come.

Shal. Honest Bardolph, welcome: If thou wantest Come, Pistol, utter more to me; and, withal, devise any thing, and wilt not call, beshrew thy heart.- something to do thyself good.-Boot, boot, master Welcome, my little tiny thief; [To the Page.] and Shallow; I know the young king is sick for me. welcome, indeed, too.-I'll drink to master Bar- Let us take any man's horses; the laws of England dolph, and to all the cavaleroes about London. are at my commandment. Happy are they which

Davy. I hope to see London once ere I die. have been my friends; and woe to my lord chief Baril. An I might see you there, Davy,

Justice! Shal. By the mass, you'll crack a quart together. Pist. Let vultures vile seize on his lungs also! Ha! will you not, master Bardolph?

Where is the life that late I led? say they: Bard. Yes, sir, in a pottle pot.

Why, here it is; welcome these pleasant days. Shal. I thank thee:- The knave will stick by

(Exeunt. thee, I can assure thee that: he will not out: he is

SCENE IV. London. A Street. true bred. Bard. And I'll stick by him, sir.

Enter Beadles, dragging in HOSTESS QUICKLY, and Shal. Why, there spoke a king. Lack nothing:

DOLL TEAR-SHEET. be merry. [Knocking heard. ] Look who's at door there: Ho! who knocks?

(Exit Davy.

Host. No, thou arrant knave; I would, I might

die, that I might have thee hanged: thou hast Fal. Why, now you have done me right.

drawn my shoulder out of joint. (TO SILENCE, who drinks a bumper.

1 Bead. The constables have delivered her over to Sil. Do me right,

[Singing. And dub me knight:8

me; and she shall have whipping-cheer enough, I

warrant her: there had been a man or two lately Samingo.

killed about her. Is't not so?

Doll. Nut-hook, nut-hook,' you lie. Corne, on! Fal. 'Tis so. Sil. Is't so? Why, then say, an old man can do lan the child I now go with, do miscarry, thou

I'll tell thee what, thou damned tripe-visaged rascal; somewhat.

had'st better thou had'st struck thy mother, thou Re-enter Davy.

paper faced villain! Davy. An it please your worship, there's one Pistol Host. O the Lord, that sir John were come! he come from the court with news.

would make this a bloody day to somebody. But Fal. From the court! let him come in.-

I pray God, the fruit of her womb miscarry!
Enter PISTOL.

1 Bead. If I do, you shall have a dozen of cush

ions? again; you have but eleven now. Come, I How now, Pistol ?

charge you both go with me; for the man is dead, Pist. God save you, sir John!

that you and Pistol beat among you. Fal. What wind blew you hither, Pistol?

Doll. I'll tell thee what, thou thin man in a cenPist. Not the ill wind which blows no man to ser! I will have you as soundly swinged for this, good.-Sweet knight, thou art now one of the you blue-bottle rogue!s you tilthy famished correcgreatest men in the realm.

tioner! if you be not swinged, I'll forswear halfSil. By'r lady, I think ’a be; but goodman Puffkirtles. of Barson.

1 Bead. Come, come, you she knight-errant, Pist. Pufi? Puff in thy teeth, most recreant coward base! Host. O, that right should thus overcome might! Sir John, I am thy Pistol, and thy friend,

Well; of sufferance comes ease. And helter-skelter have I rode to thee;

Doll. Come, you rogue, come; bring me to a And tidings do I bring, and lucky joys,

justice. And golden times, and happy news of price. Host. Ay; come, you starved blood-hound.

Fal. I pr’ythee now, deliver them like a man of Doll. Goodman death! goodman bones! this world.

Host. Thou atomy, thou! Pist. A foutra for the world, and worldlings base! Dull. Come, you thin thing; come, you rascal! I speak of Africa, and golden joys.

1 Bead. Very well.

(Exeunt. Fal. O base Assyrian knight, what is thy news? Let king Cophetua know the truth thereoi.

