King Henry the Fourth. PART I. BY WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE. ACCURATELY PRINTED FROM THE TEXT OF MR. STEEVENS'S LAST EDITION. Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester. Archibald, Earl of Douglas. Owen Glendower. Sir Richard Vernon. Sir John Falstaff. Poins. Gadshill. Peto. Bardolph. Lady Percy, wife to Hotspur, and sister to Mortimer. Mrs. Quickly, hostess of a tavern in Eastcheap. Lords, Officers, Sheriff, Vintner, Chamberlain, Drawers, two Carriers, Travellers, and Attendants. SCENE, England. Fal. 'Zounds, I am afraid of this gunpowder Percy, though he be dead: How if he should counterfeit too, and rise? I am afraid, he would prove the better counterfeit. Observations of The Frist part of King Henry 4th a Shakespeare has apparently designed a regular connection of the dramatick histories, from Richard the second to Henry the fifth. King Henry, at the on of Richard 2, declares his purpose Horting the Holy Land, which he resume in that speech. The complaint made by King Henry in the last act of Richar the second of the Wildness off his Son, prepares the reader for the frolick What are here to be recounted, andke Characters which are now to be exhi bited_ 202 |