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Enter the Archbishop of Canterbury and
Bishop of Ely.

Cant. God, and his angels, guard your s
cred throne,
And make you long become it!
K. Hen.

Sure, we thank yo My learned lord, we pray you to proceed: And justly and religiously unfold, Why the law Salique, that they have in France, Or should, or should not, bar us in our claim. And God forbid, my dear and faithful lord, That you should fashion, wrest, or bow your reading,

HENRY V.

nicely charge your understanding soul With opening titles miscreate, whose right not in native colours with the truth; God doth know, how many, now in health, all drop their blood in approbation Dat your reverence shall incite us to: [son, erefore take heed how you impawn our peryou awake the sleeping sword of war; charge you in the name of God, take heed: never two such kingdoms did contend,

at much fall of blood; whose guiltless every one a woe, a sore complaint, [drops w him, whose wrongs give edge unto the swards

make such waste in brief mortality.
der this conjuration, speak, my lord:
we will bear, note, and believe in heart,
what you speak is in your conscience
[wash'd
re as rin with baptism.
. Then hear me, gracious sovereign,-
and you peers,

Je your lives, your faith, and services,
imperial throne:-There is no bar
against your highness' claim to France,
which they produce from Phara-
dood,-

ram Salicam mulieres nè succedant,
man shall succeed in Salique land:
atique (and the French unjustly glozet,
the realm of France, and Pharamond
ader of this law and female bar.
own authors faithfully affirm,
and Salique lies in Germany,
the floods of Sala and of Elbe:

Charles the great, having subdued the
burous,

I behind and settled certain French;
ding in diedain the German women,
dishonest manners of their life,

d there this law,-to wit, no female
he inheritrix in Salique land;
Salique, as I said, 'twixt Elbe and Sala,
day in Germany call'd-Meisen.
it well appear, the Salique law
devised for the realm of France:
the French possess the Salique land
handred one and twenty years
action of king Pharamond,
sed the founder of this law;
within the year of our redemption
undred twenty-six; and Charlesthe great
the Saxons, and did seat the French
the river Sala, in the year

red five. Besides, their writers say,
via, which deposed Childerick,
rir general, being descended [thair,
ad, which was daughter to king Clo.
dam and title to the crown of France.
Capet also, that usurped the crown
is the duke of Lorain, sole heir male

line and stock of Charles the great,→
b title with some show of truth,
12, in pure truth, it was corrupt and
Baught),

*) bimself as heir to the lady Lingare,
+ Explain.
Lay open.

Daughter to Charlemain, who was the son
To Lewis the emperor, and Lewis the son,
Of Charles the great. Also king Lewis the tenth,
Who was sole heir to the usurper Capet,
Could not keep quiet in his conscience,
Wearing the crown of France, till satisfied
That fair queen Isabel, his grandmother,.
Was lineal of the lady Ermengare,
Lgreat
Lorain:
Daughter to Charles the foresaid duke of
By the which marriage, the line of Charles the
Was re-united to the crown of France.
So that, as clear as is the summer's sun,
King Pepin's title, and Hugh Capet's claim,
King Lewis his satisfaction, all appear
To hold in right and title of the female:
So do the kings of France unto this day;
Howbeit they would hold up this Salique law,
To bar your highness claining from the female;
And rather choose to hide them in a net,
Than amply to imbare their crooked titles
Usurped from you and your progenitors.
[reign!
K. Hen. May I, with right and conscience,
make this claim?
Cant. The sin upon my head, dread sove-
For in the book of Numbers is it writ,-
When the son dies, let the inheritance
Descend unto the daughter. Gracious lord,
Stand for your own; unwind your bloody flag;
Look back unto your mighty ancestors: [tomb,
Go, my dread lord, to your great grandsire's
From whom you claim; invoke bis warlike
[prince;

spirit,

And your great uncle's, Edward the black
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
Forage in blood of French nobility T.
O noble English, that could entertain
With half their forces the full pride of France;
And let another half stand laughing by,
All out of work, and cold for action!

