Boy. Escoutez; Comment estes vous appellé ? Boy. He says his name is master Fer. Pist. Master Fer! I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret him :- discuss the same in French unto him. Boy. I do not know the French for fer, and ferret, and firk. Pist. Bid him prepare, for I will cut his throat. Boy. Il me commande de vous dire que vous faites vous prest; car ce soldat icy est disposé tout à cette heure de couper vostre gorge. Pist. Ouy, couper gorge, par ma foy, pesant. Fr. Sol. O, je vous supplie, pour l'amour de Dieu, me pardonner! Je suis gentilhomme de bonne maison; gardez ma vie, et je vous donneray deux cent escus. Pist. What are his words? Boy. He prays you to save his life: he is a gentleman of a good house; and for his ransom he will give you two hundred crowns. Pist. Tell him,-my fury shall abate, and I The crowns will take. Fr. Sol. Petit monsieur, que dit-il? Boy. Encore qu'il est contre son jurement de pardonner aucun prisonnier; neantmoins, pour les escus que vous l'avez promis, il est content de vous donner la liberté, le franchisement. Fr. Sol. Sur mes genoux je vous donne mille remerciemens: et je m'estime heureux que je suis tombé entre les mains d'un chevalier, je pense, le plus brave, valiant, et très distingué seigneur d'Angleterre. Pist. Expound unto me, boy. Boy. He gives you, upon his knees, a thousand thanks: and he esteems himself happy that he hath fallen into the hands of one (as he thinks) the most brave, valorous, and thrice-worthy signieur of England. Pist. As I suck blood, I will some mercy show.— Follow me. [Exit PISTOL. Boy. Suivez vous le grand capitaine. [Exit French Soldier.] I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true,-the empty vessel makes the greatest sound. Bardolph and Nym had ten times more valour than this roaring devil i' the old play, that every one may pare his nails with a wooden dagger; and they are both hanged; and so would this be, if he durst steal anything adventurously. I must stay with the lackeys, with the luggage of our camp: the French might have a good prey of us, if he knew of it; for there is none to guard it but boys. [Exit. SCENE V.-Another Part of the Field of Battle. Enter DAUPHIN, ORLEANS, BOURBON, CONSTABLE, RAMBURES, and others. Alarums. Con. O diable! Orl. O seigneur !-le jour est perdu, tout est perdu! Dau. Mort de ma vie! all is confounded, all! Reproach and everlasting shame Sits mocking in our plumes.-O meschante fortune!— Do not run away. [A short alarum. Con. Why, all our ranks are broke. Dau. O perdurable shame!-let 's stab ourselves. Be these the wretches that we play'd at dice for? Orl. Is this the king we sent to for his ransom? Bour. Shame, and eternal shame, nothing but shame! Let's die in honour: Once more back again; And he that will not follow Bourbon now, Let him go hence, and, with his cap in hand, Like a base pander, hold the chamber-door, Whilst by a slave, no gentler than my dog, His fairest daughter is contaminated. But all 's not done, yet keep the French the field. Exe. The duke of York commends him to your majesty. K. Her. Lives ne, good uncle? thrice within this I saw him down; thrice up again, and fighting; Exe. In which array (brave soldier!) doth he lie, [Alarum. [Exeunt. SCENE VII.-Another Part of the Field. Alarums. Enter FLUELLEN and GOWER. of Flu. Kill the poys and the luggage! 't is expressly against the law of arms: 't is as arrant a piece knavery, mark you now, as can be offered. În your conscience now, is it not? Gow. 