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Henry IV, Part I
[II, 4]

Falstaff

1315

My own knee! when I was about thy years, Hal, I was
not an eagle's talon in the waist; I could have
crept into any alderman's thumb-ring: a plague of
sighing and grief! it blows a man up like a
bladder. There's villanous news abroad: here was
Sir John Bracy from your father; you must to the
court in the morning. That same mad fellow of the
north, Percy, and he of Wales, that gave Amamon the
bastinado and made Lucifer cuckold and swore the
devil his true liegeman upon the cross of a Welsh
hook—what a plague call you him?

2

Henry IV, Part I
[III, 1]

Hotspur (Henry Percy)

1593

I think there's no man speaks better Welsh.
I'll to dinner.

3

Henry IV, Part I
[III, 1]

Hotspur (Henry Percy)

1664

Let me not understand you, then; speak it in Welsh.

4

Henry IV, Part I
[III, 1]

Mortimer

1738

This is the deadly spite that angers me;
My wife can speak no English, I no Welsh.

5

Henry IV, Part I
[III, 1]

(stage directions)

1744

[Glendower speaks to her in Welsh, and she answers him in the same]

6

Henry IV, Part I
[III, 1]

(stage directions)

1747

[The lady speaks in Welsh]

7

Henry IV, Part I
[III, 1]

Mortimer

1748

I understand thy looks: that pretty Welsh
Which thou pour'st down from these swelling heavens
I am too perfect in; and, but for shame,
In such a parley should I answer thee.
[The lady speaks again in Welsh]
I understand thy kisses and thou mine,
And that's a feeling disputation:
But I will never be a truant, love,
Till I have learned thy language; for thy tongue
Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd,
Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower,
With ravishing division, to her lute.

8

Henry IV, Part I
[III, 1]

(stage directions)

1761

[The lady speaks again in Welsh]

9

Henry IV, Part I
[III, 1]

Hotspur (Henry Percy)

1782

Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh;
And 'tis no marvel he is so humorous.
By'r lady, he is a good musician.

10

Henry IV, Part I
[III, 1]

Lady Percy

1785

Then should you be nothing but musical for you are
altogether governed by humours. Lie still, ye thief,
and hear the lady sing in Welsh.

11

Henry IV, Part I
[III, 1]

Hotspur (Henry Percy)

1794

To the Welsh lady's bed.

12

Henry IV, Part I
[III, 1]

(stage directions)

1797

[Here the lady sings a Welsh song]