The second Part of King Henry the Fourth.
Hydra‑Sonne of Warre is borne,
Hastings)
Mowbray.
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They know their duties.
What's your Name, Sir? of what Condition are
you? and of what place, I pray?
I am a Knight, Sir:
And my Name is
Colleuile of the Dale.
Well then,
Colleuile is your Name, a Knight is
your Degree, and your Place, the Dale.
Colleuile shall
still be your Name, a Traytor your Degree, and the Dun
geon your Place, a place deepe enough: so shall you be
still
Colleuile of the Dale.
Are not you Sir
Iohn Falstaffe?
A s good a man as he sir, who ere I am: doe yee
yeelde sir, or shiall I sweate for you? if I doe sweate, they
are the drops of thy Louers, and they weep for thy death,
therefore rowze vp Feare and Trembling, and do obser
uance to my mercy.
I thinke you are Sir
Iohn Falstaffe, & in that thought
yeeld me.
I haue a whole Schoole of tongues in this belly of
mine, and not a Tongue of them all, speakes anie other
word but my name: and I had but a belly of any indiffe
rencie, I were simply the most actiue fellow in Europe:
my wombe, my wombe, my wombe vndoes mee. Heere
comes our Generall.
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<stage rend="center" type="entrance">Enter the Arch‑bishop, Mowbray, Hastngs,
<lb/>Westmerland, Coleuile.</stage>
<sp who="#F-2h4-scr">
<speaker rend="italic">Bish.</speaker>
<l n="1818">What is this Forrest call'd?</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-2h4-has">
<speaker rend="italic">Hast.</speaker>
<l n="1819">Tis Gualtree Forrest, and't shall please your
<lb/>Grace.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-2h4-scr">
<speaker rend="italic">Bish.</speaker>
<l n="1820">Here stand (my Lords) and send discouerers forth,</l>
<l n="1821">To know the numbers of our Enemies.</l>
</sp>
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<sp who="#F-2h4-has">
<speaker rend="italic">Hast.</speaker>
<l n="1822">Wee haue sent forth alreadie.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-2h4-scr">
<speaker rend="italic">Bish.</speaker>
<l n="1823">'Tis well done.</l>
<l n="1824">My Friends, and Brethren (in these great Affaires)</l>
<l n="1825">I must acquaint you, that I haue receiu'd</l>
<l n="1826">New‑dated Letters from<hi rend="italic">Northumberland:</hi>
</l>
<l n="1827">Their cold intent, tenure, and substance thus.</l>
<l n="1828">Here doth hee wish his Person, with such Powers</l>
<l n="1829">As might hold fortance with his Qualitie,</l>
<l n="1830">The which hee could not leuie: whereupon</l>
<l n="1831">Hee is rety r'd, to ripe his growing Fortunes,</l>
<l n="1832">To Scotland; and concludes in heartie prayers,</l>
<l n="1833">That your Attempts may ouer‑liue the hazard,</l>
<l n="1834">And fearefull meeting of their Opposite.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-2h4-mow">
<speaker rend="italic">Mow.</speaker>
<l n="1835">Thus do the hopes we haue in him, touch ground,</l>
<l n="1836">And dash themselues to pieces.</l>
</sp>
<stage rend="italic center" type="entrance">Enter a Messenger.</stage>
<sp who="#F-2h4-has">
<speaker rend="italic">Hast.</speaker>
<l n="1837">Now? what newes?</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-2h4-mes">
<speaker rend="italic">Mess.</speaker>
<l n="1838">West of this Forrest, scarcely off a mile,</l>
<l n="1839">In goodly forme, comes on the Enemie:</l>
<l n="1840">And by the ground they hide, I iudge their number</l>
<l n="1841">Vpon, or neere, the rate of thirtie thousand.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-2h4-mow">
<speaker rend="italic">Mow.</speaker>
<l n="1842">The iust proportion that we gaue them out.</l>
<l n="1843">Let vs sway‑on, and face them in the field.</l>
</sp>
<stage rend="italic center" type="entrance">Enter Westmterland.</stage>
<sp who="#F-2h4-scr">
<speaker rend="italic">Bish.</speaker>
