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[Enter the KING, NORTHUMBERLAND, WORCESTER, HOTSPUR, SIR WALTER BLUNT, with
others]
KING HENRY IV
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My blood | hath been | too cold | and temp|erate,
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Unapt | to stir | at these | indig|nities,
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And you | have found | me; for | accord|ingly,
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You tread | upon | my pa|tience: but | be sure,
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I will | from hence|forth^rath|er be | myself,
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Mighty,| and to | be feared,| than my |
condi||tion
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Which hath | been smooth | as oil,| soft as young
down,
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And there|fore lost | that tit|le of | respect,
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Which the / proud soul | nere pays,| but to | the
proud.
EARL OF WORCESTER
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Our house (my sove|reign liege)| little |
deserves
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The scourge | of great|ness to | be used | on it,
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And that / same great|ness too,| which our / own
hands
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Have holp | to make | so port|ly.
NORTHUMBERLAND
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My lord.
KING HENRY IV
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Worcester | get thee gone:| for I | do see
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Danger | and dis|obed|ience in | thine^eye.
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O sir,| your pres|ence is too | bold and
pe|remptory,
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And maj|esty | might nev|er yet | endure
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The moo|dy fron|tier of | a serv|ant brow.
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You have / good leave | to leave | us. when | we
need
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Your use | and couns|el, we | shall send | for
you.
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You were | about | to speak.
[Exit Worcester]
NORTHUMBERLAND
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Yea, my | good* lord.
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Those pris|oners in your | highness'| name
de|manded,
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Which^Har|ry Per|cy here | at Holme|don took,
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Were (as | he says)| not with | such strength denied
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As was | deliv|ered to | your maj|esty:
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Who eith/er through | envy,| or mis|prison,
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Was guil|ty of | this fault;| and not | my son.
HOTSPUR
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My liege,| I did | deny | no pris/oners.
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But, I | remem|ber when | the fight | was done,
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When I | was dry | with rage,| and ex/treme toil,
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Breathless,| and faint,| leaning | upon | my
sword,
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Came there a | certain | lord, neat and trim|ly
dressed;
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Fresh as a | bridegroom,/ and his | chin
new reaped,
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Showed like | a stub|ble-land | at harv|est-home.
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He was | perfum|ed like | a mil|liner,
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And 'twixt | his fing|er and | his thumb,| he
held
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A poun|cet-box,| which ev|er and | anon
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He gave | his nose,| and took | it away | again:
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Who there|with ang|ry, when | it next came
there,
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Took it | in snuff.| And still | he smiled | and
talked:
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And as the | soldiers | bore dead bod|ies by,
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He called | them un|taught knaves, un|mannerly,
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To bring | a slov|enly / unhand|some corse
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Betwixt | the wind,| and his | nobil|ity.
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With ma|ny hol|iday | and la|dy terms
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He ques|tioned me:| amongst | the rest,|
deman||ded
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My pris|oners, in | your maj|esty's | behalf.
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I then,| all smart|ing, with | my wounds | being
cold,
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(To be | so pest|ered with | a pop|injay)
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Out of | my grief,| and my | impa|tience,
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Answered |(neglect|ingly)| I know | not what,
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He should,| or should | not: for | he made | me
mad,
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To see | him shine | so brisk,| and smell | so
sweet,
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And talk so like | a wait|ing-gent|lewoman,
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Of guns,| and drums,| and wounds:| God* save |
the mark;
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And tel|ling me,| the sove|reignst thing | on
earth
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Was par|mace|ti, for | an in|ward bruise:
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And that | it was / great pi|ty, so | it was,
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This vil|lanous / salt-pet|er should | be digged
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Out of | the bow|els of | the harm|less earth,
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Which ma|ny a good | tall fel/low had | destroyed
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So* cow|ardly.| And but | for these / vile guns,
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He would him|self have | been a | soldier.
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This bald,| unjoin|ted chat | of his |(my lord)
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Made me to | answer | indi|rectly |(as I said).
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And I | beseech | you, let | not his | report
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Come cur/rent for | an ac|cusa|tion,
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Betwixt | my love,| and your / high maj|esty.
SIR WALTER BLUNT
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The cir|cumstance | consid|ered, good | my lord,
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Whatere | Lord^Har|ry Per|cy then | had said,
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To such | a pers|on, and | in such | a place,
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At such | a time,| with all | the rest | retold,
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May reas|ona|bly die | and nev|er rise
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To do | him wrong | or an|y way | impeach
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What then | he said,| so he / unsay | it now.
