29602713King. I preethe Harry withdraw thy selfe, thou bleedest too (much,

29612714Lord Iohn of Lancaster go you with him.

29622715P.Iohn. Not I my Lord, vnlesse I did bleed too.

29632716Prin. I beseech your maiestie make vp,

29642717Least your retirement do amaze your friends.

29652718King. I will do so. My Lord of Westmerland lead him to his(tent.

29672719West. Come my Lord, ile lead you to your tent.

29682720Prin. Lead me my Lord? I do not need your helpe,

29692721And God forbid a shallow scratch should driue

29702722The Prince of Wales from such a field as this,

29712723Where staind nobilitie lies troden on,

29722724And rebels armes triumphe in massacres.

29732725Ioh. We breath toolong, come coosen Westmerland

29742726Our dutie this way lies: For Gods sake come.

29752727Prin. By God thou hast deceiu'd me Lancaster,

29762728I did not thinke thee Lord of such a spirit,

29772729Before I lou'd thee as a brother Iohn,

29782730But now I do respect thee as my soule.

29792731King. I saw him hold Lord Percy at the poynt,

29802732With lustier maintenance then I did looke for

29812733Of such an vngrowne warrior.

29822734Prin. O this boy lends mettall to vs all. Exit.

29842735Doug. Another king, they grow like Hydraes heads,

29852736I am the Douglas fatall to all those

29862737That weare those colours on them. What art thou

29872738That counterfetst the person of a King?

29882739King. The king himself, who Douglas grieues at hart,

29892740So many of his shadowes thou hast met

29902741And not the verie king, I haue two boies

29912742Seeke Percy and thy selfe about the field,

29922743But seeing thou falst on me so luckily

29932744I will assay thee and defend thy selfe.

29942745Doug. I feare thou art another counterfet,

29952746And yet in faith thou bearest thee like a king,

29962747But mine I am sure thou art who ere thou be,

29972748And thus I winne thee.

29992750Prin. Hold vp thy head vile Scot, or thou art like

30002751Neuer to hold it vp againe, the spirits

30012752Of Valiant Sherly, Stafford, Blunt are in my armes,

30022753It is the Prince of Wales that threatens thee,

30032754Who neuer promiseth but he meanes to pay.

30052756Cheerly my Lord, how fares your grace?

30062757Sir Nicholas Gawsey hath for succour sent,

30072758And so hath Clifton, ile to Clifton straight.

30082759King. Stay and breath a while,

K2 Thou

30092760Thou hast redeemed thy lost opinion,

30102761And shewde thou makst some tender of my life,

30112762In this faire rescue thou hast brought to me.

30122763Prin. O God they did me too much iniury,

30132764That euer said I harkned for your death,

30142765If it were so, I might haue let alone

30152766The insulting hand of Douglas ouer you,

30162767Which would haue been as speedy in your end

30172768As al the poisonous potions in the world,

30182769And sau'd the trecherous labour of your sonne.

30192770King. Make vp to Clifton, ile to S. Nicholas Gawsey. Exit Ki:

30212772Hot. If I mistake not, thou art Harry Monmouth.

30222773Prin. Thou speakst as if I would deny my name.

30232774Hot. My name is Harry Percy.

30242775Pr. Why then I see a very valiant rebel of the name;

30252776I am the Prince of Wales, and thinke not Percy

30262777To share with me in glory any more:

30272778Two stars keepe not their motion in one sphere,

30282779Nor can one England brooke a double raigne

30292780Of Harry Percy and the Prince of Wales.

30302781Hot. Now shal it Harry, for the houre is come

30312782To end the one of vs, and would to God

30322783Thy name in armes were now as great as mine.

30332784Prin. Ile make it greater ere I part from thee,

30342785And al the budding honors on thy crest

30352786Ile crop to make a garland for my head.

30362787Hot. I can no longer brooke thy vanities.

30382789Falst. Well said Hall, to it Hall. Nay you shall find no boyes

30392790play here I can tel you.

30422794Hot. Oh Harry thou hast robd me of my youth,

30432795I better brooke the losse of brittle life

30442796Then those proud titles thou hast won of me,

30452797They wound my thoughts worse then thy sword my flesh,

30462798But thoughts the slaues of life, and life times foole,

30472799And time that takes suruey of all the world

30482800Must haue a stop. O I could prophecy,

30492801But that the earthy and cold hand of death

30502802Lies on my tongue: no Percy thou art dust

30512803And food for.