[dead.

Ely. Awake remembrance of these valiant
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
Is in the very May-morn of his youth,
Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises.
Exe. Your brother kings and monarchs of
the earth

[liege

Do all expect that you should rouse yourself,
As did the former lions of your blood.

West. They know, your grace hath cause,

and means, and might;

So hath your highness; never king of England
Had nobles richer, and more loyal subjects;
Whose hearts have left their bodies here in Eng-
And lie pavilion'd in the fields of France. [land,
Cant. O, let their bodies follow, my dear

[right:
liege,
In aid whereof, we of the spiritualty
With blood, and sword, and fire, to win your
Will raise your highness such a mighty sum,
§ Derived bis title.
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Make showy or specions.

At the battle of Cressy.

As never did the clergy at one time
Bring in to any of your ancestors. [French;
K. Hen. We must not only arm to invade the
But lay down our proportions to defend
Against the Scot, who will make road upon us
With all advantages.

Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds Which pillage they with merry march b To the tent-royal of their emperor: Who busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of geld: Cant. They of those marches, gracions so-The civil citizens kneading up the honeyg Shall be a wall sufficient to defend [vereign, Our inland from the pilfering borderers. K. Hen. We do not mean the coursing snatchers only,

hood.

The poor mechanic porters crowding in
Their heavy burdens at bis narrow gate;
The sad eyed justice, with his surly bum,
Delivering o'er to executors + pale
The lazy yawning drone. I this infer,-
That many things, having fell reference
To one concent, may work contrariousty;"
As many arrows, loosed several ways,
Fly to one inark;

But fear the main intendmentt of the Scot,
Who hath been still a giddy neighbour to uns;
For you shall read, that my great grandfather
Never went with his forces into France,
But that the Scot on his unfurnish'd kingdom
Came pouring, like the tide into a breach, As many several ways meet in one town
With ample and brim fulness of his force; As many fresh streams run in one self ser
Galling the gleaned land with hot essays; As many lines close in the dial's centre;
Girding with grievous siege, castles and towns; So may a thousand actions once afoot
That England, being empty of defence, End in one purpose, and be all well borne
Hath shook, and trembled at the ill neighbour-Without defeat. Therefore to France, my
[harm'd, my liege:
Cant. She hath been then more fear'd than
For hear her but exampled by herself,-
When all her chivalry hath been in France,
And she a mourning widow of her nobles,
She bath herself not only well defended,
But taken, and impounded as a stray, [France,
The king of Scots; whom she did send to
To fill king Edward's fame with prisoner kings;
And make your chronicle as rich with praise,
As is the ooze and bottom of the sea
With sunken wreck and sumless treasuries.
West. But there's a saying, very old and

true,

If that you will France win,
Then with Scotland first begin:
For once the eagle England being in prey,
To her unguarded nest the weasel Scot
Comes sneaking, and so sucks her princely eggs;
Playing the mouse, in absence of the cat,
To spoil and havoc more than she can eat..
Ere. It follows then, the cat must stay at
Yet that is but a cursed necessity; [home:
Since we have locks to safeguard necessaries,
And pretty traps to catch the petty thieves.
While that the armed hand doth fight abroad,
The advised head defends itself at home:
For government, though high, and low, and
lower,

Put into parts, doth keep in one concent§;
Congruing in a full and natural close,
Like music.

Cant. True: therefore doth heaven divide
The state of man in divers functions,
Setting endeavour in continual motion;
To which is fixed, as an aim or batt,
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

•The borders of England and Scotland.

Harmony.

Agreeing.
11 Executioners.

Divide your happy England into four;
Whereof take you one quarter into Pre
And you withal shall make all Gallia ha
If we, with thrice that power left at bo
Cannot defend our own door from the def
Let us be worried, and our nation lose
The name of bardiness, and policy.
K. Hen. Call in the messengers set
the Dauphin.

