The facsimile opposite represents the title-page of the Elizabethan Club copy of the first edition of 'Henry V. Five other copies are known. It is remarkable that none of the three quarto editions of this play bear the author's name. THE CRONICLE History of Henry the fift, With his battell fought at Agin Court in Pistoll. As it hath bene fundry times playd by the Right honorable Printed by Thomas Creede, for Tho. Milling- KING HENRY THE FIFTH DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, DUKE OF Bedford, Brothers to the King DUKE OF CLARENCE, DUKE OF EXETER, Uncle to the King Duke of York, Cousin to the King EARLS OF SALISBURY, WESTMORELAND, and WARWICK ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY BISHOP OF ELY EARL OF CAMBRIDGE LORD SCROOP OF MASHAM 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 Katharine Hostess of the Boar's Head Tavern, formerly Mistress Quickly, and now married to Pistol Lords, Ladies, Officers, French and English Soldiers, Citizens, Messengers, and Attendants Chorus SCENE: England to the close of Act II. Sc. ii; The Life of Henry the Fifth Enter Prologue O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scène. And let us, ciphers to this great accompt, Suppose within the girdle of these walls And make imaginary puissance; Think when we talk of horses that you see them 1227 16 20 20 24 10 scaffold: stage 12 vasty: vast 16 Attest: stand for; cf. n. 18 imaginary: imaginative Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth; For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings, Carry them here and there, jumping o'er times, Who prologue-like your humble patience pray, 28 32 Exit. ACT FIRST Scene One [London. An Antechamber in the King's Palace] Did push it out of further question. Ely. But how, my lord, shall we resist it now? Cant. It must be thought on. If it pass against us, We lose the better half of our possession; For all the temporal lands which men devout 8 127 32 Chorus; cf. n. 3 like: likely (to pass) 5 question: consideration |