{"product_id":"2940013005860","title":"KING HENRY IV, SECOND PART","description":"Dramatis Personae\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRUMOUR, the Presenter.\u003cbr\u003eKING HENRY the Fourth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis sons\u003cbr\u003eHENRY, PRINCE OF WALES, afterwards King Henry V.\u003cbr\u003eTHOMAS, DUKE OF CLARENCE.\u003cbr\u003ePRINCE JOHN OF LANCASTER.\u003cbr\u003ePRINCE HUMPHREY OF GLOUCESTER.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEARL OF WARWICK.\u003cbr\u003eEARL OF WESTMORELAND.\u003cbr\u003eEARL OF SURREY.\u003cbr\u003eGOWER.\u003cbr\u003eHARCOURT.\u003cbr\u003eBLUNT.\u003cbr\u003eLord Chief Justice of the King's Bench.\u003cbr\u003eA Servant of the Chief-Justice.\u003cbr\u003eEARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND.\u003cbr\u003eSCROOP, Archbishop of York.\u003cbr\u003eLORD MOWBRAY.\u003cbr\u003eLORD HASTINGS.\u003cbr\u003eLORD BARDOLPH.\u003cbr\u003eSIR JOHN COLEVILLE.\u003cbr\u003eTRAVERS and MORTON, retainers of Northumberland.\u003cbr\u003eSIR JOHN FALSTAFF.\u003cbr\u003eHis Page.\u003cbr\u003eBARDOLPH.\u003cbr\u003ePISTOL.\u003cbr\u003ePOINS.\u003cbr\u003ePETO.\u003cbr\u003eSHALLOW and SILENCE, country justices.\u003cbr\u003eDAVY, Servant to Shallow.\u003cbr\u003eMOULDY, SHADOW, WART, FEEBLE, and BULLCALF, recruits.\u003cbr\u003eFANG and SNARE, sheriff's officers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLADY NORTHUMBERLAND.\u003cbr\u003eLADY PERCY.\u003cbr\u003eMISTRESS QUICKLY, hostess of a tavern in Eastcheap.\u003cbr\u003eDOLL TEARSHEET.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLords and Attendants; Porter, Drawers, Beadles, Grooms, etc.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Dancer, speaker of the epilogue.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSCENE: England.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINDUCTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWarkworth. Before the castle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Enter Rumour, painted full of tongues.]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRUMOUR.\u003cbr\u003eOpen your ears; for which of you will stop\u003cbr\u003eThe vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks?\u003cbr\u003eI, from the orient to the drooping west,\u003cbr\u003eMaking the wind my post-horse, still unfold\u003cbr\u003eThe acts commenced on this ball of earth:\u003cbr\u003eUpon my tongues continual slanders ride,\u003cbr\u003eThe which in every language I pronounce,\u003cbr\u003eStuffing the ears of men with false reports.\u003cbr\u003eI speak of peace, while covert emnity\u003cbr\u003eUnder the smile of safety wounds the world:\u003cbr\u003eAnd who but Rumour, who but only I,\u003cbr\u003eMake fearful musters and prepared defence,\u003cbr\u003eWhiles the big year, swoln with some other grief,\u003cbr\u003eIs thought with child by the stern tyrant war,\u003cbr\u003eAnd no such matter? Rumour is a pipe\u003cbr\u003eBlown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures,\u003cbr\u003eAnd of so easy and so plain a stop\u003cbr\u003eThat the blunt monster with uncounted heads,\u003cbr\u003eThe still-discordant wavering multitude,\u003cbr\u003eCan play upon it. But what need I thus\u003cbr\u003eMy well-known body to anatomize\u003cbr\u003eAmong my household? Why is Rumour here?\u003cbr\u003eI run before King Harry's victory;\u003cbr\u003eWho in a bloody field by Shrewsbury\u003cbr\u003eHath beaten down young Hotspur and his troops,\u003cbr\u003eQuenching the flame of bold rebellion\u003cbr\u003eEven with the rebels' blood. But what mean I\u003cbr\u003eTo speak so true at first? my office is\u003cbr\u003eTo noise abroad that Harry Monmouth fell\u003cbr\u003eUnder the wrath of noble Hotspur's sword,\u003cbr\u003eAnd that the king before the Douglas' rage\u003cbr\u003eStoop'd his anointed head as low as death.\u003cbr\u003eThis have I rumour'd through the peasant towns\u003cbr\u003eBetween that royal field of Shrewsbury\u003cbr\u003eAnd this worm-eaten hold of ragged stone,\u003cbr\u003eWhere Hotspur's father, old Northumberland,\u003cbr\u003eLies crafty-sick:  the posts come tiring on,\u003cbr\u003eAnd not a man of them brings other news\u003cbr\u003eThan they have learn'd of me:  from Rumour's tongues\u003cbr\u003eThey bring smooth comforts false, worse than true wrongs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Exit.]","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082098589936,"sku":"2940013005860","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013005860_p0.jpg?v=1763575535","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013005860","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}