Proclaim'd at market-crosses, read in churches, With some fine colour that may please the eye And never yet did insurrection want Prince. In both your armies there is many a soul Shall pay full dearly for this encounter, If once they join in trial. Tell your nephew, In praise of Henry Percy: by my hopes, I am content that he shall take the odds Of his great name and estimation, And will, to save the blood on either side, Try fortune with him in a single fight. King. And, Prince of Wales, so dare we venture thee, 76. discontents, malcontents. 77. rub the elbow, a mark of satisfaction. 80. water-colours, i. e. colours 80 90 100 of specious effect but no endurance. 88. set off his head, taken from his account. Albeit considerations infinite Do make against it. No, good Worcester, no, [Exeunt Worcester and Vernon. King. Hence, therefore, every leader to his For, on their answer, will we set on them: [Exeunt all but the Prince of Wales and Falstaff. Fal. Hal, if thou see me down in the battle and bestride me, so; 'tis a point of friendship. Prince. Nothing but a colossus can do thee that friendship. Say thy prayers, and farewell. Fal. I would 'twere bed-time, Hal, and all well. Prince. Why, thou owest God a death. [Exit. Fal. 'Tis not due yet; I would be loath to pay him before his day. What need I be so forward with him that calls not on me? Well, 130 'tis no matter; honour pricks me on. Yea, but 122. bestride, i. e. defend me by standing over me. how if honour prick me off when I come on? how then? Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no or take away the grief of a wound? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. 'Tis insensible, then. Yea, to the dead. But 140 will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon: and so ends my catechism. [Exit. SCENE II. The rebel camp. Enter WORCESTER and VERNON. Wor. O, no, my nephew must not know, Sir Richard, The liberal and kind offer of the king. Ver. 'Twere best he did. Then are we all undone. It is not possible, it cannot be, The king should keep his word in loving us; To punish this offence in other faults: Who, ne'er so tame, so cherish'd and lock'd up, Look how we can, or sad or merrily, 8. Suspicion; Rowe's correction for Qq Ff 'supposition.' ΤΟ II. a wild trick, a dash of the wildness. Interpretation will misquote our looks, And we shall feed like oxen at a stall, A hare-brain'd Hotspur, govern'd by a spleen : And on his father's; we did train him on, I'll say 'tis so. Enter HOTSPUR and DOUGLAS. Hot. My uncle is return'd: Deliver up my Lord of Westmoreland. Uncle, what news? Wor. The king will bid you battle presently. Doug. Defy him by the Lord of Westmoreland. Hot. Lord Douglas, go you and tell him so. [Exit. Of his oath-breaking; which he mended thus, 13. misquote, misread. 31. bid, offer. 21. train, allure. 20 30 40 Re-enter Douglas. Doug. Arm, gentlemen; to arms! for I have thrown A brave defiance in King Henry's teeth, And Westmoreland, that was engaged, did bear it ; Which cannot choose but bring him quickly on. Wor. The Prince of Wales stepp'd forth before the king, And, nephew, challenged you to single fight. Hot. O, would the quarrel lay upon our heads, And that no man might draw short breath to-day But I and Harry Monmouth! Tell me, tell me, How show'd his tasking? seem'd it in contempt ? England did never owe so sweet a hope, 50 60 60. valued with you, compared with your merits. 62. cital, mention. 2 B |