SCENE V.-A public Place near Westminster Sil. And Robin Hood, Scarlet, and John. (Sings.

Abbey.
Pist. Shall dunghill curs confront the Helicons ? Enter two Grooms, strewing Rushes.
And shall good news be baffled ?

1 Groom. More rushes, more rushes. Then, Pistol, lay thy head in Furies' lap.

2 Groom. The trumpets have sounded twice. Shál. Honest gentleman, I know not your breed- 1 Groom. It will be two o'clock ere they come ing.

from the coronation: Despatch, despatch. Pist. Why then, lament therefore. Shal. Give me pardon, sir;-If, sir, you come

[Exeunt Grooms. with news from the court, I take it, there is but Enter FALSTAFF, SHALLOW, PistoL, BARDOLPH, and two ways; either to utter them, or conceal them.

the Page. I am, sir, under the king, in some authority.

Fal. Stand here by me, master Robert Shallow; Pist. Under which king, Bezonian? speak, or die. I will make the king do you grace: I will leer upon Shal. Under king Harry.

him, as a comes by; and do but mark the countePist.

Harry the fourth ?or fifth? nance that he will give me. Shul. Harry the fourth.

Pist. God bless thy lungs, good knight. Pist.

A foutra for thine office!- Fal. Come here, Pistol; stand behind me.--0, if Sir John, thy tender lambkin now is king;

I had had time to have made new liveries, I would Harry the filth's the man. I speak the truth: have bestowed the thousand pound I borrowed of When Pistol lies, do this; and fig me, like

you. (To SHALLOW.) But 'tis no matter; this poor The bragging Spaniard.

show doth better: this doth infer the zeal I had to Fal. What! is the old king dead ?

see him. Pist. As nail in door: the things I speak, are just.

Shal. It doth so. Fal. Away, Bardolph; saddle my horse.- Master Ful. It shows my earnestness of affection. Robert Shallow, choose what office thou wilt in the Shal. It doth so. land, 'tis thine.-Pistol, I will double-charge thee Fal. My devotion. with dignities.

Shal. Ii doth, it doth, it doth. Bard. O joyful day!—I would not take a knight- Fal. As it were, to ride day and night; and not hood for my fortune.

to deliberate, not to remember, not to have patience Pist. What? I do bring good news?

to shift me. Fal.Carry master Silence to bed.-Master Shallow, Shal. It is most certain. my lord Shallow, be what thou wilt, I am fortune's Fal. But to stand stained with travel, and sweatsteward. Get on thy boots; we'll ride all night:- ing with desire to see him: thinking of nothing else; O, sweet Pistol:-Away, Bardolph.-[Exit BARD.) putting all affairs else in oblivion; as if there were

8 He who drank a bumper on his knees, to the healih nothing else to be done, but to see him. of his mistress, was dubbed a knight for the evening. 1 A term of reproach for a catchpoll.

man.

Pist. 'Tis semper idem, for absque hoc nihil est :3 And, as we hear you do reform yourselves, 'Tis all in every part.

We will,-according to your strength, and qualiShal. 'Tis so indeed.

ties,Pist. My knight, I will inflame thy noble liver, Give you advancement.-Be it your charge, my And make thee rage.

lord, Thy Doll, and Helen of thy noble thoughts, To see perform'd the tenor of our word.Is in base durance, and contagious prison;

Set on.

[Eweunt King, and his Train. Haul'd thither

Ful. Master Shallow, I owe you a thousand By most mechanical and dirty hand:

pound. Rouse up revenge from ebonden with fell Alecto's Shal. Ay, marry, sir John; which I beseech you snake,

to let me have home with me. For Doll is in; Pistol speaks nought but truth. Fal. That can hardly be, master Shallow. Do Fal. I will deliver her.

not you grieve at this; I shall be sent for in private [Shouts within, and the Trumpets sound. to him: look you, he must seem thus to the world. Pist. There roar'd the sea, the trumpet-clangor Fear not your advancement; I will be the man yet sounds.

that shall make you great. Enter the King and his 'Train, the Chief Justice

Shal. I cannot perceive how; unless you give among them.

me your doublet, and stuff' me out with straw. I

beseech you, good sir John, let me have tive hunFal. God save thy grace, king Hal! my royal dred of my thousand. Hal!

