No Fear Shakespeare
Henry IV Part 2
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Act 5, Scene 5, Page 3
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Enter PRINCE HENRY and his train, the Lord CHIEF JUSTICE among them |
PRINCE HENRY enters with a procession of attendants, including the CHIEF JUSTICE. |
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FALSTAFF
God save thy Grace, King Hal, my royal Hal.
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FALSTAFF
God save your grace, King Hal! My royal Hal!
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PISTOL
The heavens thee guard and keep, most royal imp of fame!
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PISTOL
The heavens guard and protect you, you royal child of fame!
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FALSTAFF
God save thee, my sweet boy!
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FALSTAFF
God save you, my sweet boy!
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KING
My Lord Chief Justice, speak to that vain man.
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PRINCE HENRY
My Lord Chief Justice, go speak to that arrogant man.
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CHIEF JUSTICE
(to FALSTAFF) Have you your wits? Know you what ’tis to
speak?
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CHIEF JUSTICE
(to FALSTAFF) Have you lost your mind? Do you know what you’re doing, talking like that?
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FALSTAFF
My King, my Jove, I speak to thee, my heart!
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FALSTAFF
My King! My God! I’m talking to you, my heart!
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KING
I know thee not, old man. Fall to thy prayers.
How ill white hairs become a fool and jester.
I have long dreamt of such a kind of man,
So surfeit-swelled, so old, and so profane;
But being awaked, I do despise my dream.
Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace;
Leave gormandizing. Know the grave doth gape
For thee thrice wider than for other men.
Reply not to me with a fool-born jest.
Presume not that I am the thing I was,
For God doth know—so shall the world perceive—
That I have turned away my former self.
So will I those that kept me company.
When thou dost hear I am as I have been,
Approach me, and thou shalt be as thou wast,
The tutor and the feeder of my riots.
Till then I banish thee, on pain of death,
As I have done the rest of my misleaders,
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KING
I know you not, old man. Get down on your knees and pray, for white hair doesn’t sit well on a fool and a clown. I have dreamed about such a man for a long time: a man so swollen with excess, so old and so obscene. But now that I have awakened, I despise that dream. Let your body lessen, and your manners increase; leave behind your overindulgence, and know that the grave gapes three times as wide for you than any other man. Don’t answer me with a foolish joke. Do not assume that I am what I was; for God knows, I have turned my back on my former self, and I will do the same to those who were my companions. When you hear that I am as I was, then come to me, and you will once again be what you were: the teacher and nurse to my wild, riotous ways.
Until then, I banish you, on pain of death, as I have done to the other men who once misled me. Do not
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