KING HENRY IV
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Why yet | he doth | deny | his pris|oners,
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But with | provi|so and | excep|tion,
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That we | at our / own charge,| shall rans|om
straight
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His broth|er-in-law,| the fool|ish Mort|imer,
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Who^(in | my soul)| hath will|fully | betrayed
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The lives | of those,| that he | did lead | to
fight,
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Against | that great | magi|cian, damned |
Glendower,
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Whose^daught|er (as | we hear)| the Earl | of
March
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Hath late|ly mar|ried. Shall | our cof|fers then,
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Be emp|tied, to | redeem | a trait|or home?
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Shall we / buy treas|on? And | indent | with
fears,
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When they | have lost | and for|feited |
themselves.
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No: on | the bar|ren mount|ains let | him starve:
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For I | shall nev|er hold | that man | my friend,
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Whose tongue | shall ask | me for / one pen|ny
cost
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To rans|om home | revolt|ed Mort|imer.
HOTSPUR
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Revolt|ed Mort|imer? \\
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He nev|er did | fall^off,| my sove|reign liege,
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But by | the chance | of war:| to prove | that^true,
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Needs no more but one tongue. For all
those wounds, ????
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Those mouth|ed wounds,| which val|iantly | he
took,
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When on | the gent|le Sev|ern's sed|gy bank,
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In sing|le op|posi|tion hand | to hand,
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He did | confound | the best | part of | an hour
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In chan|ging hard|iment | with great | Glendower:
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Three times they* breathed | and three | times did
| they drink ??
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Upon | agree|ment, of / swift Sev|ern's flood;
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Who then | affright|ed with | their bloo|dy
looks,
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Ran fear/fully | among | the trem|bling reeds,
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And hid | his crisp | head in | the hol|low bank,
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Bloodstained / with these | vali|ant com|batants.
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Never | did base | and rot|ten pol|icy
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Color | her work|ing with | such dead|ly wounds;
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Nor* nev|er could | the nob|le Mo|rtimer
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Receive | so ma|ny, and / all wil|lingly:
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Then let | not him | be sland|ered with | revolt.
KING HENRY IV
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Thou dost | belie him | Percy,| thou dost | belie
him;
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He nev|er did | encount|er with / Glendower:
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I tell thee, he durst as well have met the
devil alone, ????
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As Ow|en Glen|dower for | an en|emy.
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Art thou | not a|shamed? But | sirrah,|
henceforth
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Let me | not hear | you speak | of Mort|imer.
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Send me | your pris|oners with | the speed|iest
means,
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Or you | shall hear | in such | a kind | from me
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As will | displease | ye. My | Lord
North|umberland,
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We lic|ense your | depart|ure with | your son,
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Send us | your pris|oners, or | you will | hear
of it.
[Exeunt King Henry, Blunt, and train]
HOTSPUR
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And if | the dev|il come | and roar | for them
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I will | not send | them. I | will aft|er
straight
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And tell | him so:| for I | will ease | my heart,
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Although | it be | with haz|ard of | my head.
NORTHUMBERLAND
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What? Drunk with chol|er? Stay | and pause |
awhile,
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Here* comes | your unc|le.
[Enter WORCESTER]
HOTSPUR
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Speak | of Mort|imer?
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Yes, I | will speak | of him,| and let | my soul
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Want mer/cy, if | I do | not join | with him.
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In his | behalf,| I'll emp|ty all | these veins,
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And shed | my dear blood drop | by drop | in the
dust,
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But I will | lift the | down-trod Mort|imer
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As high | in the air,| as this | unthank|ful
king,
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As this / ingrate | and cank|ered Bol|ingbroke.
NORTHUMBERLAND
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Brother,| the king | hath made | your neph|ew
mad.
EARL OF WORCESTER
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Who struck | this heat | up af/ter I | was gone?
HOTSPUR
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He will |(forsooth)| have all | my pris|oners:
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And when | I urged | the rans|om once | again
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Of my / wife's broth|er, then | his cheek
looked pale,
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And on | my face | he turned | an eye | of death,
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Trembling | even | at the name | of Mort|imer.
EARL OF WORCESTER
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I can|not blame | him: was / not he | proclaimed
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By Rich|ard that | dead is,| the next | of blood?
NORTHUMBERLAND
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He was:| I heard | the proc|lama|tion,
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And then | it was,| when the | unhap|py king
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(Whose wrongs in us | God* pard|on) did / set
forth
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Upon | his Ir|ish ex|pedi|tion:
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From whence | he int|ercept|ed, did | return
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To be | deposed,| and short|ly murd|ered.
EARL OF WORCESTER
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And || for whose | death, we / in the | world's
wide mouth
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Live scandalized,| and foul|ly spok|en of.
