num_pages: 120
description: RUMOUR. Open your ears; for which of you will stop The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks? I, from the orient to the drooping west, Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold The acts commenced on this ball of earth. Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. I speak of peace while covert emnity, Under the smile of safety, wounds the world; And who but Rumour, who but only I, Make fearful musters and prepar'd defence, Whiles the big year, swoln with some other grief, Is thought with child by the stern tyrant war, And no such matter? Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures, And of so easy and so plain a stop
language: English
title: The Second Part of King Henry IV
titlecomplete: The Second Part of King Henry IV
characters: Francis Feeble, Goodwife Keech, Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, Edward "Ned" Poins, Ancient Pistol, Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, Sir Ralph Hastings, Master Tisick, Second Beadle, Elizabeth Mortimer, Baroness Camoys, Gower, John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, Bardolph, Robert Shallow, Maud, Baroness Lucy, Lady Northumberland, Travers, Second Strewer, Third Strewer, Peto, Dorothy "Doll" Tearsheet, Harcourt, First Strewer, Richard le Scrope, Bishop of Lichfield and Archbishop of York, Robin, Page to Falstaff, Sneak, Speaker of the Epilogue, Sir John Colleville, Sergeant Fang, Page to King Henry IV, Mistress Nell Quickly, Master Dumbe, Thomas Wart, Henry V of England, Sir John Falstaff, Peter Bullcalf, Servant to the Lord Chief Justice, Francis the drawer, Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester, 2nd drawer, Thomas de Mowbray, 4th Earl of Norfolk, Sir John Blount, Messenger, Ursula, First Beadle, Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, Morton, Henry IV of England, Fauconbridge, Justice Silence, William Gascoigne, Master Dommellton, Sergeant Snare, Master Smooth, Thomas Fitzalan, 5th Earl of Arundel, 10th Earl of Surrey, Davy, servant to Justice Shallow, Nell Poins, Thomas Bardolf, 5th Baron Bardolf, Rumour, the Presenter, Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, Ralph Mouldy, Simon Shadow
genres: Classics, Drama, Theatre, Historical, British Literature, Plays, Historical Fiction, Poetry, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 19432
places: Warkworth, Northumberland, Engand
series: Henry IV, Wars of the Roses
publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society