Chapter XVI: Act IV: SCENE I. The Rebel Camp near Shrewsbury

_Enter_ HOTSPUR, WORCESTER, _and_ DOUGLAS.[2867]

_Hot._ Well said, my noble Scot: if speaking truth[2868]
In this fine age were not thought flattery,[2869]
Such attribution should the Douglas have,
As not a soldier of this season's stamp
Should go so general current through the world. 5
By God, I cannot flatter; I do defy[2870]
The tongues of soothers; but a braver place[2871]
In my heart's love hath no man than yourself:
Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord.

_Doug._ Thou art the king of honour:[2872] 10
No man so potent breathes upon the ground[2873]
But I will beard him.[2873]

_Hot._ Do so, and 'tis well.[2874][2875]

_Enter a_ Messenger _with letters_.[2875][2876]

What letters hast thou there?--I can but thank you.[2875][2877]

_Mess._ These letters come from your father.[2878]

_Hot._ Letters from him! why comes he not himself?[2879] 15

_Mess._ He cannot come, my lord; he is grievous sick.[2879][2880]

_Hot._ 'Zounds! how has he the leisure to be sick[2881]
In such a justling time? Who leads his power?
Under whose government come they along?

_Mess._ His letters bear his mind, not I, my lord.[2882] 20

_Wor._ I prithee, tell me, doth he keep his bed?

_Mess._ He did, my lord, four days ere I set forth;
And at the time of my departure thence
He was much fear'd by his physicians.[2883]

_Wor._ I would the state of time had first been whole[2884] 25
Ere he by sickness had been visited:
His health was never better worth than now.

_Hot._ Sick now! droop now! this sickness doth infect
The very life-blood of our enterprise;
'Tis catching hither, even to our camp. 30
He writes me here, that inward sickness--[2885]
And that his friends by deputation could not[2886]
So soon be drawn, nor did he think it meet[2886]
To lay so dangerous and dear a trust
On any soul removed but on his own. 35
Yet doth he give us bold advertisement,
That with our small conjunction we should on,
To see how fortune is disposed to us;
For, as he writes, there is no quailing now,
Because the king is certainly possess'd 40
Of all our purposes. What say you to it?

_Wor._ Your father's sickness is a maim to us.

_Hot._ A perilous gash, a very limb lopp'd off:
And yet, in faith, it is not; his present want[2887]
Seems more than we shall find it: were it good[2888] 45
To set the exact wealth of all our states[2888][2889]
All at one cast? to set so rich a main[2889][2890]
On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour?[2891]
It were not good; for therein should we read[2892][2893]
The very bottom and the soul of hope,[2893][2894] 50
The very list, the very utmost bound
Of all our fortunes.[2895]

_Doug._ Faith, and so we should;[2895][2896]
Where now remains a sweet reversion:[2895]
We may boldly spend upon the hope of what[2895][2897][2898]
Is to come in:[2895][2898] 55
A comfort of retirement lives in this.[2899]

_Hot._ A rendezvous, a home to fly unto,
If that the devil and mischance look big
Upon the maidenhead of our affairs.

_Wor._ But yet I would your father had been here. 60
The quality and hair of our attempt[2900]
Brooks no division: it will be thought[2901]
By some, that know not why he is away,
That wisdom, loyalty and mere dislike
Of our proceedings kept the earl from hence: 65
And think how such an apprehension
May turn the tide of fearful faction
And breed a kind of question in our cause;
For well you know we of the offering side[2902]
Must keep aloof from strict arbitrement, 70
And stop all sight-holes, every loop from whence
The eye of reason may pry in upon us:
This absence of your father's draws a curtain,[2903]
That shows the ignorant a kind of fear
Before not dreamt of.

_Hot._ You strain too far.[2904] 75
I rather of his absence make this use:
It lends a lustre and more great opinion,
A larger dare to our great enterprise,[2905]
Than if the earl were here; for men must think,
If we without his help can make a head 80
To push against a kingdom, with his help[2906]
We shall o'erturn it topsy-turvy down.[2907]
Yet all goes well, yet all our joints are whole.

_Doug._ As heart can think: there is not such a word[2908]
Spoke of in Scotland as this term of fear.[2908][2909] 85

_Enter_ SIR RICHARD VERNON.

_Hot._ My cousin Vernon! welcome, by my soul.[2910]

_Ver._ Pray God my news be worth a welcome, lord.
The Earl of Westmoreland, seven thousand strong,
Is marching hitherwards; with him Prince John.[2911]

_Hot._ No harm: what more?

