Enter FALSTAFF. Fal. Well said, Hal! to it, Hal! boy's play here, I can tell you. Nay, you shall find no Enter DOUGLAS; he fights with FALSTAFF, who falls down as if he were dead, and exit DOUGLAS. HOTSPUR is wounded, and falls. Hot. O, Harry! thou hast robb'd me of my youth. I better brook the loss of brittle life, Than those proud titles thou hast won of me; They wound my thoughts worse than thy sword my flesh : But that the earthy and cold hand of death : [Dies. P.Hen. For worms, brave Percy. Fare thee well, great heart!— Ill-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound; But now, two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough: — this earth that bears thee dead, If thou wert sensible of courtesy, I should not make so dear a show of zeal:- Adieu, and take thy praise with thee to heaven: But not remember'd in thy epitaph! [He sees FALSTAFF on the ground. What! old acquaintance! could not all this flesh Keep in a little life? Poor Jack, farewell: I could have better spar'd a better man. O! I should have a heavy miss of thee, If I were much in love with vanity. Death hath not struck so fat a deer to-day, [Exit. Fal. [Rising.] Embowelled! if thou embowel me to-day, I'll give you leave to powder me, and eat me too, to-morrow. ''Sblood! 't was time to counterfeit, or that hot termagant Scot had paid me scot and lot too. Counterfeit? I lie; I am no counterfeit: to die, is to be a counterfeit; for he is but the counterfeit of a man, who hath not the life of a man; but to counterfeit dying, when a man thereby liveth, is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfect image of life indeed. The better part of valour is discretion, in the which better part, I have saved my life. 'Zounds! I am afraid of this gunpowder Percy, though he be dead. How, if he should counterfeit too, and rise? By my faith, I am afraid he would prove the better counterfeit. Therefore I'll make him sure; yea, and I'll swear I killed him. Why may not he rise, as well as I? Nothing confutes me but eyes, and nobody sees me: therefore, sirrah, with a new wound in your thigh come you along with me. P. Hen. [He takes HOTSPUR on his back. Re-enter Prince HENRY and Prince. JOHN. Come, brother John; full bravely hast thou flesh'd Thy maiden sword. P. John. But, soft! whom have we here? Did you not tell me this fat man was dead? P. Hen. I did; I saw him dead, breathless, and bleeding On the ground. Art thou alive? or is it phantasy That plays upon our eyesight? I pr'ythee, speak; We will not trust our eyes, without our ears. Thou art not what thou seem'st. Fal. No, that's certain: I am not a double man; but if I be not Jack Falstaff, then am I a Jack. There is Percy: if your father will do me any honour, so; if not, let him kill the next Percy himself. I look to be either earl or duke, I can assure you. Why, Percy I killed myself, and saw thee dead. P. Hen. Fal. Didst thou? Lord, lord, how this world is given to lying! — I grant you I was down and out of breath, and so was he; but we rose both at an instant, and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock. If I may be believed, so; if not, let them that should reward valour bear the sin upon their own heads. I'll take it upon my death, I gave him this wound in the thigh: if the man were alive, and would deny it, 'zounds! I would make him eat a piece of my sword. P. John. This is the strangest tale that e'er I heard. P. Hen. This is the strangest fellow, brother John. Come, bring your luggage nobly on your back: For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have. [A Retreat is sounded. The trumpet sounds retreat; the day is ours. Come, brother, let us to the highest of the field, To see what friends are living, who are dead. [Exeunt Prince HENRY and Prince JOHN. Fal. I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do. [Exit, bearing off the Body. me, God reward him! purge, and leave sack, SCENE V. Another Part of the Field. with WORCESTER, and The Trumpets sound. Enter King HENRY, Prince HENRY, Prince K. Hen. Thus ever did rebellion find rebuke. If, like a Christian, thou hadst truly borne 86 FIRST PART OF KING HENRY IV. Wor. What I have done, my safety urg'd me to, And I embrace this fortune patiently, Since not to be avoided it falls on me. K. Hen. Bear Worcester to the death, and Vernon too: Other offenders we will pause upon. How goes the field? [Exeunt WORCESTER and VERNON, guarded. P. Hen. The noble Scot, lord Douglas, when he saw The noble Percy slain, and all his men And falling from a hill he was so bruis'd, K. Hen. With all my heart. 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, ransomless, and free: P. John. I thank your grace for this high courtesy, K. Hen. Then this remains, - that we divide our power. Towards York shall bend you, with your dearest speed, Myself, and you, son Harry, will towards Wales, [Exeunt |