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        <author>William Shakespeare</author>
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            <title>The Globe Shakespeare</title>
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      <head>DRAMATIS PERSON&AElig;</head>
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        <castItem type="role"><role id="k.-hen.">KING HENRY the Fifth</role></castItem>
        <castGroup><head rend="braced"> brothers to the King.</head>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="glou.">DUKE OF GLOUCESTER</role></castItem>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="bed.">DUKE OF BEDFORD</role></castItem>
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        <castItem type="role"><role id="exe.">DUKE OF EXETER</role><roleDesc>uncle to the King</roleDesc></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="york.">DUKE OF YORK</role><roleDesc>cousin to the King</roleDesc></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="sal.">EARL OF SALISBURY</role></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="west.">EARL OF WESTMORELAND</role></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="war.">EARL OF WARWICK</role></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="cant.">ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY</role></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="ely.">BISHOP OF ELY</role></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="cam.">EARL OF CAMBRIDGE</role></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="scroop.">LORD SCROOP</role></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="grey.">SIR THOMAS GREY</role></castItem>
        <castGroup><head rend="braced"> officers in King Henry's army.</head>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="erp.">SIR THOMAS ERPINGHAM</role></castItem>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="gow.">GOWER</role></castItem>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="flu.">FLUELLEN</role></castItem>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="mac.">MACMORRIS</role></castItem>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="jamy.">JAMY</role></castItem>
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        <castGroup><head rend="braced"> soldiers in the same.</head>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="bates.">BATES</role></castItem>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="court.">COURT</role></castItem>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="will.">WILLIAMS</role></castItem>
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        <castItem type="role"><role id="pist.">PISTOL</role></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="nym.">NYM</role></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="bard.">BARDOLPH</role></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="boy.">Boy</role></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="her.">A Herald</role></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="fr.-king.">CHARLES the Sixth</role><roleDesc>King of France</roleDesc></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="dau.">LEWIS</role><roleDesc>the Dauphin</roleDesc></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="bur.">DUKE OF BURGUNDY</role></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="orl.">DUKE OF ORLEANS</role></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="bour.">DUKE OF BOURBON</role></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="con.">The Constable of France</role></castItem>
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          <lb/><head rend="braced"> French Lords.</head>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="ram.">RAMBURES</role></castItem>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="grand.">GRANDPRE</role></castItem>
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        <castItem type="role"><role id="gov.">Governor of Harfleur</role></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="mont.">MONTJOY</role><roleDesc>a French Herald</roleDesc></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="first-amb.">Ambassadors to the King of England</role></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="q.-isa.">ISABEL</role><roleDesc>Queen of France</roleDesc></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="kath.">KATHARINE</role><roleDesc>daughter to Charles and Isabel</roleDesc></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="alice.">ALICE</role><roleDesc>a lady attending on her</roleDesc></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="host.">Hostess of a tavern in Eastcheap, formerly Mistress Quickly</role><roleDesc>and now married to Pistol</roleDesc></castItem>
        <castGroup><head>Minor Roles</head>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="fr.-sol.">French Soldier</role></castItem>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="mess.">Messenger(s)</role></castItem>
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        <castItem type="role"><role id="all.">All</role></castItem>
        <castItem type="list"><roleDesc>Lords, Ladies, Officers, Soldiers, Citizens, Messengers, and Attendants</roleDesc></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="chor.">Chorus</role></castItem>
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    <div1 n="prologue" type="act">
      <head>PROLOGUE</head>
      <lb ed="F1" n="2"/>
      <stage type="entrance">Enter Chorus.</stage>
      <lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="3"/>
      
      <sp who="chor."><speaker>Chor.</speaker><p>O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
        <lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="4"/>The brightest heaven of invention,
        <lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="5"/>A kingdom for a stage, princes to act
        <lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="6"/>And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
        <lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="7"/>Then should the warlike Harry, like himself,
        <lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="8"/>Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels,
        <lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="9"/>Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword and fire
        <lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="10"/>Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles all,
        <lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="11"/>The flat unraised spirits that have dared
        <lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="12"/>On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth
        <lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="13"/>So great an object: can this cockpit hold
        <lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="14"/>The vasty fields of France? or may we cram
        <lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="15"/>Within this wooden O the very casques
        <lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="16"/>That did affright the air at Agincourt?
        <lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="17"/>O, pardon! since a crooked figure may
        <lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="18"/>Attest in little place a million;
        <lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="19"/>And let us, ciphers to this great accompt,
        <lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="20"/>On your imaginary forces work.
        <lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="21"/>Suppose within the girdle of these walls
        <lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="22"/>Are now confined two mighty monarchies,
        <lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="23"/>Whose high upreared and abutting fronts
        <lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="24"/>The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder:
        <lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="25"/>Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts;
        <lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="26"/>Into a thousand parts divide one man,
        <lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="27"/>And make imaginary puissance;
        <lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="28"/>Think when we talk of horses, that you see them
        <lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="29"/>Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth;
        <lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="30"/>For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings,
        <lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="31"/>Carry them here and there; jumping o'er times,
        <lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="32"/>Turning the accomplishment of many years
        <lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="33"/>Into an hour-glass: for the which supply,
        <lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="34"/>Admit me Chorus to this history;
        <lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="35"/>Who prologue-like your humble patience pray,
        <lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="36"/>Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play.
        
        <lb ed="G"/><stage>Exit.</stage>
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    <div1 type="act" n="1">
      <head>ACT I</head>
<lb ed="F1" n="37"/>
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<head>SCENE I</head>
<lb ed="F1" n="38"/><stage type="entrance">Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, and the BISHOP OF ELY.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="39"/><sp who="cant."><speaker>Cant.</speaker><l>My lord, I'll tell you; that self bill is urged,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="40"/></l><l>Which in the eleventh year of the last king's reign
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="41"/></l><l>Was like, and had indeed against us pass'd,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="42"/></l><l>But that the scambling and unquiet time
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="43"/></l><l>Did push it out of farther question.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="44"/></l></sp><sp who="ely."><speaker>Ely.</speaker><l>But how, my lord, shall we resist it now?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="45"/></l></sp><sp who="cant."><speaker>Cant.</speaker><l>It must be thought on.   If it pass against us,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="46"/></l><l>We lose the better half of our possession:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="47"/></l><l>For all the temporal lands which men devout
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="48"/></l><l>By testament have given to the church
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="49"/></l><l>Would they strip from us; being valued thus:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="50"/></l><l>As much as would maintain, to the king's honor,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="51"/></l><l>Full fifteen earls and fifteen hundred knights,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="52"/></l><l>Six thousand and two hundred good esquires;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="53"/></l><l>And, to relief of lazars and weak age,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="54"/></l><l>Of indigent faint souls past corporal toil,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="55"/></l><l>A hundred almshouses right well supplied;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="56"/></l><l>And to the coffers of the king beside,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="57"/></l><l>A thousand pounds of the year: thus runs the bill.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="58"/></l></sp><sp who="ely."><speaker>Ely.</speaker><l part="I">This would drink deep.

<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="59"/></l></sp><sp who="cant."><speaker>Cant.</speaker><l part="F">'Twould drink the cup and all.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="60"/></l></sp><sp who="ely."><speaker>Ely.</speaker><l>But what prevention?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="61"/></l></sp><sp who="cant."><speaker>Cant.</speaker><l>The king is full of grace and fair <lb ed="F1" n="62"/>regard.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="63"/></l></sp><sp who="ely."><speaker>Ely.</speaker><l>And a true lover of the holy church.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="64"/></l></sp><sp who="cant."><speaker>Cant.</speaker><l>The courses of his youth promised it not.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="65"/></l><l>The breath no sooner left his father's body,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="66"/></l><l>But that his wildness, mortified in him,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="67"/></l><l>Seem'd to die too; yea, at that very moment
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="68"/></l><l>Consideration, like an angel, came
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="69"/></l><l>And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him,
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="70"/></l><l>Leaving his body as a paradise,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="71"/></l><l>To envelop and contain celestial spirits.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="72"/></l><l>Never was such a sudden scholar made;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="73"/></l><l>Never came reformation in a flood,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="74"/></l><l>With such a heady currance, scouring faults
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="75"/></l><l>Nor never Hydra-headed wilfulness
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="76"/></l><l>So soon did lose his seat and all at once
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="77"/></l><l part="I">As in this king.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="78"/></l></sp><sp who="ely."><speaker>Ely.</speaker><l part="F">We are blessed in the change.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="79"/></l></sp><sp who="cant."><speaker>Cant.</speaker><l>Hear him but reason in divinity,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="80"/></l><l>And all-admiring with an inward wish
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="81"/></l><l>You would desire the king were made a prelate:
<lb ed="G" n="41"/><lb ed="F1" n="82"/></l><l>Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="83"/></l><l>You would say it hath been all in all his study:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="84"/></l><l>List his discourse of war, and you shall hear
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="85"/></l><l>A fearful battle render'd you in music:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="86"/></l><l>Turn him to any cause of policy,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="87"/></l><l>The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="88"/></l><l>Familiar as his garter: that, when he speaks,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="89"/></l><l>The air, a charter'd libertine, is still,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="90"/></l><l>And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears,
<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="91"/></l><l>To steal his sweet and honey'd sentences;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="92"/></l><l>So that the art and practic part of life
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="93"/></l><l>Must be the mistress to this theoric:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="94"/></l><l>Which is a wonder how his grace should glean it,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="95"/></l><l>Since his addiction was to courses vain,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="96"/></l><l>His companies unletter'd, rude and shallow,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="97"/></l><l>His hours fill'd up with riots, banquets, sports,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="98"/></l><l>And never noted in him any study,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="99"/></l><l>Any retirement, any sequestration
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="100"/></l><l>From open haunts and popularity.

<lb ed="G" n="60"/><lb ed="F1" n="101"/></l></sp><sp who="ely."><speaker>Ely.</speaker><l>The strawberry grows underneath the nettle
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="102"/></l><l>And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="103"/></l><l>Neighbor'd by fruit of baser quality:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="104"/></l><l>And so the prince obscured his contemplation
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="105"/></l><l>Under the veil of wildness; which, no doubt,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="106"/></l><l>Grew like the summer grass, fastest by night,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="107"/></l><l>Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="108"/></l></sp><sp who="cant."><speaker>Cant.</speaker><l>It must be so; for miracles are ceased;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="109"/></l><l>And therefore we must needs admit the means
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="110"/></l><l part="I">How things are perfected.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="111"/></l></sp><sp who="ely."><speaker>Ely.</speaker><l part="F">But, my good lord,
<lb ed="G" n="70"/><lb ed="F1" n="112"/></l><l>How now for mitigation of this bill
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="113"/></l><l>Urged by the commons?   Doth his majesty
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="114"/></l><l part="I">Incline to it, or not?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="115"/></l></sp><sp who="cant."><speaker>Cant.</speaker><l part="F">He seems indifferent,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="116"/></l><l>Or rather swaying more upon our part
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="117"/></l><l>Than cherishing the exhibiters against us;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="118"/></l><l>For I have made an offer to his majesty,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="119"/></l><l>Upon our spiritual convocation
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="120"/></l><l>And in regard of causes now in hand,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="121"/></l><l>Which I have open'd to his grace at large,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="122"/></l><l>As touching France, to give a greater sum
<lb ed="G" n="80"/><lb ed="F1" n="123"/></l><l>Than ever at one time the clergy yet
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="124"/></l><l>Did to his predecessors part withal.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="125"/></l></sp><sp who="ely."><speaker>Ely.</speaker><l>How did this offer seem received, my lord?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="126"/></l></sp><sp who="cant."><speaker>Cant.</speaker><l>With good acceptance of his majesty;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="127"/></l><l>Save that there was not time enough to hear,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="128"/></l><l>As I perceived his grace would fain have done,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="129"/></l><l>The severals and unhidden passages
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="130"/></l><l>Of his true titles to some certain dukedoms
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="131"/></l><l>And generally to the crown and seat of France
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="132"/></l><l>Derived from Edward, his great-grandfather.

<lb ed="G" n="90"/><lb ed="F1" n="133"/></l></sp><sp who="ely."><speaker>Ely.</speaker><l>What was the impediment that broke this off?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="134"/></l></sp><sp who="cant."><speaker>Cant.</speaker><l>The French ambassador upon that instant
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="135"/></l><l>Craved audience; and the hour, I think, is come
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="136"/></l><l>To give him hearing: is it four o'clock?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="137"/></l></sp><sp who="ely."><speaker>Ely.</speaker><l>It is.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="138"/></l></sp><sp who="cant."><speaker>Cant.</speaker><l>Then go we in, to know his embassy;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="139"/></l><l>Which I could with a ready guess declare,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="140"/></l><l>Before the Frenchman speak a word of it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="141"/></l></sp><sp who="ely."><speaker>Ely.</speaker><l>I'll wait upon you, and I long to hear it.
<lb ed="F1" n="142"/><stage>Exeunt. </stage>
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<head>SCENE II</head>
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<lb ed="F1" n="143"/><stage type="entrance">Enter KING HENRY, GLOUCESTER, BEDFORD, EXETER, <lb ed="F1" n="144"/>WARWICK, WESTMORELAND, and Attendants.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="145"/><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>Where is my gracious Lord of Canterbury?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="146"/></l></sp><sp who="exe."><speaker>Exe.</speaker><l part="I">Not here in presence.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="147"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l part="F">Send for him, good uncle.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="148"/></l></sp><sp who="west."><speaker>West.</speaker><l>Shall we call in the ambassador, my liege?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="149"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>Not yet, my cousin: we would be resolved,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="150"/></l><l>Before we hear him, of some things of weight
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="151"/></l><l>That task our thoughts, concerning us and France.
<lb ed="F1" n="152"/><stage type="entrance">Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, and</stage>
<lb ed="G"/>             the BISHOP OF ELY.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="153"/></l></sp><sp who="cant."><speaker>Cant.</speaker><l>God and his angels guard your sacred throne
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="154"/></l><l part="I">And make you long become it!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="155"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l part="F">Sure, we thank you.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="156"/></l><l>My learned lord, we pray you to proceed
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="157"/></l><l>And justly and religiously unfold
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="158"/></l><l>Why the law Salique that they have in France
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="159"/></l><l>Or should, or should not, bar us in our claim:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="160"/></l><l>And God forbid, my dear and faithful lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="161"/></l><l>That you should fashion, wrest, or bow your reading,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="162"/></l><l>Or nicely charge your understanding soul
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="163"/></l><l>With opening titles miscreate, whose right
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="164"/></l><l>Suits not in native colors with the truth;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="165"/></l><l>For God doth know how many now in health
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="166"/></l><l>Shall drop their blood in approbation
<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="167"/></l><l>Of what your reverence shall incite us to.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="168"/></l><l>Therefore take heed how you impawn our person,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="169"/></l><l>How you awake our sleeping sword of war:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="170"/></l><l>We charge you, in the name of God, take heed;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="171"/></l><l>For never two such kingdoms did contend
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="172"/></l><l>Without much fall of blood; whose guiltless drops
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="173"/></l><l>Are every one a woe, a sore complaint
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="174"/></l><l>'Gainst him whose wrong gives edge unto the swords
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="175"/></l><l>That make such waste in brief mortality.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="176"/></l><l>Under this conjuration, speak, my lord;
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="177"/></l><l>For we will hear, note and believe in heart
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="178"/></l><l>That what you speak is in your conscience wash'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="179"/></l><l>As pure as sin with baptism.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="180"/></l></sp><sp who="cant."><speaker>Cant.</speaker><l>Then hear me, gracious sovereign, and you peers,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="181"/></l><l>That owe yourselves, your lives and services
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="182"/></l><l>To this imperial throne. There is no bar
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="183"/></l><l>To make against your highness' claim to France
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="184"/></l><l>But this, which they produce from Pharamond,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="185"/></l><l>'In terram Salicam mulieres ne succedant:'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="186"/></l><l>'No woman shall succeed in Salique land:'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="187"/></l><l>Which Salique land the French unjustly gloze
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="188"/></l><l>To be the realm of France, and Pharamond
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="189"/></l><l>The founder of this law and female bar.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="190"/></l><l>Yet their own authors faithfully affirm
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="191"/></l><l>That the land Salique is in Germany,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="192"/></l><l>Between the floods of Sala and of Elbe;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="193"/></l><l>Where Charles the Great, having subdued the Saxons,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="194"/></l><l>There left behind and settled certain French;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="195"/></l><l>Who, holding in disdain the German women
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="196"/></l><l>For some dishonest manners of their life,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="197"/></l><l>Establish'd then this law: to wit, no female
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="198"/></l><l>Should be inheritrix in Salique land:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="199"/></l><l>Which Salique, as I said, 'twixt Elbe and Sala,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="200"/></l><l>Is at this day in Germany call'd Meisen.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="201"/></l><l>Then doth it well appear that Salique law
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="202"/></l><l>Was not devised for the realm of France:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="203"/></l><l>Nor did the French possess the Salique land
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="204"/></l><l>Until four hundred one and twenty years
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="205"/></l><l>After defunction of King Pharamond,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="206"/></l><l>Idly supposed the founder of this law;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="207"/></l><l>Who died within the year of our redemption
<lb ed="G" n="61"/><lb ed="F1" n="208"/></l><l>Four hundred twenty-six; and Charles the Great
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="209"/></l><l>Subdued the Saxons, and did seat the French
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="210"/></l><l>Beyond the river Sala, in the year
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="211"/></l><l>Eight hundred five. Besides, their writers say,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="212"/></l><l>King Pepin, which deposed Childeric,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="213"/></l><l>Did, as heir general, being descended
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="214"/></l><l>Of Blithild, which was daughter to King Clothair,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="215"/></l><l>Make claim and title to the crown of France.
<lb ed="G" n="69"/><lb ed="F1" n="216"/></l><l>Hugh Capet also, who usurp'd the crown
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="217"/></l><l>Of Charles the duke of Lorraine, sole heir male
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="218"/></l><l>Of the true line and stock of Charles the Great,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="219"/></l><l>To find his title with some shows of truth,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="220"/></l><l>Though, in pure truth, it was corrupt and naught,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="221"/></l><l>Convey'd himself as heir to the Lady Lingare,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="222"/></l><l>Daughter to Charlemain, who was the son
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="223"/></l><l>To Lewis the emperor, and Lewis the son
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="224"/></l><l>Of Charles the Great. Also King Lewis the Tenth,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="225"/></l><l>Who was sole heir to the usurper Capet,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="226"/></l><l>Could not keep quiet in his conscience,
<lb ed="G" n="80"/><lb ed="F1" n="227"/></l><l>Wearing the crown of France, till satisfied
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="228"/></l><l>That fair Queen Isabel, his grandmother,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="229"/></l><l>Was lineal of the Lady Ermengare,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="230"/></l><l>Daughter to Charles the foresaid duke of Lorraine:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="231"/></l><l>By the which marriage the line of Charles the Great
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="232"/></l><l>Was re-united to the crown of France.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="233"/></l><l>So that, as clear as is the summer's sun,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="234"/></l><l>King Pepin's title and Hugh Capet's claim,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="235"/></l><l>King Lewis his satisfaction, all appear
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="236"/></l><l>To hold in right and title of the female:
<lb ed="G" n="90"/><lb ed="F1" n="237"/></l><l>So do the kings of France unto this day;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="238"/></l><l>Howbeit they would hold up this Salique law
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="239"/></l><l>To bar your highness claiming from the female,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="240"/></l><l>And rather choose to hide them in a net
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="241"/></l><l>Than amply to imbar their crooked titles
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="242"/></l><l>Usurp'd from you and your progenitors.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="243"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>May I with right and conscience make this claim?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="244"/></l></sp><sp who="cant."><speaker>Cant.</speaker><l>The sin upon my head, dread sovereign!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="245"/></l><l>For in the book of Numbers is it writ,
<lb ed="G" n="99"/><lb ed="F1" n="246"/></l><l>When the man dies, let the inheritance
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="247"/></l><l>Descend unto the daughter. Gracious lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="248"/></l><l>Stand for you own; unwind your bloody flag;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="249"/></l><l>Look back into your mighty ancestors:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="250"/></l><l>Go, my dread lord, to your great-grandsire's tomb,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="251"/></l><l>From whom you claim; invoke his warlike spirit,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="252"/></l><l>And your great-uncle's, Edward the Black Prince,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="253"/></l><l>Who on the French ground play'd a tragedy,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="254"/></l><l>Making defeat on the full power of France,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="255"/></l><l>Whiles his most mighty father on a hill
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="256"/></l><l>Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp
<lb ed="G" n="110"/><lb ed="F1" n="257"/></l><l>Forage in blood of French nobility.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="258"/></l><l>O noble English, that could entertain
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="259"/></l><l>With half their forces the full pride of France
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="260"/></l><l>And let another half stand laughing by,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="261"/></l><l>All out of work and cold for action!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="262"/></l></sp><sp who="ely."><speaker>Ely.</speaker><l>Awake remembrance of these valiant dead
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="263"/></l><l>And with your puissant arm renew their feats:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="264"/></l><l>You are their heir; you sit upon their throne;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="265"/></l><l>The blood and courage that renowned them
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="266"/></l><l>Runs in your veins; and my thrice-puissant liege
<lb ed="G" n="120"/><lb ed="F1" n="267"/></l><l>Is in the very May-morn of his youth,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="268"/></l><l>Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="269"/></l></sp><sp who="exe."><speaker>Exe.</speaker><l>Your brother kings and monarchs of the earth
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="270"/></l><l>Do all expect that you should rouse yourself,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="271"/></l><l>As did the former lions of your blood.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="272"/></l></sp><sp who="west."><speaker>West.</speaker><l>They know your grace hath cause and means and might;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="273"/></l><l>So hath your highness; never king of England
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="274"/></l><l>Had nobles richer and more loyal subjects,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="275"/></l><l>Whose hearts have left their bodies here in England
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="276"/></l><l>And lie pavilion'd in the fields of France.

<lb ed="G" n="130"/><lb ed="F1" n="277"/></l></sp><sp who="cant."><speaker>Cant.</speaker><l>O, let their bodies follow, my dear liege,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="278"/></l><l>With blood and sword and fire to win your right;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="279"/></l><l>In aid whereof we of the spiritualty
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="280"/></l><l>Will raise your highness such a mighty sum
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="281"/></l><l>As never did the clergy at one time
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="282"/></l><l>Bring in to any of your ancestors.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="283"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>We must not only arm to invade the French,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="284"/></l><l>But lay down our proportions to defend
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="285"/></l><l>Against the Scot, who will make road upon us
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="286"/></l><l>With all advantages.

<lb ed="G" n="140"/><lb ed="F1" n="287"/></l></sp><sp who="cant."><speaker>Cant.</speaker><l>They of those marches, gracious sovereign,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="288"/></l><l>Shall be a wall sufficient to defend
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="289"/></l><l>Our inland from the pilfering borderers.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="290"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>We do not mean the coursing snatchers only,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="291"/></l><l>But fear the main intendment of the Scot,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="292"/></l><l>Who hath been still a giddy neighbor to us;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="293"/></l><l>For you shall read that my great-grandfather
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="294"/></l><l>Never went with his forces into France
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="295"/></l><l>But that the Scot on his unfurnish'd kingdom
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="296"/></l><l>Came pouring, like the tide into a breach,
<lb ed="G" n="150"/><lb ed="F1" n="297"/></l><l>With ample and brim fulness of his force,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="298"/></l><l>Galling the gleaned land with hot assays,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="299"/></l><l>Girding with grievous siege castles and towns;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="300"/></l><l>That England, being empty of defence,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="301"/></l><l>Hath shook and trembled at the ill neighborhood.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="302"/></l></sp><sp who="cant."><speaker>Cant.</speaker><l>She hath been then more fear'd than harm'd, my liege;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="303"/></l><l>For hear her but exampled by herself:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="304"/></l><l>When all her chivalry hath been in France
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="305"/></l><l>And she a mourning widow of her nobles,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="306"/></l><l>She hath herself not only well defended
<lb ed="G" n="160"/><lb ed="F1" n="307"/></l><l>But taken and impounded as a stray
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="308"/></l><l>The King of Scots; whom she did send to France,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="309"/></l><l>To fill King Edward's fame with prisoner kings
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="310"/></l><l>And make her chronicle as rich with praise
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="311"/></l><l>As is the ooze and bottom of the sea
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="312"/></l><l>With sunken wreck and sunless treasuries.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="313"/></l></sp><sp who="west."><speaker>West.</speaker><l>But there's a saying very old and true,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="314"/></l><l part="Y">'If that you will France win,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l part="F">Then with Scotland first begin:'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="315"/></l><l>For once the eagle England being in prey,
<lb ed="G" n="170"/><lb ed="F1" n="316"/></l><l>To her unguarded nest the weasel Scot
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="317"/></l><l>Comes sneaking and so sucks her princely eggs,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="318"/></l><l>Playing the mouse in absence of the cat,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="319"/></l><l>To tear and havoc more than she can eat.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="320"/></l></sp><sp who="exe."><speaker>Exe.</speaker><l>It follows then the cat must stay at home:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="321"/></l><l>Yet that is but a crush'd necessity,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="322"/></l><l>Since we have locks to safeguard necessaries,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="323"/></l><l>And pretty traps to catch the petty thieves.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="324"/></l><l>While that the armed hand doth fight abroad,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="325"/></l><l>The advised head defends itself at home;
<lb ed="G" n="180"/><lb ed="F1" n="326"/></l><l>For government, though high and low and lower,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="327"/></l><l>Put into parts, doth keep in one consent,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="328"/></l><l>Congreeing in a full and natural close,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="329"/></l><l part="I">Like music.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="330"/></l></sp><sp who="cant."><speaker>Cant.</speaker><l part="F">Therefore doth heaven divide
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="331"/></l><l>The state of man in divers functions,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="332"/></l><l>Setting endeavour in continual motion;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="333"/></l><l>To which is fixed, as an aim or butt,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="334"/></l><l>Obedience: for so work the honey-bees,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="335"/></l><l>Creatures that by a rule in nature teach
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="336"/></l><l>The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
<lb ed="G" n="190"/><lb ed="F1" n="337"/></l><l>They have a king and officers of sorts;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="338"/></l><l>Where some, like magistrates, correct at home,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="339"/></l><l>Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="340"/></l><l>Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="341"/></l><l>Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="342"/></l><l>Which pillage they with merry march bring home
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="343"/></l><l>To the tent-royal of their emperor;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="344"/></l><l>Who, busied in his majesty, surveys
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="345"/></l><l>The singing masons building roofs of gold,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="346"/></l><l>The civil citizens kneading up the honey,
<lb ed="G" n="200"/><lb ed="F1" n="347"/></l><l>The poor mechanic porters crowding in
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="348"/></l><l>Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="349"/></l><l>The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="350"/></l><l>Delivering o'er to executors pale
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="351"/></l><l>The lazy yawning drone. I this infer,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="352"/></l><l>That many things, having full reference
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="353"/></l><l>To one consent, may work contrariously:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="354"/></l><l>As many arrows, loosed several ways,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="355"/></l><l>Come to one mark; as many ways meet in one town;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="356"/></l><l>As many fresh streams meet in one salt sea;
<lb ed="G" n="210"/><lb ed="F1" n="357"/></l><l>As many lines close in the dial's centre;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="358"/></l><l>So may a thousand actions, once afoot,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="359"/></l><l>End in one purpose, and be all well borne
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="360"/></l><l>Without defeat.   Therefore to France, my liege.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="361"/></l><l>Divide your happy England into four;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="362"/></l><l>Whereof take you one quarter into France,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="363"/></l><l>And you withal shall make all Gallia shake.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="364"/></l><l>If we, with thrice such powers left at home,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="365"/></l><l>Cannot defend our own doors from the dog,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="366"/></l><l>Let us be worried and our nation lose
<lb ed="G" n="220"/><lb ed="F1" n="367"/></l><l>The name of hardiness and policy.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="368"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>Call in the messengers sent from the Dauphin.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>Exeunt some Attendants. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="369"/></l><l>Now are we well resolved; and, by God's help,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="370"/></l><l>And yours, the noble sinews of our power,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="371"/></l><l>France being ours, we'll bend it to our awe,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="372"/></l><l>Or break it all to pieces: or there we'll sit,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="373"/></l><l>Ruling in large and ample empery
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="374"/></l><l>O'er France and all her almost kingly dukedoms,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="375"/></l><l>Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="376"/></l><l>Tombless, with no remembrance over them:
<lb ed="G" n="230"/><lb ed="F1" n="377"/></l><l>Either our history shall with full mouth
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="378"/></l><l>Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="379"/></l><l>Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="380"/></l><l>Not worshipp'd with a waxen epitaph.
<lb ed="F1" n="381"/><stage type="entrance">Enter Ambassadors of France.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="382"/></l><l>Now are we well prepared to know the pleasure
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="383"/></l><l>Of our fair cousin Dauphin; for we hear
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="384"/></l><l>Your greeting is from him, not from the king.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="385"/></l></sp><sp who="first-amb."><speaker>First Amb.</speaker><l>May't please your majesty to give us leave
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="386"/></l><l>Freely to render what we have in charge;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="387"/></l><l>Or shall we sparingly show you far off
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="388"/></l><l>The Dauphin's meaning and our embassy?

