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Enter WARWICK and the Lord CHIEF JUSTICE
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Enter WARWICK and the Lord CHIEF JUSTICE
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WARWICK How now, my Lord Chief Justice, whither away?
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WARWICK How now, my Lord Chief Justice, whither away?
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CHIEF JUSTICE How doth the King?
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CHIEF JUSTICE How doth the King?
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WARWICK Exceeding well. His cares are now all ended.
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WARWICK Exceeding well. His cares are now all ended.
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CHIEF JUSTICE I hope, not dead.
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CHIEF JUSTICE I hope, not dead.
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WARWICK He’s walked the way of nature,
5 And to our purposes he lives no more.
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WARWICK He’s walked the way of nature,
And to our purposes he lives no more.
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CHIEF JUSTICE I would his Majesty had called me with him.
The service that I truly did his life
Hath left me open to all injuries.
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CHIEF JUSTICE I would his Majesty had called me with him.
The service that I truly did his life
Hath left me open to all injuries.
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WARWICK Indeed, I think the young King loves you not.
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WARWICK Indeed, I think the young King loves you not.
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CHIEF JUSTICE 10 I know he doth not, and do arm myself
To welcome the condition of the time,
Which cannot look more hideously upon me
Than I have drawn it in my fantasy.
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CHIEF JUSTICE I know he doth not, and do arm myself
To welcome the condition of the time,
Which cannot look more hideously upon me
Than I have drawn it in my fantasy.
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Enter LANCASTER , CLARENCE , GLOUCESTER , and others
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Enter LANCASTER , CLARENCE , GLOUCESTER , and others
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WARWICK Here come the heavy issue of dead Harry.
15 O, that the living Harry had the temper
Of he the worst of these three gentlemen!
How many nobles then should hold their places
That must strike sail to spirits of vile sort!
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WARWICK Here come the heavy issue of dead Harry.
O, that the living Harry had the temper
Of he the worst of these three gentlemen!
How many nobles then should hold their places
That must strike sail to spirits of vile sort!
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CHIEF JUSTICE O God, I fear all will be overturned.
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CHIEF JUSTICE O God, I fear all will be overturned.
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LANCASTER 20 Good morrow, cousin Warwick, good morrow.
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LANCASTER Good morrow, cousin Warwick, good morrow.
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GLOUCESTER AND CLARENCE Good morrow, cousin.
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GLOUCESTER AND CLARENCE Good morrow, cousin.
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LANCASTER We meet like men that had forgot to speak.
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LANCASTER We meet like men that had forgot to speak.
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WARWICK We do remember, but our argument
Is all too heavy to admit much talk.
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WARWICK We do remember, but our argument
Is all too heavy to admit much talk.
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LANCASTER 25 Well, peace be with him that hath made us heavy.
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LANCASTER Well, peace be with him that hath made us heavy.
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CHIEF JUSTICE Peace be with us, lest we be heavier.
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CHIEF JUSTICE Peace be with us, lest we be heavier.
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GLOUCESTER O, good my lord, you have lost a friend indeed,
And I dare swear you borrow not that face
Of seeming sorrow; it is sure your own.
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GLOUCESTER O, good my lord, you have lost a friend indeed,
And I dare swear you borrow not that face
Of seeming sorrow; it is sure your own.
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LANCASTER 30 Though no man be assured what grace to find,
You stand in coldest expectation.
I am the sorrier; would ’twere otherwise.
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LANCASTER Though no man be assured what grace to find,
You stand in coldest expectation.
I am the sorrier; would ’twere otherwise.
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CLARENCE Well, you must now speak Sir John Falstaff fair,
Which swims against your stream of quality.
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CLARENCE Well, you must now speak Sir John Falstaff fair,
Which swims against your stream of quality.
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CHIEF JUSTICE 35 Sweet princes, what I did I did in honor,
Led by th' impartial conduct of my soul;
And never shall you see that I will beg
A ragged and forestalled remission.
If truth and upright innocency fail me,
40 I’ll to the King my master that is dead
And tell him who hath sent me after him.
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CHIEF JUSTICE Sweet princes, what I did I did in honor,
Led by th' impartial conduct of my soul;
And never shall you see that I will beg
A ragged and forestalled remission.
