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Henry IV part two

Act IV, Scene 5

Another chamber.
 
[KING HENRY IV lying on a bed: CLARENCE, GLOUCESTER, WARWICK, and others in attendance]
 
KING HENRY IV
       ,       2      T   T     T        ,         ,
      Let there be | no noise made |(my gent|le friends)
          ,           ,         ,    ,       ,
      Unless | some dull | and fav|ora|ble hand
             ,       ,      ,       ,        x
      Will whisp|er mus|ic to | my wea|ry spirit.
 
WARWICK
        ,             ,      ,        ,       ,
      Call for | the mus|ic in | the oth|er room.
 
KING HENRY IV
       ,             ,       ,        ,        ,
      Set me | the crown | upon | my pil|low here.
 
CLARENCE
           ,        ,        ,         ,        ,
      His eye | is hol|low, and | he chan|ges much.
 
WARWICK
             ,            ,
      Less^noise,| less^noise.
 
[Enter PRINCE HENRY]
 
PRINCE HENRY
                                ,      2        ,        ,
                               Who saw* the | Duke of | Clarence?  ??
 
CLARENCE
               ,    ,          ,        ,      ,
      I am / here (broth|er) full | of heav|iness.
 
PRINCE HENRY
           ,      ,            ,           ,       ,
      How now?| Rain with|in doors,| and none | abroad?
            ,          ,
      How doth | the king?
 
GLOUCESTER
         ,        ,
      Exceed|ing ill.  (di with prev)
 
PRINCE HENRY
        ,              ,      T   T     T        ,
      Heard he | the good | news yet? Tell | it him.
 
GLOUCESTER
          ,         ,      ,         ,        ,
      He alt|ered much | upon | the hear|ing it.
 
PRINCE HENRY
       ,           ,          ,
      If he | be sick | with joy,
           2   ,    2     ,     ,
      He'll recov|er without | physic.
 
WARWICK
       ,              ,          ,
      Not so | much^noise |(my lords)
                ,      ___    ___
      Sweet* prince | speak | low.  (tri with prev three)
            ,          ,        ,        ,          ,
      The king,| your fath|er, is | disposed | to sleep.
 
CLARENCE
       ,             ,     ,         ,        ,
      Let us | withdraw | into | the oth|er room.
 
WARWICK
              ,            ,         ,      ,          ,
      Wilt please | your grace | to go | along | with us?
 
PRINCE HENRY
       ,            ,          ,       ,              ,
      No: I | will sit,| and watch | here, by | the king.
       ,      2        T    T    T       ,           x
      Why doth the | crown lie there,| upon | his pillow,
       ,           ,       ,       ,   ,
      Being | so troub|lesome | a bed|fellow?
         ,         ,      ,        ,        ,
      O pol|ished per|turba|tion! gold|en care!
              ,           ,          ,      ,       ,
      That keepst | the ports | of slum|ber op|en wide,
          ,   2    ,         ,       ,              ,
      To ma|ny a watch|ful night:| sleep with | it now,
           ,         ,           ,         ,       ,
      Yet not | so sound,| and half | so deep|ly sweet,
          ,           ,           ,      ,        ,
      As he | whose brow |(with home|ly big|gen bound)
         T    T   .    T          ,        ,    ,
      Snores out the watch | of night.| O maj|esty!
             ,           ,          ,         ,          ,
      When thou | dost pinch | thy bear|er, thou | dost sit
        T  .   T   T        ,         ,        ,
      Like a rich arm|or, worn | in heat | of day,
              ,            ,       ,         ,           ,
      That scalds | with safe|ty: by | his gates | of breath,
              ,       ,      ,                  ,    ,
      There lies | a dow|ny feath|er, which / stirs not:
       ,    2     ,             ,            ,           ,
      Did he su|spire, that | light and | weightless | down
      <-       ,            ,         ,           ,         ,
        Per||force must | move. My | gracious | lord, my | father,
             ,          ,        ,       ,           ,
      This sleep | is sound | indeed:| this is | a sleep,
             ,          ,       ,       ,         ,
      That from | this gold|en rig|ol hath | divorced
          ,     ,         ,          ,          ,
      So ma|ny Eng|lish kings.| Thy due,| from me,
           ,          ,      ,        ,         ,
      Is tears,| and hea|vy sor|rows of | the blood,
             ,         ,         ,   2   ,       ,
      Which na|ture, love,| and fil|ial tend|erness,
        ,               ,        ,           ,    2   ,
      Shall (O | dear* fath|er) pay | thee plent|eously.
          ,           ,         ,       ,   2    ,
      My due,| from thee,| is this | imper|ial crown,
        ,            ,   2    ,         ,           ,
      Which (as | immed|iate as | thy place | and blood)
          ,         ,        ,    T    T   .   T
      Derives | itself | to me.| Lo, here it sits,
               x             ,
      Which Heaven | shall guard:  \\
           ,           ,        ,       ,              T    Tx   T
      And put | the world's | whole strength / into | one giant arm,  ????
           ,           ,           ,   2    x       ,
      It shall | not force | this lin|eal honor | from me.
        T     T    T         ,        ,     ___
      This, from thee,| will I | to mine | leave,  ??
       ,          ,       __
      As 'tis | left to | me.   \\
 
