Cla. Let us withdraw into the other room. [Exeunt all but P. Henry. Why doth the crown lie there upon his pillow, [Putting it on his head. Which Heaven shall guard: And put the world's whole strength Into one giant arm, it shall not force This lineal honour from me: This from thee Will I to mine leave, as 't is left to me. K. Hen. Warwick! Gloster! Clarence! Cla. Re-enter Warwick, and the rest. Doth the king call? War. What would your majesty? How fares your grace? Who undertook to sit and watch by you. K. Hen. The prince of Wales? He is not here. [Exit. Where is he? let me see him. War. This door is open; he is gone this way. P. Humph. He came not through the chamber where we stay'd. K. Hen. Where is the crown? who took it from my pillow? War. When we withdrew, my liege, we left it here. K. Hen. The prince hath ta'en it hence ;-go, seek him out. Is he so hasty, that he doth suppose My sleep my death? Find him, my lord of Warwick; chide him hither. And helps to end me.-See, sons, what things you are! [Exit Warwick. How quickly nature falls into revolt, When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care, For this they have engrossed and pil'd up The canker'd heaps of strange-achieved gold; Our thighs pack'd with wax, our mouths with honey, Re-enter Warwick. Now, where is he that will not stay so long War. My lord, I found the prince in the next room, K. Hen. But wherefore did he take away the crown? Re-enter Prince Henry. : Lo, where he comes;-Come hither to me, Harry :- [Exeunt Clarence, Prince Humphrey, Lords, &c. P. Hen. I never thought to hear you speak again. K. Hen. Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought: I stay too long by thee, I weary thee. Dost thou so hunger for my empty chair, That thou wilt needs invest thee with mine honours Before thy hour be ripe? O foolish youth Thou seek'st the greatness that will overwhelm thee. Thou hast stol'n that, which, after some few hours, Thou hast seal'd up my expectation : Thy life did manifest thou lov'dst me not, Thou hid'st a thousand daggers in thy thoughts; To stab at half an hour of my life. What! canst thou not forbear me half an hour? And bid the merry bells ring to thine ear Give that, which gave thee life, unto the worms. For now a time is come to mock at form. Harry the fifth is crown'd-Up, vanity! Down, royal state! all you sage counsellors, hence! From every region, apes of idleness! Now, neighbour confines, purge you of your scum : Peopled with wolves, thy old inhabitants! P. Hen. O, pardon me, my liege! but for my tears, I had forestall'd this dear and deep rebuke, Long guard it yours! If I affect it more, Coming to look on you, thinking you dead, (And dead almost, my liege, to think you were,) I spake unto the crown as having sense, And thus upbraided it :-"The care on thee depending Hath fed upon the body of my father; Therefore, thou, best of gold, art worst of gold. Other, less fine in carat, is more precious, Preserving life in medicine potable; Freeling. But thou, most fine, most honour'd, most renown'd, Hast eat thy bearer up."-Thus, my most royal liege, Accusing it, I put it on my head, To try with it, as with an enemy, That had before my face murther'd my father,- But if it did infect my blood with joy, Or swell my thoughts to any strain of pride; If any vebei or vain spirit of mine Did, with the least affection of a welcome, K. Hen. O my son! Heaven put it in thy mind to take it hence, Come hither, Harry, sit thou by my bed; That ever I shall breathe. Heaven knows, my son, I met this crown; and I myself know well With me into the earth. It seem'd in me But as an honour snatch'd with boisterous hand; My gain of it by their assistances; Which daily grew to quarrel, and to bloodshed, Changes the mood for what in me was purchas'd, So thou the garland wear'st successively. Yet, though thou stand'st more sure than I could do, Thou art not firm enough, since griefs are green; And all thy friends, which thou must make thy friends, Have but their stings and teeth newly ta'en out; By whose fell working I was first advanc'd, And by whose power I well might lodge a fear To be again displac'd: which to avoid, I cut them off; and had a purpose now To lead out many to the Holy Land; Lest rest, and lying still, might make them look With foreign quarrels ; that action, hence borne out, May waste the memory of the former days. You won it, wore it, kept it, gave it me; Enter Prince John of Lancaster, Warwick, Lords, and others. But health, aiack, with youthful wings is flown From this bare wither'd trunk: upon thy sight, Where is my lord of Warwick ? P. Hen. War. "T is call'd Jerusalem, my noble lord. K. Hen. Laud be to Heaven!-even there my life must end. I should not die but in Jerusalem; Which vainly I suppos'd the Holy Land :— But, bear me to that chamber; there I'll lie; [Exeunt. 126.-KING HENRY V. AND THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE. SHAKSPERE. [The story is told by Sir Tomas Elyot, in his book of The Governor,' of the committal of Prince Henry to the Fleet by the Lord Chief Justice. This tradition was believed (perhaps upon the authority of Elyot) by Sir Edward Coke and Sir John Hawkins: and was referred to by them in legal arguments. The anecdote, as detailed by Elyot, is very amusing :— "A good Judge, a good Prince, a good King. "The most renowned prince, King Henry V., late king of England, during the life of his father, was noted to be fierce and of wanton courage. It happened that one of his servants whom he favoured well, was for felony by him committed arraigned at the King's Bench; wherefore the prince being advertised, and incensed by light persons about him, in furious rage came hastily to the bar, where his servant stood as a prisoner, and commanded him to be ungyved and set at liberty. Whereat all men were abashed, reserved the chief justice, who humbly exhorted the prince to be contented that his servant might be ordered according to the antient laws of this realm; or if he would have him saved from the rigour of the laws, that he should obtain, if he might, of the king his father his gracious pardon, whereby no law or justice should be derogate. "With which answer the prince nothing appeased, bnt rather more inflamed, endeavoured himself to take away his servant. The judge considering the perilous example and inconvenience that might thereby ensue, with a valiant spirit and courage commanded the prince upon his allegiance to leave the prisoner and depart his way; at which commandment the prince being set all in a fury, all chafed, and in a terrible manner, came up to the place of HH |