Good day to you, gentle lord archbishop;— York. Good my lord of Lancaster, I am not here against your father's peace: The which hath been with scorn shov'd from the court, Whereon this Hydra son of war is born: Mowb. If not, we ready are to try our fortunes To the last man. Hast. And though we here fall down, Lan. You are too shallow, Hastings, much too shallow, To sound the bottom of the after-times. My lord, these griefs shall be with speed redress'd; Upon my life, they shall. If this may please you, Discharge your powers unto their several counties, As we will ours: and here, between the armies, 5 Let's drink together friendly, and embrace; That all their eyes may bear those tokens home, Of our restored love, and amity. [dresses. York. I take your princely word for these reLan. I give it you, and will maintain my word: 10 And thereupon I drink unto your grace. 15 Hast. Go, captain, and deliver to the army This news of peace; let them have pay, and part; I know, it will well please them: Hie thee, captain. [Exit Captain. York. To you, my noble lord of Westmoreland. West. I pledge your grace: And, if you knew what pains I have bestowed, to breed this present peace, 25 [30 35 West. I am glad of it. Health to my lord, and gentle cousin, Mowbray. Mowb. You wish me health in very happy sea Mowb. This had been chearful, after victory. York. A peace is of the nature of a conquest; For then both parties nobly are subdu'd, 46 And neither party loser. Lan. Go, my lord, Aud let our army be discharged too.-[Exit West. And, good my lord, so please you, let our trains March by us; that we may peruse the men 45 We should have cop'd withal. 150 York. Go, good lord Hastings, And, ere they be dismiss'd, let them march by. [Exit Hastings. Lan. I trust, lords, we shall lie to-night together. Re-enter Westmoreland. Now, cousin, wherefore stands our army still? West. The leaders, having charge from you to stand, West. Pleaseth your grace, to answer them di-55 Will not go off until they hear you speak. rectly, How far-forth you do like their articles? Lan. I like them all, and do allow them well: And swear here by the honour of my blood, My father's purposes have been mistook; And some about him have too lavishly Wrested his meaning, and authority. Lan. They know their duties. Hast. My lord, our army is dispers'd already: Like youthful steers unyok'd, they take their course, 60 East, west, north, south; or, like a school broke up, [place. Each hurries towards his home, and sporting To take up is to levy, to raise in arms. 2 Success for succession. West. West. Good tidings, my lord Hastings; for the I do arrest thee, traitor, of high treason:- you, Of capital treason I attach you both. Mowb. Is this proceeding just and honourable ? York. Will you thus break your faith? I promis'd you redress of these same grievances, nour, I will perform with a most christian care. SCENE III. Another part of the Forest. Cole. I am a knight, sir; and my name is- 5 Fal. I would be sorry, my lord, but it should be thus: I never knew yet, but rebuke and check was the reward of valour. Do you think me a swallow, an arrow, or a bullet? Have 1, in my poor and old motion, the expedition of thought? I have speeded hither with the very extremest inch of possibility; I have founder'd nine-score and odd posts: and here, travel-tainted as I am, have, in my pure and immaculate valour, taken Sir John 10Colevile of the date, a most furious knight, and valorous enemy: But what of that? he saw me, and yielded; that I may justly say with the hooknos'd fellow of Rome',-I came, saw, and over 15 20 came. Lan. It was more his courtesy than your deserving. Fal. I know not; here he is, and here I yield him: and I beseech your grace, let it be book'd with the rest of this day's deeds; or, by the Lord, will have it in a particular ballad else, with mine own picture on the top of it, Colevile kissing my foot: To the which course if I be enforced, if you do not all shew like gilt two-pences to me; and I, in the clear sky of fame, o'ershine you as much 25 as the full moon doth the cinders of the element, which shew like pin's heads to her; believe not the word of the noble: Therefore let me have right, and let desert mount. 30 Fal. Well then, Colevile is your name; a knight is your degree; and your place, the dale: Colevile shall still be your name; a traitor your degree;35 and the dungeon your place,--a place deep enough; so shall you still be Colevile of the dale2. Cole. Are you not Sir John Falstaff? Fal. As good a man as he, sir, whoe'er I am. Do ye yield, sir? or shall sweat for you? If 140 do sweat, they are drops of thy lovers, and they weep for thy death: therefore rouse up fear and trembling, and do observance to my mercy. Cole. Ithink you are Sir John Falstaff;" and, in that thought, yield me. 45 Fal. I have a whole school of tongues in this belly of mine, and not a tongue of them all speaks any other word but my name. An I had but a belly of any indifferency, I were simply the most active fellow in Europe: My womb, my womb, 50 my womb undoes me.-Here comes our general. Enter Prince John of Lancaster, and Westmorl Lan. The heat' is past, follow no farther now; Call in the powers, good cousin Westmoreland. [Exit West. 55 Now, Falstaff, where have you been all this while? Lan. Thine's too heavy to mount. Lan. Thine's too thick to shine. Ful. Let it do something, my good lord, that Lun. A famous rebel art thou, Colevile. Re-enter Westmoreland. West. Retreat is made, and execution stay'd. you. Fal. My lord, I beseech you, give me leave to go through Glostershire; and, when you come to court, stand my good lord' 'pray in your good reIport. i. e. foolishly. The sense of dale is included in deep; a dale is a deep place; a dungeon is a deep place: he that is in a dungeon may be therefore said to be in a dale. venge. Cæsar. i. e. stand my good friend in your favourable report of me. That is, the eagerness of re LaR. Lan. Fare you well, Falstaff; I, in my condi tion', Shall better speak of you than you deserve. [Ex. 10 Fal. I would, you had but the wit; 'twere better than your dukedom.