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| <tr><td class="play" align="center">The Life of King Henry the Fifth | |
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| <H3>ACT I</h3> | |
| <h3>PROLOGUE</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter Chorus</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>Chorus</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.0.1>O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.0.2>The brightest heaven of invention,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.0.3>A kingdom for a stage, princes to act</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.0.4>And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.0.5>Then should the warlike Harry, like himself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.0.6>Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.0.7>Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword and fire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.0.8>Crouch for employment. But pardon, and gentles all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.0.9>The flat unraised spirits that have dared</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.0.10>On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.0.11>So great an object: can this cockpit hold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.0.12>The vasty fields of France? or may we cram</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.0.13>Within this wooden O the very casques</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.0.14>That did affright the air at Agincourt?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.0.15>O, pardon! since a crooked figure may</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.0.16>Attest in little place a million;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.0.17>And let us, ciphers to this great accompt,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.0.18>On your imaginary forces work.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.0.19>Suppose within the girdle of these walls</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.0.20>Are now confined two mighty monarchies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.0.21>Whose high upreared and abutting fronts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.0.22>The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.0.23>Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.0.24>Into a thousand parts divide on man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.0.25>And make imaginary puissance;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.0.26>Think when we talk of horses, that you see them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.0.27>Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.0.28>For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.0.29>Carry them here and there; jumping o'er times,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.0.30>Turning the accomplishment of many years</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.0.31>Into an hour-glass: for the which supply,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.0.32>Admit me Chorus to this history;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.0.33>Who prologue-like your humble patience pray,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.0.34>Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. London. An ante-chamber in the KING'S palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, and the BISHOP OF ELY</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>CANTERBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.1>My lord, I'll tell you; that self bill is urged,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.2>Which in the eleventh year of the last king's reign</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.3>Was like, and had indeed against us pass'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.4>But that the scambling and unquiet time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.5>Did push it out of farther question.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>ELY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.6>But how, my lord, shall we resist it now?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>CANTERBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.7>It must be thought on. If it pass against us,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.8>We lose the better half of our possession:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.9>For all the temporal lands which men devout</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.10>By testament have given to the church</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.11>Would they strip from us; being valued thus:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.12>As much as would maintain, to the king's honour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.13>Full fifteen earls and fifteen hundred knights,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.14>Six thousand and two hundred good esquires;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.15>And, to relief of lazars and weak age,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.16>Of indigent faint souls past corporal toil.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.17>A hundred almshouses right well supplied;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.18>And to the coffers of the king beside,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.19>A thousand pounds by the year: thus runs the bill.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>ELY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.20>This would drink deep.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>CANTERBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.21>'Twould drink the cup and all.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>ELY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.22>But what prevention?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>CANTERBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.23>The king is full of grace and fair regard.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>ELY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.24>And a true lover of the holy church.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>CANTERBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.25>The courses of his youth promised it not.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.26>The breath no sooner left his father's body,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.27>But that his wildness, mortified in him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.28>Seem'd to die too; yea, at that very moment</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.29>Consideration, like an angel, came</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.30>And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.31>Leaving his body as a paradise,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.32>To envelop and contain celestial spirits.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.33>Never was such a sudden scholar made;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.34>Never came reformation in a flood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.35>With such a heady currance, scouring faults</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.36>Nor never Hydra-headed wilfulness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.37>So soon did lose his seat and all at once</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.38>As in this king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>ELY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.39> We are blessed in the change.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>CANTERBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.40>Hear him but reason in divinity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.41>And all-admiring with an inward wish</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.42>You would desire the king were made a prelate:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.43>Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.44>You would say it hath been all in all his study:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.45>List his discourse of war, and you shall hear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.46>A fearful battle render'd you in music:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.47>Turn him to any cause of policy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.48>The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.49>Familiar as his garter: that, when he speaks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.50>The air, a charter'd libertine, is still,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.51>And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.52>To steal his sweet and honey'd sentences;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.53>So that the art and practic part of life</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.54>Must be the mistress to this theoric:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.55>Which is a wonder how his grace should glean it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.56>Since his addiction was to courses vain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.57>His companies unletter'd, rude and shallow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.58>His hours fill'd up with riots, banquets, sports,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.59>And never noted in him any study,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.60>Any retirement, any sequestration</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.61>From open haunts and popularity.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>ELY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.62>The strawberry grows underneath the nettle</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.63>And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.64>Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.65>And so the prince obscured his contemplation</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.66>Under the veil of wildness; which, no doubt,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.67>Grew like the summer grass, fastest by night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.68>Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>CANTERBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.69>It must be so; for miracles are ceased;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.70>And therefore we must needs admit the means</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.71>How things are perfected.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>ELY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.72>But, my good lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.73>How now for mitigation of this bill</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.74>Urged by the commons? Doth his majesty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.75>Incline to it, or no?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>CANTERBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.76>He seems indifferent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.77>Or rather swaying more upon our part</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.78>Than cherishing the exhibiters against us;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.79>For I have made an offer to his majesty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.80>Upon our spiritual convocation</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.81>And in regard of causes now in hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.82>Which I have open'd to his grace at large,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.83>As touching France, to give a greater sum</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.84>Than ever at one time the clergy yet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.85>Did to his predecessors part withal.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>ELY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.86>How did this offer seem received, my lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>CANTERBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.87>With good acceptance of his majesty;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.88>Save that there was not time enough to hear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.89>As I perceived his grace would fain have done,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.90>The severals and unhidden passages</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.91>Of his true titles to some certain dukedoms</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.92>And generally to the crown and seat of France</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.93>Derived from Edward, his great-grandfather.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>ELY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.94>What was the impediment that broke this off?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>CANTERBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.95>The French ambassador upon that instant</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.96>Craved audience; and the hour, I think, is come</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.97>To give him hearing: is it four o'clock?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>ELY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.98>It is.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>CANTERBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.99>Then go we in, to know his embassy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.100>Which I could with a ready guess declare,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.101>Before the Frenchman speak a word of it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>ELY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.102>I'll wait upon you, and I long to hear it.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. The same. The Presence chamber.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter KING HENRY V, GLOUCESTER, BEDFORD, EXETER, WARWICK, WESTMORELAND, and Attendants</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.1>Where is my gracious Lord of Canterbury?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>EXETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.2>Not here in presence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.3>Send for him, good uncle.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.4>Shall we call in the ambassador, my liege?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.5>Not yet, my cousin: we would be resolved,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.6>Before we hear him, of some things of weight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.7>That task our thoughts, concerning us and France.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, and the BISHOP of ELY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>CANTERBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.8>God and his angels guard your sacred throne</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.9>And make you long become it!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.10>Sure, we thank you.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.11>My learned lord, we pray you to proceed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.12>And justly and religiously unfold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.13>Why the law Salique that they have in France</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.14>Or should, or should not, bar us in our claim:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.15>And God forbid, my dear and faithful lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.16>That you should fashion, wrest, or bow your reading,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.17>Or nicely charge your understanding soul</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.18>With opening titles miscreate, whose right</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.19>Suits not in native colours with the truth;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.20>For God doth know how many now in health</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.21>Shall drop their blood in approbation</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.22>Of what your reverence shall incite us to.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.23>Therefore take heed how you impawn our person,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.24>How you awake our sleeping sword of war:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.25>We charge you, in the name of God, take heed;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.26>For never two such kingdoms did contend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.27>Without much fall of blood; whose guiltless drops</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.28>Are every one a woe, a sore complaint</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.29>'Gainst him whose wrong gives edge unto the swords</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.30>That make such waste in brief mortality.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.31>Under this conjuration, speak, my lord;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.32>For we will hear, note and believe in heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.33>That what you speak is in your conscience wash'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.34>As pure as sin with baptism.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>CANTERBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.35>Then hear me, gracious sovereign, and you peers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.36>That owe yourselves, your lives and services</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.37>To this imperial throne. There is no bar</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.38>To make against your highness' claim to France</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.39>But this, which they produce from Pharamond,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.40>'In terram Salicam mulieres ne succedant:'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.41>'No woman shall succeed in Salique land:'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.42>Which Salique land the French unjustly gloze</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.43>To be the realm of France, and Pharamond</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.44>The founder of this law and female bar.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.45>Yet their own authors faithfully affirm</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.46>That the land Salique is in Germany,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.47>Between the floods of Sala and of Elbe;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.48>Where Charles the Great, having subdued the Saxons,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.49>There left behind and settled certain French;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.50>Who, holding in disdain the German women</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.51>For some dishonest manners of their life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.52>Establish'd then this law; to wit, no female</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.53>Should be inheritrix in Salique land:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.54>Which Salique, as I said, 'twixt Elbe and Sala,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.55>Is at this day in Germany call'd Meisen.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.56>Then doth it well appear that Salique law</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.57>Was not devised for the realm of France:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.58>Nor did the French possess the Salique land</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.59>Until four hundred one and twenty years</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.60>After defunction of King Pharamond,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.61>Idly supposed the founder of this law;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.62>Who died within the year of our redemption</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.63>Four hundred twenty-six; and Charles the Great</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.64>Subdued the Saxons, and did seat the French</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.65>Beyond the river Sala, in the year</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.66>Eight hundred five. Besides, their writers say,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.67>King Pepin, which deposed Childeric,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.68>Did, as heir general, being descended</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.69>Of Blithild, which was daughter to King Clothair,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.70>Make claim and title to the crown of France.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.71>Hugh Capet also, who usurped the crown</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.72>Of Charles the duke of Lorraine, sole heir male</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.73>Of the true line and stock of Charles the Great,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.74>To find his title with some shows of truth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.75>'Through, in pure truth, it was corrupt and naught,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.76>Convey'd himself as heir to the Lady Lingare,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.77>Daughter to Charlemain, who was the son</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.78>To Lewis the emperor, and Lewis the son</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.79>Of Charles the Great. Also King Lewis the Tenth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.80>Who was sole heir to the usurper Capet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.81>Could not keep quiet in his conscience,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.82>Wearing the crown of France, till satisfied</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.83>That fair Queen Isabel, his grandmother,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.84>Was lineal of the Lady Ermengare,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.85>Daughter to Charles the foresaid duke of Lorraine:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.86>By the which marriage the line of Charles the Great</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.87>Was re-united to the crown of France.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.88>So that, as clear as is the summer's sun.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.89>King Pepin's title and Hugh Capet's claim,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.90>King Lewis his satisfaction, all appear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.91>To hold in right and title of the female:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.92>So do the kings of France unto this day;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.93>Howbeit they would hold up this Salique law</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.94>To bar your highness claiming from the female,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.95>And rather choose to hide them in a net</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.96>Than amply to imbar their crooked titles</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.97>Usurp'd from you and your progenitors.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.98>May I with right and conscience make this claim?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>CANTERBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.99>The sin upon my head, dread sovereign!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.100>For in the book of Numbers is it writ,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.101>When the man dies, let the inheritance</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.102>Descend unto the daughter. Gracious lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.103>Stand for your own; unwind your bloody flag;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.104>Look back into your mighty ancestors:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.105>Go, my dread lord, to your great-grandsire's tomb,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.106>From whom you claim; invoke his warlike spirit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.107>And your great-uncle's, Edward the Black Prince,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.108>Who on the French ground play'd a tragedy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.109>Making defeat on the full power of France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.110>Whiles his most mighty father on a hill</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.111>Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.112>Forage in blood of French nobility.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.113>O noble English. that could entertain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.114>With half their forces the full Pride of France</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.115>And let another half stand laughing by,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.116>All out of work and cold for action!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>ELY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.117>Awake remembrance of these valiant dead</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.118>And with your puissant arm renew their feats:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.119>You are their heir; you sit upon their throne;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.120>The blood and courage that renowned them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.121>Runs in your veins; and my thrice-puissant liege</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.122>Is in the very May-morn of his youth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.123>Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>EXETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.124>Your brother kings and monarchs of the earth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.125>Do all expect that you should rouse yourself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.126>As did the former lions of your blood.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.127>They know your grace hath cause and means and might;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.128>So hath your highness; never king of England</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.129>Had nobles richer and more loyal subjects,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.130>Whose hearts have left their bodies here in England</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.131>And lie pavilion'd in the fields of France.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>CANTERBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.132>O, let their bodies follow, my dear liege,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.133>With blood and sword and fire to win your right;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.134>In aid whereof we of the spiritualty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.135>Will raise your highness such a mighty sum</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.136>As never did the clergy at one time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.137>Bring in to any of your ancestors.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.138>We must not only arm to invade the French,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.139>But lay down our proportions to defend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.140>Against the Scot, who will make road upon us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.141>With all advantages.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>CANTERBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.142>They of those marches, gracious sovereign,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.143>Shall be a wall sufficient to defend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.144>Our inland from the pilfering borderers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.145>We do not mean the coursing snatchers only,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.146>But fear the main intendment of the Scot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.147>Who hath been still a giddy neighbour to us;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.148>For you shall read that my great-grandfather</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.149>Never went with his forces into France</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.150>But that the Scot on his unfurnish'd kingdom</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.151>Came pouring, like the tide into a breach,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.152>With ample and brim fulness of his force,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.153>Galling the gleaned land with hot assays,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.154>Girding with grievous siege castles and towns;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.155>That England, being empty of defence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.156>Hath shook and trembled at the ill neighbourhood.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>CANTERBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.157>She hath been then more fear'd than harm'd, my liege;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.158>For hear her but exampled by herself:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.159>When all her chivalry hath been in France</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.160>And she a mourning widow of her nobles,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.161>She hath herself not only well defended</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.162>But taken and impounded as a stray</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.163>The King of Scots; whom she did send to France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.164>To fill King Edward's fame with prisoner kings</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.165>And make her chronicle as rich with praise</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.166>As is the ooze and bottom of the sea</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.167>With sunken wreck and sunless treasuries.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.168>But there's a saying very old and true,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.169>'If that you will France win,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.170>Then with Scotland first begin:'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.171>For once the eagle England being in prey,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.172>To her unguarded nest the weasel Scot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.173>Comes sneaking and so sucks her princely eggs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.174>Playing the mouse in absence of the cat,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.175>To tear and havoc more than she can eat.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>EXETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.176>It follows then the cat must stay at home:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.177>Yet that is but a crush'd necessity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.178>Since we have locks to safeguard necessaries,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.179>And pretty traps to catch the petty thieves.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.180>While that the armed hand doth fight abroad,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.181>The advised head defends itself at home;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.182>For government, though high and low and lower,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.183>Put into parts, doth keep in one consent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.184>Congreeing in a full and natural close,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.185>Like music.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>CANTERBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.186> Therefore doth heaven divide</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.187>The state of man in divers functions,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.188>Setting endeavour in continual motion;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.189>To which is fixed, as an aim or butt,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.190>Obedience: for so work the honey-bees,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.191>Creatures that by a rule in nature teach</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.192>The act of order to a peopled kingdom.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.193>They have a king and officers of sorts;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.194>Where some, like magistrates, correct at home,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.195>Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.196>Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.197>Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.198>Which pillage they with merry march bring home</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.199>To the tent-royal of their emperor;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.200>Who, busied in his majesty, surveys</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.201>The singing masons building roofs of gold,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.202>The civil citizens kneading up the honey,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.203>The poor mechanic porters crowding in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.204>Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.205>The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.206>Delivering o'er to executors pale</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.207>The lazy yawning drone. I this infer,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.208>That many things, having full reference</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.209>To one consent, may work contrariously:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.210>As many arrows, loosed several ways,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.211>Come to one mark; as many ways meet in one town;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.212>As many fresh streams meet in one salt sea;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.213>As many lines close in the dial's centre;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.214>So may a thousand actions, once afoot.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.215>End in one purpose, and be all well borne</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.216>Without defeat. Therefore to France, my liege.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.217>Divide your happy England into four;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.218>Whereof take you one quarter into France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.219>And you withal shall make all Gallia shake.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.220>If we, with thrice such powers left at home,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.221>Cannot defend our own doors from the dog,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.222>Let us be worried and our nation lose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.223>The name of hardiness and policy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.224>Call in the messengers sent from the Dauphin.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt some Attendants</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.225>Now are we well resolved; and, by God's help,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.226>And yours, the noble sinews of our power,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.227>France being ours, we'll bend it to our awe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.228>Or break it all to pieces: or there we'll sit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.229>Ruling in large and ample empery</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.230>O'er France and all her almost kingly dukedoms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.231>Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.232>Tombless, with no remembrance over them:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.233>Either our history shall with full mouth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.234>Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.235>Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.236>Not worshipp'd with a waxen epitaph.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Ambassadors of France</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.237>Now are we well prepared to know the pleasure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.238>Of our fair cousin Dauphin; for we hear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.239>Your greeting is from him, not from the king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>First Ambassador</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.240>May't please your majesty to give us leave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.241>Freely to render what we have in charge;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.242>Or shall we sparingly show you far off</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.243>The Dauphin's meaning and our embassy?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.244>We are no tyrant, but a Christian king;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.245>Unto whose grace our passion is as subject</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.246>As are our wretches fetter'd in our prisons:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.247>Therefore with frank and with uncurbed plainness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.248>Tell us the Dauphin's mind.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>First Ambassador</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.249>Thus, then, in few.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.250>Your highness, lately sending into France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.251>Did claim some certain dukedoms, in the right</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.252>Of your great predecessor, King Edward the Third.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.253>In answer of which claim, the prince our master</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.254>Says that you savour too much of your youth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.255>And bids you be advised there's nought in France</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.256>That can be with a nimble galliard won;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.257>You cannot revel into dukedoms there.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.258>He therefore sends you, meeter for your spirit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.259>This tun of treasure; and, in lieu of this,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.260>Desires you let the dukedoms that you claim</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.261>Hear no more of you. This the Dauphin speaks.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.262>What treasure, uncle?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>EXETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.263>Tennis-balls, my liege.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.264>We are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.265>His present and your pains we thank you for:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.266>When we have march'd our rackets to these balls,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.267>We will, in France, by God's grace, play a set</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.268>Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.269>Tell him he hath made a match with such a wrangler</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.270>That all the courts of France will be disturb'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.271>With chaces. And we understand him well,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.272>How he comes o'er us with our wilder days,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.273>Not measuring what use we made of them.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.274>We never valued this poor seat of England;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.275>And therefore, living hence, did give ourself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.276>To barbarous licence; as 'tis ever common</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.277>That men are merriest when they are from home.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.278>But tell the Dauphin I will keep my state,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.279>Be like a king and show my sail of greatness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.280>When I do rouse me in my throne of France:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.281>For that I have laid by my majesty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.282>And plodded like a man for working-days,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.283>But I will rise there with so full a glory</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.284>That I will dazzle all the eyes of France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.285>Yea, strike the Dauphin blind to look on us.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.286>And tell the pleasant prince this mock of his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.287>Hath turn'd his balls to gun-stones; and his soul</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.288>Shall stand sore charged for the wasteful vengeance</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.289>That shall fly with them: for many a thousand widows</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.290>Shall this his mock mock out of their dear husbands;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.291>Mock mothers from their sons, mock castles down;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.292>And some are yet ungotten and unborn</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.293>That shall have cause to curse the Dauphin's scorn.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.294>But this lies all within the will of God,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.295>To whom I do appeal; and in whose name</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.296>Tell you the Dauphin I am coming on,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.297>To venge me as I may and to put forth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.298>My rightful hand in a well-hallow'd cause.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.299>So get you hence in peace; and tell the Dauphin</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.300>His jest will savour but of shallow wit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.301>When thousands weep more than did laugh at it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.302>Convey them with safe conduct. Fare you well.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Ambassadors</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>EXETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.303>This was a merry message.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.304>We hope to make the sender blush at it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.305>Therefore, my lords, omit no happy hour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.306>That may give furtherance to our expedition;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.307>For we have now no thought in us but France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.308>Save those to God, that run before our business.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.309>Therefore let our proportions for these wars</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.310>Be soon collected and all things thought upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.311>That may with reasonable swiftness add</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.312>More feathers to our wings; for, God before,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.313>We'll chide this Dauphin at his father's door.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.314>Therefore let every man now task his thought,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.315>That this fair action may on foot be brought.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt. Flourish</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT II</h3> | |
