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  • A Monologue from the play "Henry IV Part 2" by William Shakespeare
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Character Prince Henry
Gender Male
Age Range(s) Young Adult (20-35)
Type of monologue / Character is Persuasive, Apologetic, Praising
Type Dramatic
Period Renaissance
Genre Historical
Description Prince Henry apologizes to his father
Location ACT IV, Scene 5

Summary

In Henry IV Part 1 King Henry had managed to defeat a rebellion against his kingdom in the battle of Shrewsbury. In Part 2, however, the rebels reorganize and continue to fight the king. King Henry in the meanwhile is aging very quickly and getting sick. He also has to deal with an irresponsible son, Prince Henry, who wastes his days in taverns with questionable characters such as Falstaff. The Prince, however, starts spending less time with his friends since wants to change his ways in order to become the future leader of England. Falstaff is now an army captain and goes to the countryside to raise forces for the upcoming battles.

Thanks to Prince John, Prince Henry's younger brother, the rebels are defeated, tricked by his deceiving political machinations. He orders the rebels to be executed.

In this scene, in ACT IV, Scene 5, King Henry is in deathbed and appears to die. The prince, thinking that he is dead, grabs the crown and leaves. The king, however, wakes up and seeing that his crown is gone, gets angry at his son and accuses him of being irresponsible and of only caring about becoming king. In this monologue Prince Henry asks for forgiveness, he genuinely thought his father was dead but wasn't overjoyed about it. Thinking that he was dead he decided to take his crown but wasn't looking forward to become the next king.

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Excerpt
PRINCE HENRY
O, pardon me, my liege! but for my tears,
The moist impediments unto my speech,
I had forestall'd this dear and deep rebuke
Ere you with grief had spoke and I had heard
The course of it so far. There is your crown;
And He that wears the crown immortally
Long guard it yours! If I affect it more
Than as your honour and as your renown,
Let me no more from this obedience rise,
Which my most inward true and duteous spirit
Teacheth, this prostrate and exterior bending.
God witness with me, when I here came in,
And found no course of breath within your majesty,
How cold it struck my heart! If I do feign,
O, let me in my present wildness die
And never live to show the incredulous world
The noble change that I have purposed!
Coming to look on you, thinking you dead,
And dead almost, my liege, to think you were,
I spake unto this crown as having sense,
And thus upbraided it: 'The care on thee depending
Hath fed upon the body of my father;
Therefore, thou best of gold art worst of gold:
Other, less fine in carat, is more precious,
Preserving life in medicine potable;
But thou, most fine, most honour'd: most renown'd,
Hast eat thy bearer up.' Thus, my most royal liege,
Accusing it, I put it on my head,
To try with it, as with an enemy
That had before my face murder'd my father,
The quarrel of a true inheritor.
But if it did infect my blood with joy,
Or swell my thoughts to any strain of pride;
If any rebel or vain spirit of mine
Did with the least affection of a welcome
Give entertainment to the might of it,
Let God for ever keep it from my head
And make me as the poorest vassal is
That doth with awe and terror kneel to it!

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