Who's here? Weftmorland?
Weft. Health to my Soveraign, and new Happiness
Added to that, that I am to deliver.
Prince John, your Son, doth kifs your Grace's Hand:
Mowbray, the Bishop, Scroop, Haftings, and all,
Are brought to the Correction of your Law;
There is not now a Rebel's Sword unfheath'd,
But Peace puts forth her Olive every where:
The manner how this Action hath been born,
Here, at more leifure, may your Highness read,
With every course, in his Particular.
K.Henry. Westmorland, thou art a Summer Bird,
Which ever, in the haunch of Winter, fings
The lifting up of Day.
Enter Harecourt.
Look, here's more News.
Hare. From Enemies Heav'n keep your Majefty:
And when they ftand against you, may they fall,
As those that I am come to tell you of.
The Earl Northumberland, and the Lord Bardolf,
With a great Power of English, and of Scots,
Are by the Sheriff of York shire overthrown:
The manner, and true order of the Fight,
This Packet, please it you, contains at large.
K. Henry. And wherefore fhould these good News
make me fick?
Will Fortune never come with both hands full,
But write her fair words ftill in fouleft Letters?
She either gives a Stomach, and no Food,
Such are the Poor, in health; or else a Feast,
And takes away the Stomach; fuch are the Rich,
That have abundance, and enjoy it not.
I fhould rejoice now at this happy News,
And now my Sight fails, and my Brain is giddy.
O me, come near me, now I am much ill.
Glo. Comfort your Majesty.
Cla. Oh, my Royal Father.
Weft. My Soveraign Lord, chear up your felf, look up.
War. Be patient, Princes; you do know, thefe Fits. Are with his Highness very ordinary.
Stand from him, give him Air:
He'll ftraight be well.
Cla. No, no, he cannot long hold out; thefe Pangs, Th'inceffant Care, and labour of his Mind,
Hath wrought the Mure, that fhould confine it in,
So thin, that Life looks through, and will break out.
Glo. The People fear me; for they do obferve
Unfather'd Heirs, and loathly Births of Nature:
The Seafons change their Manners, as the Year
Had found fome Months afleep, and leap'd them over.
Cla. The River hath thrice flow'd, no ebb between;
And the old Folk, Time's doating Chronicles,
Say it did fo, a little time before
That our Grand-fire Edward fick'd, and dy'd.
War. Speak lower, Princes, for the King recovers.
Glo. This Apoplexy will, certain, be his end.
K.Henry. 1 pray you take me up, and bear me hence
Into fome other Chamber: foftly, 'pray.
Let there be no noife made, my gentle Friends,
Unless fome dull and favourable hand
Will whisper Mufick to my weary Spirit.
War. Call for the Mufick in the other Room.
K.Henry. Set me the Crown upon my Pillow here.
Cla. His Eye is hollow, and he changes much.
War. Lefs noife, lefs noise.
P.Henry. Who faw the Duke of Clarence?
Cla. 1 am here, Brother, full of heaviness.
P.Henry. How now; Rain within Doors, and none abroad? How doth the King?
P. Henry. Heard he the good News yet?
Tell it him.
Glo. He alter'd much, upon the hearing it.
P. Henry. If he be fick with Joy,
He'll recover without Phyfick.
War. Not fo much noife, my Lords, Sweet Prince, fpeak low.
The King, your Father, is difpos'd to fleep.
Cla. Let us withdraw into the other Room.
War. Wil't please your Grace to go along with us?
P. Henry. No; I will fit, and watch here by the King.
[Exeunt all but P. Henry.
Why doth the Crown lye there, upon his Pillow,
Being fo troublefome a Bed-fellow?
O polifh'd Perturbation! Golden Care!
That keep'ft the Ports of Slumber open wide
To many a watchtul Night: Sleep with it now,
Yet not fo found, and half fo deeply sweet,
As he whofe Brow, with homely Biggen bound,
Snores out the Watch of Night. Majefty!
When thou doft pinch thy Bearer, thou do'ft fit
Like a rich Armor, worn in heat of day,
That scald'st with fafety; by his Gates of Breath
There lyes a downy Feather, which stirs not:
Did he fufpire, that light and weightless Down
Perforce must move. My gracious Lord! my
This Sleep is found indeed; this is a Sleep,
That from this Golden Rigol hath divorc'd
So many English Kings. Thy due from me,
Is Tears, and heavy Sorrows of the Blood,
Which Nature, Love, and filial Tenderness
Shall, O dear Father, pay thee plenteously.
