War. Will't please your grace to go along with us?
P. Hen. No; I will fit and watch here by the
king. [Exeunt all but Prince Henry.
Why doth the crown lie there upon his pillow,
Being fo troublesome a bed-fellow ?
O polish'd perturbation! golden care!
That keep it the ports of flumber open wide
To many a watchful night!-fleep with it now !
Yet not fo found, and half so deeply sweet,
As he, whose brow, with homely biggen 2 bound,
Snores out the watch of night. O majefty!
When thou dost pinch thy bearer, thou doft fit
Like a rich armour worn in heat of day,
That fcalds with fafety. By his gates of breath
There lies a downy feather, which ftirs not:
Did he fufpire, that light and weightless down
Perforce muft move.-My gracious lord! my
ther!--

Their bones with industry;

For this they have engroffed and pil'd up
The canker'd heaps of strange-atchieved gold;
For this they have been thoughtful to invest
Their fons with arts and martial exercises:
When, like the bee, tolling 4 from every flower
The virtuous fweets;
[honey,
Our thighs pack'd with wax, our mouths with
We bring it to the hive; and, like the bees,
Are murder'd for our pains. This bitter taste
Yield his engroffments to the ending father.-
Re-enter Warwick.

Now, where is he that will not stay so long,
'Till his friend fickness hath determin'd me? [room,

War. My lord, I found the prince in the next
Washing with kindly tears his gentle checks;
fa-With fuch a deep demeanour in great forrow,

This fleep is found, indeed; this is a sleep,
That from this golden rigol 3 hath divorc'd
So many English kings. Thy due, from me,
Is tears, and heavy forrows of the blood;
Which nature, love, and filial tenderness
Shall, O dear father, pay thee plenteously:
My due, from thee, is this imperial crown ;
Which, as immediate from thy place and blood,
Derives itself to me. Lo, here it fits,-
[Putting it on his head.
Which heaven fhall guard: and put the world's
whole ftrength

Into one giant arm, it shall not force

This lineal honour from me: this from thee
Will I to mine leave, as 'tis left to me.

K. Hen. Warwick! Glofter! Clarence!
Re-enter Warwick, and the reft.

[Exit.

Cla. Doth the king call? [your grace? War. What would your majesty? How fares K. Hen. Why did you leave me here alone, my lords? [liege, Cla. We left the prince my brother here, my Who undertook to fit and watch by you.

P. Hen. I never thought to hear you speak again. K. Hen. Thy wifh was father, Harry, to that ftay too long by thee, I weary thee. [thought : Doft thou fo hunger for my empty chair,

I

That thou wilt needs inveft thee with mine honours
Before thy hour be ripe? O foolish youth!
Thoufeek'st the greatnefs that will overwhelm thee.
Stay but a little; for my cloud of dignity
Is held from falling with fo weak a wind,
That it will quickly drop: my day is dim.
Thou hast stol'n that, which, after fome few hours,
Were thine without offence; and, at my death,
Thou haft feal'd up my expectation :
Thy life did manifest thou lov'äft me not,
And thou wilt have me die affured of it.

K. Hen. The prince of Wales! Where is he? Thou hid'st a thousand daggers in thy thoughts;

let me fee him :

He is not here.

War. This door is open; he is gone this way. Glo. He came not through the chamber where we stay'd. [my pillow? K. Hen. Where is the crown? who took it from War. When we withdrew, my liege, we left it [1eek him out. K. Ilen. The prince hath ta'en it hence:go, Is he fo hafty, that he doth fuppofe My fleep my death ?

here.

Find him, my lord of Warwick; chide him hither.
This part of his conjoins with my disease, [are!
And helps to end me.---See, fons, what things you
How quickly nature falls into revolt,
When gold becomes her object !

For this the foolith over-careful fathers

Which thou haft whetted on thy ftony heart,
Toftab at half an hour of my life.

What! can't thou not forbear me half an hour?
Then get thee gone, and dig my grave thyfelf;
And bid the merry beils ring to thine ear,
That thou art crowned, not that I am dead.
Let all the tears that thould bedew my heale,
Be drops of balm, to fanctify thy head:
Only compound me with forgotten dust ;
Give that, which gave thee life, unto the worms.
Pluck down my officers, break my decrees;
For now a time is come to mock at form,
Harry the Fifth is crown'd:-Up, vanity!
Down, royal state! all you sage counsellors, hence!
And to the English court allemble now,
From every region, apes of idleneis !
Now, neighbour confines, purge you of your feum :

Have broke their fleeps with thought, their brains Have you a ruffian, that will fwear, drink, dance,

with care,

i. e. the gates of flumber.

