine] Q. my Ff.
[4226] my] Q. mine Ff.
[4227] hidest] hidst Q. hid’st Ff.
[4228] which] Ff. whom Q.
[4229] life] frail life Pope.
[4230] thine] Q. thy Ff.
[4231] Harry] Q. Henry Ff.
[4232] ruffian] ruffin Q.
dance] and dance F₃ F₄. dice Anon conj.
[4233] kind of ways] kinds of way Capell conj.
[4234] England ... guilt] Omitted by Pope.
gild] Q. gill'd F₁ F₂ F₃. guil'd F₄.
guilt] Ff. gilt Q.
[4235] curb'd] cur'b F₂.
[4236] on] Q. in Ff.
[4237] O ... tears] As in Q. As two lines in Ff.
[Kneeling. Rowe.
[4238] moist] Q. most ff.
[4239] [kneeling and presenting it. Capell.
[4240] inward true and] Q. true and inward Ff.
[4241] Teacheth, this] Capell. Teacheth this Q Ff.
[4242] bending. God ... me,] bending, God ... me. Q. _bending. Heaven ... me_, Ff.
[4243] this] Q. the Ff.
[4244] worst of] Ff. worse then Q.
[4245] fine in carat, is more] fine in charract, is more F₁ F₂ F₃. fine in carract, is more F₄. fine, in karrat more Q.
[4246] Hast ... liege] As in Q. As two lines in Ff.
thy bearer] Q. the bearer Ff. thy wearer Anon. conj.
Thus my most] Q. Thus my Ff. Thus Pope.
[4247] might] weight Collier MS.
[4248] God] Q. heaven Ff.
[4249] O my son] Ff. Omitted in Q.
[4250] put it] Ff. put Q.
[4251] win] Q. ioyne F₁. joyne F₂. joyn F₃ F₄.
[4252] crook'd ways] crookt waies Q. crook'd-wayes Ff (ways F₄).
[4253] to] Q F₁. to a F₂ F₃ F₄.
[4254] Wounding ... fears] As in Q. As two lines in Ff.
these bold fears] their bold feats Warburton. these bold feers Staunton conj.
[4255] mode] F₃ F₄. mood Q. moode F₁ F₂.
purchased] purchase Collier MS.
[4256] more] much Pope.
[4257] So] For Warburton. And Capell.
[4258] my friends] Rann (Tyrwhitt conj.). thy friends QFf. thy foes S. Walker conj. the foes Keightley conj.
[4259] ta'en] tane Q. tak'n F₁. taken F₂ F₃ F₄.
[4260] I cut them off; and] And cut them off, I Anon. conj.
them] some Collier (Mason conj.).
[4261] out] our Warburton.
[4262] Too ... Harry] As in Q. As two lines in Ff.
unto] into Pope.
[4263] quarrels] wars Pope.
[4264] the former] former Pope.
[4265] How ... live!] om. Ingleby conj.
[4266] My gracious liege] Ff. Omitted in Q.
[4267] Enter ...] enter Lancaster. Q. Knter Lord John of Lancaster, and Warwicke. Ff. Enter Prince John of Lancaster, Warwick, Lords, and others. Capell.
[4268] Look ... Lancaster] As in Q. As two lines in Ff.
[4269] Health ... father] As in Q. As two lines in Ff.
[4270] and peace] QF₁. om. F₂ F₃ F₄.
[4271] Enter ...] Edd. om. QFf.
[4272] Laud ... end] As in Q. As two lines in Ff.
[4273] Exeunt.] Ff. om. Q.
Act V, Scene I — Gloucestershire. SHALLOW'S house
Enter SHALLOW, FALSTAFF, BARDOLPH, and PAGE.[4274]
Shal. By cock and pie, sir, you shall not away to-night.[4275] What, Davy, I say!
Fal. You must excuse me, Master Robert Shallow.
Shal. I will not excuse you; you shall not be excused; excuses shall not be admitted; there is no excuse shall serve; 5 you shall not be excused. Why, Davy!
Enter DAVY.
Davy. Here, sir.
Shal. Davy, Davy, Davy, Davy, let me see, Davy; let[4276] me see, Davy; let me see: yea, marry, William cook, bid[4277] him come hither. Sir John, you shall not be excused. 10
Davy. Marry, sir, thus; those precepts cannot be served: and, again, sir, shall we sow the headland with wheat?[4278]
Shal. With red wheat, Davy. But for William cook: are there no young pigeons?
Davy. Yes, sir. Here is now the smith's note for shoeing[4279][4280] 15 and plough-irons.[4280]
Shal. Let it be cast and paid. Sir John, you shall not be excused.
Davy. Now, sir, a new link to the bucket must needs be[4281] had: and, sir, do you mean to stop any of William's wages, 20 about the sack he lost the other day at Hinckley fair?[4282]
Shal. A' shall answer it. Some pigeons, Davy, a couple of short-legged hens, a joint of mutton, and any pretty little tiny kickshaws, tell William cook.[4283]
Davy. Doth the man of war stay all night, sir? 25
Shal. Yea, Davy. I will use him well: a friend i' the[4284] court is better than a penny in purse. Use his men well, Davy; for they are arrant knaves, and will backbite.
Davy. No worse than they are backbitten, sir; for they[4285] have marvellous foul linen.[4286] 30
Shal. Well conceited, Davy: about thy business, Davy.
Davy. I beseech you, sir, to countenance William Visor of Woncot against Clement Perkes of the hill.[4287]
Shal. There is many complaints, Davy, against that[4288] Visor: that Visor is an arrant knave, on my knowledge. 35
Davy. I grant your worship that he is a knave, sir; but yet, God forbid, sir, but a knave should have some countenance[4289] at his friend's request. An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. I have served your worship truly, sir, this eight years; and if I cannot once[4290] 40 or twice in a quarter bear out a knave against an honest man, I have but a very little credit with your worship.[4291] The knave is mine honest friend, sir; therefore, I beseech your worship, let him be countenanced.[4292]
Shal. Go to; I say he shall have no wrong. Look[4293] 45 about, Davy. [Exit Davy] Where are you, Sir John?[4293][4294] Come, come, come, off with your boots. Give me your[4293][4295] hand, Master Bardolph.[4293]
Bard. I am glad to see your worship.
Shal. I thank thee with all my heart, kind Master[4296] 50 Bardolph: and welcome, my tall fellow [to the Page.][4297] Come, Sir John.
Fal. I'll follow you, good Master Robert Shallow. [Exit[4298] Shallow.] Bardolph, look to our horses. [Exeunt Bardolph[4298][4299] and Page.] If I were sawed into quantities, I should make[4299] 55 four dozen of such bearded hermits' staves as Master Shallow.[4300] It is a wonderful thing to see the sembable coherence of his men's spirits and his: they, by observing of him, do bear[4301] themselves like foolish justices; he, by conversing with them, is turned into a justice-like serving-man: their spirits are so 60 married in conjunction with the participation of society that they flock together in consent, like so many wild-geese. If I[4302] had a suit to Master Shallow, I would humour his men with the imputation of being near their master: if to his men, I would curry with Master Shallow that no man could better 65 command his servants. It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one of another: therefore let men take heed of their company. I will devise matter enough out of this Shallow to keep Prince Harry in continual laughter the wearing out of six fashions,[4303] 70 which is four terms, or two actions, and a' shall laugh[4304] without intervallums. O, it is much that a lie with a slight[4305] oath and a jest with a sad brow will do with a fellow that never had the ache in his shoulders! O, you shall see him laugh till his face be like a wet cloak ill laid up! 75
Shal. [Within] Sir John![4306]
Fal. I come, Master Shallow; I come, Master Shallow.
[Exit.[4307]
Act V, Scene II — Westminster. The palace.
Enter WARWICK and the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, meeting.[4308]
War. How now, my lord chief justice! whither away?[4309]
Ch. Just. How doth the king?
War. Exceeding well; his cares are now all ended.[4310]
Ch. Just. I hope, not dead.
War. He's walk'd the way of nature; And to our purposes he lives no more. 5
Ch. Just. I would his majesty had call'd me with him: The service that I truly did his life Hath left me open to all injuries.
War. Indeed I think the young king loves you not.
Ch. Just. I know he doth not, and do arm myself 10 To welcome the condition of the time, Which cannot look more hideously upon me[4311] Than I have drawn it in my fantasy.
Enter LANCASTER, CLARENCE, GLOUCESTER, WESTMORELAND, and others.[4312]
War. Here come the heavy issue of dead Harry: O that the living Harry had the temper 15 Of him, the worst of these three gentlemen![4313] How many nobles then should hold their places, That must strike sail to spirits of vile sort!
Ch. Just. O God, I fear all will be overturn'd![4314]
Lan. Good morrow, cousin Warwick, good morrow.[4315] 20
Glou. } Good morrow, cousin.[4316] Clar. }
Lan. We meet like men that had forgot to speak.
War. We do remember; but our argument Is all too heavy to admit much talk.
Lan. Well, peace be with him that hath made us heavy! 25
Ch. Just. Peace be with us, lest we be heavier!
Glou. O, good my lord, you have lost a friend indeed;[4317] And I dare swear you borrow not that face Of sceming sorrow, it is sure your own.
Lan. Though no man be assured what grace to find, 30 You stand in coldest expectation: I am the sorrier; would 'twere otherwise.
Clar. Well, you must now speak Sir John Falstaff fair; Which swims against your stream of quality.
Ch. Just. Sweet princes, what I did, I did in honour, 35 Led by the impartial conduct of my soul;[4318] And never shall you see that I will beg A ragged and forestall'd remission.[4319][4320] If truth and upright innocency fail me,[4320][4321] I'll to the king my master that is dead, 40 And tell him who hath sent me after him.
War. Here comes the prince.
Enter KING HENRY the fifth, attended.[4322]
Ch. Just. Good morrow; and God save your majesty![4323]
King. This new and gorgeous garment, majesty,[4324] Sits not so easy on me as you think. 45 Brothers, you mix your sadness with some fear:[4325] This is the English, not the Turkish court; Not Amurath an Amurath succeeds,[4326] But Harry Harry. Yet be sad, good brothers, For, by my faith, it very well becomes you:[4327] 50 Sorrow so royally in you appears That I will deeply put the fashion on And wear it in my heart: why then, be sad; But entertain no more of it, good brothers, Than a joint burden laid upon us all. 55 For me, by heaven, I bid you be assured, I'll be your father and your brother too; Let me but bear your love. I'll bear your cares: Yet weep that Harry's dead; and so will I;[4328] But Harry lives, that shall convert those tears 60 By number into hours of happiness.
Princes. We hope no other from your majesty.[4329]
King. You all look strangely on me: and you most;[4330] You are, I think, assured I love you not.
Ch. Just. I am assured, if I be measured rightly, 65 Your majesty hath no just cause to hate me.
King. No![4331] How might a prince of my great hopes forget[4331] So great indignities you laid upon me?[4332] What! rate, rebuke, and roughly send to prison 70 The immediate heir of England! Was this easy? May this be wash'd in Lethe, and forgotten?[4333]
Ch. Just. I then did use the person of your father; The image of his power lay then in me: And, in the administration of his law, 75 Whiles I was busy for the commonwealth, Your highness pleased to forget my place, The majesty and power of law and justice, The image of the king whom I presented, And struck me in my very seat of judgement; 80 Whereon, as an offender to your father, I gave bold way to my authority, And did commit you. If the deed were ill,[4334] Be you contented, wearing now the garland,[4334] To have a son set your decrees at nought,[4335] 85 To pluck down justice from your awful bench.[4335] To trip the course of law and blunt the sword That guards the peace and safety of your person;[4335] Nay, more, to spurn at your most royal image And mock your workings in a second body.[4335] 90 Question your royal thoughts, make the case yours; Be now the father and propose a son, Hear your own dignity so much profaned, See your most dreadful laws so loosely slighted, Behold yourself so by a son disdain'd; 95 And then imagine me taking your part[4336] And in your power soft silencing your son:[4337] After this cold considerance, sentence me; And, as you are a king, speak in your state What I have done that misbecame my place, 100 My person, or my liege's sovereignty.
King. You are right, justice, and you weigh this well; Therefore still bear the balance and the sword: And I do wish your honours may increase, Till you do live to see a son of mine 105 Offend you, and obey you, as I did. So shall I live to speak my father's words: 'Happy am I, that have a man so bold, That dares do justice on my proper son; And not less happy, having such a son,[4338] 110 That would deliver up his greatness so Into the hands of justice.' You did commit me:[4339] For which, I do commit into your hand The unstained sword that you have used to bear; With this remembrance, that you use the same 115 With the like bold, just, and impartial spirit As you have done 'gainst me. There is my hand. You shall be as a father to my youth: My voice shall sound as you do prompt mine ear, And I will stoop and humble my intents 120 To your well-practised wise directions. And, princes all, believe me, I beseech you; My father is gone wild into his grave,[4340][4341] For in his tomb lie my affections;[4340] And with his spirit sadly I survive,[4342] 125 To mock the expectation of the world, To frustrate prophecies and to raze out Rotten opinion, who hath writ me down[4343] After my seeming. The tide of blood in me[4344] Hath proudly flow'd in vanity till now: 130 Now doth it turn and ebb back to the sea, Where it shall mingle with the state of floods[4345] And flow henceforth in formal majesty. Now call we our high court of parliament: And let us choose such limbs of noble counsel, 135 That the great body of our state may go In equal rank with the best govern'd nation; That war, or peace, or both at once, may be As things acquainted and familiar to us; In which you, father, shall have foremost hand.[4346] 140 Our coronation done, we will accite, As I before remember'd, all our state: And, God consigning to my good intents,[4347] No prince nor peer shall have just cause to say, God shorten Harry's happy life one day! [Exeunt.[4348] 145
Act V, Scene III — Gloucestershire. SHALLOW'S orchard
Enter FALSTAFF, SHALLOW, SILENCE, DAVY, BARDOLPH, _and the_ Page.[4349]
Shal. Nay, you shall see my orchard, where, in an[4350] arbour, we will eat a last year's pippin of my own graffing,[4351] with a dish of caraways, and so forth: come, cousin Silence: and then to bed.
Fal. 'Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling and[4352] 5 a rich.
Shal. Barren, barren, barren; beggars all, beggars all, Sir John: marry, good air. Spread, Davy; spread, Davy: well said, Davy.[4353]
Fal. This Davy serves you for good uses; he is your 10 serving-man and your husband.[4354]
Shal. A good varlet, a good varlet, a very good varlet, Sir John: by the mass, I have drunk too much sack at[4355] supper: a good varlet. Now sit down, now sit down: come, cousin. 15
Sil. Ah, sirrah! quoth-a, we shall[4356][4357] +Do nothing but eat, and make good cheer,+[4357][4358][4359] [Singing. +And praise God for the merry year;+[4358][4360] +When flesh is cheap and females dear,+[4358][4361] +And lusty lads roam here and there+[4358][4362] 20 +So merrily,+[4358][4363] +And ever among so merrily.+[4358]
Fal. There's a merry heart! Good Master Silence,[4364] I'll give you a health for that anon.[4365]
Shal. Give Master Bardolph some wine, Davy.[4366] 25
Davy. Sweet sir, sit; I'll be with you anon; most sweet sir, sit. Master page, good master page, sit. Proface![4367] What you want in meat, we'll have in drink: but[4368] you must bear; the heart's all. [Exit.[4369]
Shal. Be merry, Master Bardolph; and, my little 30 soldier there, be merry.
