Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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The First Part of henry the Fourth, with the life and Death of HENRY Sirnamed HOT‑SPVRRE.
Actus Primus. Scԓna Prima.
[Act 1, Scene 1]
Enter the King, Lord Iohn of Lancaster, Earle of
Westmerland, with others.
King. King.
King. SO shaken as we are, so wan with care,
King. Find we a time for frighted peace to pant
King. And breathe shortwinded accents of new broils
King. To be commenc'd in Stronds a‑farre remote:
King. No more the thirsty entrance of this Soile,
King. Shall daub her lippes with her owne childrens blood:
King. No more shall trenching Warre channell her fields,
King. Nor bruise her Flowrets with the Armed hoofes
King. Of hostile paces. Those opposed eyes,
King. Which, like the Meteors of a troubled Heauen,
King. All of one Nature, of one Substance bred,
King. Did lately meet in the intestine shocke,
King. And furious cloze of ciuill Butchery,
King. Shall now in mutuall well‑beseeming rankes