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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of King Henry the Fifth, by William Shakespeare
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+Title: King Henry the Fifth
+       Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre
+
+Author: William Shakespeare
+
+Editor: Charles Kean
+
+Release Date: September 28, 2007 [EBook #22791]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: UTF-8
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK KING HENRY THE FIFTH ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by Louise Hope, David Starner, Curtis Weyant and
+the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
+http://www.pgdp.net
+
+
+
+
+
+[Transcriber’s Note:
+
+This is not the text of _Henry V_ as written by Shakespeare. It is an
+acting version produced by Charles Kean in 1859. Approximate scene
+correspondences are listed at the end of the e-text.
+
+The original book had three types of notes. Footnotes, marked with
+asterisks or numbers, were printed at the bottom of the page. Longer
+notes, marked with letters, were printed at the end of each Act as
+“Historical Notes”. For this e-text the asterisked notes are printed
+immediately after their paragraph, while numbered footnotes are
+collected at the end of each scene. The Historical Notes remain in
+their original location, as does the Interlude between Acts IV and V
+(printed as a very long asterisked footnote). The original numbering
+has been retained.]
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+           *       *       *       *
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+             Shakespeare’s Play Of
+
+             KING HENRY THE FIFTH,
+
+        Arranged for Representation at
+            the Princess’s Theatre,
+
+                      with
+       HISTORICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES,
+
+                       by
+             CHARLES KEAN, F.S.A.,
+
+              As First Performed
+          On MONDAY, MARCH 28th, 1859.
+
+
+
+
+  Entered At Stationers’ Hall.
+
+  London:
+  Printed by John K. Chapman and Co.,
+  5, Shoe Lane, and Peterborough Court, Fleet Street.
+
+  PRICE ONE SHILLING.
+  TO BE HAD IN THE THEATRE.
+
+
+
+
+DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
+
+  [Transcriber’s Note:
+  “Mrs. Charles Kean” was otherwise known as Ellen Tree. Throughout the
+  play, the Hostess is called by her Henry IV name, Mrs. Quickly.]
+
+  KING HENRY THE FIFTH,                       Mr. CHARLES KEAN.
+  DUKE OF BEDFORD,    }                     { Mr. DALY.
+  DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, }                     { Miss DALY.
+    (_Brothers to the King_)
+  DUKE OF EXETER (_Uncle to the King_)        Mr. COOPER.
+  DUKE OF YORK (_Cousin to the King_)         Mr. FLEMING.
+  EARL OF SALISBURY,                          Mr. WILSON.
+  EARL OF WESTMORELAND,                       Mr. COLLETT.
+  EARL OF WARWICK,                            Mr. WARREN.
+  ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY,                   Mr. H. MELLON.
+  BISHOP OF ELY,                              Mr. F. COOKE.
+  EARL OF CAMBRIDGE, }                      { Mr. T. W. EDMONDS.
+  LORD SCROOP,       }                      { Mr. CORMACK.
+  SIR THOMAS GREY,   }                      { Mr. STOAKES.
+    (_Conspirators against the King_)
+  SIR THOMAS ERPINGHAM, }                   { Mr. GRAHAM.
+  GOWER,                }                   { Mr. G. EVERETT.
+  FLUELLEN,             }                   { Mr. MEADOWS.
+    (_Officers in King Henry’s Army_)
+  BATES,    }                               { Mr. DODSWORTH.
+  WILLIAMS, }                               { Mr. RYDER.
+    (_Soldiers in the same_)
+  NYM,      }                               { Mr. J. MORRIS.
+  BARDOLPH, }                               { Mr. H. SAKER.
+  PISTOL,   }                               { Mr. FRANK MATTHEWS.
+    (_formerly Servants to Falstaff,
+    now Soldiers in the same_)
+  BOY (_Servant to them_)                     Miss KATE TERRY.
+  ENGLISH HERALD,                             Mr. COLLIER.
+
+  CHORUS,                                     Mrs. CHARLES KEAN.
+
+  CHARLES THE SIXTH (_King of France_)        Mr. TERRY.
+  LEWIS (_the Dauphin_)                       Mr. J. F. CATHCART.
+  DUKE OF BURGUNDY,                           Mr. ROLLESTON.
+  DUKE OF ORLEANS,                            Mr. BRAZIER.
+  DUKE OF BOURBON,                            Mr. JAMES.
+  THE CONSTABLE OF FRANCE,                    Mr. RAYMOND.
+  RAMBURES, }                               { Mr. WALTERS.
+  GRANDPRÈ, }                               { Mr. RICHARDSON.
+    (_French Lords_)
+  GOVERNOR OF HARFLEUR,                       Mr. PAULO.
+  MONTJOY (_French Herald_)                   Mr. BARSBY.
+
+  ISABEL (_Queen of France_)                  Miss MURRAY.
+  KATHARINE                                   Miss CHAPMAN.
+    (_Daughter of Charles and Isabel_)
+  QUICKLY (_Pistol’s Wife, a Hostess_)        Mrs. W. DALY.
+
+_Lords, Ladies, Officers, French and English Soldiers, Messengers,
+and Attendants._
+
+
+The SCENE, at the Beginning of the Play, lies in England;
+but afterwards in France.
+
+
+
+
+STAGE DIRECTIONS.
+
+R.H. means Right Hand; L.H. Left Hand; U.E. Upper Entrance. R.H.C.
+Enters through the centre from the Right Hand; L.H.C. Enters through
+the centre from the Left Hand.
+
+
+RELATIVE POSITIONS OF THE PERFORMERS WHEN ON THE STAGE.
+
+R. means on the Right Side of the Stage; L. on the Left Side of the
+Stage; C. Centre of the Stage; R.C. Right Centre of the Stage; L.C.
+Left Centre of the Stage.
+
+--> The reader is supposed _to be on the Stage_, facing the Audience.
+
+  THE SCENERY Painted by Mr. GRIEVE and Mr. TELBIN,
+  Assisted by Mr. W. GORDON, Mr. F. LLOYDS,
+  Mr. CUTHBERT, Mr. DAYES, Mr. MORRIS, &c., &c.
+  THE MUSIC under the direction of Mr. ISAACSON.
+  THE DANCE IN THE EPISODE by Mr. CORMACK.
+  THE DECORATIONS AND APPOINTMENTS by Mr. E. W. BRADWELL.
+  THE DRESSES by Mrs. and Miss HOGGINS.
+  THE MACHINERY by Mr. G. HODSDON.
+  PERRUQUIER, Mr. ASPLIN, of No. 13, New Bond Street.
+
+--> _For reference to Historical Authorities indicated by Letters, see
+end of each Act._
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+
+In the selection of my last Shakespearean revival at the Princess’s
+Theatre, I have been actuated by a desire to present some of the finest
+poetry of our great dramatic master, interwoven with a subject
+illustrating a most memorable era in English history. No play appears
+to be better adapted for this two-fold purpose than that which treats
+of Shakespeare’s favorite hero, and England’s favorite king--Henry the
+Fifth.
+
+The period thus recalled is flattering to our national pride; and
+however much the general feeling of the present day may be opposed to
+the evils of war, there are few amongst us who can be reminded of the
+military renown achieved by our ancestors on the fields of Crecy,
+Poitiers, and Agincourt, without a glow of patriotic enthusiasm.
+
+The political motives which induced the invasion of France in the year
+1415 must be sought for in the warlike spirit of the times, and in the
+martial character of the English sovereign. It is sufficient for
+dramatic purposes that a few thousands of our countrymen, in their march
+through a foreign land, enfeebled by sickness and encompassed by foes,
+were able to subdue and scatter to the winds the multitudinous hosts of
+France, on whose blood-stained soil ten thousand of her bravest sons lay
+slain, mingled with scarcely one hundred Englishmen![*] Such a
+marvellous disparity might well draw forth the pious acknowledgment of
+King Henry,--
+
+  “O God, thy arm was here;--
+  And not to us, but to thy arm alone,
+  Ascribe we all.--When, without stratagem,
+  But in plain shock and even play of battle,
+  Was ever known so great and little loss
+  On one part and on the other?--Take it, God,
+  For it is only thine!”
+
+    [Footnote *: The English authorities vary in their statements
+    from seventeen to one hundred killed. The French historian,
+    Monstrelet, estimates the loss of his countrymen at ten thousand
+    men.]
+
+Shakespeare in this, as in other of his dramatic histories, has closely
+followed Holinshed; but the light of his genius irradiates the dry pages
+of the chronicler. The play of Henry the Fifth is not only a poetical
+record of the past, but it is, as it were, “a song of triumph,” a lay of
+the minstrel pouring forth a pæan of victory. The gallant feats of our
+forefathers are brought vividly before our eyes, inspiring sentiments
+not to be excited by the mere perusal of books, reminding us of the
+prowess of Englishmen in earlier days, and conveying an assurance of
+what they will ever be in the hour of peril.
+
+The descriptive poetry assigned to the “Chorus” between the acts is
+retained as a peculiar feature, connecting and explaining the action as
+it proceeds. This singular personage, so different from the Chorus of
+antiquity, I have endeavoured to render instrumental to the general
+effect of the play; the whole being planned with a view to realise, as
+far as the appliances of a theatre can be exercised, the events of the
+extraordinary campaign so decisively closed by the great conflict of
+Agincourt, which ultimately placed two crowns on the brow of the
+conqueror, and resulted in his marriage with Katharine, the daughter of
+Charles the Sixth, King of France. Shakespeare does not in this
+instance, as in _Pericles_ and the _Winter’s Tale_, assign a distinct
+individuality to the Chorus. For the figure of Time, under the semblance
+of an aged man, which has been heretofore presented, will now be
+substituted Clio, the muse of History. Thus, without violating
+consistency, an opportunity is afforded to Mrs. Charles Kean, which the
+play does not otherwise supply, of participating in this, the concluding
+revival of her husband’s management.
+
+Between the fourth and fifth acts I have ventured to introduce, as in
+the case of _Richard the Second_, a historical episode of action,
+exhibiting the reception of King Henry on returning to his capital,
+after the French expedition.
+
+It would be impossible to include the manifold incidents of the royal
+progress in one scene: neither could all the sites on which they
+actually took place be successively exhibited. The most prominent are,
+therefore, selected, and thrown into one locality--the approach to old
+London bridge. Our audiences have previously witnessed the procession of
+Bolingbroke, followed in silence by his deposed and captive predecessor.
+An endeavor will now be made to exhibit the heroic son of that very
+Bolingbroke, in his own hour of more lawful triumph, returning to the
+same city; while thousands gazed upon him with mingled devotion and
+delight, many of whom, perhaps, participated in the earlier reception of
+his father, sixteen years before, under such different and painful
+circumstances. The Victor of Agincourt is hailed, not as a successful
+usurper, but as a conqueror; the adored sovereign of his people; the
+pride of the nation; and apparently the chosen instrument of heaven,
+crowned with imperishable glory. The portrait of this great man is drawn
+throughout the play with the pencil of a master-hand. The pleasantry of
+the prince occasionally peeps through the dignified reserve of the
+monarch, as instanced in his conversations with Fluellen, and in the
+exchange of gloves with the soldier Williams. His bearing is invariably
+gallant, chivalrous, and truly devout; surmounting every obstacle by his
+indomitable courage; and ever in the true feeling of a christian
+warrior, placing his trust in the one Supreme Power, the only Giver of
+victory! The introductions made throughout the play are presented less
+with a view to spectacular effect, than from a desire to render the
+stage a medium of historical knowledge, as well as an illustration of
+dramatic poetry. _Accuracy_, not _show_, has been my object; and where
+the two coalesce, it is because the one is inseparable from the other.
+The entire scene of the episode has been modelled upon the facts related
+by the late Sir Harris Nicholas, in his translated copy of a highly
+interesting Latin MS., accidentally discovered in the British Museum,
+written by a Priest, who accompanied the English army; and giving a
+detailed account of every incident, from the embarkation at Southampton
+to the return to London. The author tells us himself, that he was
+present at Agincourt, and “_sat on horseback with the other priests,
+among the baggage, in the rear of the battle_.” We have, therefore, the
+evidence of an eyewitness; and by that testimony I have regulated the
+general representation of this noble play, but more especially the
+introductory episode.
+
+The music, under the direction of Mr. Isaacson, has been, in part,
+selected from such ancient airs as remain to us of, or anterior to, the
+date of Henry the Fifth, and, in part, composed to accord with the same
+period. The “Song on the Victory of Agincourt,” published at the end of
+Sir Harris Nicholas’s interesting narrative, and introduced in the
+admirable work entitled “Popular Music of the Olden Time,” by
+W. Chappell, F.S.A., is sung by the boy choristers in the Episode. The
+“Chanson Roland,” to be found in the above-named work, is also given by
+the entire chorus in the same scene. The Hymn of Thanksgiving, at the
+end of the fourth act, is supposed to be as old as A.D. 1310. To give
+effect to the music, fifty singers have been engaged.
+
+As the term of my management is now drawing to a close, I may, perhaps,
+be permitted, in a few words, to express my thanks for the support and
+encouragement I have received. While endeavouring, to the best of my
+ability and judgment, to uphold the interests of the drama in its most
+exalted form, I may conscientiously assert, that I have been animated by
+no selfish or commercial spirit. An enthusiast in the art to which my
+life has been devoted, I have always entertained a deeply-rooted
+conviction that the plan I have pursued for many seasons, might, in due
+time, under fostering care, render the Stage productive of much benefit
+to society at large. Impressed with a belief that the genius of
+Shakespeare soars above all rivalry, that he is the most marvellous
+writer the world has ever known, and that his works contain stores of
+wisdom, intellectual and moral, I cannot but hope that one who has
+toiled for so many years, in admiring sincerity, to spread abroad
+amongst the multitude these invaluable gems, may, at least, be
+considered as an honest labourer, adding his mite to the great cause of
+civilisation and educational progress.
+
+After nine years of unremitting exertion as actor and director, the
+constant strain of mind and body warns me to retreat from a combined
+duty which I find beyond my strength, and in the exercise of which,
+neither zeal, nor devotion, nor consequent success, can continue to
+beguile me into a belief that the end will compensate for the many
+attendant troubles and anxieties. It would have been impossible, on my
+part, to gratify my enthusiastic wishes, in the illustration of
+Shakespeare, had not my previous career as an actor placed me in a
+position of comparative independence with regard to speculative
+disappointment. Wonderful as have been the yearly receipts, yet the vast
+sums expended--sums, I have every reason to believe, not to be
+paralleled in any theatre of the same capability throughout the
+world--make it advisable that I should now retire from the self-imposed
+responsibility of management, involving such a perilous outlay; and the
+more especially, as a building so restricted in size as the Princess’s,
+renders any adequate return utterly hopeless.
+
+My earnest aim has been to promote the well-being of my Profession; and
+if, in any degree, I have attained so desirable an object, I trust I may
+not be deemed presumptuous in cherishing the belief, that my arduous
+struggle has won for me the honourable reward of--Public Approval.
+
+CHARLES KEAN.
+
+
+
+
+KING HENRY THE FIFTH.
+
+
+    _Enter CHORUS._
+
+  O for a muse of fire, that would ascend
+  The brightest heaven of invention,[1]
+  A kingdom for a stage, princes to act,
+  And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
+  Then should the warlike Harry, like himself,
+  Assume the port of Mars;[2] and, at his heels,
+  Leash’d in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire,
+  Crouch for employment.(A) But pardon, gentles all,
+  The flat unraised spirit that hath dar’d
+  On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth
+  So great an object: Can this cockpit hold[3]
+  The vasty fields of France? or may we cram
+  Upon this little stage[4] the very casques[5]
+  That did affright the air at Agincourt?
+  O, pardon! since a crooked figure may
+  Attest in little place, a million;
+  And let us, cyphers to this great accompt,
+  On your imaginary forces[6] work.
+  Suppose within the girdle of these walls
+  Are now confined two mighty monarchies,
+  Whose high upreared and abutting fronts
+  The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder:[7]
+  Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts;
+  Into a thousand parts divide one man,[8]
+  And make imaginary puissance;[9]
+  For ’tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings,
+  Carry them here and there; jumping o’er times,
+  Turning the accomplishment of many years
+  Into an hour-glass: For the which supply,
+  Admit me Chorus to this history;
+  Who, prologue-like, your humble patience pray,
+  Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play.
+
+    [_Exit._
+
+
+    [Footnote Ic.1: _O, for a muse of fire, &c._] This goes, says
+    Warburton, upon the notion of the Peripatetic system, which
+    imagines several heavens one above another, the last and highest
+    of which was one of fire. It alludes, likewise, to the aspiring
+    nature of fire, which, by its levity, at the separation of the
+    chaos, took the highest seat of all the elements.]
+
+    [Footnote Ic.2: _Assume the port of Mars;_] i.e., the demeanour,
+    the carriage, air of Mars. From portée, French.]
+
+    [Footnote Ic.3: _Can this cockpit hold_] Shakespeare probably
+    calls the stage a cockpit, as the most diminutive enclosure
+    present to his mind.]
+
+    [Footnote Ic.4: _Upon this little stage_] The original text is
+    “within this wooden O,” in allusion, probably, to the theatre
+    where this history was exhibited, being, from its _circular_ form,
+    called _The Globe_.]
+
+    [Footnote Ic.5: _----the very +casques+_] Even the helmets, much
+    less the men by whom they were worn.]
+
+    [Footnote Ic.6: _----+imaginary+ forces_] _Imaginary_ for
+    _imaginative_, or your powers of fancy. Active and passive words
+    are by Shakespeare frequently confounded.]
+
+    [Footnote Ic.7: _The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder._]
+    _Perilous narrow_ means no more than _very narrow_. In old books
+    this mode of expression frequently occurs.]
+
+    [Footnote Ic.8: _Into a thousand parts divide one man,_] i.e.,
+    suppose every man to represent a thousand.]
+
+    [Footnote Ic.9: _----make imaginary puissance:_] i.e., imagine you
+    see an enemy.]
+
+
+
+
+ACT I.
+
+
+SCENE I.--THE PAINTED CHAMBER IN THE ROYAL PALACE AT WESTMINSTER.
+
+    [Frequent reference is made in the Chronicles to the Painted
+    Chamber, as the room wherein Henry V. held his councils.]
+
+  _Trumpets sound._
+
+    _KING HENRY(B) discovered on his throne (CENTRE)[*], BEDFORD,(C)
+    GLOSTER,(D) EXETER,(E) WARWICK, WESTMORELAND, and others in
+    attendance._
+
+    [Footnote *: The throne is powdered with the letter S. This
+    decoration made its appearance in the reign of Henry IV., and
+    has been differently accounted for. The late Sir Samuel Meyrick
+    supposes it to be the initial letter of Henry’s motto,
+    “Souveraine.” The King’s costume is copied from Strutt’s “Regal
+    Antiquities.” The dresses of the English throughout the play are
+    taken from the works of Strutt, Meyrick, Shaw, and Hamilton Smith.
+    The heraldry has been kindly supplied by Thomas Willement, Esq.,
+    F.S.A. The Lord Great Chamberlain carrying the sword of state is
+    De Vere, Earl of Oxford.]
+
+  _K. Hen._ Where is my gracious Lord of Canterbury?
+
+  _Exe._ (L.) Not here in presence.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Send for him, good uncle.
+
+    [_EXETER beckons to a HERALD, who goes off, L.H._
+
+  _West._ (L.) Shall we call in the ambassador, my liege?
+
+  _K. Hen._ Not yet, my cousin: we would be resolv’d,
+  Before we hear him, of some things of weight,
+  That task[1] our thoughts, concerning us and France.
+
+    _Re-enter HERALD with the Archbishop of CANTERBURY,(F)[2] and
+    Bishop of ELY,[3] L.H. The Bishops cross to R.C._
+
+  _Cant._ (R.C.) Heaven and its angels guard your sacred throne,
+  And make you long become it!
+
+  _K. Hen._                  Sure, we thank you.
+  My learned lord, we pray you to proceed,
+  And justly and religiously unfold,
+  Why the law Salique,(G) that they have in France,
+  Or should, or should not, bar us in our claim:
+  And Heaven forbid, my dear and faithful lord,
+  That you should fashion, wrest,[4] or bow your reading,[5]
+  Or nicely charge your understanding soul[6]
+  With opening titles miscreate,[7] whose right
+  Suits not in native colours with the truth.
+  For Heaven doth know how many, now in health,
+  Shall drop their blood in approbation[8]
+  Of what your reverence shall incite us to.
+  Therefore take heed how you impawn our person,[9]
+  How you awake the sleeping sword of war:
+  We charge you, in the name of Heaven, take heed:
+  Under this conjuration, speak, my lord.
+
+  _Cant._ (R.C.) Then hear me, gracious sovereign, and you peers,
+  That owe your lives, your faith, and services,
+  To this imperial throne.--There is no bar
+  To make against your highness’ claim to France
+  But this, which they produce from Pharamond,--
+  _No woman shall succeed in Salique land_:
+  Which Salique land the French unjustly gloze[10]
+  To be the realm of France, and Pharamond
+  The founder of this law and female bar.
+  Yet their own authors faithfully affirm
+  That the land Salique lies in Germany,
+  Between the floods of Sala and of Elbe;
+  Where Charles the Great, having subdued the Saxons,
+  There left behind and settled certain French:
+  Nor did the French possess the Salique land
+  Until four hundred one and twenty years
+  After defunction of King Pharamond,
+  Idly supposed the founder of this law.
+  Besides, their writers say,
+  King Pepin, which deposed Childerick,
+  Did 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 claiming from the female;
+  And rather choose to hide them in a net
+  Than amply to imbare their crooked titles[11]
+  Usurp’d from you and your progenitors.
+
+  _K. Hen._ May I with right and conscience make this claim?
+
+  _Cant._ (R.C.) The sin upon my head, dread sovereign!
+  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:
+  Go, my dread lord, to your great grandsire’s tomb,
+  From whom you claim; invoke his warlike spirit,
+  And your great uncle’s, Edward the black prince,
+  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.[12]
+
+  _Ely._ (R.C.) Awake remembrance of these valiant dead,
+  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 liege
+  Is in the very May-morn of his youth,
+  Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises.
+
+  _Exe._ (L.) Your brother kings and monarchs of the earth
+  Do all expect that you should rouse yourself,
+  As did the former lions of your blood.
+
+  _West._ (L.) They know your grace hath cause, and means and might:
+  So hath your highness;[13] never king of England
+  Had nobles richer and more loyal subjects,
+  Whose hearts have left their bodies here in England,
+  And lie pavilion’d in the fields of France.
+
+  _Cant._ O, let their bodies follow, my dear liege,
+  With blood, and sword, and fire to win your right:
+  In aid whereof we of the spiritualty
+  Will raise your highness such a mighty sum,
+  As never did the clergy at one time
+  Bring in to any of your ancestors.
+
+  _K. Hen._ We must not only arm to invade the French,
+  But lay down our proportions to defend
+  Against the Scot, who will make road upon us
+  With all advantages.
+
+  _Cant._ (R.C.) They of those marches,[14] gracious sovereign,
+  Shall be a wall sufficient to defend
+  Our inland from the pilfering borderers.
+  Therefore to France, my liege.
+  Divide your happy England into four;
+  Whereof take you one quarter into France,
+  And you withal shall make all Gallia shake.
+  If we, with thrice that power left at home,
+  Cannot defend our own door from the dog,
+  Let us be worried, and our nation lose
+  The name of hardiness and policy.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Call in the messengers sent from the Dauphin.
+
+    [_Exit HERALD with LORDS, L.H._
+
+  Now are we well resolv’d; and by Heaven’s help,
+  And yours, the noble sinews of our power,--
+  France being ours, we’ll bend it to our awe,
+  Or break it all to pieces.
+
+    _Re-enter HERALD and Lords, L.H., with the AMBASSADOR of FRANCE,
+    French Bishops, Gentlemen, and Attendants carrying a treasure
+    chest, L.H._
+
+  Now are we well prepar’d to know the pleasure
+  Of our fair cousin Dauphin; for we hear
+  Your greeting is from him, not from the king.
+
+  _Amb._ (L.C.) May it please your majesty to give us leave
+  Freely to render what we have in charge;
+  Or shall we sparingly show you far off
+  The Dauphin’s meaning and our embassy?
+
+  _K. Hen._ We are no tyrant, but a Christian king;
+  Therefore with frank and with uncurbed plainness
+  Tell us the Dauphin’s mind.
+
+  _Amb._                    Thus, then, in few.[15]
+  Your highness, lately sending into France,
+  Did claim some certain dukedoms, in the right
+  Of your great predecessor, King Edward the Third.
+  In answer of which claim, the prince our master
+  Says,--that you savour too much of your youth;
+  And bids you be advis’d, there’s nought in France
+  That can be with a nimble galliard won;[16]
+  You cannot revel into dukedoms there.
+  He therefore sends you, meeter for your spirit,
+  This tun of treasure; and, in lieu of this,
+  Desires you let the dukedoms that you claim
+  Hear no more of you. This the Dauphin speaks.
+
+  _K. Hen._ What treasure, uncle?
+
+  _Exe._ (_Opening the chest._)
+
+                                Tennis-balls, my liege.(H)
+
+  _K. Hen._ We are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us;
+  His present and your pains we thank you for:
+  When we have match’d our rackets to these balls,
+  We will, in France, by Heaven’s grace, play a set
+  Shall strike his father’s crown into the hazard.
+  And we understand him well,
+  How he comes o’er us with our wilder days,
+  Not measuring what use we made of them.
+  But tell the Dauphin,--I will keep my state;
+  Be like a king, and show my soul of greatness,
+  When I do rouse me in my throne of France:
+  For I will rise there with so full a glory,
+  That I will dazzle all the eyes of France,
+  Yea, strike the Dauphin blind to look on us.
+  But this lies all within the will of Heaven,
+  To whom I do appeal; And in whose name,
+  Tell you the Dauphin, I am coming on,
+  To venge me as I may, and to put forth
+  My rightful hand in a well-hallow’d cause.
+  So, get you hence in peace; and tell the Dauphin,
+  His jest will savour but of shallow wit,
+  When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it.--
+  Convey them with safe conduct.--Fare you well.
+
+    [_Exeunt AMBASSADOR, and Attendants, L.H._
+
+  _Exe._ This was a merry message.
+
+  _K. Hen._ We hope to make the sender blush at it.
+
+    [_The KING rises._
+
+  Therefore, my lords, omit no happy hour
+  That may give furtherance to our expedition;
+  For we have now no thought in us but France,
+  Save those to Heaven, that run before our business.
+  Therefore let our proportions for these wars
+  Be soon collected, and all things thought upon
+  That may with reasonable swiftness add
+  More feathers to our wings; for, Heaven before,
+  We’ll chide this Dauphin at his father’s door.
+
+    [_The characters group round the KING._
+
+    _Trumpets sound._
+
+
+    [Footnote I.1: _----task_] Keep busied with scruples and
+    disquisitions.]
+
+    [Footnote I.2: _Archbishop of Canterbury,_] Henry Chichely,
+    a Carthusian monk, recently promoted to the see of Canterbury.]
+
+    [Footnote I.3: _Bishop of Ely._] John Fordham, consecrated 1388;
+    died, 1426.]
+
+    [Footnote I.4: _----wrest_,] i.e., distort.]
+
+    [Footnote I.5: _----or bow your reading_,] i.e., bend your
+    interpretation.]
+
+    [Footnote I.6: _Or nicely charge your understanding soul_] Take
+    heed, lest by nice and subtle sophistry you burthen your knowing
+    soul, or _knowingly burthen your soul_, with the guilt of
+    advancing a false title, or of maintaining, by specious fallacies,
+    a claim which, if shown in its native and true colours, would
+    appear to be false. --JOHNSON.]
+
+    [Footnote I.7: _----miscreate_,] Ill-begotten, illegitimate,
+    spurious.]
+
+    [Footnote I.8: _----in approbation_] i.e., in proving and
+    supporting that title which shall be now set up.]
+
+    [Footnote I.9: _----impawn our person_,] To engage and to pawn
+    were in our author’s time synonymous.]
+
+    [Footnote I.10: _----gloze_] Expound, explain.]
+
+    [Footnote I.11: _----+imbare+ their crooked titles_] i.e., to lay
+    open, to display to view.]
+
+    [Footnote I.12: In allusion to the battle of Crecy, fought 25th
+    August, 1346.]
+
+    [Footnote I.13: _So hath your highness;_] i.e., your highness hath
+    indeed what they think and know you have.]
+
+    [Footnote I.14: _They of those +marches+,_] The _marches_ are the
+    borders, the confines. Hence the _Lords Marchers_, i.e., the lords
+    presidents of the _marches_, &c.]
+
+    [Footnote I.15: _----in few._] i.e., in short, brief.]
+
+    [Footnote I.16: _----a nimble +galliard+ won;_] A _galliard_ was
+    an ancient dance. The word is now obsolete.]
+
+
+SCENE II.--EASTCHEAP, LONDON.
+
+    _Enter BARDOLPH,(I) NYM, PISTOL, MRS. QUICKLY, and BOY, L.2 E._
+
+_Quick._ (L.C.) Pr’ythee, honey-sweet husband, let me bring thee to
+Staines.[17]
+
+  _Pist._ (C.) No; for my manly heart doth yearn.--
+  Bardolph, be blithe;--Nym, rouse thy vaunting veins;
+  Boy, bristle thy courage up; for Falstaff he is dead,
+  And we must yearn therefore.
+
+_Bard._ (R.) ’Would I were with him, wheresome’er he is!
+
+_Quick._ (C.) Sure, he’s in Arthur’s bosom,[18] if ever man went to
+Arthur’s bosom. ’A made a finer end,[19] and went away, an it had been
+any christom child;[20] ’a parted even just between twelve and one, e’en
+at turning o’ the tide:[21] for after I saw him fumble with the
+sheets,[22] and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers’ ends,
+I knew there was but one way; for his nose was as sharp as a pen, and a’
+babbled of green fields. How now, Sir John! quoth I: what, man! be of
+good cheer. So a’ cried out--Heaven, Heaven, Heaven! three or four
+times. Now I, to comfort him, bid him ’a should not think of Heaven;
+I hoped, there was no need to trouble himself with any such thoughts
+yet. So ’a bade me lay more clothes on his feet: I put my hand into the
+bed and felt them, and they were as cold as any stone.
+
+_Nym._ (R.C.) They say he cried out of sack.
+
+_Quick._ Ay, that ’a did.
+
+_Bard._ And of women.
+
+_Quick._ Nay, that ’a did not.
+
+_Boy._ (L.) Yes, that ’a did, and said they were devils incarnate.
+
+_Quick._ (_crosses L.C._) ’A could never abide carnation;[23] ’twas a
+colour he never liked.
+
+_Boy._ Do you not remember, ’a saw a flea stick upon Bardolph’s nose,
+and ’a said it was a black soul burning in hell-fire?
+
+_Bard._ Well, the fuel is gone that maintained that fire: that’s all the
+riches I got in his service.
+
+_Nym._ Shall we shog off?[24] the king will be gone from Southampton.
+
+  _Pist._ Come, let’s away.--My love, give me thy lips.
+  Look to my chattels and my moveables:
+  Let senses rule;[25] the word is, _Pitch and pay_;[26]
+  Trust none;
+  For oaths are straws, men’s faiths are wafer-cakes,
+  And hold-fast is the only dog,[27] my duck:
+  Therefore, _caveto_ be thy counsellor.[28]
+  Go, clear thy crystals.[29]--Yoke-fellows in arms,
+
+    [_Crosses L.H._
+
+  Let us to France; like horse-leeches, my boys,
+  To suck, to suck, the very blood to suck!
+
+    [_Crosses R.H._
+
+_Boy._ And that is but unwholesome food, they say.
+
+_Pitt._ Touch her soft mouth, and march.
+
+_Bard._ Farewell, hostess.
+
+    [_Kissing her._
+
+_Nym._ I cannot kiss, that is the humour of it; but adieu.
+
+_Pist._ Let housewifery appear: keep close, I thee command.
+
+_Quick._ Farewell; adieu.
+
+    [_Exeunt BARDOLPH, PISTOL, NYM, R.H., and DAME QUICKLY, L.H._
+
+_Boy._ As young as I am, I have observed these three swashers. I am boy
+to them all three: but all they three, though they would serve me, could
+not be a man to me; for, indeed, three such anticks do not amount to a
+man. For Bardolph,--he is white-livered and red-faced; by the means
+whereof ’a faces it out, but fights not. For Pistol,--he hath a killing
+tongue and a quiet sword; by the means whereof ’a breaks words, and
+keeps whole weapons. For Nym,--he hath heard that men of few words are
+the best men; and therefore he scorns to say his prayers, lest ’a should
+be thought a coward: but his few bad words are match’d with as few good
+deeds; for ’a never broke any man’s head but his own, and that was
+against a post when he was drunk. They will steal any thing, and call
+it--purchase. They would have me as familiar with men’s pockets as their
+gloves or their handkerchiefs: which makes much against my manhood, if I
+should take from another’s pocket to put into mine; for it is plain
+pocketing up of wrongs. I must leave them, and seek some better service:
+their villainy goes against my weak stomach, and therefore I must cast
+it up.
+
+    [_Distant March heard. Exit BOY, R.H._
+
+
+END OF FIRST ACT.
+
+
+    [Footnote I.17: _----let me bring thee to Staines._] i.e., let me
+    attend, or accompany thee.]
+
+    [Footnote I.18: _----Arthur’s bosom,_] Dame Quickly, in her usual
+    blundering way, mistakes Arthur for Abraham.]
+
+    [Footnote I.19: _’A made a finer end,_] To make a fine end is not
+    an uncommon expression for making a good end. The Hostess means
+    that Falstaff died with becoming resignation and patient
+    submission to the will of Heaven.]
+
+    [Footnote I.20: _----an it had been any christom child;_] i.e.,
+    child that has wore the _chrysom_, or white cloth put on a new
+    baptized child.]
+
+    [Footnote I.21: _----turning o’ the tide:_] It has been a very old
+    opinion, which Mead, _de imperio solis_, quotes, as if he believed
+    it, that nobody dies but in the time of ebb: half the deaths in
+    London confute the notion; but we find that it was common among
+    the women of the poet’s time. --JOHNSON.]
+
+    [Footnote I.22: _----I saw him fumble with the sheets,_] Pliny, in
+    his chapter on _the signs of death_, makes mention of “_a fumbling
+    and pleiting of the bed-clothes._” The same indication of
+    approaching death is enumerated by Celsus, Lommius, Hippocrates,
+    and Galen.]
+
+    [Footnote I.23: _’A could never abide carnation;_] Mrs. Quickly
+    blunders, mistaking the word _incarnate_ for a colour. _In
+    questions of Love_, published 1566, we have “_yelowe, pale, redde,
+    blue, whyte, gray, and incarnate._”]
+
+    [Footnote I.24: _Shall we shog off?_] i.e., shall we move off--jog
+    off?]
+
+    [Footnote I.25: _Let senses rule;_] i.e., let prudence govern
+    you--conduct yourself sensibly.]
+
+    [Footnote I.26: _----Pitch and pay;_] A familiar expression,
+    meaning pay down at once, pay ready money; probably throw down
+    your money and pay.]
+
+    [Footnote I.27: _----hold-fast is the only dog,_] Alluding to
+    the proverbial saying-- “Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a
+    better.”]
+
+    [Footnote I.28: _----caveto be thy counsellor._] i.e., let
+    _prudence_ be thy counsellor.]
+
+    [Footnote I.29: _----clear thy crystals._] Dry thine eyes.]
+
+
+
+
+HISTORICAL NOTE TO CHORUS--ACT FIRST
+
+  (A) _----should famine, sword, and fire,
+  Crouch for employment._]
+
+Holinshed states that when the people of Rouen petitioned Henry V., the
+king replied “that the goddess of battle, called Bellona, had three
+handmaidens, ever of necessity attending upon her, as blood, fire, and
+famine.” These are probably the _dogs of war_ mentioned in Julius Cæsar.
+
+
+HISTORICAL NOTES TO ACT FIRST.
+
+(B) KING HENRY _on his throne,_] King Henry V. was born at Monmouth,
+August 9th, 1388, from which place he took his surname. He was the
+eldest son of Henry Bolingbroke, Earl of Derby, afterwards Duke of
+Hereford, who was banished by King Richard the Second, and, after that
+monarch’s deposition, was made king of England, A.D. 1399. At eleven
+years of age Henry V. was a student at Queen’s College, Oxford, under
+the tuition of his half-uncle, Henry Beaufort, Chancellor of that
+university. Richard II. took the young Henry with him in his expedition
+to Ireland, and caused him to be imprisoned in the castle of Trym, but,
+when his father, the Duke of Hereford, deposed the king and obtained the
+crown, he was created Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall.
+
+In 1403 the Prince was engaged at the battle of Shrewsbury, where the
+famous Hotspur was slain, and there wounded in the face by an arrow.
+History states that Prince Henry became the companion of rioters and
+disorderly persons, and indulged in a course of life quite unworthy of
+his high station. There is a tradition that, under the influence of
+wine, he assisted his associates in robbing passengers on the highway.
+His being confined in prison for striking the Chief Justice, Sir William
+Gascoigne, is well known.
+
+These excesses gave great uneasiness and annoyance to the king, his
+father, who dismissed the Prince from the office of President of his
+Privy Council, and appointed in his stead his second son, Thomas, Duke
+of Clarence. Henry was crowned King of England on the 9th April, 1413.
+We read in Stowe-- “After his coronation King Henry called unto him all
+those young lords and gentlemen who were the followers of his young
+acts, to every one of whom he gave rich gifts, and then commanded that
+as many as would change their manners, as he intended to do, should
+abide with him at court; and to all that would persevere in their former
+like conversation, he gave express commandment, upon pain of their
+heads, never after that day to come in his presence.”
+
+This heroic king fought and won the celebrated battle of Agincourt, on
+the 25th October, 1415; married the Princess Katherine, daughter of
+Charles VI. of France and Isabella of Bavaria, his queen, in the year
+1420; and died at Vincennes, near Paris, in the midst of his military
+glory, August 31st, 1422, in the thirty-fourth year of his age, and the
+tenth of his reign, leaving an infant son, who succeeded to the throne
+under the title of Henry VI.
+
+The famous Whittington was for the third time Lord Mayor of London in
+this reign, A.D. 1419. Thomas Chaucer, son of the great poet, was
+speaker of the House of Commons, which granted the supplies to the king
+for his invasion of France.
+
+(C) _Bedford,_] John, Duke of Bedford, was the third son of King Henry
+IV., and his brother, Henry V., left to him the Regency of France. He
+died in the year 1435. This duke was accounted one of the best generals
+of the royal race of Plantaganet.
+
+King Lewis XI. being counselled by certain envious persons to deface his
+tomb, used these, indeed, princely words:-- _“What honor shall it be to
+us, or you, to break this monument, and to pull out of the ground the
+bones of him, whom, in his life time, neither my father nor your
+progenitors, with all their puissance, were once able to make fly a foot
+backward? Who by his strength, policy, and wit, kept them all out of the
+principal dominions of France, and out of this noble Dutchy of Normandy?
+Wherefore I say first, God save his soul, and let his body now lie in
+rest, which, when he was alive, would have disquieted the proudest of us
+all; and for his tomb, I assure you, it is not so worthy or convenient
+as his honor and acts have deserved.” --Vide Sandford’s History of the
+Kings of England._
+
+(D) _Gloster,_] Humphrey, Duke of Gloster, was the fourth son of King
+Henry IV., and on the death of his brother, Henry V., became Regent of
+England. It is generally supposed he was strangled. His death took place
+in the year 1446.
+
+(E) _Exeter,_] Shakespeare is a little too early in giving Thomas
+Beaufort the title of Duke of Exeter; for when Harfleur was taken, and
+he was appointed governor of the town, he was only Earl of Dorset. He
+was not made Duke of Exeter till the year after the battle of Agincourt,
+November 14, 1416. Exeter was half brother to King Henry IV., being one
+of the sons of John of Gaunt, by Catherine Swynford.
+
+(F) _Archbishop of Canterbury,_] The Archbishop’s speech in this scene,
+explaining King Henry’s title to the crown of France, is closely copied
+from Holinshed’s chronicle, page 545.
+
+“About the middle of the year 1414, Henry V., influenced by the
+persuasions of Chichely, Archbishop of Canterbury, by the dying
+injunction of his royal father, not to allow the kingdom to remain long
+at peace, or more probably by those feelings of ambition, which were no
+less natural to his age and character, than consonant with the manners
+of the time in which he lived, resolved to assert that claim to the
+crown of France which his great grandfather, King Edward the Third, had
+urged with such confidence and success.” --_Nicolas’s History of the
+Battle of Agincourt._
+
+(G) _----the law Salique,_] According to this law no woman was permitted
+to govern or be a Queen in her own right. The title only was allowed to
+the wife of the monarch. This law was imported from Germany by the
+warlike Franks.
+
+(H) _Tennis-balls, my liege._] Some contemporary historians affirm that
+the Dauphin sent Henry the contemptuous present, which has been imputed
+to him, intimating that such implements of play were better adapted to
+his dissolute character than the instruments of war, while others are
+silent on the subject. The circumstance of Henry’s offering to meet his
+enemy in single combat, affords some support to the statement that he
+was influenced by those personal feelings of revenge to which the
+Dauphin’s conduct would undoubtedly have given birth.
+
+(I) _Enter BARDOLPH, NYM, PISTOL, Mrs. QUICKLY, and BOY._] These
+followers of Falstaff figured conspicuously through the two parts of
+Shakespeare’s Henry IV. Pistol is a swaggering, pompous braggadocio; Nym
+a boaster and a coward; and Bardolph a liar, thief, and coward, who has
+no wit but in his nose.
+
+
+
+
+    _Enter CHORUS._
+
+
+  _Cho._ Now all the youth of England are on fire,
+  And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies:
+  Now thrive the armourers, and honour’s thought
+  Reigns solely in the breast of every man:
+  They sell the pasture now to buy the horse;
+  Following the mirror of all Christian kings,
+  With wingéd heels, as English Mercuries;
+  For now sits expectation in the air.
+  O England!--model to thy inward greatness,
+  Like little body with a mighty heart,--
+  What might’st thou do, that honour would thee do,
+  Were all thy children kind and natural!
+  But see thy fault! France hath in thee found out
+  A nest of hollow bosoms, which he fills[1]
+  With treacherous crowns; and three corrupted men,--
+  One, Richard earl of Cambridge;[2] and the second,
+  Henry lord Scroop of Masham,[3] and the third,
+  Sir Thomas Grey, knight, of Northumberland,--
+  Have, for the gilt of France[4] (O guilt, indeed!),
+  Confirm’d conspiracy with fearful France;(A)
+  And by their hands this grace of kings[5] must die,
+  (If hell and treason hold their promises,)
+  Ere he take ship for France, and in Southampton.
+
+    _The back scene opens and discovers a tableau, representing the
+    three conspirators receiving the bribe from the emissaries of
+    France._
+
+  Linger your patience on; and well digest
+  The abuse of distance, while we force a play.[6]
+  The sum is paid; the traitors are agreed;
+  The king is set from London; and the scene
+  Is now transported, gentles, to Southampton,--
+  There is the playhouse now, there must you sit:
+  And thence to France shall we convey you safe,
+  And bring you back, charming the narrow seas
+  To give you gentle pass; for, if we may,
+  We’ll not offend one stomach[7] with our play.
+  But, till the king come forth, and not till then,[8]
+  Unto Southampton do we shift our scene.
+
+    [_Exit._
+
+
+    [Footnote IIc.1: _----which +he+ fills_] i.e., the King of
+    France.]
+
+    [Footnote IIc.2: _----Richard, earl of Cambridge;_] Was Richard de
+    Coninsbury, younger son of Edmund of Langley, Duke of York. He was
+    father of Richard, Duke of York, father of Edward the Fourth.]
+
+    [Footnote IIc.3: _Henry lord Scroop of Masham,_] Was third husband
+    of Joan Duchess of York (she had four), mother-in-law of Richard,
+    Earl of Cambridge.]
+
+    [Footnote IIc.4: _----the +gilt+ of France,_] i.e., _golden
+    money_.]
+
+    [Footnote IIc.5: _----this grace of kings_] i.e., he who does the
+    greatest honor to the title. By the same phraseology the usurper
+    in _Hamlet_ is called the _vice of kings_, i.e., the opprobrium of
+    them.]
+
+    [Footnote IIc.6: _----while we +force a play+._] To _force a play_
+    is to produce a play by compelling many circumstances into a
+    narrow compass.]
+
+    [Footnote IIc.7: _We’ll not offend one stomach_] That is, you
+    shall pass the sea without the qualms of sea-sickness.]
+
+    [Footnote IIc.8: _But, till the king come forth, and not till
+    then,_] The meaning is, “We will not shift our scene unto
+    Southampton till the king makes his appearance on the stage, and
+    the scene will be at Southampton _only_ for the short time while
+    he does appear on the stage; for, soon after his appearance, it
+    will change to France.” --MALONE.]
+
+
+
+
+ACT II.
+
+
+SCENE I.--COUNCIL CHAMBER IN SOUTHAMPTON CASTLE.
+
+    _EXETER, BEDFORD, and WESTMORELAND, discovered._
+
+  _Bed._ ’Fore Heaven, his grace is bold, to trust these traitors.
+
+  _Exe._ They shall be apprehended by and by.
+
+  _West._ How smooth and even they do bear themselves!
+  As if allegiance in their bosoms sat,
+  Crowned with faith and constant loyalty.
+
+  _Bed._ The king hath note of all that they intend,
+  By interception which they dream not of.
+
+  _Exe._ Nay, but the man that was his bedfellow,(A)
+  Whom he hath cloy’d and grac’d with princely favours,--
+  That he should, for a foreign purse, so sell
+  His sovereign’s life to death and treachery!
+
+    _Distant Trumpets sound. Enter King HENRY, SCROOP, CAMBRIDGE,
+    GREY, Lords and Attendants, U.E.L.H._
+
+  _K. Hen._ Now sits the wind fair, and we will aboard.
+  My lord of Cambridge,--and my kind lord of Masham,--
+  And you, my gentle knight,--give me your thoughts:
+  Think you not, that the powers we bear with us
+  Will cut their passage through the force of France?
+
+  _Scroop._ No doubt, my liege, if each man do his best.
+
+  _K. Hen._ I doubt not that; since we are well persuaded
+  We carry not a heart with us from hence
+  That grows not in a fair consent with ours,[1]
+  Nor leave not one behind that doth not wish
+  Success and conquest to attend on us.
+
+  _Cam._ (R.) Never was monarch better fear’d and lov’d
+  Than is your majesty: there’s not, I think, a subject
+  That sits in heart-grief and uneasiness
+  Under the sweet shade of your government.
+
+  _Grey._ (R.) Even those that were your father’s enemies
+  Have steep’d their galls in honey, and do serve you
+  With hearts create[2] of duty and of zeal.
+
+  _K.Hen._ (C.) We therefore have great cause of thankfulness;
+  And shall forget the office of our hand,
+  Sooner than quittance of desert and merit
+  According to the weight and worthiness.
+  Uncle of Exeter, R.
+  Enlarge the man committed yesterday,
+  That rail’d against our person: we consider
+  It was excess of wine that set him on;
+  And, on his more advice,[3] we pardon him.
+
+  _Scroop._ (R.) That’s mercy, but too much security:
+  Let him be punish’d, sovereign; lest example
+  Breed, by his sufferance, more of such a kind.
+
+  _K. Hen._ O, let us yet be merciful.
+
+  _Cam._ So may your highness, and yet punish too.
+
+  _Grey._ Sir, you show great mercy, if you give him life,
+  After the taste of much correction.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Alas, your too much love and care of me
+  Are heavy orisons ’gainst this poor wretch![4]
+  If little faults, proceeding on distemper,[5]
+  Shall not be wink’d at, how shall we stretch our eye[6]
+  When capital crimes, chew’d, swallow’d, and digested,
+  Appear before us?--We’ll yet enlarge that man,
+  Though Cambridge, Scroop, and Grey,--in their dear care
+  And tender preservation of our person,--
+  Would have him punish’d. And now to our French causes:
+
+    [_All take their places at Council table._
+
+  Who are the late Commissioners?[7]
+
+  _Cam._ (_R. of table._)       I one, my lord:
+  Your highness bade me ask for it to-day.
+
+  _Scroop._ (_R. of table._) So did you me, my liege.
+
+  _Grey._ (_R. of table._) And me, my royal sovereign.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Then, Richard earl of Cambridge, there is yours;--
+  There yours, lord Scroop of Masham;--and, sir knight,
+  Grey of Northumberland, this same is yours:--
+  Read them; and know, I know your worthiness.--
+  My lord of Westmoreland,--and uncle Exeter,--
+
+    [_L. of table._
+
+  We will aboard to-night.
+
+    (_Conspirators start from their places._)
+
+                          Why, how now, gentlemen!
+  What see you in those papers, that you lose
+  So much complexion?--look ye, how they change!
+  Their cheeks are paper.--Why, what read you there,
+  That hath so cowarded and chas’d your blood
+  Out of appearance?
+
+  _Cam._           I do confess my fault;
+  And do submit me to your highness’ mercy.
+
+    [_Falling on his knees._
+
+  _Grey._   } To which we all appeal.    [_Kneeling._
+  _Scroop._ }
+
+  _K. Hen._ (_rising; all the LORDS rise with the KING._)
+  The mercy that was quick[8] in us but late,
+  By your own counsel is suppress’d and kill’d:
+  You must not dare, for shame, to talk of mercy.
+  See you, my princes and my noble peers,
+  These English monsters! My lord of Cambridge here,--
+  You know how apt our love was to accord
+  To furnish him with all appertinents
+  Belonging to his honour; and this man
+  Hath, for a few light crowns, lightly conspir’d,
+  And sworn unto the practises of France,
+  To kill us here in Hampton: to the which
+  This knight, no less for bounty bound to us
+  Than Cambridge is,--hath likewise sworn.--But, O,
+  What shall I say to thee, lord Scroop? thou cruel,
+  Ingrateful, savage, and inhuman creature!
+  Thou that did’st bear the key of all my counsels,
+  That knew’st the very bottom of my soul,
+  That almost might’st have coin’d me into gold,
+  May it be possible, that foreign hire
+  Could out of thee extract one spark of evil
+  That might annoy my finger? ’Tis so strange,
+  That, though the truth of it stands off as gross[9]
+  As black from white,[10] my eye will scarcely see it;
+  For this revolt of thine, methinks, is like
+  Another fall of man.--Their faults are open:
+  Arrest them to the answer of the law;--
+
+    [_EXETER goes to door U.E.L.H, and calls on the Guard._
+
+  And Heaven acquit them of their practises!
+
+_Exe._ (_comes down, R.C._) I arrest thee of high treason, by the name
+of Richard earl of Cambridge.
+
+I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Henry lord Scroop of
+Masham.
+
+I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Thomas Grey, knight, of
+Northumberland.
+
+  _Scroop._ (_R., kneeling._)
+  Our purposes Heaven justly hath discover’d;
+  And I repent my fault more than my death.
+
+  _Cam._ (_R., kneeling._)
+  For me,--the gold of France did not seduce;(B)
+  Although I did admit it as a motive
+  The sooner to effect what I intended:
+  But Heaven be thanked for prevention;
+  Which I in sufferance heartily will rejoice,[11]
+  Beseeching Heaven and you to pardon me.
+
+  _Grey._ (_R. kneeling._) Never did faithful subject more rejoice
+  At the discovery of most dangerous treason
+  Than I do at this hour joy o’er myself,
+  Prevented from a damned enterprize:
+  My fault, but not my body, pardon, sovereign.
+
+  _K. Hen._ (C.) Heaven quit you in its mercy! Hear your sentence.
+  You have conspir’d against our royal person,
+  Join’d with an enemy proclaim’d, and from his coffers
+  Receiv’d the golden earnest of our death;
+  Wherein you would have sold your king to slaughter,
+  His princes and his peers to servitude,
+  His subjects to oppression and contempt,
+  And his whole kingdom into desolation.
+  Touching our person, seek we no revenge;(C)
+  But we our kingdom’s safety must so tender,[12]
+  Whose ruin you three sought, that to her laws
+  We do deliver you. Get you, therefore, hence,
+  Poor miserable wretches, to your death:
+  The taste whereof, Heaven of its mercy give you
+  Patience to endure, and true repentance
+  Of all your dear offences![13]--Bear them hence.
+
+    [_Conspirators rise and exeunt guarded, with EXETER._
+
+  Now, Lords, for France; the enterprize whereof
+  Shall be to you, as us, like glorious.
+  We doubt not of a fair and lucky war,
+  Since Heaven so graciously hath brought to light
+  This dangerous treason, lurking in our way.
+  Then, forth, dear countrymen: let us deliver
+  Our puissance[14] into the hand of Heaven,
+  Putting it straight in expedition.
+  Cheerly to sea; the signs of war advance:(D)
+  No king of England, if not king of France.
+
+    [_Exeunt, U.E.L.H._
+
+    [Footnote II.1: _----in a fair consent with ours,_] i.e., in
+    friendly concord; in unison with ours.]
+
+    [Footnote II.2: _----hearts +create+_] Hearts _compounded_ or
+    _made up_ of duty and zeal.]
+
+    [Footnote II.3: _----more advice,_] On his return to more
+    _coolness of mind_.]
+
+    [Footnote II.4: _Are heavy orisons ’gainst, &c._] i.e., are
+    weighty supplications against this poor wretch.]
+
+    [Footnote II.5: _----proceeding on +distemper+,_] _Distemper’d in
+    liquor_ was a common expression. We read in Holinshed, vol. iii.,
+    page 626:-- “gave him wine and strong drink in such excessive
+    sort, that he was therewith _distempered_, and reeled as he
+    went.”]
+
+    [Footnote II.6: _----how shall we stretch our eye_] If we may not
+    _wink_ at small faults, _how wide must we open our eyes_ at
+    great.]
+
+    [Footnote II.7: _Who are the late commissioners?_] That is, who
+    are the persons lately appointed commissioners.]
+
+    [Footnote II.8: _----quick_] That is, _living_.]
+
+    [Footnote II.9: _----as gross_] As palpable.]
+
+    [Footnote II.10:
+      _----though the truth of it stands off as gross
+      As black from white,_]
+    Though the truth be as apparent and visible as black and white
+    contiguous to each other. To _stand off_ is _être relevè_, to be
+    prominent to the eye, as the strong parts of a picture.
+    --JOHNSON.]
+
+    [Footnote II.11: _Which I in sufferance heartily will rejoice,_]
+    Cambridge means to say, _at_ which prevention, or, which intended
+    scheme that it was prevented, I shall rejoice. Shakespeare has
+    many such elliptical expressions. The intended scheme that he
+    alludes to was the taking off Henry, to make room for his
+    brother-in-law. --MALONE.]
+
+    [Footnote II.12: _----our kingdom’s safety must so tender,_] i.e.,
+    must so regard.]
+
+    [Footnote II.13: _----dear offences!----_] _To dere_, in ancient
+    language, was _to hurt_; the meaning, therefore, is hurtful--
+    pernicious offences.]
+
+    [Footnote II.14: _Our puissance_] i.e., our power, our force.]
+
+
+SCENE II.--FRANCE. A ROOM IN THE FRENCH KING’S PALACE.
+
+  _Trumpets sound._
+
+    _Enter the FRENCH KING,[15] attended; the DAUPHIN, the DUKE OF
+    BURGUNDY, the CONSTABLE, and Others,(E) L.H._
+
+  _Fr. King._ (C.) Thus come the English with full power upon us;
+  And more than carefully it us concerns[16]
+  To answer royally in our defences.
+  Therefore the Dukes of Berry and of Bretagne,
+  Of Brabant and of Orleans, shall make forth,--
+  And you, Prince Dauphin,--with all swift despatch,
+  To line and new repair our towns of war
+  With men of courage and with means defendant.
+
+  _Dau._ (R.C.) My most redoubted father,
+  It is most meet we arm us ’gainst the foe:
+  And let us do it with no show of fear;
+  No, with no more than if we heard that England
+  Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance:
+  For, my good liege, she is so idly king’d,
+  Her sceptre so fantastically borne
+  By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth,
+  That fear attends her not.
+
+  _Con._ (L.C.) O peace, prince Dauphin
+  You are too much mistaken in this king:
+  With what great state he heard our embassy,
+  How well supplied with noble counsellors,
+  How modest in exception,[17] and withal
+  How terrible in constant resolution,
+  And you shall find his vanities fore-spent
+  Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus,
+  Covering discretion with a coat of folly.
+
+  _Dau._ Well, ’tis not so, my lord high constable;
+  But though we think it so, it is no matter:
+  In cases of defence ’tis best to weigh
+  The enemy more mighty than he seems:
+  So the proportions of defence are fill’d.
+
+  _Fr. King._ Think we King Harry strong;
+  And, princes, look you strongly arm to meet him.
+  The kindred of him hath been flesh’d upon us;
+  And he is bred out of that bloody strain[18]
+  That haunted us[19] in our familiar paths:
+  Witness our too much memorable shame
+  When Cressy battle fatally was struck,
+  And all our princes captiv’d by the hand
+  Of that black name, Edward, black prince of Wales;
+  Whiles that his mountain sire,--on mountain standing,
+  Up in the air, crown’d with the golden sun,--[20]
+  Saw his heroical seed, and smil’d to see him
+  Mangle the work of nature, and deface
+  The patterns that by Heaven and by French fathers
+  Had twenty years been made. This is a stem
+  Of that victorious stock; and let us fear
+  The native mightiness and fate of him.[21]
+
+    _Enter MONTJOY,[22] L.H., and kneels C. to the KING._
+
+  _Mont._ Ambassadors from Henry King of England
+  Do crave admittance to your majesty.
+
+  _Fr. King._ We’ll give them present audience.
+
+    (_MONTJOY rises from his knee._)
+
+                                              Go, and bring them.
+
+    [_Exeunt MONTJOY, and certain LORDS, L.H._
+
+  You see this chase is hotly follow’d, friends.
+
+  _Dau._ Turn head, and stop pursuit; for coward dogs
+  Most spend their mouths,[23] when what they seem to threaten
+  Runs far before them. Good my sovereign,
+  Take up the English short; and let them know
+  Of what a monarchy you are the head:
+  Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin
+  As self-neglecting.
+
+    [_FRENCH KING takes his seat on Throne, R._
+
+    _Re-enter MONTJOY, LORDS, with EXETER and Train, L.H._
+
+  _Fr. King._       From our brother England?
+
+  _Exe._ (L.C.) From him; and thus he greets your majesty.
+  He wills you, in the awful name of Heaven,
+  That you divest yourself, and lay apart
+  The borrow’d glories, that, by gift of heaven,
+  By law of nature and of nations, ’long
+  To him and to his heirs; namely, the crown,
+  And all wide-stretched honours that pertain,
+  By custom and the ordinance of times
+  Unto the crown of France. That you may know
+  ’Tis no sinister nor no awkward claim,
+  Pick’d from the worm-holes of long-vanish’d days,
+  Nor from the dust of old oblivion rak’d,
+  He sends you this most memorable line,[24]
+
+    [_Gives a paper to MONTJOY, who delivers it kneeling to the KING._
+
+  In every branch truly demonstrative;
+  Willing you overlook this pedigree:
+  And when you find him evenly deriv’d
+  From his most fam’d of famous ancestors,
+  Edward the Third, he bids you then resign
+  Your crown and kingdom, indirectly held
+  From him the native and true challenger.
+
+  _Fr. King._ Or else what follows?
+
+  _Exe._ Bloody constraint; for if you hide the crown
+  Even in your hearts, there will he rake for it:
+  Therefore in fierce tempest is he coming,
+  In thunder and in earthquake, like a Jove.
+  (That, if requiring fail, he will compel):
+  This is his claim, his threat’ning, and my message;
+  Unless the Dauphin be in presence here,
+  To whom expressly I bring greeting too.
+
+  _Fr. King._ For us, we will consider of this further:
+  To-morrow shall you bear our full intent
+  Back to our brother England.
+
+    [_MONTJOY rises, and retires to R._
+
+  _Dau._ (_R. of throne._)   For the Dauphin,
+  I stand here for him: What to him from England?
+
+  _Exe._ Scorn and defiance; slight regard, contempt,
+  And any thing that may not misbecome
+  The mighty sender, doth he prize you at.
+  Thus says my king: an if your father’s highness
+  Do not, in grant of all demands at large,
+  Sweeten the bitter mock you sent his majesty,
+  He’ll call you to so hot an answer for it,
+  That caves and womby vaultages of France
+  Shall chide your trespass,[25] and return your mock
+  In second accent of his ordnance.
+
+  _Dau._ Say, if my father render fair reply,
+  It is against my will; for I desire
+  Nothing but odds with England: to that end,
+  As matching to his youth and vanity,
+  I did present him with those Paris balls.
+
+  _Exe._ He’ll make your Paris Louvre shake for it:
+  And, be assur’d, you’ll find a difference
+  Between the promise of his greener days
+  And these he masters now: now he weighs time,
+  Even to the utmost grain: which you shall read[26]
+  In your own losses, if he stay in France.
+
+  _Fr. King._ To-morrow shall you know our mind at full.
+
+  _Exe._ Despatch us with all speed, lest that our king
+  Come here himself to question our delay;
+  For he is footed in this land already.
+
+  _Fr. King._ You shall be soon despatch’d with fair conditions:
+
+    [_MONTJOY crosses to the English party._
+
+  A night is but small breath and little pause
+  To answer matters of this consequence.
+
+    [_English party exit, with MONTJOY and others, L.H.
+    French Lords group round the KING._
+
+    _Trumpets sound._
+
+
+    [Footnote II.15: ----FRENCH KING,] The costume of Charles VI. is
+    copied from Willemin, Monuments Français. The dresses of the other
+    Lords are selected from Montfaucon Monarchie Françoise.]
+
+    [Footnote II.16: _----more than carefully it us concerns,_] _More
+    than carefully_ is _with more than common care_; a phrase of the
+    same kind with _better than well_. --JOHNSON.]
+
+    [Footnote II.17: _How modest in exception,_] How diffident and
+    decent in making objections.]
+
+    [Footnote II.18: _----strain_] _lineage_.]
+
+    [Footnote II.19: _That +haunted+ us_] To _haunt_ is a word of the
+    utmost horror, which shows that they dreaded the English as
+    goblins and spirits.]
+
+    [Footnote II.20: _----crown’d with the golden sun,--_]
+    Shakespeare’s meaning (divested of its poetical fancy) probably
+    is, that the king stood upon an eminence, with the sun shining
+    over his head. --STEEVENS.]
+
+    [Footnote II.21: _----+fate+ of him._] His _fate_ is what is
+    allotted him by destiny, or what he is fated to perform.]
+
+    [Footnote II.22: _Montjoy,_] Mont-joie is the title of the
+    principal king-at-arms in France, as Garter is in our country.]
+
+    [Footnote II.23: _----spend their mouths,_] That is, bark; the
+    sportsman’s term.]
+
+    [Footnote II.24: _----memorable +line+,_] This genealogy; this
+    deduction of his _lineage_.]
+
+    [Footnote II.25: _Shall +chide+ your trespass,_] To _chide_ is to
+    _resound_, to _echo_.]
+
+    [Footnote II.26: _----you shall read_] i.e., shall _find_.]
+
+
+END OF ACT SECOND.
+
+
+
+
+HISTORICAL NOTES TO CHORUS--ACT SECOND.