[Exit]
 
KING HENRY IV
       ,           ,          ,
      Warwick.| Gloucester.| Clarence.
 
[Enter WARWICK, GLOUCESTER, CLARENCE, and the rest]
 
CLARENCE
                                                   ,    ,
                                      Doth the / king call?
 
WARWICK
             ,           ,    ,           ,            ,
      What would | your maj|esty?| How* fares | your grace?
 
KING HENRY IV
       ,              ,          ,       ,         ,
      Why did | you leave | me here | alone |(my lords)?
 
CLARENCE
           ,           ,         ,          ,         ,
      We left | the prince |(my broth|er) here |(my liege)
           ,      ,        ,          ,         ,
      Who und|ertook | to sit | and watch | by you.
 
KING HENRY IV
             ,          ,            ,        ,          x
      The Prince | of Wales?| Where is | he? Let | me see him.
 
WARWICK
             ,       ,                 ,    ,   ,
      This door | is op|en, he is // gone this way.
 
GLOUCESTER
           ,           ,            ,        ,           ,
      He came | not^through | the chamb|er where | we stayed.
 
KING HENRY IV
        ,     2        ,            ,         ,        ,
      Where is the | crown? Who | took it | from my | pillow?
 
WARWICK
            ,         ,         ,          ,         ,
      When we | withdrew |(my liege)| we left | it here.
 
KING HENRY IV
             ,            ,         ,
      The prince | hath tane | it hence:
                                               ,         ,
                                          Go seek | him out.
       ,          ,       ,         ,         ,
      Is he | so has|ty that | he doth | suppose
           ,          ,       ,     2        ,        ,
      My sleep,| my death?| Find him (my | lord of | Warwick)
        ,          ,              ,        ,         ,
      Chide him | hither:| this part | of his | conjoins
            ,       ,           ,         ,        o
      With my | disease,| and helps | to end | me.
       T    T     T       T    T   T    oo
      See sons, what | things you are:|
             ,      ,        ,      ,         ,
      How quick|ly na|ture falls | into | revolt,
             ,        ,          ,  __    oo
      When gold | becomes | her ob|ject?|
            ,          ,        x     ,        ,
      For this,| the fool|ish over-|careful | fathers
             ,             ,              ,
      Have broke | their sleep | with thoughts,  \\
               ,            ,            ,           ,     ,
      Their brains | with care,| their bones | with ind|ustry.
            ,      ,             ,              ,    ,
      For this,| they have | engros|sed and / piled up
           ,          ,           ,        ,        ,
      The cank|ered heaps | of strange-|achiev|ed gold:
            ,           ,            ,         ,       ,
      For this,| they have | been thought|ful to | invest
              ,           ,         ,        ,      x
      Their sons | with arts,| and mar|tial ex|ercises:  ??
        T     T   .   T     ,              ,        x
      When, like the bee,| culling | from eve|ry flower
           ,    2      ,      T     T      T           ,
      The vir|tuous sweets,| our thighs packed | with wax,
             ,           ,       ,     ,          2      ,
      Our mouths | with hon|ey, we | bring it | to the hive;
            ,          ,         ,         ,          ,
      And like | the bees,| are murd|ered for | our pains.
            ,        ,        ,             ,    ___
      This bit|ter taste | yields his | engross|ments,
      ,         ,        ,
      To the | ending | father.  \\
       T     T    .  T                ,    ,         ,
      Now, where is he,| that will / not stay | so long,
                    ,     ,         ,       ,         ,
      Till his / friend sick|ness hath | deter|mined me?
 
