We will not truft our eyes, without our ears:-
Thou art not what thou feem'ft.

Fal. No, that's certain; I am not a double man: but if I be not Jack Falstaff, then am I a Jack. There is Percy: [Throwing the body down.] if your father will do me any honour, fo; if not, let him kill the next Percy himself. I look to be either earl or duke, I can affure you.

P. Hen. Why, Percy I kill'd myself, and faw thee dead. Fal. Didit thou?-Lord, lord, how this world is given to lying! I grant you, I was down, and out of breath; and fo was he: but we rose both at an inftant, and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock. If I may be believ'd, fo; if not, let them, that should reward valour, bear the fin upon their own heads. I'll take it upon my death, I gave him this wound in the thigh: if the man were alive, and would deny it, I would make him eat a piece of my fword.

P. John. This is the strangest tale that e'er I heard. P. Hen. This is the ftrangest fellow, brother John.-Come, bring your luggage nobly on your back; For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it with the happiett terms I have.

[A retreat is founded.

The trumpet founds retreat, the day is ours.
Come, brother, let's to the higheft of the field,
To see what friends are living, who are dead.

[Exeunt Prince HENRY and Prince JOHN. Fal. I'll follow, as they fay, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him! If I do grow great, I'll grow for I'll purge, and leave fack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman fhould do.

lefs;

[Exit, bearing off the body.

SCENE

SCENE V.

Another Part of the Field.

The trumpets found. Enter King HENRY, Prince HENRY,
Prince JOHN, WESTMORELAND, and Others, with
WORCESTER and VERNON, prisoners.

K. Hen. Thus ever did rebellion find rebuke.-
Ill-fpirited Worcester! did we not send grace,
Pardon, and terms of love to all of you?
And would't thou turn our offers contrary?
Misuse the tenor of thy kinsman's trust ?
Three knights upon our party flain to-day,
A noble earl, and many a creature else,
Had been alive this hour,

If, like a chriftian,

Betwixt our armie

hadit truly borne intelligence.

Wor. What I have done, my fafety urg'd me to;

And I embrace this fortune patiently,

Since not to be avoided it falls on me.

K. Hen. Bear Worcester to the death, and Vernon too: Other offenders we will pause upon.

[Exeunt WORCESTER and VERNON guarded.

How goes the field?

P. Hen. The noble Scot, lord Douglas, when he faw The fortune of the day quite turn'd from him, The noble Percy flain, and all his men Upon the foot of fear,-fled with the reft; And, falling from a hill, he was fo bruis'd, That the purfuers took him. At my tent The Douglas is; and I beseech your grace, may dispose of him.

I

K. Hen.

With all my heart.

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P. Hen. Then, brother John of Lancaster, to you
This honourable bounty fhall belong :

Go to the Douglas, and deliver him
Up to his pleasure, ranfomlefs, and free:
His valour, fhown upon our crefts to-day,

Hath taught us how to cherish fuch high deeds,

Even in the bofom of our adverfaries.

K. Hen. Then this remains,—that we divide our power.You, fon John, and my cousin Westmoreland,

Towards York shall bend you, with your

dearest speed, To meet Northumberland, and the prelate Scroop, Who, as we hear, are bufily in arms :

Myfelf, and you, fon Harry,—will towards Wales,
To fight with Glendower, and the earl of March.
Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway,
Meeting the check of fuch another day:
And fince this business so fair is done,
Let us not leave till all our own be won.

[Exeunt.

Harding's Edition.

SECOND PART OF

KING HENRY IV.

A

COMEDY.

BY

WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.

ACCURATELY PRINTED

FROM THE TEXT OF

Mr. STEEVENS's LAST EDITION.

Drnamented with Plates.

London:

PUBLISHED BY E. HARDING, NO. 98, PALL-MALL;

J. WRIGHT, PICCADILLY; G. SAEL, STRAND;
AND VERNOR AND HOOD, POULTRY.

1799.