<lb ed="G" n="241"/><lb ed="F1" n="389"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>We are no tyrant, but a Christian king;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="390"/></l><l>Unto whose grace our passion is as subject
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="391"/></l><l>As are our wretches fetter'd in our prisons:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="392"/></l><l>Therefore with frank and with uncurbed plainness
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="393"/></l><l part="I">Tell us the Dauphin's mind.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="394"/></l></sp><sp who="first-amb."><speaker>First Amb.</speaker><l part="F">Thus, then, in few.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="395"/></l><l>Your highness, lately sending into France,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="396"/></l><l>Did claim some certain dukedoms, in the right
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="397"/></l><l>Of your great predecessor, King Edward the Third.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="398"/></l><l>In answer of which claim, the prince our master
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="399"/></l><l>Says that you savor too much of your youth,
<lb ed="G" n="251"/><lb ed="F1" n="400"/></l><l>And bids you be advised there's nought in France
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="401"/></l><l>That can be with a nimble galliard won;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="402"/></l><l>You cannot revel into dukedoms there.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="403"/></l><l>He therefore sends you, meeter for your spirit,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="404"/></l><l>This tun of treasure; and, in lieu of this,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="405"/></l><l>Desires you let the dukedoms that you claim
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="406"/></l><l>Hear no more of you.   This the Dauphin speaks.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="407"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l part="I">What treasure, uncle?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="408"/></l></sp><sp who="exe."><speaker>Exe.</speaker><l part="F">Tennis-balls, my liege.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="409"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>We are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="410"/></l><l>His present and your pains we thank you for:
<lb ed="G" n="261"/><lb ed="F1" n="411"/></l><l>When we have march'd our rackets to these balls,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="412"/></l><l>We will, in France, by God's grace, play a set
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="413"/></l><l>Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="414"/></l><l>Tell him he hath made a match with such a wrangler
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="415"/></l><l>That all the courts of France will be disturb'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="416"/></l><l>With chaces. And we understand him well,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="417"/></l><l>How he comes o'er us with our wilder days,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="418"/></l><l>Not measuring what use we made of them.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="419"/></l><l>We never valued this poor seat of England;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="420"/></l><l>And therefore, living hence, did give ourself
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="421"/></l><l>To barbarous license; as 'tis ever common
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="422"/></l><l>That men are merriest when they are from home.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="423"/></l><l>But tell the Dauphin I will keep my state,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="424"/></l><l>Be like a king and show my sail of greatness
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="425"/></l><l>When I do rouse me in my throne of France:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="426"/></l><l>For that I have laid by my majesty
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="427"/></l><l>And plodded like a man for working-days,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="428"/></l><l>But I will rise there with so full a glory
<lb ed="G" n="279"/><lb ed="F1" n="429"/></l><l>That I will dazzle all the eyes of France,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="430"/></l><l>Yea, strike the Dauphin blind to look on us.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="431"/></l><l>And tell the pleasant prince this mock of his
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="432"/></l><l>Hath turn'd his balls to gun-stones; and his soul
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="433"/></l><l>Shall stand sore charged for the wasteful vengeance
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="434"/></l><l>That shall fly with them: for many a thousand widows
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="435"/></l><l>Shall this his mock mock out of their dear husbands;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="436"/></l><l>Mock mothers from their sons, mock castles down;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="437"/></l><l>And some are yet ungotten and unborn
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="438"/></l><l>That shall have cause to curse the Dauphin's scorn.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="439"/></l><l>But this lies all within the will of God,
<lb ed="G" n="290"/><lb ed="F1" n="440"/></l><l>To whom I do appeal; and in whose name
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="441"/></l><l>Tell you the Dauphin I am coming on,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="442"/></l><l>To venge me as I may and to put forth
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="443"/></l><l>My rightful hand in a well-hallow'd cause.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="444"/></l><l>So get you hence in peace; and tell the Dauphin
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="445"/></l><l>His jest will savor but of shallow wit,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="446"/></l><l>When thousands weep more than did laugh at it.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="447"/></l><l>Convey them with safe conduct.   Fare you well.
<lb ed="F1" n="448"/><stage>[Exeunt Ambassadors. </stage>


<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="449"/></l></sp><sp who="exe."><speaker>Exe.</speaker><l>This was a merry message.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="450"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>We hope to make the sender blush at it.
<lb ed="G" n="300"/><lb ed="F1" n="451"/></l><l>Therefore, my lords, omit no happy hour
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="452"/></l><l>That may give furtherance to our expedition;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="453"/></l><l>For we have now no thought in us but France,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="454"/></l><l>Save those to God, that run before our business.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="455"/></l><l>Therefore let our proportions for these wars
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="456"/></l><l>Be soon collected and all things thought upon
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="457"/></l><l>That may with reasonable swiftness add
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="458"/></l><l>More feathers to our wings; for, God before,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="459"/></l><l>We'll chide this Dauphin at his father's door.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="460"/></l><l>Therefore let every man now task his thought,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="461"/></l><l>That this fair action may on foot be brought.
                            <stage type="exit">Exeunt.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="462"/><stage>Flourish.</stage>
</l></sp>
</div2>
    </div1>

    <div1 type="act" n="2">
<head>ACT II</head>
<div2 type="scene" n="prologue">
<head>PROLOGUE</head>
<stage>Flourish.</stage><stage type="entrance">Enter Chorus.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="463"/><sp who="chor."><speaker>Chor.</speaker><l>Now all the youth of England are on fire,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="464"/></l><l>And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="465"/></l><l>Now thrive the armorers, and honour's thought
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="466"/></l><l>Reigns solely in the breast of every man:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="467"/></l><l>They sell the pasture now to buy the horse,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="468"/></l><l>Following the mirror of all Christian kings,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="469"/></l><l>With winged heels, as English Mercuries.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="470"/></l><l>For now sits Expectation in the air,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="471"/></l><l>And hides a sword from hilts unto the point
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="472"/></l><l>With crowns imperial, crowns and coronets,
<lb ed="G" n="11"/><lb ed="F1" n="473"/></l><l>Promised to Harry and his followers.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="474"/></l><l>The French, advised by good intelligence
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="475"/></l><l>Of this most dreadful preparation,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="476"/></l><l>Shake in their fear and with pale policy
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="477"/></l><l>Seek to divert the English purposes.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="478"/></l><l>O England! model to thy inward greatness,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="479"/></l><l>Like little body with a mighty heart,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="480"/></l><l>What mightst thou do, that honor would thee do,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="481"/></l><l>Were all thy children kind and natural!
<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="482"/></l><l>But see thy fault!   France hath in thee found out
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="483"/></l><l>A nest of hollow bosoms, which he fills
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="484"/></l><l>With treacherous crowns; and three corrupted men,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="485"/></l><l>One, Richard Earl of Cambridge, and the second,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="486"/></l><l>Henry Lord Scroop of Masham, and the third,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="487"/></l><l>Sir Thomas Grey, knight, of Northumberland,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="488"/></l><l>Have, for the gilt of France--O guilt indeed!--
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="489"/></l><l>Confirm'd conspiracy with fearful France;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="490"/></l><l>And by their hands this grace of kings must die,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="491"/></l><l>If hell and treason hold their promises,
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="492"/></l><l>Ere he take ship for France, and in Southampton.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="493"/></l><l>Linger your patience on; and we'll digest
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="494"/></l><l>The abuse of distance; force a play:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="495"/></l><l>The sum is paid; the traitors are agreed;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="496"/></l><l>The king is set from London; and the scene
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="497"/></l><l>Is now transported, gentles, to Southampton;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="498"/></l><l>There is the playhouse now, there must you sit:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="499"/></l><l>And thence to France shall we convey you safe,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="500"/></l><l>And bring you back, charming the narrow seas
<lb ed="G" n="39"/><lb ed="F1" n="501"/></l><l>To give you gentle pass; for, if we may,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="502"/></l><l>We'll not offend one stomach with our play.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="503"/></l><l>But, till the king come forth, and not till then,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="504"/></l><l>Unto Southampton do we shift our scene.

<stage>[Exit,</stage>
</l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="1">
<head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">London. A street.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="505"/><stage type="entrance">Enter Corporal NYM and Lieutenant BARDOLPH.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="506"/><sp who="bard."><speaker>Bard.</speaker><p>Well met, Corporal Nym.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="507"/></p></sp><sp who="nym."><speaker>Nym.</speaker><p>Good morrow, Lieutenant Bardolph.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="508"/></p></sp><sp who="bard."><speaker>Bard.</speaker><p>What, are Ancient Pistol and you
<lb ed="G"/>friends yet?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="509"/></p></sp><sp who="nym."><speaker>Nym.</speaker><p>For my part, I care not: I say <reg orig="lit-tle;">little;</reg>
<lb ed="G"/>but when <lb ed="F1" n="510"/>time shall serve, there shall be
<lb ed="G"/>smiles; but that shall be as <lb ed="F1" n="511"/>it may. I dare not
<lb ed="G"/>fight; but I will wink and hold out <lb ed="F1" n="512"/>mine iron:
<lb ed="G"/>it is a simple one; but what though? it will
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="513"/>toast cheese, and it will endure cold as another
<lb ed="G"/>man's <lb ed="F1" n="514"/>sword will: and there's an end.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="515"/></p></sp><sp who="bard."><speaker>Bard.</speaker><p>I will bestow a breakfast to make
<lb ed="G"/>you friends; <lb ed="F1" n="516"/>and we'll be all three sworn
<lb ed="G"/>brothers to France: let it <lb ed="F1" n="517"/>be so, good <reg orig="Corpo-ral">Corporal</reg>
<lb ed="G"/>Nym.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="518"/></p></sp><sp who="nym."><speaker>Nym.</speaker><p>Faith, I will live so long as I may,
<lb ed="G"/>that's the certain <lb ed="F1" n="519"/>of it; and when I cannot
<lb ed="G"/>live any longer, I will do <lb ed="F1" n="520"/>as I may: that is my
<lb ed="G"/>rest, that is the rendezvous of it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="521"/></p></sp><sp who="bard."><speaker>Bard.</speaker><p>It is certain, corporal, that he is
<lb ed="G"/>married to <lb ed="F1" n="522"/>Nell Quickly: and certainly she
<lb ed="G" n="21"/>did you wrong; for you <lb ed="F1" n="523"/>were troth-plight to her.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="524"/></p></sp><sp who="nym."><speaker>Nym.</speaker><p>I cannot tell: things must be as they
<lb ed="G"/>may: men <lb ed="F1" n="525"/>may sleep, and they may have their
<lb ed="G"/>throats about them <lb ed="F1" n="526"/>at that time; and some
<lb ed="G"/>say knives have edges. It must <lb ed="F1" n="527"/>be as it may:
<lb ed="G"/>though patience be a tired mare, yet she <lb ed="F1" n="528"/>will
<lb ed="G"/>plod.   There must be conclusions. Well, I cannot
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="529"/>tell.
<lb ed="F1" n="530"/><stage type="entrance">Enter PISTOL and Hostess.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="531"/></p></sp><sp who="bard."><speaker>Bard.</speaker><p>Here comes Ancient Pistol and his
<lb ed="G"/>wife: good <lb ed="F1" n="532"/>corporal, be patient here. How
<lb ed="G" n="30"/>now, mine host <lb ed="F1" n="533"/>Pistol!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="534"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>Base tike, call'st thou me host?
<lb ed="G"/>Now, by this <lb ed="F1" n="535"/>hand, I swear, I scorn the term;
<lb ed="G"/>Nor shall my Nell keep <lb ed="F1" n="536"/>lodgers.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="537"/></p></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>No, by my troth, not long; for we
<lb ed="G"/>cannot lodge <lb ed="F1" n="538"/>and board a dozen or fourteen
<lb ed="G"/>gentlewomen that live <lb ed="F1" n="539"/>honestly by the prick
<lb ed="G"/>of their needles, but it will be <lb ed="F1" n="540"/>thought we keep
<lb ed="G"/>a bawdy house straight.<stage>[Nym and Pistol
<lb ed="G"/>draw.]</stage>   O well a day, <lb ed="F1" n="541"/>Lady, if he be not
<lb ed="G"/>drawn now! we shall see wilful adultery <lb ed="F1" n="542"/>and
<lb ed="G" n="40"/>murder committed.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="543"/></p></sp><sp who="bard."><speaker>Bard.</speaker><p>Good lieutenant! good corporal!
<lb ed="G"/>offer nothing <lb ed="F1" n="544"/>here.

<lb ed="G"/></p></sp><sp who="nym."><speaker>Nym.</speaker><p>Pish!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="545"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>Pish for thee, Iceland dog!   thou
<lb ed="G"/>prick-ear'd cur <lb ed="F1" n="546"/>of Iceland!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="547"/></p></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>Good Corporal Nym, show thy
<lb ed="G"/>valor, and put <lb ed="F1" n="548"/>up your sword.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="549"/></p></sp><sp who="nym."><speaker>Nym.</speaker><p>Will you shog off? I would have
<lb ed="G"/>you solus.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="550"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>'Solus,' egregious dog? O viper vile!
<lb ed="G" n="50"/></l><l>The 'solus' <lb ed="F1" n="551"/>in thy most mervailous face;
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>The 'solus' in thy teeth, and <lb ed="F1" n="552"/>in thy throat,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>And in thy hateful lungs, yea, in thy maw, <lb ed="F1" n="553"/>perdy,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>And, which is worse, within thy nasty mouth!
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>I <lb ed="F1" n="554"/>do retort the 'solus' in thy bowels;
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>For I can take, and Pistol's <lb ed="F1" n="555"/>cock is up,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>And flashing fire will follow.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="556"/></l></sp><sp who="nym."><speaker>Nym.</speaker><p>I am not Barbason; you cannot
<lb ed="G"/>conjure me.   I <lb ed="F1" n="557"/>have an humor to knock you
<lb ed="G"/>indifferently well. If you <lb ed="F1" n="558"/>grow foul with me,
<lb ed="G"/>Pistol, I will scour you with my <lb ed="F1" n="559"/>rapier, as I
<lb ed="G"/>may, in fair terms: if you would walk <lb ed="F1" n="560"/>off, I
<lb ed="G"/>would prick your guts a little, in good terms,
<lb ed="G"/>as <lb ed="F1" n="561"/>I may: and that's the humor of it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="562"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>O braggart vile and damned furious wight!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="563"/></l><l>The grave doth gape, and doting death is near;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="564"/></l><l part="I">Therefore exhale.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="565"/></l></sp><sp who="bard."><speaker>Bard.</speaker><p>Hear me, hear me what I say: he
<lb ed="G"/>that strikes <lb ed="F1" n="566"/>the first stroke, I'll run him up
<lb ed="G"/>to the hilts, as I am a <lb ed="F1" n="567"/>soldier.
<stage>[Draws.</stage>


<lb ed="G" n="70"/><lb ed="F1" n="568"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>An oath of mickle might; and fury shall abate.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="569"/></l><l>Give me thy fist, thy fore-foot to me give:
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Thy spirits <lb ed="F1" n="570"/>are most tall.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="571"/></l></sp><sp who="nym."><speaker>Nym.</speaker><p>I will cut thy throat, one time or
<lb ed="G"/>other, in fair <lb ed="F1" n="572"/>terms: that is the humor of it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="573"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>'Couple a gorge!'
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>That is the word.   I thee defy again.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="574"/></l><l>O hound of Crete, think'st thou my spouse to get?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="575"/></l><l>No; to the spital go,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>And from the powdering tub of infamy
<lb ed="G" n="80"/><lb ed="F1" n="576"/></l><l>Fetch forth the lazar kite of Cressid's kind,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Doll <lb ed="F1" n="577"/>Tearsheet she by name, and her espouse:
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>I have, and I <lb ed="F1" n="578"/>will hold, the quondam Quickly
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>For the only she; and--<lb ed="F1" n="579"/>pauca, there's enough.
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Go to.
<lb ed="F1" n="580"/><stage type="entrance">Enter the Boy.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="581"/></l></sp><sp who="boy."><speaker>Boy.</speaker><p>Mine host Pistol, you must come to
<lb ed="G"/>my master, <lb ed="F1" n="582"/>and you, hostess: he is very sick,
<lb ed="G"/>and would to bed. <lb ed="F1" n="583"/>Good Bardolph, put thy
<lb ed="G"/>face between his sheets, and do <lb ed="F1" n="584"/>the office of a
<lb ed="G"/>warming-pan.   Faith, he's very ill.

<lb ed="G" n="90"/><lb ed="F1" n="585"/></p></sp><sp who="bard."><speaker>Bard.</speaker><l>Away, you rogue!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="586"/></l></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>By my troth, he'll yield the crow a
<lb ed="G"/>pudding one <lb ed="F1" n="587"/>of these days.   The king has killed
<lb ed="G"/>his heart. Good husband, <lb ed="F1" n="588"/>come home
<lb ed="G"/>presently.
<stage>[Exeunt Hostess and Boy.</stage>


<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="589"/></p></sp><sp who="bard."><speaker>Bard.</speaker><p>Come, shall I make you two
<lb ed="G"/>friends? We must <lb ed="F1" n="590"/>to France together: why
<lb ed="G"/>the devil should we keep knives <lb ed="F1" n="591"/>to cut one
<lb ed="G"/>another's throats?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="592"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>Let floods o'erswell, and fiends for food howl <lb ed="F1" n="593"/>on!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="594"/></l></sp><sp who="nym."><speaker>Nym.</speaker><p>You'll pay me the eight shillings I
<lb ed="G"/>won of you <lb ed="F1" n="595"/>at betting?

<lb ed="G" n="100"/><lb ed="F1" n="596"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>Base is the slave that pays.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="597"/></l></sp><sp who="nym."><speaker>Nym.</speaker><p>That now I will have: that's the
<lb ed="G"/>humor of it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="598"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>As manhood shall compound: push home.
<stage>[They draw. </stage>


<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="599"/></p></sp><sp who="bard."><speaker>Bard.</speaker><p>By this sword, he that makes the
<lb ed="G"/>first thrust, <lb ed="F1" n="600"/>I'll kill him; by this sword, I will.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="601"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>Sword is an oath, and oaths must have their course.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="602"/></l></sp><sp who="bard."><speaker>Bard.</speaker><p>Corporal Nym, an thou wilt be
<lb ed="G"/>friends, be friends: <lb ed="F1" n="603"/>an thou wilt not, why,
<lb ed="G"/>then, be enemies with me too. Prithee, <lb ed="F1" n="604"/>put up.

<lb ed="G"/></p></sp><sp who="nym."><speaker>Nym.</speaker><p>I shall have my eight shillings I won
<lb ed="G" n="111"/>of you at betting?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="605"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>A noble shalt thou have, and present pay;
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>And <lb ed="F1" n="606"/>liquor likewise will I give to thee,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>And friendship <lb ed="F1" n="607"/>shall combine, and brotherhood:
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>I'll live by <lb ed="F1" n="608"/>Nym, and Nym shall live by me;
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Is not this just? for I shall sutler <lb ed="F1" n="609"/>be
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Unto the camp, and profits will accrue.
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Give me <lb ed="F1" n="610"/>thy hand.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="611"/></l></sp><sp who="nym."><speaker>Nym.</speaker><l>I shall have my noble?

<lb ed="G" n="120"/><lb ed="F1" n="612"/></l></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>In cash most justly paid.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="613"/></l></sp><sp who="nym."><speaker>Nym.</speaker><l>Well, then, that's the humor of 't.
<lb ed="F1" n="614"/><stage type="entrance">Re-enter Hostess.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="615"/></l></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>As ever you came of women, come
<lb ed="G"/>in quickly <lb ed="F1" n="616"/>to Sir John. Ah, poor heart! he
<lb ed="G"/>is so shaked of a burning <lb ed="F1" n="617"/>quotidian tertian,
<lb ed="G"/>that it is most lamentable to behold. <lb ed="F1" n="618"/>Sweet
<lb ed="G"/>men, come to him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="619"/></p></sp><sp who="nym."><speaker>Nym.</speaker><p>The king hath run bad humors on
<lb ed="G"/>the knight; <lb ed="F1" n="620"/>that's the even of it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="621"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>Nym, thou hast spoke the right;
<lb ed="G" n="130"/>His heart is fracted <lb ed="F1" n="622"/>and corroborate.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="623"/></p></sp><sp who="nym."><speaker>Nym.</speaker><p>The king is a good king: but it must
<lb ed="G"/>be as it <lb ed="F1" n="624"/>may; he passes some humors
<lb ed="G"/>and careers.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="625"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>Let us condole the knight;   for, lambkins, we <lb ed="F1" n="626"/>will live.
</l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="2">
<head>SCENE II</head>
<stage type="setting">Southampton. A council-chamber</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="627"/><stage type="entrance">Enter EXETER, BEDFORD, and WESTMORELAND. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="628"/><sp who="bed."><speaker>Bed.</speaker><l>'Fore God, his grace is bold, to trust these traitors.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="629"/></l></sp><sp who="exe."><speaker>Exe.</speaker><l>They shall be apprehended by and by.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="630"/></l></sp><sp who="west."><speaker>West.</speaker><l>How smooth and even they do bear themselves!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="631"/></l><l>As if allegiance in their bosoms sat,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="632"/></l><l>Crowned with faith and constant loyalty.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="633"/></l></sp><sp who="bed."><speaker>Bed.</speaker><l>The king hath note of all that they intend,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="634"/></l><l>By interception which they dream not of.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="635"/></l></sp><sp who="exe."><speaker>Exe.</speaker><l>Nay, but the man that was his bedfellow,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="636"/></l><l>Whom he hath dull'd and cloy'd with gracious favors,
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="637"/></l><l>That he should, for a foreign purse, so sell
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="638"/></l><l>His sovereign's life to death and treachery.
<lb ed="F1" n="639"/><stage>Trumpets sound.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="640"/><stage type="entrance">Enter KING HENRY,
SCROOP, CAMBRIDGE, GREY, and Attendants.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="641"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>Now sits the wind fair, and we will aboard.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="642"/></l><l>My Lord of Cambridge, and my kind Lord of Masham,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="643"/></l><l>And you, my gentle knight, give me your thoughts:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="644"/></l><l>Think you not that the powers we bear with us
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="645"/></l><l>Will cut their passage through the force of France,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="646"/></l><l>Doing the execution and the act
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="647"/></l><l>For which we have in head assembled them?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="648"/></l></sp><sp who="scroop."><speaker>Scroop.</speaker><l>No doubt, my liege, if each man do his best.

<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="649"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>I doubt not that; since we are well persuaded
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="650"/></l><l>We carry not a heart with us from hence
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="651"/></l><l>That grows not in a fair consent with ours,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="652"/></l><l>Nor leave not one behind that doth not wish
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="653"/></l><l>Success and conquest to attend on us.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="654"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l>Never was monarch better fear'd and loved
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="655"/></l><l>Than is your majesty: there's not, I think, a subject
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="656"/></l><l>That sits in heart-grief and uneasiness
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="657"/></l><l>Under the sweet shade of your government.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="658"/></l></sp><sp who="grey."><speaker>Grey.</speaker><l>True: those that were your father's enemies
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="659"/></l><l>Have steep'd their galls in honey and do serve you
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="660"/></l><l>With hearts create of duty and of zeal.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="661"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>We therefore have great cause of thankfulness;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="662"/></l><l>And shall forget the office of our hand,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="663"/></l><l>Sooner than quittance of desert and merit
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="664"/></l><l>According to the weight and worthiness.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="665"/></l></sp><sp who="scroop."><speaker>Scroop.</speaker><l>So service shall with steeled sinews toil,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="666"/></l><l>And labor shall refresh itself with hope,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="667"/></l><l>To do your grace incessant services.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="668"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>We judge no less.   Uncle of Exeter,
<lb ed="G" n="40"/><lb ed="F1" n="669"/></l><l>Enlarge the man committed yesterday,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="670"/></l><l>That rail'd against our person: we consider
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="671"/></l><l>It was excess of wine that set him on;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="672"/></l><l>And on his more advice we pardon him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="673"/></l></sp><sp who="scroop."><speaker>Scroop.</speaker><l>That's mercy, but too much security:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="674"/></l><l>Let him be punish'd, sovereign, lest example
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="675"/></l><l>Breed, by his sufferance, more of such a kind.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="676"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>O, let us yet be merciful.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="677"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l>So may your highness, and yet punish too.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="678"/></l></sp><sp who="grey."><speaker>Grey.</speaker><l>Sir,
<lb ed="G" n="50"/></l><l>You show great mercy, if you give him life,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="679"/></l><l>After the taste of much correction.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="680"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>Alas, your too much love and care of me
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="681"/></l><l>Are heavy orisons 'gainst this poor wretch!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="682"/></l><l>If little faults, proceeding on distemper,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="683"/></l><l>Shall not be wink'd at, how shall we stretch our eye
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="684"/></l><l>When capital crimes, chew'd, swallow'd and digested,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="685"/></l><l>Appear before us? We'll yet enlarge that man,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="686"/></l><l>Though Cambridge, Scroop and Grey, in their dear care
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="687"/></l><l>And tender preservation of our person,
<lb ed="G" n="60"/><lb ed="F1" n="688"/></l><l>Would have him punish'd. And now to our French causes:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="689"/></l><l>Who are the late commissioners?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="690"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l>I one, my lord:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="691"/></l><l>Your highness bade me ask for it to-day.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="692"/></l></sp><sp who="scroop."><speaker>Scroop.</speaker><l>So did you me, my liege.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="693"/></l></sp><sp who="grey."><speaker>Grey.</speaker><l>And I, my royal sovereign.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="694"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>Then, Richard Earl of Cambridge, there is yours;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="695"/></l><l>There yours, Lord Scroop of Masham; and, sir knight,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="696"/></l><l>Grey of Northumberland, this same is yours:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="697"/></l><l>Read them; and know, I know your worthiness.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="698"/></l><l>My Lord of Westmoreland, and uncle Exeter,
<lb ed="G" n="71"/><lb ed="F1" n="699"/></l><l>We will aboard to night.   Why, how now, gentlemen!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="700"/></l><l>What see you in those papers that you lose
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="701"/></l><l>So much complexion?   Look ye, how they change!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="702"/></l><l>Their cheeks are paper. Why, what read you there,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="703"/></l><l>That hath so cowarded and chased your blood
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="704"/></l><l part="I">Out of appearance?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="705"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="F">I do confess my fault;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="706"/></l><l>And do submit me to your highness' mercy.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="707"/></l></sp><sp who="grey. scroop."><speaker>Grey. Scroop.</speaker><l>To which we all appeal.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="708"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>The mercy that was quick in us but late,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="709"/></l><l>By your own counsel is suppress'd and kill'd:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="710"/></l><l>You must not dare, for shame, to talk of mercy;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="711"/></l><l>For your own reasons turn into your bosoms,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="712"/></l><l>As dogs upon their masters, worrying you.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="713"/></l><l>See you, my princes and my noble peers,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="714"/></l><l>These English monsters!   My Lord of Cambridge here,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="715"/></l><l>You know how apt our love was to accord
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="716"/></l><l>To furnish him with all appertinents
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="717"/></l><l>Belonging to his honor; and this man
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="718"/></l><l>Hath, for a few light crowns, lightly conspired,
<lb ed="G" n="90"/><lb ed="F1" n="719"/></l><l>And sworn unto the practices of France,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="720"/></l><l>To kill us here in Hampton: to the which
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="721"/></l><l>This knight, no less for bounty bound to us
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="722"/></l><l>Than Cambridge is, hath likewise sworn. But, O,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="723"/></l><l>What shall I say to thee, Lord Scroop? thou cruel,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="724"/></l><l>Ingrateful, savage and inhuman creature!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="725"/></l><l>Thou that didst bear the key of all my counsels,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="726"/></l><l>That knew'st the very bottom of my soul,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="727"/></l><l>That almost mightst have coin'd me into gold,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="728"/></l><l>Wouldst thou have practised on me for thy use!
<lb ed="G" n="100"/><lb ed="F1" n="729"/></l><l>May it be possible, that foreign hire
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="730"/></l><l>Could out of thee extract one spark of evil
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="731"/></l><l>That might annoy my finger? 'tis so strange,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="732"/></l><l>That, though the truth of it stands off as gross
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="733"/></l><l>As black and white, my eye will scarcely see it.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="734"/></l><l>Treason and murder ever kept together,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="735"/></l><l>As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="736"/></l><l>Working so grossly in a natural cause,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="737"/></l><l>That admiration did not whoop at them:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="738"/></l><l>But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="739"/></l><l>Wonder to wait on treason and on murder:
<lb ed="G" n="111"/><lb ed="F1" n="740"/></l><l>And whatsoever cunning fiend it was
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="741"/></l><l>That wrought upon thee so preposterously
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="742"/></l><l>Hath got the voice in hell for excellence:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="743"/></l><l>All other devils that suggest by treasons
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="744"/></l><l>Do botch and bungle up damnation
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="745"/></l><l>With patches, colors, and with forms being fetch'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="746"/></l><l>From glistering semblance of piety;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="747"/></l><l>But he that temper'd thee bade thee stand up,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="748"/></l><l>Gave thee no instance why thou shouldst do treason,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="749"/></l><l>Unless to dub thee with the name of traitor.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="750"/></l><l>If that same demon that hath gull'd thee thus
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="751"/></l><l>Should with his lion gait walk the whole world,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="752"/></l><l>He might return to vasty Tartar back,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="753"/></l><l>And tell the legions 'I can never win
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="754"/></l><l>A soul so easy as that Englishman's.'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="755"/></l><l>O, how hast thou with jealousy infected
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="756"/></l><l>The sweetness of affiance!   Show men dutiful?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="757"/></l><l>Why, so didst thou: seem they grave and learned?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="758"/></l><l>Why, so didst thou: come they of noble family?
<lb ed="G" n="130"/><lb ed="F1" n="759"/></l><l>Why, so didst thou: seem they religious?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="760"/></l><l>Why, so didst thou: or are they spare in diet,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="761"/></l><l>Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="762"/></l><l>Constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="763"/></l><l>Garnish'd and deck'd in modest complement,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="764"/></l><l>Not working with the eye without the ear,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="765"/></l><l>And but in purged judgement trusting neither?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="766"/></l><l>Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="767"/></l><l>And thus thy fall hath left a kind of blot,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="768"/></l><l>To mark the full-fraught man and best indued
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="769"/></l><l>With some suspicion. I will weep for thee;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="770"/></l><l>For this revolt of thine, methinks, is like
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="771"/></l><l>Another fall of man. Their faults are open:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="772"/></l><l>Arrest them to the answer of the law;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="773"/></l><l>And God acquit them of their practices!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="774"/></l></sp><sp who="exe."><speaker>Exe.</speaker><p>I arrest thee of high treason, by the
<lb ed="G"/>name of <lb ed="F1" n="775"/>Richard Earl of Cambridge.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="776"/>I arrest thee of high treason, by the name
<lb ed="G"/>of Henry <lb ed="F1" n="777"/>Lord Scroop of Masham.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="778"/>I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of
<lb ed="G" n="150"/>Thomas <lb ed="F1" n="779"/>Grey, knight, of Northumberland.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="780"/></p></sp><sp who="scroop."><speaker>Scroop.</speaker><l>Our purposes God justly hath discover'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="781"/></l><l>And I repent my fault more than my death;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="782"/></l><l>Which I beseech your highness to forgive,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="783"/></l><l>Although my body pay the price of it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="784"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l>For me, the gold of France did not seduce;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="785"/></l><l>Although I did admit it as a motive
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="786"/></l><l>The sooner to effect what I intended:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="787"/></l><l>But God be thanked for prevention;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="788"/></l><l>Which I in sufferance heartily will rejoice,
<lb ed="G" n="160"/><lb ed="F1" n="789"/></l><l>Beseeching God and you to pardon me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="790"/></l></sp><sp who="grey."><speaker>Grey.</speaker><l>Never did faithful subject more rejoice
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="791"/></l><l>At the discovery of most dangerous treason
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="792"/></l><l>Than I do at this hour joy o'er myself.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="793"/></l><l>Prevented from a damned enterprise:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="794"/></l><l>My fault, but not my body, pardon, sovereign.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="795"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>God quit you in his mercy! Hear your sentence.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="796"/></l><l>You have conspired against our royal person,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="797"/></l><l>Join'd with an enemy proclaim'd and from his coffers
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="798"/></l><l>Received the golden earnest of our death;
<lb ed="G" n="170"/><lb ed="F1" n="799"/></l><l>Wherein you would have sold your king to slaughter,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="800"/></l><l>His princes and his peers to servitude,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="801"/></l><l>His subjects to oppression and contempt
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="802"/></l><l>And his whole kingdom into desolation.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="803"/></l><l>Touching our person seek we no revenge;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="804"/></l><l>But we our kingdom's safety must so tender,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="805"/></l><l>Whose ruin you have sought, that to her laws
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="806"/></l><l>We do deliver you. Get you therefore hence,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="807"/></l><l>Poor miserable wretches, to your death:
<lb ed="G" n="179"/><lb ed="F1" n="808"/></l><l>The taste whereof, God of his mercy give
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="809"/></l><l>You patience to endure, and true repentance
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="810"/></l><l>Of all your dear offences! Bear them hence.

