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But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in Now, lords, for France; the enterprise whereof
Wonder, to wait on treason, and on murder : Shall be to you, as us, líke glorious.
And whatsoever cunning fiend it was,

We doubt not of a fair and lucky war:
That wrought upon thee so preposterously, Since God so graciously hath brought to light
Hath got the voice in hell for excellence: This dangerous treason, lurking in our way,
And other devils, that suggest by treasons,

To hinder our beginnings, we doubt nol now,
Do botch and bungle up damnation

But every rub is stnoothed on our way. With patches, colours, and with forms being Then, forth, dear countrymen; let us deliver fetch'd

Our puissance into the hand of God,
From glistering semblances of piety;

Putting it straight in expedition.
But he, that temper'd thee, bade thee stand up, Cheerly to sea, the signs of war advance :
Gave thee no instance why thou should'st do No king of England, if not king of France.
treason,

(Ereunt Unless to dub thee with the name of traitor.

SCENE III.
If that same demon, that hath guulld thee thus, London. Mrs. Quickly's House in Eastcheap.
Should with his lion gait walk the whole world, Enter Pistol, Mrs. Quickly, Nym, Bardolph,
He might return to vasty Tartar back,

and Boy.
And tell the legions--I can never win
A soul so easy as that Englishman's.

Quick. Pr’ythee, honey-sweet husband, let me
O, how hast thou with jealousy infected bring thee to Staines.
The sweetness of affiance! Show men dutiful? Pist. No; for my manly heart doth yearn.-
Why, so didst thou: Seem they grave and Bardolph, be blithe ;-Nym, rouse thy vaunting
learned ?

veins;
Why, so didst thou: Come they of noble family? Boy, bristle thy courage up: for Falstaff he is
Why, so didst thou: Seem they religions?

dead,
Why, so didst thou: Or are they spare in diet; And we must yearn therefore.
Free from gross passion, or of mirth, or anger;

Bard. 'Would, I were with him, wheresome'er
Constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood; he is, either in heaven, or in hell?
Garnish'd and deck'd in modest complement; Quick. Nay, sure, he's not in hell; he's in
Not working with the eye, without the ear,

Arthur's bosom, if ever man went to Arthor's
And, but in purged judgment, trusting neither ? bosom. A made a finer end, and went away,
Such, and so finely bolted, didst thou seem: an it had been any christom child; 'a parted
And thus thy fall hath left a kind of blot, even just between twelve and one, e'en at turning

To mark the full-fraught man, and best indued, o' the tide; for after I saw him fumble with the
With some suspicion. I will weep for thee; sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon
For this revolt of thine, methinks, is like

his fingers' ends, I knew there was but one way; Another fall of man-Their fanlts are open, for his nose was as sharp as a pen, and a' bab. Arrest them to the answer of the law

bled of green fields. How now, Sir John ? quoth And God acquit them of their practices ! I: what, man! be of good cheer. So a' cried

Ere. I arrest thee of high treason, by the name out-God, God, God! three or four times: now of Richard earl of Cambridge.

I, to comfort hiin, bid him 'a should not think I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of of God; I hoped, there was no need to trouble Henry Lord Scroop of Mashain.

himself with any such thoughts yet: So 'a bade I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of me lay more clothes on his feet: I put my hand Thomas Grey, knight of Northumberland. into the hed, and felt them, and they were as Scroop. Our purposes God justly hath dis- cold as any stone; then I felt to his knees, and cover'd ;

so upward, and upward, and all was as cold as
And I repent my fault more than my death; any stone.
Which I beseech your highness to forgive, Nym. They say, he cried out of sack.
Although my body pay the price of it.

Quick. Ay, that 'a did. Cam. For me,-the gold of France did not se Bard. And of women. duce :

Quick. Nay, that 'a did not. Although I did admit it as a motive,

Boy. Yes, that 'a did ; and said, they were The sooner to effect what I intended :

devils incarnate. But God be thanked for prevention;

Quick. 'A could never abide carnation : "was
Which I in sufferance heartily will rejoice, a colour he never liked.
Beseeching God and you to pardon me.

