By the Lord Ill Be a Traitor Then When Thou Art King

King Henry IV, Part I Please run into the bottom of the page for extensive explanatory notes and other helpful resources. Human action I SCENE 2 London. An flat of the Prince'due south. [Enter the PRINCE OF WALES and FALSTAFF] FALSTAFF Now, Hal, what time of 24-hour interval is it, lad? PRINCE HENRY Thou art so fat-witted, with drinking of former sack and unbuttoning thee after supper and sleeping upon benches after apex, that one thousand hast forgotten to demand that truly which thousand wouldst truly know. 5 What a devil hast k to do with the time of the day? Unless hours were cups of sack and minutes capons and clocks the tongues of bawds and dials the signs of leaping-houses and the blessed lord's day himself a fair hot wench in flame-coloured taffeta, I run across no 10 reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to need the fourth dimension of the day. FALSTAFF Indeed, you lot come near me now, Hal; for we that have purses go by the moon and the 7 stars, and not past Phoebus, he,'that wandering knight so fair.' And, 15 I prithee, sweet wag, when thou fine art king, as, God save thy grace,--majesty I should say, for grace thousand wilt have none,-- PRINCE HENRY What, none? FALSTAFF No, past my troth, not so much equally will serve to 20 prologue to an egg and butter. PRINCE HENRY Well, how then? come, roundly, roundly. FALSTAFF Ally, then, sweet wag, when thou fine art king, let not us that are squires of the night'south body exist chosen thieves of the day's beauty: permit the states be Diana's 25 foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon; and let men say nosotros be men of good government, existence governed, as the body of water is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance nosotros steal. PRINCE HENRY Thou sayest well, and it holds well too; for the 30 fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the bounding main is, by the moon. Every bit, for proof, now: a purse of aureate most resolutely snatched on Monday night and most dissolutely spent on Tuesday morning; got with 35 swearing 'Lay by' and spent with crying 'Bring in;' now in as low an ebb as the foot of the ladder and by and by in every bit high a menstruum every bit the ridge of the gallows. FALSTAFF By the Lord, one thousand sayest true, lad. And is not my hostess of the tavern a well-nigh sweet wench? 40 PRINCE HENRY As the dearest of Hybla, my old lad of the castle. And is not a buff jerkin a most sweet robe of durance? FALSTAFF How at present, how now, mad wag! what, in thy quips and thy quiddities? what a plague have I to do with a vitrify jerkin? 45 PRINCE HENRY Why, what a pox accept I to practise with my hostess of the tavern? FALSTAFF Well, thou hast chosen her to a reckoning many a time and frequently. PRINCE HENRY Did I always telephone call for thee to pay thy function? FALSTAFF No; I'll requite thee thy due, thou hast paid all there. 50 PRINCE HENRY Yea, and elsewhere, and then far as my coin would stretch; and where it would not, I have used my credit. FALSTAFF Yea, and so used it that were information technology not here credible that thousand art heir apparent--But, I prithee, sweet wag, shall at that place be gallows continuing in England when 55 thou fine art king? and resolution thus fobbed equally it is with the rusty curb of former father antic the police? Do not one thousand, when m art rex, hang a thief. PRINCE HENRY No; chiliad shalt. FALSTAFF Shall I? O rare! By the Lord, I'll exist a brave judge. 60 PRINCE HENRY Thou judgest false already: I mean, thou shalt have the hanging of the thieves and then become a rare hangman. FALSTAFF Well, Hal, well; and in some sort it jumps with my humour as well as waiting in the court, I tin tell you. 65 PRINCE HENRY For obtaining of suits? FALSTAFF Yea, for obtaining of suits, whereof the hangman hath no lean wardrobe. 