FIRST PART OF KING HENRY IV. BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. From the Text of the Rev. Alexander Dyce's Lords, Officers, Sheriff, Vintner, Chamberlain, Drawers, two Carriers, Travellers, and Attendants. SCENE England. ACT I. SCENE I. London. A room in the palace. Enter King HENRY, WESTMORELAND, Sir WALTER Blunt, and others. K. Hen. So shaken as we are, so wan with care, Find we a time for frighted peace to pant, And breathe short-winded accents of new broils Which, like the meteors of a troubled heaven, Shall now, in mutual well-beseeming ranks, Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross Whose arms were moulded in their mothers' wombs For our advantage on the bitter cross. But this our purpose is a twelvemonth old, Therefore we meet not now. Then let me hear West. My liege, this haste was hot in question, And many limits of the charge set down But yesternight: when, all athwart, there came |