Enter LANCASTER. Lanc. From enemies Heav'n keep your Majesty! To aid rebellion's caufe, twelve thousand French, Landed on Cambria's fhores, had spread dismay And defolation in Caermarthen's plains. Vain was their hope of triumph, and short lived Yet fooner fhall oppofing elements K. Hen. Ah, why fhould fickness follow thefe good news? Will Fortune never come with both hands full, Glo. Comfort, your Majesty! Lanc. My royal Father! K. Hen. I pray you, make no noise,-my gentle friends; Unless fome foft-and charitable hand- West. Call for the mufic in the other room! Glo. His eye is hollow, and he changes faft. (Soft music within. Enter PRINCE HENRY. P. Hen. Omy dear father!-fay, how doth the King? Glo. I fear he cannot longer bear this pain. West. No noife, no noife, my Lords! Sweet Prince, fpeak low! The King, your Father, is difpos'd to fleep. Glo. Let us withdraw into the other room. West. Will't please your Grace to go along with us? P. Hen. No, I will stay, and watch here by the King. (Exeunt all, but P. HEN. Why does the Crown lie there upon his pillow, Being fo troublefome a bed-fellow? O polish'd O polifh'd perturbation, golden care! This fleep is found indeed: this is a sleep, Into one giant arm, it shall not force This lineal honor from me! Glofter! K. Hen. Lancaster! L (Exit. Enter Enter LANC. GLO. WEST. Glo. Does the King call! Lanc. How fares your Grace? K..Hen. Why did you leave me here alone, my Lords? Glo. We left the Prince, my Brother, here, my Liege, Who undertook to stay and watch by you. K. Hen. Where is the Crown? Who took it from my pillow? West. When we withdrew, my Liege, we left it here. K. Hen. The Prince has ta'en it hence. Go, feek him out. Is he fo hafty, that he doth suppose My fleep my death? Find him, Lord Weftmoreland, Have broke their fleep with thought, their brains. with care; For this engrofs'd the canker'd heaps of gold; When When, like the bee, culling from ev'ry flow'r, Our thighs thus pack'd with wax, our mouths with honey, We bring it to the hive, and like the bees Are murder'd for our pains. Enter WESTMORELAND. Now where is he, Who will not stay 'till nature ends my courfe? West. My Lord, I found the Prince in the next room, Washing with kindly tears his gentle cheeks, With fuch a deep demeanour in his forrow, That Tyranny, which never quaff'd but blood, Would, by beholding him, have wafh'd his knife With gentle eye-drops. He is coming hither. K. Hen. But wherefore did he take away the Crown? Enter PRINCE HENRY. Depart the chamber, leave us here alone. P. Hen. I never thought to hear you speak again. K. Hen. Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought. I ftay too long for thee, I weary thee, Doft thou fo hunger for my empty chair, |