Fal. Sir, I will be as good as my word: this that Pist. The heavens thee guard and keep, most you heard, was but a color.

royal imp of fame! Fal. God save thee, my sweet boy!

Shal A color, I fear, that you will die in, sir John.

I

Fal. Fear no colors; go with me to dinner. Come, King. My lord chief Justice, speak to that vain lieutenant Pistol;-come, Bardolph:-1 shall be sent

for soon at night.

(Exeunt. Ch. Just. Have you your wits? know you what 'lis you speak?

Re-enter Prince John, the Chief Justice, Officers, &c. Fal. My king! my Jove! I speak to thee, my Ch. Just. Go, carry sir John Falstaff to the Fleet; heart!

Take all his company along with him. king. I know thee not, old man: Fall to thy Fal. My lord, my lord, prayers;

Ch. Just. I cannot now speak: I will hear you How ill white hairs become a fool, and jester! I have long dream'd of such a kind of man, Take them away. So surfeit-swell'd, so old, and so profane;

Pist. Si fortuna me tormenta, spero me contenta. But, being awake, I do despise my dream.

[Exeunt FAL., SHAL., PIST., BARD., Page, Make less thy body, hence, and inore thy grace;

and Ollicers. Leave gormandizing; know, the grave doth gape P. John. I like this fair proceeding of the king's; For thee thrice wider than for other men:

He hath intent, his wonted followers Reply not to me with a fool-born jest;

Shall all be very well provided for; Presume not, that I am the thing I was:

But all are banish'd, tíll their conversations For heaven doth know, so shall the world perceive, Appear more wise and modest to the world. That I have turn'd away my former seli;

Ch. Just. And so they are. So will I those that kept my company.

P. John. The king hath call'd his parliament, my When thou dost hear I am as I have been,

lord. Approach me; and thou shalt be as thou wast, Ch. Just. He hath. The tutor and the feeder of my riots;

P. John. I will lay odds,—that ere this year Till then, I banish thee, on pain of death,

expire, As I have done the rest of my misleaders,

We bear our civil swords and native fire, Not to come near our person by ten miles.

As far as France: I heard a bird so sing, For competence of life, I will allow you,

Whose music, to my thinking, pleas'd the king. That lack of means enforce you not to evil: Come, will you hence?

[Exeunt.

1

soon.

First, my fear; then, my court'sy; last, my that were but light payment,—to dance out of your speech. My fear is, your displeasure; my court'sy, debt. But a good conscience will make any possimy duty; and my speech, to beg your pardons. If ble satisfaction, and so will l. All the gentlewoyou look for a good speech now, you undo me: för men here have forgiven me; if the gentlemen will what I have to say is of mine own making; and not, then the gentlemen do not agree with the genwhat, indeed, I should say, will, I doubt, prove tlewomen, which was never seen before in such an mine own marring. But lo the purpose, and so to assembly. the venture:-Be it known to you, (as it is very One word more, I beseech you. If you be not too well,) I was lately here in the end of a displeasing much cloyed with fat meat, our humble author play, to pray your patience for it, and to promise will continue the story, with sir John in it, and yoni a better. I did mean, indeed, to pay you with make you merry with fuir Katharine of France : this; which, if, like an ill venture, it come unlucki- where, for anything I know, Fulstaff shall die of ly home, I break, and you, my gentle creditors, lose. a sweat, unless already he be killed with your hard Here, I promised you, I would be, and here I com- opinions, for Oldcastle died a martyr, and this is mit my body to your mercies: bale me some, and not the man. My tongue is weary; when my legs

I will pay you some, and as most debtors do, are too, I will bid you good night and so kneel promise you infinitely.

down before you ;-but, indeeil, to pray for the If my tongue cannot entreat you to acquit me, queen.) will you command me to use my legs? and yet

KING HENRY V.