If truth and upright innocency fail me,
I’ll to the King my master that is dead
And tell him who hath sent me after him.
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WARWICK Here comes the Prince.
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WARWICK Here comes the Prince.
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Enter PRINCE HENRY (now King Henry V), attended
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Enter PRINCE HENRY (now King Henry V), attended
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CHIEF JUSTICE Good morrow, and God save your Majesty.
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CHIEF JUSTICE Good morrow, and God save your Majesty.
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PRINCE HENRY This new and gorgeous garment majesty
45 Sits not so easy on me as you think.—
Brothers, you mix your sadness with some fear.
This is the English, not the Turkish court;
Not Amurath an Amurath succeeds,
But Harry Harry. Yet be sad, good brothers,
50 For, by my faith, it very well becomes you.
Sorrow so royally in you appears
That I will deeply put the fashion on
And wear it in my heart. Why then, be sad.
But entertain no more of it, good brothers,
55 Than a joint burden laid upon us all.
For me, by heaven, I bid you be assured,
I’ll be your father and your brother too.
Let me but bear your love, I ’ll bear your cares.
Yet weep that Harry’s dead, and so will I,
60 But Harry lives that shall convert those tears
By number into hours of happiness.
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PRINCE HENRY This new and gorgeous garment majesty
Sits not so easy on me as you think.—
Brothers, you mix your sadness with some fear.
This is the English, not the Turkish court;
Not Amurath an Amurath succeeds,
But Harry Harry. Yet be sad, good brothers,
For, by my faith, it very well becomes you.
Sorrow so royally in you appears
That I will deeply put the fashion on
And wear it in my heart. Why then, be sad.
But entertain no more of it, good brothers,
Than a joint burden laid upon us all.
For me, by heaven, I bid you be assured,
I’ll be your father and your brother too.
Let me but bear your love, I ’ll bear your cares.
Yet weep that Harry’s dead, and so will I,
But Harry lives that shall convert those tears
By number into hours of happiness.
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PRINCES We hope no otherwise from your Majesty.
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PRINCES We hope no otherwise from your Majesty.
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PRINCE HENRY You all look strangely on me. (to the CHIEF JUSTICE) And you
most.
You are, I think, assured I love you not.
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PRINCE HENRY You all look strangely on me. (to the CHIEF JUSTICE) And you
most.
You are, I think, assured I love you not.
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CHIEF JUSTICE 65 I am assured, if I be measured rightly,
Your Majesty hath no just cause to hate me.
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CHIEF JUSTICE I am assured, if I be measured rightly,
Your Majesty hath no just cause to hate me.
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PRINCE HENRY No?
How might a prince of my great hopes forget
So great indignities you laid upon me?
70 What, rate, rebuke, and roughly send to prison
Th' immediate heir of England? Was this easy?
May this be washed in Lethe and forgotten?
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PRINCE HENRY No?
How might a prince of my great hopes forget
So great indignities you laid upon me?
What, rate, rebuke, and roughly send to prison
Th' immediate heir of England? Was this easy?
May this be washed in Lethe and forgotten?
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CHIEF JUSTICE I then did use the person of your father;
The image of his power lay then in me.
75 And in th' administration of his law,
Whiles I was busy for the commonwealth,
Your Highness pleasèd to forget my place,
The majesty and power of law and justice,
The image of the King whom I presented,
80 And struck me in my very seat of judgment,
Whereon, as an offender to your father,
I gave bold way to my authority
And did commit you. If the deed were ill,
Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
85 To have a son set your decrees at nought?
To pluck down justice from your awful bench?
To trip the course of law and blunt the sword
That guards the peace and safety of your person?
Nay more, to spurn at your most royal image
90 And mock your workings in a second body?
Question your royal thoughts, make the case yours;
Be now the father and propose a son,
Hear your own dignity so much profaned,
See your most dreadful laws so loosely slighted,
95 Behold yourself so by a son disdained,
And then imagine me taking your part
And in your power soft silencing your son.
After this cold considerance, sentence me,
And, as you are a king, speak in your state
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CHIEF JUSTICE I then did use the person of your father;
The image of his power lay then in me.
