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| <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=1>Gloucester, 'tis true that we are in great danger;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>The greater therefore should our courage be.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>Good morrow, brother Bedford. God Almighty!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>There is some soul of goodness in things evil,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>Would men observingly distil it out.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>For our bad neighbour makes us early stirrers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>Which is both healthful and good husbandry:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>Besides, they are our outward consciences,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=9>And preachers to us all, admonishing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=10>That we should dress us fairly for our end.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=11>Thus may we gather honey from the weed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=12>And make a moral of the devil himself.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter ERPINGHAM</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=13>Good morrow, old Sir Thomas Erpingham:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>A good soft pillow for that good white head</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=15>Were better than a churlish turf of France.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>ERPINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=16>Not so, my liege: this lodging likes me better,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=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=18>'Tis good for men to love their present pains</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>Upon example; so the spirit is eased:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>And when the mind is quicken'd, out of doubt,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>The organs, though defunct and dead before,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>Break up their drowsy grave and newly move,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>With casted slough and fresh legerity.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>Lend me thy cloak, Sir Thomas. Brothers both,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>Commend me to the princes in our camp;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>Do my good morrow to them, and anon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>Desire them an to my pavilion.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=28>We shall, my liege.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>ERPINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=29>Shall I attend your grace?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=30>No, my good knight;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>Go with my brothers to my lords of England:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>I and my bosom must debate awhile,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>And then I would no other company.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>ERPINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=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=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=36>Qui va la?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=37>A friend.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=38>Discuss unto me; art thou officer?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=39>Or art thou base, common and popular?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=40>I am a gentleman of a company.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=41>Trail'st thou the puissant pike?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=42>Even so. What are you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=43>As good a gentleman as the emperor.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=44>Then you are a better than the king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=45>The king's a bawcock, and a heart of gold,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=46>A lad of life, an imp of fame;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=47>Of parents good, of fist most valiant.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=48>I kiss his dirty shoe, and from heart-string</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=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=50>Harry le Roy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=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=52>No, I am a Welshman.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=53>Know'st thou Fluellen?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=54>Yes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=55>Tell him, I'll knock his leek about his pate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=56>Upon Saint Davy's day.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=57>Do not you wear your dagger in your cap that day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=58>lest he knock that about yours.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=59>Art thou his friend?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=60>And his kinsman too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=61>The figo for thee, then!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=62>I thank you: God be with you!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>PISTOL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=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=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=65>Captain Fluellen!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=66>So! in the name of Jesu Christ, speak lower. It is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=67>the greatest admiration of the universal world, when</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=68>the true and aunchient prerogatifes and laws of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=69>wars is not kept: if you would take the pains but to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=70>examine the wars of Pompey the Great, you shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=71>find, I warrant you, that there is no tiddle toddle</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=72>nor pibble pabble in Pompey's camp; I warrant you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=73>you shall find the ceremonies of the wars, and the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=74>cares of it, and the forms of it, and the sobriety</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=75>of it, and the modesty of it, to be otherwise.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>GOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=76>Why, the enemy is loud; you hear him all night.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=77>If the enemy is an ass and a fool and a prating</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=78>coxcomb, is it meet, think you, that we should also,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=79>look you, be an ass and a fool and a prating</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=80>coxcomb? in your own conscience, now?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>GOWER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=81>I will speak lower.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>FLUELLEN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=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=83>Though it appear a little out of fashion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=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=85>Brother John Bates, is not that the morning which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=86>breaks yonder?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>BATES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=87>I think it be: but we have no great cause to desire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=88>the approach of day.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=89>We see yonder the beginning of the day, but I think</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=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=91>A friend.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=92>Under what captain serve you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=93>Under Sir Thomas Erpingham.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=94>A good old commander and a most kind gentleman: I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=95>pray you, what thinks he of our estate?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=96>Even as men wrecked upon a sand, that look to be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=97>washed off the next tide.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>BATES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=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=99>No; nor it is not meet he should. For, though I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=100>speak it to you, I think the king is but a man, as I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=101>am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me: the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=102>element shows to him as it doth to me; all his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=103>senses have but human conditions: his ceremonies</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=104>laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=105>though his affections are higher mounted than ours,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=106>yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=107>wing. Therefore when he sees reason of fears, as we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=108>do, his fears, out of doubt, be of the same relish</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=109>as ours are: yet, in reason, no man should possess</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=110>him with any appearance of fear, lest he, by showing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=111>it, should dishearten his army.