WARWICK
           ,        ,            ,                ,    ,
      My lord,| I found | the prince | in the / next room,
        ,              ,       ,           ,        ,
      Washing | with kind|ly tears | his gent|le cheeks,
             ,        ,          x         ,      ,
      With such | a deep | demeanor,| in great | sorrow,
            ,     ,          ,        ,            ,
      That tyr|anny,| which nev|er quaffed | but blood,
              ,       ,       ,            ,           ,
      Would (by | behold|ing him)| have washed | his knife
            ,       ,     ,      2      ,        ,
      With gent|le eye-|drops. He is | coming | hither.
 
KING HENRY IV
            ,         ,         ,      ,          ,
      But where|fore did | he take | away | the crown?
       ,       2       ,           ,        ,       ,
      Lo, where he | comes. Come^|hither | to me |(Harry).
          ,          ,         ,          ,       ,
      Depart | the chamb|er, leave | us here | alone.
 
[Enter PRINCE HENRY. Exeunt WARWICK and the rest]
 
PRINCE HENRY
         ,        ,           ,          ,        ,
      I nev|er thought | to hear | you speak | again.
 
KING HENRY IV
            ,         ,        ,       ,           ,
      Thy wish | was fath|er (Har|ry) to | that thought:
          ,           ,         ,       ,       ,
      I stay | too* long | by thee,| I wea|ry thee.
             ,        ,       ,        ,       ,
      Dost thou | so hung|er for | my emp|ty chair,
             ,           ,         ,      ,      2       ,
      That thou | wilt needs | invest | thee with mine^|honors
          ,          ,         ,       ,         ,
      Before | thy hour | be ripe?| O fool|ish youth!
              ,           ,                       ,   ,     ,
      Thou seekst | the great|ness, that will // orewhelm thee.
        ,     2       x               ,         ,     ,
      Stay but a | little: for | my cloud | of dig|nity
           ,          ,          ,         ,        ,
      Is held | from fal|ling, with | so weak | a wind,
            ,          ,        ,        ,        ,
      That it | will quick|ly drop:| my day | is dim.
                     x     ,           ,             ,    ,
      Thou hast / stolen that,| which aft|er some*/ few hours
             ,          ,        ,          ,        ,
      Were thine,| without | offense:| and at | my death
             ,            ,       ,     ,    ,
      Thou hast | sealed^up | my ex|pecta|tion:
            ,         ,     ,            ,          ,
      Thy life | did man|ifest | thou lovedst | me not,
            ,           ,        ,        ,         ,
      And thou | wilt have | me die | assured | of it.
             ,         ,        ,        ,           ,
      Thou hidst | a thous|and dag|gers in | thy thoughts,
              ,           ,       ,        ,       ,
      Which thou | hast whet|ted on | thy sto|ny heart,
           ,         ,        ,     ,        ,
      To stab | at half | an ho|ur of | my life.
        ,     ,                     ,         ,         ,
      What? Canst / thou not | forbear | me half | an hour?
            ,           ,         ,         ,          ,
      Then get | thee gone,| and dig | my grave | thyself,
           ,         ,       ,       ,              ,
      And bid | the mer|ry bells | ring to | thine^ear
             ,           ,       ,         T  T   T
      That thou | art crowned,| not that | I am dead.
           ,          ,             ,        ,          ,
      Let^all | the tears,| that should | bedew | my hearse
           ,          ,         ,     ,         ,
      Be drops | of balm,| to sanct|ify | thy head:
       ,          ,          ,        ,        ,
      Only | compound | me with | forgot|ten dust,
             ,            ,           ,     ,           ,
      Give^that,| which gave | thee life,| unto | the worms:
        T     T   .  T     ,      ,            ,
      Pluck down my^of|ficers,| break my | decrees;
           ,        ,         ,         ,         ,
      For now | a time | is come,| to mock | at form.
       ,   2        ,           T      T  T    ,
      Henry the | Fifth is | crowned: up van|ity,
        T    Tx    T                 ,    ,     2       ,
      Down royal state:| all^you / sage couns|ellors, hence:
       ,            ,         ,        ,       ,
      And to | the Eng|lish court,| assem|ble now
            ,      ,         ,       ,      ,
      From eve|ry re|gion, apes | of id|leness.
             ,        ,    ,      ,                     ,
      Now* neigh|bor con|fines, purge / you of | your scum:
        ,     2     ,  2       ,           T      T      T
      Have you a | ruffian | that will | swear? Drink? Dance?
       ,            ,      ,     ,                ,
      Revel | the night?| Rob? Murd/er? and | commit
           ,        ,         ,        ,         ,
      The old|est sins,| the new|est kind | of ways?
          ,       ,          ,       ,         ,
      Be hap|py, he | will troub|le you | no more:
       ,                ,       ,          ,       ,
      England,| shall doub|le gild,| his treb|le guilt.
       ,                ,         ,        ,        ,
      England,| shall give | him of|fice, hon|or, might:
                  ,    ,                ,    ,          ,
      For the / fifth Har|ry, from / curbed lic|ense plucks
           ,       ,        ,                  ,   ,
      The muz|zle of | restraint,| and the / wild dog
              ,           ,         ,      ,     ,
      Shall flesh | his tooth | on eve|ry in|nocent.
               ,    ,         ,          ,       ,
      O my / poor king|dom (sick,| with civ|il blows)
        ,      2       ,           ,         ,         ,
      When that my | care could | not with|hold thy | riots,
             ,          ,         ,     ,         ,
      What wilt | thou do,| when ri|ot is | thy care?
      ,               ,      ,       ,       ,
      O, thou | wilt be | a wild|erness | again,
       ,                ,          ,       ,     ,
      Peopled | with wolves |(thy old | inhab|itants).
 
