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Who keeps the gate here ho? where is the Earl? Tell thou the Earl, That the Lord Bardolf does attend him here. Here comes the Earl. Noble Earl, I bring you certain news from Shrewsbury. As good as heart can wish: The King is almost wounded to the death, And in the fortune of my Lord your son, Prince Harry slain outright, and both the Blunts Killed by the hand of Dow+glas, young prince John, And Westmoreland and Stafford fled the field, And Harry Monmouth's brawn the hulk sir John, Is prisoner to your son: Oh such a day! So fought, so followed, and so fairly won, Came not till now to dignify the times Since Caesars Fortune's. My lord, I'll tell you what, If my young Lord your son, have not the day, Upon mine honour for a silken point, I'll give my Barony, never talk of it. Who he? He was some hilding fellow that had stolen The horse he road on, and upon my life Spoke at a venture. Look, here comes more news. enter Mor tun. I cannot think, my Lord, your son is dead Sweet earl, divorce not wisdom from your honour, We all that are engaged to this lose, Knew that we ventured on such dangerous seas, That if we wrought out life, it ten to one, And yet we ventured for the gain proposed, Choked the respect of likely peril feared, And since we are overset, venture again: Come, we will all put forth body and goods. The question then Lord Hastings stands thus, Whither our present five and twenty thousand, May hold up head without Northumberland. Yea marry, theres the point, But if without him we be thought too feeble, My judgement is we should not step too far. It was my Lord, who lined himself with hope, Eating the air, and promise of supply, Flattering himself in project of a power, Much smaller then the smallest of his thoughts, And so with great imagination, Proper to madmen, led his powers to death, And winking, leapt into destruction. We fortify in paper and in figures, Using the names of men in steed of men, Like on that draws the model of and house, Beyond his power to built it, who (half through) Gives over, and leaves his part-created cost, A naked subject to the weeping clouds, And waste for churlish winter's tyranny. What, is the King but iue and twenty thousand? I spoke with one, my lord, that came from thence, enter Travers. A gentleman well bred, and of good name, That freely rendered me these news for true. My lord, I overrode him on the way, And he is furnished with no certainties, More then he haply may retale from me. Who is it Like should lead his forces hither?
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…