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Poins. And, look, whether the fiery Trigon, his man, be not lisping to his master's old tables; his notebook, his counsel-keeper.

Fal. Thou dost give me flattering busses.

Dol. Nay, truly; I kiss thee with a most constant heart.

Fal. I am old, I am old.

Dol. I love thee better than I love e'er a scurvy young boy of them all.

Fal. What stuff wilt have a kirtle of? I shall receive money on Thursday: thou shalt have a cap tomorrow. A merry song, come: it grows late, we'll to bed. Thou'lt forget me, when I am gone.

Dol. By my troth, thou'lt set me a weeping, an thou sayest so prove that ever I dress myself handsome till thy return. - Well, hearken the end! Fal. Some sack, Francis!

P. Hen. Poins. Anon, anon, sir.

[Advancing.

Fal. Ha! a bastard son of the kings? And art not thou Poins his brother?

P. Hen. Why, thou globe of sinful continents, what a life dost thou lead?

Fal. A better than thou; I am a gentleman, thou art a drawer.

P. Ilen. Very true, sir; and I come to draw you out by the ears.

P. Hen. For, the women,Fal. For ore of them, she is in hell already, and burns, poor soul! For the other, I owe her money; and whether she be damn'd for that, I know not. Host. No, I warrant you.

Fal. No, I think thou art not; I think, thou art quit for that. Marry, there is another indictment upon thee, for suffering flesh to be eaten in thy house, contrary to the law; for the which, I think, thou wilt howl.

Host. All victuallers do so: what's a joint of mut-
ton or two in a whole Lent?
P. Hen. You, gentlewoman,-
Dol. What says your grace?

Fal.His grace says that which his flesh rebels against. Host. Who knocks so loud at the door? look to the door there, Francis!

Enter PETO.

P. Hen. Peto, how now? what news? Peto. The king your father is at Westminster: And there are twenty weak and wearied posts, Come from the north: and, as I came along, I met, and overtook, a dozen captains, Bare-headed, sweating, knocking at the taverns, And asking every one for sir John Falstaff. P. Hen. By heaven, Poins, I feel me much to blame, Host. O, the Lord preserve thy good grace! by my So idly to profane the precious time; troth, welcome to London!-Now the Lord bless that When tempest of commotion, like the south sweet face of thine! O,Jesu, are you come from Wales? Borne with black vapour, doth begin to melt, Fal. Thou whoreson mad compound of majesty, And drop upon our bare unarmed heads. by this light flesh and corrupt blood, thou art wel-Give me my sword and cloak:-Falstaff, good night! [Leaning his hand upon Doll. [Exeunt Prince Henry, Poins, Peto, and Bardolph.

come.

Dol. How! you fat fool, scorn you. Poins. My lord, he will drive you out of your revenge, and turn all to a merriment, if you take not the heat.

P. Hen. You whoreson candle-mine, you, how vilely did you speak of me even now, before this honest, virtuous, civil gentlewoman?

Host. 'Blessing o' your good heart! and so she is, by my troth.

Fal. Didst thou hear me?

P. Hen. Yes; and you knew me, as you did when you ran away by Gads-hill: you knew, I was at your back; and spoke it on purpose, to try my patience. Ful. No, no, no; not so; I did not think, thou wast within hearing.

Fal. Now comes in the sweetest morsel of the night, and we must hence, and leave it unpicked. [Knocking heard.] More knocking at the door?

Re-enter Bardolph.

How now? what's the matter?

Bard. You must away to court,sir, presently; a dozen captains stay at door for you.

Fal. Pay the musicians, sirrah! [To the Page.]Farewell, hostess! - Farewell, Doll!- You see, my good wenches, how men of merit are sought after: the undeserver may sleep, when the man of action is called on. Farewell, good wenches! If I be not sent away post, I will see you again ere I go. Dol. I cannot speak; if my heart be not ready P. Hen. I shall drive you then to confess the wil-to burst. Well, sweet Jack, have a care of thyself. ful abuse; and then I know how to handle you. Fal. No abuse, IIal, on mine honour, no abuse! P. Hen. Not! to dispraise me; and call me-pantler, and bread-chipper, an I know not what? Ful. No abuse, Hal!

Poins. No abuse!

Fal. No abuse, Ned, in the world; honest Ned, none. I dispraised him before the wicked, that the wicked might not fall in love with him: in which doing, I have done the part of a careful friend, and a true subject, and thy father is to give me thanks for it. -No abuse, Hal; - none, Ned, none;- no, boys,

none.