-Good faith, this same 5 young sober-blooded boy doth not love me; nor a man cannot make hum laugh:-but that's no marvel, he drinks no wine. There's never any of these demure boys come to any proof: for thin drink doth so over-cool their blood, and making many fish-meals, that they fall into a kind of male green-sickness; and then, when they inarry, they get wenches: they are generally fools and cowards;-which some of us should be too, but for inflammation. A good sherris-sack hath a two-15 fold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish, and dull, and crudy vapours which environ it: makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive', full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes; which deliver'd o'er to the voice, 20 (the tongue) which is the birth, becomes excellent wit. The second property of your excellent sherris is, the warming of the blood; which, before cold and settled, left the liver white and pale, which is the badge of pusillanimity and cowardice: 25 but the sherris warms it, and makes it course from the inwards to the parts extreme. It illumineth| the face; which, as a beacon, gives warning to all the rest of this little kingdom, man, to arm: and then the vital commoners, and inland petty spi-30 rits, muster me all to their captain, the heart; who, great, and puff'd up with this retinue, doth any deed of courage; and this valour comes of sherris: So that skill in the weapon is nothing, without sack; for that sets it a-work and learn-35 ing, a mere hoard of gold kept by a devil; till sack commences it, and sets it in act and use.Hereof comes it, that prince Harry is valiant: for the cold blood he did naturally inherit of his father, he hath, like lean, steril, and bare land, ma- 40 nured, husbanded, and tilled, with excellent endeavour of drinking good, and good store of fertile sherris; that he is become very hot and valiant. If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them, should be,-to forswear thin 45 potations, and to addict themselves to sack. Enter Bardolph. 4 K. Henry. Now, lords, if heaven doth give- To this debate that bleedeth at our doors, K. Henry. Humphrey, my son of Gloster, K. Henry. Is not his brother, Thomas of Cla- Glo. No, my good lord; he is in presence here. K. Henry. Nothing but well to thee, Thomas [ther? [Exeunt 55 And thou shalt prove a shelter to thy friends; 7 i. e. ' i. e. 1i. e. in my good nature (or condition may perhaps here, as in The Tempest, mean, in my place as commanding officer) I shall speak better of you than you merit. 2i. e. quick to understand. inventive, imaginative. A very pleasant allusion to the old use of sealing with soft wax. our navy is ready, prepared. i. e. changeable as the weather of a winter's day. Alluding to the opinion of some philosophers, that the vapours being congealed in the air by cold (which is most intense towards the morning), and being afterwards rarified and let loose by the warmth of the sun, occasion those sudden and impetuous gusts of wind which are called flaws. Kk Mingled Mingled with venom of suggestion, (As, force perforce, the age will pour it in) Shall never leak, though it do work as strong As aconitum, or rash' gunpowder. Cia. I shall observe him with all care and love. C'a. He is not there to-day; he dines in London. Cla. With Poins, and other his continual fol- 15 The manner and true order of the fight, Vill fortune never come with both hands full, Glo. Comfort your majesty! Cla. O my royal father! [Sinks down. Elook up! West. My sovereign lord, chear up yourself, War. Be patient, princes; you do know these Are with his highness very ordinary. [fits 20 Stand from him, give him air,; he'll straight be well. War. My gracious lord, you look beyond him 25 quite The prince but studies his companions, [guage, Be look'd upon, and learn'd; which once attain'd, West. Health to my sovereign! and new happi- Glo. The people fear me; for they do observe "Unfather'd heirs, and loathly births of nature: The seasons change their manners; as the year Hadfoundsome monthsasleep,andleap'dthemover. Cia. The river hath thrice flow'd,' no ebb between: 30| 35 40 Will whisper music to my weary spirit. War. Call for the music in the other room. |45|[They conveythe king toun inner part of the room. P. Henry. Who saw the duke of Clarence? Cla. I am here, brother, full of heaviness. P. Henry. How now! rain within doors, and [bird, 50 How doth the king? [none abroad! Glo. Exceeding ill. K. Henry. O Westmoreland, thou art a summer Hor. From enemies heaven keep your majesty:55] the old plays. i. e. the wall. 60 P. Henry. Heard he the good news yet? Glo. He alter'd much upon the hearing it. With joy, he will recover without physic. The king your father is dispos'd to sleep. 2 i. e. his passions. i. e. make me afraid. His is used for its, very frequently in 'ductions not brought forth according to the stated laws of generation. 'This is historically true. It happened on the 12th of October, 1411. Dull signifies melancholy, gentle, soothing. is still the custom in France to place the crown on the King's pillow when he is dying. War. War. Will't please your grace to go along with us? ther! fa This sleep is sound, indeed; this is a sleep, Into one giant arm, it shall not force [Exit. Re-enter Prince Henry. 30 35 40 K. Hen. Where is the crown? who took it from [hither. Thou seck'st thegreatness that will overwhelm thee. Thou hast stol'n that, which, after some few hours, Thy life did manifest thou lov’dst me not, Thou hid'st a thousand daggers in thy thoughts; 45 What! can'st thou not forbear me half an hour? Find him, my lord of Warwick; chide him When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleeps with thought, their brains00 Have you a ruffian, that will swear, drink, dance, with care, 'i. e. the gates of slumber. A Revel the night; rob, murder, and commit kind of cap, at present worn only by children; but so called from the cap worn by the Beguines, an order of nuns. Rigol means a circle. *Tolling is tak i. e. thou hast confirmed my opinion. ing toll. His accumulations. Kk 2 The |