Hollow Crown Thursday: Henry IV, Part 1
Robert Pugh as Glendower and Joe Armstrong as Hotspur
Glendower:
I cannot blame him: at my nativity
The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes,
Of burning cressets; and at my birth
The frame and huge foundation of the earth
Shaked like a coward.
Hotspur:
Why, so it would have done at the same season, if
your mother’s cat had but kittened, though yourself
had never been born.
Glendower:
I say the earth did shake when I was born.
Hotspur
And I say the earth was not of my mind,
If you suppose as fearing you it shook.
Glendower:
The heavens were all on fire, the earth did tremble.
Hotspur:
O, then the earth shook to see the heavens on fire,
And not in fear of your nativity.