PRINCE HENRY
         ,       ,        ,      ,             ,
      O pard|on me |(my liege)| but for | my tears,
            ,        ,     ,      ,           ,
      The moist | imped|iments | unto | my speech,
         ,           ,             ,          ,        ,
      I had | forestalled | 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,
           ,          ,           ,        ,      ,
      And he | that wears | the crown | immort|ally,
        T    T    .   T        ,       ,         ,
      Long guard it yours.| If I | affect | it more,
            ,         ,       ,         ,        ,
      Than as | your hon|or, and | as your | renown,
       ,            ,           ,      ,   2      ,
      Let me | no more | from this | obed|ience rise,
                   ,    ,         ,       ,   2      x
      Which my / most true,| and in|ward dut|eous spirit
        ,     2        ,    ,             ,  2     ,
      Teacheth this | prostrate,/ and ex|terior | bending.
         x    ,               ,             ,          ,
      Heaven wit/ness with | me, when | I here | came^in,
            ,           ,           ,         ,          ,    ,
      And found | no course | of breath | within | your maj|esty, ????
            ,          ,          ,        ,        ,
      How cold | it struck | my heart.| If I | do feign,
         ,         ,       ,         ,         ,
      O let | me, in | my pres|ent wild|ness, die,
           ,       ,         ,       2   ,    2      ,
      And nev|er live,| to show | the incred|ulous world,
           ,        ,          ,         ,     ,
      The nob|le change | that I | have pur|posed.
       ,            ,        ,      ,              ,
      Coming | to look | on you,| thinking | you dead,
             ,        ,         ,          ,           ,
      (And dead | almost |(my liege)| to think | you were)
          ,        ,         ,         ,        ,
      I spake | unto | the crown |(as hav|ing sense)
            ,     ,  ,     2            ,         ,        ,     ->
      And thus | upbraid/ed it. The | care on | thee de||pending,
            ,     x          ,  3  3      ,
      Hath fed | upon the | body of my | father, ??
        ,                ,         ,          ,          ,
      Therefore,| thou best | of gold,| art worst | of gold.
       ,             ,         x          ,     ,
      Other,| less^fine | in carat,| is more | precious,
           ,        ,        ,    2    ,    ,
      Preserv|ing life,| in med|icine pot|able:
            ,           ,          ,          ,         ,
      But thou,| most fine,| most hon|ored, most | renowned,
            ,         ,       ,
      Hast eat | the bea|rer up.
        ,         ,       ___
      Thus (my | royal | liege)  (tri with prev)
         ,       ,      ,        ,        ,
      Accus|ing it,| I put | it on | my head,
          ,          ,        ,       ,    ,
      To try | with it |(as with | an en|emy,
            ,        ,         ,     ,      2      ,
      That had | before | my face | murdered my | father)
            ,       ,       ,       ,    ,
      The quar|rel of | a true | inher|itor.
           ,       ,        ,         ,           ,
      But if | it did | infect | my blood | with joy,
           ,            ,         ,       ,          ,
      Or swell | my thoughts,| to an|y strain | of pride,
          ,    ,             ,     x          ,
      If an|y reb|el, or / vain spirit | of mine,
       ,       2        ,       ,         ,      ,
      Did, with the | least af|fection | of a | welcome,
            ,      ,        ,         ,         ,
      Give^ent|ertain|ment to | the might | of it,
             x        ,        ,         ,         ,
      Let heaven,| forev|er, keep | it from | my head,
            ,         ,         ,       ,       ,
      And make | me, as | the poor|est vas|sal is,
             ,          ,         ,        ,         ,
      That doth | with awe,| and ter|ror kneel | to it.
 