'Tis certain there 's not a boy left alive; and the cowardly rascals that ran from the battle have done this slaughter: besides, they have burned and carried away all that was in the king's tent; wherefore the king, most worthily, hath caused every soldier to cut his prisoner's throat. O, 't is a gallant king! Flu. Ay, he was porn at Monmouth, captain Gower. What call you the town's name where Alexander the pig was porn? Gow. Alexander the great. Flu. Why, I pray you, is not pig, great! The pig of SCENE VII. KING HENRY V. or the great, or the mighty, or the huge, or the maganimous, are all one reckonings, save the phrase is a little variations. Gore. I think Alexander the great was born in Macodon; his father was called Philip of Macedon, as I take it. Flu. I think it is in Macedon where Alexander is porn. I tell you, captain,-If you look in the maps of the orld, I warrant you shall find, in the comparisons between Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations, book you, is both alike. There is a river in Macedon; and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth: it is called Wye, at Monmouth; but it is out of my prains what is the name of the other river; but 't is all one, tis alike as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is salmons in both. If you mark Alexander's life well, Harry of Monmouth's life is come after it indifferent well; for there is figures in all things. Alexander (God knows, and you know), in his rages, and his furies, and his wraths, and his cholers, and his moods, and his displeasures, and his indignations, and also being a little intoxicates in his prains, did, in his ales and his angers, look kill his pest friend, Clytus. you, Gote. Our king is not like him in that; he never killed any of his friends. Flu. It is not well done, mark you now, to take the tales out of my mouth, ere it is made and finished. I seak but in the figures and comparisons of it: As Alexander killed his friend Clytus, being in his ales and his cups; so also Harry Monmouth, being in his right wits and his goot judgments, turned away the fat Eight with the great pelly-doublet: he was full of jests, and gipes, and knaveries, and mocks; I have forgot his name. Gow. Sir John Falstaff. Flu. That is he: I'll tell you, there is goot men porn at Monmouth. Gow. Here comes his majesty. Alarum. Enter KING HENRY with a part of the K. Hen. I was not angry since I came to France If they will fight with us, bid them come down, Eze. Here comes the herald of the French, my Glo. His eyes are humbler than they us'd to be. thou not That I have fin'd these bones of mine for ransom? No, great king, Of their dead bodies. K. Hen. I tell thee truly, herald, Mont. K. Ilen. Then call we this the field of Agincourt, Flu. Your grandfather of famous memory, an 't please Flu. Your majesty says very true: if your majesties K. Hen. I wear it for a memorable honour: K. Hen. Thanks, good my countryman. Flu. By Cheshu, I am your majesty's countryman, I need not to be ashamed of your majesty, praised be I care not who know it; I will confess it to all the 'orld: with him; God, so long as your majesty is an honest man. K. Hen. God keep me so!-Our heralds Bring me just notice of the numbers dead On both our parts.-Call yonder fellow hither. [Points to WILLIAMS. Exeunt MONTJOY and others. go Exe. Soldier, you must come to the king. cap? Will. An 't please your majesty, 't is the gage of one that I should fight withal, if he be alive. K. Hen. An Englishman? Will. An't please your majesty, a rascal that swaggered with me last night: who, if a live and ever dare to challenge this glove, I have sworn to take him a box o' the ear: or, if I can see my glove in his cap, (which he swore, as he was a soldier, he would wear if alive,) I will strike it out soundly. K. Hen. What think you, captain Fluellen? is it fit this soldier keep his oath? Flu. He is a craven and a villain else, an 't please your majesty, in my conscience. K. Hen. It may be his enemy is a gentleman of great sort, quite from the answer of his degree. Flu. Though he be as goot a gentleman as the tevil Will. So I will, my liege, as I live. Flu. Gower is a goot captain; and is goot knowledge and literature in the wars. K. Hen. Call him hither to me, soldier [Erit. K. Hen. Here, Fluellen; wear thon this favour for me, and stick it in thy cap: When Alençon and myself, were down together, I plucked this glove from his helm; if any man challenge this, he is a friend to Alençon and an enemy to our person; if thou encounter any such, apprehend him, an thou dost me love. Flu. Your grace does me as great honours as can be desired in the hearts of his subjects: I would fain see the man, that has but two legs, that shall find himself aggriefed at this glove, that is all; but I would fain see it once: an please Got of his grace that I might see it. K. Hen. Knowest thou Gower? Flu. He is my dear friend, an please you. K. Hen. Pray thee, go seek him, and bring him to my tent. Flu. I will fetch him. [Exit. Will. Sir, know you this glove? Flu. Know the glove? I know, the glove is a glove. Will. I know this; and thus I challenge it. [Strikes him. Flu. 