Henry IV, Part I by William Shakespeare (Illustrated)
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Henry IV, Part I by William Shakespeare (Illustrated)
William Shakespeare, Delphi Classics
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Henry IV, Part I
CONTENTS
Dramatis PersonĂŠ
HENRY, Prince of Wales, & JOHN OF LANCASTER, Sons to the King.
EARL OF WESTMORELAND.
SIR WALTER BLUNT.
THOMAS PERCY, Earl of Worcester.
HENRY PERCY, Earl of Northumberland.
HENRY PERCY, surnamed Hotspur, his son.
EDMUND MORTIMER, Earl of March.
RICHARD SCROOP, Archbishop of York.
ARCHIBALD, Earl of Douglas.
OWEN GLENDOWER.
SIR RICHARD VERNON.
SIR JOHN FALSTAFF.
SIR MICHAEL, a Friend to the Archbishop of York.
POINS.
GADSHILL.
PETO.
BARDOLPH.
LADY PERCY, Wife to Hotspur, and Sister to Mortimer.
LADY MORTIMER, Daughter to Glendower, and Wife to Mortimer.
MISTRESS QUICKLY, Hostess of the Boarâs Head Tavern in Eastcheap.
Lords, Officers, Sheriff, Vintner, Chamberlain, Drawers, two Carriers, Travellers, and Attendants.
Act I. Scene I.
Find we a time for frighted peace to pant,
And breathe short-winded accents of new broils 5
To be commenceâd in stronds afar remote.
No more the thirsty entrance of this soil
Shall daub her lips with her own childrenâs blood;
No more shall trenching war channel her fields,
Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs 10
Of hostile paces: those opposed eyes,
Which, like the meteors of a troubled heaven,
All of one nature, of one substance bred,
Did lately meet in the intestine shock
And furious close of civil butchery, 15
Shall now, in mutual well-beseeming ranks,
March all one way, and be no more opposâd
Against acquaintance, kindred, and allies:
The edge of war, like an ill-sheathed knife,
No more shall cut his master. Therefore, friends, 20
As far as to the sepulchre of Christ, â
Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross
We are impressed and engagâd to fight, â
Forthwith a power of English shall we levy,
Whose arms were moulded in their motherâs womb 25
To chase these pagans in those holy fields
Over whose acres walkâd those blessed feet
Which fourteen hundred years ago were nailâd
For our advantage on the bitter cross.
But this our purpose is a twelvemonth old, 30
And bootless âtis to tell you we will go:
Therefore we meet not now. Then let me hear
Of you, my gentle cousin Westmoreland,
What yesternight our council did decree
In forwarding this dear expedience. 35
And many limits of the charge set down
But yesternight; when all athwart there came
A post from Wales loaden with heavy news;
Whose worst was, that the noble Mortimer, 40
Leading the men of Herefordshire to fight
Against the irregular and wild Glendower,
Was by the rude hands of that Welshman taken,
And a thousand of his people butchered;
Upon whose dead corpseâ there was such misuse, 45
Such...