Prince. O monstrous ! but one half-pennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack! What there is else, keep close; we'll read it at more advantage: there let him sleep till day. I'll to the Court in the morning. We must all to the wars, and thy place shall be honourable. I'll procure this fat rogue a charge of foot; and I know his death will be a march of twelve-score.65 The money shall be paid back again with advantage. Be with me betimes in the morning; and so, good morrow, Pointz.

Pointz. Good morrow, good my lord.

[Exeunt.

ACT III.

SCENE I.- Bangor. A Room in the Archdeacon's House. Enter HOTSPUR, WORCESTER, MORTIMER, and GLENDOWER. Mort. These promises are fair, the parties sure, And our induction1 full of prosperous hope.

Hot. Lord Mortimer,—and cousin Glendower,—will you sit down?- and uncle Worcester,- a plague upon it! I have forgot the map.

Glend. No, here it is.

Sit, cousin Percy; sit, good cousin Hotspur ;

For by that name as oft as Lancaster

Doth speak of you, his cheek looks pale, and with

A rising sigh he wisheth you in Heaven.

65 Meaning that a march of twelve-score yards will be his death.

1 Induction is used by Shakespeare for commencement, beginning. The introductory part of a play or poem was called the induction.

Hot. And you in Hell, as oft as he hears Owen Glendower spoke of.

Glend. I cannot blame him: at my nativity
The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes,
Of burning cressets; 2 ay, and at my birth
The frame and huge foundation of the Earth
Shaked like a coward.

Hot. Why, so it would have done at the same season, if your mother's cat had but kitten'd, though yourself had never been born.

Glend. I say the Earth did shake when I was born.

Hot. And I say the Earth was not of my mind, if you suppose as fearing you it shook.

Glend. The Heavens were all on fire, the Earth did tremble. Hot. O, then th' Earth shook to see the Heavens on fire, And not in fear of your nativity.

Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth

In strange eruptions; oft the teeming Earth
Is with a kind of colic pinch'd and vex'd
By the imprisoning of unruly wind

Within her womb; which, for enlargement striving,
Shakes the old beldam Earth, and topples down
Steeples and moss-grown towers. At your birth,
Our grandam Earth, having this distemperature,
In passion shook.

Glend.

Cousin, of many men

I do not bear these crossings.

Give me leave

To tell you once again, that at my birth

The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes ;

2 Cressets were lights used as beacons, and sometimes as torches to light processions; so named from the French, croissette, because the fire was placed on a little cross.

The goats ran from the mountains, and the herds
Were strangely clamorous in the frighted fields.
These signs have mark'd me extraordinary;
And all the courses of my life do show

I am not in the roll of common men.

Where is he living, - clipp'd in with the sea

That chides the banks of England, Scotland, Wales, -
Which calls me pupil, or hath read to me?

And bring him out that is but woman's son

Can trace me in the tedious ways of art,

And hold me pace in deep experiments.

Hot. I think there is no man speaks better Welsh. — I'll to dinner.

Mort. Peace, cousin Percy; you will make him mad.
Glend. I can call spirits from the vasty deep.

Hot. Why, so can I, or so can any man ;

But will they come when you do call for them?

Glend. Why, I can teach thee, cousin, to command
The Devil.

Hot. And I can teach thee, coz, to shame the Devil
By telling truth: tell truth, and shame the Devil.
If thou have power to raise him, bring him hither,
And I'll be sworn I've power to shame him hence.
O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!
Mort. Come, come,

No more of this unprofitable chat.

Glend. Three times hath Henry Bolingbroke made head Against my power; thrice from the banks of Wye

And sandy-bottom'd Severn have I sent

Him bootless home and weather-beaten back.

Hot. Home without boots, and in foul weather too!

How 'scaped he agues, in the Devil's name!

Glend. Come, here's the map: shall we divide our right According to our threefold order ta'en?

Mort. Th' archdeacon hath divided it
Into three limits very equally.

England, from Trent and Severn hitherto,3
By south and east is to my part assign'd :
All westward, Wales beyond the Severn shore,
And all the fertile land within that bound,
To Owen Glendower : — and, dear coz, to you
The remnant northward, lying off from Trent.
And our indentures tripartite 4 are drawn ;
Which being sealèd interchangeably, -
A business that this night may execute,·
To-morrow, cousin Percy, you, and I,
And my good Lord of Worcester, will set forth
To meet your father and the Scottish power,

As is appointed us, at Shrewsbury.

My father Glendower is not ready yet,

Nor shall we need his help these fourteen days:

[To GLEND.] Within that space you may have drawn to

gether

Your tenants, friends, and neighbouring gentlemen.

Glend. A shorter time shall send me to you, lords:

And in my conduct shall your ladies come;

From whom you now must steal, and take no leave,
Or there will be a world of water shed

Upon the parting of your wives and you.

3 Hitherto was an adverb of place as well as of time.

4 Indentures are covenants or compacts; here called tripartite because there are three parties to them.

Ordinarily they are between two parties,
These were to be signed and sealed in-

and then are drawn in duplicate.
terchangeably, that each of the three parties might have a copy.

Hot. Methinks my moiety,5 north from Burton here,

In quantity equals not one of yours:

See how this river comes me cranking in,6

7

And cuts me from the best of all my land
A huge half-moon, a monstrous cantle out.
I'll have the current in this place damn'd up;
And here the smug and silver Trent shall run
In a new channel, fair and evenly:

It shall not wind with such a deep indent,

To rob me of so rich a bottom & here.

Glend. Not wind? it shall, it must; you see it doth.
Mort. Yea, but

Mark how he bears his course, and runs me up

With like advantage on the other side;
Gelding th' opposèd continent 9 as much

As on the other side it takes from you.

Wor. Yea, but a little charge will trench him here, And on this north side win this cape of land;

And then he runneth straight and evenly.

Hot. I'll have it so: a little charge will do it.

Glend. I will not have it alter'd.

Hot.

Glend. No, nor you shall not.
Hot.

Glend. Why, that will I.

Will not you?

Who shall say me nay?

5 A moiety was often used by the writers of Shakespeare's age as a portion of any thing, though not divided into equal parts.

6 To crank is to crook, to turn in and out.

7 A cantle is a portion, a corner or fragment of any thing.

8 Bottom is used of a low and level piece of land, such as the interval of a river.

9 Continent was used in a general sense for that which holds in or contains any thing; hence for the banks of a river.