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Ou musters grow upon the file, To five a worser twe ty thousand men of choice, And our supplies live largely in the hope Of great Northumberland, whose bosom burns With and incensed fire of injuries. With him we may. But by your leave it never yet did hurt, To lay down likelihoods and forms of hope. Grant that our Hope's (yet likely of fair birth) Should be still born, and that we now possessed The utmost man of expectation, I think we are so, body strong enough, Even as we are to equal with the King. To us no more, nay not so much Bardolf, For his divisions, as the times do brawl, And in three heads, one power against the French, And one against Glendower perforce a third Must take up us, so is the unfirm King In three divided, and his coffers found With hollow poverty and emptiness. If he should do so, French and Welch he leaves his back unarmed, they baying him at the heals, never fear that. The Duke of Lancaster and Westmoreland: Against the Welsh, himself and Harry Monmouth: But who is substituted against the French I have no certain notice. We are Times subjects, and Time bids be gone. ex. 'Tis Gaultree forest, an't shall please your grace. Beside, the King hath wasted all his rods, On late offenders, that he now does lack The very instruments of chastisement. So that his power, Like to a phanglesse lion, May offer, but not hold. And though we here fall down, We have supplies to second our attempt, If they miscarry, theirs shall second them, And so success of mischief shall be born, And heir from heir shall hold his quarrel up, While England shall have generation. We have sent forth already. Now, what news? Hath the prince John a full commission, In very ample virtue of his father, To hear, and absolutely to determine Of what conditions we shall stand upon? Fear you not, that if we can make our peace, Upon such large terms, and so absolute, As our conditions shall consist upon, Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains. My lord, our army is dispersed already, Like youthful steers vnyoakt they take their courses, East, West, north, south, or Like a school broke up, Each hurries towards his home, and sporting place.
Plot summary
Plot — 2 Henry the Fourth
After the battle of Shrewsbury, there are contradictory rumours abroad as to the outcome: some say that the King and his son have vanquished Lord Hotspur of Lancaster, whereas in fact they won. Now Lord John of Lancaster is travelling north with a power, including Sir John Falstaff, to crush the regrouping remnants of the Percy rebellion. Mistress Quickly tries to have Falstaff arrested for debt, while threatens to prevent him setting out for London, but he talks his way out of it. Back from a military expedition in Wales, Prince Henry and Poins disguise themselves as drawers and eavesdrop on Falstaff’s conversation: he says uncomplimentary things about them, but Falstaff excuses himself inventively when confronted. Northumberland’s family persuade him to flee to Scotland rather than join the other northern rebels. Falstaff musters troops in Gloucestershire, but the best men bribe their way out, leaving him with the least suitable soldiers. Prince John sees the rebels and agrees to redress their grievances if they disband their army; but when they do so, he has them arrested for treason. Falstaff arrives in the north late, but meets the rebel Sir John Colville, who promptly surrenders without a fight, having heard Falstaff’s reputation. Prince John returns to court, but Falstaff goes via Gloucestershire to visit Justice Shallow. The sickly King prepares for death, and worries about the kingdom’s future in the hands of his eldest son. News arrives of the defeat of all the rebels. Prince Henry finds his father asleep with the crown beside him, and, thinking him dead, tries it on. The King wakes to find his crown gone. Brought back, the Prince excuses himself, and the King gives deathbed advice: he should pursue an aggressive foreign policy to distract from internal dissent. He dies in the Jerusalem chamber, fulfilling a prophecy that he will die in Jerusalem. Henry V is not the King everyone expected the Prince to be. He confirms in office the Lord Chief Justice, who had imprisoned him for his misdemeanours. Pistol brings to Gloucestershire news of his accession, and Falstaff anticipates power for himself and his associates. He is disappointed: when he accosts the King at his coronation, Henry refuses to acknowledge him, and banishes him — though with a pension to ensure that poverty does not lead him back into crime. Falstaff is convinced that this is only a public show of rejection, which will later be countermanded in private; but in fact he and his crew…