Who was sole heir to the usurper Capet Daughter to Charles the foresaid Duke of Lorraine : By the which marriage the line of Charles the Great Was re-united to the crown of France. So that, as clear as is the summer's sun, K. Hen. May I with right and conscience make this claim? Cant. The sin upon my head, dread sovereign ! For in the book of Numbers is it writ: 'When the man dies, let the inheritance Descend unto the daughter.' Gracious lord, Stand for your own; unwind your bloody flag; Look back into your mighty ancestors: Go, my dread lord, to your great-grandsire's tomb, From whom you claim; invoke his war-like spirit, And your great-uncle's, Edward the Black Prince, Who on the French ground play'd a tragedy, Making defeat on the full power of France; Whiles his most mighty father on a hill Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp O noble English! that could entertain Ely. Awake remembrance of these valiant dead, And with your puissant arm renew their feats: You are their heir, you sit upon their throne. The blood and courage that renowned them Runs in your veins; and my thrice-puissant liege Is in the very May-morn of his youth, Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises. Exe. Your brother kings and monarchs of the earth Do all expect that you should rouse yourself, West. They know your grace hath cause and means and might; So hath your highness; never king of England And lie pavilion'd in the fields of France. Cant. O let their bodies follow, my dear liege, With blood and sword and fire to win your right; In aid whereof we of the spiritualty Will raise your highness such a mighty sum Bring in to any of your ancestors. K. Hen. We must not only arm to invade the French, But lay down our proportions to defend Against the Scot, who will make road upon us Cant. They of those marches, gracious sovereign, Shall be a wall sufficient to defend Our inland from the pilfering borderers. K. Hen. We do not mean the coursing snatchers only, But fear the main intendment of the Scot, Hath shook and trembled at the ill neighbourhood. Cant. She hath been then more fear'd than harm'd, my liege; For hear her but exampled by herself; When all her chivalry hath been in France The King of Scots; whom she did send to France, If that you will France win, Then with Scotland first begin: For once the eagle England being in prey, Exe. It follows then the cat must stay at home: Yet that is but a crush'd necessity, Since we have locks to safeguard necessaries Like music. Cant. Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions, Setting endeavour in continual motion; To which is fixed, as an aim or butt, Obedience: for so work the honey-bees, Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom. They have a king and officers of sorts; Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds; Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor : Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil citizens kneading up the honey, Come to one mark; as many ways meet in one town; As many fresh streams meet in one salt sea; K. Hen. Call in the messengers sent from the O'er France and all her almost kingly dukedoms, |