Revel the night; rob, murder, and commit

2 A kind of cap, at prefent worn only by children; but fo called from the cap worn by the Beguines, an order of nuns. 3 Rigol means a cucle. taking toll. 5 His accumulations. 6. e. thou haft confirmed my opinion.

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Telling

The

The oldest fins the newest kind of ways?
Be happy, he will trouble you no more :
England shall double gild his treble guilt;
England fhall give him office, honour, might:
For the fifth Harry from curb'd licence plucks
The muzzle of restraint, and the wild dog
Shall flesh his tooth in every innocent.
O my poor kingdom, fick with civil blows!
When that my care could not withhold thy riots,
What wilt thou do when riot is thy care?
O, thou wilt be a wilderness again,
Peopled with wolves, thy old inhabitants !

P. Hen. O, pardon me, my liege! but for my
tears,

[Kneeling.

The moift impediments unto my speech,
I had fore-ftall'd this dear and deep rebuke,
Ere you with grief had spoke, and I had heard
The courfe of it fo far. There is your crown;
And He that wears the crown immortally,
Long guard it yours! If I affect it more,
Than as your honour, and as your renown,
Let me no more from this obedience rife,
Which my moft true 2 and inward-duteous fpirit
Teacheth, this proftrate and exterior bending!
Heaven witnefs with me, when I here came in,
And found no course of breath within your majefty,
How cold it ftruck my heart! If I do feign,
O, let me in my pretent wildnefs die ;
And never live to thew the incredulous world
The noble change that I have purposed!
Coming to look on you, thinking you dead,
(And dead almoft, my liege, to think you were)
.1 fpake unto the crown, as having fenfe,
And thus upbraided it. The care on thee depending,
Hath fed upon the body of my father;
Therefore, thou, best of gold, art work of gold.
Other, lefs fine in carrat, is more precious,
Preferving life in medicine patable 3:

But thou, most fine, moft bonour'd, most remawn'd,
Haft eat thy bearer up. Thus, my moft royal liege,
Accufing it, I put it on my head;

To try with it,-as with an enemy,

That had before my face murder'd my father,-
The quarrel of a true inheritor.

But if it did infect my blood with joy,
Or fwell my thoughts to any train of pride;
If any rebel or vain spirit of mine
Did, with the least affection of a welcome,
Give entertainment to the might of it,
Let heaven for ever keep it from my head !
And make me as the pooreft vaflal is,
That doth with awe and terror kneel to it!
K. Hen. O my fon!

Heaven put it in thy mind, to take it hence,
That thou might'it win the more thy father's love,
Pleading fo wifely in excufe of it.

Come hither, Harry, fit thou by my bed;
And hear, I think, the very latest counfel
That ever I fhall breathe. Heaven knows, my fon,
By what by-paths, and indirect crook'd ways,
I met this crown; and Imyielf know well,

How troublesome it fat upon my head:
To thee it fhall defcend with better quiet,
Better opinion, better confirmation;
For all the 4 foil of the atchievement goes
With me into the earth. It feem'd in me,
But as an honour fnatch'd with boisterous hand; ·
And I had many living, to upbraid

My gain of it by their affistances;
Which daily grew to quarrel, and to blood-shed,
Wounding fuppofed 5 peace: all these bold fears 6,
Thou fee'ft, with peril I have answered :—
For all my reign hath been but as a scene
Acting that argument; and now my death
Changes the mode: for what in me was purchas'd,
Falls upon thee in a more fairer fort,
So thou the garland wear'ft 7 fucceffively.
Yet, though thou ftand'st more fure than I could
Thou art not firm enough, fince griefs are green;
And all thy friends, which thou must make thy

friends,

[do,

Have but their ftings and teeth newly ta'en out;
By whofe fell working I was first advanc'd,
And by whofe power I well might lodge a fear
To be again difplac'd: which to avoid,
I cut them off; and had a purpose now
To lead out many to the Holy Land;,
Left reft, and lying still, might make them look
Too near into my itate. Therefore, my Harry,
Be it thy courfe, to busy giddy minds
With foreign quarrels; that action, hence borne out,
May wafte the memory of the former days.
More would I, but my lungs are wafted fo,
That strength of speech is utterly deny'd me.
How I came by the crown, O God, forgive!
And grant it may with thee in true peace live!
P. Hen. My gracious liege,

You won it, wore it, kept it, gave it me;
Then plain, and right, must my possession be:
Which I, with more than with a common pain,
Gainft all the world will rightfully maintain.

