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| <H3>SCENE III. The same. Before the gates.</h3> | |
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| <i>The Governor and some Citizens on the walls; the English forces below. Enter KING HENRY and his train</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>How yet resolves the governor of the town?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>This is the latest parle we will admit;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>Therefore to our best mercy give yourselves;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>Or like to men proud of destruction</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>Defy us to our worst: for, as I am a soldier,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>A name that in my thoughts becomes me best,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>If I begin the battery once again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>I will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=9>Till in her ashes she lie buried.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=10>The gates of mercy shall be all shut up,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=11>And the flesh'd soldier, rough and hard of heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=12>In liberty of bloody hand shall range</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>With conscience wide as hell, mowing like grass</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>Your fresh-fair virgins and your flowering infants.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=15>What is it then to me, if impious war,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>Array'd in flames like to the prince of fiends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=17>Do, with his smirch'd complexion, all fell feats</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>Enlink'd to waste and desolation?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>What is't to me, when you yourselves are cause,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>If your pure maidens fall into the hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>Of hot and forcing violation?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>What rein can hold licentious wickedness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>When down the hill he holds his fierce career?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>We may as bootless spend our vain command</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>Upon the enraged soldiers in their spoil</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>As send precepts to the leviathan</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>To come ashore. Therefore, you men of Harfleur,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>Take pity of your town and of your people,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>Whiles yet my soldiers are in my command;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=30>Whiles yet the cool and temperate wind of grace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>O'erblows the filthy and contagious clouds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>Of heady murder, spoil and villany.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>If not, why, in a moment look to see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>The blind and bloody soldier with foul hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=35>Defile the locks of your shrill-shrieking daughters;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=36>Your fathers taken by the silver beards,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=37>And their most reverend heads dash'd to the walls,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=38>Your naked infants spitted upon pikes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=39>Whiles the mad mothers with their howls confused</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=40>Do break the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=41>At Herod's bloody-hunting slaughtermen.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=42>What say you? will you yield, and this avoid,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=43>Or, guilty in defence, be thus destroy'd?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>GOVERNOR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=44>Our expectation hath this day an end:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=45>The Dauphin, whom of succors we entreated,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=46>Returns us that his powers are yet not ready</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=47>To raise so great a siege. Therefore, great king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=48>We yield our town and lives to thy soft mercy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=49>Enter our gates; dispose of us and ours;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=50>For we no longer are defensible.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=51>Open your gates. Come, uncle Exeter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=52>Go you and enter Harfleur; there remain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=53>And fortify it strongly 'gainst the French:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=54>Use mercy to them all. For us, dear uncle,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=55>The winter coming on and sickness growing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=56>Upon our soldiers, we will retire to Calais.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=57>To-night in Harfleur we will be your guest;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=58>To-morrow for the march are we addrest.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Flourish. The King and his train enter the town</i></p> | |
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