1    How now, my lord chief-justice! whither away?

2    How doth the king?

3    Exceeding well; his cares are now all ended.

4    I hope, not dead.

5    He's walk'd the way of nature;
6    And to our purposes he lives no more.

7    I would his majesty had call'd me with him:
8    The service that I truly did his life
9    Hath left me open to all injuries.

10   Indeed I think the young king loves you not.

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

15   Here come the heavy issue of dead Harry:
16   O that the living Harry had the temper
17   Of him, the worst of these three gentlemen!
18   How many nobles then should hold their places
19   That must strike sail to spirits of vile sort!

20   O God, I fear all will be overturn'd!

21   Good morrow, cousin Warwick, good morrow.

22   Good morrow, cousin.

23   We meet like men that had forgot to speak.

24   We do remember; but our argument
25   Is all too heavy to admit much talk.

26   Well, peace be with him that hath made us heavy.

27   Peace be with us, lest we be heavier!

28   O, good my lord, you have lost a friend indeed;
29   And I dare swear you borrow not that face
30   Of seeming sorrow, it is sure your own.

31   Though no man be assured what grace to find,
32   You stand in coldest expectation:
33   I am the sorrier; would 'twere otherwise.

34   Well, you must now speak Sir John Falstaff fair;
35   Which swims against your stream of quality.

36   Sweet princes, what I did, I did in honour,
37   Led by the impartial conduct of my soul:
38   And never shall you see that I will beg
39   A ragged and forestall'd remission.
40   If truth and upright innocency fail me,
41   I'll to the king my master that is dead,
42   And tell him who hath sent me after him.

43   Here comes the prince.

44   Good morrow; and God save your majesty!

45   This new and gorgeous garment, majesty,
46   Sits not so easy on me as you think.
47   Brothers, you mix your sadness with some fear:
48   This is the English, not the Turkish court;
49   Not Amurath an Amurath succeeds,
50   But Harry Harry. Yet be sad, good brothers,
51   For, by my faith, it very well becomes you:
52   Sorrow so royally in you appears
53   That I will deeply put the fashion on
54   And wear it in my heart: why then, be sad;
55   But entertain no more of it, good brothers,
56   Than a joint burden laid upon us all.
57   For me, by heaven, I bid you be assured,
58   I'll be your father and your brother too;
59   Let me but bear your love, I 'll bear your cares:
60   Yet weep that Harry's dead; and so will I;
61   But Harry lives, that shall convert those tears
62   By number into hours of happiness.

63   We hope no other from your majesty.

64   You all look strangely on me: and you most;
65   You are, I think, assured I love you not.

66   I am assured, if I be measured rightly,
67   Your majesty hath no just cause to hate me.

68   No!
69   How might a prince of my great hopes forget
70   So great indignities you laid upon me?
71   What! rate, rebuke, and roughly send to prison
72   The immediate heir of England! Was this easy?
73   May this be wash'd in Lethe, and forgotten?

74   I then did use the person of your father;
75   The image of his power lay then in me:
76   And, in the administration of his law,
77   Whiles I was busy for the commonwealth,
78   Your highness pleased to forget my place,
79   The majesty and power of law and justice,
80   The image of the king whom I presented,
81   And struck me in my very seat of judgment;
82   Whereon, as an offender to your father,
83   I gave bold way to my authority
84   And did commit you. If the deed were ill,
85   Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
86   To have a son set your decrees at nought,
87   To pluck down justice from your awful bench,
88   To trip the course of law and blunt the sword
89   That guards the peace and safety of your person;
90   Nay, more, to spurn at your most royal image
91   And mock your workings in a second body.
92   Question your royal thoughts, make the case yours;
93   Be now the father and propose a son,
94   Hear your own dignity so much profaned,
95   See your most dreadful laws so loosely slighted,
96   Behold yourself so by a son disdain'd;
97   And then imagine me taking your part
98   And in your power soft silencing your son:
99   After this cold considerance, sentence me;
100  And, as you are a king, speak in your state
101  What I have done that misbecame my place,
102  My person, or my liege's sovereignty.

103  You are right, justice, and you weigh this well;
104  Therefore still bear the balance and the sword:
105  And I do wish your honours may increase,
106  Till you do live to see a son of mine
107  Offend you and obey you, as I did.
108  So shall I live to speak my father's words:
109  'Happy am I, that have a man so bold,
110  That dares do justice on my proper son;
111  And not less happy, having such a son,
112  That would deliver up his greatness so
113  Into the hands of justice.' You did commit me:
114  For which, I do commit into your hand
115  The unstained sword that you have used to bear;
116  With this remembrance, that you use the same
117  With the like bold, just and impartial spirit
118  As you have done 'gainst me. There is my hand.
119  You shall be as a father to my youth:
120  My voice shall sound as you do prompt mine ear,
121  And I will stoop and humble my intents
122  To your well-practised wise directions.
123  And, princes all, believe me, I beseech you;
124  My father is gone wild into his grave,
125  For in his tomb lie my affections;
126  And with his spirit sadly I survive,
127  To mock the expectation of the world,
128  To frustrate prophecies and to raze out
129  Rotten opinion, who hath writ me down
130  After my seeming. The tide of blood in me
131  Hath proudly flow'd in vanity till now:
132  Now doth it turn and ebb back to the sea,
133  Where it shall mingle with the state of floods
134  And flow henceforth in formal majesty.
135  Now call we our high court of parliament:
136  And let us choose such limbs of noble counsel,
137  That the great body of our state may go
138  In equal rank with the best govern'd nation;
139  That war, or peace, or both at once, may be
140  As things acquainted and familiar to us;
141  In which you, father, shall have foremost hand.
142  Our coronation done, we will accite,
143  As I before remember'd, all our state:
144  And, God consigning to my good intents,
145  No prince nor peer shall have just cause to say,
146  God shorten Harry's happy life one day!