PERSONS REPRESENTED.

KING HENRY THE FIFTH.

A Herald.
DUKE OF GLOSTER,

Chorus.
Brothers to the King.
DUKE OF BEDFORD,
DUKE OF EXETER, Uncle to the King.

CHARLES THE SIXTH, King of France.
DUKE OF YORK, Cousin to the King.

LEWIS, the Dauphin. EARLS OF SALISBURY, WESTMORELAND, and WAR- Dukes OF BURGUNDY, ORLEANS, and BOURBON. WICK

The CONSTABLE of France. ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.

RAMBURES, and GRANDPRE, French Lords. BISHOP OF ELY.

Governor of Harfleur.
EARL OF CAMBRIDGE,

MONTJOY, a French Herald.
LORD SCROOP,
SIR THOMAS GREY,
Sir Thomas ERPINGHAM, GOWER, FLUELLEN, MAC- ISABEL, Queen of France.

MORRIS, JAMY, Officers in King Henry's KATHARINE, Daughter of Charles and Isabel.
army.

ALICE, a Lady attending on the Princess Katharine. BATES, COURT, WILLIAMS, Soldiers in the same. QUICKLY, Pistol's Wife, an Hostess. NYM, BARDOLPH, PISTOL, formerly Servants to Falstaff, now Soldiers in the same.

Lords, Ladies, Officers, French and English SolBoy, Servant to them.

diers, Messengers, and Attendants.

} Conspirat kringgrainst the Ambassadors to the King of England.

The SCENE, at the beginning of the play, lies in England; but afterwards wholly in France.

Enter CHORUS.

And let us, ciphers to this great accompt,

On your imaginary forces: work: O, for a muse of fire that would ascend

Suppose, within the girdle of these walls, The brightest heaven of invention!

Are now contined two mighty monarchies, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act,

Whose high upreared and abutting fronts And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder. Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts; Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels, Into a thousand parts divide one man, Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword, and And make imaginary puissance: fire,

Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them' Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles all, Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving carth: The flat unraised spirit, that hath dared,

For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our On this unworthy scaffold, to bring forth

kings, So great an object: Can this cockpit hold

Carry them here and there; jumping o'er times; The vasty fields of France, or may we cram Turning the accomplishment of many years Within the wooden 0,4 the very casques,

Into an hour-glass; For the which supply, That did affright the air at Agincourt?

Admit me Chorus to this history; 0, pardon! since a crooked figure may

Who, prologue-like, your humble patience pray, Attest, in little place, a million;

Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play.

ACT I.

us,

SCENE I.-London. An Ante-chamber in the | But that the scambling and unquiet time
King's Palace.

Did push it out of further

question. Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, and BISHOP

Ely. But how, my lord, shall we resist it now!

Cant. It must be thought on. If it pass against OF ELY. Cant. My lord, I'll tell you,—that self bill is we lose the better half of our possession: urged,

For all the temporal lands, which men devout Which, in the eleventh year o'the last king's reign, By testament have given to the church, Was like, and had indeed against us pass'd, Would they strip from us; being valued thus,

As much as would maintain to the king's honor, 1 An allusion to the circular form of the theatre. ? Helmets.

$ Powers of fancy.

Fall fifteen earls, and fifteen hundred knights; Cant. Then go we in, to know his embassy: Six thousand and two hundred good esquires;

Which I could, with a ready guess, declare, And, to relief of lazars, and weak age,

Before the Frenchman spoke a word of it. Of indigent faint souls, past corporal toil,

Ely. I'll wait upon you; and I long to hear it. A hundred alm-houses, right well supplied;

[Exeunt. And to the coflers of the king beside, A thousand pounds by the year: Thus runs the

SCENE II.- A Room of State in the same. bill,

Enter King HENRY, GLOSTER, BEDFORD, EXETER, Ely. This would drink deep. Cant. 'Twould drink the cup and all.

