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| <H3>SCENE II. France. A royal palace.</H3> | |
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| <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> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>Peace to this meeting, wherefore we are met!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>Unto our brother France, and to our sister,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>Health and fair time of day; joy and good wishes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>To our most fair and princely cousin Katharine;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>And, as a branch and member of this royalty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>By whom this great assembly is contrived,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>We do salute you, Duke of Burgundy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>And, princes French, and peers, health to you all!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>KING OF FRANCE</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=9>Right joyous are we to behold your face,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=10>Most worthy brother England; fairly met:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=11>So are you, princes English, every one.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>QUEEN ISABEL</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=12>So happy be the issue, brother England,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>Of this good day and of this gracious meeting,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>As we are now glad to behold your eyes;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=15>Your eyes, which hitherto have borne in them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>Against the French, that met them in their bent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=17>The fatal balls of murdering basilisks:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>The venom of such looks, we fairly hope,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>Have lost their quality, and that this day</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>Shall change all griefs and quarrels into love.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=21>To cry amen to that, thus we appear.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>QUEEN ISABEL</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=22>You English princes all, I do salute you.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>BURGUNDY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=23>My duty to you both, on equal love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>Great Kings of France and England! That I have labour'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>With all my wits, my pains and strong endeavours,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>To bring your most imperial majesties</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>Unto this bar and royal interview,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>Your mightiness on both parts best can witness.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>Since then my office hath so far prevail'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=30>That, face to face and royal eye to eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>You have congreeted, let it not disgrace me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>If I demand, before this royal view,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>What rub or what impediment there is,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>Why that the naked, poor and mangled Peace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=35>Dear nurse of arts and joyful births,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=36>Should not in this best garden of the world</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=37>Our fertile France, put up her lovely visage?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=38>Alas, she hath from France too long been chased,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=39>And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=40>Corrupting in its own fertility.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=41>Her vine, the merry cheerer of the heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=42>Unpruned dies; her hedges even-pleach'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=43>Like prisoners wildly overgrown with hair,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=44>Put forth disorder'd twigs; her fallow leas</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=45>The darnel, hemlock and rank fumitory</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=46>Doth root upon, while that the coulter rusts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=47>That should deracinate such savagery;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=48>The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=49>The freckled cowslip, burnet and green clover,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=50>Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=51>Conceives by idleness and nothing teems</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=52>But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=53>Losing both beauty and utility.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=54>And as our vineyards, fallows, meads and hedges,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=55>Defective in their natures, grow to wildness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=56>Even so our houses and ourselves and children</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=57>Have lost, or do not learn for want of time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=58>The sciences that should become our country;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=59>But grow like savages,--as soldiers will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=60>That nothing do but meditate on blood,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=61>To swearing and stern looks, diffused attire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=62>And every thing that seems unnatural.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=63>Which to reduce into our former favour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=64>You are assembled: and my speech entreats</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=65>That I may know the let, why gentle Peace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=66>Should not expel these inconveniences</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=67>And bless us with her former qualities.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=68>If, Duke of Burgundy, you would the peace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=69>Whose want gives growth to the imperfections</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=70>Which you have cited, you must buy that peace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=71>With full accord to all our just demands;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=72>Whose tenors and particular effects</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=73>You have enscheduled briefly in your hands.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech8><b>BURGUNDY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=74>The king hath heard them; to the which as yet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=75>There is no answer made.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech9><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=76>Well then the peace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=77>Which you before so urged, lies in his answer.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech10><b>KING OF FRANCE</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=78>I have but with a cursorary eye</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=79>O'erglanced the articles: pleaseth your grace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=80>To appoint some of your council presently</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=81>To sit with us once more, with better heed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=82>To re-survey them, we will suddenly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=83>Pass our accept and peremptory answer.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech11><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=84>Brother, we shall. Go, uncle Exeter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=85>And brother Clarence, and you, brother Gloucester,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=86>Warwick and Huntingdon, go with the king;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=87>And take with you free power to ratify,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=88>Augment, or alter, as your wisdoms best</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=89>Shall see advantageable for our dignity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=90>Any thing in or out of our demands,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=91>And we'll consign thereto. Will you, fair sister,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=92>Go with the princes, or stay here with us?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>QUEEN ISABEL</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=93>Our gracious brother, I will go with them:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=94>Haply a woman's voice may do some good,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=95>When articles too nicely urged be stood on.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=96>Yet leave our cousin Katharine here with us:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=97>She is our capital demand, comprised</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=98>Within the fore-rank of our articles.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>QUEEN ISABEL</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=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> | |