HOTSPUR
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But soft | I pray | you; did | King^Rich|ard then
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Proclaim | my broth|er Ed|mund Mort|imer,
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Heir to | the crown?
NORTHUMBERLAND
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He did,| myself | did hear it.
HOTSPUR
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Nay then | I can|not blame | his cous|in king,
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That wished | him on | the bar|ren mount|ains
starved.
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But shall | it be,| that you | that set | the
crown
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Upon | the head | of this | forget|ful man,
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And for | his sake,| wear the | detes|ted blot
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Of murd|erous sub|orna|tion? Shall | it be,
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That you | a world | of curs|es und|ergo,
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Being | the a|gents, or / base sec|ond means,
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The cords,| the ladder,| or the | hangman*|
rather?
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O pardon, if | that I | descend | so* low,
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To show | the line,| and the | predic|ament
,
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Wherein | you range | under | this sub|tle king.
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Shall it | for shame,| be spok|en in | these^days,
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Or fill | up chron|icles | in time | to come,
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That men | of your | nobil|ity | and power,
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Did gage | them both | in an / unjust | behalf
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(As both | of you,| God pard/on it,| have done)
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To put down Rich|ard, that / sweet love|ly rose,
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And plant | this thorn,| this cank|er
Bol|ingbroke?
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And shall | it in more | shame be | further |
spoken,
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That you | are fooled,| discard|ed, and / shook
off
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By him,| for whom | these shames | ye und|erwent?
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No: yet | time serves, where|in you may | redeem
,
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Your ban|ished hon|ors, and | restore |
yourselves
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Into | the good | thoughts of | the world |
again.
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Revenge | the jeer|ing and | disdained | contempt
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Of this / proud king,| who stud|ies day | and
night
,
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To ans|wer all | the debt | he owes | unto you,
x
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Even with | the bloo|dy pay|ment of | your
deaths:
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Therefore | I say--
EARL OF WORCESTER
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Peace cousin, say | no more.
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And now | I will | unclasp | a sec|ret book,
,
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And to | your quick-|conceiv|ing dis|contents,
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I'll read | you mat|ter, deep | and dang|erous,
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As full | of per|il and | advent|urous spirit,
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As to / ore-walk | a cur|rent, roar|ing loud
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On the / unstead|fast foot/ing of | a spear.
HOTSPUR
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If he | fall^in,| good night,| or sink | or swim:
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Send^dang|er from | the east | unto | the west,
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So hon|or cross | it from | the north | to south,
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T T
And let | them grap/ple: the | blood more stirs
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To rouse | a li|on, than | to start | a hare.
NORTHUMBERLAND
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Ima|gina|tion of some | great exploit,
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Drives him | beyond | the bounds | of pa|tience.
HOTSPUR
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By heaven,| methinks | it were | an ea|sy
leap,
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To pluck | bright hon/or from the | pale-faced
moon,
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Or dive | into | the bot|tom of | the deep,
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Where fath|om-line | could nev|er touch | the
ground,
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And pluck | up drowned hon|or by | the locks:
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So he | that doth | redeem | her thence,| might
wear
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Without | corriv|al, all | her dig|nities:
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But out | upon | this half-|faced fel/lowship.
EARL OF WORCESTER
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He ap|prehends | a world | of fig|ures here,
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But not | the form | of what | he should |
attend:
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Good* cous|in give | me aud|ience for | a while,
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And list | to me. \\
HOTSPUR
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I cry | you mer|cy.
EARL OF WORCESTER
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Those / same nob|le Scots
,
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That are | your pris|oners.
HOTSPUR
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I'll keep | them all.
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By heaven,| he shall | not have | a Scot | of
them:
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No, if | a Scot | would save | his soul,| he
shall not.
,
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I'll keep | them, by | this hand.
EARL OF WORCESTER
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You start | away,
,
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And lend | no ear | unto | my pur|poses.
, 2
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Those pris|oners you | shall keep.
HOTSPUR
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Nay, I | will; that's flat: (tri with prev)
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He said,| he would | not rans|om Mort|imer:
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Forbad | my tongue | to speak | of Mort|imer.
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But I | will find | him when | he lies | asleep,
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And in | his ear,| I'll hol|ler Mort|imer.
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Nay, I'll | have a | starling | shall be taught |
to speak
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Nothing | but Mort|imer,| and give | it him,
,
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To keep | his ang|er still | in mo|tion.
EARL OF WORCESTER
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Hear you | cousin:| a word. \\
HOTSPUR
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All stud|ies here | I sol|emnly | defy,
,
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Save how | to gall | and pinch | this
Bol|ingbroke,
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And that / same sword-|and-buck|ler Prince | of
Wales.
