The Second Part of Henry the Fourth: ACT V
Introduction INDUCTION ACT I ACT II ACT III ACT IV ACT V SCENE I. Gloucestershire. SHALLOW'S house. SCENE II. Westminster. The palace. SCENE III. Gloucestershire. SHALLOW'S orchard. SCENE IV. London. A street. SCENE V. A public place near Westminster Abbey. EPILOGUE 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 V. A public place near Westminster Abbey. Enter two Grooms, strewing rushes First Groom       More rushes, more rushes. Second Groom       The trumpets have sounded twice. First Groom       'Twill be two o'clock ere they come from the       coronation: dispatch, dispatch. Exeunt Enter FALSTAFF, SHALLOW, PISTOL, BARDOLPH, and Page FALSTAFF 5     Stand here by me, Master Robert Shallow; I will       make the king do you grace: I will leer upon him as       a' comes by; and do but mark the countenance that he       will give me. PISTOL       God bless thy lungs, good knight. FALSTAFF 10    Come here, Pistol; stand behind me. O, if I had had       time to have made new liveries, I would have       bestowed the thousand pound I borrowed of you. But       'tis no matter; this poor show doth better: this       doth infer the zeal I had to see him. SHALLOW 15    It doth so. FALSTAFF       It shows my earnestness of affection,-- SHALLOW       It doth so. FALSTAFF       My devotion,-- SHALLOW       It doth, it doth, it doth. FALSTAFF 20    As it were, to ride day and night; and not to       deliberate, not to remember, not to have patience       to shift me,-- SHALLOW       It is best, certain. FALSTAFF       But to stand stained with travel, and sweating with 25    desire to see him; thinking of nothing else,       putting all affairs else in oblivion, as if there       were nothing else to be done but to see him. PISTOL       'Tis 'semper idem,' for 'obsque hoc nihil est:'       'tis all in every part. SHALLOW 30    'Tis so, indeed. PISTOL       My knight, I will inflame thy noble liver,       And make thee rage.       Thy Doll, and Helen of thy noble thoughts,       Is in base durance and contagious prison; 35    Haled thither       By most mechanical and dirty hand:       Rouse up revenge from ebon den with fell       Alecto's snake,       For Doll is in. Pistol speaks nought but truth. FALSTAFF 40    I will deliver her. Shouts within, and the trumpets sound PISTOL       There roar'd the sea, and trumpet-clangor sounds. Enter KING HENRY V and his train, the Lord Chief- Justice among them FALSTAFF       God save thy grace, King Hal! my royal Hal! PISTOL       The heavens thee guard and keep, most royal imp of fame! FALSTAFF       God save thee, my sweet boy! KING HENRY IV 45    My lord chief-justice, speak to that vain man. Lord Chief-Justice       Have you your wits? know you what 'tis to speak? FALSTAFF       My king! my Jove! I speak to thee, my heart! KING HENRY IV       I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers;       How ill white hairs become a fool and jester! 50    I have long dream'd of such a kind of man,       So surfeit-swell'd, so old and so profane;       But, being awaked, I do despise my dream.       Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace;       Leave gormandizing; know the grave doth gape 55    For thee thrice wider than for other men.       Reply not to me with a fool-born jest:       Presume not that I am the thing I was;       For God doth know, so shall the world perceive,       That I have turn'd away my former self; 60    So will I those that kept me company.       When thou dost hear I am as I have been,       Approach me, and thou shalt be as thou wast,       The tutor and the feeder of my riots:       Till then, I banish thee, on pain of death, 65    As I have done the rest of my misleaders,       Not to come near our person by ten mile.       For competence of life I will allow you,       That lack of means enforce you not to evil:       And, as we hear you do reform yourselves, 70    We will, according to your strengths and qualities,       Give you advancement. Be it your charge, my lord,       To see perform'd the tenor of our word. Set on. Exeunt KING HENRY V, &c FALSTAFF       Master Shallow, I owe you a thousand pound. SHALLOW       Yea, marry, Sir John; which I beseech you to let me 75    have home with me. FALSTAFF       That can hardly be, Master Shallow. Do not you       grieve at this; I shall be sent for in private to       him: look you, he must seem thus to the world:       fear not your advancements; I will be the man yet 80    that shall make you great. SHALLOW       I cannot well perceive how, unless you should give       me your doublet and stuff me out with straw. I       beseech you, good Sir John, let me have five hundred       of my thousand. FALSTAFF 85    Sir, I will be as good as my word: this that you       heard was but a colour. SHALLOW       A colour that I fear you will die in, Sir John. FALSTAFF       Fear no colours: go with me to dinner: come,       Lieutenant Pistol; come, Bardolph: I shall be sent 90    for soon at night. Re-enter Prince John of LANCASTER, the Lord Chief-Justice; Officers with them Lord Chief-Justice       Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet:       Take all his company along with him. FALSTAFF       My lord, my lord,-- Lord Chief-Justice       I cannot now speak: I will hear you soon. 95    Take them away. PISTOL       Si fortune me tormenta, spero contenta. Exeunt all but PRINCE JOHN and the Lord Chief-Justice LANCASTER       I like this fair proceeding of the king's:       He hath intent his wonted followers       Shall all be very well provided for; 100   But all are banish'd till their conversations       Appear more wise and modest to the world. Lord Chief-Justice       And so they are. LANCASTER       The king hath call'd his parliament, my lord. Lord Chief-Justice       He hath. LANCASTER 105   I will lay odds that, ere this year expire,       We bear our civil swords and native fire       As far as France: I heard a bird so sing,       Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.       Come, will you hence? Exeunt Return to top of page ... or ... Go to next scene