Henry IV, Part 2

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Henry IV, Part 2 is a history play by William Shakespeare. It was first published as part of Shakespeare's First Folio and was written somewhere between 1597 and 1599. It is the third part of a tetralogy; it is preceded by Richard II and Henry IV, Part I and is succeeded by Henry V.

Contents 1 Induction 2 Act I 3 Act II 4 Act III 5 Act IV 6 Act V 7 External links

[edit] Induction

• From Rumour's tongues
  They bring smooth comforts false, worse than true wrongs.
  • Rumour

[edit] Act I

• Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless,
  So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone,
  Drew Priam’s curtain in the dead of night,
  And would have told him, half his Troy was burn'd.
  • Northumberland, scene i

• Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
  Hath but a losing office, and his tongue
  Sounds ever after as a sullen bell,
  Remember’d tolling a departing friend.
  • Northumberland, scene i

• Let Heaven kiss earth! Now let not nature's hand
  Keep the wild flood confin'd! let order die!
  And let this world no longer be a stage,
  To feed contention in a lingering act.
  • Northumberland, scene i

• I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
  • Falstaff, scene ii

• A rascally yea-forsooth knave!
  • Falstaff, scene ii

• Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.
  • Falstaff, scene ii

• Since all is well, keep it so: wake not a sleeping wolf.
  • Lord Chief Justice, scene ii

• We that are in the vaward of our youth.
  • Falstaff, scene ii

• For my voice, — I have lost it with hollaing, and singing of anthems.
  • Falstaff, scene ii

• It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.
  • Falstaff, scene ii

• I were better to be eaten to death with a rust, than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
  • Falstaff, scene ii

• If I do, fillip me with a three-man beetle.
  • Falstaff, scene ii

• A good wit will make use of anything; I will turn diseases to commodity.
  • Falstaff, scene ii

• Who lin'd himself with hope,
  Eating the air on promise of supply.
  • Bardolph, scene iii

• When we mean to build,
  We first survey the plot, then draw the model;
  And when we see the figure of the house,
  Then must we rate the cost of the erection. 1
  • Bardolph, scene iii

• An habitation giddy and unsure
  Hath he, that buildeth on the vulgar heart.
  • Archbishop of York, scene iii

• Past, and to come, seem best; things present, worst.
  • Archbishop of York, scene iii

[edit] Act II

• A poor lone woman.
  • Mistress Quickly, scene i

• I’ll tickle your catastrophe.
  • Falstaff, scene i

• He hath eaten me out of house and home.
  • Mistress Quickly, scene i

• Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday in Whitsun-week.
  • Mistress Quickly, scene i

• I do now remember the poor creature, small beer.
  • Prince Henry, scene ii

• Let the end try the man.
  • Prince Henry, scene ii

• Thus we play the fools with the time; and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds, and mock us.
  • Prince Henry, scene ii

• He was, indeed, the glass
  Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves.
  • Lady Percy, scene iii

• I beseek you now, aggravate your choler.
  • Mistress Quickly, scene iv

[edit] Act III

• O sleep! O gentle sleep!
  Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,
  That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down,
  And steep my senses in forgetfulness?
  • King Henry IV, scene i

• Can'st thou, O partial sleep! give thy repose
  To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude;
  And, in the calmest and most stillest night,
  With all appliances and means to boot,
  Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down!
  Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
  • King Henry IV, scene i

• Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shall die. How a good yoke of bullocks at Stamford fair?
  • Shallow, scene ii

• Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated: or when a man is, — being, — whereby, — he may be thought to be accommodated; which is an excellent thing.
  • Bardolph, scene ii

• Let that suffice, most forcible Feeble.
  • Falstaff, scene ii

• We have heard the chimes at midnight.
  • Falstaff, scene ii

• A man can die but once; — we owe God a death.
  • Feeble, scene ii

• I do remember him at Clement's-inn, like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when he was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife.
  • Falstaff, scene ii

[edit] Act IV

• We are ready to try our fortunes
  To the last man.
  • Mowbray, scene ii

• I may justly say, with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome, — "I came, saw, and overcame."
  • Falstaff, scene iii

• He hath a tear for pity, and a hand
  Open as day, for melting charity.
  • King Henry IV, scene iv

• Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.
  • King Henry IV, scene iv

• Commit
  The oldest sins the newest kind of ways.
  • King Henry IV, scene iv

[edit] Act V

• A joint of mutton, and any pretty little tiny kick-shaws, tell William cook.
  • Shallow, scene i

• His cares are now all ended.
  • Warwick, scene ii

• Falstaff: What wind blew you hither, Pistol?
  Pistol: Not the ill wind which blows no man to good.
  • scene iii

• A foutra for the world, and worldlings base!
  I speak of Africa, and golden joys.
  • Pistol, scene iii

• Under which king, Bezonian? speak, or die!
  • Pistol, scene iii

• Falstaff: My king! my Jove! I speak to thee, my heart!
  King Henry V: I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers;
  How ill white hairs become a fool, and jester!
  • Scene v

[edit] External links

• Henry IV, Part 2 quotes analyzed; study guide with themes, character analyses, literary devices, teacher resources