<stage>[Exeunt Cambridge, Scroop and Grey, guarded</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="811"/></l><l>Now, lords, for France; the enterprise whereof
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="812"/></l><l>Shall be to you, as us, like glorious.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="813"/></l><l>We doubt not of a fair and lucky war,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="814"/></l><l>Since God so graciously hath brought to light
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="815"/></l><l>This dangerous treason lurking in our way
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="816"/></l><l>To hinder our beginnings.   We doubt not now
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="817"/></l><l>But every rub is smoothed on our way.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="818"/></l><l>Then forth, dear countrymen: let us deliver
<lb ed="G" n="190"/><lb ed="F1" n="819"/></l><l>Our puissance into the hand of God,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="820"/></l><l>Putting it straight in expedition.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="821"/></l><l>Cheerly to sea; the signs of war advance:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="822"/></l><l>No king of England, if not king of France.
<stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
</l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="3">
<head>SCENE III</head>
<stage type="setting">London. Before a tavern.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="823"/><stage type="entrance">Enter PISTOL, Hostess, NYM, BARDOLPH, and Boy.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="824"/><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>Prithee, honey-sweet husband, let me
<lb ed="G"/>bring <lb ed="F1" n="825"/>thee to Staines.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="826"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>No; for my manly heart doth yearn.
<lb ed="G"/>Bardolph, <lb ed="F1" n="827"/>be blithe: Nym, rouse thy vaunting veins:
<lb ed="G"/>Boy, bristle <lb ed="F1" n="828"/>thy courage up; for Falstaff he is dead,
<lb ed="G"/>And we must yearn <lb ed="F1" n="829"/>therefore.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="830"/></p></sp><sp who="bard."><speaker>Bard.</speaker><p>Would I were with him, wheresome'er
<lb ed="G"/>he is, <lb ed="F1" n="831"/>either in heaven or in hell!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="832"/></p></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>Nay, sure, he's not in hell: he's in
<lb ed="G"/>Arthur's <lb ed="F1" n="833"/>bosom, if ever man went to Arthur's
<lb ed="G"/>bosom. A' made a <lb ed="F1" n="834"/>finer end and went away
<lb ed="G"/>an it had been any christom <lb ed="F1" n="835"/>child; a' parted
<lb ed="G"/>even just between twelve and one, even <lb ed="F1" n="836"/>at the
<lb ed="G"/>turning o' the tide: for after I saw him fumble
<lb ed="G"/>with <lb ed="F1" n="837"/>the sheets and play with flowers and smile
<lb ed="G"/>upon his fingers' <lb ed="F1" n="838"/>ends, I knew there was but
<lb ed="G"/>one way; for his nose was <lb ed="F1" n="839"/>as sharp as a pen,
<lb ed="G"/>and a' babbled of green fields. 'How now, <lb ed="F1" n="840"/>sir
<lb ed="G"/>John!' quoth I: 'what, man! be o' good
<lb ed="G"/>cheer.' So a' <lb ed="F1" n="841"/>cried out 'God, God, God!'
<lb ed="G"/>three or four times. Now I, <lb ed="F1" n="842"/>to comfort him,
<lb ed="G"/>bid him a' should not think of God; I <lb ed="F1" n="843"/>hoped
<lb ed="G"/>there was no need to trouble himself with any
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="844"/>such thoughts yet. So a' bade me lay more
<lb ed="G"/>clothes on his <lb ed="F1" n="845"/>feet: I put my hand into the
<lb ed="G"/>bed and felt them, and they <lb ed="F1" n="846"/>were as cold as
<lb ed="G"/>any stone; then I felt to his knees, and they
<lb ed="G"/>were as cold as any stone, and so <lb ed="F1" n="847"/>upward and
<lb ed="G"/>upward, and all was as cold as any stone.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="848"/></p></sp><sp who="nym."><speaker>Nym.</speaker><p>They say he cried out of sack.

<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="849"/></p></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>Ay, that a' did.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="850"/></p></sp><sp who="bard."><speaker>Bard.</speaker><p>And of women.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="851"/></p></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>Nay, that a' did not.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="852"/></p></sp><sp who="boy."><speaker>Boy.</speaker><p>Yes, that a' did; and said they were
<lb ed="G"/>devils <lb ed="F1" n="853"/>incarnate.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="854"/></p></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>A' could never abide carnation;
<lb ed="G"/>'twas a color <lb ed="F1" n="855"/>he never liked.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="856"/></p></sp><sp who="boy."><speaker>Boy.</speaker><p>A' said once, the devil would have
<lb ed="G"/>him about <lb ed="F1" n="857"/>women.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="858"/></p></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>'A did in some sort, indeed, handle
<lb ed="G"/>women; <lb ed="F1" n="859"/>but then he was rheumatic, and
<lb ed="G" n="41"/>talked of the whore of <lb ed="F1" n="860"/>Babylon.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="861"/></p></sp><sp who="boy."><speaker>Boy.</speaker><p>Do you not remember, a' saw a flea
<lb ed="G"/>stick upon <lb ed="F1" n="862"/>Bardolph's nose, and a' said it was
<lb ed="G"/>a black soul burning <lb ed="F1" n="863"/>in hell-fire?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="864"/></p></sp><sp who="bard."><speaker>Bard.</speaker><p>Well, the fuel is gone that maintained
<lb ed="G"/>that fire: <lb ed="F1" n="865"/>that's all the riches I got in
<lb ed="G"/>his service.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="866"/></p></sp><sp who="nym."><speaker>Nym.</speaker><p>Shall we shog? the king will be gone
<lb ed="G"/>from <lb ed="F1" n="867"/>Southampton.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="868"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>Come, let's away. My love, give me thy lips.
<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="869"/></l><l>Look to my chattels and my movables:
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Let senses <lb ed="F1" n="870"/>rule; the word is 'Pitch and Pay:'
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Trust none;
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>For oaths <lb ed="F1" n="871"/>are straws, men's faiths are wafercakes,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>And hold-fast <lb ed="F1" n="872"/>is the only dog, my duck:
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Therefore, Caveto be <lb ed="F1" n="873"/>thy counsellor.
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Go, clear thy crystals. Yoke-fellows <lb ed="F1" n="874"/>in arms,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Let us to France; like horse-leeches, <lb ed="F1" n="875"/>my boys,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>To suck, to suck, the very blood to <lb ed="F1" n="876"/>suck!

<lb ed="G" n="60"/><lb ed="F1" n="877"/></l></sp><sp who="boy."><speaker>Boy.</speaker><l>And that's but unwholesome food,they say.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="878"/></l></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>Touch her soft mouth, and march.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="879"/></p></sp><sp who="bard."><speaker>Bard.</speaker><p>Farewell, hostess.
<stage>[Kissing her.</stage>


<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="880"/></p></sp><sp who="nym."><speaker>Nym.</speaker><p>I cannot kiss, that is the humor of
<lb ed="G"/>it; but, <lb ed="F1" n="881"/>adieu.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="882"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>Let housewifery appear: keep close, I thee <lb ed="F1" n="883"/>command.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="884"/></p></sp><sp who="host."><speaker>Host.</speaker><p>Farewell, adieu.
<stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
</p></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="4">
<head>SCENE IV</head>
<stage type="setting">France. The KING'S palace.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="885"/><stage>Flourish.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="886"/><stage type="entrance">Enter the FRENCH KING, the DAUPHIN, the DUKES <lb ed="F1" n="887"/>OF BERRI and BRETAGNE, the CONSTABLE, and others. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="888"/><sp who="fr.-king."><speaker>Fr. King.</speaker><l>Thus comes the English with full power upon us;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="889"/></l><l>And more than carefully it us concerns
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="890"/></l><l>To answer royally in our defences.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="891"/></l><l>Therefore the Dukes of Berri and Bretagne,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="892"/></l><l>Of Brabant and of Orleans, shall make forth,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="893"/></l><l>And you, Prince Dauphin, with all swift dispatch,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="894"/></l><l>To line and new repair our towns of war
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="895"/></l><l>With men of courage and with means defendant;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="896"/></l><l>For England his approaches makes as fierce
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="897"/></l><l>As waters to the sucking of a gulf.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="898"/></l><l>It fits us then to be as provident
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="899"/></l><l>As fear may teach us out of late examples
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="900"/></l><l>Left by the fatal and neglected English
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="901"/></l><l part="I">Upon our fields.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="902"/></l></sp><sp who="dau."><speaker>Dau.</speaker><l part="F">My most redoubted father,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="903"/></l><l>It is most meet we arm us 'gainst the foe;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="904"/></l><l>For peace itself should not so dull a kingdom,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="905"/></l><l>Though war nor no known quarrel were in question,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="906"/></l><l>But that defences, musters, preparations,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="907"/></l><l>Should be maintain'd, assembled and collected,
<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="908"/></l><l>As were a war in expectation.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="909"/></l><l>Therefore, I say 'tis meet we all go forth
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="910"/></l><l>To view the sick and feeble parts of France:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="911"/></l><l>And let us do it with no show of fear;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="912"/></l><l>No, with no more than if we heard that England
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="913"/></l><l>Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="914"/></l><l>For, my good liege, she is so idly king'd,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="915"/></l><l>Her sceptre so fantastically borne
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="916"/></l><l>By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="917"/></l><l part="I">That fear attends her not.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="918"/></l></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><l part="F">O peace, Prince Dauphin!
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="919"/></l><l>You are too much mistaken in this king:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="920"/></l><l>Question your grace the late ambassadors,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="921"/></l><l>With what great state he heard their embassy,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="922"/></l><l>How well supplied with noble counsellors,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="923"/></l><l>How modest in exception, and withal
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="924"/></l><l>How terrible in constant resolution,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="925"/></l><l>And you shall find his vanities forespent
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="926"/></l><l>Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="927"/></l><l>Covering discretion with a coat of folly;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="928"/></l><l>As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots
<lb ed="G" n="40"/><lb ed="F1" n="929"/></l><l>That shall first appear and be most delicate.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="930"/></l></sp><sp who="dau."><speaker>Dau.</speaker><l>Well, 'tis not so, my lord high constable;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="931"/></l><l>But though we think it so, it is no matter:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="932"/></l><l>In cases of defence 'tis best to weigh
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="933"/></l><l>The enemy more mighty than he seems:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="934"/></l><l>So the proportions of defence are fill'd;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="935"/></l><l>Which of a weak and niggardly projection
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="936"/></l><l>Doth, like a miser, spoil his coat with scanting
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="937"/></l><l part="I">A little cloth.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="938"/></l></sp><sp who="fr.-king."><speaker>Fr. King.</speaker><l part="F">Think we King Harry strong;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="939"/></l><l>And, princes, look you strongly arm to meet him.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="940"/></l><l>The kindred of him hath been flesh'd upon us;
<lb ed="G" n="51"/><lb ed="F1" n="941"/></l><l>And he is bred out of that bloody strain
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="942"/></l><l>That haunted us in our familiar paths:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="943"/></l><l>Witness our too much memorable shame
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="944"/></l><l>When Cressy battle fatally was struck,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="945"/></l><l>And all our princes captived by the hand
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="946"/></l><l>Of that black name, Edward, Black Prince of Wales;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="947"/></l><l>Whiles that his mountain sire, on mountain standing,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="948"/></l><l>Up in the air, crown'd with the golden sun,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="949"/></l><l>Saw his heroical seed, and smiled to see him,
<lb ed="G" n="60"/><lb ed="F1" n="950"/></l><l>Mangle the work of nature and deface
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="951"/></l><l>The patterns that by God and by French fathers
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="952"/></l><l>Had twenty years been made. This is a stem
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="953"/></l><l>Of that victorious stock; and let us fear
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="954"/></l><l>The native mightiness and fate of him.
<lb ed="F1" n="955"/><stage type="entrance">Enter a Messenger.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="956"/></l></sp><sp who="mess."><speaker>Mess.</speaker><l>Ambassadors from Harry King of England
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="957"/></l><l>Do crave admittance to your majesty.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="958"/></l></sp><sp who="fr.-king."><speaker>Fr. King.</speaker><l>We'll give them present audience.   <lb ed="F1" n="959"/>Go, and bring them.
<stage>[Exeunt Messenger and certain Lords.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="960"/></l><l>You see this chase is hotly follow'd, friends.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="961"/></l></sp><sp who="dau."><speaker>Dau.</speaker><l>Turn head, and stop pursuit; for coward dogs
<lb ed="G" n="70"/><lb ed="F1" n="962"/></l><l>Most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="963"/></l><l>Runs far before them. Good my sovereign,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="964"/></l><l>Take up the English short, and let them know
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="965"/></l><l>Of what a monarchy you are the head:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="966"/></l><l>Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="967"/></l><l part="I">As self-neglecting.
<lb ed="F1" n="968"/><stage type="entrance">Re-enter Lords, with EXETER and train.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="969"/></l></sp><sp who="fr.-king."><speaker>Fr. King.</speaker><l part="F">From our brother England?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="970"/></l></sp><sp who="exe."><speaker>Exe.</speaker><l>From him; and thus he greets your majesty.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="971"/></l><l>He wills you, in the name of God Almighty,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="972"/></l><l>That you divest yourself, and lay apart
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="973"/></l><l>The borrow'd glories that by gift of heaven,
<lb ed="G" n="80"/><lb ed="F1" n="974"/></l><l>By law of nature and of nations, 'long
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="975"/></l><l>To him and to his heirs; namely, the crown
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="976"/></l><l>And all wide-stretched honors that pertain
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="977"/></l><l>By custom and the ordinance of times
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="978"/></l><l>Unto the crown of France. That you may know
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="979"/></l><l>'Tis no sinister nor no awkward claim,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="980"/></l><l>Pick'd from the worm-holes of long-vanish'd days,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="981"/></l><l>Nor from the dust of old oblivion raked,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="982"/></l><l>He sends you this most memorable line,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="983"/></l><l>In every branch truly demonstrative;
<lb ed="G" n="90"/><lb ed="F1" n="984"/></l><l>Willing you overlook this pedigree:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="985"/></l><l>And when you find him evenly derived
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="986"/></l><l>From his most famed of famous ancestors,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="987"/></l><l>Edward the Third, he bids you then resign
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="988"/></l><l>Your crown and kingdom, indirectly held
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="989"/></l><l>From him the native and true challenger.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="990"/></l></sp><sp who="fr.-king."><speaker>Fr. King.</speaker><l>Or else what follows?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="991"/></l></sp><sp who="exe."><speaker>Exe.</speaker><l>Bloody constraint; for if you hide the crown
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="992"/></l><l>Even in your hearts, there will he rake for it:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="993"/></l><l>Therefore in fierce tempest is he coming,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="994"/></l><l>In thunder and in earthquake, like a Jove,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="995"/></l><l>That, if requiring fail, he will compel;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="996"/></l><l>And bids you, in the bowels of the Lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="997"/></l><l>Deliver up the crown, and to take mercy
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="998"/></l><l>On the poor souls for whom this hungry war
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="999"/></l><l>Opens his vasty jaws; and on your head
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1000"/></l><l>Turning the widows' tears, the orphans' cries,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1001"/></l><l>The dead men's blood, the pining maidens groans,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1002"/></l><l>For husbands, fathers, and betrothed lovers,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1003"/></l><l>That shall be swallow'd in this controversy.
<lb ed="G" n="110"/><lb ed="F1" n="1004"/></l><l>This is his claim, his threatening, and my message;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1005"/></l><l>Unless the Dauphin be in presence here,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1006"/></l><l>To whom expressly I bring greeting too.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1007"/></l></sp><sp who="fr.-king."><speaker>Fr. King.</speaker><l>For us, we will consider of this further:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1008"/></l><l>To-morrow shall you bear our full intent
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1009"/></l><l part="I">Back to our brother England.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1010"/></l></sp><sp who="dau."><speaker>Dau.</speaker><l part="F">For the Dauphin,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1011"/></l><l>I stand here for him: what to him from England?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1012"/></l></sp><sp who="exe."><speaker>Exe.</speaker><l>Scorn and defiance; slight regard, contempt,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1013"/></l><l>And any thing that may not misbecome
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1014"/></l><l>The mighty sender, doth he prize you at.
<lb ed="G" n="120"/><lb ed="F1" n="1015"/></l><l>Thus says my king; an if your father's highness
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1016"/></l><l>Do not, in grant of all demands at large,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1017"/></l><l>Sweeten the bitter mock you sent his majesty,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1018"/></l><l>He'll call you to so hot an answer of it,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1019"/></l><l>That caves and womby vaultages of France
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1020"/></l><l>Shall chide your trespass and return your mock
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1021"/></l><l>In second accent of his ordnance.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1022"/></l></sp><sp who="dau."><speaker>Dau.</speaker><l>Say, if my father render fair return,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1023"/></l><l>It is against my will; for I desire
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1024"/></l><l>Nothing but odds with England: to that end,
<lb ed="G" n="130"/><lb ed="F1" n="1025"/></l><l>As matching to his youth and vanity,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1026"/></l><l>I did present him with the Paris balls.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1027"/></l></sp><sp who="exe."><speaker>Exe.</speaker><l>He'll make your Paris Louvre shake for it,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1028"/></l><l>Were it the mistress-court of mighty Europe:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1029"/></l><l>And, be assured, you'll find a difference,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1030"/></l><l>As we his subjects have in wonder found,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1031"/></l><l>Between the promise of his greener days
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1032"/></l><l>And these he masters now: now he weighs time
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1033"/></l><l>Even to the utmost grain: that you shall read
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1034"/></l><l>In your own losses, if he stay in France.

<lb ed="G" n="140"/><lb ed="F1" n="1035"/></l></sp><sp who="fr.-king."><speaker>Fr. King.</speaker><l>To-morrow shall you know our mind at full.
<lb ed="F1" n="1036"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1037"/></l></sp><sp who="exe."><speaker>Exe.</speaker><l>Dispatch us with all speed, lest that our king
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1038"/></l><l>Come here himself to question our delay;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1039"/></l><l>For he is footed in this land already.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1040"/></l></sp><sp who="fr.-king."><speaker>Fr. King.</speaker><l>You shall be soon dispatch'd with fair conditions:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1041"/></l><l>A night is but small breath and little pause
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1042"/></l><l>To answer matters of this consequence.

<stage>[Flourish. Exeunt.</stage>
</l></sp>
</div2>
    </div1>

    <div1 type="act" n="3">
      <head>ACT III</head>
<lb ed="F1" n="1043"/>
<div2 type="scene" n="prologue">
<head>PROLOGUE</head>
<lb ed="F1" n="1044"/><stage type="entrance">Enter Chorus.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1045"/><sp who="chor."><speaker>Chor.</speaker><l>Thus with imagined wing our swift scene flies
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1046"/></l><l>In motion of no less celerity
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1047"/></l><l>Than that of thought. Suppose that you have seen
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1048"/></l><l>The well-appointed king at Hampton pier
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1049"/></l><l>Embark his royalty; and his brave fleet
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1050"/></l><l>With silken streamers the young Phoebus fanning:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1051"/></l><l>Play with your fancies, and in them behold
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1052"/></l><l>Upon the hempen tackle ship-boys climbing;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1053"/></l><l>Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1054"/></l><l>To sounds confused; behold the threaden sails,
<lb ed="G" n="11"/><lb ed="F1" n="1055"/></l><l>Borne with the invisible and creeping wind,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1056"/></l><l>Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1057"/></l><l>Breasting the lofty surge: O, do but think
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1058"/></l><l>You stand upon the rivage and behold
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1059"/></l><l>A city on the inconstant billows dancing;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1060"/></l><l>For so appears this fleet majestical,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1061"/></l><l>Holding due course to Harfleur.   Follow, follow:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1062"/></l><l>Grapple your minds to sternage of this navy,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1063"/></l><l>And leave your England, as dead midnight still,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1064"/></l><l>Guarded with grandsires, babies and old women,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1065"/></l><l>Either past or not arrived to pith and puissance;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1066"/></l><l>For who is he, whose chin is but enrich'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1067"/></l><l>With one appearing hair, that will not follow
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1068"/></l><l>These cull'd and choice-drawn cavaliers to France?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1069"/></l><l>Work, work your thoughts, and therein see a siege;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1070"/></l><l>Behold the ordnance on their carriages,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1071"/></l><l>With fatal mouths gaping on girded Harfleur.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1072"/></l><l>Suppose the ambassador from the French comes back;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1073"/></l><l>Tells Harry that the king doth offer him
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1074"/></l><l>Katharine his daughter, and with her, to dowry,
<lb ed="G" n="31"/><lb ed="F1" n="1075"/></l><l>Some petty and unprofitable dukedoms.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1076"/></l><l>The offer likes not: and the nimble gunner
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1077"/></l><l>With linstock now the devilish cannon touches,
<lb ed="F1" n="1078"/><stage>[Alarum, and chambers go off.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1079"/></l><l>And down goes all before them. Still be kind,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1080"/></l><l>And eke out our performance with your mind.

<stage>[Exit.</stage>
</l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="1">
<head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">France. Before Harfleur.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1081"/><stage type="entrance">Alarum.   Enter KING HENRY, EXETER, BEDFORD, GLOUCESTER, and Soldiers, <lb ed="F1" n="1082"/>with scaling-ladders. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1083"/><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>Once more unto the breach, <lb ed="F1" n="1084"/>dear friends, once more;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1085"/></l><l>Or close the wall up with our English dead.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1086"/></l><l>In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1087"/></l><l>As modest stillness and humility:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1088"/></l><l>But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1089"/></l><l>Then imitate the action of the tiger;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1090"/></l><l>Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1091"/></l><l>Disguise fair nature with hard-favor'd rage;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1092"/></l><l>Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="1093"/></l><l>Let it pry through the portage of the head
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1094"/></l><l>Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1095"/></l><l>As fearfully as doth a galled rock
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1096"/></l><l>O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1097"/></l><l>Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1098"/></l><l>Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1099"/></l><l>Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1100"/></l><l>To his full height. On, on, you noblest English,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1101"/></l><l>Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
<lb ed="G" n="19"/><lb ed="F1" n="1102"/></l><l>Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1103"/></l><l>Have in these parts from morn till even fought
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1104"/></l><l>And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1105"/></l><l>Dishonor not your mothers; now attest
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1106"/></l><l>That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1107"/></l><l>Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1108"/></l><l>And teach them how to war. And you, good yeomen,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1109"/></l><l>Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1110"/></l><l>The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1111"/></l><l>That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1112"/></l><l>For there is none of you so mean and base,
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="1113"/></l><l>That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1114"/></l><l>I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1115"/></l><l>Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1116"/></l><l>Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1117"/></l><l>Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'
<lb ed="F1" n="1118"/><stage>[Exeunt.   Alarum, and chambers go off.</stage>
</l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="2">
<head>SCENE II</head>
<stage type="setting">The same.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1119"/><stage type="entrance">Enter NYM, BARDOLPH, PISTOL, and Boy.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1120"/><sp who="bard."><speaker>Bard.</speaker><p>On, on, on, on, on! to the breach, to the breach!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1121"/></p></sp><sp who="nym."><speaker>Nym.</speaker><p>Pray thee, corporal, stay: the knocks
<lb ed="G"/>are too <lb ed="F1" n="1122"/>hot; and for mine own part, I have
<lb ed="G"/>not a case of lives: <lb ed="F1" n="1123"/>the humor of it is too hot,
<lb ed="G"/>that is the very plain-song <lb ed="F1" n="1124"/>of it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1125"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>The plain-song is most just; for humors do abound:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1126"/></l><l>Knocks go and come; God's vassals drop and <lb ed="F1" n="1127"/>die;
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>And sword and shield,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>In bloody field,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Doth win <lb ed="F1" n="1128"/>immortal fame.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1129"/></l></sp><sp who="boy."><speaker>Boy.</speaker><p>Would I were in an alehouse in <reg orig="Lon-don!">London!</reg>
<lb ed="G"/>I <lb ed="F1" n="1130"/>would give all my fame for a pot of
<lb ed="G"/>ale and safety.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1131"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>And I:
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>If wishes would prevail with me,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>My <lb ed="F1" n="1132"/>purpose should not fail with me,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>But thither would I <lb ed="F1" n="1133"/>hie.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1134"/></l></sp><sp who="boy."><speaker>Boy.</speaker><l>As duly, but not as truly,
<lb ed="G" n="20"/></l><l>As bird doth sing on <lb ed="F1" n="1135"/>bough.
<lb ed="F1" n="1136"/><stage type="entrance">Enter FLUELLEN.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1137"/></l></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>Up to the breach, you dogs! avaunt,
<lb ed="G"/>you <lb ed="F1" n="1138"/>cullions!
<stage>[Driving them forward.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1139"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>Be merciful, great duke, to men of mould.
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Abate <lb ed="F1" n="1140"/>thy rage, abate thy manly rage,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Abate thy rage, <lb ed="F1" n="1141"/>great duke!
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Good bawcock, bate thy rage; use lenity, <lb ed="F1" n="1142"/>sweet chuck!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1143"/></l></sp><sp who="nym."><speaker>Nym.</speaker><l>These be good humors! your honor wins bad <lb ed="F1" n="1144"/>humours.
<stage>[Exeunt all but Boy.</stage>


