I wish,—a common wish indeed— I wish, that sympathy and love, Would come, and keep in fashion; I wish, that friends were always true, I wish the good were not so few, I wish, that modest worth might be I wish-in fine-that joy and mirth, May come ere while, throughout the earth, Till God shall every creature bless With His supremest blessing, And hope be lost in happiness, And wishing in possessing! HENRY IV. FIRST PART.-(Shakespeare.) ACT III. SCENE I.-Bangor. A Room in the Archdeacon's House. Enter Hotspur, Worcester, Mortimer, and Glendower. Mort. These promises are fair, the parties sure, And our induction full of prosperous hope. Hot. Lord Mortimer, and cousin Glendower, will you sit down?-And uncle Worcester :-a plague upon it! I have forgot the map. Glend. No, here it is. Sit, cousin Percy; sit, good cousin Hotspur; Doth speak of you, His cheek looks pale, and with a rising sigh, Hot. And you in hell, as often as he hears Owen Glendower spoke of. Glend. I cannot blame him: at my nativity, The frame and huge foundation of the earth Hot. Why, so it would have done at the same season, if your mother's cat had but kitten'd, though yourself had never been born. Glend. I say the earth did shake when I was born. Hot. And I say the earth was not of my mind, If you suppose as fearing you it shook. Glend. The heavens were all on fire, the earth did tremble. Hot. O then the earth shook to see the heavens And not in fear of your nativity. [on fire, Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth Within her womb; which, for enlargement striving, Glend. Cousin, of many men I do not bear these crossings. Give me leave I am not in the roll of common men. Where is the living,—clipp'd in with the sea Which calls me pupil, or hath read to me? Hot. I think there is no man speaks better I'll to dinner. [Welsh.Mort. Peace, cousin Percy! you will make him mad. Glend. I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hot. Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come, when you do call for them? Glend. Why, I can teach thee, cousin, to command the devil. Hot. And I can teach thee, coz, to shame the devil, By telling truth: tell truth, and shame the devil. If thou have power to raise him, bring him hither, And I'll be sworn, I have power to shame him hence. O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil! Mort. Come, come, no more of this unprofitable chat. Glend. Three times hath Henry Bolingbroke made head Against my power; thrice from the banks of Wye, And sandy-bottom'd Severn, have I sent him Bootless home, and weather-beaten back. Hot. Home without boots, and in foul weather How 'scapes he agues, in the devil's name? [too! Glend. Come, here's the map; shall we divide our right, According to our three-fold order ta'en? Mort. The archdeacon hath divided it England, from Trent and Severn hitherto, And my good lord of Worcester, will set forth My father Glendower is not ready yet, Nor shall we need his help these fourteen days :— [To Glend.] Within that space you may have drawn together Your tenants, friends, and neighbouring gentlemen. Glend. A shorter time shall send me to you, And in my conduct shall your ladies come; [lords : From whom you now must steal, and take no For there will be a world of water shed, [leave; Upon the parting of your wives and you. [here Hot. Methinks my moiety, north from Burton It shall not wind with such a deep indent, Glend. Not wind? it shall, it must; you see it doth. Mort. Yea, but mark how he bears his course, and runs me up With like advantage on the other side; Wor. Yea, but a little charge will trench him here; And on this north side win this cape of land; Hot. I'll have it so; a little charge will do it. Hot. Hot. Will not you? Who shall say me nay ? Glend. Why, that will I. Hot. Let me not understand you, then; Speak it in Welsh. |