THE FIRST PART OF

KING HENRY THE FOURTH.

SIR MICHAEL, a friend to the Archbishop of York.
POINTZ.

GADSHILL.

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BARDOLPH.

LADY PERCY, wife to Hotspur, and sister to Mortimer. LADY MORTIMER, daughter to Glendower, and wife to

Mortimer.

MISTRESS QUICKLY, hostess of a tavern in Eastcheap.

Lords, Officers, Sheriff, Vintner, Chamberlain, Drawers, two Carriers, Travellers, and Attendants.

SCENE-England.

THE FIRST PART OF

KING HENRY THE FOURTH.

ACT I.

SCENE I. London. The palace.

Enter KING HENRY, WESTMORELAND, SIR WALTER
BLUNT, and others.

K. Hen. So shaken as we are, so wan with care,
Find we a time for frighted peace to pant,
And breathe short-winded accents of new broils
To be commenced in stronds afar remote.
No more the thirsty entrance of this soil

Shall daub her lips with her own children's blood;
No more shall trenching war channel her fields,
Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs
Of hostile paces: those opposed eyes,

Which, like the meteors of a troubled heaven,
All of one nature, of one substance bred,
Did lately meet in the intestine shock
And furious close of civil butchery,
Shall now, in mutual well-beseeming ranks,
March all one way, and be no more opposed
Against acquaintance, kindred, and allies:
The edge of war, like an ill-sheathed knife,
No more shall cut his master. Therefore,
Therefore, friends,
As far as to the sepulchre of Christ,-

Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross
We are impressed and engaged to fight,-

Forthwith a power of English shall we levy;
Whose arms were moulded in their mothers' womb

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