Enter Lord John of Lancaster, Warwick, &c.
K. Hen. Look, look, here comes my John of
[father!

Lancaster.

Lan. Health, peace, and happiness, to my royal
K. Hen. Thou bring'ft me happiness, and peace,

fon John;

But health, alack, with youthful wings is flown
From this bare, wither'd trunk: upon thy fight,
My worldly bufinets makes a period.-
Where is my lord of Warwick ?

P. Hen. My lord of Warwick!

K. Hen. Doth any name particular belong
Unto the lodging where I first did fwoon?
War. 'Tis called Jerufalem, my noble lord.
K. Hen. Laud be to God!even there my life
muft end.

It hath been prophefy'd to me many years,
I should not die but in Jerufalem;
Which vainly I fuppos'd the Holy Land :—
But, bear me to that chamber; there I'll lie;
In that Jerufalem fhall Harry die. [Exeunt.

i. e. curator: a bold figure. 2 i. e. loyal. 3 Dr. Johnfon fays, "There has long prevailed an opinion, that a folution of gold has great medicinal virtues, and that the incorruptibility of gold might be communicated to the body impregnated with it. Some have pretended to make potable gold, among other frauds prattifed on credulity." 4i. e. the turpitude, reproach. 5 i. e. counterfeited, imagined. Fear is here uted for that which caules fear. 7 1. c. by order of fucceffion. • Perhaps we inould read my friends.

АСГ

SCENE I.

АСТ V.

Shallow's Seat in Glofterbire.

Enter Shallow, Faljlaff, Bardolph, and Page.

Sbal.

BY

Y cock and pye ', fir, you shall not away
to-night-What, Davy, I fay!

man, I have but a very little credit with your worhip. The knave is mine honest friend, fir; therefore, I beseech your worship, let him be countenanc'd.

Shal. Go to I fay, he fhall have no wrong, Look about, Davy. Where are you, Sir John? Fal. You must excufe me, master Robert Shal-Come, off with your boots. Give me your hand, mafter Bardolph.

low.

Shal. I will not excufe you; you shall not be excus'd; excufes fhall not be admitted; there is

Bard. I am glad to fee your worship. Shal. I thank thee with all my heart, kind no excuse shall serve; you shall not be excus'd.mafter Bardolph :—and welcome, my tall fellow. Why, Davy!

Davy. Here, fir.

Enter Davy.

[to the page.] Come, Sir John.

Fal. I'll follow you, good mafter Robert Shallow. Bardolph, look to our horses. [Exeunt Shallow, Bardolph, &c.]—If I were faw'd into quantities, I thould make four dozen of fuch

Shal. Davy, Davy, Davy,-let me fee, Davy let me fee:-yea, marry, William cook 2, bid him come hither.-Sir John, you shall not be ex-bearded hermit's-ftaves as mafter. Shallow. It is a cus'd.

Davy. Marry, fir, thus ;-thofe precepts 3 cannot be ferv'd: and, again, fir,-Shall we fow the head-land with wheat?

Shal. With red wheat, Davy. But for William cook ; Are there no young pigeons? Davy. Yes, fir.Here is now the fmith's note, for fhoeing, and plough-irons.

Shal. Let it be caft, and paid :-Sir John, you shall not be excus'd.

