1816King. Lords, giue vs leaue:

1817The Prince of Wales, and I,

1818Must haue some priuate conference:

1819But be neere at hand,

1820For wee shall presently haue neede of you.

1822I know not whether Heauen will haue it so,

1823For some displeasing seruice I haue done;

1824That in his secret Doome, out of my Blood,

1825Hee'le breede Reuengement, and a Scourge for me:

1826But thou do'st in thy passages of Life,

1827Make me beleeue, that thou art onely mark'd

1828For the hot vengeance, and the Rod of heauen

1829To punish my Mistreadings. Tell me else,

1830Could such inordinate and low desires,

1831Such poore, such bare, such lewd, such meane attempts,

1832Such barren pleasures, rude societie,

1833As thou art matcht withall, and grafted too,

1834Accompanie the greatnesse of thy blood,

1835And hold their leuell with thy Princely heart?

1836Prince. So please your Maiesty, I would I could

1837Quit all offences with as cleare excuse,

1838As well as I am doubtlesse I can purge

1839My selfe of many I am charg'd withall:

1840Yet such extenuation let me begge,

1841As in reproofe of many Tales deuis'd,

1842Which oft the Eare of Greatnesse needes must heare,

1843By smiling Pick-thankes, and base Newes-mongers;

1844I may for some things true, wherein my youth

1845Hath faultie wandred, and irregular,

1846Finde pardon on my true submission.

1847King. Heauen pardon thee:

1848Yet let me wonder, Harry,

1849At thy affections, which doe hold a Wing

1850Quite from the flight of all thy ancestors.

1851Thy place in Councell thou hast rudely lost,

1852Which by thy younger Brother is supply'de;

1853And art almost an alien to the hearts

1854Of all the Court and Princes of my blood.

1855The hope and expectation of thy time

1856Is ruin'd, and the Soule of euery man

1857Prophetically doe fore-thinke thy fall.

1858Had I so lauish of my presence beene,

1859So common hackney'd in the eyes of men,

1860So stale and cheape to vulgar Company;

1861Opinion, that did helpe me to the Crowne,

1862Had still kept loyall to possession,

1863And left me in reputelesse banishment,

1864A fellow of no marke, nor likelyhood.

1865By being seldome seene, I could not stirre,

1866But like a Comet, I was wondred at,

1867That men would tell their Children, This is hee:

1868Others would say; Where, Which is Bullingbrooke.

1869And then I stole all Courtesie from Heauen,

1870And drest my selfe in such Humilitie,

1871That I did plucke Allegeance from mens hearts,

1872Lowd Showts and Salutations from their mouthes,

1873Euen in the presence of the Crowned King.

1874Thus I did keepe my Person fresh and new,

1875My Presence like a Robe Pontificall,

1876Ne're seene, but wondred at: and so my State,

1877Seldome but sumptuous, shewed like a Feast,

1878And wonne by rarenesse such Solemnitie.

1879The skipping King hee ambled vp and downe,

1880With shallow Iesters, and rash Bauin Wits,

1881Soone kindled, and soone burnt, carded his State,

1882Mingled his Royaltie with Carping Fooles,

1883Had his great Name prophaned with their Scornes,

1884And gaue his Countenance, against his Name,

1885To laugh at gybing Boyes, and stand the push

1886Of euery Beardlesse vaine Comparatiue;

1887Grew a Companion to the common Streetes,

1888Enfeoff'd himselfe to Popularitie:

1889That being dayly swallowed by mens Eyes,

1890They surfeted with Honey, and began to loathe

1891The taste of Sweetnesse, whereof a little

1892More then a little, is by much too much.

1893So when he had occasion to be seene,

1894He was but as the Cuckow is in Iune,

1895Heard, not regarded: seene but with such Eyes,

1896As sicke and blunted with Communitie,

1897Affoord no extraordinarie Gaze,

1898Such as is bent on Sunne-like Maiestie,

1899When it shines seldome in admiring Eyes:

1900But rather drowz'd, and hung their eye-lids downe,

1901Slept in his Face, and rendred such aspect

1902As Cloudie men vse to doe to their aduersaries,

1903Being with his presence glutted, gorg'd, and full.

1904And in that very Line, Harry, standest thou:

1905For thou hast lost thy Princely Priuiledge,

1906With vile participation. Not an Eye

1907But is awearie of thy common sight,

1908Saue mine, which hath desir'd to see thee more:

1909Which now doth that I would not haue it doe,

1910Make blinde it selfe with foolish tendernesse.

