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| <tr><td class="play" align="center">The Second part of King Henry the Fourth | |
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| <h3>Induction</H3> | |
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| <i>Warkworth. Before the castle</i> | |
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| <i>Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>RUMOUR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>Open your ears; for which of you will stop</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>I, from the orient to the drooping west,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>The acts commenced on this ball of earth:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>The which in every language I pronounce,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=9>I speak of peace, while covert enmity</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=10>Under the smile of safety wounds the world:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=11>And who but Rumour, who but only I,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=12>Make fearful musters and prepared defence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>Whiles the big year, swoln with some other grief,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>Is thought with child by the stern tyrant war,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=15>And no such matter? Rumour is a pipe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=17>And of so easy and so plain a stop</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>That the blunt monster with uncounted heads,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>The still-discordant wavering multitude,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>Can play upon it. But what need I thus</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>My well-known body to anatomize</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>Among my household? Why is Rumour here?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>I run before King Harry's victory;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>Who in a bloody field by Shrewsbury</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>Hath beaten down young Hotspur and his troops,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>Quenching the flame of bold rebellion</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>Even with the rebel's blood. But what mean I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>To speak so true at first? my office is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>To noise abroad that Harry Monmouth fell</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=30>Under the wrath of noble Hotspur's sword,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>And that the king before the Douglas' rage</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>Stoop'd his anointed head as low as death.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>This have I rumour'd through the peasant towns</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>Between that royal field of Shrewsbury</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=35>And this worm-eaten hold of ragged stone,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=36>Where Hotspur's father, old Northumberland,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=37>Lies crafty-sick: the posts come tiring on,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=38>And not a man of them brings other news</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=39>Than they have learn'd of me: from Rumour's tongues</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=40>They bring smooth comforts false, worse than</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=41>true wrongs.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
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