+
+  (A) _These corrupted men,----
+  One, Richard earl of Cambridge; and the second,
+  Henry lord Scroop of Masham; and the third,
+  Sir Thomas Grey knight of Northumberland,--
+  Have for the guilt of France (O, guilt, indeed!)
+  Confirm’d conspiracy with fearful France._
+
+About the end of July, Henry’s ambitious designs received a momentary
+check from the discovery of a treasonable conspiracy against his person
+and government, by Richard, Earl of Cambridge, brother of the Duke of
+York; Henry, Lord Scroop of Masham, the Lord Treasurer; and Sir Thomas
+Grey, of Heton, knight. The king’s command for the investigation of the
+affair, was dated on the 21st of that month, and a writ was issued to
+the Sheriff of Southampton, to assemble a jury for their trial; and
+which on Friday, the 2nd of August, found that on the 20th of July,
+Richard, Earl of Cambridge, and Thomas Grey, of Heton, in the County of
+Northumberland, knight, had falsely and traitorously conspired to
+collect a body of armed men, to conduct Edmund, Earl of March,[*] to the
+frontiers of Wales, and to proclaim him the rightful heir to the crown,
+in case Richard II. was actually dead; but they had solicited Thomas
+Frumpyngton, who personated King Richard, Henry Percy, and many others
+from Scotland to invade the realm, that they had intended to destroy the
+King, the Duke of Clarence, the Duke of Bedford, the Duke of Gloucester,
+with other lords and great men; and that Henry, Lord Scroop, of Masham,
+consented to the said treasonable purposes, and concealed the knowledge
+of them from the king. On the same day the accused were reported by Sir
+John Popham, Constable of the Castle of Southampton, to whose custody
+they had been committed, to have confessed the justice of the charges
+brought against them, and that they threw themselves on the king’s
+mercy; but Scroop endeavoured to extenuate his conduct, by asserting
+that his intentions were innocent, and that he appeared only to
+acquiesce in their designs to be enabled to defeat them. The Earl and
+Lord Scroop having claimed the privilege of being tried by the peers,
+were remanded to prison, but sentence of death in the usual manner was
+pronounced against Grey, and he was immediately executed; though, in
+consequence of Henry having dispensed with his being drawn and hung, he
+was allowed to walk from the Watergate to the Northgate of the town of
+Southampton, where he was beheaded. A commission was soon afterwards
+issued, addressed to the Duke of Clarence, for the trial of the Earl of
+Cambridge and Lord Scroop: this court unanimously declared the prisoners
+guilty, and sentence of death having been denounced against them, they
+paid the forfeit of their lives on Monday, the 5th of August. In
+consideration of the earl being of the blood royal, he was merely
+beheaded; but to mark the perfidy and ingratitude of Scroop, who had
+enjoyed the king’s utmost confidence and friendship, and had even shared
+his bed, he commanded that he should be drawn to the place of execution,
+and that his head should be affixed on one of the gates of the city of
+York. --_Nicolas’s History of the Battle of Agincourt_.
+
+    [Footnote *: At that moment the Earl of March was the lawful
+    heir to the crown, he being the heir general of Lionel, Duke of
+    Clarence, _third_ son of Edward III, whilst Henry V. was but the
+    heir of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, King Edward’s _fourth_
+    son.]
+
+
+HISTORICAL NOTES TO ACT SECOND.
+
+(A) _----the man that was his bedfellow,_] So, Holinshed: “The said Lord
+Scroop was in such favour with the king, that he admitted him sometimes
+to be his _bedfellow_.” The familiar appellation, of _bedfellow_, which
+appears strange to us, was common among the ancient nobility. There is a
+letter from the sixth Earl of Northumberland (still preserved in the
+collection of the present duke), addressed “To his beloved cousin,
+Thomas Arundel,” &c., which begins “_Bedfellow_, after my most hasté
+recommendation.” --_Steevens_.
+
+This unseemly custom continued common till the middle of the last
+century, if not later. Cromwell obtained much of his intelligence,
+during the civil wars, from the mean men with whom he slept. --_Malone_.
+
+After the battle of Dreux, 1562, the Prince of Condé slept in the same
+bed with the Duke of Guise; an anecdote frequently cited, to show the
+magnanimity of the latter, who slept soundly, though so near his
+greatest enemy, then his prisoner. --_Nares._
+
+(B) _For me,--the gold of France did not seduce;_] Holinshed observes,
+“that Richard, Earl of Cambridge, did not conspire with the Lord Scroop
+and Thomas Grey, for the murdering of King Henry to please the French
+king, but only to the intent to exalt to the crown his brother-in-law
+Edmund, Earl of March, as heir to Lionel, Duke of Clarence; after the
+death of which Earl of March, for divers secret impediments not able to
+have issue, the Earl of Cambridge was sure that the crown should come to
+him by his wife, and to his children of her begotten; and therefore (as
+was thought), he rather confessed himself for need of money to be
+corrupted by the French king, than he would declare his inward mind,
+&c., which if it were espied, he saw plainly that the Earl of March
+should have tasted of the same cup that he had drunk, and what should
+have come to his own children he merely doubted, &c.”
+
+A million of gold is stated to have been given by France to the
+conspirators.
+
+Historians have, however, generally expressed their utter inability to
+explain upon what grounds the conspirators built their expectation of
+success; and unless they had been promised powerful assistance from
+France, the design seems to have been one of the most absurd and
+hopeless upon record. The confession of the Earl of Cambridge, and his
+supplication for mercy in his own hand writing, is in the British
+Museum.
+
+(C) _Touching our person, seek we no revenge;_] This speech is taken
+from Holinshed:--
+
+“Revenge herein touching my person, though I seek not; yet for the
+safeguard of my dear friends, and for due preservation of all sorts,
+I am by office to cause example to be showed: Get ye hence, therefore,
+you poor miserable wretches, to the receiving of your just reward,
+wherein God’s majesty give you grace of his mercy, and repentance of
+your heinous offences.”
+
+(D) _Cheerly to sea; the signs of war advance:_] “The king went from his
+castle of Porchester in a small vessel to the sea, and embarking on
+board his ship, called The Trinity, between the ports of Southampton and
+Portsmouth, he immediately ordered that the sail should be set, to
+signify his readiness to depart.” “There were about fifteen hundred
+vessels, including about a hundred which were left behind. After having
+passed the Isle of Wight, swans were seen swimming in the midst of the
+fleet, which, in the opinion of all, were said to be happy auspices of
+the undertaking. On the next day, the king entered the mouth of the
+Seine, and cast anchor before a place called Kidecaus, about three miles
+from Harfleur, where he proposed landing.” --_Nicolas’s History of
+Agincourt_.
+
+The departure of Henry’s army on this occasion, and the separation
+between those who composed it and their relatives and friends, is thus
+described by Drayton, who was born in 1563, and died in 1631:--
+
+  There might a man have seen in every street,
+    The father bidding farewell to his son;
+  Small children kneeling at their father’s feet:
+    The wife with her dear husband ne’er had done:
+  Brother, his brother, with adieu to greet:
+    One friend to take leave of another, run;
+  The maiden with her best belov’d to part,
+  Gave him her hand who took away her heart.
+
+  The nobler youth the common rank above,
+    On their curveting coursers mounted fair:
+  One wore his mistress’ garter, one her glove;
+    And he a lock of his dear lady’s hair:
+  And he her colours, whom he did most love;
+    There was not one but did some favour wear:
+  And each one took it, on his happy speed,
+  To make it famous by some knightly deed.
+
+(E) Enter the FRENCH KING, _the DAUPHIN, the_ DUKE OF BURGUNDY, _the
+CONSTABLE, and others._] Charles VI., surnamed the Well Beloved, was
+King of France during the most disastrous period of its history. He
+ascended the throne in 1380, when only thirteen years of age. In 1385 he
+married Isabella of Bavaria, who was equally remarkable for her beauty
+and her depravity. The unfortunate king was subject to fits of insanity,
+which lasted for several months at a time. On the 21st October, 1422,
+seven years after the battle of Agincourt, Charles VI. ended his unhappy
+life at the age of 55, having reigned 42 years. Lewis the Dauphin was
+the eldest son of Charles VI. He was born 22nd January, 1396, and died
+before his father, December 18th, 1415, in his twentieth year. History
+says, “Shortly after the battle of Agincourt, either for melancholy that
+he had for the loss, or by some sudden disease, Lewis, Dovphin of
+Viennois, heir apparent to the French king, departed this life without
+issue.”
+
+John, Duke of Burgundy, surnamed the Fearless, succeeded to the dukedom
+in 1403. He caused the Duke of Orleans to be assassinated in the streets
+of Paris, and was himself murdered August 28, 1419, on the bridge of
+Montereau, at an interview with the Dauphin, afterwards Charles VII.
+John was succeeded by his only son, who bore the title of Philip the
+Good, Duke of Burgundy.
+
+The Constable, Charles D’Albret, commanded the French army at the Battle
+of Agincourt, and was slain on the field.
+
+
+
+
+    _Enter CHORUS._
+
+
+  _Chor._ Thus with imagin’d wing our swift scene flies,
+  In motion of no less celerity
+  Than that of thought. Suppose that you have seen
+  The well-appointed king[1] at Hampton pier
+  Embark his royalty;[2] and his brave fleet
+  With silken streamers the young Phœbus fanning:
+  Play with your fancies; and in them behold
+  Upon the hempen tackle ship-boys climbing;
+  Hear the shrill whistle, which doth order give
+  To sounds confus’d; behold the threaden sails,
+  Borne with the invisible and creeping wind,
+  Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow’d sea,
+  Breasting the lofty surge: O, do but think
+  You stand upon the rivage,[3] and behold
+  A city on the inconstant billows dancing;
+  For so appears this fleet majestical,
+  Holding due course to Harfleur. Follow, follow!
+  Grapple your minds to sternage of this navy;[4]
+  And leave your England, as dead midnight still,
+  Guarded with grandsires, babies, and old women,
+  Either past, or not arriv’d to, pith and puissance;
+  For who is he, whose chin is but enrich’d
+  With one appearing hair, that will not follow
+  These cull’d and choice-drawn cavaliers to France?
+  Work, work your thoughts, and therein see a siege;
+  Behold the ordnance on their carriages,
+  With fatal mouths gaping on girded Harfleur.
+  Suppose the ambassador from the French comes back;
+  Tells Harry--that the king doth offer him
+  Katharine his daughter; and with her, to dowry,
+  Some petty and unprofitable dukedoms.
+  The offer likes not: and the nimble gunner
+  With linstock[5] now the devilish cannon touches,
+
+    [_Alarums, and cannon shot off._
+
+  And down goes all before them. Still be kind,
+  And eke out our performance with your mind.
+
+    [_Exit._
+
+    [Footnote IIIc.1: _The well-appointed king_] i.e., well furnished
+    with all the necessaries of war.]
+
+    [Footnote IIIc.2: _Embark his royalty;_] The place where Henry’s
+    army was encamped, at Southampton, is now entirely covered with
+    the sea, and called Westport.]
+
+    [Footnote IIIc.3: _----rivage,_] The _bank_ or shore.]
+
+    [Footnote IIIc.4: _----to +sternage+ of this navy;_] The stern
+    being the hinder part of the ship, the meaning is, let your minds
+    follow close after the navy. _Stern_, however, appears to have
+    been anciently synonymous to _rudder_.]
+
+
+
+
+  Scene Changes to
+  THE SIEGE OF HARFLEUR.
+
+  THE WALLS ARE MANNED BY THE FRENCH.
+
+  The English Are Repulsed from
+  an Attack on the Breach.
+
+
+    _Alarums. Enter KING HENRY, EXETER, BEDFORD, GLOSTER, and
+    Soldiers, R.H._
+
+  _K. Hen._ Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
+  Or close the wall up with our English dead![6]
+  In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man
+  As modest stillness and humility:
+  But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
+  Then imitate the action of the tiger!
+  On, on, you noble English,
+  Whose blood is fet[7] from fathers of war-proof!
+  And you, good yeomen,
+  Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
+  The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
+  That you are worth your breeding: which I doubt not;
+  For there is none of you so mean and base,
+  That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
+  I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,[8]
+  Straining upon the start. The game’s afoot:
+  Follow your spirit; and, upon this charge,
+  Cry--God for Harry! England! and Saint George!
+
+    [_The English charge upon the breach, headed by the KING.
+    Alarums. The GOVERNOR of the Town appears on the walls
+    with a flag of truce._
+
+  _K. Hen._ How yet resolves the governour of the town?
+  This is the latest parle we will admit:
+  Therefore, to our best mercy give yourselves;
+  Or, like to men proud of destruction,
+  Defy us to our worst: for, as I am a soldier
+  (A name that, in my thoughts, becomes me best,)
+  If I begin the battery once again,
+  I will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur
+  Till in her ashes she lie buried.
+  The gates of mercy shall be all shut up.
+  What say you? will you yield, and this avoid?
+  Or, guilty in defence, be thus destroy’d?
+
+  _Gov._ Our expectation hath this day an end:
+  The Dauphin, whom of succour we entreated,[9]
+  Returns us--that his powers are not yet ready
+  To raise so great a siege. Therefore, dread king,
+  We yield our town and lives to thy soft mercy.
+  Enter our town; dispose of us and ours;
+  For we no longer are defensible.
+
+    [_Soldiers shout._
+
+    [_The GOVERNOR and others come from the town, and kneeling,
+    present to KING HENRY the keys of the city._
+
+  _K. Hen._ Come, uncle Exeter, R.
+  Go you and enter Harfleur; there remain,
+  And fortify it strongly ’gainst the French:
+  Use mercy to them all. For us, dear uncle,--
+  The winter coming on, and sickness growing
+  Upon our soldiers,--we’ll retire to Calais.
+  To-night in Harfleur[*] will we be your guest;
+  To-morrow for the march are we addrest.[10]
+
+    [_March. English army enter the town through the breach._
+
+
+    [Footnote *: Extracts from the Account of the Siege of Harfleur,
+    selected from the pages of the anonymous Chronicler who was an
+    eyewitness of the event.
+
+    “Our King, who sought peace, not war, in order that he might
+    further arm the cause in which he was engaged with the shield of
+    justice offered peace to the besieged, if they would open the
+    gates to him, and restore, as was their duty, freely, without
+    compulsion, that town, the noble hereditary portion of his Crown
+    of England, and of his Dukedom of Normandy.
+
+    “But as they, despising and setting at nought this offer, strove
+    to keep possession of, and to defend the town against him, our
+    King summoned to fight, as it were, against his will, called upon
+    God to witness his just cause * * * he (King Henry) gave himself
+    no rest by day or night, until having fitted and fixed his engines
+    and guns under the walls, he had planted them within shot of the
+    enemy, against the front of the town, and against the walls,
+    gates, and towers, of the same * * * so that taking aim at the
+    place to be battered, the guns from beneath blew forth stones by
+    the force of ignited powers, * * * and in the mean time our King,
+    with his guns and engines, so battered the said bulwark, and the
+    walls and towers on every side, that within a few days, by the
+    impetuosity and fury of the stones, the same bulwark was in a
+    great part broken down; and the walls and towers from which the
+    enemy had sent forth their weapons, the bastions falling in ruins,
+    were rendered defenceless; and very fine edifices, even in the
+    middle of the city, either lay altogether in ruins, or threatened
+    an inevitable fall; or at least were so shaken as to be
+    exceedingly damaged. * * * And although our guns had disarmed the
+    bulwark, walls, and towers during the day, the besieged by night,
+    with logs, faggots, and tubs on vessels full of earth, mud, and
+    sand or stones, piled up within the shattered walls, and with
+    other barricadoes, refortified the streets. * * * The King had
+    caused towers and wooden bulwarks to the height of the walls, and
+    ladders and other instruments, besides those which he had brought
+    with him for the assault.” --We are then told that the enemy
+    contrived to set these engines on fire ’by means of powders, and
+    combustibles prepared on the walls.’
+
+    The History then states that “a fire broke out where the strength
+    of the French was greater, and the French themselves were overcome
+    with resisting, and in endeavouring to extinguish the fire, until
+    at length by force of arms, darts, and flames, their strength was
+    destroyed. Leaving the place therefore to our party, they fled and
+    retreated beneath the walls for protection; most carefully
+    blocking up the entrance with timber, stones, earth, and mud, lest
+    our people should rush in upon them through the same passage.”
+
+    “On the following day a conference was held with the Lord de
+    Gaucort, who acted as Captain, and with the more powerful leaders,
+    whether it was the determination of the inhabitants to surrender
+    the town without suffering further rigour of death or war. * * *
+    On that night they entered into a treaty with the King, that if
+    the French King, or the Dauphin, his first-born, being informed,
+    should not raise the seige, and deliver them by force of arms
+    within the first hour after morn on the Sunday following, they
+    would surrender to him the town, and themselves, and their
+    property.”
+
+    “And neither at the aforesaid hour on the following Sunday, nor
+    within the time, the French King, the Dauphin, nor any one else,
+    coming forward to raise the siege. * * * The aforesaid Lord de
+    Gaucort came from the town into the king’s presence, accompanied
+    by those persons who before had sworn to keep the articles, and
+    surrendering to him the keys of the Corporation, submitted
+    themselves, together with the citizens, to his grace. * * * Then
+    the banners of St. George and the King were fixed upon the gates
+    of the town, and the King advanced his illustrious uncle, the Lord
+    Thomas Beaufort, Earl of Dorset (afterwards Duke of Exeter) to be
+    keeper and captain of the town, having delivered to him the keys.”
+
+    Thus, after a vigorous siege of about thirty-six days, one of the
+    most important towns of Normandy fell into the hands of the
+    invaders. The Chronicler in the text informs us, that the
+    dysentery had carried off infinitely more of the English army than
+    were slain in the siege; that about five thousand men were then so
+    dreadfully debilitated by that disease, that they were unable to
+    proceed, and were therefore sent to England; that three hundred
+    men-at-arms and nine hundred archers were left to garrison
+    Harfleur; that great numbers had cowardly deserted the King, and
+    returned home by stealth; and that after all these deductions, not
+    more than nine hundred lances and five thousand archers remained
+    fit for service.
+
+    Hume, in his History of England, relates that “King Henry landed
+    near Harfleur, at the head of an army of 6,000 men-at-arms, and
+    24,000 foot, mostly archers. He immediately began the siege of
+    that place, which was valiantly defended by d’Estoüleville, and
+    under him by de Guitri, de Gaucourt, and others of the French
+    nobility; but as the garrison was weak, and the fortifications in
+    bad repair, the governor was at last obliged to capitulate, and he
+    promised to surrender the place if he received no succour before
+    the 18th of September. The day came, and there was no appearance
+    of a French army to relieve him. Henry, taking possession of the
+    town, placed a garrison in it, and expelled all the French
+    inhabitants, with an intention of peopling it anew with English.
+    The fatigues of this siege, and the unusual heat of the season,
+    had so wasted the English army, that Henry could enter on no
+    farther enterprise, and was obliged to think of returning to
+    England. He had dismissed his transports, which could not anchor
+    in an open road upon the enemy’s coasts, and he lay under a
+    necessity of marching by land to Calais before he could reach a
+    place of safety. A numerous French army of 14,000 men at-arms, and
+    40,000 foot, was by this time assembled in Normandy, under the
+    constable d’Albret, a force which, if prudently conducted, was
+    sufficient either to trample down the English in the open field,
+    or to harass and reduce to nothing their small army before they
+    could finish so long and difficult a march. Henry, therefore,
+    cautiously offered to sacrifice his conquest of Harfleur for a
+    safe passage to Calais; but his proposal being rejected, he
+    determined to make his way by valour and conduct through all the
+    opposition of the enemy.”]
+
+
+    [Footnote IIIc.5: _----linstock_] The staff to which the match is
+    fixed when ordnance is fired.]
+
+    [Footnote IIIc.6: _Or close the wall up with our English dead!_]
+    i.e. re-enter the breach you have made, or fill it up with your
+    own dead bodies.]
+
+    [Footnote IIIc.7: _Whose blood is +fet+_] To fet is an obsolete
+    word meaning _to fetch_. That is, “whose blood is derived,” &c.
+    The word is used by Spencer and Ben Jonson.]
+
+    [Footnote IIIc.8: _----like greyhounds in the +slips+,_] _Slips_
+    are a contrivance of leather, to start two dogs at the same time.]
+
+    [Footnote IIIc.9: _----whom of succour we entreated,_] This
+    phraseology was not uncommon in Shakespeare’s time.]
+
+    [Footnote IIIc.10: _----are we +addrest+._] i.e., prepared.]
+
+
+
+
+ACT III.
+
+
+SCENE I.--FRANCE. ROOM IN THE FRENCH KING’S PALACE.
+
+  _Trumpets sound._
+
+    _Enter the FRENCH KING, the DAUPHIN, DUKE OF BOURBON, the
+    CONSTABLE OF FRANCE, and others, L.H._
+
+  _Fr. King._ (C.) ’Tis certain he hath pass’d the river Somme.
+
+  _Con._ (R.C.) And if he be not fought withal, my lord,
+  Let us not live in France; let us quit all,
+  And give our vineyards to a barbarous people.
+
+  _Dau._ (R.) By faith and honour,
+  Our madams mock at us;
+  They bid us--to the English dancing-schools,
+  And teach lavoltas high[1] and swift corantos;[2]
+  Saying our grace is only in our heels,
+  And that we are most lofty runaways.
+
+  _Fr. King._ Where is Montjoy the herald? speed him hence:
+  Let him greet England with our sharp defiance.--
+  Up, princes! and, with spirit of honour edg’d
+  More sharper than your swords, hie to the field:
+  Bar Harry England, that sweeps through our land
+  With pennons[3] painted in the blood of Harfleur:
+  Go down upon him,--you have power enough,--
+  And in a captive chariot into Rouen
+  Bring him our prisoner.
+
+  _Con._              This becomes the great.
+  Sorry am I his numbers are so few,
+  His soldiers sick, and famish’d in their march;
+  For, I am sure, when he shall see our army,
+  He’ll drop his heart into the sink of fear,
+  And, for achievement offer us his ransom.[4]
+
+  _Fr. King._ Therefore, lord constable, haste on Montjoy;
+
+    [_CONSTABLE crosses to L._
+
+  And let him say to England, that we send
+  To know what willing ransom he will give.--
+  Prince Dauphin, you shall stay with us in Rouen.
+
+  _Dau._ Not so, I do beseech your majesty.
+
+  _Fr. King._ Be patient; for you shall remain with us.--
+  Now, forth, lord constable (_Exit CONSTABLE, L.H._), and princes all,
+  And quickly bring us word of England’s fall.
+
+    [_Exeunt L.H._
+
+    _Trumpets sound._
+
+
+    [Footnote III.1: _----lavoltas high_] A dance in which there was
+    much turning, and much capering.]
+
+    [Footnote III.2: _----swift corantos;_] A corant is a sprightly
+    dance.]
+
+    [Footnote III.3: _With +pennons+_] _Pennons_ armorial were small
+    flags, on which the arms, device, and motto of a knight were
+    painted.]
+
+
+SCENE II.--A VIEW IN PICARDY.
+
+  _Distant Battle heard._
+
+    _Enter GOWER, L.U.E., meeting FLUELLEN, R.H._
+
+_Gow._ (C.) How now, Captain Fluellen! come you from the bridge?(A)
+
+_Flu._ (R.C.) I assure you, there is very excellent service committed at
+the pridge.
+
+_Gow._ Is the Duke of Exeter safe?
+
+_Flu._ The Duke of Exeter is as magnanimous as Agamemnon; and a man that
+I love and honour with my soul, and my heart, and my duty, and my life,
+and my livings, and my uttermost powers: he is not (Heaven be praised
+and plessed!) any hurt in the ’orld; but keeps the pridge most
+valiantly, with excellent discipline. There is an ensign there at the
+pridge,--I think in my very conscience he is as valiant as Mark Antony;
+and he is a man of no estimation in the ’orld; but I did see him do
+gallant service.
+
+_Gow._ What do you call him?
+
+_Flu._ He is called--ancient Pistol.[5]
+
+_Gow._ I know him not.
+
+    _Enter PISTOL, R.H._
+
+_Flu._ Do you not know him? Here comes the man.
+
+  _Pist._ Captain, I thee beseech to do me favours:
+  The Duke of Exeter doth love thee well.
+
+_Flu._ Ay, I praise Heaven; and I have merited some love at his hands.
+
+  _Pist._ Bardolph, a soldier, firm and sound of heart,
+  Of buxom valour,[6] hath,--by cruel fate,
+  And giddy fortune’s furious fickle wheel,
+  That goddess blind.
+  That stands upon the rolling restless stone,--[7]
+
+_Flu._ By your patience, ancient Pistol. Fortune is painted plind, with
+a muffler before her eyes,[8] to signify to you that fortune is plind;
+And she is painted also with a wheel, to signify to you, which is the
+moral of it, that she is turning, and inconstant, and variations, and
+mutabilities: and her foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone,
+which rolls, and rolls, and rolls:--In good truth, the poet makes a most
+excellent description of fortune: fortune, look you, is an excellent
+moral.
+
+  _Pist._ Fortune is Bardolph’s foe, and frowns on him;
+  For he has stolen a _pix_,[9] and hang’d must ’a be.(B)
+  A damned death!
+  Let gallows gape for dog; let man go free,
+
+    [_Crosses to L.H._
+
+  But Exeter hath given the doom of death,
+  For _pix_ of little price.
+  Therefore, go speak, the duke will hear thy voice;
+  And let not Bardolph’s vital thread be cut
+  With edge of penny cord and vile reproach:
+  Speak, captain, for his life, and I will thee requite.
+
+    [_Crosses to R.H._
+
+  _Flu._ Ancient Pistol, I do partly understand your meaning.
+
+  _Pist._ Why, then, rejoice therefore.
+
+_Flu._ Certainly, ancient, it is not a thing to rejoice at: for if,
+look you, he were my prother, I would desire the duke to use his goot
+pleasure, and put him to executions; for disciplines ought to be used.
+
+_Pist._ _Fico_ for thy friendship![10]
+
+_Flu._ It is well.
+
+_Pist._ The fig of Spain![11]
+
+    [_Exit PISTOL, R.H._
+
+_Flu._ Very goot.
+
+_Gow._ Why, this is an arrant counterfeit rascal; a cut-purse;
+I remember him now.
+
+_Flu._ I’ll assure you, ’a utter’d as prave ’ords at the pridge as you
+shall see in a summer’s day.
+
+_Gow._ Why, ’tis a gull, a fool, a rogue, that now and then goes to the
+wars, to grace himself, at his return into London, under the form of a
+soldier. You must learn to know such slanders of the age,[12] or else
+you may be marvellously mistook.
+
+_Flu._ I tell you what, Captain Gower;--I do perceive, he is not the man
+that he would gladly make show to the ’orld he is: if I find a hole in
+his coat, I will tell him my mind.  [_March heard._]  Hark you, the king
+is coming; and I must speak with him from the pridge.[13]
+
+    _Enter KING HENRY, BEDFORD, GLOSTER, WESTMORELAND, Lords,
+    and Soldiers, L.H.U.E._
+
+_Flu._ (R.) Heaven pless your majesty!
+
+_K. Hen._ (C.) How now, Fluellen! cam’st thou from the bridge?
+
+_Flu._ Ay, so please your majesty. The duke of Exeter has very gallantly
+maintained the pridge: the French has gone off, look you; and there is
+gallant and most prave passages: Marry, th’athversary was have
+possession of the pridge; but he is enforced to retire, and the duke of
+Exeter is master of the pridge: I can tell your majesty, the duke is a
+prave man.
+
+_K. Hen._ What men have you lost, Fluellen?
+
+_Flu._ The perdition of th’athversary hath been very great, very
+reasonable great: marry, for my part, I think the duke hath lost never a
+man, but one that is like to be executed for robbing a church, one
+Bardolph, if your majesty knows the man: his face is all bubukles,[14]
+and whelks,[15] and knobs, and flames of fire: and his lips plows at his
+nose, and it is like a coal of fire, sometimes plue, and sometimes red;
+but his nose is executed, and his fire’s out.[16]
+
+_K. Hen._ We would have all such offenders so cut off.
+
+    [_Trumpet sounds without, R._
+
+    _Enter MONTJOY and Attendants, R.H._
+
+_Mont._ (_uncovers and kneels._) You know me by my habit.[17]
+
+_K. Hen._ Well, then, I know thee: What shall I know of thee?
+
+_Mont._ My master’s mind.
+
+_K. Hen._ Unfold it.
+
+_Mont._ Thus says my king:--Say thou to Harry of England: Though we
+seemed dead, we did but sleep. Tell him, he shall repent his folly, see
+his weakness, and admire our sufferance.[18] Bid him, therefore,
+consider of his ransom; which must proportion the losses we have borne,
+the subjects we have lost, the disgrace we have digested. For our
+losses, his exchequer is too poor; for the effusion of our blood, the
+muster of his kingdom too faint a number; and for our disgrace, his own
+person, kneeling at our feet, but a weak and worthless satisfaction. To
+this add--defiance: and tell him, for conclusion, he hath betrayed his
+followers, whose condemnation is pronounced. So far my king and master;
+so much my office.
+
+  _K. Hen._What is thy name? I know thy quality.
+
+_Mont._ Montjoy.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Thou dost thy office fairly. Turn thee back,
+  And tell thy king,--I do not seek him now;
+  But could be willing to march on to Calais
+  Without impeachment:[19] for, to say the sooth
+  (Though ’tis no wisdom to confess so much
+  Unto an enemy of craft and vantage),
+  My people are with sickness much enfeebled;
+  My numbers lessen’d; and those few I have,
+  Almost no better than so many French;
+  Who, when they were in health, I tell thee, herald,
+  I thought, upon one pair of English legs,
+  Did march three Frenchmen.--Forgive me, Heaven,
+  That I do brag thus!--this your air of France
+  Hath blown that vice in me; I must repent.
+  Go, therefore, tell thy master here I am;
+  My ransom is this frail and worthless trunk;
+  My army but a weak and sickly guard:
+  Yet, Heaven before,[20] tell him we will come on,
+  Though France himself,[21] and such another neighbour,
+  Stand in our way. There’s for thy labour, Montjoy.
+  Go, bid thy master well advise himself:
+  If we may pass, we will; if we be hinder’d,
+  We shall your tawny ground with your red blood
+  Discolour:(C) and so, Montjoy, fare you well.
+  The sum of all our answer is but this:
+  We would not seek a battle, as we are;
+  Nor, as we are, we say, we will not shun it:
+  So tell your master.
+
+  _Mont._            I shall deliver so.
+
+    (_MONTJOY rises from his knee._)
+
+  Thanks to your highness.
+
+    [_Exit MONTJOY with Attendants, R.H._
+
+  _Glo._ I hope they will not come upon us now.
+
+  _K. Hen._ We are in Heaven’s hand, brother, not in theirs.
+  March to the bridge; it now draws toward night:
+  Beyond the river we’ll encamp ourselves;
+  And on to-morrow bid them march away.
+
+    [_Exeunt, R.H._
+
+    _March._
+
+
+    [Footnote III.4: _And, for achievement, offer up his ransom._]
+    i.e., instead of fighting, he will offer to pay ransom.]
+
+    [Footnote III.5: _----ancient Pistol._] Ancient, a standard or
+    flag; also the ensign bearer, or officer, now called an ensign.]
+
+    [Footnote III.6: _Of buxom valour,_] i.e., valour under good
+    command, obedient to its superiors. The word is used by Spencer.]
+
+    [Footnote III.7: _----upon the rolling restless stone,--_] Fortune
+    is described by several ancient authors in the same words.]
+
+    [Footnote III.8: _----with a muffler before her eyes,_] A muffler
+    was a sort of veil, or wrapper, worn by ladies in Shakespeare’s
+    time, chiefly covering the chin and throat.]
+
+    [Footnote III.9: _For he hath stolen a pix,_] A _pix_, or little
+    chest (from the Latin _pixis_, a box), in which the consecrated
+    _host_ was used to be kept.]
+
+    [Footnote III.10: _Fico for thy friendship!_] Fico is fig--it was
+    a term of reproach.]
+
+    [Footnote III.11: _The fig of Spain!_] An expression of contempt
+    or insult, which consisted in thrusting the thumb between two of
+    the closed fingers, or into the mouth; whence _Bite the thumb_.
+    The custom is generally regarded as being originally Spanish.
+    --NARES.]
+
+    [Footnote III.12: _----such slanders of the age,_] Cowardly
+    braggarts were not uncommon characters with the old dramatic
+    writers.]
+
+    [Footnote III.13: _----I must speak with him from the pridge._]
+    _From_ for _about_--concerning the fight that had taken place
+    there.]
+
+    [Footnote III.14: _----bubukles,_] A corrupt word for carbuncles,
+    or something like them.]
+
+    [Footnote III.15: _----and whelks,_] i.e., stripes, marks,
+    discolorations.]
+
+    [Footnote III.16: _----his fire’s out._] This is the last time
+    that any sport can be made with the red face of Bardolph.]
+
+    [Footnote III.17: _----by my habit,_] That is, by his herald’s
+    coat. The person of a herald being inviolable, was distinguished
+    in those times of formality by a peculiar dress, which is likewise
+    yet worn on particular occasions.]
+
+    [Footnote III.18: _----admire our sufferance._] i.e., our
+    patience, moderation.]
+
+    [Footnote III.19: _Without impeachment:_] i.e., hindrance.
+    _Empechement_, French.]
+
+    [Footnote III.20: _Yet, Heaven before,_] In the acting edition,
+    the name of God is changed to Heaven. This was an expression in
+    Shakespeare’s time for _God being my guide_.]
+
+    [Footnote III.21: _Though France himself,_] i.e., though _the King
+    of France_ himself.]
+
+
+END OF ACT THIRD.
+
+
+
+
+HISTORICAL NOTES TO ACT THIRD.
+
+(A) _Come you from the bridge?_] After Henry had passed the Somme, Titus
+Livius asserts, that the King having been informed of a river which must
+be crossed, over which was a bridge, and that his progress depended in a
+great degree upon securing possession of it, despatched some part of his
+forces to defend it from any attack, or from being destroyed. They found
+many of the enemy ready to receive them, to whom they gave battle, and
+after a severe conflict, they captured the bridge, and kept it.
+
+  (B) _Fortune is Bardolph’s foe, and frowns on him;
+  For he hath stol’n a pix, and hanged must ’a be._
+
+It will be seen by the following extract from the anonymous Chronicler
+how minutely Shakespeare has adhered to history-- “There was brought to
+the King in that plain a certain English robber, who, contrary to the
+laws of God and the Royal Proclamation, had stolen from a church a pix
+of copper gilt, found in his sleeve, which he happened to mistake for
+gold, in which the Lord’s body was kept; and in the next village where
+he passed the night, by decree of the King, he was put to death on the
+gallows.” Titus Livius relates that Henry commanded his army to halt
+until the sacrilege was expiated. He first caused the pix to be restored
+to the Church, and the offender was then led, bound as a thief, through
+the army, and afterwards hung upon a tree, that every man might behold
+him.
+
+  (C) _Go, bid thy master well advise himself:
+  If we may pass, we will; if we be hinder’d,
+  We shall your tawny ground with your red blood
+  Discolour:_]
+
+My desire is, that none of you be so _unadvised_, as to be the occasion
+that I in my defence shall _colour_ and make _red your tawny ground_
+with the effusion of Christian blood. When he (Henry) had thus answered
+the Herald, he gave him a great reward, and licensed him to depart.
+--_Holinshed_.
+
+
+
+
+    _Enter CHORUS._
+
+
+  _Cho._ Now entertain conjecture of a time
+  When creeping murmur and the poring dark
+  Fills the wide vessel of the universe.
+  From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night
+  The hum of either army stilly sounds,[1]
+  That the fix’d sentinels almost receive
+  The secret whispers of each other’s watch:[2]
+  Fire answers fire;[3] and through their paly flames
+  Each battle sees the other’s umber’d face:[4]
+  Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs
+  Piercing the night’s dull ear; and from the tents,
+  The armourers, accomplishing the knights,
+  With busy hammers closing rivets up,
+  Give dreadful note of preparation.
+  Proud of their numbers, and secure in soul,
+  The confident and over-lusty[5] French
+  Do the low-rated English play at dice;[6]
+  And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night,
+  Who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp
+  So tediously away.
+
+
+    _Scene opens and discovers the interior of a French tent, with the
+    DAUPHIN, the CONSTABLE, ORLEANS, and others, playing at dice._
+
+_Dau._ Will it never be day?
+
+_Con._ I would it were morning; for I would fain be about the ears of
+the English.
+
+_Dau._ Who will go to hazard with me for twenty English prisoners?
+
+_Orl._ The prince longs to eat the English.
+
+_Con._ Would it were day! Alas, poor Harry of England! he longs not for
+the dawning, as we do.
+
+_Dau._ If the English had any apprehension, they would run away.
+
+_Con._ That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; their
+mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.
+
+_Dau._ Foolish curs, that run winking into the mouth of a Russian bear,
+and have their heads crushed like rotten apples! You may as well
+say,--that’s a valiant flea, that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a
+lion.
+
+_Con._ Just, just: give them great meals of beef, and iron and steel,
+they will eat like wolves, and fight like devils.
+
+_Orl._ Ay, but these English are shrewdly out of beef.
+
+_Con._ Then we shall find to-morrow--they have only stomachs to eat, and
+none to fight. Now is it time to arm: Come, shall we about it?
+
+_Dau._ It is now two o’clock: but, let me see,--by ten We shall have
+each a hundred Englishmen.
+
+
+SCENE CLOSES IN.
+
+  _Cho._ The poor condemned English,
+  Like sacrifices, by their watchful fires
+  Sit patiently, and inly ruminate
+  The morning’s danger; and their gestures sad,
+  Investing lank-lean cheeks, and war-worn coats,
+  Presenteth them unto the gazing moon
+  So many horrid ghosts.
+
+    [_Scene re-opens, discovering the English camp, with group
+    of soldiery praying. After a pause the scene closes._
+
+  O, now, who will behold
+  The royal captain of this ruin’d band
+  Walking from watch to watch, from tent to tent,
+  Let him cry--Praise and glory on his head!
+  For forth he goes and visits all his host;
+  Bids them good-morrow with a modest smile,
+  And calls them--brothers, friends, and countrymen.
+  Upon his royal face there is no note
+  How dread an army hath enrounded him;
+  Nor doth he dedicate one jot of colour
+  Unto the weary and all-watched night;
+  But freshly looks, and overbears attaint
+  With cheerful semblance and sweet majesty;
+  That every wretch, pining and pale before,
+  Beholding him, plucks comfort from his looks:
+  Then, mean and gentle all,
+  Behold, as may unworthiness define,
+  A little touch of Harry in the night:
+  And so our scene must to the battle fly;
+  The field of Agincourt. Yet, sit and see;
+  Minding true things[7] by what their mockeries be.
+
+    [_Exit._
+
+
+    [Footnote IVc.1: _----+stilly+ sounds,_] i.e., gently, lowly.]
+
+    [Footnote IVc.2: _The secret whispers of each other’s watch:_]
+    Holinshed says, that the distance between the two armies was but
+    250 paces.]
+
+    [Footnote IVc.3: _Fire answers fire;_] This circumstance is also
+    taken from Holinshed. “But at their coming into the village,
+    _fires_ were made by the English to give light on every side, as
+    there likewise were in the French hoste.”]
+
+    [Footnote IVc.4: _----the other’s +umber’d+ face:_] _Umber’d_
+    means here _discoloured_ by the gleam of the fires. _Umber_ is a
+    dark yellow earth, brought from Umbria, in Italy, which, being
+    mixed with water, produces such a dusky yellow colour as the
+    gleam of fire by night gives to the countenance. Shakespeare’s
+    theatrical profession probably furnished him with the epithet,
+    as burnt umber is occasionally used by actors for colouring the
+    face.]
+
+    [Footnote IVc.5: _----over-+lusty+_] i.e., over-_saucy._]
+
+    [Footnote IVc.6: _Do the low-rated English play at dice;_] i.e.,
+    do play them away at dice. Holinshed says-- “The Frenchmen, in the
+    meanwhile, as though they had been sure of victory, made great
+    triumph; for the captains had determined before how to divide the
+    spoil, and _the soldiers the night before had played the
+    Englishmen at dice_.”]
+
+    [Footnote IVc.7: _Minding true things_] To _mind_ is the same as
+    to _call to remembrance_.]
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV.
+
+
+SCENE I.--THE ENGLISH CAMP AT AGINCOURT.(A) NIGHT.
+
+    _Enter KING HENRY and GLOSTER, U.E.L.H._
+
+  _K. Hen._ Gloster, ’tis true that we are in great danger;
+  The greater therefore should our courage be.
+
+    _Enter BEDFORD, R.H._
+
+  Good morrow, brother Bedford.--Gracious Heaven!
+  There is some soul of goodness in things evil,
+  Would men observingly distil it out;
+  For our bad neighbour makes us early stirrers,
+  Which is both healthful and good husbandry.
+  Thus may we gather honey from the weed,
+  And make a moral of the devil himself.
+
+    _Enter ERPINGHAM.(B) L.H._
+
+  Good morrow, old Sir Thomas Erpingham:
+  A good soft pillow for that good white head
+  Were better than a churlish turf of France.
+
+  _Erp._ Not so, my liege: this lodging likes me better,
+  Since I may say--now lie I like a king.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Lend me thy cloak, Sir Thomas.--Brothers both,
+  Commend me to the princes in our camp;
+  Do my good morrow to them; and anon
+  Desire them all to my pavilion.
+
+_Glo._ We shall, my liege.
+
+    [_Exeunt GLOSTER and BEDFORD, R.H._
+
+  _Erp._ Shall I attend your grace?
+
+  _K. Hen._                       No, my good knight;
+  Go with my brothers to my lords of England:
+
+    [_ERPINGHAM crosses to R._
+
+  I and my bosom must debate a while,
+  And then I would no other company.
+
+_Erp._ Heaven bless thee, noble Harry!
+
+    [_Exit ERPINGHAM, R.H._
+
+_K. Hen._ Gad-a-mercy, old heart! thou speakest cheerfully.
+
+    _Enter PISTOL, L.H._
+
+_Pist._ _Qui va là?_
+
+_K. Hen._ A friend.
+
+  _Pist._ Discuss unto me; Art thou officer?
+  Or art thou base, common, and popular?[1]
+
+  _K. Hen._ I am a gentleman of a company.
+
+  _Pist._ Trail’st thou the puissant pike?
+
+  _K. Hen._ Even so. What are you?
+
+  _Pist._ As good a gentleman as the emperor.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Then you are a better than the king.[2]
+
+  _Pist._ The king’s a bawcock,[3] and a heart of gold,
+  A lad of life, an imp of fame;[4]
+  Of parents good, of fist most valiant:
+  I kiss his dirty shoe, and from my heart-strings
+  I love the lovely bully. What’s thy name?
+
+_K. Hen._ Harry _le Roi_.
+
+_Pist._ _Le Roi!_ a Cornish name: art thou of Cornish crew?
+
+_K. Hen._ No, I am a Welshman.
+
+_Pist._ Knowest thou Fluellen?
+
+_K. Hen._ Yes.
+
+  _Pist._ Tell him, I’ll knock his leek about his pate,
+  Upon Saint Davy’s day.
+
+    [_Crosses to R._
+
+_K. Hen._ Do not you wear your dagger in your cap that day, lest he
+knock that about yours.
+
+_Pist._ Art thou his friend?
+
+_K. Hen._ And his kinsman too.
+
+_Pist._ The _figo_ for thee, then!
+
+_K. Hen._ I thank you: Heaven be with you!
+
+_Pist._ My name is Pistol call’d.
+
+    [_Exit, R.H._
+
+_K. Hen._ It sorts[5] well with your fierceness.
+
+    _Enter FLUELLEN, L.H., and crosses to R., and GOWER, U.E.R.H.,
+    following hastily._
+
+_Gow._ Captain Fluellen!
+
+_Flu._ (R.C.) So! in the name of Heaven, speak lower.[6] It is the
+greatest admiration in the universal ’orld, when the true and auncient
+prerogatifes and laws of the wars is not kept: if you would take the
+pains but to examine the wars of Pompey the Great, you shall find,
+I warrant you, that there is no tiddle taddle, or pibble pabble in
+Pompey’s camp.
+
+_Gow._ (L.C.) Why, the enemy is loud; you heard him all night.
+
+_Flu._ If the enemy is an ass, and a fool, and a prating coxcomb, is it
+meet, think you, that we should also, look you, be an ass, and a fool,
+and a prating coxcomb, in your own conscience, now?
+
+_Gow._ I will speak lower.
+
+_Flu._ I pray you, and beseech you, that you will.
+
+    [_Exeunt GOWER and FLUELLEN, R.H._
+
+_K. Hen._ Though it appear a little out of fashion, there is much care
+and valour in this Welshman.
+
+    _Enter BATES and WILLIAMS, L.H._
+
+_Will._ Brother John Bates, is not that the morning which breaks yonder?
+
+_Bates._ I think it be: but we have no great cause to desire the
+approach of day.
+
+_Will._ We see yonder the beginning of the day, but, I think, we shall
+never see the end of it.--Who goes there?
+
+_K. Hen._ A friend.
+
+    [_Comes down, R._
+
+_Will._ Under what captain serve you?
+
+_K. Hen._ Under Sir Thomas Erpingham.
+
+_Will._ A good old commander, and a most kind gentleman: I pray you,
+what thinks he of our estate?
+
+_K. Hen._ Even as men wrecked upon a sand, that look to be washed off
+the next tide.
+
+_Bates._ (L.) He hath not told his thought to the king?
+
+_K. Hen._ No; nor it is not meet he should. (_Crosses to centre._) For,
+though I speak it to you, I think the king is but a man, as I am: the
+violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element shows to him as it
+doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions:[7] therefore when
+he sees reason of fears, as we do, his fears, out of doubt, be of the
+same relish as ours are: Yet, in reason, no man should possess him with
+any appearance of fear, lest he, by showing it, should dishearten his
+army.
+
+_Bates._ He may show what outward courage he will; but I believe, as
+cold a night as ’tis, he could wish himself in the Thames up to the
+neck; and so I would he were, and I by him, at all adventures, so we
+were quit here.
+
+_K. Hen._ (C.) By my troth, I will speak my conscience of the king:
+I think he would not wish himself any where but where he is.
+
+_Bates._ (L.) Then ’would he were here alone; so should he be sure to be
+ransomed, and a many poor men’s lives saved.
+
+_K. Hen._ I dare say you love him not so ill, to wish him here alone,
+howsoever you speak this, to feel other men’s minds: Methinks I could
+not die any where so contented as in the king’s company; his cause being
+just, and his quarrel honourable.[8]
+
+_Will._ (R.) That’s more than we know.
+
+_Bates._ Ay, or more than we should seek after; for we know enough, if
+we know we are the king’s subjects: if his cause be wrong, our obedience
+to the king wipes the crime of it out of us.
+
+_Will._ But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy
+rekoning to make, when all those legs and arms and heads, chopped off in
+battle, shall join together at the latter day,[9] and cry all--We died
+at such place; some swearing; some crying for a surgeon; some, upon
+their wives left poor behind them; some, upon the debts they owe; some,
+upon their children rawly left.[10] I am afeard there are few die well
+that die in battle; for how can they charitably dispose of any thing,
+when blood is their argument? Now, if these men do not die well, it will
+be a black matter for the king that led them to it; whom to disobey were
+against all proportion of subjection.
+
+_K. Hen._ So, if a son, that is by his father sent about merchandise, do
+sinfully miscarry upon the sea, the imputation of his wickedness, by
+your rule, should be imposed upon his father that sent him:--But this is
+not so: the king is not bound to answer the particular endings of his
+soldiers, nor the father of his son, for they purpose not their death,
+when they purpose their services. Every subject’s duty is the king’s;
+but every subject’s soul is his own. Therefore should every soldier in
+the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his
+conscience: and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the
+time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained.
+
+_Will._ ’Tis certain, every man that dies ill, the ill is upon his own
+head; the king is not to answer for it.
+
+_Bates._ I do not desire he should answer for me; and yet I determine to
+fight lustily for him.
+
+_K. Hen._ I myself heard the king say he would not be ransomed.
+
+_Will._ Ay, he said so, to make us fight cheerfully: but, when our
+throats are cut, he may be ransomed, and we ne’er the wiser.
+
+_K. Hen._ If I live to see it, I will never trust his word after.
+
+_Will._ That’s a perilous shot out of an elder gun, that a poor and
+private displeasure can do against a monarch! you may as well go about
+to turn the sun to ice with fanning in his face with a peacock’s
+feather. You’ll never trust his word after! come, ’tis a foolish saying.
+
+_K. Hen._ Your reproof is something too round:[11] I should be angry
+with you, if the time were convenient.
+
+_Will._ Let it be a quarrel between us, if you live.
+
+_K. Hen._ I embrace it.
+
+_Will._ How shall I know thee again?
+
+_K. Hen._ Give me any gage of thine, and I will wear it in my bonnet:
+then, if ever thou darest acknowledge it, I will make it my quarrel.
+
+_Will._ Here’s my glove: give me another of thine.
+
+_K. Hen._ There.
+
+_Will._ This will I also wear in my cap: if ever thou come to me and
+say, after to-morrow. _This is my glove_, by this hand, I will take thee
+a box on the ear.
+
+_K. Hen._ If ever I live to see it, I will challenge it.
+
+_Will._ Thou darest as well be hanged.
+
+_K. Hen._ Well, I will do it, though I take thee in the king’s company.
+
+_Will._ Keep thy word: fare thee well.
+
+_Bates._ Be friends, you English fools, be friends: (_Crosses to_
+WILLIAMS, R.) we have French quarrels enough, if you could tell how to
+reckon.
+
+    [_Exeunt Soldiers, R.H._
+
+  _K. Hen._ Upon the king! let us our lives, our souls,
+  Our sins, lay on the king!--we must bear all.
+  O hard condition, twin-born with greatness,
+  Subjected to the breath of every fool.
+  What infinite heart’s ease must king’s neglect,
+  That private men enjoy!
+  And what have kings, that privates have not too,
+  Save ceremony, save general ceremony?
+  And what art thou, thou idol ceremony?
+  Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form,
+  Creating awe and fear in other men?
+  Wherein thou art less happy being fear’d
+  Than they in fearing.
+  What drink’st thou oft, instead of homage sweet,
+  But poison’d flattery? O, be sick, great greatness,
+  And bid thy ceremony give thee cure!
+  Canst thou, when thou command’st the beggar’s knee,
+  Command the health of it? No, thou proud dream,
+  That play’st so subtly with a king’s repose:
+  I am a king that find thee; and I know,
+  ’Tis not the balm, the sceptre, and the ball,
+  The sword, the mace, the crown imperial,
+  The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp
+  That beats upon the high shore of this world,
+  No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony,
+  Not all these, laid in bed majestical,
+  Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave,
+  Who, with a body fill’d and vacant mind,
+  Gets him to rest, cramm’d with distressful bread;
+  And but for ceremony, such a wretch,
+  Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep,
+  Had the fore-hand and vantage of a king.
+
+    _Enter ERPINGHAM, R.H._
+
+  _Erp._ My lord, your nobles, jealous of your absence,
+  Seek through your camp to find you.
+
+  _K. Hen._                         Good old knight,
+  Collect them all together at my tent:
+  I’ll be before thee.
+
+    [_Gives back the Cloak to ERPINGHAM._
+
+  _Erp._             I shall do’t, my lord. _[Exit, R.H._
+
+  _K. Hen._ O God of battles! steel my soldier’s hearts;
+  Possess them not with fear; take from them now
+  The sense of reckoning, lest the opposed numbers
+  Pluck their hearts from them!--Not to-day, O Lord,
+  O, not to-day, think not upon the fault
+  My father made in compassing the crown!
+  I Richard’s body have interred new;(C)
+  And on it have bestow’d more contrite tears,
+  Than from it issu’d forced drops of blood:
+  Five hundred poor I have in yearly pay,
+  Who twice a day their wither’d hands hold up
+  Toward heaven, to pardon blood:
+                                More will I do--
+
+    [_Trumpet sounds without, R._
+
+  The day, my friends, and all things stay for me.
+
+    [_Exit, R.H._
+
+
+    [Footnote IV.1: _----popular_] i.e., one of the people.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.2: _----you are a better than the king._] i.e.,
+    a better _man_ than the king.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.3: _The king’s a bawcock,_] A burlesque term of
+    endearment, supposed to be derived from _beau coq_.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.4: _----an imp of fame;_] An _imp_ is a young shoot,
+    but means a _son_ in Shakespeare. In this sense the word has
+    become obsolete, and is now only understood as a small or inferior
+    devil.
+
+    In Holingshed, p. 951, the last words of Lord Cromwell are
+    preserved, who says:-- “----and after him, that his son Prince
+    Edward, that goodly _imp_, may long reign over you.”]
+
+    [Footnote IV.5: _It sorts_] i.e., it agrees.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.6: _----speak lower._] Shakespeare has here, as
+    usual, followed Holinshead: “Order was taken by commandement from
+    the king, after the army was first set in battle array, that _no
+    noise or clamor should be made in the host_.”]
+
+    [Footnote IV.7: _----conditions:_] i.e., _qualities_. The meaning
+    is, that objects are represented by his senses to him, as to other
+    men by theirs. What is danger to another is danger likewise to him;
+    and, when he feels fear, it is like the fear of meaner mortals.
+    --JOHNSON.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.8: _----his cause being just, and his quarrel
+    honourable._] In his address to the army, King Henry called upon
+    them all to remember _the just cause and quarrel_ for which they
+    fought. --HOLINSHED.]
+
+    [Footnote V.9: _----the latter day,_] i.e., the last day, the day
+    of Judgment. Shakespeare frequently uses the _comparative_ for the
+    _superlative_.]
+
+    [Footnote V.10: _----their children +rawly+ left._] i.e., _left
+    young and helpless_.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.11: _----too +round+:_] i.e., too rough, too
+    unceremonious.]
+
+
+SCENE II.--THE FRENCH CAMP--SUNRISE.
+
+  _Flourish of trumpets._
+
+    _Enter DAUPHIN, GRANDPRÈ, RAMBURES,[12] and Others._
+
+  _Dau._ The sun doth gild our armour; up, my lords!
+  My horse! _varlet! lacquay!_ ha!
+
+    [_Servants exeunt hastily._
+
+  _Grand._ O brave spirit!
+
+  _Dau._ Cousin Orleans.--
+
+    _Enter CONSTABLE, L.H._
+
+  Now, my lord Constable!
+
+  _Con._ Hark, how our steeds for present service neigh!
+
+  _Dau._ Mount them, and make incision in their hides,
+  That their hot blood may spin in English eyes,
+  And dout them[13] with superfluous courage, Ha!
+
+  _Con._ What, will you have them weep our horses’ blood?
+  How shall we, then, behold their natural tears?
+
+    _Enter MONTJOY, R.H._
+
+  _Mont._ The English are embattled, you French peers.
+
+    [_Exit R.H._
+
+  _Con._ To horse, you gallant princes! straight to horse!
+  Do but behold yon poor and starved band.
+  There is not work enough for all our hands;
+  Scarce blood enough in all their sickly veins,
+  To give each naked curtle-ax a stain.
+  ’Tis positive ’gainst all exceptions, lords,
+  That our superfluous lackeys, are enough
+  To purge this field of such a hilding foe.[14]
+  A very little little let us do,
+  And all is done. Then let the trumpets sound:
+  For our approach shall so much dare the field,
+  That England shall couch down in fear, and yield.
+
+    _Enter ORLEANS,(D) hastily, R.H._
+
+  _Orl._ Why do you stay so long, my lords of France?
+  Yon island carrions,[15] desperate of their bones,
+  Ill-favour’dly become the morning field:
+  Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose,[16]
+  And our air shakes them passing scornfully:
+  Big Mars seems bankrupt in their beggar’d host,
+  And their executors, the knavish crows,
+  Fly o’er them, all impatient for their hour.
+  Description cannot suit itself in words
+  To demonstrate the life of such a battle
+  In life so lifeless as it shows itself.
+
+  _Dau._ Shall we go send them dinners and fresh suits,
+  And give their fasting horses provender,
+  And after fight with them?
+
+  _Con._                   On, to the field!
+  Come, come, away!
+  The sun is high, and we outwear the day.
+
+    [_Exeunt, R.H._
+
+    _Flourish of trumpets._
+
+
+    [Footnote IV.12: _Rambures_,] The Lord of Rambures was commander
+    of the cross-bows in the French army at Agincourt.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.13: _And dout them_] _Dout_, is a word still used in
+    Warwickshire, and signifies to _do out_, or _extinguish_.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.14: _----a hilding foe._] _Hilding_, or _hinderling_,
+    is a _low wretch_.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.15: _Yon island carrion,_] This description of the
+    English is founded on the melancholy account given by our
+    historians of Henry’s army, immediately before the battle of
+    Agincourt.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.16: _Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose,_] By
+    their _ragged curtains_, are meant their colours.]
+
+
+SCENE III.--THE ENGLISH POSITION AT AGINCOURT.
+
+    _The English Army drawn up for battle;(E) GLOSTER, BEDFORD,
+    EXETER, SALISBURY, ERPINGHAM, and WESTMORELAND._
+
+  _Glo._ (R.C.) Where is the king?
+
+  _Bed._ (L.C.) The king himself is rode to view their battle.[17]
+
+  _West._ (L.) Of fighting men they have full threescore thousand.
+
+  _Exe._ (L.C.) There’s five to one; besides, they all are fresh.
+
+  _Erp._ It is fearful odds.
+  If we no more meet till we meet in heaven,
+  Then, joyfully,--my noble lord of Bedford,--
+
+    [_Crosses to L._
+
+  My dear lord Gloster,--and my good lord Exeter,--
+  Warriors all, adieu!
+
+    [_Crosses back to R._
+
+  _West._            O that we now had here
+  But one ten thousand of those men in England
+  That do no work to-day!(F)
+
+    _Enter KING HENRY, attended.(G) U.E.L.H._
+
+  _K. Hen._ (C.)        What’s he that wishes so?
+  My cousin Westmoreland?--No, my fair cousin:
+  If we are mark’d to die, we are enough
+  To do our country loss; and if to live,
+  The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
+  I pray thee, wish not one man more.
+  Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
+  That he who hath no stomach to this fight.
+  Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
+  And crowns for convoy put into his purse:
+  We would not die in that man’s company,
+  That fears his fellowship to die with us.
+  This day is call’d--the feast of Crispian:(H)
+  He, that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
+  Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam’d,
+  And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
+  He that shall live this day, and see old age,
+  Will yearly on the vigil feast his friends,[18]
+  And say--to-morrow is Saint Crispian:
+  Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
+  And say, those wounds I had on Crispin’s day.
+  Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
+  But he’ll remember with advantages[19]
+  What feats he did that day: Then shall our names,
+  Familiar in their mouths as household words,--
+  Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
+  Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloster,--(I)
+  Be in their flowing cups freshly remember’d.
+  This story shall the good man teach his son;
+  And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
+  From this day to the ending[20] of the world,
+  But we in it shall be remembered.
+  We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
+  For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
+  Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
+  This day shall gentle his condition:[21]
+  And gentlemen in England, now a-bed,
+  Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here;
+  And hold their manhoods cheap while any speaks
+  That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.
+
+    _Enter GOWER, hastily, U.E.L.H._
+
+  _Gow._ (R.C.) My sovereign lord, bestow yourself with speed:
+  The French are bravely in their battles set,[22]
+  And will with all expedience charge on us.
+
+  _K. Hen._ (C.) All things are ready, if our minds be so.
+
+  _West._ Perish the man whose mind is backward now!
+
+  _K. Hen._ Thou dost not wish more help from England, cousin?
+
+  _West._ (L.) Would you and I alone, my liege,
+  Without more help, might fight this battle out!
+
+    _Trumpet sounds without, L.H._
+
+    _Enter MONTJOY, and attendants, U.E.L.H._
+
+  _Mont._ (_uncovers and kneels._)
+  Once more I come to know of thee, King Harry,
+  If for thy ransom thou wilt now compound,
+  Before thy most assured overthrow.
+
+_K. Hen._ (C.) Who hath sent thee now?
+
+_Mont._ The Constable of France.
+
+  _K. Hen._ I pray thee, bear my former answer back:
+  Bid them achieve me,[23] and then sell my bones.
+  Good Heaven! Why should they mock poor fellows thus?
+  The man, that once did sell the lion’s skin
+  While the beast liv’d, was kill’d with hunting him.
+  Let me speak proudly:--Tell the Constable,
+  We are but warriors for the working-day:[24]
+  Our gayness and our guilt[25] are all besmirch’d
+  With rainy marching in the painful field,
+  And time hath worn us into slovenry.
+  But, by the mass, our hearts are in the trim;
+  And my poor soldiers tell me--yet ere night
+  They’ll be in fresher robes; or they will pluck
+  The gay new coats o’er the French soldiers’ heads,
+  And turn them out of service.
+  Come thou no more for ransom, gentle herald:
+  They shall have none, I swear, but these my joints,
+  Which if they have as I will leave ’em to them,
+  Shall yield them little, tell the Constable.
+
+  _Mont._ I shall, King Harry.
+
+    (_Rises from his knee._)
+
+                             And so, fare thee well:
+  Thou never shalt hear herald any more.
+
+    [_Exit with Attendants, U.E.L.H._
+
+  _K. Hen._ Now, soldiers, march away:--
+  And how thou pleasest, Heaven, dispose the day!(K)
+
+    _Trumpet March._
+
+    [_Exeunt L.H._
+
+
+    [Footnote IV.17: _The king himself is rode to view their battle._]
+    The king is reported to have dismounted before the battle
+    commenced, and to have fought on foot.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.18: _----on the vigil feast his friends_,] i.e., the
+    evening before the festival.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.19: _----with advantages_,] Old men, notwithstanding
+    the natural forgetfulness of age, shall remember _their feats of
+    this day_, and remember to tell them _with advantage_. Age is
+    commonly boastful, and inclined to magnify past acts and past
+    times. --JOHNSON.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.20: _From this day to the ending_] It may be observed
+    that we are apt to promise to ourselves a more lasting memory than
+    the changing state of human things admits. This prediction is not
+    verified; the feast of Crispin passes by without any mention of
+    Agincourt. Late events obliterate the former: the civil wars have
+    left in this nation scarcely any tradition of more ancient
+    history. --JOHNSON.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.21: _----gentle his condition:_] This day shall
+    advance him to the rank of a gentleman.
+
+    King Henry V. inhibited any person but such as had a right by
+    inheritance, or grant, to assume coats of arms, except those who
+    fought with him at the battle of Agincourt; and, I think, these
+    last were allowed the chief seats of honour at all feasts and
+    publick meetings. --TOLLET.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.22: _----bravely in their battles set._] Bravely, for
+    gallantly.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.23: _Bid them achieve me,_] i.e., gain, or obtain
+    me.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.24: _----warriors for the +working-day+:_] We are
+    soldiers but coarsely dressed; we have not on our holiday
+    apparel.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.25: _----our +guilt+_] i.e., golden show, superficial
+    gilding. The word is obsolete.]
+
+
+
+
+SCENE IV.--ANOTHER PART OF THE FIELD OF BATTLE.
+
+    _Alarums. Enter DAUPHIN, ORLEANS, BOURBON, CONSTABLE, RAMBURES,
+    and Others, hastily, and in confusion, L.H._
+
+  _Dau._ (C.) All is confounded, all!
+  Reproach and everlasting shame
+  Sits mocking in our plumes.
+
+    [_Alarums, L._
+
+  _Con._ Why, all our ranks are broke.