| <h3>PROLOGUE</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter Chorus</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>Chorus</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.1>Now all the youth of England are on fire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.2>And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.3>Now thrive the armourers, and honour's thought</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.4>Reigns solely in the breast of every man:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.5>They sell the pasture now to buy the horse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.6>Following the mirror of all Christian kings,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.7>With winged heels, as English Mercuries.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.8>For now sits Expectation in the air,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.9>And hides a sword from hilts unto the point</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.10>With crowns imperial, crowns and coronets,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.11>Promised to Harry and his followers.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.12>The French, advised by good intelligence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.13>Of this most dreadful preparation,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.14>Shake in their fear and with pale policy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.15>Seek to divert the English purposes.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.16>O England! model to thy inward greatness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.17>Like little body with a mighty heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.18>What mightst thou do, that honour would thee do,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.19>Were all thy children kind and natural!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.20>But see thy fault! France hath in thee found out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.21>A nest of hollow bosoms, which he fills</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.22>With treacherous crowns; and three corrupted men,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.23>One, Richard Earl of Cambridge, and the second,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.24>Henry Lord Scroop of Masham, and the third,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.25>Sir Thomas Grey, knight, of Northumberland,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.26>Have, for the gilt of France,--O guilt indeed!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.27>Confirm'd conspiracy with fearful France;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.28>And by their hands this grace of kings must die,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.29>If hell and treason hold their promises,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.30>Ere he take ship for France, and in Southampton.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.31>Linger your patience on; and we'll digest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.32>The abuse of distance; force a play:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.33>The sum is paid; the traitors are agreed;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.34>The king is set from London; and the scene</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.35>Is now transported, gentles, to Southampton;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.36>There is the playhouse now, there must you sit:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.37>And thence to France shall we convey you safe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.38>And bring you back, charming the narrow seas</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.39>To give you gentle pass; for, if we may,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.40>We'll not offend one stomach with our play.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.41>But, till the king come forth, and not till then,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.0.42>Unto Southampton do we shift our scene.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. London. A street.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter Corporal NYM and Lieutenant BARDOLPH</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.1>Well met, Corporal Nym.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>NYM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.2>Good morrow, Lieutenant Bardolph.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.3>What, are Ancient Pistol and you friends yet?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>NYM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.4>For my part, I care not: I say little; but when</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.5>time shall serve, there shall be smiles; but that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.6>shall be as it may. I dare not fight; but I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.7>wink and hold out mine iron: it is a simple one; but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.8>what though? it will toast cheese, and it will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.9>endure cold as another man's sword will: and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.10>there's an end.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.11>I will bestow a breakfast to make you friends; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.12>we'll be all three sworn brothers to France: let it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.13>be so, good Corporal Nym.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>NYM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.14>Faith, I will live so long as I may, that's the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.15>certain of it; and when I cannot live any longer, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.16>will do as I may: that is my rest, that is the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.17>rendezvous of it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.18>It is certain, corporal, that he is married to Nell</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.19>Quickly: and certainly she did you wrong; for you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.20>were troth-plight to her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>NYM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.21>I cannot tell: things must be as they may: men may</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.22>sleep, and they may have their throats about them at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.23>that time; and some say knives have edges. It must</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.24>be as it may: though patience be a tired mare, yet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.25>she will plod. There must be conclusions. Well, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.26>cannot tell.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter PISTOL and Hostess</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.27>Here comes Ancient Pistol and his wife: good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.28>corporal, be patient here. How now, mine host Pistol!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.29>Base tike, call'st thou me host? Now, by this hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.30>I swear, I scorn the term; Nor shall my Nell keep lodgers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.31>No, by my troth, not long; for we cannot lodge and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.32>board a dozen or fourteen gentlewomen that live</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.33>honestly by the prick of their needles, but it will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.34>be thought we keep a bawdy house straight.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>NYM and PISTOL draw</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.35>O well a day, Lady, if he be not drawn now! we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.36>shall see wilful adultery and murder committed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.37>Good lieutenant! good corporal! offer nothing here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>NYM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.38>Pish!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.39>Pish for thee, Iceland dog! thou prick-ear'd cur of Iceland!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.40>Good Corporal Nym, show thy valour, and put up your sword.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>NYM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.41>Will you shog off? I would have you solus.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.42>'Solus,' egregious dog? O viper vile!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.43>The 'solus' in thy most mervailous face;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.44>The 'solus' in thy teeth, and in thy throat,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.45>And in thy hateful lungs, yea, in thy maw, perdy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.46>And, which is worse, within thy nasty mouth!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.47>I do retort the 'solus' in thy bowels;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.48>For I can take, and Pistol's cock is up,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.49>And flashing fire will follow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>NYM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.50>I am not Barbason; you cannot conjure me. I have an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.51>humour to knock you indifferently well. If you grow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.52>foul with me, Pistol, I will scour you with my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.53>rapier, as I may, in fair terms: if you would walk</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.54>off, I would prick your guts a little, in good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.55>terms, as I may: and that's the humour of it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.56>O braggart vile and damned furious wight!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.57>The grave doth gape, and doting death is near;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.58>Therefore exhale.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.59>Hear me, hear me what I say: he that strikes the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.60>first stroke, I'll run him up to the hilts, as I am a soldier.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Draws</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.61>An oath of mickle might; and fury shall abate.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.62>Give me thy fist, thy fore-foot to me give:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.63>Thy spirits are most tall.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>NYM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.64>I will cut thy throat, one time or other, in fair</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.65>terms: that is the humour of it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.66>'Couple a gorge!'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.67>That is the word. I thee defy again.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.68>O hound of Crete, think'st thou my spouse to get?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.69>No; to the spital go,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.70>And from the powdering tub of infamy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.71>Fetch forth the lazar kite of Cressid's kind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.72>Doll Tearsheet she by name, and her espouse:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.73>I have, and I will hold, the quondam Quickly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.74>For the only she; and--pauca, there's enough. Go to.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter the Boy</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>Boy</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.75>Mine host Pistol, you must come to my master, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.76>you, hostess: he is very sick, and would to bed.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.77>Good Bardolph, put thy face between his sheets, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.78>do the office of a warming-pan. Faith, he's very ill.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.79>Away, you rogue!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.80>By my troth, he'll yield the crow a pudding one of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.81>these days. The king has killed his heart. Good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.82>husband, come home presently.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Hostess and Boy</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.83>Come, shall I make you two friends? We must to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.84>France together: why the devil should we keep</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.85>knives to cut one another's throats?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.86>Let floods o'erswell, and fiends for food howl on!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>NYM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.87>You'll pay me the eight shillings I won of you at betting?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.88>Base is the slave that pays.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>NYM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.89>That now I will have: that's the humour of it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.90>As manhood shall compound: push home.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They draw</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.91>By this sword, he that makes the first thrust, I'll</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.92>kill him; by this sword, I will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.93>Sword is an oath, and oaths must have their course.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.94>Corporal Nym, an thou wilt be friends, be friends:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.95>an thou wilt not, why, then, be enemies with me too.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.96>Prithee, put up.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>NYM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.97>I shall have my eight shillings I won of you at betting?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.98>A noble shalt thou have, and present pay;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.99>And liquor likewise will I give to thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.100>And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.101>I'll live by Nym, and Nym shall live by me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.102>Is not this just? for I shall sutler be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.103>Unto the camp, and profits will accrue.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.104>Give me thy hand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>NYM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.105>I shall have my noble?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.106>In cash most justly paid.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>NYM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.107>Well, then, that's the humour of't.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter Hostess</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.108>As ever you came of women, come in quickly to Sir</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.109>John. Ah, poor heart! he is so shaked of a burning</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.110>quotidian tertian, that it is most lamentable to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.111>behold. Sweet men, come to him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>NYM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.112>The king hath run bad humours on the knight; that's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.113>the even of it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.114>Nym, thou hast spoke the right;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.115>His heart is fracted and corroborate.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>NYM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.116>The king is a good king: but it must be as it may;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.117>he passes some humours and careers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.118>Let us condole the knight; for, lambkins we will live.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. Southampton. A council-chamber.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter EXETER, BEDFORD, and WESTMORELAND</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>BEDFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.1>'Fore God, his grace is bold, to trust these traitors.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>EXETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.2>They shall be apprehended by and by.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.3>How smooth and even they do bear themselves!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.4>As if allegiance in their bosoms sat,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.5>Crowned with faith and constant loyalty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>BEDFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.6>The king hath note of all that they intend,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.7>By interception which they dream not of.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>EXETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.8>Nay, but the man that was his bedfellow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.9>Whom he hath dull'd and cloy'd with gracious favours,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.10>That he should, for a foreign purse, so sell</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.11>His sovereign's life to death and treachery.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Trumpets sound. Enter KING HENRY V, SCROOP, CAMBRIDGE, GREY, and Attendants</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.12>Now sits the wind fair, and we will aboard.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.13>My Lord of Cambridge, and my kind Lord of Masham,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.14>And you, my gentle knight, give me your thoughts:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.15>Think you not that the powers we bear with us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.16>Will cut their passage through the force of France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.17>Doing the execution and the act</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.18>For which we have in head assembled them?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>SCROOP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.19>No doubt, my liege, if each man do his best.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.20>I doubt not that; since we are well persuaded</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.21>We carry not a heart with us from hence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.22>That grows not in a fair consent with ours,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.23>Nor leave not one behind that doth not wish</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.24>Success and conquest to attend on us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>CAMBRIDGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.25>Never was monarch better fear'd and loved</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.26>Than is your majesty: there's not, I think, a subject</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.27>That sits in heart-grief and uneasiness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.28>Under the sweet shade of your government.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>GREY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.29>True: those that were your father's enemies</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.30>Have steep'd their galls in honey and do serve you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.31>With hearts create of duty and of zeal.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.32>We therefore have great cause of thankfulness;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.33>And shall forget the office of our hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.34>Sooner than quittance of desert and merit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.35>According to the weight and worthiness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>SCROOP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.36>So service shall with steeled sinews toil,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.37>And labour shall refresh itself with hope,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.38>To do your grace incessant services.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.39>We judge no less. Uncle of Exeter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.40>Enlarge the man committed yesterday,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.41>That rail'd against our person: we consider</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.42>it was excess of wine that set him on;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.43>And on his more advice we pardon him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>SCROOP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.44>That's mercy, but too much security:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.45>Let him be punish'd, sovereign, lest example</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.46>Breed, by his sufferance, more of such a kind.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.47>O, let us yet be merciful.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>CAMBRIDGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.48>So may your highness, and yet punish too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>GREY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.49>Sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.50>You show great mercy, if you give him life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.51>After the taste of much correction.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.52>Alas, your too much love and care of me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.53>Are heavy orisons 'gainst this poor wretch!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.54>If little faults, proceeding on distemper,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.55>Shall not be wink'd at, how shall we stretch our eye</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.56>When capital crimes, chew'd, swallow'd and digested,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.57>Appear before us? We'll yet enlarge that man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.58>Though Cambridge, Scroop and Grey, in their dear care</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.59>And tender preservation of our person,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.60>Would have him punished. And now to our French causes:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.61>Who are the late commissioners?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>CAMBRIDGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.62>I one, my lord:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.63>Your highness bade me ask for it to-day.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>SCROOP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.64>So did you me, my liege.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>GREY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.65>And I, my royal sovereign.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.66>Then, Richard Earl of Cambridge, there is yours;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.67>There yours, Lord Scroop of Masham; and, sir knight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.68>Grey of Northumberland, this same is yours:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.69>Read them; and know, I know your worthiness.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.70>My Lord of Westmoreland, and uncle Exeter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.71>We will aboard to night. Why, how now, gentlemen!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.72>What see you in those papers that you lose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.73>So much complexion? Look ye, how they change!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.74>Their cheeks are paper. Why, what read you there</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.75>That hath so cowarded and chased your blood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.76>Out of appearance?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>CAMBRIDGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.77> I do confess my fault;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.78>And do submit me to your highness' mercy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>GREY</b></a> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>SCROOP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.79>To which we all appeal.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.80>The mercy that was quick in us but late,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.81>By your own counsel is suppress'd and kill'd:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.82>You must not dare, for shame, to talk of mercy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.83>For your own reasons turn into your bosoms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.84>As dogs upon their masters, worrying you.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.85>See you, my princes, and my noble peers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.86>These English monsters! My Lord of Cambridge here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.87>You know how apt our love was to accord</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.88>To furnish him with all appertinents</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.89>Belonging to his honour; and this man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.90>Hath, for a few light crowns, lightly conspired,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.91>And sworn unto the practises of France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.92>To kill us here in Hampton: to the which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.93>This knight, no less for bounty bound to us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.94>Than Cambridge is, hath likewise sworn. But, O,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.95>What shall I say to thee, Lord Scroop? thou cruel,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.96>Ingrateful, savage and inhuman creature!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.97>Thou that didst bear the key of all my counsels,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.98>That knew'st the very bottom of my soul,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.99>That almost mightst have coin'd me into gold,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.100>Wouldst thou have practised on me for thy use,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.101>May it be possible, that foreign hire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.102>Could out of thee extract one spark of evil</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.103>That might annoy my finger? 'tis so strange,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.104>That, though the truth of it stands off as gross</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.105>As black and white, my eye will scarcely see it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.106>Treason and murder ever kept together,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.107>As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.108>Working so grossly in a natural cause,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.109>That admiration did not whoop at them:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.110>But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.111>Wonder to wait on treason and on murder:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.112>And whatsoever cunning fiend it was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.113>That wrought upon thee so preposterously</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.114>Hath got the voice in hell for excellence:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.115>All other devils that suggest by treasons</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.116>Do botch and bungle up damnation</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.117>With patches, colours, and with forms being fetch'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.118>From glistering semblances of piety;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.119>But he that temper'd thee bade thee stand up,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.120>Gave thee no instance why thou shouldst do treason,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.121>Unless to dub thee with the name of traitor.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.122>If that same demon that hath gull'd thee thus</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.123>Should with his lion gait walk the whole world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.124>He might return to vasty Tartar back,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.125>And tell the legions 'I can never win</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.126>A soul so easy as that Englishman's.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.127>O, how hast thou with 'jealousy infected</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.128>The sweetness of affiance! Show men dutiful?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.129>Why, so didst thou: seem they grave and learned?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.130>Why, so didst thou: come they of noble family?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.131>Why, so didst thou: seem they religious?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.132>Why, so didst thou: or are they spare in diet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.133>Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.134>Constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.135>Garnish'd and deck'd in modest complement,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.136>Not working with the eye without the ear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.137>And but in purged judgment trusting neither?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.138>Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.139>And thus thy fall hath left a kind of blot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.140>To mark the full-fraught man and best indued</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.141>With some suspicion. I will weep for thee;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.142>For this revolt of thine, methinks, is like</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.143>Another fall of man. Their faults are open:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.144>Arrest them to the answer of the law;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.145>And God acquit them of their practises!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>EXETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.146> I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.147>Richard Earl of Cambridge.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.148>I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.149>Henry Lord Scroop of Masham.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.150>I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.151>Thomas Grey, knight, of Northumberland.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>SCROOP</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.152>Our purposes God justly hath discover'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.153>And I repent my fault more than my death;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.154>Which I beseech your highness to forgive,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.155>Although my body pay the price of it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>CAMBRIDGE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.156>For me, the gold of France did not seduce;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.157>Although I did admit it as a motive</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.158>The sooner to effect what I intended:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.159>But God be thanked for prevention;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.160>Which I in sufferance heartily will rejoice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.161>Beseeching God and you to pardon me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>GREY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.162>Never did faithful subject more rejoice</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.163>At the discovery of most dangerous treason</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.164>Than I do at this hour joy o'er myself.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.165>Prevented from a damned enterprise:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.166>My fault, but not my body, pardon, sovereign.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.167>God quit you in his mercy! Hear your sentence.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.168>You have conspired against our royal person,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.169>Join'd with an enemy proclaim'd and from his coffers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.170>Received the golden earnest of our death;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.171>Wherein you would have sold your king to slaughter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.172>His princes and his peers to servitude,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.173>His subjects to oppression and contempt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.174>And his whole kingdom into desolation.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.175>Touching our person seek we no revenge;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.176>But we our kingdom's safety must so tender,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.177>Whose ruin you have sought, that to her laws</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.178>We do deliver you. Get you therefore hence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.179>Poor miserable wretches, to your death:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.180>The taste whereof, God of his mercy give</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.181>You patience to endure, and true repentance</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.182>Of all your dear offences! Bear them hence.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt CAMBRIDGE, SCROOP and GREY, guarded</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.183>Now, lords, for France; the enterprise whereof</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.184>Shall be to you, as us, like glorious.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.185>We doubt not of a fair and lucky war,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.186>Since God so graciously hath brought to light</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.187>This dangerous treason lurking in our way</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.188>To hinder our beginnings. We doubt not now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.189>But every rub is smoothed on our way.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.190>Then forth, dear countrymen: let us deliver</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.191>Our puissance into the hand of God,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.192>Putting it straight in expedition.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.193>Cheerly to sea; the signs of war advance:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.194>No king of England, if not king of France.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. London. Before a tavern.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter PISTOL, Hostess, NYM, BARDOLPH, and Boy</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.1>Prithee, honey-sweet husband, let me bring thee to Staines.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.2>No; for my manly heart doth yearn.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.3>Bardolph, be blithe: Nym, rouse thy vaunting veins:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.4>Boy, bristle thy courage up; for Falstaff he is dead,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.5>And we must yearn therefore.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.6>Would I were with him, wheresome'er he is, either in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.7>heaven or in hell!