of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men. Where is he living, clipp'd in with the sea That
chides the banks of England, Scotland, Wales, Which calls me pupil, or hath read to me? And bring him
out that is but woman's son Can trace me in the tedious ways of art And hold me pace in deep experiments. HOTSPUR
I think there's no man speaks better Welsh. I'll to dinner. MORTIMER
Peace, cousin Percy; you will make him mad. GLENDOWER
I can call spirits from the vasty deep. HOTSPUR
Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? GLENDOWER
Why, I can teach you, cousin, to command The devil. HOTSPUR
And I can teach thee, coz, to shame the devil By telling truth: tell truth and shame the devil. If thou have
power to raise him, bring him hither, And I'll be sworn I have power to shame him hence. O, while you
live, tell truth and shame the devil! MORTIMER
Come, come, no more of this unprofitable chat. GLENDOWER
Three times hath Henry Bolingbroke made head Against my power; thrice from the banks of Wye And
sandy-bottom'd Severn have I sent him Bootless home and weather-beaten back. HOTSPUR
Home without boots, and in foul weather too! How 'scapes he agues, in the devil's name? GLENDOWER
Come, here's the map: shall we divide our right According to our threefold order ta'en? MORTIMER
The archdeacon hath divided it Into three limits very equally: England, from Trent and Severn hitherto, By
south and east is to my part assign'd: All westward, Wales beyond the Severn shore, And all the fertile
land within that bound, To Owen Glendower: and, dear coz, to you The remnant northward, lying off from
Trent. And our indentures tripartite are drawn; Which being sealed interchangeably, A business that this
night may execute, To-morrow, cousin Percy, you and I And my good Lord of Worcester will set forth To
meet your father and the Scottish power, As is appointed us, at Shrewsbury. My father Glendower is not
ready yet, Not shall we need his help these fourteen days. Within that space you may have drawn together Your
tenants, friends and neighbouring gentlemen.
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