then? Can honour set to a l? Nɔ. Or an armı? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then? What is honour? A word. What is in that word honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim rocking !— Who hath it? He that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it nesible then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it :none of it: honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends my catechism. therefore I'll Vernon's Description of Prince Henry's Challenge. No, by my soul; I never in my life Did hear a challenge urg'd more modestly, Unless a brother should a brother dare To gentle exercise and proof of arms. He gave you all the duties of a man: Trimm'd up your praises with a princely tongue; Spoke your deservings like a chronicle; Making you ever better than his praise, By still dispraising praise, valued with you : And, which became him like a prince indeed, He made a blushing cital of himself; And chid his truant youth with such a grace, As if he master'd there a double spirit Of teaching and of learning instantly, There did he pause; but let me tell the world,— England did never owe so sweet a hope, Life demands Action. O gentlemen, the time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely, were too long, Still ending at the arrival of an hour. Prince Henry's Speech on the Death of Hotspur. Fare thee well, great heart! Ill-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk ! Is room enough :-this earth, that bears thee dead, If thou wert sensible of courtesy, I should not make so dear a show of zeal : ·000 KING HENRY IV.-PART. II. The second part of King Henry the Fourth continues his reign from the battle of Shrewsbury till his death. One of the most prominent scenes in this play is that in which the Prince of Wales finds the crown by the side of his dying father, and places it on his own head. Another striking feature is the determination or the prince, on his father's death, to forsake the scenes of *The scarf with which he covers Hotspur. his former revels, and to cease to associate with his old roystering companions, Falstaff and the rest. His noble conduct, too, towards the Chief Justice (who for an act of violence had committed him to prison in his profligate days), imparts great interest to the conclusion of the play. INDUCTION. Rumour. ; OPEN your ears; for which of you will stop Аст I. Contention. Contention, like a horse Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose, A Post Messenger. After him came spurring hard, * A gentleman almost forespent with speed, That stopp'd by me to breathe his bloodied horse: * Spent, exhausted. He ask'd the way to Chester, and of him A Messenger with Ill News. This man's brow, like to a title leaf, So looks the strond, whereon the imperious flood. * * * * * Thou tremblest; and the whiteness in thy cheek And would have told him half his Troy was burn'd— Thou shak'st thine head, and hold'st it fear or sin *The strand, the shore. Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, Remember'd knolling a departing friend. Description of the Death of Hotspur and Defeat of his Army. I am sorry I should force you to believe That which I would to heaven I had not seen : From whence with life he never more sprung up. Had slain three persons whom he mistook for the king. |