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I ran from Shrewsbury my noble lord, Where hateful death put on his ugliest mask, To fright our party. Douglas is living, and your brother yet, But for my Lord your son: You are too great to be by me gainsaid, Your spirit is too true, your fears too certain. I am sorry I should force you to believe, That which I would to God I had not seen, But these mine eyes saw him in bloody state, Rendering faint quittance, wearied, and outbreathed, To Harry Monmouth, whose swift wrath Beatrice down The never daunted Percy to the earth, From whence with life he never more sprung up. In few his death, whose spirit lent a fire, Even to the dullest peasant in his camp, Being bruited once, took fire and heat away, From the best tempered courage in his troops, For from his met l was his party steeled, Which once in him abated, oh the rest Turned on themselves, Like dull and heavy led. And as the thing thats heavy in it self, Upon enforcement flies with greatest speed: So did our men, heavy in Hotspurs lose, Lend to this weight such lightnosse with their fear, That arrows fled not swifter towards their aim, Than did our soldiers aiming at their safety, Fly from the field: then was that noble Worcester, So soon taken prisoner, and that furious Scot, The bloody Douglas whose well labouring sword Had three times slain th'appearance of the King, and veil his stomach and did grace the shame Of those that turned their backs, and in his flight, Stumbling in fear, was took: the sum of all Is, that the King hath won, and hath sent out, A speedy power to encounter you my lord, Under the conduct of young Lancaster, And Westmoreland: this is the news at full. The lives of all your loving accomplices, Leave on you health, the which if you give over, To stormy passion must perforce decay. 'Tis more then time, and my most noble lord, I hear for certain, and dare speak the truth. This strained passion does you wrong my lord.
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…