'Sblood, I am every bit melancholy as a gib cat or a lugged carry. PRINCE HENRY Or an old panthera leo, or a lover'due south lute. lxx FALSTAFF Yea, or the drone of a Lincolnshire bagpipe. PRINCE HENRY What sayest g to a hare, or the melancholy of Moor-ditch? FALSTAFF Thou hast the nearly unsavoury similes and art indeed the most comparative, rascalliest, sweet immature 75 prince. But, Hal, I prithee, trouble me no more with vanity. I would to God one thousand and I knew where a commodity of skilful names were to exist bought. An erstwhile lord of the quango rated me the other day in the street about you, sir, but I marked him non; and yet 80 he talked very wisely, just I regarded him not; and nevertheless he talked wisely, and in the street too. PRINCE HENRY M didst well; for wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards information technology. FALSTAFF O, one thousand hast damnable iteration and art indeed able 85 to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me, Hal; God forgive thee for it! Earlier I knew thee, Hal, I knew nothing; and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than ane of the wicked. I must give over this life, and I volition give xc information technology over: past the Lord, and I practice non, I am a villain: I'll be damned for never a male monarch'southward son in Christendom. PRINCE HENRY Where shall we accept a purse tomorrow, Jack? FALSTAFF 'Zounds, where thou wilt, lad; I'll make one; an I 95 exercise not, call me villain and bamboozle me. PRINCE HENRY I see a good amendment of life in thee; from praying to handbag-taking. FALSTAFF Why, Hal, 'tis my vocation, Hal; 'tis no sin for a man to labour in his vocation. 100 [Enter POINS] Poins! At present shall nosotros know if Gadshill have prepare a match. O, if men were to be saved by merit, what hole in hell were hot enough for him? This is the well-nigh omnipotent villain that ever cried 'Stand' to a true human being. 105 PRINCE HENRY Expert morrow, Ned. POINS Expert morrow, sweetness Hal. What says Monsieur Remorse? what says Sir John Sack and Sugar? Jack! how agrees the devil and thee nigh thy soul, that thou soldest him on Good-Friday final for a cup of Madeira 110 and a cold capon'southward leg? PRINCE HENRY Sir John stands to his word, the devil shall have his bargain; for he was never nevertheless a billow of proverbs: he will give the devil his due. POINS Then art k damned for keeping thy word with the devil. 115 PRINCE HENRY Else he had been damned for cozening the devil. POINS But, my lads, my lads, to-morrow morning, past four o'clock, early on at Gadshill! there are pilgrims going to Canterbury with rich offerings, and traders riding to London with fat purses: I have vizards 120 for you all; y'all take horses for yourselves: Gadshill lies to-night in Rochester: I accept bespoke supper to-morrow night in Eastcheap: we may practice information technology every bit secure as sleep. If you lot will get, I will stuff your purses total of crowns; if you lot will not, tarry 125 at dwelling house and be hanged. FALSTAFF Hear ye, Yedward; if I tarry at dwelling house and go not, I'll hang you for going. POINS You will, chops? FALSTAFF Hal, wilt one thousand brand 1? 130 PRINCE HENRY Who, I rob? I a thief? non I, by my faith. FALSTAFF There'due south neither honesty, manhood, nor practiced fellowship in thee, nor thou camest not of the claret royal, if one thousand darest non stand for x shillings. PRINCE HENRY Well then, in one case in my days I'll be a madcap. 135 FALSTAFF Why, that's well said. PRINCE HENRY Well, come what will, I'll tarry at habitation. FALSTAFF By the Lord, I'll be a traitor so, when g art male monarch. PRINCE HENRY I intendance not. POINS Sir John, I prithee, go out the prince and me lonely: 140 I will lay him down such reasons for this adventure that he shall get. FALSTAFF Well, God give thee the spirit of persuasion and him the ears of profiting, that what yard speakest may move and what he hears may be believed, that the 145 true prince may, for recreation sake, bear witness a faux thief; for the poor abuses of the fourth dimension want countenance. Farewell: yous shall find me in Eastcheap. PRINCE HENRY Good day, thou latter spring! farewell, All-hallown summer! [Leave Falstaff] POINS Now, my good sweet beloved lord, ride with u.s. 150 to-morrow: I have a jest to execute that I cannot manage lonely. Falstaff, Bardolph, Peto and Gadshill shall rob those men that we have already waylaid: yourself and I volition not be there; and when they have the booty, if you lot and I do not rob them, cutting 155 this head off from my shoulders. PRINCE HENRY How shall we function with them in setting forth? POINS Why, we will fix forth before or after them, and appoint them a place of meeting, wherein information technology is at our pleasure to fail, and then will they take a chance 160 upon the exploit themselves; which they shall accept no sooner achieved, simply we'll set upon them. PRINCE HENRY Yea, but 'tis similar that they volition know us by our horses, past our habits and by every other date, to be ourselves. 