Enter NORTHUMBERLAND. Welcome, my lord: what is the news? North. First, to thy sacred state wish I all happiness. The next news is, I have to London sent The heads of Oxford, Salisbury, Blunt, and Kent: At large discoursed in this paper here. Boling. We thank thee, gentle Percy, for thy pains; And to thy worth will add right worthy gains. Enter FITZWATER. Fitz. My lord, I have from Oxford sent to The heads of Brocas and Sir Bennet Seely, Boling. Thy pains, Fitzwater, shall not be forgot; Right noble is thy merit, well I wot. Enter PERCY, and the BISHOP of Carlisle. Percy. The grand conspirator, Abbot of Westminster, With clog of conscience and sour melancholy But here is Carlisle living, to abide Thy kingly doom and sentence of his pride. Choose out some secret place, some reverend room, More than thou hast, and with it joy thy life; 8. Oxford; apparently an oversight for 'Spencer' (i.e. the Earl of Gloucester), the name ΤΟ 20 given by Holinshed, and thence substituted in Ff. So as thou livest in peace, die free from strife: Enter EXTON, with persons bearing a coffin. Exton. Great king, within this coffin I present Boling. Exton, I thank thee not; for thou hast wrought A deed of slander with thy fatal hand Upon my head and all this famous land. Exton. From your own mouth, my lord, did I this deed. Boling. They love not poison that do poison need, Nor do I thee: though I did wish him dead, I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land, 35. A deed of slander, one that will cause scandal or re proach. [Exeunt. 30 40 50 So Q1' The rest DRAMATIS PERSONÆ KING HENRY the Fourth. HENRY, Prince of Wales, } of Lancaster, EARL OF WESTMORELAND. SIR WALTER BLUNT. sons to the King. THOMAS PERCY, Earl of Worcester. HENRY PERCY, Earl of Northumberland. RICHARD SCROOP, Archbishop of York. OWEN GLENDOWER. SIR RICHARD VERNON. SIR JOHN FAlstaff. SIR MICHAEL, a friend to the Archbishop of York. GADSHILL. PETO. BARDOLPH. LADY PERCY, wife to Hotspur, and sister to Mortimer. MISTRESS QUICKLY, hostess of a tavern in Eastcheap. Lords, Officers, Sheriff, Vintner, Chamberlain, Drawers, two Carriers, Travellers, and Attendants. SCENE: England. DURATION OF TIME Dramatic Time. --Ten 'historic' days, with three extra 'Fal. staffian' days, and intervals. |