Henry IV, Part 1 (Quarto 1, 1598)
Author: William ShakespeareEditor: Rosemary GabyNot Peer Reviewed
- Title Page
- Introduction
- Henry IV, Part 1: Introduction
- Henry IV, Part 1: Performance History
- Henry IV, Part 1: Critical Reception
- Henry IV, Part 1: Textual Introduction
- Henry IV, Part 1: Chronology
- Henry IV, Part 1: Bibliography
- Henry IV, Part 1: List of Characters
- Texts
- Henry IV, Part 1 (Modern)
- Henry IV, Part 1 (Folio 1 1623)
- Henry IV, Part 1 (Quarto 0, 1598)
- Henry IV, Part 1 (Quarto 1, 1598)
- Supplementary Materials
- Acts and Monuments, 1563 (Selection)
- Hall's Chronicle (Selection)
- The Prince (Selection)
- A Mirror for Magistrates (Selection)
- Sir John Oldcastle (Prologue)
- Chronicles of England (Selection)
- The Civil Wars Between the Two Houses of Lancaster and York (Selection)
- A ballad entitled Northumberland News
- Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Selection)
- About
- Help
¶_The Trumpets sound. Enter the King, the Prince of Wales, Lord
¶_Iohn of Lancaster, Earle of Westmerland, with Worcester,
¶King. Thus euer did rebellion find rebuke,
¶Ill
spirited Worce
ster, did not we
send grace,
¶Pardon, and tearmes of loue to all of you?
3140And would
st thou turne our offers contrary?
¶Mi
su
se the tenor of thy kin
smans tru
st.
¶Three knights vpon our party
slaine to day,
¶A noble Earle and many a creature el
se,
¶Had been aliue this houre,
3145If like a Chri
stian thou had
st truly borne
¶Betwixt our armies true intelligence.
¶Wor. What I haue done my
safety vrg'd me to:
¶And I embrace this fortune patiently,
¶Since not to be auoided it fals on me.
3150King. Beare Worce
ster to the death and Vernon too:
¶Other Offendors we will pau
se vpon.
¶Prin. The noble Scot Lord Dowglas, when he
saw
3155The fortune of the day quite turnd from him,
¶The noble Percy
slaine and all his men
¶Vpon the foot of feare, fled with the re
st
¶And falling from a hill, he was
so brui
sd,
¶That the pur
suers tooke him. At my tent
3160The Douglas is: and I be
seech your grace
¶Prin. Then brother Iohn of Lanca
ster,
¶To you this honorable bounty
shal belong,
3165Go to the Douglas and deliuer him
¶Vp to his plea
sure, ran
somle
sse and free,
¶His valours
shewne vpon our Cre
sts to daie
¶Haue taught vs how to cheri
sh
such high deeds,
¶Euen in the bo
some of our aduer
saries.
Iohn. I thanke your grace for this high curtesie,
Which I shall giue away immediatly.
3170King. Then this remaines that we deuide our power,
¶You
sonne Iohn, and my coo
sen We
stmerland
¶Towards York
shal bend, you with your deere
st
speed
¶To meet Northumberland and the Prelate Scroope,
¶Who as we heare are bu
sily in armes:
3175My
selfe and you
sonne Harry will towards Wales,
¶To fight with Glendower and the Earle of March,
¶Rebellion in this land
shall loo
se his
sway,
¶Meeting the checke of
such another day,
¶And
since this bu
sine
sse
so faire is done,
3180Let vs not leaue till all our owne be won.
