28812547War. How now, my lord chiefe Iustice, whither away?

28832548Iust. How doth the King?

28842549War. Exceeding well, his cares are now all ended.

28862550Iust. I hope not dead.

28872551War. Hees walkt the way of nature,

28882552And to our purposes he liues no more.

28892553Iust. I would his Maiestie had calld me with him:

28902554The seruice that I truely did his life,

28912555Hath left me open to all iniuries.

28922556War. Indeede I thinke the yong King loues you not.

28932557Iust. I know he doth not, and do arme my selfe

28942558To welcome the condition of the time,

28952559Which cannot looke more hideously vpon me,

28962560Than I haue drawne it in my fantasie.

28992562War. Heere come the heauy issue of dead Harry:

29002563O that the liuing Harry had the temper

29012564Of he, the worst of these three gentlemen!

29022565How many Nobles then should holde their places,

29032566That must strike saile to spirites of vile sort?

29042567Iust. O God, I feare all will be ouer-turnd.

29052568Iohn Good morrow coosin Warwicke, good morrow.

29062569Prin. ambo Good morrow coosin.

29072570Iohn We meete like men that had forgot to speake.

29082571War. We do remember, but our argument

29092572Is all too heauy to admit much talke.

29102573Iohn Well, peace be with him that hath made vs heauy.

29112574Iust. Peace be with vs, lest we be heauier.

29122575Humph. O good my lord, you haue lost a friend indeede,

29132576And I dare sweare you borrow not that face

29142577Of seeming sorrow, it is sure your owne.

29152578Iohn Though no man be assurde what grace to finde,

29162579You stand in coldest expectation,

29172580I am the sorier, would twere otherwise.

29182581Cla. Well, you must now speake sir Iohn Falstaffe faire,

29192582Which swimmes against your streame of quallitie.

29202583Iust. Sweet princes, what I did, I did in honor,

29212584Led by th'impartiall conduct of my soule.

29222585And neuer shall you see that I will begge

29232586A ragged and forestald remission,

29242587If truth and vpright innocencie faile me.

29252588Ile to the King my maister that is dead,

29262589And tell him who hath sent me after him. Enter the Princeand Blunt

29272590War. Here comes the Prince.

29292591Iust. Good morrow, and God saue your maiestie.

29302592King Henry This new and gorgeous garment Maiesty

29312593Sits not so easie on me, as you thinke:

29322594Brothers, you mixt your sadnesse with some feare,

29332595This is the English, not the Turkish court,

29342596Not Amurath an Amurath succeedes,

29352597But Harry Harry: yet be sad, good brothers,

29362598For by my faith it very well becomes you:

29372599Sorrow so royally in you appeares,

29382600That I will deeply put the fashion on,

29392601And weare it in my heart: why then be sad,

29402602But entertaine no more of it, good brothers,

29412603Then a ioynt burden layd vpon vs all,

29422604For me, by heauen (I bid you be assurde)

29432605Ile be your father, and your brother too,

29442606Let me but beare your loue, Ile beare your cares:

29452607Yet weepe that Harries dead, and so will I,

29462608But Harry liues, that shal conuert those teares

29472609By number into howres of happinesse.

29482610Bro. We hope no otherwise from your maiesty.

29492611King Henry You al looke strangely on me, and you most,

29502612You are I thinke assurde I loue you not.

29512613Iust. I am assurde, if I be measurde rightly,

29522614Your maiesty hath no iust cause to hate me.

29532615King Henry No? how might a prince of my great hopes forget,

29542616So great indignities you laid vpon me?

29552617What, rate, rebuke, and roughly send to prison,

29562618Th'immediate heire of England? was this easie?

29572619May this be washt in lethy and forgotten?

29582620Iust. I then did vse the person of your father,

29592621The image of his power lay then in me,

29602622And in th'administration of his law,

29612623Whiles I was busie for the common wealth,

29622624Your Highnesse pleased to forget my place,

29632625The maiestie and power of law and iustice,

29642626The image of the King whom I presented,

29652627And strooke me in my very seate of iudgement,

29662628Whereon, (as an offendor to your father,)

29672629I gaue bold way to my authority,

29682630And did commit you: if the deed were ill,

29692631Be you contented, wearing now the garland,

29702632To haue a sonne set your decrees at naught?

29712633To plucke downe Iustice from your awful bench?

29722634To trip the course of law, and blunt the sword,

29732635That guards the peace and safetie of your person?

29742636Nay more, to spurne at your most royall image,

29752637And mocke your workings in a second body?

29762638Question your royall thoughts, make the case yours,

29772639Be now the father, and propose a sonne,

29782640Heare your owne dignity so much prophan'd,

29792641See your most dreadfull lawes so loosely slighted,

29802642Behold your selfe so by a sonne disdained:

29812643And then imagine me taking your part,

29822644And in your power soft silencing your sonne,

29832645After this cold considerance sentence me,

29842646And as you are a King, speake in your state,

29852647What I haue done that misbecame my place,

29862648My person, or my lieges soueraigntie.

29872649King Henry You are right Iustice, and you weigh this well,

29882650Therefore still beare the Ballance and the Sword,

29892651And I do wish your honors may encrease,

29902652Til you do liue to see a sonne of mine

29912653Offend you, and obey you as I did:

29922654So shall I liue to speake my fathers words,

29932655Happie am I that haue a man so bold,

29942656That dares do iustice on my proper sonne:

29952657And not lesse happie, hauing such a sonne,

29962658That would deliuer vp his greatnesse so,

K Into

29972659Into the hands of Iustice you did commit me:

29982660For which I do commit into your hand,

29992661Th'vnstained sword that you haue vsde to beare,

30002662With this remembrance, that you vse the same

30012663With the like bold, iust, and impartial spirit,

30022664As you haue done gainst me: there is my hand,

30032665You shall be as a father to my youth,

30042666My voice shall sound as you do prompt mine eare,

30052667And I wil stoope and humble my intents,

30062668To your well practizde wise directions.

30072669And princes all, beleeue me I beseech you,

30082670My father is gone wild into his graue:

30092671For in his toomb lie my affections,

30102672And with his spirites sadly I suruiue,

30112673To mocke the expectation of the world,

30122674To frustrate prophecies, and to race out,

30132675Rotten opinion, who hath writ me downe

30142676After my seeming, the tide of bloud in me

30152677Hath prowdely flowd in vanitie till now:

30162678Now doth it turne, and ebbe backe to the sea,

30172679Where it shall mingle with the state of flouds,

30182680And flow henceforth in formall maiestie.

30192681Now call we our high court of parliament,

30202682And let vs chuse such limbs of noble counsaile,

30212683That the great bodie of our state may goe,

30222684In equall ranke with the best gouernd Nation,

30232685That warre, or peace, or both at once, may be,

30242686As things acquainted and familiar to vs,

30252687In which your father shall haue formost hand:

30262688Our coronation done, we wil accite,

30272689(As I before remembred) all our state,

30282690And (God consigning to my good intents,)

30292691No prince nor peere shall haue iust cause to say,

30302692God shorten Harries happy life one day. exit.