{"id":3282,"date":"2014-02-24T09:40:39","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T14:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=3282"},"modified":"2014-02-24T21:02:53","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T02:02:53","slug":"henry-iv-part-i-act-ii-scene-iii","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=3282","title":{"rendered":"Henry IV, Part i:  Act II, Scene iii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Henry IV, Part i \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Act II, Scene iii \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Lady Percy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This speech is used in our <a title=\"Kelly Curran\" href=\"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?p=3359\" target=\"_blank\">interview with Kelley Curran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Click here\u00a0to open a <a title=\"Scansion:  Henry IV, Part i  Act II, Scene iii\" href=\"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=3346\" target=\"_blank\">scanned version<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Click here\u00a0to open up <a title=\"Henry IV, Part i; Act II, Scene iii  First Folio\" href=\"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=3292\" target=\"_blank\">First Folio version<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>28 \u00a0 O, my good lord, why are you thus alone?<br \/>\n29 \u00a0 For what offence have I this fortnight been<br \/>\n30 \u00a0 \u00a0A banish&#8217;d woman from my Harry&#8217;s bed?<br \/>\n31 \u00a0 Tell me, sweet lord, what is&#8217;t that takes from thee<br \/>\n32 \u00a0 Thy stomach, pleasure and thy golden sleep?<br \/>\n33 \u00a0 Why dost thou bend thine eyes upon the earth,<br \/>\n34 \u00a0 And start so often when thou sit&#8217;st alone?<br \/>\n35 \u00a0 Why hast thou lost the fresh blood in thy cheeks;<br \/>\n36 \u00a0 And given my treasures and my rights of thee<br \/>\n37 \u00a0 To thick-eyed musing and cursed melancholy?<br \/>\n38 \u00a0 In thy faint slumbers I by thee have watch&#8217;d,<br \/>\n39 \u00a0 And heard thee murmur tales of iron wars;<br \/>\n40 \u00a0 Speak terms of manage to thy bounding steed;<br \/>\n41 \u00a0 Cry &#8216;Courage! to the field!&#8217; And thou hast talk&#8217;d<br \/>\n42 \u00a0 Of sallies and retires, of trenches, tents,<br \/>\n43 \u00a0 Of palisadoes, frontiers, parapets,<br \/>\n44 \u00a0 Of basilisks, of cannon, culverin,<br \/>\n45 \u00a0 Of prisoners&#8217; ransom and of soldiers slain,<br \/>\n46 \u00a0 And all the currents of a heady fight.<br \/>\n47 \u00a0 Thy spirit within thee hath been so at war<br \/>\n48 \u00a0 And thus hath so bestirr&#8217;d thee in thy sleep,<br \/>\n49 \u00a0 That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow<br \/>\n50 \u00a0 Like bubbles in a late-disturbed stream;<br \/>\n51 \u00a0 And in thy face strange motions have appear&#8217;d,<br \/>\n52 \u00a0 Such as we see when men restrain their breath<br \/>\n53 \u00a0 On some great sudden hest. O, what portents are these?<br \/>\n54 \u00a0 Some heavy business hath my lord in hand,<br \/>\n55 \u00a0 And I must know it, else he loves me not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry IV, Part i \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Act II, Scene iii \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Lady Percy This speech is used in our interview with Kelley Curran. Click here\u00a0to open a scanned version. Click here\u00a0to open up First Folio version. 28 \u00a0 O, my good lord, why are you thus alone? 29 \u00a0 For what offence have<\/p>\n <a href='https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=3282' class='excerpt-more-append'>[...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3282","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-line-bottom","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Frfq-QW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3282"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3409,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3282\/revisions\/3409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}