Henry IV, Pt. 2
Act V, Scene 5
Westminster . Near the Abbey .
Byam Shaw, 1901
- Enter Strewers of Rushes .
First Strewer
1- More rushes , more rushes .
Second Strewer
2- The trumpets have sounded twice .
Third Strewer
3 - 4- ’Twill be two a’ clock ere they come from the coronation .
- Dispatch , dispatch .
- Exeunt .
- Trumpets sound , and the King and his Train pass over the
- stage . After them enter Falstaff , Shallow , Pistol , Bardolph ,
- and the Boy Page .
Falstaff
5 - 7- Stand here by me , Master Shallow , I will make the King do
- you grace . I will leer upon him as ’a comes by , and do but
- mark the countenance that he will give me .
Pistol
8- God bless thy lungs , good knight .
Falstaff
9 - 12- Come here , Pistol , stand behind me .— O , if I had had time to
- have made new liveries , I would have bestow’d the thousand
- pound I borrow’d of you . But ’tis no matter , this poor show
- doth better , this doth infer the zeal I had to see him .
Shallow
13- It doth so .
Falstaff
14- It shows my earnestness of affection —
Shallow
15- It doth so .
Falstaff
16- My devotion —
Shallow
17- It doth , it doth , it doth .
Falstaff
18 - 19- As it were , to ride day and night , and not to deliberate ,
- not to remember , not to have patience to shift me —
Shallow
20- It is best , certain .
Falstaff
21 - 24- But to stand stain’d with travel , and sweating with desire
- to see him , thinking of nothing else , putting all affairs
- else in oblivion , as if there were nothing else to be done
- but to see him .
Pistol
25 - 26- ’Tis “ semper idem ,” for “ obsque hoc nihil est .”
- ’Tis all in every part .
Shallow
27- ’Tis so indeed .
Pistol
28 - 35- My knight , I will inflame thy noble liver ,
- And make thee rage .
- Thy Doll , and Helen of thy noble thoughts ,
- Is in base durance and contagious prison ,
- Hal’d thither
- By most mechanical and dirty hand .
- Rouse up revenge from ebon den with fell Alecto’s snake ,
- For Doll is in . Pistol speaks nought but truth .
Falstaff
36- I will deliver her .
- Shouts within . The trumpets sound .
Pistol
37- There roar’d the sea , and trumpet - clangor sounds .
- Enter the King and his Train , the Lord Chief Justice among
- them .
Falstaff
38- God save thy Grace , King Hal ! My royal Hal !
Denouncement of Falstaff by the King
James Stephanoff, circa 1900
Pistol
39- The heavens thee guard and keep , most royal imp of fame !
Falstaff
40- God save thee , my sweet boy !
King Henry the Fifth
41- My Lord Chief Justice , speak to that vain man .
Lord Chief Justice
42- Have you your wits ? Know you what ’tis you speak ?
Falstaff
43- My King , my Jove ! I speak to thee , my heart !
King Henry the Fifth
44 - 69- I know thee not , old man , fall to thy prayers .
- How ill white hairs becomes a fool and jester !
- I have long dreamt of such a kind of man ,
- So surfeit - swell’d , so old , and so profane ;
- But being awak’d , I do despise my dream .
- Make less thy body ( hence ) and more thy grace ,
- Leave gormandizing , know the grave doth gape
- For thee thrice wider than for other men .
- Reply not to me with a fool - born jest ,
- Presume not that I am the thing I was ,
- For God doth know , so shall the world perceive ,
- That I have turn’d away my former self ;
- So will I those that kept me company .
- When thou dost hear I am as I have been ,
- Approach me , and thou shalt be as thou wast ,
- The tutor and the feeder of my riots .
- Till then I banish thee , on pain of death ,
- As I have done the rest of my misleaders ,
- Not to come near our person by ten mile .
- For competence of life I will allow you ,
- That lack of means enforce you not to evils ,
- And as we hear you do reform yourselves ,
- We will , according to your strengths and qualities ,
- Give you advancement . Be it your charge , my lord ,
- To see perform’d the tenure of my word .
- Set on .
- Exeunt King and his Train .
Falstaff
70- Master Shallow , I owe you a thousand pound .
Shallow
71 - 72- Yea , marry , Sir John , which I beseech you to let me have
- home with me .
Falstaff
73 - 76- That can hardly be , Master Shallow . Do not you grieve at
- this , I shall be sent for in private to him . Look you , he
- must seem thus to the world . Fear not your advancements , I
- will be the man yet that shall make you great .
Falstaff rebuked
Robert Smirke, circa 1795
Shallow
77 - 79- I cannot perceive how , unless you give me your doublet and
- stuff me out with straw . I beseech you , good Sir John , let
- me have five hundred of my thousand .
Falstaff
80 - 81- Sir , I will be as good as my word . This that you heard was
- but a color .
Shallow
82- A collar that I fear you will die in , Sir John .
Falstaff
83 - 84- Fear no colors , go with me to dinner . Come , Lieutenant
- Pistol , come , Bardolph . I shall be sent for soon at night .
- Enter the Lord Chief Justice and Prince John ; Officers with
- them .
Lord Chief Justice
85 - 86- Go carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet . Take all his
- company along with him .
Falstaff
87- My lord , my lord —
Lord Chief Justice
88- I cannot now speak , I will hear you soon . Take them away .
Pistol
89- Si fortuna me tormenta , spero contenta .
- Exeunt . Manent Prince John and the Chief Justice .
Prince John of Lancaster
90 - 94- I like this fair proceeding of the King’s .
- He hath intent his wonted followers
- Shall all be very well provided for ,
- But all are banish’d till their conversations
- Appear more wise and modest to the world .
Lord Chief Justice
95- And so they are .
Prince John of Lancaster
96- The King hath call’d his parliament , my lord .
Lord Chief Justice
97- He hath .
Prince John of Lancaster
98 - 102- I will lay odds that ere this year expire ,
- We bear our civil swords and native fire
- As far as France . I heard a bird so sing ,
- Whose music , to my thinking , pleas’d the King .
- Come , will you hence ?
- Exeunt .
Falstaff reproved by King Henry
Henry William Bunbury, circa 1800