<l n="1844">What well‑appointed Leader fronts vs here?</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-2h4-mow">
<speaker rend="italic">Mow.</speaker>
<l n="1845">I thinke it is my Lord of Westmerland.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-2h4-wes">
<speaker rend="italic">West.</speaker>
<l n="1846">Health, and faire greeting from our Generall,</l>
<l n="1847">The Prince, Lord<hi rend="italic">Iohn</hi>, and Duke of Lancaster.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-2h4-scr">
<speaker rend="italic">Bish.</speaker>
<l n="1848">Say on (my Lord of Westmerland) in peace:</l>
<l n="1849">What doth concerne your comming?</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-2h4-wes">
<speaker rend="italic">West.</speaker>
<l n="1850">Then (my Lord)</l>
<l n="1851">Vnto your Grace doe I in chiefe addresse</l>
<l n="1852">The substance of my Speech. If that Rebellion</l>
<l n="1853">Came like it selfe, in base and abiect Routs,</l>
<l n="1854">Led on by bloodie Youth, guarded with Rage,</l>
<l n="1855">And countenanc'd by Boyes, and Beggerie:</l>
<l n="1856">I say, if damn'd Commotion so appeare,</l>
<l n="1857">In his true, natiue, and most proper shape,</l>
<l n="1858">You (Reuerend Father, and these Noble Lords)</l>
<l n="1859">Had not beene here, to dresse the ougly forme</l>
<l n="1860">Of base, and bloodie Insurrection,</l>
<l n="1861">With your faire Honors. You, Lord Arch‑bishop,</l>
<l n="1862">Whose Sea is by a Ciuill Peace maintain'd,</l>
<l n="1863">Whose Beard, the Siluer Hand of Peace hath touch'd,</l>
<l n="1864">Whose Learning, and good Letters, Peace hath tutor'd,</l>
<l n="1865">Whose white Inuestments figure Innocence,</l>
<l n="1866">The Doue, and very blessed Spirit of Peace.</l>
<l n="1867">Wherefore doe you so ill translate your selfe,</l>
<l n="1868">Out of the Speech of Peace, that beares such grace,</l>
<l n="1869">Into the harsh and boystrous Tongue of Warre?</l>
<l n="1870">Turning your Bookes to Graues, your Inke to Blood,</l>
<l n="1871">Your Pennes to Launces, and your Tongue diuine</l>
<l n="1872">To a lowd Trumpet, and a Point of Warre.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-2h4-scr">
<speaker rend="italic">Bish.</speaker>
<l n="1873">Wherefore doe I this? so the Question stands.</l>
<l n="1874">Briefely to this end: Wee are all diseas'd,</l>
<l n="1875">And with our surfetting and wanton howres,</l>
<l n="1876">Haue brought our selues into a burning Feuer,</l>
<l n="1877">And wee must bleede for it: of which Disease,</l>
<l n="1878">Our late King<hi rend="italic">Richard</hi>(being infected) dy'd.</l>
<l n="1879">But (my most Noble Lord of Westmerland)</l>
<l n="1880">I take not on me here as a Physician,</l>
<l n="1881">Nor doe I, as an Enemie to Peace,</l>
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<l n="1882">Troope in the Throngs of Militarie men:</l>
<l n="1883">But rather shew a while like fearefull Warre,</l>
<l n="1884">To dyet ranke Mindes, sicke of happinesse,</l>
<l n="1885">And purge th'obstructions, which begin to stop</l>
<l n="1886">Our very Veines of Life: heare me more plainely.</l>
<l n="1887">I haue in equall balance iustly weigh'd,</l>
<l n="1888">What wrongs our Arms may do, what wrongs we suffer,</l>
<l n="1889">And finde our Griefes heauier then our Offences.</l>
<l n="1890">Wee see which way the streame of Time doth runne,</l>
<l n="1891">And are enforc'd from our most quiet there,</l>
<l n="1892">By the rough Torrent of Occasion,</l>
<l n="1893">And haue the summarie of all our Griefes</l>
<l n="1894">(When time shall serue) to shew in Articles;</l>
<l n="1895">Which long ere this, wee offer'd to the King,</l>
<l n="1896">And might, by no Suit, gayne our Audience:</l>
<l n="1897">When wee are wrong'd, and would vnfold our Griefes,</l>
<l n="1898">Wee are deny'd accesse vnto his Person,</l>
<l n="1899">Euen by those men, that most haue done vs wrong.</l>
