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- 138 The Second Part of
against them, being farre stronger in number of peo
ple than the other, for as some write there were of
the rebels at least twentie thousand men/
Shakespeare follows Holinshed closely in describ
ing the 'subtill policie' whereby the rebels are dis
posed of; but he transfers the odium attaching to this
action from the earl of Westmoreland to Lord John
of Lancaster.
The events of the next eight years, as related by
Holinshed, are unnoticed in the play. Shakespeare
proceeds immediately to the death of the king, and
again follows the Chronicle closely. '1413. The
morrow after Candlemas daie began a parlement
which the king had called at London, but he departed
this life before the same parlement was ended; for
now that his prouisions were readie and that he was
furnished with sufficient treasure, soldiers, capteins,
vittels, munitions, tall ships, strong gallies, and all
things necessarie for such a roiall iournie as he pre
tended to take into the holie land, he was eftsoones
taken with a sore sicknesse, which was not a leprosie
striken by the hand of God, as foolish friars imag
ined, but a verie apoplexie. . . . During this sick
nesse he caused his crowne to be set on a pillow at
his bed's head, and suddenlie his pangs so sore trou
bled him that he laie as though all his vitall spirits
had beene from him departed. Such as were about
him couered his face with a linen cloth. The prince,
his sonne, being hereof aduertised, entered into the
chamber, tooke awaie the crowne, and departed. The
father being suddenlie reuiued out of that trance
quicklie perceiued the lacke of his crowne ; and hauing
knowledge that the prince his sonne had taken it
awaie caused him to come before his presence requir
ing of him what he meant so to misuse himself. The
prince with a good audacitie answered, Sir, to mine
and all mens iudgements you seemed dead in this
world, wherefore I as youre next heire apparent tooke
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