+
+  _Dau._ O perdurable shame![26]--let’s stab ourselves.
+  Be these the wretches that we play’d at dice for?
+
+  _Orl._ (L.C.) Is this the king we sent to for his ransom?
+
+  _Dau._ Shame, and eternal shame, nothing but shame!
+  Let us die in honor: Once more back again.
+
+  _Con._ (C.) Disorder, that hath spoil’d us, friend us now!
+  Let us in heaps go offer up our lives
+  Unto these English, or else die with fame.
+
+  _Dau._ (R.C.) We are enough, yet living in the field,
+  To smother up the English in our throngs,
+  If any order might be thought upon.
+
+  _Con._ The devil take order now! I’ll to the throng:
+  Let life be short; else shame will be too long.
+
+    _Alarums._
+
+    [_Exeunt L.H._
+
+
+    [Footnote IV.26: _O +perdurable+ shame!_] _Perdurable_ is
+    lasting.]
+
+
+SCENE V.--THE FIELD OF AGINCOURT AFTER THE BATTLE.
+
+  [_The bodies of the DUKE OF YORK(L) and EARL OF SUFFOLK are borne
+  across the stage by soldiers._
+
+  _Trumpets sound._
+
+    _Enter KING HENRY with a part of the English forces; WARWICK,
+    BEDFORD, GLOSTER, EXETER, and others, L.H._
+
+  _K. Hen._ (C.) I was not angry since I came to France,
+  Until this instant.--Take a trumpet, herald;
+  Ride thou unto the horsemen on yon hill:(M)
+  If they will fight with us, bid them come down,
+  Or void the field;[27] they do offend our sight:
+  If they’ll do neither, we will come to them;
+  And make them skirr away, as swift as stones
+  Enforced from the old Assyrian slings.
+  Go, and tell them so.
+
+    [_Exit HERALD with Trumpeter, R.H._
+
+  _Exe._ The Duke of York commends him to your majesty.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Lives he, good uncle? thrice within this hour,
+  I saw him down; thrice up again and fighting;
+  From helmet to the spur, all blood he was.
+
+  _Exe._ In which array, (brave soldier), did he lie,
+  Larding the plain; and by his bloody side,
+  (Yoke fellow to his honour-owing wounds),
+  The noble Earl of Suffolk also lay.
+  Suffolk first died: and York, all haggled over,
+  Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteep’d,
+  And takes him by the hand; kisses the gashes,
+  That bloodily did yarn upon his face;
+  And cries aloud:--_Tarry, dear cousin Suffolk!
+  My soul shall thine keep company to heaven:
+  Tarry, sweet soul, for mine, then fly abreast;
+  As in this glorious and well foughten field,
+  We keep together in our chivalry!_
+  Upon these words I came, and cheer’d him up:
+  He smil’d me in the face, raught me his hand,[28]
+  And with a feeble gripe, says,--_Dear, my lord,
+  Commend my service to my sovereign._
+  So did he turn, and over Suffolk’s neck
+  He threw his wounded arm, and kiss’d his lips;
+  And so espous’d to death, with blood he seal’d
+  A testament of noble-ending love.
+  The pretty and sweet manner of it forc’d
+  Those waters from me, which I would have stopp’d;
+  But I had not so much of man in me,
+  But all my mother came into mine eyes,
+  And gave me up to tears.
+
+    [_Re-enter ENGLISH HERALD and Trumpeter, R.H._
+
+  _K. Hen._              I blame you not:
+  For, hearing this, I must perforce compound
+  With mistful eyes, or they will issue too.
+
+    [_Trumpet without, R._
+
+  _Exe._ Here comes the herald of the French, my liege.
+
+  _Glo._ His eyes are humbler than they us’d to be.
+
+    _Enter MONTJOY,(N) and attendants, R.H. MONTJOY uncovers
+    and kneels._
+
+  _K. Hen._ How now! what means this, herald?
+  Com’st thou again for ransom?
+
+  _Mont._                     No, great king:
+  I come to thee for charitable licence,
+  That we may wander o’er this bloody field
+  To book our dead, and then to bury them;
+  To sort our nobles from our common men,
+  For many of our princes (woe the while!)
+  Lie drown’d and soak’d in mercenary blood;
+  (So do our vulgar drench their peasant limbs
+  In blood of princes;) and their wounded steeds
+  Fret fetlock deep in gore, and, with wild rage
+  Yerk out their armed heels at their dead masters,
+  Killing them twice. O, give us leave, great king,
+  To view the field in safety, and dispose
+  Of their dead bodies!
+
+  _K. Hen._           I tell thee truly, herald,
+  I know not if the day be ours or no;
+  For yet a many of your horsemen peer
+  And gallop o’er the field.
+
+  _Mont._                  The day is yours.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Praised be Heaven, and not our strength, for it!--
+  What is this castle call’d that stands hard by?
+
+  _Mont._ They call it--Agincourt.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Then call we this--the field of Agincourt,
+  Fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus.
+
+    [_Loud flourish of Trumpets, and shouts of the soldiers.
+    MONTJOY rises from his knee, and stands R._
+
+_Flu._ (L.) Your grandfather of famous memory, an’t please your majesty,
+and your great uncle Edward the plack prince of Wales, as I have read in
+the chronicles, fought a most prave pattle here in France.
+
+_K. Hen._ (C.) They did, Fluellen.
+
+_Flu._ Your majesty says very true: if your majesties is remembered of
+it, the Welshman did goot service in a garden where leeks did grow,
+wearing leeks in their Monmouth caps;[29] which, your majesty knows, to
+this hour is an honourable padge of the service; and I do believe, your
+majesty takes no scorn to wear the leek upon Saint Tavy’s day.
+
+  _K. Hen._ I wear it for a memorable honour;
+  For I am Welsh, you know, good countryman.
+
+_Flu._ All the water in Wye cannot wash your majesty’s Welsh plood out
+of your pody, I can tell you that: Heaven pless it, and preserve it, as
+long as it pleases his grace, and his majesty too!
+
+_K. Hen._ Thanks, good my countryman.
+
+_Flu._ I am your majesty’s countryman, I care not who know it: I will
+confess it to all the ’orld: I need not to be ashamed of your majesty,
+praised be Heaven, so long as your majesty is an honest man.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Heaven keep me so!--Our herald go with him:
+  Bring me just notice of the numbers dead
+  On both our parts.--
+
+    [_Exeunt MONTJOY and attendants, with English Herald, R.H._
+
+                    Call yonder fellow hither.
+
+    [_Points to WILLIAMS, who is standing in the ranks up the stage, L._
+
+_Exe._ Soldier, you must come to the king.
+
+_K. Hen._ (C.) Soldier, why wear’st thou that glove in thy cap?
+
+_Will._ (_kneels R._) An’t please your majesty, ’tis the gage of one
+that I should fight withal, if he be alive.
+
+    [_Rises from his knee._
+
+_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._ (L.) 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,[30] quite
+from the answer of his degree.[31]
+
+_Flu._ Though he be as goot a gentleman as the tevil is, as Lucifer and
+Belzebub himself, it is necessary, look your grace, that he keep his vow
+and his oath.
+
+_K. Hen._ Then keep thy vow, sirrah, when thou meet’st the fellow.
+
+_Will._ So I will, my liege, as I live.
+
+_K. Hen._ Who servest thou under?
+
+_Will._ Under Captain Gower, my liege.
+
+_Flu._ Gower is a goot captain, and is good knowledge and literature in
+the wars.
+
+_K. Hen._ Call him hither to me, soldier.
+
+_Will._ I will, my liege.
+
+    [_Exit, R.H._
+
+_K. Hen._ Here, Fluellen; wear thou this favour for me, and stick it in
+thy cap: When Alençon and myself were down together,(O) 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 love me.
+
+_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.
+
+_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._ (L.) I will fetch him.
+
+    [_Crosses to R., and exit R.H._
+
+  _K. Hen._ (L.C.) My lord of Warwick,--and my brother Gloster,
+
+    [_Both advance to the KING._
+
+  Follow Fluellen closely at the heels:
+  The glove which I have given him for a favour
+  May haply purchase him a box o’ the ear;
+  It is the soldier’s; I, by bargain, should
+  Wear it myself. Follow, good cousin Warwick:
+
+    [_WARWICK crosses to R._
+
+  If that the soldier strike him (as, I judge,
+  By his blunt bearing, he will keep his word,)
+  Some sudden mischief may arise of it;
+  For I do know Fluellen valiant,
+  And, touch’d with choler, hot as gunpowder,
+  And quickly will return an injury:
+  Follow,
+
+    (_GLOSTER crosses to R._)
+
+        and see there be no harm between them.--
+
+    [_WARWICK and GLOSTER exeunt R.H._
+
+  Go you with me, Uncle of Exeter.
+
+    [_Exeunt Omnes, L.H._
+
+    _Trumpets sound._
+
+
+    [Footnote IV.27: _Or void the field;_] i.e., avoid, withdraw from
+    the field.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.28: _----+raught+ me his hand,_] _Raught_ is the old
+    preterite of the verb _to reach_.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.29: _----Monmouth caps;_] Monmouth caps were formerly
+    much worn, and Fuller, in his “Worthies of Wales,” says the best
+    caps were formerly made at Monmouth.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.30: _----great sort,_] High rank.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.31: _----quite from the answer of his degree._] A man
+    of such station as is not bound to hazard his person to _answer_
+    to a challenge from one of the soldier’s _low degree_.]
+
+
+SCENE VI.--BEFORE KING HENRY’S PAVILION.
+
+    _Enter GOWER and WILLIAMS, R.H._
+
+_Will._ I warrant it is to knight you, captain.
+
+    _Enter FLUELLEN, R.H._
+
+_Flu._ Heaven’s will and pleasure, captain, I peseech you now, come
+apace to the king: there is more goot toward you peradventure than is in
+your knowledge to dream of.
+
+_Will._ Sir, know you this glove?
+
+_Flu._ (C.) Know the glove! I know, the glove is a glove.
+
+_Will._ (R.C.) 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._ (L.C.) How now, sir! you villain!
+
+_Will._ Do you think I’ll be forsworn?
+
+_Flu._ Stand away, Captain Gower; I will give treason his payment in
+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,(P) R.H._
+
+_Glos._ (_crosses to C._) How now, how now! what’s the matter?
+
+_Flu._ My lord of Gloster, here is (praised be Heaven 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, EXETER, and others, U.E.L.H._
+
+_K. Hen._ (_coming down centre._) How now! what’s the matter?
+
+_Flu._ (L.H.) 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._ (R.C.) My liege, this was my glove; here is the fellow of it;
+and he that I gave it to in change promised to 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
+arrant, rascally, beggarly, lowsy knave it is: I hope, your majesty is
+pear me testimony, and witness, and avouchments, 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 is the fellow of it.
+’Twas I, indeed, thou promised’st to strike; and thou hast given me most
+bitter terms.
+
+    [_WILLIAMS falls on his knee._
+
+_Flu._ An please your majesty, let his neck answer for it, if there is
+any martial law in the ’orld.
+
+_K. Hen._ How can’st thou make me satisfaction?
+
+_Will._ All offences, my liege, come from the heart: never came any from
+mine, that might offend your majesty.
+
+_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
+your 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 beseech your highness, pardon me.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Here, uncle Exeter, fill this glove with crowns,
+  And give it to this fellow.-- (_WILLIAMS rises._) Keep it, fellow;
+  And wear it for an honour in thy cap
+  Till I do challenge it.--Give him the crowns:--
+  And, captain, you must needs be friends with him.
+
+    [_The KING goes up the stage with EXETER, BEDFORD, and GLOSTER._
+
+_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
+Heaven, 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: ’tis a goot silling, I warrant you, or I will change it.
+
+    [_Exit WILLIAMS, R.H._
+
+    [_Enter ENGLISH HERALD, R.H._
+
+_K. Hen._ (_coming down C._) Now, herald, are the dead number’d?
+
+    [_HERALD uncovers, kneels, and delivers papers.
+    The KING gives one paper to EXETER._
+
+  _K. Hen._ (C.) What prisoners of good sort are taken, uncle?
+
+  _Exe._ (L.C.) 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._ (C.) This note doth tell me of ten thousand French
+  That in the field lie slain: of princes, in this number,
+  And nobles bearing banners, there lie dead
+  One hundred twenty-six: added to these,
+  Of knights, esquires, and gallant gentlemen,
+  Eight thousand and four hundred; of the which,
+  Five hundred were but yesterday dubb’d knights:[32]
+  So that, in these ten thousand they have lost,
+  There are but sixteen hundred mercenaries:[33]
+  The rest are--princes, barons, lords, knights, ’squires,
+  And gentlemen of blood and quality.
+  Here was a royal fellowship of death!----(Q)
+  What is the number of our English dead?
+
+  _Exe._ (L.C.) Edward the duke of York, the earl of Suffolk,
+  Sir Richard Ketley, Davy Gam, esquire:
+  None else of name; and of all other men
+  But five and twenty.
+
+  _K. Hen._          O Heaven, thy arm was here;
+  And not to us, but to thy arm alone,
+  Ascribe we all! When, without stratagem,
+  But in plain shock and even play of battle,
+  Was ever known so great and little loss
+  On one part and on the other?--Take it, Heaven,
+  For it is only thine!
+
+    [_Returns papers to HERALD, who rises and stands L._
+
+  _Exe._              ’Tis wonderful!
+
+  _K. Hen._ Come, go we in procession to the village:
+  And be it death proclaimed through our host
+  To boast of this, or take that praise from Heaven
+  Which is his only.
+
+_Flu._ (R.C.) Is it not lawful, and please your majesty, to tell how
+many is killed?
+
+  _K. Hen._ (_up the stage C._)
+  Yes, captain; but with this acknowledgment,
+  That Heaven fought for us.
+
+_Flu._ Yes, my conscience, he did us great goot.
+
+_K. Hen._ Do we all holy rites:(R)
+
+    [_The curtains of the Royal Pavilion are drawn aside,
+    and discover an Altar and Priests._
+
+  Let there be sung _Non nobis_ and _Te Deum_;
+  The dead with charity enclos’d in clay:
+  We’ll then to Calais; and to England then;
+  Where ne’er from France arriv’d more happy men.
+
+    [_Organ music; all kneel, and join in Song of Thanksgiving._
+
+
+END OF ACT FOUR.
+
+
+    [Footnote IV.32: _Five hundred were but yesterday dubb’d
+    knights:_] In ancient times, the distribution of this honor
+    appears to have been customary on the eve of a battle.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.33: _Sixteen hundred mercenaries;_] i.e., common
+    soldiers, hired soldiers.]
+
+
+
+
+HISTORICAL NOTES TO ACT FOURTH.
+
+(A) _The English Camp at Agincourt._] The French were about a quarter of
+a mile from them at Agincourt and Ruisseauville, and both armies
+proceeded to light their fires, and to make the usual arrangements for a
+bivouack. The night was very rainy, and much inconvenience is said to
+have been experienced in each camp from wet and cold, accompanied, among
+the English, by hunger and fatigue. It was passed in a manner strictly
+consistent with their relative situations. The French, confident in
+their numbers, occupied the hours not appropriated to sleep in
+calculating upon their success; and in full security of a complete
+victory, played at dice with each other for the disposal of their
+prisoners, an archer being valued at a blank, and the more important
+persons in proportion; whilst the English were engaged in preparing
+their weapons, and in the most solemn acts of religion.  *  *  *  The
+Chronicler in the text states, that from the great stillness which
+prevailed throughout the English camp, the enemy imagined they were
+panic-struck, and intended to decamp. Monstrelet relates that the
+English “were much fatigued and oppressed by cold, hunger, and other
+annoyances; that they made their peace with God, by confessing their
+sins with tears, and numbers of them taking the sacrament; for, as it
+was related by some prisoners, they looked for certain death on the
+morrow.”
+
+(B) _Enter Erpingham._] Sir Thomas Erpingham came over with Bolingbroke
+from Bretagne, and was one of the commissioners to receive King
+Richard’s abdication. In Henry the Fifth’s time Sir Thomas was warden of
+Dover Castle, and at the battle of Agincourt, was commander of the
+Archers. This venerable knight is described by Monstrelet to have grown
+grey with age and honour; and when orders were given for the English
+army to march toward the enemy, by Henry crying aloud, “Advance
+banners,” Sir Thomas threw his truncheon in the air as a signal to the
+whole field, exclaiming, “Now strike;” and loud and repeated shouts
+testified the readiness with which they obeyed the command.
+
+(C) _I Richard’s body have interred new;_] Henry was anxious not only to
+repair his own misconduct, but also to make amends for those iniquities
+into which policy or the necessity of affairs had betrayed his father.
+He expressed the deepest sorrow for the fate of the unhappy Richard, did
+justice to the memory of that unfortunate prince, even performed his
+funeral obsequies with pomp and solemnity, and cherished all those who
+had distinguished themselves by their loyalty and attachment towards
+him. --_Hume’s History of England._
+
+(D) _Enter Orleans._] Charles Duke of Orleans was wounded and taken
+prisoner at Agincourt. Henry refused all ransom for him, and he remained
+in captivity twenty-three years.
+
+This prince was a celebrated poet, and some of his most beautiful verses
+were composed during his confinement in the Tower of London. He married
+Isabella of Valois, daughter of Charles VI. and Isabeau of Bavaria,
+eldest sister to the Princess Katharine, Queen of Henry V.
+
+Isabella was the widow of our Richard the Second when she married the
+Duke of Orleans.
+
+After the victory of Agincourt, the following anecdote is related by
+Remy:-- “During their journey to Calais, at a place where they rested,
+Henry caused bread and wine to be brought to him, which he sent to the
+Duke of Orleans; but the French Prince would neither eat nor drink. This
+being reported to the King, he imagined that it arose from
+dissatisfaction, and, therefore, went to the duke. ‘Noble cousin,’ said
+Henry, ‘how are you?’ ‘Well, my lord,’ answered the duke. ‘Why, then, is
+it,’ added the King, ‘that you will neither eat nor drink?’ To which
+Orleans replied, ‘that truly he had no inclination for food.’ ‘Noble
+cousin,’ rejoined Henry, ‘be of good heart. I know that God gave me the
+victory over the French, not that I deserved it, but I fully believe
+that he wished to punish them; and if what I have heard is true, it is
+not to be wondered at, for never were there greater disorder,
+sensuality, sins, and vices seen than now prevail in France; which it is
+horrible to hear described; and if God is provoked, it is not a subject
+of surprise, and no one can be astonished.’ Many more conversations are
+said to have passed between the King and the Duke of Orleans, and the
+commisseration and courtesy of the former to his prisoners is mentioned
+by every writer in terms of just praise.”
+
+(E) _The English army, drawn up for battle;_] The victory gained at
+Agincourt, in the year 1415, is, in a great measure, ascribed to the
+English Archers, and that there might be no want of arrows, Henry V.
+ordered the sheriffs of several counties to procure feathers from the
+wings of geese, plucking six from each goose. An archer of this time was
+clad in a cuirass, or a hauberk of chain-mail, with a salade on his
+head, which was a kind of bacinet. Every man had a good bow, a sheaf of
+arrows, and a sword. Fabian describes the archer’s dress at the battle
+of Agincourt. “The yeomen had their limbs at liberty, for their hose was
+fastened with one point, and their jackets were easy to shoot in, so
+that they might draw bows of great strength, and shoot arrows a yard
+long.” Some are described as without hats or caps, others with caps of
+boiled leather, or wicker work, crossed over with iron; some without
+shoes, and all in a very dilapidated condition. Each bore on his
+shoulder a long stake, sharpened at both extremities, which he was
+instructed to fix obliquely before him in the ground, and thus oppose a
+rampart of pikes to the charge of the French Cavalry.
+
+  (F) _O that we now had here
+  But one ten thousand of those men in England
+  That do no work to day!_]
+
+A certain lord Walter Hungerford, knight, was regretting in the king’s
+presence that he had not, in addition to the small retinue which he had
+there, ten thousand of the best English Archers, who would be desirous
+of being with him; when the King said, Thou speaketh foolishly, for, by
+the God of Heaven, on whose grace I have relied, and in whom I have a
+firm hope of victory, I would not, even if I could, increase my number
+by one; for those whom I have are the people of God, whom He thinks me
+worthy to have at this time. Dost thou not believe the Almighty, with
+these his humble few, is able to conquer the haughty opposition of the
+French, who pride themselves on their numbers, and their own strength,
+as if it might be said they would do as they liked? And in my opinion,
+God, of his true justice, would not bring any disaster upon one of so
+great confidence, as neither fell out to Judas Maccabeus until he became
+distrustful, and thence deservedly fell into ruin. --_Nicolas’s History
+of Agincourt._
+
+(G) _Enter King Henry, attended._] Henry rose with the earliest dawn,
+and immediately heard three masses. He was habited in his “_cote
+d’armes_,” containing the arms of France and England quarterly, and wore
+on his bacinet a very rich crown of gold and jewels, circled like an
+imperial crown, that is, arched over. The earliest instance of an arched
+crown worn by an English monarch. --_Vide Planché’s History of British
+Costume._
+
+King Henry had at Agincourt for his person five banners; that is, the
+banner of the Trinity, the banner of St. George, the banner of St.
+Edward, the banner of St. Edmund, and the banner of his own arms. “When
+the King of England had drawn up his order of battle he made a fine
+address to his troops, exhorting them to act well; saying, that he was
+come into France to recover his lawful inheritance, and that he had good
+and just cause to claim it; that in that quarrel they might freely and
+surely fight; that they should remember that they were born in the
+kingdom where their fathers and mothers, wives and children, now dwelt,
+and therefore they ought to strive to return there with great glory and
+fame; that the kings of England, his predecessors, had gained many noble
+battles and successes over the French; that on that day every one should
+endeavour to preserve his own person and the honor of the crown of the
+King of England. He moreover reminded them that the French boasted they
+would cut off three fingers from the right hand of every archer they
+should take, so that their shot should never again kill man nor horse.
+The army cried out loudly, saying, ‘Sir, we pray God give you a good
+life, and the victory over your enemies.’” --_Nicolas’s History of
+Agincourt._
+
+The banner of the Oriflamme is said to have been unfurled by the French
+for the last time at Agincourt.
+
+(H) _The feast of Crispian._] The battle of Agincourt was fought upon
+the 25th of October, 1415, St. Crispin’s day. The legend upon which this
+is founded, is as follows:-- “Crispinus and Crispianus were brethren,
+born at Rome; from whence they travelled to Soissons in France, about
+the year 303, to propagate the Christian religion; but because they
+would not be chargeable to others for their maintenance, they exercised
+the trade of shoemakers; but the Governor of the town, discovering them
+to be Christians, ordered them to be beheaded about the year 303. From
+which time, the shoemakers made choice of them for their tutelar
+saints.” --_See Hall’s Chronicle._
+
+(I) _Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloster._]
+Although Shakespeare has adhered very closely to history in many parts
+of Henry V., he has deviated very much from it in the _Dramatis
+Personæ_. He makes the Duke of Bedford accompany Henry to Harfleur and
+Agincourt when he was Regent of England. The Earl of Exeter, or, more
+properly speaking, the Earl of Dorset, was left to command Harfleur; the
+Earl of Westmoreland, so far from quitting England, was appointed to
+defend the marches of Scotland, nor does it appear that the Earl of
+Salisbury was either at Harfleur or Agincourt. The Earl of Warwick[*]
+had returned to England ill from Harfleur. The characters introduced in
+the play who really were at Agincourt, are the Dukes of Gloucester and
+York, and Sir Thomas Erpingham.
+
+Holinshed states that the English army consisted of 15,000, and the
+French of 60,000 horse and 40,000 infantry--in all, 100,000. Walsingham
+and Harding represent the English as but 9,000, and other authors say
+that the number of French amounted to 150,000. Fabian says the French
+were 40,000, and the English only 7,000. The battle lasted only three
+hours.
+
+    [Footnote *: Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. He did not obtain
+    that title till 1417, two years after the era of this play.]
+
+(K) _How thou pleasest, Heaven, dispose the day._] At the battle of
+Agincourt, having chosen a convenient spot on which to martial his men,
+the king sent privately two hundred archers into a low meadow, which was
+on one of his flanks, where they were so well secured by a deep ditch
+and a marsh, that the enemy could not come near them. Then he divided
+his infantry into three squadrons, or battles; the van-warde, or
+avant-guard, composed entirely of archers; the middle-warde, of bill-men
+only; and the rerewarde, of bill-men and archers mixed together; the
+horse-men, as wings, went on the flanks of each of the battles. He also
+caused stakes to be made of wood about five or six feet long, headed
+with sharp iron; these were fixed in the ground, and the archers so
+placed before them that they were entirely hid from the sight of the
+enemy. When, therefore, the heavy cavalry of the French charged, which
+was done with the utmost impetuosity, under the idea of cutting down and
+riding over the archers, they shrunk at once behind the stakes, and the
+Frenchmen, unable to stop their horses, rode full upon them, so that
+they overthrew their riders, and caused the utmost confusion. The
+infantry, who were to follow up and support this charge, were so struck
+with amazement that they hesitated, and by this were lost, for during
+the panic the English archers threw back their bows, and with axes,
+bills, glaives, and swords, slew the French, till they met the
+middle-warde. The king himself, according to Speed, rode in the main
+battle completely armed, his shield quartering the achievements of
+France and England; upon his helm he wore a coronet encircled with
+pearls and precious stones, and after the victory, although it had been
+cut and bruised, he would not suffer it to be ostentatiously exhibited
+to the people, but ordered all his men to give the glory to God alone.
+His horse was one of fierce courage, and had a bridle and furniture of
+goldsmiths’ work, and the caparisons were most richly embroidered with
+the victorious ensigns of the English monarchy. Thus is he represented
+on his great seal, with the substitution of a knights’ cap, and the
+crest, for the chaplet. Elmham’s account, from which this is amplified,
+is more particular in some of the details; he relates, that the king
+appeared on a palfrey, followed by a train of led horses, ornamented
+with the most gorgeous trappings; his helmet was of polished steel,
+surmounted with a coronet sparkling with jewels, and on his surcoat, or
+rather jupon, were emblazoned the arms of France and England, azure,
+three fleurs-de-lis or, and gules, three lion’s passant guardant or. The
+nobles, in like manner, were decorated with their proper armorial
+bearings. Before him was borne the royal standard, which was ornamented
+with gold and splendid colours. An account of the memorable battle of
+Azincourt, or Agincourt, fought on the 25th of October, 1415, is thus
+related by Mr. Turner:-- “At dawn the King of England had matins and the
+mass chaunted in his army. He stationed all the horses and baggage in
+the village, under such small guard as he could spare, having resolved
+to fight the battle on foot. He sagaciously perceived that his only
+chance of victory rested in the superiority of the personal fortitude
+and activity of his countrymen, and to bring them face to face, and arm
+to arm, with their opponents, was the simple object of his tactical
+dispositions. He formed his troops into three divisions, with two wings.
+The centre, in which he stationed himself, he planted to act against the
+main body of the French, and he placed the right and left divisions,
+with their wings, at a small distance only from himself. He so chose his
+ground that the village protected his rear, and hedges and briars
+defended his flanks. Determined to shun no danger, but to be a
+conspicuous example to his troops on a day when no individual exertions
+could be spared, he put on a neat and shining armour, with a large and
+brilliant helmet, and on this he placed a crown, radiant with its
+jewels, and he put over him a tunic adorned with the arms of France and
+England. He mounted his horse, and proceeded to address his troops. The
+French were commanded by the Constable of France, and with him were the
+Dukes of Orleans, Burgundy, Berry, and Alençon, the Marshal and Admiral
+of France, and a great assemblage of French nobility. Their force was
+divided into three great battalions, and continued formed till ten
+o’clock, not advancing to the attack. They were so numerous as to be
+able to draw up thirty deep, the English but four. A thousand speared
+horsemen skirmished from each of the horns of the enemy’s line, and it
+appeared crowded with balistae for the projection of stones of all sizes
+on Henry’s little army. Henry sent a part of his force behind the
+village of Agincourt, where the French had placed no men at arms. He
+moved from the rear of his army, unperceived, two hundred archers, to
+hide themselves in a meadow on the flank of the French advanced line. An
+old and experienced knight, Sir Thomas Erpingham, formed the rest into
+battle array for an attack, putting the archers in front, and the men at
+arms behind. The archers had each a sharp stake pointed at both ends, to
+use against the French horse. Sir Thomas having completed his formation,
+threw up his truncheon in the air, and dismounted. The English began the
+attack, which the French had awaited, not choosing to give the advantage
+as at Poictiers; but when they saw them advance, they put themselves in
+motion, and their cavalry charged; these were destroyed by the English
+archers. The French, frightened by the effect of the arrows, bent their
+heads to prevent them from entering the vizors of their helmets, and,
+pressing forward, became so wedged together as to be unable to strike.
+The archers threw back their bows, and, grasping their swords,
+battle-axes, and other weapons, cut their way to the second line. At
+this period the ambushed archers rushed out, and poured their impetuous
+and irresistable arrows into the centre of the assailed force, which
+fell in like manner with the first line. In short, every part
+successively gave way, and the English had only to kill and take
+prisoners.”
+
+(L) The Duke of York commanded the van guard of the English army, and
+was slain in the battle.
+
+This personage is the same who appears in Shakespeare’s play of King
+Richard the Second by the title of Duke of Aumerle. His Christian name
+was Edward. He was the eldest son of Edmund Langley, Duke of York, who
+is introduced in the same play, and who was the fifth son of King Edward
+III. Richard, Earl of Cambridge, who appears in the second act of this
+play, was younger brother to this Edward, Duke of York.
+
+(M) _Ride thou unto the horsemen on yon hill:_] After the battle,
+“there were small bodies of the French on different parts of the plain,
+but they were soon routed, slain, or taken.”
+
+(N) _Enter MONTJOY._] He (the king) asked Montjoye to whom the victory
+belonged, to him or to the King of France? Montjoye replied that the
+victory was his, and could not be claimed by the King of France. The
+king said to the French and English heralds, “It is not we who have made
+this great slaughter, but the omnipotent God, as we believe, for a
+punishment of the sins of the French. The king then asked the name of
+the castle he saw near him. He was told it was Agincourt. Well, then,
+said he, since all battles should bear the name of the fortress nearest
+to the spot where they were fought, this battle shall from henceforth
+bear the ever durable name of Agincourt.” --_Nicolas’s History of
+Agincourt._
+
+(O) _When Alençon and myself were down together._] During the battle,
+the Duke of Alençon most valiantly broke through the English line, and
+advanced, fighting, near to the king, insomuch that he wounded and
+struck down the Duke of York. King Henry, seeing this, stepped forth to
+his aid, and as he was leaning down to raise him, the Duke of Alençon
+gave him a blow on the helmet that struck off part of his crown. The
+king’s guard on this surrounded him, when, seeing he could no way escape
+death but by surrendering, he lifted up his arm, and said to the king,
+“_I am the Duke of Alençon, and yield myself to you;_” but as the king
+was holding out his hand to receive his pledge, he was put to death by
+the guards. --_Nicolas’s History of Agincourt._
+
+(P) _Enter WARWICK and GLOSTER._] The noble Duke of Gloucester, the
+king’s brother, pushing himself too vigorously on his horse into the
+conflict, was grievously wounded, and cast down to the earth by the
+blows of the French, for whose protection the king being interested, he
+bravely leapt against his enemies in defence of his brother, defended
+him with his own body, and plucked and guarded him from the raging
+malice of the enemy’s, sustaining perils of war scarcely possible to be
+borne. --_Nicolas’s History of Agincourt._
+
+(Q) _Here was a royal fellowship of death!--_] There is not much
+difficulty in forming a correct estimate of the numbers of the French
+slain at Agincourt, for if those writers who only state that from three
+to five thousand were killed, merely meant the men-at-arms and persons
+of superior rank, and which is exceedingly probable, we may at once
+adopt the calculation of Monstrelet, Elmham, &c., and estimate the whole
+loss on the field at from ten to eleven thousand men. It is worthy of
+remark how very nearly the different statements on the subject approach
+to each other, and which can only be explained by the fact that the dead
+had been carefully numbered.
+
+Among the most illustrious persons slain were the Dukes of Brabant,
+Barré, and Alençon, five counts, and a still greater proportion of
+distinguished knights; and the Duke of Orleans, the Count of Vendôsme,
+who was taken by Sir John Cornwall, the Marshall Bouciqualt, and
+numerous other individuals of distinction, whose names are minutely
+recorded by Monstrelet, were made prisoners. The loss of the English
+army has been variously estimated. The discrepancies respecting the
+number slain on the part of the victors, form a striking contrast to the
+accuracy of the account of the loss of their enemies. The English
+writers vary in their statements from seventeen to one hundred, whilst
+the French chroniclers assert that from three hundred to sixteen hundred
+individuals fell on that occasion. St. Remy and Monstrelet assert that
+sixteen hundred were slain. --_Nicolas’s History of Agincourt._
+
+(R) _Do we all holy rites:_] Holinshed says, that when the king saw no
+appearance of enemies, he caused the retreat to be blown, and gathering
+his army together, gave thanks to Almighty God for so happy a victory,
+causing his prelates and chaplains to sing this psalm--_In exitu Israel
+de Egypto_; and commanding every man to kneel down on the ground at this
+verse--_Non nobis domine, non nobis, sed nomini tuo da gloriam_; which,
+done, he caused _Te Deum_ and certain anthems to be sung, giving laud
+and praise to God, and not boasting of his own force, or any human
+power.
+
+
+
+
+    _Enter CHORUS._
+
+
+  _Chor._ Vouchsafe to those that have not read the story,
+  That I may prompt them.
+  Now we bear the king
+  Towards Calais: grant him there; there seen,
+  Heave him away upon your winged thoughts
+  Athwart the sea. Behold, the English beach
+  Pales in the flood with men, with wives, and boys,
+  Whose shouts and claps out-voice the deep-mouth’d sea,
+  Which, like a mighty whiffler[1] ’fore the king
+  Seems to prepare his way: so let him land;
+  And solemnly, see him set on to London.
+  So swift a pace hath thought, that even now
+  You may imagine him upon Blackheath.
+  How London doth pour out her citizens!
+  The mayor, and all his brethren, in best sort,--
+  Like to the senators of the antique Rome,
+  With the plebeians swarming at their heels,--
+  Go forth, and fetch their conquering Cæsar in.
+  Now in London place him. There must we bring him;
+  Show the occurrences, whatever chanc’d,
+  Till Harry’s back-return again to France.
+
+    [_Exit._
+
+
+    [Footnote Vc.1: _----a mighty +whiffler+_] An officer who walks
+    first in processions, or before persons in high stations, on
+    occasions of ceremony. The name is still retained in London, and
+    there is an officer so called that walks before their companies at
+    times of publick solemnity. It seems a corruption from the French
+    word _huissier_. --HANMER.]
+
+
+
+
+  HISTORICAL EPISODE.
+
+  OLD LONDON BRIDGE
+  From the Surrey Side of the River.
+
+  RECEPTION OF KING HENRY THE FIFTH
+  On Entering London,
+  AFTER THE BATTLE OF AGINCOURT.[*]
+
+    [Note *: Extracts of King Henry’s reception into London, from
+    the anonymous Chronicler, who was an eye-witness of the events he
+    describes:--
+
+    “And when the wished-for Saturday dawned, the citizens went forth
+    to meet the king. *   *   *   viz., the Mayor[†] and Aldermen in
+    scarlet, and the rest of the inferior citizens in red suits, with
+    party-coloured hoods, red and white. *   *   *   When they had
+    come to the Tower at the approach to the bridge, as it were at the
+    entrance to the authorities to the city. *   *   *   Banners of
+    the Royal arms adorned the Tower, elevated on its turrets; and
+    trumpets, clarions, and horns, sounded in various melody; and in
+    front there was this elegant and suitable inscription upon the
+    wall, ‘Civitas Regis justicie’--(‘The city to the King’s
+    righteousness.’) *   *   *   And behind the Tower were innumerable
+    boys, representing angels, arrayed in white, and with countenances
+    shining with gold, and glittering wings, and virgin locks set with
+    precious sprigs of laurel, who, at the King’s approach, sang with
+    melodious voices, and with organs, an English anthem.
+
+      [[Footnote †: The Lord Mayor of London, A.D. 1415, was Nicholas
+      Wotton.]]
+
+       *   *   *   *   *
+    “A company of Prophets, of venerable hoariness, dressed in golden
+    coats and mantles, with their heads covered and wrapped in gold
+    and crimson, sang with sweet harmony, bowing to the ground,
+    a psalm of thanksgiving.
+       *   *   *   *   *
+    “Beneath the covering were the twelve kings, martyrs and
+    confessors of the succession of England, their loins girded with
+    golden girdles, sceptres in their hands, and crowns on their
+    heads, who chaunted with one accord at the King’s approach in a
+    sweet tune.
+       *   *   *   *   *
+    “And they sent forth upon him round leaves of silver mixed with
+    wafers, equally thin and round. And there proceeded out to meet
+    the King a chorus of most beautiful virgin girls, elegantly
+    attired in white, singing with timbrol and dance; and then
+    innumerable boys, as it were an angelic multitude, decked with
+    celestial gracefulness, white apparel, shining feathers, virgin
+    locks, studded with gems and other resplendent and most elegant
+    array, who sent forth upon the head of the King passing beneath
+    minæ of gold, with bows of laurel; round about angels shone with
+    celestial gracefulness, chaunting sweetly, and with all sorts of
+    music.
+
+    “And besides the pressure in the standing places, and of men
+    crowding through the streets, and the multitude of both sexes
+    along the way from the bridge, from one end to the other, that
+    scarcely the horsemen could ride through them. A greater assembly,
+    or a nobler spectacle, was not recollected to have been ever
+    before in London.”]
+
+
+
+
+ACT V.
+
+
+SCENE I.--FRANCE IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF TROYES.
+
+    _Enter FLUELLEN and GOWER, L.H._
+
+_Gow._ Nay, that’s right; but why wear you your leek today? Saint Davy’s
+day is past.
+
+_Flu._ There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things:
+I will tell you, as my friend, Captain Gower: the rascally, scald,
+beggarly, lowsy, pragging knave, Pistol,--he is come to me, and prings
+me pread and salt yesterday, look you, and pid me eat my leek: it was in
+a place where I could not preed 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.
+
+    _Enter PISTOL, R.H._
+
+_Gow._ Why, here he comes, swelling like a turkey-cock.
+
+_Flu._ ’Tis no matter for his swellings nor his turkey-cocks.--Heaven
+pless you, ancient Pistol! you scurvy, lowsy knave, Heaven pless you!
+
+  _Pist._ Ha! art thou Bedlam? dost thou thirst, base Trojan,
+  To have me fold up Parca’s fatal web?[1]
+  Hence! I am qualmish at the smell of leek.
+
+    [_Crosses to L.H._
+
+_Flu._ I peseech you heartily, scurvy, lowsy knave, at my desires, and
+my requests, and my petitions, to eat, look you, this leek: because,
+look you, you do not love it, nor your affections, and your appetites,
+and your digestions, does not agree with it, I would desire you to
+eat it.
+
+_Pist._ (_crosses to R.H._) 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 Heaven’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.[2]
+I pray you, fall to: if you can mock a leek, you can eat a leek.
+
+_Gow._ Enough, captain: you have astonished him.[3]
+
+_Flu._ I say, I will make him eat some part of my leek, or I will peat
+his pate four days.--Pite, I pray you; it is goot for you.
+
+_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 eke 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, ’pray you, throw
+none away; the skin is goot for your proken coxcomb. When you take
+occasions to see leeks hereafter, I pray you, mock at them; that is all.
+
+_Pist._ Good.
+
+_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 any thing, I will pay you in cudgels. Heaven be wi’
+you, and keep you, and heal your pate.
+
+    [_Exit L.H._
+
+_Pist._ (_crosses to L.H.) All hell shall stir for this.
+
+    [_Crosses to R.H._
+
+_Gow._ Go, go; you are a counterfeit cowardly knave. Will you mock at an
+ancient tradition,--begun upon an honourable respect, and worn as a
+memorable trophy of predeceased valour,--and dare not avouch in your
+deeds any of your words? I have seen you gleeking[4] and galling at this
+gentleman twice or thrice. You thought, because he could not speak
+English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English
+cudgel: you find it otherwise; and henceforth let a Welsh correction
+teach you a good English condition.[5] Fare ye well.
+
+    [_Exit, L.H._
+
+  _Pist._ Doth fortune play the huswife[6] with me now?
+  Old I do wax; and from my weary limbs
+  Honour is cudgell’d.
+                     To England will I steal:
+  And patches will I get unto these scars,
+  And swear, I got them in the Gallia wars.
+
+    [_Exit, R.H._
+
+
+    [Footnote V.1: _To have me fold up, &c._] Dost thou desire to have
+    me put thee to death.]
+
+    [Footnote V.2: _----a squire of low degree._] That is, _I will
+    bring thee to the ground._]
+
+    [Footnote V.3: _----astonished him._] That is, you have stunned
+    him with the blow.]
+
+
+SCENE II.--INTERIOR OF THE CATHEDRAL AT TROYES IN CHAMPAGNE.
+
+    _Trumpets sound. Enter, at one door, U.E.L.H., KING HENRY,(A)
+    BEDFORD, GLOSTER, EXETER, WARWICK, WESTMORELAND, and other Lords;
+    at another, U.E.R.H., the FRENCH KING, QUEEN ISABEL, the PRINCESS
+    KATHARINE,[7](B) Lords, Ladies, &c., the Duke of BURGUNDY, and
+    his Train. The two parties, French and English, are divided by
+    barriers._
+
+  _K. Hen._ (L.C.) Peace to this meeting, wherefore we are met![8]
+  Unto our brother France,--and to our sister,
+  Health and fair time of day;--joy and good wishes
+  To our most fair and princely cousin Katharine;
+  And (as a branch and member of this royalty,
+  By whom this great assembly is contriv’d,)
+  We do salute you, duke of Burgundy;--
+  And, princes French, and peers, health to you all!
+
+    [_All the French party bow to KING HENRY._
+
+  _Fr. King._ (R.C.) Right joyous are we to behold your face,
+  Most worthy brother England; fairly met:--
+  So are you, princes English, every one.
+
+  _Q. Isa._ (_R. of F. KING._) So happy be the issue, brother England,
+  Of this good day, and of this gracious meeting,
+  As we are now glad to behold your eyes;
+  Your eyes, which hitherto have borne in them
+  Against the French, that met them in their bent,
+  The fatal balls of murdering basilisks:[9]
+  The venom of such looks, we fairly hope,
+  Have lost their quality; and that this day
+  Shall change all griefs and quarrels into love.
+
+  _K. Hen._ To cry amen to that, thus we appear.
+
+  _Q.Isa._ You English princes all, I do salute you.
+
+    [_All the English party bow to QUEEN ISABELLA._
+
+  _Bur._ (R.) My duty to you both, on equal love,
+  Great kings of France and England!
+  Let it not disgrace me,
+  If I demand, before this royal view,
+  What rub or what impediment there is,
+  Why that the naked, poor, and mangled peace
+  Dear nurse of arts, plenties, and joyful births,
+  Should not, in this best garden of the world,
+  Our fertile France, put up her lovely visage?
+
+  _K. Hen._ If, duke of Burgundy, you would the peace,
+  Which you have cited, you must buy that peace
+  With full accord to all our just demands;
+  Whose tenours and particular effects
+  You have, enschedul’d briefly, in your hands.
+
+  _Fr. King._ I have but with a cursorary eye
+  O’er-glanc’d the articles: pleaseth your grace
+  To appoint some of your council presently
+  To sit with us once more, with better heed
+  To re-survey them, we will suddenly
+  Pass our accept and peremptory answer.[10]
+
+  _K. Hen._ Brother, we shall.--Go, uncle Exeter,--
+  And brother Bedford,--and you, brother Gloster,--
+  Warwick,--and Huntingdon,--go with the king;
+  And take with you free power, to ratify,
+  Augment, or alter, as your wisdoms best
+  Shall see advantageable for our dignity,
+  And we’ll consign thereto.--
+
+    [_Barriers removed. The English Lords, EXETER, BEDFORD, GLOSTER,
+    WARWICK, and HUNTINGDON, cross to the KING OF FRANCE, and exeunt
+    afterwards with him._
+
+  Will you, fair sister,
+  Go with the princes, or stay here with us?
+
+  _Q. Isa._ Our gracious brother, I will go with them:
+  Haply a woman’s voice may do some good,
+  When articles too nicely urg’d be stood on.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Yet leave our cousin Katharine here with us:
+  She is our capital demand, compris’d
+  Within the fore rank of our articles.
+
+  _Q. Isa._ She hath good leave.
+
+    [_Trumpets sound._
+
+    [_Exeunt all through gates, L.E.R. and L., but HENRY, KATHARINE,
+    and her Gentlewomen._
+
+  _K. Hen._ (L.C.)    Fair Katharine, and most fair!
+  Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms,
+  Such as will enter at a lady’s ear,
+  And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?
+
+_Kath._ (R.C.) Votre majesté shall mock at me; I cannot speak votre
+Anglais.
+
+_K. Hen._ O fair Katharine, if you will love me soundly with your French
+heart, I will be glad to hear you confess it brokenly with your English
+tongue. Do you like me, Kate?
+
+_Kath._ _Pardonnez moi,_ I cannot tell vat is--like me.
+
+_K. Hen._ An angel is like you, Kate, and you are like an angel.
+
+_Kath._ _Que dit-il? que je suis semblable aux anges?_
+
+_K. Hen._ I said so, dear Katharine; and I must not blush to affirm it.
+
+_Kath._ _O bon Dieu! les langues des hommes sont pleines de tromperies._
+
+_K. Hen._ What say you, fair one?
+
+_Kath._ Dat de tongues of de mans is be full of deceits.
+
+_K. Hen._ I’faith, Kate. I know no ways to mince it in love, but
+directly to say--I love you: then, if you urge me further than to
+say--Do you in faith? I wear out my suit. Give me your answer; i’faith,
+do; and so clap hands and a bargain: How say you, lady?
+
+_Kath._ Me understand well.
+
+_K. Hen._ Marry, if you would put me to verses or to dance for your
+sake, Kate, why you undid me. If I could win a lady at leap-frog, or by
+vaulting into my saddle with my armour on my back, under the correction
+of bragging, be it spoken, I should quickly leap into a wife. But,
+before Heaven, I cannot look greenly,[11] nor gasp out my eloquence, nor
+I have no cunning in protestation; only downright oaths, which I never
+use till urged, nor never break for urging. If thou canst love a fellow
+of this temper, Kate, whose face is not worth sun-burning, that never
+looks in his glass for love of any thing he sees there, let thine eye be
+thy cook. I speak to thee plain soldier: If thou canst love me for this,
+take me; if not, to say to thee--that I shall die, is true, but--for thy
+love, by the lord, no; yet I love thee too. And while thou livest, dear
+Kate, take a fellow of plain and uncoined constancy;[12] for a good leg
+will fall;[13] a straight back will stoop; a black beard will turn
+white; a curled pate will grow bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye
+will wax hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and moon; or,
+rather, the sun, and not the moon, for it shines bright, and never
+changes, but keeps his course truly. If thou would have such a one, take
+me: And take me, take a soldier; take a soldier, take a king: And what
+sayest thou, then, to my love? speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee.
+
+_Kath._ Est il possible dat I should love de enemy de la France?
+
+_K. Hen._ No; it is not possible you should love the enemy of France,
+Kate: but, in loving me, you should love the friend of France; for I
+love France so well, that I will not part with a village of it; I will
+have it all mine: and, Kate, when France is mine, and I am yours, then
+yours is France, and you are mine.
+
+_Kath._ Vat is dat?
+
+_K. Hen._ Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou
+love me?
+
+_Kath._ I cannot tell.
+
+_K. Hen._ Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I’ll ask them. Come,
+I know thou lovest me: and at night, when you come into your closet,
+you’ll question this gentlewoman about me; and I know, Kate, you will to
+her dispraise those parts in me that you love with your heart. If ever
+thou be’st mine, Kate, (as I have a saving faith within me, tells
+me,--thou shalt,) shall there not be a boy compounded between Saint
+Dennis and Saint George, half French, half English, that shall go to
+Constantinople[14] and take the Turk by the beard? shall he not? what
+sayest thou, my fair flower-de-luce? How answer you, _la plus belle
+Katharine du monde, mon très chère et divine déesse?_
+
+_Kath._ _Votre majesté_ ’ave _fausse_ French enough to deceive _la plus
+sage damoiselle_ dat is _en France._
+
+_K. Hen._ Now, fie upon my false French! By mine honour, in true
+English, I love thee, Kate: by which honour I dare not swear thou lovest
+me; yet my blood begins to flatter me that thou dost, notwithstanding
+the poor and untempting effect of my visage. But, in faith, Kate, the
+elder I wax, the better I shall appear: my comfort is, that old age,
+that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face: thou
+hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst; and thou shalt wear me, if thou
+wear me, better and better: And therefore tell me, most fair Katharine,
+will you have me? Put off your maiden blushes; avouch the thoughts of
+your heart with the looks of an empress; take me by the hand, and
+say--Harry of England, I am thine: which word thou shalt no sooner bless
+mine ear withal, but I will tell thee aloud--England is thine, Ireland
+is thine, France is thine, and Henry Plantagenet is thine; who, though I
+speak it before his face, if he be not fellow with the best king, thou
+shalt find the best king of good fellows. Come, your answer in broken
+musick, for thy voice is musick, and thy English broken; therefore,
+queen of all, Katharine, break thy mind to me in broken English, Wilt
+thou have me?
+
+_Kath._ Dat is as it shall please _le roi mon père_.
+
+_K. Hen._ Nay, it will please him well, Kate; it shall please him, Kate.
+
+_Kath._ Den it shall also content me.
+
+_K. Hen._ Upon that I will kiss your hand, and I call you--my queen.
+
+_Kath._ _Laissez, mon seigneur, laissez, laissez._
+
+_K. Hen._ Then I will kiss your lips, Kate.
+
+_Kath._ Dat is not be de fashion _pour les_ dames _de la_ France.
+
+_K. Hen._ O Kate, nice customs curt’sy to great kings. We are the makers
+of manners, Kate; therefore, patiently, and yielding. (_Kisses her._)
+You have witchcraft in your lips, Kate: there is more eloquence in a
+sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they
+should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of
+monarchs. (_Trumpets sound._) Here comes your father.
+
+    [_The centre gates are thrown open, and_
+
+    _Re-enter the FRENCH KING and QUEEN, BURGUNDY, BEDFORD, GLOSTER,
+    EXETER, WESTMORELAND. The other French and English Lords as
+    before, U.E.R. and L._
+
+_Bur._ (R.) My royal cousin, teach you our princess English?
+
+_K. Hen._ (C.) I would have her learn, my fair cousin, how perfectly I
+love her; and that is good English.
+
+_Bur._ Is she not apt?
+
+_K. Hen._ Our tongue is rough, coz, and my condition is not smooth;[15]
+so that, having neither the voice nor the heart of flattery about me,
+I cannot so conjure up the spirit of love in her, that he will appear in
+his true likeness. Shall Kate be my wife?
+
+_Fr. King._ (L.C.) So please you.
+
+  _Exe._ The king hath granted every article:
+  His daughter, first; and then, in sequel, all,
+  According to their firm proposèd natures.
+
+  _Fr. King._ Take her, fair son;
+  That the contending kingdoms
+  Of France and England, whose very shores look pale
+  With envy of each other’s happiness,
+  May cease their hatred; and this dear conjunction
+  Plant neighbourhood and christian-like accord
+  In their sweet bosoms, that never war advance
+  His bleeding sword ’twixt England and fair France.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Now, welcome, Kate:--and bear me witness all,
+  That here I take her as my sovereign queen.
+
+    [_The KING places a ring on KATHARINE’S finger._
+
+  Prepare we for our marriage:--on which day,
+  My lord of Burgundy, we’ll take your oath,
+  And all the peers’, for surety of our leagues.--
+  Then shall I swear to Kate, and you to me;
+  And may our oaths well kept and prosp’rous be!(C)
+
+    [_Flourish of Trumpets. Curtain descends._
+
+
+    [Footnote V.4: _----gleeking_] i.e., scoffing, sneering. _Gleek_
+    was a game at cards.]
+
+    [Footnote V.5: _----English +condition+._] _Condition_ is temper,
+    disposition of mind.]
+
+    [Footnote V.6: _----Doth fortune play the +huswife+_] That is, the
+    _jilt_.]
+
+    [Footnote V.7: The dresses of Queen Isabella, her ladies, and the
+    Princess Katharine, are taken from Montfaucon Monarchie
+    Françoise.]
+
+    [Footnote V.8: _----wherefore we are met!_] i.e., Peace, for which
+    we are here met, be to this meeting.]
+
+    [Footnote V.9: _The fatal balls of murdering basilisks:_] It was
+    anciently supposed that this serpent could destroy the object of
+    its vengeance by merely looking at it.]
+
+    [Footnote V.10:
+      _----we will, suddenly,
+      Pass our accept, and peremptory answer._]
+    i.e., our answer shall be such as to leave no room for further
+    questioning in the matter. “_We will peremptorily make answer._”]
+
+    [Footnote V.11: _----look +greenly+,_] i.e., like a young lover,
+    awkwardly.]
+
+    [Footnote V.12: _----take a good fellow of plain and +uncoined+
+    constancy;_] _Uncoined_ constancy signifies _real_ and _true_
+    constancy, _unrefined_ and _unadorned_.]
+
+    [Footnote V.13: _----a good leg will fall,_] i.e., shrink--fall
+    away.]
+
+    [Footnote V.14: _----shall go to Constantinople_] Shakespeare has
+    here committed an anachronism. The Turks were not possessed of
+    Constantinople before the year 1463, when Henry the Fifth had been
+    dead thirty-one years.]
+
+    [Footnote V.15: _----my +condition+ is not smooth;_] i.e.,
+    manners, appearance.]
+
+
+
+
+THE END.
+
+
+
+
+HISTORICAL NOTES TO ACT FIFTH.
+
+(A) _Enter_ KING HENRY,] At this interview, which is described as taking
+place in the Church of Notre Dame, at Troyes, King Henry was attired in
+his armour, and accompanied by sixteen hundred warriors. Henry is
+related to have placed a ring of “inestimable value” on the finger of
+Katharine, “supposed to be the same worn by our English queen-consorts
+at their coronation,” at the moment when he received the promise of the
+princess.
+
+(B) _The PRINCESS KATHARINE_,] Katharine of Valois was the youngest
+child of Charles VI., King of France, and his Queen, Isabella of
+Bavaria. She was born in Paris, October 27th, 1401. Monstrelet relates,
+that on Trinity Sunday, June 3rd, the King of England wedded the lady
+Katharine in the church at Troyes, and that great pomp and magnificence
+were displayed by him and his princess, as if he had been king of the
+whole world. Katharine was crowned Queen of England February 24, 1421;
+and shortly after the death of her heroic husband, which event took
+place August 31st, 1422, the queen married a Welch gentleman of the name
+of Owen Tudor, by whom she had three sons and one daughter. The eldest
+son, Edmund, married Margaret Beaufort, the heiress of the house of
+Somerset. His half-brother, Henry VI., created him Earl of Richmond. He
+died before he reached twenty years of age, leaving an infant son,
+afterwards Henry VII., the first king of the Tudor line. Katharine died
+January 3rd, 1437, in the thirty-sixth year of her age, and was buried
+at Westminster Abbey.
+
+(C) _----may our oaths well kept and prosp’rous be;_] The principal
+articles of the treaty were, that Henry should espouse the Princess
+Catherine: That King Charles, during his life time, should enjoy the
+title and dignity of King of France: That Henry should be declared and
+acknowledged heir of the monarchy, and be entrusted with the present
+administration of the government: That that kingdom should pass to his
+heirs general: That France and England should for ever be united under
+one king; but should still retain their several usages, customs, and
+privileges: That all the princes, peers, vassals, and communities of
+France, should swear, that they would both adhere to the future
+succession of Henry, and pay him present obedience as regent: That this
+prince should unite his arms to those of King Charles and the Duke of
+Burgundy, in order to subdue the adherents of Charles, the pretended
+dauphin; and that these three princes should make no peace or truce with
+him but by common consent and agreement. Such was the tenour of this
+famous treaty; a treaty which, as nothing but the most violent animosity
+could dictate it, so nothing but the power of the sword could carry it
+into execution. It is hard to say whether its consequences, had it taken
+effect, would have proved more pernicious to England or France. It must
+have reduced the former kingdom to the rank of a province: It would have
+entirely disjointed the succession of the latter, and have brought on
+the destruction of the royal family; as the houses of Orleans, Anjou,
+Alençon, Britanny, Bourbon, and of Burgundy itself, whose titles were
+preferable to that of the English princes, would, on that account, have
+been exposed to perpetual jealousy and persecution from the sovereign.
+There was even a palpable deficiency in Henry’s claim, which no art
+could palliate. For, besides the insuperable objections to which Edward
+the Third’s pretensions were exposed, _he_ was not heir to that monarch:
+If female succession were admitted, the right had devolved on the house
+of Mortimer: Allowing that Richard the Second was a tyrant, and that
+Henry the Fourth’s merits in deposing him were so great towards the
+English, as to justify that nation in placing him on the throne, Richard
+had nowise offended France, and his rival had merited nothing of that
+kingdom: It could not possibly be pretended that the crown of France was
+become an appendage to that of England; and that a prince who by any
+means got possession of the latter, was, without farther question,
+entitled to the former. So that, on the whole, it must be allowed that
+Henry’s claim to France was, if possible, still more unintelligible than
+the title by which his father had mounted the throne of England.
+--_Hume’s History of England._
+
+
+
+
+  JOHN K. CHAPMAN AND COMPANY, PRINTERS, 5, SHOE LANE,
+  AND PETERBOROUGH COURT, FLEET STREET.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+           *       *       *       *
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Errata Noted by Transcriber
+
+  a pæan of victory  [pœan]
+  within this wooden O  [wooden, O]
+  suppose every man to represent  [first “r” in “represent” invisible]
+  [Historical Notes to Act II]
+    [endnote labeling, with (A) reused, unchanged]
+  Lewis, Dovphin of Viennois  [spelling unchanged]
+  should not raise the seige  [spelling unchanged]
+  ... had played the Englishmen at dice.”  [missing close quote]]
+  I remember him now.  [; for .]
+  _Non nobis domine, non nobis, sed nomini tuo_  [_seel nomini_]
+  yet I love thee too  [I I love thee]
+
+
+Scenes
+
+_Correspondences are approximate; all Scenes have been significantly
+edited. Chorus speeches are fairly close to their original form._
+
+Kean edition (this text): Shakespeare
+
+  I.1 : I.2
+  I.2 : II.3, with Boy’s speech from III.2
+  II.1 : II.2
+  II.2 : II.4
+  III (unnumbered scene after Chorus) : III.1
+  III.1 : III.5
+  III.2 : III.6
+  IV (unnumbered scene interrupting Chorus) : III.7
+  IV.1 : IV.1
+  IV.2 : IV.2
+  IV.3 : IV.3
+  IV.4 : IV.5
+  IV.5 : IV.6 and IV.7 (intermingled)
+  IV.6 : IV.8
+  Interlude added by Kean : _no equivalent_
+  V.1 : V.1
+  V.2 : V.2
+
+_Shakespeare’s Epilogue (spoken by Chorus) is absent._
+
+
+
+
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of King Henry the Fifth, by William Shakespeare
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
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+
+Title: King Henry the Fifth
+       Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre
+
+Author: William Shakespeare
+
+Editor: Charles Kean
+
+Release Date: September 28, 2007 [EBook #22791]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK KING HENRY THE FIFTH ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by Louise Hope, David Starner, Curtis Weyant and
+the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
+http://www.pgdp.net
+
+
+
+
+
+[Transcriber's Note:
+
+This is not the text of _Henry V_ as written by Shakespeare. It is an
+acting version produced by Charles Kean in 1859. Approximate scene
+correspondences are listed at the end of the e-text.
+
+The original book had three types of notes. Footnotes, marked with
+asterisks or numbers, were printed at the bottom of the page. Longer
+notes, marked with letters, were printed at the end of each Act as
+"Historical Notes". For this e-text the asterisked notes are printed
+immediately after their paragraph, while numbered footnotes are
+collected at the end of each scene. The Historical Notes remain in
+their original location, as does the Interlude between Acts IV and V
+(printed as a very long asterisked footnote). The original numbering
+has been retained.]
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+           *       *       *       *
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+             Shakespeare's Play Of
+
+             KING HENRY THE FIFTH,
+
+        Arranged for Representation at
+            the Princess's Theatre,
+
+                      with
+       HISTORICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES,
+
+                       by
+             CHARLES KEAN, F.S.A.,
+
+              As First Performed
+          On MONDAY, MARCH 28th, 1859.
+
+
+
+
+  Entered At Stationers' Hall.
+
+  London:
+  Printed by John K. Chapman and Co.,
+  5, Shoe Lane, and Peterborough Court, Fleet Street.
+
+  PRICE ONE SHILLING.
+  TO BE HAD IN THE THEATRE.
+
+
+
+
+DRAMATIS PERSON�.
+
+  [Transcriber's Note:
+  "Mrs. Charles Kean" was otherwise known as Ellen Tree. Throughout the
+  play, the Hostess is called by her Henry IV name, Mrs. Quickly.]
+
+  KING HENRY THE FIFTH,                       Mr. CHARLES KEAN.
+  DUKE OF BEDFORD,    }                     { Mr. DALY.
+  DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, }                     { Miss DALY.
+    (_Brothers to the King_)
+  DUKE OF EXETER (_Uncle to the King_)        Mr. COOPER.
+  DUKE OF YORK (_Cousin to the King_)         Mr. FLEMING.
+  EARL OF SALISBURY,                          Mr. WILSON.
+  EARL OF WESTMORELAND,                       Mr. COLLETT.
+  EARL OF WARWICK,                            Mr. WARREN.
+  ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY,                   Mr. H. MELLON.
+  BISHOP OF ELY,                              Mr. F. COOKE.
+  EARL OF CAMBRIDGE, }                      { Mr. T. W. EDMONDS.
+  LORD SCROOP,       }                      { Mr. CORMACK.
+  SIR THOMAS GREY,   }                      { Mr. STOAKES.
+    (_Conspirators against the King_)
+  SIR THOMAS ERPINGHAM, }                   { Mr. GRAHAM.
+  GOWER,                }                   { Mr. G. EVERETT.
+  FLUELLEN,             }                   { Mr. MEADOWS.
+    (_Officers in King Henry's Army_)
+  BATES,    }                               { Mr. DODSWORTH.
+  WILLIAMS, }                               { Mr. RYDER.
+    (_Soldiers in the same_)
+  NYM,      }                               { Mr. J. MORRIS.
+  BARDOLPH, }                               { Mr. H. SAKER.
+  PISTOL,   }                               { Mr. FRANK MATTHEWS.
+    (_formerly Servants to Falstaff,
+    now Soldiers in the same_)
+  BOY (_Servant to them_)                     Miss KATE TERRY.
+  ENGLISH HERALD,                             Mr. COLLIER.
+
+  CHORUS,                                     Mrs. CHARLES KEAN.
+
+  CHARLES THE SIXTH (_King of France_)        Mr. TERRY.
+  LEWIS (_the Dauphin_)                       Mr. J. F. CATHCART.
+  DUKE OF BURGUNDY,                           Mr. ROLLESTON.
+  DUKE OF ORLEANS,                            Mr. BRAZIER.
