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Westminster. The Jerusalem Chamber.
[Enter KING HENRY IV, the Princes Thomas of CLARENCE and Humphrey of
GLOUCESTER, WARWICK, and others]
KING HENRY IV
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Now lords,| if God | doth give | success|ful end
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To this | debate,| that bleed|eth at | our doors,
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We will | our youth | lead^on | to high|er
fields,
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And draw | no swords,| but what | are
sanc|tified.
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Our na/vy is ad|dressed, our | power col|lected,
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Our sub|stitutes,| in ab|sence, well in|vested,
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And eve|ry thing | lies lev/el to | our wish;
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Only | we want | a lit|tle pers|onal strength:
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And pause | us, till | these re|bels, now |
afoot,
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Come^und|erneath | the yoke | of gov|ernment.
WARWICK
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Both which | we doubt | not, but | your maj|esty
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Shall soon | enjoy. \\
KING HENRY IV
Humphrey (my son of Gloucester) where is the prince, your brother?
GLOUCESTER
I think he's gone | to hunt (my lord) at
Windsor.
KING HENRY IV
And how accompanied?
GLOUCESTER
I do not know (my lord).
KING HENRY IV
Is not his brother, Thomas of Clarence,
with him?
GLOUCESTER
No (my good* lord) he is in presence here.
CLARENCE
What would my lord, and father?
KING HENRY IV
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Nothing | but well | to thee,| Thomas of |
Clarence.
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How chance | thou art | not with the | prince, thy
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He loves | thee, and | thou dost ne|glect him
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Thou hast a | better | place in | his af|fection,
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Than all | thy broth|ers: cher|ish it |(my boy)
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And nob|le of|fices | thou mayst | effect
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Of me|dia|tion (aft|er I | am dead)
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Between | his great|ness, and | thy oth|er
breth||ren.
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There|fore omit | him not:| blunt not his love,
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Nor lose | the good | advant|age of | his grace,
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By seem|ing cold,| or care|less of | his will,
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For he | is gra|cious, if | he be | observed:
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He hath | a tear | for pi|ty, and | a hand
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Open |(as day)| for melt|ing char|ity:
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Yet not|withstand|ing, being | incensed,| he's
flint,
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As hum|orous | as wint|er, and | as sudden,
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As flaws | congeal|ed in | the spring | of day.
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His temp|er there|fore must | be well | observed:
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Chide him | for faults,| and do | it reve|rently,
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When thou | perceive | his blood | inclined | to
mirth:
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But be|ing moo|dy, give | him line,| and scope,
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Till that | his pas|sions (like | a whale | on
ground)
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Confound | themselves | with work|ing. Learn |
this Thom||as,
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And | thou shalt prove | a shelt|er to | thy
friends,
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A hoop | of gold,| to bind | thy broth|ers in:
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That the | unit|ed ves|sel of | their blood
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(Mingled | with ven|om of | sugges|tion,
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As force | perforce,| the age | will pour | it
in)
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Shall nev|er leak,| though it | do work | as
strong
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As ac|onit|um, or / rash gun|powder.
CLARENCE
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I shall | observe | him with / all care,| and
love.
KING HENRY IV
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Why art thou | not at | Windsor | with him
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CLARENCE
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He is not | there to|day: he | dines in | London.
KING HENRY IV
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And how | accomp|anied?| Canst thou | tell that?
CLARENCE
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With Poins,| and oth|er his contin|ual
fol|lowers.
KING HENRY IV
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Most sub/ject is | the fat|test soil | to weeds:
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And he |(the nob|le im|age of | my youth)
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Is ov|erspread | with them:| therefore | my grief
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Stretches | itself | beyond | the hour | of death.
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The blood | weeps from | my heart | when I | do
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(In forms | imag|inary)| the unguid|ed days,
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And rot|ten times | that you | shall look | upon,
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When I am | sleeping | with my | ancestors.
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For when | his head|strong ri/ot hath | no curb,
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When rage | and hot | blood are | his
couns|ellors,
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When means | and lav|ish man|ners meet |
togeth||er;
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Oh,| with what wings | shall his | affec|tions
fly ??
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Towards^front|ing per|il, and | opposed | decay?