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.8>Nay, sure, he's not in hell: he's in Arthur's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.9>bosom, if ever man went to Arthur's bosom. A' made</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.10>a finer end and went away an it had been any</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.11>christom child; a' parted even just between twelve</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.12>and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.13>I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.14>flowers and smile upon his fingers' ends, I knew</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.15>there was but one way; for his nose was as sharp as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.16>a pen, and a' babbled of green fields. 'How now,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.17>sir John!' quoth I 'what, man! be o' good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.18>cheer.' So a' cried out 'God, God, God!' three or</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.19>four times. Now I, to comfort him, bid him a'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.20>should not think of God; I hoped there was no need</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.21>to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet. So</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.22>a' bade me lay more clothes on his feet: I put my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.23>hand into the bed and felt them, and they were as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.24>cold as any stone; then I felt to his knees, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.25>they were as cold as any stone, and so upward and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.26>upward, and all was as cold as any stone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>NYM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.27>They say he cried out of sack.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.28>Ay, that a' did.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.29>And of women.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.30>Nay, that a' did not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>Boy</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.31>Yes, that a' did; and said they were devils</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.32>incarnate.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.33>A' could never abide carnation; 'twas a colour he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.34>never liked.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>Boy</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.35>A' said once, the devil would have him about women.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.36>A' did in some sort, indeed, handle women; but then</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.37>he was rheumatic, and talked of the whore of Babylon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>Boy</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.38>Do you not remember, a' saw a flea stick upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.39>Bardolph's nose, and a' said it was a black soul</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.40>burning in hell-fire?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.41>Well, the fuel is gone that maintained that fire:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.42>that's all the riches I got in his service.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>NYM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.43>Shall we shog? the king will be gone from</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.44>Southampton.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.45>Come, let's away. My love, give me thy lips.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.46>Look to my chattels and my movables:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.47>Let senses rule; the word is 'Pitch and Pay:'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.48>Trust none;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.49>For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.50>And hold-fast is the only dog, my duck:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.51>Therefore, Caveto be thy counsellor.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.52>Go, clear thy c rystals. Yoke-fellows in arms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.53>Let us to France; like horse-leeches, my boys,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.54>To suck, to suck, the very blood to suck!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>Boy</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.55>And that's but unwholesome food they say.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.56>Touch her soft mouth, and march.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.57>Farewell, hostess.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Kissing her</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>NYM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.58>I cannot kiss, that is the humour of it; but, adieu.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.59>Let housewifery appear: keep close, I thee command.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>Hostess</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.60>Farewell; adieu.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. France. The KING'S palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Flourish. Enter the FRENCH KING, the DAUPHIN, the DUKES of BERRI and BRETAGNE, the Constable, and others</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING OF FRANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.1>Thus comes the English with full power upon us;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.2>And more than carefully it us concerns</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.3>To answer royally in our defences.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.4>Therefore the Dukes of Berri and of Bretagne,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.5>Of Brabant and of Orleans, shall make forth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.6>And you, Prince Dauphin, with all swift dispatch,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.7>To line and new repair our towns of war</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.8>With men of courage and with means defendant;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.9>For England his approaches makes as fierce</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.10>As waters to the sucking of a gulf.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.11>It fits us then to be as provident</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.12>As fear may teach us out of late examples</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.13>Left by the fatal and neglected English</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.14>Upon our fields.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>DAUPHIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.15> My most redoubted father,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.16>It is most meet we arm us 'gainst the foe;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.17>For peace itself should not so dull a kingdom,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.18>Though war nor no known quarrel were in question,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.19>But that defences, musters, preparations,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.20>Should be maintain'd, assembled and collected,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.21>As were a war in expectation.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.22>Therefore, I say 'tis meet we all go forth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.23>To view the sick and feeble parts of France:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.24>And let us do it with no show of fear;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.25>No, with no more than if we heard that England</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.26>Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.27>For, my good liege, she is so idly king'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.28>Her sceptre so fantastically borne</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.29>By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.30>That fear attends her not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.31>O peace, Prince Dauphin!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.32>You are too much mistaken in this king:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.33>Question your grace the late ambassadors,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.34>With what great state he heard their embassy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.35>How well supplied with noble counsellors,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.36>How modest in exception, and withal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.37>How terrible in constant resolution,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.38>And you shall find his vanities forespent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.39>Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.40>Covering discretion with a coat of folly;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.41>As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.42>That shall first spring and be most delicate.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>DAUPHIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.43>Well, 'tis not so, my lord high constable;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.44>But though we think it so, it is no matter:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.45>In cases of defence 'tis best to weigh</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.46>The enemy more mighty than he seems:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.47>So the proportions of defence are fill'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.48>Which of a weak or niggardly projection</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.49>Doth, like a miser, spoil his coat with scanting</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.50>A little cloth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>KING OF FRANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.51> Think we King Harry strong;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.52>And, princes, look you strongly arm to meet him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.53>The kindred of him hath been flesh'd upon us;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.54>And he is bred out of that bloody strain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.55>That haunted us in our familiar paths:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.56>Witness our too much memorable shame</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.57>When Cressy battle fatally was struck,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.58>And all our princes captiv'd by the hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.59>Of that black name, Edward, Black Prince of Wales;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.60>Whiles that his mountain sire, on mountain standing,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.61>Up in the air, crown'd with the golden sun,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.62>Saw his heroical seed, and smiled to see him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.63>Mangle the work of nature and deface</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.64>The patterns that by God and by French fathers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.65>Had twenty years been made. This is a stem</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.66>Of that victorious stock; and let us fear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.67>The native mightiness and fate of him.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.68>Ambassadors from Harry King of England</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.69>Do crave admittance to your majesty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>KING OF FRANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.70>We'll give them present audience. Go, and bring them.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Messenger and certain Lords</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.71>You see this chase is hotly follow'd, friends.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>DAUPHIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.72>Turn head, and stop pursuit; for coward dogs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.73>Most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.74>Runs far before them. Good my sovereign,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.75>Take up the English short, and let them know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.76>Of what a monarchy you are the head:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.77>Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.78>As self-neglecting.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter Lords, with EXETER and train</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>KING OF FRANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.79>From our brother England?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>EXETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.80>From him; and thus he greets your majesty.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.81>He wills you, in the name of God Almighty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.82>That you divest yourself, and lay apart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.83>The borrow'd glories that by gift of heaven,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.84>By law of nature and of nations, 'long</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.85>To him and to his heirs; namely, the crown</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.86>And all wide-stretched honours that pertain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.87>By custom and the ordinance of times</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.88>Unto the crown of France. That you may know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.89>'Tis no sinister nor no awkward claim,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.90>Pick'd from the worm-holes of long-vanish'd days,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.91>Nor from the dust of old oblivion raked,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.92>He sends you this most memorable line,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.93>In every branch truly demonstrative;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.94>Willing to overlook this pedigree:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.95>And when you find him evenly derived</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.96>From his most famed of famous ancestors,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.97>Edward the Third, he bids you then resign</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.98>Your crown and kingdom, indirectly held</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.99>From him the native and true challenger.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>KING OF FRANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.100>Or else what follows?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>EXETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.101>Bloody constraint; for if you hide the crown</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.102>Even in your hearts, there will he rake for it:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.103>Therefore in fierce tempest is he coming,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.104>In thunder and in earthquake, like a Jove,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.105>That, if requiring fail, he will compel;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.106>And bids you, in the bowels of the Lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.107>Deliver up the crown, and to take mercy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.108>On the poor souls for whom this hungry war</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.109>Opens his vasty jaws; and on your head</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.110>Turning the widows' tears, the orphans' cries</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.111>The dead men's blood, the pining maidens groans,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.112>For husbands, fathers and betrothed lovers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.113>That shall be swallow'd in this controversy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.114>This is his claim, his threatening and my message;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.115>Unless the Dauphin be in presence here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.116>To whom expressly I bring greeting too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>KING OF FRANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.117>For us, we will consider of this further:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.118>To-morrow shall you bear our full intent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.119>Back to our brother England.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>DAUPHIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.120>For the Dauphin,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.121>I stand here for him: what to him from England?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>EXETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.122>Scorn and defiance; slight regard, contempt,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.123>And any thing that may not misbecome</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.124>The mighty sender, doth he prize you at.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.125>Thus says my king; an' if your father's highness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.126>Do not, in grant of all demands at large,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.127>Sweeten the bitter mock you sent his majesty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.128>He'll call you to so hot an answer of it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.129>That caves and womby vaultages of France</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.130>Shall chide your trespass and return your mock</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.131>In second accent of his ordnance.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>DAUPHIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.132>Say, if my father render fair return,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.133>It is against my will; for I desire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.134>Nothing but odds with England: to that end,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.135>As matching to his youth and vanity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.136>I did present him with the Paris balls.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>EXETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.137>He'll make your Paris Louvre shake for it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.138>Were it the mistress-court of mighty Europe:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.139>And, be assured, you'll find a difference,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.140>As we his subjects have in wonder found,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.141>Between the promise of his greener days</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.142>And these he masters now: now he weighs time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.143>Even to the utmost grain: that you shall read</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.144>In your own losses, if he stay in France.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>KING OF FRANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.145>To-morrow shall you know our mind at full.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>EXETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.146>Dispatch us with all speed, lest that our king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.147>Come here himself to question our delay;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.148>For he is footed in this land already.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>KING OF FRANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.149>You shall be soon dispatch's with fair conditions:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.150>A night is but small breath and little pause</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.151>To answer matters of this consequence.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Flourish. Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT III</h3> | |
| <h3>PROLOGUE</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter Chorus</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>Chorus</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.0.1>Thus with imagined wing our swift scene flies</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.0.2>In motion of no less celerity</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.0.3>Than that of thought. Suppose that you have seen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.0.4>The well-appointed king at Hampton pier</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.0.5>Embark his royalty; and his brave fleet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.0.6>With silken streamers the young Phoebus fanning:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.0.7>Play with your fancies, and in them behold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.0.8>Upon the hempen tackle ship-boys climbing;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.0.9>Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.0.10>To sounds confused; behold the threaden sails,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.0.11>Borne with the invisible and creeping wind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.0.12>Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.0.13>Breasting the lofty surge: O, do but think</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.0.14>You stand upon the ravage and behold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.0.15>A city on the inconstant billows dancing;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.0.16>For so appears this fleet majestical,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.0.17>Holding due course to Harfleur. Follow, follow:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.0.18>Grapple your minds to sternage of this navy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.0.19>And leave your England, as dead midnight still,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.0.20>Guarded with grandsires, babies and old women,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.0.21>Either past or not arrived to pith and puissance;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.0.22>For who is he, whose chin is but enrich'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.0.23>With one appearing hair, that will not follow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.0.24>These cull'd and choice-drawn cavaliers to France?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.0.25>Work, work your thoughts, and therein see a siege;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.0.26>Behold the ordnance on their carriages,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.0.27>With fatal mouths gaping on girded Harfleur.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.0.28>Suppose the ambassador from the French comes back;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.0.29>Tells Harry that the king doth offer him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.0.30>Katharine his daughter, and with her, to dowry,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.0.31>Some petty and unprofitable dukedoms.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.0.32>The offer likes not: and the nimble gunner</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.0.33>With linstock now the devilish cannon touches,</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Alarum, and chambers go off</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.0.34>And down goes all before them. Still be kind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.0.35>And eke out our performance with your mind.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. France. Before Harfleur.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Alarum. Enter KING HENRY, EXETER, BEDFORD, GLOUCESTER, and Soldiers, with scaling-ladders</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.1>Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.2>Or close the wall up with our English dead.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.3>In peace there's nothing so becomes a man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.4>As modest stillness and humility:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.5>But when the blast of war blows in our ears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.6>Then imitate the action of the tiger;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.7>Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.8>Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.9>Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.10>Let pry through the portage of the head</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.11>Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.12>As fearfully as doth a galled rock</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.13>O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.14>Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.15>Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.16>Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.17>To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.18>Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.19>Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.20>Have in these parts from morn till even fought</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.21>And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.22>Dishonour not your mothers; now attest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.23>That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.24>Be copy now to men of grosser blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.25>And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.26>Whose limbs were made in England, show us here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.27>The mettle of your pasture; let us swear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.28>That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.29>For there is none of you so mean and base,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.30>That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.31>I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.32>Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.33>Follow your spirit, and upon this charge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.34>Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt. Alarum, and chambers go off</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. The same.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter NYM, BARDOLPH, PISTOL, and Boy</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>BARDOLPH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.1>On, on, on, on, on! to the breach, to the breach!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>NYM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.2>Pray thee, corporal, stay: the knocks are too hot;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.3>and, for mine own part, I have not a case of lives:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.4>the humour of it is too hot, that is the very</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.5>plain-song of it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.6>The plain-song is most just: for humours do abound:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.7>Knocks go and come; God's vassals drop and die;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.8>And sword and shield,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.9>In bloody field,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.10>Doth win immortal fame.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Boy</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.11>Would I were in an alehouse in London! I would give</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.12>all my fame for a pot of ale and safety.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.13>And I:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.14>If wishes would prevail with me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.15>My purpose should not fail with me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.16>But thither would I hie.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Boy</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.17> As duly, but not as truly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.18>As bird doth sing on bough.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter FLUELLEN</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.19>Up to the breach, you dogs! avaunt, you cullions!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Driving them forward</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.20>Be merciful, great duke, to men of mould.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.21>Abate thy rage, abate thy manly rage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.22>Abate thy rage, great duke!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.23>Good bawcock, bate thy rage; use lenity, sweet chuck!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>NYM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.24>These be good humours! your honour wins bad humours.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt all but Boy</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Boy</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.25>As young as I am, I have observed these three</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.26>swashers. I am boy to them all three: but all they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.27>three, though they would serve me, could not be man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.28>to me; for indeed three such antics do not amount to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.29>a man. For Bardolph, he is white-livered and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.30>red-faced; by the means whereof a' faces it out, but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.31>fights not. For Pistol, he hath a killing tongue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.32>and a quiet sword; by the means whereof a' breaks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.33>words, and keeps whole weapons. For Nym, he hath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.34>heard that men of few words are the best men; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.35>therefore he scorns to say his prayers, lest a'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.36>should be thought a coward: but his few bad words</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.37>are matched with as few good deeds; for a' never</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.38>broke any man's head but his own, and that was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.39>against a post when he was drunk. They will steal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.40>any thing, and call it purchase. Bardolph stole a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.41>lute-case, bore it twelve leagues, and sold it for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.42>three half pence. Nym and Bardolph are sworn</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.43>brothers in filching, and in Calais they stole a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.44>fire-shovel: I knew by that piece of service the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.45>men would carry coals. They would have me as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.46>familiar with men's pockets as their gloves or their</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.47>handkerchers: which makes much against my manhood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.48>if I should take from another's pocket to put into</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.49>mine; for it is plain pocketing up of wrongs. I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.50>must leave them, and seek some better service:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.51>their villany goes against my weak stomach, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.52>therefore I must cast it up.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter FLUELLEN, GOWER following</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>GOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.53>Captain Fluellen, you must come presently to the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.54>mines; the Duke of Gloucester would speak with you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.55>To the mines! tell you the duke, it is not so good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.56>to come to the mines; for, look you, the mines is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.57>not according to the disciplines of the war: the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.58>concavities of it is not sufficient; for, look you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.59>the athversary, you may discuss unto the duke, look</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.60>you, is digt himself four yard under the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.61>countermines: by Cheshu, I think a' will plough up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.62>all, if there is not better directions.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>GOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.63>The Duke of Gloucester, to whom the order of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.64>siege is given, is altogether directed by an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.65>Irishman, a very valiant gentleman, i' faith.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.66>It is Captain Macmorris, is it not?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>GOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.67>I think it be.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.68>By Cheshu, he is an ass, as in the world: I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.69>verify as much in his beard: be has no more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.70>directions in the true disciplines of the wars, look</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.71>you, of the Roman disciplines, than is a puppy-dog.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter MACMORRIS and Captain JAMY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>GOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.72>Here a' comes; and the Scots captain, Captain Jamy, with him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.73>Captain Jamy is a marvellous falourous gentleman,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.74>that is certain; and of great expedition and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.75>knowledge in th' aunchient wars, upon my particular</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.76>knowledge of his directions: by Cheshu, he will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.77>maintain his argument as well as any military man in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.78>the world, in the disciplines of the pristine wars</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.79>of the Romans.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>JAMY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.80>I say gud-day, Captain Fluellen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.81>God-den to your worship, good Captain James.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>GOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.82>How now, Captain Macmorris! have you quit the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.83>mines? have the pioneers given o'er?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>MACMORRIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.84>By Chrish, la! tish ill done: the work ish give</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.85>over, the trompet sound the retreat. By my hand, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.86>swear, and my father's soul, the work ish ill done;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.87>it ish give over: I would have blowed up the town, so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.88>Chrish save me, la! in an hour: O, tish ill done,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.89>tish ill done; by my hand, tish ill done!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.90>Captain Macmorris, I beseech you now, will you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.91>voutsafe me, look you, a few disputations with you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.92>as partly touching or concerning the disciplines of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.93>the war, the Roman wars, in the way of argument,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.94>look you, and friendly communication; partly to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.95>satisfy my opinion, and partly for the satisfaction,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.96>look you, of my mind, as touching the direction of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.97>the military discipline; that is the point.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>JAMY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.98>It sall be vary gud, gud feith, gud captains bath:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.99>and I sall quit you with gud leve, as I may pick</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.100>occasion; that sall I, marry.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>MACMORRIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.101>It is no time to discourse, so Chrish save me: the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.102>day is hot, and the weather, and the wars, and the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.103>king, and the dukes: it is no time to discourse. The</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.104>town is beseeched, and the trumpet call us to the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.105>breach; and we talk, and, be Chrish, do nothing:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.106>'tis shame for us all: so God sa' me, 'tis shame to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.107>stand still; it is shame, by my hand: and there is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.108>throats to be cut, and works to be done; and there</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.109>ish nothing done, so Chrish sa' me, la!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>JAMY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.110>By the mess, ere theise eyes of mine take themselves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.111>to slomber, ay'll de gud service, or ay'll lig i'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.112>the grund for it; ay, or go to death; and ay'll pay</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.113>'t as valourously as I may, that sall I suerly do,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.114>that is the breff and the long. Marry, I wad full</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.115>fain hear some question 'tween you tway.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.116>Captain Macmorris, I think, look you, under your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.117>correction, there is not many of your nation--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>MACMORRIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.118>Of my nation! What ish my nation? Ish a villain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.119>and a bastard, and a knave, and a rascal. What ish</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.120>my nation? Who talks of my nation?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.121>Look you, if you take the matter otherwise than is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.122>meant, Captain Macmorris, peradventure I shall think</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.123>you do not use me with that affability as in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.124>discretion you ought to use me, look you: being as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.125>good a man as yourself, both in the disciplines of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.126>war, and in the derivation of my birth, and in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.127>other particularities.