_Ver._ And further, I have 90
The king himself in person is set forth,[2912]
Or hitherwards intended speedily,[2913]
With strong and mighty preparation.

_Hot._ He shall be welcome too. Where is his son,[2914]
The nimble-footed madcap Prince of Wales,[2915] 95
And his comrades, that daff'd the world aside,[2916]
And bid it pass?

_Ver._ All furnish'd, all in arms;[2917]
All plumed like estridges that with the wind[2918][2919]
Baited like eagles having lately bathed;[2919][2920]
Glittering in golden coats, like images; 100
As full of spirit as the month of May,
And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer;
Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.[2921]
I saw young Harry, with his beaver on,[2922]
His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd,[2923] 105
Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury,
And vaulted with such ease into his seat,[2924]
As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds,[2925]
To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus
And witch the world with noble horsemanship. 110

_Hot._ No more, no more: worse than the sun in March,[2926]
This praise doth nourish agues. Let them come;
They come like sacrifices in their trim,
And to the fire-eyed maid of smoky war
All hot and bleeding will we offer them: 115
The mailed Mars shall on his altar sit[2927]
Up to the ears in blood. I am on fire
To hear this rich reprisal is so nigh
And yet not ours. Come, let me taste my horse,[2928]
Who is to bear me like a thunderbolt 120
Against the bosom of the Prince of Wales:
Harry to Harry shall, hot horse to horse,[2929]
Meet and ne'er part till one drop down a corse.
O that Glendower were come!

_Ver._ There is more news:
I learn'd in Worcester, as I rode along, 125
He cannot draw his power this fourteen days.[2930]

_Doug._ That's the worst tidings that I hear of yet.[2931]

_Wor._ Ay, by my faith, that bears a frosty sound.

_Hot._ What may the king's whole battle reach unto?

_Ver._ To thirty thousand.

_Hot._ Forty let it be: 130
My father and Glendower being both away,
The powers of us may serve so great a day.[2932]
Come, let us take a muster speedily:[2933]
Doomsday is near; die all, die merrily.

_Doug._ Talk not of dying: I am out of fear 135
Of death or death's hand for this one half-year. [_Exeunt._[2934]

SCENE II. _A public road near Coventry._[2935]

_Enter_ FALSTAFF _and_ BARDOLPH.

_Fal._ Bardolph, get thee before to Coventry; fill me a
bottle of sack: our soldiers shall march through; we'll to
Sutton Co'fil' to-night.[2936]

_Bard._ Will you give me money, captain?

_Fal._ Lay out, lay out. 5

_Bard._ This bottle makes an angel.

_Fal._ An if it do, take it for thy labour; and if it[2937]
make twenty, take them all; I'll answer the coinage. Bid
my lieutenant Peto meet me at town's end.[2938]

_Bard._ I will, captain: farewell. [_Exit._ 10

_Fal._ If I be not ashamed of my soldiers, I am a soused[2939]
gurnet. I have misused the king's press damnably. I have
got, in exchange of a hundred and fifty soldiers, three hundred[2940]
and odd pounds. I press me none but good householders,[2941]
yeoman's sons; inquire me out contracted bachelors,[2941] 15
such as had been asked twice on the banns; such a[2942]
commodity of warm slaves, as had as lieve hear the devil
as a drum; such as fear the report of a caliver worse than a[2943]
struck fowl or a hurt wild-duck. I pressed me none but[2944]
such toasts-and-butter, with hearts in their bellies no bigger 20
than pins'-heads, and they have bought out their services;[2945]
and now my whole charge consists of ancients, corporals,
lieutenants, gentlemen of companies, slaves as ragged as
Lazarus in the painted cloth, where the glutton's dogs licked[2946]
his sores; and such as indeed were never soldiers, but 25
discarded unjust serving-men, younger sons to younger
brothers, revolted tapsters and ostlers trade-fallen, the cankers[2947]
of a calm world and a long peace, ten times more[2948]
dishonourable ragged than an old faced ancient: and such have I,
to[2949]
fill up the rooms of them that have bought out their[2950] 30
services, that you would think that I had a hundred and fifty[2951]
tattered prodigals lately come from swine-keeping, from[2952]
eating draff and husks. A mad fellow met me on the way
and told me I had unloaded all the gibbets and pressed
the dead bodies. No eye hath seen such scarecrows. I'll 35
not march through Coventry with them, that's flat: nay,[2953]
and the villains march wide betwixt the legs, as if they had[2954]
gyves on; for indeed I had the most of them out of prison.
There's but a shirt and a half in all my company; and the[2955]
half shirt is two napkins tacked together and thrown over 40
the shoulders like an herald's coat without sleeves; and the
shirt, to say the truth, stolen from my host at Saint Alban's,[2956]
or the red-nose innkeeper of Daventry. But that's all one;[2957]
they'll find linen enough on every hedge.