Sil. +Be merry, be merry, my wife has all;+[4359][4370][4371] [Singing. +For women are shrews, both short and tall:+[4370] +'Tis merry in hall when beards wag all,+[4370][4372] +And welcome merry Shrove-tide.+[4370] 35 +Be merry, be merry.+[4370][4373]
Fal. I did not think Master Silence had been a man of this mettle.[4374]
Sil. Who, I? I have been merry twice and once ere now. 40
Re-enter DAVY.[4375]
Davy. There's a dish of leather-coats for you.
[To Bardolph.[4376]
Shal. Davy!
Davy. Your worship! I'll be with you straight [_to[4377] Bardolph._] A cup of wine, sir?[4377]
Sil. +A cup of wine that's brisk and fine,+[4359][4378] [Singing. 45 +And drink unto the leman mine;+[4378] +And a merry heart lives long-a.+[4378]
Fal. Well said, Master Silence.
Sil. An we shall be merry, now comes in the sweet[4379][4380] o' the night.[4380][4381] 50
Fal. Health and long life to you, Master Silence.
Sil. +Fill the cup, and let it come;+[4382][4383] [Singing. +I'll pledge you a mile to the bottom.+[4382][4384]
Shal. Honest Bardolph, welcome: if thou wantest any thing, and wilt not call, beshrew thy heart. Welcome, my 55 little tiny thief [to the Page], and welcome indeed too. I'll[4385] drink to Master Bardolph, and to all the cavaleros about[4386] London.
Davy. I hope to see London once ere I die.[4387]
Bard. An I might see you there, Davy,--[4388] 60
Shal. By the mass, you'll crack a quart together, ha![4389] will you not, Master Bardolph?
Bard. Yea, sir, in a pottle-pot.[4390]
Shal. By God's liggens, I thank thee: the knave will[4391] stick by thee, I can assure thee that. A' will not out; he[4392][4393] 65 is true bred.[4393]
Bard. And I'll stick by him, sir.
Shal. Why, there spoke a king. Lack nothing: be merry. [Knocking within.] Look who's at door there, ho![4394] who knocks? [Exit Davy.[4395] 70
Fal. Why, now you have done me right.[4396]
[To Silence, seeing him take off a bumper.
Sil. +Do me right.+[4397][4398] [Singing. +And dub me knight:+[4397] +Samingo.+[4397] Is't not so? 75
Fal. 'Tis so.
Sil. Is't so? Why then, say an old man can do somewhat.[4399]
Re-enter DAVY.[4400]
Davy. An't please your worship, there's one Pistol[4401] come from the court with news. 80
Fal. From the court! let him come in.
Enter PISTOL.[4402]
How now, Pistol![4403]
Pist. Sir John, God save you![4404]
Fal. What wind blew you hither, Pistol?
Pist. Not the ill wind which blows no man to good.[4405] 85 Sweet knight, thou art now one of the greatest men in this realm.[4406]
Sil. By'r lady, I think a' be, but goodman Puff of[4407] Barson.[4408]
Pist. Puff! 90 Puff in thy teeth, most recreant coward base![4409] Sir John, I am thy Pistol and thy friend,[4409] And helter-skelter have I rode to thee,[4409][4410] And tidings do I bring and lucky joys[4409] And golden times and happy news of price.[4409] 95
Fal. I pray thee now, deliver them like a man of this[4411] world.
Pist. A foutre for the world and worldlings base![4412][4413] I speak of Africa and golden joys.[4413]
Fal. O base Assyrian knight, what is thy news?[4413] 100 Let King Cophetua know the truth thereof.[4413][4414]
Sil. +And Robin Hood, Scarlet, and John.+[4413][4415] [Singing.
Pist. Shall dunghill curs confront the Helicons?[4413] And shall good news be baffled?[4413] Then, Pistol, lay thy head in Furies' lap.[4413][4416] 105
Shal. Honest gentleman, I know not your breeding.[4417]
Pist. Why then, lament therefore.
Shal. Give me pardon, sir: if, sir, you come with news[4418] from the court, I take it there's but two ways, either to[4419] utter them, or to conceal them. I am, sir, under the king,[4420] 110 in some authority.
Pist. Under which king, Besonian? speak, or die.[4421]
Shal. Under King Harry.
Pist. Harry the fourth? or fifth?
Shal. Harry the fourth.
Pist. A foutre for thine office![4422] Sir John, thy tender lambkin now is king;[4423] 115 Harry the fifth's the man. I speak the truth:[4423] When Pistol lies, do this; and fig me, like[4423] The bragging Spaniard.[4423]
Fal. What, is the old king dead?
Pist. As nail in door: the things I speak are just.[4424] 120
Fal. Away, Bardolph! saddle my horse. Master[4425] Robert Shallow, choose what office thou wilt in the land,[4425] 'tis thine. Pistol, I will double-charge thee with dignities.[4425]
Bard. O joyful day! I would not take a knighthood for my fortune.[4426] 125
Pist. What! I do bring good news.[4427]
Fal. Carry Master Silence to bed. Master Shallow, my Lord Shallow,--be what thou wilt; I am fortune's steward--get on thy boots: we'll ride all night. O sweet[4428] Pistol! Away, Bardolph! [Exit Bard.] Come, Pistol, utter[4429] 130 more to me; and withal devise something to do thyself good. Boot, boot, Master Shallow: I know the young[4430] king is sick for me. Let us take any man's horses; the laws of England are at my commandment. Blessed are[4431] they that have been my friends; and woe to my lord chief-justice![4431][4432] 135
Pist. Let vultures vile seize on his lungs also! 'Where is the life that late I led?' say they:[4433] Why, here it is; welcome these pleasant days! [Exeunt.[4434]
Act V, Scene IV — London. A street.
Enter Beadles, dragging in HOSTESS QUICKLY and DOLL TEARSHEET.[4435]
Host. No, thou arrant knave; I would to God that I[4436] might die, that I might have thee hanged: thou hast drawn my shoulder out of joint.
First Bead. The constables have delivered her over to[4437] me; and she shall have whipping-cheer enough, I warrant[4438] 5 her: there hath been a man or two lately killed about her.[4439]
Dol. Nut-hook, nut-hook, you lie. Come on; I'll tell[4440] thee what, thou damned tripe-visaged rascal, an the child[4441] I now go with do miscarry, thou wert better thou hadst[4442] struck thy mother, thou paper-faced villain. 10
Host. O the Lord, that Sir John were come! he would[4443] make this a bloody day to somebody. But I pray God the[4444] fruit of her womb miscarry![4445]
First Bead. If it do, you shall have a dozen of cushions again; you have but eleven now. Come, I charge you both 15 go with me; for the man is dead that you and Pistol beat amongst you.[4446]
Dol. I'll tell you what, you thin man in a censer, I[4447] will have you as soundly swinged for this,--you blue-bottle[4448] rogue, you filthy famished correctioner, if you be not 20 swinged, I'll forswear half-kirtles.
First Bead. Come, come, you she knight-errant, come.[4449]
Host. O God, that right should thus overcome might![4450] Well, of sufferance comes ease.
Dol. Come, you rogue, come; bring me to a justice. 25
Host. Ay, come, you starved blood-hound.[4451]
Dol. Goodman death, goodman bones!
Host. Thou atomy, thou![4452]
Dol. Come, you thin thing; come, you rascal.
First Bead. Very well. [Exeunt. 30
Act V, Scene V — A public place near Westminster Abbey.
Enter two Grooms, strewing rushes.[4453]
First Groom. More rushes, more rushes.[4454]
Sec. Groom. The trumpets have sounded twice.
First Groom. 'Twill be two o'clock ere they come from[4455] the coronation: dispatch, dispatch. [Exeunt.
Enter FALSTAFF, SHALLOW, PISTOL, BARDOLPH and Page.[4456]
Fal. Stand here by me, Master Robert Shallow; I will[4457] 5 make the king do you grace: I will leer upon him as a' comes by; and do but mark the countenance that he will give me.
Pist. God bless thy lungs, good knight.[4458]
Fal. Come here, Pistol; stand behind me. O, if I had 10 had time to have made new liveries, I would have bestowed the thousand pound I borrowed of you. But 'tis no matter;[4459] this poor show doth better: this doth infer the zeal I had to see him.
Shal. It doth so.[4460] 15
Fal. It shows my earnestness of affection,--[4461]
Shal. It doth so.[4462]
Fal. My devotion,--
Shal. It doth, it doth, it doth.[4462]
Fal. As it were, to ride day and night; and not to 20 deliberate, not to remember, not to have patience to shift me,--
Shal. It is best, certain.[4463]
Fal. But to stand stained with travel, and sweating[4464] with desire to see him; thinking of nothing else, putting[4464] 25 all affairs else in oblivion, as if there were nothing else to[4464][4465] be done but to see him.[4464]
Pist. 'Tis 'semper idem,' for 'obsque hoc nihil est:'[4466] 'tis all in every part.[4467]
Shal. 'Tis so, indeed. 30
Pist. My knight, I will inflame thy noble liver,[4468] And make thee rage.[4468] Thy Doll, and Helen of thy noble thoughts,[4468][4469] Is in base durance and contagious prison;[4468][4469] Haled thither[4468][4469][4470] 35 By most mechanical and dirty hand:[4468][4469][4471] Rouse up revenge from ebon den with fell Alecto's snake,[4468][4469] For Doll is in. Pistol speaks nought but truth.[4468][4469]
Fal. I will deliver her.
[Shouts within, and the trumpets sound.[4472]
Pist. There roar'd the sea, and trumpet-clangor sounds. 40
Enter the KING and his train, the LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE among them.[4473]
Fal. God save thy grace, King Hal! my royal Hal![4474][4475]
Pist. The heavens thee guard and keep, most royal imp of fame!
Fal. God save thee, my sweet boy![4475]
King. My lord chief-justice, speak to that vain man. 45
Ch. Just. Have you your wits? know you what 'tis you speak?[4476]
Fal. My king! my Jove! I speak to thee, my heart!
King. I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers; How ill white hairs become a fool and jester![4477] I have long dream'd of such a kind of man,[4478] 50 So surfeit-swell'd, so old, and so profane; But, being awaked, I do despise my dream.[4479] Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace; Leave gormandizing; know the grave doth gape For thee thrice wider than for other men. 55 Reply not to me with a fool-born jest: Presume not that I am the thing I was; For God doth know, so shall the world perceive,[4480] That I have turn'd away my former self; So will I those that kept me company. 60 When thou dost hear I am as I have been, Approach me, and thou shalt be as thou wast, The tutor and the feeder of my riots: Till then, I banish thee, on pain of death, As I have done the rest of my misleaders, 65 Not to come near our person by ten mile.[4481] For competence of life I will allow you, That lack of means enforce you not to evil:[4482] And, as we hear you do reform yourselves,[4483] We will, according to your strengths and qualities,[4484] 70 Give you advancement. Be it your charge, my lord,[4485] To see perform'd the tenour of our word.[4486][4487] Set on.[4486] [Exeunt King, &c.[4488]
Fal. Master Shallow, I owe you a thousand pound.[4489]
Shal. Yea, marry, Sir John; which I beseech you to[4490] 75 let me have home with me.
Fal. That can hardly be, Master Shallow. Do not you grieve at this; I shall be sent for in private to him: look you, he must seem thus to the world: fear not your advancements; I will be the man yet that shall make you[4491] 80 great.
Shal. I cannot well perceive how, unless you should[4492] give me your doublet, and stuff me out with straw. I beseech you, good Sir John, let me have five hundred of my thousand. 85
Fal. Sir, I will be as good as my word: this that you heard was but a colour.
Shal. A colour that I fear you will die in, Sir John.[4493]
Fal. Fear no colours: go with me to dinner: come,[4494] Lieutenant Pistol; come, Bardolph: I shall be sent for soon[4494] 90 at night.[4494]
Re-enter PRINCE JOHN, the LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE; Officers with them.[4495]
Ch. Just. Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet: Take all his company along with him.
Fal. My lord, my lord,--
Ch. Just. I cannot now speak: I will hear you soon. 95 Take them away.
Pist. Si fortuna me tormenta, spero contenta.
[Exeunt all but Prince John and the Chief-Justice.[4496]
Lan. I like this fair proceeding of the king's: He hath intent his wonted followers Shall all be very well provided for;[4497] 100 But all are banish'd till their conversations[4497] Appear more wise and modest to the world.[4498]
Ch. Just. And so they are.
Lan. The king hath call'd his parliament, my lord.
Ch. Just. He hath. 105
Lan. I will lay odds that, ere this year expire, We bear our civil swords and native fire As far as France: I heard a bird so sing,[4499] Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king. Come, will you hence? [Exeunt. 110
FOOTNOTES:
[4274] Gloucestershire ... house.] Glostershire. Pope. Shallow's Seat in Glostershire. Theobald.
Enter ...] Enter Shallow, Falstaffe, and Bardolfe. Q. Enter Shallow, Silence, Falslaffe, Bardolfe, Page, and Davy. Ff.
[4275] sir] Q. om. Ff.
[4276] Davy] Four times in Q; thrice in Ff.
[4277] yea, marry] Q. om. Ff.
[4278] headland] hade land Q.
[4279] Yes] QF₁. Yee F₂. Yea F₃ F₄.
[4280] As three lines in Ff.
[4281] Now] Q. om. Ff.
[4282] the other day] Ff. Omitted in Q.
Hinckley] Hunckly Q.
[4283] tiny] tinie Q. tine Ff.
[4284] Yea] Q. Yes Ff.
[4285] backbitten] Q. bitten Ff.
[4286] marvellous] maruailes Q.
[4287] Woncot] Ff. Wencote Q. Wancot Johnson. Wincot Reed (1803). Wilnecot Collier conj.
[4288] is] Q. are Ff.
[4289] God] Q. heaven Ff.
[4290] this Q. these Ff.
and if] Ff. and Q.
[4291] but a very little] Ff. litle Q. but very little Pope.
[4292] your worship] Ff. you Q.
[4293] I say ... Bardolph] Printed as three lines in Ff.
[4294] [Exit Davy.] Capell. om. QFf.
[4295] Come, come, come,] Q. Come, Ff.
[4296] all] om. Q.
[4297] [to the Page] Rowe. om. Q Ff.
[4298] [Exit Shallow.] Capell. Exeunt Shallow, Silence, &c. Theobald, om. QFf.
[4299] [Exeunt Bardolph ...] Capell. om. QFf.
[4300] hermits' staves] hermit-staves Capell.
[4301] of him] Ff. him Q.
[4302] consent] concent Malone.
[4303] Harry] QFf. Henry Rowe.
[4304] a'] a Q. he Ff.
[4305] without] Q. with Ff.
[4306] [Within] Theobald. om. QFf.
[4307] [Exit.] Exit Falstaff. Theobald. Exeunt. Ff. om. Q.
[4308] SCENE II. Westminster. The Palace.] Westminster. A room in the Palace. Capell. London. Pope. The Court in London. Theobald.
Enter ...] Capell. Enter the Earle of Warwicke, and the Lord Chiefe Iustice. Ff. Enter Warwike, duke Humphrey, L. chiefe Iustice, Thomas Clarence, Prince Iohn, Westmerland. Q.
[4309] whither] whether F₁.
[4310] Exceeding ... ended] As in Q. As two lines in Ff, the first ending cares.
[4311] upon] on Pope.
[4312] Enter ...] Enter Iohn of Lancaster, Gloucester, and Clarence. Ff. Enter Iohn, Thomas, and Humphrey. Q.
