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London. The palace.
[Enter KING HENRY, LORD JOHN OF LANCASTER, the EARL of WESTMORELAND, SIR
WALTER BLUNT, and others]
KING HENRY IV
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So shak|en as | we are,| so wan | with care,
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Find we | a time | for fright|ed peace | to pant,
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And breathe | short-winded ac|cents of / new
broils
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To be | commenced | in strands | afar | remote:
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No more | the thirst|y ent|rance of | this^soil,
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Shall daub | her lips | with her / own
child|ren's blood:
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No more | shall trench|ing war | channel her |
fields,
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Nor bruise | her flower|ets with | the arm|ed
hoofs
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Of host|ile pac|es. Those | oppos|ed eyes,
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Which like the met|eors | of a troub|led heaven,
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All of one na|ture, of / one sub|stance bred,
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Did late|ly meet | in the | intes|tine shock,
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And fur|ious close | of civ|il butch|ery,
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Shall now | in mu|tual well-|beseem|ing ranks
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March^all | one way,/ and be | no more^|opposed
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Against | acquaint|ance, kind|red, and / allies.
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The edge | of war,| like an ill-sheath|ed
knife,
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No* more | shall cut | his mast|er. There|fore
friends,
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As far | as to | the sep|ulchre | of Christ,
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Whose^sol|dier now | under | whose^bles|sed cross
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We are | impres|sed and | engaged | to fight,
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Forthwith | a power | of Eng|lish shall we |
levy, ??
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Whose arms | were mol|ded in | their moth|ers'
womb,
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To chase | these pag|ans in | those ho|ly fields,
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Over | whose^ac|res walked | those bles|sed feet
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Which four|teen hund|red years | ago | were
nailed
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For^our | advant|age on | the bit|ter cross.
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But this | our pur|pose now | is twelve |
month^old,
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And boot|less 'tis | to tell | you we | will go:
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Therefore | we meet | not^now.| Then let | me
hear
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Of you | my gent|le cous|in West|moreland,
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What yest|ernight | our coun|cil did | decree
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In for|warding | this dear | exped|ience.
WESTMORELAND
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My liege:| this haste | was hot | in ques|tion,
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And ma|ny lim|its of the // charge set down
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But yest|ernight:| when all | athwart | there*
came
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A post | from Wales,| loaden | with hea|vy news;
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Whose worst was,| that the nob|le Mor|timer,
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Leading | the men | of Here|fordshire | to fight
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Against | the irreg|ular | and wild | Glendower,
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Was by the | rude hands / of that | Welshman |
taken,
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And a | thousand | of his | people | butchered:
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Upon | whose dead corpse | there was such |
misuse,
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Such^beast|ly, shame|less trans|forma|tion,
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By those*/ Welshwom|en done,| as may | not be
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(Without | much^shame)| retold | or spok|en of.
KING HENRY IV
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It seems | then, that | the tid|ings of | this
broil,
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Brake^off | our bus|iness for | the Ho|ly Land.
WESTMORELAND
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This^matched | with oth|er like,| my gra|cious
lord,
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For more | unev|en and / unwel|come news
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Came from | the north,| and thus | it did |
report:
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On Ho|ly-rood^day,| the gal|lant Hot|spur there,
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Young^Har|ry Per|cy, and / brave Arch|ibald,
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That ev|er-val|iant and | approv|ed Scot,
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At Holme|don met,| where they | did spend
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A sad | and bloo|dy ho|ur,
(tetra with prev?)
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As by | discharge | of their | artil|lery,
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And shape | of like|lihood | the news | was told:
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For he | that brought | them, in | the ve|ry heat
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And pride | of their | conten|tion, did / take
horse,
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Uncert|ain of | the is|sue an|y way.
KING HENRY IV
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Here is | a dear | and true | indus|trious
friend,
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Sir Walt|er Blunt,| new* light|ed from | his
horse,
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Stained with | the var|ia|tion of / each soil,
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Betwixt | that Holme|don, and | this seat | of
ours:
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And he | hath brought | us smooth | and wel|come
news.
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The Earl | of Doug|las is | discom|fited,
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Ten* thous|and bold | Scots, two and^twen|ty
knights
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Balked in | their own | blood did | Sir Walt|er
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On Holme|don's plains.| Of pris|oners, Hot|spur
took
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Mordake the Earl | of Fife,| and eld|est son
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To beat|en Doug|las, and | the Earl | of Ath||ol,
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Of | Murray,| Angus,| and Menteith.
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And is | not this | an hon|ora|ble spoil?
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A gal|lant prize?| Ha cousin,| is it not?| In
faith || it is.
WESTMORELAND
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A con|quest for a | prince to | boast of.
KING HENRY IV
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Yea, there*| thou makst | me sad,| and makst | me
sin,
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In en|vy, that | my Lord | Northum|berland
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Should be | the fath|er to / so blest | a son:
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A son,| who is | the theme | of hon|or's tongue;
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Amongst | a grove,| the ve|ry straight|est plant,
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Who is / sweet For|tune's min|ion, and | her
pride:
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Whilst^I | by look|ing on | the praise | of him,
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See ri|ot and | dishon|or stain | the brow
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Of my / young Har|ry. O | that it could | be
proved,
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That some* / night-trip|ping fai|ry, had |
exchanged
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In crad|le-clothes,| our child|ren where | they
lay,
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And called mine Per|cy, his | Plantag|enet:
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Then would | I have | his Har|ry, and / he mine:
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But let | him from | my thoughts.| What think |
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Of this / young Per|cy's pride?| The pris|oners
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Which he | in this | advent|ure hath | surprised,
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To his / own use | he keeps,| and sends | me word
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I shall | have none | but Mor|dake^Earl | of
Fife.
WESTMORELAND
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This is his | uncle's | teaching,| this is |
Worcester,
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Malev|olent | to you | in all aspects:
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Which makes | him prune | himself,| and bris|tle
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The crest | of youth | against | your dig|nity.
KING HENRY IV
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But I | have sent | for him | to ans|wer this:
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And for | this^cause | awhile | we must | neglect
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Our ho|ly pur|pose to | Jerus|alem.
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Cousin,| on Wednes|day next,| our coun|cil we ||
will hold
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At Wind|sor, and | so inform | the lords:
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But come | yourself | with speed | to us | again,
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For more | is to | be said,| and to be | done,
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Than || out of | anger | can be ut|tered.
WESTMORELAND
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I will | my liege.
[Exeunt]