_Enter the_ PRINCE _and_ WESTMORELAND.[2958]

_Prince._ How now, blown Jack! how now, quilt! 45

_Fal._ What, Hal! how now, mad wag! what a devil
dost thou in Warwickshire? My good Lord of Westmoreland,
I cry you mercy: I thought your honour had already
been at Shrewsbury.

_West._ Faith, Sir John, 'tis more than time that I were 50
there, and you too; but my powers are there already. The
king, I can tell you, looks for us all: we must away all night.[2959]

_Fal._ Tut, never fear me: I am as vigilant as a cat to[2960]
steal cream.

_Prince._ I think, to steal cream indeed, for thy theft 55
hath already made thee butter. But tell me, Jack, whose
fellows are these that come after?

_Fal._ Mine, Hal, mine.

_Prince._ I did never see such pitiful rascals.

_Fal._ Tut, tut; good enough to toss; food for powder, 60
food for powder; they'll fill a pit as well as better: tush,[2961]
man, mortal men, mortal men.

_West._ Ay, but, Sir John, methinks they are exceeding
poor and bare, too beggarly.

_Fal._ Faith, for their poverty, I know not where they 65
had that; and for their bareness, I am sure they never
learned that of me.

_Prince._ No, I'll be sworn; unless you call three fingers
on the ribs bare. But, sirrah, make haste: Percy is already[2962]
in the field. 70

_Fal._ What, is the king encamped?

_West._ He is, Sir John: I fear we shall stay too long.[2963]

_Fal._ Well,[2964]
To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast[2965]
Fits a dull fighter and a keen guest.[2964] [_Exeunt._ 75

SCENE III. _The Rebel Camp near Shrewsbury._[2966]

_Enter_ HOTSPUR, WORCESTER, DOUGLAS, _and_ VERNON.

_Hot._ We'll fight with him to-night.

_Wor._ It may not be.

_Doug._ You give him then advantage.

_Ver._ Not a whit.

_Hot._ Why say you so? looks he not for supply?

_Ver._ So do we.

_Hot._ His is certain, ours is doubtful.[2967]

_Wor._ Good cousin, be advised; stir not to-night. 5

_Ver._ Do not, my lord.

_Doug._ You do not counsel well:
You speak it out of fear and cold heart.[2968]

_Ver._ Do me no slander, Douglas: by my life,[2969]
And I dare well maintain it with my life,
If well-respected honour bid me on,[2970] 10
I hold as little counsel with weak fear
As you, my lord, or any Scot that this day lives:[2971]
Let it be seen to-morrow in the battle[2972][2973]
Which of us fears.[2972]

_Doug._ Yea, or to-night.[2974]

_Ver._ Content.

_Hot._ To-night, say I. 15

_Ver._ Come, come, it may not be. I wonder much,[2975]
Being men of such great leading as you are,[2975][2976]
That you foresee not what impediments
Drag back our expedition: certain horse[2977]
Of my cousin Vernon's are not yet come up: 20
Your uncle Worcester's horse came but to-day;[2978]
And now their pride and mettle is asleep,
Their courage with hard labour tame and dull,
That not a horse is half the half of himself.[2979]

_Hot._ So are the horses of the enemy 25
In general, journey-bated and brought low:
The better part of ours are full of rest.

_Wor._ The number of the king exceedeth ours:[2980]
For God's sake, cousin, stay till all come in.

[_The trumpet sounds a parley._

_Enter_ SIR WALTER BLUNT.

_Blunt._ I come with gracious offers from the king,[2981] 30
If you vouchsafe me hearing and respect.

_Hot._ Welcome, Sir Walter Blunt; and would to God
You were of our determination!
Some of us love you well; and even those some
Envy your great deservings and good name, 35
Because you are not of our quality,
But stand against us like an enemy.