[Exit an Attendant. The K
cends his Throne.
Now are we well resolved: and,-ty?
help;
And
the noble sinews of our pow
yours,
France being ours, we'll bend it to our
Or break it all to pieces: Or there w
Ruling, in large and ample empery,
O'er France, and all her almost kingly
Or lay these bones in an unworthy era
Tombless, with no remembrance over
Either our history shall, with fall mouth,
Speak freely of our acts; or else our
Like Turkish mute, shall have a tan
Not worshipp'd with a waxen epitaph

Enter Ambassadors of France. Now are we well prepared to know the Of our fair cousin Dauphin; for, webent, Your greeting is from him, not from the Amb. May it please your majesty, ?

us leave

Freely to render what we have in chang
Or shall we sparingly show you far of
The Dauphin's meaning, and our cab

K. Hen. We are no tyrant, but a Ca

king;

Unto whose grace our passion is as sabi
As are our wretches fetter'd in our pris
Therefore with frank and with uncurbed
Tell us the Dauphin's mind.
Thus then,

Amb.

Your highness, lately sending into Fram
Did claim some certain dukedogs, in the

+ General disposition.
'Different degrees.

#Dominion

Frigh

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Of your great predecessor, king Edward the [master third. answer of which claim, the prince our Says-that you savour too much of your youth; est bids you be advised, there's nought in France,

It can be with a nimble galliard won; parteno cannot revel into dukedoms there:

[widows
Shall this his mock mock out of their dear
[down;
That shall fly with them: for many a thousand
husbands;
Mock mothers from their sons, mock castles
And some are yet ungotten, and unborn,
That shall have cause to curse the Dauphin's
But this lies all within the will of God, [scorn.
To whom I do appeal; and in whose name,
Hen. We are glad the Dauphin is so Tell you the Dauphin, I am coming on,
To venge me as I may, and to put forth
pleasant with us;
Present, and your pains, we thank you for: My rightful hand in a well-hallowed cause.
we have matched our rackets to these So, get you hence in peace; and tell the Dau-
His jest will savour but of shallow wit, [phin,
balls,
When thousands weep more than did laugh

will, in France, by God's grace, play a set, and strike his father's crown into the hazard+: him he hath made a match with such a Wrangler,

all the courts of France will be disturb'd le chaces 1. And we understand him well, porebe comes o'er us with our wilder days,

easuring what use we made of them.
ever valued this poor seats of England;
erefore, living hence, did give ourself
rbarons license; as 'tis ever common,
men are merriest when they are from
bome.

ell the Dauphin I will keep my state,
kea king, and show my sail of greatness,
l do rouse me in my throne of France:
I have laid by my majesty,

beadlodded like a man for working days;
Grill rise there with so full a glory,

A nest of hollow bosoms, which he fills ad Now all the youth of England are on With numerous crowns; and three corrupted ken dalliance in the wardrobe lies; [fire, thrive the armourers, and honour's thought

solely in the breast of every man: sell the pasture now, to buy the horse; wing the mirror of all Christian kings, winged heels, as English Mercuries. ew sits expectation in the air; bides a sword, from hilts unto the point, crowns imperial, crowns, and coronets, sed to Harry, and his followers. French, advised by good intelligence, This most dreadful preparation,

But till the king come forth, and not till then, | And, which is worse, within thy nasty mouth!
Unto Southampton do we shift our scene. I do retort the solus in thy bowels:
For I can take, and Pistol's cock is up,
And flashing fire will follow.

[Exit.

SCENE I. The same. Eastcheap.
Enter NYM and BARDOLPH.
Bard. Well met, corporal Nym.
Nym. Good morrow, lieutenant Bardolph.
Bard. What, are ancient Pistol and you
friends yet?

Nym. For my part, I care not: Isay little: but when time shall serve, there shall be miles; but that shall be as it may. I dare not fight; but I will wink, and hold out mine iron: It is a simple one; but what though? it will toast cheese; and it will endure cold as another man's sword will: and there's the humour of it.

Bard. I will bestow a breakfast, to make you friends; and we'll be all three sworn brothers to France; let it be so, good corporal Nym.

