[2587] _ob._] _a halfpenny_ Rowe (ed. 2).
[2588] _march_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃ Q₈ F₃ F₄. _match_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ F₁ Q₇ F₂.
[2589] _Peto_] Qq Ff. _Poins_ Steevens (Johnson conj.).
SCENE I. _Bangor. The Archdeacon's house._
_Enter_ HOTSPUR, WORCESTER, MORTIMER, _and_ GLENDOWER.[2590]
_Mort._ These promises are fair, the parties sure, And our induction full of prosperous hope.
_Hot._ Lord Mortimer, and cousin Glendower,[2591] Will you sit down?[2591] And uncle Worcester: a plague upon it![2591] 5 I have forgot the map.[2591][2592]
_Glend._ No, here it is.[2592] Sit, cousin Percy; sit, good cousin Hotspur,[2592] For by that name as oft as Lancaster[2592][2593] Doth speak of you, his cheek looks pale and with[2592][2594] A rising sigh he wisheth you in heaven.[2592][2595] 10
_Hot._ And you in hell, as oft as lie hears Owen[2596][2597] Glendower spoke of.[2596]
_Glend._ I cannot blame him: at my nativity[2598] The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets; and at my birth[2599][2600] 15 The frame and huge foundation of the earth[2599][2601] Shaked like a coward.[2599][2602]
_Hot._ Why, so it would have done at the same season,[2603][2604] if your mother's cat had but kittened, though yourself had[2603][2605] never been born.[2603][2606] 20
_Glend._ I say the earth did shake when I was born.
_Hot._ And I say the earth was not of my mind,[2607] If you suppose as fearing you it shook.
_Glend._ The heavens were all on fire, the earth did tremble.
_Hot._ O, then the earth shook to see the heavens on fire,[2608] 25 And not in fear of your nativity. Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions; oft the teeming earth[2609] Is with a kind of colic pinch'd and vex'd By the imprisoning of unruly wind 30 Within her womb; which, for enlargement striving, Shakes the old beldam earth and topples down[2610] Steeples and moss-grown towers. At your birth[2611] Our grandam earth, having this distemperature,[2612] In passion shook.
_Glend._ Cousin, of many men 35 I do not bear these crossings. Give me leave[2613] To tell you once again that at my birth The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, The goats ran from the mountains, and the herds Were strangely clamorous to the frighted fields.[2614] 40 These signs have mark'd me extraordinary; And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men.[2615] Where is he living, clipp'd in with the sea[2616] That chides the banks of England, Scotland, Wales,[2617] 45 Which calls me pupil, or hath read to me? And bring him out that is but woman's son[2618] Can trace me in the tedious ways of art[2619] And hold me pace in deep experiments.[2620]