1911Prince. I shall hereafter, my thrice gracious Lord,

1912Be more my selfe.

1913King. For all the World,

1914As thou art to this houre, was Richard then,

1915When I from France set foot at Rauenspurgh;

1916And euen as I was then, is Percy now:

1917Now by my Scepter, and my Soule to boot,

1918He hath more worthy interest to the State

1919Then thou, the shadow of Succession;

1920For of no Right, nor colour like to Right.

1921He doth fill fields with Harneis in the Realme,

1922Turnes head against the Lyons armed Iawes;

1923And being no more in debt to yeeres, then thou,

1924Leades ancient Lords, and reuerent Bishops on

1925To bloody Battailes, and to brusing Armes.

1926What neuer-dying Honor hath he got,

1927Against renowned Dowglas? whose high Deedes,

1928Whose hot Incursions, and great Name in Armes,

1929Holds from all Souldiers chiefe Maioritie,

1930And Militarie Title Capitall.

1931Through all the Kingdomes that acknowledge Christ,

1932Thrice hath the Hotspur Mars, in swathing Clothes,

1933This Infant Warrior, in his Enterprises,

1934Discomfited great Dowglas, ta'ne him once,

1935Enlarged him, and made a friend of him,

1936To fill the mouth of deepe Defiance vp,

1937And shake the peace and safetie of our Throne.

1938And what say you to this? Percy, Northumberland,

1939The Arch-bishops Grace of Yorke, Dowglas, Mortimer,

1940Capitulate against vs, and are vp.

1941But wherefore doe I tell these Newes to thee?

1942Why, Harry, doe I tell thee of my Foes,

1943Which art my neer'st and dearest Enemie?

1944Thou, that art like enough, through vassall Feare,

1945Base Inclination, and the start of Spleene,

1946To fight against me vnder Percies pay,

1947To dogge his heeles, and curtsie at his frownes,

1948To shew how much thou art degenerate.

1949Prince. Doe not thinke so, you shall not finde it so:

1950And Heauen forgiue them, that so much haue sway'd

1951Your Maiesties good thoughts away from me:

1952I will redeeme all this on Percies head,

1953And in the closing of some glorious day,

1954Be bold to tell you, that I am your Sonne,

1955When I will weare a Garment all of Blood,

1956And staine my fauours in a bloody Maske:

1957Which washt away, shall scowre my shame with it.

1958And that shall be the day, when ere it lights,

1959That this same Child of Honor and Renowne,

1960This gallant Hotspur, this all-praysed Knight,

1961And your vnthought-of Harry chance to meet:

1962For euery Honor sitting on his Helme,

1963Would they were multitudes, and on my head

1964My shames redoubled. For the time will come,

1965That I shall make this Northerne Youth exchange

1966His glorious Deedes for my Indignities:

1967Percy is but my Factor, good my Lord,

1968To engrosse vp glorious Deedes on my behalfe:

1969And I will call him to so strict account,

1970That he shall render euery Glory vp,

1971Yea, euen the sleightest worship of his time,

1972Or I will teare the Reckoning from his Heart.

1973This, in the Name of Heauen, I promise here:

1974The which, if I performe, and doe suruiue,

1975I doe beseech your Maiestie, may salue

1976The long-growne Wounds of my intemperature:

1977If not, the end of Life cancells all Bands,

1978And I will dye a hundred thousand Deaths,

1979Ere breake the smallest parcell of this Vow.

1980King. A hundred thousand Rebels dye in this:

1981Thou shalt haue Charge, and soueraigne trust herein.

1983How now good Blunt? thy Lookes are full of speed.

1984Blunt. So hath the Businesse that I come to speake of.

1985Lord Mortimer of Scotland hath sent word,

1986That Dowglas and the English Rebels met

1987The eleuenth of this moneth, at Shrewsbury:

1988A mightie and a fearefull Head they are,

1989(If Promises be kept on euery hand)

1990As euer offered foule play in a State.

1991King. The Earle of Westmerland set forth to day:

1992With him my sonne, Lord Iohn of Lancaster,

1993For this aduertisement is fiue dayes old.

1994On Wednesday next, Harry thou shalt set forward:

1995On Thursday, wee our selues will march.

1996Our meeting is Bridgenorth: and Harry, you shall march

1997Through Glocestershire: by which account,

1998Our Businesse valued some twelue dayes hence,

1999Our generall Forces at Bridgenorth shall meete.

2000Our Hands are full of Businesse: let's away,

2001Aduantage feedes him fat, while men delay. Exeunt.