Henry IV, Pt. 2
Act III, Scene 1
Westminster . A palace room .
-
Enter
the
King
in
his
night
-
gown
,
alone
,
followed
by
a
Page
.
King Henry the Fourth
1 - 31
-
Go
call
the
Earls
of
Surrey
and
of
Warwick
;
-
But
,
ere
they
come
,
bid
them
o’er
-
read
these
letters
-
And
well
consider
of
them
.
Make
good
speed
.
-
Exit
Page
.
-
How
many
thousand
of
my
poorest
subjects
-
Are
at
this
hour
asleep
!
O
sleep
!
O
gentle
sleep
!
-
Nature’s
soft
nurse
,
how
have
I
frighted
thee
,
-
That
thou
no
more
wilt
weigh
my
eyelids
down
,
-
And
steep
my
senses
in
forgetfulness
?
-
Why
rather
,
sleep
,
liest
thou
in
smoky
cribs
,
-
Upon
uneasy
pallets
stretching
thee
,
-
And
hush’d
with
buzzing
night
-
flies
to
thy
slumber
,
-
Than
in
the
perfum’d
chambers
of
the
great
,
-
Under
the
canopies
of
costly
state
,
-
And
lull’d
with
sound
of
sweetest
melody
?
-
O
thou
dull
god
,
why
li’st
thou
with
the
vile
-
In
loathsome
beds
,
and
leavest
the
kingly
couch
-
A
watch
-
case
or
a
common
’larum
-
bell
?
-
Wilt
thou
upon
the
high
and
giddy
mast
-
Seal
up
the
ship
-
boy’s
eyes
,
and
rock
his
brains
-
In
cradle
of
the
rude
imperious
surge
,
-
And
in
the
visitation
of
the
winds
,
-
Who
take
the
ruffian
billows
by
the
top
,
-
Curling
their
monstrous
heads
and
hanging
them
-
With
deafing
clamor
in
the
slippery
clouds
,
-
That
with
the
hurly
death
itself
awakes
?
-
Canst
thou
,
O
partial
sleep
,
give
then
repose
-
To
the
wet
sea
-
boy
in
an
hour
so
rude
,
-
And
in
the
calmest
and
most
stillest
night
,
-
With
all
appliances
and
means
to
boot
,
-
Deny
it
to
a
king
?
Then
(
happy
)
low
,
lie
down
!
-
Uneasy
lies
the
head
that
wears
a
crown
.
-
Enter
Warwick
,
Surrey
,
and
Sir
John
Blunt
.
Earl of Warwick
32
-
Many
good
morrows
to
your
Majesty
!
King Henry the Fourth
33
-
Is
it
good
morrow
,
lords
?
Earl of Warwick
34
-
’Tis
one
a’
clock
,
and
past
.
King Henry the Fourth
35 - 36
-
Why
then
good
morrow
to
you
all
,
my
lords
.
-
Have
you
read
o’er
the
letters
that
I
sent
you
?
Earl of Warwick
37
-
We
have
,
my
liege
.
King Henry the Fourth
38 - 40
-
Then
you
perceive
the
body
of
our
kingdom
-
How
foul
it
is
,
what
rank
diseases
grow
,
-
And
with
what
danger
,
near
the
heart
of
it
.
Earl of Warwick
41 - 44
-
It
is
but
as
a
body
yet
distempered
,
-
Which
to
his
former
strength
may
be
restored
-
With
good
advice
and
little
medicine
.
-
My
Lord
Northumberland
will
soon
be
cool’d
.
King Henry the Fourth
45 - 79
-
O
God
,
that
one
might
read
the
book
of
fate
,
-
And
see
the
revolution
of
the
times
-
Make
mountains
level
,
and
the
continent
,
-
Weary
of
solid
firmness
,
melt
itself
-
Into
the
sea
,
and
other
times
to
see
-
The
beachy
girdle
of
the
ocean
-
Too
wide
for
Neptune’s
hips
;
how
chance’s
mocks
-
And
changes
fill
the
cup
of
alteration
-
With
divers
liquors
!
