Henry IV, Part 1 (Modern)

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 2957Alarum. Excursions. Enter the king, the prince, Lord John 2958of Lancaster, Earl of Westmorland.
4.12960King
 I prithee, Harry, withdraw thyself, thou bleed'st too much.
4.22961Lord John of Lancaster, go you with him.
4.32962Lancaster
 Not I, my lord, unless I did bleed too.
4.42963Prince
 I beseech your majesty, make up,
4.52964Lest your retirement do amaze your friends.
4.62965King
 I will do so. My lord of Westmorland,
4.72966Lead him to his tent.
4.82967Westmorland
 Come, my lord, I'll lead you to your tent.
4.92968Prince
 Lead me, my lord? I do not need your help,
4.102969And god forbid a shallow scratch should drive
4.112970The Prince of Wales from such a field as this,
4.122971Where stained nobility lies trodden on,
4.132972And rebels' arms triumph in massacres.
4.142973Lancaster
 We breathe too long. Come, cousin Westmorland,
4.152974Our duty this way lies. For god's sake, come.
4.15.1 [Exit Lancaster and Westmorland.]
4.162975Prince
 By god, thou hast deceived me, Lancaster;
4.172976I did not think thee lord of such a spirit.
4.182977Before I loved thee as a brother, John,
4.192978But now I do respect thee as my soul.
4.202979King
 I saw him hold Lord Percy at the point
4.212980With lustier maintenance than I did look for
4.222981Of such an ungrown warrior.
4.232982Prince
 Oh, this boy lends mettle to us all!
4.23.1Exit [Prince].
4.23.2[Enter Douglas.]
4.242984Douglas
 Another king! They grow like Hydra's heads.
4.252985I am the Douglas, fatal to all those
4.262986That wear those colors on them. What art thou
4.272987That counterfeit'st the person of a king?
4.282988King
 The king himself, who, Douglas, grieves at heart
4.292989So many of his shadows thou hast met
4.302990And not the very king. I have two boys
4.312991Seek Percy and thyself about the field;
4.322992But seeing thou fall'st on me so luckily,
4.332993I will assay thee; and defend thyself.
4.342994Douglas
 I fear thou art another counterfeit;
4.352995And yet, in faith, thou bear'st thee like a king.
4.362996But mine I am sure thou art, whoe'er thou be,
4.372997And thus I win thee.
4.37.12998They fight. The king being in danger, enter Prince of Wales.
4.382999Prince
 Hold up thy head, vile Scot, or thou art like
4.393000Never to hold it up again! The spirits
4.403001Of valiant Shirley, Stafford, Blunt, are in my arms.
4.413002It is the Prince of Wales that threatens thee,
4.423003Who never promiseth but he means to pay.
4.42.13004They fight, Douglas flieth.
4.433005Cheerly, my lord! How fares your grace?
4.443006Sir Nicholas Gawsey hath for succour sent,
4.453007And so hath Clifton. I'll to Clifton straight.
4.463008King
 Stay and breathe awhile.
4.473009Thou hast redeemed thy lost opinion,
4.483010And showed thou mak'st some tender of my life,
4.493011In this fair rescue thou hast brought to me.
4.503012Prince
 O god, they did me too much injury
4.513013That ever said I hearkened for your death.
4.523014If it were so, I might have let alone
4.533015The insulting hand of Douglas over you,
4.543016Which would have been as speedy in your end
4.553017As all the poisonous potions in the world,
4.563018And saved the treacherous labor of your son.
4.573019King
 Make up to Clifton; I'll to Sir Nicholas Gawsey.
4.57.1Exit King.
4.57.23020Enter Hotspur.
4.583021Hotspur
 If I mistake not, thou art Harry Monmouth.
4.593022Prince
 Thou speak'st as if I would deny my name.
4.603023Hotspur
 My name is Harry Percy.
 3024Prince
 My name is Harry Percy.  Why then I see
4.61A very valiant rebel of the name.
4.623025I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy,
4.633026To share with me in glory any more.
4.643027Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere,
4.653028Nor can one England brook a double reign
4.663029Of Harry Percy and the Prince of Wales.
4.673030Hotspur
 Nor shall it, Harry, for the hour is come
4.683031To end the one of us, and would to god
4.693032Thy name in arms were now as great as mine.
4.703033Prince
 I'll make it greater ere I part from thee,
4.713034And all the budding honors on thy crest
4.723035I'll crop to make a garland for my head.
4.733036Hotspur
 I can no longer brook thy vanities.
4.73.13037They fight. Enter Falstaff.
4.743038Falstaff
 Well said, Hal! To it, Hal! Nay, you shall find no boy's 3039play here, I can tell you.
4.74.13040Enter Douglas, he fighteth with Falstaff, [who] falls down 3041as if he were dead. [Exit Douglas.]
4.74.2The prince killeth Percy.
4.753042Hotspur
 O Harry, thou hast robbed me of my youth.