_Blunt._ And God defend but still I should stand so,[2982]
So long as out of limit and true rule
You stand against anointed majesty. 40
But to my charge. The king hath sent to know[2983]
The nature of your griefs, and whereupon
You conjure from the breast of civil peace[2984]
Such bold hostility, teaching his duteous land[2985]
Audacious cruelty. If that the king 45
Have any way your good deserts forgot,[2986]
Which he confesseth to be manifold,
He bids you name your griefs; and with all speed[2987]
You shall have your desires with interest[2988]
And pardon absolute for yourself and these 50
Herein misled by your suggestion.

_Hot._ The king is kind; and well we know the king[2989]
Knows at what time to promise, when to pay.
My father and my uncle and myself[2990]
Did give him that same royalty he wears; 55
And when he was not six and twenty strong,
Sick in the world's regard, wretched and low,
A poor unminded outlaw sneaking home,
My father gave him welcome to the shore;
And when he heard him swear and vow to God 60
He came but to be Duke of Lancaster,[2991]
To sue his livery and beg his peace,[2992]
With tears of innocency and terms of zeal,[2993]
My father, in kind heart and pity moved,[2994]
Swore him assistance and perform'd it too.[2995] 65
Now when the lords and barons of the realm
Perceived Northumberland did lean to him,
The more and less came in with cap and knee;[2996]
Met him in boroughs, cities, villages,
Attended him on bridges, stood in lanes,[2997] 70
Laid gifts before him, proffer'd him their oaths,
Gave him their heirs, as pages follow'd him[2998]
Even at the heels in golden multitudes.
He presently, as greatness knows itself,
Steps me a little higher than his vow 75
Made to my father, while his blood was poor,
Upon the naked shore at Ravenspurgh;
And now, forsooth, takes on him to reform
Some certain edicts and some strait decrees
That lie too heavy on the commonwealth,[2999] 80
Cries out upon abuses, seems to weep
Over his country's wrongs; and by this face,[3000]
This seeming brow of justice, did he win
The hearts of all that he did angle for;
Proceeded further; cut me off the heads 85
Of all the favourites that the absent king
In deputation left behind him here,
When he was personal in the Irish war.

_Blunt._ Tut, I came not to hear this.[3001]

_Hot._ Then to the point.
In short time after, he deposed the king; 90
Soon after that, deprived him of his life;
And in the neck of that, task'd the whole state;[3002]
To make that worse, suffer'd his kinsman March,
Who is, if every owner were well placed,[3003]
Indeed his king, to be engaged in Wales,[3004] 95
There without ransom to lie forfeited;
Disgraced me in my happy victories,
Sought to entrap me by intelligence;
Rated mine uncle from the council-board;[3005]
In rage dismiss'd my father from the court; 100
Broke oath on oath, committed wrong on wrong,[3006]
And in conclusion drove us to seek out
This head of safety; and withal to pry
Into his title, the which we find[3007]
Too indirect for long continuance. 105

_Blunt._ Shall I return this answer to the king?

_Hot._ Not so, Sir Walter: we'll withdraw awhile.[3008]
Go to the king; and let there be impawn'd
Some surety for a safe return again,[3009]
And in the morning early shall my uncle 110
Bring him our purposes: and so farewell.[3010]

_Blunt._ I would you would accept of grace and love.

_Hot._ And may be so we shall.

_Blunt._ Pray God you do. [_Exeunt._[3011]

SCENE IV. _York. The_ ARCHBISHOP'S _palace_.

_Enter the_ ARCHBISHOP of YORK _and_ SIR MICHAEL.[3012]

_Arch._ Hie, good Sir Michael; bear this sealed brief[3013]
With winged haste to the lord marshal;[3014]
This to my cousin Scroop, and all the rest
To whom they are directed. If you knew[3015]
How much they do import, you would make haste.[3015] 5

_Sir M._ My good lord,[3016][3017]
I guess their tenour.[3017]

_Arch._ Like enough you do.[3018]
To-morrow, good Sir Michael, is a day
Wherein the fortune of ten thousand men
Must bide the touch; for, sir, at Shrewsbury, 10
As I am truly given to understand,
The king with mighty and quick-raised power
Meets with Lord Harry: and, I fear, Sir Michael,
What with the sickness of Northumberland,
Whose power was in the first proportion, 15
And what with Owen Glendower's absence thence,[3019]
Who with them was a rated sinew too[3020]
And comes not in, o'er-ruled by prophecies,[3021]
I fear the power of Percy is too weak
To wage an instant trial with the king. 20