P. Hen. See, now, whether pure fear, and entire cowardice, doth not make thee wrong this virtuous gentlewoman to close with us? Is she of the wicked? Is thine hostess here of the wicked? Or is the boy of the wicked? Or honest Bardolph, wlose zeal burns in his nose, of the wicked?

Poins. Answer, thou dead elm, answer!

Fal. The fiend hath pricked down Bardolph irrecoverably; and his face is Lucifer's privy-kitchen, where he doth nothing but roast malt-worms. For the boy, there is a good angel about him; but the devil outbids him too.

Fal. Farewell, farewell!

[Exeunt Falstaff and Bardolph. Host. Well, fare thee well! I have known thee these twenty-nine years come peascod-time; but an honester and truer-hearted man, -well, fare thee well! Bard. [Within.] Mistress Tear-sheet,Host. What's the matter?

Bard. [Within.] Bid mistress Tear-sheet come to my master.

Host. O run, Doll, run; run, good Doll! [Exeunt.

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Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee,
And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber;
Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great,
Under the canopies of costly state,
And lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody?
O thou dull god! Why liest thou with the vile
In loathsome beds; and leav'st the kingly couch,
A watch-case, or a common 'larum bell?
Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast
Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains
In cradle of the rude imperious surge;
And in the visitation of the winds,
Who take the rulian billows by the top,
Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them
With deaf'ning clamours in the slippery clouds,
That, with the hurly, death itself awakes?
Canst thou, O partial sleep! give thy repose
To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude;
And, in the calmest and most stillest night,
With all appliances and means to boot,
Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down!
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Enter WARWICK and SURREY.

War. Many good morrows to your majesty!
K. Hen. Is it good morrow, lords?

War. 'Tis one o'clock, and past.

Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd:
The which observ'd, a man may prophecy,
With a near aim, of the main chance of things
As yet not come to life; which in their seeds,
And weak beginnings, lie intreasured.
Such things become the hatch and brood of time;
And, by the necessary form of this,

K. Hen. Why then, good morrow to you all, my lords. Have read o'er the letters that I sent you?

you

War. We have, my liege.

King Richard might create a perfect guess,
That great Northumberland, then false to him,
Would, of that seed, grow to a greater falseness;
Which should not find a ground to root upon,
Unless on you.

K. Hen. Then you perceive, the body of our kingdom Ilow foul it is; what rank diseases grow,

And with what danger near the heart of it.

War. It is but as a body, yet, distemper'd;
Which to his former strength may be restor❜d,
With good advice, and little medicine:
My lord Northumberland will soon be cool'd.

K. Hen. Are these things then necessities?
Then let us meet them like necessities:-
And that same word even now cries out on us;
They say, the bishop and Northumberland
Are fifty thousand strong.

War. It cannot be, my lord;
Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo,
The numbers of the fear'd. -- Please it your grace,
To go to bed; upon my life, my lord,
The powers that you already have sent forth,
Shall bring this prize in very easily.

To comfort you the more, I have receiv'd
A certain instance, that Glendower is dead.
Your majesty hath been this fortnight ill;
And these unseason'd hours, perforce, must add
Unto your sickness.

K. Hen. I will take

your

counsel:

And, were these inward wars once out of hand,
We would, dear lords, unto the Holy Land. [Exeunt.
SCENE II. Court before Justice SHALLOW's house
in Gloucestershire.

Enter SHALLOW and SILENCE, meeting; MOULDY, SHA-
DOW, WART, FEEBLE, BULL-CALF, and Servants, behind.
Shal. Come on, come on, come on; give me your hand,

K. Hen. O heaven! that one might read the book sir, give me your hand, sir: an early stirrer, by the rood.

of fate;

And see the revolution of the times

Make mountains level, and the continent

(Weary of solid firmness,) melt itself

Into the sea! and, other times, to see

The beachy girdle of the ocean

Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chances mock,
And changes fill the cup of alteration
With divers liquors! O, if this were seen,

The happiest youth, viewing his progress through,
What perils past, what crosses to ensue,
Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.
'Tis not ten years gone,

And how doth my good cousin Silence?