Boy. 'A said once, the devil would have him
Grey. Never did faithful subject more rejoice about women.
At the discovery of most dangerous treason, Quick. 'A did in some sort, indeed, handle
Than I do at this hour joy o'er myself, women: but then he was rheumatick; and talked
Prevented from a damned enterprise :

of the whore of Babylon.
My fault, but not my body, pardon, sovereign. Boy. Do you not remember, 'a saw a flea
K. Hen. God quit you in his mercy! Hear stiek upon Bardolph's nose; and 'a said, it was
your sentence.

a black soul burning in hell-fire?
You have conspir'd against our royal person, Bard. Well, the fuel is gone, that maintained
Join'd with an enerny proclaim'd, and from his that fire; that's all the riches I got in his service
coffers

Nym. Shall we shog off? the king will be gone
Receiv'd the golden earnest of our death; from Southampton.
Wherein you would have sold your king to Pist. Come, let's away.-My love, give
slaughter,

thy lips. His princes and'his peers to servitude,

Look to my chattels, and my moveables:
His subjects to oppression and contempt, Let senses rule; the word is, Pitch and Pay,
And his whole kingdom unto desolation. Trust none;
Touching our person, seek we no revenge; For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer
But we our kingdom's safety must so tender,

cakes,
Whose ruin you three sought, that to her laws And hold-fast is the only dog, my duck;
We do deliver you. Get you therefore hence, Therefore, caveto be thy counsellor.
Poor miserable wretches, to your death; Go, clear thy crystals. -Yoke-fellows in arms,
The taste whereof, God, of his mercy, give you Let us to France ! like horse-leeches, my boys;
Patience to endure, and true repentance To suck, to suck, the very blood to suck!
Of all your dear offences !-Bear them hence. Boy. And that is but unwholesome food, they

(Exeunt Conspirators, guarded. say.

Pist. Touch her soft mouth, and march. Saw nis heroical seed, and smil'd to see him
Bard. Farewell, hostess. [Kissing her. Mangle the work of nature, and deface
Nym. I cannot kiss, that is the humour of it; The patterns that by God and by French fathers
but adieu.

Had twenty years been made. This is a stem Pist. Let housewifery appear; keep close, I of that victorious stock: and let us fear thee command.

The native mightiness and fate of bim. Quick. Farewell; adieu.

(Exeunt.

Enter a Messenger.
SCENE IV.

Mess. Ambassadors from Henry king of En-
France. A Room in the French King's Palace. gland
Enter the French King, attended; the Dauphin, F. King. We'll give them present audience.

Do crave admittance to your majesty. the Duke of Burgundy, the Constable, and others.

Go, and bring them.

[Exeunt Mess, and certain Lords. Fr. King. Thus come the English with full You see, this chase is hotly follow'd, friends. power upon us;

Dau. Turn head, and stop pursuit; for coward and more than carefully it us concerns,

dogs To answer royally in our defences.

Most spend their mouths, when what they seem Therefore the dukes of Berry and of Bretagne,

to threaten, Of Brabant, and of Orleans, shall make forth, - Runs far before them. Good my sovereign, And you, Prince Dauphin,-with all swift de- Take up the English short; and let them know spatch,

of what a monarchy you are the head; To line, and new repair, our towns of war, Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin With men of courage, and with means de- As self-neglecting.

fendant : For England his approaches makes as fierce,

Re-enter Lords, with Exeter and Train. As waters to the sucking of a gulf.

Fr. King. From our brother England ? It fits us then, to be as provident

Exe. From him; and thus he greets your maAs fear may teach us, out of late examples

jesty. Left by the fatal and neglected English He wills you, in the name of God Almighty, Upon our fields.

That you divest yourself, and lay apart Dau.

My most redoubted father, The borrow'd glories, that, by gift of heaven, It is most meet we arm us 'gainst the foe: By law of nature, and of nations, 'long For peace itself should not so dull a kingdom, To him, and to his heirs; namely, the crown, (Though war, nor no known quarrel, were in And all wide-stretched honours that pertain, question)

By custom and the ordinance of times, But that defences, musters, preparations, Unto the crown of France. That you may Should be maintain'd, assembled, and collected, know, As were a war in expectation.

