good conscience. -Now, my masters, for a true face, and Fal. Both which I have had but their date is out, and therefore I'll hide me. [Exeunt all but the Prince and POINS. P. Hen. Call in the sheriff. Enter Sheriff and Carrier. Now, master sheriff; what's your will with me? P. Hen. What men ? Sher. One of them is well known, my gracious lord; A gross fat man. Car. As fat as butter. P. Hen. The man, I do assure you, is not here ; And so let me entreat you leave the house. Sher. I will, my lord: There are two gentlemen Have in this robbery lost three hundred marks. P. Hen. It may be so if he have robb'd these men, He shall be answerable; and so, farewell. Sher. Good night, my noble lord. P. Hen. I think it is good morrow; is it not? Sher, Indeed, my lord, I think it be two o'clock. [Exeunt Sheriff and Carrier. P. Hen. This oily rascal is known as well as Paul's. Go, call him forth. Poins. Falstaff!-fast asleep behind the arras, and snorting like a horse. P. Hen. Hark, how hard he fetches breath: Search his pockets. [POINS searches.] What hast thou found? Poins. Nothing but papers, my lord. : P. Hen. Let's see what they be read them. Item, Sauce, 4d. Item, Sack, two gallons, 5s. 8d. [2] Every reader must regret that Shakespeare would not give himself the trouble to furnish Prince Henry with some more pardonable excuse; without obliging him to have recourse to an absolute falsehood, and that too uttered under the sanction of so strong an assurance. STEEVENS Item, Anchovies, and sack after supper, 2s. 6d. P. Hen. O monstrous! but one halfpenny worth of bread to this intolerable 'deal of sack!-What there is else, keep close; we'll read it at more advantage: there let him sleep till day. I'll to the court in the morning: we must all to the wars, and thy place shall be honourable. I'll procure this fat rogue a charge of foot; and, I know, his death will be a march of twelve-score. shall be paid back again with advantage. betimes in the morning; and so good morrow, Poins. Good morrow, good my lord. ACT III. The money Be with me Poins. [Exeunt. SCENE I.-Bangor. A Room in the Archdeacon's House. Enter HOTSPUR, WORCESTER, MORTIMER, and GLEN DOWER. Mortimer. THESE promises are fair, the parties sure, And our induction' full of prosperous hope, Hot. Lord Mortimer,-and cousin Glendower, Will you sit down? And, uncle Worcester :-A plague upon I have forgot the map. Glend. No, here it is. it! Sit, cousin Percy; sit, good cousin Hotspur: For by that name as oft as Lancaster Doth speak of you, his cheek looks pale; and, with A rising sigh, he wisheth you in heaven. Hot. And you in hell, as often as he hears Owen Glendower spoke of. Glend. I cannot blame him: at my nativity, Hot. Why, so it would have done At the same season, if your mother's cat had [3] i. e. It will kill him to march so far as twelve score yards. 4i. e. entrance, beginning. JOHNSON. JOHNSON. [5] A cressel was a great light set upon a beacon, light-house, or watch-tower: from the French word croissette, a little cross, because the beacons had anciently crosses on the top of them. HANMER. But kitten'd, though yourself had ne'er been born. If you suppose, as fearing you it shook. Glend. The heavens were all on fire, the earth did tremble. Hot. O, then the earth shook to see the heavens on fire, And not in fear of your nativity. Diseased nature often times breaks forth Within her womb; which, for enlargement striving, Glend. Cousin, of many men I do not bear these crossings. Give me leave Where is he living,-clipp'd in with the sea That chides the banks of England, Scotland, Wales,— And bring him out, that is but woman's son, Hot. I think, there is no man speaks better Welsh :I will to dinner. Mort. Peace, cousin Percy; you will make him mad. Glend. I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hot. Why, so can I ; or so can any man: But will they come, when you do call for them? The devil. [6] The poet has here taken from the perverseness and contrariousness of Hotspur's temper, an opportunity of raising his character by a very rational and philesophical confutation of superstitious error. JOHNSON. [7] Beldame is not used here as a term of contempt, but in the sense of ancient mother. Belle-age, Fr. STEEVENS. Hot. And I can teach thee, coz, to shame the devil, By telling truth; Tell truth, and shame the devil.If thou have power to raise him, bring him hither, And I'll be sworn, I have power to shame him hence. O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil. Mort. Come, come, No more of this unprofitable chat. Glend. Three times hath Henry Bolingbroke made head Against my power: thrice from the banks of Wye, And sandy-bottom'd Severn, have I sent him, Bootless home, and weather-beaten back. Hot. Home without boots, and in foul weather too! How 'scapes he agues, in the devil's name? Glend. Come, here's the map; Shall we divide our right, According to our three-fold order ta'en? Mort. The archdeacon hath divided it England, from Trent and Severn hitherto," And my good lord of Worcester, will set forth, My father Glendower is not ready yet, Nor shall we need his help these fourteen days :Within that space, [To GLEND.] you may have drawn together Your tenants, friends, and neighbouring gentlemen. And in my conduct shall your ladies come: From whom you now must steal, and take no leave ; Upon the parting of your wives and you. Hot. Methinks, my moiety, north from Burton here, [7] i. e. to this spot (pointing to the map.) MALONE. [8] A moiety was frequently used by the writers of Shakespeare's age, as a portion of any thing, though not divided into two equal parts. MALONE. VOL. V. K In quantity equals not one of yours: It shall not wind with such a deep indent, To rob me of so rich a bottom here. Glend. Not wind? it shall, it must; you see, it doth. But mark, how he bears his course, and runs me up Gelding the opposed continent as much, As on the other side it takes from you. Wor. Yea, but a little charge will trench him here, And on this north side win this cape of land; And then he runs straight and even. Hot. I'll have it so ; a little charge will do it. Hot. Will not you? Glend. No, nor you shall not. Hot. Let me not understand Speak it in Welsh. you then, Glend. I can speak English, lord, as well as you; For I was train'd up in the English court :' Where, being but young, I framed to the harp Many an English ditty, lovely well, And gave the tongue a helpful ornament; A virtue that was never seen in you. Hot. Marry, and I'm glad of it with all my heart; I had rather be a kitten, and cry-mew, Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers : I had rather hear a brazen canstic turn'd,' Or a dry wheel grate on an axle-tree; [9] A cantle is a corner, or piece of any thing.Canton, Fr. canto, Ital. signify a corner. STEEVENS. [1] Owen Glendower, whose real name was Owen ap-Gryffyth Vaughan, took the name of Glyndour or Glendower from the lordship of Glyndourdwy, of which he was owner. He was crowned Prince of Wales in the year 1402. and for near twelve years was a very formidable enemy to the English. He died in great distress in 1415. MALONE. [2] The English language. JOHNSON. [3] The word candlestick, which destroys the harmony of the line is written eanstick in the quartos, and so it was pronounced. STEEVENS. |