And in th' administration of his law,
Whiles I was busy for the commonwealth,
Your Highness pleasèd to forget my place,
The majesty and power of law and justice,
The image of the King whom I presented,
And struck me in my very seat of judgment,
Whereon, as an offender to your father,
I gave bold way to my authority
And did commit you. If the deed were ill,
Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
To have a son set your decrees at nought?
To pluck down justice from your awful bench?
To trip the course of law and blunt the sword
That guards the peace and safety of your person?
Nay more, to spurn at your most royal image
And mock your workings in a second body?
Question your royal thoughts, make the case yours;
Be now the father and propose a son,
Hear your own dignity so much profaned,
See your most dreadful laws so loosely slighted,
Behold yourself so by a son disdained,
And then imagine me taking your part
And in your power soft silencing your son.
After this cold considerance, sentence me,
And, as you are a king, speak in your state
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100 What I have done that misbecame my place,
My person, or my liege’s sovereignty.
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What I have done that misbecame my place,
My person, or my liege’s sovereignty.
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PRINCE HENRY You are right, justice, and you weigh this well.
Therefore still bear the balance and the sword.
And I do wish your honors may increase
105 Till you do live to see a son of mine
Offend you and obey you as I did.
So shall I live to speak my father’s words:
“Happy am I that have a man so bold
That dares do justice on my proper son;
110 And not less happy, having such a son
That would deliver up his greatness so
Into the hands of justice.” You did commit me,
For which I do commit into your hand
Th' unstainèd sword that you have used to bear,
115 With this remembrance: that you use the same
With the like bold, just, and impartial spirit
As you have done 'gainst me. There is my hand.
You shall be as a father to my youth,
My voice shall sound as you do prompt mine ear,
120 And I will stoop and humble my intents
To your well-practiced wise directions.—
And, princes all, believe me, I beseech you:
My father is gone wild into his grave,
For in his tomb lie my affections,
125 And with his spirit sadly I survive
To mock the expectation of the world,
To frustrate prophecies, and to raze out
Rotten opinion, who hath writ me down
After my seeming. The tide of blood in me
130 Hath proudly flowed in vanity till now.
Now doth it turn and ebb back to the sea,
Where it shall mingle with the state of floods
And flow henceforth in formal majesty.
Now call we our high court of parliament,
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PRINCE HENRY You are right, justice, and you weigh this well.
Therefore still bear the balance and the sword.
And I do wish your honors may increase
Till you do live to see a son of mine
Offend you and obey you as I did.
So shall I live to speak my father’s words:
“Happy am I that have a man so bold
That dares do justice on my proper son;
And not less happy, having such a son
That would deliver up his greatness so
Into the hands of justice.” You did commit me,
For which I do commit into your hand
Th' unstainèd sword that you have used to bear,
With this remembrance: that you use the same
With the like bold, just, and impartial spirit
As you have done 'gainst me. There is my hand.
You shall be as a father to my youth,
My voice shall sound as you do prompt mine ear,
And I will stoop and humble my intents
To your well-practiced wise directions.—
And, princes all, believe me, I beseech you:
My father is gone wild into his grave,
For in his tomb lie my affections,
And with his spirit sadly I survive
To mock the expectation of the world,
To frustrate prophecies, and to raze out
Rotten opinion, who hath writ me down
After my seeming. The tide of blood in me
Hath proudly flowed in vanity till now.
Now doth it turn and ebb back to the sea,
Where it shall mingle with the state of floods
And flow henceforth in formal majesty.
Now call we our high court of parliament,
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135 And let us choose such limbs of noble counsel
That the great body of our state may go
In equal rank with the best governed nation;
That war, or peace, or both at once, may be
As things acquainted and familiar to us,
140 In which you, father, shall have foremost hand.
Our coronation done, we will accite,
As I before remembered, all our state.
And, God consigning to my good intents,
No prince nor peer shall have just cause to say
145 God shorten Harry’s happy life one day.
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And let us choose such limbs of noble counsel
That the great body of our state may go
In equal rank with the best governed nation;
That war, or peace, or both at once, may be
As things acquainted and familiar to us,
In which you, father, shall have foremost hand.
Our coronation done, we will accite,
As I before remembered, all our state.
And, God consigning to my good intents,
No prince nor peer shall have just cause to say
God shorten Harry’s happy life one day.
