Henry IV, Part II

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Henry IV, Part II        "He Hath Eaten Me out of House and Home." Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Lines

Henry IV, Part II        "Uneasy Lies the Head That Wears a Crown." Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Lines

Henry IV, Part II        "A Man Can Die but Once." Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Lines

Henry IV, Part II        "I Do Now Remember the Poor Creature, Small Beer." Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Lines

Henry IV, Part II        "We Have Heard the Chimes at Midnight." Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Lines

Henry IV, Part II    is a    Historical Play Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Plays

Robert Shallow    is a character in    Henry IV, Part II Country Justice Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Characters

Pistol    is a character in    Henry IV, Part II Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Characters

Edward Poins    is a character in    Henry IV, Part II Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Characters

Lord Chief Justice    is a character in    Henry IV, Part II Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Characters

Bardolph    is a character in    Henry IV, Part II Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Characters

Falstaff    is a character in    Henry IV, Part II Sir John Falstaff Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Characters

Lord Bardolph    is a character in    Henry IV, Part II Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Characters

Gower    is a character in    Henry IV, Part II Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Characters

Doll Tearsheet    is a character in    Henry IV, Part II Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Characters

Archbishop Scroop    is a character in    Henry IV, Part II Archbishop of York Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Characters

Silence    is a character in    Henry IV, Part II Country Justice Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Characters

Francis    is a character in    Henry IV, Part II A Drawer Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Characters

Lord Mowbray    is a character in    Henry IV, Part II Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Characters

Lady Percy    is a character in    Henry IV, Part II Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Characters

Lord Hastings    is a character in    Henry IV, Part II Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Characters

Davy    is a character in    Henry IV, Part II Servant to Shallow Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Characters

Blunt    is a character in    Henry IV, Part II Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Characters

Peto    is a character in    Henry IV, Part II Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Characters

Fang    is a character in    Henry IV, Part II A Sheriff's Officer Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Characters

Francis Feeble    is a character in    Henry IV, Part II Country Soldier Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Characters

Morton    is a character in    Henry IV, Part II Retainer of Northumberland Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Characters

Sir John Colville    is a character in    Henry IV, Part II Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Characters

Ralph Mouldy    is a character in    Henry IV, Part II Country Soldier Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Characters

Peter Bullcalf    is a character in    Henry IV, Part II Country Soldier Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Characters

Simon Shadow    is a character in    Henry IV, Part II Country Soldier Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Characters

Snare    is a character in    Henry IV, Part II A Sheriff's Officer Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Characters

Thomas Wart    is a character in    Henry IV, Part II Country Soldier Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Characters

Lady Northumberland    is a character in    Henry IV, Part II Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Characters

Harcourt    is a character in    Henry IV, Part II Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Characters

Rumour    is a character in    Henry IV, Part II The Presenter Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Characters

Travers    is a character in    Henry IV, Part II Retainer of Northumberland Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Characters

Henry IV, Part II    begins    "Open Your Ears" 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 That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wav'ring multitude, Can play upon it. But what need I thus My well-known body to anatomize Among my household? Why is Rumour here? I run before King Harry's victory, Who, in a bloody field by Shrewsbury, Hath beaten down young Hotspur and his troops, Quenching the flame of bold rebellion Even with the rebels' blood. But what mean I To speak so true at first? My office is To noise abroad that Harry Monmouth fell Under the wrath of noble Hotspur's sword, And that the King before the Douglas' rage Stoop'd his anointed head as low as death. This have I rumour'd through the peasant towns Between that royal field of Shrewsbury And this worm-eaten hold of ragged stone, Where Hotspur's father, old Northumberland, Lies crafty-sick. The posts come tiring on, And not a man of them brings other news Than they have learnt of me. From Rumour's tongues They bring smooth comforts false, worse than true wrongs. Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Opening Lines

Henry IV, Part II    ends    "My Tongue is Weary; when My Legs Are Too, I Will Bid You Good Night." One word more, I beseech you. If you be not too much cloy'd with fat meat, our humble author will continue the story, with Sir John in it, and make you merry with fair Katherine of France; where, for anything I know, Falstaff shall die of a sweat, unless already 'a be killed with your hard opinions; for Oldcastle died a martyr and this is not the man. My tongue is weary; when my legs are too, I will bid you good night. Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Closing Lines

Henry IV, Part III        "The Smallest Worm Will Turn, Being Trodden On." Arts & Literature > Shakespeare Lines