Westmoreland, and others] Capell.
[4313] him] Ff. he Q.
[4314] O God] Q. Alas Ff.
[4315] Warwick, good morrow] Warick Pope.
[4316] Glo. Cla.] Glou. Clar. Ff. Prin. ambo. Q.
[4317] you have] you've Pope.
[4318] impartial] Q. imperiall Ff.
[4319] A ragged and forestall'd] (Arraigned and forestall'd) Becket conj.
ragged] rated Warburton.
[4320] remission. If ... me,] Ff. remission, If ... me. Q.
[4321] truth] Q. troth Ff.
[4322] Enter ...] Enter the new King, attended. Capell. Enter the Prince, and Blunt. Q. Enter Prince Henry. Ff.
[4323] SCENE III. Pope.
Good morrow; and God] Q. Good morrow: and heaven Ff. Heaven Pope.
[4324] King.] Prince. QFf (and throughout the scene).
[4325] mix] F₃ F₄. mixe F₁ F₂. mixt Q.
[4326] Amurath ... Amurath] Q. Amurah ... Amurah Ff.
[4327] by my faith] Q. to speak truth Ff.
[4328] Yet] Q. But Ff.
[4329] Princes.] Bro. Q. John, &c. Ff.
other] Ff. otherwise Q.
[4330] [to the Ch. Justice. Capell.
[4331] No! How might] Steevens. No! might Pope. No? How might QFf (reading 67, 68 as one line).
[4332] So great] So gross S. Walker conj.
[4333] Lethe] lethy Q.
[4334] ill, Be] QF₁. ill. Be F₂ F₃. ill; Be F₄.
[4335] nought, ... bench, ... person; ... body.] naught?... bench?... person?... body? QFf.
[4336] your] QF₃ F₄. you F₁ F₂.
[4337] soft] so Theobald.
[4338] not] Q. no Ff.
[4339] justice. You] Ff. justice you Q.
did commit] committed Pope.
[4340] My ... affections] _My father's gone into his grave, and in His tomb lye all my wild affections_ Hanmer.
[4341] wild] wail'd Pope.
[4342] And] For Hanmer.
[4343] who] which Pope.
[4344] The tide of blood in me] Tho' my tide of blood Pope.
[4345] state of floods] floods of state Hanmer.
[4346] you] See note (X).
[4347] And, God consigning] And (God consigning Q. And heaven (consigning F₁ F₂ F₃. And (Heaven consigning F₄.
[4348] God] Q. Heaven Ff.
[4349] SCENE III.] SCENE IV. Pope.
Gloucestershire ... orchard.] Glostershire. Orchard of S.'s House. Capell.
Davy, Bardolph, and the Page.] Davy, Bardolfe, Page. Q. Bardolfe, Page, and Pistoll. Ff.
[4350] my] Q. mine Ff.
[4351] my] Ff. mine Q.
[4352] 'Fore God] Q. om. Ff.
a goodly] Ff. goodly Q.
[4353] said] spread Anon. conj.
[4354] husband] QF₁ F₂. husbandman F₃ F₄.
[4355] by the mass] Q. om. Ff.
drunk] drank Rowe.
[4356] Ah] F₁ F₃ F₄ A QF₂.
[4357] we shall Do] We Farmer conj. MS.
[4358] Do nothing ... merrily.] As prose in QFf. First as verse by Rowe, reading We shall do nothing....
[4359] [Singing.] Rowe.
[4360] God] Q. heaven Ff.
[4361] cheap and ... dear,] cheap: and ... dear Farmer conj. MS.
[4362] And] With Farmer conj. MS. roam] more F₄.
[4363] So merrily] om. Farmer conj. MS.
[4364] heart!... Silence,] Johnson and Capell. heart, ... Silence. QFf.
[4365] give you a health] QF₁. give you health F₂. drink your health F₃ F₄.
[4366] Give ... some] Q. Good M. Bardolfe: some Ff.
[4367] Master page] Master page, sit F₄.
Proface!] Perforce! Johnson conj.
[4368] [seating them at another table. Capell.
[4369] must] Q. om. Ff.
[Exit.] Theobald. om. QFf.
[4370] As verse in Ff. As prose in Q.
[4371] wife has all] QF₄. wife ha's all F₁ F₂ F₃. wife's as all Rann (Farmer conj.).
[4372] wag] F₃ F₄. wags Q. wagge F₁ F₂.
[4373] Be merry, be merry.] See note (XV).
[4374] mettle] Ff. mettall Q.
[4375] Re-enter Davy.] Theobald. om. QFf.
[4376] There's] Q. There is Ff.
[To Bard.] setting them, and some wine, on Bardolph's table. Capell.
[4377] [to Bard.] Capell.
[4378] A cup ... long-a] As prose in QFf. As verse first by Rowe.
[4379] An ... merry,] Capell. And ... merry, Q. if ... merry, Ff. And ... merry;-- Malone.
[4380] now ... night] As part of a song by Rann (Malone conj.).
[4381] o' the] a' th Q. of the Ff.
[4382] Fill ... bottom.] As prose in QFf. First as verse by Capell.
[4383] [Singing.] Capell.
[4384] you a mile] QF₁ F₂. you were't a mile F₃ F₄.
[4385] tiny] Q. tyne Ff. [to the Page] Capell.
[4386] cavaleros] cabileros Q. cavileroes Ff.
[4387] once] om. Pope.
[4388] An] And Q. If Ff.
[4389] By the mass] Q. om. Ff.
[4390] Yea] Q. Yes Ff.
[4391] By ... liggens] Q. om. Ff. By ... liggens Collier (ed. 1).
[4392] thee that. A'] thee that. He Ff. thee that a Q.
[4393] he is] Ff. a tis Q.
[4394] [Knocking within.] One knockes at doore. Q (after line 67). Omitted in Ff.
there, ho!] there ho, Q. there, ho: Ff.
[4395] [Exit Davy.] Capell. om. QFf.
[4396] [To Silence ... bumper.] Capell.
[4397] As prose in QFf.
[4398] [Singing.] Rowe.
[4399] Is’t so?] Q F₁. Is’t? F₂ F₃ F₄.
[4400] Re-enter Davy.] Capell. om. QFf.
[4401] An’t] And’t Q. If it Ff.
[4402] [rising. Capell.
Enter Pistol.] Q (after line 80) and Ff.
[4403] SCENE V. Pope.
[4404] God save you] Q. ’save you sir Ff.
[4405] no man to good] Q. none to good Ff. no man good Pope. good to no man Capell conj. to no man good Rann (Malone conj., withdrawn).
[4406] this] Q. the Ff.
[4407] By'r lady] Birlady Q. Indeed Ff.
a'] a Q. he Ff.
[4408] Barson] Barston Rann.
[4409] Puff in ... price] As prose in QFf. First as verse by Pope.
[4410] And] and Q. om. Ff.
[4411] pray thee] Q. prethee Ff.
[4412] foutre] footre Q. footra Ff.
worldlings] wordlings F₂.
[4413] As verse in Ff. As prose in Q.
[4414] Cophetua] Conetua Q. Covitha Ff.
[4415] John] little John Hanmer.
[Singing.] Steevens.
[4416] Furies'] Capell. Furies QFf. Fury's Rowe.
[4417] As two lines in Ff.
[4418] if, sir,] If Hanmer.
[4419] there's] there are Hanmer.
[4420] to conceal] Ff. conceale Q.
[4421] As in Q. As two lines, the first ending King? in Ff.
Besonian] Q. Bezonian Ff.
[4422] foutre] fowtre Q. footra Ff.
[4423] As verse in Ff. As prose in Q.
[4424] As two lines in Ff.
[4425] As prose in Q. As four lines, ending horse ... wilt ... thee ... dignities, in Ff.
[4426] knighthood] Ff. knight Q.
[4427] What!... news.] What?... newes. QFf. What?... news? Pope.
[4428] steward--get] steward, get Q. steward. Get Ff.
[4429] [Exit Bard.] Capell.
[4430] Boot, boot] Boots, boots S. Walker conj.
[4431] Blessed ... that] Q. Happy ... which Ff.
[4432] to] Q. unto Ff.
[4433] vile] QF₄. vil'de F₁ F₂. vild F₃.
[4434] welcome ... days!] 'welcome ... days!' Grant White conj.
these pleasant days] these pleasant dayes Q. those pleasant dayes Ff (days F₄). this pleasant day Pope.
[Exeunt.] Ff. Exit. Q.
[4435] SCENE IV.] SCENE VI. Pope.
London. A street.] A street in London. Theobald. London. Pope.
Enter ...] Malone. Enter Sincklo and three or foure officers. Q. Enter Hostesse Quickly, Dol Teare-sheete, and Beadles. Ff. See note (XVI).
[4436] to God that] Q. om. Ff.
[4437] First Bead.] Malone. Bead. Rowe. Sincklo. Q. Off. Ff (and throughout the scene).
[4438] enough] Ff. om. Q.
[4439] lately] Ff. om. Q.
[4440] Dol.] Ff. Whoore. Q (and throughout the scene).
[4441] an] Malone. and Q. if Ff.
[4442] now] Ff. om. Q.
wert] Q. had'st Ff.
[4443] the Lord] Q. om. Ff.
he] Ff. I Q.
[4444] I pray God] Q. I would Ff.
[4445] miscarry] Q. might miscarry Ff.
[4446] amongst] Q. among Ff.
[4447] you ... you] Q. thee ... thou Ff.
[4448] blue-bottle] blewbottle Q. blew-Bottel'd F₁ F₂. blew-Bottl'd F₃ F₄.
[4449] errant] arrant QFf.
[4450] God] Q. om. Ff.
overcome] Q. o'recome Ff.
[4451] Ay, come] I come Q. Yes, come Ff.
[4452] atomy] Q. anatomy Ff.
[4453] SCENE V.] SCENE VII. Pope.
A public ...] Theobald.
Enter ...] Enter strewers of rushes. Q. Enter two Groomes. Ff.
[4454] First Groom.] See note (xvii).
[4455] 'Twill ... o'clock] Twill ... a clocke Q. It will ... of the clocke Ff.
clock ere] clock: here Anon. conj.
[4456] dispatch, dispatch] Q. om. Ff.
[Exeunt.] Exeunt Grooms. F₃ F₄. Exit Groo. F₁ F₂. om. Q.
Enter ...] Ff. Trumpets sound, and the King, and his traine pass ouer the stage: after them enter Falstaffe, Shallow, Pistol, Bardolfe, and the Boy Q. See note (XVIII).
[4457] Robert] Ff. om. Q.
[4458] God] Q. om. Ff.
[4459] 'tis] tis Q. it is Ff.
[4460] Shal.] Ff. Pist. Q.
[4461] of] Q. in Ff.
[4462] Shal.] Hanmer. Pist. QFf.
[4463] best, certain] Edd. best certaine Q. most certaine Ff.
[4464] But ... him] Continued to Shallow in Q.
[4465] affairs else] Q. affairs Ff.
[4466] obsque] QF₁. absque F₂ F₃ F₄. See note (VI).
[4467] 'tis all in every part] Ff. tis in every part Q. 'tis all in all and all in every part Warburton. Fal. 'Tis ... part Ritson conj.
[4468] My ... truth] Arranged as by Capell. As prose in QFf.
[4469] Thy ... truth] First as verse by Pope.
[4470] Haled] halde Q. hall'd F₁ F₂ F₃. hal'd F₄. Hauld Pope.
[4471] most mechanical and] mechanick Pope, reading Hauld ... hand: as one line.
hand] hands F₃ F₄.
[4472] [Shouts....] Steevens.
[4473] Enter....] The trumpets sound. Enter King Henrie the Fift, Brothers, Lord Chiefe Iustice. Ff. Enter the King and his traine. Q.
[4474] SCENE VIII. Pope.
[4475] God] Q. om. Ff.
[4476] Have ... speak?] As in Q. As two lines in Ff.
[4477] hairs] heires Q.
become] becomes Q.
[4478] dream'd] dreampt Q.
[4479] awaked] awakt Q. awake Ff.
[4480] God] Q. heaven Ff.
[4481] mile] miles Pope.
[4482] evil] evills Q.
[4483] reform] reforme Q F₁. redeeme F₂. redeem F₃ F₄.
[4484] strengths] Q. strength Ff.
[4485] Be it] Be't Pope.
[4486] To ... on] Pope. As one line in Q Ff.
[4487] our] Ff. my Q.
[4488] [Exeunt....] Pope. Exit King. Ff. om. Q.
[4489] SCENE IX. Pope.
[4490] Yea] Q. I Ff.
[4491] advancements] Q. advancement Ff.
[4492] well] Ff. om. Q.
should] Ff. om. Q.
[4493] that I fear] Q. I feare, that Ff.
[4494] Fear ... night] As three lines in Q Ff.
[4495] Re-enter ...] Capell. Enter Iustice and prince Iohn. Q. om. Ff.
[4496] Si ... contenta] Q. Si fortuna me tormento, spera me contento Ff. See note (VI).
[Exeunt ...] Exit. Manet Lancaster and Chiefe Iustice. Ff. exeunt. Q (after line 93).
[4497] all] QF₁. om. F₂ F₃ F₄.
[4498] to] QF₁. in F₂ F₃ F₄.
[4499] heard] heare F₁.
Epilogue
Spoken by a Dancer.[4500]
First my fear; then my courtesy; last my speech. My[4501] fear is, your displeasure; my courtesy, my duty; and my speech, to beg your pardons. If you look for a good speech now, you undo me: for what I have to say is of mine own making; and what indeed I should say will, I doubt, prove[4502] 5 mine own marring. But to the purpose, and so to the venture. Be it known to you, as it is very well, I was lately here in the end of a displeasing play, to pray your patience for it and to promise you a better. I meant[4503] indeed to pay you with this; which, if like an ill venture 10 it come unluckily home, I break, and you, my gentle creditors, lose. Here I promised you I would be and here I commit my body to your mercies: bate me some and I will pay you some and, as most debtors do, promise you infinitely.[4504] 15
If my tongue cannot entreat you to acquit me, will you command me to use my legs? and yet that were but light payment, to dance out of your debt. But a good conscience will make any possible satisfaction, and so would I. All[4505] the gentlewomen here have forgiven me: if the gentlemen[4506] 20 will not, then the gentlemen do not agree with the gentlewomen, which was never seen before in such an assembly.[4507]
One word more, I beseech you. If you be not too much cloyed with fat meat, our humble author will continue the story, with Sir John in it, and make you merry 25 with fair Katharine of France: where, for anything I know, Falstaff shall die of a sweat, unless already a' be killed[4508] with your hard opinions; for Oldcastle died a martyr, and[4509] this is not the man. My tongue is weary; when my legs are too, I will bid you good night: and so kneel down[4510] 30 before you; but, indeed, to pray for the queen.[4510]
FOOTNOTES:
[4500] EPILOGUE. Spoken by a Dancer.] Pope. Epilogue. QFf.
[4501] courtesy] curtsie F₁. curtesie F₂ F₃ F₄. cursie Q.
[4502] should] shall S. Walker conj.
[4503] meant] Q. did meane Ff.
[4504] infinitely.] Ff. infinitely: and so I kneele downe before you; but indeed, to pray for the Queene. Q.
[4505] would] Q. will Ff.
[4506] forgiven] QF₁. forgotten F₂ F₃ F₄.
gentlemen] QF₁. genilewomen F₂. gentlewomen F₃ F₄.
[4507] before] Ff. om. Q.