<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1145"/></l></sp><sp who="boy."><speaker>Boy.</speaker><p>As young as I am, I have observed
<lb ed="G"/>these three <lb ed="F1" n="1146"/>swashers.   I am boy to them all
<lb ed="G"/>three: but all they three, <lb ed="F1" n="1147"/>though they would
<lb ed="G"/>serve me, could not be man to me; <lb ed="F1" n="1148"/>for indeed
<lb ed="G"/>three such antics do not amount to a man.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1149"/>For Bardolph, he is white-livered and red-
<lb ed="G"/>faced; by the <lb ed="F1" n="1150"/>means whereof a' faces it out,
<lb ed="G"/>but fights not. For Pistol, <lb ed="F1" n="1151"/>he hath a killing
<lb ed="G"/>tongue and a quiet sword; by <lb ed="F1" n="1152"/>means
<lb ed="G"/>whereof a' breaks words, and keeps whole
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1153"/>weapons. For Nym, he hath heard that men
<lb ed="G"/>of few <lb ed="F1" n="1154"/>words are the best men; and therefore
<lb ed="G"/>he  scorns to say <lb ed="F1" n="1155"/>his prayers, lest a' should be
<lb ed="G"/>thought a coward: but his <lb ed="F1" n="1156"/>few bad words are
<lb ed="G"/>matched with as few good deeds; for <lb ed="F1" n="1157"/>a' never
<lb ed="G"/>broke any man's head but his own, and that
<lb ed="G"/>was <lb ed="F1" n="1158"/>against a post when he was drunk. They
<lb ed="G"/>will steal any <lb ed="F1" n="1159"/>thing, and call it a purchase.
<lb ed="G"/>Bardolph stole a lute-case, <lb ed="F1" n="1160"/>bore it twelve
<lb ed="G"/>leagues, and sold it for three half pence. <lb ed="F1" n="1161"/>Nym
<lb ed="G"/>and Bardolph are sworn brothers in filching,
<lb ed="G"/>and <lb ed="F1" n="1162"/>in Calais they stole a fire-shovel: I knew
<lb ed="G"/>by that piece <lb ed="F1" n="1163"/>of service the men would carry
<lb ed="G"/>coals. They would <lb ed="F1" n="1164"/>have me as familiar with
<lb ed="G"/>men's pockets as their gloves <lb ed="F1" n="1165"/>or their handkerchers:
<lb ed="G"/>which makes much against my
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1166"/>manhood, if I should take from another's
<lb ed="G"/>pocket to put <lb ed="F1" n="1167"/>into mine; for it is plain <reg orig="pock-eting">pocketing</reg>
<lb ed="G"/>up of wrongs.   <lb ed="F1" n="1168"/>I must leave them, and
<lb ed="G"/>seek some better service: their <lb ed="F1" n="1169"/>villany goes
<lb ed="G"/>against my weak stomach, and therefore <lb ed="F1" n="1170"/>I
<lb ed="G"/>must cast it up.
<stage>[Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="F1" n="1171"/><stage type="entrance">Re-enter FLUELLEN, GOWER following.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1172"/></p></sp><sp who="gow."><speaker>Gow.</speaker><p>Captain Fluellen, you must come
<lb ed="G"/>presently to <lb ed="F1" n="1173"/>the mines; the Duke of <reg orig="Glouces-ter">Gloucester</reg>
<lb ed="G" n="60"/>would speak with <lb ed="F1" n="1174"/>you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1175"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>To the mines! tell you the duke, it is
<lb ed="G"/>not so <lb ed="F1" n="1176"/>good to come to the mines; for, look
<lb ed="G"/>you, the mines <lb ed="F1" n="1177"/>is not according to the disciplines
<lb ed="G"/>of the war: the concavities <lb ed="F1" n="1178"/>of it is not
<lb ed="G"/>sufficient; for, look you, th' athversary, <lb ed="F1" n="1179"/>you
<lb ed="G"/>may discuss unto the duke, look you, is digt
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1180"/>himself four yard under the countermines: by
<lb ed="G"/>Cheshu, <lb ed="F1" n="1181"/>I think a' will plow up all, if there is
<lb ed="G"/>not better <lb ed="F1" n="1182"/>directions.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1183"/></p></sp><sp who="gow."><speaker>Gow.</speaker><p>The Duke of Gloucester, to whom
<lb ed="G"/>the order <lb ed="F1" n="1184"/>of the siege is given, is altogether
<lb ed="G"/>directed by an Irishman, <lb ed="F1" n="1185"/>a very valiant gentleman,
<lb ed="G"/>i' faith.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1186"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>It is Captain Macmorris, is it not?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1187"/></p></sp><sp who="gow."><speaker>Gow.</speaker><p>I think it be.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1188"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>By Cheshu, he is an ass, as in the
<lb ed="G"/>world: I will <lb ed="F1" n="1189"/>verify as much in his beard: he
<lb ed="G"/>has no more directions <lb ed="F1" n="1190"/>in the true disciplines
<lb ed="G"/>of the wars, look you, of the <lb ed="F1" n="1191"/>Roman disciplines,
<lb ed="G"/>than is a puppy-dog.
<lb ed="F1" n="1192"/><stage type="entrance">Enter MACMORRIS and Captain JAMY.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1193"/></p></sp><sp who="gow."><speaker>Gow.</speaker><p>Here a' comes; and the Scots captain.
<lb ed="G" n="80"/>Captain <lb ed="F1" n="1194"/>Jamy, with him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1195"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>Captain Jamy is a marvellous falorous
<lb ed="G"/>gentleman, <lb ed="F1" n="1196"/>that is certain; and of great <reg orig="ex-pedition">expedition</reg>
<lb ed="G"/>and knowledge <lb ed="F1" n="1197"/>in th' aunchient wars,
<lb ed="G"/>upon my particular knowledge <lb ed="F1" n="1198"/>of his directions:
<lb ed="G"/>by Cheshu, he will maintain his <lb ed="F1" n="1199"/>argument
<lb ed="G"/>as well as any military man in the
<lb ed="G"/>world, in <lb ed="F1" n="1200"/>the disciplines of the pristine wars
<lb ed="G"/>of the Romans.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1201"/></p></sp><sp who="jamy."><speaker>Jamy.</speaker><p>I say gud-day, Captain Fluellen.

<lb ed="G" n="90"/><lb ed="F1" n="1202"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>God-den to your worship, good Captain <lb ed="F1" n="1203"/>James.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1204"/></p></sp><sp who="gow."><speaker>Gow.</speaker><p>How now, Captain Macmorris! have
<lb ed="G"/>you <lb ed="F1" n="1205"/>quit the mines? have the pioners given
<lb ed="G"/>o'er?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1206"/></p></sp><sp who="mac."><speaker>Mac.</speaker><p>By Chrish, la! tish ill done: the
<lb ed="G"/>work ish <lb ed="F1" n="1207"/>give over, the trompet sound the retreat.
<lb ed="G"/>By my hand, <lb ed="F1" n="1208"/>I swear, and my father's
<lb ed="G"/>soul, the work ish ill done; <lb ed="F1" n="1209"/>it ish give over:
<lb ed="G"/>I would have blowed up the town, <lb ed="F1" n="1210"/>so Chrish
<lb ed="G"/>save me, la! in an hour: O, tish ill done,
<lb ed="G" n="99"/>tish ill <lb ed="F1" n="1211"/>done; by my hand, tish ill done!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1212"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>Captain Macmorris, I beseech you
<lb ed="G"/>now, <lb ed="F1" n="1213"/>will you voutsafe me, look you, a few
<lb ed="G"/>disputations with <lb ed="F1" n="1214"/>you, as partly touching or
<lb ed="G"/>concerning the disciplines of <lb ed="F1" n="1215"/>the war, the
<lb ed="G"/>Roman wars, in the way of argument, <lb ed="F1" n="1216"/>look
<lb ed="G"/>you, and friendly communication; partly to
<lb ed="G"/>satisfy <lb ed="F1" n="1217"/>my opinion and party for the satisfaction,
<lb ed="G"/>look you, of <lb ed="F1" n="1218"/>my mind, as touching the
<lb ed="G"/>direction of the military discipline; <lb ed="F1" n="1219"/>that is the
<lb ed="G"/>point.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1220"/></p></sp><sp who="jamy."><speaker>Jamy.</speaker><p>It sall be vary gud, gud feith, gud
<lb ed="G"/>captains bath: <lb ed="F1" n="1221"/>and I sall quit you with gud
<lb ed="G"/>leve, as I may pick occasion; <lb ed="F1" n="1222"/>that sall I,
<lb ed="G"/>marry.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1223"/></p></sp><sp who="mac."><speaker>Mac.</speaker><p>It is no time to discourse, so Chrish
<lb ed="G"/>save me: <lb ed="F1" n="1224"/>the day is hot, and the weather, and
<lb ed="G"/>the wars, and the <lb ed="F1" n="1225"/>king, and the dukes: it is no
<lb ed="G"/>time to discourse. The town <lb ed="F1" n="1226"/>is beseeched, and
<lb ed="G"/>the trumpet call us to the breach; and <lb ed="F1" n="1227"/>we talk,
<lb ed="G"/>and, be Chrish, do nothing: 'tis shame for
<lb ed="G"/>us all: <lb ed="F1" n="1228"/>so God sa' me, 'tis shame to stand
<lb ed="G"/>still; it is shame, by my <lb ed="F1" n="1229"/>hand: and there is
<lb ed="G"/>throats to be cut, and works to be <lb ed="F1" n="1230"/>done;
<lb ed="G"/>and there ish nothing done, so Chrish sa' me,
<lb ed="G"/>la!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1231"/></p></sp><sp who="jamy."><speaker>Jamy.</speaker><p>By the mess, ere theise eyes of
<lb ed="G"/>mine take themselves <lb ed="F1" n="1232"/>to slomber, ay'll de gud
<lb ed="G"/>service, or ay'll lig i' the <lb ed="F1" n="1233"/>grund for it; ay, or
<lb ed="G"/>go to death; and ay'll pay't as valorously <lb ed="F1" n="1234"/>as
<lb ed="G"/>I may, that sall I suerly do, that is the breff
<lb ed="G"/>and <lb ed="F1" n="1235"/>the long. Marry, I wad full fain hear
<lb ed="G"/>some question 'tween <lb ed="F1" n="1236"/>you tway.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1237"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>Captain Macmorris, I think, look you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1238"/>under your correction, there is not many of
<lb ed="G" n="131"/>your <lb ed="F1" n="1239"/>nation--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1240"/></p></sp><sp who="mac."><speaker>Mac.</speaker><p>Of my nation! What ish my nation?
<lb ed="G"/>Ish a <lb ed="F1" n="1241"/>villain, and a bastard, and a knave, and
<lb ed="G"/>a rascal--What <lb ed="F1" n="1242"/>ish my nation?   Who talks
<lb ed="G"/>of my nation?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1243"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>Look you, if you take the matter
<lb ed="G"/>otherwise <lb ed="F1" n="1244"/>than is meant, Captain Macmorris,
<lb ed="G"/>peradventure I <lb ed="F1" n="1245"/>shall think you do not use me
<lb ed="G"/>with that affability as in <lb ed="F1" n="1246"/>discretion you ought
<lb ed="G"/>to use me, look you; being as good <lb ed="F1" n="1247"/>a man as
<lb ed="G"/>yourself, both in the disciplines of war, and <lb ed="F1" n="1248"/>in
<lb ed="G"/>the derivation of my birth, and in other
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1249"/>particularities.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1250"/></p></sp><sp who="mac."><speaker>Mac.</speaker><p>I do not know you so good a man as
<lb ed="G"/>myself: <lb ed="F1" n="1251"/>so Chrish save me, I will cut off
<lb ed="G"/>your head.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1252"/></p></sp><sp who="gow."><speaker>Gow.</speaker><p>Gentlemen both, you will mistake
<lb ed="G"/>each other.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1253"/></p></sp><sp who="jamy."><speaker>Jamy.</speaker><p>A! that's a foul fault.

<stage>[A parley sounded.</stage>

<lb ed="G" n="149"/><lb ed="F1" n="1254"/></p></sp><sp who="gow."><speaker>Gow.</speaker><p>The town sounds a parley.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1255"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>Captain Macmorris, when there is
<lb ed="G"/>more <lb ed="F1" n="1256"/>better opportunity to be required, look
<lb ed="G"/>you, I will be <lb ed="F1" n="1257"/>so bold as to tell you I know
<lb ed="G"/>the disciplines of war; <lb ed="F1" n="1258"/>and there is an end.

<stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
</p></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="3">
<head>SCENE III</head>
<stage type="setting">The same.  Before the gates.  The Governor and some Citizens on the walls; the English forces below.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1259"/><stage type="entrance">Enter KING HENRY and his train. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1260"/><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>How yet resolves the governor of the town?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1261"/></l><l>This is the latest parley we will admit:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1262"/></l><l>Therefore to our best mercy give yourselves;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1263"/></l><l>Or like to men proud of destruction
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1264"/></l><l>Defy us to our worst: for, as I am a soldier,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1265"/></l><l>A name that in my thoughts becomes me best,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1266"/></l><l>If I begin the battery once again,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1267"/></l><l>I will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1268"/></l><l>Till in her ashes she lie buried.
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="1269"/></l><l>The gates of mercy shall be all shut up,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1270"/></l><l>And the flesh'd soldier, rough and hard of heart,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1271"/></l><l>In liberty of bloody hand shall range
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1272"/></l><l>With conscience wide as hell, mowing like grass
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1273"/></l><l>Your fresh-fair virgins and your flowering infants.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1274"/></l><l>What is it then to me, if impious war,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1275"/></l><l>Array'd in flames like to the prince of fiends,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1276"/></l><l>Do, with his smirch'd complexion, all fell feats
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1277"/></l><l>Enlink'd to waste and desolation?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1278"/></l><l>What is't to me, when you yourselves are cause,
<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="1279"/></l><l>If your pure maidens fall into the hand
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1280"/></l><l>Of hot and forcing violation?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1281"/></l><l>What rein can hold licentious wickedness
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1282"/></l><l>When down the hill he holds his fierce career?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1283"/></l><l>We may as bootless spend our vain command
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1284"/></l><l>Upon the enraged soldiers in their spoil
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1285"/></l><l>As send precepts to the leviathan
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1286"/></l><l>To come ashore.   Therefore, you men of Harfleur,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1287"/></l><l>Take pity of your town and of your people,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1288"/></l><l>Whiles yet my soldiers are in my command;
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="1289"/></l><l>Whiles yet the cool and temperate wind of grace
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1290"/></l><l>O'erblows the filthy and contagious clouds
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1291"/></l><l>Of heady murder, spoil and villany.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1292"/></l><l>If not, why, in a moment look to see
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1293"/></l><l>The blind and bloody soldier with foul hand
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1294"/></l><l>Defile the locks of your shrill-shrieking daughters;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1295"/></l><l>Your fathers taken by the silver beards,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1296"/></l><l>And their most reverend heads dash'd to the walls,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1297"/></l><l>Your naked infants spitted upon pikes,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1298"/></l><l>Whiles the mad mothers with their howls confused
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1299"/></l><l>Do break the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry
<lb ed="G" n="41"/><lb ed="F1" n="1300"/></l><l>At Herod's bloody-hunting slaughtermen.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1301"/></l><l>What say you? will you yield, and thus avoid,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1302"/></l><l>Or, guilty in defence, be thus destroy'd?
<lb ed="F1" n="1303"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1304"/></l></sp><sp who="gov."><speaker>Gov.</speaker><l>Our expectation hath this day an end:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1305"/></l><l>The Dauphin, whom of succors we entreated,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1306"/></l><l>Returns us that his powers are yet not ready
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1307"/></l><l>To raise so great a siege. Therefore, great king,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1308"/></l><l>We yield our town and lives to thy soft mercy.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1309"/></l><l>Enter our gates; dispose of us and ours;
<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="1310"/></l><l>For we no longer are defensible.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1311"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>Open your gates.   Come, uncle Exeter,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1312"/></l><l>Go you and enter Harfleur; there remain,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1313"/></l><l>And fortify it strongly 'gainst the French:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1314"/></l><l>Use mercy to them all. For us, dear uncle,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1315"/></l><l>The winter coming on and sickness growing
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1316"/></l><l>Upon our soldiers, we will retire to Calais.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1317"/></l><l>To-night in Harfleur will we be your guest;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1318"/></l><l>To-morrow for the march are we addrest.

<lb ed="F1" n="1319"/><stage>[Flourish.   The King and his train enter the town.</stage></l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="4">
<head>SCENE IV</head>
<stage type="setting">The FRENCH KING'S palace.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1320"/><stage type="entrance">Enter KATHARINE and ALICE. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1321"/><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><p>Alice, tu as &eacute;t&eacute; en Angleterre, et tu
<lb ed="G"/>parles bien <lb ed="F1" n="1322"/>le langage.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1323"/></p></sp><sp who="alice."><speaker>Alice.</speaker><l>Un peu, madame.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1324"/></l></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><p>Je te prie, m'ensiegnez: il faute que
<lb ed="G"/>j'apprenne &agrave; parler.   <lb ed="F1" n="1325"/>Comment appelez-vous
<lb ed="G"/>la main en Anglois?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1326"/></p></sp><sp who="alice."><speaker>Alice.</speaker><p>La main? elle est appel&eacute;e de hand.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1327"/></p></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><p>De hand. <lb ed="F1" n="1328"/>Et les doigts?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1329"/></p></sp><sp who="alice."><speaker>Alice.</speaker><p>Les doigts?   ma foi, j'oublie les
<lb ed="G"/>doigts; mais je me souviendrai. <lb ed="F1" n="1330"/>Les doigts?
<lb ed="G"/>je pense qu'ils sont appeles de fingres; oui, de
<lb ed="G"/>fingres.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1331"/></p></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><p>La main, de hand; les doigts, de
<lb ed="G"/>fingres. Je pense que je <lb ed="F1" n="1332"/>suis le bon &eacute;colier;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1333"/>j'ai gagn&eacute; deux mots d'Anglois v&icirc;tement.
<lb ed="G"/>Comment <lb ed="F1" n="1334"/>appelez-vous les ongles?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1335"/></p></sp><sp who="alice."><speaker>Alice.</speaker><p>Les ongles? nous les appelons de nails.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1336"/></p></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><p>De nails. Ecoutez; dites-moi, si je
<lb ed="G"/>parle bien: de <lb ed="F1" n="1337"/>hand, de fingres, et de nails.

<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="1338"/></p></sp><sp who="alice."><speaker>Alice.</speaker><p>C'est bien dit, madame; il est fort bon Anglois.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1339"/></p></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><p>Dites-moi l'Anglois pour le bras.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1340"/></p></sp><sp who="alice."><speaker>Alice.</speaker><p>De arm, madame.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1341"/></p></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><p>Et le coude?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1342"/></p></sp><sp who="alice."><speaker>Alice.</speaker><p>De elbow.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1343"/></p></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><p>De elbow.   Je m'en fais la r&eacute;p&eacute;tition
<lb ed="G"/>de tous les mots <lb ed="F1" n="1344"/>que vous m'avez appris
<lb ed="G"/>d&egrave;s &agrave; pr&eacute;sent.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1345"/></p></sp><sp who="alice."><speaker>Alice.</speaker><p>Il est trop difficile, madame, comme
<lb ed="G"/>je pense.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1346"/></p></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><p>Excusez-moi, Alice;   &eacute;coutez:   de
<lb ed="G"/>hand, de fingres, de <lb ed="F1" n="1347"/>nails, de arma, de bilbow.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1348"/></p></sp><sp who="alice."><speaker>Alice.</speaker><p>De elbow, madame.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1349"/></p></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><p>O Seigneur Dieu, je m'en oublie!
<lb ed="G"/>de elbow.   Comment appelez-vous <lb ed="F1" n="1350"/>le col?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1351"/></p></sp><sp who="alice."><speaker>Alice.</speaker><p>De neck, madame.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1352"/></p></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><p>De nick. Et le menton?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1353"/></p></sp><sp who="alice."><speaker>Alice.</speaker><p>De chin.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1354"/></p></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><p>De sin.   Le col, de nick; le menton,
<lb ed="G" n="39"/>de sin.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1355"/></p></sp><sp who="alice."><speaker>Alice.</speaker><p>Oui. Sauf votre honneur, en v&eacute;rit&eacute;,
<lb ed="G"/>vous prononcez <lb ed="F1" n="1356"/>let mots aussi droit que les
<lb ed="G"/>natifs d'Angleterre.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1357"/></p></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><p>Je ne doute point d'apprendre, par
<lb ed="G"/>la grace de Dieu, <lb ed="F1" n="1358"/>et en peu de temps.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1359"/></p></sp><sp who="alice."><speaker>Alice.</speaker><p>N'avez vous pas d&eacute;j&agrave; oubli&eacute; ce que
<lb ed="G"/>je vous ai enseign&eacute;?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1360"/></p></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><p>Non, je reciterai a vous promptement:
<lb ed="G"/>de hand, de <lb ed="F1" n="1361"/>fingres, de mails,--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1362"/></p></sp><sp who="alice."><speaker>Alice.</speaker><p>De nails, madame.

<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="1363"/></p></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><p>De nails, de arm, de ilbow.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1364"/></p></sp><sp who="alice."><speaker>Alice.</speaker><p>Sauf votre honneur, de elbow.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1365"/></p></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><p>Ainsi dis-je; de elbow, de nick, et
<lb ed="G"/>de sin. Comment appelez-vous <lb ed="F1" n="1366"/>le pied et la
<lb ed="G"/>robe?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1367"/></p></sp><sp who="alice."><speaker>Alice.</speaker><p>De foot, madame; et de coun.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1368"/></p></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><p>De foot et de coun! O Seigneur
<lb ed="G"/>Dieu! ce sont <lb ed="F1" n="1369"/>mots de son mauvais, corruptible,
<lb ed="G"/>gros, et impudique, et non <lb ed="F1" n="1370"/>pour les
<lb ed="G"/>dames d'honneur d'user: je ne voudrais prononcer
<lb ed="G"/>ces <lb ed="F1" n="1371"/>mots devant les seigneurs de
<lb ed="G"/>France pour tout le monde.   Foh! le <lb ed="F1" n="1372"/>foot et
<lb ed="G"/>le coun!   Neanmoins, je reciterai une autre
<lb ed="G"/>fois ma lecon <lb ed="F1" n="1373"/>ensemble: de hand, de fingres,
<lb ed="G"/>de nails, de arm, de elbow, de <lb ed="F1" n="1374"/>nick, de sin,
<lb ed="G"/>de foot, de coun.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1375"/></p></sp><sp who="alice."><speaker>Alice.</speaker><p>Excellent, madame.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1376"/></p></sp><sp who="kath."><speaker>Kath.</speaker><p>C'est assez pour une fois: allons-
<lb ed="G"/>nous a diner.
<lb ed="F1" n="1377"/><stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
</p></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="5">
<head>SCENE V</head>
<stage type="setting">The same.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1378"/><stage type="entrance">Enter the KING OF FRANCE, the DAUPHIN, the DUKE OF BOURBON, the <lb ed="F1" n="1379"/>CONSTABLE OF FRANCE, and others.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1380"/><sp who="fr.-king."><speaker>Fr. King.</speaker><l>'Tis certain he hath pass'd the river Somme.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1381"/></l></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><l>And if he be not fought withal, my lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1382"/></l><l>Let us not live in France; let us quit all
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1383"/></l><l>And give our vineyards to a barbarous people.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1384"/></l></sp><sp who="dau."><speaker>Dau.</speaker><l>O Dieu vivant! shall a few sprays of us,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1385"/></l><l>The emptying of our fathers' luxury,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1386"/></l><l>Our scions, put in wild and savage stock,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1387"/></l><l>Spirt up so suddenly into the clouds,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1388"/></l><l>And overlook their grafters?

<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="1389"/></l></sp><sp who="bour."><speaker>Bour.</speaker><l>Normans, but bastard Normans, Norman bastards!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1390"/></l><l>Mort de ma vie! if they march along
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1391"/></l><l>Unfought withal, but I will sell my dukedom,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1392"/></l><l>To buy a slobbery and a dirty farm
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1393"/></l><l>In that nook-shotten isle of Albion.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1394"/></l></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><l>Dieu de batailles! where have they this mettle?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1395"/></l><l>Is not their climate foggy, raw and dull,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1396"/></l><l>On whom, as in despite, the sun looks pale,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1397"/></l><l>Killing their fruit with frowns? Can sodden water,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1398"/></l><l>A drench for sur-rein'd jades, their barleybroth,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1399"/></l><l>Decoct their cold blood to such valiant heat?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1400"/></l><l>And shall our quick blood, spirited with wine,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1401"/></l><l>Seem frosty?   O, for honor of our land,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1402"/></l><l>Let us not hang like roping icicles
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1403"/></l><l>Upon our houses' thatch, whiles a more frosty people
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1404"/></l><l>Sweat drops of gallant youth in our rich fields!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1405"/></l><l>Poor we may call them in their native lords,

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1406"/></l></sp><sp who="dau."><speaker>Dau.</speaker><l>By faith and honor,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1407"/></l><l>Our madams mock at us, and plainly say
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1408"/></l><l>Our mettle is bred out and they will give
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="1409"/></l><l>Their bodies to the lust of English youth
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1410"/></l><l>To new-store France with bastard warriors.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1411"/></l></sp><sp who="bour."><speaker>Bour.</speaker><l>They bid us to the English dancingschools,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1412"/></l><l>And teach lavoltas high and swift corantos;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1413"/></l><l>Saying our grace is only in our heels,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1414"/></l><l>And that we are most lofty runaways.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1415"/></l></sp><sp who="fr.-king."><speaker>Fr. King.</speaker><l>Where is Montjoy the herald? speed him hence:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1416"/></l><l>Let him greet England with our sharp defiance.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1417"/></l><l>Up, princes! and, with spirit of honor edged
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1418"/></l><l>More sharper than your swords, hie to the field:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1419"/></l><l>Charles Delabreth, high constable of France;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1420"/></l><l>You Dukes of Orleans, Bourbon, and of Berri,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1421"/></l><l>Alencon, Brabant, Bar, and Burgundy;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1422"/></l><l>Jaques Chatillon, Rambures, Vaudemont,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1423"/></l><l>Beaumont, Grandpre, Roussi, and Fauconberg,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1424"/></l><l>Foix, Lestrale, Bouciqualt, and Charolois;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1425"/></l><l>High dukes, great princes, barons, lords and knights,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1426"/></l><l>For your great seats now quit you of great shames.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1427"/></l><l>Bar Harry England, that sweeps through our land
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1428"/></l><l>With pennons painted in the blood of Harfleur:
<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="1429"/></l><l>Rush on his host, as doth the melted snow
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1430"/></l><l>Upon the valleys, whose low vassal seat
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1431"/></l><l>The Alps doth spit and void his rheum upon:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1432"/></l><l>Go down upon him, you have power enough,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1433"/></l><l>And in a captive chariot into Rouen
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1434"/></l><l part="I">Bring him our prisoner.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1435"/></l></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><l part="F">This becomes the great.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1436"/></l><l>Sorry am I his numbers are so few,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1437"/></l><l>His soldiers sick and famish'd in their march,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1438"/></l><l>For I am sure, when he shall see our army,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1439"/></l><l>He'll drop his heart into the sink of fear
<lb ed="G" n="60"/><lb ed="F1" n="1440"/></l><l>And for achievement offer us his ransom.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1441"/></l></sp><sp who="fr.-king."><speaker>Fr. King.</speaker><l>Therefore, lord constable, haste on Montjoy,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1442"/></l><l>And let him say to England that we send
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1443"/></l><l>To know what willing ransom he will give.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1444"/></l><l>Prince Dauphin, you shall stay with us in Rouen.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1445"/></l></sp><sp who="dau."><speaker>Dau.</speaker><l>Not so, I do beseech your majesty.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1446"/></l></sp><sp who="fr.-king."><speaker>Fr. King.</speaker><l>Be patient, for you shall remain with us.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1447"/></l><l>Now forth, lord constable and princes all,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1448"/></l><l>And quickly bring us word of England's fall.

<stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
</l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="6">
<head>SCENE VI</head>
<stage type="setting">The English camp in Picardy.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1449"/><stage type="entrance">Enter GOWER and FLUELLEN, meeting.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1450"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1451"/><sp who="gow."><speaker>Gow.</speaker><p>How now, Captain Fluellen! come
<lb ed="G"/>you from <lb ed="F1" n="1452"/>the bridge?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1453"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>I assure you, there is very excellent
<lb ed="G"/>services committed <lb ed="F1" n="1454"/>at the bridge.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1455"/></p></sp><sp who="gow."><speaker>Gow.</speaker><p>Is the Duke of Exeter safe?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1456"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>The Duke of Exeter is as magnanimous
<lb ed="G"/>as Agamemnon; <lb ed="F1" n="1457"/>and a man that I love
<lb ed="G"/>and honor with my soul, <lb ed="F1" n="1458"/>and my heart, and
<lb ed="G"/>my duty, and my life, and my living, <lb ed="F1" n="1459"/>and my
<lb ed="G"/>uttermost power: he is not--God be praised
<lb ed="G"/>and <lb ed="F1" n="1460"/>blessed!--any hurt in the world; but keeps
<lb ed="G"/>the bridge <lb ed="F1" n="1461"/>most valiantly, with excellent discipline.
<lb ed="G"/>There is an aunchient <lb ed="F1" n="1462"/>lieutenant there
<lb ed="G"/>at the pridge, I think in my very <lb ed="F1" n="1463"/>conscience he
<lb ed="G"/>is as valiant a man as Mark Antony; and <lb ed="F1" n="1464"/>he
<lb ed="G"/>is a man of no estimation in the world; but
<lb ed="G"/>I did see <lb ed="F1" n="1465"/>him do as gallant service.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1466"/></p></sp><sp who="gow."><speaker>Gow.</speaker><p>What do you call him?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1467"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>He is called Aunchient Pistol.