4.763043I better brook the loss of brittle life
4.773044Than those proud titles thou hast won of me.
4.783045They wound my thoughts worse than thy sword my flesh.
4.793046But thoughts, the slaves of life, and life, time's fool,
4.803047And time, that takes survey of all the world,
4.813048Must have a stop. Oh, I could prophesy,
4.823049But that the earthy and cold hand of death
4.833050Lies on my tongue. No, Percy, thou art dust,
4.843051And food for -- 
4.84.1[He dies.]
4.853052Prince
 For worms, brave Percy. Fare thee well, great heart.
4.863053Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk!
4.873054When that this body did contain a spirit,
4.883055A kingdom for it was too small a bound,
4.893056But now two paces of the vilest earth
4.903057Is room enough. This earth that bears thee dead
4.913058Bears not alive so stout a gentleman.
4.923059If thou wert sensible of courtesy,
4.933060I should not make so dear a show of zeal;
4.943061But let my favors hide thy mangled face,
4.953062And even in thy behalf I'll thank myself
4.963063For doing these fair rites of tenderness.
4.973064Adieu, and take thy praise with thee to heaven.
4.983065Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave,
4.993066But not remembered in thy epitaph.
4.99.1He spieth Falstaff on the ground.
4.1003067What, old acquaintance! Could not all this flesh
4.1013068Keep in a little life? Poor Jack, farewell.
4.1023069I could have better spared a better man.
4.1033070Oh, I should have a heavy miss of thee,
4.1043071If I were much in love with vanity.
4.1053072Death hath not struck so fat a deer today,
4.1063073Though many dearer in this bloody fray.
4.1073074Embowelled will I see thee by and by.
4.1083075Till then, in blood by noble Percy lie.
4.108.1Exit.
4.108.23076Falstaff riseth up.
4.1093077Falstaff
 Embowelled? If thou embowel me today, I'll give you leave 3078to powder me, and eat me too, tomorrow. 'Sblood, 'twas time 3079to counterfeit, or that hot termagant Scot had paid me, scot and lot 3080too. Counterfeit? I lie, I am no counterfeit. To die is to be a 3081counterfeit, for he is but the counterfeit of a man, who hath not 3082the life of a man. But to counterfeit dying when a man thereby liveth 3083is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfect image of life indeed. 3085The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part 3086I have saved my life. Zounds, I am afraid of this gunpowder 3087Percy, though he be dead. How if he should counterfeit too, and rise? 3088By my faith, I am afraid he would prove the better counterfeit. 3089Therefore I'll make him sure; yea, and I'll swear I killed him. Why 3090may not he rise as well as I? Nothing confutes me but eyes, and 3091nobody sees me. Therefore, sirrah, [stabbing him] with a new wound in your thigh, 3092come you along with me.
4.109.13093He takes up Hotspur on his back. Enter Prince [and] 3094John of Lancaster.
4.1103095Prince
 Come, brother John. Full bravely hast thou fleshed
4.1113096Thy maiden sword.
4.1123097Lancaster
 But soft; whom have we here?
4.1133098Did you not tell me this fat man was dead?
4.1143099Prince
 I did, I saw him dead,
4.1153100Breathless and bleeding on the ground. Art thou alive?
4.1163101Or is it fantasy that plays upon our eyesight?
4.1173102I prithee speak; we will not trust our eyes
4.1183103Without our ears. Thou art not what thou seem'st.
4.1193104Falstaff
 No, that's certain: I am not a double man. But if I be 3105not Jack Falstaff, then am I a jack.
4.119.1[He puts down the body.]
4.120There is Percy. If your 3106father will do me any honor, so; if not, let him kill the next 3107Percy himself. I look to be either earl or duke, I can 3108assure you.
4.1213109Prince
 Why, Percy I killed myself, and saw thee dead.
4.1223110Falstaff
 Didst thou? Lord, lord, how this world is given to 3111lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath, and so was 3112he; but we rose both at an instant, and fought a long hour by 3113Shrewsbury clock. If I may be believed, so; if not, let them 3114that should reward valor bear the sin upon their own 3115heads. I'll take it upon my death I gave him this wound in the 3116thigh. If the man were alive and would deny it, zounds, I would 3117make him eat a piece of my sword.
4.1233119Lancaster
 This is the strangest tale that ever I heard.
4.1243120Prince
 This is the strangest fellow, brother John.
4.1253121[To Falstaff] Come, bring your luggage nobly on your back.
4.1263122For my part, if a lie may do thee grace,
4.1273123I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have.
4.127.13124A retreat is sounded.
4.1283125Prince
 The trumpet sounds retreat; the day is ours.
4.1293126Come, brother, let us to the highest of the field
4.1303127To see what friends are living, who are dead.
4.130.1Exeunt [Prince and Lancaster].
4.1313128Falstaff
 I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, 3129god reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll 3130purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman 3131should do.
4.131.1 Exit [with Hotspur's body].
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