[4508] a'] a Q. he Ff.
[4509] a martyr] Ff. martyre Q.
[4510] and so ... queen] Ff. Omitted in Q.
NOTES.
NOTE I.
The list of Dramatis Personæ given in the first Folio differs but slightly from that prefixed to our text. Thus Northumberland, &c. are classed as 'Opposites against King Henrie the Fourth:' Warwick, &c. as 'Of the king's partie,' and Pointz, &c. as 'Irregular Humorists.' The Dancer who speaks the Epilogue is called 'Epilogue.' As Blunt is mentioned as present (iv. 3. 73), we have inserted his name in the list. Coleridge, with an especial reference to II. 2. 153, proposes to change 'Doll Tearsheet,' into 'Doll Tearstreet,' and Sidney Walker approves of the suggestion (Criticisms, III. 135). The Servant of the Lord Chief-Justice, called by Capell his 'Gentleman,' is not in the list of the Folio.
NOTE II.
INDUCTION. As usual in the Quarto there is no division into acts and scenes. In the Folios the 'Induction' is reckoned as the first scene, the second scene beginning with the entry of Lord Bardolph. We have followed Pope.
NOTE III.
I. 2. 113. Theobald refers to the stage direction of the Quarto in this place as a proof that Falstaff was originally called Oldcastle, and that 'the play being printed from the stage-manuscript, Oldcastle had been all along alter'd into Falstaff, except in this single place by an oversight: of which the printers not being aware, continued these initial traces of the original name.' Steevens suggested that Old. might have been the beginning of some actor's name, but this supposition is rejected by Malone, who maintains that 'there is no proof whatsoever that Falstaff ever was called Oldcastle in these plays.' 'The letters prefixed to this speech crept into the first Quarto copy,' he adds, 'I have no doubt, merely from Oldcastle being, behind the scenes, the familiar theatrical appellation of Falstaff, who was his stage-successor.'
NOTE IV.
I. 3. 36-38. We have left this passage as it stands in the Folios, agreeing with Mr Staunton that something has been lost or misprinted. Pope read:
'Yes, if this present quality of war Impede the instant act; a cause on foot Lives &c.'
Johnson suggested:
'Yes, in this present quality of war, Indeed of instant action. A cause &c.'
Capell read:
'Yes, if the present quality of war Impede the present action. A cause &c.'
Malone, partially adopting Johnson's emendation:
'Yes, in this present quality of war;-- Indeed the instant action, (a cause on foot) Lives &c.'
Monck Mason proposes:
'Yes, if this prescient quality of war Induc'd the instant action &c.'
Becket:
'Yes, in this present quality of war Instance the instant action &c.'
Mr Knight retains the old reading with a new punctuation:
'Yes;--if this present quality of war,-- (Indeed the instant action, a cause on foot,) Lives &c.'
Mr Collier, following the MS. corrector, in his second edition, reads:
'Yes, in this present quality of war: Indeed the instant act and cause on foot Lives &c.'
For 'Indeed' Steevens suggested 'Impel,' and Mason and Henley 'Induc'd.' For 'instant' Tollet would read 'instanc'd.' Delius thinks emendation unnecessary.
NOTE V.
II. 2. 101. In the quarto no distinction is made between the letter of Falstaff and the speaker's remarks, but in the Folios the letter is printed in italics.
NOTE VI.
II. 4. 166. As the quotation is made by Pistol, who has just spoken of 'Cannibals' (for 'Hannibals') and of 'Trojan Greeks,' we have left it uncorrected. It would be scarcely consistent to put correct Italian, or Spanish, into his mouth. All the editors assume that Italian is the language meant, and give it, as such, more or less correctly. If Pistol's sword were a Toledo blade, the motto would be Spanish. In that case 'Si' and 'me' would need no alteration. Mr Douce mentions a sword inscribed with a French version of the motto. On the same ground we have left 'obsque,' for 'absque,' (v. 5. 28).
NOTE VII.
II. 4. 221 sqq. We follow the Quarto in writing 's for is, i' for in, 'll for will, an for if, a' for he, &c. as it seems to represent better the language of the speakers, and from this point we cease to record such minute discrepancies between it and the Folios.
NOTE VIII.
II. 4. 342. At this point commences an important variation between different copies of the Quarto. In the earlier impression, which we call Q₁, the whole of Act III. Sc. 1, was omitted, but inserted in the latter (Q₂), and in order to make room for this insertion two new leaves were added to sheet E, but as the new matter did not exactly fill up the two leaves required, the pagination was altered. Hence in Q₂, Sig. E 3 recto is made to terminate at 'how now, what's the matter?' (II. 4. 342) which is seven lines from the bottom in Q₁. The two become again identical at 'strong and of good friends' (III. 2. 99), the first line of Sig. F.
NOTE IX.
III. 2. 126. We retain the reading of the Quarto, understanding 'much' in the ironical sense in which it is often found. See As You Like It, IV. 3. 2, and the present play, II. 4. 121.
NOTE X.
III. 2. 293 and 310. Here there are variations in different copies of the Quarto, in line 293, between genius and gemies, and, in line 310, between Let and Till. A variation is found also, V. 2. 140, between you and your.
NOTE XI.
IV. I. 93, 95. These lines are omitted in the Folios and in some copies of the Quarto. With regard to the former line, Theobald says that his copy of the Quarto read, 'And consecrate Commotion's civil Edge:' in his text he altered 'civil edge' to 'civil page.'
IV. I. 94. Mr Singer supposed that after commonwealth a line had been lost, something to the following effect:
'Whose wrongs do loudly call out for redress.'
Mr Julius Lloyd writes to us: "I am sure the lines are transposed and should be read thus:
'I make my quarrel in particular My brother; general, the commonwealth.'
"The transposition is proved, further, by the separation of the doubtful lines:
'And consecrate commotion's bitter edge To brother born an household cruelty,'
which are plainly continuous."
Mr Spedding writes: "I think some lines have been lost. If
'And consecrate commotion's bitter edge'
belongs to Westmoreland's speech, there must have been another line following, to complete the cadence both in sound and sense. And again, if
'There is no need of any such redress'
is the beginning of his next speech, it is equally clear that something about 'redress' must have been said between. The opposition between 'brother general' and 'brother born' reads to me like Shakespeare, and not likely to have come in by accident: and though the transposition of the lines [as suggested by Mr Lloyd] is ingenious and intelligible and in another context might be natural, it does not come naturally in the context proposed. Conjecture seems hopeless in such a case."
On the whole, we are of opinion that several lines have been omitted, and those which remain displaced, and that this is one of the many passages in which the true text is irrecoverable.
NOTE XII.
IV. 2. 27. The reading 'seal,' which has been attributed to Mr Collier's MS. corrector, we have assigned to Capell, considering that we are justified in doing so, because in his Various Readings (part I. p. 52) he has the note 'Seal 1ˢᵗ F.--.' We think it clear that he inadvertently attributed a conjecture of his own to the first and following Folios. The manner in which the entry is made in his MS., which we have consulted, confirms this view.
NOTE XIII.
IV. 4, and IV. 5. The Jerusalem Chamber in which the king died belonged, as Holinshed tells us (p. 1162, col. 2, ed. 1577), to the Abbot of Westminster. The same authority states that he was first taken ill not in the Jerusalem Chamber, as Shakespeare says (IV. 5. 233, 234), but when paying his devotions at the shrine of S. Edward.
Although neither the Folios nor any more recent editors make a change of scene after line 132, we have ventured to do so, for, as Mr Dyce says, 'In fact the audience of Shakespeare's time were to suppose that a change of scene took place as soon as the king was laid on the bed.' (On the same principle, all editors except Rowe have made a new scene to begin after IV. I. 228, where no change is marked in the Folios.)
Capell's stage direction is not satisfactory, for it implies a change of scene, though none is indicated in the text. The king's couch would not be placed in a recess at the back of the stage, because he has to make speeches from it of considerable length. He must therefore be lying in front of the stage where he could be seen and heard by the audience.
NOTE XIV.
IV. 5. 60, &c. We give Pope's arrangement of this passage in full:
'K. Henry. The Prince hath ta'en it hence; go seek him out. Is he so hasty, that he doth suppose My sleep my death? find him, my lord of Warwick, And chide him hither strait; this part of his Conjoins with my disease, and helps to end me. See, sons, what things you are! how quickly nature Falls to revolt, when gold becomes her object? For this, the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleeps with thought, their brains with care, Their bones with industry: for this engrossed The canker'd heaps of strange-atchieved gold: For this, they have been thoughtful to invest Their sons with arts and martial exercises: When, like the Bee, culling from ev'ry Flow'r, Our thighs are packt with wax, our mouths with honey &c.'
NOTE XV.
V. 3. 36. This, like all Silence's snatches of song, is printed as prose in the Quarto, and ends shrovetide, be mery, be mery. The Folios print these words in te same line, but with a full stop at Shrovetide. Rowe, and all subsequent editors to Johnson inclusive, printed the last four words as if they were spoken, not sung. Capell corrected the error, and printed, Be merry, be merry, &c. In line 75, the word Samingo is printed as if spoken, and not sung, by all editors down to Malone.
NOTE XVI.
V. 4. 1. 'Sincklo.' See note IV. to The Taming of the Shrew.
NOTE XVII.
V. 5. 1. The Quarto prefixes the numbers 1, 2, 3, to the first three speeches of this scene. Mr Dyce conjectures that the speech given to the first groom at line 3, might be distributed thus:
'Third Groom. It will be two of the clock ere they come from the coronation.
First Groom. Dispatch, dispatch.'
NOTE XVIII.
V. 5. 4. It seems probable from the stage-direction of the Quarto, that the king first crossed the stage in procession to his coronation, which is supposed to take place during the dialogue between Falstaff and the others, and that on his second entrance he appeared with the crown on his head.
KING HENRY THE FIFTH.
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ[L].
KING HENRY the Fifth. DUKE of GLOUCESTER, } brothers to the King. DUKE of BEDFORD, } DUKE of EXETER, uncle to the King. DUKE of YORK, cousin to the King. EARLS of SALISBURY, WESTMORELAND, and WARWICK. ARCHBISHOP of CANTERBURY. BISHOP of ELY. EARL of CAMBRIDGE. LORD SCROOP. SIR THOMAS GREY. SIR THOMAS ERPINGHAM, GOWER, FLUELLEN, MACMORRIS, JAMY, officers in King Henry's army. BATES, COURT, WILLIAMS, soldiers in the same. PISTOL, NYM, BARDOLPH. Boy. A Herald.
CHARLES the Sixth, king of France. LEWIS, the Dauphin. DUKES of BURGUNDY, ORLEANS, and BOURBON. The Constable of France. RAMBURES and GRANDPRE, French Lords. Governor of Harfleur. MONTJOY, a French Herald. Ambassadors to the King of England.
ISABEL, Queen of France. KATHARINE, daughter to Charles and Isabel. ALICE, a lady attending on her. Hostess of a tavern in Eastcheap, formerly Mistress Quickly, and now married to Pistol.
Lords, Ladies, Officers, Soldiers, Citizens, Messengers, and Attendants.
Chorus.
SCENE: England; afterwards France.
[L] DRAMATIS PERSONÆ. First given by Rowe. See note (I).
THE LIFE OF
KING HENRY V.
Prologue
Enter Chorus.[4511]
Chor. O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, 5 Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels, Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword and fire Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles all,[4512] The flat unraised spirits that have dared[4513] On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth 10 So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram[4514] Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt? O, pardon! since a crooked figure may 15 Attest in little place a million; And let us, ciphers to this great accompt, On your imaginary forces work. Suppose within the girdle of these walls Are now confined two mighty monarchies,[4515] 20 Whose high upreared and abutting fronts The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder:[4516] Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance; 25 Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth;[4517] For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings,[4518] Carry them here and there; jumping o'er times, Turning the accomplishment of many years 30 Into an hour-glass: for the which supply, Admit me Chorus to this history; Who prologue-like your humble patience pray, Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play. [Exit.
FOOTNOTES:
[4511] PROLOGUE. Enter Chorus.] Enter Prologue. Ff.
[4512] employment] employments Rowe.
But] om. Pope.
all,] F₄. all: F₁ F₂ F₃.
[4513] spirits that have] Staunton. Spirits, that hath Ff. spirit, that hath Rowe.
[4514] fields] F₁. field F₂ F₃ F₄.
[4515] monarchies] F₁. monarches F₂. monarchs F₃ F₄.
[4516] The perilous narrow] Perilous, the narrow Warburton.
[4517] receiving] receding Capell conj.
[4518] kings] king Johnson conj.
Act I, Scene I — London. An ante-chamber in the KING'S palace
Enter the ARCHBISHOP of CANTERBURY, and the BISHOP of ELY.[4519]
Cant. My lord, I'll tell you; that self bill is urged, Which in the eleventh year of the last king's reign Was like, and had indeed against us pass'd, But that the scambling and unquiet time Did push it out of farther question.[4520] 5
Ely. But how, my lord, shall we resist it now?
Cant. It must be thought on. If it pass against us, We lose the better half of our possession:[4521] For all the temporal lands which men devout By testament have given to the church 10 Would they strip from us; being valued thus: As much as would maintain, to the king's honour, Full fifteen earls and fifteen hundred knights, Six thousand and two hundred good esquires; And, to relief of lazars and weak age, 15 Of indigent faint souls past corporal toil, A hundred almshouses right well supplied; And to the coffers of the king beside, A thousand pounds by the year: thus runs the bill.[4522]
Ely. This would drink deep.
Cant. 'Twould drink the cup and all. 20
Ely. But what prevention?
Cant. The king is full of grace and fair regard.
Ely. And a true lover of the holy church.[4523]
Cant. The courses of his youth promised it not.[4524] The breath no sooner left his father's body, 25 But that his wildness, mortified in him, Seem'd to die too; yea, at that very moment Consideration, like an angel, came And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him, Leaving his body as a paradise, 30 To envelope and contain celestial spirits. Never was such a sudden scholar made; Never came reformation in a flood, With such a heady currance, scouring faults;[4525] Nor never Hydra-headed wilfulness[4526] 35 So soon did lose his seat and all at once[4527] As in this king.
Ely. We are blessed in the change.[4528]
Cant. Hear him but reason in divinity, And all-admiring with an inward wish You would desire the king were made a prelate: 40 Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs, You would say it hath been all in all his study:[4529] List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music: Turn him to any cause of policy,[4530] 45 The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter: that, when he speaks,[4531] The air, a charter'd libertine, is still, And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears, To steal his sweet and honey'd sentences; 50 So that the art and practic part of life[4532] Must be the mistress to this theoric:[4533] Which is a wonder how his grace should glean it, Since his addiction was to courses vain, His companies unletter'd, rude and shallow, 55 His hours fill'd up with riots, banquets, sports, And never noted in him any study, Any retirement, any sequestration From open haunts and popularity.
Ely. The strawberry grows underneath the nettle 60 And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality: And so the prince obscured his contemplation Under the veil of wildness; which, no doubt, Grew like the summer grass, fastest by night, 65 Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty.[4534]
Cant. It must be so; for miracles are ceased; And therefore we must needs admit the means How things are perfected.
Ely. But, my good lord, How now for mitigation of this bill 70 Urged by the commons? Doth his majesty Incline to it, or no?
Cant. He seems indifferent, Or rather swaying more upon our part Than cherishing the exhibiters against us; For I have made an offer to his majesty, 75 Upon our spiritual convocation[4535] And in regard of causes now in hand, Which I have open'd to his grace at large, As touching France, to give a greater sum Than ever at one time the clergy yet 80 Did to his predecessors part withal.