KING HENRY IV
      T  T  T
      O my son!  \\
         x    ,                  ,         ,         ,
      Heaven put / it in | thy mind | to take | it hence,
             ,             ,          ,         ,          ,
      That thou | mightst^win | the more | thy fath|er's love,
        ,             ,       ,       ,        ,
      Pleading | so wise|ly, in | excuse | of it.
            ,       ,       ,      ,           ,
      Come^hith|er Har|ry, sit | thou by | my bed,
            ,        ,          ,     ,        ,      2->
      And hear |(I think,| the ve|ry lat|est coun||sel
           ,     ,            ,        Tx     T     .  T
      That ev|er I | shall breathe:| heaven knows, my son)  ??
        2      ,    ,           ,     T     Tx     T
      By what by-|paths, and | indi|rect crooked ways
         ,           ,         ,       ,           ,
      I met | this crown:| and I | myself | know^well
            ,       ,        ,      ,         ,
      How troub|lesome | it sat | upon | my head.
           ,     ,      2     ,           ,        ,
      To thee,| it shall de|scend with | bitter | quiet,
       ,    2   ,        ,        ,      ,
      Better o|pinion,| better | confir|mation:
           ,          ,     ,           ,          ,
      For all | the soil | of the | achieve|ment goes
            ,      ,         ,           ,         ,
      With me,| into | the earth.| It seemed | in me,
           ,       ,         ,             ,    2      ,
      But as | an hon|or snatched | with boist|erous hand,
          ,        ,     ,        ,       ,
      And I | had ma|ny liv|ing, to | upbraid
           ,        ,        ,         ,     ,
      My gain | of it,| by their | assist|ances.
             ,       ,         ,          2       ,    ,
      Which dai|ly grew | to quar|rel, and to / bloodshed,
        ,            ,       ,
      Wounding | suppos|ed peace:
                                                 ,    ,
                                  All* these*/ bold fears,
             ,           ,      ,         ,      ,
      Thou seest |(with per|il) I | have ans|wered:
           ,         ,            ,         ,       ,
      For all | my reign,| hath been | but as | a scene
       ,             ,     ,         ,         ,
      Acting | that arg|ument.| And now | my death
        ,    2        ,           ,        ,         ,
      Changes the | mood: for | what in | me, was | purchased,
        T   . T    T             ,    ,       ,
      Falls upon thee,| in a / more fair|er sort.
           ,         ,          ,         ,       ,
      So thou,| the garl|and wearst | succes|sively.
       ,                    ,             ,         ,          ,
      Yet, though | thou standst | more sure,| than I | could do,
                  ,    ,       ,       T      T    .    T
      Thou art / not firm | enough,| since griefs are green:
           ,          ,        ,       2         T   T     T
      And all | my friends,| which thou must | make thy friends
            ,             ,           ,      ,            ,
      Have but | their stings,| and teeth,| newly | tane^out,
       .   T     T   T        ,         ,         ,
      By whose fell work|ing, I | was first | advanced,
           ,           x         ,            ,         ,
      And by | whose^power,| I well | might lodge | a fear
          ,      ,         ,        ,       2   ,
      To be | again | displaced.| Which | to avoid,
         ,          ,         ,       ,        ,
      I cut | them off:| and had | a pur|pose now
           ,         ,     ,        ,      ,
      To lead | out ma|ny to | the Ho|ly Land;
        T    T    .   T       ,             ,           ,
      Lest rest, and ly|ing still,| might make | them look
             ,       ,        ,
      Too* near | unto | my state.
             ,        ,      o
      Therefore |(my Har|ry)    (tri with prev)
       ,             ,         ,     ,       ,
      Be it | thy course | to bu|sy gid|dy minds
            ,           x            ,        ,            ,
      With for|eign quarrels:| that ac|tion hence | borne^out,
            ,          ,    ,     2     ,        ,
      May waste | the mem|ory | of the form|er days.
        ,          ,             ,          ,       ,
      More would | I, but | my lungs | are wast|ed so,
               ,            ,         ,     ,       ,       ->
      That strength | of speech | is ut|terly | denied || me.
       ,     2      ,         ,          x          ,
      How | I came by | the crown,| O heaven | forgive:
            ,         ,           ,     .   T    T     T
      And grant | it may,| with thee,| in true peace live.
 
