Re-enter Hostess, hastily. Host. O Jesu, my lord, my lord!- Fal. Heigh, heigh! the devil rides upon a fiddlestick: What's the matter? Host. The sheriff and all the watch are at the door: they are come to search the house; Shall I let them in? Fal. Dost thou hear, Hal? never call a true piece of gold, a counterfeit: thou art essentially inad, without seeming so. P. Hen. And thou a natural coward, without instinct. Fal. I deny your major: if you will deny the sheriff, so; if not, let him enter: if I become not a cart as well as another man, a plague on my bringing up! I hope, I shall as soon be strangled with a halter, as another. P. Hen. Go, hide thee behind the arras* ;-the rest walk up above. Now, my masters, for a true face, and good conscience. Fal. Both which I have had: but their date is out, and therefore I'll hide me. [Exeunt all but the Prince and Poins. P. Hen. Call in the sheriff.- Enter Sheriff and Carrier. Now, master sheriff; what's your will with me? She. First, pardon me, my lord. A hue and cry Hath follow'd certain men unto this house. P. Hen. What men? Sher. One of them is well known, my gracious lord, A gross fat man. P. Hen. The man, I do assure you, is not here; For I myself at this time have employ'd him. And, sheriff, I will engage my word to thee, That I will, by to-morrow dinner-time, * Tapestry. Send him to answer thee, or any man, For any thing he shall be charg❜d withal: Sher. I will, my lord: There are two gentlemen Have in this robbery lost three hundred marks. P. Hen. It may be so if he have robb'd these men He shall be answerable; and so, farewell. P. Hen. I think it is good morrow; Is it not? Sher. Indeed, my lord, I think it be two o'clock. [Exeunt Sheriff and Carrier. P. Hen. This oily rascal is know as well as Paul's*. Go, call him forth. Poins. Falstaff!-fast asleep behind the arras, and snorting like a horse. P. Hen. Hark, how hard he fetches breath: Search his pockets. [Poins searches.] What hast thou found? Poins. Nothing but papers, my lord. P. Hen. Let's see what they be read them. Item, Sauce, 4d. Item, Sack, two gallons, 5s. 8d. Item, Anchovies, and sack after supper, 2s. 6d. : P. Hen. O monstrous! but one halfpennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack!-What there is else, keep close; we'll read it at more advantage there let him sleep till day. I'll to the court in the morning: we must all to the wars, and thy place shall be honourable. I'll procure this fat rogue a charge of foot; and, I know, his death will be a march of twelve-score. The money shall be paid back again with advantage. Be with me betimes in the morning; and so good morrow, Poins. Poins. Good morrow, good my lord. * St. Paul's cathedral. [Exeunt. ACT III. SCENE I. Bangor. A room in the Archdeacon's house. Enter Hotspur, Worcester, Mortimer, and Mort. These promises are fair, the parties sure, And our induction* full of prosperous hope. Hot. Lord Mortimer, and cousin Glendower,Will you sit down?. And uncle Worcester :-A plague upon it! Glend. No, here it is. Sit, cousin Percy; sit, good cousin Hotspur : Doth speak of you, his cheek looks pale; and with Hot. And you in hell, as often as he hears, Glend. I cannot blame him: at my nativity, Hot. Why, so it would have done At the same season, if your mother's cat had But kitten'd, though yourself had ne'er been born. Glend. I say, the earth did shake when I was If born. Hot. And I say, the earth was not of my mind, you suppose, as fearing you it shook. Glend. The heavens were all on fire, the earth did tremble. Hot. O, then the earth shook to see the heavens on fire, * Beginning. + Lights set crossways upon beacons, and also upon poles, which were used in processions, &c. And not in fear of your nativity. Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth Within her womb; which, for enlargement striving, Glend. Cousin, of many men I do not bear these crossings. Give me leave I am not in the roll of common men. Where is he living,-clipp'd in with the sea Hot. I think, there is no man speaks better I will to dinner. Mort. Peace, cousin Percy; you will make him mad. Glend. I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hot. Why, so can I; or so can any man: But will they come, when you do call for them? Glend. Why, I can teach you, cousin, to command The devil. Hot. And I can teach thee, coz, to shame the devil, By telling truth; Tell truth, and shame the devil.If thou have power to raise him, bring him hither, And I'll be sworn, I have power to shame him hence. * Tumbles. O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil. Mort. Come, come, No more of this unprofitable chat. Glend. Three times hath Henry Bolingbroke made head Against my power: thrice from the banks of Wye, And sandy-bottom'd Severn, have I sent him, Bootless* home, and weather-beaten back. Hot. Home without boots, and in foul weather too! How 'scapes he agues, in the devil's name? Glend. Come, here's the map; Shall we divide our right, According to our three-fold order ta'en? England, from Trent and Severn hitherto, (A business that this night may execute,) My father Glendower is not ready yet, Nor shall we need his help these fourteen days :Within that space, [To Glend.] you may have drawn together Your tenants, friends, and neighbouring gentlemen. Upon the parting of your wives and you. Unsuccessful. + Three copies. Force. |