_Sir M._ Why, my good lord, you need not fear;[3022][3023]
There is Douglas and Lord Mortimer.[3022][3024][3025]

_Arch._ No, Mortimer is not there.[3025]

_Sir M._ But there is Mordake, Vernon, Lord Harry Percy,[3026]
And there is my Lord of Worcester and a head[3027][3028] 25
Of gallant warriors, noble gentlemen.[3027]

_Arch._ And so there is: but yet the king hath drawn
The special head of all the land together:
The Prince of Wales, Lord John of Lancaster,
The noble Westmoreland and warlike Blunt; 30
And many moe corrivals and dear men[3029]
Of estimation and command in arms.

_Sir M._ Doubt not, my lord, they shall be well opposed.[3030]

_Arch._ I hope no less, yet needful 'tis to fear;
And, to prevent the worst, Sir Michael, speed: 35
For if Lord Percy thrive not, ere the king[3031]
Dismiss his power, he means to visit us,
For he hath heard of our confederacy,[3032]
And 'tis but wisdom to make strong against him:
Therefore make haste. I must go write again 40
To other friends; and so farewell, Sir Michael. [_Exeunt._

FOOTNOTES:

[2867] SC. I.: The....] Malone. At Shrewsbury. Pope. The rebel camp before Shrewsbury. Capell.

Enter Hotspur....] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. Omitted in Q₁. Enter Harrie Hotspurre.... Ff.

[2868] Hot.] Per. Q₁ (and throughout the scene).]

[2869] _thought_] _through_ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.

[2870] _God_] Qq. _heaven_ Ff.

_do_] Q₁. The rest omit.

[2871] _tongues_] _tongue_ Q₇ Q₈.

[2872] _Thou_] _I doubt it not; thou_ Seymour conj.

[2873] _ground But_] _ground.--But_ Staunton conj.

[2874] _Do so_] _Do_ Pope.

[2875] _Do so ... you._]Arranged as by Capell. As prose in Qq. As two lines, ending _there?... you_, in Ff.

[2876] Enter....] Enter one with letters. Qq. Enter a messenger. Ff (after _beard him_).

[2877] _hast thou_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ F₂ F₃ F₄. _have you_ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. hast F₁.

[2878] _These letters_] _These_ Pope. _These letters, my good lord,_ Capell.

_come_] om. Steevens conj.

_father._] _father,--_ Malone.

[2879] _Letters ... grievous sick._] As four lines in Ff.

[2880] _he is_] _he's_ Pope.

[2881] _'Zounds! how has he_] Qq (_has_ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈). _How? haz he_ F₁ F₂. _How? has he_ F₃ F₄. _Heav'ns! how has he_ Pope.

_sick_] Qq. _sick now_ Ff.

[2882] _bear_] _beare_ Q₇ Q₈. _beares_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ F₁ F₂ F₃. _bears_ F₄.

_not I, my lord_] Capell. _not I my mind_ Q₁ Q₂. The rest _not I his mind_ (_minde_ F₁ F₂ F₃). _not I._ Hot. _His mind!_ Hanmer (Warburton).

[Hotspur opens them and reads. Capell.

[2883] _physicians_] _Phisitions_ Q₁ Q₃. _Phisicions_ Q₂. _Phisition_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _Physician_ Ff. _Phisicion_ Q₇. _Physicion_ Q₈.

[2884] _time_] _times_ Q₆.

[2885] _inward_] _an inward_ Keightley conj.

_sickness--_] Rowe. _sicknesse._ Q₆. _sicknesse,_ the rest. _sickness holds him;_ Capell. Malone supposes a line lost.

[2886] Arranged as by Capell. Qq Ff end line 32 at _deputation_.

[2887] _it is not; his_] _it is not, his_ Q₁. _it is not his_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ F₁ F₂ Q₇ Q₈. _'tis not his_ F₃. _'tis not, his_ F₄.

[2888] Arranged as in Qq. Line 45 ends at _finde it_ in Ff.

[2889] _set ... set_] S. Walker conjectures that one of these is corrupt.

[2890] _main_] _mine_ F₃ F₄.

[2891] _hour?_] _houre?_ Q₇ Q₈. _houre,_ or _hour,_ the rest.

[2892] _read_] _reade_ Q₃ F₁ F₂. _risque_ or _rend_ Johnson conj. _tread_ Malone conj. _reap_ Jackson conj. _dare_ Mitford conj. _reach_ Grant White conj.

