Henry IV, Part I

Excerpt: ...Glend. I say the Earth did shake when I was borne Hotsp. And I say the Earth was not of my minde, If you suppose, as fearing you, it shooke Glend.

The heauens were all on fire, the Earth did tremble Hotsp.

Oh, then the Earth shooke To see the Heauens on fire, And not in feare of your Natiuitie.

Diseased Nature oftentimes breakes forth In strange eruptions; and the teeming Earth Is with a kinde of Collick pincht and vext, By the imprisoning of vnruly Winde Within her Wombe: which for enlargement striuing, Shakes the old Beldame Earth, and tombles downe Steeples, and mosse-growne Towers.

At your Birth, Our Grandam Earth, hauing this distemperature, In passion shooke Glend.

Cousin: of many men I doe not beare these Crossings: Giue me leaue To tell you once againe, that at my Birth The front of Heauen was full of fierie shapes, The Goates ranne from the Mountaines, and the Heards Were strangely clamorous to the frighted fields: These signes haue markt me extraordinarie, And all the courses of my Life doe shew, I am not in the Roll of common men.

Where is the Liuing, clipt in with the Sea, That chides the Bankes of England, Scotland, and Wales, Which calls me Pupill, or hath read to me? And bring him out, that is but Womans Sonne, Can trace me in the tedious wayes of Art, And hold me pace in deepe experiments Hotsp.

I thinke there's no man speakes better Welsh: Ile to Dinner Mort.

Peace cousin Percy, you will make him mad Glend. I can call Spirits from the vastie Deepe Hotsp. Why so can I, or so can any man: But will they come, when you doe call for them?

Glend. Why, I can teach thee, Cousin, to command the Deuill Hotsp. And I can teach thee, Cousin, to shame the Deuil, By telling truth.

Tell truth, and shame the Deuill. If thou haue power to rayse him, bring him hither, And Ile be sworne, I haue power to shame him hence.

Oh, while you liue, tell truth, and shame the Deuill Mort.

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