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Exeunt
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Exeunt
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Enter WARWICK and the Lord CHIEF JUSTICE
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Enter WARWICK and the Lord CHIEF JUSTICE
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WARWICK How now, my Lord Chief Justice, whither away?
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WARWICK How now, my Lord Chief Justice, whither away?
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CHIEF JUSTICE How doth the King?
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CHIEF JUSTICE How doth the King?
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WARWICK Exceeding well. His cares are now all ended.
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WARWICK Exceeding well. His cares are now all ended.
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CHIEF JUSTICE I hope, not dead.
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CHIEF JUSTICE I hope, not dead.
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WARWICK He’s walked the way of nature,
5 And to our purposes he lives no more.
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WARWICK He’s walked the way of nature,
And to our purposes he lives no more.
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CHIEF JUSTICE I would his Majesty had called me with him.
The service that I truly did his life
Hath left me open to all injuries.
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CHIEF JUSTICE I would his Majesty had called me with him.
The service that I truly did his life
Hath left me open to all injuries.
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WARWICK Indeed, I think the young King loves you not.
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WARWICK Indeed, I think the young King loves you not.
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CHIEF JUSTICE 10 I know he doth not, and do arm myself
To welcome the condition of the time,
Which cannot look more hideously upon me
Than I have drawn it in my fantasy.
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CHIEF JUSTICE I know he doth not, and do arm myself
To welcome the condition of the time,
Which cannot look more hideously upon me
Than I have drawn it in my fantasy.
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Enter LANCASTER , CLARENCE , GLOUCESTER , and others
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Enter LANCASTER , CLARENCE , GLOUCESTER , and others
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WARWICK Here come the heavy issue of dead Harry.
15 O, that the living Harry had the temper
Of he the worst of these three gentlemen!
How many nobles then should hold their places
That must strike sail to spirits of vile sort!
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WARWICK Here come the heavy issue of dead Harry.
O, that the living Harry had the temper
Of he the worst of these three gentlemen!
How many nobles then should hold their places
That must strike sail to spirits of vile sort!
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CHIEF JUSTICE O God, I fear all will be overturned.
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CHIEF JUSTICE O God, I fear all will be overturned.
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LANCASTER 20 Good morrow, cousin Warwick, good morrow.
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LANCASTER Good morrow, cousin Warwick, good morrow.
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GLOUCESTER AND CLARENCE Good morrow, cousin.
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GLOUCESTER AND CLARENCE Good morrow, cousin.
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LANCASTER We meet like men that had forgot to speak.
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LANCASTER We meet like men that had forgot to speak.
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WARWICK We do remember, but our argument
Is all too heavy to admit much talk.
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WARWICK We do remember, but our argument
Is all too heavy to admit much talk.
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LANCASTER 25 Well, peace be with him that hath made us heavy.
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LANCASTER Well, peace be with him that hath made us heavy.
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CHIEF JUSTICE Peace be with us, lest we be heavier.
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CHIEF JUSTICE Peace be with us, lest we be heavier.
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GLOUCESTER O, good my lord, you have lost a friend indeed,
And I dare swear you borrow not that face
Of seeming sorrow; it is sure your own.
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GLOUCESTER O, good my lord, you have lost a friend indeed,
And I dare swear you borrow not that face
Of seeming sorrow; it is sure your own.
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LANCASTER 30 Though no man be assured what grace to find,
You stand in coldest expectation.
I am the sorrier; would ’twere otherwise.
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LANCASTER Though no man be assured what grace to find,
You stand in coldest expectation.
I am the sorrier; would ’twere otherwise.
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CLARENCE Well, you must now speak Sir John Falstaff fair,
Which swims against your stream of quality.
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CLARENCE Well, you must now speak Sir John Falstaff fair,
Which swims against your stream of quality.
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CHIEF JUSTICE 35 Sweet princes, what I did I did in honor,
Led by th' impartial conduct of my soul;
And never shall you see that I will beg
A ragged and forestalled remission.
If truth and upright innocency fail me,
40 I’ll to the King my master that is dead
And tell him who hath sent me after him.
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CHIEF JUSTICE Sweet princes, what I did I did in honor,
Led by th' impartial conduct of my soul;
And never shall you see that I will beg
A ragged and forestalled remission.
