文档介绍：KING HENRY THE FOURTH Part 1
KING HENRY THE
FOURTH
Part 1
William Shakespeare
1598
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Dramatis Personae
King Henry the Fourth. Henry, Prince of Wales, son to the King.
Prince John of Lancaster, son to the King. Earl of Westmoreland. Sir
Walter Blunt. Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester. Henry Percy, Earl of
Northumberland. Henry Percy, surnamed Hotspur, his son. Edmund
Mortimer, Earl of March. Richard Scroop, Archbishop of York. Archibald,
Earl of Douglas. Owen Glendower. Sir Richard Vernon. Sir John Falstaff.
Sir Michael, a friend to the Archbishop of York. Poins. Gadshill Peto.
Bardolph. Lady Percy, wife to Hotspur, and sister to Mortimer. Lady
Mortimer, daughter to Glendower, and wife to Mortimer. Mistress Quickly,
hostess of the Boar's Head in Eastcheap.
Lords, Officers, Sheriff, Vintner, Chamberlain, Drawers, two Carriers,
Travellers, and Attendants.
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ACT I.
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SCENE I. London. The Palace.
Enter the King, Lord John of Lancaster, Earl of Westmoreland, [Sir
Walter Blunt,] with others.
King. 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
menc'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 flow'rets 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