Glend. Do fo;

And tho' th' muficians, that fhall play to you Hang in the air a thousand leagues from hence; Yet ftrait they fhall be here; fit, and attend.

Hot. Come, Kate, thou art perfect in lying down: come, quick, quick, that I may lay my head in thy lap.

Lady. Go, ye giddy goose.

[The mufick plays. Hot. Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh: and 'tis no marvel, he is fo humourous, by'r lady, he's a good musician.

Lady. Then would you be nothing but mufical, for you are altogether govern'd by humours: lie ftill, ye thief, and hear the lady fing in Welb.

Hot. I had rather hear Lady, my brach, howl in Irish.
Lady. Would't have thy head broken?

Hot. No.

Lady. Then be still.

Hot. Neither, 'tis a woman's fault.

Lady. Now God help thee!

Hot. To the Welj lady's bed.

Lady. What's that?

Hot. Peace, the fings.

[Here the Lady fings a Welsh fong.

Come, I'll have your fong too.

Lady. Not mine in good footh.

Hot. Not yours, in good footh! you fwear like a comfit-maker's wife; not you, in good footh; and, as true as I live; and, as God fhall mend me; and, as fure as day and givest fuch farcenet furety for thy oaths, as if thou never walk'd'ft further than Finsbury. Swear me, Kate, like a lady, as thou art,

6 And THOSE muficians, that fhall play to you

Hang in the air

Yet] The particle yet being used here adverfitively, muft have a particle of conceffion preceding it. I read therefore

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And THO' TH' musicians-

A

A good mouth-filling oath, and leave infooth,
And fuch protest of pepper-ginger-bread,
To velvet-guards, and Sunday-citizens.
Come, fing

Lady. I will not fing.

Hot. 'Tis the next way to turn tailor, or be RobinRed-breaft teacher: if the indentures be drawn, I'll away within these two hours: and fo come in, when ye [Exit. Glend. Come, come, lord Mortimer, you are as flow, As hot lord Percy is on fire to go.

will.

By this our book is drawn: we will but feal,
And then to horfe immediately.

Mort. With all my heart.

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[Exeunt.

IV.

Changes to the Prefence-chamber in Windfor.

Enter King Henry, Prince of Wales, Lords and others.

K. Henry.

LOR

ORDS, give us leave; the Prince of
Wales and I...

Must have some private conference: but be near,
For we fhall presently have need of you.

[Exeunt Lords.

I know not, whether God will have it fo,
7 For fome difpleafing fervice I have done;
That, in his fecret doom, out of my blood
He breeds revengement and a fcourge for me:
But thou doft in thy paffages of life!
Make me believe, that thou art only mark'd
For the hot vengeance and the rod of heav'n,
To punish my mif-treadings. Tell me elfe,

7 For fome difpleafing service-] fervice for action, fimply.

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mark'd

For the bot vengeancement of vengeance.

-] i. e. appointed for the inftru

Could

Could fuch inordinate and low defires,

Such poor, fuch base, such lewd, such mean attaints,
Such barren pleasures, rude fociety,

As thou art match'd withal and grafted to,
Accompany the greatnefs of thy blood,
And hold their level with thy princely heart?

P. Henry So please your Majefty, I wish, I could Quit all offences with as clear excufe,

As well, as, I am doubtless, I can purge
My felf of many I am charg'd withal.
Yet fuch extenuation let me beg,

As, in reproof of many tales devis'd,

Which oft the ear of Greatness needs must hear,
By fmiling pick-thanks and base news-mongers;
I may for fome things true (wherein my youth
Hath faulty wander'd, and irregular)
Find pardon on my true fubmiffion.