Davy. Now, fir, a new link to the bucket muft needs be had:-And, fir, do you mean to ftop any of William's wages, about the fack he loft the other day at Hinckley fair?

wonderful thing, to fee the femblable coherence of his men's fpirits and his: They, by obferving of him, do bear themfelves like foolish juftices; he, by converfing with them, is turn'd into a juftice, like ferving-man: their fpirits are fo married in conjunction with the participation of fociety, that they flock together in confent, like fo many wildgeefe. If I had a fuit to master Shallow, I would humour his men, with the imputation of being near their matter: if to his men, I would curry with mafter Shallow, that no man could better command his fervants. It is certain, that either wife bearing, or ignorant carriage, is caught, as men take difeafes, one of another: therefore, let men take heed of their company. I will devife matter enough out of this Shallow, to keep prince Harry in continual laughter, the wearing-out of fix fathions (which is four terms, or two actions), Davy. Doth the man of war stay all night, fir and he shall laugh without intervallums. O, it is Sbal. Yes, Davy. I will ufe him well; Amuch, that a lie, with a flight oath, and a jest friend i' the court is better than a penny in purfe. with a fad brow, will do with a fellow that never Ufe his men well, Davy; for they are arrant had the ache in his thoulders! O, you shall fee knaves, and will backbite. him laugh 'till his face be like a wet cloak ill laid up.

Shal. He fhall anfwer it :--Some pigeons, Davy; a couple of fhort-legg'd hens; a joint of mutton; and any pretty little tiny kickshaws, tell William

cook.

Davy. No worse than they are back-bitten, fir; for they have marvellous foul linen.

Sbal. Well conceited, Davy, About thy business, Davy.

Davy. I befeech you, fir, to countenance William Vifor of Woncot against Clement Perkes of the hill.

Shal. There are many complaints, Davy, against that Vifor; that Vifor is an arrant knave, on my knowledge.

Davy. I grant your worship, that he is a knave, fir: but yet, God forbid, fir, but a knave should have fome countenance at his friend's request. An honeft man, fir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. I have ferv'd your worfhip truly, fir, thefe eight years; and if I cannot once or twice in a quarter bear out a knave against an honeft

I See note 4, p. 48, 2 Anciently, the lower orders of people had no furnames, but in their stead were content to adopt the titles of their feveral profeflions. 3 Precept is a juftice's warrant,

The

The service that I truly did his life,
Hath left me open to all injuries.

War. Indeed, I think, the young king loves
you not.

Ch. Juft. I know, he doth not; and do arm
myfelf,

To welcome the condition of the time;
Which cannot look more hideously upon me
Than I have drawn it in my fantasy.

Enter Lord John of Lancaster, Glofter, and Cla-
rence, &c.

War. Here come the heavy iffue of dead
Harry :-

O, that the living Harry had the temper
Of him, the worst of thefe three gentlemen!
How many nobles then should hold their places,
That mutt strike fail to fpirits of vile fort!

Ch. Juft. Alas, I fear, all will be overturn'd.
Lan. Good morrow, cousin Warwick.
Glo. Cla. Good morrow, coufin.

Lan. We meet like men that had forgot to speak.
War. We do remember; but our argument
Is all too heavy to admit much talk.

Lan. Well, peace be with him that hath made
us heavy!

Ch. fuft. Peace be with us, left we be heavier !
Gis. O, good my lord, you have loft a friend
indeed :

And I dare fwear, you borrow not that face
Of feeming forrow; it is, fure, your own. [find,
Lan. Though no man be affur'd what grace to
You ftand in coldeft expectation:

1 am the forrier; 'would, 'twere otherwife.
Cla. Well, you must now speak Sir John
staff fair;

War. Here comes the prince.
Enter King Henry.

Ch. Juft. Good morrow; and heaven save your
majefty!

K. Henry. This new and gorgeous garment,
majesty,

Sits not fo eafy on me as you think.-
Brothers, you mix your fadness with fome fear;
This is the English, not the Turkish court;
Not Amurath an Amurath fuccecds,
But Harry, Harry :-Yet be fad, good brothers,
For, to speak truth, it very well becomes you;
Sorrow fo royally in you appears,

That I will deeply put the fashion on,

And wear it in my heart. Why then, be fad:
But entertain no more of it, good brothers,
Than a joint burthen laid upon us all.

For me, by heaven, I bid you be affur'd,
I'll be your father and your brother too;
Let me but bear your love, I'll bear your cares.
Yet weep that Harry's dead; and fo will I :
But Harry lives, that shall convert those tears,
By number, into hours of happiness.