O
,
if
this
were
seen
,
-
The
happiest
youth
,
viewing
his
progress
through
,
-
What
perils
past
,
what
crosses
to
ensue
,
-
Would
shut
the
book
,
and
sit
him
down
and
die
.
-
’Tis
not
ten
years
gone
-
Since
Richard
and
Northumberland
,
great
friends
,
-
Did
feast
together
,
and
in
two
year
after
-
Were
they
at
wars
.
It
is
but
eight
years
since
-
This
Percy
was
the
man
nearest
my
soul
,
-
Who
like
a
brother
toil’d
in
my
affairs
,
-
And
laid
his
love
and
life
under
my
foot
,
-
Yea
,
for
my
sake
,
even
to
the
eyes
of
Richard
-
Gave
him
defiance
.
But
which
of
you
was
by
—
-
To
Warwick
.
-
You
,
cousin
Nevil
,
as
I
may
remember
—
-
When
Richard
,
with
his
eye
brimful
of
tears
,
-
Then
check’d
and
rated
by
Northumberland
,
-
Did
speak
these
words
,
now
prov’d
a
prophecy
?
-
“
Northumberland
,
thou
ladder
by
the
which
-
My
cousin
Bullingbrook
ascends
my
throne
”
-
(
Though
then
,
God
knows
,
I
had
no
such
intent
,
-
But
that
necessity
so
bow’d
the
state
-
That
I
and
greatness
were
compell’d
to
kiss
),
-
“
The
time
shall
come
,”
thus
did
he
follow
it
,
-
“
The
time
will
come
,
that
foul
sin
,
gathering
head
,
-
Shall
break
into
corruption
”:
so
went
on
,
-
Foretelling
this
same
time’s
condition
-
And
the
division
of
our
amity
.
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Byam Shaw, 1901
Earl of Warwick
80 - 92
-
There
is
a
history
in
all
men’s
lives
,
-
Figuring
the
natures
of
the
times
deceas’d
,
-
The
which
observ’d
,
a
man
may
prophesy
,
-
With
a
near
aim
,
of
the
main
chance
of
things
-
As
yet
not
come
to
life
,
who
in
their
seeds
-
And
weak
beginning
lie
intreasured
.
-
Such
things
become
the
hatch
and
brood
of
time
,
-
And
by
the
necessary
form
of
this
-
King
Richard
might
create
a
perfect
guess
-
That
great
Northumberland
,
then
false
to
him
,
-
Would
of
that
seed
grow
to
a
greater
falseness
,
-
Which
should
not
find
a
ground
to
root
upon
-
Unless
on
you
.
King Henry the Fourth
93 - 97
-
Are
these
things
then
necessities
?
-
Then
let
us
meet
them
like
necessities
;
-
And
that
same
word
even
now
cries
out
on
us
.
-
They
say
the
Bishop
and
Northumberland
-
Are
fifty
thousand
strong
.
Earl of Warwick
98 - 108
-
It
cannot
be
,
my
lord
.
-
Rumor
doth
double
,
like
the
voice
and
echo
,
-
The
numbers
of
the
feared
.
Please
it
your
Grace
-
To
go
to
bed
.
Upon
my
soul
,
my
lord
,
-
The
powers
that
you
already
have
sent
forth
-
Shall
bring
this
prize
in
very
easily
.
-
To
comfort
you
the
more
,
I
have
received
-
A
certain
instance
that
Glendower
is
dead
.
-
Your
Majesty
hath
been
this
fortnight
ill
,
-
And
these
unseasoned
hours
perforce
must
add
-
Unto
your
sickness
.
King Henry the Fourth
109 - 111
-
I
will
take
your
counsel
,
-
And
were
these
inward
wars
once
out
of
hand
,
-
We
would
,
dear
lords
,
unto
the
Holy
Land
.
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Henry IV
late 18th C