'Tis no sinister, nor no awkward claim, Therefore, I say, 'tis meet we all go forth, Pick'd from the worm-holes of long-vanish'd To view the sick and feeble parts of France:

days, And let us do it with no show of fear:

Nor from the dust of old oblivion rak'a, No, with no more, than if we heard that England He sends you this most memorable line, Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance:

[Gives a paper. For, my good liege, she is so idly king'd, In every branch truly demonstrative; Her sceptre so fantastically borne

Willing you, overlook this pedigree; By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth, And, when you find him evenly-deriv'd That fear attends her not.

From his most fam'd of famous ancestors, Con.

O peace, Prince Dauphin! Edward the Third, he bids you then resign You are too much mistaken in this king: Your crown and kingdom, indirectly held Question your grace the late ambassadors, From him the native and true challenger. With what great state he heard their embassy, Fr. King. Or else what follows? How well supplied with noble counsellors, Exe. Bloody constraint; for if you hide the How modest in exception, and, withal,

crown How terrible in constant resolution,

Even in your hearts, there will he rake for it; And you shall find, his vanities fore-spent And therefore in fierce tempest is he coming, Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus, In thunder, and in earthquake, like a Jove; Covering discretion with a coat of folly ; (That, if requiring fail, he will compel ;) As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots And bids you, in the bowels of the Lord, That shall first spring, and be most delicate. Deliver up the crown ; and to take mercy Dau. Well, 'tis not so, my lord high constable, on the poor souls, for whom this hungry war But though we think it so, it is no matter : Opens his vasty jaws: and on your head In cases of defence, 'tis best to weigh

Turns he the widows' tears, the orphans' cries, The enemy more mighty than he seems, The dead men's blood, the pining maidens' So the proportions of defence are fill'd;

groans, Which, of a weak and niggardly projection, For husbands, fathers, and betrothed lovers, Doth, like a miser, spoil his coat, with scanting That shall be swallow'd in this controversy A little cloth.

This is his claim, his threat'ning, and my Fr. King Think we King Harry strong;

message; And princes, look, you strongly arm to meet Unless the Dauphin be in presence here, him.

To whom expressly I bring greeting too. The kindred of him hath been flesh'd upon us; Ft. King. For us, we will consider of this And he is bred out of that bloody strain,

further ; That haunted us in our familiar paths:

To-morrow shall you bear our full intent
Witness our too much memorable shame, Back to our brother England.
When Cressy battle fatally was struck,

Dau.

For the Dauphit, And all our princes captiv'd, by the hand I stand here for him : What to him from Eng. Of that black name, Edward Black Prince of land ? Wales;

Exe. Scorn, and defiance; slight regard, com Whiles that his mountain sire,-on mountain tempt, standing,

And any thing that may not misbecome Op in the air, crown'd with the golden sun,-The mighty sender, doth he prize you at.

king

you!

Thus says my king: and, if your father's high-|And eke out our performance with your mind. ness

[Erit Do not, in grant of all demands at large,

SCENE I. The same. Before Harfleur.
Sweeten the bitter mock you sent his majesty,
He'll call you to so hot an answer for it,

Alarums. Enter King Henry, Exeter, Bed-
That caves and womby vaullages of France

ford, Gloster, and Soldiers, with Scaling

Lalders.
Shall chide your trespass, and return your mock
In second accent of his ordnance.

K. Hen. Once more unto the breach, dear
Dau. Say, if my father reuder fair reply,

friends, once niore; It is against my will : for I desire

Pr close the wall up with our English dead! Nothing but odds with England : to that end, In peitce, there's nothing so becomes a man, As matching to his youth and vanity,

As inodest stillness and humility : I did present him with those Paris balls.