[2893] _read ... bottom_] _rend ... blossom_ Bullock conj.

[2894] _soul_] _sound_ Staunton conj.

[2895] _Of ... in_] Keightley would read as three lines, ending _now_ ... _boldly_ ... _in_.

[2896] _Faith_] _I' faith_ S. Walker conj. ending lines 52-55 at _fortunes_ ... _remains_ ... _spend_ ... _come in_.

[2897] _We may_] _We now may_ Pope. _And we may_ Capell. _We may thus_ Grant White. _We_ Anon. conj. See note (XVIII).

[2898] _We may ... come in:_] As in Steevens. As one line in Qq. As two, the first ending _hope_, in Ff.

_what Is_] _what tis_ Q₁. _What t'is_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _what is_ Ff. _What 'tis_ Q₇. _what's_ Q₈.

[2899] _retirement_] _retrievement_ Becket conj.

[2900] _hair_] _haire_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. _heaire_ Q₄. _heire_ Q₅ Q₆ F₁ F₂ Q₇ Q₈. _heir_ F₃ F₄. _air_ Boswell conj. _dare_ Staunton conj. _hour_ Bubier conj. _air_ Carleton conj.

[2901] _it_] _if_ F₂.

[2902] _offering_] _offending_ Pope. _ofterring_ Jackson conj.

[2903] _father's_] _fathers_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. The rest _father_.

[2904] _of_] _upon_ Pope.

_You_] _Come, you_ Capell.

[2905] _dare_] _glare_ Pope.

_our_] Q₁ Q₂. The rest _your_.

[2906] _a kingdom_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. The rest _the kingdom_.

[2907] _shall o'erturn_] _shal oreturne_ Q₁. _shall or'eturne_ Q₂. _shall or turne_ Q₃. _shall, or turn_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. _shall o're-turne_ Ff (_o'return_ F₄). _should o'erturn_ Collier MS.

[2908] As in Qq. As three lines, ending _thinke:_ ... _Scotland_ ... _feare._, in Ff.

[2909] _term_] _tearme_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _deame_ Q₅ Q₆. _dreame_ F₁ Q₇ F₂ Q₈. _dream_ F₃ F₄.

[2910] SCENE II. Pope.

[2911] _hitherwards_] _hitherward_ Q₈. _hither_ Pope.

_with him Prince John_] Q₁. The rest _with Prince John. with Prince John of Lancaster_ Pope.

[2912] _is_] Q₁ Q₂. The rest _hath_.

[2913] _Or_] _And_ Keightley conj.

_intended_] _intendeth_ Collier MS.

[2914] As two lines in Ff.

[2915] _madcap Prince_] Q₁. The rest _madcap, Prince_.

[2916] _daff'd_] _daft_ Qq Ff. _daffe_ Hanmer.

[2917] _furnish'd, ... arms;_] _furnisht? ... armes?_ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.

[2918] _plumed_] _plumde_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _plumpe_ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. _plum'd_ Ff.

_that with_] _that wing_ Rowe. _and with_ Hanmer. _that whisk_ Tyrwhitt conj.

_wind_] _wind are fann'd_ Keightley conj.

[2919] _plumed ... wind Baited_] _plum'd!... wind Bated:_ Johnson conj.

[2920] _Baited_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ F₃ F₄. _Bayted_ Q₅ Q₆ F₁ Q₇ Q₈ F₂. _Baiting_ Hanmer. _Bated_ Malone. See note (XIX).

[2921] _Wanton ... bulls_] Placed by Capell after line 101.

[2922] _on_] _up_ Hanmer (Warburton).

[2923] _cuisses_] Pope. _cushes_ Qq Ff.

[2924] _vaulted with such_] _vault with such an_ Capell. _vault it with such_ Malone.

[2925] _dropp'd_] _drop_ Q₁. The rest _dropt_.

[2926] As two lines in Ff.

[2927] _altar_] _altars_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃.

[2928] _taste_] Q₂. _tast_ Q₁. The rest _take. test_ Anon. conj.

[2929] _to Harry shall, hot_] Capell. _to Harry shal hot_ Q₁. _to Harry, shall hot_ Q₂. The rest _to Harry, shall not_. _to Harry shall, and_ Rowe (ed. 2). _to Harry shall (not ... horse)_ Theobald.

[2930] _cannot_] _can_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[2931] _of yet_] _of it_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[2932] _powers_] _power_ Rowe.