<l n="1900">The dangers of the dayes but newly gone,</l>
<l n="1901">Whose memorie is written on the Earth</l>
<l n="1902">With yet appearing blood; and the examples</l>
<l n="1903">Of every Minutes instance (present now)</l>
<l n="1904">Hath put vs in these ill‑beseeming Armes:</l>
<l n="1905">Not to breake Peace, or any Branch of it,</l>
<l n="1906">But to establish here a Peace indeede,</l>
<l n="1907">Concurring both in Name and Qualitie.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-2h4-wes">
<speaker rend="italic">West.</speaker>
<l n="1908">When euer yet was your Appeale deny'd?</l>
<l n="1909">Wherein haue you beene galled by the King<c rend="italic">?</c>
</l>
<l n="1910">What Peere hath beene suborn'd, to grate on you,</l>
<l n="1911">That you should seale this lawlesse bloody Booke</l>
<l n="1912">Of forg'd Rebellion, with a Seale diuine?</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-2h4-scr">
<speaker rend="italic">Bish.</speaker>
<l n="1913">My Brother generall, the Common‑Wealth,</l>
<l n="1914">I make my Quarrell, in particular.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-2h4-wes">
<speaker rend="italic">West.</speaker>
<l n="1915">There is no neede of any such redresse:</l>
<l n="1916">Or if there were, it not belongs to you.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-2h4-mow">
<speaker rend="italic">Mow.</speaker>
<l n="1917">Why not to him in part, and to vs all,</l>
<l n="1918">That feele the bruizes of the dayes before,</l>
<l n="1919">And suffer the Condition of these Times</l>
<l n="1920">To lay a heauie and vnequall Hand vpon our Honors?</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-2h4-wes">
<speaker rend="italic">West.</speaker>
<l n="1921">O my good Lord<hi rend="italic">Mowbray</hi>,</l>
<l n="1922">Construe the Times to their Necessities,</l>
<l n="1923">And you shall say (indeede) it is the Time,</l>
<l n="1924">And not the King, that doth you iniuries.</l>
<l n="1925">Yet for your part, it not appeares to me,</l>
<l n="1926">Either from the King, or in the present Time,</l>
<l n="1927">That you should haue an ynch of any ground</l>
<l n="1928">To build a Griefe on: were you not restor'd</l>
<l n="1929">To all the Duke of Norfolkes Seignories,</l>
<l n="1930">Your Noble, and right well‑remembred Fathers?</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-2h4-mow">
<speaker rend="italic">Mow.</speaker>
<l n="1931">What thing, in Honor, had my Father lost,</l>
<l n="1932">That need to be reuiu'd, and breath'd in me?</l>
<l n="1933">The King that lou'd him, as the State stood then,</l>
<l n="1934">Was forc'd, perforce compell'd to banish him:</l>
<l n="1935">And then, that<hi rend="italic">Henry Bullingbrooke</hi>and hee</l>
<l n="1936">Being mounted, and both rowsed in their Seates</l>
<l n="1937">Their neighing Coursers daring of the Spurre,</l>
<l n="1938">Their armed Staues in charge, their Beauers downe,</l>
<l n="1939">Their eyes of fire, sparkling through sights of Steele,</l>
<l n="1940">And the lowd Trumpet blowing them together:</l>
<l n="1941">Then, then, when there was nothing could haue stay'd</l>
<l n="1942">My Father from the Breast of<hi rend="italic">Bulling brooke</hi>;</l>
<l n="1943">O, when the King did throw his Warder downe,</l>
<l n="1944">(His owne Life hung vpon the staffe hee threw)</l>
<l n="1945">Then threw hee downe himselfe, and all their Liues,</l>
<l n="1946">That by Indictment, and by dint of Sword,</l>
<l n="1947">Haue since mis‑carried vnder<hi rend="italic">Bullingbrooke</hi>.</l>
</sp>
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<sp who="#F-2h4-wes">
<speaker rend="italic">West.</speaker>
<l n="1948">You speak (Lord<hi rend="italic">Mowbray</hi>) now you know not what.</l>
<l n="1949">The Earle of Hereford was reputed then</l>
<l n="1950">In England the most valiant Gentleman.</l>
