Why, so can I, and so can any other man! But will they come when you summon them?
GLENDOWER
Why, I can teach you, cousin, to command the devil.
GLENDOWER
Why, kinsman, I can teach you to command the devil.
HOTSPUR
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And I can teach thee, coz, to shame the devil
By telling truth. Tell truth and shame the devil.
If thou have power to raise him, bring him hither,
And I'll be sworn I have power to shame him hence.
O, while you live, tell truth and shame the devil!
HOTSPUR
And I can teach you, kinsman, how to shame the devil—by telling the truth! “Tell the truth and shame the devil,” as the old saying goes. If you do have the power to call him up, then bring him here. And I'll swear I have the power to shame him into leaving. Oh, for goodness sake, tell the truth and shame the devil!
MORTIMER
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Come, come, no more of this unprofitable chat.
MORTIMER
Enough already; stop this useless talking.
GLENDOWER
Three times hath Henry Bolingbroke made head
Against my power; thrice from the banks of Wye
And sandy-bottomed Severn have I sent him
Bootless home and weather-beaten back.
GLENDOWER
Three times now, Henry Bolingbroke has raised an army against mine. And three times, I turned him back from the banks of the River Wye, and the sandy-bottomed River Severn. I sent him home, bootless
and beaten by foul weather.
HOTSPUR
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Home without boots, and in foul weather too!
How 'scapes he agues, in the devil's name?
HOTSPUR
You sent him home without his boots, and in foul weather? How in the devil's name did he avoid catching fevers?
GLENDOWER
Come, here's the map. Shall we divide our right
According to our threefold order ta'en?
GLENDOWER
All right, here's the map. Shall we divide up our territories according to our three-way agreement?
MORTIMER
The Archdeacon hath divided it
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Into three limits very equally:
England, from Trent and Severn hitherto,
By south and east is to my part assigned;
MORTIMER
The Archdeacon
has divided the land into three very equal parts. All of England southeast of the Trent and Severn rivers goes to me.
