The First Part of Henry the Fourth: ACT IV
Introduction ACT I ACT II ACT III ACT IV SCENE I. The rebel camp near Shrewsbury. SCENE II. A public road near Coventry. SCENE III. The rebel camp near Shrewsbury. SCENE IV. York. The ARCHBISHOP'S palace. ACT V About the Play Feedback			Search: All the plays Hamlet Coriolanus Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Richard II Richard III Titus Andronicus Antony and Cleopatra Timon of Athens Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry the Fifth Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry VIII King John Pericles Troilus and Cressida All's Well... As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline A Midsummer... Love's Labour's Lost Measure for Measure The Merry Wives... Much Ado about Nothing The Merchant of Venice Twelfth Night The Taming of... The Tempest The Two Gentlemen... The Winter's Tale    for: SCENE IV. York. The ARCHBISHOP'S palace. Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF YORK and SIR MICHAEL ARCHBISHOP OF YORK       Hie, good Sir Michael; bear this sealed brief       With winged haste to the lord marshal;       This to my cousin Scroop, and all the rest       To whom they are directed. If you knew 5     How much they do to import, you would make haste. SIR MICHAEL       My good lord,       I guess their tenor. ARCHBISHOP OF YORK       Like enough you do.       To-morrow, good Sir Michael, is a day 10    Wherein the fortune of ten thousand men       Must bide the touch; for, sir, at Shrewsbury,       As I am truly given to understand,       The king with mighty and quick-raised power       Meets with Lord Harry: and, I fear, Sir Michael, 15    What with the sickness of Northumberland,       Whose power was in the first proportion,       And what with Owen Glendower's absence thence,       Who with them was a rated sinew too       And comes not in, o'er-ruled by prophecies, 20    I fear the power of Percy is too weak       To wage an instant trial with the king. SIR MICHAEL       Why, my good lord, you need not fear;       There is Douglas and Lord Mortimer. ARCHBISHOP OF YORK       No, Mortimer is not there. SIR MICHAEL 25    But there is Mordake, Vernon, Lord Harry Percy,       And there is my Lord of Worcester and a head       Of gallant warriors, noble gentlemen. ARCHBISHOP OF YORK       And so there is: but yet the king hath drawn       The special head of all the land together: 30    The Prince of Wales, Lord John of Lancaster,       The noble Westmoreland and warlike Blunt;       And moe corrivals and dear men       Of estimation and command in arms. SIR MICHAEL       Doubt not, my lord, they shall be well opposed. ARCHBISHOP OF YORK 35    I hope no less, yet needful 'tis to fear;       And, to prevent the worst, Sir Michael, speed:       For if Lord Percy thrive not, ere the king       Dismiss his power, he means to visit us,       For he hath heard of our confederacy, 40    And 'tis but wisdom to make strong against him:       Therefore make haste. I must go write again       To other friends; and so farewell, Sir Michael. Exeunt Return to top of page ... or ... Go to next scene