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King Henry the Fourth, II. iii

Lord of York, and Owen Glendower? Is there

not besides the Douglas? Have I not all their

letters to meet me in arms by the ninth of the

next month, and are they not some of them set

forward already? What a pagan rascal is this!

an infidel! Ha! you shall see now in very sin-

cerity of fear and cold heart, will he to the king

and lay open all our proceedings. O! I could

divide myself and go to buffets, for moving such

a dish of skim milk with so honourable an

action. Hang him! let him tell the king; we

are prepared. I will set forward to-night.

How now, Kate! I must leave you within these two hours.

Lady P. O, my good lord! why are you thus alone?

For what offence have I this fortnight been

A banish'd woman from my Harry's bed?

Tell me, sweet lord, what is 't that takes from thee

Thy stomach, pleasure, and thy golden sleep?

Why dost thou bend thine eyes upon the earth,

And start so often when thou sitt'st alone?

Why hast thou lost the fresh blood in thy cheeks,

And given my treasures and my rights of thee

To thick-eyed musing and curst melancholy?

In thy faint slumbers I by thee have watch'd,

And heard thee murmur tales of iron wars,

Speak terms of manage to thy bounding steed,

Cry, 'Courage! to the field!' And thou hast talk'd

Of sallies and retires, of trenches, tents,

Of palisadoes, frontiers, parapets,

 37 divide myself; cf. n.

41 Kate; cf. n.

46 stomach: appetite

50-51 Cf. n.

51 curst: perverse

54 manage: direction

56 retires: retreats

57 palisadoes: sharp stakes driven into the ground as defence against cavalry

frontiers: outworks; cf. I. iii. 19