Ely. How did this offer seem received, my lord?
Cant. With good acceptance of his majesty; Save that there was not time enough to hear, As I perceived his grace would fain have done, 85 The severals and unhidden passages[4536] Of his true titles to some certain dukedoms And generally to the crown and seat of France[4537] Derived from Edward, his great-grandfather.
Ely. What was the impediment that broke this off? 90
Cant. The French ambassador upon that instant Craved audience; and the hour, I think, is come To give him hearing: is it four o'clock?
Ely. It is.
Cant. Then go we in, to know his embassy; 95 Which I could with a ready guess declare, Before the Frenchman speak a word of it.[4538]
Ely. I'll wait upon you, and I long to hear it. [Exeunt.
Act I, Scene II — The same. The Presence chamber.
Enter KING HENRY, GLOUCESTER, BEDFORD, EXETER, WARWICK, WESTMORELAND, and Attendants.[4539]
K. Hen. Where is my gracious Lord of Canterbury?
Exe. Not here in presence.
K. Hen. Send for him, good uncle.
West. Shall we call in the ambassador, my liege?
K. Hen. Not yet, my cousin: we would be resolved, Before we hear him, of some things of weight 5 That task our thoughts, concerning us and France.
Enter the ARCHBISHOP of CANTERBURY and the BISHOP of ELY.[4540]
Cant. God and his angels guard your sacred throne,[4541] And make you long become it!
K. Hen. Sure, we thank you. My learned lord, we pray you to proceed And justly and religiously unfold 10 Why the law Salique that they have in France[4542] Or should, or should not, bar us in our claim: And God forbid, my dear and faithful lord, That you should fashion, wrest, or bow your reading, Or nicely charge your understanding soul 15 With opening titles miscreate, whose right Suits not in native colours with the truth; For God doth know how many now in health Shall drop their blood in approbation Of what your reverence shall incite us to. 20 Therefore take heed how you impawn our person,[4543] How you awake our sleeping sword of war:[4544] We charge you, in the name of God, take heed; For never two such kingdoms did contend Without much fall of blood; whose guiltless drops[4545] 25 Are every one a woe, a sore complaint 'Gainst him whose wrong gives edge unto the swords[4546][4547] That make such waste in brief mortality.[4547] Under this conjuration speak, my lord;[4548] For we will hear, note and believe in heart[4549] 30 That what you speak is in your conscience wash'd As pure as sin with baptism.[4550]
Cant. Then hear me, gracious sovereign, and you peers, That owe yourselves, your lives and services[4551] To this imperial throne. There is no bar 35 To make against your highness' claim to France But this, which they produce from Pharamond, 'In terram Salicam mulieres ne succedant:'[4552] 'No woman shall succeed in Salique land:' Which Salique land the French unjustly gloze 40 To be the realm of France, and Pharamond The founder of this law and female bar. Yet their own authors faithfully affirm That the land Salique is in Germany,[4553] Between the floods of Sala and of Elbe;[4554] 45 Where Charles the Great, having subdued the Saxons, There left behind and settled certain French; Who, holding in disdain the German women For some dishonest manners of their life,[4555] Establish'd then this law; to wit, no female[4556] 50 Should be inheritrix in Salique land: Which Salique, as I said, 'twixt Elbe and Sala,[4554] Is at this day in Germany call'd Meisen. Then doth it well appear the Salique law[4557] Was not devised for the realm of France; 55 Nor did the French possess the Salique land Until four hundred one and twenty years After defunction of King Pharamond, Idly supposed the founder of this law; Who died within the year of our redemption 60 Four hundred twenty-six; and Charles the Great Subdued the Saxons, and did seat the French Beyond the river Sala, in the year Eight hundred five. Besides, their writers say, King Pepin, which deposed Childeric, 65 Did, as heir general, being descended Of Blithild, which was daughter to King Clothair,[4558] Make claim and title to the crown of France. Hugh Capet also, who usurp'd the crown[4559] Of Charles the duke of Lorraine, sole heir male 70 Of the true line and stock of Charles the Great, To find his title with some shows of truth,[4560] Though, in pure truth, it was corrupt and naught,[4561] Convey'd himself as heir to the Lady Lingare,[4562] Daughter to Charlemain, who was the son 75 To Lewis the emperor, and Lewis the son[4563] Of Charles the Great. Also King Lewis the tenth,[4564] Who was sole heir to the usurper Capet, Could not keep quiet in his conscience, Wearing the crown of France, till satisfied 80 That fair Queen Isabel, his grandmother, Was lineal of the Lady Ermengare, Daughter to Charles the foresaid duke of Lorraine:[4565] By the which marriage the line of Charles the Great[4566] Was re-united to the crown of France. 85 So that, as clear as is the summer's sun, King Pepin's title and Hugh Capet's claim, King Lewis his satisfaction, all appear[4567] To hold in right and title of the female: So do the kings of France unto this day;[4568] 90 Howbeit they would hold up this Salique law To bar your highness claiming from the female, And rather choose to hide them in a net Than amply to imbar their crooked titles[4569] Usurp'd from you and your progenitors. 95
K. Hen. May I with right and conscience make this claim?
Cant. The sin upon my head, dread sovereign! For in the book of Numbers is it writ,[4570] When the man dies, let the inheritance[4571] Descend unto the daughter. Gracious lord, 100 Stand for your own; unwind your bloody flag; Look back into your mighty ancestors:[4572] Go, my dread lord, to your great-grandsire's tomb,[4573] From whom you claim; invoke his warlike spirit, And your great-uncle's, Edward the Black Prince,[4574] 105 Who on the French ground play'd a tragedy, Making defeat on the full power of France, Whiles his most mighty father on a hill[4575] Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp Forage in blood of French nobility.[4576] 110 O noble English, that could entertain With half their forces the full pride of France[4577] And let another half stand laughing by, All out of work and cold for action![4578]
Ely. Awake remembrance of these valiant dead 115 And with your puissant arm renew their feats: You are their heir; you sit upon their throne; The blood and courage that renowned them Runs in your veins; and my thrice-puissant liege Is in the very May-morn of his youth, 120 Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises.
Exc. Your brother kings and monarchs of the earth Do all expect that you should rouse yourself, As did the former lions of your blood.
West. They know your grace hath cause and means and might;[4579][4580] 125 So hath your highness; never king of England[4580] Had nobles richer and more loyal subjects, Whose hearts have left their bodies here in England And lie pavilion'd in the fields of France.[4581]
Cant. O, let their bodies follow, my dear liege,[4582] 130 With blood and sword and fire to win your right;[4582][4583] In aid whereof we of the spiritualty[4584] Will raise your highness such a mighty sum As never did the clergy at one time Bring in to any of your ancestors. 135
K. Hen. We must not only arm to invade the French, But lay down our proportions to defend[4585] Against the Scot, who will make road upon us With all advantages.
Cant. They of those marches, gracious sovereign,[4586] 140 Shall be a wall sufficient to defend Our inland from the pilfering borderers.
K. Hen. We do not mean the coursing snatchers only,[4587] But fear the main intendment of the Scot, Who hath been still a giddy neighbour to us;[4588] 145 For you shall read that my great-grandfather Never went with his forces into France[4589] But that the Scot on his unfurnish'd kingdom Came pouring, like the tide into a breach, With ample and brim fulness of his force, 150 Galling the gleaned land with hot assays,[4590] Girding with grievous siege castles and towns; That England, being empty of defence, Hath shook and trembled at the ill neighbourhood.[4591]
Cant. She hath been then more fear'd than harm'd, my liege; 155 For hear her but exampled by herself:[4592] When all her chivalry hath been in France And she a mourning widow of her nobles, She hath herself not only well defended But taken and impounded as a stray 160 The King of Scots; whom she did send to France, To fill King Edward's fame with prisoner kings[4593] And make her chronicle as rich with praise[4594] As is the ooze and bottom of the sea[4595] With sunken wreck and sumless treasuries. 165
West. But there's a saying very old and true,[4596] 'If that you will France win,[4597] Then with Scotland first begin:'[4597] For once the eagle England being in prey, To her unguarded nest the weasel Scot 170 Comes sneaking and so sucks her princely eggs, Playing the mouse in absence of the cat, To tear and havoc more than she can eat.[4598]
Exe. It follows then the cat must stay at home:[4599] Yet that is but a crush'd necessity,[4600] 175 Since we have locks to safeguard necessaries, And pretty traps to catch the petty thieves.[4601] While that the armed hand cloth fight abroad, The advised head defends itself at home; For government, though high and low and lower,[4602] 180 Put into parts, cloth keep in one consent,[4603] Congreeing in a full and natural close,[4604] Like music.
Cant. Therefore doth heaven divide[4605] The state of man in divers functions, Setting endeavour in continual motion; 185 To which is fixed, as an aim or butt, Obedience: for so work the honey-bees, Creatures that by a rule in nature teach[4606] The act of order to a peopled kingdom.[4607] They have a king and officers of sorts;[4608] 190 Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad,[4609] Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds,[4610] Which pillage they with merry march bring home 195 To the tent-royal of their emperor; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys[4611] The singing masons building roofs of gold,[4612] The civil citizens kneading up the honey,[4613] The poor mechanic porters crowding in 200 Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate, The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum, Delivering o'er to executors pale The lazy yawning drone. I this infer, That many things, having full reference 205 To one consent, may work contrariously: As many arrows, loosed several ways, Come to one mark; as many ways meet in one town;[4614] As many fresh streams meet in one salt sea;[4615] As many lines close in the dial's centre; 210 So may a thousand actions, once afoot,[4616] End in one purpose, and be all well borne[4617] Without defeat. Therefore to France, my liege.[4618] Divide your happy England into four; Whereof take you one quarter into France, 215 And you withal shall make all Gallia shake. If we, with thrice such powers left at home, Cannot defend our own doors from the dog, Let us be worried and our nation lose The name of hardiness and policy. 220
K. Hen. Call in the messengers sent from the Dauphin.[4619]
[Exeunt some Attendants.
Now are we well resolved; and, by God's help, And yours, the noble sinews of our power, France being ours, we'll bend it to our awe, Or break it all to pieces: or there we'll sit,[4620] 225 Ruling in large and ample empery O'er France and all her almost kingly dukedoms, Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn, Tombless, with no remembrance over them: Either our history shall with full mouth[4621] 230 Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave, Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth,[4622] Not worshipp'd with a waxen epitaph.
Enter Ambassadors of France.[4623]
Now are we well prepared to know the pleasure[4624] Of our fair cousin Dauphin; for we hear 235 Your greeting is from him, not from the king.
First Amb. May't please your majesty to give us leave[4625] Freely to render what we have in charge; Or shall we sparingly show you far off The Dauphin's meaning and our embassy? 240
K. Hen. We are no tyrant, but a Christian king; Unto whose grace our passion is as subject As are our wretches fetter'd in our prisons:[4626] Therefore with frank and with uncurbed plainness Tell us the Dauphin's mind.
First Amb. Thus, then, in few.[4627] 245 Your highness, lately sending into France, Did claim some certain dukedoms, in the right Of your great predecessor, King Edward the third.[4628] In answer of which claim, the prince our master Says that you savour too much of your youth, 250 And bids you be advised there's nought in France[4629] That can be with a nimble galliard won; You cannot revel into dukedoms there. He therefore sends you, meeter for your spirit, This tun of treasure; and, in lieu of this, 255 Desires you let the dukedoms that you claim Hear no more of you. This the Dauphin speaks.[4630]
K. Hen. What treasure, uncle?
Exe. Tennis-balls, my liege.
K. Hen. We are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us; His present and your pains we thank you for: 260 When we have match'd our rackets to these balls, We will, in France, by God's grace, play a set Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard. Tell him he hath made a match with such a wrangler[4631] That all the courts of France will be disturb'd 265 With chaces. And we understand him well, How he comes o'er us with our wilder days, Not measuring what use we made of them. We never valued this poor seat of England; And therefore, living hence, did give ourself[4632] 270 To barbarous license; as 'tis ever common That men are merriest when they are from home. But tell the Dauphin I will keep my state, Be like a king and show my sail of greatness[4633] When I do rouse me in my throne of France: 275 For that I have laid by my majesty[4634] And plodded like a man for working-days, But I will rise there with so full a glory That I will dazzle all the eyes of France, Yea, strike the Dauphin blind to look on us. 280 And tell the pleasant prince this mock of his Hath turn'd his balls to gun-stones; and his soul Shall stand sore charged for the wasteful vengeance That shall fly with them: for many a thousand widows[4635] Shall this his mock mock out of their dear husbands; 285 Mock mothers from their sons, mock castles down; And some are yet ungotten and unborn[4636] That shall have cause to curse the Dauphin's scorn. But this lies all within the will of God, To whom I do appeal; and in whose name 290 Tell you the Dauphin I am coming on. To venge me as I may and to put forth My rightful hand in a well-hallow'd cause. So get you hence in peace; and tell the Dauphin His jest will savour but of shallow wit, 295 When thousands weep more than did laugh at it.[4637] Convey them with safe conduct. Fare you well.[4638]
[Exeunt Ambassadors.
Exe. This was a merry message.
K. Hen. We hope to make the sender blush at it.[4639] Therefore, my lords, omit no happy hour 300 That may give furtherance to our expedition; For we have now no thought in us but France,[4640] Save those to God, that run before our business. Therefore let our proportions for these wars Be soon collected and all things thought upon[4641] 305 That may with reasonable swiftness add[4642] More feathers to our wings; for, God before, We'll chide this Dauphin at his father's door. Therefore let every man now task his thought, That this fair action may on foot be brought.[4643] 310
[Exeunt. Flourish.
FOOTNOTES:
[4519] SCENE 1. London ...] London. Pope. An antechamber in the English court at Kenilworth. Theobald.
Enter ...] Rowe. Enter the two Bishops of Canterbury and Ely. F₁ F₂. Enter the Bishops ... F₃ F₄.
[4520] push] put Pope (ed. 2).
[4521] half] halfe F₁. part F₂ F₃ F₄.
possession] possessions Hanmer.
[4522] pounds] F₁ F₂. pound F₃ F₄.
[4523] Ely. And ...] Continued to Cant. Keightley conj.
[4524] Cant.] Ely. Keightley conj.
[4525] currance] F₁. currant F₂ F₃. current F₄.
[4526] never] ever Pope.
[4527] all] fall Hanmer.
[4528] We are] We're Pope.
[4529] You would] You’d Pope.
[4530] cause] case Capell conj.
[4531] that] then Rowe. om. Pope.
[4532] art] act Theobald.
[4533] this] F₁ F₂. his F₃ F₄.
[4534] crescive] F₄. cressive F₁ F₂ F₃.
[4535] Upon] Upon the part of Keightley conj.
[4536] The ... passages] Johnson suspects corruption here.
severals] several Pope.
[4537] and seat] om. Pope.
[4538] speak] F₁. speakes F₂. speaks F₃ F₄.
[4539] SCENE II.] Pope.
The ... chamber.] Opens to the Presence. Theobald.
Gloucester] Humfrey. Ff.
and Attendants] Malone. &c. Capell. om. Ff.
[4540] Enter ...] Enter two Bishops. Ff.
[4541] your] you F₂.
[4542] that they] which they (Qq) Capell.
[4543] our person] your person Johnson conj.
[4544] our sleeping] the sleeping (Qq) Capell.
[4545] guiltless] guitlesse F₂.