But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Ese. He'll make your Paris Louvre shake Then imitate the action of the tiger ; for it,

Suitten the sinews, summon up the blood,
Were it the mistress court of mighty Europe : Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage:
And, be assured, you'll find a difference

Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
(As we, his subjects, have in wonder found,) Let it pry through the portage of the head,
Between the promise of his greener days, Like the brass cannon: let the browo'er
And these he masters now; now he weighs time, whelm it,
Even to the utmost grain; which you shall read As fearfully, as doth a galled rock
In your own losses, if he stay in France. O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Fr. King. To-norrow shall you know our Swill'd with the wild and wastelul ocean.
mind at full.

Now set the teeth, and stretch the nostril wide;
Exe. Despatch us with all speed, lest that our Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit

To his full height On, on, you noble English, Come here himself to question our delay; Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof! For he is footed in this land already.

Fathers, that, like so inany Alexanders,
Fr. King. You shall be soon despatch'd, with Have, in these parts from morn till even fought,
fair conditions:

And sheath'd their swords for lack of argument;
A night is but small breath, and little pause, Dishonour not your mothers; now attest,
To answer matters of this consequence. That those, whom you call'd fathers, did beget

[Exeunt.

Be copy now to men of grosser blood,

And teach them how to war!-And you, good
ACT III.

yeomen,

Whose limbs were made in England, show us
Enter Chorus.

here
Chor. Thus with imagin’d wing our swift The mettle of your pasture ; let us swear
scene flies,

That you are worth your breeding : which I In motion of no less celerity

doubt not ;
Than that of thought. Suppose, that you have For there is none of you so mean and base,
seen

That hath not noble lustre in your eyes
The well appointed king at Hampton pier I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Embark his royalty ; and his brave fleet Straining upon the start. The game's a foot
With silken streamers the young Phæbus fan- Follow your spirit: and, upon this charge,
ning.

Cry-God for Harry! England ! and Sain
Play with your fancies ; and in them behold,

George !
Upon the hempen tackle, ship-boys climbing : (Exeunt. Alarum, and Chambers go off.
Hear the shrill whistle, which doth order give
To sounds confus'd: behold the threaden sails,

SCENE II.

The same.
Borne with the invisible and creeping wind, Forces pass over; then enter Nym, Bardolph,
Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd

Pistol, and Boy. sea,

Bard. On, on, on, on, onl to the breach I to Breasting the lofty surge: 0, do but think,

the breach! You stand upon the rivage, and behold

Nym. 'Pray thee, corporal, stay ; the knocks
A city on the inconstant billows dancing; are too hot ; and, for mine own part, I have not
For so appears this fleet majestical,
Holding due course to Harfleur. Follow, follow! is the very plain-song of it.

a case of lives: the humour of it is too hot, that Grapple your minds to sternage of this navy;

Pist. The plain-song is most just; for hu. And leave your England, as dead midnight,

mours do abound; still,

Knocks go and come ! God's vassals drop and Guarded with grandsires, babies, and old wo

die; men,

And sword and shield, Either past, or not arriv'd to, pith and puissance :

In bloody field, For who is he, whose chin is but enrich'd

Doth win immortal fame. With one appearing hair, that will not follow

Boy. 'Would, I were in an alehouse in Los These culld and choice-drawn cavaliers to don! I would give all my fame for a pot of ale, France ?

and safety. Work, work, your thoughts, and therein see a

Pist. And I: siege :

If wishes would prevail with me,
Behold the ordnance on their carriages,
With fatal months gaping on girdled Harfleur.

My purpose should not fail with me,

But thither would I hie.
Suppose, the ambassador from the French comes Boy. As duly, but not as truly,

As bird doth sing on bough.
Tells Harry--that the king doth offer him
Katharine his daughter; and with her, to dowry

Enter Fluellen.
Some petty and unprofitable dukedoms.

