Clifford, I haue singled thee alone,
Richard, I am with thee heere alone,
Margaretmy Queene, and
Cliffordtoo
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<head type="supplied">[Act 2, Scene 5]</head>
<stage rend="italic center" type="mixed">Alarum. Enter King Henry alone.</stage>
<sp who="#F-3h6-hn6">
<speaker rend="italic">Hen.</speaker>
<l n="1056">This battell fares like to the mornings Warre,</l>
<l n="1057">When dying clouds contend, with growing light,</l>
<l n="1058">What time the Shepheard blowing of his nailes,</l>
<l n="1059">Can neither call it perfect day, nor night.</l>
<l n="1060">Now swayes it this way, like a Mighty Sea,</l>
<l n="1061">Forc'd by the Tide, to combat with the Winde:</l>
<l n="1062">Now swayes it that way, like the selfe‑same Sea,</l>
<l n="1063">Forc'd to retyre by furie of the Winde.</l>
<l n="1064">Sometime, the Flood preuailes; and than the Winde:</l>
<l n="1065">Now, one the better: then, another best;</l>
<l n="1066">Both tugging to be Victors, brest to brest:</l>
<l n="1067">Yet neither Conqueror, nor Conquered.</l>
<l n="1068">So is the equall poise of this fell Warre.</l>
<l n="1069">Heere on this Mole‑hill will I sit me downe,</l>
<l n="1070">To whom God will, there be the Victorie:</l>
<l n="1071">For<hi rend="italic">Margaret</hi>my Queene, and<hi rend="italic">Clifford</hi>too</l>
<l n="1072">Haue chid me from the Battell: Swearing both,</l>
<l n="1073">They prosper best of all when I am thence.</l>
<l n="1074">Would I were dead, if Gods good will were so;</l>
<l n="1075">For what is in this world, but Greefe and Woe.</l>
<l n="1076">Oh God! me thinkes it were a happy life,</l>
<l n="1077">To be no better then a homely Swaine,</l>
<l n="1078">To sit vpon a hill, as I do now,</l>
<l n="1079">To carue out Dialls queintly, point by point,</l>
<l n="1080">Thereby to see the Minutes how they runne:</l>
<l n="1081">How many makes the Houre full compleate,</l>
<l n="1082">How many Houres brings about the Day,</l>
<l n="1083">How many Dayes will finish vp the Yeare,</l>
<l n="1084">How many Yeares, a Mortall man may liue.</l>
<l n="1085">When this is knowne, then to diuide the Times:</l>
<l n="1086">So many Houres, must I tend my Flocke;:</l>
<l n="1087">So many Houres, must I take my Rest:</l>
<l n="1088">So many Houres, must I Contemplate:</l>
<l n="1089">So many Houres, must I Sport my selfe:</l>
<l n="1090">So many Dayes, my Ewes haue bene with yong:</l>
<l n="1091">So many weekes, ere the poore Fooles will Eane:</l>
<l n="1092">So many yeares, ere I shall sheere the Fleece:</l>
<l n="1093">So Minutes, Houres, Dayes, Monthes, and Yeares,</l>
<l n="1094">Past ouer to the end they were created,</l>
<l n="1095">Would bring white haires, vnto a Quiet graue.</l>
<l n="1096">Ah! what a life were this? How sweet? how louely?</l>
<l n="1097">Giues not the Hawthorne bush a sweeter shade</l>
<l n="1098">To Shepheards, looking on their silly Sheepe,</l>
<l n="1099">Then doth a rich Imbroider'd Canopie</l>
<l n="1100">To Kings, that feare their Subiects treacherie?</l>
<l n="1101">Oh yes, it doth; a thousand fold it doth.</l>
<l n="1102">And to conclude, the Shepherds homely Curds,</l>
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<l n="1103">His cold thinne drinke out of his Leather Bottle,</l>
<l n="1104">His wonted sleepe, vnder a fresh trees shade,</l>
<l n="1105">All which secure, and sweetly he enioyes,</l>
<l n="1106">Is farre beyond a Princes Delicates:</l>
<l n="1107">His Viands sparkling in a Golden Cup,</l>
<l n="1108">His bodie couched in a curious bed,</l>
<l n="1109">When Care, Mistrust, and Treason waits on him.</l>
</sp>
