Speeches (Lines) for (stage directions)
in "Henry IV, Part II"
Total: 82

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Prologue,1,1

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues

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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Enter LORD BARDOLPH

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Porter. His lordship is walk'd forth into the orchard.
Please it your honour knock but at the gate,
And he himself will answer.

(stage directions). Enter NORTHUMBERLAND

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Lord Bardolph. I spake with one, my lord, that came from
A gentleman well bred and of good name,
That freely rend'red me these news for true.

(stage directions). Enter TRAVERS

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Lord Bardolph. Who—he?
He was some hilding fellow that had stol'n
The horse he rode on and, upon my life,
Spoke at a venture. Look, here comes more news.

(stage directions). Enter Morton

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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Enter SIR JOHN FALSTAFF, with his PAGE bearing his sword and buckler

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Falstaff. I bought him in Paul's, and he'll buy me a horse in
Smithfield. An I could get me but a wife in the stews, I were
mann'd, hors'd, and wiv'd.

(stage directions). Enter the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE and SERVANT

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Lord Chief Justice. Not a penny, not a penny; you are too impatient
bear crosses. Fare you well. Commend me to my cousin
Westmoreland.

(stage directions). Exeunt CHIEF JUSTICE and SERVANT

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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Enter the ARCHBISHOP, THOMAS MOWBRAY the EARL MARSHAL, LORD HASTINGS, and LORD BARDOLPH

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Lord Hastings. We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

(stage directions). Exeunt

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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Enter HOSTESS with two officers, FANG and SNARE

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Page. Away, you scullion! you rampallian! you fustilarian!
I'll tickle your catastrophe.

(stage directions). Enter the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE and his men

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Falstaff. Come hither, hostess.

(stage directions). Enter GOWER

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Falstaff. No more words; let's have her.

(stage directions). Exeunt HOSTESS, BARDOLPH, and OFFICERS

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Lord Chief Justice. Now, the Lord lighten thee! Thou art a great

(stage directions). Exeunt

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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Enter PRINCE HENRY and POINS

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Edward Poins. By this light, I am well spoke on; I can hear it with
own ears. The worst that they can say of me is that I am a
brother and that I am a proper fellow of my hands; and those
things, I confess, I cannot help. By the mass, here comes
Bardolph.

(stage directions). Enter BARDOLPH and PAGE

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Henry V. A crown's worth of good interpretation. There 'tis,

(stage directions). [Giving a crown]

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Henry V. From a god to a bull? A heavy descension! It was Jove's
case. From a prince to a prentice? A low transformation! That
shall be mine; for in everything the purpose must weigh with
folly. Follow me, Ned.

(stage directions). Exeunt

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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Enter NORTHUMBERLAND, LADY NORTHUMBERLAND, and LADY PERCY

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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Enter FRANCIS and another DRAWER

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Francis. Why, then, cover and set them down; and see if thou
find out Sneak's noise; Mistress Tearsheet would fain hear
music.

(stage directions). Enter third DRAWER

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Second Drawer. I'll see if I can find out Sneak.

(stage directions). Exeunt second and third DRAWERS

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(stage directions). Exeunt second and third DRAWERS

(stage directions). Enter HOSTESS and DOLL TEARSHEET

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Hostess Quickly. Why, that's well said; a good heart's worth gold.
Lo, here comes Sir John.

(stage directions). Enter FALSTAFF

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Doll Tearsheet. Can a weak empty vessel bear such a huge full hogs-head?
There's a whole merchant's venture of Bourdeaux stuff in him;
have not seen a hulk better stuff'd in the hold. Come, I'll
friends with thee, Jack. Thou art going to the wars; and
I shall ever see thee again or no, there is nobody cares.

(stage directions). Re-enter FRANCIS

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Falstaff. He's no swagg'rer, hostess; a tame cheater, i' faith;
may stroke him as gently as a puppy greyhound. He'll not
with a Barbary hen, if her feathers turn back in any show of
resistance. Call him up, drawer.

(stage directions). Exit FRANCIS

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Hostess Quickly. Do I? Yea, in very truth, do I, an 'twere an aspen
cannot abide swagg'rers.

(stage directions). Enter PISTOL, BARDOLPH, and PAGE

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Falstaff. Get you down stairs.

(stage directions). [Drawing and driving PISTOL out]

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Hostess Quickly. Here's a goodly tumult! I'll forswear keeping house
I'll be in these tirrits and frights. So; murder, I warrant
Alas, alas! put up your naked weapons, put up your naked

(stage directions). Exeunt PISTOL and BARDOLPH

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Hostess Quickly. Are you not hurt i' th' groin? Methought 'a made a
thrust at your belly.

(stage directions). Re-enter BARDOLPH

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Doll Tearsheet. Do, an thou dar'st for thy heart. An thou dost, I'll
thee between a pair of sheets.