If truth and upright innocency fail me,
I’ll to the King my master that is dead
And tell him who hath sent me after him.
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WARWICK Here comes the Prince.
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WARWICK Here comes the Prince.
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Enter PRINCE HENRY (now King Henry V), attended
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Enter PRINCE HENRY (now King Henry V), attended
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CHIEF JUSTICE Good morrow, and God save your Majesty.
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CHIEF JUSTICE Good morrow, and God save your Majesty.
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PRINCE HENRY This new and gorgeous garment majesty
45 Sits not so easy on me as you think.—
Brothers, you mix your sadness with some fear.
This is the English, not the Turkish court;
Not Amurath an Amurath succeeds,
But Harry Harry. Yet be sad, good brothers,
50 For, by my faith, it very well becomes you.
Sorrow so royally in you appears
That I will deeply put the fashion on
And wear it in my heart. Why then, be sad.
But entertain no more of it, good brothers,
55 Than a joint burden laid upon us all.
For me, by heaven, I bid you be assured,
I’ll be your father and your brother too.
Let me but bear your love, I ’ll bear your cares.
Yet weep that Harry’s dead, and so will I,
60 But Harry lives that shall convert those tears
By number into hours of happiness.
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PRINCE HENRY This new and gorgeous garment majesty
Sits not so easy on me as you think.—
Brothers, you mix your sadness with some fear.
This is the English, not the Turkish court;
Not Amurath an Amurath succeeds,
But Harry Harry. Yet be sad, good brothers,
For, by my faith, it very well becomes you.
Sorrow so royally in you appears
That I will deeply put the fashion on
And wear it in my heart. Why then, be sad.
But entertain no more of it, good brothers,
Than a joint burden laid upon us all.
For me, by heaven, I bid you be assured,
I’ll be your father and your brother too.
Let me but bear your love, I ’ll bear your cares.
Yet weep that Harry’s dead, and so will I,
But Harry lives that shall convert those tears
By number into hours of happiness.
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PRINCES We hope no otherwise from your Majesty.
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PRINCES We hope no otherwise from your Majesty.
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PRINCE HENRY You all look strangely on me. (to the CHIEF JUSTICE) And you
most.
You are, I think, assured I love you not.
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PRINCE HENRY You all look strangely on me. (to the CHIEF JUSTICE) And you
most.
You are, I think, assured I love you not.
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CHIEF JUSTICE 65 I am assured, if I be measured rightly,
Your Majesty hath no just cause to hate me.
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CHIEF JUSTICE I am assured, if I be measured rightly,
Your Majesty hath no just cause to hate me.
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PRINCE HENRY No?
How might a prince of my great hopes forget
So great indignities you laid upon me?
70 What, rate, rebuke, and roughly send to prison
Th' immediate heir of England? Was this easy?
May this be washed in Lethe and forgotten?
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PRINCE HENRY No?
How might a prince of my great hopes forget
So great indignities you laid upon me?
What, rate, rebuke, and roughly send to prison
Th' immediate heir of England? Was this easy?
May this be washed in Lethe and forgotten?
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CHIEF JUSTICE I then did use the person of your father;
The image of his power lay then in me.
75 And in th' administration of his law,
Whiles I was busy for the commonwealth,
Your Highness pleasèd to forget my place,
The majesty and power of law and justice,
The image of the King whom I presented,
80 And struck me in my very seat of judgment,
Whereon, as an offender to your father,
I gave bold way to my authority
And did commit you. If the deed were ill,
Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
85 To have a son set your decrees at nought?
To pluck down justice from your awful bench?
To trip the course of law and blunt the sword
That guards the peace and safety of your person?
Nay more, to spurn at your most royal image
90 And mock your workings in a second body?
Question your royal thoughts, make the case yours;
Be now the father and propose a son,
Hear your own dignity so much profaned,
See your most dreadful laws so loosely slighted,
95 Behold yourself so by a son disdained,
And then imagine me taking your part
And in your power soft silencing your son.
After this cold considerance, sentence me,
And, as you are a king, speak in your state
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CHIEF JUSTICE I then did use the person of your father;
The image of his power lay then in me.
