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King Henry the Fourth

''Hen. 5.'' No: then I will haue him.

He giueth him a box on the eare.

Ned. Gogs wounds, my lord, shal I cut off his head?

''Hen. 5.'' No, I charge you draw not your swords,

But get you hence, prouyde a noyse of Musitians,

Away, be gone.

Exeunt the Theefe.

Iudge. Well, my Lord, I am content to take it at your hands.

''Hen. 5.'' Nay, and you be not you shall haue more.

Iudge. Why, I pray you, my Lord, who am I?

''Hen. 5.'' You, who knowes not you?

Why man, you are the Lord chiefe Justice of England.

Iudge. Your grace hath said truth, therefore in striking me in this place, you greatly abuse me, and not me onely but also your father: whose liuely person here in this place I doo represent. And therefore to teach you what prerogatiues meane, I commit you to the Fleete, Vntill we haue spoken to your father.

''Hen. 5.'' Why then belike you meane to send me to the Fleete?

Iudge. I, indeed, and therefore carry him away.

Exeunt Hen. 5. with the Officers.

The scene of the Prince's repentance and reconciliation with his father, which Shakespeare uses in 1 Henry IV, in The Famous Victories immediately precedes the following scene in the King's deathchamber. The King is sleeping.

Exe. Come easily, my Lord, for waking of the King.

''Hen. 4.'' Now, my Lords.

Oxf. How doth your Grace feele yourselfe?

''Hen. 4.'' Somewhat better after my sleepe,