WARWICK, WESTMORELAND, and Attendants. Ely. But what prevention?

K. Hen. Where is my gracious lord of CanterCunt. The king is full of grace and fair regard.

bury? Ely. And a true lover of the holy church.

Exe. Not here in presence. Cant. The courses of his youth promis'd it not.

K. Hen. Send for him, good uncle. The breath no sooner left his father's body,

West. Shall we call in the ambassador, my liege? But that his wildness, mortified in him,

K. Hen. Not yet, my cousin; we would be reSeem'd to die too: yea, that very moment,

solv'd, Consideration like an angel came,

Before we hear him, of some things of weight, And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him; That task our thoughts concerning us and France. Leaving his body as a paradise,

Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY and BISHOP To envelop and contain celestial spirits.

OF ELY.
Never was such a sudden scholar made:
Never came reformation in a flood,

Cant. God, and his gels, guard your sacred With such a heady current, scouring faults;

throne, Nor never hydra-headed willfulness

And make you long become it! So soon did lose his seat, and all at once,

K. Hen.

Sure, we thank you. As in this king.

My learned lord, we pray you to proceed;
Ely.
We are blessed in the change.

And justly and religiously unfold,
Cant. Hear him but reason in divinity,

Why the law Salique, that they have in France, And, all-admiring, with an inward wish

Or should, or should not, bar us in our claim. You would desire, the king were made a prelate:

And God forbid, my dear and faithful lord, Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs,

That you should fashion, wrest or bow your reading, You would say,-it hath been all-in-all his study: Or nicely charge your understanding soul List* his discourse of war, and you shall hear

With opening titles miscreate, whose right A fearful battle render'd you in music:

Suits not in native colors with the truth; Turn him to any cause of policy,

For God doth know, how many, now in health, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,

Shall drop their blood in approbation Familiar as his garter; that, when he speaks,

Of what your reverence shall incite us to: The air, a charter'd libertine, is still,

Therefore take heed how you impawn our person, And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears,

How you awake the sleeping sword of war; To steal his sweet and honeyed sentences;

We charge you in the name of God, take heed: So that the art and practic part of life

For never two such kingdoms did contend, Must be the mistress to this theoric:

Without much fall of blood; whose guiltless drops Which is a wonder, how his grace should glean it,

Are every one a woe, a sore complaint, Since his addiction was to courses vain:

Gainst him, whose wrongs give edge unto the His companies unletter'd, rude, and shallow;

swords His hours fill'd up with riots, banquets, sports;

That make such waste in brief mortality. And never noted in him any study,

Under this conjuration, speah, my lord: Any retirement, any sequestration

And we will hear, note, and believe in heart, From open haunts and popularity.

That what you speak is in your conscience wash'd Ely. T'he strawberry grows underneath the nettle; As pure as sin with baptism. And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best,

Cant. Then hear me, gracious sovereign,-and Neighbor'd by fruit of baser quality:

you peers, And so the prince obscurd his contemplation That owe your lives, your faith, and services, Under the veil of wildness; which, no doubt,

To this imperial throne:– There is no bar Grew like the summer grass, fastest by night,

To make against your highness' claims to France, Unseen, yet crescives in his faculty.

But this which they produce from Pharamond,Cant. It must be so: for miracles are ceas'd;

In terram Salicam mulieres nè succedant, And therefore we must needs admit the means

No woman shall succeed in Salique land: How things are perfected.

Which Salique land the French unjustly gloze, Ely. But, my good lord,

To be the realm of France, and Pharamond How now for mitigation of this bill

The founder of this law and female bar. Urged by the commons? Doth his majesty

Yet their own authors faithfully affirm,
Incline io it, or no?