<l n="1951">Who knowes, on whom Fortune would then haue smil'd?</l>
<l n="1952">But if your Father had beene Victor there,</l>
<l n="1953">Hee ne're had borne it out of Couentry.</l>
<l n="1954">For all the Countrey, in a generall voyce,</l>
<l n="1955">Cry'd hate vpon him: and all their prayers, and loue,</l>
<l n="1956">Were set on<hi rend="italic">Herford</hi>, whom they doted on,</l>
<l n="1957">And bless'd, and grac'd, and did more then the King.</l>
<l n="1958">But this is meere digression from my purpose.</l>
<l n="1959">Here come I from our Princely Generall,</l>
<l n="1960">To know your Griefes; to tell you, from his Grace,</l>
<l n="1961">That hee will giue you Audience: and wherein</l>
<l n="1962">It shall appeare, that your demands are iust,</l>
<l n="1963">You shall enioy them, euery thing set off,</l>
<l n="1964">That might so much as thinke you Enemies.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-2h4-mow">
<speaker rend="italic">Mow.</speaker>
<l n="1965">But hee hath forc'd vs to compell this Offer,</l>
<l n="1966">And it proceedes from Pollicy, not Loue.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-2h4-wes">
<speaker rend="italic">West.</speaker>
<l n="1967">
<hi rend="italic">Mowbray</hi>, you ouer‑weene to take it so:</l>
<l n="1968">This Offer comes from Mercy, not from Feare.</l>
<l n="1969">For loe, within a Ken our Army lyes,</l>
<l n="1970">Vpon mine Honor, all too confident</l>
<l n="1971">To giue admittance to a thought of feare.</l>
<l n="1972">Our Battaile is more full of Names then yours,</l>
<l n="1973">Our Men more perfect in the vse of Armes,</l>
<l n="1974">Our Armor all as strong, our Cause the best;</l>
<l n="1975">Then Reason will, our hearts should be as good.</l>
<l n="1976">Say you not then, our Offer is compell'd.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-2h4-mow">
<speaker rend="italic">Mow.</speaker>
<l n="1977">Well, by my will, wee shall admit no Parley.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-2h4-wes">
<speaker rend="italic">West.</speaker>
<l n="1978">That argues but the shame of your offence:</l>
<l n="1979">A rotten Case abides no handling.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-2h4-has">
<speaker rend="italic">Hast.</speaker>
<l n="1980">Hath the Prince<hi rend="italic">Iohn</hi>a full Commissison,</l>
<l n="1981">In very ample vertue of hrs Father,</l>
<l n="1982">To heare, and absolutely to determine</l>
<l n="1983">Of what Conditions wee shall stand vpon?</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-2h4-wes">
<speaker rend="italic">West.</speaker>
<l n="1984">That is intended in the Generals Name:</l>
<l n="1985">I muse you make so slight a Question.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-2h4-scr">
<speaker rend="italic">Bish.</speaker>
<l n="1986">Then take (my Lord of Westmerland) this Schedule,</l>
<l n="1987">For this containes our generall Grieuances:</l>
<l n="1988">Each seuerall Article herein redress'd,</l>
<l n="1989">All members of our Cause, both here, and hence,</l>
<l n="1990">That are insinewed to this Action,</l>
<l n="1991">Acquitted by a true substantiall forme,</l>
<l n="1992">And present execution of our wills,</l>
<l n="1993">To vs, and to our purposes confin'd,</l>
<l n="1994">Wee come within our awfull Banks againe,</l>
<l n="1995">And knit our Powers to the Arme of Peace.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-2h4-wes">
<speaker rend="italic">West.</speaker>
<l n="1996">This will I shew the Generall. Please you Lords,</l>
<l n="1997">In sight of both our Battailes, wee may meete</l>
<l n="1998">At either end in peace: which Heauen so frame,</l>
<l n="1999">Or to the place of difference call the Swords,</l>
<l n="2000">Which must decide it.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-2h4-scr">
<speaker rend="italic">Bish.</speaker>
