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Another chamber.
[KING HENRY IV lying on a bed: CLARENCE, GLOUCESTER, WARWICK, and others in
attendance]
KING HENRY IV
, 2
T T T
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Let there be | no noise made |(my gent|le
friends)
, ,
, , ,
Unless | some dull | and fav|ora|ble hand
,
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Will whisp|er mus|ic to | my wea|ry spirit.
WARWICK
,
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,
Call for | the mus|ic in | the oth|er room.
KING HENRY IV
,
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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
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,
If he | be sick | with joy,
2 , 2
, ,
He'll recov|er without | physic.
WARWICK
, , ,
Not so | much^noise |(my lords)
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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
, ,
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,
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
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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,
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To ma|ny a watch|ful night:| sleep with | it now,
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Yet not | so sound,| and half | so deep|ly sweet,
, , ,
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As he | whose brow |(with home|ly big|gen bound)
T T
. T ,
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Snores out the watch | of night.| O maj|esty!
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When thou | dost pinch | thy bear|er, thou | dost
sit
T . T T
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Like a rich arm|or, worn | in heat | of day,
, ,
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,
That scalds | with safe|ty: by | his gates | of
breath,
,
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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,
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That from | this gold|en rig|ol hath | divorced
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,
So ma|ny Eng|lish kings.| Thy due,| from me,
, ,
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,
Is tears,| and hea|vy sor|rows of | the blood,
,
, , 2 ,
,
Which na|ture, love,| and fil|ial tend|erness,
,
, ,
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Shall (O | dear* fath|er) pay | thee
plent|eously.
, ,
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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,
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Which Heaven | shall guard: \\
,
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, T
Tx T
And put | the world's | whole strength / into | one
giant arm, ????
,
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It shall | not force | this lin|eal honor | from
me.
T T T
, , ___
This, from thee,| will I | to mine | leave,
??
,
,
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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
,
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o
With my | disease,| and helps | to end | me.
T T T
T T T oo
See sons, what | things you are:|
, ,
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,
How quick|ly na|ture falls | into | revolt,
,
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When gold | becomes | her ob|ject?|
,
, x
, ,
For this,| the fool|ish over-|careful |
fathers
, ,
,
Have broke | their sleep | with thoughts,
\\
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,
Their brains | with care,| their bones | with
ind|ustry.
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For this,| they have | engros|sed and / piled up
,
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The cank|ered heaps | of strange-|achiev|ed gold:
, ,
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,
For this,| they have | been thought|ful to |
invest
, ,
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Their sons | with arts,| and mar|tial
ex|ercises: ??
T T
. T ,
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When, like the bee,| culling | from eve|ry flower
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T T ,
The vir|tuous sweets,| our thighs packed | with
wax,
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2 ,
Our mouths | with hon|ey, we | bring it | to the
hive;
, ,
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,
And like | the bees,| are murd|ered for | our
pains.
,
, ,
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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
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,
, ,
My lord,| I found | the prince | in the / next
room,
,
, , ,
,
Washing | with kind|ly tears | his gent|le cheeks,
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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
, ,
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,
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:
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,
I stay | too* long | by thee,| I wea|ry thee.
,
, ,
, ,
Dost thou | so hung|er for | my emp|ty chair,
, ,
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That thou | wilt needs | invest | thee with
mine^|honors
, ,
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,
Before | thy hour | be ripe?| O fool|ish youth!
, ,
, , ,
Thou seekst | the great|ness, that will //
orewhelm thee.
, 2
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Stay but a | little: for | my cloud | of dig|nity
, ,
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,
Is held | from fal|ling, with | so weak | a wind,
, ,
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,
That it | will quick|ly drop:| my day | is dim.
x
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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,
, ,
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And thou | wilt have | me die | assured | of it.
,
, ,
, ,
Thou hidst | a thous|and dag|gers in | thy
thoughts,
, ,
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,
Which thou | hast whet|ted on | thy sto|ny heart,
,
, , ,
,
To stab | at half | an ho|ur of | my life.
, ,
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,
What? Canst / thou not | forbear | me half | an
hour?
, ,
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,
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.
, ,
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,
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
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Pluck down my^of|ficers,| break my | decrees;
,
, ,
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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:
,
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And to | the Eng|lish court,| assem|ble now
, ,
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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
,
, ,
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The old|est sins,| the new|est kind | of ways?
, , ,
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Be hap|py, he | will troub|le you | no more:
,
, , , ,
England,| shall doub|le gild,| his treb|le guilt.