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>MACMORRIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.128>I do not know you so good a man as myself: so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.129>Chrish save me, I will cut off your head.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>GOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.130>Gentlemen both, you will mistake each other.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>JAMY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.131>A! that's a foul fault.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>A parley sounded</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>GOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.132>The town sounds a parley.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.133>Captain Macmorris, when there is more better</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.134>opportunity to be required, look you, I will be so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.135>bold as to tell you I know the disciplines of war;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.136>and there is an end.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. The same. Before the gates.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>The Governor and some Citizens on the walls; the English forces below. Enter KING HENRY and his train</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.1>How yet resolves the governor of the town?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.2>This is the latest parle we will admit;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.3>Therefore to our best mercy give yourselves;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.4>Or like to men proud of destruction</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.5>Defy us to our worst: for, as I am a soldier,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.6>A name that in my thoughts becomes me best,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.7>If I begin the battery once again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.8>I will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.9>Till in her ashes she lie buried.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.10>The gates of mercy shall be all shut up,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.11>And the flesh'd soldier, rough and hard of heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.12>In liberty of bloody hand shall range</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.13>With conscience wide as hell, mowing like grass</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.14>Your fresh-fair virgins and your flowering infants.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.15>What is it then to me, if impious war,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.16>Array'd in flames like to the prince of fiends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.17>Do, with his smirch'd complexion, all fell feats</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.18>Enlink'd to waste and desolation?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.19>What is't to me, when you yourselves are cause,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.20>If your pure maidens fall into the hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.21>Of hot and forcing violation?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.22>What rein can hold licentious wickedness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.23>When down the hill he holds his fierce career?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.24>We may as bootless spend our vain command</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.25>Upon the enraged soldiers in their spoil</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.26>As send precepts to the leviathan</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.27>To come ashore. Therefore, you men of Harfleur,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.28>Take pity of your town and of your people,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.29>Whiles yet my soldiers are in my command;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.30>Whiles yet the cool and temperate wind of grace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.31>O'erblows the filthy and contagious clouds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.32>Of heady murder, spoil and villany.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.33>If not, why, in a moment look to see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.34>The blind and bloody soldier with foul hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.35>Defile the locks of your shrill-shrieking daughters;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.36>Your fathers taken by the silver beards,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.37>And their most reverend heads dash'd to the walls,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.38>Your naked infants spitted upon pikes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.39>Whiles the mad mothers with their howls confused</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.40>Do break the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.41>At Herod's bloody-hunting slaughtermen.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.42>What say you? will you yield, and this avoid,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.43>Or, guilty in defence, be thus destroy'd?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>GOVERNOR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.44>Our expectation hath this day an end:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.45>The Dauphin, whom of succors we entreated,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.46>Returns us that his powers are yet not ready</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.47>To raise so great a siege. Therefore, great king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.48>We yield our town and lives to thy soft mercy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.49>Enter our gates; dispose of us and ours;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.50>For we no longer are defensible.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.51>Open your gates. Come, uncle Exeter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.52>Go you and enter Harfleur; there remain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.53>And fortify it strongly 'gainst the French:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.54>Use mercy to them all. For us, dear uncle,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.55>The winter coming on and sickness growing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.56>Upon our soldiers, we will retire to Calais.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.57>To-night in Harfleur we will be your guest;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.58>To-morrow for the march are we addrest.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Flourish. The King and his train enter the town</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. The FRENCH KING's palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter KATHARINE and ALICE</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.1>Alice, tu as ete en Angleterre, et tu parles bien le langage.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>ALICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.2>Un peu, madame.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.3>Je te prie, m'enseignez: il faut que j'apprenne a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.4>parler. Comment appelez-vous la main en Anglois?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>ALICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.5>La main? elle est appelee de hand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.6>De hand. Et les doigts?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>ALICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.7>Les doigts? ma foi, j'oublie les doigts; mais je me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.8>souviendrai. Les doigts? je pense qu'ils sont</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.9>appeles de fingres; oui, de fingres.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.10>La main, de hand; les doigts, de fingres. Je pense</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.11>que je suis le bon ecolier; j'ai gagne deux mots</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.12>d'Anglois vitement. Comment appelez-vous les ongles?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>ALICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.13>Les ongles? nous les appelons de nails.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.14>De nails. Ecoutez; dites-moi, si je parle bien: de</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.15>hand, de fingres, et de nails.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>ALICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.16>C'est bien dit, madame; il est fort bon Anglois.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.17>Dites-moi l'Anglois pour le bras.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>ALICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.18>De arm, madame.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.19>Et le coude?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>ALICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.20>De elbow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.21>De elbow. Je m'en fais la repetition de tous les</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.22>mots que vous m'avez appris des a present.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>ALICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.23>Il est trop difficile, madame, comme je pense.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.24>Excusez-moi, Alice; ecoutez: de hand, de fingres,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.25>de nails, de arma, de bilbow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>ALICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.26>De elbow, madame.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.27>O Seigneur Dieu, je m'en oublie! de elbow. Comment</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.28>appelez-vous le col?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>ALICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.29>De neck, madame.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.30>De nick. Et le menton?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>ALICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.31>De chin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.32>De sin. Le col, de nick; de menton, de sin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>ALICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.33>Oui. Sauf votre honneur, en verite, vous prononcez</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.34>les mots aussi droit que les natifs d'Angleterre.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.35>Je ne doute point d'apprendre, par la grace de Dieu,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.36>et en peu de temps.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>ALICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.37>N'avez vous pas deja oublie ce que je vous ai enseigne?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.38>Non, je reciterai a vous promptement: de hand, de</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.39>fingres, de mails--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>ALICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.40>De nails, madame.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.41>De nails, de arm, de ilbow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>ALICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.42>Sauf votre honneur, de elbow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.43>Ainsi dis-je; de elbow, de nick, et de sin. Comment</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.44>appelez-vous le pied et la robe?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>ALICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.45>De foot, madame; et de coun.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.46>De foot et de coun! O Seigneur Dieu! ce sont mots</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.47>de son mauvais, corruptible, gros, et impudique, et</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.48>non pour les dames d'honneur d'user: je ne voudrais</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.49>prononcer ces mots devant les seigneurs de France</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.50>pour tout le monde. Foh! le foot et le coun!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.51>Neanmoins, je reciterai une autre fois ma lecon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.52>ensemble: de hand, de fingres, de nails, de arm, de</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.53>elbow, de nick, de sin, de foot, de coun.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>ALICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.54>Excellent, madame!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.55>C'est assez pour une fois: allons-nous a diner.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE V. The same.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter the KING OF FRANCE, the DAUPHIN, the DUKE oF BOURBON, the Constable Of France, and others</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING OF FRANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.1>'Tis certain he hath pass'd the river Somme.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.2>And if he be not fought withal, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.3>Let us not live in France; let us quit all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.4>And give our vineyards to a barbarous people.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>DAUPHIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.5>O Dieu vivant! shall a few sprays of us,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.6>The emptying of our fathers' luxury,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.7>Our scions, put in wild and savage stock,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.8>Spirt up so suddenly into the clouds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.9>And overlook their grafters?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>BOURBON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.10>Normans, but bastard Normans, Norman bastards!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.11>Mort de ma vie! if they march along</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.12>Unfought withal, but I will sell my dukedom,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.13>To buy a slobbery and a dirty farm</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.14>In that nook-shotten isle of Albion.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.15>Dieu de batailles! where have they this mettle?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.16>Is not their climate foggy, raw and dull,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.17>On whom, as in despite, the sun looks pale,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.18>Killing their fruit with frowns? Can sodden water,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.19>A drench for sur-rein'd jades, their barley-broth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.20>Decoct their cold blood to such valiant heat?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.21>And shall our quick blood, spirited with wine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.22>Seem frosty? O, for honour of our land,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.23>Let us not hang like roping icicles</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.24>Upon our houses' thatch, whiles a more frosty people</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.25>Sweat drops of gallant youth in our rich fields!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.26>Poor we may call them in their native lords.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>DAUPHIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.27>By faith and honour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.28>Our madams mock at us, and plainly say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.29>Our mettle is bred out and they will give</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.30>Their bodies to the lust of English youth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.31>To new-store France with bastard warriors.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>BOURBON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.32>They bid us to the English dancing-schools,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.33>And teach lavoltas high and swift corantos;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.34>Saying our grace is only in our heels,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.35>And that we are most lofty runaways.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>KING OF FRANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.36>Where is Montjoy the herald? speed him hence:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.37>Let him greet England with our sharp defiance.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.38>Up, princes! and, with spirit of honour edged</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.39>More sharper than your swords, hie to the field:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.40>Charles Delabreth, high constable of France;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.41>You Dukes of Orleans, Bourbon, and of Berri,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.42>Alencon, Brabant, Bar, and Burgundy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.43>Jaques Chatillon, Rambures, Vaudemont,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.44>Beaumont, Grandpre, Roussi, and Fauconberg,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.45>Foix, Lestrale, Bouciqualt, and Charolois;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.46>High dukes, great princes, barons, lords and knights,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.47>For your great seats now quit you of great shames.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.48>Bar Harry England, that sweeps through our land</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.49>With pennons painted in the blood of Harfleur:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.50>Rush on his host, as doth the melted snow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.51>Upon the valleys, whose low vassal seat</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.52>The Alps doth spit and void his rheum upon:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.53>Go down upon him, you have power enough,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.54>And in a captive chariot into Rouen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.55>Bring him our prisoner.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.56>This becomes the great.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.57>Sorry am I his numbers are so few,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.58>His soldiers sick and famish'd in their march,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.59>For I am sure, when he shall see our army,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.60>He'll drop his heart into the sink of fear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.61>And for achievement offer us his ransom.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>KING OF FRANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.62>Therefore, lord constable, haste on Montjoy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.63>And let him say to England that we send</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.64>To know what willing ransom he will give.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.65>Prince Dauphin, you shall stay with us in Rouen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>DAUPHIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.66>Not so, I do beseech your majesty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>KING OF FRANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.67>Be patient, for you shall remain with us.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.68>Now forth, lord constable and princes all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.69>And quickly bring us word of England's fall.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE VI. The English camp in Picardy.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter GOWER and FLUELLEN, meeting</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>GOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.1>How now, Captain Fluellen! come you from the bridge?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.2>I assure you, there is very excellent services</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.3>committed at the bridge.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>GOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.4>Is the Duke of Exeter safe?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.5>The Duke of Exeter is as magnanimous as Agamemnon;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.6>and a man that I love and honour with my soul, and my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.7>heart, and my duty, and my life, and my living, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.8>my uttermost power: he is not-God be praised and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.9>blessed!--any hurt in the world; but keeps the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.10>bridge most valiantly, with excellent discipline.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.11>There is an aunchient lieutenant there at the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.12>pridge, I think in my very conscience he is as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.13>valiant a man as Mark Antony; and he is a man of no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.14>estimation in the world; but did see him do as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.15>gallant service.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>GOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.16>What do you call him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.17>He is called Aunchient Pistol.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>GOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.18>I know him not.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter PISTOL</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.19>Here is the man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.20>Captain, I thee beseech to do me favours:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.21>The Duke of Exeter doth love thee well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.22>Ay, I praise God; and I have merited some love at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.23>his hands.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.24>Bardolph, a soldier, firm and sound of heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.25>And of buxom valour, hath, by cruel fate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.26>And giddy Fortune's furious fickle wheel,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.27>That goddess blind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.28>That stands upon the rolling restless stone--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.29>By your patience, Aunchient Pistol. Fortune is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.30>painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.31>signify to you that Fortune is blind; and she is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.32>painted also with a wheel, to signify to you, which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.33>is the moral of it, that she is turning, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.34>inconstant, and mutability, and variation: and her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.35>foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.36>which rolls, and rolls, and rolls: in good truth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.37>the poet makes a most excellent description of it:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.38>Fortune is an excellent moral.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.39>Fortune is Bardolph's foe, and frowns on him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.40>For he hath stolen a pax, and hanged must a' be:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.41>A damned death!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.42>Let gallows gape for dog; let man go free</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.43>And let not hemp his wind-pipe suffocate:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.44>But Exeter hath given the doom of death</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.45>For pax of little price.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.46>Therefore, go speak: the duke will hear thy voice:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.47>And let not Bardolph's vital thread be cut</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.48>With edge of penny cord and vile reproach:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.49>Speak, captain, for his life, and I will thee requite.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.50>Aunchient Pistol, I do partly understand your meaning.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.51>Why then, rejoice therefore.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.52>Certainly, aunchient, it is not a thing to rejoice</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.53>at: for if, look you, he were my brother, I would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.54>desire the duke to use his good pleasure, and put</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.55>him to execution; for discipline ought to be used.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.56>Die and be damn'd! and figo for thy friendship!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.57>It is well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.58>The fig of Spain!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.59>Very good.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>GOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.60>Why, this is an arrant counterfeit rascal; I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.61>remember him now; a bawd, a cutpurse.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.62>I'll assure you, a' uttered as brave words at the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.63>bridge as you shall see in a summer's day. But it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.64>is very well; what he has spoke to me, that is well,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.65>I warrant you, when time is serve.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>GOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.66>Why, 'tis a gull, a fool, a rogue, that now and then</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.67>goes to the wars, to grace himself at his return</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.68>into London under the form of a soldier. And such</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.69>fellows are perfect in the great commanders' names:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.70>and they will learn you by rote where services were</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.71>done; at such and such a sconce, at such a breach,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.72>at such a convoy; who came off bravely, who was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.73>shot, who disgraced, what terms the enemy stood on;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.74>and this they con perfectly in the phrase of war,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.75>which they trick up with new-tuned oaths: and what</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.76>a beard of the general's cut and a horrid suit of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.77>the camp will do among foaming bottles and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.78>ale-washed wits, is wonderful to be thought on. But</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.79>you must learn to know such slanders of the age, or</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.80>else you may be marvellously mistook.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.81>I tell you what, Captain Gower; I do perceive he is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.82>not the man that he would gladly make show to the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.83>world he is: if I find a hole in his coat, I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.84>tell him my mind.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Drum heard</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.85>Hark you, the king is coming, and I must speak with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.86>him from the pridge.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Drum and colours. Enter KING HENRY, GLOUCESTER, and Soldiers</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.87>God pless your majesty!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.88>How now, Fluellen! camest thou from the bridge?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.89>Ay, so please your majesty. The Duke of Exeter has</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.90>very gallantly maintained the pridge: the French is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.91>gone off, look you; and there is gallant and most</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.92>prave passages; marry, th' athversary was have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.93>possession of the pridge; but he is enforced to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.94>retire, and the Duke of Exeter is master of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.95>pridge: I can tell your majesty, the duke is a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.96>prave man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.97>What men have you lost, Fluellen?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.98>The perdition of th' athversary hath been very</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.99>great, reasonable great: marry, for my part, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.100>think the duke hath lost never a man, but one that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.101>is like to be executed for robbing a church, one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.102>Bardolph, if your majesty know the man: his face is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.103>all bubukles, and whelks, and knobs, and flames o'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.104>fire: and his lips blows at his nose, and it is like</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.105>a coal of fire, sometimes plue and sometimes red;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.106>but his nose is executed and his fire's out.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.107>We would have all such offenders so cut off: and we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.108>give express charge, that in our marches through the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.109>country, there be nothing compelled from the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.110>villages, nothing taken but paid for, none of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.111>French upbraided or abused in disdainful language;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.112>for when lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.113>gentler gamester is the soonest winner.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Tucket. Enter MONTJOY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>MONTJOY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.114>You know me by my habit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.115>Well then I know thee: what shall I know of thee?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>MONTJOY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.116>My master's mind.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.117>Unfold it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>MONTJOY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.118>Thus says my king: Say thou to Harry of England:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.119>Though we seemed dead, we did but sleep: advantage</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.120>is a better soldier than rashness. Tell him we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.121>could have rebuked him at Harfleur, but that we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.122>thought not good to bruise an injury till it were</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.123>full ripe: now we speak upon our cue, and our voice</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.124>is imperial: England shall repent his folly, see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.125>his weakness, and admire our sufferance. Bid him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.126>therefore consider of his ransom; which must</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.127>proportion the losses we have borne, the subjects we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.128>have lost, the disgrace we have digested; which in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.129>weight to re-answer, his pettiness would bow under.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.130>For our losses, his exchequer is too poor; for the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.131>effusion of our blood, the muster of his kingdom too</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.132>faint a number; and for our disgrace, his own</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.133>person, kneeling at our feet, but a weak and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.134>worthless satisfaction. To this add defiance: and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.135>tell him, for conclusion, he hath betrayed his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.136>followers, whose condemnation is pronounced. So far</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.137>my king and master; so much my office.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.138>What is thy name? I know thy quality.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>MONTJOY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.139>Montjoy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.140>Thou dost thy office fairly. Turn thee back.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.141>And tell thy king I do not seek him now;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.142>But could be willing to march on to Calais</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.143>Without impeachment: for, to say the sooth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.144>Though 'tis no wisdom to confess so much</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.145>Unto an enemy of craft and vantage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.146>My people are with sickness much enfeebled,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.147>My numbers lessened, and those few I have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.148>Almost no better than so many French;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.149>Who when they were in health, I tell thee, herald,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.150>I thought upon one pair of English legs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.151>Did march three Frenchmen. Yet, forgive me, God,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.152>That I do brag thus! This your air of France</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.153>Hath blown that vice in me: I must repent.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.154>Go therefore, tell thy master here I am;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.155>My ransom is this frail and worthless trunk,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.156>My army but a weak and sickly guard;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.157>Yet, God before, tell him we will come on,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.158>Though France himself and such another neighbour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.159>Stand in our way. There's for thy labour, Montjoy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.160>Go bid thy master well advise himself:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.161>If we may pass, we will; if we be hinder'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.162>We shall your tawny ground with your red blood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.163>Discolour: and so Montjoy, fare you well.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.164>The sum of all our answer is but this:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.165>We would not seek a battle, as we are;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.166>Nor, as we are, we say we will not shun it:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.167>So tell your master.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>MONTJOY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.168>I shall deliver so. Thanks to your highness.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.169>I hope they will not come upon us now.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.170>We are in God's hand, brother, not in theirs.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.171>March to the bridge; it now draws toward night:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.172>Beyond the river we'll encamp ourselves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.173>And on to-morrow, bid them march away.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE VII. The French camp, near Agincourt:</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter the Constable of France, the LORD RAMBURES, ORLEANS, DAUPHIN, with others</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.1>Tut! I have the best armour of the world. Would it were day!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.2>You have an excellent armour; but let my horse have his due.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.3>It is the best horse of Europe.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.4>Will it never be morning?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>DAUPHIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.5>My lord of Orleans, and my lord high constable, you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.6>talk of horse and armour?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.7>You are as well provided of both as any prince in the world.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>DAUPHIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.8>What a long night is this! I will not change my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.9>horse with any that treads but on four pasterns.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.10>Ca, ha! he bounds from the earth, as if his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.11>entrails were hairs; le cheval volant, the Pegasus,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.12>chez les narines de feu! When I bestride him, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.13>soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.14>sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.15>hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.16>He's of the colour of the nutmeg.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>DAUPHIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.17>And of the heat of the ginger. It is a beast for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.18>Perseus: he is pure air and fire; and the dull</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.19>elements of earth and water never appear in him, but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.20>only in Patient stillness while his rider mounts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.21>him: he is indeed a horse; and all other jades you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.22>may call beasts.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.23>Indeed, my lord, it is a most absolute and excellent horse.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>DAUPHIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.24>It is the prince of palfreys; his neigh is like the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.25>bidding of a monarch and his countenance enforces homage.