The Second Part Of King Henry The Sixth
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creator: Shakespeare, William
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subject: lord
subject: falstaff
subject: king
subject: henry
subject: will
subject: stop
subject: vent
subject: hearing
subject: loud
subject: rumour
subject: speaks
subject: shakespeare
subject: william
subject: sixth
subject: english
subject: literature
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full text: 2 KING HENRY IV DRAMATIS PERSONAE RUMOUR the Presenter. KING HENRY the Fourth. (KING HENRY IV:) PRINCE HENRY | OF WALES (PRINCE HENRY:) | afterwards KING HENRY V. | | THOMAS, DUKE OF | sons of King Henry. CLARENCE (CLARENCE:) | | PRINCE HUMPHREY | OF GLOUCESTER (GLOUCESTER:) | EARL OF WARWICK (WARWICK:) EARL OF WESTMORELAND (WESTMORELAND:) EARL OF SURREY: GOWER: HARCOURT: BLUNT: Lord Chief-Justice of the King's Bench: (Lord Chief-Justice:) A Servant of the Chief-Justice. EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND (NORTHUMBERLAND:) SCROOP, ARCHBISHOP OF YORK (ARCHBISHOP OF YORK:) LORD MOWBRAY (MOWBRAY:) LORD HASTINGS (HASTINGS:) LORD BARDOLPH: SIR JOHN COLEVILE (COLEVILE:) TRAVERS | | retainers of Northumberland. MORTON | SIR JOHN FALSTAFF (FALSTAFF:) His Page. (Page:) BARDOLPH: PISTOL: POINS: PETO: SHALLOW | | country justices. SILENCE | DAVY servant to Shallow. MOULDY | | SHADOW | | WART | recruits. | FEEBLE | | BULLCALF | FANG | | sheriff's officers. SNARE | LADY NORTHUMBERLAND: LADY PERCY: MISTRESS QUICKLY hostess of a tavern in Eastcheap. DOLL TEARSHEET: Lords and Attendants; Porter, Drawers, Beadles, Grooms, &c. (First Messenger:) (Porter:) (First Drawer:) (Second Drawer:) (First Beadle:) (First Groom:) (Second Groom:) A Dancer, speaker of the epilogue. SCENE England. 2 KING HENRY IV INDUCTION [Warkworth. Before the castle] [Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues] 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 enmity Under the smile of safety wounds the world: And who but Rumour, who but only I, Make fearful musters and prepared defence, Whiles the big year, swoln with some other grief, Is thought with child by the stern tyrant war, And no such matter? Ru…