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And here's the heart, that triumphs in their death, And cheers these hands, that slew thy sire and bro

ther,

To execute the like upon thyself;

And so, have at thee.

[They fight. Warwick enters; Clifford flies. 'Rich. Nay, Warwick, single out some other

chace;

'For I myself will hunt this wolf to death.

SCENE V.

[Exeunt.

ANOTHER PART OF THE FIELD.

Alarum. Enter King Henry.

*K. Hen. This battle fares like to the morning's

war,

*When dying clouds contend with growing light;
* What time the shepherd, blowing of his nails,
* Can neither call it perfect day, nor night.
'Now sways it this way, like a mighty sea,
'Forc'd by the tide to combat with the wind;
Now sways it that way, like the self-same sea
'Forc'd to retire by fury of the wind:
'Sometime, the flood prevails; and then, the wind;
'Now, one the better; then, another best;
'Both tugging to be victors, breast to breast,
'Yet neither conqueror, nor conquered:

'So is the equal poise of this fell war.
'Here on this molehill will I sit me down.

* To whom God will, there be the victory!

'For Margaret my queen, and Clifford too,
Have chid me from the battle; swearing both,
They prosper best of all when I am thence.
"'Would I were dead! if God's good will were so:
'For what is in this world, but grief and woe?
* O God! methinks, it were a happy life,
'To be no better than a homely swain;
*To sit upon a hill, as I do now,

* To carve out dials quaintly, point by point,
* Thereby to see the minutes how they run:
* How many make the hour full complete,
* How many hours bring about the day,
* How many days will finish up the year,

* How many years a mortal man may live.

* When this is known, then to divide the times: * So many hours must I tend my flock; * So many hours must I take my rest; * So many hours must I cóntemplate; * So many hours must I sport myself;

* So many days my ewes have been with young; * So many weeks ere the poor fools will yean; * So many years ere I shall sheer the fleece:

* So minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years,

* Pass'd over to the end they were created,

* Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. Ah, what a life were this! how sweet! how lovely! Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade * To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy

* To kings, that fear their subjects' treachery? * O, yes, it doth; a thousand fold it doth..

*And to conclude, the shepherd's homely curds, *His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle, * His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade, * All which secure and sweetly he enjoys, * Is far beyond a prince's delicates, • His viands sparkling in a golden cup, * His body couched in a curious bed,

* When care, mistrust, and treason wait on him.

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Alarum. Enter a Son that has killed his Father, dragging in the dead body.

Son. Ill blows the wind, that profits no-body.'This man, whom hand to hand I slew in fight,

May be possessed with some store of crowns: * And I, that haply take them from him now, * May yet ere night yield both my life and them *To some man else, as this dead man doth me.— 'Who's this?-O God! it is my father's face, 'Whom in this conflict I unawares have kill'd. 'O heavy times, begetting such events! 'From London by the king was I press'd forth;

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My father, being the earl of Warwick's man, Came on the part of York, press'd by his master; And I, who at his hands receiv'd my life,

Have by my hands of life bereaved him.'Pardon me, God, I knew not what I did! And pardon, father, for I knew not thee!* My tears shall wipe away these bloody marks; * And no more words, till they have flow'd their

fill.

'K. Hen. O piteous spectacle! O bloody times! Whilst lions war, and battle for their dens,

• Poor harmless lambs abide their enmity.*Weep, wretched man, I'll aid thee tear for tear; And let our hearts, and eyes, like civil war,

* Be blind with tears, and break o'ercharg'd with grief.

Enter a Father, who has killed his Son, with the body in his arms.

'Fath. Thou that so stoutly hath resisted me, 'Give me thy gold, if thou hast any gold;

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For I have bought it with an hundred blows.— 'But let me see:-is this our foreman's face?

Ah, no, no, no, it is mine only son!

* Ah, boy, if any life be left in thee,

* Throw up thine eye; see, see, what showers arise, Blown with the windy tempest of my heart,

* Upon thy wounds, that kill mine eye and heart!—

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O, pity, God, this miserable age!

'What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, 'Erroneous, mutinous, and unnatural,

This deadly quarrel daily doth beget!'O boy, thy father gave thee life too soon, 'And hath bereft thee of thy life too late!

K. Hen. Woe above woe! grief more than com

mon grief!

'O, that my death would stay these ruthful deeds!-* O pity, pity, gentle heaven, pity!-

The red rose and the white are on his face,

The fatal colours of our striving houses:

* The one, his purple blood right well resembles; * The other, his pale cheeks, methinks, present: Wither one rose, and let the other flourish!

'If you contend, a thousand lives must wither. Son. How will my mother, for a father's death, Take on with me, and ne'er be satisfy'd?

Fath. How will my wife, for slaughter of my son, 'Shed seas of tears, and ne'er be satisfy'd?

'K. Hen. How will the country, for these woeful chances,

'Mis-think the king, and not be satisfy'd?

'Son. Was ever son, so ru'd a father's death? 'Fath. Was ever father, so bemoan'd his son? 'K. Hen. Was ever king, so griev'd for subjects' woe?

'Much is your sorrow; mine, ten times so much. 'Son. I'll bear thee hence, where I may weep [Exit, with the body.

my fill.

* Fath. These arms of mine shall be thy wind

ing-sheet;

*My heart, sweet boy, shall be thy sepulchre; * For from my heart thine image ne'er shall go. * My sighing breast shall be thy funeral bell; * And so obsequious will thy father be,

* Sad for the loss of thee, having no more,

* As Priam was for all his valiant sons.

I'll bear thee hence; and let them fight that will,

For I have murder'd where I should not kill.

[Exit, with the body.

'K. Hen. Sad-hearted men, much overgone with

care,

'Here sits a king more woful than you are.

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