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Come, bring your luggage nobly on your back:
For my part, if a lie may do thee grace,
I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have.-

[A retreat sounded.

The trumpet sounds retreat; the day is ours.
Come, brother, let's to th' highest of the field,
To see what friends are living, who are dead.

[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.-
Ill-spirited Worcester ! did we not send grace,
Pardon, and terms of love to all of you?
And wouldst thou turn our offers contrary?
Misuse the tenour of thy kinsman's trust?
Three knights upon our party slain to-day,
A noble earl, and many a creature else,
Had been alive this hour,

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
Upon the foot of fear, fled with the rest;
And, falling from a hill, he was so bruised
That the pursuers took him.1 At my tent
The Douglas is; and I beseech your Grace
I may dispose of him.

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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.
Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway,

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:
And since this business 2 so fair is done,
Let us not leave till all our own be won.

[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.

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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
And vapours that did seem to strangle him.

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- 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,
Unapt to stir at these indignities,

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- The old text

As you have found me; for, accordingly, &c.
reads "And you have found me." The correction is Lettsom's.

P. 70. And that same greatness too which our own hands
Have holp to make so portly.

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King. Worcester, get thee gone, for I do see
Danger and disobedience in thine eye. —'

- 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,

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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.

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- 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.

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