+  DUKE OF BOURBON,                            Mr. JAMES.
+  THE CONSTABLE OF FRANCE,                    Mr. RAYMOND.
+  RAMBURES, }                               { Mr. WALTERS.
+  GRANDPR�, }                               { Mr. RICHARDSON.
+    (_French Lords_)
+  GOVERNOR OF HARFLEUR,                       Mr. PAULO.
+  MONTJOY (_French Herald_)                   Mr. BARSBY.
+
+  ISABEL (_Queen of France_)                  Miss MURRAY.
+  KATHARINE                                   Miss CHAPMAN.
+    (_Daughter of Charles and Isabel_)
+  QUICKLY (_Pistol's Wife, a Hostess_)        Mrs. W. DALY.
+
+_Lords, Ladies, Officers, French and English Soldiers, Messengers,
+and Attendants._
+
+
+The SCENE, at the Beginning of the Play, lies in England;
+but afterwards in France.
+
+
+
+
+STAGE DIRECTIONS.
+
+R.H. means Right Hand; L.H. Left Hand; U.E. Upper Entrance. R.H.C.
+Enters through the centre from the Right Hand; L.H.C. Enters through
+the centre from the Left Hand.
+
+
+RELATIVE POSITIONS OF THE PERFORMERS WHEN ON THE STAGE.
+
+R. means on the Right Side of the Stage; L. on the Left Side of the
+Stage; C. Centre of the Stage; R.C. Right Centre of the Stage; L.C.
+Left Centre of the Stage.
+
+--> The reader is supposed _to be on the Stage_, facing the Audience.
+
+  THE SCENERY Painted by Mr. GRIEVE and Mr. TELBIN,
+  Assisted by Mr. W. GORDON, Mr. F. LLOYDS,
+  Mr. CUTHBERT, Mr. DAYES, Mr. MORRIS, &c., &c.
+  THE MUSIC under the direction of Mr. ISAACSON.
+  THE DANCE IN THE EPISODE by Mr. CORMACK.
+  THE DECORATIONS AND APPOINTMENTS by Mr. E. W. BRADWELL.
+  THE DRESSES by Mrs. and Miss HOGGINS.
+  THE MACHINERY by Mr. G. HODSDON.
+  PERRUQUIER, Mr. ASPLIN, of No. 13, New Bond Street.
+
+--> _For reference to Historical Authorities indicated by Letters, see
+end of each Act._
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+
+In the selection of my last Shakespearean revival at the Princess's
+Theatre, I have been actuated by a desire to present some of the finest
+poetry of our great dramatic master, interwoven with a subject
+illustrating a most memorable era in English history. No play appears
+to be better adapted for this two-fold purpose than that which treats
+of Shakespeare's favorite hero, and England's favorite king--Henry the
+Fifth.
+
+The period thus recalled is flattering to our national pride; and
+however much the general feeling of the present day may be opposed to
+the evils of war, there are few amongst us who can be reminded of the
+military renown achieved by our ancestors on the fields of Crecy,
+Poitiers, and Agincourt, without a glow of patriotic enthusiasm.
+
+The political motives which induced the invasion of France in the year
+1415 must be sought for in the warlike spirit of the times, and in the
+martial character of the English sovereign. It is sufficient for
+dramatic purposes that a few thousands of our countrymen, in their march
+through a foreign land, enfeebled by sickness and encompassed by foes,
+were able to subdue and scatter to the winds the multitudinous hosts of
+France, on whose blood-stained soil ten thousand of her bravest sons lay
+slain, mingled with scarcely one hundred Englishmen![*] Such a
+marvellous disparity might well draw forth the pious acknowledgment of
+King Henry,--
+
+  "O God, thy arm was here;--
+  And not to us, but to thy arm alone,
+  Ascribe we all.--When, without stratagem,
+  But in plain shock and even play of battle,
+  Was ever known so great and little loss
+  On one part and on the other?--Take it, God,
+  For it is only thine!"
+
+    [Footnote *: The English authorities vary in their statements
+    from seventeen to one hundred killed. The French historian,
+    Monstrelet, estimates the loss of his countrymen at ten thousand
+    men.]
+
+Shakespeare in this, as in other of his dramatic histories, has closely
+followed Holinshed; but the light of his genius irradiates the dry pages
+of the chronicler. The play of Henry the Fifth is not only a poetical
+record of the past, but it is, as it were, "a song of triumph," a lay of
+the minstrel pouring forth a p�an of victory. The gallant feats of our
+forefathers are brought vividly before our eyes, inspiring sentiments
+not to be excited by the mere perusal of books, reminding us of the
+prowess of Englishmen in earlier days, and conveying an assurance of
+what they will ever be in the hour of peril.
+
+The descriptive poetry assigned to the "Chorus" between the acts is
+retained as a peculiar feature, connecting and explaining the action as
+it proceeds. This singular personage, so different from the Chorus of
+antiquity, I have endeavoured to render instrumental to the general
+effect of the play; the whole being planned with a view to realise, as
+far as the appliances of a theatre can be exercised, the events of the
+extraordinary campaign so decisively closed by the great conflict of
+Agincourt, which ultimately placed two crowns on the brow of the
+conqueror, and resulted in his marriage with Katharine, the daughter of
+Charles the Sixth, King of France. Shakespeare does not in this
+instance, as in _Pericles_ and the _Winter's Tale_, assign a distinct
+individuality to the Chorus. For the figure of Time, under the semblance
+of an aged man, which has been heretofore presented, will now be
+substituted Clio, the muse of History. Thus, without violating
+consistency, an opportunity is afforded to Mrs. Charles Kean, which the
+play does not otherwise supply, of participating in this, the concluding
+revival of her husband's management.
+
+Between the fourth and fifth acts I have ventured to introduce, as in
+the case of _Richard the Second_, a historical episode of action,
+exhibiting the reception of King Henry on returning to his capital,
+after the French expedition.
+
+It would be impossible to include the manifold incidents of the royal
+progress in one scene: neither could all the sites on which they
+actually took place be successively exhibited. The most prominent are,
+therefore, selected, and thrown into one locality--the approach to old
+London bridge. Our audiences have previously witnessed the procession of
+Bolingbroke, followed in silence by his deposed and captive predecessor.
+An endeavor will now be made to exhibit the heroic son of that very
+Bolingbroke, in his own hour of more lawful triumph, returning to the
+same city; while thousands gazed upon him with mingled devotion and
+delight, many of whom, perhaps, participated in the earlier reception of
+his father, sixteen years before, under such different and painful
+circumstances. The Victor of Agincourt is hailed, not as a successful
+usurper, but as a conqueror; the adored sovereign of his people; the
+pride of the nation; and apparently the chosen instrument of heaven,
+crowned with imperishable glory. The portrait of this great man is drawn
+throughout the play with the pencil of a master-hand. The pleasantry of
+the prince occasionally peeps through the dignified reserve of the
+monarch, as instanced in his conversations with Fluellen, and in the
+exchange of gloves with the soldier Williams. His bearing is invariably
+gallant, chivalrous, and truly devout; surmounting every obstacle by his
+indomitable courage; and ever in the true feeling of a christian
+warrior, placing his trust in the one Supreme Power, the only Giver of
+victory! The introductions made throughout the play are presented less
+with a view to spectacular effect, than from a desire to render the
+stage a medium of historical knowledge, as well as an illustration of
+dramatic poetry. _Accuracy_, not _show_, has been my object; and where
+the two coalesce, it is because the one is inseparable from the other.
+The entire scene of the episode has been modelled upon the facts related
+by the late Sir Harris Nicholas, in his translated copy of a highly
+interesting Latin MS., accidentally discovered in the British Museum,
+written by a Priest, who accompanied the English army; and giving a
+detailed account of every incident, from the embarkation at Southampton
+to the return to London. The author tells us himself, that he was
+present at Agincourt, and "_sat on horseback with the other priests,
+among the baggage, in the rear of the battle_." We have, therefore, the
+evidence of an eyewitness; and by that testimony I have regulated the
+general representation of this noble play, but more especially the
+introductory episode.
+
+The music, under the direction of Mr. Isaacson, has been, in part,
+selected from such ancient airs as remain to us of, or anterior to, the
+date of Henry the Fifth, and, in part, composed to accord with the same
+period. The "Song on the Victory of Agincourt," published at the end of
+Sir Harris Nicholas's interesting narrative, and introduced in the
+admirable work entitled "Popular Music of the Olden Time," by
+W. Chappell, F.S.A., is sung by the boy choristers in the Episode. The
+"Chanson Roland," to be found in the above-named work, is also given by
+the entire chorus in the same scene. The Hymn of Thanksgiving, at the
+end of the fourth act, is supposed to be as old as A.D. 1310. To give
+effect to the music, fifty singers have been engaged.
+
+As the term of my management is now drawing to a close, I may, perhaps,
+be permitted, in a few words, to express my thanks for the support and
+encouragement I have received. While endeavouring, to the best of my
+ability and judgment, to uphold the interests of the drama in its most
+exalted form, I may conscientiously assert, that I have been animated by
+no selfish or commercial spirit. An enthusiast in the art to which my
+life has been devoted, I have always entertained a deeply-rooted
+conviction that the plan I have pursued for many seasons, might, in due
+time, under fostering care, render the Stage productive of much benefit
+to society at large. Impressed with a belief that the genius of
+Shakespeare soars above all rivalry, that he is the most marvellous
+writer the world has ever known, and that his works contain stores of
+wisdom, intellectual and moral, I cannot but hope that one who has
+toiled for so many years, in admiring sincerity, to spread abroad
+amongst the multitude these invaluable gems, may, at least, be
+considered as an honest labourer, adding his mite to the great cause of
+civilisation and educational progress.
+
+After nine years of unremitting exertion as actor and director, the
+constant strain of mind and body warns me to retreat from a combined
+duty which I find beyond my strength, and in the exercise of which,
+neither zeal, nor devotion, nor consequent success, can continue to
+beguile me into a belief that the end will compensate for the many
+attendant troubles and anxieties. It would have been impossible, on my
+part, to gratify my enthusiastic wishes, in the illustration of
+Shakespeare, had not my previous career as an actor placed me in a
+position of comparative independence with regard to speculative
+disappointment. Wonderful as have been the yearly receipts, yet the vast
+sums expended--sums, I have every reason to believe, not to be
+paralleled in any theatre of the same capability throughout the
+world--make it advisable that I should now retire from the self-imposed
+responsibility of management, involving such a perilous outlay; and the
+more especially, as a building so restricted in size as the Princess's,
+renders any adequate return utterly hopeless.
+
+My earnest aim has been to promote the well-being of my Profession; and
+if, in any degree, I have attained so desirable an object, I trust I may
+not be deemed presumptuous in cherishing the belief, that my arduous
+struggle has won for me the honourable reward of--Public Approval.
+
+CHARLES KEAN.
+
+
+
+
+KING HENRY THE FIFTH.
+
+
+    _Enter CHORUS._
+
+  O for a muse of fire, that would ascend
+  The brightest heaven of invention,[1]
+  A kingdom for a stage, princes to act,
+  And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
+  Then should the warlike Harry, like himself,
+  Assume the port of Mars;[2] and, at his heels,
+  Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire,
+  Crouch for employment.(A) But pardon, gentles all,
+  The flat unraised spirit that hath dar'd
+  On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth
+  So great an object: Can this cockpit hold[3]
+  The vasty fields of France? or may we cram
+  Upon this little stage[4] the very casques[5]
+  That did affright the air at Agincourt?
+  O, pardon! since a crooked figure may
+  Attest in little place, a million;
+  And let us, cyphers to this great accompt,
+  On your imaginary forces[6] work.
+  Suppose within the girdle of these walls
+  Are now confined two mighty monarchies,
+  Whose high upreared and abutting fronts
+  The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder:[7]
+  Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts;
+  Into a thousand parts divide one man,[8]
+  And make imaginary puissance;[9]
+  For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings,
+  Carry them here and there; jumping o'er times,
+  Turning the accomplishment of many years
+  Into an hour-glass: For the which supply,
+  Admit me Chorus to this history;
+  Who, prologue-like, your humble patience pray,
+  Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play.
+
+    [_Exit._
+
+
+    [Footnote Ic.1: _O, for a muse of fire, &c._] This goes, says
+    Warburton, upon the notion of the Peripatetic system, which
+    imagines several heavens one above another, the last and highest
+    of which was one of fire. It alludes, likewise, to the aspiring
+    nature of fire, which, by its levity, at the separation of the
+    chaos, took the highest seat of all the elements.]
+
+    [Footnote Ic.2: _Assume the port of Mars;_] i.e., the demeanour,
+    the carriage, air of Mars. From port�e, French.]
+
+    [Footnote Ic.3: _Can this cockpit hold_] Shakespeare probably
+    calls the stage a cockpit, as the most diminutive enclosure
+    present to his mind.]
+
+    [Footnote Ic.4: _Upon this little stage_] The original text is
+    "within this wooden O," in allusion, probably, to the theatre
+    where this history was exhibited, being, from its _circular_ form,
+    called _The Globe_.]
+
+    [Footnote Ic.5: _----the very +casques+_] Even the helmets, much
+    less the men by whom they were worn.]
+
+    [Footnote Ic.6: _----+imaginary+ forces_] _Imaginary_ for
+    _imaginative_, or your powers of fancy. Active and passive words
+    are by Shakespeare frequently confounded.]
+
+    [Footnote Ic.7: _The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder._]
+    _Perilous narrow_ means no more than _very narrow_. In old books
+    this mode of expression frequently occurs.]
+
+    [Footnote Ic.8: _Into a thousand parts divide one man,_] i.e.,
+    suppose every man to represent a thousand.]
+
+    [Footnote Ic.9: _----make imaginary puissance:_] i.e., imagine you
+    see an enemy.]
+
+
+
+
+ACT I.
+
+
+SCENE I.--THE PAINTED CHAMBER IN THE ROYAL PALACE AT WESTMINSTER.
+
+    [Frequent reference is made in the Chronicles to the Painted
+    Chamber, as the room wherein Henry V. held his councils.]
+
+  _Trumpets sound._
+
+    _KING HENRY(B) discovered on his throne (CENTRE)[*], BEDFORD,(C)
+    GLOSTER,(D) EXETER,(E) WARWICK, WESTMORELAND, and others in
+    attendance._
+
+    [Footnote *: The throne is powdered with the letter S. This
+    decoration made its appearance in the reign of Henry IV., and
+    has been differently accounted for. The late Sir Samuel Meyrick
+    supposes it to be the initial letter of Henry's motto,
+    "Souveraine." The King's costume is copied from Strutt's "Regal
+    Antiquities." The dresses of the English throughout the play are
+    taken from the works of Strutt, Meyrick, Shaw, and Hamilton Smith.
+    The heraldry has been kindly supplied by Thomas Willement, Esq.,
+    F.S.A. The Lord Great Chamberlain carrying the sword of state is
+    De Vere, Earl of Oxford.]
+
+  _K. Hen._ Where is my gracious Lord of Canterbury?
+
+  _Exe._ (L.) Not here in presence.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Send for him, good uncle.
+
+    [_EXETER beckons to a HERALD, who goes off, L.H._
+
+  _West._ (L.) Shall we call in the ambassador, my liege?
+
+  _K. Hen._ Not yet, my cousin: we would be resolv'd,
+  Before we hear him, of some things of weight,
+  That task[1] our thoughts, concerning us and France.
+
+    _Re-enter HERALD with the Archbishop of CANTERBURY,(F)[2] and
+    Bishop of ELY,[3] L.H. The Bishops cross to R.C._
+
+  _Cant._ (R.C.) Heaven and its angels guard your sacred throne,
+  And make you long become it!
+
+  _K. Hen._                  Sure, we thank you.
+  My learned lord, we pray you to proceed,
+  And justly and religiously unfold,
+  Why the law Salique,(G) that they have in France,
+  Or should, or should not, bar us in our claim:
+  And Heaven forbid, my dear and faithful lord,
+  That you should fashion, wrest,[4] or bow your reading,[5]
+  Or nicely charge your understanding soul[6]
+  With opening titles miscreate,[7] whose right
+  Suits not in native colours with the truth.
+  For Heaven doth know how many, now in health,
+  Shall drop their blood in approbation[8]
+  Of what your reverence shall incite us to.
+  Therefore take heed how you impawn our person,[9]
+  How you awake the sleeping sword of war:
+  We charge you, in the name of Heaven, take heed:
+  Under this conjuration, speak, my lord.
+
+  _Cant._ (R.C.) Then hear me, gracious sovereign, and you peers,
+  That owe your lives, your faith, and services,
+  To this imperial throne.--There is no bar
+  To make against your highness' claim to France
+  But this, which they produce from Pharamond,--
+  _No woman shall succeed in Salique land_:
+  Which Salique land the French unjustly gloze[10]
+  To be the realm of France, and Pharamond
+  The founder of this law and female bar.
+  Yet their own authors faithfully affirm
+  That the land Salique lies in Germany,
+  Between the floods of Sala and of Elbe;
+  Where Charles the Great, having subdued the Saxons,
+  There left behind and settled certain French:
+  Nor did the French possess the Salique land
+  Until four hundred one and twenty years
+  After defunction of King Pharamond,
+  Idly supposed the founder of this law.
+  Besides, their writers say,
+  King Pepin, which deposed Childerick,
+  Did 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 claiming from the female;
+  And rather choose to hide them in a net
+  Than amply to imbare their crooked titles[11]
+  Usurp'd from you and your progenitors.
+
+  _K. Hen._ May I with right and conscience make this claim?
+
+  _Cant._ (R.C.) The sin upon my head, dread sovereign!
+  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:
+  Go, my dread lord, to your great grandsire's tomb,
+  From whom you claim; invoke his warlike spirit,
+  And your great uncle's, Edward the black prince,
+  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.[12]
+
+  _Ely._ (R.C.) Awake remembrance of these valiant dead,
+  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 liege
+  Is in the very May-morn of his youth,
+  Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises.
+
+  _Exe._ (L.) Your brother kings and monarchs of the earth
+  Do all expect that you should rouse yourself,
+  As did the former lions of your blood.
+
+  _West._ (L.) They know your grace hath cause, and means and might:
+  So hath your highness;[13] never king of England
+  Had nobles richer and more loyal subjects,
+  Whose hearts have left their bodies here in England,
+  And lie pavilion'd in the fields of France.
+
+  _Cant._ O, let their bodies follow, my dear liege,
+  With blood, and sword, and fire to win your right:
+  In aid whereof we of the spiritualty
+  Will raise your highness such a mighty sum,
+  As never did the clergy at one time
+  Bring in to any of your ancestors.
+
+  _K. Hen._ We must not only arm to invade the French,
+  But lay down our proportions to defend
+  Against the Scot, who will make road upon us
+  With all advantages.
+
+  _Cant._ (R.C.) They of those marches,[14] gracious sovereign,
+  Shall be a wall sufficient to defend
+  Our inland from the pilfering borderers.
+  Therefore to France, my liege.
+  Divide your happy England into four;
+  Whereof take you one quarter into France,
+  And you withal shall make all Gallia shake.
+  If we, with thrice that power left at home,
+  Cannot defend our own door from the dog,
+  Let us be worried, and our nation lose
+  The name of hardiness and policy.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Call in the messengers sent from the Dauphin.
+
+    [_Exit HERALD with LORDS, L.H._
+
+  Now are we well resolv'd; and by Heaven's help,
+  And yours, the noble sinews of our power,--
+  France being ours, we'll bend it to our awe,
+  Or break it all to pieces.
+
+    _Re-enter HERALD and Lords, L.H., with the AMBASSADOR of FRANCE,
+    French Bishops, Gentlemen, and Attendants carrying a treasure
+    chest, L.H._
+
+  Now are we well prepar'd to know the pleasure
+  Of our fair cousin Dauphin; for we hear
+  Your greeting is from him, not from the king.
+
+  _Amb._ (L.C.) May it please your majesty to give us leave
+  Freely to render what we have in charge;
+  Or shall we sparingly show you far off
+  The Dauphin's meaning and our embassy?
+
+  _K. Hen._ We are no tyrant, but a Christian king;
+  Therefore with frank and with uncurbed plainness
+  Tell us the Dauphin's mind.
+
+  _Amb._                    Thus, then, in few.[15]
+  Your highness, lately sending into France,
+  Did claim some certain dukedoms, in the right
+  Of your great predecessor, King Edward the Third.
+  In answer of which claim, the prince our master
+  Says,--that you savour too much of your youth;
+  And bids you be advis'd, there's nought in France
+  That can be with a nimble galliard won;[16]
+  You cannot revel into dukedoms there.
+  He therefore sends you, meeter for your spirit,
+  This tun of treasure; and, in lieu of this,
+  Desires you let the dukedoms that you claim
+  Hear no more of you. This the Dauphin speaks.
+
+  _K. Hen._ What treasure, uncle?
+
+  _Exe._ (_Opening the chest._)
+
+                                Tennis-balls, my liege.(H)
+
+  _K. Hen._ We are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us;
+  His present and your pains we thank you for:
+  When we have match'd our rackets to these balls,
+  We will, in France, by Heaven's grace, play a set
+  Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard.
+  And we understand him well,
+  How he comes o'er us with our wilder days,
+  Not measuring what use we made of them.
+  But tell the Dauphin,--I will keep my state;
+  Be like a king, and show my soul of greatness,
+  When I do rouse me in my throne of France:
+  For I will rise there with so full a glory,
+  That I will dazzle all the eyes of France,
+  Yea, strike the Dauphin blind to look on us.
+  But this lies all within the will of Heaven,
+  To whom I do appeal; And in whose name,
+  Tell you the Dauphin, I am coming on,
+  To venge me as I may, and to put forth
+  My rightful hand in a well-hallow'd cause.
+  So, get you hence in peace; and tell the Dauphin,
+  His jest will savour but of shallow wit,
+  When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it.--
+  Convey them with safe conduct.--Fare you well.
+
+    [_Exeunt AMBASSADOR, and Attendants, L.H._
+
+  _Exe._ This was a merry message.
+
+  _K. Hen._ We hope to make the sender blush at it.
+
+    [_The KING rises._
+
+  Therefore, my lords, omit no happy hour
+  That may give furtherance to our expedition;
+  For we have now no thought in us but France,
+  Save those to Heaven, that run before our business.
+  Therefore let our proportions for these wars
+  Be soon collected, and all things thought upon
+  That may with reasonable swiftness add
+  More feathers to our wings; for, Heaven before,
+  We'll chide this Dauphin at his father's door.
+
+    [_The characters group round the KING._
+
+    _Trumpets sound._
+
+
+    [Footnote I.1: _----task_] Keep busied with scruples and
+    disquisitions.]
+
+    [Footnote I.2: _Archbishop of Canterbury,_] Henry Chichely,
+    a Carthusian monk, recently promoted to the see of Canterbury.]
+
+    [Footnote I.3: _Bishop of Ely._] John Fordham, consecrated 1388;
+    died, 1426.]
+
+    [Footnote I.4: _----wrest_,] i.e., distort.]
+
+    [Footnote I.5: _----or bow your reading_,] i.e., bend your
+    interpretation.]
+
+    [Footnote I.6: _Or nicely charge your understanding soul_] Take
+    heed, lest by nice and subtle sophistry you burthen your knowing
+    soul, or _knowingly burthen your soul_, with the guilt of
+    advancing a false title, or of maintaining, by specious fallacies,
+    a claim which, if shown in its native and true colours, would
+    appear to be false. --JOHNSON.]
+
+    [Footnote I.7: _----miscreate_,] Ill-begotten, illegitimate,
+    spurious.]
+
+    [Footnote I.8: _----in approbation_] i.e., in proving and
+    supporting that title which shall be now set up.]
+
+    [Footnote I.9: _----impawn our person_,] To engage and to pawn
+    were in our author's time synonymous.]
+
+    [Footnote I.10: _----gloze_] Expound, explain.]
+
+    [Footnote I.11: _----+imbare+ their crooked titles_] i.e., to lay
+    open, to display to view.]
+
+    [Footnote I.12: In allusion to the battle of Crecy, fought 25th
+    August, 1346.]
+
+    [Footnote I.13: _So hath your highness;_] i.e., your highness hath
+    indeed what they think and know you have.]
+
+    [Footnote I.14: _They of those +marches+,_] The _marches_ are the
+    borders, the confines. Hence the _Lords Marchers_, i.e., the lords
+    presidents of the _marches_, &c.]
+
+    [Footnote I.15: _----in few._] i.e., in short, brief.]
+
+    [Footnote I.16: _----a nimble +galliard+ won;_] A _galliard_ was
+    an ancient dance. The word is now obsolete.]
+
+
+SCENE II.--EASTCHEAP, LONDON.
+
+    _Enter BARDOLPH,(I) NYM, PISTOL, MRS. QUICKLY, and BOY, L.2 E._
+
+_Quick._ (L.C.) Pr'ythee, honey-sweet husband, let me bring thee to
+Staines.[17]
+
+  _Pist._ (C.) No; for my manly heart doth yearn.--
+  Bardolph, be blithe;--Nym, rouse thy vaunting veins;
+  Boy, bristle thy courage up; for Falstaff he is dead,
+  And we must yearn therefore.
+
+_Bard._ (R.) 'Would I were with him, wheresome'er he is!
+
+_Quick._ (C.) Sure, he's in Arthur's bosom,[18] if ever man went to
+Arthur's bosom. 'A made a finer end,[19] and went away, an it had been
+any christom child;[20] 'a parted even just between twelve and one, e'en
+at turning o' the tide:[21] for after I saw him fumble with the
+sheets,[22] and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers' ends,
+I knew there was but one way; for his nose was as sharp as a pen, and a'
+babbled of green fields. How now, Sir John! quoth I: what, man! be of
+good cheer. So a' cried out--Heaven, Heaven, Heaven! three or four
+times. Now I, to comfort him, bid him 'a should not think of Heaven;
+I hoped, there was no need to trouble himself with any such thoughts
+yet. So 'a bade me lay more clothes on his feet: I put my hand into the
+bed and felt them, and they were as cold as any stone.
+
+_Nym._ (R.C.) They say he cried out of sack.
+
+_Quick._ Ay, that 'a did.
+
+_Bard._ And of women.
+
+_Quick._ Nay, that 'a did not.
+
+_Boy._ (L.) Yes, that 'a did, and said they were devils incarnate.
+
+_Quick._ (_crosses L.C._) 'A could never abide carnation;[23] 'twas a
+colour he never liked.
+
+_Boy._ Do you not remember, 'a saw a flea stick upon Bardolph's nose,
+and 'a said it was a black soul burning in hell-fire?
+
+_Bard._ Well, the fuel is gone that maintained that fire: that's all the
+riches I got in his service.
+
+_Nym._ Shall we shog off?[24] the king will be gone from Southampton.
+
+  _Pist._ Come, let's away.--My love, give me thy lips.
+  Look to my chattels and my moveables:
+  Let senses rule;[25] the word is, _Pitch and pay_;[26]
+  Trust none;
+  For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes,
+  And hold-fast is the only dog,[27] my duck:
+  Therefore, _caveto_ be thy counsellor.[28]
+  Go, clear thy crystals.[29]--Yoke-fellows in arms,
+
+    [_Crosses L.H._
+
+  Let us to France; like horse-leeches, my boys,
+  To suck, to suck, the very blood to suck!
+
+    [_Crosses R.H._
+
+_Boy._ And that is but unwholesome food, they say.
+
+_Pitt._ Touch her soft mouth, and march.
+
+_Bard._ Farewell, hostess.
+
+    [_Kissing her._
+
+_Nym._ I cannot kiss, that is the humour of it; but adieu.
+
+_Pist._ Let housewifery appear: keep close, I thee command.
+
+_Quick._ Farewell; adieu.
+
+    [_Exeunt BARDOLPH, PISTOL, NYM, R.H., and DAME QUICKLY, L.H._
+
+_Boy._ As young as I am, I have observed these three swashers. I am boy
+to them all three: but all they three, though they would serve me, could
+not be a man to me; for, indeed, three such anticks do not amount to a
+man. For Bardolph,--he is white-livered and red-faced; by the means
+whereof 'a faces it out, but fights not. For Pistol,--he hath a killing
+tongue and a quiet sword; by the means whereof 'a breaks words, and
+keeps whole weapons. For Nym,--he hath heard that men of few words are
+the best men; and therefore he scorns to say his prayers, lest 'a should
+be thought a coward: but his few bad words are match'd with as few good
+deeds; for 'a never broke any man's head but his own, and that was
+against a post when he was drunk. They will steal any thing, and call
+it--purchase. They would have me as familiar with men's pockets as their
+gloves or their handkerchiefs: which makes much against my manhood, if I
+should take from another's pocket to put into mine; for it is plain
+pocketing up of wrongs. I must leave them, and seek some better service:
+their villainy goes against my weak stomach, and therefore I must cast
+it up.
+
+    [_Distant March heard. Exit BOY, R.H._
+
+
+END OF FIRST ACT.
+
+
+    [Footnote I.17: _----let me bring thee to Staines._] i.e., let me
+    attend, or accompany thee.]
+
+    [Footnote I.18: _----Arthur's bosom,_] Dame Quickly, in her usual
+    blundering way, mistakes Arthur for Abraham.]
+
+    [Footnote I.19: _'A made a finer end,_] To make a fine end is not
+    an uncommon expression for making a good end. The Hostess means
+    that Falstaff died with becoming resignation and patient
+    submission to the will of Heaven.]
+
+    [Footnote I.20: _----an it had been any christom child;_] i.e.,
+    child that has wore the _chrysom_, or white cloth put on a new
+    baptized child.]
+
+    [Footnote I.21: _----turning o' the tide:_] It has been a very old
+    opinion, which Mead, _de imperio solis_, quotes, as if he believed
+    it, that nobody dies but in the time of ebb: half the deaths in
+    London confute the notion; but we find that it was common among
+    the women of the poet's time. --JOHNSON.]
+
+    [Footnote I.22: _----I saw him fumble with the sheets,_] Pliny, in
+    his chapter on _the signs of death_, makes mention of "_a fumbling
+    and pleiting of the bed-clothes._" The same indication of
+    approaching death is enumerated by Celsus, Lommius, Hippocrates,
+    and Galen.]
+
+    [Footnote I.23: _'A could never abide carnation;_] Mrs. Quickly
+    blunders, mistaking the word _incarnate_ for a colour. _In
+    questions of Love_, published 1566, we have "_yelowe, pale, redde,
+    blue, whyte, gray, and incarnate._"]
+
+    [Footnote I.24: _Shall we shog off?_] i.e., shall we move off--jog
+    off?]
+
+    [Footnote I.25: _Let senses rule;_] i.e., let prudence govern
+    you--conduct yourself sensibly.]
+
+    [Footnote I.26: _----Pitch and pay;_] A familiar expression,
+    meaning pay down at once, pay ready money; probably throw down
+    your money and pay.]
+
+    [Footnote I.27: _----hold-fast is the only dog,_] Alluding to
+    the proverbial saying-- "Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a
+    better."]
+
+    [Footnote I.28: _----caveto be thy counsellor._] i.e., let
+    _prudence_ be thy counsellor.]
+
+    [Footnote I.29: _----clear thy crystals._] Dry thine eyes.]
+
+
+
+
+HISTORICAL NOTE TO CHORUS--ACT FIRST
+
+  (A) _----should famine, sword, and fire,
+  Crouch for employment._]
+
+Holinshed states that when the people of Rouen petitioned Henry V., the
+king replied "that the goddess of battle, called Bellona, had three
+handmaidens, ever of necessity attending upon her, as blood, fire, and
+famine." These are probably the _dogs of war_ mentioned in Julius C�sar.
+
+
+HISTORICAL NOTES TO ACT FIRST.
+
+(B) KING HENRY _on his throne,_] King Henry V. was born at Monmouth,
+August 9th, 1388, from which place he took his surname. He was the
+eldest son of Henry Bolingbroke, Earl of Derby, afterwards Duke of
+Hereford, who was banished by King Richard the Second, and, after that
+monarch's deposition, was made king of England, A.D. 1399. At eleven
+years of age Henry V. was a student at Queen's College, Oxford, under
+the tuition of his half-uncle, Henry Beaufort, Chancellor of that
+university. Richard II. took the young Henry with him in his expedition
+to Ireland, and caused him to be imprisoned in the castle of Trym, but,
+when his father, the Duke of Hereford, deposed the king and obtained the
+crown, he was created Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall.
+
+In 1403 the Prince was engaged at the battle of Shrewsbury, where the
+famous Hotspur was slain, and there wounded in the face by an arrow.
+History states that Prince Henry became the companion of rioters and
+disorderly persons, and indulged in a course of life quite unworthy of
+his high station. There is a tradition that, under the influence of
+wine, he assisted his associates in robbing passengers on the highway.
+His being confined in prison for striking the Chief Justice, Sir William
+Gascoigne, is well known.
+
+These excesses gave great uneasiness and annoyance to the king, his
+father, who dismissed the Prince from the office of President of his
+Privy Council, and appointed in his stead his second son, Thomas, Duke
+of Clarence. Henry was crowned King of England on the 9th April, 1413.
+We read in Stowe-- "After his coronation King Henry called unto him all
+those young lords and gentlemen who were the followers of his young
+acts, to every one of whom he gave rich gifts, and then commanded that
+as many as would change their manners, as he intended to do, should
+abide with him at court; and to all that would persevere in their former
+like conversation, he gave express commandment, upon pain of their
+heads, never after that day to come in his presence."
+
+This heroic king fought and won the celebrated battle of Agincourt, on
+the 25th October, 1415; married the Princess Katherine, daughter of
+Charles VI. of France and Isabella of Bavaria, his queen, in the year
+1420; and died at Vincennes, near Paris, in the midst of his military
+glory, August 31st, 1422, in the thirty-fourth year of his age, and the
+tenth of his reign, leaving an infant son, who succeeded to the throne
+under the title of Henry VI.
+
+The famous Whittington was for the third time Lord Mayor of London in
+this reign, A.D. 1419. Thomas Chaucer, son of the great poet, was
+speaker of the House of Commons, which granted the supplies to the king
+for his invasion of France.
+
+(C) _Bedford,_] John, Duke of Bedford, was the third son of King Henry
+IV., and his brother, Henry V., left to him the Regency of France. He
+died in the year 1435. This duke was accounted one of the best generals
+of the royal race of Plantaganet.
+
+King Lewis XI. being counselled by certain envious persons to deface his
+tomb, used these, indeed, princely words:-- _"What honor shall it be to
+us, or you, to break this monument, and to pull out of the ground the
+bones of him, whom, in his life time, neither my father nor your
+progenitors, with all their puissance, were once able to make fly a foot
+backward? Who by his strength, policy, and wit, kept them all out of the
+principal dominions of France, and out of this noble Dutchy of Normandy?
+Wherefore I say first, God save his soul, and let his body now lie in
+rest, which, when he was alive, would have disquieted the proudest of us
+all; and for his tomb, I assure you, it is not so worthy or convenient
+as his honor and acts have deserved." --Vide Sandford's History of the
+Kings of England._
+
+(D) _Gloster,_] Humphrey, Duke of Gloster, was the fourth son of King
+Henry IV., and on the death of his brother, Henry V., became Regent of
+England. It is generally supposed he was strangled. His death took place
+in the year 1446.
+
+(E) _Exeter,_] Shakespeare is a little too early in giving Thomas
+Beaufort the title of Duke of Exeter; for when Harfleur was taken, and
+he was appointed governor of the town, he was only Earl of Dorset. He
+was not made Duke of Exeter till the year after the battle of Agincourt,
+November 14, 1416. Exeter was half brother to King Henry IV., being one
+of the sons of John of Gaunt, by Catherine Swynford.
+
+(F) _Archbishop of Canterbury,_] The Archbishop's speech in this scene,
+explaining King Henry's title to the crown of France, is closely copied
+from Holinshed's chronicle, page 545.
+
+"About the middle of the year 1414, Henry V., influenced by the
+persuasions of Chichely, Archbishop of Canterbury, by the dying
+injunction of his royal father, not to allow the kingdom to remain long
+at peace, or more probably by those feelings of ambition, which were no
+less natural to his age and character, than consonant with the manners
+of the time in which he lived, resolved to assert that claim to the
+crown of France which his great grandfather, King Edward the Third, had
+urged with such confidence and success." --_Nicolas's History of the
+Battle of Agincourt._
+
+(G) _----the law Salique,_] According to this law no woman was permitted
+to govern or be a Queen in her own right. The title only was allowed to
+the wife of the monarch. This law was imported from Germany by the
+warlike Franks.
+
+(H) _Tennis-balls, my liege._] Some contemporary historians affirm that
+the Dauphin sent Henry the contemptuous present, which has been imputed
+to him, intimating that such implements of play were better adapted to
+his dissolute character than the instruments of war, while others are
+silent on the subject. The circumstance of Henry's offering to meet his
+enemy in single combat, affords some support to the statement that he
+was influenced by those personal feelings of revenge to which the
+Dauphin's conduct would undoubtedly have given birth.
+
+(I) _Enter BARDOLPH, NYM, PISTOL, Mrs. QUICKLY, and BOY._] These
+followers of Falstaff figured conspicuously through the two parts of
+Shakespeare's Henry IV. Pistol is a swaggering, pompous braggadocio; Nym
+a boaster and a coward; and Bardolph a liar, thief, and coward, who has
+no wit but in his nose.
+
+
+
+
+    _Enter CHORUS._
+
+
+  _Cho._ Now all the youth of England are on fire,
+  And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies:
+  Now thrive the armourers, and honour's thought
+  Reigns solely in the breast of every man:
+  They sell the pasture now to buy the horse;
+  Following the mirror of all Christian kings,
+  With wing�d heels, as English Mercuries;
+  For now sits expectation in the air.
+  O England!--model to thy inward greatness,
+  Like little body with a mighty heart,--
+  What might'st thou do, that honour would thee do,
+  Were all thy children kind and natural!
+  But see thy fault! France hath in thee found out
+  A nest of hollow bosoms, which he fills[1]
+  With treacherous crowns; and three corrupted men,--
+  One, Richard earl of Cambridge;[2] and the second,
+  Henry lord Scroop of Masham,[3] and the third,
+  Sir Thomas Grey, knight, of Northumberland,--
+  Have, for the gilt of France[4] (O guilt, indeed!),
+  Confirm'd conspiracy with fearful France;(A)
+  And by their hands this grace of kings[5] must die,
+  (If hell and treason hold their promises,)
+  Ere he take ship for France, and in Southampton.
+
+    _The back scene opens and discovers a tableau, representing the
+    three conspirators receiving the bribe from the emissaries of
+    France._
+
+  Linger your patience on; and well digest
+  The abuse of distance, while we force a play.[6]
+  The sum is paid; the traitors are agreed;
+  The king is set from London; and the scene
+  Is now transported, gentles, to Southampton,--
+  There is the playhouse now, there must you sit:
+  And thence to France shall we convey you safe,
+  And bring you back, charming the narrow seas
+  To give you gentle pass; for, if we may,
+  We'll not offend one stomach[7] with our play.
+  But, till the king come forth, and not till then,[8]
+  Unto Southampton do we shift our scene.
+
+    [_Exit._
+
+
+    [Footnote IIc.1: _----which +he+ fills_] i.e., the King of
+    France.]
+
+    [Footnote IIc.2: _----Richard, earl of Cambridge;_] Was Richard de
+    Coninsbury, younger son of Edmund of Langley, Duke of York. He was
+    father of Richard, Duke of York, father of Edward the Fourth.]
+
+    [Footnote IIc.3: _Henry lord Scroop of Masham,_] Was third husband
+    of Joan Duchess of York (she had four), mother-in-law of Richard,
+    Earl of Cambridge.]
+
+    [Footnote IIc.4: _----the +gilt+ of France,_] i.e., _golden
+    money_.]
+
+    [Footnote IIc.5: _----this grace of kings_] i.e., he who does the
+    greatest honor to the title. By the same phraseology the usurper
+    in _Hamlet_ is called the _vice of kings_, i.e., the opprobrium of
+    them.]
+
+    [Footnote IIc.6: _----while we +force a play+._] To _force a play_
+    is to produce a play by compelling many circumstances into a
+    narrow compass.]
+
+    [Footnote IIc.7: _We'll not offend one stomach_] That is, you
+    shall pass the sea without the qualms of sea-sickness.]
+
+    [Footnote IIc.8: _But, till the king come forth, and not till
+    then,_] The meaning is, "We will not shift our scene unto
+    Southampton till the king makes his appearance on the stage, and
+    the scene will be at Southampton _only_ for the short time while
+    he does appear on the stage; for, soon after his appearance, it
+    will change to France." --MALONE.]
+
+
+
+
+ACT II.
+
+
+SCENE I.--COUNCIL CHAMBER IN SOUTHAMPTON CASTLE.
+
+    _EXETER, BEDFORD, and WESTMORELAND, discovered._
+
+  _Bed._ 'Fore Heaven, his grace is bold, to trust these traitors.
+
+  _Exe._ They shall be apprehended by and by.
+
+  _West._ How smooth and even they do bear themselves!
+  As if allegiance in their bosoms sat,
+  Crowned with faith and constant loyalty.
+
+  _Bed._ The king hath note of all that they intend,
+  By interception which they dream not of.
+
+  _Exe._ Nay, but the man that was his bedfellow,(A)
+  Whom he hath cloy'd and grac'd with princely favours,--
+  That he should, for a foreign purse, so sell
+  His sovereign's life to death and treachery!
+
+    _Distant Trumpets sound. Enter King HENRY, SCROOP, CAMBRIDGE,
+    GREY, Lords and Attendants, U.E.L.H._
+
+  _K. Hen._ Now sits the wind fair, and we will aboard.
+  My lord of Cambridge,--and my kind lord of Masham,--
+  And you, my gentle knight,--give me your thoughts:
+  Think you not, that the powers we bear with us
+  Will cut their passage through the force of France?
+
+  _Scroop._ No doubt, my liege, if each man do his best.
+
+  _K. Hen._ I doubt not that; since we are well persuaded
+  We carry not a heart with us from hence
+  That grows not in a fair consent with ours,[1]
+  Nor leave not one behind that doth not wish
+  Success and conquest to attend on us.
+
+  _Cam._ (R.) Never was monarch better fear'd and lov'd
+  Than is your majesty: there's not, I think, a subject
+  That sits in heart-grief and uneasiness
+  Under the sweet shade of your government.
+
+  _Grey._ (R.) Even those that were your father's enemies
+  Have steep'd their galls in honey, and do serve you
+  With hearts create[2] of duty and of zeal.
+
+  _K.Hen._ (C.) We therefore have great cause of thankfulness;
+  And shall forget the office of our hand,
+  Sooner than quittance of desert and merit
+  According to the weight and worthiness.
+  Uncle of Exeter, R.
+  Enlarge the man committed yesterday,
+  That rail'd against our person: we consider
+  It was excess of wine that set him on;
+  And, on his more advice,[3] we pardon him.
+
+  _Scroop._ (R.) That's mercy, but too much security:
+  Let him be punish'd, sovereign; lest example
+  Breed, by his sufferance, more of such a kind.
+
+  _K. Hen._ O, let us yet be merciful.
+
+  _Cam._ So may your highness, and yet punish too.
+
+  _Grey._ Sir, you show great mercy, if you give him life,
+  After the taste of much correction.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Alas, your too much love and care of me
+  Are heavy orisons 'gainst this poor wretch![4]
+  If little faults, proceeding on distemper,[5]
+  Shall not be wink'd at, how shall we stretch our eye[6]
+  When capital crimes, chew'd, swallow'd, and digested,
+  Appear before us?--We'll yet enlarge that man,
+  Though Cambridge, Scroop, and Grey,--in their dear care
+  And tender preservation of our person,--
+  Would have him punish'd. And now to our French causes:
+
+    [_All take their places at Council table._
+
+  Who are the late Commissioners?[7]
+
+  _Cam._ (_R. of table._)       I one, my lord:
+  Your highness bade me ask for it to-day.
+
+  _Scroop._ (_R. of table._) So did you me, my liege.
+
+  _Grey._ (_R. of table._) And me, my royal sovereign.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Then, Richard earl of Cambridge, there is yours;--
+  There yours, lord Scroop of Masham;--and, sir knight,
+  Grey of Northumberland, this same is yours:--
+  Read them; and know, I know your worthiness.--
+  My lord of Westmoreland,--and uncle Exeter,--
+
+    [_L. of table._
+
+  We will aboard to-night.
+
+    (_Conspirators start from their places._)
+
+                          Why, how now, gentlemen!
+  What see you in those papers, that you lose
+  So much complexion?--look ye, how they change!
+  Their cheeks are paper.--Why, what read you there,
+  That hath so cowarded and chas'd your blood
+  Out of appearance?
+
+  _Cam._           I do confess my fault;
+  And do submit me to your highness' mercy.
+
+    [_Falling on his knees._
+
+  _Grey._   } To which we all appeal.    [_Kneeling._
+  _Scroop._ }
+
+  _K. Hen._ (_rising; all the LORDS rise with the KING._)
+  The mercy that was quick[8] in us but late,
+  By your own counsel is suppress'd and kill'd:
+  You must not dare, for shame, to talk of mercy.
+  See you, my princes and my noble peers,
+  These English monsters! My lord of Cambridge here,--
+  You know how apt our love was to accord
+  To furnish him with all appertinents
+  Belonging to his honour; and this man
+  Hath, for a few light crowns, lightly conspir'd,
+  And sworn unto the practises of France,
+  To kill us here in Hampton: to the which
+  This knight, no less for bounty bound to us
+  Than Cambridge is,--hath likewise sworn.--But, O,
+  What shall I say to thee, lord Scroop? thou cruel,
+  Ingrateful, savage, and inhuman creature!
+  Thou that did'st bear the key of all my counsels,
+  That knew'st the very bottom of my soul,
+  That almost might'st have coin'd me into gold,
+  May it be possible, that foreign hire
+  Could out of thee extract one spark of evil
+  That might annoy my finger? 'Tis so strange,
+  That, though the truth of it stands off as gross[9]
+  As black from white,[10] my eye will scarcely see it;
+  For this revolt of thine, methinks, is like
+  Another fall of man.--Their faults are open:
+  Arrest them to the answer of the law;--
+
+    [_EXETER goes to door U.E.L.H, and calls on the Guard._
+
+  And Heaven acquit them of their practises!
+
+_Exe._ (_comes down, R.C._) I arrest thee of high treason, by the name
+of Richard earl of Cambridge.
+
+I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Henry lord Scroop of
+Masham.
+
+I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Thomas Grey, knight, of
+Northumberland.
+
+  _Scroop._ (_R., kneeling._)
+  Our purposes Heaven justly hath discover'd;
+  And I repent my fault more than my death.
+
+  _Cam._ (_R., kneeling._)
+  For me,--the gold of France did not seduce;(B)
+  Although I did admit it as a motive
+  The sooner to effect what I intended:
+  But Heaven be thanked for prevention;
+  Which I in sufferance heartily will rejoice,[11]
+  Beseeching Heaven and you to pardon me.
+
+  _Grey._ (_R. kneeling._) Never did faithful subject more rejoice
+  At the discovery of most dangerous treason
+  Than I do at this hour joy o'er myself,
+  Prevented from a damned enterprize:
+  My fault, but not my body, pardon, sovereign.
+
+  _K. Hen._ (C.) Heaven quit you in its mercy! Hear your sentence.
+  You have conspir'd against our royal person,
+  Join'd with an enemy proclaim'd, and from his coffers
+  Receiv'd the golden earnest of our death;
+  Wherein you would have sold your king to slaughter,
+  His princes and his peers to servitude,
+  His subjects to oppression and contempt,
+  And his whole kingdom into desolation.
+  Touching our person, seek we no revenge;(C)
+  But we our kingdom's safety must so tender,[12]
+  Whose ruin you three sought, that to her laws
+  We do deliver you. Get you, therefore, hence,
+  Poor miserable wretches, to your death:
+  The taste whereof, Heaven of its mercy give you
+  Patience to endure, and true repentance
+  Of all your dear offences![13]--Bear them hence.
+
+    [_Conspirators rise and exeunt guarded, with EXETER._
+
+  Now, Lords, for France; the enterprize whereof
+  Shall be to you, as us, like glorious.
+  We doubt not of a fair and lucky war,
+  Since Heaven so graciously hath brought to light
+  This dangerous treason, lurking in our way.
+  Then, forth, dear countrymen: let us deliver
+  Our puissance[14] into the hand of Heaven,
+  Putting it straight in expedition.
+  Cheerly to sea; the signs of war advance:(D)
+  No king of England, if not king of France.
+
+    [_Exeunt, U.E.L.H._
+
+    [Footnote II.1: _----in a fair consent with ours,_] i.e., in
+    friendly concord; in unison with ours.]
+
+    [Footnote II.2: _----hearts +create+_] Hearts _compounded_ or
+    _made up_ of duty and zeal.]
+
+    [Footnote II.3: _----more advice,_] On his return to more
+    _coolness of mind_.]
+
+    [Footnote II.4: _Are heavy orisons 'gainst, &c._] i.e., are
+    weighty supplications against this poor wretch.]
+
+    [Footnote II.5: _----proceeding on +distemper+,_] _Distemper'd in
+    liquor_ was a common expression. We read in Holinshed, vol. iii.,
+    page 626:-- "gave him wine and strong drink in such excessive
+    sort, that he was therewith _distempered_, and reeled as he
+    went."]
+
+    [Footnote II.6: _----how shall we stretch our eye_] If we may not
+    _wink_ at small faults, _how wide must we open our eyes_ at
+    great.]
+
+    [Footnote II.7: _Who are the late commissioners?_] That is, who
+    are the persons lately appointed commissioners.]
+
+    [Footnote II.8: _----quick_] That is, _living_.]
+
+    [Footnote II.9: _----as gross_] As palpable.]
+
+    [Footnote II.10:
+      _----though the truth of it stands off as gross
+      As black from white,_]
+    Though the truth be as apparent and visible as black and white
+    contiguous to each other. To _stand off_ is _�tre relev�_, to be
+    prominent to the eye, as the strong parts of a picture.
+    --JOHNSON.]
+
+    [Footnote II.11: _Which I in sufferance heartily will rejoice,_]
+    Cambridge means to say, _at_ which prevention, or, which intended
+    scheme that it was prevented, I shall rejoice. Shakespeare has
+    many such elliptical expressions. The intended scheme that he
+    alludes to was the taking off Henry, to make room for his
+    brother-in-law. --MALONE.]
+
+    [Footnote II.12: _----our kingdom's safety must so tender,_] i.e.,
+    must so regard.]
+
+    [Footnote II.13: _----dear offences!----_] _To dere_, in ancient
+    language, was _to hurt_; the meaning, therefore, is hurtful--
+    pernicious offences.]
+
+    [Footnote II.14: _Our puissance_] i.e., our power, our force.]
+
+
+SCENE II.--FRANCE. A ROOM IN THE FRENCH KING'S PALACE.
+
+  _Trumpets sound._
+
+    _Enter the FRENCH KING,[15] attended; the DAUPHIN, the DUKE OF
+    BURGUNDY, the CONSTABLE, and Others,(E) L.H._
+
+  _Fr. King._ (C.) Thus come the English with full power upon us;
+  And more than carefully it us concerns[16]
+  To answer royally in our defences.
+  Therefore the Dukes of Berry and of Bretagne,
+  Of Brabant and of Orleans, shall make forth,--
+  And you, Prince Dauphin,--with all swift despatch,
+  To line and new repair our towns of war
+  With men of courage and with means defendant.
+
+  _Dau._ (R.C.) My most redoubted father,
+  It is most meet we arm us 'gainst the foe:
+  And let us do it with no show of fear;
+  No, with no more than if we heard that England
+  Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance:
+  For, my good liege, she is so idly king'd,
+  Her sceptre so fantastically borne
+  By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth,
+  That fear attends her not.
+
+  _Con._ (L.C.) O peace, prince Dauphin
+  You are too much mistaken in this king:
+  With what great state he heard our embassy,
+  How well supplied with noble counsellors,
+  How modest in exception,[17] and withal
+  How terrible in constant resolution,
+  And you shall find his vanities fore-spent
+  Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus,
+  Covering discretion with a coat of folly.
+
+  _Dau._ Well, 'tis not so, my lord high constable;
+  But though we think it so, it is no matter:
+  In cases of defence 'tis best to weigh
+  The enemy more mighty than he seems:
+  So the proportions of defence are fill'd.
+
+  _Fr. King._ Think we King Harry strong;
+  And, princes, look you strongly arm to meet him.
+  The kindred of him hath been flesh'd upon us;
+  And he is bred out of that bloody strain[18]
+  That haunted us[19] in our familiar paths:
+  Witness our too much memorable shame
+  When Cressy battle fatally was struck,
+  And all our princes captiv'd by the hand
+  Of that black name, Edward, black prince of Wales;
+  Whiles that his mountain sire,--on mountain standing,
+  Up in the air, crown'd with the golden sun,--[20]
+  Saw his heroical seed, and smil'd to see him
+  Mangle the work of nature, and deface
+  The patterns that by Heaven and by French fathers
+  Had twenty years been made. This is a stem
+  Of that victorious stock; and let us fear
+  The native mightiness and fate of him.[21]
+
+    _Enter MONTJOY,[22] L.H., and kneels C. to the KING._
+
+  _Mont._ Ambassadors from Henry King of England
+  Do crave admittance to your majesty.
+
+  _Fr. King._ We'll give them present audience.
+
+    (_MONTJOY rises from his knee._)
+
+                                              Go, and bring them.
+
+    [_Exeunt MONTJOY, and certain LORDS, L.H._
+
+  You see this chase is hotly follow'd, friends.
+
+  _Dau._ Turn head, and stop pursuit; for coward dogs
+  Most spend their mouths,[23] when what they seem to threaten
+  Runs far before them. Good my sovereign,
+  Take up the English short; and let them know
+  Of what a monarchy you are the head:
+  Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin
+  As self-neglecting.
+
+    [_FRENCH KING takes his seat on Throne, R._
+
+    _Re-enter MONTJOY, LORDS, with EXETER and Train, L.H._
+
+  _Fr. King._       From our brother England?
+
+  _Exe._ (L.C.) From him; and thus he greets your majesty.
+  He wills you, in the awful name of Heaven,
+  That you divest yourself, and lay apart
+  The borrow'd glories, that, by gift of heaven,
+  By law of nature and of nations, 'long
+  To him and to his heirs; namely, the crown,
+  And all wide-stretched honours that pertain,
+  By custom and the ordinance of times
+  Unto the crown of France. That you may know
+  'Tis no sinister nor no awkward claim,
+  Pick'd from the worm-holes of long-vanish'd days,
+  Nor from the dust of old oblivion rak'd,
+  He sends you this most memorable line,[24]
+
+    [_Gives a paper to MONTJOY, who delivers it kneeling to the KING._
+
+  In every branch truly demonstrative;
+  Willing you overlook this pedigree:
+  And when you find him evenly deriv'd
+  From his most fam'd of famous ancestors,
+  Edward the Third, he bids you then resign
+  Your crown and kingdom, indirectly held
+  From him the native and true challenger.
+
+  _Fr. King._ Or else what follows?
+
+  _Exe._ Bloody constraint; for if you hide the crown
+  Even in your hearts, there will he rake for it:
+  Therefore in fierce tempest is he coming,
+  In thunder and in earthquake, like a Jove.
+  (That, if requiring fail, he will compel):
+  This is his claim, his threat'ning, and my message;
+  Unless the Dauphin be in presence here,
+  To whom expressly I bring greeting too.
+
+  _Fr. King._ For us, we will consider of this further:
+  To-morrow shall you bear our full intent
+  Back to our brother England.
+
+    [_MONTJOY rises, and retires to R._
+
+  _Dau._ (_R. of throne._)   For the Dauphin,
+  I stand here for him: What to him from England?
+
+  _Exe._ Scorn and defiance; slight regard, contempt,
+  And any thing that may not misbecome
+  The mighty sender, doth he prize you at.
+  Thus says my king: an if your father's highness
+  Do not, in grant of all demands at large,
+  Sweeten the bitter mock you sent his majesty,
+  He'll call you to so hot an answer for it,
+  That caves and womby vaultages of France
+  Shall chide your trespass,[25] and return your mock
+  In second accent of his ordnance.
+
+  _Dau._ Say, if my father render fair reply,
+  It is against my will; for I desire
+  Nothing but odds with England: to that end,
+  As matching to his youth and vanity,
+  I did present him with those Paris balls.
+
+  _Exe._ He'll make your Paris Louvre shake for it:
+  And, be assur'd, you'll find a difference
+  Between the promise of his greener days
+  And these he masters now: now he weighs time,
+  Even to the utmost grain: which you shall read[26]
+  In your own losses, if he stay in France.
+
+  _Fr. King._ To-morrow shall you know our mind at full.
+
+  _Exe._ Despatch us with all speed, lest that our king
+  Come here himself to question our delay;
+  For he is footed in this land already.
+
+  _Fr. King._ You shall be soon despatch'd with fair conditions:
+
+    [_MONTJOY crosses to the English party._
+
+  A night is but small breath and little pause
+  To answer matters of this consequence.
+
+    [_English party exit, with MONTJOY and others, L.H.
+    French Lords group round the KING._
+
+    _Trumpets sound._
+
+
+    [Footnote II.15: ----FRENCH KING,] The costume of Charles VI. is
+    copied from Willemin, Monuments Fran�ais. The dresses of the other
+    Lords are selected from Montfaucon Monarchie Fran�oise.]
+
+    [Footnote II.16: _----more than carefully it us concerns,_] _More
+    than carefully_ is _with more than common care_; a phrase of the
+    same kind with _better than well_. --JOHNSON.]
+
+    [Footnote II.17: _How modest in exception,_] How diffident and
+    decent in making objections.]
+
+    [Footnote II.18: _----strain_] _lineage_.]
+
+    [Footnote II.19: _That +haunted+ us_] To _haunt_ is a word of the
+    utmost horror, which shows that they dreaded the English as
+    goblins and spirits.]
+
+    [Footnote II.20: _----crown'd with the golden sun,--_]
+    Shakespeare's meaning (divested of its poetical fancy) probably
+    is, that the king stood upon an eminence, with the sun shining
+    over his head. --STEEVENS.]
+
+    [Footnote II.21: _----+fate+ of him._] His _fate_ is what is
+    allotted him by destiny, or what he is fated to perform.]
+
+    [Footnote II.22: _Montjoy,_] Mont-joie is the title of the
+    principal king-at-arms in France, as Garter is in our country.]
+
+    [Footnote II.23: _----spend their mouths,_] That is, bark; the
+    sportsman's term.]
+
+    [Footnote II.24: _----memorable +line+,_] This genealogy; this
+    deduction of his _lineage_.]
+
+    [Footnote II.25: _Shall +chide+ your trespass,_] To _chide_ is to
+    _resound_, to _echo_.]
+
+    [Footnote II.26: _----you shall read_] i.e., shall _find_.]
+
+
+END OF ACT SECOND.
+
+
+
+
+HISTORICAL NOTES TO CHORUS--ACT SECOND.
+
+  (A) _These corrupted men,----
+  One, Richard earl of Cambridge; and the second,
+  Henry lord Scroop of Masham; and the third,
+  Sir Thomas Grey knight of Northumberland,--
+  Have for the guilt of France (O, guilt, indeed!)
+  Confirm'd conspiracy with fearful France._
+
+About the end of July, Henry's ambitious designs received a momentary
+check from the discovery of a treasonable conspiracy against his person
+and government, by Richard, Earl of Cambridge, brother of the Duke of
+York; Henry, Lord Scroop of Masham, the Lord Treasurer; and Sir Thomas
+Grey, of Heton, knight. The king's command for the investigation of the
+affair, was dated on the 21st of that month, and a writ was issued to
+the Sheriff of Southampton, to assemble a jury for their trial; and
+which on Friday, the 2nd of August, found that on the 20th of July,
+Richard, Earl of Cambridge, and Thomas Grey, of Heton, in the County of
+Northumberland, knight, had falsely and traitorously conspired to
+collect a body of armed men, to conduct Edmund, Earl of March,[*] to the
+frontiers of Wales, and to proclaim him the rightful heir to the crown,
+in case Richard II. was actually dead; but they had solicited Thomas
+Frumpyngton, who personated King Richard, Henry Percy, and many others
+from Scotland to invade the realm, that they had intended to destroy the
+King, the Duke of Clarence, the Duke of Bedford, the Duke of Gloucester,
+with other lords and great men; and that Henry, Lord Scroop, of Masham,
+consented to the said treasonable purposes, and concealed the knowledge
+of them from the king. On the same day the accused were reported by Sir
+John Popham, Constable of the Castle of Southampton, to whose custody
+they had been committed, to have confessed the justice of the charges
+brought against them, and that they threw themselves on the king's
+mercy; but Scroop endeavoured to extenuate his conduct, by asserting
+that his intentions were innocent, and that he appeared only to
+acquiesce in their designs to be enabled to defeat them. The Earl and
+Lord Scroop having claimed the privilege of being tried by the peers,
+were remanded to prison, but sentence of death in the usual manner was
+pronounced against Grey, and he was immediately executed; though, in
+consequence of Henry having dispensed with his being drawn and hung, he
+was allowed to walk from the Watergate to the Northgate of the town of
+Southampton, where he was beheaded. A commission was soon afterwards
+issued, addressed to the Duke of Clarence, for the trial of the Earl of
+Cambridge and Lord Scroop: this court unanimously declared the prisoners
+guilty, and sentence of death having been denounced against them, they
+paid the forfeit of their lives on Monday, the 5th of August. In
+consideration of the earl being of the blood royal, he was merely
+beheaded; but to mark the perfidy and ingratitude of Scroop, who had
+enjoyed the king's utmost confidence and friendship, and had even shared
+his bed, he commanded that he should be drawn to the place of execution,
+and that his head should be affixed on one of the gates of the city of
+York. --_Nicolas's History of the Battle of Agincourt_.
+
+    [Footnote *: At that moment the Earl of March was the lawful
+    heir to the crown, he being the heir general of Lionel, Duke of
+    Clarence, _third_ son of Edward III, whilst Henry V. was but the
+    heir of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, King Edward's _fourth_
+    son.]
+
+
+HISTORICAL NOTES TO ACT SECOND.
+
+(A) _----the man that was his bedfellow,_] So, Holinshed: "The said Lord
+Scroop was in such favour with the king, that he admitted him sometimes
+to be his _bedfellow_." The familiar appellation, of _bedfellow_, which
+appears strange to us, was common among the ancient nobility. There is a
+letter from the sixth Earl of Northumberland (still preserved in the
+collection of the present duke), addressed "To his beloved cousin,
+Thomas Arundel," &c., which begins "_Bedfellow_, after my most hast�
+recommendation." --_Steevens_.
+
+This unseemly custom continued common till the middle of the last
+century, if not later. Cromwell obtained much of his intelligence,
+during the civil wars, from the mean men with whom he slept. --_Malone_.
+
+After the battle of Dreux, 1562, the Prince of Cond� slept in the same
+bed with the Duke of Guise; an anecdote frequently cited, to show the
+magnanimity of the latter, who slept soundly, though so near his
+greatest enemy, then his prisoner. --_Nares._
+
+(B) _For me,--the gold of France did not seduce;_] Holinshed observes,
+"that Richard, Earl of Cambridge, did not conspire with the Lord Scroop
+and Thomas Grey, for the murdering of King Henry to please the French
+king, but only to the intent to exalt to the crown his brother-in-law
+Edmund, Earl of March, as heir to Lionel, Duke of Clarence; after the
+death of which Earl of March, for divers secret impediments not able to
+have issue, the Earl of Cambridge was sure that the crown should come to
+him by his wife, and to his children of her begotten; and therefore (as
+was thought), he rather confessed himself for need of money to be
+corrupted by the French king, than he would declare his inward mind,
+&c., which if it were espied, he saw plainly that the Earl of March
+should have tasted of the same cup that he had drunk, and what should
+have come to his own children he merely doubted, &c."