<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="1468"/></p></sp><sp who="gow."><speaker>Gow.</speaker><p>I know him not.
<lb ed="F1" n="1469"/><stage type="entrance">Enter PISTOL.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1470"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>Here is the man.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1471"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>Captain, I do thee beseech to do me favors:
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>The <lb ed="F1" n="1472"/>Duke of Exeter doth love thee well.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1473"/></l></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>Ay, I praise God; and I have merited
<lb ed="G"/>some love at <lb ed="F1" n="1474"/>his hands.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1475"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>Bardolph, a soldier, firm and sound of heart,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1476"/></l><l>And of buxom valor, hath, by cruel fate,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>And giddy <lb ed="F1" n="1477"/>Fortune's furious fickle wheel,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>That goddess blind,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>That <lb ed="F1" n="1478"/>stands upon the rolling restless stone--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1479"/></l></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>By your patience, Aunchient Pistol.
<lb ed="G"/>Fortune is <lb ed="F1" n="1480"/>painted blind, with a muffler afore
<lb ed="G"/>her eyes, to signify <lb ed="F1" n="1481"/>to you that Fortune is
<lb ed="G"/>blind; and she is painted also <lb ed="F1" n="1482"/>with a wheel,
<lb ed="G"/>to signify to you, which is the moral of <lb ed="F1" n="1483"/>it, that
<lb ed="G"/>she is turning, and inconstant, and mutability,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1484"/>and variation: and her foot, look you, is fixed
<lb ed="G"/>upon a <lb ed="F1" n="1485"/>spherical stone, which rolls, and rolls,
<lb ed="G"/>and rolls: <lb ed="F1" n="1486"/>in good truth, the poet makes a
<lb ed="G"/>most excellent description <lb ed="F1" n="1487"/>of it: Fortune is an
<lb ed="G" n="40"/>excellent moral.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1488"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>Fortune is Bardolph's foe, and frowns on him;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1489"/></l><l>For he hath stolen a pax, and hanged must a' be:
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>A damned <lb ed="F1" n="1490"/>death!
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Let gallows gape for dog; let man go free
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1491"/></l><l>And let not hemp his wind-pipe suffocate:
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>But Exeter <lb ed="F1" n="1492"/>hath given the doom of death
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>For pax of little price.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1493"/></l><l>Therefore, go speak; the duke will hear thy voice:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1494"/></l><l>And let not Bardolph's vital thread be cut
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>With edge of <lb ed="F1" n="1495"/>penny cord and vile reproach:
<lb ed="G" n="51"/></l><l>Speak, captain, for <lb ed="F1" n="1496"/>his life, and I will thee requite.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1497"/></l></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>Aunchient Pistol, I do partly understand
<lb ed="G"/>your <lb ed="F1" n="1498"/>meaning.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1499"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>Why then, rejoice therefore.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1500"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>Certainly, aunchient, it is not a thing
<lb ed="G"/>to rejoice <lb ed="F1" n="1501"/>at: for if, look you, he were my
<lb ed="G"/>brother, I would desire <lb ed="F1" n="1502"/>the duke to use his
<lb ed="G"/>good pleasure, and put him to execution; <lb ed="F1" n="1503"/>for
<lb ed="G"/>discipline ought to be used.

<lb ed="G" n="60"/><lb ed="F1" n="1504"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>Die and be damn'd! and figo for thy friendship!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1505"/></l></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>It is well.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1506"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>The fig of Spain!
<stage>[Exit.</stage>


<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1507"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>Very good.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1508"/></p></sp><sp who="gow."><speaker>Gow.</speaker><p>Why, this is an arrant counterfeit
<lb ed="G"/>rascal; I <lb ed="F1" n="1509"/>remember him now; a bawd, a cut-purse.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1510"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>I'll assure you, a' uttered as brave
<lb ed="G"/>words at the <lb ed="F1" n="1511"/>bridge as you shall see in a summer's
<lb ed="G"/>day. But it is very <lb ed="F1" n="1512"/>well; what he has
<lb ed="G"/>spoke to me, that is well, I warrant you, <lb ed="F1" n="1513"/>when
<lb ed="G" n="69"/>time is serve.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1514"/></p></sp><sp who="gow."><speaker>Gow.</speaker><p>Why, 'tis a gull, a fool, a rogue, that
<lb ed="G"/>now and <lb ed="F1" n="1515"/>then goes to the wars, to grace himself
<lb ed="G"/>at his return <lb ed="F1" n="1516"/>into London under the form
<lb ed="G"/>of a soldier.   And such <lb ed="F1" n="1517"/>fellows are perfect in
<lb ed="G"/>the great commanders' names: and <lb ed="F1" n="1518"/>they will
<lb ed="G"/>learn you by rote where services were done;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1519"/>at such and such a sconce, at such a breach, at
<lb ed="G"/>such a convoy; <lb ed="F1" n="1520"/>who came off bravely, who
<lb ed="G"/>was shot, who disgraced, <lb ed="F1" n="1521"/>what terms the
<lb ed="G"/>enemy stood on; and this they <lb ed="F1" n="1522"/>con perfectly
<lb ed="G"/>in the phrase of war, which they trick <lb ed="F1" n="1523"/>up with
<lb ed="G"/>new-tuned oaths: and what a beard of the
<lb ed="G"/>general's <lb ed="F1" n="1524"/>cut and a horrid suit of the camp
<lb ed="G"/>will do among <lb ed="F1" n="1525"/>foaming bottles and ale-washed
<lb ed="G"/>wits, is wonderful <lb ed="F1" n="1526"/>to be thought on. But you
<lb ed="G"/>must learn to know such <lb ed="F1" n="1527"/>slanders of the age,
<lb ed="G"/>or else you may be marvellously <lb ed="F1" n="1528"/>mistook.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1529"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>I tell you what Captain Gower; I do
<lb ed="G"/>perceive <lb ed="F1" n="1530"/>he is not the man that he would gladly
<lb ed="G"/>make show to <lb ed="F1" n="1531"/>the world he is: if I find a hole
<lb ed="G"/>in his coat, I will tell <lb ed="F1" n="1532"/>him my mind.
<stage>[Drum heard.],</stage>
<lb ed="G"/>Hark you, the king is coming, and I
<lb ed="G" n="91"/><lb ed="F1" n="1533"/>must speak with him from the pridge.
<lb ed="F1" n="1534"/><stage>Drum and colors.</stage>
<stage type="entrance">Enter KING HENRY,GLOUCESTER, and <lb ed="F1" n="1535"/>Soldiers.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1536"/></p><l part="I">God pless your majesty!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1537"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l part="F">How now, Fluellen! camest thou from the bridge?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1538"/></l></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>Ay, so please your majesty. The Duke
<lb ed="G"/>of Exeter <lb ed="F1" n="1539"/>has very gallantly maintained the
<lb ed="G"/>pridge: the French is <lb ed="F1" n="1540"/>gone off, look you; and
<lb ed="G"/>there is gallant and most prave <lb ed="F1" n="1541"/>passages;
<lb ed="G"/>marry, th' athversary was have possession of
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1542"/>the pridge; but he is enforced to retire, and
<lb ed="G"/>the Duke of <lb ed="F1" n="1543"/>Exeter is master of the pridge: I
<lb ed="G"/>can tell your majesty, <lb ed="F1" n="1544"/>the duke is a prave
<lb ed="G" n="101"/>man.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1545"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>What men have you lost, Fluellen?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1546"/></l></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>The perdition of th' athversary hath
<lb ed="G"/>been very <lb ed="F1" n="1547"/>great, reasonable great: marry, for
<lb ed="G"/>my part, I think the <lb ed="F1" n="1548"/>duke hath lost never a
<lb ed="G"/>man, but one that is like to be executed <lb ed="F1" n="1549"/>for
<lb ed="G"/>robbing a church, one Bardolph, if your majesty
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1550"/>know the man: his face is all bubukles,
<lb ed="G"/>and whelks, <lb ed="F1" n="1551"/>and knobs, and flames o' fire:
<lb ed="G"/>and his lips blows at his <lb ed="F1" n="1552"/>nose, and it is like a
<lb ed="G"/>coal of fire, sometimes plue and <lb ed="F1" n="1553"/>sometimes
<lb ed="G"/>red; but his nose is executed, and his fire's <lb ed="F1" n="1554"/>out.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1555"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>We would have all such offenders
<lb ed="G"/>so cut off: <lb ed="F1" n="1556"/>and we give express charge, that
<lb ed="G"/>in our marches through <lb ed="F1" n="1557"/>the country, there be
<lb ed="G"/>nothing compelled from the villages, <lb ed="F1" n="1558"/>nothing
<lb ed="G"/>taken but paid for, none of the French <lb ed="F1" n="1559"/>upbraided
<lb ed="G"/>or abused in disdainful language; for
<lb ed="G"/>when <lb ed="F1" n="1560"/>lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom,
<lb ed="G" n="120"/>the gentler <lb ed="F1" n="1561"/>gamester is the soonest winner.
<lb ed="F1" n="1562"/><stage>Tucket.</stage>   <stage type="entrance">Enter MONTJOY.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1563"/></p></sp><sp who="mont."><speaker>Mont.</speaker><p>You know me by my habit.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1564"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>Well then I know thee: what
<lb ed="G"/>shall I know of <lb ed="F1" n="1565"/>thee?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1566"/></p></sp><sp who="mont."><speaker>Mont.</speaker><p>My master's mind.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1567"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>Unfold it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1568"/></p></sp><sp who="mont."><speaker>Mont.</speaker><p>Thus says my king: Say thou to
<lb ed="G"/>Harry <lb ed="F1" n="1569"/>of England: Though we seemed dead,
<lb ed="G"/>we did but sleep: <lb ed="F1" n="1570"/>advantage is a better soldier
<lb ed="G"/>than rashness. Tell him <lb ed="F1" n="1571"/>we could have rebuked
<lb ed="G"/>him at Harfleur, but that we <lb ed="F1" n="1572"/>thought
<lb ed="G"/>not good to abuse an injury till it were full
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1573"/>ripe: now we speak upon our cue, and our
<lb ed="G"/>voice is imperial: <lb ed="F1" n="1574"/>England shall repent his
<lb ed="G"/>folly, see his weakness, <lb ed="F1" n="1575"/>and admire our sufferance.
<lb ed="G"/>Bid him therefore consider <lb ed="F1" n="1576"/>of his
<lb ed="G"/>ransom; which must proportion the losses we
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1577"/>have borne, the subjects we have lost, the disgrace
<lb ed="G"/>we <lb ed="F1" n="1578"/>have digested; which in weight to
<lb ed="G"/>re-answer, his pettiness <lb ed="F1" n="1579"/>would bow under. For
<lb ed="G"/>our losses, his exchequer is <lb ed="F1" n="1580"/>too poor; for the
<lb ed="G"/>effusion of our blood, the muster of his <lb ed="F1" n="1581"/>kingdom
<lb ed="G"/>too faint a number; and for our disgrace,
<lb ed="G"/>his <lb ed="F1" n="1582"/>own person, kneeling at our feet, but a
<lb ed="G"/>weak and worthless <lb ed="F1" n="1583"/>satisfaction.   To this add
<lb ed="G"/>defiance: and tell him, for <lb ed="F1" n="1584"/>conclusion, he hath
<lb ed="G"/>betrayed his followers, whose condemnation <lb ed="F1" n="1585"/>is
<lb ed="G"/>pronounced.   So far my king and master; <lb ed="F1" n="1586"/>so
<lb ed="G"/>much my office.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1587"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>What is thy name?   I know thy quality.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1588"/></l></sp><sp who="mont."><speaker>Mont.</speaker><p>Montjoy.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1589"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>Thou dost thy office fairly. Turn thee back,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1590"/></l><l>And tell thy king I do not seek him now;
<lb ed="G" n="150"/><lb ed="F1" n="1591"/></l><l>But could be willing to march on to Calais
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1592"/></l><l>Without impeachment: for, to say the sooth,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1593"/></l><l>Though 'tis no wisdom to confess so much
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1594"/></l><l>Unto an enemy of craft and vantage,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1595"/></l><l>My people are with sickness much enfeebled,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1596"/></l><l>My numbers lessen'd, and those few I have
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1597"/></l><l>Almost no better than so many French;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1598"/></l><l>Who when they were in health, I tell thee, herald,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1599"/></l><l>I thought upon one pair of English legs
<lb ed="G" n="159"/><lb ed="F1" n="1600"/></l><l>Did march three Frenchmen.   Yet, forgive me, God,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1601"/></l><l>That I do brag thus! This your air of France
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1602"/></l><l>Hath blown that vice in me; I must repent.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1603"/></l><l>Go therefore, tell thy master here I am;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1604"/></l><l>My ransom is this frail and worthless trunk,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1605"/></l><l>My army but a weak and sickly guard;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1606"/></l><l>Yet, God before, tell him we will come on,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1607"/></l><l>Though France himself and such another neighbour
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1608"/></l><l>Stand in our way. There's for thy labour, Montjoy.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1609"/></l><l>Go, bid thy master well advise himself:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1610"/></l><l>If we may pass, we will; if we be hinder'd,
<lb ed="G" n="170"/><lb ed="F1" n="1611"/></l><l>We shall your tawny ground with your red blood
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1612"/></l><l>Discolour: and so, Montjoy, fare you well.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1613"/></l><l>The sum of a!l our answer is but this:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1614"/></l><l>We would not seek a battle, as we are;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1615"/></l><l>Nor, as we are, we say we will not shun it:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1616"/></l><l>So tell your master.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1617"/></l></sp><sp who="mont."><speaker>Mont.</speaker><l>I shall deliver so. Thanks to your <lb ed="F1" n="1618"/>highness.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>Exit. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1619"/></l></sp><sp who="glou."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>I hope they will not come upon us now.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1620"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>We are in God's hand, brother, not in theirs.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1621"/></l><l>March to the bridge; it now draws toward night:
<lb ed="G" n="180"/><lb ed="F1" n="1622"/></l><l>Beyond the river we'll encamp ourselves,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1623"/></l><l>And on to-morrow bid them march away.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exeunt.</stage>

</l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="7">
<head>SCENE VII</head>
<stage type="setting">The French camp, near Agincourt.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1624"/><stage type="entrance">Enter the CONSTABLE OF FRANCE, the LORD RAMBURES, <lb ed="F1" n="1625"/>ORLEANS, DAUPHIN, with others.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1626"/><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><p>Tut!   I have the best armour of the
<lb ed="G"/> world.   <lb ed="F1" n="1627"/>Would it were day!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1628"/></p></sp><sp who="orl."><speaker>Orl.</speaker><p>You have an excellent armour; but let
<lb ed="G"/>my <lb ed="F1" n="1629"/>horse have his due.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1630"/></p></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><p>It is the best horse of Europe.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1631"/></p></sp><sp who="orl."><speaker>Orl.</speaker><p>Will it never be morning?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1632"/></p></sp><sp who="dau."><speaker>Dau.</speaker><p>My Lord of Orleans, and my lord high
<lb ed="G"/>constable, <lb ed="F1" n="1633"/>you talk of horse and armour?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1634"/></p></sp><sp who="orl."><speaker>Orl.</speaker><p>You are as well provided of both as
<lb ed="G" n="10"/> any <lb ed="F1" n="1635"/>prince in the world.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1636"/></p></sp><sp who="dau."><speaker>Dau.</speaker><p>What a long night is this!   I will
<lb ed="G"/>not change <lb ed="F1" n="1637"/>my horse with any that treads but
<lb ed="G"/>on four pasterns.   <lb ed="F1" n="1638"/>Ca, ha! he bounds from
<lb ed="G"/>the earth, as if his entrails were <lb ed="F1" n="1639"/>hairs; le
<lb ed="G"/>cheval volant, the Pegasus, chez les narines
<lb ed="G"/>de <lb ed="F1" n="1640"/>feu!   When I bestride him, I soar, I am a
<lb ed="G"/>hawk: he trots <lb ed="F1" n="1641"/>the air; the earth sings when
<lb ed="G"/>he touches it; the basest <lb ed="F1" n="1642"/>horn of his hoof is
<lb ed="G"/>more musical than the pipe of <lb ed="F1" n="1643"/>Hermes.

<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="1644"/></p></sp><sp who="orl."><speaker>Orl.</speaker><p>He's of the colour of the nutmeg.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1645"/></p></sp><sp who="dau."><speaker>Dau.</speaker><p>And of the heat of the ginger.   It is a
<lb ed="G"/>beast <lb ed="F1" n="1646"/>for Perseus: he is pure air and fire; and
<lb ed="G"/>the dull elements <lb ed="F1" n="1647"/>of earth and water never
<lb ed="G"/>appear in him, but only <lb ed="F1" n="1648"/>in patient stillness
<lb ed="G"/>while his rider mounts him: he <lb ed="F1" n="1649"/>is indeed a
<lb ed="G"/>horse; and all other jades you may call <lb ed="F1" n="1650"/>beasts.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1651"/></p></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><p>Indeed, my lord, it is a most absolute
<lb ed="G"/>and excellent <lb ed="F1" n="1652"/>horse.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1653"/></p></sp><sp who="dau."><speaker>Dau.</speaker><p>It is the prince of palfreys;   his
<lb ed="G"/>neigh is like <lb ed="F1" n="1654"/>the bidding of a monarch and
<lb ed="G" n="31"/>his countenance enforces <lb ed="F1" n="1655"/>homage.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1656"/></p></sp><sp who="orl."><speaker>Orl.</speaker><p>No more, cousin.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1657"/></p></sp><sp who="dau."><speaker>Dau.</speaker><p>Nay, the man hath no wit that cannot,
<lb ed="G"/>from <lb ed="F1" n="1658"/>the rising of the lark to the lodging
<lb ed="G"/>of the lamb, <lb ed="F1" n="1659"/>vary deserved praise on my palfrey:
<lb ed="G"/>it is a theme as <lb ed="F1" n="1660"/>fluent as the sea: turn
<lb ed="G"/>the sands into eloquent tongues, <lb ed="F1" n="1661"/>and my horse
<lb ed="G"/>is argument for them all: 'tis a subject <lb ed="F1" n="1662"/>for a
<lb ed="G"/>sovereign to reason on, and for a sovereign's
<lb ed="G"/>sovereign <lb ed="F1" n="1663"/>to ride on; and for the world, familiar
<lb ed="G"/>to us <lb ed="F1" n="1664"/>and unknown, to lay apart their
<lb ed="G"/>particular functions <lb ed="F1" n="1665"/>and wonder at him.   I once
<lb ed="G"/>writ a sonnet in his praise <lb ed="F1" n="1666"/>and began thus:
<lb ed="G"/>'Wonder of nature,'--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1667"/></p></sp><sp who="orl."><speaker>Orl.</speaker><p>I have heard a sonnet begin so to
<lb ed="G"/>one's <lb ed="F1" n="1668"/>mistress.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1669"/></p></sp><sp who="dau."><speaker>Dau.</speaker><p>Then did they imitate that which I
<lb ed="G"/>composed <lb ed="F1" n="1670"/>to my courser, for my horse is my
<lb ed="G"/>mistress.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1671"/></p></sp><sp who="orl."><speaker>Orl.</speaker><p>Your mistress bears well.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1672"/></p></sp><sp who="dau."><speaker>Dau.</speaker><p>Me well; which is the prescript
<lb ed="G"/>praise and perfection <lb ed="F1" n="1673"/>of a good and particular
<lb ed="G"/>mistress.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1674"/></p></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><p>Nay, for methought yesterday your
<lb ed="G"/>mistress <lb ed="F1" n="1675"/>shrewdly shook your back.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1676"/></p></sp><sp who="dau."><speaker>Dau.</speaker><p>So perhaps did yours.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1677"/></p></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><p>Mine was not bridled.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1678"/></p></sp><sp who="dau."><speaker>Dau.</speaker><p>O then belike she was old and gentle;
<lb ed="G"/>and you <lb ed="F1" n="1679"/>rode, like a kern of Ireland, your
<lb ed="G"/>French hose off, and in <lb ed="F1" n="1680"/>your strait strossers.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1681"/></p></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><p>You have good judgement in
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1682"/>horsemanship.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1683"/></p></sp><sp who="dau."><speaker>Dau.</speaker><p>Be warned by me, then: they that
<lb ed="G"/>ride so and <lb ed="F1" n="1684"/>ride not warily, fall into foul bogs.
<lb ed="G"/>I had rather have <lb ed="F1" n="1685"/>my horse to my mistress.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1686"/></p></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><p>I had as lief have my mistress a jade.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1687"/></p></sp><sp who="dau."><speaker>Dau.</speaker><p>I tell thee, constable, my mistress
<lb ed="G"/>wears his <lb ed="F1" n="1688"/>own hair.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1689"/></p></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><p>I could make as true a boast as that,
<lb ed="G"/>if I had a <lb ed="F1" n="1690"/>sow to my mistress.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1691"/></p></sp><sp who="dau."><speaker>Dau.</speaker><p>'Le chien est retourn&eacute; &agrave; son propre
<lb ed="G"/>vomissement, et <lb ed="F1" n="1692"/>la truie lav&eacute;e au bourbier:'
<lb ed="G" n="70"/>thou makest use of any thing.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1693"/></p></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><p>Yet do I not use my horse for my
<lb ed="G"/>mistress, <lb ed="F1" n="1694"/>or any such proverb so little kin to
<lb ed="G"/>the purpose.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1695"/></p></sp><sp who="ram."><speaker>Ram.</speaker><p>My lord constable, the armour that I
<lb ed="G"/>saw in <lb ed="F1" n="1696"/>your tent to-night, are those stars or
<lb ed="G"/>suns upon it?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1697"/></p></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><p>Stars, my lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1698"/></p></sp><sp who="dau."><speaker>Dau.</speaker><p>Some of them will fall to-morrow, I
<lb ed="G"/>hope.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1699"/></p></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><p>And yet my sky shall not want.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1700"/></p></sp><sp who="dau."><speaker>Dau.</speaker><p>That may be, for you bear a many
<lb ed="G"/>superfluously, <lb ed="F1" n="1701"/>and 'twere more honour some
<lb ed="G" n="81"/>were away.
<lb ed="G"/>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1702"/></p></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><p>Even as your horse bears your
<lb ed="G"/>praises; who <lb ed="F1" n="1703"/>would trot as well, were some
<lb ed="G"/>of your bags <lb ed="F1" n="1704"/>dismounted.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1705"/></p></sp><sp who="dau."><speaker>Dau.</speaker><p>Would I were able to load him with
<lb ed="G"/>his desert!   <lb ed="F1" n="1706"/>Will it never be day?   I will trot
<lb ed="G"/>to-morrow a mile, <lb ed="F1" n="1707"/>and my way shall be paved
<lb ed="G"/>with English faces.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1708"/></p></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><p>I will not say so, for fear I should be
<lb ed="G"/>faced out <lb ed="F1" n="1709"/>of my way: but I would it were
<lb ed="G"/>morning; for I would <lb ed="F1" n="1710"/>fain be about the ears
<lb ed="G"/>of the English.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1711"/></p></sp><sp who="ram."><speaker>Ram.</speaker><p>Who will go to hazard with me for
<lb ed="G"/>twenty <lb ed="F1" n="1712"/>prisoners?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1713"/></p></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><p>You must first go yourself to hazard,
<lb ed="G"/>ere you <lb ed="F1" n="1714"/>have them.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1715"/></p></sp><sp who="dau."><speaker>Dau.</speaker><p>'Tis midnight; I'll go arm myself.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1716"/></p></sp><sp who="orl."><speaker>Orl.</speaker><p>The Dauphin longs for morning.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1717"/></p></sp><sp who="ram."><speaker>Ram.</speaker><p>He longs to eat the English.

<lb ed="G" n="100"/><lb ed="F1" n="1718"/></p></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><l>I think he will eat all he kills.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1719"/></l></sp><sp who="orl."><speaker>Orl.</speaker><p>By the white hand of my lady, he's a
<lb ed="G"/>gallant <lb ed="F1" n="1720"/>prince.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1721"/></p></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><p>Swear by her foot, that she may tread
<lb ed="G"/>out the <lb ed="F1" n="1722"/>oath.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1723"/></p></sp><sp who="orl."><speaker>Orl.</speaker><p>He is simply the most active gentleman
<lb ed="G"/>of <lb ed="F1" n="1724"/>France.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1725"/></p></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><p>Doing is activity; and he will still be
<lb ed="G"/>doing.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1726"/></p></sp><sp who="orl."><speaker>Orl.</speaker><p>He never did harm, that I heard of.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1727"/></p></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><p>Nor will do none to-morrow: he will
<lb ed="G" n="111"/>keep <lb ed="F1" n="1728"/>that good name still.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1729"/></p></sp><sp who="orl."><speaker>Orl.</speaker><p>I know him to be valiant.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1730"/></p></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><p>I was told that by one that knows
<lb ed="G"/>him better <lb ed="F1" n="1731"/>than you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1732"/></p></sp><sp who="orl."><speaker>Orl.</speaker><p>What's he?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1733"/></p></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><p>Marry, he told me so himself; and
<lb ed="G"/>he said he <lb ed="F1" n="1734"/>cared not who knew it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1735"/></p></sp><sp who="orl."><speaker>Orl.</speaker><p>He needs not; it is no hidden virtue
<lb ed="G" n="119"/>in <lb ed="F1" n="1736"/>him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1737"/></p></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><p>By my faith, sir, but it is; never
<lb ed="G"/>any body saw <lb ed="F1" n="1738"/>it but his lackey: 'tis a hooded
<lb ed="G"/>valor; and when it <lb ed="F1" n="1739"/>appears, it will bate.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1740"/></p></sp><sp who="orl."><speaker>Orl.</speaker><p>Ill will never said well.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1741"/></p></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><p>I will cap that proverb with 'There
<lb ed="G"/>is flattery <lb ed="F1" n="1742"/>in friendship.'

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1743"/></p></sp><sp who="orl."><speaker>Orl.</speaker><p>And I will take up that with 'Give
<lb ed="G"/>the devil <lb ed="F1" n="1744"/>his due.'

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1745"/></p></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><p>Well placed: there stands your friend
<lb ed="G"/>for the <lb ed="F1" n="1746"/>devil: have at the very eye of that
<lb ed="G" n="130"/>proverb with 'A <lb ed="F1" n="1747"/>pox of the devil.'

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1748"/></p></sp><sp who="orl."><speaker>Orl.</speaker><p>You are the better at proverbs, by
<lb ed="G"/>how much <lb ed="F1" n="1749"/>'A fool's bolt is soon shot.'

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1750"/></p></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><p>You have shot over.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1751"/></p></sp><sp who="orl."><speaker>Orl.</speaker><p>'Tis not the first time you were overshot.
<lb ed="F1" n="1752"/><stage type="entrance">Enter a Messenger.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1753"/></p></sp><sp who="mess."><speaker>Mess.</speaker><p>My lord high constable, the English
<lb ed="G"/>lie within <lb ed="F1" n="1754"/>fifteen hundred paces of your tents.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1755"/></p></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><p>Who hath measured the ground?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1756"/></p></sp><sp who="mess."><speaker>Mess.</speaker><p>The Lord Grandpre.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1757"/></p></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><p>A valiant and most expert gentleman.
<lb ed="G"/>Would <lb ed="F1" n="1758"/>it were day!   Alas, poor Harry of
<lb ed="G"/>England! he longs <lb ed="F1" n="1759"/>not for the dawning as we
<lb ed="G" n="141"/>do.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1760"/></p></sp><sp who="orl."><speaker>Orl.</speaker><p>What a wretched and peevish fellow
<lb ed="G"/>is this <lb ed="F1" n="1761"/>king of England, to mope with his fat-brained
<lb ed="G"/>followers <lb ed="F1" n="1762"/>so far out of his knowledge!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1763"/></p></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><p>If the English had any apprehension,
<lb ed="G"/>they <lb ed="F1" n="1764"/>would run away.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1765"/></p></sp><sp who="orl."><speaker>Orl.</speaker><p>That they lack; for if their heads had
<lb ed="G"/>any intellectual <lb ed="F1" n="1766"/>armor, they could never wear
<lb ed="G" n="149"/>such heavy <lb ed="F1" n="1767"/>head-pieces.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1768"/></p></sp><sp who="ram."><speaker>Ram.</speaker><p>That island of England breeds very
<lb ed="G"/>valiant <lb ed="F1" n="1769"/>creatures; their mastiffs are of unmatchable
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1770"/>courage.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1771"/></p></sp><sp who="orl."><speaker>Orl.</speaker><p>Foolish curs, that run winking into
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1772"/>the mouth of a Russian bear and have their
<lb ed="G"/>heads crushed <lb ed="F1" n="1773"/>like rotten apples!   You may
<lb ed="G"/>as well say, that's a valiant <lb ed="F1" n="1774"/>flea that dare eat
<lb ed="G"/>his breakfast on the lip of a <lb ed="F1" n="1775"/>lion.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1776"/></p></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><p>Just, just; and the men do sympathize
<lb ed="G"/>with <lb ed="F1" n="1777"/>the mastiffs in robustious and rough
<lb ed="G"/>coming on, <lb ed="F1" n="1778"/>leaving their wits with their wives:
<lb ed="G"/>and then give <lb ed="F1" n="1779"/>them great meals of beef and
<lb ed="G"/>iron and steel, they <lb ed="F1" n="1780"/>will eat like wolves and
<lb ed="G"/>fight like devils.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1781"/></p></sp><sp who="orl."><speaker>Orl.</speaker><p>Ay, but these English are shrewdly
<lb ed="G"/>out of <lb ed="F1" n="1782"/>beef.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1783"/></p></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><p>Then shall we find to-morrow they
<lb ed="G"/>have only <lb ed="F1" n="1784"/>stomachs to eat and none to fight.
<lb ed="G"/>Now is it time to <lb ed="F1" n="1785"/>arm: come, shall we about
<lb ed="G"/>it?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1786"/></p></sp><sp who="orl."><speaker>Orl.</speaker><l>It is now two o'clock: but, let me see, by ten
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1787"/></l><l>We shall have each a hundred Englishmen.

<stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
</l></sp>
</div2>
    </div1>

    <div1 type="act" n="4">
      <head>ACT IV</head>
<lb ed="F1" n="1788"/>
<div2 type="scene" n="prologue">
<head>PROLOGUE</head>
<lb ed="F1" n="1789"/><stage type="entrance">Enter Chorus.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1790"/><sp who="chor."><speaker>Chor.</speaker><l>Now entertain conjecture of a time
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1791"/></l><l>When creeping murmur and the poring dark
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1792"/></l><l>Fills the wide vessel of the universe.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1793"/></l><l>From camp to camp through the foul womb of night
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1794"/></l><l>The hum of either army stilly sounds,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1795"/></l><l>That the fix'd sentinels almost receive
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1796"/></l><l>The secret whispers of each other's watch:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1797"/></l><l>Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1798"/></l><l>Each battle sees the other's umber'd face;
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="1799"/></l><l>Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1800"/></l><l>Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1801"/></l><l>The armorers, accomplishing the knights,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1802"/></l><l>With busy hammers closing rivets up,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1803"/></l><l>Give dreadful note of preparation:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1804"/></l><l>The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1805"/></l><l>And the third hour of drowsy morning name.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1806"/></l><l>Proud of their numbers and secure in soul,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1807"/></l><l>The confident and over-lusty French
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1808"/></l><l>Do the low-rated English play at dice;
<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="1809"/></l><l>And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1810"/></l><l>Who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1811"/></l><l>So tediously away.   The poor condemned English,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1812"/></l><l>Like sacrifices, by their watchful fires
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1813"/></l><l>Sit patiently and inly ruminate
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1814"/></l><l>The morning's danger, and their gesture sad
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1815"/></l><l>Investing lank-lean cheeks and war-worn coats
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1816"/></l><l>Presenteth them unto the gazing moon
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1817"/></l><l>So many horrid ghosts.   O now, who will behold
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1818"/></l><l>The royal captain of this ruin'd band
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="1819"/></l><l>Walking from watch to watch, from tent to tent,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1820"/></l><l>Let him cry 'Praise and glory on his head!'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1821"/></l><l>For forth he goes and visits all his host,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1822"/></l><l>Bids them good morrow with a modest smile
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1823"/></l><l>And calls them brothers, friends and countrymen.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1824"/></l><l>Upon his royal face there is no note
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1825"/></l><l>How dread an army hath enrounded him;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1826"/></l><l>Nor doth he dedicate one jot of color
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1827"/></l><l>Unto the weary and all-watched night,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1828"/></l><l>But freshly looks and over-bears attaint
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1829"/></l><l>With cheerful semblance and sweet majesty;
<lb ed="G" n="41"/><lb ed="F1" n="1830"/></l><l>That every wretch, pining and pale before,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1831"/></l><l>Beholding him, plucks comfort from his looks:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1832"/></l><l>A largess universal like the sun
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1833"/></l><l>His liberal eye doth give to every one,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1834"/></l><l>Thawing cold fear, that mean and gentle all
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1835"/></l><l>Behold, as may unworthiness define,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1836"/></l><l>A little touch of Harry in the night.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1837"/></l><l>And so our scene must to the battle fly;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1838"/></l><l>Where--O for pity!--we shall much disgrace
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1839"/></l><l>With four or five most vile and ragged foils,
<lb ed="G" n="51"/><lb ed="F1" n="1840"/></l><l>Right ill-disposed in brawl ridiculous,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1841"/></l><l>The name of Agincourt.   Yet sit and see,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1842"/></l><l>Minding true things by what their mockeries be.
<lb ed="F1" n="1843"/><stage>[Exit. </stage>
</l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="1">
<head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">The English camp at Agincourt.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1844"/><stage type="entrance">Enter KING HENRY, BEDFORD, and GLOUCESTER. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1845"/><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>Gloucester, 'tis true that we are in great danger;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1846"/></l><l>The greater therefore should our courage be.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1847"/></l><l>Good morrow, brother Bedford. God Almighty!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1848"/></l><l>There is some soul of goodness in things evil,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1849"/></l><l>Would men observingly distil it out.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1850"/></l><l>For our bad neighbor makes us early stirrers,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1851"/></l><l>Which is both healthful and good husbandry:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1852"/></l><l>Besides, they are our outward consciences,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1853"/></l><l>And preachers to us all, admonishing
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="1854"/></l><l>That we should dress us fairly for our end.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1855"/></l><l>Thus may we gather honey from the weed,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1856"/></l><l>And make a moral of the devil himself.
<lb ed="F1" n="1857"/><stage type="entrance">Enter ERPINGHAM.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1858"/></l><l>Good morrow, old Sir Thomas Erpingham:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1859"/></l><l>A good soft pillow for that good white head
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1860"/></l><l>Were better than a churlish turf of France.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1861"/></l></sp><sp who="erp."><speaker>Erp.</speaker><l>Not so, my liege: this lodging likes me better,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1862"/></l><l>Since I may say 'Now lie I like a king.'

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1863"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>'Tis good for men to love their present pains
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1864"/></l><l>Upon example; so the spirit is eased:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1865"/></l><l>And when the mind is quicken'd, out of doubt,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1866"/></l><l>The organs, though defunct and dead before,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1867"/></l><l>Break up their drowsy grave and newly move;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1868"/></l><l>With casted slough and fresh legerity.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1869"/></l><l>Lend me thy cloak, Sir Thomas.   Brothers both,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1870"/></l><l>Commend me to the princes in our camp;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1871"/></l><l>Do my good morrow to them, and anon
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1872"/></l><l>Desire them all to my pavilion.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1873"/></l></sp><sp who="glou."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><p>We shall, my liege.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1874"/></p></sp><sp who="erp."><speaker>Erp.</speaker><l part="I">Shall I attend your grace?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1875"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l part="F">No, my good knight;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1876"/></l><l>Go with my brothers to my lords of England:
<lb ed="G" n="31"/><lb ed="F1" n="1877"/></l><l>I and my bosom must debate a while,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1878"/></l><l>And then I would no other company.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1879"/></l></sp><sp who="erp."><speaker>Erp.</speaker><l>The Lord in heaven bless thee, noble <lb ed="F1" n="1880"/>Harry!
<stage>[Exeunt all but King. </stage>


<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1881"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>God-a-mercy, old heart! thou speak'st <lb ed="F1" n="1882"/>cheerfully.
<stage type="entrance">Enter PISTOL.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1883"/></l></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>Qui va l&agrave;?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1884"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>A friend.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1885"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>Discuss unto me; art thou officer?
<lb ed="G"/>Or art thou <lb ed="F1" n="1886"/>base, common and popular?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1887"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>I am a gentleman of a company.

<lb ed="G" n="40"/><lb ed="F1" n="1888"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>Trail'st thou the puissant pike?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1889"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>Even so. What are you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1890"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>As good a gentleman as the emperor.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1891"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>Then you are a better than the king.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1892"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>The king's a bawcock, and a heart of gold,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>A <lb ed="F1" n="1893"/>lad of life, an imp of fame;
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Of parents good, of fist <lb ed="F1" n="1894"/>most valiant.
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>I kiss his dirty shoe, and from heart-string
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1895"/></l><l>I love the lovely bully. What is thy name?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1896"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>Harry le Roy.

<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="1897"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>Le Roy! a Cornish name: art thou of Cornish crew?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1898"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>No, I am a Welshman.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1899"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>Know'st thou Fluellen?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1900"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>Yes.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1901"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>Tell him, I'll knock his leek about his pate
<lb ed="G"/>Upon <lb ed="F1" n="1902"/>Saint Davy's day.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1903"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>Do not you wear your dagger in
<lb ed="G"/>your cap <lb ed="F1" n="1904"/>that day, lest he knock that about
<lb ed="G"/>yours.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1905"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>Art thou his friend?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1906"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>And his kinsman too.

<lb ed="G" n="60"/><lb ed="F1" n="1907"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>The figo for thee, then!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1908"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>I thank you: God be with you!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1909"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>My name is Pistol call'd.
<stage>[Exit.</stage>


<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1910"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>It sorts well with your fierceness.
<lb ed="F1" n="1911"/>
<lb ed="F1" n="1912"/><stage type="entrance">Enter FLUELLEN and COWER.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1913"/></p></sp><sp who="gow."><speaker>Gow.</speaker><p>Captain Fluellen!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1914"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>So! in the name of Jesu Christ, speak
<lb ed="G"/>lower.   It <lb ed="F1" n="1915"/>is the greatest admiration of the universal
<lb ed="G"/>world, when <lb ed="F1" n="1916"/>the true and aunchient
<lb ed="G"/>prerogatifes and laws of the <lb ed="F1" n="1917"/>wars is not kept:
<lb ed="G"/>if you would take the pains but to <lb ed="F1" n="1918"/>examine the
<lb ed="G"/>wars of Pompey the Great, you shall find, <lb ed="F1" n="1919"/>I
<lb ed="G"/>warrant you, that there is no tiddle taddle nor
<lb ed="G"/>pibble pabble <lb ed="F1" n="1920"/>in Pompey's camp; I warrant
<lb ed="G"/>you, you shall find <lb ed="F1" n="1921"/>the ceremonies of the wars,
<lb ed="G"/>and the cares of it, and <lb ed="F1" n="1922"/>the forms of it, and
<lb ed="G"/>the sobriety of it, and the modesty <lb ed="F1" n="1923"/>of it, to be
<lb ed="G"/>otherwise.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1924"/></p></sp><sp who="gow."><speaker>Gow.</speaker><p>Why, the enemy is loud; you hear
<lb ed="G"/>him all <lb ed="F1" n="1925"/>night.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1926"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>If the enemy is an ass and a fool and a
<lb ed="G"/>prating <lb ed="F1" n="1927"/>coxcomb, is it meet, think you, that we
<lb ed="G"/>should <lb ed="F1" n="1928"/>also, look you, be an ass and a fool and
<lb ed="G"/>a prating coxcomb? <lb ed="F1" n="1929"/>in your own conscience,
<lb ed="G"/>now?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1930"/></p></sp><sp who="gow."><speaker>Gow.</speaker><p>I will speak lower.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1931"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>I pray you and beseech you that you
<lb ed="G"/>will.
<stage>[Exeunt Gower and Fluellen.</stage>


<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1932"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>Though it appear a little out of fashion,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1933"/></l><l>There is much care and valor in this Welshman.
<lb ed="F1" n="1934"/><stage type="entrance">Enter three soldiers, JOHN BATES, ALEXANDER COURT, <lb ed="F1" n="1935"/>and MICHAEL WILLIAMS.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1936"/></l></sp><sp who="court."><speaker>Court.</speaker><p>Brother John Bates, is not that the
<lb ed="G"/>morning <lb ed="F1" n="1937"/>which breaks yonder?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1938"/></p></sp><sp who="bates."><speaker>Bates.</speaker><p>I think it be: but we have no great
<lb ed="G" n="90"/>cause to <lb ed="F1" n="1939"/>desire the approach of day.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1940"/></p></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><p>We see yonder the beginning of the
<lb ed="G"/>day, <lb ed="F1" n="1941"/>but I think we shall never see the end of
<lb ed="G"/>it.   Who goes <lb ed="F1" n="1942"/>there?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1943"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>A friend.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1944"/></p></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><p>Under what captain serve you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1945"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>Under Sir Thomas Erpingham.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1946"/></p></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><p>A good old commander and a most
<lb ed="G"/>kind <lb ed="F1" n="1947"/>gentleman: I pray you, what thinks he
<lb ed="G"/>of our estate?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1948"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>Even as men wrecked upon a sand,
<lb ed="G" n="101"/>that look to <lb ed="F1" n="1949"/>be washed off the next tide.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1950"/></p></sp><sp who="bates."><speaker>Bates.</speaker><p>He hath not told his thought to the
<lb ed="G"/>king?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1951"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>No; nor it is not meet he should.
<lb ed="G"/>For, though I <lb ed="F1" n="1952"/>speak it to you, I think the king
<lb ed="G"/>is but a man, as I am: <lb ed="F1" n="1953"/>the violet smells to him
<lb ed="G"/>as it doth to me; the element <lb ed="F1" n="1954"/>shows to him as
<lb ed="G"/>it doth to me; all his senses have but <lb ed="F1" n="1955"/>human
<lb ed="G"/>conditions: his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1956"/>he appears but a man; and though his
<lb ed="G"/>affections <lb ed="F1" n="1957"/>are higher mounted than ours, yet,
<lb ed="G"/>when they stoop, <lb ed="F1" n="1958"/>they stoop with the like wing.
<lb ed="G"/>Therefore when he sees <lb ed="F1" n="1959"/>reason of fears, as we
<lb ed="G"/>do, his fears, out of doubt, be of <lb ed="F1" n="1960"/>the same
<lb ed="G"/>relish as ours are: yet, in reason, no man
<lb ed="G"/>should <lb ed="F1" n="1961"/>possess him with any appearance of
<lb ed="G"/>fear, lest he, by <lb ed="F1" n="1962"/>showing it, should dishearten
<lb ed="G"/>his army.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1963"/></p></sp><sp who="bates."><speaker>Bates.</speaker><p>He may show what outward courage
<lb ed="G"/>he will; <lb ed="F1" n="1964"/>but I believe, as cold a night as 'tis,
<lb ed="G"/>he could wish himself <lb ed="F1" n="1965"/>in Thames up to the
<lb ed="G"/>neck; and so I would he were, <lb ed="F1" n="1966"/>and I by him,
<lb ed="G"/>at all adventures, so we were quit here.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1967"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>By my troth, I will speak my conscience
<lb ed="G"/>of the <lb ed="F1" n="1968"/>king: I think he would not wish
<lb ed="G"/>himself any where <lb ed="F1" n="1969"/>but where he is.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1970"/></p></sp><sp who="bates."><speaker>Bates.</speaker><p>Then I would he were here alone;
<lb ed="G"/>so should he be <lb ed="F1" n="1971"/>sure to be ransomed, and a
<lb ed="G"/>many poor men's lives saved.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1972"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>I dare say you love him not so ill,
<lb ed="G"/>to wish him <lb ed="F1" n="1973"/>here alone, howsoever you speak
<lb ed="G"/>this to feel other <lb ed="F1" n="1974"/>men's minds: methinks I
<lb ed="G"/>could not die any where so contented <lb ed="F1" n="1975"/>as in the
<lb ed="G"/>king's company; his cause being just and <lb ed="F1" n="1976"/>his
<lb ed="G"/>quarrel honorable.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1977"/></p></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><p>That's more than we know.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1978"/></p></sp><sp who="bates."><speaker>Bates.</speaker><p>Ay, or more than we should seek
<lb ed="G"/>after; for we <lb ed="F1" n="1979"/>know enough, if we know we are
<lb ed="G"/>the king's subjects: <lb ed="F1" n="1980"/>if his cause be wrong, our
<lb ed="G"/>obedience to the king wipes <lb ed="F1" n="1981"/>the crime of it out
<lb ed="G"/>of us.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1982"/></p></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><p>But if the cause be not good, the
<lb ed="G"/>king himself <lb ed="F1" n="1983"/>hath a heavy reckoning to make,
<lb ed="G"/>when all those <lb ed="F1" n="1984"/>legs and arms and heads,
<lb ed="G"/>chopped off in a battle, <lb ed="F1" n="1985"/>shall join together at the
<lb ed="G"/>latter day and cry all 'We died <lb ed="F1" n="1986"/>at such a
<lb ed="G"/>place;' some swearing, some crying for a surgeon,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1987"/>some upon their wives left poor behind
<lb ed="G"/>them, <lb ed="F1" n="1988"/>some upon the debts they owe, some
<lb ed="G"/>upon their children <lb ed="F1" n="1989"/>rawly left.   I am afeard
<lb ed="G"/>there are few die well that die <lb ed="F1" n="1990"/>in a battle; for
<lb ed="G"/>how can they charitably dispose of any <lb ed="F1" n="1991"/>thing,
<lb ed="G"/>when blood is their argument? Now, if these
<lb ed="G"/>men <lb ed="F1" n="1992"/>do not die well, it will be a black matter
<lb ed="G"/>for the king <lb ed="F1" n="1993"/>that led them to it; whom to disobey
<lb ed="G"/>were against all proportion <lb ed="F1" n="1994"/>of subjection.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1995"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>So, if a son that is by his father
<lb ed="G"/>sent about <lb ed="F1" n="1996"/>merchandise do sinfully miscarry
<lb ed="G"/>upon the sea, the imputation <lb ed="F1" n="1997"/>of his wickedness
<lb ed="G"/>by your rule, should be imposed <lb ed="F1" n="1998"/>upon his father
<lb ed="G"/>that sent him: or if a servant, under <lb ed="F1" n="1999"/>his
<lb ed="G"/>master's command transporting a sum of
<lb ed="G"/>money, <lb ed="F1" n="2000"/>be assailed by robbers and die in many
<lb ed="G"/>irreconciled <lb ed="F1" n="2001"/>iniquities, you may call the business
<lb ed="G"/>of the master the <lb ed="F1" n="2002"/>author of the servant's
<lb ed="G"/>damnation: but this is not so: <lb ed="F1" n="2003"/>the king is not
<lb ed="G"/>bound to answer the particular endings <lb ed="F1" n="2004"/>of his
<lb ed="G"/>soldiers, the father of his son, nor the master
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2005"/>of his servant; for they purpose not their
<lb ed="G"/>death, when <lb ed="F1" n="2006"/>they purpose their services. Besides,
<lb ed="G"/>there is no king, be <lb ed="F1" n="2007"/>his cause never so
<lb ed="G"/>spotless, if it come to the arbitrement <lb ed="F1" n="2008"/>of
<lb ed="G"/>swords, can try it out with all unspotted soldiers:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2009"/>some peradventure have on them the
<lb ed="G"/>guilt of <lb ed="F1" n="2010"/>premeditated and contrived murder;
<lb ed="G"/>some, of beguiling <lb ed="F1" n="2011"/>virgins with the broken seals
<lb ed="G"/>of perjury; some, <lb ed="F1" n="2012"/>making the wars their bulwark,
<lb ed="G"/>that have before gored <lb ed="F1" n="2013"/>the gentle bosom
<lb ed="G"/>of peace with pillage and robbery. <lb ed="F1" n="2014"/>Now, if
<lb ed="G"/>these men have defeated the law and outrun
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2015"/>native punishment, though they can outstrip
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2016"/>men, they have no wings to fly from God: war
<lb ed="G"/>is <lb ed="F1" n="2017"/>his beadle, war is his vengeance; so that
<lb ed="G"/>here men <lb ed="F1" n="2018"/>are punished for before-breach of
<lb ed="G"/>the king's laws in <lb ed="F1" n="2019"/>now the king's quarrel:
<lb ed="G"/>where they feared the death, <lb ed="F1" n="2020"/>they have borne
<lb ed="G"/>life away; and where they would be <lb ed="F1" n="2021"/>safe, they
<lb ed="G"/>perish: then if they die unprovided, no more
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2022"/>is the king guilty of their damnation than he
<lb ed="G"/>was before <lb ed="F1" n="2023"/>guilty of those impieties for the
<lb ed="G"/>which they are <lb ed="F1" n="2024"/>now visited.   Every subject's
<lb ed="G"/>duty is the king's; but <lb ed="F1" n="2025"/>every subject's soul is
<lb ed="G"/>his own. Therefore should <lb ed="F1" n="2026"/>every soldier in the
<lb ed="G"/>wars do as every sick man in <lb ed="F1" n="2027"/>his bed, wash
<lb ed="G"/>every mote out of his conscience; and <lb ed="F1" n="2028"/>dying
<lb ed="G"/>so, death is to him advantage; or not dying,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2029"/>the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation
<lb ed="G"/>was <lb ed="F1" n="2030"/>gained: and in him that escapes, it
<lb ed="G"/>were not sin to <lb ed="F1" n="2031"/>think that, making God so free
<lb ed="G"/>an offer, He let him outlive <lb ed="F1" n="2032"/>that day to see His
<lb ed="G"/>greatness and to teach others <lb ed="F1" n="2033"/>how they should
<lb ed="G"/>prepare.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2034"/></p></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><p>'Tis certain, every man that dies ill,
<lb ed="G"/>the ill upon <lb ed="F1" n="2035"/>his own head, the king is not to
<lb ed="G" n="199"/>answer it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2036"/></p></sp><sp who="bates."><speaker>Bates.</speaker><p>But I do not desire he should answer
<lb ed="G"/>for me; and <lb ed="F1" n="2037"/>yet I determine to fight
<lb ed="G"/>lustily for him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2038"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>I myself heard the king say he
<lb ed="G"/>would not be <lb ed="F1" n="2039"/>ransomed.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2040"/></p></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><p>Ay, he said so, to make us fight
<lb ed="G"/>cheerfully: but <lb ed="F1" n="2041"/>when our throats are cut, he
<lb ed="G"/>may be ransomed, and we <lb ed="F1" n="2042"/>ne'er the wiser.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2043"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>If I live to see it, I will never trust
<lb ed="G"/>his word <lb ed="F1" n="2044"/>after.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2045"/></p></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><p>You pay him then. That's a perilous
<lb ed="G"/>shot out <lb ed="F1" n="2046"/>of an elder-gun, that a poor and private
<lb ed="G"/>displeasure <lb ed="F1" n="2047"/>can do against a monarch!
<lb ed="G"/>you may as well go about <lb ed="F1" n="2048"/>to turn the sun to
<lb ed="G"/>ice with fanning in his face with a <lb ed="F1" n="2049"/>peacock's
<lb ed="G"/>feather. You'll never trust his word after!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2050"/>come, 'tis a foolish saying.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2051"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>Your reproof is something too
<lb ed="G"/>round: I should <lb ed="F1" n="2052"/>be angry with you, if the
<lb ed="G"/>time were convenient.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2053"/></p></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><p>Let it be a quarrel between us, if you
<lb ed="G" n="220"/><lb ed="F1" n="2054"/>live.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2055"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>I embrace it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2056"/></p></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><p>How shall I know thee again?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2057"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>Give me any gage of thine, and I
<lb ed="G"/>will wear it <lb ed="F1" n="2058"/>in my bonnet: then, if ever thou
<lb ed="G"/>darest acknowledge it, <lb ed="F1" n="2059"/>I will make it my
<lb ed="G"/>quarrel.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2060"/></p></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><p>Here's my glove: give me another of
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2061"/>thine.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2062"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>There.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2063"/></p></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><p>This will I also wear in my cap: if
<lb ed="G"/>ever thou <lb ed="F1" n="2064"/>come to me and say, after to-morrow,
<lb ed="G"/>'This is my glove,' <lb ed="F1" n="2065"/>by this hand, I will
<lb ed="G"/>take thee a box on the ear.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2066"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>If ever I live to see it, I will
<lb ed="G"/>challenge it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2067"/></p></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><l>Thou darest as well be hanged.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2068"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>Well, I will do it, though I take
<lb ed="G"/>thee in the <lb ed="F1" n="2069"/>king's company.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2070"/></p></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><p>Keep thy word: fare thee well.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2071"/></p></sp><sp who="bates."><speaker>Bates.</speaker><p>Be friends, you English fools, be
<lb ed="G"/>friends: we <lb ed="F1" n="2072"/>have French quarrels enow, if you
<lb ed="G" n="241"/>could tell how to <lb ed="F1" n="2073"/>reckon.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2074"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>Indeed, the French may lay twenty
<lb ed="G"/>French <lb ed="F1" n="2075"/>crowns to one, they will beat us; for
<lb ed="G"/>they bear them <lb ed="F1" n="2076"/>on their shoulders: but it is no
<lb ed="G"/>English treason to cut <lb ed="F1" n="2077"/>French crowns, and tomorrow
<lb ed="G"/>the king himself will <lb ed="F1" n="2078"/>be a clipper.
<stage>[Exeunt Soldiers.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2079"/></p><l>Upon the king! let us our lives, our souls,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2080"/></l><l>Our debts, our careful wives,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2081"/></l><l>Our children and our sins lay on the king!
<lb ed="G" n="250"/><lb ed="F1" n="2082"/></l><l>We must bear all. <lb ed="F1" n="2083"/>O hard condition,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Twin-born with greatness, <lb ed="F1" n="2084"/>subject to the breath
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Of every fool, whose sense <lb ed="F1" n="2085"/>no more can feel
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>But his own wringing!   <lb ed="F1" n="2086"/>What infinite heart'sease
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Must kings neglect, <lb ed="F1" n="2087"/>that private men enjoy!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2088"/></l><l>And what have kings, that privates have not too,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2089"/></l><l>Save ceremony, save general ceremony?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2090"/></l><l>And what art thou, thou idol ceremony?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2091"/></l><l>What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2092"/></l><l>Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2093"/></l><l>What are thy rents? what are thy comings in?
<lb ed="G" n="261"/><lb ed="F1" n="2094"/></l><l>O ceremony, show me but thy worth!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2095"/></l><l>What is thy soul of adoration?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2096"/></l><l>Art thou aught else but place, degree and form,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2097"/></l><l>Creating awe and fear in other men?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2098"/></l><l>Wherein thou art less happy being fear'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2099"/></l><l>Than they in fearing.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2100"/></l><l>What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2101"/></l><l>But poison'd flattery?  O, be sick, great greatness,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2102"/></l><l>And bid thy ceremony give thee cure!
<lb ed="G" n="270"/><lb ed="F1" n="2103"/></l><l>Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2104"/></l><l>With titles blown from adulation?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2105"/></l><l>Will it give place to flexure and low bending?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2106"/></l><l>Canst thou, when thou command'st the beggar's knee,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2107"/></l><l>Command the health of it?   No, thou proud dream,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2108"/></l><l>That play'st so subtly with a king's repose;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2109"/></l><l>I am a king that find thee, and I know
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2110"/></l><l>'Tis not the balm, the sceptre and the ball,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2111"/></l><l>The sword, the mace, the crown imperial,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2112"/></l><l>The intertissued robe of gold and pearl,
<lb ed="G" n="280"/><lb ed="F1" n="2113"/></l><l>The farced title running 'fore the king,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2114"/></l><l>The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2115"/></l><l>That beats upon the high shore of this world,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2116"/></l><l>No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2117"/></l><l>Not all these, laid in bed majestical,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2118"/></l><l>Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2119"/></l><l>Who with a body fill'd and vacant mind
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2120"/></l><l>Gets him to rest, cramm'd with distressful bread;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2121"/></l><l>Never sees horrid night, the child of hell,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2122"/></l><l>But, like a lackey, from the rise to set
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2123"/></l><l>Sweats in the eye of Phoebus and all night
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2124"/></l><l>Sleeps in Elysium; next day after dawn,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2125"/></l><l>Doth rise and help Hyperion to his horse,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2126"/></l><l>And follows so the ever-running year,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2127"/></l><l>With profitable labor, to his grave:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2128"/></l><l>And, but for ceremony, such a wretch,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2129"/></l><l>Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2130"/></l><l>Had the fore-hand and vantage of a king.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2131"/></l><l>The slave, a member of the country's peace,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2132"/></l><l>Enjoys it; but in gross brain little wots
<lb ed="G" n="300"/><lb ed="F1" n="2133"/></l><l>What watch the king keeps to maintain the peace,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2134"/></l><l>Whose hours the peasant best advantages.
<lb ed="F1" n="2135"/><stage type="entrance">Re-enter ERPINGHAM.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2136"/></l></sp><sp who="erp."><speaker>Erp.</speaker><l>My lord, your nobles, jealous of your absence,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2137"/></l><l part="I">Seek through your camp to find you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2138"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l part="F">Good old knight,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Collect them all together <lb ed="F1" n="2139"/>at my tent:
<lb ed="G"/></l><l part="I">I'll be before thee.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2140"/></l></sp><sp who="erp."><speaker>Erp.</speaker><l part="F">I shall do't, my lord.
<stage>[Exit.</stage>


<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2141"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>O God of battles! steel my soldiers' hearts;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2142"/></l><l>Possess them not with fear; take from them now
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2143"/></l><l>The sense of reckoning, if the opposed numbers
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2144"/></l><l>Pluck their hearts from them.   Not to-day, O Lord,
<lb ed="G" n="310"/><lb ed="F1" n="2145"/></l><l>O, not to-day, think not upon the fault
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2146"/></l><l>My father made in compassing the crown!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2147"/></l><l>I Richard's body have interred anew;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2148"/></l><l>And on it have bestow'd more contrite tears
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2149"/></l><l>Than from it issued forced drops of blood:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2150"/></l><l>Five hundred poor I have in yearly pay,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2151"/></l><l>Who twice a-day their wither'd hands hold up
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2152"/></l><l>Toward heaven, to pardon blood; <lb ed="F1" n="2153"/>and I have built
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Two chantries, <lb ed="F1" n="2154"/>where the sad and solemn priests
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Sing still <lb ed="F1" n="2155"/>for Richard's soul. More will I do;
<lb ed="G" n="320"/><lb ed="F1" n="2156"/></l><l>Though all that I can do is nothing worth,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2157"/></l><l>Since that my penitence comes after all,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2158"/></l><l>Imploring pardon.
<lb ed="F1" n="2159"/><stage type="entrance">Re-enter GLOUCESTER.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2160"/></l></sp><sp who="glou."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><l>My liege!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2161"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>My brother Gloucester's voice? Ay;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2162"/></l><l>I know thy errand, I will go with thee:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2163"/></l><l>The day, my friends and all things stay for me.
<lb ed="F1" n="2164"/><stage>[Exeunt. </stage>
</l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="2">
<head>SCENE II</head>
<stage type="setting">The French camp.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2165"/><stage type="entrance">Enter the DAUPHIN, ORLEANS, RAMBURES, and <lb ed="F1" n="2166"/>others.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2167"/><sp who="orl."><speaker>Orl.</speaker><p>The sun doth gild our armor; up, my <lb ed="F1" n="2168"/>lords!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2169"/></p></sp><sp who="dau."><speaker>Dau.</speaker><p>Montez &agrave; cheval! My horse! varlet! laquais! <lb ed="F1" n="2170"/>ha!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2171"/></p></sp><sp who="orl."><speaker>Orl.</speaker><p>O brave spirit!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2172"/></p></sp><sp who="dau."><speaker>Dau.</speaker><p>Via! les eaux et la terre.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2173"/></p></sp><sp who="orl."><speaker>Orl.</speaker><p>Rien puis? l'air et la feu.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2174"/></p></sp><sp who="dau."><speaker>Dau.</speaker><p>Ciel, cousin Orleans.
<stage type="entrance">Enter CONSTABLE.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2175"/>Now, my lord constable!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2176"/></p></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><l>Hark, how our steeds for present service <lb ed="F1" n="2177"/>neigh!