Since Richard, and Northumberland, great friends,
Did feast together, and, in two years after,
Were they at wars; it is but eight years, since
This Percy was the mau nearest my soul;
Who like a brother toil'd in my affairs,
And laid his love and life under my foot;
Yea, for my sake, even to the eyes of Richard,
Gave him defiance. But which of you was by,
(You, cousin Nevil, as I may remember,) [To Warwick.
When Richard, with his eye brimful of tears,
Then check'd and rated by Northumberland,
Did speak these words, now prov'da prophecy?
Northumberland, thou ladder, by the which
My cousin Bolingbroke ascends my throne;
Though then, heaven knows, I had no such intent,
But that necessity so bow'd the state,
That I and greatness were compell'd to kiss :-
The time shall come, thus did he follow it,
The time will come, that foul sin, gathering head,
Shall break into corruption: so went on,
Foretelling this same time's condition,
And the division of our amity.

War. There is a history in all men's lives,

Sil. Good morrow, good cousin Shallow! Shal. And how doth my cousin, your bedfellow? and your fairest daughter, and mine, my god-daughter

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Sil. Indeed, sir; to my cost.

Shal. He must then to the inns of court shortly: I was once of Clement's inn; where, I think, they will talk of mad Shallow yet.

Sil. You were called-lusty Shallow, then, cousin. Shal. By the mass, I was called any thing; and I would have done any thing, indeed, and roundly too. There was I, and little John Doit of Staffordshire, and black George Bare, and Francis Pickbone, and Will Squele a Cotswold man,-you had not four such swinge-bucklers in all the inns of court again: and, I may say to you, we knew where the bona-robas were; and had the best of them all at commandment. Then was Jack Falstaff, now sir John, aboy; and page to Thomas Mowbray, duke of Norfolk.

Sil. This sir John, cousin, that comes hither anon about soldiers?

Shal. The same sir John, the very same. I saw him break Skogan's head at the court gate, when he was a crack, not thus high: and the very same day did I fight with one Sampson Stockfish, a fruiterer, behind Gray's inn. G, the mad days that I have spent! and to see how many of mine old acquaintances are dead!

Sil. We shall all follow, cousin.

Shal. Certain, 'tis certain; very sure, very sure death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shal dic. How a good yoke of bullocks at Stamford fair"

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Shal. Dead-See, see!-he drew a good bow; and dead!-he shot a fine shoot:-John of Gaunt loved him well, and betted much money on his head. Dead!-he would have clapped i'the clout at twelve score; and carried you a forehand shaft a fourteen and fourteen and a half, that it would have done a man's heart good - How a score of ewes now?

to see.

Sil. Thereafter as they be: a score of good ewes may be worth ten pounds.

Shal. And is old Double dead!

Enter BARDOLPH, and one with him.

Sil. Here come two of sir John Falstaff's men, as I think.

Bard. Good morrow, honest gentlemen: I beseech you, which is justice Shallow?

Shal. I am Robert Shallow, sir; a poor esquire of this county, and one of the king's justices of the peace. What is your good pleasure with me?

Bard. My captain, sir, commends him to you: my captain, sir John Falstaff: a tall gentleman, by heaven, and a most gallant leader.

Shal. He greets me well, sir; I knew him a good backsword man: how doth the good knight? may I ask, how my lady his wife doth?

Bard. Sir, pardon; a soldier is better accommodated, than with a wife.

Shal. It is well said, in faith, sir; and it is well said indeed too. Better accommodated!—it is good; yea, indeed, it is good phrases are surely, and ever were, very commendable. Accommodated!—it comes from accommodo: very good; a good phrase.

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Bard. Pardon me, sir; I have heard the word. Phrase, call you it? By this good day, I know not the phrase; but I will maintain the word with my sword, to be a sol- I dier-like word, and a word of exceeding good command. Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated: or, when a man is,-being, -whereby, he may be thought to be accommodated; which is an excellent thing.

Enter FALSTAFF.

Shal. Thomas Wart!
Fal. Where's he?
Wart. Here, sir.

Fal. Is thy name Wart?
Wart. Yea, sir.

Fal. Thou art a very ragged wart.
Shal. Shall I prick him, sir John?
Fal. It were superfluous; for his apparel is built upon
his back, and the whole frame stands upon pins: prick
him no more.

Shal. Ha, ha, ha!-you can do it, sir; you can do it:
commend you well. Francis Feeble!
Fee. Here, sir.

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Fal. What trade art thou, Feeble?
Fee. A woman's tailor, sir.
Shal. Shall I prick him, sir?

Fal. You may: but if he had been a man's tailor, he would have pricked you- Wilt thou make as many holes in an enemy's battle, as thou hast done in a wo

Shal. It is very just:-look, here comes good sir
John. Give me your good hand, give me your wor-man's petticoat?
ship's good hand. By my troth, you look well, and
bear your years very well: welcome, good sir John!
Pal. I am glad to see you well, good master Robert
Shallow Master Sure-card, as I think.

