forswear arms. The virtue of this jest will be, the incomprehensible lies that this same fat rogue will tell us, when we meet at supper: how thirty, at least, he fought with; what wards, what blows, what extremities he endured: and, in the reproof 1 of this, lies the jest. 1 P. Hen. Well, I'll go with thee: provide us all things necessary, and meet me to-morrow night in Eastcheap; there I'll sup. Farewell. Poins. Farewell, my lord. [Exit Poins. P. Hen. I know you all, and will awhile uphold The unyoked humor of your idleness: Yet herein will I imitate the sun; Who doth permit the base contagious clouds 2 I Confutation. 2 Exceed men's expectations. My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly, and attract more eyes, [Exit. The same. SCENE III. Another room in the palace. Enter KING HENRY, NORTHUMBERLAND, WORCESTER, HOTSPUR, SIR WALTER BLUNT, and others. K. Hen. My blood hath been too cold and temperate, Unapt to stir at these indignities, And you have found me; for, accordingly, ; 1 Which the proud soul ne'er pays, but to the proud. Wor. Our house, my sovereign liege, little de serves The scourge of greatness to be used on it; And that same greatness too which our own hands Have holp to make so portly. North. My lord, 1 Disposition. K. Hen. Worcester, get thee gone, for I do see Danger and disobedience in thine eye. O, sir, your presence is too bold and peremptory, The moody frontier1 of a servant brow. You have good leave to leave us; when we need You were about to speak. North. [Exit Worcester. [to Northumberland. Yea, my good lord. Those prisoners, in your highness' name demanded, Either envy, therefore, or misprision Is guilty of this fault, and not my son. Hot. My liege, I did deny no prisoners. And, 'twixt his finger and his thumb, he held He gave his nose, and took 't away again ;Who, therewith angry, when it next came there, 1 Forehead. 2 A small box for perfumes. Took it in snuff: 1-and still he smiled, and talk'd; He call'd them-untaught knaves, unmannerly, With many holyday and lady terms He question'd me; among the rest, demanded I then, all smarting, with my wounds being cold, Out of my grief and my impatience, Answer'd neglectingly, I know not what; He should, or he should not; for he made me mad, Of guns, and drums, and wounds, (God save the mark!) And telling me, the sovereign'st thing on earth And that it was great pity, so it was, 1 Snuff is equivocally used for anger, and a powder taken up the nose. • Parrot. 3 Pain. And, I beseech you, let not his report Betwixt my love and your high majesty. Blunt. The circumstance consider'd, good my lord, Whatever Harry Percy then had said, K. Hen. Why, yet he doth deny his prisoners; But with proviso, and exception, That we, at our own charge, shall ransom straight Who, on my soul, hath wilfully betray'd Hot. Revolted Mortimer! 1 Sien an indenture or compact. |