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.26>No more, cousin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>DAUPHIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.27>Nay, the man hath no wit that cannot, from the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.28>rising of the lark to the lodging of the lamb, vary</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.29>deserved praise on my palfrey: it is a theme as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.30>fluent as the sea: turn the sands into eloquent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.31>tongues, and my horse is argument for them all:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.32>'tis a subject for a sovereign to reason on, and for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.33>a sovereign's sovereign to ride on; and for the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.34>world, familiar to us and unknown to lay apart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.35>their particular functions and wonder at him. I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.36>once writ a sonnet in his praise and began thus:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.37>'Wonder of nature,'--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.38>I have heard a sonnet begin so to one's mistress.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>DAUPHIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.39>Then did they imitate that which I composed to my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.40>courser, for my horse is my mistress.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.41>Your mistress bears well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>DAUPHIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.42>Me well; which is the prescript praise and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.43>perfection of a good and particular mistress.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.44>Nay, for methought yesterday your mistress shrewdly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.45>shook your back.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>DAUPHIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.46>So perhaps did yours.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.47>Mine was not bridled.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>DAUPHIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.48>O then belike she was old and gentle; and you rode,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.49>like a kern of Ireland, your French hose off, and in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.50>your straight strossers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.51>You have good judgment in horsemanship.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>DAUPHIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.52>Be warned by me, then: they that ride so and ride</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.53>not warily, fall into foul bogs. I had rather have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.54>my horse to my mistress.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.55>I had as lief have my mistress a jade.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>DAUPHIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.56>I tell thee, constable, my mistress wears his own hair.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.57>I could make as true a boast as that, if I had a sow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.58>to my mistress.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>DAUPHIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.59>'Le chien est retourne a son propre vomissement, et</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.60>la truie lavee au bourbier;' thou makest use of any thing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.61>Yet do I not use my horse for my mistress, or any</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.62>such proverb so little kin to the purpose.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>RAMBURES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.63>My lord constable, the armour that I saw in your tent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.64>to-night, are those stars or suns upon it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.65>Stars, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>DAUPHIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.66>Some of them will fall to-morrow, I hope.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.67>And yet my sky shall not want.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>DAUPHIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.68>That may be, for you bear a many superfluously, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.69>'twere more honour some were away.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.70>Even as your horse bears your praises; who would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.71>trot as well, were some of your brags dismounted.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>DAUPHIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.72>Would I were able to load him with his desert! Will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.73>it never be day? I will trot to-morrow a mile, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.74>my way shall be paved with English faces.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.75>I will not say so, for fear I should be faced out of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.76>my way: but I would it were morning; for I would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.77>fain be about the ears of the English.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>RAMBURES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.78>Who will go to hazard with me for twenty prisoners?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.79>You must first go yourself to hazard, ere you have them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>DAUPHIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.80>'Tis midnight; I'll go arm myself.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.81>The Dauphin longs for morning.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>RAMBURES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.82>He longs to eat the English.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.83>I think he will eat all he kills.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.84>By the white hand of my lady, he's a gallant prince.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.85>Swear by her foot, that she may tread out the oath.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.86>He is simply the most active gentleman of France.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.87>Doing is activity; and he will still be doing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.88>He never did harm, that I heard of.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.89>Nor will do none to-morrow: he will keep that good name still.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.90>I know him to be valiant.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.91>I was told that by one that knows him better than</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.92>you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.93>What's he?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.94>Marry, he told me so himself; and he said he cared</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.95>not who knew it</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.96>He needs not; it is no hidden virtue in him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.97>By my faith, sir, but it is; never any body saw it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.98>but his lackey: 'tis a hooded valour; and when it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.99>appears, it will bate.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.100>Ill will never said well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.101>I will cap that proverb with 'There is flattery in friendship.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.102>And I will take up that with 'Give the devil his due.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.103>Well placed: there stands your friend for the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.104>devil: have at the very eye of that proverb with 'A</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.105>pox of the devil.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.106>You are the better at proverbs, by how much 'A</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.107>fool's bolt is soon shot.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.108>You have shot over.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.109>'Tis not the first time you were overshot.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.110>My lord high constable, the English lie within</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.111>fifteen hundred paces of your tents.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.112>Who hath measured the ground?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.113>The Lord Grandpre.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.114>A valiant and most expert gentleman. Would it were</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.115>day! Alas, poor Harry of England! he longs not for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.116>the dawning as we do.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.117>What a wretched and peevish fellow is this king of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.118>England, to mope with his fat-brained followers so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.119>far out of his knowledge!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.120>If the English had any apprehension, they would run away.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.121>That they lack; for if their heads had any</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.122>intellectual armour, they could never wear such heavy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.123>head-pieces.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>RAMBURES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.124>That island of England breeds very valiant</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.125>creatures; their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.126>Foolish curs, that run winking into the mouth of a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.127>Russian bear and have their heads crushed like</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.128>rotten apples! You may as well say, that's a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.129>valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.130>Just, just; and the men do sympathize with the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.131>mastiffs in robustious and rough coming on, leaving</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.132>their wits with their wives: and then give them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.133>great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.134>eat like wolves and fight like devils.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.135>Ay, but these English are shrewdly out of beef.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.136>Then shall we find to-morrow they have only stomachs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.137>to eat and none to fight. Now is it time to arm:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.138>come, shall we about it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.139>It is now two o'clock: but, let me see, by ten</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.140>We shall have each a hundred Englishmen.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT IV</h3> | |
| <h3>PROLOGUE</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter Chorus</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>Chorus</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.1>Now entertain conjecture of a time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.2>When creeping murmur and the poring dark</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.3>Fills the wide vessel of the universe.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.4>From camp to camp through the foul womb of night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.5>The hum of either army stilly sounds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.6>That the fixed sentinels almost receive</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.7>The secret whispers of each other's watch:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.8>Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.9>Each battle sees the other's umber'd face;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.10>Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.11>Piercing the night's dull ear, and from the tents</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.12>The armourers, accomplishing the knights,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.13>With busy hammers closing rivets up,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.14>Give dreadful note of preparation:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.15>The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.16>And the third hour of drowsy morning name.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.17>Proud of their numbers and secure in soul,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.18>The confident and over-lusty French</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.19>Do the low-rated English play at dice;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.20>And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.21>Who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.22>So tediously away. The poor condemned English,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.23>Like sacrifices, by their watchful fires</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.24>Sit patiently and inly ruminate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.25>The morning's danger, and their gesture sad</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.26>Investing lank-lean; cheeks and war-worn coats</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.27>Presenteth them unto the gazing moon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.28>So many horrid ghosts. O now, who will behold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.29>The royal captain of this ruin'd band</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.30>Walking from watch to watch, from tent to tent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.31>Let him cry 'Praise and glory on his head!'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.32>For forth he goes and visits all his host.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.33>Bids them good morrow with a modest smile</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.34>And calls them brothers, friends and countrymen.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.35>Upon his royal face there is no note</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.36>How dread an army hath enrounded him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.37>Nor doth he dedicate one jot of colour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.38>Unto the weary and all-watched night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.39>But freshly looks and over-bears attaint</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.40>With cheerful semblance and sweet majesty;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.41>That every wretch, pining and pale before,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.42>Beholding him, plucks comfort from his looks:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.43>A largess universal like the sun</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.44>His liberal eye doth give to every one,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.45>Thawing cold fear, that mean and gentle all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.46>Behold, as may unworthiness define,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.47>A little touch of Harry in the night.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.48>And so our scene must to the battle fly;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.49>Where--O for pity!--we shall much disgrace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.50>With four or five most vile and ragged foils,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.51>Right ill-disposed in brawl ridiculous,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.52>The name of Agincourt. Yet sit and see,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.0.53>Minding true things by what their mockeries be.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. The English camp at Agincourt.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter KING HENRY, BEDFORD, and GLOUCESTER</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.1>Gloucester, 'tis true that we are in great danger;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.2>The greater therefore should our courage be.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.3>Good morrow, brother Bedford. God Almighty!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.4>There is some soul of goodness in things evil,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.5>Would men observingly distil it out.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.6>For our bad neighbour makes us early stirrers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.7>Which is both healthful and good husbandry:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.8>Besides, they are our outward consciences,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.9>And preachers to us all, admonishing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.10>That we should dress us fairly for our end.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.11>Thus may we gather honey from the weed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.12>And make a moral of the devil himself.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter ERPINGHAM</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.13>Good morrow, old Sir Thomas Erpingham:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.14>A good soft pillow for that good white head</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.15>Were better than a churlish turf of France.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>ERPINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.16>Not so, my liege: this lodging likes me better,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.17>Since I may say 'Now lie I like a king.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.18>'Tis good for men to love their present pains</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.19>Upon example; so the spirit is eased:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.20>And when the mind is quicken'd, out of doubt,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.21>The organs, though defunct and dead before,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.22>Break up their drowsy grave and newly move,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.23>With casted slough and fresh legerity.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.24>Lend me thy cloak, Sir Thomas. Brothers both,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.25>Commend me to the princes in our camp;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.26>Do my good morrow to them, and anon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.27>Desire them an to my pavilion.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.28>We shall, my liege.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>ERPINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.29>Shall I attend your grace?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.30>No, my good knight;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.31>Go with my brothers to my lords of England:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.32>I and my bosom must debate awhile,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.33>And then I would no other company.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>ERPINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.34>The Lord in heaven bless thee, noble Harry!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt all but KING HENRY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.35>God-a-mercy, old heart! thou speak'st cheerfully.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter PISTOL</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.36>Qui va la?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.37>A friend.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.38>Discuss unto me; art thou officer?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.39>Or art thou base, common and popular?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.40>I am a gentleman of a company.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.41>Trail'st thou the puissant pike?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.42>Even so. What are you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.43>As good a gentleman as the emperor.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.44>Then you are a better than the king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.45>The king's a bawcock, and a heart of gold,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.46>A lad of life, an imp of fame;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.47>Of parents good, of fist most valiant.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.48>I kiss his dirty shoe, and from heart-string</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.49>I love the lovely bully. What is thy name?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.50>Harry le Roy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.51>Le Roy! a Cornish name: art thou of Cornish crew?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.52>No, I am a Welshman.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.53>Know'st thou Fluellen?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.54>Yes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.55>Tell him, I'll knock his leek about his pate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.56>Upon Saint Davy's day.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.57>Do not you wear your dagger in your cap that day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.58>lest he knock that about yours.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.59>Art thou his friend?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.60>And his kinsman too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.61>The figo for thee, then!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.62>I thank you: God be with you!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.63>My name is Pistol call'd.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.64>It sorts well with your fierceness.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter FLUELLEN and GOWER</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>GOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.65>Captain Fluellen!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.66>So! in the name of Jesu Christ, speak lower. It is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.67>the greatest admiration of the universal world, when</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.68>the true and aunchient prerogatifes and laws of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.69>wars is not kept: if you would take the pains but to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.70>examine the wars of Pompey the Great, you shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.71>find, I warrant you, that there is no tiddle toddle</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.72>nor pibble pabble in Pompey's camp; I warrant you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.73>you shall find the ceremonies of the wars, and the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.74>cares of it, and the forms of it, and the sobriety</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.75>of it, and the modesty of it, to be otherwise.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>GOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.76>Why, the enemy is loud; you hear him all night.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.77>If the enemy is an ass and a fool and a prating</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.78>coxcomb, is it meet, think you, that we should also,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.79>look you, be an ass and a fool and a prating</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.80>coxcomb? in your own conscience, now?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>GOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.81>I will speak lower.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.82>I pray you and beseech you that you will.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt GOWER and FLUELLEN</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.83>Though it appear a little out of fashion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.84>There is much care and valour in this Welshman.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter three soldiers, JOHN BATES, ALEXANDER COURT, and MICHAEL WILLIAMS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>COURT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.85>Brother John Bates, is not that the morning which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.86>breaks yonder?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>BATES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.87>I think it be: but we have no great cause to desire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.88>the approach of day.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.89>We see yonder the beginning of the day, but I think</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.90>we shall never see the end of it. Who goes there?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.91>A friend.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.92>Under what captain serve you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.93>Under Sir Thomas Erpingham.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.94>A good old commander and a most kind gentleman: I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.95>pray you, what thinks he of our estate?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.96>Even as men wrecked upon a sand, that look to be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.97>washed off the next tide.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>BATES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.98>He hath not told his thought to the king?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.99>No; nor it is not meet he should. For, though I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.100>speak it to you, I think the king is but a man, as I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.101>am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me: the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.102>element shows to him as it doth to me; all his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.103>senses have but human conditions: his ceremonies</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.104>laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.105>though his affections are higher mounted than ours,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.106>yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.107>wing. Therefore when he sees reason of fears, as we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.108>do, his fears, out of doubt, be of the same relish</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.109>as ours are: yet, in reason, no man should possess</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.110>him with any appearance of fear, lest he, by showing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.111>it, should dishearten his army.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>BATES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.112>He may show what outward courage he will; but I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.113>believe, as cold a night as 'tis, he could wish</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.114>himself in Thames up to the neck; and so I would he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.115>were, and I by him, at all adventures, so we were quit here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.116>By my troth, I will speak my conscience of the king:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.117>I think he would not wish himself any where but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.118>where he is.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>BATES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.119>Then I would he were here alone; so should he be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.120>sure to be ransomed, and a many poor men's lives saved.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.121>I dare say you love him not so ill, to wish him here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.122>alone, howsoever you speak this to feel other men's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.123>minds: methinks I could not die any where so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.124>contented as in the king's company; his cause being</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.125>just and his quarrel honourable.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.126>That's more than we know.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>BATES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.127>Ay, or more than we should seek after; for we know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.128>enough, if we know we are the kings subjects: if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.129>his cause be wrong, our obedience to the king wipes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.130>the crime of it out of us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.131>But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.132>a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.133>arms and heads, chopped off in battle, shall join</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.134>together at the latter day and cry all 'We died at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.135>such a place;' some swearing, some crying for a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.136>surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.137>them, some upon the debts they owe, some upon their</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.138>children rawly left. I am afeard there are few die</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.139>well that die in a battle; for how can they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.140>charitably dispose of any thing, when blood is their</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.141>argument? Now, if these men do not die well, it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.142>will be a black matter for the king that led them to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.143>it; whom to disobey were against all proportion of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.144>subjection.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.145>So, if a son that is by his father sent about</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.146>merchandise do sinfully miscarry upon the sea, the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.147>imputation of his wickedness by your rule, should be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.148>imposed upon his father that sent him: or if a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.149>servant, under his master's command transporting a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.150>sum of money, be assailed by robbers and die in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.151>many irreconciled iniquities, you may call the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.152>business of the master the author of the servant's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.153>damnation: but this is not so: the king is not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.154>bound to answer the particular endings of his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.155>soldiers, the father of his son, nor the master of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.156>his servant; for they purpose not their death, when</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.157>they purpose their services. Besides, there is no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.158>king, be his cause never so spotless, if it come to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.159>the arbitrement of swords, can try it out with all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.160>unspotted soldiers: some peradventure have on them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.161>the guilt of premeditated and contrived murder;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.162>some, of beguiling virgins with the broken seals of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.163>perjury; some, making the wars their bulwark, that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.164>have before gored the gentle bosom of peace with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.165>pillage and robbery. Now, if these men have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.166>defeated the law and outrun native punishment,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.167>though they can outstrip men, they have no wings to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.168>fly from God: war is his beadle, war is vengeance;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.169>so that here men are punished for before-breach of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.170>the king's laws in now the king's quarrel: where</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.171>they feared the death, they have borne life away;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.172>and where they would be safe, they perish: then if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.173>they die unprovided, no more is the king guilty of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.174>their damnation than he was before guilty of those</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.175>impieties for the which they are now visited. Every</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.176>subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.177>soul is his own. Therefore should every soldier in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.178>the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.179>mote out of his conscience: and dying so, death</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.180>is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.181>blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.182>and in him that escapes, it were not sin to think</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.183>that, making God so free an offer, He let him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.184>outlive that day to see His greatness and to teach</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.185>others how they should prepare.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.186>'Tis certain, every man that dies ill, the ill upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.187>his own head, the king is not to answer it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>BATES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.188>But I do not desire he should answer for me; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.189>yet I determine to fight lustily for him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.190>I myself heard the king say he would not be ransomed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.191>Ay, he said so, to make us fight cheerfully: but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.192>when our throats are cut, he may be ransomed, and we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.193>ne'er the wiser.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.194>If I live to see it, I will never trust his word after.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.195>You pay him then. That's a perilous shot out of an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.196>elder-gun, that a poor and private displeasure can</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.197>do against a monarch! you may as well go about to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.198>turn the sun to ice with fanning in his face with a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.199>peacock's feather. You'll never trust his word</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.200>after! come, 'tis a foolish saying.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.201>Your reproof is something too round: I should be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.202>angry with you, if the time were convenient.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.203>Let it be a quarrel between us, if you live.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.204>I embrace it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.205>How shall I know thee again?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.206>Give me any gage of thine, and I will wear it in my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.207>bonnet: then, if ever thou darest acknowledge it, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.208>will make it my quarrel.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.209>Here's my glove: give me another of thine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.210>There.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.211>This will I also wear in my cap: if ever thou come</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.212>to me and say, after to-morrow, 'This is my glove,'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.213>by this hand, I will take thee a box on the ear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.214>If ever I live to see it, I will challenge it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.215>Thou darest as well be hanged.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.216>Well. I will do it, though I take thee in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.217>king's company.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.218>Keep thy word: fare thee well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>BATES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.219>Be friends, you English fools, be friends: we have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.220>French quarrels enow, if you could tell how to reckon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.221>Indeed, the French may lay twenty French crowns to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.222>one, they will beat us; for they bear them on their</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.223>shoulders: but it is no English treason to cut</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.224>French crowns, and to-morrow the king himself will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.225>be a clipper.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt soldiers</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.226>Upon the king! let us our lives, our souls,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.227>Our debts, our careful wives,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.228>Our children and our sins lay on the king!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.229>We must bear all. O hard condition,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.230>Twin-born with greatness, subject to the breath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.231>Of every fool, whose sense no more can feel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.232>But his own wringing! What infinite heart's-ease</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.233>Must kings neglect, that private men enjoy!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.234>And what have kings, that privates have not too,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.235>Save ceremony, save general ceremony?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.236>And what art thou, thou idle ceremony?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.237>What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.238>Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.239>What are thy rents? what are thy comings in?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.240>O ceremony, show me but thy worth!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.241>What is thy soul of adoration?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.242>Art thou aught else but place, degree and form,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.243>Creating awe and fear in other men?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.244>Wherein thou art less happy being fear'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.245>Than they in fearing.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.246>What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.247>But poison'd flattery? O, be sick, great greatness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.248>And bid thy ceremony give thee cure!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.249>Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.250>With titles blown from adulation?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.251>Will it give place to flexure and low bending?