Bard. [Within.] Bid mistress Tear-sheet come to my master. Host. O run, Doll, run; run, good Doll. [Exeunt. ACT III. SCENE I. A Room in the Palace. Enter King HENRY in his Nightgown, with a Page. K. Hen. Go, call the earls of Surrey and of Warwick; But, ere they come, bid them o'er-read these letters, And well consider of them: Make good speed. [Exit Page. Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber; And lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody? O thou dull god, why liest thou with the vile, Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast And in the visitation of the winds, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them Enter WARWICK and SURREY. War. Many good morrows to your majesty! War. 'Tis one o'clock, and past. K. Hen. Why then, good morrow to you all, my lords. Have you read o'er the letters that I sent you? K. Hen. Then you perceive, the body of our kingdom How foul it is; what rank diseases grow, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chances mock, 7 That, with the hurly,] Hurly is noise, derived from the French hurler to howl, as hurly-burly from Hurluberlu, Fr. And changes fill the cup of alteration With divers liquors! O, if this were seen, The happiest youth,-viewing his progress through, "Tis not ten years gone, Since Richard, and Northumberland, great friends, [TO WARWICK. When Richard, with his eye brimfull of tears, Then check'd and rated by Northumberland,Did speak these words, now prov'd a prophecy? Northumberland, thou ladder, by the which My cousin Bolingbroke ascends my throne ;Though then, heaven knows, I had no such intent;? But that necessity so bow'd the state, But which of you was by, &c.] He refers to King Richard II. Act. IV. sc. ii. But whether the king's or the author's memory fails him, so it was, that Warwick was not present at that conversation. Neither was the King himself present, so that he must have received information of what passed from Northumberland. His memory, indeed, is singularly treacherous, as, at the time of which he is now speaking, he had actually ascended the throne. Besides Shakspeare has mistaken the name of the present nobleman. The earldom of Warwick was at this time in the family of Beauchamp, and did not come into that of the Nevils till many years after. 9 — I had no such intent ;] He means, "I should have had no such intent, but that necessity" &c. or Shakspeare has here also forgotten his former play, or has chosen to make Henry for get his situation at the time mentioned. He had then actually accepted the crown. That I and greatness were compell'd to kiss:- War. There is a history in all men's lives, Such things become the hatch and brood of time; King Richard might create a perfect guess, K. Hen. Are these things then necessities? Then let us meet them like necessities: And that same word even now cries out on us; War. It cannot be, my lord; Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the fear'd :-Please it your grace, To go to bed; upon my life, my lord, The powers that you already have sent forth, 1 that Glendower is dead.] Glendower did not die till after King Henry IV. Shakspeare was led into this error by Holinshed, who places Owen Glendower's death in the tenth year of Henry's reign. And these unseason'd hours, perforce, must add I will take your counsel: [Exeunt. SCENE II. Court before Justice Shallow's House in Gloucester shire. Enter SHALLOW and SILENCE, meeting; MOULDY, SHADOW, WART, FEEBLE, BULL-CALF, and Servants behind. Shal. Come on, come on, come on; give me your hand, sir, give me your hand, sir: an early stirrer, by the rood." And how doth my good cousin Silence? Sil. Good morrow, good cousin Shallow. Shal. And how doth my cousin, your bedfellow? and your fairest daughter, and mine, my goddaughter Ellen ? Sil. Alas, a black ouzel, cousin Shallow. Shal. By yea and nay, sir, I dare sir, I dare say, my cousin William is become a good scholar: He is at Oxford, still, is he not? Sil. Indeed, sir; to my cost. Shal. He must then to the inns of court shortly: I was once of Clement's-inn; where, I think, they will talk of mad Shallow yet. Sil. You were called-lusty Shallow, then, cousin. Shal. By the mass, I was called any thing; and I would have done any thing, indeed, and roundly by the rood.] i. e. the cross. |