Lan. &c. We hope no other from your majesty,
K. Henry. You all look strangely on me :-and
you moft;
[To the Ch. Juft.

You are, I think, affur'd I love you not.
Ch. Juft. I am affured, if I be meafur'd rightly,
Your majefty hath no juft caufe to hate me.

K. Henry. No! How might a prince of my
great hopes forget

So great indignities you laid upon me?
What! rate, rebuke, and roughly send to prifon
Fal-The immediate heir of England! Was this easy?
May this be wafh'd in Lethe, and forgotten?

Which iwims against your stream of quality. ·
Ch. Juft. Sweet princes, what I did, I did in
honour,

Led by the impartial conduct of my foul;
And never fhall you fee, that I will beg
A ragged and foreftall'd remittion -
If truth and upright innocency fail me,
I'll to the king my mafter that is dead,
And tell him who hath fent me after him.

Ch. Juft. I then did ufe the perfon of your
father;

The image of his power lay then in me :
And, in the adminiftration of his law,
Whiles I was bufy for the commonwealth,
Your highness pleafed to forget my place,
The majefty and power of law and juftice,
The image of the king whom I prefented,
And struck me in my very feat of judgment;
Whereon,

1 Meaning, a bafe ignominious pardon, begged by a voluntary confeffion of offence, and anticipation of the charge. 2 The chief juftice, in this play, was Sir William Gafcoigne, of whom the following memoir is given by Sir John Hawkins: "While at the bar, Henry of Bolingbroke had been his client; and upon the decease of John of Gaunt, by the above Henry, his heir, then in banishment, he was appointed his attorney, to fue in the court of Wards the livery of the eftates defcended to him. Richard II. revoked the letters patent for this purpofe, and defeated the intent of them, and thereby furnished a ground for the invasion of his kingdom by the heir of Gaunt; who becoming afterwards Henry IV. appointed Gafcoigne chief juftice of the King's Bench in the first year of his reign. In that itation Gafcoigne acquired the character of a learned, an upright, a wife, and an intrepid judge. The story to frequently alluded to of his committing the prince for an infult on his perfon, and the court wherein he prefided, is thus related by Sir Thomas Elyot, in his book entitled The Governour: "The moite renomed prince king Henry the fyfte, late kynge of Englande, durynge the lyfe of his father, was noted to be fiers and of wanton courage: it hapned, that one of his feruantes, whom he well fauoured, was for felony by him committed, arrained at the kynges benche: whereof the prince being aduertifed, and incenfed by lyghte perfones aboute him, in furious rage came haftily to the barre, where his feruant ftode as a prifoner, and commaunded hym to be vngyued and fet at libertie: wherat all men were abafhed, referued the chiefe juftice, who humbly exhorted the prince, to be contented, that his feruaunt mought be ordred, accordynge to the aunciente lawes of this realme; or if he wolde haue hyma faued from the rigour of the lawes, that

Whereon, as an offender to your father,
I gave bold way to my authority,

And did commit you. If the deed were ill,
Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
To have a fon fet your decrees at nought;
To pluck down juftice from your awful bench;
To trip the courfe of law I, and blunt the sword,
That guards the peace and fafety of your perfon :
Nay, more; to fpurn at your moft royal image,
And mock your workings in a second body 2.
Queftion your royal thoughts, make the cafe yours;
Be now the father, and propofe a fon 3:
Hear your own dignity fo much profan'd,
See your most dreadful laws fo loofely flighted,
Behold yourfelf fo by a fon difdained;
And then imagine me taking your part,
And, in your power, fo filencing your fon :-
After this cold confiderance, fentence me;
And, as you are a king, fpeak in your ftate,-
What I have done, that miíbecame my place,
My perfon, or my liege's fovereignty..

Into the hands of justice. You did commit me :
For which, I de commit into your hand
The unitained fword that you have us'd to bear;
With this remembrance,-That you ufe the fame
With the like bold, juft, and impartial fpirit,
As you have done 'gainit me. There is my hand;
You fhall be as a father to my youth:

My voice fhall found as you do prompt mine ear;
And I will ftoop and humble my intents
To your well-practis'd, wife directions.
And, princes all, believe me, I beseech you ;→→
My father is gone wild into his grave,
For in his tomb lie my affections 5;
And with his fpirit fadly I furvive,
To mock the expectations of the world;
To fruftrate prophecies; and to raze out
Rotten opinion, who hath writ me down
After my feeming. The tide of blood in me
Hath proudly flow'd in vanity, 'til now :
Now doth it turn, and ebb back to the fea;
Where it fhall mingle with the ftate of floods,

K. Henry. You are right, justice, and you weigh And flow henceforth in formal majesty.

this well;

Therefore ftill bear the balance, and the fword:
And I do with your honours may increafe,
'Till you do live to fee a fon of mine
Offend you, and obey you, as I did.