[4546] wrong gives] F₂ F₃ F₄. wrongs gives F₁. wrongs give Malone.
[4547] swords That make] Rowe. swords, That makes F₁ F₂ F₃. swords? That makes F₄. sword That makes Capell.
[4548] Under] After (Qq).
[4549] For] And (Qq) Capell.
[4550] with] in (Qq).
[4551] yourselves, your lives] your lives, your faith, (Qq) Pope.
[4552] 'In terram ... succedant'] Omitted by (Qq) and Pope.
succedant] succedaul F₁.
[4553] is] lies (Qq) Pope.
[4554] Elbe] Capell. Elve Ff.
[4555] dishonest] unhonest Capell (from Holinshed).
[4556] then] there (Qq) Capell.
[4557] Then] Thus (Qq) Pope.
[4558] King] om. Anon. conj.
[4559] who] that (Qq) Capell.
[4560] find] Ff. fine (Qq) Pope. line Johnson conj. (withdrawn). found Collier MS. fend or fence Anon. conj.
shows] shews F₁ F₂. shews F₃ F₄. show (Qq) Capell.
[4561] Though] When (Qq) Capell.
[4562] as heir] (Qq) Pope. as th' heir Ff.
[4563] and Lewis] which was Pope.
[4564] tenth] Ff (and Holinshed). ninth Pope (from Hall).
[4565] foresaid] faresaid F₂.
[4566] marriage] match Pope.
[4567] satisfaction] possession Pope (from Hall).
[4568] unto] F₁. upon F₂ F₃ F₄. until (Qq) Pope.
[4569] amply to imbar] openly imbrace Pope.
imbar] F₃ F₄. imbarre F₁ F₂. imbace (Q₁ Q₂). embrace (Q₃). make bare Rowe (ed. i). imbare Theobald (Warburton). unbare Capell (Theobald conj.), corrected in MS. to imbare.
[4570] is it] (Qq) F₁ F₂. it is F₃ F₄.
[4571] man] Ff. sonne (Qq). son Pope.
[4572] into] unto Capell.
[4573] tomb] grave (Qq) Capell.
[4574] uncle's] uncle (Qq) Pope.
[4575] Whiles] While Pope.
[4576] Forage in] Foraging (Q₁). Forraging (Q₂). Foraging the (Q₃).
[4577] pride] power (Qq) Pope.
[4578] for action] for want of action Long MS.
[4579] your grace hath] your race had Warburton.
cause and ... might;] cause, and ... might; Ff. cause; and ... might, Theobald. cause and ... might-- Keightley conj.
[4580] grace hath cause ... So hath] cause hath grace ... So hath or grace hath cause ... So haste Staunton conj.
[4581] fields] F₁. field F₂ F₃ F₄.
[4582] O, let ... right;] Continued to Westmoreland by Warburton.
[4583] blood] F₃ F₄. bloods F₁. blouds F₂.
[4584] spiritualty] spirituality F₃ F₄.
[4585] defend] defend us Anon. conj.
[4586] gracious sovereign] Omitted by Pope.
[4587] snatchers] sneakers (Qq).
[4588] giddy] greedy Collier MS.
[4589] Never ... forces] Ne'er ... full forces Warburton.
[4590] assays] essays Malone.
[4591] ill neighbourhood] bruit thereof (Qq) Boswell.
[4592] but] best Warburton.
[4593] fame] train Collier (Collier MS.).
[4594] her chronicle] Capell (Johnson conj.). their chronicle Ff. your chronicles (Qq). his chronicle Rowe. your chronicle Steevens.
praise] prize Warburton.
[4595] ooze and] owse and (Qq) Ff. ouzy Rowe.
[4596] West.] Capell. Lord. (Qq). Bish. Ely. Ff. Exe. Warburton.
[4597] As one line in Ff.
[4598] tear] Rowe (ed. 2) and Egerton MS. tame Ff. spoil (Qq) Rowe (ed. 1). taint Theobald.
[4599] Exe.] Ely. Warburton.
[4600] but a crush'd] Ff. but a curst (Qq) Pope. but a 'scus'd Theobald (Warburton). not o' course a Hanmer. but a coward's Heath conj. but a crude Capell (Johnson conj.). not a curs'd Mason conj. not a crush'd Collier MS. but a craz'd Jervis conj. but accursed Anon. conj. but a shrewd Bullock conj.
[4601] pretty] petty Steevens conj.
[4602] though] through Keightley conj.
[4603] consent] concent Malone.
[4604] Congreeing] Congruing Pope (from Qq).
close] cloze F₂.
[4605] Therefore] True: therefore (Qq) Capell. And therefore S. Walker conj.
[4606] rule in] ruling Warburton.
[4607] act] art Pope.
[4608] sorts] sort (Qq) Theobald. state Collier MS. all sorts Keightley conj.
[4609] merchants, venture] merchant-venturers Warburton.
[4610] buds] bud (Qq) Capell.
[4611] majesty] (Qq) Rowe. majesties Ff.
[4612] masons] F₁. mason F₂ F₃ F₄.
[4613] kneading] Ff. lading (Qq). heading Warburton.
[4614] Come] Ff. Fly (Qq) Capell.
as many ways] and ways Hanmer. As many several ways Capell (from Qq), reading 208 as two lines, ending mark ... town.
meet in one town] unite Collier MS.
[4615] meet in one salt] run in one self (Qq) Capell.
[4616] actions, once] acts at once Hanmer. actions, 't once Warburton.
[4617] End] (Qq) Pope. And Ff.
[4618] defeat] Ff. defect(Qq).
[4619] Dauphin] Dolphin Ff (and passim).
[Exeunt some Attendants.] Capell. om. Ff.
[King takes his Throne. Capell.
[4620] or there] there Pope.
[4621] full] a full Collier MS.
[4622] mute] mutes S. Walker conj.
[4623] waxen Ff. paper (Qq) Malone. lasting Malone conj.
Enter....] Enter certain Embassadors, and Train, usher'd. Capell.
[4624] SCENE III. Pope.
[4625] First Amb.] Amb. Ff (and throughout the scene).
May't] Ff. Pleaseth (Qq) Capell.
[4626] are] (Qq) Rowe. is Ff.
[4627] then] than F₁.
[4628] King Edward the third] (Qq) Ff. Edward the third Pope. Edward third Collier MS.
[4629] advised there's] advis'd, there's Steevens. advis'd: there's Ff.
[4630] This] Thus Anon. conj.
[4631] he hath] h'ath Pope.
[4632] hence] here Hanmer. thence Keightley conj.
[4633] sail] sayle F₁ F₂ F₃. sayl F₄. seal Jackson conj. soul Collier (Collier MS.). my sail] my full or me full Keightley conj.
[4634] that] this (Qq). here Collier (Collier MS.).
[4635] for many a] many Pope.
[4636] yet] F₁ F₄. it F₂ F₃.
[4637] week more] weepe, more (Qq).
[4638] you] ye F₃ F₄.
[4639] [coming from his throne. Capell.
[4640] thought] thoughts Pope.
[4641] things] om. Pope.
[4642] reasonable] seasonable Collier (Collier MS.).
[4643] Flourish.] Ff (before 'Enter Chorus'). om. (Qq) Pope.
Act II
PROLOGUE.[4644]
Enter Chorus.
Chor. Now all the youth of England are on fire,[4645] And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies: Now thrive the armorers, and honour's thought[4646] Reigns solely in the breast of every man: They sell the pasture now to buy the horse, 5 Following the mirror of all Christian kings, With winged heels, as English Mercuries. For now sits Expectation in the air, And hides a sword from hilts unto the point With crowns imperial, crowns and coronets, 10 Promised to Harry and his followers. The French, advised by good intelligence Of this most dreadful preparation, Shake in their fear and with pale policy Seek to divert the English purposes. 15 O England! model to thy inward greatness, Like little body with a mighty heart, What mightst thou do, that honour would thee do, Were all thy children kind and natural! But see thy fault! France hath in thee found out[4647] 20 A nest of hollow bosoms, which he fills[4647][4648] With treacherous crowns; and three corrupted men, One, Richard Earl of Cambridge, and the second, Henry Lord Scroop of Masham, and the third, Sir Thomas Grey, knight, of Northumberland, 25 Have, for the gilt of France,--O guilt indeed!-- Confirm'd conspiracy with fearful France; And by their hands this grace of kings must die,[4649] If hell and treason hold their promises,[4649] Ere he take ship for France, and in Southampton.[4649][4650] 30 Linger your patience on; and we'll digest[4649][4651][4652] The abuse of distance; force a play:[4649][4651][4653] The sum is paid; the traitors are agreed;[4649][4654] The king is set from London; and the scene[4649] Is now transported, gentles, to Southampton;[4649] 35 There is the playhouse now, there must you sit: And thence to France shall we convey you safe, And bring you back, charming the narrow seas To give you gentle pass; for, if we may, We'll not offend one stomach with our play. 40 But, till the king come forth, and not till then,[4655] Unto Southampton do we shift our scene. [Exit.
Act II, Scene I — London. A street.[4656]
Enter Corporal NYM and Lieutenant BARDOLPH.
Bard. Well met, Corporal Nym.
Nym. Good morrow, Lieutenant Bardolph.
Bard. What, are Ancient Pistol and you friends yet?
Nym. For my part, I care not: I say little; but when time shall serve, there shall be smiles; but that shall be as[4657] 5 it may. I dare not fight; but I will wink and hold out mine iron: it is a simple one; but what though? it will toast cheese, and it will endure cold as another man's sword will: and there's an end.[4658]
Bard. I will bestow a breakfast to make you friends; 10 and we'll be all three sworn brothers to France: let it be[4659] so, good Corporal Nym.
Nym. Faith, I will live so long as I may, that's the certain of it; and when I cannot live any longer, I will do as I may: that is my rest, that is the rendezvous[4660] 15 of it.
Bard. It is certain, corporal, that he is married to Nell Quickly: and, certainly, she did you wrong; for you were troth-plight to her.
Nym. I cannot tell: things must be as they may: men 20 may sleep, and they may have their throats about them at[4661] that time; and some say knives have edges. It must be as it may: though patience be a tired mare, yet she will[4662] plod. There must be conclusions. Well, I cannot tell.
Enter PISTOL and HOSTESS.[4663]
Bard. Here comes Ancient Pistol and his wife: good 25 corporal, be patient here. How now, mine host Pistol!
Pist. Base tike, call'st thou me host?[4664][4665] Now, by this hand, I swear, I scorn the term;[4665] Nor shall my Nell keep lodgers.[4665]
Host. No, by my troth, not long; for we cannot lodge 30 and board a dozen or fourteen gentlewomen that live honestly by the prick of their needles, but it will be thought we keep a bawdy house straight. [Nym and Pistol draw.][4666] O well a day, Lady, if he be not drawn now! we shall see[4667] wilful adultery and murder committed. 35
Bard. Good lieutenant! good corporal! offer nothing[4668] here.
Nym. Pish![4669]
Pist. Pish for thee, Iceland dog! thou prick-ear'd cur of Iceland![4670]
Host. Good Corporal Nym, show thy valour, and put[4671] 40 up your sword.
Nym. Will you shog off? I would have you solus.[4672]
Pist. 'Solus,' egregious dog? O viper vile![4673] The 'solus' in thy most mervailous face;[4673][4674] The 'solus' in thy teeth, and in thy throat,[4673] 45 And in thy hateful lungs, yea, in thy maw, perdy,[4673] And, which is worse, within thy nasty mouth![4673][4675] 1 do retort the 'solus' in thy bowels;[4673] For I can take, and Pistol's cock is up,[4673][4676] And flashing fire will follow.[4673] 50
Nym. I am not Barbason; you cannot conjure me. I have an humour to knock you indifferently well. If you grow foul with me, Pistol, I will scour you with my rapier, as I may, in fair terms: if you would walk off, I would prick your guts a little, in good terms, as I may: and 55 that's the humour of it.
Pist. O braggart vile and damned furious wight! The grave doth gape, and doting death is near;[4677] Therefore exhale.[4678]
Bard. Hear me, hear me what I say: he that strikes the 60 first stroke, I'll run him up to the hilts, as I am a soldier.
[Draws.[4679]
Pist. An oath of mickle might; and fury shall abate. Give me thy fist, thy fore-foot to me give:[4680] Thy spirits are most tall.[4680][4681]
Nym. I will cut thy throat, one time or other, in fair 65 terms: that is the humour of it.
Pist. 'Couple a gorge!'[4682] That is the word. I thee defy again.[4683][4684] O hound of Crete, think'st thou my spouse to get?[4683] No; to the spital go,[4683] 70 And from the powdering-tub of infamy[4683] Fetch forth the lazar kite of Cressid's kind,[4683] Doll Tearsheet she by name, and her espouse:[4683] I have, and I will hold, the quondam Quickly[4683] For the only she; and--pauca, there's enough.[4683] Go to.[4683] 75
Enter the Boy.[4683][4685]
Boy. Mine host Pistol, you must come to my master,[4686] and you, hostess: he is very sick, and would to bed. Good Bardolph, put thy face between his sheets, and do[4687] the office of a warming-pan. Faith, he's very ill. 80
Bard. Away, you rogue!
Host. By my troth, he'll yield the crow a pudding one of these days. The king has killed his heart. Good husband, come home presently. [Exeunt Hostess and Boy.[4688]
Bard. Come, shall I make you two friends? We must 85 to France together: why the devil should we keep knives to cut one another's throats?
Pist. Let floods o'erswell, and fiends for food howl on!
Nym. You'll pay me the eight shillings I won of you at betting? 90
Pist. Base is the slave that pays.
Nym. That now I will have: that's the humour of it.
Pist. As manhood shall compound: push home.
[They draw.[4689]
Bard. By this sword, he that makes the first thrust, I'll kill him; by this sword, I will. 95
Pist. Sword is an oath, and oaths must have their course.[4690]
Bard. Corporal Nym, an thou wilt be friends, be[4690] friends: an thou wilt not, why, then, be enemies with me too. Prithee, put up.
Nym. I shall have my eight shillings I won of you at[4691] 100 betting?[4691][4692]
Pist. A noble shalt thou have, and present pay;[4692] And liquor likewise will I give to thee,[4692] And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood:[4692][4693] I'll live by Nym, and Nym shall live by me;[4692] 105 Is not this just? for I shall sutler be[4692] Unto the camp, and profits will accrue.[4692] Give me thy hand.[4692]
Nym. I shall have my noble?
Pist. In cash most justly paid. 110
Nym. Well, then, that's the humour of't.
Re-enter HOSTESS.[4694]
Host. As ever you came of women, come in quickly to[4695] Sir John. Ah, poor heart! he is so shaked of a burning[4696] quotidian tertian, that it is most lamentable to behold. Sweet men, come to him. 115
Nym. The king hath run bad humours on the knight; that's the even of it.
Pist. Nym, thou hast spoke the right;[4697] His heart is fracted and corroborate.[4697]
Nym. The king is a good king: but it must be as it 120 may; he passes some humours and careers.
Pist. Let us condole the knight; for, lambkins we will[4698] live.
Act II, Scene II — Southampton. A council-chamber.[4699]
Enter EXETER, BEDFORD, and WESTMORELAND.
Bed. 'Fore God, his grace is bold, to trust these traitors.
Exe. They shall be apprehended by and by.
West. How smooth and even they do bear themselves! As if allegiance in their bosoms sat, Crowned with faith and constant loyalty. 5
Bed. The king hath note of all that they intend, By interception which they dream not of.