Nym. 'Faith, I will live so long as I may, that's the certain of it; and when I cannot live any longer, I will do as I may; that is my rest, that is the rendezvous of it.

Nym. I am not Barbasons; you camet, conjure me. I have an humour to knock you indifferently well: If you grow foal with ingy Pistol, I will scour you with my rapier, a may, in fair terms: if you would walk of would prick your guts a little, in good term, I may; and that's the humour of it.

Pist. O braggard vile, and damned fen

wight!

The grave doth gape, and doting dema Therefore exhale. [PIST. and Nyx, érøj Bard. Hear me, hear me what I say: that strikes the first stroke, I'll rua hin ups the hilts, as I am a soldier.

Pist. An oath of mickie might; and
shall abate,

Give me thy fist, thy fore-foot to me give;
Thy spirits are most tall.

Nym. I will cut thy throat, one time other in fair terms; that is the humour (ổ đ Pist. Coup le gorge, that's the word! thee defy again.

hound of Crete, think'st thou my sp
No; to the spital⚫ go,
Aud from the powdering tub of infamy
Fetch forth the lazar kite of Cressid's kind
Doll Tear-sheet she by name, and her ep
I have, and I will hold, the quondam
For the only she; and-Pauca, there's CLO
Enter the Boy.

Bard. It is certain, corporal, that he is mar-O ried to Nell Quickly and, certainly, she did you wrong; for you were troth-plight to her. Nym. I cannot tell; things must be as they may men may sleep, and they may have their throats about them at that time; and, some say, knives have edges. It must be as it may though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod. There must be conclusions. Well, I cannot tell.

Enter PISTOL and Mrs. QUICKLY. Bard. Here comes ancient Pistol, and his wife:-good corporal, be patient here. How now, mine host Pistol?

Pist. Base tiket, call'st thou me-host? Now, by this hand I swear, I scorn the term; Nor shall my Nell keep lodgers.

Boy. Mine host Pistol, you must come my master, and you, hostess;-he is) sick, and would to bed.-Good Bardolp thy nose between his sheets, and do the of a warming-pan: 'faith, he's very ill.

Bard. Away, you rogue.

Bard. Come, shall I make you two fog We must to France together; Why, the should we keep knives to cat one anoti throats?

Quick. By my troth, he'll yield the c pudding one of these days: the king has his heart.-Good husband, come home Quick. No, by my troth, not long: for wesently. [Exeunt Mrs. QUICKLY caunot lodge and board a dozen or fourteen gentlewomen, that live honestly by the prick of their needles, but it will be thought we keep a bawdy-house straight. (NYм draws his sword. O well-a-day, Lady, if he be not drawn now! O Lord! here's corporal Nym's-now shall we have wilful adultery and murder committed. Good lieutenant Bardolph,-good corporal, offer nothing here. Nym. Pish!

Pist. Pish for thee, Iceland dog! thou prick-eared cur of Iceland!

solus.

Quick. Good corporal Nym, show the va lour of a man, and put up thy sword, Nym. Will you shog off? I would have you [Sheathing his sword. Pist. Solus, egregious dog? O viper vile! The solus in thy most marvellous face; The solus in thy teeth,and in thy throat,[perdy 1: And in thy hateful lungs, yea, in thy maw, • What I am resolved on,

+ Clown,

Pist. Let floods o'erswell, and fendi) food howl on!

Nym. You'll pay me the eight shilingi won of you at betting?

Pist. Base is the slave that pays. Nym. That now I will have; that's de mour of it.

Pist. As manhood shall compound; P

home.

Bard. By this sword, he that makes first thrust, I'll kill him; by this sword I w Pist. Sword is an oath, and oaths t have their course.

Bard. Corporal Nym, an thon k friends, be friends: an thou wilt not, why be enemies with me 100. Pr'ythee, pu vë

1 Par Dieu!.

Breathe your last.
Blood hound,
Of Cressida's nature; see the play of Troilus and Cressida.