Henry IV, part 1 by William Shakespeare

Author:William Shakespeare [William Shakespeare]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Play, History, Historical
Published: 0100-12-31T18:30:00+00:00

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.

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 you 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,

And not in fear of your nativity.

Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth

In strange eruptions; oft the teeming earth

Is with a kind of colic pinch'd and vex'd

By the imprisoning of unruly wind

Within her womb; which, for enlargement striving,

Shakes the old beldam earth and topples down

Steeples and moss-grown towers. At your birth

Our grandam earth, having this distemperature,

In passion shook.

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