'Sblud, an arrant traitor as any 's in the universal 'orld, or in France, or in England. Gow. How now, sir? you villain! Flu. Stand away, captain Gower; I will give treason his payment into plows, I warrant you. Will. I am no traitor. Flu. That's a lie in thy throat.-I charge you in his majesty's name, apprehend him; he's a friend of the duke Alençon's. Enter WARWICK and GLOSter. War. How now, how now! what's the matter? Fh. My lord of Warwick, here is (praised be Got for it!) a most contagious treason come to light, look you, as you shall desire in a summer's day. Here is his majesty. Enter KING HENRY and EXETER. K. Hen. How now! what's the matter? Flu. My liege, here is a villain, and a traitor, that, look your grace, has struck the glove which your majesty is take out of the helmet of Alençon. Will. My liege, this was my glove; here is the fellow of it: and he that I gave it to in change promised co wear it in his cap; I promised to strike him, if he did I met this man with my glove in his cap, and I have been as good as my word. : Flu. Your majesty hear now, (saving your majesty's manhood,) what an arraut, rascally, beggarly, lousy knave it is: I hope your majesty is pear me testimony, and witness, and will avouchment, that this is the glove of Alençon, that your majesty is give me, in your conscience now. K. Hen. Give me thy glove, soldier! Look, here 's the fellow of it. "T was I, indeed, thou promised'st to strike, And thou hast given me most bitter terms. Flu. An please your majesty, let his neck answer for it, if there is any martial law in the 'orld. K. Hen. How canst thou make me satisfaction? Will. All offences, my lord, come from the heart: never came any from mine that might offend your ma jesty. K. Hen. It was ourself thou didst abuse. Will. Your majesty came not like yourself: you appeared to me but as a common man; witness the night, your garments, your lowliness; and what you highness suffered under that shape, I beseech you, take it for your own fault, and not mine: for had you been as I took you for, I made no offence; therefore, I be seech your highness, pardon me. K. Hen. Here, uncle Exeter, fill this glove with crowns, And give it to this fellow.-Keep it, fellow; Flu. By this day and this light, the fellow has mettle enough in his pelly:-Hold, there is twelve pence for you, and I pray you to serve Got, and keep you out of prawls, and prabbles, and quarrels, and dissensions, and, I warrant you, it is the petter for you. Will. I will none of your money. Flu. It is with a goot will; I can tell you it will serve you to mend your shoes: Come, wherefore should you be so pashful? your shoes is not so goot: 't is a goot silling, I warrant you, or I will change it. Enter an English Herald. K. Hen. Now, herald; are the dead number'd? Her. Here is the number of the slaughter'd French. [Delivers a paper. K. Hen. What prisoners of good sort are taken, uncle? Exe. Charles duke of Orleans, nephew to the king; John duke of Bourbon, and lord Bouciqualt: Of other lords and barons, knights and 'squires, Full fifteen hundred, besides common men. K. Hen. This note doth tell me of ten thousand That in the field lie slain of princes, in this number, John duke of Alençon; Antony duke of Brabant, [Herald presents another paper. : To boast of this, or take that praise from God Which is his only. Flu. Is it not lawful, an please your majesty, to tell how many is killed? K. Hen. Yes, captain; but with this acknowledg ment, That God fought for us. Flu. Yes, my conscience, he did us great goot. K. Hen. Do we all holy rites; Let there be sung Non Nobis, and Te Deum ; And then to Calais; and to England then; Where ne'er from France arriv'd more happy men. [Ex. ACT V. Vouchsafe to those that have not read the story, sea, Which, like a mighty whiffler 'fore the king, SCENE I.