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.252>Canst thou, when thou command'st the beggar's knee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.253>Command the health of it? No, thou proud dream,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.254>That play'st so subtly with a king's repose;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.255>I am a king that find thee, and I know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.256>'Tis not the balm, the sceptre and the ball,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.257>The sword, the mace, the crown imperial,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.258>The intertissued robe of gold and pearl,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.259>The farced title running 'fore the king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.260>The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.261>That beats upon the high shore of this world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.262>No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.263>Not all these, laid in bed majestical,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.264>Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.265>Who with a body fill'd and vacant mind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.266>Gets him to rest, cramm'd with distressful bread;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.267>Never sees horrid night, the child of hell,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.268>But, like a lackey, from the rise to set</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.269>Sweats in the eye of Phoebus and all night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.270>Sleeps in Elysium; next day after dawn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.271>Doth rise and help Hyperion to his horse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.272>And follows so the ever-running year,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.273>With profitable labour, to his grave:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.274>And, but for ceremony, such a wretch,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.275>Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.276>Had the fore-hand and vantage of a king.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.277>The slave, a member of the country's peace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.278>Enjoys it; but in gross brain little wots</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.279>What watch the king keeps to maintain the peace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.280>Whose hours the peasant best advantages.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter ERPINGHAM</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>ERPINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.281>My lord, your nobles, jealous of your absence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.282>Seek through your camp to find you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.283>Good old knight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.284>Collect them all together at my tent:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.285>I'll be before thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>ERPINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.286>I shall do't, my lord.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.287>O God of battles! steel my soldiers' hearts;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.288>Possess them not with fear; take from them now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.289>The sense of reckoning, if the opposed numbers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.290>Pluck their hearts from them. Not to-day, O Lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.291>O, not to-day, think not upon the fault</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.292>My father made in compassing the crown!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.293>I Richard's body have interred anew;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.294>And on it have bestow'd more contrite tears</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.295>Than from it issued forced drops of blood:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.296>Five hundred poor I have in yearly pay,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.297>Who twice a-day their wither'd hands hold up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.298>Toward heaven, to pardon blood; and I have built</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.299>Two chantries, where the sad and solemn priests</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.300>Sing still for Richard's soul. More will I do;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.301>Though all that I can do is nothing worth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.302>Since that my penitence comes after all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.303>Imploring pardon.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter GLOUCESTER</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.304>My liege!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.305>My brother Gloucester's voice? Ay;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.306>I know thy errand, I will go with thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.307>The day, my friends and all things stay for me.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. The French camp.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter the DAUPHIN, ORLEANS, RAMBURES, and others</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.1>The sun doth gild our armour; up, my lords!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>DAUPHIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.2>Montez A cheval! My horse! varlet! laquais! ha!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.3>O brave spirit!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>DAUPHIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.4>Via! les eaux et la terre.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.5>Rien puis? L'air et la feu.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>DAUPHIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.6>Ciel, cousin Orleans.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Constable</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.7>Now, my lord constable!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.8>Hark, how our steeds for present service neigh!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>DAUPHIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.9>Mount them, and make incision in their hides,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.10>That their hot blood may spin in English eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.11>And dout them with superfluous courage, ha!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>RAMBURES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.12>What, will you have them weep our horses' blood?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.13>How shall we, then, behold their natural tears?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Messenger</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.14>The English are embattled, you French peers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.15>To horse, you gallant princes! straight to horse!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.16>Do but behold yon poor and starved band,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.17>And your fair show shall suck away their souls,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.18>Leaving them but the shales and husks of men.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.19>There is not work enough for all our hands;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.20>Scarce blood enough in all their sickly veins</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.21>To give each naked curtle-axe a stain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.22>That our French gallants shall to-day draw out,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.23>And sheathe for lack of sport: let us but blow on them,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.24>The vapour of our valour will o'erturn them.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.25>'Tis positive 'gainst all exceptions, lords,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.26>That our superfluous lackeys and our peasants,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.27>Who in unnecessary action swarm</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.28>About our squares of battle, were enow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.29>To purge this field of such a hilding foe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.30>Though we upon this mountain's basis by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.31>Took stand for idle speculation:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.32>But that our honours must not. What's to say?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.33>A very little little let us do.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.34>And all is done. Then let the trumpets sound</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.35>The tucket sonance and the note to mount;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.36>For our approach shall so much dare the field</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.37>That England shall couch down in fear and yield.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter GRANDPRE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>GRANDPRE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.38>Why do you stay so long, my lords of France?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.39>Yon island carrions, desperate of their bones,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.40>Ill-favouredly become the morning field:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.41>Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.42>And our air shakes them passing scornfully:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.43>Big Mars seems bankrupt in their beggar'd host</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.44>And faintly through a rusty beaver peeps:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.45>The horsemen sit like fixed candlesticks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.46>With torch-staves in their hand; and their poor jades</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.47>Lob down their heads, dropping the hides and hips,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.48>The gum down-roping from their pale-dead eyes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.49>And in their pale dull mouths the gimmal bit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.50>Lies foul with chew'd grass, still and motionless;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.51>And their executors, the knavish crows,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.52>Fly o'er them, all impatient for their hour.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.53>Description cannot suit itself in words</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.54>To demonstrate the life of such a battle</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.55>In life so lifeless as it shows itself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.56>They have said their prayers, and they stay for death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>DAUPHIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.57>Shall we go send them dinners and fresh suits</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.58>And give their fasting horses provender,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.59>And after fight with them?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.60>I stay but for my guidon: to the field!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.61>I will the banner from a trumpet take,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.62>And use it for my haste. Come, come, away!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.63>The sun is high, and we outwear the day.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. The English camp.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter GLOUCESTER, BEDFORD, EXETER, ERPINGHAM, with all his host: SALISBURY and WESTMORELAND</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.1>Where is the king?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>BEDFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.2>The king himself is rode to view their battle.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.3>Of fighting men they have full three score thousand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>EXETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.4>There's five to one; besides, they all are fresh.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.5>God's arm strike with us! 'tis a fearful odds.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.6>God be wi' you, princes all; I'll to my charge:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.7>If we no more meet till we meet in heaven,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.8>Then, joyfully, my noble Lord of Bedford,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.9>My dear Lord Gloucester, and my good Lord Exeter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.10>And my kind kinsman, warriors all, adieu!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>BEDFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.11>Farewell, good Salisbury; and good luck go with thee!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>EXETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.12>Farewell, kind lord; fight valiantly to-day:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.13>And yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.14>For thou art framed of the firm truth of valour.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit SALISBURY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>BEDFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.15>He is full of valour as of kindness;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.16>Princely in both.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter the KING</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.17> O that we now had here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.18>But one ten thousand of those men in England</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.19>That do no work to-day!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.20>What's he that wishes so?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.21>My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.22>If we are mark'd to die, we are enow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.23>To do our country loss; and if to live,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.24>The fewer men, the greater share of honour.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.25>God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.26>By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.27>Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.28>It yearns me not if men my garments wear;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.29>Such outward things dwell not in my desires:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.30>But if it be a sin to covet honour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.31>I am the most offending soul alive.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.32>No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.33>God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.34>As one man more, methinks, would share from me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.35>For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.36>Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.37>That he which hath no stomach to this fight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.38>Let him depart; his passport shall be made</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.39>And crowns for convoy put into his purse:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.40>We would not die in that man's company</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.41>That fears his fellowship to die with us.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.42>This day is called the feast of Crispian:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.43>He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.44>Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.45>And rouse him at the name of Crispian.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.46>He that shall live this day, and see old age,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.47>Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.48>And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian:'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.49>Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.50>And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.51>Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.52>But he'll remember with advantages</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.53>What feats he did that day: then shall our names.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.54>Familiar in his mouth as household words</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.55>Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.56>Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.57>Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.58>This story shall the good man teach his son;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.59>And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.60>From this day to the ending of the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.61>But we in it shall be remember'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.62>We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.63>For he to-day that sheds his blood with me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.64>Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.65>This day shall gentle his condition:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.66>And gentlemen in England now a-bed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.67>Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.68>And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.69>That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter SALISBURY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.70>My sovereign lord, bestow yourself with speed:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.71>The French are bravely in their battles set,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.72>And will with all expedience charge on us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.73>All things are ready, if our minds be so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.74>Perish the man whose mind is backward now!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.75>Thou dost not wish more help from England, coz?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.76>God's will! my liege, would you and I alone,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.77>Without more help, could fight this royal battle!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.78>Why, now thou hast unwish'd five thousand men;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.79>Which likes me better than to wish us one.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.80>You know your places: God be with you all!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Tucket. Enter MONTJOY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>MONTJOY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.81>Once more I come to know of thee, King Harry,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.82>If for thy ransom thou wilt now compound,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.83>Before thy most assured overthrow:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.84>For certainly thou art so near the gulf,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.85>Thou needs must be englutted. Besides, in mercy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.86>The constable desires thee thou wilt mind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.87>Thy followers of repentance; that their souls</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.88>May make a peaceful and a sweet retire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.89>From off these fields, where, wretches, their poor bodies</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.90>Must lie and fester.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.91>Who hath sent thee now?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>MONTJOY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.92>The Constable of France.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.93>I pray thee, bear my former answer back:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.94>Bid them achieve me and then sell my bones.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.95>Good God! why should they mock poor fellows thus?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.96>The man that once did sell the lion's skin</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.97>While the beast lived, was killed with hunting him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.98>A many of our bodies shall no doubt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.99>Find native graves; upon the which, I trust,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.100>Shall witness live in brass of this day's work:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.101>And those that leave their valiant bones in France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.102>Dying like men, though buried in your dunghills,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.103>They shall be famed; for there the sun shall greet them,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.104>And draw their honours reeking up to heaven;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.105>Leaving their earthly parts to choke your clime,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.106>The smell whereof shall breed a plague in France.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.107>Mark then abounding valour in our English,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.108>That being dead, like to the bullet's grazing,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.109>Break out into a second course of mischief,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.110>Killing in relapse of mortality.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.111>Let me speak proudly: tell the constable</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.112>We are but warriors for the working-day;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.113>Our gayness and our gilt are all besmirch'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.114>With rainy marching in the painful field;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.115>There's not a piece of feather in our host--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.116>Good argument, I hope, we will not fly--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.117>And time hath worn us into slovenry:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.118>But, by the mass, our hearts are in the trim;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.119>And my poor soldiers tell me, yet ere night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.120>They'll be in fresher robes, or they will pluck</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.121>The gay new coats o'er the French soldiers' heads</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.122>And turn them out of service. If they do this,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.123>As, if God please, they shall,--my ransom then</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.124>Will soon be levied. Herald, save thou thy labour;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.125>Come thou no more for ransom, gentle herald:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.126>They shall have none, I swear, but these my joints;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.127>Which if they have as I will leave 'em them,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.128>Shall yield them little, tell the constable.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>MONTJOY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.129>I shall, King Harry. And so fare thee well:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.130>Thou never shalt hear herald any more.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.131>I fear thou'lt once more come again for ransom.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter YORK</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.132>My lord, most humbly on my knee I beg</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.133>The leading of the vaward.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.134>Take it, brave York. Now, soldiers, march away:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.135>And how thou pleasest, God, dispose the day!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. The field of battle.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Alarum. Excursions. Enter PISTOL, French Soldier, and Boy</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.1>Yield, cur!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>French Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.2>Je pense que vous etes gentilhomme de bonne qualite.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.3>Qualtitie calmie custure me! Art thou a gentleman?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.4>what is thy name? discuss.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>French Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.5>O Seigneur Dieu!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.6>O, Signieur Dew should be a gentleman:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.7>Perpend my words, O Signieur Dew, and mark;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.8>O Signieur Dew, thou diest on point of fox,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.9>Except, O signieur, thou do give to me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.10>Egregious ransom.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>French Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.11>O, prenez misericorde! ayez pitie de moi!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.12>Moy shall not serve; I will have forty moys;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.13>Or I will fetch thy rim out at thy throat</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.14>In drops of crimson blood.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>French Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.15>Est-il impossible d'echapper la force de ton bras?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.16>Brass, cur!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.17>Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.18>Offer'st me brass?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>French Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.19>O pardonnez moi!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.20>Say'st thou me so? is that a ton of moys?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.21>Come hither, boy: ask me this slave in French</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.22>What is his name.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>Boy</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.23>Ecoutez: comment etes-vous appele?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>French Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.24>Monsieur le Fer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>Boy</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.25>He says his name is Master Fer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.26>Master Fer! I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.27>him: discuss the same in French unto him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>Boy</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.28>I do not know the French for fer, and ferret, and firk.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.29>Bid him prepare; for I will cut his throat.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>French Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.30>Que dit-il, monsieur?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>Boy</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.31>Il me commande de vous dire que vous faites vous</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.32>pret; car ce soldat ici est dispose tout a cette</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.33>heure de couper votre gorge.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.34>Owy, cuppele gorge, permafoy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.35>Peasant, unless thou give me crowns, brave crowns;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.36>Or mangled shalt thou be by this my sword.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>French Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.37>O, je vous supplie, pour l'amour de Dieu, me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.38>pardonner! Je suis gentilhomme de bonne maison:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.39>gardez ma vie, et je vous donnerai deux cents ecus.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.40>What are his words?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>Boy</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.41>He prays you to save his life: he is a gentleman of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.42>a good house; and for his ransom he will give you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.43>two hundred crowns.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.44>Tell him my fury shall abate, and I the crowns will take.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>French Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.45>Petit monsieur, que dit-il?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>Boy</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.46>Encore qu'il est contre son jurement de pardonner</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.47>aucun prisonnier, neanmoins, pour les ecus que vous</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.48>l'avez promis, il est content de vous donner la</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.49>liberte, le franchisement.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>French Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.50>Sur mes genoux je vous donne mille remercimens; et</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.51>je m'estime heureux que je suis tombe entre les</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.52>mains d'un chevalier, je pense, le plus brave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.53>vaillant, et tres distingue seigneur d'Angleterre.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.54>Expound unto me, boy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>Boy</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.55>He gives you, upon his knees, a thousand thanks; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.56>he esteems himself happy that he hath fallen into</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.57>the hands of one, as he thinks, the most brave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.58>valorous, and thrice-worthy signieur of England.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.59>As I suck blood, I will some mercy show.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.60>Follow me!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>Boy</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.61>Suivez-vous le grand capitaine.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt PISTOL, and French Soldier</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.62>I did never know so full a voice issue from so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.63>empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.64>vessel makes the greatest sound.' Bardolph and Nym</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.65>had ten times more valour than this roaring devil i'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.66>the old play, that every one may pare his nails with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.67>a wooden dagger; and they are both hanged; and so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.68>would this be, if he durst steal any thing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.69>adventurously. I must stay with the lackeys, with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.70>the luggage of our camp: the French might have a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.71>good prey of us, if he knew of it; for there is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.72>none to guard it but boys.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE V. Another part of the field.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter Constable, ORLEANS, BOURBON, DAUPHIN, and RAMBURES</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.1>O diable!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.2>O seigneur! le jour est perdu, tout est perdu!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>DAUPHIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.3>Mort de ma vie! all is confounded, all!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.4>Reproach and everlasting shame</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.5>Sits mocking in our plumes. O merchante fortune!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.6>Do not run away.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>A short alarum</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.7> Why, all our ranks are broke.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>DAUPHIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.8>O perdurable shame! let's stab ourselves.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.9>Be these the wretches that we play'd at dice for?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.10>Is this the king we sent to for his ransom?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>BOURBON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.11>Shame and eternal shame, nothing but shame!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.12>Let us die in honour: once more back again;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.13>And he that will not follow Bourbon now,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.14>Let him go hence, and with his cap in hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.15>Like a base pander, hold the chamber-door</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.16>Whilst by a slave, no gentler than my dog,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.17>His fairest daughter is contaminated.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Constable</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.18>Disorder, that hath spoil'd us, friend us now!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.19>Let us on heaps go offer up our lives.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.20>We are enow yet living in the field</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.21>To smother up the English in our throngs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.22>If any order might be thought upon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>BOURBON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.23>The devil take order now! I'll to the throng:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.24>Let life be short; else shame will be too long.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE VI. Another part of the field.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Alarums. Enter KING HENRY and forces, EXETER, and others</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.1>Well have we done, thrice valiant countrymen:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.2>But all's not done; yet keep the French the field.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>EXETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.3>The Duke of York commends him to your majesty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.4>Lives he, good uncle? thrice within this hour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.5>I saw him down; thrice up again and fighting;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.6>From helmet to the spur all blood he was.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>EXETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.7>In which array, brave soldier, doth he lie,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.8>Larding the plain; and by his bloody side,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.9>Yoke-fellow to his honour-owing wounds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.10>The noble Earl of Suffolk also lies.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.11>Suffolk first died: and York, all haggled over,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.12>Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteep'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.13>And takes him by the beard; kisses the gashes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.14>That bloodily did spawn upon his face;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.15>And cries aloud 'Tarry, dear cousin Suffolk!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.16>My soul shall thine keep company to heaven;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.17>Tarry, sweet soul, for mine, then fly abreast,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.18>As in this glorious and well-foughten field</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.19>We kept together in our chivalry!'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.20>Upon these words I came and cheer'd him up:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.21>He smiled me in the face, raught me his hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.22>And, with a feeble gripe, says 'Dear my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.23>Commend my service to me sovereign.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.24>So did he turn and over Suffolk's neck</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.25>He threw his wounded arm and kiss'd his lips;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.26>And so espoused to death, with blood he seal'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.27>A testament of noble-ending love.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.28>The pretty and sweet manner of it forced</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.29>Those waters from me which I would have stopp'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.30>But I had not so much of man in me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.31>And all my mother came into mine eyes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.32>And gave me up to tears.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.33>I blame you not;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.34>For, hearing this, I must perforce compound</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.35>With mistful eyes, or they will issue too.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Alarum</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.36>But, hark! what new alarum is this same?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.37>The French have reinforced their scatter'd men:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.38>Then every soldier kill his prisoners:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.39>Give the word through.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE VII. Another part of the field.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter FLUELLEN and GOWER</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.1>Kill the poys and the luggage! 'tis expressly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.2>against the law of arms: 'tis as arrant a piece of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.3>knavery, mark you now, as can be offer't; in your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.4>conscience, now, is it not?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>GOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.5>'Tis certain there's not a boy left alive; and the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.6>cowardly rascals that ran from the battle ha' done</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.7>this slaughter: besides, they have burned and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.8>carried away all that was in the king's tent;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.9>wherefore the king, most worthily, hath caused every</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.10>soldier to cut his prisoner's throat. O, 'tis a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.11>gallant king!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.12>Ay, he was porn at Monmouth, Captain Gower. What</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.13>call you the town's name where Alexander the Pig was born!