Come, bring your luggage nobly on your back: [A retreat sounded. The trumpet sounds retreat; the day is ours. [Exeunt Prince HENRY and LANCASTER. Fal. I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him! If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly as a nobleman should do. [Exit, bearing off the body. SCENE V.-Another Part of the Field. The trumpets sound. Enter King HENRY, Prince HENRY, LANCASTER, WESTMORELAND, and others, with WORCESTER and VERNON Prisoners. King. Thus ever did rebellion find rebuke.- If, like a Christian, thou hadst truly borne Betwixt our armies true intelligence. Wor. What I have done my safety urged me to; And I embrace this fortune patiently, Since not to be avoided it falls on me. King. Bear Worcester to the death, and Vernon too : Other offenders we will pause upon. [Exeunt WORCESTER and VERNON, guarded. How goes the field? Prince. The noble Scot, Lord Douglas, when he saw The fortune of the day quite turn'd from him, The noble Percy slain, and all his men Prince. Then, brother John of Lancaster, to you This honourable bounty shall belong : Go to the Douglas, and deliver him Up to his pleasure, ransomless and free: His valour, shown upon our crests to-day, Hath taught us how to cherish such high deeds Even in the bosom of our adversaries. King. Then this remains, that we divide our power. — You, son John, and my cousin Westmoreland, Towards York shall bend you with your dearest speed, To meet Northumberland and the prelate Scroop, Who, as we hear, are busily in arms: Myself, and you, son Harry, will towards Wales, To fight with Glendower and the Earl of March. 1 To conclude, the kings enemies were vanquished and put to flight, in which flight the earle of Dowglas, for hast falling from the erag of an hie mounteine, brake one of his cullions, and was taken, and, for his valiantnesse, of the king franklie and freelie delivered. - HOLINSHED, Meeting the check of such another day: [Exeunt. 2 Business is a trisyllable here, as in various other instances. CRITICAL NOTES. ACT I., SCENE 1. Of prisoners, Hotspur took Mordake the Earl of Fife and eldest son Page 57. To beaten Douglas. The article the, needful to the metre, is wanting in the old copies. Supplied by Pope. So Rann. In P. 57. Faith, 'tis a conquest for a prince to boast of.stead of Faith, 'tis, at the beginning of this speech, the old copies have In faith it is at the conclusion of the preceding speech. ACT I., SCENE 2. P. 67. Farewell, thou latter Spring. - The old copies have the instead of thou. Corrected by Pope. P. 67. Falstaff, Bardolph, Peto, and Gadshill shall rob those men, &c.Instead of Bardolph and Peto, the old copies have Harvey and Rossill, which were doubtless the names of the actors who performed those parts. Such substitutions of names are not uncommon in old editions of plays. Corrected by Theobald. P. 68. Provide us all things necessary, and meet me to-night in Eastcheap. So Capell. The old copies read "meet me to-morrow night," which can hardly be right, since the Prince is here directing Pointz to provide the things necessary for the part they are to play in the robbery, such as visards, cases of buckram, &c.; and the time set for the robbery is "to-morrow morning, by four o'clock, early at Gads-hill." P. 68. By breaking through the foul and ugly mists --- - The old text has "mists of vapours." Such an expression, I think, was not good English in Shakespeare's time; and we have repeated instances of & misprinted of Dyce prints "mists Of vapour." ACT I., SCENE 3. P. 69. My blood hath been too cold and temperate, - The old text As you have found me; for, accordingly, &c. P. 70. And that same greatness too which our own hands King. Worcester, get thee gone, for I do see - The old text lacks good in Northumberland's speech. The insertion has the joint sanction of Pope, Walker, and Collier's second folio. P. 71. Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly dress'd, P. 71. I then, all smarting with my wounds being cold, Out of my grief and my impatience To be so pester'd with a popinjay, Answer'd neglectingly, &c. - So Capell. The old text trans poses the second and third lines. The correction was proposed by Edwards and Johnson. P.. 71. He should, or he should not; for't made me mad To see him shine so brisk, &c. The old text reads "for he made me mad." P. 73. Shall we buy treason? and indent with fears?-Hanmer and Collier's second folio read "indent with foes," and rightly, I suspect. It is indeed certain that fears was often put for things or persons feared; still I am apt to think that foes agrees better with the context here. Staunton prints feers, an old word for companion or mate. I cannot see what business such a word should have here. See foot-note 9. |