-France. An English Court of Guard. Enter FLUELLEN and GoWER. Gov. Nay, that's right; but why wear you your leek to-day? Saint Davy's day is past. Flu. There is occasions and causes why and wherefare in all things: I will tell you, as my friend, captain Gower: The rascally, scald, beggarly, lousy, pragging knave, Pistol,—which you and yourself, and all the orld, know to be no petter than a fellow, look you now, of no merits, he is come to me, and prings me pread and salt yesterday, look you, and bid me eat my leek: it was in a place where I could not breed no contentions with him; but I will be so pold as to wear it in my cap till I see him once again, and then I will tell him a little piece of my desires. Flu. 'Tis no matter for his swellings, nor his turkeycocks-Got pless you, ancient Pistol! you scurvy, lousy knave, Got pless you! Pist. Ha! art thou Bedlam? dost thou tnirst, base To have me fold up Parca's fatal web? Flu. I peseech you heartily, scurvy, lousy knave, at my desires, and my requests, and my petitions, to eat, Look you, this leek; because, look you, you do not Quite from himself, to God. But now behold, To welcome him! much more (and much more cause) love it, nor your affections, and your appetites, and your digestions, does not agree with it, I would desire you to eat it. Pist. Not for Cadwallader and all his goats. Flu. There is one goat for you. [Strikes him.] Will you be so goot, scald knave, as eat it? Pist. Base Trojan, thou shalt die. Flu. You say very true, scald knave, when Got's will is: I will desire you to live in the mean time, and eat your victuals; come, there is sauce for it. [Striking him again.] You called me yesterday, mountain-squire, but I will make you to-day a squire of low degree. I pray you, fall to; if you can mock a leek, you can eat a feek. Gow. Enough, captain; you have astonished him." Flu. I say, I will make him eat some part of my leek, or I will peat his pate four days:-Bite, I pray you; it is goot for your green wound, and your ploody coxcomb. Pist. Must I bite? Flu. Yes, certainly; and out of doubt, and out of questions too, and ambiguities. Pist. By this leek, I will most horribly revenge; I eat-and eat-I swear. Flu. Eat, I pray you: Will you have some more sauce to your leek? there is not enough leek to swear by. Pist. Quiet thy cudgel; thou dost see, I eat. Flu. Much goot do you, scald knave, heartily. Nay, a Astonished him-stunned him with the blow: astonished is still a pugilistic term, in the precise sense in which Gower uses it. pray you, throw none away; the skin is goot for your Flu. Ay, leeks is goot :--Hold you, there is a groat to heal your pate. Pist. Me a groat! Flu. Yes, verily, and in truth, you shall take it; or I have another leek in my pocket, which you shall eat. Pist. I take thy groat, in earnest of revenge. Flu. If I owe you anything, I will pay you in cudgels; you shall be a woodmonger, and buy nothing of me but cudgels. God be wi' you, and keep you, and heal your pate. [Exit. Pist. All hell shall stir for this. Gow. Go, go; you are a counterfeit cowardly knave. Pist. Doth Fortune play the huswife with me now? And there my rendezvous is quite cut off. [Exit. Enter at one door, KING HENRY, BEDFORD, GLOSTER, K. Hen. Peace to this meeting, wherefore we are met! Fr. King. Right joyous are we to behold your face, Q. Isa. So happy be the issue, brother England, K. Hen. To cry amen to that, thus we appear. With all my wits, my pains, and strong endeavours, Unto this bar and royal interview, Your mightiness on both parts best can witness. That face to face, and royal eye to eye, K. Hen. If, duke of Burgundy, you would the peace, K. Hen. Brother, we shall.-Go, uncle Exeter,- Q. Isa. Our gracious brother, I will go with them; K. Hen. Yet leave our cousin Katharine here with us, K. Hen. [Exeunt all but HENRY, KATH, and her Gentlewoman. Fair Katharine, and most fair! Favour-appearance. |