2643Then get thee gone, and digge my graue thy selfe,

2644And bid the merry Bels ring to thy eare

2645That thou art Crowned, not that I am dead.

2646Let all the Teares, that should bedew my Hearse

2647Be drops of Balme, to sanctifie thy head:

2648Onely compound me with forgotten dust.

2649Giue that, which gaue thee life, vnto the Wormes:

2650Plucke downe my Officers, breake my Decrees;

2651For now a time is come, to mocke at Forme.

2652Henry the fift is Crown'd: Vp Vanity,

2653Downe Royall State: All you sage Counsailors, hence:

2654And to the English Court, assemble now

2655From eu'ry Region, Apes of Idlenesse.

2656Now neighbor-Confines, purge you of your Scum:

2657Haue you a Ruffian that swill sweare? drinke? dance?

2658Reuell the night? Rob? Murder? and commit

2659The oldest sinnes, the newest kinde of wayes?

2660Be happy, he will trouble you no more:

2661England, shall double gill'd, his trebble guilt.

2662England, shall giue him Office, Honor, Might:

2663For the Fift Harry, from curb'd License pluckes

2664The muzzle of Restraint; and the wilde Dogge

2665Shall flesh his tooth in euery Innocent.

2666O my poore Kingdome (sicke, with ciuill blowes)

2667When that my Care could not with-hold thy Ryots,

2668What wilt thou do, when Ryot is thy Care?

2669O, thou wilt be a Wildernesse againe,

2670Peopled with Wolues (thy old Inhabitants.

2671Prince. O pardon me (my Liege)

2672But for my Teares,

2673The most Impediments vnto my Speech,

2674I had fore-stall'd this deere, and deepe Rebuke,

2675Ere you (with greefe) had spoke, and I had heard

2676The course of it so farre. There is your Crowne,

2677And he that weares the Crowne immortally,

2678Long guard it yours. If I affect it more,

2679Then as your Honour, and as your Renowne,

2680Let me no more from this Obedience rise,

2681Which my most true, and inward duteous Spirit

2682Teacheth this prostrate, and exteriour bending.

2683Heauen witnesse with me, when I heere came in,

2684And found no course of breath within your Maiestie,

2685How cold it strooke my heart. If I do faine,

2686O let me, in my present wildenesse, dye,

2687And neuer liue, to shew th'incredulous World,

2688The Noble change that I haue purposed.

2689Comming to looke on you, thinking you dead,

2690(And dead almost (my Liege) to thinke you were)

2691I spake vnto the Crowne (as hauing sense)

2692And thus vpbraided it. The Care on thee depending,

2693Hath fed vpon the body of my Father,

2694Therefore, thou best of Gold, art worst of Gold.

2695Other, lesse fine in Charract, is more precious,

2696Preseruing life, in Med'cine potable:

2697But thou, most Fine, most Honour'd, most Renown'd,

2698Hast eate the Bearer vp.

2699Thus (my Royall Liege)

2700Accusing it, I put it on my Head,

2701To try with it (as with an Enemie,

2702That had before my face murdred my Father)

2703The Quarrell of a true Inheritor.

2704But if it did infect my blood with Ioy,

2705Or swell my Thoughts, to any straine of Pride,

2706If any Rebell, or vaine spirit of mine,

2707Did, with the least Affection of a Welcome,

2708Giue entertainment to the might of it,

2709Let heauen, for euer, keepe it from my head,

2710And make me, as the poorest Vassaile is,

2711That doth with awe, and terror kneele to it.

2712King. O my Sonne!

2713Heauen put it in thy minde to take it hence,

2714That thou might'st ioyne the more, thy Fathers loue,

2715Pleading so wisely, in excuse of it.

2716Come hither Harrie, sit thou by my bedde,

2717And heare (I thinke, the very latest Counsell

2718That euer I shall breath: Heauen knowes, my Sonne)

2719By what by-pathes, and indirect crook'd-wayes

2720I met this Crowne: and I my selfe know well

2721How troublesome it sate vpon my head.

2722To thee, it shall descend with better Quiet,

2723Better Opinion, better Confirmation:

2724For all the soyle of the Atchieuement goes

2725With me, into the Earth. It seem'd in mee,

2726But as an Honour snatch'd with boyst'rous hand,

2727And I had many liuing, to vpbraide

2728My gaine of it, by their Assistances,

2729Which dayly grew to Quarrell, and to Blood-shed,

2730Wounding supposed Peace.

2731All these bold Feares,

2732Thou seest (with perill) I haue answered:

2733For all my Reigne, hath beene but as a Scene

2734Acting that argument. And now my death

2735Changes the Moode: For what in me, was purchas'd,

2736Falles vpon thee, in a more Fayrer sort.

2737So thou, the Garland wear'st successiuely.

2738Yet, though thou stand'st more sure, then I could do,

2739Thou art not firme enough, since greefes are greene:

2740And all thy Friends, which thou must make thy Friends

2741Haue but their stings, and teeth, newly tak'n out,

2742By whose fell working, I was first aduanc'd,

2743And by whose power, I well might lodge a Feare

2744To be againe displac'd. Which to auoyd,

2745I cut them off: and had a purpose now

2746To leade out many to the Holy Land;

2747Least rest, and lying still, might make them looke

2748Too neere vnto my State.

2749Therefore (my Harrie)

2750Be it thy course to busie giddy Mindes

2751With Forraigne Quarrels: that Action hence borne out,

2752May waste the memory of the former dayes.

2753More would I, but my Lungs are wasted so,

2754That strength of Speech is vtterly deni'de mee.

2755How I came by the Crowne, O heauen forgiue:

2756And grant it may, with thee, in true peace liue.

2757Prince. My gracious Liege:

2758You wonne it, wore it: kept it, gaue it me,

2759Then plaine and right must my possession be;

2760Which I, with more, then with a Common paine,

2761'Gainst all the World, will rightfully maintaine.

2764King. Looke, looke,

2765Heere comes my Iohn of Lancaster:

2766Iohn. Health, Peace, and Happinesse,

2767To my Royall Father.

2768King. Thou bring'st me happinesse and Peace

2769(Sonne Iohn:

2770But health (alacke) with youthfull wings is flowne

2771From this bare, wither'd Trunke. Vpon thy sight

2772My worldly businesse makes a period.