Fee. I will do my good will, sir; you can have no more. Fal. Well said, good woman's tailor! well said, courageous Feeble! Thou wilt be as valiant as the wrathful dove, or most magnanimous mouse.-Prick the Shal. No, sir John; it is my cousin Silence, in com-woman's tailor well, master Shallow deep, master mission with me.

Fal. Good master Silence, it well befits you should be of the peace.

Sil. Your good worship is welcome.

Shallow.

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Fee. I would, Wart might have gone, sir. Fal. I would, thou wert a man's tailor; that thou might'st mend him, and make him fit to go. I cannot

Fal. Fye! this is hot weather.-Gentlemen, have you put him to a private soldier, that is the leader of so

provided me here half a dozen sufficient men? Shal. Marry, have we, sir. Will you sit? Fal. Let me see them, I beseech you.

Shal. Where's the roll? where's the roll? where's the roll? Let me see! let me see. So, so, so, so: yea, marry, sir: Ralph Mouldy :- let them appear as I call; let them do so, let them do so. Let me see!

Where is Mouldy?

:

Moul. Here, an't please you.

many thousands. Let that suffice, most forcible Feeble. Fee. It shall suffice, sir.

Fal. I am bound to thee, reverend Feeble. Who is the next?

Shal. Peter Bull-calf of the green!
Fal. Yea, marry, let us see Bull-calf.
Bull. Here, sir.

Fal. 'Fore God, a likely fellow!
Bull-calf till he roar again.

Shal. What think you, sir John? a good limbed fel- Bull. O lord! good my lord captain,

low young, strong, and of good friends.

Fal. Is thy name Mouldy?

Moul. Yea, an't please you.

Fal. 'Tis the more time thou wert used.

Shal. Ha, ha, ha! most excellent, i'faith! things, that are mouldy, lack use: very singular good! - In faith, well said, sir John; very well said.

Come, prick me

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Fal. What, dost thou roar before thou art pricked?
Bull. Olord, sir! I am a diseased man.
Fal. What disease hast thou?

Bull. A whoreson cold, sir; a cough, sir; which I caught with ringing in the king's affairs, upon his coronation day, sir.

Fal. Come, thou shalt go to the wars in a gown: we

Fal. Come, I will go drink with you, but I cannot tarry dinner. I am glad to see you, in good troth, master Shallow.

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will have away thy cold; and I will take such order, bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the spi-
that thy friends shall ring for thee. Is here all? rit, master Shallow. - Here's Wart; you see what
Shal. Here is two more called than your number; a ragged appearance it is: he shall charge you, and
you must have but four here, sir; and so, I pray you, discharge you, with the motion of a pewterer's ham-
go in with me to dinner.
mer; come off, and on, swifter than he that gibbets
on the brewer's bucket. And this same half-faced fel-
low, Shadow, give me this man; he presents no mark
to the enemy; the foeman may with as great aim level
at the edge of a penknife. And, for a retreat,-how
swiftly will this Feeble, the woman's tailor, run off?
O, give me the spare men, and spare me the great
ones. Put me a caliver into Wart's hand, Bardolph.
Bard. Hold, Wart, traverse; thus, thus, thus.
Fal. Come, manage me your caliver. So:-
- very
well:-go to; very good:- exceeding good.-0,
give me always a little, lean, old, chapped, bald shot.-
Well said, i'faith, Wart; thou'rt a good scab: hold,
there's a tester for thee.

Shal. O, sir John, do you remember since we lay all night in the windmill in Saint George's fields? Fal. No more of that, good master Shallow, no more

of that.

Shal. Ha, it was a merry night! And is Jane Nightwork alive?

Fal. She lives, master Shallow.

Shal. She never could away with me.

Fal. Never, never: she would always say, she could not abide master Shallow.

Shal. By the mass, I could anger her to the heart. She was then a bona-roba. Doth she hold her own well? Fal. Old, old, master Shallow.

Shal. Nay, she must be old; she cannot choose but be old; certain, she's old; and had Robin Night-work, by old Night-work, before I came to Clement's-inn. Sil. That's fifty-five year ago.

Shal.Ha,cousin Silence, that thou hadst seen that, that this knight and I have seen!-Ha, sir John, said I well? Fal. We have heard the chimes at midnight, master Shallow.