That the land Salique lies in Germany,
Cant.
He seems indifferent,

Between the floods of Sala and of Elbe:
Or, rather, swaying more upon our part,

Where Charles the great, having subdued the Sax. Than cherishing the exhibiters against us:

ons, For I have made an offer to his majesty,

There left behind and settled certain French; Upon our spiritual convocation;

Who, holding in disdain the German women, And in regard of causes now in hand,

For some dishonest manners of their life, Which I have open'd to his grace at large,

Establish'd there this law,--to wit, no female As touching France,-to give a greater sum

Should be inheretrix in Salique land; Than ever at one time the clergy yet

Which Salique, as I said, 'twixt Elbe and Sala, Did to his predecessors part withal.

Is at this day in Germany call’d-Mesien. Ely. How did this offer seem receiv'd, my lord ? Thus doth it well appear, the Salique law Cun:. With good acceptance of his majesty;

Was not devised for the realm of France: Save, that there was not time enough to hear

Nor did the French possess the Salique land (As, I perceiv'd, his grace would fain have done)

Until four hundred one-and-twenty years The severals, and unhidden passages,

After defunction of king Pharamond, Of his true titles to some certain dukedoms;

Idly suppos'd the founder of this law: And, generally, the crown and seat of France,

Who died within the year of our redemptionDerivd from Edward, his great grandfather,

Four hundred twenty-six; and Charles the great Ely. What was the impediment that broke this Subdued the Saxons, and did seat the French off!

Beyond the river Sala, in the year Cant. The French ambassador, upon that instant, Eight hundred five. Besides, their writers say, Crav'd audience: and the hour, I think, is come,

King Pepin, which deposed Childerick,
To give him hearing: Is it four o'clock?

Did, as heir-general, being descended
It is. Of Blithild, which was daughter to king Clothair,
Increasing

• Explain.

Ely. Listen to.

Make claim and title to the crown of France. But that the Scot on his unfurnish'd kingdom Hugh Capet also,-that usurp'd the crown

Came pouring, like the tide into a breach, of Charles the duke of Lorain, sole heir male With ample and brim fullness of his force; of the true line and stock of Charles the great,- Galling the gleaned land with hot essays; To fine? his title with some show of truth,

Girding with grievous siege, castles and towns; (Though, in pure truth, it was corrupt and naughty) That England, being empty of detence, Convey'd himselfs as heir to the lady Lingare, Hath shook, and trembled at the ill neighborhood. Daughter to Charlemain, who was the son

Cant. She hath been then more fear'd' than To Lewis the emperor, and Lewis the son

harm'd, my liege: Or Charles the great. Also king Lewis the tenth, For hear her but exampled by herself,Who was sole heir to the usurper Capet,

When all her chivalry hath been in France, Could not keep quiet in his conscience,

And she a mourning widow of her nobles, Wearing the crown of France, till satisfied

She hath herself not only well defended, That fair queen Isabel, his grandinother,

But taken, and impounded as a stray, Was lineal of the lady Ermengare,

The king of Scots, whom she did send to France, Daughter to Charles the foresaid duke of Lorain: To till king Edward's fame with prisoner kings By the which marriage, the line of Charles the great And make your chronicle as rich with praise, Was re-united to the crown of France.

As is the ooze and bottom of the sea So that, as clear as is the summer's sun,

With sunken wreck and sumless treasuries. King Pepin's title, and Hugh Capet's claim,

West. But there's a saying, very old and true, King Lewis his satisfaction, all appear

If that you will France win,
To hold in right and title of the female:

Then with Scotland first begin:
So do the kings of France unto this day;
Howbeit they would hold up this Salique law,

For once the eagle England being in prey,
To bar your highness claiming from the female;

To her unguarded nest the weasel Scot And rather choose to hide them in a net,

Comes sneaking, and so sucks her princely eggs; Than amply to imbare their crooked titles

Playing the mouse, in absence of the cat, Usurp'd from you and your progenitors.

To spoil and havoc more than she can eat. K. Hen. May I, with right and conscience, make

Ece. It tollows then, the cat must stay at home: this claim?