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| <A NAME=100>Fair Katharine, and most fair,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=101>Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=102>Such as will enter at a lady's ear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=103>And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech16><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=104>Your majesty shall mock at me; I cannot speak your England.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech17><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=105>O fair Katharine, if you will love me soundly with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=106>your French heart, I will be glad to hear you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=107>confess it brokenly with your English tongue. Do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=108>you like me, Kate?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=109>Pardonnez-moi, I cannot tell vat is 'like me.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=110>An angel is like you, Kate, and you are like an angel.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech20><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=111>Que dit-il? que je suis semblable a les anges?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>ALICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=112>Oui, vraiment, sauf votre grace, ainsi dit-il.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech22><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=113>I said so, dear Katharine; and I must not blush to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=114>affirm it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=115>O bon Dieu! les langues des hommes sont pleines de</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=116>tromperies.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=117>What says she, fair one? that the tongues of men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=118>are full of deceits?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>ALICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=119>Oui, dat de tongues of de mans is be full of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=120>deceits: dat is de princess.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=121>The princess is the better Englishwoman. I' faith,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=122>Kate, my wooing is fit for thy understanding: I am</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=123>glad thou canst speak no better English; for, if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=124>thou couldst, thou wouldst find me such a plain king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=125>that thou wouldst think I had sold my farm to buy my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=126>crown. I know no ways to mince it in love, but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=127>directly to say 'I love you:' then if you urge me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=128>farther than to say 'do you in faith?' I wear out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=129>my suit. Give me your answer; i' faith, do: and so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=130>clap hands and a bargain: how say you, lady?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=131>Sauf votre honneur, me understand vell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=132>Marry, if you would put me to verses or to dance for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=133>your sake, Kate, why you undid me: for the one, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=134>have neither words nor measure, and for the other, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=135>have no strength in measure, yet a reasonable</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=136>measure in strength. If I could win a lady at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=137>leap-frog, or by vaulting into my saddle with my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=138>armour on my back, under the correction of bragging</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=139>be it spoken. I should quickly leap into a wife.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=140>Or if I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=141>for her favours, I could lay on like a butcher and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=142>sit like a jack-an-apes, never off. But, before God,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=143>Kate, I cannot look greenly nor gasp out my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=144>eloquence, nor I have no cunning in protestation;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=145>only downright oaths, which I never use till urged,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=146>nor never break for urging. If thou canst love a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=147>fellow of this temper, Kate, whose face is not worth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=148>sun-burning, that never looks in his glass for love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=149>of any thing he sees there, let thine eye be thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=150>cook. I speak to thee plain soldier: If thou canst</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=151>love me for this, take me: if not, to say to thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=152>that I shall die, is true; but for thy love, by the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=153>Lord, no; yet I love thee too. And while thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=154>livest, dear Kate, take a fellow of plain and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=155>uncoined constancy; for he perforce must do thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=156>right, because he hath not the gift to woo in other</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=157>places: for these fellows of infinite tongue, that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=158>can rhyme themselves into ladies' favours, they do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=159>always reason themselves out again. What! a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=160>speaker is but a prater; a rhyme is but a ballad. A</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=161>good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=162>black beard will turn white; a curled pate will grow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=163>bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=164>hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=165>moon; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon; for it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=166>shines bright and never changes, but keeps his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=167>course truly. If thou would have such a one, take</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=168>me; and take me, take a soldier; take a soldier,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=169>take a king. And what sayest thou then to my love?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=170>speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=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=172>No; it is not possible you should love the enemy of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=173>France, Kate: but, in loving me, you should love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=174>the friend of France; for I love France so well that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=175>I will not part with a village of it; I will have it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=176>all mine: and, Kate, when France is mine and I am</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=177>yours, then yours is France and you are mine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=178>I cannot tell vat is dat.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=179>No, Kate? I will tell thee in French; which I am</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=180>sure will hang upon my tongue like a new-married</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=181>wife about her husband's neck, hardly to be shook</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=182>off. Je quand sur le possession de France, et quand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=183>vous avez le possession de moi,--let me see, what</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=184>then? Saint Denis be my speed!--donc votre est</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=185>France et vous etes mienne. It is as easy for me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=186>Kate, to conquer the kingdom as to speak so much</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=187>more French: I shall never move thee in French,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=188>unless it be to laugh at me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=189>Sauf votre honneur, le Francois que vous parlez, il</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=190>est meilleur que l'Anglois lequel je parle.