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>BATES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=112>He may show what outward courage he will; but I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=113>believe, as cold a night as 'tis, he could wish</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=114>himself in Thames up to the neck; and so I would he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=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=116>By my troth, I will speak my conscience of the king:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=117>I think he would not wish himself any where but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=118>where he is.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>BATES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=119>Then I would he were here alone; so should he be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=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=121>I dare say you love him not so ill, to wish him here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=122>alone, howsoever you speak this to feel other men's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=123>minds: methinks I could not die any where so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=124>contented as in the king's company; his cause being</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=125>just and his quarrel honourable.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=126>That's more than we know.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>BATES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=127>Ay, or more than we should seek after; for we know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=128>enough, if we know we are the kings subjects: if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=129>his cause be wrong, our obedience to the king wipes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=130>the crime of it out of us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=131>But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=132>a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=133>arms and heads, chopped off in battle, shall join</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=134>together at the latter day and cry all 'We died at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=135>such a place;' some swearing, some crying for a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=136>surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=137>them, some upon the debts they owe, some upon their</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=138>children rawly left. I am afeard there are few die</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=139>well that die in a battle; for how can they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=140>charitably dispose of any thing, when blood is their</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=141>argument? Now, if these men do not die well, it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=142>will be a black matter for the king that led them to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=143>it; whom to disobey were against all proportion of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=144>subjection.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=145>So, if a son that is by his father sent about</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=146>merchandise do sinfully miscarry upon the sea, the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=147>imputation of his wickedness by your rule, should be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=148>imposed upon his father that sent him: or if a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=149>servant, under his master's command transporting a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=150>sum of money, be assailed by robbers and die in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=151>many irreconciled iniquities, you may call the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=152>business of the master the author of the servant's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=153>damnation: but this is not so: the king is not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=154>bound to answer the particular endings of his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=155>soldiers, the father of his son, nor the master of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=156>his servant; for they purpose not their death, when</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=157>they purpose their services. Besides, there is no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=158>king, be his cause never so spotless, if it come to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=159>the arbitrement of swords, can try it out with all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=160>unspotted soldiers: some peradventure have on them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=161>the guilt of premeditated and contrived murder;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=162>some, of beguiling virgins with the broken seals of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=163>perjury; some, making the wars their bulwark, that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=164>have before gored the gentle bosom of peace with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=165>pillage and robbery. Now, if these men have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=166>defeated the law and outrun native punishment,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=167>though they can outstrip men, they have no wings to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=168>fly from God: war is his beadle, war is vengeance;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=169>so that here men are punished for before-breach of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=170>the king's laws in now the king's quarrel: where</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=171>they feared the death, they have borne life away;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=172>and where they would be safe, they perish: then if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=173>they die unprovided, no more is the king guilty of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=174>their damnation than he was before guilty of those</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=175>impieties for the which they are now visited. Every</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=176>subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=177>soul is his own. Therefore should every soldier in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=178>the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=179>mote out of his conscience: and dying so, death</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=180>is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=181>blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=182>and in him that escapes, it were not sin to think</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=183>that, making God so free an offer, He let him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=184>outlive that day to see His greatness and to teach</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=185>others how they should prepare.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=186>'Tis certain, every man that dies ill, the ill upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=187>his own head, the king is not to answer it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>BATES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=188>But I do not desire he should answer for me; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=189>yet I determine to fight lustily for him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=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=191>Ay, he said so, to make us fight cheerfully: but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=192>when our throats are cut, he may be ransomed, and we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=193>ne'er the wiser.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=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=195>You pay him then. That's a perilous shot out of an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=196>elder-gun, that a poor and private displeasure can</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=197>do against a monarch! you may as well go about to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=198>turn the sun to ice with fanning in his face with a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=199>peacock's feather. You'll never trust his word</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=200>after! come, 'tis a foolish saying.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=201>Your reproof is something too round: I should be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=202>angry with you, if the time were convenient.