My due, from thee, is this Imperial Crown,
Which, as immediate from thy place, and blood,
Derives it felf to me. Lo, here it fits,
Which Heav'n fhall guard: And put the World's whole ftrength
Into one Gyant Arm, it shall not force
This Lineal Honour from me. This from thee,
Will I to mine leave, as 'tis left to me.
Enter Warwick, Gloucefter, and Clarence.
K. Henry. Warwick! Gloucefter! Clarence!
Cla. Doth the King call?
War. What would your Majesty? how fares your Grace? K Henry. Why did you leave me here alone, my Lords? Cla. We left the Prince, my Brother, here, my Liege; Who undertook to fit and watch by you
K.Henry The Prince of Wales! where is he ? let me fee him. War. The door is open, he is gone this way.
Glo. He came not through the Chamber where we ftaid. K. Henry. Where is the Crown? who took it from my Pillow?
War. When we with-drew, my Liege, we left it here. K. Henry. The Prince hath ta'en it hence:
Is he fo hafty, that he doth fuppofe
My fleep, my death? Find him, my Lord of Warwick,
Chide him hither; this part of his conjoins
With my Disease, and helps to end me.
See, Sons, what things you are:
How quickly Nature falls into revolt,
When Gold becomes her Object?
For this, the foolish over-careful Fathers
Have broke their fleeps with Thought,
Their brains with Care, their bones with Industry.
For this, they have engroffed and pil'd up
The canker'd heaps of ftrange-atchieved Gold:
For this, they have been thoughtful to invest
Their Sons with Art, and Martial Exercifes:"
When, like the Bee, culling from every Flower
The virtuous Sweets, our Thighs packt with Wax,
Our Mouths with Honey, we bring it to the Hive;
And like the Bees, are murthered for our pains.
This bitter taste yield his Engrofsments
Now where is he, that will not stay fo long,
Till his Friend, Sickness, hath determin'd me?
War. My Lord, I found the Prince in the next Room,
Washing with kindly Tears his gentle Cheeks,
With fuch a deep demeanour, in great Sorrow,
That Tyranny, which never quafft but Blood,
Would, by beholding him, have wash'd his Knife
With gentle Eye-drops. He is coming hither.
K. Henry. But wherefore did he take away the Crown? Enter Prince Henry.
Lo, where he comes. Come hither to me, Harry.
"Depart the Chamber, leave us here alone.
P. Henry. I never thought to hear you speak again. K. Henry. Thy with was Father, Harry, to that thought: I ftay too long by thee, I weary thee.
Do'st thou fo hunger for my empty Chair,
That thou wilt needs inveft thee with my Honours,
Before thy Hour be ripe? foolish Youth!
Thou feek's the Greatness, that will over-whelm thee:
Stay but a little, for my Cloud of Dignity
Is held from falling, with so weak a wind,
That it will quickly drop; my Day is dim
Thou haft ftoln that, which after fome few hours
Were thine, without offence; and at my death
Thou haft feal'd up my Expectation.
Thy Life did manifeft, thou lov'dft me not,
And thou wilt have me die affur'd of it.
Thou hid'ft a thousand Daggers in thy Thoughts,
Which thou haft whetted on thy ftony Heart,
To stab at half an hour of my frail Life.
What! can't thou not forbear me half an hour?
Then get thee gone, and dig my Grave thy self,
And bid the merry Bells ring to thy ear,
That thou art Crowned, not that I am dead;
Let all the Tears, that should bedew my Herfe,
Be drops of Balm, to fanctifie thy Head:
Only compound me with forgotten duft;
Give that, which gave thee Life, unto the Worms:
Pluck down my Officers, break my Decrees:
For now a time is come, to mock at Form.
Henry the Fifth is Crown'd: Up Vanity,
Down Royal State: All you fage Counsellors hence:
And to the English Court, affemble now
From ev'ry Region, Apes of Idleness,
Now Neighbour-Confines, purge you of your Scum:
Have you a Ruffian that will fwear? drink? dance?
Revel the Night? rob? murder? and commit
The oldeft fins, the newest kind of ways?
Be happy, he will trouble you no more?
England fhall double gild his trebble guilt.
England fhall give him Office, Honour, Might:
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