[2933] _take a muster_] _muster_ Q₇ Q₈. _make a muster_ Reed (1803).

[2934] [Exeunt] Qq. Exeunt omnes. Ff.

[2935] SCENE II.] SCENE III. Pope. A ... Coventry. Theobald.

[2936] _Co'fil_] Edd. _cophill_ or _cop-hill_ Qq Ff. _colfield_ Hanmer.

[2937] _An if it do_] Hanmer. _And if it do_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ Ff. _And it do_ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. _An it do_ Capell.

[2938] _at_] Qq. _at the_ Ff.

[2939] _not_] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. The rest omit.

[2940] _a hundred and fifty_] Ff. 150. Qq.

_three hundred_] Ff. 300. Qq.

[2941] _press ... inquire_] _pressed ... inquired_ Collier MS.

[2942] _banns_] Johnson. _banes_ Qq Ff.

[2943] _caliver_] _culverin_ Pope.

[2944] _fowl_] Rowe (ed. 2). _foule_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest _foole_ or _fool. deer_ Hanmer. _sorel_ Johnson conj. _wolf_ Jackson conj.

_wild-duck_] _wild fowl_ Hanmer.

_pressed_] _prest_ Qq Ff. _press_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[2945] _bought_] _brought_ Q₈.

[2946] _licked_] _lick_ Anon. conj.

[2947] _ostlers_] _ostlers,_ Q₁ Ff Q₇ Q₈.

[2948] _a long_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. The rest _long_.

_ten_] om. Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.

_dishonourable_] _dishonourably_ Pope.

[2949] _old faced_] Steevens. _olde fazd_ Q₁ Q₂. _old fazde_ Q₃. _olde fazde_ Q₄. _old faczde_ Q₅. _old fac'd_ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. _old-fac'd_ Ff. _old-feast_ Warburton. _old pieced_ Collier MS. _old patch'd_ Grant White conj.

[2950] _that have_] Ff. _as have_ Qq.

[2951] _that I had_] _I had_ Pope.

[2952] _tattered_] _tottered_ Qq. _totter'd_ F₁ F₂. _tatter'd_ F₃ F₄.

[2953] _through_] _thorow_ Q₇ Q₈.

[2954] _betwixt_] _between_ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.

[2955] _but_] Rowe. _not_ Qq Ff. _not but_ Keightley conj.

[2956] _at_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. The rest _of_.

[2957] _red-nose_] _red nos'd_ Pope.

_Daventry_] F₂. _Davintry_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ F₁. _Daintry_ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. _Dayntry_ F₃ F₄.

[2958] Westmoreland.] Lord of Westmerland. Qq Ff.

[2959] _all night_] Qq. _all to night_ Ff.

[2960] _me_] _tell me_ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.

[2961] _better_] _a better_ Q₂.

[2962] _on the ribs_] _in the ribs_ Q₁ Q₂.

[2963] _Sir John_] _John_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

_we shall_] _we'll_ or _we_ S. Walker conj.

[2964] As prose in Qq Ff. As verse first by Pope.

[2965] _To the_] _the_ Q₈.

_latter_] _later_ O₄.

_the beginning_] _beginning_ Pope.

[2966] SCENE III.] SCENE IV. Pope.

The Rebel....] Malone. At Shrewsbury.

[2967] _So ... His is_] _And so ... His_ Anon. conj.

_His_] _He_ Theobald.

[2968] _You speak_] _Then speake_ Q₆. _Thou speak'st_ Q₇ Q₈.

_and_] _and from_ Pope. _and a_ Collier (Collier MS.).

[2969] _Do me no_] _Do not_ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.

[2970] _bid_] _bids_ Capell.

[2971] _my lord_] om. Capell.

_this day_] om. Pope.

[2972] _Let ... fears_] As one line in Qq.

[2973] _it_] om. Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[2974] Doug.] om. Q₃ Q₄.

[2975] _I wonder ... are_] Arranged as by Pope. As one line in Qq Ff.

[2976] _as you are_] om. Steevens, 1793 (Ritson conj.), reading _I wonder ... leading_ as one line.

[2977] _horse_] _horses_ Q₇ Q₈.

[2978] _horse_] _horses_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.

[2979] _half the half_] _half, half_ Pope. _half half_ Theobald.

_of himself_] _of him himselfe_ Q₇ Q₈. _himself_ Steevens (1793).

