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Worcester

But soft, I pray you

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Hotspur
But soft, I pray you. Did King Richard then
Proclaim my brother Edmund Mortimer
Heir to the crown?
Northumberland
He did; myself did hear it.

And now I will unclasp a secret book,
And to your quick-conceiving discontents
I’ll read you matter deep and dangerous

Hotspur
Nay then,
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Act 1
Scene 3
Line 158

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Hear you, cousin, a word

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Worcester
Hear you, cousin, a word.
Hotspur 
All studies here I solemnly defy,
Save how to gall and pinch this Bolingbroke.
And that same sword-and-buckler Prince of Wales—
But that I think his father loves him not
And would be glad he met with some mischance—
I would have him poisoned with a pot of ale.
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Act 1
Scene 3
Line 235

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Methinks my moiety, north from Burton here

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Hotspur, looking at the map
Methinks my moiety, north from Burton here,
In quantity equals not one of yours.
See how this river comes me cranking in
And cuts me from the best of all my land
A huge half-moon, a monstrous cantle  out.
I’ll have the current in this place dammed up,
And here the smug and silver Trent shall run
In a new channel,
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Act 3
Scene 1
Line 100

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Fie, cousin Percy, how you cross my father!

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Mortimer
Fie, cousin Percy, how you cross my father!
Hotspur
I cannot choose. Sometime he angers me
With telling me of the moldwarp and the ant,
Of the dreamer Merlin and his prophecies,
And of a dragon and a finless fish,
A clip-winged griffin and a moulten raven,
A couching lion and a ramping cat,
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Act 3
Scene 1
Line 151

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How bloodily the sun begins to peer

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Henry IV
How bloodily the sun begins to peer
Above yon bulky hill. The day looks pale
At his distemp’rature.
Prince Hal
The southern wind
Doth play the trumpet to his purposes,
And by his hollow whistling in the leaves
Foretells a tempest and a blust’ring day.

For mine own part I could be well content
To entertain the lag end of my life
With quiet hours.
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Act 5
Scene 1
Line 1

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It pleased your Majesty to turn your looks

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Worcester 
It pleased your Majesty to turn your looks
Of favor from myself and all our house;
And yet I must remember you, my lord,
We were the first and dearest of your friends.
For you my staff of office did I break
In Richard’s time, and posted day and night
To meet you on the way and kiss your hand
When yet you were in place and in account
Nothing so strong and fortunate as I.
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Act 5
Scene 1
Line 31

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O no, my nephew must not know

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Worcester
O no, my nephew must not know, Sir Richard,
The liberal and kind offer of the King.
Vernon
‘Twere best he did.
Worcester
Then are we all undone.
It is not possible, it cannot be
The King should keep his word in loving us.
He will suspect us still and find a time
To punish this offense in other faults.
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Act 5
Scene 2
Line 1

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The Prince of Wales stepped forth before the King

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Worcester
The Prince of Wales stepped forth before the King,
And, nephew, challenged you to single fight.
Hotspur
O, would the quarrel lay upon our heads,
And that no man might draw short breath today
But I and Harry Monmouth! Tell me, tell me,
How showed his tasking? Seemed it in contempt?

He made a blushing cital of himself,
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Act 5
Scene 2
Line 48

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