+
+A million of gold is stated to have been given by France to the
+conspirators.
+
+Historians have, however, generally expressed their utter inability to
+explain upon what grounds the conspirators built their expectation of
+success; and unless they had been promised powerful assistance from
+France, the design seems to have been one of the most absurd and
+hopeless upon record. The confession of the Earl of Cambridge, and his
+supplication for mercy in his own hand writing, is in the British
+Museum.
+
+(C) _Touching our person, seek we no revenge;_] This speech is taken
+from Holinshed:--
+
+"Revenge herein touching my person, though I seek not; yet for the
+safeguard of my dear friends, and for due preservation of all sorts,
+I am by office to cause example to be showed: Get ye hence, therefore,
+you poor miserable wretches, to the receiving of your just reward,
+wherein God's majesty give you grace of his mercy, and repentance of
+your heinous offences."
+
+(D) _Cheerly to sea; the signs of war advance:_] "The king went from his
+castle of Porchester in a small vessel to the sea, and embarking on
+board his ship, called The Trinity, between the ports of Southampton and
+Portsmouth, he immediately ordered that the sail should be set, to
+signify his readiness to depart." "There were about fifteen hundred
+vessels, including about a hundred which were left behind. After having
+passed the Isle of Wight, swans were seen swimming in the midst of the
+fleet, which, in the opinion of all, were said to be happy auspices of
+the undertaking. On the next day, the king entered the mouth of the
+Seine, and cast anchor before a place called Kidecaus, about three miles
+from Harfleur, where he proposed landing." --_Nicolas's History of
+Agincourt_.
+
+The departure of Henry's army on this occasion, and the separation
+between those who composed it and their relatives and friends, is thus
+described by Drayton, who was born in 1563, and died in 1631:--
+
+  There might a man have seen in every street,
+    The father bidding farewell to his son;
+  Small children kneeling at their father's feet:
+    The wife with her dear husband ne'er had done:
+  Brother, his brother, with adieu to greet:
+    One friend to take leave of another, run;
+  The maiden with her best belov'd to part,
+  Gave him her hand who took away her heart.
+
+  The nobler youth the common rank above,
+    On their curveting coursers mounted fair:
+  One wore his mistress' garter, one her glove;
+    And he a lock of his dear lady's hair:
+  And he her colours, whom he did most love;
+    There was not one but did some favour wear:
+  And each one took it, on his happy speed,
+  To make it famous by some knightly deed.
+
+(E) Enter the FRENCH KING, _the DAUPHIN, the_ DUKE OF BURGUNDY, _the
+CONSTABLE, and others._] Charles VI., surnamed the Well Beloved, was
+King of France during the most disastrous period of its history. He
+ascended the throne in 1380, when only thirteen years of age. In 1385 he
+married Isabella of Bavaria, who was equally remarkable for her beauty
+and her depravity. The unfortunate king was subject to fits of insanity,
+which lasted for several months at a time. On the 21st October, 1422,
+seven years after the battle of Agincourt, Charles VI. ended his unhappy
+life at the age of 55, having reigned 42 years. Lewis the Dauphin was
+the eldest son of Charles VI. He was born 22nd January, 1396, and died
+before his father, December 18th, 1415, in his twentieth year. History
+says, "Shortly after the battle of Agincourt, either for melancholy that
+he had for the loss, or by some sudden disease, Lewis, Dovphin of
+Viennois, heir apparent to the French king, departed this life without
+issue."
+
+John, Duke of Burgundy, surnamed the Fearless, succeeded to the dukedom
+in 1403. He caused the Duke of Orleans to be assassinated in the streets
+of Paris, and was himself murdered August 28, 1419, on the bridge of
+Montereau, at an interview with the Dauphin, afterwards Charles VII.
+John was succeeded by his only son, who bore the title of Philip the
+Good, Duke of Burgundy.
+
+The Constable, Charles D'Albret, commanded the French army at the Battle
+of Agincourt, and was slain on the field.
+
+
+
+
+    _Enter CHORUS._
+
+
+  _Chor._ Thus with imagin'd wing our swift scene flies,
+  In motion of no less celerity
+  Than that of thought. Suppose that you have seen
+  The well-appointed king[1] at Hampton pier
+  Embark his royalty;[2] and his brave fleet
+  With silken streamers the young Phoebus fanning:
+  Play with your fancies; and in them behold
+  Upon the hempen tackle ship-boys climbing;
+  Hear the shrill whistle, which doth order give
+  To sounds confus'd; behold the threaden sails,
+  Borne with the invisible and creeping wind,
+  Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea,
+  Breasting the lofty surge: O, do but think
+  You stand upon the rivage,[3] and behold
+  A city on the inconstant billows dancing;
+  For so appears this fleet majestical,
+  Holding due course to Harfleur. Follow, follow!
+  Grapple your minds to sternage of this navy;[4]
+  And leave your England, as dead midnight still,
+  Guarded with grandsires, babies, and old women,
+  Either past, or not arriv'd to, pith and puissance;
+  For who is he, whose chin is but enrich'd
+  With one appearing hair, that will not follow
+  These cull'd and choice-drawn cavaliers to France?
+  Work, work your thoughts, and therein see a siege;
+  Behold the ordnance on their carriages,
+  With fatal mouths gaping on girded Harfleur.
+  Suppose the ambassador from the French comes back;
+  Tells Harry--that the king doth offer him
+  Katharine his daughter; and with her, to dowry,
+  Some petty and unprofitable dukedoms.
+  The offer likes not: and the nimble gunner
+  With linstock[5] now the devilish cannon touches,
+
+    [_Alarums, and cannon shot off._
+
+  And down goes all before them. Still be kind,
+  And eke out our performance with your mind.
+
+    [_Exit._
+
+    [Footnote IIIc.1: _The well-appointed king_] i.e., well furnished
+    with all the necessaries of war.]
+
+    [Footnote IIIc.2: _Embark his royalty;_] The place where Henry's
+    army was encamped, at Southampton, is now entirely covered with
+    the sea, and called Westport.]
+
+    [Footnote IIIc.3: _----rivage,_] The _bank_ or shore.]
+
+    [Footnote IIIc.4: _----to +sternage+ of this navy;_] The stern
+    being the hinder part of the ship, the meaning is, let your minds
+    follow close after the navy. _Stern_, however, appears to have
+    been anciently synonymous to _rudder_.]
+
+
+
+
+  Scene Changes to
+  THE SIEGE OF HARFLEUR.
+
+  THE WALLS ARE MANNED BY THE FRENCH.
+
+  The English Are Repulsed from
+  an Attack on the Breach.
+
+
+    _Alarums. Enter KING HENRY, EXETER, BEDFORD, GLOSTER, and
+    Soldiers, R.H._
+
+  _K. Hen._ Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
+  Or close the wall up with our English dead![6]
+  In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
+  As modest stillness and humility:
+  But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
+  Then imitate the action of the tiger!
+  On, on, you noble English,
+  Whose blood is fet[7] from fathers of war-proof!
+  And you, good yeomen,
+  Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
+  The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
+  That you are worth your breeding: which I doubt not;
+  For there is none of you so mean and base,
+  That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
+  I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,[8]
+  Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
+  Follow your spirit; and, upon this charge,
+  Cry--God for Harry! England! and Saint George!
+
+    [_The English charge upon the breach, headed by the KING.
+    Alarums. The GOVERNOR of the Town appears on the walls
+    with a flag of truce._
+
+  _K. Hen._ How yet resolves the governour of the town?
+  This is the latest parle we will admit:
+  Therefore, to our best mercy give yourselves;
+  Or, like to men proud of destruction,
+  Defy us to our worst: for, as I am a soldier
+  (A name that, in my thoughts, becomes me best,)
+  If I begin the battery once again,
+  I will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur
+  Till in her ashes she lie buried.
+  The gates of mercy shall be all shut up.
+  What say you? will you yield, and this avoid?
+  Or, guilty in defence, be thus destroy'd?
+
+  _Gov._ Our expectation hath this day an end:
+  The Dauphin, whom of succour we entreated,[9]
+  Returns us--that his powers are not yet ready
+  To raise so great a siege. Therefore, dread king,
+  We yield our town and lives to thy soft mercy.
+  Enter our town; dispose of us and ours;
+  For we no longer are defensible.
+
+    [_Soldiers shout._
+
+    [_The GOVERNOR and others come from the town, and kneeling,
+    present to KING HENRY the keys of the city._
+
+  _K. Hen._ Come, uncle Exeter, R.
+  Go you and enter Harfleur; there remain,
+  And fortify it strongly 'gainst the French:
+  Use mercy to them all. For us, dear uncle,--
+  The winter coming on, and sickness growing
+  Upon our soldiers,--we'll retire to Calais.
+  To-night in Harfleur[*] will we be your guest;
+  To-morrow for the march are we addrest.[10]
+
+    [_March. English army enter the town through the breach._
+
+
+    [Footnote *: Extracts from the Account of the Siege of Harfleur,
+    selected from the pages of the anonymous Chronicler who was an
+    eyewitness of the event.
+
+    "Our King, who sought peace, not war, in order that he might
+    further arm the cause in which he was engaged with the shield of
+    justice offered peace to the besieged, if they would open the
+    gates to him, and restore, as was their duty, freely, without
+    compulsion, that town, the noble hereditary portion of his Crown
+    of England, and of his Dukedom of Normandy.
+
+    "But as they, despising and setting at nought this offer, strove
+    to keep possession of, and to defend the town against him, our
+    King summoned to fight, as it were, against his will, called upon
+    God to witness his just cause * * * he (King Henry) gave himself
+    no rest by day or night, until having fitted and fixed his engines
+    and guns under the walls, he had planted them within shot of the
+    enemy, against the front of the town, and against the walls,
+    gates, and towers, of the same * * * so that taking aim at the
+    place to be battered, the guns from beneath blew forth stones by
+    the force of ignited powers, * * * and in the mean time our King,
+    with his guns and engines, so battered the said bulwark, and the
+    walls and towers on every side, that within a few days, by the
+    impetuosity and fury of the stones, the same bulwark was in a
+    great part broken down; and the walls and towers from which the
+    enemy had sent forth their weapons, the bastions falling in ruins,
+    were rendered defenceless; and very fine edifices, even in the
+    middle of the city, either lay altogether in ruins, or threatened
+    an inevitable fall; or at least were so shaken as to be
+    exceedingly damaged. * * * And although our guns had disarmed the
+    bulwark, walls, and towers during the day, the besieged by night,
+    with logs, faggots, and tubs on vessels full of earth, mud, and
+    sand or stones, piled up within the shattered walls, and with
+    other barricadoes, refortified the streets. * * * The King had
+    caused towers and wooden bulwarks to the height of the walls, and
+    ladders and other instruments, besides those which he had brought
+    with him for the assault." --We are then told that the enemy
+    contrived to set these engines on fire 'by means of powders, and
+    combustibles prepared on the walls.'
+
+    The History then states that "a fire broke out where the strength
+    of the French was greater, and the French themselves were overcome
+    with resisting, and in endeavouring to extinguish the fire, until
+    at length by force of arms, darts, and flames, their strength was
+    destroyed. Leaving the place therefore to our party, they fled and
+    retreated beneath the walls for protection; most carefully
+    blocking up the entrance with timber, stones, earth, and mud, lest
+    our people should rush in upon them through the same passage."
+
+    "On the following day a conference was held with the Lord de
+    Gaucort, who acted as Captain, and with the more powerful leaders,
+    whether it was the determination of the inhabitants to surrender
+    the town without suffering further rigour of death or war. * * *
+    On that night they entered into a treaty with the King, that if
+    the French King, or the Dauphin, his first-born, being informed,
+    should not raise the seige, and deliver them by force of arms
+    within the first hour after morn on the Sunday following, they
+    would surrender to him the town, and themselves, and their
+    property."
+
+    "And neither at the aforesaid hour on the following Sunday, nor
+    within the time, the French King, the Dauphin, nor any one else,
+    coming forward to raise the siege. * * * The aforesaid Lord de
+    Gaucort came from the town into the king's presence, accompanied
+    by those persons who before had sworn to keep the articles, and
+    surrendering to him the keys of the Corporation, submitted
+    themselves, together with the citizens, to his grace. * * * Then
+    the banners of St. George and the King were fixed upon the gates
+    of the town, and the King advanced his illustrious uncle, the Lord
+    Thomas Beaufort, Earl of Dorset (afterwards Duke of Exeter) to be
+    keeper and captain of the town, having delivered to him the keys."
+
+    Thus, after a vigorous siege of about thirty-six days, one of the
+    most important towns of Normandy fell into the hands of the
+    invaders. The Chronicler in the text informs us, that the
+    dysentery had carried off infinitely more of the English army than
+    were slain in the siege; that about five thousand men were then so
+    dreadfully debilitated by that disease, that they were unable to
+    proceed, and were therefore sent to England; that three hundred
+    men-at-arms and nine hundred archers were left to garrison
+    Harfleur; that great numbers had cowardly deserted the King, and
+    returned home by stealth; and that after all these deductions, not
+    more than nine hundred lances and five thousand archers remained
+    fit for service.
+
+    Hume, in his History of England, relates that "King Henry landed
+    near Harfleur, at the head of an army of 6,000 men-at-arms, and
+    24,000 foot, mostly archers. He immediately began the siege of
+    that place, which was valiantly defended by d'Esto�leville, and
+    under him by de Guitri, de Gaucourt, and others of the French
+    nobility; but as the garrison was weak, and the fortifications in
+    bad repair, the governor was at last obliged to capitulate, and he
+    promised to surrender the place if he received no succour before
+    the 18th of September. The day came, and there was no appearance
+    of a French army to relieve him. Henry, taking possession of the
+    town, placed a garrison in it, and expelled all the French
+    inhabitants, with an intention of peopling it anew with English.
+    The fatigues of this siege, and the unusual heat of the season,
+    had so wasted the English army, that Henry could enter on no
+    farther enterprise, and was obliged to think of returning to
+    England. He had dismissed his transports, which could not anchor
+    in an open road upon the enemy's coasts, and he lay under a
+    necessity of marching by land to Calais before he could reach a
+    place of safety. A numerous French army of 14,000 men at-arms, and
+    40,000 foot, was by this time assembled in Normandy, under the
+    constable d'Albret, a force which, if prudently conducted, was
+    sufficient either to trample down the English in the open field,
+    or to harass and reduce to nothing their small army before they
+    could finish so long and difficult a march. Henry, therefore,
+    cautiously offered to sacrifice his conquest of Harfleur for a
+    safe passage to Calais; but his proposal being rejected, he
+    determined to make his way by valour and conduct through all the
+    opposition of the enemy."]
+
+
+    [Footnote IIIc.5: _----linstock_] The staff to which the match is
+    fixed when ordnance is fired.]
+
+    [Footnote IIIc.6: _Or close the wall up with our English dead!_]
+    i.e. re-enter the breach you have made, or fill it up with your
+    own dead bodies.]
+
+    [Footnote IIIc.7: _Whose blood is +fet+_] To fet is an obsolete
+    word meaning _to fetch_. That is, "whose blood is derived," &c.
+    The word is used by Spencer and Ben Jonson.]
+
+    [Footnote IIIc.8: _----like greyhounds in the +slips+,_] _Slips_
+    are a contrivance of leather, to start two dogs at the same time.]
+
+    [Footnote IIIc.9: _----whom of succour we entreated,_] This
+    phraseology was not uncommon in Shakespeare's time.]
+
+    [Footnote IIIc.10: _----are we +addrest+._] i.e., prepared.]
+
+
+
+
+ACT III.
+
+
+SCENE I.--FRANCE. ROOM IN THE FRENCH KING'S PALACE.
+
+  _Trumpets sound._
+
+    _Enter the FRENCH KING, the DAUPHIN, DUKE OF BOURBON, the
+    CONSTABLE OF FRANCE, and others, L.H._
+
+  _Fr. King._ (C.) 'Tis certain he hath pass'd the river Somme.
+
+  _Con._ (R.C.) And if he be not fought withal, my lord,
+  Let us not live in France; let us quit all,
+  And give our vineyards to a barbarous people.
+
+  _Dau._ (R.) By faith and honour,
+  Our madams mock at us;
+  They bid us--to the English dancing-schools,
+  And teach lavoltas high[1] and swift corantos;[2]
+  Saying our grace is only in our heels,
+  And that we are most lofty runaways.
+
+  _Fr. King._ Where is Montjoy the herald? speed him hence:
+  Let him greet England with our sharp defiance.--
+  Up, princes! and, with spirit of honour edg'd
+  More sharper than your swords, hie to the field:
+  Bar Harry England, that sweeps through our land
+  With pennons[3] painted in the blood of Harfleur:
+  Go down upon him,--you have power enough,--
+  And in a captive chariot into Rouen
+  Bring him our prisoner.
+
+  _Con._              This becomes the great.
+  Sorry am I his numbers are so few,
+  His soldiers sick, and famish'd in their march;
+  For, I am sure, when he shall see our army,
+  He'll drop his heart into the sink of fear,
+  And, for achievement offer us his ransom.[4]
+
+  _Fr. King._ Therefore, lord constable, haste on Montjoy;
+
+    [_CONSTABLE crosses to L._
+
+  And let him say to England, that we send
+  To know what willing ransom he will give.--
+  Prince Dauphin, you shall stay with us in Rouen.
+
+  _Dau._ Not so, I do beseech your majesty.
+
+  _Fr. King._ Be patient; for you shall remain with us.--
+  Now, forth, lord constable (_Exit CONSTABLE, L.H._), and princes all,
+  And quickly bring us word of England's fall.
+
+    [_Exeunt L.H._
+
+    _Trumpets sound._
+
+
+    [Footnote III.1: _----lavoltas high_] A dance in which there was
+    much turning, and much capering.]
+
+    [Footnote III.2: _----swift corantos;_] A corant is a sprightly
+    dance.]
+
+    [Footnote III.3: _With +pennons+_] _Pennons_ armorial were small
+    flags, on which the arms, device, and motto of a knight were
+    painted.]
+
+
+SCENE II.--A VIEW IN PICARDY.
+
+  _Distant Battle heard._
+
+    _Enter GOWER, L.U.E., meeting FLUELLEN, R.H._
+
+_Gow._ (C.) How now, Captain Fluellen! come you from the bridge?(A)
+
+_Flu._ (R.C.) I assure you, there is very excellent service committed at
+the pridge.
+
+_Gow._ Is the Duke of Exeter safe?
+
+_Flu._ The Duke of Exeter is as magnanimous as Agamemnon; and a man that
+I love and honour with my soul, and my heart, and my duty, and my life,
+and my livings, and my uttermost powers: he is not (Heaven be praised
+and plessed!) any hurt in the 'orld; but keeps the pridge most
+valiantly, with excellent discipline. There is an ensign there at the
+pridge,--I think in my very conscience he is as valiant as Mark Antony;
+and he is a man of no estimation in the 'orld; but I did see him do
+gallant service.
+
+_Gow._ What do you call him?
+
+_Flu._ He is called--ancient Pistol.[5]
+
+_Gow._ I know him not.
+
+    _Enter PISTOL, R.H._
+
+_Flu._ Do you not know him? Here comes the man.
+
+  _Pist._ Captain, I thee beseech to do me favours:
+  The Duke of Exeter doth love thee well.
+
+_Flu._ Ay, I praise Heaven; and I have merited some love at his hands.
+
+  _Pist._ Bardolph, a soldier, firm and sound of heart,
+  Of buxom valour,[6] hath,--by cruel fate,
+  And giddy fortune's furious fickle wheel,
+  That goddess blind.
+  That stands upon the rolling restless stone,--[7]
+
+_Flu._ By your patience, ancient Pistol. Fortune is painted plind, with
+a muffler before her eyes,[8] to signify to you that fortune is plind;
+And she is painted also with a wheel, to signify to you, which is the
+moral of it, that she is turning, and inconstant, and variations, and
+mutabilities: and her foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone,
+which rolls, and rolls, and rolls:--In good truth, the poet makes a most
+excellent description of fortune: fortune, look you, is an excellent
+moral.
+
+  _Pist._ Fortune is Bardolph's foe, and frowns on him;
+  For he has stolen a _pix_,[9] and hang'd must 'a be.(B)
+  A damned death!
+  Let gallows gape for dog; let man go free,
+
+    [_Crosses to L.H._
+
+  But Exeter hath given the doom of death,
+  For _pix_ of little price.
+  Therefore, go speak, the duke will hear thy voice;
+  And let not Bardolph's vital thread be cut
+  With edge of penny cord and vile reproach:
+  Speak, captain, for his life, and I will thee requite.
+
+    [_Crosses to R.H._
+
+  _Flu._ Ancient Pistol, I do partly understand your meaning.
+
+  _Pist._ Why, then, rejoice therefore.
+
+_Flu._ Certainly, ancient, it is not a thing to rejoice at: for if,
+look you, he were my prother, I would desire the duke to use his goot
+pleasure, and put him to executions; for disciplines ought to be used.
+
+_Pist._ _Fico_ for thy friendship![10]
+
+_Flu._ It is well.
+
+_Pist._ The fig of Spain![11]
+
+    [_Exit PISTOL, R.H._
+
+_Flu._ Very goot.
+
+_Gow._ Why, this is an arrant counterfeit rascal; a cut-purse;
+I remember him now.
+
+_Flu._ I'll assure you, 'a utter'd as prave 'ords at the pridge as you
+shall see in a summer's day.
+
+_Gow._ Why, 'tis a gull, a fool, a rogue, that now and then goes to the
+wars, to grace himself, at his return into London, under the form of a
+soldier. You must learn to know such slanders of the age,[12] or else
+you may be marvellously mistook.
+
+_Flu._ I tell you what, Captain Gower;--I do perceive, he is not the man
+that he would gladly make show to the 'orld he is: if I find a hole in
+his coat, I will tell him my mind.  [_March heard._]  Hark you, the king
+is coming; and I must speak with him from the pridge.[13]
+
+    _Enter KING HENRY, BEDFORD, GLOSTER, WESTMORELAND, Lords,
+    and Soldiers, L.H.U.E._
+
+_Flu._ (R.) Heaven pless your majesty!
+
+_K. Hen._ (C.) How now, Fluellen! cam'st thou from the bridge?
+
+_Flu._ Ay, so please your majesty. The duke of Exeter has very gallantly
+maintained the pridge: the French has gone off, look you; and there is
+gallant and most prave passages: Marry, th'athversary was have
+possession of the pridge; but he is enforced to retire, and the duke of
+Exeter is master of the pridge: I can tell your majesty, the duke is a
+prave man.
+
+_K. Hen._ What men have you lost, Fluellen?
+
+_Flu._ The perdition of th'athversary hath been very great, very
+reasonable great: marry, for my part, I think the duke hath lost never a
+man, but one that is like to be executed for robbing a church, one
+Bardolph, if your majesty knows the man: his face is all bubukles,[14]
+and whelks,[15] and knobs, and flames of fire: and his lips plows at his
+nose, and it is like a coal of fire, sometimes plue, and sometimes red;
+but his nose is executed, and his fire's out.[16]
+
+_K. Hen._ We would have all such offenders so cut off.
+
+    [_Trumpet sounds without, R._
+
+    _Enter MONTJOY and Attendants, R.H._
+
+_Mont._ (_uncovers and kneels._) You know me by my habit.[17]
+
+_K. Hen._ Well, then, I know thee: What shall I know of thee?
+
+_Mont._ My master's mind.
+
+_K. Hen._ Unfold it.
+
+_Mont._ Thus says my king:--Say thou to Harry of England: Though we
+seemed dead, we did but sleep. Tell him, he shall repent his folly, see
+his weakness, and admire our sufferance.[18] Bid him, therefore,
+consider of his ransom; which must proportion the losses we have borne,
+the subjects we have lost, the disgrace we have digested. For our
+losses, his exchequer is too poor; for the effusion of our blood, the
+muster of his kingdom too faint a number; and for our disgrace, his own
+person, kneeling at our feet, but a weak and worthless satisfaction. To
+this add--defiance: and tell him, for conclusion, he hath betrayed his
+followers, whose condemnation is pronounced. So far my king and master;
+so much my office.
+
+  _K. Hen._What is thy name? I know thy quality.
+
+_Mont._ Montjoy.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Thou dost thy office fairly. Turn thee back,
+  And tell thy king,--I do not seek him now;
+  But could be willing to march on to Calais
+  Without impeachment:[19] for, to say the sooth
+  (Though 'tis no wisdom to confess so much
+  Unto an enemy of craft and vantage),
+  My people are with sickness much enfeebled;
+  My numbers lessen'd; and those few I have,
+  Almost no better than so many French;
+  Who, when they were in health, I tell thee, herald,
+  I thought, upon one pair of English legs,
+  Did march three Frenchmen.--Forgive me, Heaven,
+  That I do brag thus!--this your air of France
+  Hath blown that vice in me; I must repent.
+  Go, therefore, tell thy master here I am;
+  My ransom is this frail and worthless trunk;
+  My army but a weak and sickly guard:
+  Yet, Heaven before,[20] tell him we will come on,
+  Though France himself,[21] and such another neighbour,
+  Stand in our way. There's for thy labour, Montjoy.
+  Go, bid thy master well advise himself:
+  If we may pass, we will; if we be hinder'd,
+  We shall your tawny ground with your red blood
+  Discolour:(C) and so, Montjoy, fare you well.
+  The sum of all our answer is but this:
+  We would not seek a battle, as we are;
+  Nor, as we are, we say, we will not shun it:
+  So tell your master.
+
+  _Mont._            I shall deliver so.
+
+    (_MONTJOY rises from his knee._)
+
+  Thanks to your highness.
+
+    [_Exit MONTJOY with Attendants, R.H._
+
+  _Glo._ I hope they will not come upon us now.
+
+  _K. Hen._ We are in Heaven's hand, brother, not in theirs.
+  March to the bridge; it now draws toward night:
+  Beyond the river we'll encamp ourselves;
+  And on to-morrow bid them march away.
+
+    [_Exeunt, R.H._
+
+    _March._
+
+
+    [Footnote III.4: _And, for achievement, offer up his ransom._]
+    i.e., instead of fighting, he will offer to pay ransom.]
+
+    [Footnote III.5: _----ancient Pistol._] Ancient, a standard or
+    flag; also the ensign bearer, or officer, now called an ensign.]
+
+    [Footnote III.6: _Of buxom valour,_] i.e., valour under good
+    command, obedient to its superiors. The word is used by Spencer.]
+
+    [Footnote III.7: _----upon the rolling restless stone,--_] Fortune
+    is described by several ancient authors in the same words.]
+
+    [Footnote III.8: _----with a muffler before her eyes,_] A muffler
+    was a sort of veil, or wrapper, worn by ladies in Shakespeare's
+    time, chiefly covering the chin and throat.]
+
+    [Footnote III.9: _For he hath stolen a pix,_] A _pix_, or little
+    chest (from the Latin _pixis_, a box), in which the consecrated
+    _host_ was used to be kept.]
+
+    [Footnote III.10: _Fico for thy friendship!_] Fico is fig--it was
+    a term of reproach.]
+
+    [Footnote III.11: _The fig of Spain!_] An expression of contempt
+    or insult, which consisted in thrusting the thumb between two of
+    the closed fingers, or into the mouth; whence _Bite the thumb_.
+    The custom is generally regarded as being originally Spanish.
+    --NARES.]
+
+    [Footnote III.12: _----such slanders of the age,_] Cowardly
+    braggarts were not uncommon characters with the old dramatic
+    writers.]
+
+    [Footnote III.13: _----I must speak with him from the pridge._]
+    _From_ for _about_--concerning the fight that had taken place
+    there.]
+
+    [Footnote III.14: _----bubukles,_] A corrupt word for carbuncles,
+    or something like them.]
+
+    [Footnote III.15: _----and whelks,_] i.e., stripes, marks,
+    discolorations.]
+
+    [Footnote III.16: _----his fire's out._] This is the last time
+    that any sport can be made with the red face of Bardolph.]
+
+    [Footnote III.17: _----by my habit,_] That is, by his herald's
+    coat. The person of a herald being inviolable, was distinguished
+    in those times of formality by a peculiar dress, which is likewise
+    yet worn on particular occasions.]
+
+    [Footnote III.18: _----admire our sufferance._] i.e., our
+    patience, moderation.]
+
+    [Footnote III.19: _Without impeachment:_] i.e., hindrance.
+    _Empechement_, French.]
+
+    [Footnote III.20: _Yet, Heaven before,_] In the acting edition,
+    the name of God is changed to Heaven. This was an expression in
+    Shakespeare's time for _God being my guide_.]
+
+    [Footnote III.21: _Though France himself,_] i.e., though _the King
+    of France_ himself.]
+
+
+END OF ACT THIRD.
+
+
+
+
+HISTORICAL NOTES TO ACT THIRD.
+
+(A) _Come you from the bridge?_] After Henry had passed the Somme, Titus
+Livius asserts, that the King having been informed of a river which must
+be crossed, over which was a bridge, and that his progress depended in a
+great degree upon securing possession of it, despatched some part of his
+forces to defend it from any attack, or from being destroyed. They found
+many of the enemy ready to receive them, to whom they gave battle, and
+after a severe conflict, they captured the bridge, and kept it.
+
+  (B) _Fortune is Bardolph's foe, and frowns on him;
+  For he hath stol'n a pix, and hanged must 'a be._
+
+It will be seen by the following extract from the anonymous Chronicler
+how minutely Shakespeare has adhered to history-- "There was brought to
+the King in that plain a certain English robber, who, contrary to the
+laws of God and the Royal Proclamation, had stolen from a church a pix
+of copper gilt, found in his sleeve, which he happened to mistake for
+gold, in which the Lord's body was kept; and in the next village where
+he passed the night, by decree of the King, he was put to death on the
+gallows." Titus Livius relates that Henry commanded his army to halt
+until the sacrilege was expiated. He first caused the pix to be restored
+to the Church, and the offender was then led, bound as a thief, through
+the army, and afterwards hung upon a tree, that every man might behold
+him.
+
+  (C) _Go, bid thy master well advise himself:
+  If we may pass, we will; if we be hinder'd,
+  We shall your tawny ground with your red blood
+  Discolour:_]
+
+My desire is, that none of you be so _unadvised_, as to be the occasion
+that I in my defence shall _colour_ and make _red your tawny ground_
+with the effusion of Christian blood. When he (Henry) had thus answered
+the Herald, he gave him a great reward, and licensed him to depart.
+--_Holinshed_.
+
+
+
+
+    _Enter CHORUS._
+
+
+  _Cho._ Now entertain conjecture of a time
+  When creeping murmur and the poring dark
+  Fills the wide vessel of the universe.
+  From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night
+  The hum of either army stilly sounds,[1]
+  That the fix'd sentinels almost receive
+  The secret whispers of each other's watch:[2]
+  Fire answers fire;[3] and through their paly flames
+  Each battle sees the other's umber'd face:[4]
+  Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs
+  Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents,
+  The armourers, accomplishing the knights,
+  With busy hammers closing rivets up,
+  Give dreadful note of preparation.
+  Proud of their numbers, and secure in soul,
+  The confident and over-lusty[5] French
+  Do the low-rated English play at dice;[6]
+  And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night,
+  Who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp
+  So tediously away.
+
+
+    _Scene opens and discovers the interior of a French tent, with the
+    DAUPHIN, the CONSTABLE, ORLEANS, and others, playing at dice._
+
+_Dau._ Will it never be day?
+
+_Con._ I would it were morning; for I would fain be about the ears of
+the English.
+
+_Dau._ Who will go to hazard with me for twenty English prisoners?
+
+_Orl._ The prince longs to eat the English.
+
+_Con._ Would it were day! Alas, poor Harry of England! he longs not for
+the dawning, as we do.
+
+_Dau._ If the English had any apprehension, they would run away.
+
+_Con._ That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; their
+mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.
+
+_Dau._ Foolish curs, that run winking into the mouth of a Russian bear,
+and have their heads crushed like rotten apples! You may as well
+say,--that's a valiant flea, that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a
+lion.
+
+_Con._ Just, just: give them great meals of beef, and iron and steel,
+they will eat like wolves, and fight like devils.
+
+_Orl._ Ay, but these English are shrewdly out of beef.
+
+_Con._ Then we shall find to-morrow--they have only stomachs to eat, and
+none to fight. Now is it time to arm: Come, shall we about it?
+
+_Dau._ It is now two o'clock: but, let me see,--by ten We shall have
+each a hundred Englishmen.
+
+
+SCENE CLOSES IN.
+
+  _Cho._ The poor condemned English,
+  Like sacrifices, by their watchful fires
+  Sit patiently, and inly ruminate
+  The morning's danger; and their gestures sad,
+  Investing lank-lean cheeks, and war-worn coats,
+  Presenteth them unto the gazing moon
+  So many horrid ghosts.
+
+    [_Scene re-opens, discovering the English camp, with group
+    of soldiery praying. After a pause the scene closes._
+
+  O, now, who will behold
+  The royal captain of this ruin'd band
+  Walking from watch to watch, from tent to tent,
+  Let him cry--Praise and glory on his head!
+  For forth he goes and visits all his host;
+  Bids them good-morrow with a modest smile,
+  And calls them--brothers, friends, and countrymen.
+  Upon his royal face there is no note
+  How dread an army hath enrounded him;
+  Nor doth he dedicate one jot of colour
+  Unto the weary and all-watched night;
+  But freshly looks, and overbears attaint
+  With cheerful semblance and sweet majesty;
+  That every wretch, pining and pale before,
+  Beholding him, plucks comfort from his looks:
+  Then, mean and gentle all,
+  Behold, as may unworthiness define,
+  A little touch of Harry in the night:
+  And so our scene must to the battle fly;
+  The field of Agincourt. Yet, sit and see;
+  Minding true things[7] by what their mockeries be.
+
+    [_Exit._
+
+
+    [Footnote IVc.1: _----+stilly+ sounds,_] i.e., gently, lowly.]
+
+    [Footnote IVc.2: _The secret whispers of each other's watch:_]
+    Holinshed says, that the distance between the two armies was but
+    250 paces.]
+
+    [Footnote IVc.3: _Fire answers fire;_] This circumstance is also
+    taken from Holinshed. "But at their coming into the village,
+    _fires_ were made by the English to give light on every side, as
+    there likewise were in the French hoste."]
+
+    [Footnote IVc.4: _----the other's +umber'd+ face:_] _Umber'd_
+    means here _discoloured_ by the gleam of the fires. _Umber_ is a
+    dark yellow earth, brought from Umbria, in Italy, which, being
+    mixed with water, produces such a dusky yellow colour as the
+    gleam of fire by night gives to the countenance. Shakespeare's
+    theatrical profession probably furnished him with the epithet,
+    as burnt umber is occasionally used by actors for colouring the
+    face.]
+
+    [Footnote IVc.5: _----over-+lusty+_] i.e., over-_saucy._]
+
+    [Footnote IVc.6: _Do the low-rated English play at dice;_] i.e.,
+    do play them away at dice. Holinshed says-- "The Frenchmen, in the
+    meanwhile, as though they had been sure of victory, made great
+    triumph; for the captains had determined before how to divide the
+    spoil, and _the soldiers the night before had played the
+    Englishmen at dice_."]
+
+    [Footnote IVc.7: _Minding true things_] To _mind_ is the same as
+    to _call to remembrance_.]
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV.
+
+
+SCENE I.--THE ENGLISH CAMP AT AGINCOURT.(A) NIGHT.
+
+    _Enter KING HENRY and GLOSTER, U.E.L.H._
+
+  _K. Hen._ Gloster, 'tis true that we are in great danger;
+  The greater therefore should our courage be.
+
+    _Enter BEDFORD, R.H._
+
+  Good morrow, brother Bedford.--Gracious Heaven!
+  There is some soul of goodness in things evil,
+  Would men observingly distil it out;
+  For our bad neighbour makes us early stirrers,
+  Which is both healthful and good husbandry.
+  Thus may we gather honey from the weed,
+  And make a moral of the devil himself.
+
+    _Enter ERPINGHAM.(B) L.H._
+
+  Good morrow, old Sir Thomas Erpingham:
+  A good soft pillow for that good white head
+  Were better than a churlish turf of France.
+
+  _Erp._ Not so, my liege: this lodging likes me better,
+  Since I may say--now lie I like a king.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Lend me thy cloak, Sir Thomas.--Brothers both,
+  Commend me to the princes in our camp;
+  Do my good morrow to them; and anon
+  Desire them all to my pavilion.
+
+_Glo._ We shall, my liege.
+
+    [_Exeunt GLOSTER and BEDFORD, R.H._
+
+  _Erp._ Shall I attend your grace?
+
+  _K. Hen._                       No, my good knight;
+  Go with my brothers to my lords of England:
+
+    [_ERPINGHAM crosses to R._
+
+  I and my bosom must debate a while,
+  And then I would no other company.
+
+_Erp._ Heaven bless thee, noble Harry!
+
+    [_Exit ERPINGHAM, R.H._
+
+_K. Hen._ Gad-a-mercy, old heart! thou speakest cheerfully.
+
+    _Enter PISTOL, L.H._
+
+_Pist._ _Qui va l�?_
+
+_K. Hen._ A friend.
+
+  _Pist._ Discuss unto me; Art thou officer?
+  Or art thou base, common, and popular?[1]
+
+  _K. Hen._ I am a gentleman of a company.
+
+  _Pist._ Trail'st thou the puissant pike?
+
+  _K. Hen._ Even so. What are you?
+
+  _Pist._ As good a gentleman as the emperor.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Then you are a better than the king.[2]
+
+  _Pist._ The king's a bawcock,[3] and a heart of gold,
+  A lad of life, an imp of fame;[4]
+  Of parents good, of fist most valiant:
+  I kiss his dirty shoe, and from my heart-strings
+  I love the lovely bully. What's thy name?
+
+_K. Hen._ Harry _le Roi_.
+
+_Pist._ _Le Roi!_ a Cornish name: art thou of Cornish crew?
+
+_K. Hen._ No, I am a Welshman.
+
+_Pist._ Knowest thou Fluellen?
+
+_K. Hen._ Yes.
+
+  _Pist._ Tell him, I'll knock his leek about his pate,
+  Upon Saint Davy's day.
+
+    [_Crosses to R._
+
+_K. Hen._ Do not you wear your dagger in your cap that day, lest he
+knock that about yours.
+
+_Pist._ Art thou his friend?
+
+_K. Hen._ And his kinsman too.
+
+_Pist._ The _figo_ for thee, then!
+
+_K. Hen._ I thank you: Heaven be with you!
+
+_Pist._ My name is Pistol call'd.
+
+    [_Exit, R.H._
+
+_K. Hen._ It sorts[5] well with your fierceness.
+
+    _Enter FLUELLEN, L.H., and crosses to R., and GOWER, U.E.R.H.,
+    following hastily._
+
+_Gow._ Captain Fluellen!
+
+_Flu._ (R.C.) So! in the name of Heaven, speak lower.[6] It is the
+greatest admiration in the universal 'orld, when the true and auncient
+prerogatifes and laws of the wars is not kept: if you would take the
+pains but to examine the wars of Pompey the Great, you shall find,
+I warrant you, that there is no tiddle taddle, or pibble pabble in
+Pompey's camp.
+
+_Gow._ (L.C.) Why, the enemy is loud; you heard him all night.
+
+_Flu._ If the enemy is an ass, and a fool, and a prating coxcomb, is it
+meet, think you, that we should also, look you, be an ass, and a fool,
+and a prating coxcomb, in your own conscience, now?
+
+_Gow._ I will speak lower.
+
+_Flu._ I pray you, and beseech you, that you will.
+
+    [_Exeunt GOWER and FLUELLEN, R.H._
+
+_K. Hen._ Though it appear a little out of fashion, there is much care
+and valour in this Welshman.
+
+    _Enter BATES and WILLIAMS, L.H._
+
+_Will._ Brother John Bates, is not that the morning which breaks yonder?
+
+_Bates._ I think it be: but we have no great cause to desire the
+approach of day.
+
+_Will._ We see yonder the beginning of the day, but, I think, we shall
+never see the end of it.--Who goes there?
+
+_K. Hen._ A friend.
+
+    [_Comes down, R._
+
+_Will._ Under what captain serve you?
+
+_K. Hen._ Under Sir Thomas Erpingham.
+
+_Will._ A good old commander, and a most kind gentleman: I pray you,
+what thinks he of our estate?
+
+_K. Hen._ Even as men wrecked upon a sand, that look to be washed off
+the next tide.
+
+_Bates._ (L.) He hath not told his thought to the king?
+
+_K. Hen._ No; nor it is not meet he should. (_Crosses to centre._) For,
+though I speak it to you, I think the king is but a man, as I am: the
+violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element shows to him as it
+doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions:[7] therefore when
+he sees reason of fears, as we do, his fears, out of doubt, be of the
+same relish as ours are: Yet, in reason, no man should possess him with
+any appearance of fear, lest he, by showing it, should dishearten his
+army.
+
+_Bates._ He may show what outward courage he will; but I believe, as
+cold a night as 'tis, he could wish himself in the Thames up to the
+neck; and so I would he were, and I by him, at all adventures, so we
+were quit here.
+
+_K. Hen._ (C.) By my troth, I will speak my conscience of the king:
+I think he would not wish himself any where but where he is.
+
+_Bates._ (L.) Then 'would he were here alone; so should he be sure to be
+ransomed, and a many poor men's lives saved.
+
+_K. Hen._ I dare say you love him not so ill, to wish him here alone,
+howsoever you speak this, to feel other men's minds: Methinks I could
+not die any where so contented as in the king's company; his cause being
+just, and his quarrel honourable.[8]
+
+_Will._ (R.) That's more than we know.
+
+_Bates._ Ay, or more than we should seek after; for we know enough, if
+we know we are the king's subjects: if his cause be wrong, our obedience
+to the king wipes the crime of it out of us.
+
+_Will._ But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy
+rekoning to make, when all those legs and arms and heads, chopped off in
+battle, shall join together at the latter day,[9] and cry all--We died
+at such place; some swearing; some crying for a surgeon; some, upon
+their wives left poor behind them; some, upon the debts they owe; some,
+upon their children rawly left.[10] I am afeard there are few die well
+that die in battle; for how can they charitably dispose of any thing,
+when blood is their argument? Now, if these men do not die well, it will
+be a black matter for the king that led them to it; whom to disobey were
+against all proportion of subjection.
+
+_K. Hen._ So, if a son, that is by his father sent about merchandise, do
+sinfully miscarry upon the sea, the imputation of his wickedness, by
+your rule, should be imposed upon his father that sent him:--But this is
+not so: the king is not bound to answer the particular endings of his
+soldiers, nor the father of his son, for they purpose not their death,
+when they purpose their services. Every subject's duty is the king's;
+but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore should every soldier in
+the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his
+conscience: and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the
+time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained.
+
+_Will._ 'Tis certain, every man that dies ill, the ill is upon his own
+head; the king is not to answer for it.
+
+_Bates._ I do not desire he should answer for me; and yet I determine to
+fight lustily for him.
+
+_K. Hen._ I myself heard the king say he would not be ransomed.
+
+_Will._ Ay, he said so, to make us fight cheerfully: but, when our
+throats are cut, he may be ransomed, and we ne'er the wiser.
+
+_K. Hen._ If I live to see it, I will never trust his word after.
+
+_Will._ That's a perilous shot out of an elder gun, that a poor and
+private displeasure can do against a monarch! you may as well go about
+to turn the sun to ice with fanning in his face with a peacock's
+feather. You'll never trust his word after! come, 'tis a foolish saying.
+
+_K. Hen._ Your reproof is something too round:[11] I should be angry
+with you, if the time were convenient.
+
+_Will._ Let it be a quarrel between us, if you live.
+
+_K. Hen._ I embrace it.
+
+_Will._ How shall I know thee again?
+
+_K. Hen._ Give me any gage of thine, and I will wear it in my bonnet:
+then, if ever thou darest acknowledge it, I will make it my quarrel.
+
+_Will._ Here's my glove: give me another of thine.
+
+_K. Hen._ There.
+
+_Will._ This will I also wear in my cap: if ever thou come to me and
+say, after to-morrow. _This is my glove_, by this hand, I will take thee
+a box on the ear.
+
+_K. Hen._ If ever I live to see it, I will challenge it.
+
+_Will._ Thou darest as well be hanged.
+
+_K. Hen._ Well, I will do it, though I take thee in the king's company.
+
+_Will._ Keep thy word: fare thee well.
+
+_Bates._ Be friends, you English fools, be friends: (_Crosses to_
+WILLIAMS, R.) we have French quarrels enough, if you could tell how to
+reckon.
+
+    [_Exeunt Soldiers, R.H._
+
+  _K. Hen._ Upon the king! let us our lives, our souls,
+  Our sins, lay on the king!--we must bear all.
+  O hard condition, twin-born with greatness,
+  Subjected to the breath of every fool.
+  What infinite heart's ease must king's neglect,
+  That private men enjoy!
+  And what have kings, that privates have not too,
+  Save ceremony, save general ceremony?
+  And what art thou, thou idol ceremony?
+  Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form,
+  Creating awe and fear in other men?
+  Wherein thou art less happy being fear'd
+  Than they in fearing.
+  What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet,
+  But poison'd flattery? O, be sick, great greatness,
+  And bid thy ceremony give thee cure!
+  Canst thou, when thou command'st the beggar's knee,
+  Command the health of it? No, thou proud dream,
+  That play'st so subtly with a king's repose:
+  I am a king that find thee; and I know,
+  'Tis not the balm, the sceptre, and the ball,
+  The sword, the mace, the crown imperial,
+  The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp
+  That beats upon the high shore of this world,
+  No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony,
+  Not all these, laid in bed majestical,
+  Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave,
+  Who, with a body fill'd and vacant mind,
+  Gets him to rest, cramm'd with distressful bread;
+  And but for ceremony, such a wretch,
+  Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep,
+  Had the fore-hand and vantage of a king.
+
+    _Enter ERPINGHAM, R.H._
+
+  _Erp._ My lord, your nobles, jealous of your absence,
+  Seek through your camp to find you.
+
+  _K. Hen._                         Good old knight,
+  Collect them all together at my tent:
+  I'll be before thee.
+
+    [_Gives back the Cloak to ERPINGHAM._
+
+  _Erp._             I shall do't, my lord. _[Exit, R.H._
+
+  _K. Hen._ O God of battles! steel my soldier's hearts;
+  Possess them not with fear; take from them now
+  The sense of reckoning, lest the opposed numbers
+  Pluck their hearts from them!--Not to-day, O Lord,
+  O, not to-day, think not upon the fault
+  My father made in compassing the crown!
+  I Richard's body have interred new;(C)
+  And on it have bestow'd more contrite tears,
+  Than from it issu'd forced drops of blood:
+  Five hundred poor I have in yearly pay,
+  Who twice a day their wither'd hands hold up
+  Toward heaven, to pardon blood:
+                                More will I do--
+
+    [_Trumpet sounds without, R._
+
+  The day, my friends, and all things stay for me.
+
+    [_Exit, R.H._
+
+
+    [Footnote IV.1: _----popular_] i.e., one of the people.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.2: _----you are a better than the king._] i.e.,
+    a better _man_ than the king.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.3: _The king's a bawcock,_] A burlesque term of
+    endearment, supposed to be derived from _beau coq_.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.4: _----an imp of fame;_] An _imp_ is a young shoot,
+    but means a _son_ in Shakespeare. In this sense the word has
+    become obsolete, and is now only understood as a small or inferior
+    devil.
+
+    In Holingshed, p. 951, the last words of Lord Cromwell are
+    preserved, who says:-- "----and after him, that his son Prince
+    Edward, that goodly _imp_, may long reign over you."]
+
+    [Footnote IV.5: _It sorts_] i.e., it agrees.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.6: _----speak lower._] Shakespeare has here, as
+    usual, followed Holinshead: "Order was taken by commandement from
+    the king, after the army was first set in battle array, that _no
+    noise or clamor should be made in the host_."]
+
+    [Footnote IV.7: _----conditions:_] i.e., _qualities_. The meaning
+    is, that objects are represented by his senses to him, as to other
+    men by theirs. What is danger to another is danger likewise to him;
+    and, when he feels fear, it is like the fear of meaner mortals.
+    --JOHNSON.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.8: _----his cause being just, and his quarrel
+    honourable._] In his address to the army, King Henry called upon
+    them all to remember _the just cause and quarrel_ for which they
+    fought. --HOLINSHED.]
+
+    [Footnote V.9: _----the latter day,_] i.e., the last day, the day
+    of Judgment. Shakespeare frequently uses the _comparative_ for the
+    _superlative_.]
+
+    [Footnote V.10: _----their children +rawly+ left._] i.e., _left
+    young and helpless_.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.11: _----too +round+:_] i.e., too rough, too
+    unceremonious.]
+
+
+SCENE II.--THE FRENCH CAMP--SUNRISE.
+
+  _Flourish of trumpets._
+
+    _Enter DAUPHIN, GRANDPR�, RAMBURES,[12] and Others._
+
+  _Dau._ The sun doth gild our armour; up, my lords!
+  My horse! _varlet! lacquay!_ ha!
+
+    [_Servants exeunt hastily._
+
+  _Grand._ O brave spirit!
+
+  _Dau._ Cousin Orleans.--
+
+    _Enter CONSTABLE, L.H._
+
+  Now, my lord Constable!
+
+  _Con._ Hark, how our steeds for present service neigh!
+
+  _Dau._ Mount them, and make incision in their hides,
+  That their hot blood may spin in English eyes,
+  And dout them[13] with superfluous courage, Ha!
+
+  _Con._ What, will you have them weep our horses' blood?
+  How shall we, then, behold their natural tears?
+
+    _Enter MONTJOY, R.H._
+
+  _Mont._ The English are embattled, you French peers.
+
+    [_Exit R.H._
+
+  _Con._ To horse, you gallant princes! straight to horse!
+  Do but behold yon poor and starved band.
+  There is not work enough for all our hands;
+  Scarce blood enough in all their sickly veins,
+  To give each naked curtle-ax a stain.
+  'Tis positive 'gainst all exceptions, lords,
+  That our superfluous lackeys, are enough
+  To purge this field of such a hilding foe.[14]
+  A very little little let us do,
+  And all is done. Then let the trumpets sound:
+  For our approach shall so much dare the field,
+  That England shall couch down in fear, and yield.
+
+    _Enter ORLEANS,(D) hastily, R.H._
+
+  _Orl._ Why do you stay so long, my lords of France?
+  Yon island carrions,[15] desperate of their bones,
+  Ill-favour'dly become the morning field:
+  Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose,[16]
+  And our air shakes them passing scornfully:
+  Big Mars seems bankrupt in their beggar'd host,
+  And their executors, the knavish crows,
+  Fly o'er them, all impatient for their hour.
+  Description cannot suit itself in words
+  To demonstrate the life of such a battle
+  In life so lifeless as it shows itself.
+
+  _Dau._ Shall we go send them dinners and fresh suits,
+  And give their fasting horses provender,
+  And after fight with them?
+
+  _Con._                   On, to the field!
+  Come, come, away!
+  The sun is high, and we outwear the day.
+
+    [_Exeunt, R.H._
+
+    _Flourish of trumpets._
+
+
+    [Footnote IV.12: _Rambures_,] The Lord of Rambures was commander
+    of the cross-bows in the French army at Agincourt.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.13: _And dout them_] _Dout_, is a word still used in
+    Warwickshire, and signifies to _do out_, or _extinguish_.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.14: _----a hilding foe._] _Hilding_, or _hinderling_,
+    is a _low wretch_.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.15: _Yon island carrion,_] This description of the
+    English is founded on the melancholy account given by our
+    historians of Henry's army, immediately before the battle of
+    Agincourt.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.16: _Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose,_] By
+    their _ragged curtains_, are meant their colours.]
+
+
+SCENE III.--THE ENGLISH POSITION AT AGINCOURT.
+
+    _The English Army drawn up for battle;(E) GLOSTER, BEDFORD,
+    EXETER, SALISBURY, ERPINGHAM, and WESTMORELAND._
+
+  _Glo._ (R.C.) Where is the king?
+
+  _Bed._ (L.C.) The king himself is rode to view their battle.[17]
+
+  _West._ (L.) Of fighting men they have full threescore thousand.
+
+  _Exe._ (L.C.) There's five to one; besides, they all are fresh.
+
+  _Erp._ It is fearful odds.
+  If we no more meet till we meet in heaven,
+  Then, joyfully,--my noble lord of Bedford,--
+
+    [_Crosses to L._
+
+  My dear lord Gloster,--and my good lord Exeter,--
+  Warriors all, adieu!
+
+    [_Crosses back to R._
+
+  _West._            O that we now had here
+  But one ten thousand of those men in England
+  That do no work to-day!(F)
+
+    _Enter KING HENRY, attended.(G) U.E.L.H._
+
+  _K. Hen._ (C.)        What's he that wishes so?
+  My cousin Westmoreland?--No, my fair cousin:
+  If we are mark'd to die, we are enough
+  To do our country loss; and if to live,
+  The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
+  I pray thee, wish not one man more.
+  Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
+  That he who hath no stomach to this fight.
+  Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
+  And crowns for convoy put into his purse:
+  We would not die in that man's company,
+  That fears his fellowship to die with us.
+  This day is call'd--the feast of Crispian:(H)
+  He, that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
+  Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd,
+  And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
+  He that shall live this day, and see old age,
+  Will yearly on the vigil feast his friends,[18]
+  And say--to-morrow is Saint Crispian:
+  Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
+  And say, those wounds I had on Crispin's day.
+  Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
+  But he'll remember with advantages[19]
+  What feats he did that day: Then shall our names,
+  Familiar in their mouths as household words,--
+  Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
+  Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloster,--(I)
+  Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
+  This story shall the good man teach his son;
+  And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
+  From this day to the ending[20] of the world,
+  But we in it shall be remembered.
+  We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
+  For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
+  Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
+  This day shall gentle his condition:[21]
+  And gentlemen in England, now a-bed,
+  Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here;
+  And hold their manhoods cheap while any speaks
+  That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
+
+    _Enter GOWER, hastily, U.E.L.H._
+
+  _Gow._ (R.C.) My sovereign lord, bestow yourself with speed:
+  The French are bravely in their battles set,[22]
+  And will with all expedience charge on us.
+
+  _K. Hen._ (C.) All things are ready, if our minds be so.
+
+  _West._ Perish the man whose mind is backward now!
+
+  _K. Hen._ Thou dost not wish more help from England, cousin?
+
+  _West._ (L.) Would you and I alone, my liege,
+  Without more help, might fight this battle out!
+
+    _Trumpet sounds without, L.H._
+
+    _Enter MONTJOY, and attendants, U.E.L.H._
+
+  _Mont._ (_uncovers and kneels._)
+  Once more I come to know of thee, King Harry,
+  If for thy ransom thou wilt now compound,
+  Before thy most assured overthrow.
+
+_K. Hen._ (C.) Who hath sent thee now?
+
+_Mont._ The Constable of France.
+
+  _K. Hen._ I pray thee, bear my former answer back:
+  Bid them achieve me,[23] and then sell my bones.
+  Good Heaven! Why should they mock poor fellows thus?
+  The man, that once did sell the lion's skin
+  While the beast liv'd, was kill'd with hunting him.
+  Let me speak proudly:--Tell the Constable,
+  We are but warriors for the working-day:[24]
+  Our gayness and our guilt[25] are all besmirch'd
+  With rainy marching in the painful field,
+  And time hath worn us into slovenry.
+  But, by the mass, our hearts are in the trim;
+  And my poor soldiers tell me--yet ere night
+  They'll be in fresher robes; or they will pluck
+  The gay new coats o'er the French soldiers' heads,
+  And turn them out of service.
+  Come thou no more for ransom, gentle herald:
+  They shall have none, I swear, but these my joints,
+  Which if they have as I will leave 'em to them,
+  Shall yield them little, tell the Constable.
+
+  _Mont._ I shall, King Harry.
+
+    (_Rises from his knee._)
+
+                             And so, fare thee well:
+  Thou never shalt hear herald any more.
+
+    [_Exit with Attendants, U.E.L.H._
+
+  _K. Hen._ Now, soldiers, march away:--
+  And how thou pleasest, Heaven, dispose the day!(K)
+
+    _Trumpet March._
+
+    [_Exeunt L.H._
+
+
+    [Footnote IV.17: _The king himself is rode to view their battle._]
+    The king is reported to have dismounted before the battle
+    commenced, and to have fought on foot.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.18: _----on the vigil feast his friends_,] i.e., the
+    evening before the festival.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.19: _----with advantages_,] Old men, notwithstanding
+    the natural forgetfulness of age, shall remember _their feats of
+    this day_, and remember to tell them _with advantage_. Age is
+    commonly boastful, and inclined to magnify past acts and past
+    times. --JOHNSON.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.20: _From this day to the ending_] It may be observed
+    that we are apt to promise to ourselves a more lasting memory than
+    the changing state of human things admits. This prediction is not
+    verified; the feast of Crispin passes by without any mention of
+    Agincourt. Late events obliterate the former: the civil wars have
+    left in this nation scarcely any tradition of more ancient
+    history. --JOHNSON.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.21: _----gentle his condition:_] This day shall
+    advance him to the rank of a gentleman.
+
+    King Henry V. inhibited any person but such as had a right by
+    inheritance, or grant, to assume coats of arms, except those who
+    fought with him at the battle of Agincourt; and, I think, these
+    last were allowed the chief seats of honour at all feasts and
+    publick meetings. --TOLLET.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.22: _----bravely in their battles set._] Bravely, for
+    gallantly.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.23: _Bid them achieve me,_] i.e., gain, or obtain
+    me.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.24: _----warriors for the +working-day+:_] We are
+    soldiers but coarsely dressed; we have not on our holiday
+    apparel.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.25: _----our +guilt+_] i.e., golden show, superficial
+    gilding. The word is obsolete.]
+
+
+
+
+SCENE IV.--ANOTHER PART OF THE FIELD OF BATTLE.
+
+    _Alarums. Enter DAUPHIN, ORLEANS, BOURBON, CONSTABLE, RAMBURES,
+    and Others, hastily, and in confusion, L.H._
+
+  _Dau._ (C.) All is confounded, all!
+  Reproach and everlasting shame
+  Sits mocking in our plumes.
+
+    [_Alarums, L._
+
+  _Con._ Why, all our ranks are broke.
+
+  _Dau._ O perdurable shame![26]--let's stab ourselves.
+  Be these the wretches that we play'd at dice for?
+
+  _Orl._ (L.C.) Is this the king we sent to for his ransom?
+
+  _Dau._ Shame, and eternal shame, nothing but shame!
+  Let us die in honor: Once more back again.
+
+  _Con._ (C.) Disorder, that hath spoil'd us, friend us now!
+  Let us in heaps go offer up our lives
+  Unto these English, or else die with fame.
+
+  _Dau._ (R.C.) We are enough, yet living in the field,
+  To smother up the English in our throngs,
+  If any order might be thought upon.
+
+  _Con._ The devil take order now! I'll to the throng:
+  Let life be short; else shame will be too long.
+
+    _Alarums._
+
+    [_Exeunt L.H._
+
+
+    [Footnote IV.26: _O +perdurable+ shame!_] _Perdurable_ is
+    lasting.]
+
+
+SCENE V.--THE FIELD OF AGINCOURT AFTER THE BATTLE.
+
+  [_The bodies of the DUKE OF YORK(L) and EARL OF SUFFOLK are borne
+  across the stage by soldiers._
+
+  _Trumpets sound._
+
+    _Enter KING HENRY with a part of the English forces; WARWICK,
+    BEDFORD, GLOSTER, EXETER, and others, L.H._
+
+  _K. Hen._ (C.) I was not angry since I came to France,
+  Until this instant.--Take a trumpet, herald;
+  Ride thou unto the horsemen on yon hill:(M)
+  If they will fight with us, bid them come down,
+  Or void the field;[27] they do offend our sight:
+  If they'll do neither, we will come to them;
+  And make them skirr away, as swift as stones
+  Enforced from the old Assyrian slings.
+  Go, and tell them so.
+
+    [_Exit HERALD with Trumpeter, R.H._
+
+  _Exe._ The Duke of York commends him to your majesty.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Lives he, good uncle? thrice within this hour,
+  I saw him down; thrice up again and fighting;
+  From helmet to the spur, all blood he was.
+
+  _Exe._ In which array, (brave soldier), did he lie,
+  Larding the plain; and by his bloody side,
+  (Yoke fellow to his honour-owing wounds),
+  The noble Earl of Suffolk also lay.
+  Suffolk first died: and York, all haggled over,
+  Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteep'd,
+  And takes him by the hand; kisses the gashes,
+  That bloodily did yarn upon his face;
+  And cries aloud:--_Tarry, dear cousin Suffolk!
+  My soul shall thine keep company to heaven:
+  Tarry, sweet soul, for mine, then fly abreast;
+  As in this glorious and well foughten field,
+  We keep together in our chivalry!_
+  Upon these words I came, and cheer'd him up:
+  He smil'd me in the face, raught me his hand,[28]
+  And with a feeble gripe, says,--_Dear, my lord,
+  Commend my service to my sovereign._
+  So did he turn, and over Suffolk's neck
+  He threw his wounded arm, and kiss'd his lips;
+  And so espous'd to death, with blood he seal'd
+  A testament of noble-ending love.
+  The pretty and sweet manner of it forc'd
+  Those waters from me, which I would have stopp'd;
+  But I had not so much of man in me,
+  But all my mother came into mine eyes,
+  And gave me up to tears.
+
+    [_Re-enter ENGLISH HERALD and Trumpeter, R.H._
+
+  _K. Hen._              I blame you not:
+  For, hearing this, I must perforce compound
+  With mistful eyes, or they will issue too.
+
+    [_Trumpet without, R._
+
+  _Exe._ Here comes the herald of the French, my liege.
+
+  _Glo._ His eyes are humbler than they us'd to be.
+
+    _Enter MONTJOY,(N) and attendants, R.H. MONTJOY uncovers
+    and kneels._
+
+  _K. Hen._ How now! what means this, herald?
+  Com'st thou again for ransom?
+
+  _Mont._                     No, great king:
+  I come to thee for charitable licence,
+  That we may wander o'er this bloody field
+  To book our dead, and then to bury them;
+  To sort our nobles from our common men,
+  For many of our princes (woe the while!)
+  Lie drown'd and soak'd in mercenary blood;
+  (So do our vulgar drench their peasant limbs
+  In blood of princes;) and their wounded steeds
+  Fret fetlock deep in gore, and, with wild rage
+  Yerk out their armed heels at their dead masters,
+  Killing them twice. O, give us leave, great king,
+  To view the field in safety, and dispose
+  Of their dead bodies!
+
+  _K. Hen._           I tell thee truly, herald,
+  I know not if the day be ours or no;
+  For yet a many of your horsemen peer
+  And gallop o'er the field.
+
+  _Mont._                  The day is yours.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Praised be Heaven, and not our strength, for it!--
+  What is this castle call'd that stands hard by?
+
+  _Mont._ They call it--Agincourt.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Then call we this--the field of Agincourt,
+  Fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus.
+
+    [_Loud flourish of Trumpets, and shouts of the soldiers.
