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| <H3>SCENE V. The same.</h3> | |
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| <i>Enter the KING OF FRANCE, the DAUPHIN, the DUKE oF BOURBON, the Constable Of France, and others</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING OF FRANCE</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>'Tis certain he hath pass'd the river Somme.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>Constable</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=2>And if he be not fought withal, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>Let us not live in France; let us quit all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>And give our vineyards to a barbarous people.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>DAUPHIN</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=5>O Dieu vivant! shall a few sprays of us,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>The emptying of our fathers' luxury,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>Our scions, put in wild and savage stock,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>Spirt up so suddenly into the clouds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=9>And overlook their grafters?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>BOURBON</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=10>Normans, but bastard Normans, Norman bastards!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=11>Mort de ma vie! if they march along</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=12>Unfought withal, but I will sell my dukedom,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>To buy a slobbery and a dirty farm</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>In that nook-shotten isle of Albion.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>Constable</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=15>Dieu de batailles! where have they this mettle?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>Is not their climate foggy, raw and dull,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=17>On whom, as in despite, the sun looks pale,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>Killing their fruit with frowns? Can sodden water,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>A drench for sur-rein'd jades, their barley-broth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>Decoct their cold blood to such valiant heat?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>And shall our quick blood, spirited with wine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>Seem frosty? O, for honour of our land,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>Let us not hang like roping icicles</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>Upon our houses' thatch, whiles a more frosty people</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>Sweat drops of gallant youth in our rich fields!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>Poor we may call them in their native lords.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>DAUPHIN</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=27>By faith and honour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>Our madams mock at us, and plainly say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>Our mettle is bred out and they will give</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=30>Their bodies to the lust of English youth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>To new-store France with bastard warriors.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>BOURBON</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=32>They bid us to the English dancing-schools,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>And teach lavoltas high and swift corantos;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>Saying our grace is only in our heels,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=35>And that we are most lofty runaways.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech8><b>KING OF FRANCE</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=36>Where is Montjoy the herald? speed him hence:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=37>Let him greet England with our sharp defiance.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=38>Up, princes! and, with spirit of honour edged</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=39>More sharper than your swords, hie to the field:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=40>Charles Delabreth, high constable of France;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=41>You Dukes of Orleans, Bourbon, and of Berri,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=42>Alencon, Brabant, Bar, and Burgundy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=43>Jaques Chatillon, Rambures, Vaudemont,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=44>Beaumont, Grandpre, Roussi, and Fauconberg,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=45>Foix, Lestrale, Bouciqualt, and Charolois;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=46>High dukes, great princes, barons, lords and knights,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=47>For your great seats now quit you of great shames.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=48>Bar Harry England, that sweeps through our land</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=49>With pennons painted in the blood of Harfleur:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=50>Rush on his host, as doth the melted snow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=51>Upon the valleys, whose low vassal seat</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=52>The Alps doth spit and void his rheum upon:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=53>Go down upon him, you have power enough,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=54>And in a captive chariot into Rouen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=55>Bring him our prisoner.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech9><b>Constable</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=56>This becomes the great.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=57>Sorry am I his numbers are so few,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=58>His soldiers sick and famish'd in their march,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=59>For I am sure, when he shall see our army,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=60>He'll drop his heart into the sink of fear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=61>And for achievement offer us his ransom.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech10><b>KING OF FRANCE</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=62>Therefore, lord constable, haste on Montjoy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=63>And let him say to England that we send</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=64>To know what willing ransom he will give.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=65>Prince Dauphin, you shall stay with us in Rouen.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech11><b>DAUPHIN</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=66>Not so, I do beseech your majesty.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech12><b>KING OF FRANCE</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=67>Be patient, for you shall remain with us.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=68>Now forth, lord constable and princes all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=69>And quickly bring us word of England's fall.</A><br> | |
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