[Harry,
K. Henry. Heav'n pardon thee: yet let me wonder,
At thy affections, which do hold a wing
Quite from the flight of all thy Ancestors.
Thy place in council thou haft rudely loft,
Which by thy younger brother is fupply'd;
And art almoft an alien to the hearts

Of all the Court and Princes of my blood.
The hope and expectation of thy time
Is ruin'd, and the foul of every man
Prophetically does fore-think thy Fall.
• Had I fo lavish of my prefence been,
• So common-hackney'd in the eyes of men,
• So ftale and cheap to vulgar company;
• Opinion, that did help me to the crown,
• Had ftill kept loyal to poffeffion;
And left me in reputeless banishment,
A fellow of no mark, nor likelihood.

9-fucb lewd, fuch mean ATTEMPTS,] Shakespear certainly Wrote ATTAINTS, ¿. e. unlawful actions.

• But.

'But being seldom feen, I could not stir, But, like a comet, I was wonder'd at !

• That men would tell their children, this is he. • Others would fay, where? which is Bolingbroke? And then I ftole all courtefie from heav'n,

• And drest my self in much humility,

• That I did pluck allegiance from men's hearts,
Loud fhouts and falutations from their mouths,
Even in the prefence of the crowned King.
Thus I did keep my perfon fresh and new,
My prefence, like a robe pontifical,

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Ne'er feen, but wonder'd at; and fo my State,
Seldom, but fumptuous, fhewed like a feast,
And won, by rarenefs, fuch folemnity.

The skipping King, he ambled up and down
With fhallow jesters, and rash bavin wits,
Soon kindled, and foon burnt; 'fcarded his State;
Mingled his Royalty with carping fools;

Had his great name profaned with their scorns ;
And gave his countenance, against his name,

To laugh (a) with gybing boys, and ftand the push
Of every beardlefs, vain comparative:

Grew a companion to the common streets,

1 And then I fole all courtefie from heav'n,] This is an allu fion to the ftory of Prometheus's theft, who ftole fire from thence; and as with this he made a Man, fo with that, Bolingbroke made a King As the Gods were fuppofed jealous in appropriating reason to themselves, the getting fire from thence, which lighted it up in the mind, was called a theft; and as power is their prerogative, the getting courtefie from thence, by which power is beit procured, is called a theft. The thought is exquifitely great and beautiful.

2 -rafh bavin-] i. e. dry brushwood.

3 CARDED his State;] Richard is here reprefented as laying afide his royalty, and mixing himfelf with common jefters. This will lead us to the true reading, which I fuppofe is,

'SCARDED his State;

i. e. difcarded, threw off.

[(a) with. Oxford Editor.-Vulg. at. ]

• Enfeoff'd

• Enfeoff'd himself to popularity:

That, being daily fwallow'd by men's eyes,
They furfeited with honey, and began

To loath the tafte of sweetness; whereof a little • More than a little is by much too much. So when he had occafion to be seen,

He was but, as the Cuckow is in June, 'Heard, not regarded; feen, but with fuch eyes, As, fick and blunted with community,

• Afford no extraordinary gaze;

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• Such as is bent on fun-like Majefty,

When it fhines feldom in admiring eyes:

But rather drowz'd, and hung their eye-lids down,
Slept in his face, and rendred fuch aspect

As cloudy men use to their adversaries,
Being with his prefence glutted, gorg'd and full.
And in that very line, Harry, ftand'st thou;
For thou haft loft thy Princely privilege
With vile participation. Not an eye,
But is a-weary of thy common fight,

Save mine, which hath defir'd to see thee more;
Which now doth, what I would not have it do,
Make blind it felf with foolish tenderness.

P. Henry. I fhall hereafter, my thrice-gracious lord, Be more my self.

K. Henry. For all the world,

As thou art at this hour was Richard then,
When I from France let foot at Ravenfpurg;
And ev'n as I was then, is Percy now.
Now by my scepter, and my foul to boot,
He hath more worthy intereft to the State,
Than thou, the fhadow of fucceffion!
For, of no Right, nor colour like to Right,
He doth fill fields with harness; in the Realm'
Turns head against the Lion's armed jaws;
And, being no more in debt to years than thou,
Leads ancient lords and rev'rend bishops on,
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