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| <H3>SCENE III. The English camp.</h3> | |
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| <i>Enter GLOUCESTER, BEDFORD, EXETER, ERPINGHAM, with all his host: SALISBURY and WESTMORELAND</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>Where is the king?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>BEDFORD</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=2>The king himself is rode to view their battle.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=3>Of fighting men they have full three score thousand.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>EXETER</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=4>There's five to one; besides, they all are fresh.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=5>God's arm strike with us! 'tis a fearful odds.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>God be wi' you, princes all; I'll to my charge:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>If we no more meet till we meet in heaven,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>Then, joyfully, my noble Lord of Bedford,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=9>My dear Lord Gloucester, and my good Lord Exeter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=10>And my kind kinsman, warriors all, adieu!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>BEDFORD</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=11>Farewell, good Salisbury; and good luck go with thee!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>EXETER</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=12>Farewell, kind lord; fight valiantly to-day:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>And yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>For thou art framed of the firm truth of valour.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit SALISBURY</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech8><b>BEDFORD</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=15>He is full of valour as of kindness;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>Princely in both.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter the KING</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech9><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=17> O that we now had here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>But one ten thousand of those men in England</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>That do no work to-day!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech10><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=20>What's he that wishes so?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>If we are mark'd to die, we are enow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>To do our country loss; and if to live,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>The fewer men, the greater share of honour.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>It yearns me not if men my garments wear;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>Such outward things dwell not in my desires:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=30>But if it be a sin to covet honour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>I am the most offending soul alive.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>As one man more, methinks, would share from me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=35>For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=36>Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=37>That he which hath no stomach to this fight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=38>Let him depart; his passport shall be made</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=39>And crowns for convoy put into his purse:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=40>We would not die in that man's company</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=41>That fears his fellowship to die with us.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=42>This day is called the feast of Crispian:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=43>He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=44>Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=45>And rouse him at the name of Crispian.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=46>He that shall live this day, and see old age,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=47>Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=48>And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian:'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=49>Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=50>And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=51>Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=52>But he'll remember with advantages</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=53>What feats he did that day: then shall our names.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=54>Familiar in his mouth as household words</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=55>Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=56>Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=57>Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=58>This story shall the good man teach his son;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=59>And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=60>From this day to the ending of the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=61>But we in it shall be remember'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=62>We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=63>For he to-day that sheds his blood with me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=64>Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=65>This day shall gentle his condition:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=66>And gentlemen in England now a-bed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=67>Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=68>And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=69>That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter SALISBURY</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech11><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=70>My sovereign lord, bestow yourself with speed:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=71>The French are bravely in their battles set,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=72>And will with all expedience charge on us.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech12><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=73>All things are ready, if our minds be so.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech13><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=74>Perish the man whose mind is backward now!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech14><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=75>Thou dost not wish more help from England, coz?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech15><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=76>God's will! my liege, would you and I alone,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=77>Without more help, could fight this royal battle!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech16><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=78>Why, now thou hast unwish'd five thousand men;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=79>Which likes me better than to wish us one.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=80>You know your places: God be with you all!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Tucket. Enter MONTJOY</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech17><b>MONTJOY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=81>Once more I come to know of thee, King Harry,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=82>If for thy ransom thou wilt now compound,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=83>Before thy most assured overthrow:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=84>For certainly thou art so near the gulf,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=85>Thou needs must be englutted. Besides, in mercy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=86>The constable desires thee thou wilt mind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=87>Thy followers of repentance; that their souls</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=88>May make a peaceful and a sweet retire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=89>From off these fields, where, wretches, their poor bodies</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=90>Must lie and fester.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech18><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=91>Who hath sent thee now?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech19><b>MONTJOY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=92>The Constable of France.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech20><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=93>I pray thee, bear my former answer back:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=94>Bid them achieve me and then sell my bones.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=95>Good God! why should they mock poor fellows thus?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=96>The man that once did sell the lion's skin</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=97>While the beast lived, was killed with hunting him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=98>A many of our bodies shall no doubt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=99>Find native graves; upon the which, I trust,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=100>Shall witness live in brass of this day's work:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=101>And those that leave their valiant bones in France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=102>Dying like men, though buried in your dunghills,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=103>They shall be famed; for there the sun shall greet them,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=104>And draw their honours reeking up to heaven;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=105>Leaving their earthly parts to choke your clime,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=106>The smell whereof shall breed a plague in France.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=107>Mark then abounding valour in our English,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=108>That being dead, like to the bullet's grazing,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=109>Break out into a second course of mischief,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=110>Killing in relapse of mortality.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=111>Let me speak proudly: tell the constable</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=112>We are but warriors for the working-day;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=113>Our gayness and our gilt are all besmirch'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=114>With rainy marching in the painful field;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=115>There's not a piece of feather in our host--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=116>Good argument, I hope, we will not fly--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=117>And time hath worn us into slovenry:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=118>But, by the mass, our hearts are in the trim;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=119>And my poor soldiers tell me, yet ere night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=120>They'll be in fresher robes, or they will pluck</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=121>The gay new coats o'er the French soldiers' heads</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=122>And turn them out of service. If they do this,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=123>As, if God please, they shall,--my ransom then</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=124>Will soon be levied. Herald, save thou thy labour;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=125>Come thou no more for ransom, gentle herald:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=126>They shall have none, I swear, but these my joints;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=127>Which if they have as I will leave 'em them,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=128>Shall yield them little, tell the constable.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech21><b>MONTJOY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=129>I shall, King Harry. And so fare thee well:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=130>Thou never shalt hear herald any more.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech22><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=131>I fear thou'lt once more come again for ransom.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter YORK</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech23><b>YORK</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=132>My lord, most humbly on my knee I beg</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=133>The leading of the vaward.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech24><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=134>Take it, brave York. Now, soldiers, march away:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=135>And how thou pleasest, God, dispose the day!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
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