+    MONTJOY rises from his knee, and stands R._
+
+_Flu._ (L.) Your grandfather of famous memory, an't please your majesty,
+and your great uncle Edward the plack prince of Wales, as I have read in
+the chronicles, fought a most prave pattle here in France.
+
+_K. Hen._ (C.) They did, Fluellen.
+
+_Flu._ Your majesty says very true: if your majesties is remembered of
+it, the Welshman did goot service in a garden where leeks did grow,
+wearing leeks in their Monmouth caps;[29] which, your majesty knows, to
+this hour is an honourable padge of the service; and I do believe, your
+majesty takes no scorn to wear the leek upon Saint Tavy's day.
+
+  _K. Hen._ I wear it for a memorable honour;
+  For I am Welsh, you know, good countryman.
+
+_Flu._ All the water in Wye cannot wash your majesty's Welsh plood out
+of your pody, I can tell you that: Heaven pless it, and preserve it, as
+long as it pleases his grace, and his majesty too!
+
+_K. Hen._ Thanks, good my countryman.
+
+_Flu._ I am your majesty's countryman, I care not who know it: I will
+confess it to all the 'orld: I need not to be ashamed of your majesty,
+praised be Heaven, so long as your majesty is an honest man.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Heaven keep me so!--Our herald go with him:
+  Bring me just notice of the numbers dead
+  On both our parts.--
+
+    [_Exeunt MONTJOY and attendants, with English Herald, R.H._
+
+                    Call yonder fellow hither.
+
+    [_Points to WILLIAMS, who is standing in the ranks up the stage, L._
+
+_Exe._ Soldier, you must come to the king.
+
+_K. Hen._ (C.) Soldier, why wear'st thou that glove in thy cap?
+
+_Will._ (_kneels R._) An't please your majesty, 'tis the gage of one
+that I should fight withal, if he be alive.
+
+    [_Rises from his knee._
+
+_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._ (L.) 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,[30] quite
+from the answer of his degree.[31]
+
+_Flu._ Though he be as goot a gentleman as the tevil is, as Lucifer and
+Belzebub himself, it is necessary, look your grace, that he keep his vow
+and his oath.
+
+_K. Hen._ Then keep thy vow, sirrah, when thou meet'st the fellow.
+
+_Will._ So I will, my liege, as I live.
+
+_K. Hen._ Who servest thou under?
+
+_Will._ Under Captain Gower, my liege.
+
+_Flu._ Gower is a goot captain, and is good knowledge and literature in
+the wars.
+
+_K. Hen._ Call him hither to me, soldier.
+
+_Will._ I will, my liege.
+
+    [_Exit, R.H._
+
+_K. Hen._ Here, Fluellen; wear thou this favour for me, and stick it in
+thy cap: When Alen�on and myself were down together,(O) I plucked this
+glove from his helm: if any man challenge this, he is a friend to
+Alen�on and an enemy to our person; if thou encounter any such,
+apprehend him, an thou dost love me.
+
+_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.
+
+_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._ (L.) I will fetch him.
+
+    [_Crosses to R., and exit R.H._
+
+  _K. Hen._ (L.C.) My lord of Warwick,--and my brother Gloster,
+
+    [_Both advance to the KING._
+
+  Follow Fluellen closely at the heels:
+  The glove which I have given him for a favour
+  May haply purchase him a box o' the ear;
+  It is the soldier's; I, by bargain, should
+  Wear it myself. Follow, good cousin Warwick:
+
+    [_WARWICK crosses to R._
+
+  If that the soldier strike him (as, I judge,
+  By his blunt bearing, he will keep his word,)
+  Some sudden mischief may arise of it;
+  For I do know Fluellen valiant,
+  And, touch'd with choler, hot as gunpowder,
+  And quickly will return an injury:
+  Follow,
+
+    (_GLOSTER crosses to R._)
+
+        and see there be no harm between them.--
+
+    [_WARWICK and GLOSTER exeunt R.H._
+
+  Go you with me, Uncle of Exeter.
+
+    [_Exeunt Omnes, L.H._
+
+    _Trumpets sound._
+
+
+    [Footnote IV.27: _Or void the field;_] i.e., avoid, withdraw from
+    the field.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.28: _----+raught+ me his hand,_] _Raught_ is the old
+    preterite of the verb _to reach_.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.29: _----Monmouth caps;_] Monmouth caps were formerly
+    much worn, and Fuller, in his "Worthies of Wales," says the best
+    caps were formerly made at Monmouth.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.30: _----great sort,_] High rank.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.31: _----quite from the answer of his degree._] A man
+    of such station as is not bound to hazard his person to _answer_
+    to a challenge from one of the soldier's _low degree_.]
+
+
+SCENE VI.--BEFORE KING HENRY'S PAVILION.
+
+    _Enter GOWER and WILLIAMS, R.H._
+
+_Will._ I warrant it is to knight you, captain.
+
+    _Enter FLUELLEN, R.H._
+
+_Flu._ Heaven's will and pleasure, captain, I peseech you now, come
+apace to the king: there is more goot toward you peradventure than is in
+your knowledge to dream of.
+
+_Will._ Sir, know you this glove?
+
+_Flu._ (C.) Know the glove! I know, the glove is a glove.
+
+_Will._ (R.C.) 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._ (L.C.) How now, sir! you villain!
+
+_Will._ Do you think I'll be forsworn?
+
+_Flu._ Stand away, Captain Gower; I will give treason his payment in
+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 Alen�on's.
+
+    _Enter WARWICK and GLOSTER,(P) R.H._
+
+_Glos._ (_crosses to C._) How now, how now! what's the matter?
+
+_Flu._ My lord of Gloster, here is (praised be Heaven 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, EXETER, and others, U.E.L.H._
+
+_K. Hen._ (_coming down centre._) How now! what's the matter?
+
+_Flu._ (L.H.) 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 Alen�on.
+
+_Will._ (R.C.) My liege, this was my glove; here is the fellow of it;
+and he that I gave it to in change promised to 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
+arrant, rascally, beggarly, lowsy knave it is: I hope, your majesty is
+pear me testimony, and witness, and avouchments, that this is the glove
+of Alen�on, that your majesty is give me, in your conscience, now.
+
+_K. Hen._ Give me thy glove, soldier: Look, here is the fellow of it.
+'Twas I, indeed, thou promised'st to strike; and thou hast given me most
+bitter terms.
+
+    [_WILLIAMS falls on his knee._
+
+_Flu._ An please your majesty, let his neck answer for it, if there is
+any martial law in the 'orld.
+
+_K. Hen._ How can'st thou make me satisfaction?
+
+_Will._ All offences, my liege, come from the heart: never came any from
+mine, that might offend your majesty.
+
+_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
+your 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 beseech your highness, pardon me.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Here, uncle Exeter, fill this glove with crowns,
+  And give it to this fellow.-- (_WILLIAMS rises._) Keep it, fellow;
+  And wear it for an honour in thy cap
+  Till I do challenge it.--Give him the crowns:--
+  And, captain, you must needs be friends with him.
+
+    [_The KING goes up the stage with EXETER, BEDFORD, and GLOSTER._
+
+_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
+Heaven, 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: 'tis a goot silling, I warrant you, or I will change it.
+
+    [_Exit WILLIAMS, R.H._
+
+    [_Enter ENGLISH HERALD, R.H._
+
+_K. Hen._ (_coming down C._) Now, herald, are the dead number'd?
+
+    [_HERALD uncovers, kneels, and delivers papers.
+    The KING gives one paper to EXETER._
+
+  _K. Hen._ (C.) What prisoners of good sort are taken, uncle?
+
+  _Exe._ (L.C.) 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._ (C.) This note doth tell me of ten thousand French
+  That in the field lie slain: of princes, in this number,
+  And nobles bearing banners, there lie dead
+  One hundred twenty-six: added to these,
+  Of knights, esquires, and gallant gentlemen,
+  Eight thousand and four hundred; of the which,
+  Five hundred were but yesterday dubb'd knights:[32]
+  So that, in these ten thousand they have lost,
+  There are but sixteen hundred mercenaries:[33]
+  The rest are--princes, barons, lords, knights, 'squires,
+  And gentlemen of blood and quality.
+  Here was a royal fellowship of death!----(Q)
+  What is the number of our English dead?
+
+  _Exe._ (L.C.) Edward the duke of York, the earl of Suffolk,
+  Sir Richard Ketley, Davy Gam, esquire:
+  None else of name; and of all other men
+  But five and twenty.
+
+  _K. Hen._          O Heaven, thy arm was here;
+  And not to us, but to thy arm alone,
+  Ascribe we all! When, without stratagem,
+  But in plain shock and even play of battle,
+  Was ever known so great and little loss
+  On one part and on the other?--Take it, Heaven,
+  For it is only thine!
+
+    [_Returns papers to HERALD, who rises and stands L._
+
+  _Exe._              'Tis wonderful!
+
+  _K. Hen._ Come, go we in procession to the village:
+  And be it death proclaimed through our host
+  To boast of this, or take that praise from Heaven
+  Which is his only.
+
+_Flu._ (R.C.) Is it not lawful, and please your majesty, to tell how
+many is killed?
+
+  _K. Hen._ (_up the stage C._)
+  Yes, captain; but with this acknowledgment,
+  That Heaven fought for us.
+
+_Flu._ Yes, my conscience, he did us great goot.
+
+_K. Hen._ Do we all holy rites:(R)
+
+    [_The curtains of the Royal Pavilion are drawn aside,
+    and discover an Altar and Priests._
+
+  Let there be sung _Non nobis_ and _Te Deum_;
+  The dead with charity enclos'd in clay:
+  We'll then to Calais; and to England then;
+  Where ne'er from France arriv'd more happy men.
+
+    [_Organ music; all kneel, and join in Song of Thanksgiving._
+
+
+END OF ACT FOUR.
+
+
+    [Footnote IV.32: _Five hundred were but yesterday dubb'd
+    knights:_] In ancient times, the distribution of this honor
+    appears to have been customary on the eve of a battle.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.33: _Sixteen hundred mercenaries;_] i.e., common
+    soldiers, hired soldiers.]
+
+
+
+
+HISTORICAL NOTES TO ACT FOURTH.
+
+(A) _The English Camp at Agincourt._] The French were about a quarter of
+a mile from them at Agincourt and Ruisseauville, and both armies
+proceeded to light their fires, and to make the usual arrangements for a
+bivouack. The night was very rainy, and much inconvenience is said to
+have been experienced in each camp from wet and cold, accompanied, among
+the English, by hunger and fatigue. It was passed in a manner strictly
+consistent with their relative situations. The French, confident in
+their numbers, occupied the hours not appropriated to sleep in
+calculating upon their success; and in full security of a complete
+victory, played at dice with each other for the disposal of their
+prisoners, an archer being valued at a blank, and the more important
+persons in proportion; whilst the English were engaged in preparing
+their weapons, and in the most solemn acts of religion.  *  *  *  The
+Chronicler in the text states, that from the great stillness which
+prevailed throughout the English camp, the enemy imagined they were
+panic-struck, and intended to decamp. Monstrelet relates that the
+English "were much fatigued and oppressed by cold, hunger, and other
+annoyances; that they made their peace with God, by confessing their
+sins with tears, and numbers of them taking the sacrament; for, as it
+was related by some prisoners, they looked for certain death on the
+morrow."
+
+(B) _Enter Erpingham._] Sir Thomas Erpingham came over with Bolingbroke
+from Bretagne, and was one of the commissioners to receive King
+Richard's abdication. In Henry the Fifth's time Sir Thomas was warden of
+Dover Castle, and at the battle of Agincourt, was commander of the
+Archers. This venerable knight is described by Monstrelet to have grown
+grey with age and honour; and when orders were given for the English
+army to march toward the enemy, by Henry crying aloud, "Advance
+banners," Sir Thomas threw his truncheon in the air as a signal to the
+whole field, exclaiming, "Now strike;" and loud and repeated shouts
+testified the readiness with which they obeyed the command.
+
+(C) _I Richard's body have interred new;_] Henry was anxious not only to
+repair his own misconduct, but also to make amends for those iniquities
+into which policy or the necessity of affairs had betrayed his father.
+He expressed the deepest sorrow for the fate of the unhappy Richard, did
+justice to the memory of that unfortunate prince, even performed his
+funeral obsequies with pomp and solemnity, and cherished all those who
+had distinguished themselves by their loyalty and attachment towards
+him. --_Hume's History of England._
+
+(D) _Enter Orleans._] Charles Duke of Orleans was wounded and taken
+prisoner at Agincourt. Henry refused all ransom for him, and he remained
+in captivity twenty-three years.
+
+This prince was a celebrated poet, and some of his most beautiful verses
+were composed during his confinement in the Tower of London. He married
+Isabella of Valois, daughter of Charles VI. and Isabeau of Bavaria,
+eldest sister to the Princess Katharine, Queen of Henry V.
+
+Isabella was the widow of our Richard the Second when she married the
+Duke of Orleans.
+
+After the victory of Agincourt, the following anecdote is related by
+Remy:-- "During their journey to Calais, at a place where they rested,
+Henry caused bread and wine to be brought to him, which he sent to the
+Duke of Orleans; but the French Prince would neither eat nor drink. This
+being reported to the King, he imagined that it arose from
+dissatisfaction, and, therefore, went to the duke. 'Noble cousin,' said
+Henry, 'how are you?' 'Well, my lord,' answered the duke. 'Why, then, is
+it,' added the King, 'that you will neither eat nor drink?' To which
+Orleans replied, 'that truly he had no inclination for food.' 'Noble
+cousin,' rejoined Henry, 'be of good heart. I know that God gave me the
+victory over the French, not that I deserved it, but I fully believe
+that he wished to punish them; and if what I have heard is true, it is
+not to be wondered at, for never were there greater disorder,
+sensuality, sins, and vices seen than now prevail in France; which it is
+horrible to hear described; and if God is provoked, it is not a subject
+of surprise, and no one can be astonished.' Many more conversations are
+said to have passed between the King and the Duke of Orleans, and the
+commisseration and courtesy of the former to his prisoners is mentioned
+by every writer in terms of just praise."
+
+(E) _The English army, drawn up for battle;_] The victory gained at
+Agincourt, in the year 1415, is, in a great measure, ascribed to the
+English Archers, and that there might be no want of arrows, Henry V.
+ordered the sheriffs of several counties to procure feathers from the
+wings of geese, plucking six from each goose. An archer of this time was
+clad in a cuirass, or a hauberk of chain-mail, with a salade on his
+head, which was a kind of bacinet. Every man had a good bow, a sheaf of
+arrows, and a sword. Fabian describes the archer's dress at the battle
+of Agincourt. "The yeomen had their limbs at liberty, for their hose was
+fastened with one point, and their jackets were easy to shoot in, so
+that they might draw bows of great strength, and shoot arrows a yard
+long." Some are described as without hats or caps, others with caps of
+boiled leather, or wicker work, crossed over with iron; some without
+shoes, and all in a very dilapidated condition. Each bore on his
+shoulder a long stake, sharpened at both extremities, which he was
+instructed to fix obliquely before him in the ground, and thus oppose a
+rampart of pikes to the charge of the French Cavalry.
+
+  (F) _O that we now had here
+  But one ten thousand of those men in England
+  That do no work to day!_]
+
+A certain lord Walter Hungerford, knight, was regretting in the king's
+presence that he had not, in addition to the small retinue which he had
+there, ten thousand of the best English Archers, who would be desirous
+of being with him; when the King said, Thou speaketh foolishly, for, by
+the God of Heaven, on whose grace I have relied, and in whom I have a
+firm hope of victory, I would not, even if I could, increase my number
+by one; for those whom I have are the people of God, whom He thinks me
+worthy to have at this time. Dost thou not believe the Almighty, with
+these his humble few, is able to conquer the haughty opposition of the
+French, who pride themselves on their numbers, and their own strength,
+as if it might be said they would do as they liked? And in my opinion,
+God, of his true justice, would not bring any disaster upon one of so
+great confidence, as neither fell out to Judas Maccabeus until he became
+distrustful, and thence deservedly fell into ruin. --_Nicolas's History
+of Agincourt._
+
+(G) _Enter King Henry, attended._] Henry rose with the earliest dawn,
+and immediately heard three masses. He was habited in his "_cote
+d'armes_," containing the arms of France and England quarterly, and wore
+on his bacinet a very rich crown of gold and jewels, circled like an
+imperial crown, that is, arched over. The earliest instance of an arched
+crown worn by an English monarch. --_Vide Planch�'s History of British
+Costume._
+
+King Henry had at Agincourt for his person five banners; that is, the
+banner of the Trinity, the banner of St. George, the banner of St.
+Edward, the banner of St. Edmund, and the banner of his own arms. "When
+the King of England had drawn up his order of battle he made a fine
+address to his troops, exhorting them to act well; saying, that he was
+come into France to recover his lawful inheritance, and that he had good
+and just cause to claim it; that in that quarrel they might freely and
+surely fight; that they should remember that they were born in the
+kingdom where their fathers and mothers, wives and children, now dwelt,
+and therefore they ought to strive to return there with great glory and
+fame; that the kings of England, his predecessors, had gained many noble
+battles and successes over the French; that on that day every one should
+endeavour to preserve his own person and the honor of the crown of the
+King of England. He moreover reminded them that the French boasted they
+would cut off three fingers from the right hand of every archer they
+should take, so that their shot should never again kill man nor horse.
+The army cried out loudly, saying, 'Sir, we pray God give you a good
+life, and the victory over your enemies.'" --_Nicolas's History of
+Agincourt._
+
+The banner of the Oriflamme is said to have been unfurled by the French
+for the last time at Agincourt.
+
+(H) _The feast of Crispian._] The battle of Agincourt was fought upon
+the 25th of October, 1415, St. Crispin's day. The legend upon which this
+is founded, is as follows:-- "Crispinus and Crispianus were brethren,
+born at Rome; from whence they travelled to Soissons in France, about
+the year 303, to propagate the Christian religion; but because they
+would not be chargeable to others for their maintenance, they exercised
+the trade of shoemakers; but the Governor of the town, discovering them
+to be Christians, ordered them to be beheaded about the year 303. From
+which time, the shoemakers made choice of them for their tutelar
+saints." --_See Hall's Chronicle._
+
+(I) _Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloster._]
+Although Shakespeare has adhered very closely to history in many parts
+of Henry V., he has deviated very much from it in the _Dramatis
+Person�_. He makes the Duke of Bedford accompany Henry to Harfleur and
+Agincourt when he was Regent of England. The Earl of Exeter, or, more
+properly speaking, the Earl of Dorset, was left to command Harfleur; the
+Earl of Westmoreland, so far from quitting England, was appointed to
+defend the marches of Scotland, nor does it appear that the Earl of
+Salisbury was either at Harfleur or Agincourt. The Earl of Warwick[*]
+had returned to England ill from Harfleur. The characters introduced in
+the play who really were at Agincourt, are the Dukes of Gloucester and
+York, and Sir Thomas Erpingham.
+
+Holinshed states that the English army consisted of 15,000, and the
+French of 60,000 horse and 40,000 infantry--in all, 100,000. Walsingham
+and Harding represent the English as but 9,000, and other authors say
+that the number of French amounted to 150,000. Fabian says the French
+were 40,000, and the English only 7,000. The battle lasted only three
+hours.
+
+    [Footnote *: Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. He did not obtain
+    that title till 1417, two years after the era of this play.]
+
+(K) _How thou pleasest, Heaven, dispose the day._] At the battle of
+Agincourt, having chosen a convenient spot on which to martial his men,
+the king sent privately two hundred archers into a low meadow, which was
+on one of his flanks, where they were so well secured by a deep ditch
+and a marsh, that the enemy could not come near them. Then he divided
+his infantry into three squadrons, or battles; the van-warde, or
+avant-guard, composed entirely of archers; the middle-warde, of bill-men
+only; and the rerewarde, of bill-men and archers mixed together; the
+horse-men, as wings, went on the flanks of each of the battles. He also
+caused stakes to be made of wood about five or six feet long, headed
+with sharp iron; these were fixed in the ground, and the archers so
+placed before them that they were entirely hid from the sight of the
+enemy. When, therefore, the heavy cavalry of the French charged, which
+was done with the utmost impetuosity, under the idea of cutting down and
+riding over the archers, they shrunk at once behind the stakes, and the
+Frenchmen, unable to stop their horses, rode full upon them, so that
+they overthrew their riders, and caused the utmost confusion. The
+infantry, who were to follow up and support this charge, were so struck
+with amazement that they hesitated, and by this were lost, for during
+the panic the English archers threw back their bows, and with axes,
+bills, glaives, and swords, slew the French, till they met the
+middle-warde. The king himself, according to Speed, rode in the main
+battle completely armed, his shield quartering the achievements of
+France and England; upon his helm he wore a coronet encircled with
+pearls and precious stones, and after the victory, although it had been
+cut and bruised, he would not suffer it to be ostentatiously exhibited
+to the people, but ordered all his men to give the glory to God alone.
+His horse was one of fierce courage, and had a bridle and furniture of
+goldsmiths' work, and the caparisons were most richly embroidered with
+the victorious ensigns of the English monarchy. Thus is he represented
+on his great seal, with the substitution of a knights' cap, and the
+crest, for the chaplet. Elmham's account, from which this is amplified,
+is more particular in some of the details; he relates, that the king
+appeared on a palfrey, followed by a train of led horses, ornamented
+with the most gorgeous trappings; his helmet was of polished steel,
+surmounted with a coronet sparkling with jewels, and on his surcoat, or
+rather jupon, were emblazoned the arms of France and England, azure,
+three fleurs-de-lis or, and gules, three lion's passant guardant or. The
+nobles, in like manner, were decorated with their proper armorial
+bearings. Before him was borne the royal standard, which was ornamented
+with gold and splendid colours. An account of the memorable battle of
+Azincourt, or Agincourt, fought on the 25th of October, 1415, is thus
+related by Mr. Turner:-- "At dawn the King of England had matins and the
+mass chaunted in his army. He stationed all the horses and baggage in
+the village, under such small guard as he could spare, having resolved
+to fight the battle on foot. He sagaciously perceived that his only
+chance of victory rested in the superiority of the personal fortitude
+and activity of his countrymen, and to bring them face to face, and arm
+to arm, with their opponents, was the simple object of his tactical
+dispositions. He formed his troops into three divisions, with two wings.
+The centre, in which he stationed himself, he planted to act against the
+main body of the French, and he placed the right and left divisions,
+with their wings, at a small distance only from himself. He so chose his
+ground that the village protected his rear, and hedges and briars
+defended his flanks. Determined to shun no danger, but to be a
+conspicuous example to his troops on a day when no individual exertions
+could be spared, he put on a neat and shining armour, with a large and
+brilliant helmet, and on this he placed a crown, radiant with its
+jewels, and he put over him a tunic adorned with the arms of France and
+England. He mounted his horse, and proceeded to address his troops. The
+French were commanded by the Constable of France, and with him were the
+Dukes of Orleans, Burgundy, Berry, and Alen�on, the Marshal and Admiral
+of France, and a great assemblage of French nobility. Their force was
+divided into three great battalions, and continued formed till ten
+o'clock, not advancing to the attack. They were so numerous as to be
+able to draw up thirty deep, the English but four. A thousand speared
+horsemen skirmished from each of the horns of the enemy's line, and it
+appeared crowded with balistae for the projection of stones of all sizes
+on Henry's little army. Henry sent a part of his force behind the
+village of Agincourt, where the French had placed no men at arms. He
+moved from the rear of his army, unperceived, two hundred archers, to
+hide themselves in a meadow on the flank of the French advanced line. An
+old and experienced knight, Sir Thomas Erpingham, formed the rest into
+battle array for an attack, putting the archers in front, and the men at
+arms behind. The archers had each a sharp stake pointed at both ends, to
+use against the French horse. Sir Thomas having completed his formation,
+threw up his truncheon in the air, and dismounted. The English began the
+attack, which the French had awaited, not choosing to give the advantage
+as at Poictiers; but when they saw them advance, they put themselves in
+motion, and their cavalry charged; these were destroyed by the English
+archers. The French, frightened by the effect of the arrows, bent their
+heads to prevent them from entering the vizors of their helmets, and,
+pressing forward, became so wedged together as to be unable to strike.
+The archers threw back their bows, and, grasping their swords,
+battle-axes, and other weapons, cut their way to the second line. At
+this period the ambushed archers rushed out, and poured their impetuous
+and irresistable arrows into the centre of the assailed force, which
+fell in like manner with the first line. In short, every part
+successively gave way, and the English had only to kill and take
+prisoners."
+
+(L) The Duke of York commanded the van guard of the English army, and
+was slain in the battle.
+
+This personage is the same who appears in Shakespeare's play of King
+Richard the Second by the title of Duke of Aumerle. His Christian name
+was Edward. He was the eldest son of Edmund Langley, Duke of York, who
+is introduced in the same play, and who was the fifth son of King Edward
+III. Richard, Earl of Cambridge, who appears in the second act of this
+play, was younger brother to this Edward, Duke of York.
+
+(M) _Ride thou unto the horsemen on yon hill:_] After the battle,
+"there were small bodies of the French on different parts of the plain,
+but they were soon routed, slain, or taken."
+
+(N) _Enter MONTJOY._] He (the king) asked Montjoye to whom the victory
+belonged, to him or to the King of France? Montjoye replied that the
+victory was his, and could not be claimed by the King of France. The
+king said to the French and English heralds, "It is not we who have made
+this great slaughter, but the omnipotent God, as we believe, for a
+punishment of the sins of the French. The king then asked the name of
+the castle he saw near him. He was told it was Agincourt. Well, then,
+said he, since all battles should bear the name of the fortress nearest
+to the spot where they were fought, this battle shall from henceforth
+bear the ever durable name of Agincourt." --_Nicolas's History of
+Agincourt._
+
+(O) _When Alen�on and myself were down together._] During the battle,
+the Duke of Alen�on most valiantly broke through the English line, and
+advanced, fighting, near to the king, insomuch that he wounded and
+struck down the Duke of York. King Henry, seeing this, stepped forth to
+his aid, and as he was leaning down to raise him, the Duke of Alen�on
+gave him a blow on the helmet that struck off part of his crown. The
+king's guard on this surrounded him, when, seeing he could no way escape
+death but by surrendering, he lifted up his arm, and said to the king,
+"_I am the Duke of Alen�on, and yield myself to you;_" but as the king
+was holding out his hand to receive his pledge, he was put to death by
+the guards. --_Nicolas's History of Agincourt._
+
+(P) _Enter WARWICK and GLOSTER._] The noble Duke of Gloucester, the
+king's brother, pushing himself too vigorously on his horse into the
+conflict, was grievously wounded, and cast down to the earth by the
+blows of the French, for whose protection the king being interested, he
+bravely leapt against his enemies in defence of his brother, defended
+him with his own body, and plucked and guarded him from the raging
+malice of the enemy's, sustaining perils of war scarcely possible to be
+borne. --_Nicolas's History of Agincourt._
+
+(Q) _Here was a royal fellowship of death!--_] There is not much
+difficulty in forming a correct estimate of the numbers of the French
+slain at Agincourt, for if those writers who only state that from three
+to five thousand were killed, merely meant the men-at-arms and persons
+of superior rank, and which is exceedingly probable, we may at once
+adopt the calculation of Monstrelet, Elmham, &c., and estimate the whole
+loss on the field at from ten to eleven thousand men. It is worthy of
+remark how very nearly the different statements on the subject approach
+to each other, and which can only be explained by the fact that the dead
+had been carefully numbered.
+
+Among the most illustrious persons slain were the Dukes of Brabant,
+Barr�, and Alen�on, five counts, and a still greater proportion of
+distinguished knights; and the Duke of Orleans, the Count of Vend�sme,
+who was taken by Sir John Cornwall, the Marshall Bouciqualt, and
+numerous other individuals of distinction, whose names are minutely
+recorded by Monstrelet, were made prisoners. The loss of the English
+army has been variously estimated. The discrepancies respecting the
+number slain on the part of the victors, form a striking contrast to the
+accuracy of the account of the loss of their enemies. The English
+writers vary in their statements from seventeen to one hundred, whilst
+the French chroniclers assert that from three hundred to sixteen hundred
+individuals fell on that occasion. St. Remy and Monstrelet assert that
+sixteen hundred were slain. --_Nicolas's History of Agincourt._
+
+(R) _Do we all holy rites:_] Holinshed says, that when the king saw no
+appearance of enemies, he caused the retreat to be blown, and gathering
+his army together, gave thanks to Almighty God for so happy a victory,
+causing his prelates and chaplains to sing this psalm--_In exitu Israel
+de Egypto_; and commanding every man to kneel down on the ground at this
+verse--_Non nobis domine, non nobis, sed nomini tuo da gloriam_; which,
+done, he caused _Te Deum_ and certain anthems to be sung, giving laud
+and praise to God, and not boasting of his own force, or any human
+power.
+
+
+
+
+    _Enter CHORUS._
+
+
+  _Chor._ Vouchsafe to those that have not read the story,
+  That I may prompt them.
+  Now we bear the king
+  Towards Calais: grant him there; there seen,
+  Heave him away upon your winged thoughts
+  Athwart the sea. Behold, the English beach
+  Pales in the flood with men, with wives, and boys,
+  Whose shouts and claps out-voice the deep-mouth'd sea,
+  Which, like a mighty whiffler[1] 'fore the king
+  Seems to prepare his way: so let him land;
+  And solemnly, see him set on to London.
+  So swift a pace hath thought, that even now
+  You may imagine him upon Blackheath.
+  How London doth pour out her citizens!
+  The mayor, and all his brethren, in best sort,--
+  Like to the senators of the antique Rome,
+  With the plebeians swarming at their heels,--
+  Go forth, and fetch their conquering C�sar in.
+  Now in London place him. There must we bring him;
+  Show the occurrences, whatever chanc'd,
+  Till Harry's back-return again to France.
+
+    [_Exit._
+
+
+    [Footnote Vc.1: _----a mighty +whiffler+_] An officer who walks
+    first in processions, or before persons in high stations, on
+    occasions of ceremony. The name is still retained in London, and
+    there is an officer so called that walks before their companies at
+    times of publick solemnity. It seems a corruption from the French
+    word _huissier_. --HANMER.]
+
+
+
+
+  HISTORICAL EPISODE.
+
+  OLD LONDON BRIDGE
+  From the Surrey Side of the River.
+
+  RECEPTION OF KING HENRY THE FIFTH
+  On Entering London,
+  AFTER THE BATTLE OF AGINCOURT.[*]
+
+    [Note *: Extracts of King Henry's reception into London, from
+    the anonymous Chronicler, who was an eye-witness of the events he
+    describes:--
+
+    "And when the wished-for Saturday dawned, the citizens went forth
+    to meet the king. *   *   *   viz., the Mayor[{~DAGGER~}] and Aldermen in
+    scarlet, and the rest of the inferior citizens in red suits, with
+    party-coloured hoods, red and white. *   *   *   When they had
+    come to the Tower at the approach to the bridge, as it were at the
+    entrance to the authorities to the city. *   *   *   Banners of
+    the Royal arms adorned the Tower, elevated on its turrets; and
+    trumpets, clarions, and horns, sounded in various melody; and in
+    front there was this elegant and suitable inscription upon the
+    wall, 'Civitas Regis justicie'--('The city to the King's
+    righteousness.') *   *   *   And behind the Tower were innumerable
+    boys, representing angels, arrayed in white, and with countenances
+    shining with gold, and glittering wings, and virgin locks set with
+    precious sprigs of laurel, who, at the King's approach, sang with
+    melodious voices, and with organs, an English anthem.
+
+      [[Footnote {~DAGGER~}: The Lord Mayor of London, A.D. 1415, was Nicholas
+      Wotton.]]
+
+       *   *   *   *   *
+    "A company of Prophets, of venerable hoariness, dressed in golden
+    coats and mantles, with their heads covered and wrapped in gold
+    and crimson, sang with sweet harmony, bowing to the ground,
+    a psalm of thanksgiving.
+       *   *   *   *   *
+    "Beneath the covering were the twelve kings, martyrs and
+    confessors of the succession of England, their loins girded with
+    golden girdles, sceptres in their hands, and crowns on their
+    heads, who chaunted with one accord at the King's approach in a
+    sweet tune.
+       *   *   *   *   *
+    "And they sent forth upon him round leaves of silver mixed with
+    wafers, equally thin and round. And there proceeded out to meet
+    the King a chorus of most beautiful virgin girls, elegantly
+    attired in white, singing with timbrol and dance; and then
+    innumerable boys, as it were an angelic multitude, decked with
+    celestial gracefulness, white apparel, shining feathers, virgin
+    locks, studded with gems and other resplendent and most elegant
+    array, who sent forth upon the head of the King passing beneath
+    min� of gold, with bows of laurel; round about angels shone with
+    celestial gracefulness, chaunting sweetly, and with all sorts of
+    music.
+
+    "And besides the pressure in the standing places, and of men
+    crowding through the streets, and the multitude of both sexes
+    along the way from the bridge, from one end to the other, that
+    scarcely the horsemen could ride through them. A greater assembly,
+    or a nobler spectacle, was not recollected to have been ever
+    before in London."]
+
+
+
+
+ACT V.
+
+
+SCENE I.--FRANCE IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF TROYES.
+
+    _Enter FLUELLEN and GOWER, L.H._
+
+_Gow._ Nay, that's right; but why wear you your leek today? Saint Davy's
+day is past.
+
+_Flu._ There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things:
+I will tell you, as my friend, Captain Gower: the rascally, scald,
+beggarly, lowsy, pragging knave, Pistol,--he is come to me, and prings
+me pread and salt yesterday, look you, and pid me eat my leek: it was in
+a place where I could not preed 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.
+
+    _Enter PISTOL, R.H._
+
+_Gow._ Why, here he comes, swelling like a turkey-cock.
+
+_Flu._ 'Tis no matter for his swellings nor his turkey-cocks.--Heaven
+pless you, ancient Pistol! you scurvy, lowsy knave, Heaven pless you!
+
+  _Pist._ Ha! art thou Bedlam? dost thou thirst, base Trojan,
+  To have me fold up Parca's fatal web?[1]
+  Hence! I am qualmish at the smell of leek.
+
+    [_Crosses to L.H._
+
+_Flu._ I peseech you heartily, scurvy, lowsy knave, at my desires, and
+my requests, and my petitions, to eat, look you, this leek: because,
+look you, you do not love it, nor your affections, and your appetites,
+and your digestions, does not agree with it, I would desire you to
+eat it.
+
+_Pist._ (_crosses to R.H._) 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 Heaven'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.[2]
+I pray you, fall to: if you can mock a leek, you can eat a leek.
+
+_Gow._ Enough, captain: you have astonished him.[3]
+
+_Flu._ I say, I will make him eat some part of my leek, or I will peat
+his pate four days.--Pite, I pray you; it is goot for you.
+
+_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 eke 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, 'pray you, throw
+none away; the skin is goot for your proken coxcomb. When you take
+occasions to see leeks hereafter, I pray you, mock at them; that is all.
+
+_Pist._ Good.
+
+_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 any thing, I will pay you in cudgels. Heaven be wi'
+you, and keep you, and heal your pate.
+
+    [_Exit L.H._
+
+_Pist._ (_crosses to L.H.) All hell shall stir for this.
+
+    [_Crosses to R.H._
+
+_Gow._ Go, go; you are a counterfeit cowardly knave. Will you mock at an
+ancient tradition,--begun upon an honourable respect, and worn as a
+memorable trophy of predeceased valour,--and dare not avouch in your
+deeds any of your words? I have seen you gleeking[4] and galling at this
+gentleman twice or thrice. You thought, because he could not speak
+English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English
+cudgel: you find it otherwise; and henceforth let a Welsh correction
+teach you a good English condition.[5] Fare ye well.
+
+    [_Exit, L.H._
+
+  _Pist._ Doth fortune play the huswife[6] with me now?
+  Old I do wax; and from my weary limbs
+  Honour is cudgell'd.
+                     To England will I steal:
+  And patches will I get unto these scars,
+  And swear, I got them in the Gallia wars.
+
+    [_Exit, R.H._
+
+
+    [Footnote V.1: _To have me fold up, &c._] Dost thou desire to have
+    me put thee to death.]
+
+    [Footnote V.2: _----a squire of low degree._] That is, _I will
+    bring thee to the ground._]
+
+    [Footnote V.3: _----astonished him._] That is, you have stunned
+    him with the blow.]
+
+
+SCENE II.--INTERIOR OF THE CATHEDRAL AT TROYES IN CHAMPAGNE.
+
+    _Trumpets sound. Enter, at one door, U.E.L.H., KING HENRY,(A)
+    BEDFORD, GLOSTER, EXETER, WARWICK, WESTMORELAND, and other Lords;
+    at another, U.E.R.H., the FRENCH KING, QUEEN ISABEL, the PRINCESS
+    KATHARINE,[7](B) Lords, Ladies, &c., the Duke of BURGUNDY, and
+    his Train. The two parties, French and English, are divided by
+    barriers._
+
+  _K. Hen._ (L.C.) Peace to this meeting, wherefore we are met![8]
+  Unto our brother France,--and to our sister,
+  Health and fair time of day;--joy and good wishes
+  To our most fair and princely cousin Katharine;
+  And (as a branch and member of this royalty,
+  By whom this great assembly is contriv'd,)
+  We do salute you, duke of Burgundy;--
+  And, princes French, and peers, health to you all!
+
+    [_All the French party bow to KING HENRY._
+
+  _Fr. King._ (R.C.) Right joyous are we to behold your face,
+  Most worthy brother England; fairly met:--
+  So are you, princes English, every one.
+
+  _Q. Isa._ (_R. of F. KING._) So happy be the issue, brother England,
+  Of this good day, and of this gracious meeting,
+  As we are now glad to behold your eyes;
+  Your eyes, which hitherto have borne in them
+  Against the French, that met them in their bent,
+  The fatal balls of murdering basilisks:[9]
+  The venom of such looks, we fairly hope,
+  Have lost their quality; and that this day
+  Shall change all griefs and quarrels into love.
+
+  _K. Hen._ To cry amen to that, thus we appear.
+
+  _Q.Isa._ You English princes all, I do salute you.
+
+    [_All the English party bow to QUEEN ISABELLA._
+
+  _Bur._ (R.) My duty to you both, on equal love,
+  Great kings of France and England!
+  Let it not disgrace me,
+  If I demand, before this royal view,
+  What rub or what impediment there is,
+  Why that the naked, poor, and mangled peace
+  Dear nurse of arts, plenties, and joyful births,
+  Should not, in this best garden of the world,
+  Our fertile France, put up her lovely visage?
+
+  _K. Hen._ If, duke of Burgundy, you would the peace,
+  Which you have cited, you must buy that peace
+  With full accord to all our just demands;
+  Whose tenours and particular effects
+  You have, enschedul'd briefly, in your hands.
+
+  _Fr. King._ I have but with a cursorary eye
+  O'er-glanc'd the articles: pleaseth your grace
+  To appoint some of your council presently
+  To sit with us once more, with better heed
+  To re-survey them, we will suddenly
+  Pass our accept and peremptory answer.[10]
+
+  _K. Hen._ Brother, we shall.--Go, uncle Exeter,--
+  And brother Bedford,--and you, brother Gloster,--
+  Warwick,--and Huntingdon,--go with the king;
+  And take with you free power, to ratify,
+  Augment, or alter, as your wisdoms best
+  Shall see advantageable for our dignity,
+  And we'll consign thereto.--
+
+    [_Barriers removed. The English Lords, EXETER, BEDFORD, GLOSTER,
+    WARWICK, and HUNTINGDON, cross to the KING OF FRANCE, and exeunt
+    afterwards with him._
+
+  Will you, fair sister,
+  Go with the princes, or stay here with us?
+
+  _Q. Isa._ Our gracious brother, I will go with them:
+  Haply a woman's voice may do some good,
+  When articles too nicely urg'd be stood on.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Yet leave our cousin Katharine here with us:
+  She is our capital demand, compris'd
+  Within the fore rank of our articles.
+
+  _Q. Isa._ She hath good leave.
+
+    [_Trumpets sound._
+
+    [_Exeunt all through gates, L.E.R. and L., but HENRY, KATHARINE,
+    and her Gentlewomen._
+
+  _K. Hen._ (L.C.)    Fair Katharine, and most fair!
+  Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms,
+  Such as will enter at a lady's ear,
+  And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?
+
+_Kath._ (R.C.) Votre majest� shall mock at me; I cannot speak votre
+Anglais.
+
+_K. Hen._ O fair Katharine, if you will love me soundly with your French
+heart, I will be glad to hear you confess it brokenly with your English
+tongue. Do you like me, Kate?
+
+_Kath._ _Pardonnez moi,_ I cannot tell vat is--like me.
+
+_K. Hen._ An angel is like you, Kate, and you are like an angel.
+
+_Kath._ _Que dit-il? que je suis semblable aux anges?_
+
+_K. Hen._ I said so, dear Katharine; and I must not blush to affirm it.
+
+_Kath._ _O bon Dieu! les langues des hommes sont pleines de tromperies._
+
+_K. Hen._ What say you, fair one?
+
+_Kath._ Dat de tongues of de mans is be full of deceits.
+
+_K. Hen._ I'faith, Kate. I know no ways to mince it in love, but
+directly to say--I love you: then, if you urge me further than to
+say--Do you in faith? I wear out my suit. Give me your answer; i'faith,
+do; and so clap hands and a bargain: How say you, lady?
+
+_Kath._ Me understand well.
+
+_K. Hen._ Marry, if you would put me to verses or to dance for your
+sake, Kate, why you undid me. If I could win a lady at leap-frog, or by
+vaulting into my saddle with my armour on my back, under the correction
+of bragging, be it spoken, I should quickly leap into a wife. But,
+before Heaven, I cannot look greenly,[11] nor gasp out my eloquence, nor
+I have no cunning in protestation; only downright oaths, which I never
+use till urged, nor never break for urging. If thou canst love a fellow
+of this temper, Kate, whose face is not worth sun-burning, that never
+looks in his glass for love of any thing he sees there, let thine eye be
+thy cook. I speak to thee plain soldier: If thou canst love me for this,
+take me; if not, to say to thee--that I shall die, is true, but--for thy
+love, by the lord, no; yet I love thee too. And while thou livest, dear
+Kate, take a fellow of plain and uncoined constancy;[12] for a good leg
+will fall;[13] a straight back will stoop; a black beard will turn
+white; a curled pate will grow bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye
+will wax hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and moon; or,
+rather, the sun, and not the moon, for it shines bright, and never
+changes, but keeps his course truly. If thou would have such a one, take
+me: And take me, take a soldier; take a soldier, take a king: And what
+sayest thou, then, to my love? speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee.
+
+_Kath._ Est il possible dat I should love de enemy de la France?
+
+_K. Hen._ No; it is not possible you should love the enemy of France,
+Kate: but, in loving me, you should love the friend of France; for I
+love France so well, that I will not part with a village of it; I will
+have it all mine: and, Kate, when France is mine, and I am yours, then
+yours is France, and you are mine.
+
+_Kath._ Vat is dat?
+
+_K. Hen._ Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou
+love me?
+
+_Kath._ I cannot tell.
+
+_K. Hen._ Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask them. Come,
+I know thou lovest me: and at night, when you come into your closet,
+you'll question this gentlewoman about me; and I know, Kate, you will to
+her dispraise those parts in me that you love with your heart. If ever
+thou be'st mine, Kate, (as I have a saving faith within me, tells
+me,--thou shalt,) shall there not be a boy compounded between Saint
+Dennis and Saint George, half French, half English, that shall go to
+Constantinople[14] and take the Turk by the beard? shall he not? what
+sayest thou, my fair flower-de-luce? How answer you, _la plus belle
+Katharine du monde, mon tr�s ch�re et divine d�esse?_
+
+_Kath._ _Votre majest�_ 'ave _fausse_ French enough to deceive _la plus
+sage damoiselle_ dat is _en France._
+
+_K. Hen._ Now, fie upon my false French! By mine honour, in true
+English, I love thee, Kate: by which honour I dare not swear thou lovest
+me; yet my blood begins to flatter me that thou dost, notwithstanding
+the poor and untempting effect of my visage. But, in faith, Kate, the
+elder I wax, the better I shall appear: my comfort is, that old age,
+that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face: thou
+hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst; and thou shalt wear me, if thou
+wear me, better and better: And therefore tell me, most fair Katharine,
+will you have me? Put off your maiden blushes; avouch the thoughts of
+your heart with the looks of an empress; take me by the hand, and
+say--Harry of England, I am thine: which word thou shalt no sooner bless
+mine ear withal, but I will tell thee aloud--England is thine, Ireland
+is thine, France is thine, and Henry Plantagenet is thine; who, though I
+speak it before his face, if he be not fellow with the best king, thou
+shalt find the best king of good fellows. Come, your answer in broken
+musick, for thy voice is musick, and thy English broken; therefore,
+queen of all, Katharine, break thy mind to me in broken English, Wilt
+thou have me?
+
+_Kath._ Dat is as it shall please _le roi mon p�re_.
+
+_K. Hen._ Nay, it will please him well, Kate; it shall please him, Kate.
+
+_Kath._ Den it shall also content me.
+
+_K. Hen._ Upon that I will kiss your hand, and I call you--my queen.
+
+_Kath._ _Laissez, mon seigneur, laissez, laissez._
+
+_K. Hen._ Then I will kiss your lips, Kate.
+
+_Kath._ Dat is not be de fashion _pour les_ dames _de la_ France.
+
+_K. Hen._ O Kate, nice customs curt'sy to great kings. We are the makers
+of manners, Kate; therefore, patiently, and yielding. (_Kisses her._)
+You have witchcraft in your lips, Kate: there is more eloquence in a
+sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they
+should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of
+monarchs. (_Trumpets sound._) Here comes your father.
+
+    [_The centre gates are thrown open, and_
+
+    _Re-enter the FRENCH KING and QUEEN, BURGUNDY, BEDFORD, GLOSTER,
+    EXETER, WESTMORELAND. The other French and English Lords as
+    before, U.E.R. and L._
+
+_Bur._ (R.) My royal cousin, teach you our princess English?
+
+_K. Hen._ (C.) I would have her learn, my fair cousin, how perfectly I
+love her; and that is good English.
+
+_Bur._ Is she not apt?
+
+_K. Hen._ Our tongue is rough, coz, and my condition is not smooth;[15]
+so that, having neither the voice nor the heart of flattery about me,
+I cannot so conjure up the spirit of love in her, that he will appear in
+his true likeness. Shall Kate be my wife?
+
+_Fr. King._ (L.C.) So please you.
+
+  _Exe._ The king hath granted every article:
+  His daughter, first; and then, in sequel, all,
+  According to their firm propos�d natures.
+
+  _Fr. King._ Take her, fair son;
+  That the contending kingdoms
+  Of France and England, whose very shores look pale
+  With envy of each other's happiness,
+  May cease their hatred; and this dear conjunction
+  Plant neighbourhood and christian-like accord
+  In their sweet bosoms, that never war advance
+  His bleeding sword 'twixt England and fair France.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Now, welcome, Kate:--and bear me witness all,
+  That here I take her as my sovereign queen.
+
+    [_The KING places a ring on KATHARINE'S finger._
+
+  Prepare we for our marriage:--on which day,
+  My lord of Burgundy, we'll take your oath,
+  And all the peers', for surety of our leagues.--
+  Then shall I swear to Kate, and you to me;
+  And may our oaths well kept and prosp'rous be!(C)
+
+    [_Flourish of Trumpets. Curtain descends._
+
+
+    [Footnote V.4: _----gleeking_] i.e., scoffing, sneering. _Gleek_
+    was a game at cards.]
+
+    [Footnote V.5: _----English +condition+._] _Condition_ is temper,
+    disposition of mind.]
+
+    [Footnote V.6: _----Doth fortune play the +huswife+_] That is, the
+    _jilt_.]
+
+    [Footnote V.7: The dresses of Queen Isabella, her ladies, and the
+    Princess Katharine, are taken from Montfaucon Monarchie
+    Fran�oise.]
+
+    [Footnote V.8: _----wherefore we are met!_] i.e., Peace, for which
+    we are here met, be to this meeting.]
+
+    [Footnote V.9: _The fatal balls of murdering basilisks:_] It was
+    anciently supposed that this serpent could destroy the object of
+    its vengeance by merely looking at it.]
+
+    [Footnote V.10:
+      _----we will, suddenly,
+      Pass our accept, and peremptory answer._]
+    i.e., our answer shall be such as to leave no room for further
+    questioning in the matter. "_We will peremptorily make answer._"]
+
+    [Footnote V.11: _----look +greenly+,_] i.e., like a young lover,
+    awkwardly.]
+
+    [Footnote V.12: _----take a good fellow of plain and +uncoined+
+    constancy;_] _Uncoined_ constancy signifies _real_ and _true_
+    constancy, _unrefined_ and _unadorned_.]
+
+    [Footnote V.13: _----a good leg will fall,_] i.e., shrink--fall
+    away.]
+
+    [Footnote V.14: _----shall go to Constantinople_] Shakespeare has
+    here committed an anachronism. The Turks were not possessed of
+    Constantinople before the year 1463, when Henry the Fifth had been
+    dead thirty-one years.]
+
+    [Footnote V.15: _----my +condition+ is not smooth;_] i.e.,
+    manners, appearance.]
+
+
+
+
+THE END.
+
+
+
+
+HISTORICAL NOTES TO ACT FIFTH.
+
+(A) _Enter_ KING HENRY,] At this interview, which is described as taking
+place in the Church of Notre Dame, at Troyes, King Henry was attired in
+his armour, and accompanied by sixteen hundred warriors. Henry is
+related to have placed a ring of "inestimable value" on the finger of
+Katharine, "supposed to be the same worn by our English queen-consorts
+at their coronation," at the moment when he received the promise of the
+princess.
+
+(B) _The PRINCESS KATHARINE_,] Katharine of Valois was the youngest
+child of Charles VI., King of France, and his Queen, Isabella of
+Bavaria. She was born in Paris, October 27th, 1401. Monstrelet relates,
+that on Trinity Sunday, June 3rd, the King of England wedded the lady
+Katharine in the church at Troyes, and that great pomp and magnificence
+were displayed by him and his princess, as if he had been king of the
+whole world. Katharine was crowned Queen of England February 24, 1421;
+and shortly after the death of her heroic husband, which event took
+place August 31st, 1422, the queen married a Welch gentleman of the name
+of Owen Tudor, by whom she had three sons and one daughter. The eldest
+son, Edmund, married Margaret Beaufort, the heiress of the house of
+Somerset. His half-brother, Henry VI., created him Earl of Richmond. He
+died before he reached twenty years of age, leaving an infant son,
+afterwards Henry VII., the first king of the Tudor line. Katharine died
+January 3rd, 1437, in the thirty-sixth year of her age, and was buried
+at Westminster Abbey.
+
+(C) _----may our oaths well kept and prosp'rous be;_] The principal
+articles of the treaty were, that Henry should espouse the Princess
+Catherine: That King Charles, during his life time, should enjoy the
+title and dignity of King of France: That Henry should be declared and
+acknowledged heir of the monarchy, and be entrusted with the present
+administration of the government: That that kingdom should pass to his
+heirs general: That France and England should for ever be united under
+one king; but should still retain their several usages, customs, and
+privileges: That all the princes, peers, vassals, and communities of
+France, should swear, that they would both adhere to the future
+succession of Henry, and pay him present obedience as regent: That this
+prince should unite his arms to those of King Charles and the Duke of
+Burgundy, in order to subdue the adherents of Charles, the pretended
+dauphin; and that these three princes should make no peace or truce with
+him but by common consent and agreement. Such was the tenour of this
+famous treaty; a treaty which, as nothing but the most violent animosity
+could dictate it, so nothing but the power of the sword could carry it
+into execution. It is hard to say whether its consequences, had it taken
+effect, would have proved more pernicious to England or France. It must
+have reduced the former kingdom to the rank of a province: It would have
+entirely disjointed the succession of the latter, and have brought on
+the destruction of the royal family; as the houses of Orleans, Anjou,
+Alen�on, Britanny, Bourbon, and of Burgundy itself, whose titles were
+preferable to that of the English princes, would, on that account, have
+been exposed to perpetual jealousy and persecution from the sovereign.
+There was even a palpable deficiency in Henry's claim, which no art
+could palliate. For, besides the insuperable objections to which Edward
+the Third's pretensions were exposed, _he_ was not heir to that monarch:
+If female succession were admitted, the right had devolved on the house
+of Mortimer: Allowing that Richard the Second was a tyrant, and that
+Henry the Fourth's merits in deposing him were so great towards the
+English, as to justify that nation in placing him on the throne, Richard
+had nowise offended France, and his rival had merited nothing of that
+kingdom: It could not possibly be pretended that the crown of France was
+become an appendage to that of England; and that a prince who by any
+means got possession of the latter, was, without farther question,
+entitled to the former. So that, on the whole, it must be allowed that
+Henry's claim to France was, if possible, still more unintelligible than
+the title by which his father had mounted the throne of England.
+--_Hume's History of England._
+
+
+
+
+  JOHN K. CHAPMAN AND COMPANY, PRINTERS, 5, SHOE LANE,
+  AND PETERBOROUGH COURT, FLEET STREET.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+           *       *       *       *
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Errata Noted by Transcriber
+
+  a p�an of victory  [poean]
+  within this wooden O  [wooden, O]
+  suppose every man to represent  [first "r" in "represent" invisible]
+  [Historical Notes to Act II]
+    [endnote labeling, with (A) reused, unchanged]
+  Lewis, Dovphin of Viennois  [spelling unchanged]
+  should not raise the seige  [spelling unchanged]
+  ... had played the Englishmen at dice."  [missing close quote]]
+  I remember him now.  [; for .]
+  _Non nobis domine, non nobis, sed nomini tuo_  [_seel nomini_]
+  yet I love thee too  [I I love thee]
+
+
+Scenes
+
+_Correspondences are approximate; all Scenes have been significantly
+edited. Chorus speeches are fairly close to their original form._
+
+Kean edition (this text): Shakespeare
+
+  I.1 : I.2
+  I.2 : II.3, with Boy's speech from III.2
+  II.1 : II.2
+  II.2 : II.4
+  III (unnumbered scene after Chorus) : III.1
+  III.1 : III.5
+  III.2 : III.6
+  IV (unnumbered scene interrupting Chorus) : III.7
+  IV.1 : IV.1
+  IV.2 : IV.2
+  IV.3 : IV.3
+  IV.4 : IV.5
+  IV.5 : IV.6 and IV.7 (intermingled)
+  IV.6 : IV.8
+  Interlude added by Kean : _no equivalent_
+  V.1 : V.1
+  V.2 : V.2
+
+_Shakespeare's Epilogue (spoken by Chorus) is absent._
+
+
+
+
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of King Henry the Fifth, by William Shakespeare
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+Title: King Henry the Fifth
+       Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre
+
+Author: William Shakespeare
+
+Editor: Charles Kean
+
+Release Date: September 28, 2007 [EBook #22791]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: UTF-8
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK KING HENRY THE FIFTH ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by Louise Hope, David Starner, Curtis Weyant and
+the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
+http://www.pgdp.net
+
+
+
+
+
+
+</pre>
+
+<a name = "start" id = "start"> </a>
+
+<div class = "mynote">
+<p>This is not the text of <i>Henry V</i> as written by Shakespeare. It
+is an acting version produced by Charles Kean in 1859. Approximate scene
+correspondences are listed at the <a href = "#scenes">end of the
+e-text</a>.</p>
+
+<p>The original text had three types of notes. Footnotes, marked with
+asterisks or numbers, were printed at the bottom of the page. Longer
+notes, marked with letters, were printed at the end of each Act as
+“Historical Notes”. For this e-text the footnotes are collected at the
+end of the text; the Historical Notes remain in their original location,
+as does the Interlude between Acts IV and V (printed as a very long
+asterisked footnote). The original numbering has been retained, with
+added Act references to eliminate ambiguity.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class = "titlepage">
+
+<p>
+<img src = "images/corner_topleft.png" width = "46" height = "47"
+alt = "decoration" align = "left">
+<img src = "images/corner_topright.png" width = "43" height = "48"
+alt = "decoration" align = "right">
+</p>
+
+<h4>SHAKESPEARE’S PLAY OF</h4>
+
+<h1>KING<br>
+HENRY THE FIFTH,</h1>
+
+<h6>ARRANGED FOR REPRESENTATION AT</h6>
+
+<h4>THE PRINCESS’S THEATRE,</h4>
+
+<h6>WITH</h6>
+
+<h5>HISTORICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES,</h5>
+
+<h6>BY</h6>
+
+<h4 class = "extended">CHARLES KEAN, F.S.A.,</h4>
+
+<h6>AS FIRST PERFORMED</h6>
+
+<h4 class = "smallcaps">On MONDAY, MARCH 28th, 1859.</h4>
+
+<hr class = "mid">
+
+<h5>ENTERED AT STATIONERS’ HALL.</h5>
+
+<hr class = "mid">
+
+<h6><b>London:</b></h6>
+
+<h5>PRINTED BY JOHN K. CHAPMAN AND CO.,</h5>
+
+<h6>5, SHOE LANE, AND PETERBOROUGH COURT, FLEET STREET.</h6>
+
+<hr class = "small">
+
+<p>
+<img src = "images/corner_bottomleft.png" width = "43" height = "47"
+alt = "decoration" align = "left">
+<img src = "images/corner_bottomright.png" width = "47" height = "47"
+alt = "decoration" align = "right">
+</p>
+
+<h5><span class = "sans">PRICE ONE SHILLING.</span><br>
+TO BE HAD IN THE THEATRE.</h5>
+
+</div>
+
+<hr>
+
+<h6>JOHN K. CHAPMAN AND COMPANY, 5, SHOE LANE, AND<br>
+PETERBOROUGH COURT, FLEET STREET.</h6>
+
+<hr>
+
+<div class = "page">
+
+<h4><a name = "cast" id = "cast">
+DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.</a></h4>
+
+<hr class = "micro">
+
+<p class = "mynote">
+“Mrs. Charles Kean” was otherwise known as Ellen Tree. Throughout the
+play, the Hostess is called by her Henry IV name, Mrs. Quickly.</p>
+
+<table class = "cast" summary = "cast of characters">
+<tr>
+<td class = "smallcaps">King Henry the Fifth,</td>
+<td>Mr. CHARLES KEAN.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+<!--begin imbedded table-->
+  <table class = "inner">
+  <tr>
+  <td class = "smallcaps bracket lf">
+  <p>Duke of Bedford,</p>
+  <p>Duke of Gloucester,</p>
+  </td>
+  <td class = "bracket rt">
+  <p>(<i>Brothers to the King</i>)</p>
+  </td>
+  </tr>
+  </table>
+<!--end imbedded table-->
+</td>
+<td class = "actors">
+<p>Mr. DALY.</p>
+<p>Miss DALY.</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+<span class = "smallcaps">Duke of Exeter</span> (<i>Uncle to the
+King</i>)</td>
+<td>Mr. COOPER.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+<span class = "smallcaps">Duke of York</span> (<i>Cousin to the
+King</i>)</td>
+<td>Mr. FLEMING.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class = "smallcaps">Earl of Salisbury,</td>
+<td>Mr. WILSON.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class = "smallcaps">Earl of Westmoreland,</td>
+<td>Mr. COLLETT.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class = "smallcaps">Earl of Warwick,</td>
+<td>Mr. WARREN.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class = "smallcaps">Archbishop of Canterbury,</td>
+<td>Mr. H. MELLON.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class = "smallcaps">Bishop of Ely,</td>
+<td>Mr. F. COOKE.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+<!--begin imbedded table-->
+  <table class = "inner">
+  <tr>
+  <td class = "smallcaps bracket lf3">
+  <p>Earl of Cambridge,</p>
+  <p>Lord Scroop,</p>
+  <p>Sir Thomas Grey,</p>
+  </td>
+  <td class = "bracket rt3">
+  <p>(<i>Conspirators against the King</i>)</p>
+  </td>
+  </tr>
+  </table>
+<!--end imbedded table-->
+</td>
+<td class = "actors">
+<p>Mr. T. W. EDMONDS.</p>
+<p>Mr. CORMACK.</p>
+<p>Mr. STOAKES.</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+<!--begin imbedded table-->
+  <table class = "inner">
+  <tr>
+  <td class = "smallcaps bracket lf3">
+  <p>Sir Thomas Erpingham,</p>
+  <p>Gower,</p>
+  <p>Fluellen,</p>
+  </td>
+  <td class = "bracket rt3">
+  <p>(<i>Officers in King Henry’s Army</i>)</p>
+  </td>
+  </tr>
+  </table>
+<!--end imbedded table-->
+</td>
+<td class = "actors">
+<p>Mr. GRAHAM.</p>
+<p>Mr. G. EVERETT.</p>
+<p>Mr. MEADOWS.</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+<!--begin imbedded table-->
+  <table class = "inner">
+  <tr>
+  <td class = "smallcaps bracket lf">
+  <p>Bates,</p>
+  <p>Williams,</p>
+  </td>
+  <td class = "bracket rt">
+  <p>(<i>Soldiers in the same</i>)</p>
+  </td>
+  </tr>
+  </table>
+<!--end imbedded table-->
+</td>
+<td class = "actors">
+<p>Mr. DODSWORTH.</p>
+<p>Mr. RYDER.</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+<!--begin imbedded table-->
+  <table class = "inner">
+  <tr>
+  <td class = "smallcaps bracket lf3">
+  <p>Nym,</p>
+  <p>Bardolph,</p>
+  <p>Pistol,</p>
+  </td>
+  <td class = "bracket rt3">
+  <p>(<i>formerly Servants to Falstaff, now Soldiers in the
+same</i>)</p>
+  </td>
+  </tr>
+  </table>
+<!--end imbedded table-->
+</td>
+<td class = "actors">
+<p>Mr. J. MORRIS.</p>
+<p>Mr. H. SAKER.</p>
+<p>Mr. FRANK MATTHEWS.</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+<span class = "smallcaps">Boy</span> (<i>Servant to them</i>)</td>
+<td>Miss KATE TERRY.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class = "smallcaps">English Herald,</td>
+<td>Mr. COLLIER.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class = "smallcaps">Chorus,</td>
+<td>Mrs. CHARLES KEAN.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+<span class = "smallcaps">Charles the Sixth</span> (<i>King of
+France</i>)
+</td>
+<td>Mr. TERRY.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+<span class = "smallcaps">Lewis</span> (<i>the Dauphin</i>)
+</td>
+<td>Mr. J. F. CATHCART.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class = "smallcaps">Duke of Burgundy,</td>
+<td>Mr. ROLLESTON.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class = "smallcaps">Duke of Orleans,</td>
+<td>Mr. BRAZIER.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class = "smallcaps">Duke of Bourbon,</td>
+<td>Mr. JAMES.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class = "smallcaps">The Constable of France,</td>
+<td>Mr. RAYMOND.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+<!--begin imbedded table-->
+  <table class = "inner">
+  <tr>
+  <td class = "smallcaps bracket lf">
+  <p>Rambures,</p>
+  <p>Grandprè,</p>
+  </td>
+  <td class = "bracket rt">
+  <p>(<i>French Lords</i>)</p>
+  </td>
+  </tr>
+  </table>
+<!--end imbedded table-->
+</td>
+<td class = "actors">
+<p>Mr. WALTERS.</p>
+<p>Mr. RICHARDSON.</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class = "smallcaps">Governor of Harfleur,</td>
+<td>Mr. PAULO.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+<span class = "smallcaps">Montjoy</span> (<i>French Herald</i>)
+</td>
+<td>Mr. BARSBY.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+<span class = "smallcaps">Isabel</span> (<i>Queen of France</i>)
+</td>
+<td>Miss MURRAY.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+<span class = "smallcaps">Katharine</span> (<i>Daughter of Charles and
+Isabel</i>)
+</td>
+<td>Miss CHAPMAN.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+<span class = "smallcaps">Quickly</span> (<i>Pistol’s Wife, a
+Hostess</i>)
+</td>
+<td>Mrs. W. DALY.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td colspan = "2">
+<p><i>Lords, Ladies, Officers, French and English Soldiers, Messengers,
+and Attendants.</i></p></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr class = "mid">
+
+
+<p class = "center">
+<b>The SCENE, at the Beginning of the Play, lies in England; but
+afterwards in France.</b></p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">iv</span>
+<h4><a name = "info" id = "info">
+STAGE DIRECTIONS.</a></h4>
+
+<p>R.H. means Right Hand; L.H. Left Hand; U.E. Upper Entrance<ins class
+= "correction" title = "period invisible">. </ins>R.H.C. Enters through
+the centre from the Right Hand; L.H.C. Enters through the centre from
+the Left Hand.</p>
+
+
+<h6>RELATIVE POSITIONS OF THE PERFORMERS WHEN ON THE STAGE.</h6>
+
+<p>R. means on the Right Side of the Stage; L. on the Left Side of the
+Stage; C.&nbsp;Centre of the Stage; R.C.&nbsp;Right Centre of the Stage;
+L.C.&nbsp;Left Centre of the Stage.</p>
+
+<p class = "center">
+<img src = "images/finger.gif" width = "30" height = "13"
+alt = "-->">
+The reader is supposed <i>to be on the Stage</i>, facing the
+Audience.</p>
+
+<p class = "lines">&nbsp;</p>
+
+<div class = "center">
+
+<p><span class = "smallcaps">The Scenery</span> Painted by Mr. GRIEVE
+and Mr. TELBIN,</p>
+
+<p>Assisted by Mr. W. GORDON, Mr. F. LLOYDS,</p>
+
+<p>Mr. CUTHBERT, Mr. DAYES, Mr. MORRIS, &amp;c., &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "smallcaps">The Music</span> under the direction of Mr.
