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Henry IV, Part ii \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

9 \u00a0 \u00a0O yet, for God’s sake, go not to these wars!
\n10 \u00a0 The time was, father, that you broke your word,
\n11 \u00a0 When you were more endeared to it than now;
\n12 \u00a0 When your own Percy, when my heart’s dear Harry,
\n13 \u00a0 Threw many a northward look to see his father
\n14 \u00a0 Bring up his powers; but he did long in vain.
\n15 \u00a0 Who then persuaded you to stay at home?
\n16 \u00a0 There were two honours lost, yours and your son’s.
\n17 \u00a0 For yours, the God of heaven brighten it!
\n18 \u00a0 For his, it stuck upon him as the sun
\n19 \u00a0 In the grey vault of heaven, and by his light
\n20 \u00a0 Did all the chivalry of England move
\n21 \u00a0 To do brave acts: he was indeed the glass
\n22 \u00a0 Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves:
\n23 \u00a0 He had no legs that practised not his gait;
\n24 \u00a0 And speaking thick, which nature made his blemish,
\n25 \u00a0 Became the accents of the valiant;
\n26 \u00a0 For those that could speak low and tardily
\n27 \u00a0 Would turn their own perfection to abuse,
\n28 \u00a0 To seem like him: so that in speech, in gait,
\n29 \u00a0 In diet, in affections of delight,
\n30 \u00a0 In military rules, humours of blood,
\n31 \u00a0 He was the mark and glass, copy and book,
\n32 \u00a0 That fashion’d others. And him, O wondrous him!
\n33 \u00a0 O miracle of men! him did you leave,
\n34 \u00a0 Second to none, unseconded by you,
\n35 \u00a0 To look upon the hideous god of war
\n36 \u00a0 In disadvantage; to abide a field
\n37 \u00a0 Where nothing but the sound of Hotspur’s name
\n38 \u00a0 Did seem defensible: so you left him.
\n39 \u00a0 Never, O never, do his ghost the wrong
\n40 \u00a0 To hold your honour more precise and nice
\n41 \u00a0 With others than with him! let them alone:
\n42 \u00a0 The marshal and the archbishop are strong:
\n43 \u00a0 Had my sweet Harry had but half their numbers,
\n44 \u00a0 To-day might I, hanging on Hotspur’s neck,
\n45 \u00a0 Have talk’d of Monmouth’s grave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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