WARWICK
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My gra|cious lord,| you look | beyond | him
quite:
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The prince | but stud|ies his | compan|ions
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Like || a strange | tongue: where|in, to | gain
the | language,
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'Tis need|ful, that | the most | immod|est word
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Be looked | upon,| and learned:| which once |
attained,
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Your high|ness knows,| comes to | no furth|er
use,
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But to be known, and hated: So, like gross
terms, ????
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The prince | will, in | the per|fectness | of
time,
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Cast^off | his fol|lowers: and | their mem|ory
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Shall as | a pat|tern, or | a meas|ure live,
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By which his | grace must | mete the | lives of |
others,
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Turning | past ev/ils to | advant|ages.
KING HENRY IV
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'Tis sel|dom, when | the bee | doth leave | her
comb
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In the dead | carrion.| Who's here?
West|moreland?
[Enter WESTMORELAND]
WESTMORELAND
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Health to | my sove|reign, and / new hap|piness
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Added | to that,| that I | am to de|liver.
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Prince^John,| your son,| doth^kiss | your
gra|ce's hand:
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Mowbray,| the Bish|op, Scroop,| Hastings,| and
all,
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Are brought | to the | correc|tion of | your law,
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There is / not now | a reb|el's sword |
unsheathed,
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But peace | puts^forth | her ol|ive eve|rywhere.
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The man|ner how | this ac|tion hath | been borne,
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Here (at | more leis|ure) may | your high|ness
read,
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With eve|ry course,| in his | partic|ular.
KING HENRY IV
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O West|moreland,| thou art | a sum|mer bird,
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Which ev|er in | the haunch | of wint|er sings
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The lift|ing up | of day.| Look, here's^|more*
news.
[Enter HARCOURT]
HARCOURT
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From en|emies, heav|en keep | your maj|esty:
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And when | they stand | against | you, may | they
fall,
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As those | that I | am come | to tell | you of.
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The Earl | Northum|berland | and the Lord |
Bardolph*,
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With a / great power | of Eng|lish, and | of
Scots,
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Are by | the sher|iff of York|shire ov|erthrown:
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The man|ner, and / true ord|er of | the fight,
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This pack|et (please | it you)| contains | at
large.
KING HENRY IV
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And where|fore should these | good news make | me
sick?
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Will for|tune nev|er come | with both
hands full,
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But write | her fair words still | in foul|est
letters?
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She eith|er gives | a stom|ach, and / no food,
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(Such are | the poor,| in health)| or else | a
feast,
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And takes | away | the stom|ach (such | are the
rich,
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That have | abun|dance, and | enjoy | it not).
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I should | rejoice | now at | this hap|py news,
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And now | my sight | fails, and my | brain is |
giddy.
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O me,| come^near | me, now | I am / much ill.
GLOUCESTER
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Comfort | your maj|esty.
CLARENCE
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Oh, my | royal | father. (tri with prev)
WESTMORELAND
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My sove|reign lord,| cheer^up | yourself,| look
up.
WARWICK
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Be pa|tient (prin|ces) you | do know,| these fits
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Are with | his high|ness ve|ry ord|inary.
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Stand from him, Give | him air:
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He'll straight
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CLARENCE
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No, no, he can|not long | hold^out:| these* pangs,
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The inces|sant care,| and lab|or of | his mind,
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Hath wrought | the mure,| that should | confine |
it in,
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So* thin,| that life | looks through,/ and will |
break^out.
GLOUCESTER
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The peo|ple fear | me: for | they do ob|serve
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Un||fathered | heirs, and | loathly | births of
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The seas|ons change | their man|ners, as | the
year
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Had found | some months | asleep,| and leaped |
them ore.
CLARENCE
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The riv|er hath / thrice flowed,| no ebb |
between:
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And the old | folk (time's dot|ing chron|icles)
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Say it | did so,| a lit|tle time | before
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That our great-|grandsire Ed|ward sicked,| and
died.
WARWICK
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Speak lower (prin|ces) for | the king | recov||ers.
GLOUCESTER
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This ap|oplex|y will (cert|ain) be | his end.
KING HENRY IV
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I pray | you take | me up,| and bear | me hence
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Into | some oth|er chamb|er: soft|ly pray.