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=191>No, faith, is't not, Kate: but thy speaking of my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=192>tongue, and I thine, most truly-falsely, must needs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=193>be granted to be much at one. But, Kate, dost thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=194>understand thus much English, canst thou love me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=195>I cannot tell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=196>Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=197>them. Come, I know thou lovest me: and at night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=198>when you come into your closet, you'll question this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=199>gentlewoman about me; and I know, Kate, you will to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=200>her dispraise those parts in me that you love with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=201>your heart: but, good Kate, mock me mercifully; the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=202>rather, gentle princess, because I love thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=203>cruelly. If ever thou beest mine, Kate, as I have a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=204>saving faith within me tells me thou shalt, I get</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=205>thee with scambling, and thou must therefore needs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=206>prove a good soldier-breeder: shall not thou and I,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=207>between Saint Denis and Saint George, compound a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=208>boy, half French, half English, that shall go to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=209>Constantinople and take the Turk by the beard?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=210>shall we not? what sayest thou, my fair</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=211>flower-de-luce?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=212>I do not know dat</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=213>No; 'tis hereafter to know, but now to promise: do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=214>but now promise, Kate, you will endeavour for your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=215>French part of such a boy; and for my English moiety</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=216>take the word of a king and a bachelor. How answer</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=217>you, la plus belle Katharine du monde, mon tres cher</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=218>et devin deesse?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=219>Your majestee ave fausse French enough to deceive de</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=220>most sage demoiselle dat is en France.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=221>Now, fie upon my false French! By mine honour, in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=222>true English, I love thee, Kate: by which honour I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=223>dare not swear thou lovest me; yet my blood begins to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=224>flatter me that thou dost, notwithstanding the poor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=225>and untempering effect of my visage. Now, beshrew</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=226>my father's ambition! he was thinking of civil wars</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=227>when he got me: therefore was I created with a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=228>stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that, when</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=229>I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in faith,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=230>Kate, the elder I wax, the better I shall appear:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=231>my comfort is, that old age, that ill layer up of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=232>beauty, can do no more, spoil upon my face: thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=233>hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst; and thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=234>shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=235>and therefore tell me, most fair Katharine, will you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=236>have me? Put off your maiden blushes; avouch the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=237>thoughts of your heart with the looks of an empress;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=238>take me by the hand, and say 'Harry of England I am</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=239>thine:' which word thou shalt no sooner bless mine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=240>ear withal, but I will tell thee aloud 'England is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=241>thine, Ireland is thine, France is thine, and Harry</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=242>Plantagenet is thine;' who though I speak it before</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=243>his face, if he be not fellow with the best king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=244>thou shalt find the best king of good fellows.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=245>Come, your answer in broken music; for thy voice is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=246>music and thy English broken; therefore, queen of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=247>all, Katharine, break thy mind to me in broken</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=248>English; wilt thou have me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=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=250>Nay, it will please him well, Kate it shall please</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=251>him, Kate.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=252>Den it sall also content me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=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=254>Laissez, mon seigneur, laissez, laissez: ma foi, je</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=255>ne veux point que vous abaissiez votre grandeur en</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=256>baisant la main d'une de votre seigeurie indigne</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=257>serviteur; excusez-moi, je vous supplie, mon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=258>tres-puissant seigneur.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=259>Then I will kiss your lips, Kate.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=260>Les dames et demoiselles pour etre baisees devant</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=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=262>Madam my interpreter, what says she?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>ALICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=263>Dat it is not be de fashion pour les ladies of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=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=265>To kiss.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>ALICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=266>Your majesty entendre bettre que moi.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=267>It is not a fashion for the maids in France to kiss</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=268>before they are married, would she say?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>ALICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=269>Oui, vraiment.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=270>O Kate, nice customs curtsy to great kings. Dear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=271>Kate, you and I cannot be confined within the weak</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=272>list of a country's fashion: we are the makers of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=273>manners, Kate; and the liberty that follows our</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=274>places stops the mouth of all find-faults; as I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=275>do yours, for upholding the nice fashion of your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=276>country in denying me a kiss: therefore, patiently</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=277>and yielding.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Kissing her</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=278>You have witchcraft in your lips, Kate: there is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=279>more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=280>tongues of the French council; and they should</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=281>sooner persuade Harry of England than a general</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=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=283>God save your majesty! my royal cousin, teach you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=284>our princess English?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=285>I would have her learn, my fair cousin, how</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=286>perfectly I love her; and that is good English.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>BURGUNDY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=287>Is she not apt?