,
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But that | I think | his fath|er loves | him not,
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And would | be glad | he met | with some |
mischance,
,
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I would | have pois|oned him | with a pot | of
ale.
EARL OF WORCESTER
T T T ,
T T T
Farewell kins|man: I'll | talk to you
??
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When you | are bet|ter temp|ered to | attend.
NORTHUMBERLAND
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Why what | a wasp-|stung and | impa|tient fool
,
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Art thou,| to break | into | this wom|an's mood,
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Tying | thine^ear | to no | tongue but | thine^own?
HOTSPUR
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Why look | you, I | am whipped | and scourged |
with rods,
,
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Nettled,| and stung | with pis|mires, when | I
hear
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Of this / vile pol|iti|cian Bol|ingbroke.
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In Rich|ard's time:| what do | you call | the
place?
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A plague | upon it,| it is | in Glouce|stershire:
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'Twas, where the | madcap duke | his unc|le kept,
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His unc|le York,| where I | first^bowed | my knee
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Unto | this king | of smiles,| this Bol|ingbroke:
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When you | and he | came back | from
Rav|enspurgh.
NORTHUMBERLAND
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At Berk|ley castle.
HOTSPUR
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oo
You say true:|
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, ,
Why what | a can|dy deal | of court|esy,
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This fawn|ing grey|hound^then | did prof|fer me.
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Look when | his in|fant for|tune came | to age,
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And gent|le Har|ry Per|cy, and / kind cousin:
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O, the | devil take such | cozeners,| God
for||give me,
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->
Good^unc|le tell | your tale,| for I || have
done.
EARL OF WORCESTER
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Nay, if | you have / not, to it | again,
, ,
We'll stay | your leis|ure.
HOTSPUR
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I | have done | in sooth.
EARL OF WORCESTER
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Then once | more to | your Scot|tish pris|oners.
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Deliv|er them up | without | their rans|om
straight,
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And make | the Doug|las' son | your on|ly mean
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For powers | in Scot|land: which | for div|ers
reas||ons
, 2
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Which | I shall send | you writ|ten, be | assured
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Will ea|sily | be grant|ed you,| my lord.
[To Northumberland]
,
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Your son | in Scot|land be|ing thus | employed,
,
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Shall sec|retly | into | the bos|om creep
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Of that / same nob|le pre|late*, well | beloved,
, ,
The arch|bishop. \\
HOTSPUR
, ,
Of York,| is it / not?
EARL OF WORCESTER
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True,| who bears hard
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His broth|er's death | at Brist|ol, the / Lord
Scroop.
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I speak | not^this | in es|tima|tion,
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As what | I think | might be,/ but what | I
know
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Is rum|inat|ed, plot|ted, and / set down,
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And on|ly stays | but to | behold | the face
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Of that | occa|sion that | shall bring | it on.
HOTSPUR
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I smell it: \\
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Upon | my life,| it will | do wond|rous well.
NORTHUMBERLAND
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Before | the game's | afoot,| thou still |
letst^slip.
HOTSPUR
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Why, it | cannot | choose but | be a noble plot,
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And then | the power | of Scot|land, and | of
York,
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To join | with Mort|imer, ha.
EARL OF WORCESTER
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And so | they shall.
HOTSPUR
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In faith | it is | exceed|ingly / well aimed.
EARL OF WORCESTER
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And 'tis | no lit|tle reas|on bids | us speed,
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To save | our heads,| by rais|ing of | a head:
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For bear | ourselves | as ev|en as | we can,
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The king | will al|ways think | him in | our
debt,
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And think,| we think | ourselves | unsat|isfied,
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Till he | hath found | a time | to pay | us home.
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And see | alrea|dy, how | he doth | begin
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To make | us strang|ers to | his looks | of love.
HOTSPUR
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He does,| he does;| we'll be | revenged | on him.
EARL OF WORCESTER
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Cousin,| farewell.| No furth|er go | in this,
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Than I | by let|ters shall | direct | your course
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When time | is ripe,| which will | be sud|denly:
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I'll steal | to Glen|dower, and | Lord Mortimer,
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Where you,| and Doug|las, and | our powers | at
once,
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As I | will fash|ion it,| shall hap|pily meet,
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To bear | our for|tunes in our | own strong arms,
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Which now | we hold | at much | uncert|ainty.
NORTHUMBERLAND
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Farewell | good broth|er, we | shall thrive,| I
trust.
HOTSPUR
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Uncle,| adieu:| O let | the hours | be short,
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Till fields,| and blows,| and groans,| applaud |
our sport.
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