Shal. That we have, that we have, that we have; in faith, sir John, we have; our watchword was, Hem, boys!-Come, let's to dinner; come, let's to dinner! O, the days that we have seen! Come, come!

[Exeunt Falstaff, Shallow, and Silence. Bull. Good master corporate Bardolph, stand my friend; and here is four Harry ten shillings in French crowns for you. In very truth, sir, I had as lief be hanged, sir, as go and yet, for mine own part, sir, I do not care; but, rather, because I am unwilling, and, for mine own part, have a desire to stay with my friends; else, sir, I did not care, for mine own part, so much. Bard. Go to; stand aside!

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Shal. He is not his craft's-master, he doth not do it right. I remember at Mile-end green, (when I lay at Clement's inn, I was then sir Dagonet in Arthur's show,) there was a little quiver fellow, and 'a would manage you his piece thus: and 'a would about, and about, and come you in: and come you in: rah, tah, taḥ, would 'a say; bounce, would 'a say; and away again would 'a go, and again would 'a come: -I shall never see such a fellow.

Fal. These fellows will do well, master Shallow.— God keep you, master Silence; I will not use many words with you:-fare you well, gentlemen both: thank you: I must a dozen mile to-night.-Bardolph, give the soldiers coats.

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Shal. Sir John, heaven bless you, and prosper your affairs, and send us peace! As you return, visit my house; let our old acquaintance be renewed: peradventure, I will wish you to the court. Fal. I would you would, master Shallow. Shal. Go to; I have spoke, at a word. Fare you well! [Exeunt Shallow and Silence. Fal. Fare you well, gentle gentlemen! On, Bardolph; lead the men away! [Exeunt Burdolph, Recruits, etc. As I return, I will fetch off these justices: I do see the bottom of justice Shallow. Lord, lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying! This same starved justice hath done nothing but prate to me of the wildness of his youth, and the feats he hath done about Turnbull-street; and every third word a lie, duer paid Fee. By my troth I care not; -a man can die but to the hearer than the Turk's tribute. I do remember once; -we owe God a death; - I'll ne'er bear a base him at Clement's-inn, like a man made after supper of mind: -an't be my destiny, so; an't be not, so no a cheese-paring: when he was naked, he was, for all man's too good to serve his prince; and, let it go which way it will, he, that dies this year, is quit for the Bard. Well said; thou'rt a good fellow.

Moul. And good master corporal captain, for my old dame's sake, stand my friend: she has nobody to do any thing about her, when I am gone; and she is old, and cannot help herself: you shall have forty, sir. Bard. Go to; stand aside.

Fee. 'Faith, I'll bear no base mind.

Re-enter FALSTAFF, and Justices.

Fal. Come, sir, which men shall I have?

Shal. Four, of which you please.

the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastinext.cally carved upon it with a knife: he was so forlorn, that his dimensions to any thick sight were invisible: he was the very Genius of famine; yet lecherous as a monkey, and the whores called him-- mandrake: he came ever in the rear-ward of the fashion; and sung those tunes to the overscutched huswives that he heard

Bard. Sir, a word with you:-I have three pound the carmen whistle, and sware-they were his fancies, to free Mouldy and Bull-calf.

Fal. Go to; well.

Shal. Come, sir John, which four will you have?
Fal. Do you choose for me.
Shal. Marry then,-Mouldy, Bull-calf, Feeble, and
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or his good-nights. And now is this Vice's dagger be-
come a squire; and talks as familiarly of John of Gaunt,
as if he had been sworn brother to him: and I'll be
sworn he never saw him but once in the Tilt-yard; and
then he burst his head, for crouding among the mar
shal's men. I saw it; and told John of Gaunt, he beat
his own name: for you might have truss'd him, and all
his apparel, into an eel-skin; the case of a treble haut-
boy was a mansion for him, a court; and now has he
land and beeves. Well; I will be acquainted with him,
if I return: and it shall go hard, but I will make him a
philosopher's two stones to me: if the young dace be
bait for the old pike, I see no reason, in the law of na-
ture, but I may snap at him. Let time shape, and there
an end.
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Arch. What is this forest call'd?

Hast. 'Tis Gualtree forest, an't shall please your grace.

Arch. Here stand, my lords; and send discoverers forth,

To know the numbers of our enemies.

Hast. We have sent forth already.
Arch. 'Tis well done.

