{"id":1403,"date":"2011-05-10T05:21:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T04:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nanavati.eu\/weblog\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2011-05-10T05:21:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T04:21:23","slug":"henry-iv-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/10\/henry-iv-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry IV Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The night before battle, Shakespeare give Henry IV one of his finest speeches spoken in the quiet of his tent:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How many thousand of my poorest subjects<br \/>\nAre at this hour asleep! O sleep, O gentle sleep,<br \/>\nNature&#8217;s soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,<br \/>\nThat thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down<br \/>\nAnd steep my senses in forgetfulness?<br \/>\nWhy rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs,<br \/>\nUpon uneasy pallets stretching thee<br \/>\nAnd hush&#8217;d with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber,<br \/>\nThan in the perfumed chambers of the great,<br \/>\nUnder the canopies of costly state,<br \/>\nAnd lull&#8217;d with sound of sweetest melody?<br \/>\nO thou dull god, why liest thou with the vile<br \/>\nIn loathsome beds, and leavest the kingly couch<br \/>\nA watch-case or a common &#8216;larum-bell?<br \/>\nWilt thou upon the high and giddy mast<br \/>\nSeal up the ship-boy&#8217;s eyes, and rock his brains<br \/>\nIn cradle of the rude imperious surge<br \/>\nAnd in the visitation of the winds,<br \/>\nWho take the ruffian billows by the top,<br \/>\nCurling their monstrous heads and hanging them<br \/>\nWith deafening clamour in the slippery clouds,<br \/>\nThat, with the hurly, death itself awakes?<br \/>\nCanst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose<br \/>\nTo the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude,<br \/>\nAnd in the calmest and most stillest night,<br \/>\nWith all appliances and means to boot,<br \/>\nDeny it to a king? Then happy low, lie down!<br \/>\nUneasy lies the head that wears a crown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The night before battle, Shakespeare give Henry IV one of his finest speeches spoken in the quiet of his tent: &nbsp; How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep! O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature&#8217;s soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[330],"class_list":["post-1403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","tag-henry-iv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}