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- Edition: Henry IV, Part 2
Henry IV, Part 2 (Folio 1 1623)
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0.1The Second Part of Henry the Fourth,
0.2Containing his Death: and the Coronation
of King Henry the Fift.
1Actus Primus. Scoena Prima.
2INDVCTION.
3Enter Rumour.
4OPen your Eares: For which of you will stop
5The vent of Hearing, when loud Rumor speakes?
6I, from the Orient, to the drooping West
8The Acts commenced on this Ball of Earth.
9Vpon my Tongue, continuall Slanders ride,
10The which, in euery Language, I pronounce,
12I speake of Peace, while couert Enmitie
13(Vnder the smile of Safety) wounds the World:
14And who but Rumour, who but onely I
15Make fearfull Musters, and prepar'd Defence,
17Is thought with childe, by the sterne Tyrant, Warre,
18And no such matter? Rumour, is a Pipe
21That the blunt Monster, with vncounted heads,
23Can play vpon it. But what neede I thus
24My well-knowne Body to Anathomize
25Among my houshold? Why is Rumour heere?
26I run before King Harries victory,
28Hath beaten downe yong Hotspurre, and his Troopes,
29Quenching the flame of bold Rebellion,
30Euen with the Rebels blood. But what meane I
32To noyse abroad, that Harry Monmouth fell
33Vnder the Wrath of Noble Hotspurres Sword:
34And that the King, before the Dowglas Rage
35Stoop'd his Annointed head, as low as death.
36This haue I rumour'd through the peasant-Townes,
37Betweene the Royall Field of Shrewsburie,
38And this Worme-eaten-Hole of ragged Stone,
39Where Hotspurres Father, old Northumberland,
41And not a man of them brings other newes
42Then they haue learn'd of Me. From Rumours Tongues,