<lb ed="G" n="9"/><lb ed="F1" n="2178"/></l></sp><sp who="dau."><speaker>Dau.</speaker><l>Mount them, and make incision in their hides,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2179"/></l><l>That their hot blood may spin in English eyes,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2180"/></l><l>And dout them with superfluous courage, ha!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2181"/></l></sp><sp who="ram."><speaker>Ram.</speaker><l>What, will you have them weep our horses' blood?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2182"/></l><l>How shall we, then, behold their natural tears?
<lb ed="F1" n="2183"/><stage type="entrance">Enter Messenger.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2184"/></l></sp><sp who="mess."><speaker>Mess.</speaker><l>The English are embattled, you French <lb ed="F1" n="2185"/>peers.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2186"/></l></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><l>To horse, you gallant princes! straight to horse!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2187"/></l><l>Do but behold yon poor and starved band,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2188"/></l><l>And your fair show shall suck away their souls,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2189"/></l><l>Leaving them but the shales and husks of men.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2190"/></l><l>There is not work enough for all our hands;
<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="2191"/></l><l>Scarce blood enough in all their sickly veins
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2192"/></l><l>To give each naked curtle-axe a stain,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2193"/></l><l>That our French gallants shall to-day draw out,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2194"/></l><l>And sheathe for lack of sport: let us but blow on them,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2195"/></l><l>The vapor of our valor will o'erturn them.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2196"/></l><l>'Tis positive 'gainst all exceptions, lords,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2197"/></l><l>That our superfluous lackeys and our peasants,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2198"/></l><l>Who in unnecessary action swarm
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2199"/></l><l>About our squares of battle, were enow
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2200"/></l><l>To purge this field of such a hilding foe,
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="2201"/></l><l>Though we upon this mountain's basis by
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2202"/></l><l>Took stand for idle speculation:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2203"/></l><l>But that our honors must not.   What's to say?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2204"/></l><l>A very little little let us do,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2205"/></l><l>And all is done. Then let the trumpets sound
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2206"/></l><l>The tucket sonance and the note to mount;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2207"/></l><l>For our approach shall so much dare the field
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2208"/></l><l>That England shall couch down in fear and yield.
<lb ed="F1" n="2209"/><stage type="entrance">Enter GRANDPRE.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2210"/></l></sp><sp who="grand."><speaker>Grand.</speaker><l>Why do you stay so long, my lords of France?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2211"/></l><l>Yon island carrions, desperate of their bones,
<lb ed="G" n="40"/><lb ed="F1" n="2212"/></l><l>Ill-favoredly become the morning field:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2213"/></l><l>Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2214"/></l><l>And our air shakes them passing scornfully:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2215"/></l><l>Big Mars seems bankrupt in their beggar'd host
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2216"/></l><l>And faintly through a rusty beaver peeps:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2217"/></l><l>The horsemen sit like fixed candlesticks,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2218"/></l><l>With torch-staves in their hand; and their poor jades
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2219"/></l><l>Lob down their heads, dropping the hides and hips,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2220"/></l><l>The gum down-roping from their pale-dead eyes,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2221"/></l><l>And in their pale dull mouths the gimmal bit
<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="2222"/></l><l>Lies foul with chew'd grass, still and motionless;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2223"/></l><l>And their executors, the knavish crows,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2224"/></l><l>Fly o'er them, all impatient for their hour.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2225"/></l><l>Description cannot suit itself in words
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2226"/></l><l>To demonstrate the life of such a battle
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2227"/></l><l>In life so lifeless as it shows itself.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2228"/></l></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><l>They have said their prayers, <lb ed="F1" n="2229"/>and they stay for death.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2230"/></l></sp><sp who="dau."><speaker>Dau.</speaker><l>Shall we go send them dinners and fresh suits
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2231"/></l><l>And give their fasting horses provender,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2232"/></l><l>And after fight with them?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2233"/></l></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><l>I stay but for my guidon: to the field!
<lb ed="G" n="61"/><lb ed="F1" n="2234"/></l><l>I will the banner from a trumpet take,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2235"/></l><l>And use it for my haste. Come, come, away!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2236"/></l><l>The sun is high, and we outwear the day.

<stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
</l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="3">
<head>SCENE III</head>
<stage type="setting">The English camp.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2237"/><stage type="entrance">Enter GLOUCESTER, BEDFORD, EXETER, ERPINGHAM, <lb ed="F1" n="2238"/>with all his host: SALISBURY and <lb ed="F1" n="2239"/>WESTMORELAND.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2240"/><sp who="glou."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><p>Where is the king?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2241"/></p></sp><sp who="bed."><speaker>Bed.</speaker><p>The king himself is rode to view their <lb ed="F1" n="2242"/>battle.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2243"/></p></sp><sp who="west."><speaker>West.</speaker><p>Of fighting men they have full three score <lb ed="F1" n="2244"/>thousand.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2245"/></p></sp><sp who="exe."><speaker>Exe.</speaker><p>There's five to one; besides, they all are fresh.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2246"/></p></sp><sp who="sal."><speaker>Sal.</speaker><l>God's arm strike with us! 'tis a fearful odds.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2247"/></l><l>God be wi' you, princes all; I'll to my charge:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2248"/></l><l>If we no more meet till we meet in heaven,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2249"/></l><l>Then, joyfully, my noble Lord of Bedford,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2250"/></l><l>My dear Lord Gloucester, and my good Lord Exeter,
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="2251"/></l><l>And my kind kinsman, warriors all, adieu!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2252"/></l></sp><sp who="bed."><speaker>Bed.</speaker><l>Farewell, good Salisbury; and good luck go with thee!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2253"/></l></sp><sp who="exe."><speaker>Exe.</speaker><l>Farewell, kind lord; fight valiantly to-day:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2254"/></l><l>And yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2255"/></l><l>For thou art framed of the firm truth of valor.
<stage>[Exit Salisbury. </stage>


<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2256"/></l></sp><sp who="bed."><speaker>Bed.</speaker><l>He is as full of valor as of kindness;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2257"/></l><l part="I">Princely in both.
<lb ed="F1" n="2258"/><stage type="entrance">Enter the KING.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2259"/></l></sp><sp who="west."><speaker>West.</speaker><l part="F">O that we now had here
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2260"/></l><l>But one ten thousand of those men in England
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2261"/></l><l part="I">That do no work to-day!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2262"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l part="F">What's he that wishes so?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2263"/></l><l>My cousin Westmoreland?   No, my fair cousin:
<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="2264"/></l><l>If we are mark'd to die, we are enow
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2265"/></l><l>To do our country loss; and if to live,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2266"/></l><l>The fewer men, the greater share of honor.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2267"/></l><l>God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2268"/></l><l>By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2269"/></l><l>Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2270"/></l><l>It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2271"/></l><l>Such outward things dwell not in my desires:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2272"/></l><l>But if it be a sin to covet honor,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2273"/></l><l>I am the most offending soul alive.
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="2274"/></l><l>No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2275"/></l><l>God's peace! I would not lose so great an honor
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2276"/></l><l>As one man more, methinks, would share from me
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2277"/></l><l>For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2278"/></l><l>Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2279"/></l><l>That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2280"/></l><l>Let him depart; his passport shall be made
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2281"/></l><l>And crowns for convoy put into his purse:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2282"/></l><l>We would not die in that man's company
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2283"/></l><l>That fears his fellowship to die with us.
<lb ed="G" n="40"/><lb ed="F1" n="2284"/></l><l>This day is call'd the feast of Crispian:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2285"/></l><l>He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2286"/></l><l>Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2287"/></l><l>And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2288"/></l><l>He that shall live this day, and see old age,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2289"/></l><l>Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2290"/></l><l>And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian:'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2291"/></l><l>Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2292"/></l><l>Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="2293"/></l><l>But he'll remember with advantages
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2294"/></l><l>What feats he did that day: then shall our names,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2295"/></l><l>Familiar in his mouth as household words,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2296"/></l><l>Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2297"/></l><l>Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2298"/></l><l>Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2299"/></l><l>This story shall the good man teach his son;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2300"/></l><l>And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2301"/></l><l>From this day to the ending of the world,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2302"/></l><l>But we in it shall be remembered;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2303"/></l><l>We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
<lb ed="G" n="61"/><lb ed="F1" n="2304"/></l><l>For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2305"/></l><l>Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2306"/></l><l>This day shall gentle his condition:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2307"/></l><l>And gentlemen in England now a-bed
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2308"/></l><l>Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2309"/></l><l>And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2310"/></l><l>That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
<lb ed="F1" n="2311"/><stage type="entrance">Re-enter SALISBURY.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2312"/></l></sp><sp who="sal."><speaker>Sal.</speaker><l>My sovereign lord, bestow yourself with speed:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2313"/></l><l>The French are bravely in their battles set,
<lb ed="G" n="70"/><lb ed="F1" n="2314"/></l><l>And will with all expedience charge on us.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2315"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>All things are ready, if our minds be so.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2316"/></l></sp><sp who="west."><speaker>West.</speaker><l>Perish the man whose mind is backward now!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2317"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>Thou dost not wish more help from England, <lb ed="F1" n="2318"/>coz?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2319"/></l></sp><sp who="west."><speaker>West.</speaker><l>God's will! my liege, would you and I alone,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2320"/></l><l>Without more help, could fight this royal battle!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2321"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>Why, now thou hast unwish'd five thousand men;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2322"/></l><l>Which likes me better than to wish us one.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2323"/></l><l>You know your places: God be with you all!
<lb ed="F1" n="2324"/><stage type="entrance">Tucket. Enter MONTJOY.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2325"/></l></sp><sp who="mont."><speaker>Mont.</speaker><l>Once more I come to know of thee, King Harry,
<lb ed="G" n="80"/><lb ed="F1" n="2326"/></l><l>If for thy ransom thou wilt now compound,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2327"/></l><l>Before thy most assured overthrow:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2328"/></l><l>For certainly thou art so near the gulf,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2329"/></l><l>Thou needs must be englutted.   Besides, in mercy,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2330"/></l><l>The constable desires thee thou wilt mind
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2331"/></l><l>Thy followers of repentance; that their souls
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2332"/></l><l>May make a peaceful and a sweet retire
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2333"/></l><l>From off these fields, where, wretches, their poor bodies
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2334"/></l><l part="I">Must lie and fester.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2335"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l part="F">Who hath sent thee now?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2336"/></l></sp><sp who="mont."><speaker>Mont.</speaker><l>The Constable of France.

<lb ed="G" n="90"/><lb ed="F1" n="2337"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>I pray thee, bear my former answer back:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2338"/></l><l>Bid them achieve me and then sell my bones.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2339"/></l><l>Good God! why should they mock poor fellows thus?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2340"/></l><l>The man that once did sell the lion's skin.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2341"/></l><l>While the beast lived, was killed with hunting him.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2342"/></l><l>A many of our bodies shall no doubt
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2343"/></l><l>Find native graves; upon the which, I trust,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2344"/></l><l>Shall witness live in brass of this day's work:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2345"/></l><l>And those that leave their valiant bones in France,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2346"/></l><l>Dying like men, though buried in your dunghills,
<lb ed="G" n="100"/><lb ed="F1" n="2347"/></l><l>They shall be famed; for there the sun shall greet them,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2348"/></l><l>And draw their honors reeking up to heaven;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2349"/></l><l>Leaving their earthly parts to choke your clime,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2350"/></l><l>The smell whereof shall breed a plague in France.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2351"/></l><l>Mark then abounding valor in our English,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2352"/></l><l>That being dead, like to the bullet's grazing,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2353"/></l><l>Break out into a second course of mischief,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2354"/></l><l>Killing in relapse of mortality.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2355"/></l><l>Let me speak proudly: tell the constable
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2356"/></l><l>We are but warriors for the working-day;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2357"/></l><l>Our gayness and our gilt are all besmirch'd
<lb ed="G" n="111"/><lb ed="F1" n="2358"/></l><l>With rainy marching in the painful field;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2359"/></l><l>There's not a piece of feather in our host--
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2360"/></l><l>Good argument, I hope, we will not fly--
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2361"/></l><l>And time hath worn us into slovenry:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2362"/></l><l>But, by the mass, our hearts are in the trim;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2363"/></l><l>And my poor soldiers tell me, yet ere night
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2364"/></l><l>They'll be in fresher robes, or they will pluck
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2365"/></l><l>The gay new coats o'er the French soldiers' heads
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2366"/></l><l>And turn them out of service.   If they do this,--
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2367"/></l><l>As, if God please, they shall,--my ransom then
<lb ed="G" n="121"/><lb ed="F1" n="2368"/></l><l>Will soon be levied. <lb ed="F1" n="2369"/>Herald, save thou thy labor;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2370"/></l><l>Come thou no more for ransom, gentle herald:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2371"/></l><l>They shall have none, I swear, but these my joints;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2372"/></l><l>Which if they have as I will leave 'em them,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2373"/></l><l>Shall yield them little, tell the constable.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2374"/></l></sp><sp who="mont."><speaker>Mont.</speaker><l>I shall, King Harry. And so fare thee well:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2375"/></l><l>Thou never shalt hear herald any more.

<stage>[Exit.</stage>


<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2376"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>I fear thou'lt once more come again for <lb ed="F1" n="2377"/>ransom.
<lb ed="F1" n="2378"/><stage type="entrance">Enter YORK.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2379"/></l></sp><sp who="york."><speaker>York.</speaker><l>My lord, most humbly on my knee I beg
<lb ed="G" n="130"/><lb ed="F1" n="2380"/></l><l>The leading of the vaward.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2381"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>Take it, brave York.   <lb ed="F1" n="2382"/>Now, soldiers, march away:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2383"/></l><l>And how thou pleasest, God, dispose the day!

<stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
</l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="4">
<head>SCENE IV</head>
<stage type="setting">The field of battle.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2384"/><stage>Alarum.   Excursions.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2385"/><stage type="entrance">Enter PISTOL, French Soldier, and Boy. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2386"/><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>Yield, cur!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2387"/></p></sp><sp who="fr.-sol."><speaker>Fr. Sol.</speaker><p>Je pense que vous &ecirc;tes gentilhomme
<lb ed="G"/>de bonne <lb ed="F1" n="2388"/>qualit&eacute;.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2389"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>Qualtitie calmie custure me!   Art thou
<lb ed="G"/>a gentleman? <lb ed="F1" n="2390"/>what is thy name? discuss.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2391"/></p></sp><sp who="fr.-sol."><speaker>Fr. Sol.</speaker><p>O Seigneur Dieu!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2392"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>O, Signieur Dew should be a gentleman:
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Perpend <lb ed="F1" n="2393"/>my words, O Signieur Dew, and mark;
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>O Signieur <lb ed="F1" n="2394"/>Dew, thou diest on point of fox,
<lb ed="G" n="10"/></l><l>Except, O Signieur, <lb ed="F1" n="2395"/>thou do give to me
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Egregious ransom.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2396"/></l></sp><sp who="fr.-sol."><speaker>Fr. Sol.</speaker><p>O, prenez mis&eacute;ricorde! ayez pitie
<lb ed="G"/>de moi!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2397"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>Moy shall not serve; I will have forty moys;
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Or <lb ed="F1" n="2398"/>I will fetch thy rim out at thy throat
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>In drops of <lb ed="F1" n="2399"/>crimson blood.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2400"/></l></sp><sp who="fr.-sol."><speaker>Fr. Sol.</speaker><p>Est-il impossible d'&eacute;chapper la
<lb ed="G"/>force de ton bras?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2401"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>Brass, cur!
<lb ed="G" n="20"/></l><l>Thou damned and luxurious mountain <lb ed="F1" n="2402"/>goat,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Offer'st me brass?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2403"/></l></sp><sp who="fr.-sol."><speaker>Fr. Sol.</speaker><p>O pardonnez moi!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2404"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>Say'st thou me so? is that a ton of moys?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2405"/></l><l>Come hither, boy: ask me this slave in French
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>What is his <lb ed="F1" n="2406"/>name.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2407"/></l></sp><sp who="boy."><speaker>Boy.</speaker><l>Ecoutez: comment &ecirc;tes-vous appel&eacute;?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2408"/></l></sp><sp who="fr.-sol."><speaker>Fr. Sol.</speaker><p>Monsieur le Fer.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2409"/></p></sp><sp who="boy."><speaker>Boy.</speaker><p>He says his name is Master Fer.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2410"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>Master Fer!   I'll fer him, and firk
<lb ed="G"/>him, and ferret him: <lb ed="F1" n="2411"/>discuss the same in
<lb ed="G" n="31"/></p><l>French unto him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2412"/></l></sp><sp who="boy."><speaker>Boy.</speaker><p>I do not know the French for fer, and
<lb ed="G"/>ferret, and <lb ed="F1" n="2413"/>firk.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2414"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>Bid him prepare; for I will cut his throat.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2415"/></p></sp><sp who="fr.-sol."><speaker>Fr. Sol.</speaker><p>Que dit-il, monsieur?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2416"/></p></sp><sp who="boy."><speaker>Boy.</speaker><p>Il me commande de vous dire que
<lb ed="G"/>vous faites vous <lb ed="F1" n="2417"/>pr&ecirc;t; car ce soldat ici est
<lb ed="G"/>dispos&eacute; tout &agrave; cette heure de couper votre
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2418"/>gorge.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2419"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><l>Owy, cuppele gorge, permafoy,
<lb ed="G" n="40"/></l><l>Peasant, unless <lb ed="F1" n="2420"/>thou give me crowns, brave crowns;
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Or mangled shalt <lb ed="F1" n="2421"/>thou be by this my sword.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2422"/></l></sp><sp who="fr.-sol."><speaker>Fr. Sol.</speaker><p>O, je vous supplie, pour l'amour
<lb ed="G"/>de Dieu, me pardonner!   <lb ed="F1" n="2423"/>Je suis gentilhomme
<lb ed="G"/>de bonne maison: gardez ma vie, et je <lb ed="F1" n="2424"/>vous
<lb ed="G"/>donnerai deux cents ecus.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2425"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>What are his words?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2426"/></p></sp><sp who="boy."><speaker>Boy.</speaker><p>He prays you to save his life: he is a
<lb ed="G"/>gentleman <lb ed="F1" n="2427"/>of a good house; and for his <reg orig="ran-som">ransom</reg>
<lb ed="G"/>he will give you two <lb ed="F1" n="2428"/>hundred crowns.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2429"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>Tell him my fury shall abate, and I
<lb ed="G"/>The crowns <lb ed="F1" n="2430"/>will take.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2431"/></p></sp><sp who="fr.-sol."><speaker>Fr. Sol.</speaker><p>Petit monsieur, que dit-il?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2432"/></p></sp><sp who="boy."><speaker>Boy.</speaker><p>Encore qu'il est contre son jurement
<lb ed="G"/>de pardonner aucun <lb ed="F1" n="2433"/>prisonnier, n&eacute;anmoins,
<lb ed="G"/>pour les &eacute;cus que vous l'avez promis, <lb ed="F1" n="2434"/>il est
<lb ed="G"/>content de vous donner la libert&eacute;, le <reg orig="franchise-ment.">franchisement.</reg>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2435"/></p></sp><sp who="fr.-sol."><speaker>Fr. Sol.</speaker><p>Sur mes genoux je vous donne
<lb ed="G"/>mille remerc&icirc;mens; et <lb ed="F1" n="2436"/>je m'estime heureux que
<lb ed="G"/>je suis tomb&eacute; entre les mains d'un chevalier,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2437"/>je pense, le plus brave, vaillant, et tr&egrave;s distingu&eacute;
<lb ed="G" n="61"/>seigneur <lb ed="F1" n="2438"/>d'Angleterre.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2439"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>Expound unto me, boy.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2440"/></p></sp><sp who="boy."><speaker>Boy.</speaker><p>He gives you, upon his knees, a <reg orig="thou-sand">thousand</reg>
<lb ed="G"/>thanks; <lb ed="F1" n="2441"/>and he esteems himself happy
<lb ed="G"/>that he hath fallen into <lb ed="F1" n="2442"/>the hands of one, as
<lb ed="G"/>he thinks, the most brave, valorous, <lb ed="F1" n="2443"/>and thrice-worthy
<lb ed="G"/>signieur of England.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2444"/></p></sp><sp who="pist."><speaker>Pist.</speaker><p>As I suck blood, I will some mercy show.
<lb ed="G" n="69"/>Follow <lb ed="F1" n="2445"/>me!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2446"/></p></sp><sp who="boy."><speaker>Boy.</speaker><p>Suivez-vous le grand capitaine.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Exeunt Pistol, and French Soldier.]</stage> <lb ed="F1" n="2447"/>I did
<lb ed="G"/>never know so full a voice issue from so empty
<lb ed="G"/>a <lb ed="F1" n="2448"/>heart: but the saying is true, 'The empty
<lb ed="G"/>vessel makes the <lb ed="F1" n="2449"/>greatest sound.' Bardolph and
<lb ed="G"/>Nym had ten times more <lb ed="F1" n="2450"/>valor than this <reg orig="roar-ing">roaring</reg>
<lb ed="G"/>devil i' the old play, that every <lb ed="F1" n="2451"/>one may
<lb ed="G"/>pare his nails with a wooden dagger; and <lb ed="F1" n="2452"/>they
<lb ed="G"/>are both hanged; and so would this be, if he
<lb ed="G"/>durst <lb ed="F1" n="2453"/>steal any thing adventurously. I must stay
<lb ed="G"/>with the <lb ed="F1" n="2454"/>lackeys, with the luggage of our
<lb ed="G"/>camp: the French might <lb ed="F1" n="2455"/>have a good prey of
<lb ed="G"/>us, if he knew of it; for there is none <lb ed="F1" n="2456"/>to guard
<lb ed="G"/>it but boys.

<stage>[Exit.</stage>
</p></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="5">
<head>SCENE V</head>
<stage type="setting">Another part of the field.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2457"/><stage type="entrance">Enter CONSTABLE, ORLEANS, BOURBON, DAUPHIN, <lb ed="F1" n="2458"/>and RAMBURES.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2459"/><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><p>O diable!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2460"/></p></sp><sp who="orl."><speaker>Orl.</speaker><p>O seigneur, le jour est perdu, tout est perdu!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2461"/></p></sp><sp who="dau."><speaker>Dau.</speaker><l>Mort de ma vie! all is confounded, all!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2462"/></l><l>Reproach and everlasting shame
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2463"/></l><l>Sits mocking in our plumes.   <lb ed="F1" n="2464"/>O m&eacute;chante fortune!
<lb ed="G"/></l><l part="I">Do not run away.
<stage>[A short alarum.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2465"/></l></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><l part="F">Why, all our ranks are broke.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2466"/></l></sp><sp who="dau."><speaker>Dau.</speaker><l>O perdurable shame! let's stab ourselves.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2467"/></l><l>Be these the wretches that we play'd at dice for?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2468"/></l></sp><sp who="orl."><speaker>Orl.</speaker><l>Is this the king we sent to for his ransom?

<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="2469"/></l></sp><sp who="bour."><speaker>Bour.</speaker><l>Shame and eternal shame, nothing but shame!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2470"/></l><l>Let us die in honor: once more back again;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2471"/></l><l>And he that will not follow Bourbon now,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2472"/></l><l>Let him go hence, and with his cap in hand,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2473"/></l><l>Like a base pandar, hold the chamber-door
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2474"/></l><l>Whilst by a slave, no gentler than my dog,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2475"/></l><l>His fairest daughter is contaminated.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2476"/></l></sp><sp who="con."><speaker>Con.</speaker><l>Disorder, that hath spoil'd us, friend us now!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2477"/></l><l>Let us on heaps go offer up our lives.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2478"/></l></sp><sp who="orl."><speaker>Orl.</speaker><l>We are enow yet living in the field
<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="2479"/></l><l>To smother up the English in our throngs,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2480"/></l><l>If any order might be thought upon.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2481"/></l></sp><sp who="bour."><speaker>Bour.</speaker><l>The devil take order now!   I'll to the throng:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2482"/></l><l>Let life be short; else shame will be too long.

<stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
</l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="6">
<head>SCENE VI</head>
<stage type="setting">Another part of the field.Alarums.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2483"/><stage type="entrance">Enter KING HENRY and forces, EXETER, and others. </stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2484"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2485"/><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>Well have we done, thrice valiant countrymen:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2486"/></l><l>But all's not done; yet keep the French the field.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2487"/></l></sp><sp who="exe."><speaker>Exe.</speaker><l>The Duke of York commends him to your majesty.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2488"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>Lives he, good uncle? thrice within this hour
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2489"/></l><l>I saw him down; thrice up again and fighting;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2490"/></l><l>From helmet to the spur all blood he was.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2491"/></l></sp><sp who="exe."><speaker>Exe.</speaker><l>In which array, brave soldier, doth he lie,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2492"/></l><l>Larding the plain; and by his bloody side,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2493"/></l><l>Yoke-fellow to his honor-owing wounds,
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="2494"/></l><l>The noble Earl of Suffolk also lies.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2495"/></l><l>Suffolk first died: and York, all haggled over,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2496"/></l><l>Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteep'd,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2497"/></l><l>And takes him by the beard; kisses the gashes
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2498"/></l><l>That bloodily did yawn upon his face;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2499"/></l><l>And cries aloud 'Tarry, dear cousin Suffolk!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2500"/></l><l>My soul shall thine keep company to heaven;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2501"/></l><l>Tarry, sweet soul, for mine, then fly abreast,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2502"/></l><l>As in this glorious and well-foughten field
<lb ed="G" n="19"/><lb ed="F1" n="2503"/></l><l>We kept together in our chivalry!'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2504"/></l><l>Upon these words I came and cheer'd him up:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2505"/></l><l>He smiled me in the face, raught me his hand,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2506"/></l><l>And, with a feeble gripe, says 'Dear my lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2507"/></l><l>Commend my service to my sovereign.'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2508"/></l><l>So did he turn and over Suffolk's neck
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2509"/></l><l>He threw his wounded arm and kiss'd his lips;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2510"/></l><l>And so espoused to death, with blood he seal'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2511"/></l><l>A testament of noble-ending love.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2512"/></l><l>The pretty and sweet manner of it forced
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2513"/></l><l>Those waters from me which I would have stopp'd;
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="2514"/></l><l>But I had not so much of man in me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2515"/></l><l>And all my mother came into mine eyes
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2516"/></l><l part="I">And gave me up to tears.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2517"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l part="F">I blame you not;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2518"/></l><l>For, hearing this, I must perforce compound
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2519"/></l><l>With mistful eyes, or they will issue too.