<stage rend="italic" type="mixed">Alarum. Enter a Sonne that hath killed his Father, at
<lb/>one doore: and a Father that hath killed his Sonne at ano
<lb/>ther doore.</stage>
<sp who="#F-3h6-son">
<speaker rend="italic">Son.</speaker>
<l n="1110">Ill blowes the winde that profits no body,</l>
<l n="1111">This man whom hand to hand I slew in fight,</l>
<l n="1112">May be possessed with some store of Crownes,</l>
<l n="1113">And I that (haply) take them from him now,</l>
<l n="1114">May yet (ere night) yeeld both my Life and them</l>
<l n="1115">To some man else, as this dead man doth me.</l>
<l n="1116">Who's this? Oh God! It is my Fathers face,</l>
<l n="1117">Whom in this Conflict, I (vnwares) have kill'd:</l>
<l n="1118">Oh heauy times! begetting such Euents.</l>
<l n="1119">From London, by the King was I prest forth,</l>
<l n="1120">My Father being the Earle of Warwickes man,</l>
<l n="1121">Came on the part of Yorke, prest by his Master;</l>
<l n="1122">And I, who at his hands receiu'd my life,</l>
<l n="1123">Haue by my hands, of Life bereaued him.</l>
<l n="1124">Pardon me God, I knew not what I did:</l>
<l n="1125">And pardon Father, for I knew not thee.</l>
<l n="1126">My Teares shall wipe away these bloody markes:</l>
<l n="1127">And no more words, till they haue flow'd their fill.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-3h6-hn6">
<speaker rend="italic">King.</speaker>
<l n="1128">O pitteous spectacle! O bloody Times!</l>
<l n="1129">Whiles Lyons Warre, and battaile for their Dennes,</l>
<l n="1130">Poore harmlesse Lambes abide their enmity.</l>
<l n="1131">Weepe wretched man: Ile ayde thee Teare for Teare,</l>
<l n="1132">And let our hearts and eyes, like Ciuill Warre,</l>
<l n="1133">Be blinde with teares, and break ore‑charged with griefe</l>
</sp>
<stage rend="italic center" type="entrance">Enter Father, bearing of his Sonne.</stage>
<sp who="#F-3h6-fat">
<speaker rend="italic">Fa.</speaker>
<l n="1134">Thou that so stoutly hath resisted me,</l>
<l n="1135">Giue me thy Gold, if thou hast any Gold:</l>
<l n="1136">For I haue bought it with an hundred blowes.</l>
<l n="1137">But let me see: Is this our Foe‑mans face?</l>
<l n="1138">Ah, no, no, no, it is mine onely Sonne.,</l>
<l n="1139">Ah Boy, if any life be left in thee,</l>
<l n="1140">Throw vp thine eye: see, see, what showres arise,</l>
<l n="1141">Blowne with the windie Tempest of my heart,</l>
<l n="1142">Vpon thy wounds, that killes mine Eye, and Heart.</l>
<l n="1143">O pitty God, this miserable Age!</l>
<l n="1144">What Stragems? how fell? how Butcherly?</l>
<l n="1145">Erreoneous, mutinous, and vnnaturall,</l>
<l n="1146">This deadly quarrell daily doth beget<hi rend="italic">?</hi>
</l>
<l n="1147">O Boy! thy Father gaue thee life too soone,</l>
<l n="1148">And hath bereft thee of thy life too late.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-3h6-hn6">
<speaker rend="italic">King.</speaker>
<l n="1149">Wo aboue wo: greefe, more<choice>
<abbr>thē</abbr>
<expan>them</expan>
</choice>common greefe</l>
<l n="1150">O that my death would stay these ruthfull deeds:</l>
<l n="1151">O pitty, pitty, gentle heauen pitty:</l>
<l n="1152">The Red Rose and the White are on his face,</l>
<l n="1153">The fatall Colours of our striuing Houses:</l>
<l n="1154">The one, his purple Blood right well resembles,</l>
<l n="1155">The other his pale Cheekes (me thinkes) presenteth:</l>
<l n="1156">Wither one Rose, and let the other flourish:</l>
<l n="1157">If you contend, a thousand liues must wither.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-3h6-son">
<speaker rend="italic">Son.</speaker>
<l n="1158">How will my Mother, for a Fathers death</l>