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=288>Our tongue is rough, coz, and my condition is not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=289>smooth; so that, having neither the voice nor the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=290>heart of flattery about me, I cannot so conjure up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=291>the spirit of love in her, that he will appear in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=292>his true likeness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>BURGUNDY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=293>Pardon the frankness of my mirth, if I answer you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=294>for that. If you would conjure in her, you must</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=295>make a circle; if conjure up love in her in his true</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=296>likeness, he must appear naked and blind. Can you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=297>blame her then, being a maid yet rosed over with the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=298>virgin crimson of modesty, if she deny the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=299>appearance of a naked blind boy in her naked seeing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=300>self? It were, my lord, a hard condition for a maid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=301>to consign to.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=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=303>They are then excused, my lord, when they see not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=304>what they do.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=305>Then, good my lord, teach your cousin to consent winking.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>BURGUNDY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=306>I will wink on her to consent, my lord, if you will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=307>teach her to know my meaning: for maids, well</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=308>summered and warm kept, are like flies at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=309>Bartholomew-tide, blind, though they have their</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=310>eyes; and then they will endure handling, which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=311>before would not abide looking on.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=312>This moral ties me over to time and a hot summer;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=313>and so I shall catch the fly, your cousin, in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=314>latter end and she must be blind too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>BURGUNDY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=315>As love is, my lord, before it loves.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=316>It is so: and you may, some of you, thank love for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=317>my blindness, who cannot see many a fair French city</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=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=319>Yes, my lord, you see them perspectively, the cities</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=320>turned into a maid; for they are all girdled with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=321>maiden walls that war hath never entered.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=322>Shall Kate be my wife?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>FRENCH KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=323>So please you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=324>I am content; so the maiden cities you talk of may</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=325>wait on her: so the maid that stood in the way for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=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=327>We have consented to all terms of reason.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=328>Is't so, my lords of England?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>WESTMORELAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=329>The king hath granted every article:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=330>His daughter first, and then in sequel all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=331>According to their firm proposed natures.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>EXETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=332>Only he hath not yet subscribed this:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=333>Where your majesty demands, that the King of France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=334>having any occasion to write for matter of grant,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=335>shall name your highness in this form and with this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=336>addition in French, Notre trescher fils Henri, Roi</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=337>d'Angleterre, Heritier de France; and thus in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=338>Latin, Praeclarissimus filius noster Henricus, Rex</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=339>Angliae, et Haeres Franciae.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>FRENCH KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=340>Nor this I have not, brother, so denied,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=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=342>I pray you then, in love and dear alliance,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=343>Let that one article rank with the rest;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=344>And thereupon give me your daughter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>FRENCH KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=345>Take her, fair son, and from her blood raise up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=346>Issue to me; that the contending kingdoms</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=347>Of France and England, whose very shores look pale</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=348>With envy of each other's happiness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=349>May cease their hatred, and this dear conjunction</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=350>Plant neighbourhood and Christian-like accord</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=351>In their sweet bosoms, that never war advance</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=352>His bleeding sword 'twixt England and fair France.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>ALL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=353>Amen!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=354>Now, welcome, Kate: and bear me witness all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=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=356>God, the best maker of all marriages,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=357>Combine your hearts in one, your realms in one!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=358>As man and wife, being two, are one in love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=359>So be there 'twixt your kingdoms such a spousal,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=360>That never may ill office, or fell jealousy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=361>Which troubles oft the bed of blessed marriage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=362>Thrust in between the paction of these kingdoms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=363>To make divorce of their incorporate league;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=364>That English may as French, French Englishmen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=365>Receive each other. God speak this Amen!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>ALL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=366>Amen!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=367>Prepare we for our marriage--on which day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=368>My Lord of Burgundy, we'll take your oath,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=369>And all the peers', for surety of our leagues.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=370>Then shall I swear to Kate, and you to me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=371>And may our oaths well kept and prosperous be!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Sennet. Exeunt</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=372>EPILOGUE</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Chorus</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>Chorus</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=373>Thus far, with rough and all-unable pen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=374>Our bending author hath pursued the story,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=375>In little room confining mighty men,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=376>Mangling by starts the full course of their glory.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=377>Small time, but in that small most greatly lived</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=378>This star of England: Fortune made his sword;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=379>By which the world's best garden be achieved,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=380>And of it left his son imperial lord.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=381>Henry the Sixth, in infant bands crown'd King</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=382>Of France and England, did this king succeed;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=383>Whose state so many had the managing,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=384>That they lost France and made his England bleed:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=385>Which oft our stage hath shown; and, for their sake,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=386>In your fair minds let this acceptance take.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |