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Henry IV part one

Act IV, Scene 4

York. The ARCHBISHOP'S palace.
 
[Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF YORK and SIR MICHAEL]
 
ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
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      Hie, good*| Sir Mich|ael, bear | this seal|ed brief
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      With wing|ed haste | to the / Lord Mar|shal.
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      This to | my cous|in Scroop,| and all | the rest
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      To whom | they are | direc|ted. If | you knew
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      How much | they do | import,
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                                  You would / make haste.
 
SIR MICHAEL
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      My good lord,| I guess | their ten|or.
 
ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
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                                             Like^enough | you do.
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      Tomor|row, good | Sir Mich|ael, is | a day,
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      Wherein | the for|tune of / ten thous|and men
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      Must^bide | the touch.| For sir,| at Shrews|bury,
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      As I | am tru|ly given | to und|erstand,
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      The king,| with migh|ty and / quick-raised | power
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      Meets with | Lord Har/ry: and | I fear,| Sir Mi||chael,
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      What | with the sick|ness of | Northum|berland,
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      Whose^power | was in | the first | propor|tion;
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      And what | with Ow|en Glen|dower's ab|sence thence,
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      Who with | them was | rated | firmly | too,
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      And comes | not^in,| ore-ruled | by proph|ecies,
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      I fear | the power | of Per|cy is / too weak,
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      To wage | an inst|ant tri|al with | the king.
 
SIR MICHAEL
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      Why, my | good lord, you | need not fear,
        T    T   T               ,   ,     ,
      There is Doug|las, and / Lord Mort|imer.
 
ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
       T   T  . T        ,      ,
      No, Mortimer | is not | there.
 
SIR MICHAEL
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        But | there is || Mordake, Vern|on, Lord | Harry | Percy,
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      And there | is my | Lord of | Worcester,|
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      And a head | of gal|lant war|riors,
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                                       Noble | gentlemen.
 
ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
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      And so | there is,| but yet | the king | hath drawn
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      The spe|cial head | of all | the land | together:  ????
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      The Prince | of Wales,| Lord John | of Lan|caster,
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      The noble | Westmore/land, and | warlike Blunt;
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      And ma|ny more | corriv|als, and / dear men
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      Of est|ima|tion, and | command | in arms.
 
SIR MICHAEL
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      Doubt not my lord,| he shall | be well | opposed.
 
ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
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      I hope | no less?| Yet need|ful 'tis | to fear,
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      And to | prevent | the worst,| Sir Mich|ael speed;
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      For if / Lord Per|cy thrive | not, ere | the king
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      Dismiss | his power,| he means | to vis|it us:
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      For he | hath heard | of our | confed|eracy,
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      And, 'tis | but wis|dom to make | strong a|gainst him:
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      Therefore | make^haste,| I must | go write | again
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      To oth|er friends:| and so fare|well, Sir | Michael.  ??
 
[Exeunt]

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