Exe. Nay, but the man that was his bedfellow,[4700] Whom he hath dull'd and cloy'd with gracious favours,[4700][4701] That he should, for a foreign purse, so sell[4700] 10 His sovereign's life to death and treachery.[4700]
Trumpets sound. Enter KING HENRY, SCROOP, CAMBRIDGE, GREY, and Attendants.[4702]
K. Hen. Now sits the wind fair, and we will aboard. My Lord of Cambridge, and my kind Lord of Masham,[4703] And you, my gentle knight, give me your thoughts: Think you not that the powers we bear with us 15 Will cut their passage through the force of France, Doing the execution and the act For which we have in head assembled them?[4704]
Scroop. No doubt, my liege, if each man do his best.
K. Hen. I doubt not that; since we are well persuaded 20 We carry not a heart with us from hence That grows not in a fair consent with ours,[4705] Nor leave not one behind that doth not wish[4706] Success and conquest to attend on us.
Cam. Never was monarch better fear'd and loved[4707] 25 Than is your majesty: there's not, I think, a subject[4708] That sits in heart-grief and uneasiness Under the sweet shade of your government.
Grey. True: those that were your father's enemies[4709] Have steep'd their galls in honey and do serve you[4710] 30 With hearts create of duty and of zeal.
K. Hen. We therefore have great cause of thankfulness; And shall forget the office of our hand, Sooner than quittance of desert and merit According to the weight and worthiness.[4711] 35
Scroop. So service shall with steeled sinews toil, And labour shall refresh itself with hope, To do your grace incessant services.
K. Hen. We judge no less. Uncle of Exeter, Enlarge the man committed yesterday, 40 That rail'd against our person: we consider It was excess of wine that set him on; And on his more advice we pardon him.[4712]
Scroop. That's mercy, but too much security: Let him be punish'd, sovereign, lest example 45 Breed, by his sufferance, more of such a kind.
K. Hen. O, let us yet be merciful.[4713]
Cam. So may your highness, and yet punish too.
Grey. Sir,[4714] You show great mercy, if you give him life,[4714] 50 After the taste of much correction.
K. Hen. Alas, your too much love and care of me Are heavy orisons 'gainst this poor wretch! If little faults, proceeding on distemper, Shall not be wink'd at, how shall we stretch our eye 55 When capital crimes, chew'd, swallow'd and digested, Appear before us? We'll yet enlarge that man,[4715] Though Cambridge, Scroop and Grey, in their dear care And tender preservation of our person, Would have him punish'd. And now to our French causes:[4716] 60 Who are the late commissioners?[4717]
Cam. I one, my lord: Your highness bade me ask for it to-day.
Scroop. So did you me, my liege.
Grey. And I, my royal sovereign.[4718] 65
K. Hen. Then, Richard Earl of Cambridge, there is yours; There yours, Lord Scroop of Masham; and, sir knight,[4719] Grey of Northumberland, this same is yours: Read them; and know, I know your worthiness. My Lord of Westmoreland, and uncle Exeter, 70 We will aboard to night. Why, how now, gentlemen! What see you in those papers that you lose So much complexion? Look ye, how they change! Their cheeks are paper. Why, what read you there, That hath so cowarded and chased your blood[4720] 75 Out of appearance?
Cam. I do confess my fault;[4721] And do submit me to your highness' mercy.
Grey. } To which we all appeal. Scroop. }
K. Hen. The mercy that was quick in us but late, By your own counsel is suppress'd and kill'd: 80 You must not dare, for shame, to talk of mercy; For your own reasons turn into your bosoms,[4722] As dogs upon their masters, worrying you.[4723] See you, my princes and my noble peers, These English monsters! My Lord of Cambridge here,[4724] 85 You know how apt our love was to accord To furnish him with all appertinents[4725] Belonging to his honour; and this man Hath, for a few light crowns, lightly conspired, And sworn unto the practices of France, 90 To kill us here in Hampton: to the which This knight, no less for bounty bound to us Than Cambridge is, hath likewise sworn. But, O, What shall I say to thee, Lord Scroop? thou cruel, Ingrateful, savage and inhuman creature! 95 Thou that didst bear the key of all my counsels, That knew'st the very bottom of my soul, That almost mightst have coin'd me into gold, Wouldst thou have practised on me for thy use, May it be possible, that foreign hire 100 Could out of thee extract one spark of evil That might annoy my finger? 'tis so strange, That, though the truth of it stands off as gross[4726] As black and white, my eye will scarcely see it.[4727] Treason and murder ever kept together, 105 As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause,[4728] That admiration did not whoop at them:[4729] But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in Wonder to wait on treason and on murder:[4730] 110 And whatsoever cunning fiend it was That wrought upon thee so preposterously[4731] Hath got the voice in hell for excellence:[4732] All other devils that suggest by treasons[4733] Do botch and bungle up damnation 115 With patches, colours, and with forms being fetch'd[4734] From glistering semblances of piety; But he that temper'd thee bade thee stand up,[4735] Gave thee no instance why thou shouldst do treason, Unless to dub thee with the name of traitor. 120 If that same demon that hath gull'd thee thus Should with his lion gait walk the whole world,[4736] He might return to vasty Tartar back, And tell the legions 'I can never win A soul so easy as that Englishman's.' 125 O, how hast thou with jealousy infected The sweetness of affiance! Show men dutiful? Why, so didst thou: seem they grave and learned?[4737] Why, so didst thou: come they of noble family? Why, so didst thou: seem they religious? 130 Why, so didst thou: or are they spare in diet, Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger, Constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood,[4738] Garnish'd and deck'd in modest complement,[4739] Not working with the eye without the ear,[4740] 135 And but in purged judgement trusting neither? Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem: And thus thy fall hath left a kind of blot, To mark the full-fraught man and best indued[4741] With some suspicion. I will weep for thee;[4741][4742] 140 For this revolt of thine, methinks, is like Another fall of man. Their faults are open: Arrest them to the answer of the law; And God acquit them of their practices!
Exe. I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of 145 Richard Earl of Cambridge.
I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Henry[4743] Lord Scroop of Masham.
I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Thomas Grey, knight, of Northumberland.[4744] 150
Scroop. Our purposes God justly hath discover'd; And I repent my fault more than my death; Which I beseech your highness to forgive, Although my body pay the price of it.
Cam. For me, the gold of France did not seduce;[4745] 155 Although I did admit it as a motive The sooner to effect what I intended: But God be thanked for prevention; Which I in sufferance heartily will rejoice,[4746] Beseeching God and you to pardon me. 160
Grey. Never did faithful subject more rejoice At the discovery of most dangerous treason Than I do at this hour joy o'er myself, Prevented from a damned enterprise: My fault, but not my body, pardon, sovereign. 165
K. Hen. God quit you in his mercy! Hear your sentence. You have conspired against our royal person, Join'd with an enemy proclaim'd and from his coffers[4747] Received the golden earnest of our death; Wherein you would have sold your king to slaughter, 170 His princes and his peers to servitude, His subjects to oppression and contempt And his whole kingdom into desolation.[4748] Touching our person seek we no revenge; But we our kingdom's safety must so tender, 175 Whose ruin you have sought, that to her laws[4749] We do deliver you. Get you therefore hence,[4750] Poor miserable wretches, to your death: The taste whereof, God of his mercy give You patience to endure, and true repentance 180 Of all your dear offences! Bear them hence.
[Exeunt Cambridge, Scroop, and Grey, guarded.[4751]
Now, lords, for France; the enterprise whereof Shall be to you, as us, like glorious. We doubt not of a fair and lucky war,[4752] Since God so graciously hath brought to light 185 This dangerous treason lurking in our way[4753] To hinder our beginnings. We doubt not now[4754] But every rub is smoothed on our way.[4755] Then forth, dear countrymen: let us deliver Our puissance into the hand of God, 190 Putting it straight in expedition. Cheerly to sea; the signs of war advance:[4756] No king of England, if not king of France, [Exeunt.
Act II, Scene III — London. Before a Tavern.[4757]
Enter PISTOL, HOSTESS, NYM, BARDOLPH, and Boy.
Host. Prithee, honey-sweet husband, let me bring thee[4758] to Staines.
Pist. No; for my manly heart doth yearn.[4759][4760] Bardolph, be blithe: Nym, rouse thy vaunting veins:[4759] Boy, bristle thy courage up; for Falstaff he is dead,[4759][4761][4762] 5 And we must yearn therefore.[4759][4760][4762]
Bard. Would I were with him, wheresome'er he is, either in heaven or in hell![4763]
Host. Nay, sure, he's not in hell: he's in Arthur's bosom,[4764] if ever man went to Arthur's bosom. A' made a[4765] 10 finer end and went away an it had been any christom[4765][4766] child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at[4767][4768] the turning o' the tide: for after I saw him fumble with[4768][4769] the sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his[4770] fingers' ends, I knew there was but one way; for his nose[4771] 15 was as sharp as a pen, and a' babbled of green fields.[4772] 'How now, Sir John!' quoth I: 'what, man! be o' good[4773] cheer.' So a' cried out 'God, God, God!' three or four times. Now I, to comfort him, bid him a' should not think of God; I hoped there was no need to trouble himself 20 with any such thoughts yet. So a' bade me lay more clothes on his feet: I put my hand into the bed and felt them, and they were as cold as any stone; then I felt to[4774] his knees, and they were as cold as any stone, and so[4775] upward and upward, and all was as cold as any stone.[4776] 25
Nym. They say he cried out of sack.[4777]
Host. Ay, that a' did.
Bard. And of women.[4778]
Host. Nay, that a' did not.
Boy. Yes, that a' did; and said they were devils[4779] 30 incarnate.
Host. A' could never abide carnation; 'twas a colour[4780] he never liked.
Boy. A' said once, the devil would have him about[4781] women. 35
Host. A' did in some sort, indeed, handle women; but then he was rheumatic, and talked of the whore of Babylon.
Boy. Do you not remember, a' saw a flea stick upon Bardolph's nose, and a' said it was a black soul burning in hell-fire?[4782] 40
Bard. Well, the fuel is gone that maintained that fire: that's all the riches I got in his service.
Nym. Shall we shog? the king will be gone from Southampton.
Pist. Come, let's away. My love, give me thy lips.[4783] 45 Look to my chattels and my movables:[4783] Let senses rule; the word is 'Pitch and Pay:'[4783][4784] Trust none;[4783] For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes,[4783] And hold-fast is the only dog, my duck:[4783] 50 Therefore, Caveto be thy counsellor.[4783][4785] Go, clear thy crystals. Yoke-fellows in arms,[4783][4786] Let us to France; like horse-leeches, my boys,[4783] To suck, to suck, the very blood to suck![4783]
Boy. And that's but unwholesome food, they say.[4787] 55
Pist. Touch her soft mouth, and march.
Bard. Farewell, hostess. [Kissing her.[4788]
Nym. I cannot kiss, that is the humour of it; but, adieu.
Pist. Let housewifery appear: keep close, I thee command.
Host. Farewell; adieu. [Exeunt. 60
Act II, Scene IV — France. The KING'S Palace
Flourish. Enter the FRENCH KING, the DAUPHIN, the DUKES of BERRI and BRETAGNE, the CONSTABLE, and others.[4789]
Fr. King. Thus comes the English with full power upon us;[4790] And more than carefully it us concerns[4791] To answer royally in our defences. Therefore the Dukes of Berri and of Bretagne, Of Brabant and of Orleans, shall make forth,[4792] 5 And you, Prince Dauphin, with all swift dispatch, To line and new repair our towns of war With men of courage and with means defendant; For England his approaches makes as fierce As waters to the sucking of a gulf. 10 It fits us then to be as provident As fear may teach us out of late examples Left by the fatal and neglected English[4793] Upon our fields.
Dau. My most redoubted father, It is most meet we arm us 'gainst the foe; 15 For peace itself should not so dull a kingdom, Though war nor no known quarrel were in question, But that defences, musters, preparations, Should be maintain'd, assembled and collected, As were a war in expectation. 20 Therefore, I say 'tis meet we all go forth To view the sick and feeble parts of France: And let us do it with no show of fear;[4794] No, with no more than if we heard that England Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance: 25 For, my good liege, she is so idly king'd, Her sceptre so fantastically borne By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth,[4795] That fear attends her not.
Con. O peace, Prince Dauphin! You are too much mistaken in this king: 30 Question your grace the late ambassadors, With what great state he heard their embassy, How well supplied with noble counsellors, How modest in exception, and withal How terrible in constant resolution, 35 And you shall find his vanities forespent Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus, Covering discretion with a coat of folly; As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots That shall first spring and be most delicate. 40
Dau. Well, 'tis not so, my lord high constable; But though we think it so, it is no matter:[4796] In cases of defence 'tis best to weigh[4797] The enemy more mighty than he seems: So the proportions of defence are fill'd; 45 Which of a weak and niggardly projection[4798] Doth, like a miser, spoil his coat with scanting A little cloth.
Fr. King. Think we King Harry strong; And, princes, look you strongly arm to meet him. The kindred of him hath been flesh'd upon us; 50 And he is bred out of that bloody strain That haunted us in our familiar paths:[4799] Witness our too much memorable shame When Cressy battle fatally was struck, And all our princes captived by the hand 55 Of that black name, Edward, Black Prince of Wales; Whiles that his mountain sire, on mountain standing,[4800] Up in the air, crown'd with the golden sun,[4801] Saw his heroical seed, and smiled to see him,[4802] Mangle the work of nature and deface 60 The patterns that by God and by French fathers Had twenty years been made. This is a stem Of that victorious stock; and let us fear The native mightiness and fate of him.[4803]
Enter a Messenger.
Mess. Ambassadors from Harry King of England[4804] 65 Do crave admittance to your majesty.
Fr. King. We'll give them present audience. Go, and bring them.
[Exeunt Messenger and certain Lords.[4805]
You see this chase is hotly follow'd, friends.
Dau. Turn head, and stop pursuit; for coward dogs Most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten 70 Runs far before them. Good my sovereign,[4806] Take up the English short, and let them know[4807] Of what a monarchy you are the head: Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting.
Re-enter Lords, with EXETER and train.
Fr. King. From our brother England?[4808] 75
Exe. From him; and thus he greets your majesty. He wills you, in the name of God Almighty, That you divest yourself, and lay apart The borrow'd glories that by gift of heaven, By law of nature and of nations, 'long[4809] 80 To him and to his heirs; namely, the crown And all wide-stretched honours that pertain By custom and the ordinance of times Unto the crown of France. That you may know 'Tis no sinister nor no awkward claim, 85 Pick'd from the worm-holes of long-vanish'd days, Nor from the dust of old oblivion raked, He sends you this most memorable line,[4810] In every branch truly demonstrative;[4811] Willing you overlook this pedigree:[4812] 90 And when you find him evenly derived From his most famed of famous ancestors, Edward the third, he bids you then resign Your crown and kingdom, indirectly held From him the native and true challenger. 95
Fr. King. Or else what follows?
Exe. Bloody constraint; for if you hide the crown Even in your hearts, there will he rake for it: Therefore in fierce tempest is he coming,[4813] In thunder and in earthquake, like a Jove, 100 That, if requiring fail, he will compel;[4814] And bids you, in the bowels of the Lord,[4815] Deliver up the crown, and to take mercy On the poor souls for whom this hungry war Opens his vasty jaws; and on your head[4816] 105 Turning the widows' tears, the orphans' cries,[4817][4818] The dead men's blood, the pining maidens' groans,[4818][4819] For husbands, fathers and betrothed lovers, That shall be swallow'd in this controversy. This is his claim, his threatening and my message; 110 Unless the Dauphin be in presence here, To whom expressly I bring greeting too.[4820]
Fr. King. For us, we will consider of this further: To-morrow shall you bear our full intent Back to our brother England.[4821]
Dau. For the Dauphin, 115 I stand here for him: what to him from England?