And in th' administration of his law,
Whiles I was busy for the commonwealth,
Your Highness pleasèd to forget my place,
The majesty and power of law and justice,
The image of the King whom I presented,
And struck me in my very seat of judgment,
Whereon, as an offender to your father,
I gave bold way to my authority
And did commit you. If the deed were ill,
Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
To have a son set your decrees at nought?
To pluck down justice from your awful bench?
To trip the course of law and blunt the sword
That guards the peace and safety of your person?
Nay more, to spurn at your most royal image
And mock your workings in a second body?
Question your royal thoughts, make the case yours;
Be now the father and propose a son,
Hear your own dignity so much profaned,
See your most dreadful laws so loosely slighted,
Behold yourself so by a son disdained,
And then imagine me taking your part
And in your power soft silencing your son.
After this cold considerance, sentence me,
And, as you are a king, speak in your state
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100 What I have done that misbecame my place,
My person, or my liege’s sovereignty.
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What I have done that misbecame my place,
My person, or my liege’s sovereignty.
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PRINCE HENRY You are right, justice, and you weigh this well.
Therefore still bear the balance and the sword.
And I do wish your honors may increase
105 Till you do live to see a son of mine
Offend you and obey you as I did.
So shall I live to speak my father’s words:
“Happy am I that have a man so bold
That dares do justice on my proper son;
110 And not less happy, having such a son
That would deliver up his greatness so
Into the hands of justice.” You did commit me,
For which I do commit into your hand
Th' unstainèd sword that you have used to bear,
115 With this remembrance: that you use the same
With the like bold, just, and impartial spirit
As you have done 'gainst me. There is my hand.
You shall be as a father to my youth,
My voice shall sound as you do prompt mine ear,
120 And I will stoop and humble my intents
To your well-practiced wise directions.—
And, princes all, believe me, I beseech you:
My father is gone wild into his grave,
For in his tomb lie my affections,
125 And with his spirit sadly I survive
To mock the expectation of the world,
To frustrate prophecies, and to raze out
Rotten opinion, who hath writ me down
After my seeming. The tide of blood in me
130 Hath proudly flowed in vanity till now.
Now doth it turn and ebb back to the sea,
Where it shall mingle with the state of floods
And flow henceforth in formal majesty.
Now call we our high court of parliament,
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PRINCE HENRY You are right, justice, and you weigh this well.
Therefore still bear the balance and the sword.
And I do wish your honors may increase
Till you do live to see a son of mine
Offend you and obey you as I did.
So shall I live to speak my father’s words:
“Happy am I that have a man so bold
That dares do justice on my proper son;
And not less happy, having such a son
That would deliver up his greatness so
Into the hands of justice.” You did commit me,
For which I do commit into your hand
Th' unstainèd sword that you have used to bear,
With this remembrance: that you use the same
With the like bold, just, and impartial spirit
As you have done 'gainst me. There is my hand.
You shall be as a father to my youth,
My voice shall sound as you do prompt mine ear,
And I will stoop and humble my intents
To your well-practiced wise directions.—
And, princes all, believe me, I beseech you:
My father is gone wild into his grave,
For in his tomb lie my affections,
And with his spirit sadly I survive
To mock the expectation of the world,
To frustrate prophecies, and to raze out
Rotten opinion, who hath writ me down
After my seeming. The tide of blood in me
Hath proudly flowed in vanity till now.
Now doth it turn and ebb back to the sea,
Where it shall mingle with the state of floods
And flow henceforth in formal majesty.
Now call we our high court of parliament,
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135 And let us choose such limbs of noble counsel
That the great body of our state may go
In equal rank with the best governed nation;
That war, or peace, or both at once, may be
As things acquainted and familiar to us,
140 In which you, father, shall have foremost hand.
Our coronation done, we will accite,
As I before remembered, all our state.
And, God consigning to my good intents,
No prince nor peer shall have just cause to say
145 God shorten Harry’s happy life one day.
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And let us choose such limbs of noble counsel
That the great body of our state may go
In equal rank with the best governed nation;
That war, or peace, or both at once, may be
As things acquainted and familiar to us,
In which you, father, shall have foremost hand.
Our coronation done, we will accite,
As I before remembered, all our state.
And, God consigning to my good intents,
No prince nor peer shall have just cause to say
God shorten Harry’s happy life one day.
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