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:
His valour shown upon our crests to-day,
Hath taught us how to cherish such high deeds,
Even in the bosom of our adversaries.

K. Hen. Then this remains,-that we divide our

power.

You, sou 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,
Meeting the check of such another day:
And since this business so fair is done,
Let us not leave till all our own be won.

[Exeunt.

KING HENRY IV.

PART II.

King Henry the Fourth:

Henry, Prince of Wales, afterwards
King Henry V.;

Thomas, Duke of Clarence;

Prince John of Lancaster, afterwards

(2 Henry V.) Duke of Bedford; Prince Humphrey of Gloster, afterwards (2 Henry V.) Duke of Gloster;

Earl of Warwick;

Earl of Westmoreland;

Gower; Harcourt;

his sons.

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;

Lord Bardolph; Sir John Colevile ;

enemies to

the king.

Travers and Morton, domesticks of Northumber

land.

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, re

cruits.

Fang and Snare, sheriff's officers.

Rumour. A porter.

A dancer, speaker of the Epilogue.

Lady Northumberland. Lady Percy.

Hostess Quickly. Doll Tear-sheet.

Lords and other attendants; officers, soldiers, messenger, drawers, beadles, grooms, &c.

Scene, England.

INDUCTION.

Warkworth. Before Northumberland's castle.

Enter Rumour, painted full of tongues.

Rum. Open your ears; For which of you will stop

The vent of hearing, when loud Rumour speaks?
I, from the orient to the drooping west,
Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold
The acts commenced on this ball of earth:
Upon my tongues continual slanders ride;
The which in every language I pronounce,
Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.
I speak of peace, while covert enmity,
Under the smile of safety, wounds the world:
And who but Rumour, who but only I,
Make fearful musters, and prepar'd defence;
Whilst the big year, swoll'n with some other grief,
Is thought with child by the steru tyrant war,
And no such matter? Rumour is a pipe
Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures;
And of so easy and so plain a stop,

That the blunt monster with uncounted heads,
The still discordaut wavering multitude,
Can play upon it. But what need I thus
My well-known body to anatomize

Among my household? Why is Rumour here!
I run before king Harry's victory;

Who, in a bloody field by Shrewsbury,

Hath beaten down young Hotspur, and his troops, VOL. IV.

Quenching the flame of bold rebellion

Even with the rebels' blood. But what mean I
To speak so true at first? my office is

To noise abroad,-that Harry Monmouth fell
Under the wrath of noble Hotspur's sword;
And that the king before the Douglas' rage
Stoop'd his anointed head as low as death.
This have I rumour'd through the peasant towns
Between that royal field of Shrewsbury

And this worm-eaten hold of ragged stone*,
Where Hotspur's father, old Northumberland,
Lies crafty-sick: the posts come tiring on,
And not a man of them brings other news

Than they have learn'd of me; From Rumour's

tongues

They bring smooth comforts false, worse than true

wrongs.

[Exit.

* Northumberland's castle.