Shakespeare's Plays: Henry the IV Part I, Hamlet, a Midsummer Night's Dream

Henry the IV, Part I

Act 1, Scene 1, Lines 78-90.

KING HENRY IV: Yea, there thou makest me sad and makest me sin In envy that my Lord Northumberland Should be the father to so blest a son, A son who is the theme of honour's tongue; Amongst a grove, the very straightest plant; Who is sweet Fortune's minion and her pride: Whilst I, by looking on the praise of him, See riot and dishonour stain the brow Of my young Harry. O that it could be proved That some night-tripping fairy had exchanged In cradle-clothes our children where they lay, And call'd mine Percy, his Plantagenet! Then would I have his Harry, and he mine.

This scene sets delineates the conflict between father and son. The King has found Henry to be enough of a disappointment...
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