(stage directions). Enter musicians

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Falstaff. Thou whoreson mad compound of majesty, by this light
flesh and corrupt blood, thou art welcome.

(stage directions). [Leaning his band upon DOLL]

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Falstaff. His Grace says that which his flesh rebels against.

(stage directions). [Knocking within]

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Hostess Quickly. Who knocks so loud at door? Look to th' door there,
Francis.

(stage directions). Enter PETO

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Henry V. By heaven, Poins, I feel me much to blame
So idly to profane the precious time,
When tempest of commotion, like the south,
Borne with black vapour, doth begin to melt
And drop upon our bare unarmed heads.
Give me my sword and cloak. Falstaff, good night.

(stage directions). Exeunt PRINCE, POINS, PETO, and BARDOLPH

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Falstaff. Farewell, farewell.

(stage directions). Exeunt FALSTAFF and BARDOLPH

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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Enter the KING in his nightgown, with a page

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Henry IV. Go call the Earls of Surrey and of Warwick;
But, ere they come, bid them o'er-read these letters
And well consider of them. Make good speed. Exit page
How many thousands of my poorest subjects
Are at this hour asleep! O sleep, O gentle sleep,
Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee,
That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down,
And steep my senses in forgetfulness?
Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs,
Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee,
And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber,
Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great,
Under the canopies of costly state,
And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?
O thou dull god, why liest thou with the vile
In loathsome beds, and leav'st the kingly couch
A watch-case or a common 'larum-bell?
Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast
Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains
In cradle of the rude imperious surge,
And in the visitation of the winds,
Who take the ruffian billows by the top,
Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them
With deafing clamour in the slippery clouds,
That with the hurly death itself awakes?
Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose
To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude;
And in the calmest and most stillest night,
With all appliances and means to boot,
Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down!
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

(stage directions). Enter WARWICK and Surrey

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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Enter SHALLOW and SILENCE, meeting; MOULDY, SHADOW, WART, FEEBLE, BULLCALF, and servants behind

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Robert Shallow. And is old Double dead?

(stage directions). Enter BARDOLPH, and one with him

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Bardolph. Pardon, sir; I have heard the word. 'Phrase' call you
By this day, I know not the phrase; but I will maintain the
with my sword to be a soldier-like word, and a word of
good command, by heaven. Accommodated: that is, when a man
they say, accommodated; or, when a man is being-whereby 'a
thought to be accommodated; which is an excellent thing.

(stage directions). Enter FALSTAFF

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Robert Shallow. That we have, that we have, that we have; in faith,
John, we have. Our watchword was 'Hem, boys!' Come, let's to
dinner; come, let's to dinner. Jesus, the days that we have
Come, come.

(stage directions). Exeunt FALSTAFF and the JUSTICES

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Francis Feeble. Faith, I'll bear no base mind.

(stage directions). Re-enter FALSTAFF and the JUSTICES

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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, MOWBRAY, HASTINGS, and others

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Lord Mowbray. Thus do the hopes we have in him touch ground
And dash themselves to pieces.

(stage directions). Enter A MESSENGER

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Lord Mowbray. The just proportion that we gave them out.
Let us sway on and face them in the field.

(stage directions). Enter WESTMORELAND

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Lord Mowbray. Be it so.
Here is return'd my Lord of Westmoreland.

(stage directions). Re-enter WESTMORELAND

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Archbishop Scroop. Before, and greet his Grace. My lord, we come.

(stage directions). Exeunt

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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Enter, from one side, MOWBRAY, attended; afterwards, the ARCHBISHOP, HASTINGS, and others; from the other side, PRINCE JOHN of LANCASTER, WESTMORELAND, OFFICERS, and others

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Lord Hastings. Go, Captain, and deliver to the army
This news of peace. Let them have pay, and part.
I know it will please them. Hie thee, Captain.

(stage directions). Exit Officer

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Lord Mowbray. So much the worse, if your own rule be true.

(stage directions). [Shouts within]

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Archbishop Scroop. Go, good Lord Hastings,
And, ere they be dismiss'd, let them march by.

(stage directions). Exit HASTINGS

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Prince John. They know their duties.

(stage directions). Re-enter HASTINGS

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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Alarum; excursions. Enter FALSTAFF and COLVILLE, meeting

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Falstaff. I have a whole school of tongues in this belly of
and not a tongue of them all speaks any other word but my
An I had but a belly of any indifferency, I were simply the
active fellow in Europe. My womb, my womb, my womb undoes me.
Here comes our general.

(stage directions). Enter PRINCE JOHN OF LANCASTER, WESTMORELAND, BLUNT, and others

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Falstaff. I know not how they sold themselves; but thou, like a
kind fellow, gavest thyself away gratis; and I thank thee for
thee.