,
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England,| shall give | him of|fice, hon|or,
might:
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, , ,
For the / fifth Har|ry, from / curbed lic|ense
plucks
,
, ,
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The muz|zle of | restraint,| and the / wild dog
,
, , ,
,
Shall flesh | his tooth | on eve|ry in|nocent.
, ,
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O my / poor king|dom (sick,| with civ|il blows)
, 2
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When that my | care could | not with|hold thy |
riots,
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What wilt | thou do,| when ri|ot is | thy care?
, ,
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O, thou | wilt be | a wild|erness | again,
, ,
, , ,
Peopled | with wolves |(thy old | inhab|itants).
PRINCE HENRY
, ,
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O pard|on me |(my liege)| but for | my tears,
,
, , ,
,
The moist | imped|iments | unto | my speech,
, ,
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,
I had | forestalled | this dear,| and deep |
rebuke,
, ,
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Ere you |(with grief)| had spoke | and I | had
heard
,
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,
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,
, ,
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Than as | your hon|or, and | as your | renown,
,
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2 ,
Let me | no more | from this | obed|ience rise,
, ,
, , 2
x
Which my / most true,| and in|ward dut|eous
spirit
, 2
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Teacheth this | prostrate,/ and ex|terior |
bending.
x ,
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,
Heaven wit/ness with | me, when | I here |
came^in,
, ,
, ,
, ,
And found | no course | of breath | within | your
maj|esty, ????
, ,
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,
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,
, ,
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,
The nob|le change | that I | have pur|posed.
,
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Coming | to look | on you,| thinking | you dead,
,
, ,
, ,
(And dead | almost |(my liege)| to think | you
were)
, ,
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I spake | unto | the crown |(as hav|ing sense)
,
, , 2 , ,
, ->
And thus | upbraid/ed it. The | care on | thee
de||pending,
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3 3 ,
Hath fed | upon the | body of my | father, ??
,
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, ,
Therefore,| thou best | of gold,| art worst | of
gold.
, ,
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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.
,
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Thus (my | royal | liege) (tri with prev)
,
, ,
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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.
,
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, ,
But if | it did | infect | my blood | with joy,
, ,
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Or swell | my thoughts,| to an|y strain | of
pride,
, ,
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If an|y reb|el, or / vain spirit | of mine,
, 2
, ,
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Did, with the | least af|fection | of a |
welcome,
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Give^ent|ertain|ment to | the might | of it,
x
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Let heaven,| forev|er, keep | it from | my head,
, , ,
, ,
And make | me, as | the poor|est vas|sal is,
, ,
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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,
,
, , ,
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Pleading | so wise|ly, in | excuse | of it.
,
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Come^hith|er Har|ry, sit | thou by | my bed,
, ,
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And hear |(I think,| the ve|ry lat|est coun||sel
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Tx T . T
That ev|er I | shall breathe:| heaven knows, my
son) ??
2 ,
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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 , ,
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To thee,| it shall de|scend with | bitter |
quiet,
, 2 ,
, , ,
Better o|pinion,| better | confir|mation:
, ,
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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,
, ,
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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:
, ,
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For all | my reign,| hath been | but as | a scene
,
, ,
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Acting | that arg|ument.| And now | my death
, 2
, , ,
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Changes the | mood: for | what in | me, was |
purchased,
T . T T
, , ,
Falls upon thee,| in a / more fair|er sort.
, ,
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So thou,| the garl|and wearst | succes|sively.
,
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, ,
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
, ,
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Have but | their stings,| and teeth,| newly |
tane^out,
. T T T , ,
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By whose fell work|ing, I | was first | advanced,
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, , ,
And by | whose^power,| I well | might lodge | a
fear
, ,
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To be | again | displaced.| Which | to avoid,
, ,
, ,
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I cut | them off:| and had | a pur|pose now
, ,
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To lead | out ma|ny to | the Ho|ly Land;
T T . T
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Lest rest, and ly|ing still,| might make | them
look
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Too* near | unto | my state.
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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,
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2 , ,
May waste | the mem|ory | of the form|er days.
,
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More would | I, but | my lungs | are wast|ed so,
,
, ,
, ,
->
That strength | of speech | is ut|terly | denied
|| me.
, 2
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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,
, ,
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Then plain | and right | must my | posses|sion
be;
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Which I,| with more,| than with | a com|mon pain,
2 ,
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Against^all | the world,| will right|fully |
maintain.
[Enter Lord John of LANCASTER]
KING HENRY IV
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Look,| look, \\
T T
T , ,
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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:
, ,
, ,
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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
,
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'Tis called | Jeru|salem,| my nob|le lord.
KING HENRY IV
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Laud be | to heaven:
2 , ,
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Even there | my life | must
end.
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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]