<l n="1159">Take on with me, and ne're be satisfi'd?</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-3h6-fat">
<speaker rend="italic">Fa.</speaker>
<l n="1160">How will my Wife, for slaughter of my Sonne,</l>
<l n="1161">Shed seas of Teares, and ne're be satisfi'd?</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-3h6-hn6">
<speaker rend="italic">King.</speaker>
<l n="1162">How will the Country, for these woful chances,</l>
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<l n="1163">Mis‑thinke the King, and not be satisfied?</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-3h6-son">
<speaker rend="italic">Son.</speaker>
<l n="1164">Was euer sonne, so rew'd a Fathers death?</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-3h6-fat">
<speaker rend="italic">Fath.</speaker>
<l n="1165">Was euer Father so bemoan'd his Sonne?</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-3h6-hn6">
<speaker rend="italic">Hen.</speaker>
<l n="1166">Was euer King so greeu'd for Subiects woe?</l>
<l n="1167">Much is your sorrow; Mine, ten times so much.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-3h6-son">
<speaker rend="italic">Son.</speaker>
<l n="1168">Ile beare thee hence, where I may weepe my fill.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-3h6-fat">
<speaker rend="italic">Fath.</speaker>
<l n="1169">These armes of mine shall be thy winding sheet:</l>
<l n="1170">My heart (sweet Boy) shall be thy Sepulcher,</l>
<l n="1171">For from my heart, thine Image ne're shall go.</l>
<l n="1172">My sighing brest, shall be thy Funerall bell;</l>
<l n="1173">And so obsequious will thy Father be,</l>
<l n="1174">Men for the losse of thee, hauing no more,</l>
<l n="1175">As<hi rend="italic">Priam</hi>was for all his Valiant Sonnes,</l>
<l n="1176">Ile beare thee hence, and let them fight that will,</l>
<l n="1177">For I haue murthered where I should not kill.</l>
</sp>
<stage rend="italic rightJustified" type="exit">Exit</stage>
<sp who="#F-3h6-hn6">
<speaker rend="italic">Hen.</speaker>
<l n="1178">Sad‑hearted‑men, much ouergone with Care;</l>
<l n="1179">Heere sits a King, more wofull then you are.</l>
</sp>
<stage rend="italic center" type="mixed">Alarums. Excursions. Enter the Queen, the
<lb/>Prince, and Exeter.</stage>
<sp who="#F-3h6-ped">
<speaker rend="italic">Prin.</speaker>
<l n="1180">Fly Father, flye: for all your Friends are fled.</l>
<l n="1181">And Warwicke rages like a chafed Bull:</l>
<l n="1182">Away, for death doth hold vs in pursuite.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-3h6-qma">
<speaker rend="italic">Qu.</speaker>
<l n="1183">Mount you my Lord, towards Barwicke post a
<lb/>maine:</l>
<l n="1184">
<hi rend="italic">Edward</hi>and<hi rend="italic">Richard</hi>like a brace of Grey‑hounds,</l>
<l n="1185">Hauing the fearfull flying Hare in sight,</l>
<l n="1186">With fiery eyes, sparkling for very wrath,</l>
<l n="1187">And bloody steele graspt in their yrefull hands</l>
<l n="1188">Are at our backes, and therefore hence amaine.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-3h6-exe">
<speaker rend="italic">Exet.</speaker>
<l n="1189">Away: for vengeance comes along with them.</l>
<l n="1190">Nay, stay not to expostulate, make speed,</l>
<l n="1191">Or else come after, Ile away before.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-3h6-hn6">
<speaker rend="italic">Hen.</speaker>
<l n="1192">Nay take me with thee, good sweet Exeter:</l>
<l n="1193">Not that I feare to stay, but loue to go</l>
<l n="1194">Whether the Queene intends. Forward, away.</l>
</sp>
<stage rend="italic rightJustified" type="exit">Exeunt</stage>
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