(stage directions). Re-enter WESTMORELAND

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Prince John. Fare you well, Falstaff. I, in my condition,
Shall better speak of you than you deserve.

(stage directions). Exeunt all but FALSTAFF

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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Enter the KING, PRINCE THOMAS OF CLARENCE, PRINCE HUMPHREY OF GLOUCESTER, WARWICK, and others

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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). The KING lying on a bed; CLARENCE, GLOUCESTER, WARWICK, and others in attendance

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Earl of Warwick. Less noise! less noise!

(stage directions). Enter PRINCE HENRY

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Henry IV. Warwick! Gloucester! Clarence!

(stage directions). Re-enter WARWICK, GLOUCESTER, CLARENCE

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Henry IV. But wherefore did he take away the crown?
[Re-enter PRINCE HENRY]
Lo where he comes. Come hither to me, Harry.
Depart the chamber, leave us here alone.

(stage directions). Exeunt all but the KING and the PRINCE

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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Enter SHALLOW, FALSTAFF, BARDOLPH, and PAGE

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Robert Shallow. I will not excuse you; you shall not be excus'd;
shall not be admitted; there is no excuse shall serve; you
not be excus'd. Why, Davy!

(stage directions). Enter DAVY

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Falstaff. I come, Master Shallow; I come, Master Shallow.

(stage directions). Exit

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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Enter, severally, WARWICK, and the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE

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Lord Chief Justice. I know he doth not, and do arm myself
To welcome the condition of the time,
Which cannot look more hideously upon me
Than I have drawn it in my fantasy.

(stage directions). Enter LANCASTER, CLARENCE, GLOUCESTER, WESTMORELAND, and others

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Earl of Warwick. Here comes the Prince.

(stage directions). Enter KING HENRY THE FIFTH, attended

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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Enter FALSTAFF, SHALLOW, SILENCE, BARDOLPH, the PAGE, and DAVY

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Silence. Who, I? I have been merry twice and once ere now.

(stage directions). Re-enter DAVY

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Robert Shallow. Why, there spoke a king. Lack nothing; be merry.
[One knocks at door] Look who's at door there, ho! Who

(stage directions). Exit DAVY

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Silence. Is't so? Why then, say an old man can do somewhat.

(stage directions). Re-enter DAVY

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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Enter BEADLES, dragging in HOSTESS QUICKLY and DOLL TEARSHEET

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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). Enter GROOMS, strewing rushes

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Third Groom. 'Twill be two o'clock ere they come from the
coronation. Dispatch, dispatch. Exeunt

(stage directions). Trumpets sound, and the KING and his train pass over the stage. After them enter FALSTAFF, SHALLOW, PISTOL, BARDOLPH, and page

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Falstaff. I will deliver her.

(stage directions). [Shouts,within, and the trumpets sound]

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Pistol. There roar'd the sea, and trumpet-clangor sounds.

(stage directions). Enter the KING and his train, the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE among them

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Falstaff. Fear no colours; go with me to dinner. Come,
Pistol; come, Bardolph. I shall be sent for soon at night.

(stage directions). Re-enter PRINCE JOHN, the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, with officers

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Pistol. Si fortuna me tormenta, spero me contenta.

(stage directions). Exeunt all but PRINCE JOHN and the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE

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Prince John. 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, pleas'd the King.
Come, will you hence? Exeunt

(stage directions). EPILOGUE.

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Dancer. First my fear, then my curtsy, last my speech. My fear, is your
displeasure; my curtsy, my duty; and my speech, to beg your pardons.
If you look for a good speech now, you undo me; for what I have
to say is of mine own making; and what, indeed, I should say will, I doubt,
prove mine own marring. But to the purpose, and so to the
venture.

Be it known to you, as it is very well, I was lately here in the
end of a displeasing play, to pray your patience for it and to
promise you a better. I meant, indeed, to pay you with this; which if like an
ill venture it come unluckily home, I break, and you, my gentle
creditors, lose. Here I promis'd you I would be, and here I
commit my body to your mercies. Bate me some, and I will pay you some,
and, as most debtors do, promise you infinitely; and so I kneel down
before you—but, indeed, to pray for the Queen.

If my tongue cannot entreat you to acquit me, will you command
me to use my legs? And yet that were but light payment—to dance out of
your debt. But a good conscience will make any possible
satisfaction, and so would I. All the gentlewomen here have
forgiven me. If the gentlemen will not, then the gentlemen do not agree
with the gentlewomen, which was never seen before in such an assembly.

One word more, I beseech you. If you be not too much cloy'd
with fat meat, our humble author will continue the story, with Sir John in
it, and make you merry with fair Katherine of France; where, for
anything I know, Falstaff shall die of a sweat, unless already 'a
be killed with your hard opinions; for Oldcastle died a martyr and
this is not the man. My tongue is weary; when my legs are too, I will
bid you good night.

(stage directions). THE END