PRINCE HENRY
          ,          ,
      My gra|cious liege,  \\
           ,          ,          ,          ,        ,
      You won | it, wore | it: kept | it, gave | it me,
             ,           ,           ,       ,        ,
      Then plain | and right | must my | posses|sion be;
            ,          ,           ,       ,        ,
      Which I,| with more,| than with | a com|mon pain,
       2       ,          ,            ,       ,         ,
      Against^all | the world,| will right|fully | maintain.
 
[Enter Lord John of LANCASTER]
 
KING HENRY IV
       __     __
      Look,| look,  \\
        T    T    T     ,        ,     __
      Here comes my | John of | Lanca|ster.
 
LANCASTER
         T      T     .   T      ,
      Health, peace, and hap|piness,
                                       2    ,       ,      ->
                                     To my roy|al fath||er.
 
KING HENRY IV
              ,          ,      ,     .    T    T    T
      Thou bringst | me hap|piness | and peace son John:
             ,        ,           ,         ,          ,
      But health |(alack)| with youth|ful wings | is flown
                    ,     ,         ,       ,          ,
      From this / bare, with|ered trunk.| Upon | thy sight
           ,       ,          ,        ,   ,
      My world|ly bus|iness makes | a per|iod.
        ,     2       ,        ,      2
      Where is my | Lord of | Warwick?
 
PRINCE HENRY
                                              ,        ,
                                       My | Lord of | Warwick.
 
[Enter WARWICK, and others]
 
KING HENRY IV
           ,      ,        ,    ,        ,
      Doth an|y name | partic|ular,| belong
       ,          ,          ,         ,           ,
      Unto | the lod|ging, where | I first | did swoon?
 
WARWICK
              ,        ,    ,        ,       ,
      'Tis called | Jeru|salem,| my nob|le lord.
 
KING HENRY IV
        ,             x
      Laud be | to heaven:
                              2    ,          ,          ,
                            Even there | my life | must end.
           ,           ,      ,      2    ,      ,
      It hath | been proph|esied | to me ma|ny years,
           ,          ,         ,      ,    ,
      I should | not^die,| but in | Jerus|alem:
               ,      ,        ,          ,      ,
      Which (vain|ly) I | supposed | the Ho|ly Land.
            ,        ,          ,         ,           ,
      But bear | me to | that chamb|er, there | I'll lie:
           ,       ,    ,           ,      ,
      In that | Jerus|alem,| shall Har|ry die.
 
[Exeunt]

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