Flu, Got's plood Sup to the preaches, you
The offer likes not: and the nimble gunner rascals! will you not up to the preaches ?
With linstock now the devilish cannon touches,

[Driving them forward. (Alatum; and Chambers go off. Pist. Be merciful, great duke, to men a And down goes all before them. Süll be kind, mould!

back ;

Abate thy rage, abate thy manly rage ! the work ish ill done; it ish give over : I would Abate thy rage, great duke!

have blowed up the town, so Chrish save me, Good bawcock, bate thy rage! use lenity, sweet la, in an hour. o, tish ill done, tish ill done; chuck!

by my hand, tish ill done! Nym. These be good humours l_your ho- Flu. Captain Macmorris, I peseech you now, nour wins bad humours.

will you vouchsafe me, look you, a few dispu(Ereunt Nym, Pistol, and Bardolph, tations with you, as partly touching or confollowed by Fluellen.

cerning the disciplines of the war, the Roman Boy. As young as I am, I have observed these wars, in the way of argument, look you, and three swashers. I am boy to them all three; friendly communication, party, 10 satisfy my but all they three, though they would serve me, opinion, and partly for the satisfaction, look could not be man to me : for, indeed, three you, of my mind, as touching the direction of such anticks do not amount to a man. For the military discipline; that is the point. Bardolph,-he is white-liver'd, and red-fac'd ; Jamy. It shall be very gud, gud seith, gud capby the means whereof, 'a faces it out, but fights tains bath: and I shall quit you with gud leve, not. For Pistol,-he hath a killing tongue, and as I may pick occasion; that sall I, marry. a quiet sword; by the means whereof 'a breaks Mac. It is no time to discourse, so Chrish words, and keeps whole weapons. For Nym, save me, the day is hot, and the weather, and -he hath heard, that men of few words are the the wars, and the king, and the dukes; it is no best men; and therefore he scorns to say his time to discourse. The town is beseeched, and prayers, lest 'a should be thought a coward : the trumpet calls us to the breach ; and we talk, but his few bad words are match'd with as few and, by Chrish, do nothing ; 'lis shame for us good deeds; for 'a never broke any man's head all : só God sa' me, 'tis shame to stand still ; it hut his own, and that was against a post, when is shame, by my hand: and there is throats to he was drunk. They will steal any ihing, and be cut, and works to be done : and there ish nocall it,-purchase. "Bardolph stole a lute-case : thing done, so Chrish sa' me, la. bore it twelve leagues, and sold it for three Jamy. By the mess, ere theise eyes of mine hall-pence. Nym and Bardolph are sworn bro- take themselves to slumber, aile do gude service, thers in filching; and in Calais they stole a or aile ligge i the grund for it: ay, or go to fire-shovel : I knew, by that piece of service, death : and aile pay it as valorously as I inay the men wonld carry coals. They would have that sall I surely do, that is the breff and the me as familiar with men's pockets, as their long : Marry, I wad full fain heard some ques gloves or their handkerchiefs ; which makes tion 'tween you 'tway. much against my manhood, if I should take Fu. Captain Macmorris, I think, look you. froin another's pocket, to put into mine : for it under your correction, there is not many of your is plain pocketing up of wrongs. I must leave nationthem, and seek some better service: their vil. Mar. Of my nation? What ish my nation ? ish lany goes against my weak stomach, and there a villain, and a bastard, and a knave, and a fore I must cast it up.

[Erit Boy. rascal ? What ish my nation? Who talks of my

nation ? Re-enter Fluellen, Gower following.

Flu. Look you, if you take the matter otherGow. Captain Fluellen, you must come pre-wise than is meant, Captain Macmorris, peradsently to the mines; the duke of Gloster would venture, I shall think you do not use me with speak with you.

that affability as in discretion you ought to use Flu. To the mines ! tell you the duke, it is me, look you; being as goot i man as yonrself, not so good to come to the inines : For, look both in the disciplines of wars, and in the deriyou, the mines is not according to the disciplines vation of my birth, and in other particularities. of the war; the concavities of it is not suficient; Mac. I do not know you so good a man as for, look yon, th' athversary (you may discuss myself: so Chrish save me, I will cut off your unto the duke, look you,) is dight himself four head. yards under the countermines : by Cheshu, I Gow. Gentlemen both, you will mistake each think, 'a will plow up all, if there is not better other. directions.

