KING HENRY THE FIFTH. DRAMATIS PERSONÆ. KING HENRY THE FIFTH. DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, Brothers to the King. DUKE OF BEDFORD, DUKE OF EXETER, Uncle to the King. DUKE OF YORK, Cousin to the King. EARLS OF SALISBURY, WESTMORELAND, and WARWICK BISHOP OF ELY. EARL OF CAMBRIDGE. SIR THOMAS GREY. SIR THOMAS ERPINGHAM, GOWER, FLUELLEN, MACMORRIS JAMY, Officers in King Henry's Army. BATES, COURT, WILLIAMS, Soldiers in the same. PISTOL, NYM, BARDOLPH. Boy. A Herald. CHARLES THE SIXTH, King of France. LEWIS, the Dauphin. DUKES OF BURGUNDY, ORLEANS, and Bourbon. The Constable of France. RAMBURES and GRANDPRÉ, French Lords. MONTJOY, a French Herald. Governor of Harfleur. Ambassadors to the King of England. ISABEL, Queen of France. KATHARINE, Daughter to Charles and Isabel. ALICE, a Lady attending on the Princess. Hostess of a tavern in Eastcheap, formerly Mrs Quickly, and now married to Pistol. Lords, Ladies, Officers, French and English Soldiers, Citizens, Messengers, and Attendants. Chorus. SCENE.England; afterwards France. ACT I. Enter CHORUS. O! for a Muse of fire, that would ascend Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels, Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles all, The flat unraised spirits that have dared Suppose within the girdle of these walls Whose high upreared and abutting fronts And make imaginary puissance; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs the receiving earth; For 't is your thoughts that now must deck our kings, Carry them here and there, jumping o'er times, Who prologue-like your humble patience pray, [Exit. SCENE I. London. An Antechamber in the Enter the Archbishop of CANTERBURY and Cant. My lord, I'll tell you; that self bill is urged, Which in the eleventh year of the last king's reign Was like, and had indeed against us pass'd, But that the scambling and unquiet time Did push it out of further question. Ely. But how, my lord, shall we resist it now? I. Cant. It must be thought on. us, If it pass against We lose the better half of our possession; Would they strip from us; being valued thus: A thousand pounds by the year. Thus runs the bill. Ely. This would drink deep. Cant. 'T would drink the cup and all. Ely. But what prevention? Cant. The king is full of grace and fair regard. And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him, To envelop and contain celestial spirits. Never was such a sudden scholar made; Never came reformation in a flood, With such a heady currance, scouring faults; So soon did lose his seat and all at once |