Enter EXTON, and Servants, armed.

· K. RICH. How now? what means death in this rude

affault?

Villain, thy own hand yields thy death's inftrument.

[Snatching a weapon, and killing one.

Go thou, and fill another room in hell.

[He kills another; then EXTON ftrikes him down.

That hand fhall burn in never-quenching fire,

That staggers thus my perfon.-Exton, thy fierce hand Hath with the king's blood ftain'd the king's own land. Mount, mount, my foul! thy feat is up on high; Whilft my grofs flesh finks downward, here to die.

EXTON. As full of valour, as of royal blood:
Both have I fpilt; O, would the deed were good!
For now the devil, that told me-I did well,
Says, that this deed is chronicled in hell.

[Dies.

This dead king to the living king I'll bear ;-
Take hence the reft, and give them burial here. [Exeunt.

SCENE VI. Windfor. A Room in the Caftle. Flourish. Enter BOLINGBROKE, and YORK, with Lords and Attendants.

BOLING. Kind uncle York, the latest news we hear,

Is that the rebels have confum'd with fire

Our town of Cicefter in Glostershire :

But whether they be ta'en, or flain, we hear not.
Enter NORTHUMBERLAND.

Welcome, my lord: What is the news?

NORTH. First, to thy facred ftate wish I all happiness.

The next news is,-I have to London fent

The heads of Salisbury, Spencer, Blunt, and Kent:

The manner of their taking may appear

At large difcourfed in this paper here. [Prefenting a paper.
BOLING. We thank thee, gentle Percy, for thy pains;
And to thy worth will add right worthy gains.
Enter FITZWATER.

FITZ. My lord, I have from Oxford fent to London
The heads of Brocas, and Sir Bennet Seely;
Two of the dangerous conforted traitors,
That fought at Oxford thy dire overthrow.

BOLING. Thy pains, Fitzwater, fhall not be forgot ; Right noble is thy merit, well I wot.

Enter PERCY, with the Bishop of Carlifle.

PERCY. The grand confpirator, abbot of Westminster, With clog of confcience, and four melancholy, Hath yielded up his body to the grave;

But here is Carlisle living, to abide

Thy kingly doom, and fentence of his pride.
BOLING. Carlisle, this is your doom :-
Choose out fome fecret place, fome reverend room,
More than thou hast, and with it joy thy life;
So, as thou liv'st in peace, die free from strife :
For though mine enemy thou haft ever been,
High fparks of honour in thee have I feen.

Enter EXTON, with Attendants bearing a coffin.
EXTON. Great king, within this coffin I prefent
Thy buried fear: herein all breathless lies

The mightiest of thy greatest enemies,
Richard of Bourdeaux, by me hither brought.

BOLING. Exton, I thank thee not; for thou haft wrought A deed of flander, with thy fatal hand,

Upon my head, and all this famous land

EXTON. From your own mouth, my lord, did I this deed, BOLING. They love not poison that do poison need, Nor do I thee; though I did wish him dead,

I hate the murderer, love him murdered.
The guilt of conscience take thou for thy labour,
But neither my good word, nor princely favour :
With Cain go wander through the shade of night,
And never show thy head by day nor light.-
Lords, I proteft, my foul is full of woe,

That blood should sprinkle me, to make me grow:
Come, mourn with me for what I do lament,
And put on fullen black incontinent;

I'll make a voyage to the Holy land,

To wash this blood off from my guilty hand :-
March fadly after; grace my mournings here,
In weeping after this untimely bier.

[Exeunt.

KING HENRY IV.

PART I.

Perfons reprefented.

King Henry the Fourth.

Henry, Prince of Wales,

Prince John of Lancaster, S fons to the king.

Earl of Westmorland, friends to the king.

Sir Walter Blunt,

Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester.
Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland
Henry Percy, furnamed Hotspur, his fon.
Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March.
Scroop, Archbishop of York.
Archibald, Earl of Douglas.
Owen Glendower.

Sir Richard Vernon.

Sir John Falstaff.

Poins.

Gadshill.

Peto.

Bardolph.

Lady Percy, wife to Hotspur, and fifter to Mortimer. Lady Mortimer, daughter to Glendower, and wife to Mortimer.

Mrs. Quickly, hoftefs of a tavern in Eastcheap.

Lords, Officers, Sheriff, Vintner, Chamberlain, Drawers, two Carriers, Travellers, and Attendants.

SCENE, England.