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A noble earl, and many a creature else,
Had been alive this hour,

If, like a christian, thou had'st truly borne
Betwixt our armies true intelligence.

Wor. What I have done, my safety urg'd me to ;
And I embrace this fortune patiently,

Since not to be avoided it falls on me.

K. Hen. Bear Worcester to the death, and Vernon

too :

Other offenders we will pause upon.

[Exeunt WORCESTER and VERNON, guarded. How goes the field?

P. Hen. The noble Scot, lord Douglas, when he saw The fortune of the day quite turn'd from him,

The noble Percy slain, and all his men

Upon the foot of fear,-fled with the rest;

And, falling from a hill, he was so bruis'd,
That the pursuers took him.

At my tent

The Douglas is; and I beseech your grace,

I may dispose of him.

K. Hen. With all my heart.

P. Hen. Then, brother John of Lancaster, to you This honourable bounty shall belong:

Go to the Douglas, and deliver him

Up to his pleasure, ransomeless, and free
His valour, shown upon our crests to-day,

:

Hath taught us how to cherish such high deeds,
Even in the bosom of our adversaries.

K. Hen. Then this remains, that we divide our power.

You, son John, and my cousin Westmoreland,

Towards York shall bend you, with your dearest speed,
To meet Northumberland, and the prelate Scroop,
Who, as we hear, are busily in arms:

Myself, and you, son Harry,-will towards Wales,
To fight with Glendower, and the earl of March.
Rebellion in this land shall lose its sway,
Meeting the check of such another day:
And since this business so fair is done,
Let us not leave till all our own be won.

[Exeunt.

23*

VOL. IV.

KING HENRY IV.

PART II.

PERSONS REPRESENTED.

King HENRY the Fourth:

HENRY, Pirnce of Wales, afterwards
King Henry V ;

THOMAS, Duke of Clarence ;

Prince JOHN of Lancaster, afterwards his sons. (2 Henry V.) Duke of Bedford; Prince HUMPHREY of Gloster, afterwards (2 Henry V.) Duke of Gloster ;

Earl of WARWICK;

Earl of WESTMORELAND; of the king's party.

GOWER; HARCOURT;

Lord Chief Justice of the king's bench.

A Gentleman attending on the chief justice.

Earl of NORTHUMBERLAND;

SCROOP, Archbishop of York;

Lord MOWBRAY; Lord HASTINGS;

Lord BARDOLPH; Sir JOHN COLEVILE;

enemies

to the

king.

TRAVERS and MORTON, domestics of Northumber

land.

FALSTAFF, BARDOLPH, PISTOL, and Page.
POINS and PETO, attendants on Prince Henry.
SHALLOW and SILENCE, country justices.

DAVY, servant to Shallow.

MOULDY, SHADOW, WART, FEEBLE, and BULLCALF,

recruits.

FANG and SNARE, sheriff's officers.

Rumour. A Porter.

A Dancer, speaker of the Epilogue.

Lady NORTHUMBERLAND. Lady PERCY.
Hostess QUICKLY. DOLL TEAR-SHEET.

Lords and other Attendants; Officers, Soldiers, Mes senger, Drawers, Beadles, Grooms, Vc.

SCENE-England.

OBSERVATIONS.

THE transactions comprized in this history take up about nine years. The action commences with the account of Hotspur's being defeated and killed [1403]: and closes with the death of king Henry IV. and the coronation of king Henry V. [1412-13.]

THEOBALD.

Mr. Upton thinks these two plays improperly called The First and Second Parts of Henry the Fourth. The first play ends, he says, with the peaceful settlement of Henry in the kingdom by the defeat of the rebels. This is hardly true; for the rebels are not yet finally suppressed. The second, he tells us, shows Henry the Fifth in the various lights of a goodnatured rake, till, on his father's death, he assumes a more manly character. This is true; but this representation gives us no idea of a dramatic action. These two plays will appear to every reader, who shall peruse them without ambition of critical discoveries, to be so connected, that the second is merely a sequel to the first; to be two only because they are too long to be one. JOHNSON.

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