My friends, and brethren in these great affairs,
I must acquaint you, that I have receiv'd
New-dated letters from Northumberland;
Their cold intent, tenour, and substance, thus:
Here doth he wish his person, with such powers
As might hold sortance with his quality,
The which he could not levy; whereupon
He is retir'd, to ripe his growing fortunes,

To Scotland: and concludes in hearty prayers,
That your attempts may overlive the hazard,
And fearful meeting of their opposite.

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What wrongs our arms may do, what wrongs we suffer,
And find our griefs heavier than our offences..
We see which way the stream of time doth run,
And are enforc'd from our most quiet sphere
By the rough torrent of occasion:
And have the summary of all our griefs,
When time shall serve, to show in articles;
Which, long ere this, we offer'd to the king,
And might by no suit gain our audience:
When we are wrong'd, and would unfold our griefs,
We are denied access unto his person,
Even by those men, that most have done us wrong.
The dangers of the days but newly gone,
(Whose memory is written on the earth
With yet appearing blood,) and the examples
Of every minute's instance, (present now,)
Have put us in these ill-beseeming arms:

Mowb. Thus do the hopes we have in him touch Not to break peace, or any branch of it;

ground,

And dash themselves to pieces.

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Arch. What well-appointed leader fronts us here?
Mowb. Ithink, it is my lord of Westmoreland.
West. Health and fair greeting from our general,
The prince, lord John and duke of Lancaster.

Arch. Say on, my lord of Westmoreland, in peace;
What doth concern your coming?
West. Then, my lord,

Unto your grace do I in chief address

The substance of my speech. If that rebellion
Came like istelf, in base and abject routs,
Led on by bloody youth, guarded with rage,
And countenanc'd by boys, and beggary;
I say, if damn'd commotion so appear'd,
In his true, native, and most proper shape,
You, reverend father, and these noble lords,
Had not been here, to dress the ugly form
Of base and bloody insurrection
With your fair honours. You, lord archbishop, -
Whose see is by a civil peace maintain'd ;
Whose beard the silver hand of peace hath touch'd;
Whose learning and good letters peace hath tutor'd;
Whose white investments figure innocence,
The dove and very blessed spirit of peace,-
Wherefore do you so ill translate yourself,
Out of the speech of peace, that bears such grace,
Into the harsh and boist'rous tongue of war?
Turning your books to graves, your ink to blood,
Your pens to lances; and your tongue divine
To a loud trumpet, and a point of war?
Arch. Wherefore do I this?-so the question stands.
Briefly to this end :— We are all diseas'd;
And, with our surfeiting, and wanton hours,
Have brought ourselves into a burning fever,
And we must bleed for it; of which disease
Our late king, Richard, being infected, died.
But, my most noble lord of Westmoreland,
I take not on me here as a physician;

But to establish here a peace indeed,
Concurring both in name and quality.

West. When ever yet was your appeal denied?
Wherein have you been galled by the king?
What peer hath been suborn'd to grate on you?
That you should seal this lawless bloody book
Of forg'd rebellion with a seal divine,
And consecrate commotion's bitter edge?
Arch. My brother general, the commonwealth,
To brother born an household cruelty,
I make my quarrel in particular.
West. There is no need of any such redress;
Or, if there were, it not belongs to you.
Mowb. Why not to him, in part; and to us all,
That feel the bruises of the days before;
And suffer the condition of these times
To lay a heavy and unequal hand
Upon our honours?

West. O my good Lord Mowbray,
Construe the times to their necessities,
And you shall say indeed, — it is the time,
And not the king, that doth you injuries.
Yet, for your part, it not appears to me,
Either from the king, or in the present time,
That you should have an inch of any ground
To build a grief on. Were you not restor'd
To all the duke of Norfolk's signiories,
Your noble and right-well-remember'd father's?
Mowb. What thing, in honour, had my father lost,
That need to be reviv'd and breath'd in me?
The king, that lov'd him, as the state stood then,
Was, force perforce, compell'd to banish him:
And then, when Harry Bolingbroke, and he,
Being mounted, and both roused in their seats,
Their neighing coursers, daring of the spur,
Their armed staves in charge, their beavers down,
Their eyes of fire sparkling through sights of steel,
And the loud trumpet blowing them together;
Then, then, when there was nothing could have staid
My father from the breast of Bolingbroke,
O, when the king did throw his warder down,
His own life hung upon the staff he threw;
Then threw he down himself; and all their lives,
That, by indictment, and by dint of sword,
Have since miscarried under Bolingbroke.

West. You speak, lord Mowbray, now you know not
what;

The earl of Hereford was reputed then

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