TPTT The First Part of Henry the Fourth: ACT V
Introduction
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
ACT IV
ACT V
SCENE I. KING HENRY IV's camp near Shrewsbury.
SCENE II. The rebel camp.
SCENE III. Plain between the camps.
SCENE IV. Another part of the field.
SCENE V. Another part of the field.
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SCENE V. Another part of the field.
The trumpets sound. Enter KING HENRY IV, PRINCE HENRY, LORD JOHN LANCASTER, EARL OF WESTMORELAND, with WORCESTER and VERNON prisoners
KING HENRY IV
      Thus ever did rebellion find rebuke.
      Ill-spirited Worcester! did not we send grace,
      Pardon and terms of love to all of you?
      And wouldst thou turn our offers contrary?
5     Misuse the tenor of thy kinsman's trust?
      Three knights upon our party slain to-day,
      A noble earl and many a creature else
      Had been alive this hour,
      If like a Christian thou hadst truly borne
10    Betwixt our armies true intelligence.
EARL OF WORCESTER
      What I have done my safety urged me to;
      And I embrace this fortune patiently,
      Since not to be avoided it falls on me.
KING HENRY IV
      Bear Worcester to the death and Vernon too:
15    Other offenders we will pause upon.

Exeunt WORCESTER and VERNON, guarded

      How goes the field?
PRINCE HENRY
      The noble Scot, Lord Douglas, when he saw
      The fortune of the day quite turn'd from him,
      The noble Percy slain, and all his men
20    Upon the foot of fear, fled with the rest;
      And falling from a hill, he was so bruised
      That the pursuers took him. At my tent
      The Douglas is; and I beseech your grace
      I may dispose of him.
KING HENRY IV
25    With all my heart.
PRINCE HENRY
      Then, brother John of Lancaster, to you
      This honourable bounty shall belong:
      Go to the Douglas, and deliver him
      Up to his pleasure, ransomless and free:
30    His valour shown upon our crests to-day
      Hath taught us how to cherish such high deeds
      Even in the bosom of our adversaries.
LANCASTER
      I thank your grace for this high courtesy,
      Which I shall give away immediately.
KING HENRY IV
35    Then this remains, that we divide our power.
      You, son John, and my cousin Westmoreland
      Towards York shall bend you with your dearest speed,
      To meet Northumberland and the prelate Scroop,
      Who, as we hear, are busily in arms:
40    Myself and you, son Harry, will towards Wales,
      To fight with Glendower and the Earl of March.
      Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway,
      Meeting the cheque of such another day:
      And since this business so fair is done,
45    Let us not leave till all our own be won.
Exeunt
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