PERSONS REPRESENTED.

KING HENRY IV.

Appears, Act I. sc. 1; sc. 3. Act III. sc. 2. Act V. sc. 1; sc. 4; sc. 5.

HENRY PRINCE OF WALES, son to the King.

Appears, Act I. sc. 2.
Act IV. sc. 2.

Act II. sc. 2; sc. 4.
Act V. sc. 1; sc. 3;

Act III. sc. 2; sc. 3. sc. 4; sc. 5.

PRINCE JOHN OF LANCASTER, Son to the King.
Appears, Act V. sc. 1; sc. 4; sc. 5.

EARL OF WESTMORELAND, friend to the King.
Appears, Act I. sc. 1. Act IV. sc. 2. Act V. sc. 4; sc. 5.
SIR WALTER BLUNT, friend to the King.

Appears, Act I. sc. 1; sc. 3. Act III. sc. 2. Act IV. sc. 3.
Act V. sc. 1; sc. 3.

THOMAS PERCY, Earl of Worcester.

Appears, Act I. sc. 3. Act III. sc. 1. Act IV. sc. 1; sc. 3.
Act V. sc. 1; sc. 2; sc. 5.

HENRY PERCY, Earl of Northumberland.
Appears, Act I. sc. 3.

HENRY PERCY, surnamed Hotspur, son to the Earl of Northumberland. Appears, Act I. sc. 3. Act II. sc. 3.

Act III. sc. 1. Act IV. sc. 1; sc. 3.
Act V. sc. 2; sc. 3; sc. 4.

EDMUND MORTIMER, Earl of March.
Appears, Act III. sc. 1.

SCROOP, Archbishop of York.

Appears, Act IV. sc. 4.

SIR MICHAEL, a friend of the Archbishop.

Appears, Act IV. sc. 4.

ARCHIBALD, Earl of Douglas.

Appears, Act IV. sc. 1; sc. 3. Act V. sc. 2; sc. 3; sc. 4.

OWEN GLENDOWER.

Appears, Act III. sc. 1.

SIR RICHARD VERNON.

Appears, Act IV. sc. 1; sc. 3. Act V. sc. 1; sc. 2; sc. 5.

Appears, Act II. sc. 2; sc. 4. Act III. sc. 3. Act IV. sc. 2.

LADY PERCY, wife to Hotspur, and sister to Mortimer.
Appears, Act II. sc. 3. Act III. sc. 1.

LADY MORTIMER, daughter to Glendower, and wife to Mortimer.
Appears, Act III. sc. 1.

MRS. QUICKLY, hostess of a tavern in Eastcheap.
Appears, Act II. sc. 4. Act III. sc. 3.

Lords, Officers, Sheriff, Vintner, Chamberlain, Drawers, Two Carriers, Travellers, and Attendants.

SCENE, ENGLAND.

There is no List of Characters in the old copies.

THE first edition of 'Henry IV., Part I.,' appeared in 1598. Five other editions were printed before the folio of 1623. The first edition of 'Henry IV., Part II.,' appeared in 1600. Another edition was issued the same year. No subsequent edition appeared till the folio of 1623. The text of the folio, from which we print, does not materially differ from the original quartos, in the First Part. In the Second Part there are large additions, and those some very important passages, in the folio.

KING HENRY IV.-PART I.

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
To be commenc'd in stronds afar remote.
No more the thirsty entrance of this soil
Shall daub her lips with her own children's blood;
No more shall trenching war channel her fields,
Nor bruise her flowrets with the armed hoofs
Of hostile paces: those opposed eyes,
Which, like the meteors of a troubled heaven,
All of one nature, of one substance bred,
Did lately meet in the intestine shock
And furious close of civil butchery,
Shall now, in mutual well-beseeming ranks
March all one way; and be no more oppos'd
Against acquaintance, kindred, and allies:
The edge of war, like an ill-sheathed knife,
No more shall cut his master. Therefore, friends,
As far as to the sepulchre of Christ,

(Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross
We are impressed and engag'd to fight,)
Forthwith a power of English shall we levy;

Whose arms were moulded in their mothers' womb
To chase these pagans, in those holy fields,

Over whose acres walk'd those blessed feet,
Which, fourteen hundred years ago, were nail'd,
For our advantage, on the bitter cross.
But this our purpose is a twelvemonth old,
And bootless 't is to tell you-we will go;
Therefore we meet not now:-Then let me hear
Of you, my gentle cousin Westmoreland,
What yesternight our council did decree,
In forwarding this dear expedience.

WEST. My liege, this haste was hot in question,
And many limits of the charge set down
But yesternight: when, all athwart, there came
A post from Wales, loaden with heavy news;
Whose worst was,-that the noble Mortimer,
Leading the men of Herefordshire to fight
Against the irregular and wild Glendower,
Was by the rude hands of that Welshman taken,
And a thousand of his people butchered:
Upon whose dead corpses there was such misuse,
Such beastly, shameless transformation,
By those Welshwomen done, as may not be,
Without much shame, retold or spoken of.

K. HEN. It seems, then, that the tidings of this broil Brake off our business for the Holy Land.

WEST. This, match'd with other like, my gracious lord For more uneven and unwelcome news

Came from the north, and thus it did report:
On Holy-rood day, the gallant Hotspur there,
Young Harry Percy, and brave Archibald,
That ever-valiant and approved Scot,

At Holmedon met,

Where they did spend a sad and bloody hour;
As by discharge of their artillery,

And shape of likelihood, the news was told;
For he that brought them, in the very heat
And pride of their contention did take horse,
Uncertain of the issue any way.

K. HEN. Here is a dear and true-industrious friend,
Sir Walter Blunt, new lighted from his horse,
Stain'd with the variation of each soil