<stage>[Alarum.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2520"/></l><l>But, hark! what new alarum is this same?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2521"/></l><l>The French have reinforced their scatter'd men:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2522"/></l><l>Then every soldier kill his prisoners:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2523"/></l><l>Give the word through.
<stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
</l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="7">
  <head>SCENE VII</head>
<lb ed="F1" n="2524"/>
<stage type="setting">Another part of the field.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2525"/><stage type="entrance">Enter FLUELLEN and GOWER. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2526"/><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>Kill the poys and the luggage! 'tis expressly
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2527"/>against the law of arms: 'tis as arrant
<lb ed="G"/>a piece of knavery, <lb ed="F1" n="2528"/>mark you now, as can be
<lb ed="G"/>offer't; in your conscience, <lb ed="F1" n="2529"/>now, is it not?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2530"/></p></sp><sp who="gow."><speaker>Gow.</speaker><p>'Tis certain there's not a boy left
<lb ed="G"/>alive; and the <lb ed="F1" n="2531"/>cowardly rascals that ran from
<lb ed="G"/>the battle ha' done <lb ed="F1" n="2532"/>this slaughter: besides, they
<lb ed="G"/>have burned and carried away <lb ed="F1" n="2533"/>all that was in
<lb ed="G"/>the king's tent; wherefore the king, <lb ed="F1" n="2534"/>most
<lb ed="G"/>worthily, hath caused every soldier to cut his
<lb ed="G" n="11"/>prisoner's <lb ed="F1" n="2535"/>throat.   O, 'tis a gallant king!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2536"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>Ay, he was porn at Monmouth, Captain
<lb ed="G"/>Gower. <lb ed="F1" n="2537"/>What call you the town's name
<lb ed="G"/>where Alexander the <lb ed="F1" n="2538"/>Pig was born!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2539"/></p></sp><sp who="gow."><speaker>Gow.</speaker><p>Alexander the Great.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2540"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>Why, I pray you, is not pig great? the
<lb ed="G"/>pig, or <lb ed="F1" n="2541"/>the great, or the mighty, or the huge, or
<lb ed="G"/>the magnanimous, <lb ed="F1" n="2542"/>are all one reckonings, save
<lb ed="G" n="19"/>the phrase is a little <lb ed="F1" n="2543"/>variations.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2544"/></p></sp><sp who="gow."><speaker>Gow.</speaker><p>I think Alexander the Great was
<lb ed="G"/>born in <lb ed="F1" n="2545"/>Macedon: his father was called Philip
<lb ed="G"/>of Macedon, as I <lb ed="F1" n="2546"/>take it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2547"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>I think it is in Macedon where <reg orig="Alex-ander">Alexander</reg>
<lb ed="G"/>is <lb ed="F1" n="2548"/>porn. I tell you, captain, if you look in
<lb ed="G"/>the maps of <lb ed="F1" n="2549"/>the 'orld, I warrant you sall find,
<lb ed="G"/>in the comparisons between <lb ed="F1" n="2550"/>Macedon and
<lb ed="G"/>Monmouth, that the situations, look <lb ed="F1" n="2551"/>you, is
<lb ed="G"/>both alike. There is a river in Macedon; and
<lb ed="G"/>there <lb ed="F1" n="2552"/>is also moreover a river at Monmouth:
<lb ed="G"/>it is called Wye at <lb ed="F1" n="2553"/>Monmouth; but it is out of
<lb ed="G"/>my prains what is the name <lb ed="F1" n="2554"/>of the other river;
<lb ed="G"/>but 'tis all one, 'tis alike as my fingers <lb ed="F1" n="2555"/>is to my
<lb ed="G"/>fingers, and there is salmons in both.   If you
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2556"/>mark Alexander's life well, Harry of <reg orig="Mon-mouth&apos;s">Monmouth's</reg>
<lb ed="G"/>life is <lb ed="F1" n="2557"/>come after it indifferent well;
<lb ed="G"/>for there is figures in all <lb ed="F1" n="2558"/>things.   Alexander,
<lb ed="G"/>God knows, and you know, in his <lb ed="F1" n="2559"/>rages, and
<lb ed="G"/>his furies, and his wraths, and his cholers, and
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2560"/>his moods, and his displeasures, and his <reg orig="indig-nations,">indignations,</reg>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2561"/>and also being a little intoxicates in
<lb ed="G"/>his prains, did, in <lb ed="F1" n="2562"/>his ales and his angers, look
<lb ed="G" n="41"/>you, kill his best friend, <lb ed="F1" n="2563"/>Cleitus.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2564"/></p></sp><sp who="gow."><speaker>Gow.</speaker><p>Our king is not like him in that: he
<lb ed="G"/>never killed <lb ed="F1" n="2565"/>any of his friends.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2566"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>It is not well done, mark you now, to
<lb ed="G"/>take the <lb ed="F1" n="2567"/>tales out of my mouth, ere it is made
<lb ed="G"/>and finished. I speak <lb ed="F1" n="2568"/>but in the figures and
<lb ed="G"/>comparisons of it: as Alexander <lb ed="F1" n="2569"/>killed his
<lb ed="G"/>friend Cleitus, being in his ales and his cups;
<lb ed="G"/>so <lb ed="F1" n="2570"/>also Harry Monmouth, being in his right
<lb ed="G"/>wits and his <lb ed="F1" n="2571"/>good judgements, turned away the
<lb ed="G"/>fat knight with the <lb ed="F1" n="2572"/>great belly-doublet: he was
<lb ed="G"/>full of jests, and gipes, and <lb ed="F1" n="2573"/>knaveries, and
<lb ed="G"/>mocks; I have forgot his name.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2574"/></p></sp><sp who="gow."><speaker>Gow.</speaker><p>Sir John Falstaff.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2575"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>That is he: I'll tell you there is good
<lb ed="G"/>men porn <lb ed="F1" n="2576"/>at Monmouth.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2577"/></p></sp><sp who="gow."><speaker>Gow.</speaker><p>Here comes his majesty.
<lb ed="F1" n="2578"/><stage>[Alarum.</stage> <stage type="entrance">Enter KING HENRY, and forces; WARWICK, GLOUCESTER, EXETER,and others.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2579"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2580"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>I was not angry since I came to France
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2581"/></l><l>Until this instant. Take a trumpet, herald;
<lb ed="G" n="60"/><lb ed="F1" n="2582"/></l><l>Ride thou unto the horsemen on yon hill:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2583"/></l><l>If they will fight with us, bid them come down,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2584"/></l><l>Or void the field; they do offend our sight:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2585"/></l><l>If they'll do neither, we will come to them,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2586"/></l><l>And make them skirr away, as swift as stones
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2587"/></l><l>Enforced from the old Assyrian slings:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2588"/></l><l>Besides, we'll cut the throats of those we have,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2589"/></l><l>And not a man of them that we shall take
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2590"/></l><l>Shall taste our mercy. Go and tell them so.
<lb ed="F1" n="2591"/><stage type="entrance">Enter MONTJOY.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2592"/></l></sp><sp who="exe."><speaker>Exe.</speaker><p>Here comes the herald of the French, my liege.

<lb ed="G" n="70"/><lb ed="F1" n="2593"/></p></sp><sp who="glou."><speaker>Glou.</speaker><p>His eyes are humbler than they used to be.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2594"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>How now! what means this, herald? know'st <lb ed="F1" n="2595"/>thou not
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2596"/></l><l>That I have fined these bones of mine for ransom?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2597"/></l><l part="I">Comest thou again for ransom?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2598"/></l></sp><sp who="mont."><speaker>Mont.</speaker><l part="F">No, great king:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2599"/></l><l>I come to thee for charitable license,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2600"/></l><l>That we may wander o'er this bloody field
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2601"/></l><l>To look our dead, and then to bury them;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2602"/></l><l>To sort our nobles from our common men.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2603"/></l><l>For many of our princes--woe the while!--
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2604"/></l><l>Lie drown'd and soak'd in mercenary blood;
<lb ed="G" n="80"/><lb ed="F1" n="2605"/></l><l>So do our vulgar drench their peasant limbs
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2606"/></l><l>In blood of princes; and their wounded steeds
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2607"/></l><l>Fret fetlock deep in gore and with wild rage
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2608"/></l><l>Yerk out their armed heels at their dead masters,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2609"/></l><l>Killing them twice. O, give us leave, great king,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2610"/></l><l>To view the field in safety and dispose
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2611"/></l><l part="I">Of their dead bodies!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2612"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l part="F">I tell thee truly, herald,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2613"/></l><l>I know not if the day be ours or no;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2614"/></l><l>For yet a many of your horsemen peer
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2615"/></l><l part="I">And gallop o'er the field.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2616"/></l></sp><sp who="mont."><speaker>Mont.</speaker><l part="F">The day is yours.

<lb ed="G" n="90"/><lb ed="F1" n="2617"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>Praised be God, and not our strength, for it!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2618"/></l><l>What is this castle call'd that stands hard by?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2619"/></l></sp><sp who="mont."><speaker>Mont.</speaker><l>They call it Agincourt.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2620"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>Then call we this the field of Agincourt,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2621"/></l><l>Fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2622"/></l></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>Your grandfather of famous memory,
<lb ed="G"/>an't please <lb ed="F1" n="2623"/>your majesty, and your great-uncle
<lb ed="G"/>Edward the Plack <lb ed="F1" n="2624"/>Prince of Wales, as I have
<lb ed="G"/>read in the chronicles, fought <lb ed="F1" n="2625"/>a most prave
<lb ed="G"/>pattle here in France.

<lb ed="G" n="100"/><lb ed="F1" n="2626"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>They did, Fluellen.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2627"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>Your majesty says very true: if your
<lb ed="G"/>majesties <lb ed="F1" n="2628"/>is remembered of it, the Welshmen
<lb ed="G"/>did good service in a <lb ed="F1" n="2629"/>garden where leeks did
<lb ed="G"/>grow, wearing leeks in their <lb ed="F1" n="2630"/>Monmouth caps;
<lb ed="G"/>which, your majesty know, to this hour <lb ed="F1" n="2631"/>is an
<lb ed="G"/>honorable badge of the service; and I do believe
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2632"/>your majesty takes no scorn to wear the
<lb ed="G"/>leek upon <lb ed="F1" n="2633"/>Saint Tavy's day.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2634"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>I wear it for a memorable honor;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2635"/></l><l>For I am Welsh, you know, good countryman.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2636"/></l></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>All the water in Wye cannot wash
<lb ed="G"/>your majesty's <lb ed="F1" n="2637"/>Welsh plood out of your pody,
<lb ed="G"/>I can tell you that: <lb ed="F1" n="2638"/>God pless it and preserve
<lb ed="G"/>it, as long as it pleases his <lb ed="F1" n="2639"/>grace, and his <reg orig="maj-esty">majesty</reg><lb ed="G"/>too!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2640"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>Thanks, good my countryman.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2641"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>By Jeshu, I am your majesty's countryman,
<lb ed="G"/>I <lb ed="F1" n="2642"/>care not who know it; I will <reg orig="con-fess">confess</reg>
<lb ed="G"/>it to all the 'orld: I <lb ed="F1" n="2643"/>need not to be
<lb ed="G"/>ashamed of your majesty, praised be God, <lb ed="F1" n="2644"/>so
<lb ed="G" n="120"/>long as your majesty is an honest man.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2645"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>God keep me so! <lb ed="F1" n="2646"/>  <lb ed="F1" n="2647"/>Our heralds go with him:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2648"/></l><l>Bring me just notice of the numbers dead
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2649"/></l><l>On both our parts. Call yonder fellow hither.

<stage>[Points to Williams. Exeunt Heralds with Montjoy.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2650"/></l></sp><sp who="exe."><speaker>Exe.</speaker><p>Soldier, you must come to the king.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2651"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>Soldier, why wearest thou that
<lb ed="G"/>glove in thy <lb ed="F1" n="2652"/>cap?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2653"/></p></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><l>An't please your majesty, 'tis the
<lb ed="G"/>gage of one <lb ed="F1" n="2654"/>that I should fight withal, if he be alive.

<lb ed="G" n="129"/><lb ed="F1" n="2655"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>An Englishman?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2656"/></l></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><p>An't please your majesty, a rascal
<lb ed="G"/>that swaggered <lb ed="F1" n="2657"/>with me last night; who, if
<lb ed="G"/>alive and ever dare to <lb ed="F1" n="2658"/>challenge this glove, I
<lb ed="G"/>have sworn to take him a box <lb ed="F1" n="2659"/>o' th' ear: or if
<lb ed="G"/>I can see my glove in his cap, which he <lb ed="F1" n="2660"/>swore,
<lb ed="G"/>as he was a soldier, he would wear if alive, I
<lb ed="G"/>will <lb ed="F1" n="2661"/>strike it out soundly.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2662"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>What think you, Captain Fluellen?
<lb ed="G"/>is it fit this <lb ed="F1" n="2663"/>soldier keep his oath?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2664"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>He is a craven and a villain else,an't
<lb ed="G" n="140"/>please <lb ed="F1" n="2665"/>your majesty, in my conscience.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2666"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>It may be his enemy is a <reg orig="gentle-man">gentleman</reg>
<lb ed="G"/>of great <lb ed="F1" n="2667"/>sort, quite from the answer of his degree.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2668"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>Though he be as good a gentleman as
<lb ed="G"/>the devil is, <lb ed="F1" n="2669"/>as Lucifer and Belzebub himself,
<lb ed="G"/>it is necessary, look <lb ed="F1" n="2670"/>your grace, that he keep
<lb ed="G"/>his vow and his oath: if he <lb ed="F1" n="2671"/>be perjured, see
<lb ed="G"/>you now, his reputation is as arrant a <lb ed="F1" n="2672"/>villain
<lb ed="G"/>and a Jacksauce, as ever his black shoe trod
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2673"/>upon God's ground and his earth, in my <reg orig="con-science,">conscience,</reg><lb ed="G" n="150"/> la!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2674"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>Then keep thy vow, sirrah, when
<lb ed="G"/>thou meetest <lb ed="F1" n="2675"/>the fellow.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2676"/></p></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><p>So I will, my liege, as I live.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2677"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>Who servest thou under?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2678"/></p></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><p>Under Captain Gower, my liege.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2679"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>Gower is a good captain, and is good
<lb ed="G"/>knowledge <lb ed="F1" n="2680"/>and literatured in the wars.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2681"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>Call him hither to me, soldier.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2682"/></p></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><p>I will, my liege.
<stage>[Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2683"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>Here, Fluellen; wear thou this
<lb ed="G"/>favor for me and <lb ed="F1" n="2684"/>stick it in thy cap: when
<lb ed="G"/>Alencon and myself were <lb ed="F1" n="2685"/>down together, I
<lb ed="G"/>plucked this glove from his helm: if <lb ed="F1" n="2686"/>any man
<lb ed="G"/>challenge this, he is a friend of Alencon, and
<lb ed="G"/>an <lb ed="F1" n="2687"/>enemy to our person; if thou encounter
<lb ed="G"/>any such, apprehend <lb ed="F1" n="2688"/>him, and thou dost me
<lb ed="G"/>love.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2689"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>Your grace doo's me as great honors
<lb ed="G"/>as can be <lb ed="F1" n="2690"/>desired in the hearts of his subjects:
<lb ed="G"/>I would fain see <lb ed="F1" n="2691"/>the man, that has but two
<lb ed="G"/>legs, that shall find himself <lb ed="F1" n="2692"/>aggriefed at this
<lb ed="G"/>glove; that is all; but I would fain see <lb ed="F1" n="2693"/>it
<lb ed="G"/>once, an please God of his grace that I might
<lb ed="G"/>see.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2694"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>Knowest thou Gower?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2695"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>He is my dear friend, an please you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2696"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>Pray thee, go seek him, and bring
<lb ed="G"/>him to my <lb ed="F1" n="2697"/>tent.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2698"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>I will fetch him.
<stage>[Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2699"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>My lord of Warwick, and my brother Gloucester,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2700"/></l><l>Follow Fluellen closely at the heels:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2701"/></l><l>The glove which I have given him for a favor
<lb ed="G" n="181"/><lb ed="F1" n="2702"/></l><l>May haply purchase him a box o' th' ear;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2703"/></l><l>It is the soldier's; I by bargain should
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2704"/></l><l>Wear it myself.   Follow, good cousin Warwick:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2705"/></l><l>If that the soldier strike him, as I judge
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2706"/></l><l>By his blunt bearing he will keep his word,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2707"/></l><l>Some sudden mischief may arise of it;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2708"/></l><l>For I do know Fluellen valiant
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2709"/></l><l>And, touch'd with choler, hot as gunpowder,
<lb ed="G" n="189"/><lb ed="F1" n="2710"/></l><l>And quickly will return an injury:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2711"/></l><l>Follow, and see there be no harm between them.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2712"/></l><l>Go you with me, uncle of Exeter.
<stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
</l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="8">
<head>SCENE VIII</head>
<stage type="setting">Before KING HENRY'S pavilion.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2713"/><stage type="entrance">Enter GOWER and WILLIAMS. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2714"/><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><p>I warrant it is to knight you, captain.
<lb ed="F1" n="2715"/><stage type="entrance">Enter FLUELLEN.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2716"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>God's will and his pleasure, captain,
<lb ed="G"/>I beseech <lb ed="F1" n="2717"/>you now, come apace to the king:
<lb ed="G"/>there is more good <lb ed="F1" n="2718"/>toward you peradventure
<lb ed="G"/>than is in your knowledge to <lb ed="F1" n="2719"/>dream of.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2720"/></p></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><p>Sir, know you this glove?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2721"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>Know the glove! I know the glove is
<lb ed="G"/>a glove.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2722"/></p></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><p>I know this; and thus I challenge it.
<lb ed="F1" n="2723"/><stage>[Strikes him.</stage>


<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2724"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>'Sblood! an arrant traitor as any is
<lb ed="G"/>in the universal <lb ed="F1" n="2725"/>world, or in France, or in
<lb ed="G" n="11"/></p><l>England!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2726"/></l></sp><sp who="gow."><speaker>Gow.</speaker><p>How now, sir! you villain!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2727"/></p></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><p>Do you think I'll be forsworn?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2728"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>Stand away, Captain Gower; I will
<lb ed="G"/>give treason <lb ed="F1" n="2729"/>his payment into plows, I warrant
<lb ed="G"/>you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2730"/></p></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><p>I am no traitor.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2731"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>That's a lie in thy throat. I charge
<lb ed="G"/>you in his <lb ed="F1" n="2732"/>majesty's name, apprehend him:
<lb ed="G" n="19"/>he's a friend of the Duke <lb ed="F1" n="2733"/>Alencon's.
<lb ed="F1" n="2734"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2735"/></p></sp><sp who="war."><speaker>War.</speaker><p>How now, how now! what's the
<lb ed="G"/>matter?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2736"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>My Lord of Warwick, here is--
<lb ed="G"/>praised be God <lb ed="F1" n="2737"/>for it!--a most contagious
<lb ed="G"/>treason come to light, look <lb ed="F1" n="2738"/>you, as you shall
<lb ed="G"/>desire in a summer's day. Here is his <lb ed="F1" n="2739"/>majesty.
<stage type="entrance">Enter KING HENRY and EXETER.  </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2740"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>How now! what's the matter?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2741"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>My liege, here is a villain and a <reg orig="trai-tor,">traitor,</reg>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2742"/>that, look your grace, has struck the glove
<lb ed="G"/>which <lb ed="F1" n="2743"/>your majesty is take out of the helmet
<lb ed="G"/>of <lb ed="F1" n="2744"/>Alencon.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2745"/></p></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><p>My liege, this was my glove; here is
<lb ed="G"/>the fellow <lb ed="F1" n="2746"/>of it; and he that I gave it to in
<lb ed="G"/>change promised to wear <lb ed="F1" n="2747"/>it in his cap: I
<lb ed="G"/>promised to strike him, if he did: I met <lb ed="F1" n="2748"/>this
<lb ed="G"/>man with my glove in his cap, and I have been
<lb ed="G"/>as <lb ed="F1" n="2749"/>good as my word.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2750"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>Your majesty hear now, saving your
<lb ed="G"/>majesty's <lb ed="F1" n="2751"/>manhood, what an arrant, rascally
<lb ed="G"/>beggarly, lousy <lb ed="F1" n="2752"/>knave it is: I hope your <reg orig="maj-esty">majesty</reg>
<lb ed="G"/>is pear me testimony <lb ed="F1" n="2753"/>and witness, and
<lb ed="G"/>will avouchment, that this is the glove <lb ed="F1" n="2754"/>of
<lb ed="G"/>Alencon, that your majesty is give me; in
<lb ed="G" n="40"/>your conscience, <lb ed="F1" n="2755"/>now.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2756"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>Give me thy glove, soldier: <lb ed="F1" n="2757"/>look,
<lb ed="G"/>here is the fellow of it.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2758"/>'Twas I, indeed, thou promised'st to strike;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2759"/>And thou hast given me most bitter terms.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2760"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>And please your majesty, let his neck
<lb ed="G"/>answer <lb ed="F1" n="2761"/>for it, if there is any martial law in the
<lb ed="G"/>world.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2762"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>How canst thou make me satisfaction?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2763"/></p></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><p>All offences, my lord, come from the
<lb ed="G"/>heart: never <lb ed="F1" n="2764"/>came any from mine that might
<lb ed="G" n="51"/>offend your <lb ed="F1" n="2765"/>majesty.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2766"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>It was ourself thou didst abuse.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2767"/></p></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><p>Your majesty came not like yourself:
<lb ed="G"/>you <lb ed="F1" n="2768"/>appeared to me but as a common man;
<lb ed="G"/>witness the <lb ed="F1" n="2769"/>night, your garments, your <reg orig="low-liness;">lowliness;</reg>
<lb ed="G"/>and what <lb ed="F1" n="2770"/>your highness suffered under
<lb ed="G"/>that shape, I beseech you <lb ed="F1" n="2771"/>take it for your own
<lb ed="G"/>fault and not mine: for had you <lb ed="F1" n="2772"/>been as I
<lb ed="G"/>took you for, I made no offence; therefore, I
<lb ed="G" n="60"/><lb ed="F1" n="2773"/>beseech your highness, pardon me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2774"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>Here, uncle Exeter, fill this glove with crowns,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2775"/></l><l>And give it to this fellow. Keep it, fellow;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2776"/></l><l>And wear it for an honor in thy cap
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2777"/></l><l>Till I do challenge it. Give him the crowns:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2778"/></l><l>And, captain, you must needs be friends with him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2779"/></l></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>By this day and this light, the fellow
<lb ed="G"/>has mettle <lb ed="F1" n="2780"/>enough in his belly.   Hold, there
<lb ed="G"/>is twelve pence for <lb ed="F1" n="2781"/>you; and I pray you to
<lb ed="G"/>serve Got, and keep you out of <lb ed="F1" n="2782"/>prawls, and
<lb ed="G"/>prabbles, and quarrels, and dissensions, and, I
<lb ed="G" n="71"/><lb ed="F1" n="2783"/>warrant you, it is the better for you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2784"/></p></sp><sp who="will."><speaker>Will.</speaker><p>I will none of your money.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2785"/></p></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><p>It is with a good will; I can tell you,
<lb ed="G"/>it will serve <lb ed="F1" n="2786"/>you to mend your shoes: come,
<lb ed="G"/>wherefore should you <lb ed="F1" n="2787"/>be so pashful? your
<lb ed="G"/>shoes is not so good: 'tis a good <lb ed="F1" n="2788"/>silling, I warrant
<lb ed="G"/>you, or I will change it.
<lb ed="F1" n="2789"/><stage type="entrance">Enter an English Herald.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2790"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>Now, herald, are the dead number'd?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2791"/></p></sp><sp who="her."><speaker>Her.</speaker><p>Here is the number of the slaughter'd <lb ed="F1" n="2792"/>French.

<lb ed="G" n="80"/><lb ed="F1" n="2793"/></p></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><p>What prisoners of good sort are taken, <lb ed="F1" n="2794"/>uncle?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2795"/></p></sp><sp who="exe."><speaker>Exe.</speaker><l>Charles Duke of Orleans, nephew to the king;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2796"/></l><l>John Duke of Bourbon, and Lord Bouciqualt:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2797"/></l><l>Of other lords and barons, knights and squires,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2798"/></l><l>Full fifteen hundred, besides common men.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2799"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>This note doth tell me of ten thousand French
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2800"/></l><l>That in the field lie slain: of princes, in this number,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2801"/></l><l>And nobles bearing banners, there lie dead
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2802"/></l><l>One hundred twenty six: added to these,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2803"/></l><l>Of knights, esquires, and gallant gentlemen,
<lb ed="G" n="90"/><lb ed="F1" n="2804"/></l><l>Eight thousand and four hundred; of the which,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2805"/></l><l>Five hundred were but yesterday dubb'd knights:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2806"/></l><l>So that, in these ten thousand they have lost,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2807"/></l><l>There are but sixteen hundred mercenaries;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2808"/></l><l>The rest are princes, barons, lords, knights, squires,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2809"/></l><l>And gentlemen of blood and quality.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2810"/></l><l>The names of those their nobles that lie dead:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2811"/></l><l>Charles Delabreth, high constable of France;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2812"/></l><l>Jaques of Chatillon, admiral of France;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2813"/></l><l>The master of the cross-bows, Lord Rambures;
<lb ed="G" n="100"/><lb ed="F1" n="2814"/></l><l>Great Master of France, the brave Sir Guichard Dolphin,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2815"/></l><l>John Duke of Alencon, Anthony Duke of Brabant,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2816"/></l><l>The brother to the Duke of Burgundy,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2817"/></l><l>And Edward Duke of Bar: of lusty earls,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2818"/></l><l>Grandpre and Roussi, Fauconberg and Foix,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2819"/></l><l>Beaumont and Marle, Vaudemont and Lestrale.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2820"/></l><l>Here was a royal fellowship of death!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2821"/></l><l>Where is the number of our English dead?

<stage>[Herald shews him another paper.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2822"/></l><l>Edward the Duke of York, the Earl of Suffolk,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2823"/></l><l>Sir Richard Ketly, Davy Gam, esquire:
<lb ed="G" n="110"/><lb ed="F1" n="2824"/></l><l>None else of name; and of all other men
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2825"/></l><l>But five and twenty. <lb ed="F1" n="2826"/>O God, thy arm was here;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2827"/></l><l>And not to us, but to thy arm alone,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2828"/></l><l>Ascribe we all!   When, without stratagem,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2829"/></l><l>But in plain shock and even play of battle,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2830"/></l><l>Was ever known so great and little loss
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2831"/></l><l>On one part and on the other?   Take it, God,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2832"/></l><l part="I">For it is none but thine!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2833"/></l></sp><sp who="exe."><speaker>Exe.</speaker><l part="F">'Tis wonderful!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2834"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>Come, go we in procession to the village:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2835"/></l><l>And be it death proclaimed through our host
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2836"/></l><l>To boast of this or take that praise from God
<lb ed="G" n="121"/><lb ed="F1" n="2837"/></l><l>Which is his only.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2838"/></l></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><l>Is it not lawful, an please your <reg orig="maj-esty,">majesty,</reg>
<lb ed="G"/>to tell <lb ed="F1" n="2839"/>how many is killed?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2840"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>Yes, captain; but with this acknowledgment,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2841"/></l><l>That God fought for us.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2842"/></l></sp><sp who="flu."><speaker>Flu.</speaker><l>Yes, my conscience, he did us great good.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2843"/></l></sp><sp who="k.-hen."><speaker>K. Hen.</speaker><l>Do we all holy rites;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2844"/></l><l>Let there be sung 'Non nobis' and 'Te Deum;'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2845"/></l><l>The dead with charity enclosed in clay:
<lb ed="G" n="130"/><lb ed="F1" n="2846"/></l><l>And then to Calais; and to England then:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2847"/></l><l>Where ne'er from France arrived more happy men.
<lb ed="F1" n="2848"/><stage>[Exeunt. </stage>
</l></sp>
</div2>
    </div1>

    <div1 type="act" n="5">
      <head>ACT V</head>
<lb ed="F1" n="2849"/>
<div2 type="scene" n="prologue">
<head>PROLOGUE</head>
<lb ed="F1" n="2850"/><stage type="entrance">Enter Chorus.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2851"/><sp who="chor."><speaker>Chor.</speaker><l>Vouchsafe to those that have not read the story,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2852"/></l><l>That I may prompt them: and of such as have,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2853"/></l><l>I humbly pray them to admit the excuse
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2854"/></l><l>Of time, of numbers and due course of things,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2855"/></l><l>Which cannot in their huge and proper life
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2856"/></l><l>Be here presented. Now we bear the king
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2857"/></l><l>Toward Calais: grant him there; there seen,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2858"/></l><l>Heave him away upon your winged thoughts
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2859"/></l><l>Athwart the sea. Behold, the English beach
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="2860"/></l><l>Pales in the flood with men, with wives and boys,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2861"/></l><l>Whose shouts and claps out-voice the deepmouth'd sea,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2862"/></l><l>Which like a mighty whiffler 'fore the king
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2863"/></l><l>Seems to prepare his way: so let him land,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2864"/></l><l>And solemnly see him set on to London.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2865"/></l><l>So swift a pace hath thought that even now
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2866"/></l><l>You may imagine him upon Blackheath;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2867"/></l><l>Where that his lords desire him to have borne
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2868"/></l><l>His bruised helmet and his bended sword
<lb ed="G" n="19"/><lb ed="F1" n="2869"/></l><l>Before him through the city: he forbids it,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2870"/></l><l>Being free from   vainness and self-glorious pride;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2871"/></l><l>Giving full trophy, signal and ostent
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2872"/></l><l>Quite from himself to God. But now behold,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2873"/></l><l>In the quick forge and working-house of thought,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2874"/></l><l>How London doth pour out her citizens!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2875"/></l><l>The mayor and all his brethren in best sort,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2876"/></l><l>Like to the senators of the antique Rome,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2877"/></l><l>With the plebeians swarming at their heels,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2878"/></l><l>Go forth and fetch their conquering Caesar in:
<lb ed="G" n="29"/><lb ed="F1" n="2879"/></l><l>As by a lower but loving likelihood,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2880"/></l><l>Were now the general of our gracious empress,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2881"/></l><l>As in good time, he may, from Ireland coming,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2882"/></l><l>Bringing rebellion broached on his sword,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2883"/></l><l>How many would the peaceful city quit,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2884"/></l><l>To welcome him! much more, and much more cause,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2885"/></l><l>Did they this Harry. Now in London place him;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2886"/></l><l>As yet the lamentation of the French
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2887"/></l><l>Invites the King of England's stay at home;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2888"/></l><l>The emperor's coming in behalf of France,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2889"/></l><l>To order peace between them; and omit
<lb ed="G" n="40"/><lb ed="F1" n="2890"/></l><l>All the occurrences, whatever chanced.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2891"/></l><l>Till Harry's back-return again to France:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2892"/></l><l>There must we bring him; and myself have play'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2893"/></l><l>The interim, by remembering you 'tis past.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2894"/></l><l>Then brook abridgement, and your eyes advance,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2895"/></l><l>After your thoughts, straight back again to France.
<lb ed="F1" n="2896"/><stage>[Exit. </stage>
</l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="1">
<head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">France. The English camp.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2897"/><stage type="entrance">Enter FLUELLEN and GOWER. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2898"/><sp who="gow."><speaker>Gow.</speaker><p>Nay, that's right; but why wear you
<lb ed="G"/>your <lb ed="F1" n="2899"/>leek to-day?   Saint Davy's day is past.