me, God reward him! If I do grow great again,12 I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do. [Exit, bearing off the Body. The Trumpets sound. Enter the KING, Prince HENRY, Prince JOHN, WESTMORELAND, and Others, with WORCESTER, and VERNON, Prisoners. King. Thus ever did rebellion find rebuke. If, like a Christian, thou hadst truly borne Wor. What I have done my safety urg'd me to; And I embrace this fortune patiently, Since not to be avoided it falls on me. King. Bear Worcester to the death, and Vernon too: Other offenders we will pause upon. [Exeunt WORCESTER and VERNON, guarded. How goes the field? Prince. The noble Scot, Lord Douglas, when he saw The noble Percy slain, and all his men King. With all my heart. Prince. Then, brother John of Lancaster, to you This honourable bounty shall belong. Go to the Douglas, and deliver him Up to his pleasure, ransomless and free: 12 Again is found only in the folio. As Mr. White observes, it gives an important addition of meaning, as inferring Falstaff to have been born and bred to a social position which he has forfeited by loose and riotous living. The passage thus agrees with what he says in a previous scene: "Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me." 18 Thus Holinshed: "To conclude, the kings enemies were vanquished and put to flight, in which flight the earle of Dowglas, for hast falling from the crag of an hie mounteine, brake one of his cullions, and was taken, and, for his valiantnesse, of the king franklie and freelie delivered." His valour, shown upon our crests to-day, King. Then this remains, that we divide our power.- [Exeunt. 14 Business is here used as a word of three syllables. The usage was common, and Shakespeare has it in several instances. Finished Fel; 14th 1870. 22 Lords, and Attendants; Officers, Soldiers, Messenger, Drawers, Beadles, Grooms, &e. SCENE, England. INDUCTION. Warkworth. Before NORTHUMBERLAND'S Enter RUMOUR, painted full of Tongues.1 you will stop Rum. OPEN your ears; for which of Under the smile of safety, wounds the world: 1 Such was the common way of representing this personage, no unfre quent character in the masques of the Poet's time. In a masque on St. Stephen's Night, 1614, by Thomas Campion, Rumour comes on in a skin coat full of winged tongues. And who but Rumour, who but only I, That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, Among my household? Why is Rumour here? Hath beaten down young Hotspur and his troops, Even with the rebels' blood. But what mean I Than they have learn'd of me: from Rumour's tongues They bring smooth comforts false, worse than true wrongs. [Exit. 2 The stops are the holes in a flute or pipe. 3 The old copies have "peasant towns." Pleasant is Dyce's reading; who asks "why Rumour should mention only the peasant towns, as if she had failed to call in at the more important places." 4 Warkworth Castle, the residence of Northumberland. |