Lady Percy, Wife to Hot-spur. Lady Mortimer, Daughter to Glendower, and Wife to Mortimer. Hoftefs Quickly. Sheriff, Vintner, Chamberlain, Drawers, two Carriers, Travellers and Attendants. SCENE, ENGLA N D. The Enter King Henry, Lord John of Lancaster, Earl of Weftmorland, and others. King HENRY. O fhaken as we are, fo wan with Care, And breathe fhort-winded accents of new Broils Shall now, in mutual, well-befeeming, ranks * Shall damp her lips---] This Nonfenfe fhould be read, Shall trempe, i. e. moiften, and refers to thirsty, in the preceding Line : Trempe, from the French, tremper, properly fignifies the Moistness made by Rain. As far as to the fepulchre of Chrift, (Whofe foldier now, under whofe bleffed Cross Weft. My Liege, this hafte was hot in queflion, And many limits of the Charge fet down But yefernight: when, all athwart, there came K. Henry. It feems then, that the tidings of this broil Brake off our business for the holy Land. West. This, matcht with other, did, my gracious lord; For more uneven and unwelcome news Came from the North, and thus it did import. As |