[2980] _ours_] Q₆ Ff Q₇ Q₈. The rest _our_.

[2981] SCENE V. Pope.

_offers_] _offer_ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.

[2982] _God_] Qq. _Heaven_ Ff.

[2983] _But ... know_] As two lines in Ff.

[2984] _breast_] _rest_ Capell conj.

[2985] _teaching his_] _teaching's_ S. Walker conj.

[2986] _Have_] _Hath_ Capell conj.

[2987] _griefs_] _griefe_ Q₇ Q₈.

[2988] _desires_] _desire_ Q₇ Q₈.

[2989] _The king ... king_] As two lines in Ff.

[2990] _and my_] Q₁ Q₂. The rest _my. with my_ Collier MS.

[2991] _but to be_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₅ F₁. _but to the_ Q₄ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. _to be but_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[2992] _sue_] _sue out_ F₃ F₄.

[2993] _With ... zeal_] Capell proposed to insert after line 60.

_innocency_] _innocence_ Pope.

[2994] _pity moved_] _pity-moved_ Anon. conj.

[2995] _him_] _his_ Q₈.

[2996] _The more_] _They more_ F₄.

[2997] _Attended_] _Attend_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈.

[2998] _heirs, as pages_] _heirs, as pages,_ F₄. _heirs as pages;_ Rann (Malone conj.). _heirs as pledges,_ Long MS.

_follow'd_] _following_ Pope.

[2999] _lie_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. The rest _lay_.

[3000] _country's_] Rowe. _countries_ Q₅ Q₆ F₁ Q₇ F₂ Q₈. _countreys_ F₃ F₄. _country_ Q₄. _countrey_ Q₁. _countrie_ Q₂ Q₃.

[3001] _Tut_] om. Pope.

[3002] _task'd_] _tax'd_ Johnson conj.

[3003] _well_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. om. Q₅ Q₆ F₁ Q₇ F₂ Q₈. _right_ F₃ F₄. _due_ Collier MS.

[3004] _engaged_] _encag'd_ Pope ed. 2, (Theobald).

[3005] _mine_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. The rest _my_.

[3006] _committed_] _committing_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[3007] _title_] _title too_ Pope.

_the which we find_] _which we find to be_ Keightley conj.

[3008] _Not ... awhile_] As two lines in Ff.

[3009] _a safe_] _the safe_ Q₇ Q₈.

[3010] _purposes_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest _purpose_.

[3011] _And_] _And't_ Ff Q₇ Q₈. _It_ Pope.

_God_] Qq. _Heaven_ Ff.

[3012] SCENE IV.] SCENE VI. Pope. York....] The Archbishop of York's palace. Theobald.

Sir Michael.] A gentleman. Capell.

[3013] _Michael_] _Mighell_ or _Mighel_ or _Michell_ or _Michael_ Qq Ff.

[3014] _marshal_] _mareshal_ Pope.

[3015] _If ... import_] As one line in F₁.

[3016] _My good lord_] _My lord_ Pope; omitted by Capell.

[3017] _My ... tenour_] As in Steevens; as one line in Qq Ff.

[3018] _you do_] om. Pope.

[3019] _with_] Q₁ Q₂ Ff. The rest omit.

[3020] _a rated sinew_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _rated firmely_ Q₅ Q₆ Ff Q₇ Q₈.

[3021] _o'er-ruled_] Pope. _over-rulde_ Qq (_over rulde_ Q₁). _over-rul'd_ Ff.

[3022] _Why ... There is_] Keightley would read as one line.

[3023] _you need not fear_] Omitted by Pope, reading as prose. _I think, you need not fear_ Capell.

[3024] _Douglas_] _the Douglas_ Capell, ending lines 21-23 at _fear; ... No there_. See note (XX).

_Lord_] om. Steevens.

[3025] _Douglas ... there_] As one line, Keightley conj.

[3026] _Lord_] _L._ Q₆ Q₇ Q₈. om. Pope.

[3027] _And ... gentlemen_] As in Qq. As three lines in Ff, ending _Worcester, ... warriors, ... gentlemen_.

[3028] _there is_] _there's_ Pope.

[3029] _moe_] Qq Ff. _more_ Rowe.

_corrivals_] Ff. _corivals_ Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. _corivales_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _corrivales_ Q₇ Q₈.

[3030] _they_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest _he_.

[3031] _not,_] Q₂ Q₃. _not_ The rest.

[3032] _of_] om. F₂.