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Henry IV, Part i \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Act II, Scene iii \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Lady Percy<\/strong><\/p>\n

This speech is used in our interview with Kelley Curran<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Click here\u00a0to open a scanned version<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Click here\u00a0to open up First Folio version<\/a>.<\/p>\n

28 \u00a0 O, my good lord, why are you thus alone?
\n29 \u00a0 For what offence have I this fortnight been
\n30 \u00a0 \u00a0A banish’d woman from my Harry’s bed?
\n31 \u00a0 Tell me, sweet lord, what is’t that takes from thee
\n32 \u00a0 Thy stomach, pleasure and thy golden sleep?
\n33 \u00a0 Why dost thou bend thine eyes upon the earth,
\n34 \u00a0 And start so often when thou sit’st alone?
\n35 \u00a0 Why hast thou lost the fresh blood in thy cheeks;
\n36 \u00a0 And given my treasures and my rights of thee
\n37 \u00a0 To thick-eyed musing and cursed melancholy?
\n38 \u00a0 In thy faint slumbers I by thee have watch’d,
\n39 \u00a0 And heard thee murmur tales of iron wars;
\n40 \u00a0 Speak terms of manage to thy bounding steed;
\n41 \u00a0 Cry ‘Courage! to the field!’ And thou hast talk’d
\n42 \u00a0 Of sallies and retires, of trenches, tents,
\n43 \u00a0 Of palisadoes, frontiers, parapets,
\n44 \u00a0 Of basilisks, of cannon, culverin,
\n45 \u00a0 Of prisoners’ ransom and of soldiers slain,
\n46 \u00a0 And all the currents of a heady fight.
\n47 \u00a0 Thy spirit within thee hath been so at war
\n48 \u00a0 And thus hath so bestirr’d thee in thy sleep,
\n49 \u00a0 That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow
\n50 \u00a0 Like bubbles in a late-disturbed stream;
\n51 \u00a0 And in thy face strange motions have appear’d,
\n52 \u00a0 Such as we see when men restrain their breath
\n53 \u00a0 On some great sudden hest. O, what portents are these?
\n54 \u00a0 Some heavy business hath my lord in hand,
\n55 \u00a0 And I must know it, else he loves me not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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