Jamy. Au! that's a foul faul:. Gow. The duke of Gloster, to whom the order

TA Parley sounded. of the siege is given, is altogether directed by Gow. The town sounds a parley. an Irishman; a very valiant gentleman, i'faith. Flu. Captain Macmorris, when there is more Flu. It is Captain Macmorris, is it not ? better opportunity to be required, look you, i Gou. I think it be.

will be so bold as to tell you, I know the disFlu. By Cheshu, he is an ass, as in the 'orld : ciplines of war; and there is an end. [Ereuni. I will verify as much in his peard: he has no nore directions in the true disciplines of the

SCENE III. wars, look you, of the Roman disciplines, than is a puppy-dog.

The same. Before the Gctes of arfleur. Enter Macmorris and Jamy, at a distance.

The Governor and some Citizens on the Walls; Gou. Here 'a comes; and the Scots captain,

the English Forces below. Enter King Henry

and his Train. Captain Jamy, with him.

Flu. Captain Jamy is a marvellous falorous K. Hen. How yet resolves the governor of the gentleman, that is certain : and of great expe

town? dition, and knowledge, in the ancient wars, This is the latest parle we will admit: upon my particular knowledge of his directions: Therefore, to our best mercy give yourselves ; by Cheshu, he will maintain his argument as Or, like to men proud of destruction, well as any military man in the 'orld, in the Defy us to our worst; for, as I am a soldier, uisciplines of the pristine wars of the Romans. (A name, thai, in my thoughts, becomes me Jomy. I say, guci-day, Captain Fluellen.

best) Flu. God-den to your worship, guot Captain If I begin the battery once again, Jamy.

I will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur Gow. How now, Captain Macmorris ? have Till in her ashes she lie buried. you quit the mines ? have the pioneers given o'er? The gates of mercy shall be all shut up;

Mac, By Chrish la, tish ill done : the work And the flesh'd soldier,-rongh and hard of ish give over, the trumpet sound the retreat. heart, By my hand, I swear, and by my father's soul, In liberty of bloody land, shall range

With conscience wide as hell ; mowing like Kath. De elbow. Je m'en faitz la repetition grass

de tous les mots, que vous m'avez appris des Your fresh-fair virgins, and your flowering in a present. fants.

Alice. Il est trop difficile, madame, comme jo What is it then to me, if impious war,

pense. Array'd in flames, like to the prince of fiends,

Kath. E.ccusez moy, Alice ; escoutez: De Do, with his

smirch'd complexion, all fell feats hand, de fingre, de nails, de arm, de bilbow. Enlink'd to waste and desolation ?

Alice. De elbow, madame. What is't to me, when you yourselves are cause, Kath. O Seigneur Dieu! je m'en oublie; De If your pure maidens fall into the hand

elbow. Comment appellez vous le col ? Or hot and forcing violation ?

Alice. De neck, madame.
What rein can hold licentious wickedness, Kath. De neck': Et le menton ?
When down the hill he holds lois fierce career ?

Alice. De chin.
We may as bootless spend our vain command Kath. De sin. Le col, de neck: ie menton,
Upon the enraged soldiers in their spoil,

de sin. As send precepts to the Leviathan

Alice. Ouy. Sauf vostre honneur ; en verite, To come ashore. Therefore, you men of Har-vous prononcez les mots aussi droict que les fleur,

natifs d'Angleterre. Take pity of your town, and of your people, Kath. Je ne doute point d'apprendre par la Whiles yet my soldiers are in my command; Whiles yet the cool and temperate wind of grace Alice. N'avez vous pas deja oublie ce que je

grace de Dieu ; et en peu de temps. O'erblows the filthy and contagious clouds

vous ay enseignee? of deadly murder, spoil, and villany.