165 POINS Tut! our horses they shall not meet: I'll tie them in the woods; our vizards we will change after nosotros get out them: and, sirrah, I have cases of buckram for the nonce, to immask our noted outward garments. PRINCE HENRY Yea, but I uncertainty they volition be too hard for us. 170 POINS Well, for two of them, I know them to be equally true-bred cowards as ever turned dorsum; and for the third, if he fight longer than he sees reason, I'll forswear arms. The virtue of this jest volition be, the incomprehensible lies that this same fat rogue volition 175 tell the states when nosotros come across at supper: how thirty, at least, he fought with; what wards, what blows, what extremities he endured; and in the reproof of this lies the jest. PRINCE HENRY Well, I'll get with thee: provide us all things 180 necessary and meet me to-morrow dark in Eastcheap; at that place I'll sup. Farewell. POINS Farewell, my lord. [Go out Poins] PRINCE HENRY I know you lot all, and will awhile uphold The unyoked humour of your idleness: 185 Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother up his beauty from the earth, That, when he delight once again to exist himself, Beingness wanted, he may be more wonder'd at, 190 By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapours that did seem to strangle him. If all the twelvemonth were playing holidays, To sport would exist as tedious every bit to work; Merely when they seldom come, they wish'd for come, 195 And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. And then, when this loose beliefs I throw off And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men'southward hopes; 200 And like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil to prepare it off. I'll so offend, to make offence a skill; 205 Redeeming time when men think least I will. [Leave] Continue to Henry IV, Part I, Act 1, Scene three Introduction The scene shifts to Prince Hal in London, who is with Falstaff, his rotund and pontificating drinking companion. They joke near the petty crimes they have committed, and reminisce about their alcoholic binges and the many women that they have wooed. Poins enters the tavern and tells them of a plan to commit highway robbery. Prince Hal is reluctant until Poins, after Falstaff leaves, suggests that they use the robbery to play a joke on Falstaff. They will agree to meet with Falstaff as planned, but when they arrive they will refuse to have part in the criminal offence. Then, after Falstaff has by himself stolen the goods, Hal will steal them from Falstaff. Poins bids Hal adieu and when alone, the Prince makes clear in a soliloquy the true motivation backside his ignoble behaviour. Through this life of debauchery Hal prepares for his future equally the next ruler of England. Falstaff and the others are teaching him about the common man -- a valuable lesson that he will call back well throughout his reign as Henry 5. ___________ Explanatory Notes for Deed one, Scene 2 From Henry Four, Role I. Ed. Brainerd Kellogg. New York: Clark and Maynard. (Line numbers have been altered.) __________ 12. Time of day. To ask for the time of night would be more fitting, Hal thinks. 15. That wandering knight, introduced by Falstaff for the sake of the equivoque between knight and night. 21. Prologue, an allusion to grace before meat. 22. Roundly, in plain, blunt terms. 24. Squires of the nighttime's torso. The principal bellboy of a knight was called his squire. 25. Beauty, a pun upon booty. 36. Swearing lay by. Lay past was a highwayman's phrase, pregnant surrender. Crying bring in, crying to the waiter to bring in wine. 41. Hybla, a colina in Sicily abounding in thyme, etc., and famous for honey. Old lad of the castle. This is allusive to the proper noun Oldcastle, by which the Falstaff of this play was originally designated. Information technology is said that Queen Elizabeth requested Shakespeare to modify the name, every bit some of the family of the Oldcastles were still remaining. 42. Durance was a strong and very durable kind of cloth. It also denoted prison or imprisonment. The buff leather jerkin, or doublet, commonly worn by a sergeant or sheriff'south officer was from its immovability and its wearer's role called sometimes a robe of durance. 