Therefore, sirrah, with a new wound in your thigh, come you [Takes HOTSPUR on his back.

along with me.

Re-enter Prince HENRY and LANCASTER.

Prince. Come, brother John; full bravely hast thou flesh'd Thy maiden sword.

Lan.

But, soft! whom have we here?

Did you not tell me this fat man was dead?

Prince. I did; I saw him dead, breathless and bleeding

Upon the ground. —

Art thou alive? or is it fantasy

That plays upon our eyesight? I pr'ythee, speak;
We will not trust our eyes without our ears:

Thou art not what thou seem'st.

Fal. No, that's certain; I am not a double man: but if I be not Jack Falstaff, then am I a Jack.11 There is Percy! [Throwing the body down.] if your father will do me any honour, so; if not, let him kill the next Percy himself. I look to be either earl or duke, I can assure you.

Prince. Why, Percy I kill'd myself, and saw thee dead. Fal. Didst thou?-Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath; and so was he but we rose both at an instant, and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock. If I may be believed, so; if not, let them that should reward valour bear the sin 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, zwounds, I would make him eat a piece of my sword.

Lan. This is the strangest tale that e'er I heard.
Prince. This is the strangest fellow, brother John.-

11 Jack was used as a term of contempt, like our jackanapes.

Come, bring your luggage nobly on your back:
For my part, if a lie may do thee grace,
I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have.-

[A retreat sounded.

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

[Exeunt Prince HENRY and LANCASTER. Fal. I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him! If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly as a nobleman should do. [Exit, bearing off the body.

SCENE V.-Another Part of the Field.

The trumpets sound. Enter King HENRY, Prince HENRY, LANCASTER, WESTMORELAND, and others, with WORCESTER and VERNON Prisoners.

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

If, like a Christian, thou hadst truly borne

Betwixt our armies true intelligence.

Wor. What I have done my safety urged 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 fortune of the day quite turn'd from him,

The noble Percy slain, and all his men
Upon the foot of fear, fled with the rest;
And, falling from a hill, he was so bruised
That the pursuers took him.1 At my tent
The Douglas is; and I beseech your Grace
I may dispose of him.

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:

His valour, shown upon our crests to-day,
Hath taught us how to cherish such high deeds
Even in the bosom of our adversaries.

King. Then this remains, that we divide our power.
You, son 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 busily in arms:

Myself, and you, son Harry, will towards Wales,
To fight with Glendower and the Earl of March.
Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway,

1 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.- HOLINSHED.

Meeting the check of such another day:
And since this business 2 so fair is done,
Let us not leave till all our own be won.

[Exeunt.

2 Business is a trisyllable here, as in various other instances.

So Rann. In

P. 57. Faith, 'tis a conquest for a prince to boast of. stead of Faith, 'tis, at the beginning of this speech, the old copies have In faith it is at the conclusion of the preceding speech.

ACT I., SCENE 2.

P. 67. Farewell, thou latter Spring.· stead of thou. Corrected by Pope.

The old copies have the in

P. 67. Falstaff, Bardolph, Peto, and Gadshill shall rob those men, &c. ·Instead of Bardolph and Peto, the old copies have Harvey and Rossill, which were doubtless the names of the actors who performed those parts. Such substitutions of names are not uncommon in old editions of plays. Corrected by Theobald.

P. 68. Provide us all things necessary, and meet me to-night in Eastcheap. So Capell. The old copies read "meet me to-morrow night," which can hardly be right, since the Prince is here directing Pointz to provide the things necessary for the part they are to play in the robbery, such as visards, cases of buckram, &c.; and the time set for the robbery is "to-morrow morning, by four o'clock, early at Gads-hill."

P. 68. By breaking through the foul and ugly mists

And vapours that did seem to strangle him. — The old text has