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>GOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.14>Alexander the Great.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.15>Why, I pray you, is not pig great? the pig, or the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.16>great, or the mighty, or the huge, or the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.17>magnanimous, are all one reckonings, save the phrase</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.18>is a little variations.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>GOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.19>I think Alexander the Great was born in Macedon; his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.20>father was called Philip of Macedon, as I take it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.21>I think it is in Macedon where Alexander is porn. I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.22>tell you, captain, if you look in the maps of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.23>'orld, I warrant you sall find, in the comparisons</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.24>between Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.25>look you, is both alike. There is a river in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.26>Macedon; and there is also moreover a river at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.27>Monmouth: it is called Wye at Monmouth; but it is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.28>out of my prains what is the name of the other</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.29>river; but 'tis all one, 'tis alike as my fingers is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.30>to my fingers, and there is salmons in both. If you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.31>mark Alexander's life well, Harry of Monmouth's life</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.32>is come after it indifferent well; for there is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.33>figures in all things. Alexander, God knows, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.34>you know, in his rages, and his furies, and his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.35>wraths, and his cholers, and his moods, and his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.36>displeasures, and his indignations, and also being a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.37>little intoxicates in his prains, did, in his ales and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.38>his angers, look you, kill his best friend, Cleitus.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>GOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.39>Our king is not like him in that: he never killed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.40>any of his friends.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.41>It is not well done, mark you now take the tales out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.42>of my mouth, ere it is made and finished. I speak</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.43>but in the figures and comparisons of it: as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.44>Alexander killed his friend Cleitus, being in his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.45>ales and his cups; so also Harry Monmouth, being in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.46>his right wits and his good judgments, turned away</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.47>the fat knight with the great belly-doublet: he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.48>was full of jests, and gipes, and knaveries, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.49>mocks; I have forgot his name.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>GOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.50>Sir John Falstaff.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.51>That is he: I'll tell you there is good men porn at Monmouth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>GOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.52>Here comes his majesty.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Alarum. Enter KING HENRY, and forces; WARWICK, GLOUCESTER, EXETER, and others</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.53>I was not angry since I came to France</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.54>Until this instant. Take a trumpet, herald;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.55>Ride thou unto the horsemen on yon hill:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.56>If they will fight with us, bid them come down,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.57>Or void the field; they do offend our sight:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.58>If they'll do neither, we will come to them,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.59>And make them skirr away, as swift as stones</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.60>Enforced from the old Assyrian slings:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.61>Besides, we'll cut the throats of those we have,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.62>And not a man of them that we shall take</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.63>Shall taste our mercy. Go and tell them so.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter MONTJOY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>EXETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.64>Here comes the herald of the French, my liege.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.65>His eyes are humbler than they used to be.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.66>How now! what means this, herald? know'st thou not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.67>That I have fined these bones of mine for ransom?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.68>Comest thou again for ransom?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>MONTJOY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.69>No, great king:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.70>I come to thee for charitable licence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.71>That we may wander o'er this bloody field</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.72>To look our dead, and then to bury them;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.73>To sort our nobles from our common men.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.74>For many of our princes--woe the while!--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.75>Lie drown'd and soak'd in mercenary blood;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.76>So do our vulgar drench their peasant limbs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.77>In blood of princes; and their wounded steeds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.78>Fret fetlock deep in gore and with wild rage</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.79>Yerk out their armed heels at their dead masters,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.80>Killing them twice. O, give us leave, great king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.81>To view the field in safety and dispose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.82>Of their dead bodies!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.83>I tell thee truly, herald,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.84>I know not if the day be ours or no;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.85>For yet a many of your horsemen peer</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.86>And gallop o'er the field.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>MONTJOY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.87>The day is yours.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.88>Praised be God, and not our strength, for it!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.89>What is this castle call'd that stands hard by?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>MONTJOY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.90>They call it Agincourt.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.91>Then call we this the field of Agincourt,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.92>Fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.93>Your grandfather of famous memory, an't please your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.94>majesty, and your great-uncle Edward the Plack</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.95>Prince of Wales, as I have read in the chronicles,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.96>fought a most prave pattle here in France.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.97>They did, Fluellen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.98>Your majesty says very true: if your majesties is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.99>remembered of it, the Welshmen did good service in a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.100>garden where leeks did grow, wearing leeks in their</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.101>Monmouth caps; which, your majesty know, to this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.102>hour is an honourable badge of the service; and I do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.103>believe your majesty takes no scorn to wear the leek</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.104>upon Saint Tavy's day.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.105>I wear it for a memorable honour;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.106>For I am Welsh, you know, good countryman.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.107>All the water in Wye cannot wash your majesty's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.108>Welsh plood out of your pody, I can tell you that:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.109>God pless it and preserve it, as long as it pleases</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.110>his grace, and his majesty too!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.111>Thanks, good my countryman.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.112>By Jeshu, I am your majesty's countryman, I care not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.113>who know it; I will confess it to all the 'orld: I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.114>need not to be ashamed of your majesty, praised be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.115>God, so long as your majesty is an honest man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.116>God keep me so! Our heralds go with him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.117>Bring me just notice of the numbers dead</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.118>On both our parts. Call yonder fellow hither.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Points to WILLIAMS. Exeunt Heralds with Montjoy</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>EXETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.119>Soldier, you must come to the king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.120>Soldier, why wearest thou that glove in thy cap?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.121>An't please your majesty, 'tis the gage of one that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.122>I should fight withal, if he be alive.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.123>An Englishman?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.124>An't please your majesty, a rascal that swaggered</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.125>with me last night; who, if alive and ever dare to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.126>challenge this glove, I have sworn to take him a box</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.127>o' th' ear: or if I can see my glove in his cap,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.128>which he swore, as he was a soldier, he would wear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.129>if alive, I will strike it out soundly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.130>What think you, Captain Fluellen? is it fit this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.131>soldier keep his oath?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.132>He is a craven and a villain else, an't please your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.133>majesty, in my conscience.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.134>It may be his enemy is a gentleman of great sort,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.135>quite from the answer of his degree.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.136>Though he be as good a gentleman as the devil is, as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.137>Lucifer and Belzebub himself, it is necessary, look</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.138>your grace, that he keep his vow and his oath: if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.139>he be perjured, see you now, his reputation is as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.140>arrant a villain and a Jacksauce, as ever his black</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.141>shoe trod upon God's ground and his earth, in my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.142>conscience, la!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.143>Then keep thy vow, sirrah, when thou meetest the fellow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.144>So I will, my liege, as I live.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.145>Who servest thou under?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.146>Under Captain Gower, my liege.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.147>Gower is a good captain, and is good knowledge and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.148>literatured in the wars.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.149>Call him hither to me, soldier.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.150>I will, my liege.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.151>Here, Fluellen; wear thou this favour for me and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.152>stick it in thy cap: when Alencon and myself were</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.153>down together, I plucked this glove from his helm:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.154>if any man challenge this, he is a friend to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.155>Alencon, and an enemy to our person; if thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.156>encounter any such, apprehend him, an thou dost me love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.157>Your grace doo's me as great honours as can be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.158>desired in the hearts of his subjects: I would fain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.159>see the man, that has but two legs, that shall find</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.160>himself aggrieved at this glove; that is all; but I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.161>would fain see it once, an please God of his grace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.162>that I might see.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.163>Knowest thou Gower?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.164>He is my dear friend, an please you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.165>Pray thee, go seek him, and bring him to my tent.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.166>I will fetch him.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.167>My Lord of Warwick, and my brother Gloucester,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.168>Follow Fluellen closely at the heels:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.169>The glove which I have given him for a favour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.170>May haply purchase him a box o' th' ear;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.171>It is the soldier's; I by bargain should</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.172>Wear it myself. Follow, good cousin Warwick:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.173>If that the soldier strike him, as I judge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.174>By his blunt bearing he will keep his word,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.175>Some sudden mischief may arise of it;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.176>For I do know Fluellen valiant</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.177>And, touched with choler, hot as gunpowder,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.178>And quickly will return an injury:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.179>Follow and see there be no harm between them.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.180>Go you with me, uncle of Exeter.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE VIII. Before KING HENRY'S pavilion.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter GOWER and WILLIAMS</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.1>I warrant it is to knight you, captain.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter FLUELLEN</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.2>God's will and his pleasure, captain, I beseech you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.3>now, come apace to the king: there is more good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.4>toward you peradventure than is in your knowledge to dream of.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.5>Sir, know you this glove?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.6>Know the glove! I know the glove is glove.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.7>I know this; and thus I challenge it.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Strikes him</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.8>'Sblood! an arrant traitor as any is in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.9>universal world, or in France, or in England!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>GOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.10>How now, sir! you villain!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.11>Do you think I'll be forsworn?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.12>Stand away, Captain Gower; I will give treason his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.13>payment into ploughs, I warrant you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.14>I am no traitor.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.15>That's a lie in thy throat. I charge you in his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.16>majesty's name, apprehend him: he's a friend of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.17>Duke Alencon's.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter WARWICK and GLOUCESTER</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.18>How now, how now! what's the matter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.19>My Lord of Warwick, here is--praised be God for it!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.20>--a most contagious treason come to light, look</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.21>you, as you shall desire in a summer's day. Here is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.22>his majesty.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter KING HENRY and EXETER</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.23>How now! what's the matter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.24>My liege, here is a villain and a traitor, that,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.25>look your grace, has struck the glove which your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.26>majesty is take out of the helmet of Alencon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.27>My liege, this was my glove; here is the fellow of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.28>it; and he that I gave it to in change promised to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.29>wear it in his cap: I promised to strike him, if he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.30>did: I met this man with my glove in his cap, and I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.31>have been as good as my word.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.32>Your majesty hear now, saving your majesty's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.33>manhood, what an arrant, rascally, beggarly, lousy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.34>knave it is: I hope your majesty is pear me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.35>testimony and witness, and will avouchment, that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.36>this is the glove of Alencon, that your majesty is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.37>give me; in your conscience, now?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.38>Give me thy glove, soldier: look, here is the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.39>fellow of it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.40>'Twas I, indeed, thou promised'st to strike;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.41>And thou hast given me most bitter terms.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.42>An please your majesty, let his neck answer for it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.43>if there is any martial law in the world.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.44>How canst thou make me satisfaction?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.45>All offences, my lord, come from the heart: never</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.46>came any from mine that might offend your majesty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.47>It was ourself thou didst abuse.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.48>Your majesty came not like yourself: you appeared to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.49>me but as a common man; witness the night, your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.50>garments, your lowliness; and what your highness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.51>suffered under that shape, I beseech you take it for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.52>your own fault and not mine: for had you been as I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.53>took you for, I made no offence; therefore, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.54>beseech your highness, pardon me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.55>Here, uncle Exeter, fill this glove with crowns,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.56>And give it to this fellow. Keep it, fellow;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.57>And wear it for an honour in thy cap</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.58>Till I do challenge it. Give him the crowns:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.59>And, captain, you must needs be friends with him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.60>By this day and this light, the fellow has mettle</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.61>enough in his belly. Hold, there is twelve pence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.62>for you; and I pray you to serve Got, and keep you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.63>out of prawls, and prabbles' and quarrels, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.64>dissensions, and, I warrant you, it is the better for you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.65>I will none of your money.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.66>It is with a good will; I can tell you, it will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.67>serve you to mend your shoes: come, wherefore should</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.68>you be so pashful? your shoes is not so good: 'tis</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.69>a good silling, I warrant you, or I will change it.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter an English Herald</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.70>Now, herald, are the dead number'd?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>Herald</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.71>Here is the number of the slaughter'd French.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.72>What prisoners of good sort are taken, uncle?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>EXETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.73>Charles Duke of Orleans, nephew to the king;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.74>John Duke of Bourbon, and Lord Bouciqualt:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.75>Of other lords and barons, knights and squires,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.76>Full fifteen hundred, besides common men.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.77>This note doth tell me of ten thousand French</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.78>That in the field lie slain: of princes, in this number,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.79>And nobles bearing banners, there lie dead</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.80>One hundred twenty six: added to these,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.81>Of knights, esquires, and gallant gentlemen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.82>Eight thousand and four hundred; of the which,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.83>Five hundred were but yesterday dubb'd knights:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.84>So that, in these ten thousand they have lost,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.85>There are but sixteen hundred mercenaries;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.86>The rest are princes, barons, lords, knights, squires,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.87>And gentlemen of blood and quality.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.88>The names of those their nobles that lie dead:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.89>Charles Delabreth, high constable of France;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.90>Jaques of Chatillon, admiral of France;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.91>The master of the cross-bows, Lord Rambures;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.92>Great Master of France, the brave Sir Guichard Dolphin,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.93>John Duke of Alencon, Anthony Duke of Brabant,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.94>The brother of the Duke of Burgundy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.95>And Edward Duke of Bar: of lusty earls,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.96>Grandpre and Roussi, Fauconberg and Foix,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.97>Beaumont and Marle, Vaudemont and Lestrale.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.98>Here was a royal fellowship of death!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.99>Where is the number of our English dead?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Herald shews him another paper</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.100>Edward the Duke of York, the Earl of Suffolk,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.101>Sir Richard Ketly, Davy Gam, esquire:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.102>None else of name; and of all other men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.103>But five and twenty. O God, thy arm was here;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.104>And not to us, but to thy arm alone,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.105>Ascribe we all! When, without stratagem,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.106>But in plain shock and even play of battle,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.107>Was ever known so great and little loss</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.108>On one part and on the other? Take it, God,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.109>For it is none but thine!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>EXETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.110>'Tis wonderful!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.111>Come, go we in procession to the village.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.112>And be it death proclaimed through our host</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.113>To boast of this or take the praise from God</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.114>Which is his only.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.115>Is it not lawful, an please your majesty, to tell</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.116>how many is killed?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.117>Yes, captain; but with this acknowledgement,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.118>That God fought for us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.119>Yes, my conscience, he did us great good.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.120>Do we all holy rites;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.121>Let there be sung 'Non nobis' and 'Te Deum;'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.122>The dead with charity enclosed in clay:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.123>And then to Calais; and to England then:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.8.124>Where ne'er from France arrived more happy men.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT V</h3> | |
| <h3>PROLOGUE</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter Chorus</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>Chorus</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.1>Vouchsafe to those that have not read the story,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.2>That I may prompt them: and of such as have,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.3>I humbly pray them to admit the excuse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.4>Of time, of numbers and due course of things,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.5>Which cannot in their huge and proper life</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.6>Be here presented. Now we bear the king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.7>Toward Calais: grant him there; there seen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.8>Heave him away upon your winged thoughts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.9>Athwart the sea. Behold, the English beach</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.10>Pales in the flood with men, with wives and boys,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.11>Whose shouts and claps out-voice the deep mouth'd sea,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.12>Which like a mighty whiffler 'fore the king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.13>Seems to prepare his way: so let him land,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.14>And solemnly see him set on to London.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.15>So swift a pace hath thought that even now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.16>You may imagine him upon Blackheath;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.17>Where that his lords desire him to have borne</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.18>His bruised helmet and his bended sword</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.19>Before him through the city: he forbids it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.20>Being free from vainness and self-glorious pride;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.21>Giving full trophy, signal and ostent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.22>Quite from himself to God. But now behold,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.23>In the quick forge and working-house of thought,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.24>How London doth pour out her citizens!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.25>The mayor and all his brethren in best sort,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.26>Like to the senators of the antique Rome,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.27>With the plebeians swarming at their heels,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.28>Go forth and fetch their conquering Caesar in:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.29>As, by a lower but loving likelihood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.30>Were now the general of our gracious empress,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.31>As in good time he may, from Ireland coming,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.32>Bringing rebellion broached on his sword,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.33>How many would the peaceful city quit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.34>To welcome him! much more, and much more cause,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.35>Did they this Harry. Now in London place him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.36>As yet the lamentation of the French</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.37>Invites the King of England's stay at home;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.38>The emperor's coming in behalf of France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.39>To order peace between them; and omit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.40>All the occurrences, whatever chanced,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.41>Till Harry's back-return again to France:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.42>There must we bring him; and myself have play'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.43>The interim, by remembering you 'tis past.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.44>Then brook abridgment, and your eyes advance,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.0.45>After your thoughts, straight back again to France.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. France. The English camp.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter FLUELLEN and GOWER</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>GOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.1>Nay, that's right; but why wear you your leek today?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.2>Saint Davy's day is past.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.3>There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.4>all things: I will tell you, asse my friend,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.5>Captain Gower: the rascally, scald, beggarly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.6>lousy, pragging knave, Pistol, which you and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.7>yourself and all the world know to be no petter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.8>than a fellow, look you now, of no merits, he is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.9>come to me and prings me pread and salt yesterday,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.10>look you, and bid me eat my leek: it was in place</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.11>where I could not breed no contention with him; but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.12>I will be so bold as to wear it in my cap till I see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.13>him once again, and then I will tell him a little</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.14>piece of my desires.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter PISTOL</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>GOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.15>Why, here he comes, swelling like a turkey-cock.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.16>'Tis no matter for his swellings nor his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.17>turkey-cocks. God pless you, Aunchient Pistol! you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.18>scurvy, lousy knave, God pless you!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.19>Ha! art thou bedlam? dost thou thirst, base Trojan,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.20>To have me fold up Parca's fatal web?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.21>Hence! I am qualmish at the smell of leek.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.22>I peseech you heartily, scurvy, lousy knave, at my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.23>desires, and my requests, and my petitions, to eat,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.24>look you, this leek: because, look you, you do not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.25>love it, nor your affections and your appetites and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.26>your digestions doo's not agree with it, I would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.27>desire you to eat it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.28>Not for Cadwallader and all his goats.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.29>There is one goat for you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Strikes him</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.30>Will you be so good, scauld knave, as eat it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.31>Base Trojan, thou shalt die.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.32>You say very true, scauld knave, when God's will is:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.33>I will desire you to live in the mean time, and eat</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.34>your victuals: come, there is sauce for it.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Strikes him</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.35>You called me yesterday mountain-squire; but I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.36>make you to-day a squire of low degree. I pray you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.37>fall to: if you can mock a leek, you can eat a leek.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>GOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.38>Enough, captain: you have astonished him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.39>I say, I will make him eat some part of my leek, or</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.40>I will peat his pate four days. Bite, I pray you; it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.41>is good for your green wound and your ploody coxcomb.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.42>Must I bite?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.43>Yes, certainly, and out of doubt and out of question</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.44>too, and ambiguities.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.45>By this leek, I will most horribly revenge: I eat</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.46>and eat, I swear--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.47>Eat, I pray you: will you have some more sauce to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.48>your leek? there is not enough leek to swear by.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.49>Quiet thy cudgel; thou dost see I eat.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.50>Much good do you, scauld knave, heartily. Nay, pray</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.51>you, throw none away; the skin is good for your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.52>broken coxcomb. When you take occasions to see leeks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.53>hereafter, I pray you, mock at 'em; that is all.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.54>Good.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.55>Ay, leeks is good: hold you, there is a groat to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.56>heal your pate.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.57>Me a groat!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.58>Yes, verily and in truth, you shall take it; or I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.59>have another leek in my pocket, which you shall eat.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.60>I take thy groat in earnest of revenge.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.61>If I owe you any thing, I will pay you in cudgels:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.62>you shall be a woodmonger, and buy nothing of me but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.63>cudgels. God b' wi' you, and keep you, and heal your pate.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.64>All hell shall stir for this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>GOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.65>Go, go; you are a counterfeit cowardly knave. Will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.66>you mock at an ancient tradition, begun upon an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.67>honourable respect, and worn as a memorable trophy of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.68>predeceased valour and dare not avouch in your deeds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.69>any of your words? I have seen you gleeking and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.70>galling at this gentleman twice or thrice. You</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.71>thought, because he could not speak English in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.72>native garb, he could not therefore handle an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.73>English cudgel: you find it otherwise; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.74>henceforth let a Welsh correction teach you a good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.75>English condition. Fare ye well.