+ISAACSON.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "smallcaps">The Dance in the Episode</span> by Mr.
+CORMACK.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "smallcaps">The Decorations and Appointments</span> by
+Mr. E. W. BRADWELL.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "smallcaps">The Dresses</span> by Mrs. and Miss
+HOGGINS.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "smallcaps">The Machinery</span> by Mr. G. HODSDON.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "smallcaps">Perruquier</span>, Mr. ASPLIN, of No. 13,
+New Bond Street.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<p class = "lines">&nbsp;</p>
+
+<p class = "center">
+<img src = "images/finger.gif" width = "30" height = "13"
+alt = "-->">
+<i>For reference to Historical Authorities indicated by Letters, see end
+of each Act.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class = "page">
+
+<span class = "pagenum">v</span>
+
+<h4><a name = "preface" id = "preface">
+PREFACE.</a></h4>
+
+<hr class = "micro">
+
+<p><span class = "smallcaps">In</span> the selection of my last
+Shakespearean revival at the Princess’s Theatre, I&nbsp;have been
+actuated by a desire to present some of the finest poetry of our great
+dramatic master, interwoven with a subject illustrating a most memorable
+era in English history. No play appears to be better adapted for this
+two-fold purpose than that which treats of Shakespeare’s favorite hero,
+and England’s favorite king&mdash;Henry the Fifth.</p>
+
+<p>The period thus recalled is flattering to our national pride; and
+however much the general feeling of the present day may be opposed to
+the evils of war, there are few amongst us who can be reminded of the
+military renown achieved by our ancestors on the fields of Crecy,
+Poitiers, and Agincourt, without a glow of patriotic enthusiasm.</p>
+
+<p>The political motives which induced the invasion of France in the
+year 1415 must be sought for in the warlike spirit of the times, and in
+the martial character of the English sovereign. It is sufficient for
+dramatic purposes that a few thousands of our countrymen, in their march
+through a foreign land, enfeebled by sickness and encompassed by foes,
+were able to subdue and scatter to the winds the multitudinous hosts of
+France, on whose blood-stained soil ten thousand of her bravest sons lay
+slain, mingled with scarcely one hundred Englishmen!<a class = "tag"
+name = "tag1a" id = "tag1a" href = "#note1a">*</a> Such a marvellous
+disparity might well draw forth the pious acknowledgment of King
+Henry,&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class = "poem">
+<p>“O God, thy arm was here;&mdash;</p>
+<p>And not to us, but to thy arm alone,</p>
+<p>Ascribe we all.&mdash;When, without stratagem,</p>
+<p>But in plain shock and even play of battle,</p>
+<p>Was ever known so great and little loss</p>
+<p>On one part and on the other?&mdash;Take it, God,</p>
+<p>For it is only thine!”</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>Shakespeare in this, as in other of his dramatic histories, has
+closely followed Holinshed; but the light of his genius irradiates the
+dry pages of the chronicler. The play of Henry the Fifth is not only a
+poetical record of the past, but it is, as it were, “a song of triumph,”
+a lay of the minstrel pouring forth
+<span class = "pagenum">vi</span>
+a <ins class = "correction" title = "text reads ‘pœan’">pæan</ins> of
+victory. The gallant feats of our forefathers are brought vividly before
+our eyes, inspiring sentiments not to be excited by the mere perusal of
+books, reminding us of the prowess of Englishmen in earlier days, and
+conveying an assurance of what they will ever be in the hour of
+peril.</p>
+
+<p>The descriptive poetry assigned to the “Chorus” between the acts is
+retained as a peculiar feature, connecting and explaining the action as
+it proceeds. This singular personage, so different from the Chorus of
+antiquity, I&nbsp;have endeavoured to render instrumental to the general
+effect of the play; the whole being planned with a view to realise, as
+far as the appliances of a theatre can be exercised, the events of the
+extraordinary campaign so decisively closed by the great conflict of
+Agincourt, which ultimately placed two crowns on the brow of the
+conqueror, and resulted in his marriage with Katharine, the daughter of
+Charles the Sixth, King of France. Shakespeare does not in this
+instance, as in <i>Pericles</i> and the <i>Winter’s Tale</i>, assign a
+distinct individuality to the Chorus. For the figure of Time, under the
+semblance of an aged man, which has been heretofore presented, will now
+be substituted Clio, the muse of History. Thus, without violating
+consistency, an opportunity is afforded to Mrs. Charles Kean, which the
+play does not otherwise supply, of participating in this, the concluding
+revival of her husband’s management.</p>
+
+<p>Between the fourth and fifth acts I have ventured to introduce, as in
+the case of <i>Richard the Second</i>, a&nbsp;historical episode of
+action, exhibiting the reception of King Henry on returning to his
+capital, after the French expedition.</p>
+
+<p>It would be impossible to include the manifold incidents of the royal
+progress in one scene: neither could all the sites on which they
+actually took place be successively exhibited. The most prominent are,
+therefore, selected, and thrown into one locality&mdash;the approach to
+old London bridge. Our audiences have previously witnessed the
+procession of Bolingbroke, followed in silence by his deposed and
+captive predecessor. An endeavor will now be made to exhibit the heroic
+son of that very Bolingbroke, in his own hour of more lawful triumph,
+returning to the same city; while thousands gazed upon him with mingled
+devotion and delight, many of whom, perhaps, participated in the earlier
+reception of his father, sixteen years before, under such different and
+painful circumstances. The Victor of Agincourt is hailed, not as a
+successful usurper, but as a conqueror; the adored sovereign of his
+people; the pride
+<span class = "pagenum">vii</span>
+of the nation; and apparently the chosen instrument of heaven, crowned
+with imperishable glory. The portrait of this great man is drawn
+throughout the play with the pencil of a master-hand. The pleasantry of
+the prince occasionally peeps through the dignified reserve of the
+monarch, as instanced in his conversations with Fluellen, and in the
+exchange of gloves with the soldier Williams. His bearing is invariably
+gallant, chivalrous, and truly devout; surmounting every obstacle by his
+indomitable courage; and ever in the true feeling of a christian
+warrior, placing his trust in the one Supreme Power, the only Giver of
+victory! The introductions made throughout the play are presented less
+with a view to spectacular effect, than from a desire to render the
+stage a medium of historical knowledge, as well as an illustration of
+dramatic poetry. <i>Accuracy</i>, not <i>show</i>, has been my object;
+and where the two coalesce, it is because the one is inseparable from
+the other. The entire scene of the episode has been modelled upon the
+facts related by the late Sir Harris Nicholas, in his translated copy of
+a highly interesting Latin MS., accidentally discovered in the British
+Museum, written by a Priest, who accompanied the English army; and
+giving a detailed account of every incident, from the embarkation at
+Southampton to the return to London. The author tells us himself, that
+he was present at Agincourt, and “<i>sat on horseback with the other
+priests, among the baggage, in the rear of the battle</i>.” We have,
+therefore, the evidence of an eyewitness; and by that testimony I have
+regulated the general representation of this noble play, but more
+especially the introductory episode.</p>
+
+<p>The music, under the direction of Mr. Isaacson, has been, in part,
+selected from such ancient airs as remain to us of, or anterior to, the
+date of Henry the Fifth, and, in part, composed to accord with the same
+period. The “Song on the Victory of Agincourt,” published at the end of
+Sir Harris Nicholas’s interesting narrative, and introduced in the
+admirable work entitled “Popular Music of the Olden Time,” by
+W.&nbsp;Chappell, F.S.A., is sung by the boy choristers in the Episode.
+The “Chanson Roland,” to be found in the above-named work, is also given
+by the entire chorus in the same scene. The Hymn of Thanksgiving, at the
+end of the fourth act, is supposed to be as old as <span class =
+"smallroman">A.D.</span> 1310. To give effect to the music, fifty
+singers have been engaged.</p>
+
+<p>As the term of my management is now drawing to a close, I may,
+perhaps, be permitted, in a few words, to express
+<span class = "pagenum">viii</span>
+my thanks for the support and encouragement I have received. While
+endeavouring, to the best of my ability and judgment, to uphold the
+interests of the drama in its most exalted form, I&nbsp;may
+conscientiously assert, that I have been animated by no selfish or
+commercial spirit. An enthusiast in the art to which my life has been
+devoted, I&nbsp;have always entertained a deeply-rooted conviction that
+the plan I have pursued for many seasons, might, in due time, under
+fostering care, render the Stage productive of much benefit to society
+at large. Impressed with a belief that the genius of Shakespeare soars
+above all rivalry, that he is the most marvellous writer the world has
+ever known, and that his works contain stores of wisdom, intellectual
+and moral, I&nbsp;cannot but hope that one who has toiled for so many
+years, in admiring sincerity, to spread abroad amongst the multitude
+these invaluable gems, may, at least, be considered as an honest
+labourer, adding his mite to the great cause of civilisation and
+educational progress.</p>
+
+<p>After nine years of unremitting exertion as actor and director, the
+constant strain of mind and body warns me to retreat from a combined
+duty which I find beyond my strength, and in the exercise of which,
+neither zeal, nor devotion, nor consequent success, can continue to
+beguile me into a belief that the end will compensate for the many
+attendant troubles and anxieties. It would have been impossible, on my
+part, to gratify my enthusiastic wishes, in the illustration of
+Shakespeare, had not my previous career as an actor placed me in a
+position of comparative independence with regard to speculative
+disappointment. Wonderful as have been the yearly receipts, yet the vast
+sums expended&mdash;sums, I&nbsp;have every reason to believe, not to be
+paralleled in any theatre of the same capability throughout the
+world&mdash;make it advisable that I should now retire from the
+self-imposed responsibility of management, involving such a perilous
+outlay; and the more especially, as a building so restricted in size as
+the Princess’s, renders any adequate return utterly hopeless.</p>
+
+<p>My earnest aim has been to promote the well-being of my Profession;
+and if, in any degree, I&nbsp;have attained so desirable an object,
+I&nbsp;trust I may not be deemed presumptuous in cherishing the belief,
+that my arduous struggle has won for me the honourable reward
+of&mdash;Public Approval.</p>
+
+<p class = "right">CHARLES KEAN.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">9</span>
+
+<hr class = "mid">
+
+<h3>KING HENRY THE FIFTH.</h3>
+
+<hr class = "mid">
+
+<h3 class = "chorus"><a name = "chorus_I" id = "chorus_I">
+Enter <span class = "charname">Chorus</span>.</a></h3>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p>O for a muse of fire, that would ascend</p>
+<p>The brightest heaven of invention,<a class = "tag" name = "tagIc_1"
+id = "tagIc_1" href = "#noteIc_1">1</a></p>
+<p>A kingdom for a stage, princes to act,</p>
+<p>And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!</p>
+<p>Then should the warlike Harry, like himself,</p>
+<p>Assume the port of Mars;<a class = "tag" name = "tagIc_2" id =
+"tagIc_2" href = "#noteIc_2">2</a> and, at his heels,</p>
+<p>Leash’d in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire,</p>
+<p>Crouch for employment.(<a class = "hist" name = "tagI_A" id =
+"tagI_A" href = "#noteI_A">A</a>) But pardon, gentles all,</p>
+<p>The flat unraised spirit that hath dar’d</p>
+<p>On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth</p>
+<p>So great an object: Can this cockpit hold<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagIc_3" id = "tagIc_3" href = "#noteIc_3">3</a></p>
+<p>The vasty fields of France? or may we cram</p>
+<p>Upon this little stage<a class = "tag" name = "tagIc_4" id =
+"tagIc_4" href = "#noteIc_4">4</a> the very casques<a class = "tag" name
+= "tagIc_5" id = "tagIc_5" href = "#noteIc_5">5</a></p>
+<span class = "pagenum">10</span>
+<p>That did affright the air at Agincourt?</p>
+<p>O, pardon! since a crooked figure may</p>
+<p>Attest in little place, a million;</p>
+<p>And let us, cyphers to this great accompt,</p>
+<p>On your imaginary forces<a class = "tag" name = "tagIc_6" id =
+"tagIc_6" href = "#noteIc_6">6</a> work.</p>
+<p>Suppose within the girdle of these walls</p>
+<p>Are now confined two mighty monarchies,</p>
+<p>Whose high upreared and abutting fronts</p>
+<p>The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder:<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagIc_7" id = "tagIc_7" href = "#noteIc_7">7</a></p>
+<p>Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts;</p>
+<p>Into a thousand parts divide one man,<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagIc_8" id = "tagIc_8" href = "#noteIc_8">8</a></p>
+<p>And make imaginary puissance;<a class = "tag" name = "tagIc_9" id =
+"tagIc_9" href = "#noteIc_9">9</a></p>
+<p>For ’tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings,</p>
+<p>Carry them here and there; jumping o’er times,</p>
+<p>Turning the accomplishment of many years</p>
+<p>Into an hour-glass: For the which supply,</p>
+<p>Admit me Chorus to this history;</p>
+<p>Who, prologue-like, your humble patience pray,</p>
+<p>Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Exit.</p>
+
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">11</span>
+<h3 class = "act"><a name = "actI" id = "actI">
+ACT I.</a></h3>
+
+
+<h4 class = "scene"><a name = "sceneI_1" id = "sceneI_1">
+<span class = "smallcaps">Scene I.</span>&mdash;THE PAINTED CHAMBER IN
+THE ROYAL PALACE AT WESTMINSTER.</a></h4>
+
+<p class = "footnote">
+[Frequent reference is made in the Chronicles to the Painted Chamber, as
+the room wherein Henry V. held his councils.]</p>
+
+<p class = "scenedesc">
+Trumpets sound.</p>
+
+<p class = "scenedesc">
+<span class = "charname">King Henry</span>(<a class = "hist" name =
+"tagI_B" id = "tagI_B" href = "#noteI_B">B</a>) discovered on his throne
+(<span class = "smallcaps">centre</span>)<a class = "tag" name = "tag2a"
+id = "tag2a" href = "#note2a">*</a>, <span class =
+"charname">Bedford</span>,(<a class = "hist" name = "tagI_C" id =
+"tagI_C" href = "#noteI_C">C</a>) <span class =
+"charname">Gloster</span>,(<a class = "hist" name = "tagI_D" id =
+"tagI_D" href = "#noteI_D">D</a>) <span class =
+"charname">Exeter</span>,(<a class = "hist" name = "tagI_E" id =
+"tagI_E" href = "#noteI_E">E</a>) <span class =
+"charname">Warwick</span>, <span class = "charname">Westmoreland</span>,
+and others in attendance.</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Where is my gracious Lord of Canterbury?</p>
+
+<p><i>Exe.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">L.</span>) Not here in
+presence.</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Send for him, good uncle.</p>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+<span class = "charname">Exeter</span> beckons to a <span class =
+"charname">Herald</span>, who goes off, <span class =
+"smallroman">L.H.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>West.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">L.</span>) Shall we call in
+the ambassador, my liege?</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Not yet, my cousin: we would be resolv’d,</p>
+<p>Before we hear him, of some things of weight,</p>
+<p>That task<a class = "tag" name = "tagI_1" id = "tagI_1" href =
+"#noteI_1">1</a> our thoughts, concerning us and France.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Re-enter <span class = "charname">Herald</span> with the Archbishop of
+<span class = "charname">Canterbury</span>,(<a class = "hist" name =
+"tagI_F" id = "tagI_F" href = "#noteI_F">F</a>)<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagI_2" id = "tagI_2" href = "#noteI_2">2</a> and Bishop of <span class
+= "charname">Ely</span>,<a class = "tag" name = "tagI_3" id = "tagI_3"
+href = "#noteI_3">3</a> <span class = "smallroman">L.H.</span> The
+Bishops cross to <span class = "smallroman">R.C.</span></p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Cant.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">R.C.</span>) Heaven and its
+angels guard your sacred throne,</p>
+<p>And make you long become it!</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p class = "float"><i>K. Hen.</i></p>
+<p class = "iamb3">Sure, we thank you.</p>
+<p>My learned lord, we pray you to proceed,</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">12</span>
+<p>And justly and religiously unfold,</p>
+<p>Why the law Salique,(<a class = "hist" name = "tagI_G" id = "tagI_G"
+href = "#noteI_G">G</a>) that they have in France,</p>
+<p>Or should, or should not, bar us in our claim:</p>
+<p>And Heaven forbid, my dear and faithful lord,</p>
+<p>That you should fashion, wrest,<a class = "tag" name = "tagI_4" id =
+"tagI_4" href = "#noteI_4">4</a> or bow your reading,<a class = "tag"
+name = "tagI_5" id = "tagI_5" href = "#noteI_5">5</a></p>
+<p>Or nicely charge your understanding soul<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagI_6" id = "tagI_6" href = "#noteI_6">6</a></p>
+<p>With opening titles miscreate,<a class = "tag" name = "tagI_7" id =
+"tagI_7" href = "#noteI_7">7</a> whose right</p>
+<p>Suits not in native colours with the truth.</p>
+<p>For Heaven doth know how many, now in health,</p>
+<p>Shall drop their blood in approbation<a class = "tag" name = "tagI_8"
+id = "tagI_8" href = "#noteI_8">8</a></p>
+<p>Of what your reverence shall incite us to.</p>
+<p>Therefore take heed how you impawn our person,<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagI_9" id = "tagI_9" href = "#noteI_9">9</a></p>
+<p>How you awake the sleeping sword of war:</p>
+<p>We charge you, in the name of Heaven, take heed:</p>
+<p>Under this conjuration, speak, my lord.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Cant.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">R.C.</span>) Then hear me,
+gracious sovereign, and you peers,</p>
+<p>That owe your lives, your faith, and services,</p>
+<p>To this imperial throne.&mdash;There is no bar</p>
+<p>To make against your highness’ claim to France</p>
+<p>But this, which they produce from Pharamond,&mdash;</p>
+<p><i>No woman shall succeed in Salique land</i>:</p>
+<p>Which Salique land the French unjustly gloze<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagI_10" id = "tagI_10" href = "#noteI_10">10</a></p>
+<p>To be the realm of France, and Pharamond</p>
+<p>The founder of this law and female bar.</p>
+<p>Yet their own authors faithfully affirm</p>
+<p>That the land Salique lies in Germany,</p>
+<p>Between the floods of Sala and of Elbe;</p>
+<p>Where Charles the Great, having subdued the Saxons,</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">13</span>
+<p>There left behind and settled certain French:</p>
+<p>Nor did the French possess the Salique land</p>
+<p>Until four hundred one and twenty years</p>
+<p>After defunction of King Pharamond,</p>
+<p>Idly supposed the founder of this law.</p>
+<p>Besides, their writers say,</p>
+<p>King Pepin, which deposed Childerick,</p>
+<p>Did hold in right and title of the female:</p>
+<p>So do the kings of France unto this day;</p>
+<p>Howbeit they would hold up this Salique law</p>
+<p>To bar your highness claiming from the female;</p>
+<p>And rather choose to hide them in a net</p>
+<p>Than amply to imbare their crooked titles<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagI_11" id = "tagI_11" href = "#noteI_11">11</a></p>
+<p>Usurp’d from you and your progenitors.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> May I with right and conscience make this claim?</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Cant.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">R.C.</span>) The sin upon my
+head, dread sovereign!</p>
+<p>For in the book of Numbers is it writ,&mdash;</p>
+<p>When the son dies, let the inheritance</p>
+<p>Descend unto the daughter. Gracious lord,</p>
+<p>Stand for your own; unwind your bloody flag;</p>
+<p>Look back unto your mighty ancestors:</p>
+<p>Go, my dread lord, to your great grandsire’s tomb,</p>
+<p>From whom you claim; invoke his warlike spirit,</p>
+<p>And your great uncle’s, Edward the black prince,</p>
+<p>Who on the French ground play’d a tragedy,</p>
+<p>Making defeat on the full power of France,</p>
+<p>Whiles his most mighty father on a hill</p>
+<p>Stood smiling to behold his lion’s whelp</p>
+<p>Forage in blood of French nobility.<a class = "tag" name = "tagI_12"
+id = "tagI_12" href = "#noteI_12">12</a></p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Ely.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">R.C.</span>) Awake
+remembrance of these valiant dead,</p>
+<p>And with your puissant arm renew their feats:</p>
+<p>You are their heir; you sit upon their throne;</p>
+<p>The blood and courage, that renowned them,</p>
+<p>Runs in your veins; and my thrice-puissant liege</p>
+<p>Is in the very May-morn of his youth,</p>
+<p>Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Exe.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">L.</span>) Your brother kings
+and monarchs of the earth</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">14</span>
+<p>Do all expect that you should rouse yourself,</p>
+<p>As did the former lions of your blood.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>West.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">L.</span>) They know your
+grace hath cause, and means and might:</p>
+<p>So hath your highness;<a class = "tag" name = "tagI_13" id =
+"tagI_13" href = "#noteI_13">13</a> never king of England</p>
+<p>Had nobles richer and more loyal subjects,</p>
+<p>Whose hearts have left their bodies here in England,</p>
+<p>And lie pavilion’d in the fields of France.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Cant.</i> O, let their bodies follow, my dear liege,</p>
+<p>With blood, and sword, and fire to win your right:</p>
+<p>In aid whereof we of the spiritualty</p>
+<p>Will raise your highness such a mighty sum,</p>
+<p>As never did the clergy at one time</p>
+<p>Bring in to any of your ancestors.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> We must not only arm to invade the French,</p>
+<p>But lay down our proportions to defend</p>
+<p>Against the Scot, who will make road upon us</p>
+<p>With all advantages.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Cant.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">R.C.</span>) They of those
+marches,<a class = "tag" name = "tagI_14" id = "tagI_14" href =
+"#noteI_14">14</a> gracious sovereign,</p>
+<p>Shall be a wall sufficient to defend</p>
+<p>Our inland from the pilfering borderers.</p>
+<p>Therefore to France, my liege.</p>
+<p>Divide your happy England into four;</p>
+<p>Whereof take you one quarter into France,</p>
+<p>And you withal shall make all Gallia shake.</p>
+<p>If we, with thrice that power left at home,</p>
+<p>Cannot defend our own door from the dog,</p>
+<p>Let us be worried, and our nation lose</p>
+<p>The name of hardiness and policy.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Call in the messengers sent from the Dauphin.</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Exit <span class = "charname">Herald</span> with <span class =
+"charname">Lords</span>, <span class = "smallroman">L.H.</span></p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p>Now are we well resolv’d; and by Heaven’s help,</p>
+<p>And yours, the noble sinews of our power,&mdash;</p>
+<p>France being ours, we’ll bend it to our awe,</p>
+<p>Or break it all to pieces.</p>
+</div>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">15</span>
+<p class = "entrance">
+Re-enter <span class = "charname">Herald</span> and Lords, <span class =
+"smallroman">L.H.</span>, with the <span class =
+"charname">Ambassador</span> of <span class = "charname">France</span>,
+French Bishops, Gentlemen, and Attendants carrying a treasure chest,
+<span class = "smallroman">L.H.</span></p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p>Now are we well prepar’d to know the pleasure</p>
+<p>Of our fair cousin Dauphin; for we hear</p>
+<p>Your greeting is from him, not from the king.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Amb.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">L.C.</span>) May it please
+your majesty to give us leave</p>
+<p>Freely to render what we have in charge;</p>
+<p>Or shall we sparingly show you far off</p>
+<p>The Dauphin’s meaning and our embassy?</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> We are no tyrant, but a Christian king;</p>
+<p>Therefore with frank and with uncurbed plainness</p>
+<p>Tell us the Dauphin’s mind.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p class = "float"><i>Amb.</i></p>
+<p class = "iamb3">Thus, then, in few.<a class = "tag" name = "tagI_15"
+id = "tagI_15" href = "#noteI_15">15</a></p>
+<p>Your highness, lately sending into France,</p>
+<p>Did claim some certain dukedoms, in the right</p>
+<p>Of your great predecessor, King Edward the Third.</p>
+<p>In answer of which claim, the prince our master</p>
+<p>Says,&mdash;that you savour too much of your youth;</p>
+<p>And bids you be advis’d, there’s nought in France</p>
+<p>That can be with a nimble galliard won;<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagI_16" id = "tagI_16" href = "#noteI_16">16</a></p>
+<p>You cannot revel into dukedoms there.</p>
+<p>He therefore sends you, meeter for your spirit,</p>
+<p>This tun of treasure; and, in lieu of this,</p>
+<p>Desires you let the dukedoms that you claim</p>
+<p>Hear no more of you. This the Dauphin speaks.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> What treasure, uncle?</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Exe.</i>
+<span class = "stagedir">Opening the chest.</span>
+Tennis-balls, my liege.(<a class = "hist" name = "tagI_H" id = "tagI_H"
+href = "#noteI_H">H</a>)</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> We are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us;</p>
+<p>His present and your pains we thank you for:</p>
+<p>When we have match’d our rackets to these balls,</p>
+<p>We will, in France, by Heaven’s grace, play a set</p>
+<p>Shall strike his father’s crown into the hazard.</p>
+<p>And we understand him well,</p>
+<p>How he comes o’er us with our wilder days,</p>
+<p>Not measuring what use we made of them.</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">16</span>
+<p>But tell the Dauphin,&mdash;I will keep my state;</p>
+<p>Be like a king, and show my soul of greatness,</p>
+<p>When I do rouse me in my throne of France:</p>
+<p>For I will rise there with so full a glory,</p>
+<p>That I will dazzle all the eyes of France,</p>
+<p>Yea, strike the Dauphin blind to look on us.</p>
+<p>But this lies all within the will of Heaven,</p>
+<p>To whom I do appeal; And in whose name,</p>
+<p>Tell you the Dauphin, I am coming on,</p>
+<p>To venge me as I may, and to put forth</p>
+<p>My rightful hand in a well-hallow’d cause.</p>
+<p>So, get you hence in peace; and tell the Dauphin,</p>
+<p>His jest will savour but of shallow wit,</p>
+<p>When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it.&mdash;</p>
+<p>Convey them with safe conduct.&mdash;Fare you well.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Exeunt <span class = "charname">Ambassador</span>, and Attendants, <span
+class = "smallroman">L.H.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>Exe.</i> This was a merry message.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> We hope to make the sender blush at it.</p>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+The <span class = "charname">King</span> rises.</p>
+
+<p>Therefore, my lords, omit no happy hour</p>
+<p>That may give furtherance to our expedition;</p>
+<p>For we have now no thought in us but France,</p>
+<p>Save those to Heaven, that run before our business.</p>
+<p>Therefore let our proportions for these wars</p>
+<p>Be soon collected, and all things thought upon</p>
+<p>That may with reasonable swiftness add</p>
+<p>More feathers to our wings; for, Heaven before,</p>
+<p>We’ll chide this Dauphin at his father’s door.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+The characters group round the <span class = "charname">King</span>.</p>
+
+<p class = "entrance">Trumpets sound.</p>
+
+
+<h4 class = "scene"><a name = "sceneI_2" id = "sceneI_2">
+<span class = "smallcaps">Scene II.</span>&mdash;EASTCHEAP,
+LONDON.</a></h4>
+
+<p class = "scenedesc">
+Enter <span class = "charname">Bardolph</span>,(<a class = "hist" name =
+"tagI_I" id = "tagI_I" href = "#noteI_I">I</a>) <span class =
+"charname">Nym</span>, <span class = "charname">Pistol</span>, <span
+class = "charname">Mrs. Quickly</span>, and <span class =
+"charname">Boy</span>, <span class = "smallroman">L. 2 E.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>Quick.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">L.C.</span>) Pr’ythee,
+honey-sweet husband, let me bring thee to Staines.<a class = "tag" name
+= "tagI_17" id = "tagI_17" href = "#noteI_17">17</a></p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">17</span>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Pist.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">C.</span>) No; for my manly
+heart doth yearn.&mdash;</p>
+<p>Bardolph, be blithe;&mdash;Nym, rouse thy vaunting veins;</p>
+<p>Boy, bristle thy courage up; for Falstaff he is dead,</p>
+<p>And we must yearn therefore.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><i>Bard.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">R.</span>) ’Would I were
+with him, wheresome’er he&nbsp;is!</p>
+
+<p><i>Quick.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">C.</span>) Sure, he’s in
+Arthur’s bosom,<a class = "tag" name = "tagI_18" id = "tagI_18" href =
+"#noteI_18">18</a> if ever man went to Arthur’s bosom. ’A made a finer
+end,<a class = "tag" name = "tagI_19" id = "tagI_19" href =
+"#noteI_19">19</a> and went away, an it had been any christom child;<a
+class = "tag" name = "tagI_20" id = "tagI_20" href = "#noteI_20">20</a>
+’a parted even just between twelve and one, e’en at turning o’ the
+tide:<a class = "tag" name = "tagI_21" id = "tagI_21" href =
+"#noteI_21">21</a> for after I saw him fumble with the sheets,<a class =
+"tag" name = "tagI_22" id = "tagI_22" href = "#noteI_22">22</a> and play
+with flowers, and smile upon his fingers’ ends, I&nbsp;knew there was
+but one way; for his nose was as sharp as a pen, and a’ babbled of green
+fields. How now, Sir John! quoth I: what, man! be of good cheer. So a’
+cried out&mdash;Heaven, Heaven, Heaven! three or four times. Now I, to
+comfort him, bid him ’a should not think of Heaven; I&nbsp;hoped, there
+was no need to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet. So ’a bade me
+lay more clothes on his feet: I&nbsp;put my hand into the bed and felt
+them, and they were as cold as any stone.</p>
+
+<p><i>Nym.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">R.C.</span>) They say he
+cried out of sack.</p>
+
+<p><i>Quick.</i> Ay, that ’a did.</p>
+
+<p><i>Bard.</i> And of women.</p>
+
+<p><i>Quick.</i> Nay, that ’a did not.</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">18</span>
+<p><i>Boy.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">L.</span>) Yes, that ’a did,
+and said they were devils incarnate.</p>
+
+<p><i>Quick.</i>
+<span class = "stagedir">crosses <span class =
+"smallroman">L.C.</span></span>
+’A could never abide carnation;<a class = "tag" name = "tagI_23" id =
+"tagI_23" href = "#noteI_23">23</a> ’twas a colour he never liked.</p>
+
+<p><i>Boy.</i> Do you not remember, ’a saw a flea stick upon Bardolph’s
+nose, and ’a said it was a black soul burning in hell-fire?</p>
+
+<p><i>Bard.</i> Well, the fuel is gone that maintained that fire: that’s
+all the riches I got in his service.</p>
+
+<p><i>Nym.</i> Shall we shog off?<a class = "tag" name = "tagI_24" id =
+"tagI_24" href = "#noteI_24">24</a> the king will be gone from
+Southampton.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Pist.</i> Come, let’s away.&mdash;My love, give me thy lips.</p>
+<p>Look to my chattels and my moveables:</p>
+<p>Let senses rule;<a class = "tag" name = "tagI_25" id = "tagI_25" href
+= "#noteI_25">25</a> the word is, <i>Pitch and pay</i>;<a class = "tag"
+name = "tagI_26" id = "tagI_26" href = "#noteI_26">26</a></p>
+<p>Trust none;</p>
+<p>For oaths are straws, men’s faiths are wafer-cakes,</p>
+<p>And hold-fast is the only dog,<a class = "tag" name = "tagI_27" id =
+"tagI_27" href = "#noteI_27">27</a> my duck:</p>
+<p>Therefore, <i>caveto</i> be thy counsellor.<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagI_28" id = "tagI_28" href = "#noteI_28">28</a></p>
+<p>Go, clear thy crystals.<a class = "tag" name = "tagI_29" id =
+"tagI_29" href = "#noteI_29">29</a>&mdash;Yoke-fellows in arms,</p>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+Crosses <span class = "smallroman">L.H.</span></p>
+
+<p>Let us to France; like horse-leeches, my boys,</p>
+<p>To suck, to suck, the very blood to suck!</p>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+Crosses <span class = "smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+</div>
+
+<p><i>Boy.</i> And that is but unwholesome food, they say.</p>
+
+<p><i>Pitt.</i> Touch her soft mouth, and march.</p>
+
+<p><i>Bard.</i> Farewell, hostess.</p>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+Kissing her.</p>
+
+<p><i>Nym.</i> I cannot kiss, that is the humour of it; but adieu.</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">19</span>
+<p><i>Pist.</i> Let housewifery appear: keep close, I thee command.</p>
+
+<p><i>Quick.</i> Farewell; adieu.</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Exeunt <span class = "charname">Bardolph</span>, <span class =
+"charname">Pistol</span>, <span class = "charname">Nym</span>, <span
+class = "smallroman">R.H.</span>, and <span class = "charname">Dame
+Quickly</span>, <span class = "smallroman">L.H.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>Boy.</i> As young as I am, I have observed these three swashers.
+I&nbsp;am boy to them all three: but all they three, though they would
+serve me, could not be a man to me; for, indeed, three such anticks do
+not amount to a man. For Bardolph,&mdash;he is white-livered and
+red-faced; by the means whereof ’a faces it out, but fights not. For
+Pistol,&mdash;he hath a killing tongue and a quiet sword; by the means
+whereof ’a breaks words, and keeps whole weapons. For Nym,&mdash;he hath
+heard that men of few words are the best men; and therefore he scorns to
+say his prayers, lest ’a should be thought a coward: but his few bad
+words are match’d with as few good deeds; for ’a never broke any man’s
+head but his own, and that was against a post when he was drunk. They
+will steal any thing, and call it&mdash;purchase. They would have me as
+familiar with men’s pockets as their gloves or their handkerchiefs:
+which makes much against my manhood, if I should take from another’s
+pocket to put into mine; for it is plain pocketing up of wrongs.
+I&nbsp;must leave them, and seek some better service: their villainy
+goes against my weak stomach, and therefore I must cast it up.</p>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+Distant March heard. Exit <span class = "charname">Boy</span>, <span
+class = "smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+
+
+<h6 class = "end">END OF FIRST ACT.</h6>
+
+
+<div class = "footnote">
+
+<span class = "pagenum">20</span>
+<h4 class = "hist"><a name = "histIc" id = "histIc">
+HISTORICAL NOTE TO CHORUS&mdash;ACT FIRST</a></h4>
+
+<hr class = "small">
+
+<p class = "float">(<a class = "hist" name = "noteI_A" id = "noteI_A"
+href = "#tagI_A">A</a>)</p>
+
+<div class = "poem ital">
+<p><span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span>should famine, sword, and
+fire,</p>
+<p>Crouch for employment.]</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>Holinshed states that when the people of Rouen petitioned Henry V.,
+the king replied “that the goddess of battle, called Bellona, had three
+handmaidens, ever of necessity attending upon her, as blood, fire, and
+famine.” These are probably the <i>dogs of war</i> mentioned in Julius
+Cæsar.</p>
+
+<hr class = "mid">
+
+<h4 class = "hist"><a name = "histI" id = "histI">
+HISTORICAL NOTES TO ACT FIRST.</a></h4>
+
+<hr class = "small">
+
+<p>(<a class = "hist" name = "noteI_B" id = "noteI_B" href =
+"#tagI_B">B</a>) <span class = "charname">King Henry</span> <i>on his
+throne,</i>] King Henry V. was born at Monmouth, August 9th, 1388, from
+which place he took his surname. He was the eldest son of Henry
+Bolingbroke, Earl of Derby, afterwards Duke of Hereford, who was
+banished by King Richard the Second, and, after that monarch’s
+deposition, was made king of England, <span class =
+"smallroman">A.D.</span> 1399. At eleven years of age Henry V. was a
+student at Queen’s College, Oxford, under the tuition of his half-uncle,
+Henry Beaufort, Chancellor of that university. Richard II. took the
+young Henry with him in his expedition to Ireland, and caused him to be
+imprisoned in the castle of Trym, but, when his father, the Duke of
+Hereford, deposed the king and obtained the crown, he was created Prince
+of Wales and Duke of Cornwall.</p>
+
+<p>In 1403 the Prince was engaged at the battle of Shrewsbury, where the
+famous Hotspur was slain, and there wounded in the face by an arrow.
+History states that Prince Henry became the companion of rioters and
+disorderly persons, and indulged in a course of life quite unworthy of
+his high station. There is a tradition that, under the influence of
+wine, he assisted his associates in robbing passengers on the highway.
+His being confined in prison for striking the Chief Justice, Sir William
+Gascoigne, is well known.</p>
+
+<p>These excesses gave great uneasiness and annoyance to the king, his
+father, who dismissed the Prince from the office of President of his
+Privy Council, and appointed in his stead his second son, Thomas, Duke
+of Clarence. Henry was crowned King of England on the 9th April, 1413.
+We read in Stowe&mdash; “After his coronation King Henry called unto him
+all those young lords and gentlemen
+<span class = "pagenum">21</span>
+who were the followers of his young acts, to every one of whom he gave
+rich gifts, and then commanded that as many as would change their
+manners, as he intended to do, should abide with him at court; and to
+all that would persevere in their former like conversation, he gave
+express commandment, upon pain of their heads, never after that day to
+come in his presence.”</p>
+
+<p>This heroic king fought and won the celebrated battle of Agincourt,
+on the 25th October, 1415; married the Princess Katherine, daughter of
+Charles VI. of France and Isabella of Bavaria, his queen, in the year
+1420; and died at Vincennes, near Paris, in the midst of his military
+glory, August 31st, 1422, in the thirty-fourth year of his age, and the
+tenth of his reign, leaving an infant son, who succeeded to the throne
+under the title of Henry&nbsp;VI.</p>
+
+<p>The famous Whittington was for the third time Lord Mayor of London in
+this reign, <span class = "smallroman">A.D.</span> 1419. Thomas Chaucer,
+son of the great poet, was speaker of the House of Commons, which
+granted the supplies to the king for his invasion of France.</p>
+
+<p>(<a class = "hist" name = "noteI_C" id = "noteI_C" href =
+"#tagI_C">C</a>) <i>Bedford,</i>] John, Duke of Bedford, was the third
+son of King Henry IV., and his brother, Henry V., left to him the
+Regency of France. He died in the year 1435. This duke was accounted one
+of the best generals of the royal race of Plantaganet.</p>
+
+<p>King Lewis XI. being counselled by certain envious persons to deface
+his tomb, used these, indeed, princely words:&mdash; <i>“What honor
+shall it be to us, or you, to break this monument, and to pull out of
+the ground the bones of him, whom, in his life time, neither my father
+nor your progenitors, with all their puissance, were once able to make
+fly a foot backward? Who by his strength, policy, and wit, kept them all
+out of the principal dominions of France, and out of this noble Dutchy
+of Normandy? Wherefore I say first, God save his soul, and let his body
+now lie in rest, which, when he was alive, would have disquieted the
+proudest of us all; and for his tomb, I&nbsp;assure you, it is not so
+worthy or convenient as his honor and acts have deserved.” &mdash;Vide
+Sandford’s History of the Kings of England.</i></p>
+
+<p>(<a class = "hist" name = "noteI_D" id = "noteI_D" href =
+"#tagI_D">D</a>) <i>Gloster,</i>] Humphrey, Duke of Gloster, was the
+fourth son of King Henry IV., and on the death of his brother, Henry V.,
+became Regent of England. It is generally supposed he was strangled. His
+death took place in the year 1446.</p>
+
+<p>(<a class = "hist" name = "noteI_E" id = "noteI_E" href =
+"#tagI_E">E</a>) <i>Exeter,</i>] Shakespeare is a little too early in
+giving Thomas Beaufort the title of Duke of Exeter; for when Harfleur
+was taken, and he was appointed governor of the town, he was only Earl
+of Dorset. He was not made Duke of Exeter till the year after the battle
+of Agincourt, November 14, 1416. Exeter was half brother to King Henry
+IV., being one of the sons of John of Gaunt, by Catherine Swynford.</p>
+
+<p>(<a class = "hist" name = "noteI_F" id = "noteI_F" href =
+"#tagI_F">F</a>) <i>Archbishop of Canterbury,</i>] The Archbishop’s
+speech in this scene, explaining King Henry’s title to the crown of
+France, is closely copied from Holinshed’s chronicle, page 545.</p>
+
+<p>“About the middle of the year 1414, Henry V., influenced by the
+persuasions of Chichely, Archbishop of Canterbury, by the
+<span class = "pagenum">22</span>
+dying injunction of his royal father, not to allow the kingdom to remain
+long at peace, or more probably by those feelings of ambition, which
+were no less natural to his age and character, than consonant with the
+manners of the time in which he lived, resolved to assert that claim to
+the crown of France which his great grandfather, King Edward the Third,
+had urged with such confidence and success.” &mdash;<i>Nicolas’s History
+of the Battle of Agincourt.</i></p>
+
+<p>(<a class = "hist" name = "noteI_G" id = "noteI_G" href =
+"#tagI_G">G</a>) <span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>the law
+Salique,</i>] According to this law no woman was permitted to govern or
+be a Queen in her own right. The title only was allowed to the wife of
+the monarch. This law was imported from Germany by the warlike
+Franks.</p>
+
+<p>(<a class = "hist" name = "noteI_H" id = "noteI_H" href =
+"#tagI_H">H</a>) <i>Tennis-balls, my liege.</i>] Some contemporary
+historians affirm that the Dauphin sent Henry the contemptuous present,
+which has been imputed to him, intimating that such implements of play
+were better adapted to his dissolute character than the instruments of
+war, while others are silent on the subject. The circumstance of Henry’s
+offering to meet his enemy in single combat, affords some support to the
+statement that he was influenced by those personal feelings of revenge
+to which the Dauphin’s conduct would undoubtedly have given birth.</p>
+
+<p>(<a class = "hist" name = "noteI_I" id = "noteI_I" href =
+"#tagI_I">I</a>) <i>Enter <span class = "charname">Bardolph</span>,
+<span class = "charname">Nym</span>, <span class =
+"charname">Pistol</span>, Mrs. <span class = "charname">Quickly</span>,
+and <span class = "charname">Boy</span>.</i>] These followers of
+Falstaff figured conspicuously through the two parts of Shakespeare’s
+Henry IV. Pistol is a swaggering, pompous braggadocio; Nym a boaster and
+a coward; and Bardolph a liar, thief, and coward, who has no wit but in
+his nose.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">23</span>
+<h3 class = "chorus"><a name = "chorus_II" id = "chorus_II">
+Enter <span class = "charname">Chorus</span>.</a></h3>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Cho.</i> Now all the youth of England are on fire,</p>
+<p>And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies:</p>
+<p>Now thrive the armourers, and honour’s thought</p>
+<p>Reigns solely in the breast of every man:</p>
+<p>They sell the pasture now to buy the horse;</p>
+<p>Following the mirror of all Christian kings,</p>
+<p>With wingéd heels, as English Mercuries;</p>
+<p>For now sits expectation in the air.</p>
+<p>O England!&mdash;model to thy inward greatness,</p>
+<p>Like little body with a mighty heart,&mdash;</p>
+<p>What might’st thou do, that honour would thee do,</p>
+<p>Were all thy children kind and natural!</p>
+<p>But see thy fault! France hath in thee found out</p>
+<p>A nest of hollow bosoms, which he fills<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagIIc_1" id = "tagIIc_1" href = "#noteIIc_1">1</a></p>
+<p>With treacherous crowns; and three corrupted men,&mdash;</p>
+<p>One, Richard earl of Cambridge;<a class = "tag" name = "tagIIc_2" id
+= "tagIIc_2" href = "#noteIIc_2">2</a> and the second,</p>
+<p>Henry lord Scroop of Masham,<a class = "tag" name = "tagIIc_3" id =
+"tagIIc_3" href = "#noteIIc_3">3</a> and the third,</p>
+<p>Sir Thomas Grey, knight, of Northumberland,&mdash;</p>
+<p>Have, for the gilt of France<a class = "tag" name = "tagIIc_4" id =
+"tagIIc_4" href = "#noteIIc_4">4</a> (O guilt, indeed!),</p>
+<p>Confirm’d conspiracy with fearful France;(<a class = "hist" name =
+"tagII_AA" id = "tagII_AA" href = "#noteII_AA">AA</a>)</p>
+<p>And by their hands this grace of kings<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagIIc_5" id = "tagIIc_5" href = "#noteIIc_5">5</a> must die,</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">24</span>
+<p>(If hell and treason hold their promises,)</p>
+<p>Ere he take ship for France, and in Southampton.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "scenedesc">
+The back scene opens and discovers a tableau, representing the three
+conspirators receiving the bribe from the emissaries of France.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p>Linger your patience on; and well digest</p>
+<p>The abuse of distance, while we force a play.<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagIIc_6" id = "tagIIc_6" href = "#noteIIc_6">6</a></p>
+<p>The sum is paid; the traitors are agreed;</p>
+<p>The king is set from London; and the scene</p>
+<p>Is now transported, gentles, to Southampton,&mdash;</p>
+<p>There is the playhouse now, there must you sit:</p>
+<p>And thence to France shall we convey you safe,</p>
+<p>And bring you back, charming the narrow seas</p>
+<p>To give you gentle pass; for, if we may,</p>
+<p>We’ll not offend one stomach<a class = "tag" name = "tagIIc_7" id =
+"tagIIc_7" href = "#noteIIc_7">7</a> with our play.</p>
+<p>But, till the king come forth, and not till then,<a class = "tag"
+name = "tagIIc_8" id = "tagIIc_8" href = "#noteIIc_8">8</a></p>
+<p>Unto Southampton do we shift our scene.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Exit.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">25</span>
+<h3 class = "act"><a name = "actII" id = "actII">
+ACT II.</a></h3>
+
+
+<h4 class = "scene"><a name = "sceneII_1" id = "sceneII_1">
+<span class = "smallcaps">Scene I.</span>&mdash;COUNCIL CHAMBER IN
+SOUTHAMPTON CASTLE.</a></h4>
+
+<p class = "scenedesc">
+<span class = "charname">Exeter</span>, <span class =
+"charname">Bedford</span>, and <span class =
+"charname">Westmoreland</span>, discovered.</p>
+
+<p><i>Bed.</i> ’Fore Heaven, his grace is bold, to trust these
+traitors.</p>
+
+<p><i>Exe.</i> They shall be apprehended by and by.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>West.</i> How smooth and even they do bear themselves!</p>
+<p>As if allegiance in their bosoms sat,</p>
+<p>Crowned with faith and constant loyalty.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Bed.</i> The king hath note of all that they intend,</p>
+<p>By interception which they dream not of.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Exe.</i> Nay, but the man that was his bedfellow,(<a class =
+"hist" name = "tagII_A" id = "tagII_A" href = "#noteII_A">A</a>)</p>
+<p>Whom he hath cloy’d and grac’d with princely favours,&mdash;</p>
+<p>That he should, for a foreign purse, so sell</p>
+<p>His sovereign’s life to death and treachery!</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Distant Trumpets sound. Enter King <span class =
+"charname">Henry</span>, <span class = "charname">Scroop</span>, <span
+class = "charname">Cambridge</span>, <span class =
+"charname">Grey</span>, Lords and Attendants, <span class =
+"smallroman">U.E.L.H.</span></p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Now sits the wind fair, and we will aboard.</p>
+<p>My lord of Cambridge,&mdash;and my kind lord of Masham,&mdash;</p>
+<p>And you, my gentle knight,&mdash;give me your thoughts:</p>
+<p>Think you not, that the powers we bear with us</p>
+<p>Will cut their passage through the force of France?</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><i>Scroop.</i> No doubt, my liege, if each man do his best.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> I doubt not that; since we are well persuaded</p>
+<p>We carry not a heart with us from hence</p>
+<p>That grows not in a fair consent with ours,<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagII_1" id = "tagII_1" href = "#noteII_1">1</a></p>
+<p>Nor leave not one behind that doth not wish</p>
+<p>Success and conquest to attend on us.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Cam.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">R.</span>) Never was monarch
+better fear’d and lov’d</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">26</span>
+<p>Than is your majesty: there’s not, I think, a subject</p>
+<p>That sits in heart-grief and uneasiness</p>
+<p>Under the sweet shade of your government.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Grey.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">R.</span>) Even those that
+were your father’s enemies</p>
+<p>Have steep’d their galls in honey, and do serve you</p>
+<p>With hearts create<a class = "tag" name = "tagII_2" id = "tagII_2"
+href = "#noteII_2">2</a> of duty and of zeal.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K.Hen.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">C.</span>) We therefore
+have great cause of thankfulness;</p>
+<p>And shall forget the office of our hand,</p>
+<p>Sooner than quittance of desert and merit</p>
+<p>According to the weight and worthiness.</p>
+<p>Uncle of Exeter, <span class = "smallroman">R.</span></p>
+<p>Enlarge the man committed yesterday,</p>
+<p>That rail’d against our person: we consider</p>
+<p>It was excess of wine that set him on;</p>
+<p>And, on his more advice,<a class = "tag" name = "tagII_3" id =
+"tagII_3" href = "#noteII_3">3</a> we pardon him.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Scroop.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">R.</span>) That’s mercy,
+but too much security:</p>
+<p>Let him be punish’d, sovereign; lest example</p>
+<p>Breed, by his sufferance, more of such a kind.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> O, let us yet be merciful.</p>
+
+<p><i>Cam.</i> So may your highness, and yet punish too.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Grey.</i> Sir, you show great mercy, if you give him life,</p>
+<p>After the taste of much correction.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Alas, your too much love and care of me</p>
+<p>Are heavy orisons ’gainst this poor wretch!<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagII_4" id = "tagII_4" href = "#noteII_4">4</a></p>
+<p>If little faults, proceeding on distemper,<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagII_5" id = "tagII_5" href = "#noteII_5">5</a></p>
+<p>Shall not be wink’d at, how shall we stretch our eye<a class = "tag"
+name = "tagII_6" id = "tagII_6" href = "#noteII_6">6</a></p>
+<p>When capital crimes, chew’d, swallow’d, and digested,</p>
+<p>Appear before us?&mdash;We’ll yet enlarge that man,</p>
+<p>Though Cambridge, Scroop, and Grey,&mdash;in their dear care</p>
+<p>And tender preservation of our person,&mdash;</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">27</span>
+<p>Would have him punish’d. And now to our French causes:</p>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+All take their places at Council table.</p>
+
+<p>Who are the late Commissioners?<a class = "tag" name = "tagII_7" id =
+"tagII_7" href = "#noteII_7">7</a></p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Cam.</i>
+<span class = "stagedir"><span class = "smallroman">R.</span> of
+table.</span> I one, my lord:</p>
+<p>Your highness bade me ask for it to-day.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><i>Scroop.</i>
+<span class = "stagedir"><span class = "smallroman">R.</span> of
+table.</span>
+So did you me, my liege.</p>
+
+<p><i>Grey.</i>
+<span class = "stagedir"><span class = "smallroman">R.</span> of
+table.</span>
+And me, my royal sovereign.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Then, Richard earl of Cambridge, there is
+yours;&mdash;</p>
+<p>There yours, lord Scroop of Masham;&mdash;and, sir knight,</p>
+<p>Grey of Northumberland, this same is yours:&mdash;</p>
+<p>Read them; and know, I know your worthiness.&mdash;</p>
+<p>My lord of Westmoreland,&mdash;and uncle Exeter,&mdash;</p>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+<span class = "smallroman">L.</span> of table.</p>
+
+<p>We will aboard to-night.
+<span class = "stagedir">
+Conspirators start from their places.</span></p>
+<p class = "iamb3">Why, how now, gentlemen!</p>
+<p>What see you in those papers, that you lose</p>
+<p>So much complexion?&mdash;look ye, how they change!</p>
+<p>Their cheeks are paper.&mdash;Why, what read you there,</p>
+<p>That hath so cowarded and chas’d your blood</p>
+<p>Out of appearance?</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p class = "float"><i>Cam.</i></p>
+<p class = "iamb2">I do confess my fault;</p>
+<p>And do submit me to your highness’ mercy.</p>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+Falling on his knees.</p>
+</div>
+
+<table class = "inner">
+<tr>
+<td class = "bracket lf" width = "3em">
+<p><i>Grey.</i></p>
+<p><i>Scroop.</i></p>
+</td>
+<td class = "actors">
+<p>To which we all appeal.
+<span class = "stagedir">Kneeling.</span></p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i>
+<span class = "stagedir">rising; all the <span class =
+"charname">Lords</span> rise with the <span class =
+"charname">King</span>.</span>
+The mercy that was quick<a class = "tag" name = "tagII_8" id = "tagII_8"
+href = "#noteII_8">8</a> in us but late,</p>
+<p>By your own counsel is suppress’d and kill’d:</p>
+<p>You must not dare, for shame, to talk of mercy.</p>
+<p>See you, my princes and my noble peers,</p>
+<p>These English monsters! My lord of Cambridge here,&mdash;</p>
+<p>You know how apt our love was to accord</p>
+<p>To furnish him with all appertinents</p>
+<p>Belonging to his honour; and this man</p>
+<p>Hath, for a few light crowns, lightly conspir’d,</p>
+<p>And sworn unto the practises of France,</p>
+<p>To kill us here in Hampton: to the which</p>
+<p>This knight, no less for bounty bound to us</p>
+<p>Than Cambridge is,&mdash;hath likewise sworn.&mdash;But, O,</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">28</span>
+<p>What shall I say to thee, lord Scroop? thou cruel,</p>
+<p>Ingrateful, savage, and inhuman creature!</p>
+<p>Thou that did’st bear the key of all my counsels,</p>
+<p>That knew’st the very bottom of my soul,</p>
+<p>That almost might’st have coin’d me into gold,</p>
+<p>May it be possible, that foreign hire</p>
+<p>Could out of thee extract one spark of evil</p>
+<p>That might annoy my finger? ’Tis so strange,</p>
+<p>That, though the truth of it stands off as gross<a class = "tag" name
+= "tagII_9" id = "tagII_9" href = "#noteII_9">9</a></p>
+<p>As black from white,<a class = "tag" name = "tagII_10" id =
+"tagII_10" href = "#noteII_10">10</a> my eye will scarcely see it;</p>
+<p>For this revolt of thine, methinks, is like</p>
+<p>Another fall of man.&mdash;Their faults are open:</p>
+<p>Arrest them to the answer of the law;&mdash;</p>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+<span class = "charname">Exeter</span> goes to door <span class =
+"smallroman">U.E.L.H</span>, and calls on the Guard.</p>
+
+<p>And Heaven acquit them of their practises!</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><i>Exe.</i>
+<span class = "stagedir">comes down, <span class =
+"smallroman">R.C.</span></span>
+I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Richard earl of
+Cambridge.</p>
+
+<p>I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Henry lord Scroop of
+Masham.</p>
+
+<p>I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Thomas Grey, knight, of
+Northumberland.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Scroop.</i>
+<span class = "stagedir"><span class = "smallroman">R.</span>,
+kneeling.</span>
+Our purposes Heaven justly hath discover’d;</p>
+<p>And I repent my fault more than my death.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Cam.</i>
+<span class = "stagedir"><span class = "smallroman">R.</span>,
+kneeling.</span>
+For me,&mdash;the gold of France did not seduce;(<a class = "hist" name
+= "tagII_B" id = "tagII_B" href = "#noteII_B">B</a>)</p>
+<p>Although I did admit it as a motive</p>
+<p>The sooner to effect what I intended:</p>
+<p>But Heaven be thanked for prevention;</p>
+<p>Which I in sufferance heartily will rejoice,<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagII_11" id = "tagII_11" href = "#noteII_11">11</a></p>
+<p>Beseeching Heaven and you to pardon me.</p>
+</div>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">29</span>
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Grey.</i>
+<span class = "stagedir"><span class = "smallroman">R.</span>
+kneeling.</span>
+Never did faithful subject more rejoice</p>
+<p>At the discovery of most dangerous treason</p>
+<p>Than I do at this hour joy o’er myself,</p>
+<p>Prevented from a damned enterprize:</p>
+<p>My fault, but not my body, pardon, sovereign.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">C.</span>) Heaven quit you
+in its mercy! Hear your sentence.</p>
+<p>You have conspir’d against our royal person,</p>
+<p>Join’d with an enemy proclaim’d, and from his coffers</p>
+<p>Receiv’d the golden earnest of our death;</p>
+<p>Wherein you would have sold your king to slaughter,</p>
+<p>His princes and his peers to servitude,</p>
+<p>His subjects to oppression and contempt,</p>
+<p>And his whole kingdom into desolation.</p>
+<p>Touching our person, seek we no revenge;(<a class = "hist" name =
+"tagII_C" id = "tagII_C" href = "#noteII_C">C</a>)</p>
+<p>But we our kingdom’s safety must so tender,<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagII_12" id = "tagII_12" href = "#noteII_12">12</a></p>
+<p>Whose ruin you three sought, that to her laws</p>
+<p>We do deliver you. Get you, therefore, hence,</p>
+<p>Poor miserable wretches, to your death:</p>
+<p>The taste whereof, Heaven of its mercy give you</p>
+<p>Patience to endure, and true repentance</p>
+<p>Of all your dear offences!<a class = "tag" name = "tagII_13" id =
+"tagII_13" href = "#noteII_13">13</a>&mdash;Bear them hence.</p>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+Conspirators rise and exeunt guarded, with <span class =
+"charname">Exeter</span>.</p>
+
+<p>Now, Lords, for France; the enterprize whereof</p>
+<p>Shall be to you, as us, like glorious.</p>
+<p>We doubt not of a fair and lucky war,</p>
+<p>Since Heaven so graciously hath brought to light</p>
+<p>This dangerous treason, lurking in our way.</p>
+<p>Then, forth, dear countrymen: let us deliver</p>
+<p>Our puissance<a class = "tag" name = "tagII_14" id = "tagII_14" href
+= "#noteII_14">14</a> into the hand of Heaven,</p>
+<p>Putting it straight in expedition.</p>
+<p>Cheerly to sea; the signs of war advance:(<a class = "hist" name =
+"tagII_D" id = "tagII_D" href = "#noteII_D">D</a>)</p>
+<p>No king of England, if not king of France.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Exeunt, <span class = "smallroman">U.E.L.H.</span></p>
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">30</span>
+
+<h4 class = "scene"><a name = "sceneII_2" id = "sceneII_2">
+<span class = "smallcaps">Scene II.</span>&mdash;FRANCE. A ROOM IN THE
+FRENCH KING’S PALACE.</a></h4>
+
+<p class = "scenedesc">
+Trumpets sound.</p>
+
+<p class = "scenedesc">
+Enter the <span class = "charname">French King</span>,<a class = "tag"
+name = "tagII_15" id = "tagII_15" href = "#noteII_15">15</a> attended;
+the <span class = "charname">Dauphin</span>, the <span class =
+"charname">Duke of Burgundy</span>, the <span class =
+"charname">Constable</span>, and Others,(<a class = "hist" name =
+"tagII_E" id = "tagII_E" href = "#noteII_E">E</a>) <span class =
+"smallroman">L.H.</span></p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Fr. King.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">C.</span>) Thus come the
+English with full power upon&nbsp;us;</p>
+<p>And more than carefully it us concerns<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagII_16" id = "tagII_16" href = "#noteII_16">16</a></p>
+<p>To answer royally in our defences.</p>
+<p>Therefore the Dukes of Berry and of Bretagne,</p>
+<p>Of Brabant and of Orleans, shall make forth,&mdash;</p>
+<p>And you, Prince Dauphin,&mdash;with all swift despatch,</p>
+<p>To line and new repair our towns of war</p>
+<p>With men of courage and with means defendant.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p class = "float">
+<i>Dau.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">R.C.</span>)</p>
+<p class = "iamb2">My most redoubted father,</p>
+<p>It is most meet we arm us ’gainst the foe:</p>
+<p>And let us do it with no show of fear;</p>
+<p>No, with no more than if we heard that England</p>
+<p>Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance:</p>
+<p>For, my good liege, she is so idly king’d,</p>
+<p>Her sceptre so fantastically borne</p>
+<p>By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth,</p>
+<p>That fear attends her not.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p class = "float">
+<i>Con.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">L.C.</span>)</p>
+<p class = "iamb3">O peace, prince Dauphin</p>
+<p>You are too much mistaken in this king:</p>
+<p>With what great state he heard our embassy,</p>
+<p>How well supplied with noble counsellors,</p>
+<p>How modest in exception,<a class = "tag" name = "tagII_17" id =
+"tagII_17" href = "#noteII_17">17</a> and withal</p>
+<p>How terrible in constant resolution,</p>
+<p>And you shall find his vanities fore-spent</p>
+<p>Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus,</p>
+<p>Covering discretion with a coat of folly.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Dau.</i> Well, ’tis not so, my lord high constable;</p>
+<p>But though we think it so, it is no matter:</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">31</span>
+<p>In cases of defence ’tis best to weigh</p>
+<p>The enemy more mighty than he seems:</p>
+<p>So the proportions of defence are fill’d.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Fr. King.</i> Think we King Harry strong;</p>
+<p>And, princes, look you strongly arm to meet him.</p>
+<p>The kindred of him hath been flesh’d upon us;</p>
+<p>And he is bred out of that bloody strain<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagII_18" id = "tagII_18" href = "#noteII_18">18</a></p>
+<p>That haunted us<a class = "tag" name = "tagII_19" id = "tagII_19"
+href = "#noteII_19">19</a> in our familiar paths:</p>
+<p>Witness our too much memorable shame</p>
+<p>When Cressy battle fatally was struck,</p>
+<p>And all our princes captiv’d by the hand</p>
+<p>Of that black name, Edward, black prince of Wales;</p>
+<p>Whiles that his mountain sire,&mdash;on mountain standing,</p>
+<p>Up in the air, crown’d with the golden sun,&mdash;<a class = "tag"
+name = "tagII_20" id = "tagII_20" href = "#noteII_20">20</a></p>
+<p>Saw his heroical seed, and smil’d to see him</p>
+<p>Mangle the work of nature, and deface</p>
+<p>The patterns that by Heaven and by French fathers</p>
+<p>Had twenty years been made. This is a stem</p>
+<p>Of that victorious stock; and let us fear</p>
+<p>The native mightiness and fate of him.<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagII_21" id = "tagII_21" href = "#noteII_21">21</a></p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <span class = "charname">Montjoy</span>,<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagII_22" id = "tagII_22" href = "#noteII_22">22</a> <span class =
+"smallroman">L.H.</span>, and kneels <span class =
+"smallroman">C.</span> to the <span class = "charname">King</span>.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Mont.</i> Ambassadors from Henry King of England</p>
+<p>Do crave admittance to your majesty.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Fr. King.</i> We’ll give them present audience.
