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A ragged and forestall'd remission :-
If truth and upright innocency fail me,
['ll to the king my master that is dead,
And tell him who hath sent me after him.
West, Here comes the king.

[Exit the Chief Justice.

Enter King HENRY the Fifth.

P. John. Good morrow; and heaven save your majesty!

K. Hen. 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, to speak truth, 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 burthen laid upon us all,
For me, by heaven, I bid you be assur'd,
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.

P. John. We hope no other from your majesty.
K. Hen. Come, let's to council, brothers; where

you soon

Shall have an earnest of my true intents.

SCENE IIIІ.

[Exeunt.

A public Place near Westminster Abbey. Enter FALSTAFF, SHALLOW, PISTOL, BARDOLPH,

and Page.

Fal. Stand here by me, master Robert Shallow; I will make the king do you grace: I will leer upon

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him, as 'a comes by; and do but mark the countenance that he will give me.

Pist. Heaven bless thy lungs, good knight!

:

Fal. Come here, Pistol; stand behind me. O, if I had had time to have made new liveries, I would have bestow'd the thousand pound I borrow'd of you. (TO SHALLOW) But 't is no matter; this poor show doth better: this doth infer the zeal I had to see him;

Shal. It doth so.

Fal. it shows my earnestness of affection,

:

Pist. It doth so.

Fal. my devotion ;

Shal. It doth, it doth, it doth.

Fal. as it were, to ride day and night; and not to deliberate, not to remember, not to have patience to shift me;

Shal. It is most certain.

Fal. but to stand stained with travel, and sweating with desire to see him: thinking of nothing else; putting all affairs else in oblivion; as if there were nothing else to be done, but to see him.-'T is all in all, and all in every part.

Shal. 'T is so, indeed.

Flourish of Trumpets and Drums.

Enter the King, the Princes, the Earl of WESTMORELAND, the Lord Chief Justice, Gower, and others of the King's train.

Fal. Heaven save thy grace, king Hal! my royal

Hal!

Pist. The heavens thee guard and keep, most royal imp of fame !

Fal. Heaven save thee, my sweet boy!

K. Hen. My lord chief justice, speak to that vain

man,

Ch. Just. Have you your wits? know you what 'tis

you speak?

Fal. My king! my Jove! Ispeak to thee my heart! K. Hen. I know thee not, old man: Fall to thy prayers:

Cow ill white hairs become a fool, and jester! have long dream'd of such a kind of man, surfeit-swell'd, so old, and so profane; ut, being awake, I do despise my dream. Leply not to me with a fool-born jest ; resume not, that I am the thing I was: or heaven doth know, so shall the world perceive, That I have turn'd away my former self: When thou dost hear I am as I have been, pproach me; and thou shalt be as thou wast, The tutor and the feeder of my riots: Till then, I banish thee, on pain of death,as I have done the rest of my misleaders, Not to come near our person by ten miles. For competence of life I will allow you; Chat lack of means enforce you not to evil: And, as we hear you do reform yourselves, Ve will, according to your strength, and qualities,Give you advancement.-Be it your charge, my lord, To see perform'd the tenor of our word.

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[The King retires with his train. Fal. Master Shallow, I owe you a thousand pound. Shal. Ay, marry, sir John; which I beseech you to et me have home with me.

Fal. That can hardly be, master Shallow. Do not you grieve at this; I shall be sent for in private to him: ook you, he must seem thus to the world. Fear not Four advancement; I will be the man yet, that shall make you great.

Shal. I cannot perceive how; unless you give me your doublet, and stuff me out with straw. I beseech you, good sir John, let me have five hundred of my housand.

Fal. Sir, I will be as good as my word: this that you heard, was but a colour.

Shal. A colour, I fear, that you will die in, sir John. Fal. Fear no colours; go with me to dinner. Come, ancient Pistol; -come, Bardolph :-I shall be sent for soon at night.

[Exeunt FALSTAFF, SHALLOW, PISTOL, BARDOLPH, and Page.

Ch. Just. I like this fair proceeding of the king's : Yet still I fear, 't will bring no grace to me.

P. John. You have, indeed, my lord, great cause to doubt.

K. Hen. Still all look strangely on me;-and you [To the Ch. Just.

most;

You are, I think, assur'd I love you not.
Ch. Just. I am assur'd, if I be measur'd rightly,

Your majesty hath no just cause to hate me.
K. Hen. 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
The immediate heir of England! Was this easy?
May this be wash'd in Lethe, and forgotten ?

Ch. Just. I then did use the person of your father;
The image of his power lay then in me:
And, in the administration of his law,
Whiles I was busy for the commonwealth,
Your highness pleased 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.

Question your royal thoughts, make the case yours;
Be now the father, and propose a son:
Hear your own dignity so much profan'd,
See your most dreadful laws so loosely slighted,
Behold yourself so by a son disdain'd;
And then imagine me taking your part,
And, in your power, so silencing your son:-
After this cold considerance, sentence me;
And, as you are a king, speak in your state,-
What I have done, that misbecame my place,
My person, or my liege's sovereignty.

K. Hen. You are right, justice, and you weigh this well;

Therefore still bear the balance, and the sword:

And I do wish your honours may increase,
Till you do live to see a son of mine
Offend you, and obey you, as I did.
You did commit me :

For which, I do commit into your hand
The unstained sword that you have us'd 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-practis'd wise directions.-
Now call we our high court of parliament :
And let us chuse such limbs of noble counsel,
That the great body of our state may go
In equal rank with the best-govern'd nation;
That war, or peace, or both at once, may be
As things acquainted and familiar to us;-------
n which you, father, shall have foremost hand.

[To the Lord Chief Justice.

Our coronation done, we will accite,
As I before remember'd, all our state :

And (heaven consigning to my good intents,)
No prince, nor peer, shall have just cause to say,-

Heaven shorten Harry's happy life one day.

Flourish of Trumpets and Drums.

THE END.

[Exeunt.

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