30522804Pr. For wormes, braue Percy. Fare thee wel great hart

30532805Ill weaud ambition, how much art thou shrunke,

30542806When that this body did containe a spirit,

30552807A kingdom for it was too small a bound,

30562808But now two paces of the vilest earth

30572809Is roome inough, this earth that beares the dead

30582810Beares not aliue so stout a gentleman,

30592811If thou wert sensible of curtesie

30602812I should not make so deare a shew of zeale,

30612813But let my fauors hide thy mangled face,

30622814And euen in thy behalfe ile thanke my selfe,

30632815For doing these faire rights of tendernesse,

30642816Adiew and take thy praise with thee to heauen,

30652817Thy ignominy sleepe with thee in the graue,

30662818But not remembred in thy Epitaph.

30672820What old acquaintance, could not all this flesh

30682821Keepe in a little life? poore Iacke farewell,

30692822I could haue better sparde a better man:

30702823O I should haue a heauy misse of thee,

30712824If I were much in loue with vanitie:

30722825Death hath not strooke so fat a Deere to day,

30732826Though many dearer in this bloudy fray,

30742827Inboweld will I see thee by and by,

30752828Til then in bloud by noble Percy lie.

30772830Fal. Inboweld, if thou inbowel me to day, ile giue you leaue

30782831to powder me and eate me too to morrowe. Zbloud twas time

30792832to counterfet, or that hot termagant Scot had paide me scot and

30802833lot too. Counterfet? I lie, I am no counterfet, to die is to bee a

30812834counterfet, for he is but the counterfet of a man, who hath not

K3. the

30822835the life of a mã: but to coũterfet dying when a man therby liueth,

30832836is to be no counterfet, but the true & perfect image of life indeed.

30852837The better parte of valour is discretion, in the which better part

30862838I haue saued my life. Zounds I am afraid of this gunpowder Per-

30872839cy, though he be dead, how if he should counterfet too and rise?

30882840by my faith I am afraid hee woulde proue the better counterfet,

30892841therefore ile make him sure, yea, and ile sweare I kild him. Why

30902842may not he rise aswell as I? nothing confutes me but eies, and no

30912843body sees me: therefore sirrha, with a new wound in your thigh,

30932844come you along with me.

30952847Prin. Come brother Iohn, full brauely hast thou flesht

30962848Thy mayden sword.

30972849Iohn of Lan. But soft, whom haue we heere?

30982850Did you not tell me this fat man was dead?

30992851Prin. I did, I saw him dead,

31002852Breathlesse and bleeding on the ground. Art thou aliue?

31012853Or is it fantasie that playes vpon our eiesight?

31022854I preethe speake, we will not trust our eies

31032855Without our eares, thou art not what thou seemst.

31042856Fal. No thats certaine, I am not a double man: but if I bee

31052857not Iacke Falstalffe, then am I a Iacke: there is Percy, if your

31062858father will doe me anie honour, so: if not, let him kill the next

31072859Percie himselfe: I looke to bee either Earle or Duke, I can as-

31082860sure you.

31092861Prin. Why Percy, I kild my selfe, and saw thee dead.

31102862Falst. Didst thou? Lord, Lord, howe this world is giuen to

31112863lying, I graunt you I was downe, and out of breath, and so was

31122864he, but we rose both at an instant, and fought a long houre by

31132865Shrewesburie clocke, if I may be beleeude so: if not, let them

31142866that should rewarde valour, beare the sinne vppon their owne

31152867heads. Ile take it vpon my death, I gaue him this wound in the

31162868thigh, if the man were aliue, and would denie it, zounds I would

31172869make him eate a peece of my sword.

31192870Iohn. This is the strangest tale that euer I heard.

31202871Prin. This is the strangest fellow, brother Iohn,

31212872Come bring your luggage nobly on your backe.

31222873For my part, if a lie may do thee grace,

31232874Ile guild it with the happiest termes I haue.

31252876Prin. The Trumpet sounds retrait, the day is our,

31262877Come brother let vs to the highest of the field,

31272878To see what friends are liuing, who are dead.

31282879Fal. Ile follow as they say for reward. Hee that rewardes mee

31292880God reward him. If I do growe great, ile growe lesse, for ile

31302881purge and leaue Sacke, and liue cleanlie as a noble man

31312882should do. Exit.