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  • Title: Henry IV, Part 2 (Quarto 1, 1600)
  • Editor: Rosemary Gaby

    • Copyright Rosemary Gaby. This text may be freely used for educational, non-profit purposes; for all other uses contact the Editor.
    Author: William Shakespeare
    Editor: Rosemary Gaby
    Not Peer Reviewed

    Henry IV, Part 2 (Quarto 1, 1600)

    The second part of
    If truth and vpright innocencie faile me.
    2925Ile to the King my maister that is dead,
    And tell him who hath sent me after him. Enter the Princeand Blunt
    War. Here comes the Prince.
    Iust. Good morrow, and God saue your maiestie.
    2930King Henry This new and gorgeous garment Maiesty
    Sits not so easie on me, as you thinke:
    Brothers, you mixt your sadnesse with some feare,
    This is the English, not the Turkish court,
    Not Amurath an Amurath succeedes,
    2935But Harry Harry: yet be sad, good brothers,
    For by my faith it very well becomes you:
    Sorrow so royally in you appeares,
    That I will deeply put the fashion on,
    And weare it in my heart: why then be sad,
    2940But entertaine no more of it, good brothers,
    Then a ioynt burden layd vpon vs all,
    For me, by heauen (I bid you be assurde)
    Ile be your father, and your brother too,
    Let me but beare your loue, Ile beare your cares:
    2945Yet weepe that Harries dead, and so will I,
    But Harry liues, that shal conuert those teares
    By number into howres of happinesse.
    Bro. We hope no otherwise from your maiesty.
    King Henry You al looke strangely on me, and you most,
    2950You are I thinke assurde I loue you not.
    Iust. I am assurde, if I be measurde rightly,
    Your maiesty hath no iust cause to hate me.
    King Henry No? how might a prince of my great hopes forget,
    So great indignities you laid vpon me?
    2955What, rate, rebuke, and roughly send to prison,
    Th'immediate heire of England? was this easie?
    May this be washt in lethy and forgotten?
    Iust. I then did vse the person of your father,
    The image of his power lay then in me,
    2960And in th'administration of his law,
    Whiles
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