scene 8 Enter Hotspur, Worcester, Lord Mortimer and Owen Glendower MORTIMER These promises1 are fair, the parties sure, And our induction2 full of prosperous hope. HOTSPUR Lord Mortimer, and cousin Glendower, Will you sit down? 5 And uncle Worcester — a plague upon it, I have forgot the map! GLENDOWER No, here it is. Shows a map Sit, cousin Percy, sit, good cousin Hotspur — For by that name as oft as Lancaster9 10 Doth speak of you, his cheeks look pale and with A
scene 8 Enter Hotspur, Worcester, Lord Mortimer and Owen Glendower MORTIMER These promises1 are fair, the parties sure, And our induction2 full of prosperous hope. HOTSPUR Lord Mortimer, and cousin Glendower, Will you sit down? 5 And uncle Worcester — a plague upon it, I have forgot the map! GLENDOWER No, here it is. Shows a map Sit, cousin Percy, sit, good cousin Hotspur — For by that name as oft as Lancaster9 10 Doth speak of you, his cheeks look pale and with A rising sigh he wisheth you in heaven. HOTSPUR And you in hell, as oft as he hears Owen Glendower spoke of. GLENDOWER I cannot blame him: at my nativity The front14 of heaven was full of fiery shapes, 15 Of burning cressets,15 and at my birth The frame and foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward. HOTSPUR Why, so it would have done at the same season, if your mother’s cat had but kittened, though yourself had never been born. 20 GLENDOWER I say the earth did shake when I was born. HOTSPUR And I say the earth was not of my mind, If you suppose as fearing you22 it shook. GLENDOWER The heavens were all on fire, the earth did tremble. HOTSPUR O, then the earth shook to see the heavens on fire, 25 And not in fear of your nativity. Diseasèd nature oftentimes...
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