Kath. Non, je reciteray a tous promptement. If not, why, in a moment, look to see

De hand, de fingre, de nails, The blind and bloody soldier with fond hand

Alice. De nails, madame. Defile the locks of your shrill-shrieking daugh- Kath. De nails, de arme, de ilbow. ters;

Alice. Sauf vostre honneur, de elbow. And their most reverend heads dash'd to the sin ; Comment appellez vous le pied' et la Your fathers taken by the silver beards, Kath. Ainsi dis je ; de elbow, de neck, et de walls;

robe? Your naked infants spitted upon pikes;

Alice. De foot, madame; et de con. Whiles the mad mothers with their howls con

Kath. De foot, et de con? O Seigneur Dien! fus'd Do break the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry grosse, et impudique, es non pour les dames

ces sont mots de son mauvais, corruptible, At Herod's bloody hunting slaughtermen. What say you ? will you yield, and this avoid ? ces mots devant les seigneurs de France, pour

d'honneur d'user : Je ne voudrois prononcer Or, guilty in defence, be thus destroy'd ?

tout le monde. Il faut de foot, et de con, neantGov. Our expectation hath this day an end:

moins. Je reciterai une autre fois ma lecon The Dauphin, whom of succour we entreated, Returns us—that his powers are not yet ready

ensemble : De hand, de fingre, de nails, de arm, To raise so great a siege. Therefore, dread king, Alice. Excellent madame!

de elbow, de neck, de sin, de foot, de con. We yield our town, and lives, to thy soft mercy : Kath. C'est assez pour une fois ; allons nous Enter our gates; dispose of us, and ours ;

(Ereunt. For we no longer are defensible.

a disner. K. Hen. Open your gates.-Come, uncle Ex

SCENE V. eter, Go you and enter Harfleur; there remain,

The same. Another Room in the same And fortify it strongly 'gainst the French Use mercy to them all. For us, dear uncle,

Enter the French King, the Dauphin, Duke of The winter coming on, and sickness growing

Bourbon, the Constable of France, and others. Upon our soldiers, -we'll retire to Calais. Fr. King. "Tis certain, he hath pass'd the river To-night in Harfleur will we be your guest;

Some. To-morrow for the march are we addrest. Con. And if he be not fought withal, my lord,

[Flourish. The King, &c. enter the town. Let us not live in France ; let us quit all, SCENE IV. Rouen. A Room in the Palace. Dau. O Dieu vivant ! shall a few sprays of

And give our vineyards to a barbarous people Enter Katharine and Alice.

The emptying of our father's luxury, Kath. Alice, tu as este en Angleterre, et tu Our scions, put in wild and savage stock, parles bien le langage.

Spirt up so suddenly into the clouds, Alice. Un peu, madame.

And overlook their grafters ? Kath. Je te prie, m'enseignez; il faut que Bour. Normans, but bastard Normans, Nor j'apprenne a parler. Comment appellez vous man hastards! la main, en Anglois ?

Mort de ma vie ! if they march along Alice. La main ? elle est appellee, de hand.

Unfought withal, but I will sell my dukedom, Kath. De hand. Et les doigts ?,

To buy a slobbery and a dirty farm Alice. Les doigts? ma foy, j'oublie les doigts; In that nook-shotten isle of Albion. mais je me souviendray. Les doigts ? je pense, Con. Dieu de battailes ! where have they this qu'ils sont appelle de fingres : ouy, de fingres. mettle?

Kath. La main, de havd; les doigts, de fin- Is not their climate foggy, raw, and dull ? gres. Je pense, que je suis le bon escolier. J'ay On whom, as in despite, the sun looks pale, gagne deux mots d'Anglais vistement. Com- Killing their fruit with frowns? Can sodden ment appellez vous les ongles ?

water, Alice. Les ongles ? les appellons, de nails. A dirench for sur-rein'd jades, their barley broth, Kath. De nails. Escoutez : dites moy, si te Decoct their cold blood to such valiant heat ? parle bien: de hand, de fingres, de nails. And shall our quick blood, spirited with wine,

Alice. C'est bien dit, madame; il est fort bon Seem frosty ? Ó, for honour of our land,
Anglois.

Let us not hang like roping icieles
Kath. Dites moy en Anglois, le bras. Upon our houses' thatch, whiles a more frosty
Alice. De armı, madame.

people Kath. Et le coude.

Sweat drops of gallant youth in our rich fields; Alice. De elbow.

Poor-we may cell them, in their native lords

us,