So fhall I live to speak my father's words ;-
Happy am I, that have a man fo bold,
That dares do juftice on my proper fon :
And not lefs happy, having such a jon,
That would deliver up bi: greatnys jo

Now call we our high court of parliament:
And let us chufe fuch limbs of noble counfel,
That the great body of our state may go
In equal rank with the best-govern'd nation;
That war, or peace, or both at once, may be
As things acquainted and familiar to us ;———
In which you, father, thall have foremost hand.—
[To the Lord Chief Justice.
Our coronation done, we will accite,
As I betore remember'd, all our itate:

he hulde opteyne. if he moughte, of the kynge his father, his gratious pardon, wherby no lawe or inftyce fhulde be derogate. With whiche anfwere the prince nothynge appeased, but rather more inflamed, endeuored him folfe to take away his feruant. The iuge confidering the perilous example, and inconuenience that mought therby inlue, with a valyant fpirite and courage, commanded the prince upon his alegeance, to leaue the prifoner, and depart his way. With which commandment the prince being fet all in a fury, all chated and in a terrible maner, came up to the place of iugement, men thynking that he wold haue flayne the iuge, or haue done to hym foie damage: but the iuge fittynge ftyll without mouing, declaring the maieltie of the kynges place of ingement, and with an affured and bolde countenance, had to the prince, thele wordes foilowyng, Syr, remembre your felfe, I kepe here the place of the kyng your foueraine lorde and father, to whom ye owe double obedience, wherfore ettefoones in his name, I charge you detyte of your wylfulnes and vnlaufull enterprife, & from hensforth giue good example to thofe, whyche hereafter thall be your propre fubiectes. And nowe, for your contempte and dilobedience, goo you to the pryfone of the kynges benche, wherevhto I commytte you, and remayne ye there prifoner vntyll the pleasure of the kynge your father be further knowen." With whiche wordes beinge abafhed, and alfo wondrynge at the meruaylous grauitie of that worthypfulle juftyce, the noble prince layinge his weapon aparte, doynge reuerence, departed, and wente to the kynges benche, as he was commanded. Whereat his feruauntes difdaynynge, came and thewed to the kynge all the hole affaire. Whereat he awhyles Eudyenge, after as a man all rauythed with gladneffe, holdynge his eien and handes vp towarde heuen, abraided, faying with a loude voice, Omercyfull God, howe moche am I, aboue all other men, bounde to your infinite goodnes, fpecially for that ye haue gyuen me a iuge, who feareth nat to minifter iuftyce, and alfo a fonne, who can fuffre femblably, and obeye iuftyce ?" And here it may be noted, that Shakspeare has deviated from hiftory in bringing the chief juftice and Henry V. together; for it is exprefsly faid by Fuller, in his Worthies in Yorkhire, and that on the best authority, faat Gafcoigne died in the life-tiine of his father, viz. on the firft day of November, 14 Henry IV. Sce Dugd. Origines Juridic. in the Chronica Serics, fol. 54. 56. Mr. Malone adds, that in the foregoing account of this tranfaction, there is no mention of the prince's having firuck Gafcoigne, the chief justice.-Speed, however, who quotes Elyot, fays, on I know not what authority, that the prince gave the judge a blow on the face. To defeat the procefs of juftice. i. e. to treat with contempt your acts executed by a reprefentative. 3. c. image to yourself a fon. 4 i. e. admonition, 5 The meaning feems to be-My wild difpofitions having ceafed on my father's death, and being now as it were buried in his tomb, he and wildnefs are interred in the fame grave. 6 i. e. feriously, gravely. Sad is oppofed to wild. 7 i. e. the affembly, or general meeting of the floods; for all rivers, running to the fea, are there reprefemed as holding their feffions.

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