DRAMATIS PERSONÆ1. RUMOUR, the Presenter. KING HENRY the Fourth. HENRY, PRINCE OF WALES, afterwards King Henry V.,, THOMAS, DUKE OF CLARENCE, PRINCE JOHN OF LANCASTER, PRINCE HUMPHREY OF GLOUCESTER, EARL OF WARWICK. EARL OF WESTMORELAND. EARL OF SURREY. GOWER. HARCOURT. BLUNT. Lord Chief-Justice of the King's Bench. A Servant of the Chief-Justice. EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND. SCROOP, Archbishop of York. LORD MOWBRAY. LORD HASTINGS. LORD BARDOLPH. SIR JOHN COlville. TRAVERS and MORTON, retainers of Northumberland. his sons. DAVY, Servant to Shallow. MOULDY, SHADOW, WART, FEEBLE, and BULLCALF, recruits. LADY NORTHUMBERLAND. LADY PERCY. MISTRESS QUICKLY, hostess of a tavern in Eastcheap. Lords and Attendants; Porter2, Drawers, Beadles, Grooms, &c. SCENE: England. 1 DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.] THE ACT ORS NAMES. Ff (at the end of the play). om. Q. See note (1). 2 Lords... Porter] om. Ff. THE SECOND PART OF KING HENRY IV. INDUCTION. Warkworth. Before the castle. Enter Rumour, painted full of tongues. Rum. Open your ears; for which of you will stop Whiles the big year, swoln with some other grief, Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures, And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, My well-known body to anatomize Among my household? Why is Rumour here? 20 Hath beaten down young Hotspur and his troops, 25 Even with the rebels' blood. But what mean I To noise abroad that Harry Monmouth fell And that the king before the Douglas' rage 30 This have I rumour'd through the peasant towns 35 Where Hotspur's father, old Northumberland, And not a man of them brings other news Than they have learn'd of me: from Rumour's tongues 40 |