Exe. Scorn and defiance; slight regard, contempt, And any thing that may not misbecome The mighty sender, doth he prize you at. Thus says my king; an if your father's highness[4822] 120 Do not, in grant of all demands at large, Sweeten the bitter mock you sent his majesty, He'll call you to so hot an answer of it,[4823] That caves and womby vaultages of France Shall chide your trespass and return your mock[4824] 125 In second accent of his ordnance.[4825]
Dau. Say, if my father render fair return,[4826] It is against my will; for I desire Nothing but odds with England: to that end,[4827] As matching to his youth and vanity,[4827] 130 I did present him with the Paris balls.[4828]
Exe. He'll make your Paris Louvre shake for it,[4829] Were it the mistress-court of mighty Europe: And, be assured, you'll find a difference, As we his subjects have in wonder found, 135 Between the promise of his greener days And these he masters now: now he weighs time[4830] Even to the utmost grain: that you shall read[4831] In your own losses, if he stay in France.[4832]
Fr. King. To-morrow shall you know our mind at full.[4833] 140
Exe. Dispatch us with all speed, lest that our king Come here himself to question our delay; For he is footed in this land already.
Fr. King. You shall be soon dispatch'd with fair conditions: A night is but small breath and little pause[4834] 145 To answer matters of this consequence. [Flourish. Exeunt.[4835]
FOOTNOTES:
[4644] ACT II. PROLOGUE.] om. Ff. ACT II. SCENE I. Johnson.
[4645] Pope places the Chorus after Act II. Scene I.
[4646] thrive] strive Collier (Collier MS.).
[4647] see thy fault! France ... out A nest] Capell. see, thy fault France ... out, A nest Ff.
[4648] he] she Hanmer.
[4649] And by ... Southampton] Johnson proposed to arrange these lines in the following order: 28, 29, 33, 34, 35, 30, 31, 32.
[4650] France, and in Southampton.] France; and in Southampton. F₁ F₂ F₃. France; and in Southampton, F₄. France. Then in Southampton Pope. France, e'en in Southampton Capell.
[4651] Linger ... play] See note (II).
and we'll ... force] and you'll ... for we'll force Lloyd conj.
[4652] we'll] F₃ F₄. wee'l F₁ F₂. well Pope.
[4653] distance; force] Ff. distance, while we force Pope. distance, while we farce Warburton conj. distance, and so force Collier (Collier MS.). distance; foresee Staunton conj.
[4654] The ... agreed;] This line should follow line 27, Keightley conj.
[4655] But, till ... come] But when ... comes Hammer.
But ... not] Not ... but Malone conj.
not] but Roderick conj. But, ere ... come Keightley conj.
[4656] SCENE I.] Hanmer. ACT I. SCENE IV. Pope.
London....] Capell. Before Quickly's house in East-cheap. Theobald.
[4657] be smiles] be--[Smiles.] Hanmer (Warburton). be smites Collier (Farmer conj.). similes Jackson conj.
[4658] an end] Ff. the humour of it (Qq) Steevens.
[4659] be all ... to] all go ... to or all be ... in Johnson conj.
let it] Rowe. let't F₁ F₂ F₃. let's F₄.
[4660] do] die Mason conj.
rendezvous] F₄. rendevous F₁ F₂ F₃.
[4661] throats] thoughts Jackson conj.
[4662] mare] (Qq) Theobald. name Ff. dame Hanmer. jade Collier MS.
[4663] Hostess.] Quickly. Ff. Hostes Quickly his wife. (Qq).
[4664] tike] tick Malone conj.
[4665] As in (Qq) Johnson. As prose in Ff.
[4666] [Nym ... draw.] Nym draws his sword. Malone. Nym, and Pistol, eye one another and draw. Capell. om. Ff.
[4667] O ... drawn now!] Hanmer. O ... drawn! Now Theobald. O ... hewne now, Ff (hewn F₃ F₄). O ... if he be not hewing now! Steevens conj. O ... Lord here's Corporal Nym’s-- Malone (from Q₁). O ... here. Now Knight. O Lord here's Corporal Nym's--O well-a day ... hewn now! Halliwell.
Lady] om. Malone conj.
[4668] Bard. Good lieutenant] Ff. Bar. Good ancient Capell. Good lieutenant Bardolph Malone (continuing the speech to Host.).
[4669] Pish!] Push (Qq).
[4670] Iceland] Steevens (Johnson conj.). Island Ff. Iseland (Qq), once only.
[4671] thy valour] the valour of a man (Qq) Capell.
[4672] [sheathing his sword. Malone. off] off now Keightley conj.
[4673] 'Solus’ ... follow] Arranged as by Pope. As prose in Ff.
[4674] mervailous] F₁ F₂. marvelleus F₃ F₄.
[4675] nasty] Ff. mesfull (Qq).
[4676] take] talke (Qq). talk Capell.
[4677] doting] groaning (Qq) Pope.
[4678] [Pistol and Nym draw. Malone.
[4679] [Draws.] Malone.
[4680] Give ... tall] As in Pope. As prose in Ff.
[4681] most] more Pope.
[4682] Couple a] Ff. Couple (Qq). Coupe a Rowe (ed. 2). Coupe le Capell. Coupe la Dyce.
[4683] As prose in Ff. As verse in (Qq) and Pope.
[4684] thee defy] (Qq) Capell. defe thee Ff.
[4685] Go to] Pope. to go to Ff. om. (Qq) Capell. so, go to Collier conj.
[4686] you,] Hanmer. your Ff.
[4687] face] nose (Qq) Pope.
[4688] [Exeunt ...] Capell. Exit. Ff.
[4689] [They draw.] (Qq). Draw. Ff.
[4690] an ... an] & ... and Ff.
[4691] Nym. I shall ... betting?] (Qq) Capell. Omitted in Ff.
[4692] Arranged as by Pope. As prose in Ff.
[4693] combine, and] combind our Q₃.
[4694] that's] that F₁.
of't] Ff. of it (Qq) Capell.
Re-enter ...] Enter ... Ff.
[4695] came] (Qq) F₂ F₃ F₄. come F₁.
[4696] Ah] Pope. A Ff.
[4697] Arranged as by Capell. As prose in Ff.
[4698] lambkins we] Malone. lambkins, we Ff.
[4699] SCENE II.] Pope. SCENE III. Johnson. om. Ff.
Southampton.] Pope.
A council-chamber.] Malone. A Hall of council. Capell.
[4700] Exe. Nay ... treachery.] Ff. Glost. I ... trechery. Exe. O the Lord of Masham (Qq).
[4701] dull'd] F₁ F₂. lull'd F₃ F₄. dol'd Steevens conj.
dull'd and cloy'd] cloy'd and grac'd (Qq) Steevens.
[4702] Trumpets sound.] Sound Trumpets. Ff.
King Henry] the King, Ff.
and Attendants] Theobald. om. Ff.
[4703] kind] om. (Qq) Pope.
[4704] head] aid Warburton.
[4705] consent] concent Malone.
[4706] Nor] Ff. And Pope.
[4707] monarch] a monarch F₃ F₄.
[4708] I think] om. Pope.
[4709] Grey.] Gray. F₄. Kni. F₁ F₂ F₃.
True: those] Even those (Qq) Capell.
[4710] do serve] observe Pope.
[4711] the weight] Ff. their cause (Qq). their weight Anon. conj.
[4712] his] our Collier (Collier MS.).
[4713] merciful] merciful, my lord (Collier MS.)
[4714] Sir, You] Dyce. Sir, you Ff. You (Qq) Pope.
[4715] yet] om. Pope.
[4716] And] om. Pope.
[4717] late] state Collier (Collier MS.). lord Keightley conj.
[4718] I] Ff. me (Qq) Capell.
royal] om. Pope.
[4719] Lord] F₁ F₄. Lords F₂ F₃.
[4720] hath] (Qq) F₄. have F₁ F₂ F₃.
[4721] do confess] confess Pope.
[4722] into] upon (Qq) Pope.
[4723] you] them (Qq) Capell.
[4724] of] om. Pope.
[4725] him] om. F₁.
[4726] stands] F₁. stand F₂ F₃ F₄.
[4727] and white] Ff. from white (Qq) Capell.
[4728] grossly] closely Hanmer.
a natural] an naturall F₁. unnatural Nicholson conj.
cause] course Collier MS.
[4729] whoop] Theobald. hoope F₁ F₂. hoop F₃ F₄.
[4730] and on] F₁. and no F₂ F₃ F₄.
[4731] thee] these Warburton.
[4732] Hath] H'ath Capell.
[4733] All] Hanmer. And Ff. For Malone conj.]
by treasons] Ff. by-treasons Rowe. to treasons Mason conj.
[4734] being] om. Keightley conj.
[4735] temper'd] tempted Johnson conj.
[4736] lion gait] Lyon-gate Ff.
[4737] seem] or seem Pope.
[4738] not] nor Rowe (ed. 2).
[4739] complement] compliment Theobald.
[4740] eye without the ear] ear but with the eye Theobald (Warburton).
[4741] To mark the ... With] Malone. To mark the ... the best endu'd With Theobald. To make thee full fraught man, and best indued With Ff. To make the full-fraught man, the best, endu'd With Pope. To mark the ... the best endow'd Capell conj. To mock ... and best indued With Malone conj. (withdrawn). To mark the full fraught man and least inclined With Mitford conj. See note (III).
[4742] I] and I F₄.
[4743] Henry] (Qq) Theobald. Thomas Ff.
[4744] knight, of] Collier. knight of (Qq) Ff.
[4745] seduce] seduce me Keightley conj.
[4746] I] om. F₁.
will rejoice] will rejoice for Rowe. rejoice for Pope. will rejoice at Capell conj.
[4747] proclaim'd] om. Pope.
[4748] into] unto Capell.
[4749] you have] (Qq) Knight. you three F₂ F₃ F₄. you F₁. See note (IV).
[4750] Get you] Go Pope.
[4751] [Exeunt ...] Exeunt. F₂ F₃ F₄. Exit. Ff.
[4752] war,] Ff. war; Capell.
[4753] way] F₃ F₄. way, F₁. way. F₂. path Anon. conj.
[4754] beginnings. We] F₁. beginning. We F₂ F₃ F₄. beginnings, we Capell.
We doubt not now] Now we doubt not Pope.
[4755] on] in F₄.
[4756] sea;] Theobald. sea, Ff. sea Rowe.
[4757] SCENE III.] Pope. SCENE IV. Johnson. om. Ff.
London ... Tavern.] Capell. London. Pope. Quickly's house in Eastcheap. Theobald.
[4758] honey-sweet] Theobald. honey sweet F₁ F₂. honey, sweet F₃ F₄.
[4759] No; ...therefore] As verse by Pope. As prose in Ff.
[4760] yearn] erne F₁ F₂. yern F₃ F₄.
[4761] Boy] om. Rann (Capell conj.).
[4762] Capell ends the lines up ... therefore.
[4763] either ...hell] om. Farmer conj. MS.
[4764] he's ... hell] om. Farmer conj. MS.
[4765] a finer] F₁ F₂. finer F₃ F₄. a fine Capell.
[4766] an it] Pope. and it Ff. as it (Qq).
christom] F₄. christome F₁ F₂ F₃. crysombd (Q₁ Q₃). chrisombd (Q₂). chrisom Johnson. chryssom' Capell. chrisom'd Steevens (1778).
[4767] even just] ev'n just F₁ F₂. just F₃ F₄.
[4768] even at the] ev'n at the Ff. e'en at Capell.
[4769] o'] of Capell.
[4770] play with] Ff. talk of (Qq). play with the Anon. conj.
[4771] ends] (Qq) Capell. end Ff.
[4772] and a' babbled of green fields.] Theobald. Omitted in (Qq). and a Table of greene fields. F₁ F₂. and a Table of green fields. F₃. and a Table of green Fields. F₄. Omitted by Pope. and a' talked of green fields. Anon. MS. conj. apud Theobald. and a' fabled of green fields. W. N. conj. apud Long MS. in a table of green fields. Malone conj. upon a table of green fells. Smith conj. on a table of green frieze. Collier MS. or as stubble on shorn fields. Anon. (Fras. Mag.) conj. See note (V).
[4773] be o'good] be a good Ff. be of good Theobald.
[4774] cold as any] F₁ F₂. cold as a F₃ F₄.
[4775] knees, and ... stone, and so] (Qq) Capell. knees, and so Ff.
[4776] upward and upward] (Qq) F₃ F₄. up-peer'd and upward F₁. upwar'd and upward F₂. up'ard and up'ard Grant White.
[4777] of] Ff. on (Qq).
[4778] Bard.] Ff. Boy. (Qq) Warburton.
[4779] devils] Deules F₁.
[4780] Host.] Woman. Ff.
[4781] devil] Capell. Deule Ff.
[4782] hell-fire] (Q₁ Q₂) Capell. hell (Q₃) Ff.
[4783] Arranged as by Capell. As verse, first by Pope. As prose in Ff.
[4784] senses rule] sense us rule Johnson conj. sentences rule Mason conj.
word] (Q₁ Q₃) Rowe (ed. 2). world (Q₂) Ff.
Pitch] Pinch Johnson conj.
[4785] Caveto] Ff. cophetua (Qq).
[4786] Yoke-fellows] Yoke-yoke-fellows Pope.
[4787] that's] that is Hanmer.
[4788] [Kissing her.] Capell.
[4789] SCENE IV.] Pope. SCENE V. Johnson. om. Ff.
France.] Pope. The ... Palace. Theobald.
Flourish.] F₁. om. F₂ F₃ F₄.
Enter ...] Enter King of France, Bourbon, Dolphin, and others. (Qq). Enter the French King, the Dolphin, the Dukes of Berry and Britaine. Ff.
... Dauphin ...] ... Dauphin, the Duke of Burgundy ... Rowe.
[4790] comes] Ff. come Rowe. See note (VI).
[4791] carefully] carelessly Hanmer (Warburton).
[4792] Orleans] Rowe. Orleance Ff.
[4793] fatal and] fatally Hanmer.
[4794] And] But (Qq).
[4795] shallow, humorous] shallow-humorous S. Walker conj.
[4796] think it] think not Roderick conj.
[4797] cases] F₁. causes F₂ F₃ F₄.
[4798] Which of] While oft Malone conj. Which, oft Rann. Of which Knight. Which if Staunton conj.
projection] protection Jackson conj.
[4799] haunted] hunted Warburton.
[4800] Whiles] While Rowe (ed. 2).
mountain] Mountaine F₁ F₂. Mountain F₃ F₄. mounting Theobald. monarch Coleridge conj. mighty Anon. conj. (Gent. Mag. 1845).
[4801] Up ...sun] Inclosed in brackets, as spurious, by Warburton.
[4802] heroical] heroick Rowe.
[4803] fate] force Hanmer.
[4804] Harry] Henry Steevens.
[4805] [Exeunt ...] Capell. om. Ff.
[4806] far] fear'd Capell conj.
[4807] the English] this English (Qq). these English Capell conj.
[4808] Re-enter ...] Capell. Enter Exeter. Ff.