<l n="2001">My Lord, wee will doe so.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-2h4-mow">
<speaker rend="italic">Mow.</speaker>
<l n="2002">There is a thing within my Bosome tells me,</l>
<l n="2003">That no Conditions of our Peace can stand.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-2h4-has">
<speaker rend="italic">Hast.</speaker>
<l n="2004">Feare you not, that if wee can make our Peace</l>
<l n="2005">Vpon such large termes, and so absolute,</l>
<l n="2006">As our Conditions shall consist vpon,</l>
<l n="2007">Our Peace shall stand as firme as Rockie Mountaines.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-2h4-mow">
<speaker rend="italic">Mow.</speaker>
<l n="2008">I, but our valuation shall be such,</l>
<l n="2009">That euery slight, and false‑deriued Cause,</l>
<l n="2010">Yea, every idle, nice, and wanton Reason,</l>
<l n="2011">Shall, to the King, taste of this Action:</l>
<l n="2012">That were our Royall faiths, Martyrs in Loue,</l>
<l n="2013">Wee shall be winnowed with so rough a winde,</l>
<cb n="2"/>
<l n="2014">That euen our Corne shall seeme as light as Chaffe,</l>
<l n="2015">And good from bad finde no partition.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-2h4-scr">
<speaker rend="italic">Bish.</speaker>
<l n="2016">No, no (my Lord) note this: the King is wearie</l>
<l n="2017">Of daintie, and such picking Grieuances:</l>
<l n="2018">For hee hath found, to end one doubt by Death,</l>
<l n="2019">Reuiues two greater in the Heires of Life.</l>
<l n="2020">And therefore will hee wipe his Tables cleane,</l>
<l n="2021">And keepe no Tell‑tale to his Memorie,</l>
<l n="2022">That may repeat, and Historie his losse,</l>
<l n="2023">To new remembrance. For full well hee knowes,</l>
<l n="2024">Hee cannot so precisely weede this Land,</l>
<l n="2025">As his mis‑doubts present occasion:</l>
<l n="2026">His foes are so en‑rooted with his friends,</l>
<l n="2027">That plucking to vnfixe an Enemie,</l>
<l n="2028">Hee doth vnfasten so, and shake a friend.</l>
<l n="2029">So that this Land, like an offensiue wife,</l>
<l n="2030">That hath enrag'd him on, to offer strokes,</l>
<l n="2031">As he is striking, holds his Infant vp,</l>
<l n="2032">And hangs resolu'd Correction in the Arme,</l>
<l n="2033">That was vprear'd to execution.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-2h4-has">
<speaker rend="italic">Hast.</speaker>
<l n="2034">Besides, the King hath wasted all his Rods,</l>
<l n="2035">On late Offenders, that he now doth lacke</l>
<l n="2036">The very Instruments of Chasticement:</l>
<l n="2037">So that his power, like to a Fanglesse Lion</l>
<l n="2038">May offer, but not hold.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-2h4-scr">
<speaker rend="italic">Bish.</speaker>
<l n="2039">'Tis very true:</l>
<l n="2040">And therefore be assur'd (my good Lord Marshal)</l>
<l n="2041">If we do now make our attonement well,</l>
<l n="2042">Our Peace, will (like a broken Limbe vnited)</l>
<l n="2043">Grow stronger, for the breaking.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-2h4-mow">
<speaker rend="italic">Mow.</speaker>
<l n="2044">Be it so:</l>
<l n="2045">Heere is return'd my Lord of Westmerland.</l>
</sp>
<stage rend="italic center" type="entrance">Enter Westmerland.</stage>
<sp who="#F-2h4-wes">
<speaker rend="italic">West.</speaker>
<l n="2046">The Prince is here at hand: pleaseth your Lordship</l>
<l n="2047">To meet his Grace, iustl distance 'tweene our Armies<c rend="italic">?</c>
</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-2h4-mow">
<speaker rend="italic">Mow.</speaker>
<l n="2048">Your Grace of Yorke, in heauen's name then
<lb/>forward.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-2h4-scr">
<speaker rend="italic">Bish.</speaker>
<l n="2049">Before, and greet his Grace (my Lord) we come.</l>
</sp>
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