CLARENCE
We left the prince my brother here, my liege, Who undertook to sit and watch by you. KING HENRY IV
The Prince of Wales! Where is he? let me see him: He is not here. WARWICK
This door is open; he is gone this way. GLOUCESTER
He came not through the chamber where we stay'd. KING HENRY IV
Where is the crown? who took it from my pillow? WARWICK
When we withdrew, my liege, we left it here. KING HENRY IV
The prince hath ta'en it hence: go, seek him out. Is he so hasty that he doth suppose My sleep my death? Find
him, my Lord of Warwick; chide him hither.
Exit WARWICK
This part of his conjoins with my disease, And helps to end me. See, sons, what things you are! How
quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have
broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care, Their bones with industry; For this they have engrossed
and piled up The canker'd heaps of strange-achieved gold; For this they have been thoughtful to invest Their
sons with arts and martial exercises: When, like the bee, culling from every flower The virtuous sweets, Our
thighs pack'd with wax, our mouths with honey, We bring it to the hive, and, like the bees, Are murdered
for our pains. This bitter taste Yield his engrossments to the ending father.
Re-enter WARWICK
Now, where is he that will not stay so long Till his friend sickness hath determined me? WARWICK
My lord, I found the prince in the next room, Washing with kindly tears his gentle cheeks, With such a
deep demeanor in great sorrow That tyranny, which never quaff'd but blood, Would, by beholding him,
have wash'd his knife With gentle eye-drops. He is coming hither.
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