PERSONS REPRESENTED.

King HENRY the Fourth:

HENRY, Prince of Wales, afterwards
King Henry V;

THOMAS, Duke of Clarence;

Prince JOHN of Lancaster, afterwards
(2 Henry V.) Duke of Bedford;
Prince HUMPHREY of Gloster, after-
wards (2 Henry V.) Duke of Gloster;
Earl of WARWICK ;

Earl of WESTMORELAND ;

GOWER; HARCOURT ;

his sons.

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of the king's party.

Lord Chief Justice of the king's bench.

A Gentleman attending on the chief justice.

Earl of NORTHUMBERLAND;

SCROOP, Archbishop of York;

Lord MOWBRAY; Lord HASTINGS;

Lord BARDOLPH; Sir JOHN COLEVILE;

enemies

to the

king.

TRAVERS and MORTON, domestics of Northumberland.

FALSTAFF, BARDOLPH, PISTOL, and Page.

POINS and PETO, attendants on Prince Henry.

SHALLOW and SILENCE, country justices.

DAVY, servant to Shallow.

MOULDY, SHADOW, WART, FEEBLE, and BULLCALF, recruits.

FANG and SNARE, sheriff's officers.

Rumour. A Porter.

A Dancer, speaker of the Epilogue.

Lady NORTHUMBERLAND. Lady PERCY,

Hostess QUICKLY. DOLL TEAR-SHEET.

Lords and other Attendants; Officers, Soldiers, Messenger, Drawers, Beadles, Grooms, &c.

SCENE England.

SECOND PART OF

KING HENRY IV.

ACT I.

SCENE I.-The same. The Porter before the gate; Enter Lord BARDOlph.

Bardolph.

WHO keeps the gate here, ho?—Where is the earl?
Port. What shall I say you are?
Bard. Tell thou the earl,

That the lord Bardolph doth attend him here.

Port. His lordship is walk'd forth into the orchard; Please it your honour, knock but at the gate,

And he himself will answer.

Enter Northumberland.

Bard. Here comes the earl.

North. What news, lord Bardolph ? every minute now Should be the father of some stratagem :'

The times are wild; contention, like a horse

Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose,
And bears down all before him.

Bard. Noble earl,

I bring you certain news from Shrewsbury.
North. Good, an heaven will!

Bard. As good as heart can wish :--
The king is almost wounded to the death;
And, in the fortune of my lord your son,

Prince Harry slain outright; and both the Blunts
Kill'd by the hand of Douglas: young prince John,.
And Westmoreland, and Stafford, fled the field ;
And Harry Monmouth's brawn, the hulk sir John,
Is prisoner to your son: Q, such a day,
So fought, so follow'd, and so fairly won,
Came not, till now, to dignify the times,
Since Cæsar's fortunes!

[1] Stratagem means here some important of dreadful event.

VOL. V.

MASON.
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North. How is this deriv'd?

Saw you the field? came you from Shrewsbury?

Bar. I spake with one, my lord, that came from thence; A gentleman well bred, and of good name,

That freely render'd me these news for true.

North. Here comes my servant, Travers, whom I sent On Tuesday last to listen after news.

Bard. My lord, I over-rode him on the way; And he is furnish'd with no certainties,

More than he haply may retail from me.

Enter TRAVERS.

North. Now, Travers, what good tidings come with you? Tra. My lord, sir John Umfrevile turn'd me back With joyful tidings; and, being better hors'd, Outrode me. After him, came, spurring hard, A gentleman almost forspent with speed, That stopp'd by me to breathe his bloodied horse : He ask'd the way to Chester; and of him I did demand, what news from Shrewsbury. He told me, that rebellion had bad luck, And that young Harry Percy's spur was cold : With that, he gave his able horse the head, And, bending forward, struck his armed heels* Against the panting sides of his poor jade Up to the rowel-head; and, starting so, He seem'd in running to devour the way, Staying no longer question.

North. Ha! Again.

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Said he, young Harry Percy's spur was cold?
Of Hotspur, coldspur? that rebellion
Had met ill luck!

Bard. My lord, I'll tell you what

If my young lord your son have not the day,
Upon mine honour, for a silken point'

I'll give my barony: never talk of it.

North. Why should the gentleman, that røde by Travers, Give then such instances of loss?

Bard. Who, he?

He was some hilding fellow, that had stol'n

The horse he rode on: and, upon my life,

[2] I think that I have observed in old prints the rowel of those times to have been only a single spike. JOHNSON.

[3] So in Job, xxxix. "He swalloweth the ground in fierceness and rage." [4] A point is a string tagged, or face. JOHNSON.