There is Percy: [Throwing the body down.] if your father will do me any honour, so; if not, let him kill the next Percy himself. I look to be either earl or duke, I can assure you. P. Hen. Why, Percy, I killed myself, and saw thee dead. Fal. Didst thou?-Lord, lord, how this world is given to lying!-I grant you I was down, and out of breath; and so was he: but we rose both at an instant, and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock. If I may be believed, so; if not, let them, that should reward valour, bear the sin upon their own heads. I'll take it upon my death, I gave him this wound in the thigh: if the man were alive, and would deny it, I would make him eat a piece of my sword. P. John. This is the strangest tale that e'er I heard. P. Hen. This is the strangest fellow, brother Come, bring your luggage nobly on your back: [A retreat is sounded. [Exeunt Prince Henry and Prince John. 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, Prince John, Westmoreland, and others; with Worcester and Vernon, prisoners. K. Hen. Thus ever did rebellion find rebuke.- If, like a Christian, thou hadst truly borne Wor. What I have done, my safety urg'd me to; And I embrace this fortune patiently, Since not to be avoided it falls on me. K. Hen. Bear Worcester to the death, and Vernon too : Other offenders we will pause upon. [Exeunt Worcester and Vernon, guarded. How goes the field? P. Hen. The noble Scot, lord Douglas, when he saw The fortune of the day quite turn'd from him, K. Hen. With all my heart. P. Hen. Then, brother John of Lancaster, to you This honourable bounty shall belong : Go to the Douglas, and deliver him Up to his pleasure, ransomeless, and free; K. Hen. 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, Myself, and you, son Harry,-will towards Wales, [Exeunt. Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench. A Gentleman attending on the Chief Justice. Earl of Northumberland, Scroop, Archbishop of York, Lord Mowbray; Lord Hastings, enemies to the King. Lord Bardolph; Sir John Colville. Travers and Morton, domesticks of Northumberland. Falstaff, Bardolph, Pistol, and Page. Poins and Peto, attendants on Prince Henry. Shallow and Silence, country Justices. Davy, servant to Shallow. Mouldy, Shadow, Wart, Feeble, and Bullcalf, recruits. Rumour. A Porter. A Dancer, speaker of the Epilogue. Lady Northumberland. Lady Percy. Lords and other attendants; officers, soldiers, messenger, Scene, England. |