Yet that is but a curs'd necessity; Cant. The sin upon my head, dread sovereign!

Since we have locks to safeguard necessaries, For in the book of Numbers it is writ,

And pretty traps to catch the petty thieves. When the son dies, let the inheritance

While that the armed hand doth fight abroad, Descend unto the daughter. Gracious lord,

The advised head defends itself at home: Stand for your own; unwind your bloody flag;

For government, though high, and low, and lower, Look back unto your mighty ancestors:

Put into parts, doth keep in one concent; Go, my dread lord, to your great grandsire's tomb, Congruings in a full and natural close, From whom you claim! invoke his warlike spirit,

Like music. And your great uncle's, Edward the black prince;

Cant. True: therefore doth heaven divide Who on the French ground play'd a tragedy,

The state of man in divers functions, Making defeat on the full power of France;

Setting endeavor in continual motion; Whiles his most mighty father on a hill

To which is fixed, as an aim or butt, Stood smiling, to behold his lion's whelp

Obedience: for so work the honey bees; Forage in blood of French nobility.

Creatures, that, by a rule in nature, teach O noble English, that could entertain

The act of order to a peopled kingdom. With half their forces the full pride of France;

They have a king, and otficers of sorts: 6 And let another half stand laughing by,

Where some, like magistrates, correct at home; All out of work, and cold for action!

Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad; Ely. Awake remembrance of these valiant dead, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, And with your puissant arm renew their feats; Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds; You are their heir, you sit upon their throne;

Which pillage they with merry march bring home The blood and courage, that renowned them,

To the tent-royal of their emperor: Runs in your veins; and my thrice-puissant liege Who, busied in his majesty, surveys Is in the very May-morn of his youth,

The singing masons building roots of gold; Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises.

The civil citizens kneading up the honey; Exe. Your brother kings and monarchs of the The poor mechanic porters crowding in earth

Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate; Do all expect that you should rouse yourself, The sad-ey'd justice, with his surly hum, As did the former lions of your blood.

Delivering o'er to executorspale
West. They know your grace hath cause, and The lazy yawning drone. I this infer,-
means, and might;

That many things, having full reference
So hath your highness; never king of England To one concent, may work contrariously;
Hath nobles richer, and more loyal subjects; As many arrows, loosed several ways,
Whose hearts have left their bodies here in England, Fly to one mark;
And lie pavilion'd in the fields of France.

As many several ways meet in one town;
Cant. 0, let their bodies follow, my dear liege, As many fresh streams run in one self sea;
With blood, and sword, and fire to win your right: As many lines close in the dial's centre;
In aid whereof, we of the spirituality

So many a thousand actions, once afoot,
Will raise your highness such a mighty sum, End in one purpose, and be all well borne
As never did the clergy at one time

Without defeat. Therefore to France, my liege. Bring in to any of your ancestors.

Divide your happy England into four;
K. Hen. We must not only arm to invade the Whereof take you one quarter into France,
French;

And you withal shall make all Gallia shake.
But lay down our proportions to defend

If we, with thrice that power left at home, Against the Scot, who will make road upon us

Cannot defend our own door from the dog, With all advantages.

Let us be worried; and our nation lose Cant. They of those marchesa gracious sovereign, The name of hardiness, and policy. Shall be a wall sutlicient to defend

K. Hen. Call in the messengers, sent from the Our inland from the pilfering borderers.

dauphin. K. Hen. We do not mean the coursing snatchers (Exit an Attendant. The King ascends his Throne. only,

Now are we well resolv'd: and,-by God's help, But fear the main intendments of the Scot,

And yours, the noble sinews of our power,Who hath been still a giddy neighbor to us;

France being ours, we'll bend it to our awe, For you shall read that my great grandfather Or break it all to pieces: Or there we'll sit, Never went with his forces into France,

Ruling in large and ample empery,

O’er France, and all her almost kingly dukedoms; 7 Make showy or specious 8 Derived his title Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn, o Lay open.