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.76>Doth Fortune play the huswife with me now?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.77>News have I, that my Nell is dead i' the spital</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.78>Of malady of France;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.79>And there my rendezvous is quite cut off.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.80>Old I do wax; and from my weary limbs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.81>Honour is cudgelled. Well, bawd I'll turn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.82>And something lean to cutpurse of quick hand.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.83>To England will I steal, and there I'll steal:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.84>And patches will I get unto these cudgell'd scars,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.85>And swear I got them in the Gallia wars.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. France. A royal palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter, at one door KING HENRY, EXETER, BEDFORD, GLOUCESTER, WARWICK, WESTMORELAND, and other Lords; at another, the FRENCH KING, QUEEN ISABEL, the PRINCESS KATHARINE, ALICE and other Ladies; the DUKE of BURGUNDY, and his train</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.1>Peace to this meeting, wherefore we are met!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.2>Unto our brother France, and to our sister,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.3>Health and fair time of day; joy and good wishes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.4>To our most fair and princely cousin Katharine;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.5>And, as a branch and member of this royalty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.6>By whom this great assembly is contrived,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.7>We do salute you, Duke of Burgundy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.8>And, princes French, and peers, health to you all!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>KING OF FRANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.9>Right joyous are we to behold your face,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.10>Most worthy brother England; fairly met:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.11>So are you, princes English, every one.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>QUEEN ISABEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.12>So happy be the issue, brother England,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.13>Of this good day and of this gracious meeting,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.14>As we are now glad to behold your eyes;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.15>Your eyes, which hitherto have borne in them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.16>Against the French, that met them in their bent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.17>The fatal balls of murdering basilisks:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.18>The venom of such looks, we fairly hope,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.19>Have lost their quality, and that this day</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.20>Shall change all griefs and quarrels into love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.21>To cry amen to that, thus we appear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>QUEEN ISABEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.22>You English princes all, I do salute you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>BURGUNDY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.23>My duty to you both, on equal love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.24>Great Kings of France and England! That I have labour'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.25>With all my wits, my pains and strong endeavours,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.26>To bring your most imperial majesties</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.27>Unto this bar and royal interview,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.28>Your mightiness on both parts best can witness.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.29>Since then my office hath so far prevail'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.30>That, face to face and royal eye to eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.31>You have congreeted, let it not disgrace me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.32>If I demand, before this royal view,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.33>What rub or what impediment there is,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.34>Why that the naked, poor and mangled Peace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.35>Dear nurse of arts and joyful births,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.36>Should not in this best garden of the world</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.37>Our fertile France, put up her lovely visage?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.38>Alas, she hath from France too long been chased,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.39>And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.40>Corrupting in its own fertility.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.41>Her vine, the merry cheerer of the heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.42>Unpruned dies; her hedges even-pleach'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.43>Like prisoners wildly overgrown with hair,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.44>Put forth disorder'd twigs; her fallow leas</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.45>The darnel, hemlock and rank fumitory</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.46>Doth root upon, while that the coulter rusts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.47>That should deracinate such savagery;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.48>The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.49>The freckled cowslip, burnet and green clover,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.50>Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.51>Conceives by idleness and nothing teems</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.52>But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.53>Losing both beauty and utility.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.54>And as our vineyards, fallows, meads and hedges,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.55>Defective in their natures, grow to wildness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.56>Even so our houses and ourselves and children</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.57>Have lost, or do not learn for want of time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.58>The sciences that should become our country;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.59>But grow like savages,--as soldiers will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.60>That nothing do but meditate on blood,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.61>To swearing and stern looks, diffused attire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.62>And every thing that seems unnatural.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.63>Which to reduce into our former favour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.64>You are assembled: and my speech entreats</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.65>That I may know the let, why gentle Peace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.66>Should not expel these inconveniences</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.67>And bless us with her former qualities.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.68>If, Duke of Burgundy, you would the peace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.69>Whose want gives growth to the imperfections</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.70>Which you have cited, you must buy that peace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.71>With full accord to all our just demands;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.72>Whose tenors and particular effects</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.73>You have enscheduled briefly in your hands.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>BURGUNDY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.74>The king hath heard them; to the which as yet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.75>There is no answer made.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.76>Well then the peace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.77>Which you before so urged, lies in his answer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>KING OF FRANCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.78>I have but with a cursorary eye</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.79>O'erglanced the articles: pleaseth your grace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.80>To appoint some of your council presently</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.81>To sit with us once more, with better heed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.82>To re-survey them, we will suddenly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.83>Pass our accept and peremptory answer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.84>Brother, we shall. Go, uncle Exeter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.85>And brother Clarence, and you, brother Gloucester,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.86>Warwick and Huntingdon, go with the king;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.87>And take with you free power to ratify,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.88>Augment, or alter, as your wisdoms best</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.89>Shall see advantageable for our dignity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.90>Any thing in or out of our demands,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.91>And we'll consign thereto. Will you, fair sister,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.92>Go with the princes, or stay here with us?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>QUEEN ISABEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.93>Our gracious brother, I will go with them:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.94>Haply a woman's voice may do some good,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.95>When articles too nicely urged be stood on.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.96>Yet leave our cousin Katharine here with us:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.97>She is our capital demand, comprised</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.98>Within the fore-rank of our articles.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>QUEEN ISABEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.99>She hath good leave.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt all except HENRY, KATHARINE, and ALICE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.100>Fair Katharine, and most fair,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.101>Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.102>Such as will enter at a lady's ear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.103>And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.104>Your majesty shall mock at me; I cannot speak your England.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.105>O fair Katharine, if you will love me soundly with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.106>your French heart, I will be glad to hear you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.107>confess it brokenly with your English tongue. Do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.108>you like me, Kate?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.109>Pardonnez-moi, I cannot tell vat is 'like me.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.110>An angel is like you, Kate, and you are like an angel.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.111>Que dit-il? que je suis semblable a les anges?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>ALICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.112>Oui, vraiment, sauf votre grace, ainsi dit-il.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.113>I said so, dear Katharine; and I must not blush to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.114>affirm it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.115>O bon Dieu! les langues des hommes sont pleines de</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.116>tromperies.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.117>What says she, fair one? that the tongues of men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.118>are full of deceits?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>ALICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.119>Oui, dat de tongues of de mans is be full of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.120>deceits: dat is de princess.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.121>The princess is the better Englishwoman. I' faith,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.122>Kate, my wooing is fit for thy understanding: I am</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.123>glad thou canst speak no better English; for, if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.124>thou couldst, thou wouldst find me such a plain king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.125>that thou wouldst think I had sold my farm to buy my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.126>crown. I know no ways to mince it in love, but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.127>directly to say 'I love you:' then if you urge me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.128>farther than to say 'do you in faith?' I wear out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.129>my suit. Give me your answer; i' faith, do: and so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.130>clap hands and a bargain: how say you, lady?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.131>Sauf votre honneur, me understand vell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.132>Marry, if you would put me to verses or to dance for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.133>your sake, Kate, why you undid me: for the one, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.134>have neither words nor measure, and for the other, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.135>have no strength in measure, yet a reasonable</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.136>measure in strength. If I could win a lady at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.137>leap-frog, or by vaulting into my saddle with my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.138>armour on my back, under the correction of bragging</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.139>be it spoken. I should quickly leap into a wife.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.140>Or if I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.141>for her favours, I could lay on like a butcher and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.142>sit like a jack-an-apes, never off. But, before God,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.143>Kate, I cannot look greenly nor gasp out my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.144>eloquence, nor I have no cunning in protestation;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.145>only downright oaths, which I never use till urged,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.146>nor never break for urging. If thou canst love a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.147>fellow of this temper, Kate, whose face is not worth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.148>sun-burning, that never looks in his glass for love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.149>of any thing he sees there, let thine eye be thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.150>cook. I speak to thee plain soldier: If thou canst</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.151>love me for this, take me: if not, to say to thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.152>that I shall die, is true; but for thy love, by the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.153>Lord, no; yet I love thee too. And while thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.154>livest, dear Kate, take a fellow of plain and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.155>uncoined constancy; for he perforce must do thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.156>right, because he hath not the gift to woo in other</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.157>places: for these fellows of infinite tongue, that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.158>can rhyme themselves into ladies' favours, they do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.159>always reason themselves out again. What! a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.160>speaker is but a prater; a rhyme is but a ballad. A</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.161>good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.162>black beard will turn white; a curled pate will grow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.163>bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.164>hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.165>moon; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon; for it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.166>shines bright and never changes, but keeps his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.167>course truly. If thou would have such a one, take</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.168>me; and take me, take a soldier; take a soldier,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.169>take a king. And what sayest thou then to my love?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.170>speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.171>Is it possible dat I sould love de enemy of France?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.172>No; it is not possible you should love the enemy of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.173>France, Kate: but, in loving me, you should love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.174>the friend of France; for I love France so well that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.175>I will not part with a village of it; I will have it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.176>all mine: and, Kate, when France is mine and I am</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.177>yours, then yours is France and you are mine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.178>I cannot tell vat is dat.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.179>No, Kate? I will tell thee in French; which I am</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.180>sure will hang upon my tongue like a new-married</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.181>wife about her husband's neck, hardly to be shook</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.182>off. Je quand sur le possession de France, et quand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.183>vous avez le possession de moi,--let me see, what</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.184>then? Saint Denis be my speed!--donc votre est</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.185>France et vous etes mienne. It is as easy for me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.186>Kate, to conquer the kingdom as to speak so much</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.187>more French: I shall never move thee in French,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.188>unless it be to laugh at me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.189>Sauf votre honneur, le Francois que vous parlez, il</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.190>est meilleur que l'Anglois lequel je parle.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.191>No, faith, is't not, Kate: but thy speaking of my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.192>tongue, and I thine, most truly-falsely, must needs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.193>be granted to be much at one. But, Kate, dost thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.194>understand thus much English, canst thou love me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.195>I cannot tell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.196>Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.197>them. Come, I know thou lovest me: and at night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.198>when you come into your closet, you'll question this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.199>gentlewoman about me; and I know, Kate, you will to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.200>her dispraise those parts in me that you love with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.201>your heart: but, good Kate, mock me mercifully; the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.202>rather, gentle princess, because I love thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.203>cruelly. If ever thou beest mine, Kate, as I have a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.204>saving faith within me tells me thou shalt, I get</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.205>thee with scambling, and thou must therefore needs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.206>prove a good soldier-breeder: shall not thou and I,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.207>between Saint Denis and Saint George, compound a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.208>boy, half French, half English, that shall go to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.209>Constantinople and take the Turk by the beard?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.210>shall we not? what sayest thou, my fair</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.211>flower-de-luce?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.212>I do not know dat</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.213>No; 'tis hereafter to know, but now to promise: do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.214>but now promise, Kate, you will endeavour for your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.215>French part of such a boy; and for my English moiety</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.216>take the word of a king and a bachelor. How answer</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.217>you, la plus belle Katharine du monde, mon tres cher</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.218>et devin deesse?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.219>Your majestee ave fausse French enough to deceive de</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.220>most sage demoiselle dat is en France.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.221>Now, fie upon my false French! By mine honour, in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.222>true English, I love thee, Kate: by which honour I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.223>dare not swear thou lovest me; yet my blood begins to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.224>flatter me that thou dost, notwithstanding the poor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.225>and untempering effect of my visage. Now, beshrew</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.226>my father's ambition! he was thinking of civil wars</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.227>when he got me: therefore was I created with a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.228>stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that, when</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.229>I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in faith,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.230>Kate, the elder I wax, the better I shall appear:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.231>my comfort is, that old age, that ill layer up of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.232>beauty, can do no more, spoil upon my face: thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.233>hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst; and thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.234>shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.235>and therefore tell me, most fair Katharine, will you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.236>have me? Put off your maiden blushes; avouch the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.237>thoughts of your heart with the looks of an empress;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.238>take me by the hand, and say 'Harry of England I am</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.239>thine:' which word thou shalt no sooner bless mine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.240>ear withal, but I will tell thee aloud 'England is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.241>thine, Ireland is thine, France is thine, and Harry</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.242>Plantagenet is thine;' who though I speak it before</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.243>his face, if he be not fellow with the best king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.244>thou shalt find the best king of good fellows.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.245>Come, your answer in broken music; for thy voice is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.246>music and thy English broken; therefore, queen of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.247>all, Katharine, break thy mind to me in broken</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.248>English; wilt thou have me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.249>Dat is as it sall please de roi mon pere.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.250>Nay, it will please him well, Kate it shall please</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.251>him, Kate.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.252>Den it sall also content me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.253>Upon that I kiss your hand, and I call you my queen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.254>Laissez, mon seigneur, laissez, laissez: ma foi, je</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.255>ne veux point que vous abaissiez votre grandeur en</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.256>baisant la main d'une de votre seigeurie indigne</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.257>serviteur; excusez-moi, je vous supplie, mon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.258>tres-puissant seigneur.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.259>Then I will kiss your lips, Kate.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.260>Les dames et demoiselles pour etre baisees devant</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.261>leur noces, il n'est pas la coutume de France.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.262>Madam my interpreter, what says she?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>ALICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.263>Dat it is not be de fashion pour les ladies of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.264>France,--I cannot tell vat is baiser en Anglish.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.265>To kiss.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>ALICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.266>Your majesty entendre bettre que moi.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.267>It is not a fashion for the maids in France to kiss</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.268>before they are married, would she say?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>ALICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.269>Oui, vraiment.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.270>O Kate, nice customs curtsy to great kings. Dear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.271>Kate, you and I cannot be confined within the weak</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.272>list of a country's fashion: we are the makers of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.273>manners, Kate; and the liberty that follows our</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.274>places stops the mouth of all find-faults; as I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.275>do yours, for upholding the nice fashion of your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.276>country in denying me a kiss: therefore, patiently</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.277>and yielding.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Kissing her</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.278>You have witchcraft in your lips, Kate: there is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.279>more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.280>tongues of the French council; and they should</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.281>sooner persuade Harry of England than a general</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.282>petition of monarchs. Here comes your father.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter the FRENCH KING and his QUEEN, BURGUNDY, and other Lords</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>BURGUNDY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.283>God save your majesty! my royal cousin, teach you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.284>our princess English?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.285>I would have her learn, my fair cousin, how</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.286>perfectly I love her; and that is good English.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>BURGUNDY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.287>Is she not apt?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.288>Our tongue is rough, coz, and my condition is not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.289>smooth; so that, having neither the voice nor the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.290>heart of flattery about me, I cannot so conjure up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.291>the spirit of love in her, that he will appear in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.292>his true likeness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>BURGUNDY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.293>Pardon the frankness of my mirth, if I answer you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.294>for that. If you would conjure in her, you must</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.295>make a circle; if conjure up love in her in his true</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.296>likeness, he must appear naked and blind. Can you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.297>blame her then, being a maid yet rosed over with the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.298>virgin crimson of modesty, if she deny the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.299>appearance of a naked blind boy in her naked seeing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.300>self? It were, my lord, a hard condition for a maid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.301>to consign to.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.302>Yet they do wink and yield, as love is blind and enforces.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>BURGUNDY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.303>They are then excused, my lord, when they see not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.304>what they do.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.305>Then, good my lord, teach your cousin to consent winking.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>BURGUNDY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.306>I will wink on her to consent, my lord, if you will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.307>teach her to know my meaning: for maids, well</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.308>summered and warm kept, are like flies at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.309>Bartholomew-tide, blind, though they have their</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.310>eyes; and then they will endure handling, which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.311>before would not abide looking on.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.312>This moral ties me over to time and a hot summer;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.313>and so I shall catch the fly, your cousin, in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.314>latter end and she must be blind too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>BURGUNDY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.315>As love is, my lord, before it loves.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.316>It is so: and you may, some of you, thank love for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.317>my blindness, who cannot see many a fair French city</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.318>for one fair French maid that stands in my way.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>FRENCH KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.319>Yes, my lord, you see them perspectively, the cities</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.320>turned into a maid; for they are all girdled with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.321>maiden walls that war hath never entered.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.322>Shall Kate be my wife?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>FRENCH KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.323>So please you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.324>I am content; so the maiden cities you talk of may</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.325>wait on her: so the maid that stood in the way for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.326>my wish shall show me the way to my will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>FRENCH KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.327>We have consented to all terms of reason.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.328>Is't so, my lords of England?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.329>The king hath granted every article:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.330>His daughter first, and then in sequel all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.331>According to their firm proposed natures.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>EXETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.332>Only he hath not yet subscribed this:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.333>Where your majesty demands, that the King of France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.334>having any occasion to write for matter of grant,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.335>shall name your highness in this form and with this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.336>addition in French, Notre trescher fils Henri, Roi</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.337>d'Angleterre, Heritier de France; and thus in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.338>Latin, Praeclarissimus filius noster Henricus, Rex</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.339>Angliae, et Haeres Franciae.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>FRENCH KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.340>Nor this I have not, brother, so denied,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.341>But your request shall make me let it pass.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.342>I pray you then, in love and dear alliance,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.343>Let that one article rank with the rest;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.344>And thereupon give me your daughter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>FRENCH KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.345>Take her, fair son, and from her blood raise up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.346>Issue to me; that the contending kingdoms</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.347>Of France and England, whose very shores look pale</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.348>With envy of each other's happiness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.349>May cease their hatred, and this dear conjunction</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.350>Plant neighbourhood and Christian-like accord</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.351>In their sweet bosoms, that never war advance</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.352>His bleeding sword 'twixt England and fair France.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>ALL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.353>Amen!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.354>Now, welcome, Kate: and bear me witness all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.355>That here I kiss her as my sovereign queen.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Flourish</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>QUEEN ISABEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.356>God, the best maker of all marriages,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.357>Combine your hearts in one, your realms in one!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.358>As man and wife, being two, are one in love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.359>So be there 'twixt your kingdoms such a spousal,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.360>That never may ill office, or fell jealousy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.361>Which troubles oft the bed of blessed marriage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.362>Thrust in between the paction of these kingdoms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.363>To make divorce of their incorporate league;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.364>That English may as French, French Englishmen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.365>Receive each other. God speak this Amen!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>ALL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.366>Amen!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.367>Prepare we for our marriage--on which day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.368>My Lord of Burgundy, we'll take your oath,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.369>And all the peers', for surety of our leagues.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.370>Then shall I swear to Kate, and you to me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.371>And may our oaths well kept and prosperous be!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Sennet. Exeunt</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.372>EPILOGUE</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Chorus</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>Chorus</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.373>Thus far, with rough and all-unable pen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.374>Our bending author hath pursued the story,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.375>In little room confining mighty men,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.376>Mangling by starts the full course of their glory.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.377>Small time, but in that small most greatly lived</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.378>This star of England: Fortune made his sword;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.379>By which the world's best garden be achieved,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.380>And of it left his son imperial lord.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.381>Henry the Sixth, in infant bands crown'd King</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.382>Of France and England, did this king succeed;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.383>Whose state so many had the managing,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.384>That they lost France and made his England bleed:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.385>Which oft our stage hath shown; and, for their sake,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.386>In your fair minds let this acceptance take.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
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