Defect of manners, want of government, HOTSPUR. Well, I am school'd; good manners be your speed! Here come our wives, and let us take our leave. SHAKESPEARE, "Henry IV," Part 1. LONGING FOR SLEEP. About 1404. Henry IV, after his usurpation, cannot sleep for cares and anxieties. He thus reflects : How many thousands of my poorest subjects Why, rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets' stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, 1 Straw beds. Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody? And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them SHAKESPEARE, "Henry IV," Part 2. 1 Adopting the classic license that made Morpheus god of sleep. 2 A place in which to keep watch (to be in, understood). 3 Hurly-burly, confusion.. 4 Besides. 5 Take care to pronounce this "happy low, lie down," not "happy low lie down." The king means that the poor are happy. THE PRINCE AND THE CROWN. 1413. Since the last scene Hotspur has been defeated and slain at Shrewsbury; but a fresh rebellion has broken out, headed by Archbishop Scrope of York, and the Earls of Northumberland and Worcester. This has also been quelled, and the Archbishop has been beheaded. Henry IV. is greatly disabled by illness, and grieved by the wild conduct of his eldest son Henry. His third son John is absent putting down the remains of the rebellion, and the king is represented in Westminster Palace, surrounded by his sons, Thomas, Duke of Clarence, Humfrey, Duke of Gloster, the Earl of Warwick and other attendants. KING HENRY. Now, lords, if Heaven doth give successful end WARWICK. Both which we doubt not but your Majesty 1 Henry fully meant to have gone on a crusade. 2 In order. 3 Those who were to govern in his stead. KING. Humfrey, my son of Gloster, Where is the prince your brother? HUMFREY. I think he's gone to hunt, my lord, at Windsor. And how accompanied ? KING. HUMFREY. I do not know, my lord. KING. Is not his brother, Thomas of Clarence, with him? HUMFREY. No, my good lord, he is in presence here. CLARENCE. What would my lord and father? KING. Nothing but well to thee, Thomas of Clarence. Than all thy brothers: cherish it, my boy; And noble offices thou may'st effect Between his greatness and thine other brethren; Yet, notwithstanding, being incensed, he's flint,2 Thomas, And thou shalt prove a shelter to thy friends, |