that he is become very hot and valiant. If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack. Enter BARDOLPH. How now, Bardolph ? Bard. The army is discharged all and gone. Fal. Let them go. I'll through Gloucester shire; and there will I visit Master Robert Shal low, esquire: I have him already tempering 140 between my finger and my thumb, and shortly will I seal with him. Come away. [Exeunt. SCENE IV. Westminster. The Jerusalem Chamber. Enter the KING, the PRINCES THOMAS OF CLARENCE and HUMPHREY OF GLOUCESTER, King. Now, lords, if God doth give successful To this debate that bleedeth at our doors, War. Both which we doubt not but your majesty 133. humane principle, rule of manliness. 5. address'd, equipped. ΤΟ Shall soon enjoy. King. Humphrey, my son of Gloucester, Where is the prince your brother? Glou. I think he's gone to hunt, my lord, at Windsor. King. And how accompanied? Glou. I do not know, my lord. King. Is not his brother, Thomas of Clarence, with him? Glou. No, my good lord; he is in presence here. King. Nothing but well to thee, Thomas of How chance thou art not with the prince thy brother? He loves thee, and thou dost neglect him, Thomas ; Of mediation, after I am dead, Between his greatness and thy other brethren : Yet notwithstanding, being incensed, he's flint, As flaws congealed in the spring of day. 27. omit, neglect. 30. observed, courted. 34. humorous, wayward. 35. flaws, probably the thin blades of ice which form along the edges of water on winter nights, and rapidly disappear after sunrise. When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth ; Thomas, And thou shalt prove a shelter to thy friends, As, force perforce, the age will pour it in- Clar. I shall observe him with all care and love. Clar. He is not there to-day; he dines in London. King. And how accompanied? canst thou tell that? Clar. With Poins, and other his continual followers. King. Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds; Is overspread with them: therefore my grief The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape And rotten times that you shall look upon 40. like a whale on ground. The image was perhaps suggested by a vivid account in Holinshed of the stranding of 'a monstrous fish or whale' in Kent, in 1573-74 (ed. Stone, p. 156). 40 50 60 45. suggestion, provocation (to discord). 48. aconitum, aconite. O, with what wings shall his affections fly War. My gracious lord, you look beyond him The prince but studies his companions Like a strange tongue, wherein, to gain the lan guage, 'Tis needful that the most immodest word Be look'd upon and learn'd; which once attain'd, By which his grace must mete the lives of others, King. 'Tis seldom when the bee doth leave her comb In the dead carrion. Enter WESTMORELAND. 70 Who's here? Westmoreland? 80 West. Health to my sovereign, and new happiness Added to that that I am to deliver! Prince John your son doth kiss your grace's hand: 79, 80. 'Tis seldom when, etc. i.e. when the bee has once placed her comb in the carrion, she commonly stays there. 90 90. 'With every movement in detail.' 2 I King. O Westmoreland, thou art a summer bird, Which ever in the haunch of winter sings The lifting up of day. Enter HARCOURT. Look, here's more news. Har. From enemies heaven keep your majesty ; And, when they stand against you, may they fall As those that I am come to tell you of! The Earl Northumberland and the Lord Bardolph, With a great power of English and of Scots, Are by the sheriff of Yorkshire overthrown: The manner and true order of the fight This packet, please it you, contains at large. King. And wherefore should these good news make me sick? Will Fortune never come with both hands full, Clar. O my royal father! West. My sovereign lord, cheer up yourself, look up. War. Be patient, princes; you do know, these fits Are with his highness very ordinary. Stand from him, give him air; he'll straight be well. 92. the haunch, the latter end. |