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=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=204>I embrace it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=205>How shall I know thee again?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=206>Give me any gage of thine, and I will wear it in my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=207>bonnet: then, if ever thou darest acknowledge it, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=208>will make it my quarrel.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=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=210>There.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=211>This will I also wear in my cap: if ever thou come</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=212>to me and say, after to-morrow, 'This is my glove,'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=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=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=215>Thou darest as well be hanged.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=216>Well. I will do it, though I take thee in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=217>king's company.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>WILLIAMS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=218>Keep thy word: fare thee well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>BATES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=219>Be friends, you English fools, be friends: we have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=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=221>Indeed, the French may lay twenty French crowns to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=222>one, they will beat us; for they bear them on their</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=223>shoulders: but it is no English treason to cut</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=224>French crowns, and to-morrow the king himself will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=225>be a clipper.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt soldiers</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=226>Upon the king! let us our lives, our souls,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=227>Our debts, our careful wives,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=228>Our children and our sins lay on the king!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=229>We must bear all. O hard condition,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=230>Twin-born with greatness, subject to the breath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=231>Of every fool, whose sense no more can feel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=232>But his own wringing! What infinite heart's-ease</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=233>Must kings neglect, that private men enjoy!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=234>And what have kings, that privates have not too,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=235>Save ceremony, save general ceremony?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=236>And what art thou, thou idle ceremony?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=237>What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=238>Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=239>What are thy rents? what are thy comings in?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=240>O ceremony, show me but thy worth!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=241>What is thy soul of adoration?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=242>Art thou aught else but place, degree and form,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=243>Creating awe and fear in other men?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=244>Wherein thou art less happy being fear'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=245>Than they in fearing.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=246>What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=247>But poison'd flattery? O, be sick, great greatness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=248>And bid thy ceremony give thee cure!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=249>Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=250>With titles blown from adulation?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=251>Will it give place to flexure and low bending?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=252>Canst thou, when thou command'st the beggar's knee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=253>Command the health of it? No, thou proud dream,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=254>That play'st so subtly with a king's repose;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=255>I am a king that find thee, and I know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=256>'Tis not the balm, the sceptre and the ball,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=257>The sword, the mace, the crown imperial,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=258>The intertissued robe of gold and pearl,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=259>The farced title running 'fore the king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=260>The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=261>That beats upon the high shore of this world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=262>No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=263>Not all these, laid in bed majestical,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=264>Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=265>Who with a body fill'd and vacant mind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=266>Gets him to rest, cramm'd with distressful bread;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=267>Never sees horrid night, the child of hell,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=268>But, like a lackey, from the rise to set</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=269>Sweats in the eye of Phoebus and all night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=270>Sleeps in Elysium; next day after dawn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=271>Doth rise and help Hyperion to his horse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=272>And follows so the ever-running year,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=273>With profitable labour, to his grave:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=274>And, but for ceremony, such a wretch,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=275>Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=276>Had the fore-hand and vantage of a king.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=277>The slave, a member of the country's peace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=278>Enjoys it; but in gross brain little wots</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=279>What watch the king keeps to maintain the peace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=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=281>My lord, your nobles, jealous of your absence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=282>Seek through your camp to find you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=283>Good old knight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=284>Collect them all together at my tent:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=285>I'll be before thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>ERPINGHAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=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=287>O God of battles! steel my soldiers' hearts;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=288>Possess them not with fear; take from them now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=289>The sense of reckoning, if the opposed numbers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=290>Pluck their hearts from them. Not to-day, O Lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=291>O, not to-day, think not upon the fault</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=292>My father made in compassing the crown!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=293>I Richard's body have interred anew;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=294>And on it have bestow'd more contrite tears</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=295>Than from it issued forced drops of blood:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=296>Five hundred poor I have in yearly pay,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=297>Who twice a-day their wither'd hands hold up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=298>Toward heaven, to pardon blood; and I have built</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=299>Two chantries, where the sad and solemn priests</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=300>Sing still for Richard's soul. More will I do;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=301>Though all that I can do is nothing worth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=302>Since that my penitence comes after all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=303>Imploring pardon.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter GLOUCESTER</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=304>My liege!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=305>My brother Gloucester's voice? Ay;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=306>I know thy errand, I will go with thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=307>The day, my friends and all things stay for me.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
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