53. Yea, and then used it. Falstaff hither refers to credit in the sense of character. 56. Resolution thus fobbed, shall boldness of spirit, or the spirit of daring, exist thus foiled or disappointed. The rusty curb, the chains of imprisonment. 57. Antic denotes what is ancient or quondam-fashioned. 63. Jumps with, agrees with. 67. No lean wardrobe. The clothes of criminals were the hangman's perquisite. 69. Gib cat. Gib is a wrinkle of Gilbert, equally Tib is of Tibert. A gib cat was an old male cat. The melancholy look of an old cat, or that of a behave lugged near the streets with a concatenation, is what Falstaff refers to. 72. A hare. Dr. Johnson says of the hare, "She is upon her course always lonely, and, co-ordinate to the physic of the times, the flesh of information technology was supposed to generate melancholy." 73. Moor-ditch, part of the great moat formerly surrounding the urban center of London, and extending from Moorgate to Bishopsgate. Its dull filthy stream, with the marshes on 1 side of it, and the wretched houses on the other, gave rise to the term Moor-ditch melancholy. 75. Most comparative, most apt to employ comparisons. 83. Wisdom cries out. Prov. ane: 20-24. 85. Iteration, mockery of i's words. 95. Zounds, God's wounds. An oath the meaning of which the user never knew. Cf. 'Sblood, Marry, dear me. 96. Baffle originally meant to punish a recreant knight by hanging him up by the heels and chirapsia him. 101. If Gadshill have set a match. To set a match was to lay a plan for a robbery. Gadshill, most Rochester, was much infested with highwaymen in Shakespeare'southward fourth dimension. 134. Represent x shillings = stand for a royal. The majestic was a coin worth 10 shillings. 143. This speech is in ridicule of the usual style of the Puritan preacher's prayer before sermon. In it Falstaff calls robbing a recreation. 149. All-hallown summertime. All-hallows, or All-saints day, is November i. The Prince likens Falstaff to a latter jump and an All-hallown summer, because of the youthful passions of his old age. 164. Habits, garments. 165. Engagement, equipment. At that place is hither a quibbling reference to the words of Poins, "appoint them a place of meeting." 169. The nonce. The n of then passing over to one time, the nonce is then one time = this once. Noted, known. 179. Reproof, refutation, disproof. 185. Unyok'd, unrestrained. 192. To strangle him, to smother him. Cf. Macbeth, 2. 3, "'T is mean solar day, and still dark night strangles the traveling lamp." 200. Hopes, expectations. 204. Foil, a piece of gold or silver leaf placed under a transparent gem to ready information technology off. 205. To make offence, as to make my offending a piece of practiced conduct. "This oral communication," says Johnson, "is very artfully introduced to continue the prince from actualization vile in the opinion of the audience; it prepares them for his future reformation; and, what is yet more valuable, exhibits a natural picture show of a great mind offering excuses to itself, and palliating those follies which it tin neither justify nor forsake." _______ How to cite the introduction: Mabillard, Amanda. Introduction to King Henry Iv, Part 1 (1.2). Shakespeare Online. xx Feb. 2010. (date when you accessed the data) < http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/1kh4_1_2.html >. How to cite the explanatory notes: Shakespeare, William. King Henry IV, Part 1. Ed. Brainerd Kellogg. New York: Clark and Maynard, 1885. Shakespeare Online. xx February. 2010. (date when y'all accessed the information) < http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/1kh4_1_2.html >. ______ Related Manufactures 1 Henry IV Overview (with theme analysis) 1 Henry IV Play History 1 Henry Iv Plot Summary ane Henry Iv: Q & A  Sources for 1 Henry IV  Essay Topics for ane Henry IV  Famous Quotations from 1 Henry Iv  Shakespeare's Falstaff  Characteristics of Elizabethan Drama  Shakespeare'southward Reputation in Elizabethan England  Shakespeare'southward Affect on Other Writers  Why Study Shakespeare?  Quotations About William Shakespeare  Why Shakespeare is so Important  Shakespeare's Language  Shakespeare's Boss: The Primary of Revels

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