+<span class = "stagedir">
+<span class = "charname">Montjoy</span> rises from his knee.</span>
+Go, and bring them.</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Exeunt <span class = "charname">Montjoy</span>, and certain <span class
+= "charname">Lords</span>, <span class = "smallroman">L.H.</span></p>
+
+<p>You see this chase is hotly follow’d, friends.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Dau.</i> Turn head, and stop pursuit; for coward dogs</p>
+<p>Most spend their mouths,<a class = "tag" name = "tagII_23" id =
+"tagII_23" href = "#noteII_23">23</a> when what they seem to
+threaten</p>
+<p>Runs far before them. Good my sovereign,</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">32</span>
+<p>Take up the English short; and let them know</p>
+<p>Of what a monarchy you are the head:</p>
+<p>Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin</p>
+<p>As self-neglecting.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+<span class = "charname">French King</span> takes his seat on Throne,
+<span class = "smallroman">R.</span></p>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Re-enter <span class = "charname">Montjoy</span>, <span class =
+"charname">Lords</span>, with <span class = "charname">Exeter</span> and
+Train, <span class = "smallroman">L.H.</span></p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p class = "float"><i>Fr. King.</i></p>
+<p class = "iamb2">From our brother England?</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Exe.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">L.C.</span>) From him; and
+thus he greets your majesty.</p>
+<p>He wills you, in the awful name of Heaven,</p>
+<p>That you divest yourself, and lay apart</p>
+<p>The borrow’d glories, that, by gift of heaven,</p>
+<p>By law of nature and of nations, ’long</p>
+<p>To him and to his heirs; namely, the crown,</p>
+<p>And all wide-stretched honours that pertain,</p>
+<p>By custom and the ordinance of times</p>
+<p>Unto the crown of France. That you may know</p>
+<p>’Tis no sinister nor no awkward claim,</p>
+<p>Pick’d from the worm-holes of long-vanish’d days,</p>
+<p>Nor from the dust of old oblivion rak’d,</p>
+<p>He sends you this most memorable line,<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagII_24" id = "tagII_24" href = "#noteII_24">24</a></p>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+Gives a paper to <span class = "charname">Montjoy</span>, who delivers
+it kneeling to the <span class = "charname">King</span>.</p>
+
+<p>In every branch truly demonstrative;</p>
+<p>Willing you overlook this pedigree:</p>
+<p>And when you find him evenly deriv’d</p>
+<p>From his most fam’d of famous ancestors,</p>
+<p>Edward the Third, he bids you then resign</p>
+<p>Your crown and kingdom, indirectly held</p>
+<p>From him the native and true challenger.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><i>Fr. King.</i> Or else what follows?</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Exe.</i> Bloody constraint; for if you hide the crown</p>
+<p>Even in your hearts, there will he rake for it:</p>
+<p>Therefore in fierce tempest is he coming,</p>
+<p>In thunder and in earthquake, like a Jove.</p>
+<p>(That, if requiring fail, he will compel):</p>
+<p>This is his claim, his threat’ning, and my message;</p>
+<p>Unless the Dauphin be in presence here,</p>
+<p>To whom expressly I bring greeting too.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Fr. King.</i> For us, we will consider of this further:</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">33</span>
+<p>To-morrow shall you bear our full intent</p>
+<p>Back to our brother England.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+<span class = "charname">Montjoy</span> rises, and retires to <span
+class = "smallroman">R.</span></p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Dau.</i>
+<span class = "stagedir">
+<span class = "smallroman">R.</span> of throne.</span>
+For the Dauphin,</p>
+<p>I stand here for him: What to him from England?</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Exe.</i> Scorn and defiance; slight regard, contempt,</p>
+<p>And any thing that may not misbecome</p>
+<p>The mighty sender, doth he prize you at.</p>
+<p>Thus says my king: an if your father’s highness</p>
+<p>Do not, in grant of all demands at large,</p>
+<p>Sweeten the bitter mock you sent his majesty,</p>
+<p>He’ll call you to so hot an answer for it,</p>
+<p>That caves and womby vaultages of France</p>
+<p>Shall chide your trespass,<a class = "tag" name = "tagII_25" id =
+"tagII_25" href = "#noteII_25">25</a> and return your mock</p>
+<p>In second accent of his ordnance.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Dau.</i> Say, if my father render fair reply,</p>
+<p>It is against my will; for I desire</p>
+<p>Nothing but odds with England: to that end,</p>
+<p>As matching to his youth and vanity,</p>
+<p>I did present him with those Paris balls.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Exe.</i> He’ll make your Paris Louvre shake for it:</p>
+<p>And, be assur’d, you’ll find a difference</p>
+<p>Between the promise of his greener days</p>
+<p>And these he masters now: now he weighs time,</p>
+<p>Even to the utmost grain: which you shall read<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagII_26" id = "tagII_26" href = "#noteII_26">26</a></p>
+<p>In your own losses, if he stay in France.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><i>Fr. King.</i> To-morrow shall you know our mind at full.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Exe.</i> Despatch us with all speed, lest that our king</p>
+<p>Come here himself to question our delay;</p>
+<p>For he is footed in this land already.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Fr. King.</i> You shall be soon despatch’d with fair
+conditions:</p>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+<span class = "charname">Montjoy</span> crosses to the English
+party.</p>
+
+<p>A night is but small breath and little pause</p>
+<p>To answer matters of this consequence.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+English party exit, with <span class = "charname">Montjoy</span> and
+others, <span class = "smallroman">L.H.</span> French Lords group round
+the <span class = "charname">King</span>.</p>
+
+<p class = "scenedesc">
+Trumpets sound.</p>
+
+<h6 class = "end">END OF ACT SECOND.</h6>
+
+
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">34</span>
+<h4 class = "hist"><a name = "histIIc" id = "histIIc">
+HISTORICAL NOTES TO CHORUS&mdash;ACT SECOND.</a></h4>
+
+<hr class = "small">
+
+<div class = "footnote">
+
+<p class = "float">(<a class = "hist" name = "noteII_AA" id =
+"noteII_AA" href = "#tagII_AA"><ins class = "correction"
+title = "text uses ‘A’ twice">AA</ins></a>)</p>
+<div class = "poem ital">
+<p>These corrupted men,<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span>
+<p>One, Richard earl of Cambridge; and the second,</p>
+<p>Henry lord Scroop of Masham; and the third,</p>
+<p>Sir Thomas Grey knight of Northumberland,&mdash;</p>
+<p>Have for the guilt of France (O, guilt, indeed!)</p>
+<p>Confirm’d conspiracy with fearful France.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>About the end of July, Henry’s ambitious designs received a momentary
+check from the discovery of a treasonable conspiracy against his person
+and government, by Richard, Earl of Cambridge, brother of the Duke of
+York; Henry, Lord Scroop of Masham, the Lord Treasurer; and Sir Thomas
+Grey, of Heton, knight. The king’s command for the investigation of the
+affair, was dated on the 21st of that month, and a writ was issued to
+the Sheriff of Southampton, to assemble a jury for their trial; and
+which on Friday, the 2nd of August, found that on the 20th of July,
+Richard, Earl of Cambridge, and Thomas Grey, of Heton, in the County of
+Northumberland, knight, had falsely and traitorously conspired to
+collect a body of armed men, to conduct Edmund, Earl of March,<a class =
+"tag" name = "tag3a" id = "tag3a" href = "#note3a">*</a> to the
+frontiers of Wales, and to proclaim him the rightful heir to the crown,
+in case Richard II. was actually dead; but they had solicited Thomas
+Frumpyngton, who personated King Richard, Henry Percy, and many others
+from Scotland to invade the realm, that they had intended to destroy the
+King, the Duke of Clarence, the Duke of Bedford, the Duke of Gloucester,
+with other lords and great men; and that Henry, Lord Scroop, of Masham,
+consented to the said treasonable purposes, and concealed the knowledge
+of them from the king. On the same day the accused were reported by Sir
+John Popham, Constable of the Castle of Southampton, to whose custody
+they had been committed, to have confessed the justice of the charges
+brought against them, and that they threw themselves on the king’s
+mercy; but Scroop endeavoured to
+<span class = "pagenum">35</span>
+extenuate his conduct, by asserting that his intentions were innocent,
+and that he appeared only to acquiesce in their designs to be enabled to
+defeat them. The Earl and Lord Scroop having claimed the privilege of
+being tried by the peers, were remanded to prison, but sentence of death
+in the usual manner was pronounced against Grey, and he was immediately
+executed; though, in consequence of Henry having dispensed with his
+being drawn and hung, he was allowed to walk from the Watergate to the
+Northgate of the town of Southampton, where he was beheaded.
+A&nbsp;commission was soon afterwards issued, addressed to the Duke of
+Clarence, for the trial of the Earl of Cambridge and Lord Scroop: this
+court unanimously declared the prisoners guilty, and sentence of death
+having been denounced against them, they paid the forfeit of their lives
+on Monday, the 5th of August. In consideration of the earl being of the
+blood royal, he was merely beheaded; but to mark the perfidy and
+ingratitude of Scroop, who had enjoyed the king’s utmost confidence and
+friendship, and had even shared his bed, he commanded that he should be
+drawn to the place of execution, and that his head should be affixed on
+one of the gates of the city of York. &mdash;<i>Nicolas’s History of the
+Battle of Agincourt</i>.</p>
+
+<hr class = "mid">
+
+<h4 class = "hist"><a name = "histII" id = "histII">
+HISTORICAL NOTES TO ACT SECOND.</a></h4>
+
+<hr class = "small">
+
+<p>(<a class = "hist" name = "noteII_A" id = "noteII_A" href =
+"#tagII_A">A</a>) <span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>the man
+that was his bedfellow,</i>] So, Holinshed: “The said Lord Scroop was in
+such favour with the king, that he admitted him sometimes to be his
+<i>bedfellow</i>.” The familiar appellation, of <i>bedfellow</i>, which
+appears strange to us, was common among the ancient nobility. There is a
+letter from the sixth Earl of Northumberland (still preserved in the
+collection of the present duke), addressed “To his beloved cousin,
+Thomas Arundel,” &amp;c., which begins “<i>Bedfellow</i>, after my most
+hasté recommendation.” &mdash;<i>Steevens</i>.</p>
+
+<p>This unseemly custom continued common till the middle of the last
+century, if not later. Cromwell obtained much of his intelligence,
+during the civil wars, from the mean men with whom he slept.
+&mdash;<i>Malone</i>.</p>
+
+<p>After the battle of Dreux, 1562, the Prince of Condé slept in the
+same bed with the Duke of Guise; an anecdote frequently
+<span class = "pagenum">36</span>
+cited, to show the magnanimity of the latter, who slept soundly, though
+so near his greatest enemy, then his prisoner. &mdash;<i>Nares.</i></p>
+
+<p>(<a class = "hist" name = "noteII_B" id = "noteII_B" href =
+"#tagII_B">B</a>) <i>For me,&mdash;the gold of France did not
+seduce;</i>] Holinshed observes, “that Richard, Earl of Cambridge, did
+not conspire with the Lord Scroop and Thomas Grey, for the murdering of
+King Henry to please the French king, but only to the intent to exalt to
+the crown his brother-in-law Edmund, Earl of March, as heir to Lionel,
+Duke of Clarence; after the death of which Earl of March, for divers
+secret impediments not able to have issue, the Earl of Cambridge was
+sure that the crown should come to him by his wife, and to his children
+of her begotten; and therefore (as was thought), he rather confessed
+himself for need of money to be corrupted by the French king, than he
+would declare his inward mind, &amp;c., which if it were espied, he saw
+plainly that the Earl of March should have tasted of the same cup that
+he had drunk, and what should have come to his own children he merely
+doubted, &amp;c.”</p>
+
+<p>A million of gold is stated to have been given by France to the
+conspirators.</p>
+
+<p>Historians have, however, generally expressed their utter inability
+to explain upon what grounds the conspirators built their expectation of
+success; and unless they had been promised powerful assistance from
+France, the design seems to have been one of the most absurd and
+hopeless upon record. The confession of the Earl of Cambridge, and his
+supplication for mercy in his own hand writing, is in the British
+Museum.</p>
+
+<p>(<a class = "hist" name = "noteII_C" id = "noteII_C" href =
+"#tagII_C">C</a>) <i>Touching our person, seek we no revenge;</i>] This
+speech is taken from Holinshed:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>“Revenge herein touching my person, though I seek not; yet for the
+safeguard of my dear friends, and for due preservation of all sorts,
+I&nbsp;am by office to cause example to be showed: Get ye hence,
+therefore, you poor miserable wretches, to the receiving of your just
+reward, wherein God’s majesty give you grace of his mercy, and
+repentance of your heinous offences.”</p>
+
+<p>(<a class = "hist" name = "noteII_D" id = "noteII_D" href =
+"#tagII_D">D</a>) <i>Cheerly to sea; the signs of war advance:</i>] “The
+king went from his castle of Porchester in a small vessel to the sea,
+and embarking on board his ship, called The Trinity, between the ports
+of Southampton and Portsmouth, he immediately ordered that the sail
+should be set, to signify his readiness to depart.” “There were about
+fifteen hundred vessels, including about a hundred which were left
+behind. After having passed the Isle of Wight, swans were seen swimming
+in the midst of the fleet, which, in the opinion of all, were said to be
+happy auspices of the undertaking. On the next day, the king entered the
+mouth of the Seine, and cast anchor before a place called Kidecaus,
+about three miles from Harfleur, where he proposed landing.”
+&mdash;<i>Nicolas’s History of Agincourt</i>.</p>
+
+<p>The departure of Henry’s army on this occasion, and the separation
+between those who composed it and their relatives and
+<span class = "pagenum">37</span>
+friends, is thus described by Drayton, who was born in 1563, and died in
+1631:&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class = "poem">
+<p>There might a man have seen in every street,</p>
+<p class = "inset">
+The father bidding farewell to his son;</p>
+<p>Small children kneeling at their father’s feet:</p>
+<p class = "inset">
+The wife with her dear husband ne’er had done:</p>
+<p>Brother, his brother, with adieu to greet:</p>
+<p class = "inset">
+One friend to take leave of another, run;</p>
+<p>The maiden with her best belov’d to part,</p>
+<p>Gave him her hand who took away her heart.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "poem">
+<p>The nobler youth the common rank above,</p>
+<p class = "inset">
+On their curveting coursers mounted fair:</p>
+<p>One wore his mistress’ garter, one her glove;</p>
+<p class = "inset">
+And he a lock of his dear lady’s hair:</p>
+<p>And he her colours, whom he did most love;</p>
+<p class = "inset">
+There was not one but did some favour wear:</p>
+<p>And each one took it, on his happy speed,</p>
+<p>To make it famous by some knightly deed.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>(<a class = "hist" name = "noteII_E" id = "noteII_E" href =
+"#tagII_E">E</a>) Enter the <span class = "charname">French King</span>,
+<i>the <span class = "charname">Dauphin</span>, the</i> <span class =
+"charname">Duke of Burgundy</span>, <i>the <span class =
+"charname">Constable</span>, and others.</i>] Charles VI., surnamed the
+Well Beloved, was King of France during the most disastrous period of
+its history. He ascended the throne in 1380, when only thirteen years of
+age. In 1385 he married Isabella of Bavaria, who was equally remarkable
+for her beauty and her depravity. The unfortunate king was subject to
+fits of insanity, which lasted for several months at a time. On the 21st
+October, 1422, seven years after the battle of Agincourt, Charles VI.
+ended his unhappy life at the age of 55, having reigned 42 years. Lewis
+the Dauphin was the eldest son of Charles VI. He was born 22nd January,
+1396, and died before his father, December 18th, 1415, in his twentieth
+year. History says, “Shortly after the battle of Agincourt, either for
+melancholy that he had for the loss, or by some sudden disease, Lewis,
+<ins class = "correction" title = "spelling unchanged">Dovphin</ins> of
+Viennois, heir apparent to the French king, departed this life without
+issue.”</p>
+
+<p>John, Duke of Burgundy, surnamed the Fearless, succeeded to the
+dukedom in 1403. He caused the Duke of Orleans to be assassinated in the
+streets of Paris, and was himself murdered August 28, 1419, on the
+bridge of Montereau, at an interview with the Dauphin, afterwards
+Charles VII. John was succeeded by his only son, who bore the title of
+Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy.</p>
+
+<p>The Constable, Charles D’Albret, commanded the French army at the
+Battle of Agincourt, and was slain on the field.</p>
+
+</div> <!--end footnote-->
+
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">38</span>
+
+<h3 class = "chorus"><a name = "chorus_III" id = "chorus_III">
+Enter <span class = "charname">Chorus</span>.</a></h3>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Chor.</i> Thus with imagin’d wing our swift scene flies,</p>
+<p>In motion of no less celerity</p>
+<p>Than that of thought. Suppose that you have seen</p>
+<p>The well-appointed king<a class = "tag" name = "tagIIIc_1" id =
+"tagIIIc_1" href = "#noteIIIc_1">1</a> at Hampton pier</p>
+<p>Embark his royalty;<a class = "tag" name = "tagIIIc_2" id =
+"tagIIIc_2" href = "#noteIIIc_2">2</a> and his brave fleet</p>
+<p>With silken streamers the young Phœbus fanning:</p>
+<p>Play with your fancies; and in them behold</p>
+<p>Upon the hempen tackle ship-boys climbing;</p>
+<p>Hear the shrill whistle, which doth order give</p>
+<p>To sounds confus’d; behold the threaden sails,</p>
+<p>Borne with the invisible and creeping wind,</p>
+<p>Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow’d sea,</p>
+<p>Breasting the lofty surge: O, do but think</p>
+<p>You stand upon the rivage,<a class = "tag" name = "tagIIIc_3" id =
+"tagIIIc_3" href = "#noteIIIc_3">3</a> and behold</p>
+<p>A city on the inconstant billows dancing;</p>
+<p>For so appears this fleet majestical,</p>
+<p>Holding due course to Harfleur. Follow, follow!</p>
+<p>Grapple your minds to sternage of this navy;<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagIIIc_4" id = "tagIIIc_4" href = "#noteIIIc_4">4</a></p>
+<p>And leave your England, as dead midnight still,</p>
+<p>Guarded with grandsires, babies, and old women,</p>
+<p>Either past, or not arriv’d to, pith and puissance;</p>
+<p>For who is he, whose chin is but enrich’d</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">39</span>
+<p>With one appearing hair, that will not follow</p>
+<p>These cull’d and choice-drawn cavaliers to France?</p>
+<p>Work, work your thoughts, and therein see a siege;</p>
+<p>Behold the ordnance on their carriages,</p>
+<p>With fatal mouths gaping on girded Harfleur.</p>
+<p>Suppose the ambassador from the French comes back;</p>
+<p>Tells Harry&mdash;that the king doth offer him</p>
+<p>Katharine his daughter; and with her, to dowry,</p>
+<p>Some petty and unprofitable dukedoms.</p>
+<p>The offer likes not: and the nimble gunner</p>
+<p>With linstock<a class = "tag" name = "tagIIIc_5" id = "tagIIIc_5"
+href = "#noteIIIc_5">5</a> now the devilish cannon touches,</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+Alarums, and cannon shot off.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p>And down goes all before them. Still be kind,</p>
+<p>And eke out our performance with your mind.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Exit.</p>
+
+
+<h5>SCENE CHANGES TO</h5>
+
+<h3 class = "extended">THE SIEGE OF HARFLEUR.</h3>
+
+<h4>THE WALLS ARE MANNED BY THE FRENCH.</h4>
+
+<h5>THE ENGLISH ARE REPULSED FROM AN<br>
+ATTACK ON THE BREACH.</h5>
+
+
+<p class = "scenedesc">
+Alarums. Enter <span class = "charname">King Henry</span>, <span class =
+"charname">Exeter</span>, <span class = "charname">Bedford</span>, <span
+class = "charname">Gloster</span>, and Soldiers, <span class =
+"smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once
+more;</p>
+<p>Or close the wall up with our English dead!<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagIIIc_6" id = "tagIIIc_6" href = "#noteIIIc_6">6</a></p>
+<p>In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man</p>
+<p>As modest stillness and humility:</p>
+<p>But when the blast of war blows in our ears,</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">40</span>
+<p>Then imitate the action of the tiger!</p>
+<p>On, on, you noble English,</p>
+<p>Whose blood is fet<a class = "tag" name = "tagIIIc_7" id =
+"tagIIIc_7" href = "#noteIIIc_7">7</a> from fathers of war-proof!</p>
+<p>And you, good yeomen,</p>
+<p>Whose limbs were made in England, show us here</p>
+<p>The mettle of your pasture; let us swear</p>
+<p>That you are worth your breeding: which I doubt not;</p>
+<p>For there is none of you so mean and base,</p>
+<p>That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.</p>
+<p>I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagIIIc_8" id = "tagIIIc_8" href = "#noteIIIc_8">8</a></p>
+<p>Straining upon the start. The game’s afoot:</p>
+<p>Follow your spirit; and, upon this charge,</p>
+<p>Cry&mdash;God for Harry! England! and Saint George!</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+The English charge upon the breach, headed by the <span class =
+"charname">King</span>. Alarums. The <span class =
+"charname">Governor</span> of the Town appears on the walls with a flag
+of truce.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> How yet resolves the governour of the town?</p>
+<p>This is the latest parle we will admit:</p>
+<p>Therefore, to our best mercy give yourselves;</p>
+<p>Or, like to men proud of destruction,</p>
+<p>Defy us to our worst: for, as I am a soldier</p>
+<p>(A name that, in my thoughts, becomes me best,)</p>
+<p>If I begin the battery once again,</p>
+<p>I will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur</p>
+<p>Till in her ashes she lie buried.</p>
+<p>The gates of mercy shall be all shut up.</p>
+<p>What say you? will you yield, and this avoid?</p>
+<p>Or, guilty in defence, be thus destroy’d?</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Gov.</i> Our expectation hath this day an end:</p>
+<p>The Dauphin, whom of succour we entreated,<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagIIIc_9" id = "tagIIIc_9" href = "#noteIIIc_9">9</a></p>
+<p>Returns us&mdash;that his powers are not yet ready</p>
+<p>To raise so great a siege. Therefore, dread king,</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">41</span>
+<p>We yield our town and lives to thy soft mercy.</p>
+<p>Enter our town; dispose of us and ours;</p>
+<p>For we no longer are defensible.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+Soldiers shout.</p>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+The <span class = "charname">Governor</span> and others come from the
+town, and kneeling, present to <span class = "charname">King
+Henry</span> the keys of the city.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Come, uncle Exeter, <span class =
+"smallroman">R.</span></p>
+<p>Go you and enter Harfleur; there remain,</p>
+<p>And fortify it strongly ’gainst the French:</p>
+<p>Use mercy to them all. For us, dear uncle,&mdash;</p>
+<p>The winter coming on, and sickness growing</p>
+<p>Upon our soldiers,&mdash;we’ll retire to Calais.</p>
+<p>To-night in Harfleur<a class = "tag" name = "tag4a" id = "tag4a" href
+= "#note4a">*</a> will we be your guest;</p>
+<p>To-morrow for the march are we addrest.<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagIIIc_10" id = "tagIIIc_10" href = "#noteIIIc_10">10</a></p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+March. English army enter the town through the breach.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">44</span>
+<h3 class = "act"><a name = "actIII" id = "actIII">
+ACT III.</a></h3>
+
+
+<h4 class = "scene"><a name = "sceneIII_1" id = "sceneIII_1">
+<span class = "smallcaps">Scene I.</span>&mdash;FRANCE. ROOM IN THE
+FRENCH KING’S PALACE.</a></h4>
+
+<p class = "scenedesc">
+Trumpets sound.</p>
+
+<p class = "scenedesc">
+Enter the <span class = "charname">French King</span>, the <span class =
+"charname">Dauphin</span>, <span class = "charname">Duke of
+Bourbon</span>, the <span class = "charname">Constable of France</span>,
+and others, <span class = "smallroman">L.H.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>Fr. King.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">C.</span>) ’Tis certain
+he hath pass’d the river Somme.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Con.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">R.C.</span>) And if he be not
+fought withal, my lord,</p>
+<p>Let us not live in France; let us quit all,</p>
+<p>And give our vineyards to a barbarous people.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Dau.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">R.</span>) By faith and
+honour,</p>
+<p>Our madams mock at us;</p>
+<p>They bid us&mdash;to the English dancing-schools,</p>
+<p>And teach lavoltas high<a class = "tag" name = "tagIII_1" id =
+"tagIII_1" href = "#noteIII_1">1</a> and swift corantos;<a class = "tag"
+name = "tagIII_2" id = "tagIII_2" href = "#noteIII_2">2</a></p>
+<p>Saying our grace is only in our heels,</p>
+<p>And that we are most lofty runaways.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Fr. King.</i> Where is Montjoy the herald? speed him hence:</p>
+<p>Let him greet England with our sharp defiance.&mdash;</p>
+<p>Up, princes! and, with spirit of honour edg’d</p>
+<p>More sharper than your swords, hie to the field:</p>
+<p>Bar Harry England, that sweeps through our land</p>
+<p>With pennons<a class = "tag" name = "tagIII_3" id = "tagIII_3" href =
+"#noteIII_3">3</a> painted in the blood of Harfleur:</p>
+<p>Go down upon him,&mdash;you have power enough,&mdash;</p>
+<p>And in a captive chariot into Rouen</p>
+<p>Bring him our prisoner.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p class = "float"><i>Con.</i></p>
+<p class = "iamb2">This becomes the great.</p>
+<p>Sorry am I his numbers are so few,</p>
+<p>His soldiers sick, and famish’d in their march;</p>
+<p>For, I am sure, when he shall see our army,</p>
+<p>He’ll drop his heart into the sink of fear,</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">45</span>
+<p>And, for achievement offer us his ransom.<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagIII_4" id = "tagIII_4" href = "#noteIII_4">4</a></p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Fr. King.</i> Therefore, lord constable, haste on Montjoy;</p>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+<span class = "charname">Constable</span> crosses to <span class =
+"smallroman">L.</span></p>
+
+<p>And let him say to England, that we send</p>
+<p>To know what willing ransom he will give.&mdash;</p>
+<p>Prince Dauphin, you shall stay with us in Rouen.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><i>Dau.</i> Not so, I do beseech your majesty.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Fr. King.</i> Be patient; for you shall remain with us.&mdash;</p>
+<p>Now, forth, lord constable (<i>Exit <span class =
+"charname">Constable</span>, <span class =
+"smallroman">L.H.</span></i>), and princes all,</p>
+<p>And quickly bring us word of England’s fall.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Exeunt <span class = "smallroman">L.H.</span></p>
+
+<p class = "scenedesc">
+Trumpets sound.</p>
+
+
+<h4 class = "scene"><a name = "sceneIII_2" id = "sceneIII_2">
+<span class = "smallcaps">Scene II.</span>&mdash;A VIEW IN
+PICARDY.</a></h4>
+
+<p class = "scenedesc">
+Distant Battle heard.</p>
+
+<p class = "scenedesc">
+Enter <span class = "charname">Gower</span>, <span class =
+"smallroman">L.U.E.</span>, meeting <span class =
+"charname">Fluellen</span>, <span class = "smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>Gow.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">C.</span>) How now, Captain
+Fluellen! come you from the bridge?(<a class = "hist" name = "tagIII_A"
+id = "tagIII_A" href = "#noteIII_A">A</a>)</p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">R.C.</span>) I assure you,
+there is very excellent service committed at the pridge.</p>
+
+<p><i>Gow.</i> Is the Duke of Exeter safe?</p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> The Duke of Exeter is as magnanimous as Agamemnon; and a
+man that I love and honour with my soul, and my heart, and my duty, and
+my life, and my livings, and my uttermost powers: he is not (Heaven be
+praised and plessed!) any hurt in the ’orld; but keeps the pridge most
+valiantly, with excellent discipline. There is an ensign there at the
+pridge,&mdash;I think in my very conscience he is as valiant as Mark
+Antony; and he is a man of no estimation in the ’orld; but I did see him
+do gallant service.</p>
+
+<p><i>Gow.</i> What do you call him?</p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> He is called&mdash;ancient Pistol.<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagIII_5" id = "tagIII_5" href = "#noteIII_5">5</a></p>
+
+<p><i>Gow.</i> I know him not.</p>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <span class = "charname">Pistol</span>, <span class =
+"smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> Do you not know him? Here comes the man.</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">46</span>
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Pist.</i> Captain, I thee beseech to do me favours:</p>
+<p>The Duke of Exeter doth love thee well.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> Ay, I praise Heaven; and I have merited some love at his
+hands.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Pist.</i> Bardolph, a soldier, firm and sound of heart,</p>
+<p>Of buxom valour,<a class = "tag" name = "tagIII_6" id = "tagIII_6"
+href = "#noteIII_6">6</a> hath,&mdash;by cruel fate,</p>
+<p>And giddy fortune’s furious fickle wheel,</p>
+<p>That goddess blind.</p>
+<p>That stands upon the rolling restless stone,&mdash;<a class = "tag"
+name = "tagIII_7" id = "tagIII_7" href = "#noteIII_7">7</a></p>
+</div>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> By your patience, ancient Pistol. Fortune is painted
+plind, with a muffler before her eyes,<a class = "tag" name = "tagIII_8"
+id = "tagIII_8" href = "#noteIII_8">8</a> to signify to you that fortune
+is plind; And she is painted also with a wheel, to signify to you, which
+is the moral of it, that she is turning, and inconstant, and variations,
+and mutabilities: and her foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical
+stone, which rolls, and rolls, and rolls:&mdash;In good truth, the poet
+makes a most excellent description of fortune: fortune, look you, is an
+excellent moral.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Pist.</i> Fortune is Bardolph’s foe, and frowns on him;</p>
+<p>For he has stolen a <i>pix</i>,<a class = "tag" name = "tagIII_9" id
+= "tagIII_9" href = "#noteIII_9">9</a> and hang’d must ’a be.(<a class =
+"hist" name = "tagIII_B" id = "tagIII_B" href = "#noteIII_B">B</a>)</p>
+<p>A damned death!</p>
+<p>Let gallows gape for dog; let man go free,</p>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+Crosses to <span class = "smallroman">L.H.</span></p>
+
+<p>But Exeter hath given the doom of death,</p>
+<p>For <i>pix</i> of little price.</p>
+<p>Therefore, go speak, the duke will hear thy voice;</p>
+<p>And let not Bardolph’s vital thread be cut</p>
+<p>With edge of penny cord and vile reproach:</p>
+<p>Speak, captain, for his life, and I will thee requite.</p>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+Crosses to <span class = "smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+</div>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> Ancient Pistol, I do partly understand your meaning.</p>
+
+<p><i>Pist.</i> Why, then, rejoice therefore.</p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> Certainly, ancient, it is not a thing to rejoice at: for
+if, look you, he were my prother, I&nbsp;would desire the
+<span class = "pagenum">47</span>
+duke to use his goot pleasure, and put him to executions; for
+disciplines ought to be used.</p>
+
+<p><i>Pist.</i> <i>Fico</i> for thy friendship!<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagIII_10" id = "tagIII_10" href = "#noteIII_10">10</a></p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> It is well.</p>
+
+<p><i>Pist.</i> The fig of Spain!<a class = "tag" name = "tagIII_11" id
+= "tagIII_11" href = "#noteIII_11">11</a></p>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Exit <span class = "charname">Pistol</span>, <span class =
+"smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> Very goot.</p>
+
+<p><i>Gow.</i> Why, this is an arrant counterfeit rascal; a cut-purse;
+I&nbsp;remember him now<ins class = "correction" title = "text has semicolon">. </ins></p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> I’ll assure you, ’a utter’d as prave ’ords at the pridge
+as you shall see in a summer’s day.</p>
+
+<p><i>Gow.</i> Why, ’tis a gull, a fool, a rogue, that now and then goes
+to the wars, to grace himself, at his return into London, under the form
+of a soldier. You must learn to know such slanders of the age,<a class =
+"tag" name = "tagIII_12" id = "tagIII_12" href = "#noteIII_12">12</a> or
+else you may be marvellously mistook.</p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> I tell you what, Captain Gower;&mdash;I do perceive, he
+is not the man that he would gladly make show to the ’orld he is: if I
+find a hole in his coat, I&nbsp;will tell him my mind.</p>
+<p class = "stagedir">March heard.</p>
+<p>Hark you, the king is coming; and I must speak with him from the
+pridge.<a class = "tag" name = "tagIII_13" id = "tagIII_13" href =
+"#noteIII_13">13</a></p>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <span class = "charname">King Henry</span>, <span class =
+"charname">Bedford</span>, <span class = "charname">Gloster</span>,
+<span class = "charname">Westmoreland</span>, Lords, and Soldiers, <span
+class = "smallroman">L.H.U.E.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">R.</span>) Heaven pless your
+majesty!</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">C.</span>) How now,
+Fluellen! cam’st thou from the bridge?</p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> Ay, so please your majesty. The duke of Exeter has very
+gallantly maintained the pridge: the French has gone off, look you; and
+there is gallant and most prave passages: Marry, th’athversary was have
+possession of the pridge; but he is enforced to retire, and the duke of
+Exeter is master of the pridge: I&nbsp;can tell your majesty, the duke
+is a prave man.</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">48</span>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> What men have you lost, Fluellen?</p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> The perdition of th’athversary hath been very great, very
+reasonable great: marry, for my part, I&nbsp;think the duke hath lost
+never a man, but one that is like to be executed for robbing a church,
+one Bardolph, if your majesty knows the man: his face is all bubukles,<a
+class = "tag" name = "tagIII_14" id = "tagIII_14" href =
+"#noteIII_14">14</a> and whelks,<a class = "tag" name = "tagIII_15" id =
+"tagIII_15" href = "#noteIII_15">15</a> and knobs, and flames of fire:
+and his lips plows at his nose, and it is like a coal of fire, sometimes
+plue, and sometimes red; but his nose is executed, and his fire’s out.<a
+class = "tag" name = "tagIII_16" id = "tagIII_16" href =
+"#noteIII_16">16</a></p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> We would have all such offenders so cut off.</p>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+Trumpet sounds without, <span class = "smallroman">R.</span></p>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <span class = "charname">Montjoy</span> and Attendants, <span
+class = "smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>Mont.</i>
+<span class = "stagedir">uncovers and kneels.</span>
+You know me by my habit.<a class = "tag" name = "tagIII_17" id =
+"tagIII_17" href = "#noteIII_17">17</a></p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Well, then, I know thee: What shall I know of
+thee?</p>
+
+<p><i>Mont.</i> My master’s mind.</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Unfold it.</p>
+
+<p><i>Mont.</i> Thus says my king:&mdash;Say thou to Harry of England:
+Though we seemed dead, we did but sleep. Tell him, he shall repent his
+folly, see his weakness, and admire our sufferance.<a class = "tag" name
+= "tagIII_18" id = "tagIII_18" href = "#noteIII_18">18</a> Bid him,
+therefore, consider of his ransom; which must proportion the losses we
+have borne, the subjects we have lost, the disgrace we have digested.
+For our losses, his exchequer is too poor; for the effusion of our
+blood, the muster of his kingdom too faint a number; and for our
+disgrace, his own person, kneeling at our feet, but a weak and worthless
+satisfaction. To this add&mdash;defiance: and tell him, for conclusion,
+he hath betrayed his followers, whose condemnation is pronounced. So far
+my king and master; so much my office.</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i>What is thy name? I know thy quality.</p>
+
+<p><i>Mont.</i> Montjoy.</p><span class = "pagenum">49</span>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Thou dost thy office fairly. Turn thee back,</p>
+<p>And tell thy king,&mdash;I do not seek him now;</p>
+<p>But could be willing to march on to Calais</p>
+<p>Without impeachment:<a class = "tag" name = "tagIII_19" id =
+"tagIII_19" href = "#noteIII_19">19</a> for, to say the sooth</p>
+<p>(Though ’tis no wisdom to confess so much</p>
+<p>Unto an enemy of craft and vantage),</p>
+<p>My people are with sickness much enfeebled;</p>
+<p>My numbers lessen’d; and those few I have,</p>
+<p>Almost no better than so many French;</p>
+<p>Who, when they were in health, I tell thee, herald,</p>
+<p>I thought, upon one pair of English legs,</p>
+<p>Did march three Frenchmen.&mdash;Forgive me, Heaven,</p>
+<p>That I do brag thus!&mdash;this your air of France</p>
+<p>Hath blown that vice in me; I must repent.</p>
+<p>Go, therefore, tell thy master here I am;</p>
+<p>My ransom is this frail and worthless trunk;</p>
+<p>My army but a weak and sickly guard:</p>
+<p>Yet, Heaven before,<a class = "tag" name = "tagIII_20" id =
+"tagIII_20" href = "#noteIII_20">20</a> tell him we will come on,</p>
+<p>Though France himself,<a class = "tag" name = "tagIII_21" id =
+"tagIII_21" href = "#noteIII_21">21</a> and such another neighbour,</p>
+<p>Stand in our way. There’s for thy labour, Montjoy.</p>
+<p>Go, bid thy master well advise himself:</p>
+<p>If we may pass, we will; if we be hinder’d,</p>
+<p>We shall your tawny ground with your red blood</p>
+<p>Discolour:(<a class = "hist" name = "tagIII_C" id = "tagIII_C" href =
+"#noteIII_C">C</a>) and so, Montjoy, fare you well.</p>
+<p>The sum of all our answer is but this:</p>
+<p>We would not seek a battle, as we are;</p>
+<p>Nor, as we are, we say, we will not shun it:</p>
+<p>So tell your master.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p class = "float"><i>Mont.</i></p>
+<p class = "iamb2">I shall deliver so.</p>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+<span class = "charname">Montjoy</span> rises from his knee.</p>
+
+<p>Thanks to your highness.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Exit <span class = "charname">Montjoy</span> with Attendants, <span
+class = "smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>Glo.</i> I hope they will not come upon us now.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> We are in Heaven’s hand, brother, not in theirs.</p>
+<p>March to the bridge; it now draws toward night:</p>
+<p>Beyond the river we’ll encamp ourselves;</p>
+<p>And on to-morrow bid them march away.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Exeunt, <span class = "smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+
+<p class = "scenedesc">March.</p>
+
+<h6 class = "end">END OF ACT THIRD.</h6>
+
+
+<hr class = "mid">
+
+<span class = "pagenum">50</span>
+<h4 class = "hist"><a name = "histIII" id = "histIII">
+HISTORICAL NOTES TO ACT THIRD.</a></h4>
+
+<hr class = "small">
+
+<div class = "footnote">
+
+<p>(<a class = "hist" name = "noteIII_A" id = "noteIII_A" href =
+"#tagIII_A">A</a>) <i>Come you from the bridge?</i>] After Henry had
+passed the Somme, Titus Livius asserts, that the King having been
+informed of a river which must be crossed, over which was a bridge, and
+that his progress depended in a great degree upon securing possession of
+it, despatched some part of his forces to defend it from any attack, or
+from being destroyed. They found many of the enemy ready to receive
+them, to whom they gave battle, and after a severe conflict, they
+captured the bridge, and kept&nbsp;it.</p>
+
+<p class = "float">
+(<a class = "hist" name = "noteIII_B" id = "noteIII_B" href =
+"#tagIII_B">B</a>)</p>
+
+<div class = "poem ital">
+<p>Fortune is Bardolph’s foe, and frowns on him;</p>
+<p>For he hath stol’n a pix, and hanged must ’a be.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>It will be seen by the following extract from the anonymous
+Chronicler how minutely Shakespeare has adhered to history&mdash; “There
+was brought to the King in that plain a certain English robber, who,
+contrary to the laws of God and the Royal Proclamation, had stolen from
+a church a pix of copper gilt, found in his sleeve, which he happened to
+mistake for gold, in which the Lord’s body was kept; and in the next
+village where he passed the night, by decree of the King, he was put to
+death on the gallows.” Titus Livius relates that Henry commanded his
+army to halt until the sacrilege was expiated. He first caused the pix
+to be restored to the Church, and the offender was then led, bound as a
+thief, through the army, and afterwards hung upon a tree, that every man
+might behold him.</p>
+
+<p class = "float">
+(<a class = "hist" name = "noteIII_C" id = "noteIII_C" href =
+"#tagIII_C">C</a>)</p>
+
+<div class = "poem ital">
+<p>Go, bid thy master well advise himself:</p>
+<p>If we may pass, we will; if we be hinder’d,</p>
+<p>We shall your tawny ground with your red blood</p>
+<p>Discolour:]</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>My desire is, that none of you be so <i>unadvised</i>, as to be the
+occasion that I in my defence shall <i>colour</i> and make <i>red your
+tawny ground</i> with the effusion of Christian blood. When he (Henry)
+had thus answered the Herald, he gave him a great reward, and licensed
+him to depart. &mdash;<i>Holinshed</i>.</p>
+
+</div> <!--end footnote-->
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">51</span>
+
+<h3 class = "chorus"><a name = "chorus_IV" id = "chorus_IV">
+Enter <span class = "charname">Chorus</span>.</a></h3>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Cho.</i> Now entertain conjecture of a time</p>
+<p>When creeping murmur and the poring dark</p>
+<p>Fills the wide vessel of the universe.</p>
+<p>From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night</p>
+<p>The hum of either army stilly sounds,<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagIVc_1" id = "tagIVc_1" href = "#noteIVc_1">1</a></p>
+<p>That the fix’d sentinels almost receive</p>
+<p>The secret whispers of each other’s watch:<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagIVc_2" id = "tagIVc_2" href = "#noteIVc_2">2</a></p>
+<p>Fire answers fire;<a class = "tag" name = "tagIVc_3" id = "tagIVc_3"
+href = "#noteIVc_3">3</a> and through their paly flames</p>
+<p>Each battle sees the other’s umber’d face:<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagIVc_4" id = "tagIVc_4" href = "#noteIVc_4">4</a></p>
+<p>Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs</p>
+<p>Piercing the night’s dull ear; and from the tents,</p>
+<p>The armourers, accomplishing the knights,</p>
+<p>With busy hammers closing rivets up,</p>
+<p>Give dreadful note of preparation.</p>
+<p>Proud of their numbers, and secure in soul,</p>
+<p>The confident and over-lusty<a class = "tag" name = "tagIVc_5" id =
+"tagIVc_5" href = "#noteIVc_5">5</a> French</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">52</span>
+<p>Do the low-rated English play at dice;<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagIVc_6" id = "tagIVc_6" href = "#noteIVc_6">6</a></p>
+<p>And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night,</p>
+<p>Who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp</p>
+<p>So tediously away.</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<p class = "scenedesc">
+Scene opens and discovers the interior of a French tent, with the <span
+class = "charname">Dauphin</span>, the <span class =
+"charname">Constable</span>, <span class = "charname">Orleans</span>,
+and others, playing at dice.</p>
+
+<p><i>Dau.</i> Will it never be day?</p>
+
+<p><i>Con.</i> I would it were morning; for I would fain be about the
+ears of the English.</p>
+
+<p><i>Dau.</i> Who will go to hazard with me for twenty English
+prisoners?</p>
+
+<p><i>Orl.</i> The prince longs to eat the English.</p>
+
+<p><i>Con.</i> Would it were day! Alas, poor Harry of England! he longs
+not for the dawning, as we&nbsp;do.</p>
+
+<p><i>Dau.</i> If the English had any apprehension, they would run
+away.</p>
+
+<p><i>Con.</i> That island of England breeds very valiant creatures;
+their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.</p>
+
+<p><i>Dau.</i> Foolish curs, that run winking into the mouth of a
+Russian bear, and have their heads crushed like rotten apples! You may
+as well say,&mdash;that’s a valiant flea, that dare eat his breakfast on
+the lip of a lion.</p>
+
+<p><i>Con.</i> Just, just: give them great meals of beef, and iron and
+steel, they will eat like wolves, and fight like devils.</p>
+
+<p><i>Orl.</i> Ay, but these English are shrewdly out of beef.</p>
+
+<p><i>Con.</i> Then we shall find to-morrow&mdash;they have only
+stomachs to eat, and none to fight. Now is it time to arm: Come, shall
+we about&nbsp;it?</p>
+
+<p><i>Dau.</i> It is now two o’clock: but, let me see,&mdash;by ten We
+shall have each a hundred Englishmen.</p>
+
+<h5>SCENE CLOSES IN.</h5>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">53</span>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Cho.</i> The poor condemned English,</p>
+<p>Like sacrifices, by their watchful fires</p>
+<p>Sit patiently, and inly ruminate</p>
+<p>The morning’s danger; and their gestures sad,</p>
+<p>Investing lank-lean cheeks, and war-worn coats,</p>
+<p>Presenteth them unto the gazing moon</p>
+<p>So many horrid ghosts.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+Scene re-opens, discovering the English camp, with group of soldiery
+praying. After a pause the scene closes.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p>O, now, who will behold</p>
+<p>The royal captain of this ruin’d band</p>
+<p>Walking from watch to watch, from tent to tent,</p>
+<p>Let him cry&mdash;Praise and glory on his head!</p>
+<p>For forth he goes and visits all his host;</p>
+<p>Bids them good-morrow with a modest smile,</p>
+<p>And calls them&mdash;brothers, friends, and countrymen.</p>
+<p>Upon his royal face there is no note</p>
+<p>How dread an army hath enrounded him;</p>
+<p>Nor doth he dedicate one jot of colour</p>
+<p>Unto the weary and all-watched night;</p>
+<p>But freshly looks, and overbears attaint</p>
+<p>With cheerful semblance and sweet majesty;</p>
+<p>That every wretch, pining and pale before,</p>
+<p>Beholding him, plucks comfort from his looks:</p>
+<p>Then, mean and gentle all,</p>
+<p>Behold, as may unworthiness define,</p>
+<p>A little touch of Harry in the night:</p>
+<p>And so our scene must to the battle fly;</p>
+<p>The field of Agincourt. Yet, sit and see;</p>
+<p>Minding true things<a class = "tag" name = "tagIVc_7" id = "tagIVc_7"
+href = "#noteIVc_7">7</a> by what their mockeries be.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Exit.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">54</span>
+<h3 class = "act"><a name = "actIV" id = "actIV">
+ACT IV.</a></h3>
+
+
+<h4 class = "scene"><a name = "sceneIV_1" id = "sceneIV_1">
+<span class = "smallcaps">Scene I.</span>&mdash;THE ENGLISH CAMP AT
+AGINCOURT.</a>(<a class = "hist" name = "tagIV_A" id = "tagIV_A" href =
+"#noteIV_A">A</a>) NIGHT.</h4>
+
+<p class = "scenedesc">
+Enter <span class = "charname">King Henry</span> and <span class =
+"charname">Gloster</span>, <span class =
+"smallroman">U.E.L.H.</span></p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Gloster, ’tis true that we are in great danger;</p>
+<p>The greater therefore should our courage be.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <span class = "charname">Bedford</span>, <span class =
+"smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p>Good morrow, brother Bedford.&mdash;Gracious Heaven!</p>
+<p>There is some soul of goodness in things evil,</p>
+<p>Would men observingly distil it out;</p>
+<p>For our bad neighbour makes us early stirrers,</p>
+<p>Which is both healthful and good husbandry.</p>
+<p>Thus may we gather honey from the weed,</p>
+<p>And make a moral of the devil himself.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <span class = "charname">Erpingham</span>.(<a class = "hist" name
+= "tagIV_B" id = "tagIV_B" href = "#noteIV_B">B</a>) <span class =
+"smallroman">L.H.</span></p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p>Good morrow, old Sir Thomas Erpingham:</p>
+<p>A good soft pillow for that good white head</p>
+<p>Were better than a churlish turf of France.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Erp.</i> Not so, my liege: this lodging likes me better,</p>
+<p>Since I may say&mdash;now lie I like a king.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Lend me thy cloak, Sir Thomas.&mdash;Brothers
+both,</p>
+<p>Commend me to the princes in our camp;</p>
+<p>Do my good morrow to them; and anon</p>
+<p>Desire them all to my pavilion.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><i>Glo.</i> We shall, my liege.</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Exeunt <span class = "charname">Gloster</span> and <span class =
+"charname">Bedford</span>, <span class = "smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>Erp.</i> Shall I attend your grace?</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p class = "float"><i>K. Hen.</i></p>
+<p class = "iamb3">No, my good knight;</p>
+<p>Go with my brothers to my lords of England:</p>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+<span class = "charname">Erpingham</span> crosses to <span class =
+"smallroman">R.</span></p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">55</span>
+<p>I and my bosom must debate a while,</p>
+<p>And then I would no other company.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><i>Erp.</i> Heaven bless thee, noble Harry!</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Exit <span class = "charname">Erpingham</span>, <span class =
+"smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Gad-a-mercy, old heart! thou speakest cheerfully.</p>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <span class = "charname">Pistol</span>, <span class =
+"smallroman">L.H.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>Pist.</i> <i>Qui va là?</i></p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> A friend.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Pist.</i> Discuss unto me; Art thou officer?</p>
+<p>Or art thou base, common, and popular?<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagIV_1" id = "tagIV_1" href = "#noteIV_1">1</a></p>
+</div>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> I am a gentleman of a company.</p>
+
+<p><i>Pist.</i> Trail’st thou the puissant pike?</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Even so. What are you?</p>
+
+<p><i>Pist.</i> As good a gentleman as the emperor.</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Then you are a better than the king.<a class = "tag"
+name = "tagIV_2" id = "tagIV_2" href = "#noteIV_2">2</a></p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Pist.</i> The king’s a bawcock,<a class = "tag" name = "tagIV_3"
+id = "tagIV_3" href = "#noteIV_3">3</a> and a heart of gold,</p>
+<p>A lad of life, an imp of fame;<a class = "tag" name = "tagIV_4" id =
+"tagIV_4" href = "#noteIV_4">4</a></p>
+<p>Of parents good, of fist most valiant:</p>
+<p>I kiss his dirty shoe, and from my heart-strings</p>
+<p>I love the lovely bully. What’s thy name?</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Harry <i>le Roi</i>.</p>
+
+<p><i>Pist.</i> <i>Le Roi!</i> a Cornish name: art thou of Cornish
+crew?</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> No, I am a Welshman.</p>
+
+<p><i>Pist.</i> Knowest thou Fluellen?</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Yes.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Pist.</i> Tell him, I’ll knock his leek about his pate,</p>
+<p>Upon Saint Davy’s day.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+Crosses to <span class = "smallroman">R.</span></p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">56</span>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Do not you wear your dagger in your cap that day, lest
+he knock that about yours.</p>
+
+<p><i>Pist.</i> Art thou his friend?</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> And his kinsman too.</p>
+
+<p><i>Pist.</i> The <i>figo</i> for thee, then!</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> I thank you: Heaven be with you!</p>
+
+<p><i>Pist.</i> My name is Pistol call’d.</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Exit, <span class = "smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> It sorts<a class = "tag" name = "tagIV_5" id =
+"tagIV_5" href = "#noteIV_5">5</a> well with your fierceness.</p>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <span class = "charname">Fluellen</span>, <span class =
+"smallroman">L.H.</span>, and crosses to <span class =
+"smallroman">R.</span>, and <span class = "charname">Gower</span>, <span
+class = "smallroman">U.E.R.H.</span>, following hastily.</p>
+
+<p><i>Gow.</i> Captain Fluellen!</p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">R.C.</span>) So! in the name
+of Heaven, speak lower.<a class = "tag" name = "tagIV_6" id = "tagIV_6"
+href = "#noteIV_6">6</a> It is the greatest admiration in the universal
+’orld, when the true and auncient prerogatifes and laws of the wars is
+not kept: if you would take the pains but to examine the wars of Pompey
+the Great, you shall find, I&nbsp;warrant you, that there is no tiddle
+taddle, or pibble pabble in Pompey’s camp.</p>
+
+<p><i>Gow.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">L.C.</span>) Why, the enemy
+is loud; you heard him all night.</p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> If the enemy is an ass, and a fool, and a prating
+coxcomb, is it meet, think you, that we should also, look you, be an
+ass, and a fool, and a prating coxcomb, in your own conscience, now?</p>
+
+<p><i>Gow.</i> I will speak lower.</p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> I pray you, and beseech you, that you will.</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Exeunt <span class = "charname">Gower</span> and <span class =
+"charname">Fluellen</span>, <span class = "smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Though it appear a little out of fashion, there is
+much care and valour in this Welshman.</p>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <span class = "charname">Bates</span> and <span class =
+"charname">Williams</span>, <span class = "smallroman">L.H.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>Will.</i> Brother John Bates, is not that the morning which breaks
+yonder?</p>
+
+<p><i>Bates.</i> I think it be: but we have no great cause to desire the
+approach of day.</p>
+
+<p><i>Will.</i> We see yonder the beginning of the day, but, I think, we
+shall never see the end of it.&mdash;Who goes there?</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">57</span>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> A friend.</p>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+Comes down, <span class = "smallroman">R.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>Will.</i> Under what captain serve you?</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Under Sir Thomas Erpingham.</p>
+
+<p><i>Will.</i> A good old commander, and a most kind gentleman:
+I&nbsp;pray you, what thinks he of our estate?</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Even as men wrecked upon a sand, that look to be
+washed off the next tide.</p>
+
+<p><i>Bates.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">L.</span>) He hath not told
+his thought to the king?</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> No; nor it is not meet he should.
+<span class = "stagedir">Crosses to centre.</span>
+For, though I speak it to you, I&nbsp;think the king is but a man, as I
+am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element shows to him
+as it doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions:<a class =
+"tag" name = "tagIV_7" id = "tagIV_7" href = "#noteIV_7">7</a> therefore
+when he sees reason of fears, as we do, his fears, out of doubt, be of
+the same relish as ours are: Yet, in reason, no man should possess him
+with any appearance of fear, lest he, by showing it, should dishearten
+his army.</p>
+
+<p><i>Bates.</i> He may show what outward courage he will; but I
+believe, as cold a night as ’tis, he could wish himself in the Thames up
+to the neck; and so I would he were, and I by him, at all adventures, so
+we were quit here.</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">C.</span>) By my troth, I
+will speak my conscience of the king: I&nbsp;think he would not wish
+himself any where but where he&nbsp;is.</p>
+
+<p><i>Bates.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">L.</span>) Then ’would he
+were here alone; so should he be sure to be ransomed, and a many poor
+men’s lives saved.</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> I dare say you love him not so ill, to wish him here
+alone, howsoever you speak this, to feel other men’s minds: Methinks I
+could not die any where so contented as in the king’s company; his cause
+being just, and his quarrel honourable.<a class = "tag" name = "tagIV_8"
+id = "tagIV_8" href = "#noteIV_8">8</a></p>
+
+<p><i>Will.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">R.</span>) That’s more than
+we know.</p>
+
+<p><i>Bates.</i> Ay, or more than we should seek after; for we know
+enough, if we know we are the king’s subjects: if
+<span class = "pagenum">58</span>
+his cause be wrong, our obedience to the king wipes the crime of it out
+of&nbsp;us.</p>
+
+<p><i>Will.</i> But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath a
+heavy rekoning to make, when all those legs and arms and heads, chopped
+off in battle, shall join together at the latter day,<a class = "tag"
+name = "tagIV_9" id = "tagIV_9" href = "#noteIV_9">9</a> and cry
+all&mdash;We died at such place; some swearing; some crying for a
+surgeon; some, upon their wives left poor behind them; some, upon the
+debts they owe; some, upon their children rawly left.<a class = "tag"
+name = "tagIV_10" id = "tagIV_10" href = "#noteIV_10">10</a> I&nbsp;am
+afeard there are few die well that die in battle; for how can they
+charitably dispose of any thing, when blood is their argument? Now, if
+these men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the king that
+led them to it; whom to disobey were against all proportion of
+subjection.</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> So, if a son, that is by his father sent about
+merchandise, do sinfully miscarry upon the sea, the imputation of his
+wickedness, by your rule, should be imposed upon his father that sent
+him:&mdash;But this is not so: the king is not bound to answer the
+particular endings of his soldiers, nor the father of his son, for they
+purpose not their death, when they purpose their services. Every
+subject’s duty is the king’s; but every subject’s soul is his own.
+Therefore should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his
+bed, wash every mote out of his conscience: and dying so, death is to
+him advantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such
+preparation was gained.</p>
+
+<p><i>Will.</i> ’Tis certain, every man that dies ill, the ill is upon
+his own head; the king is not to answer for&nbsp;it.</p>
+
+<p><i>Bates.</i> I do not desire he should answer for me; and yet I
+determine to fight lustily for him.</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> I myself heard the king say he would not be
+ransomed.</p>
+
+<p><i>Will.</i> Ay, he said so, to make us fight cheerfully: but, when
+our throats are cut, he may be ransomed, and we ne’er the wiser.</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> If I live to see it, I will never trust his word
+after.</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">59</span>
+<p><i>Will.</i> That’s a perilous shot out of an elder gun, that a poor
+and private displeasure can do against a monarch! you may as well go
+about to turn the sun to ice with fanning in his face with a peacock’s
+feather. You’ll never trust his word after! come, ’tis a foolish
+saying.</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Your reproof is something too round:<a class = "tag"
+name = "tagIV_11" id = "tagIV_11" href = "#noteIV_11">11</a> I should be
+angry with you, if the time were convenient.</p>
+
+<p><i>Will.</i> Let it be a quarrel between us, if you live.</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> I embrace it.</p>
+
+<p><i>Will.</i> How shall I know thee again?</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Give me any gage of thine, and I will wear it in my
+bonnet: then, if ever thou darest acknowledge it, I&nbsp;will make it my
+quarrel.</p>
+
+<p><i>Will.</i> Here’s my glove: give me another of thine.</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> There.</p>
+
+<p><i>Will.</i> This will I also wear in my cap: if ever thou come to me
+and say, after to-morrow. <i>This is my glove</i>, by this hand,
+I&nbsp;will take thee a box on the ear.</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> If ever I live to see it, I will
+challenge&nbsp;it.</p>
+
+<p><i>Will.</i> Thou darest as well be hanged.</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Well, I will do it, though I take thee in the king’s
+company.</p>
+
+<p><i>Will.</i> Keep thy word: fare thee well.</p>
+
+<p><i>Bates.</i> Be friends, you English fools, be friends: (<i>Crosses
+to</i> <span class = "charname">Williams</span>, <span class =
+"smallroman">R.</span>) we have French quarrels enough, if you could
+tell how to reckon.</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Exeunt Soldiers, <span class = "smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Upon the king! let us our lives, our souls,</p>
+<p>Our sins, lay on the king!&mdash;we must bear all.</p>
+<p>O hard condition, twin-born with greatness,</p>
+<p>Subjected to the breath of every fool.</p>
+<p>What infinite heart’s ease must king’s neglect,</p>
+<p>That private men enjoy!</p>
+<p>And what have kings, that privates have not too,</p>
+<p>Save ceremony, save general ceremony?</p>
+<p>And what art thou, thou idol ceremony?</p>
+<p>Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form,</p>
+<p>Creating awe and fear in other men?</p>
+<p>Wherein thou art less happy being fear’d</p>
+<p>Than they in fearing.</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">60</span>
+<p>What drink’st thou oft, instead of homage sweet,</p>
+<p>But poison’d flattery? O, be sick, great greatness,</p>
+<p>And bid thy ceremony give thee cure!</p>
+<p>Canst thou, when thou command’st the beggar’s knee,</p>
+<p>Command the health of it? No, thou proud dream,</p>
+<p>That play’st so subtly with a king’s repose:</p>
+<p>I am a king that find thee; and I know,</p>
+<p>’Tis not the balm, the sceptre, and the ball,</p>
+<p>The sword, the mace, the crown imperial,</p>
+<p>The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp</p>
+<p>That beats upon the high shore of this world,</p>
+<p>No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony,</p>
+<p>Not all these, laid in bed majestical,</p>
+<p>Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave,</p>
+<p>Who, with a body fill’d and vacant mind,</p>
+<p>Gets him to rest, cramm’d with distressful bread;</p>
+<p>And but for ceremony, such a wretch,</p>
+<p>Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep,</p>
+<p>Had the fore-hand and vantage of a king.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <span class = "charname">Erpingham</span>, <span class =
+"smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Erp.</i> My lord, your nobles, jealous of your absence,</p>
+<p>Seek through your camp to find you.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p class = "float"><i>K. Hen.</i></p>
+<p class = "iamb3">Good old knight,</p>
+<p>Collect them all together at my tent:</p>
+<p>I’ll be before thee.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+Gives back the Cloak to <span class = "charname">Erpingham</span>.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p class = "float"><i>Erp.</i></p>
+<p class = "iamb2">I shall do’t, my lord.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Exit, <span class = "smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> O God of battles! steel my soldier’s hearts;</p>
+<p>Possess them not with fear; take from them now</p>
+<p>The sense of reckoning, lest the opposed numbers</p>
+<p>Pluck their hearts from them!&mdash;Not to-day, O Lord,</p>
+<p>O, not to-day, think not upon the fault</p>
+<p>My father made in compassing the crown!</p>
+<p>I Richard’s body have interred new;(<a class = "hist" name =
+"tagIV_C" id = "tagIV_C" href = "#noteIV_C">C</a>)</p>
+<p>And on it have bestow’d more contrite tears,</p>
+<p>Than from it issu’d forced drops of blood:</p>
+<p>Five hundred poor I have in yearly pay,</p>
+<p>Who twice a day their wither’d hands hold up</p>
+<p>Toward heaven, to pardon blood:</p>
+<p>More will I do&mdash;</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+Trumpet sounds without, <span class = "smallroman">R.</span></p>
+
+<p>The day, my friends, and all things stay for me.</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Exit, <span class = "smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">61</span>
+<h4 class = "scene"><a name = "sceneIV_2" id = "sceneIV_2">
+<span class = "smallcaps">Scene II.</span>&mdash;THE FRENCH
+CAMP&mdash;SUNRISE.</a></h4>
+
+<p class = "scenedesc">
+Flourish of trumpets.</p>
+
+<p class = "scenedesc">
+Enter <span class = "charname">Dauphin</span>, <span class =
+"charname">Grandprè</span>, <span class = "charname">Rambures</span>,<a
+class = "tag" name = "tagIV_12" id = "tagIV_12" href =
+"#noteIV_12">12</a> and Others.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Dau.</i> The sun doth gild our armour; up, my lords!</p>
+<p>My horse! <i>varlet! lacquay!</i> ha!</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+Servants exeunt hastily.</p>
+
+<p><i>Grand.</i> O brave spirit!</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Dau.</i> Cousin Orleans.&mdash;</p>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <span class = "charname">Constable</span>, <span class =
+"smallroman">L.H.</span></p>
+
+<p>Now, my lord Constable!</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><i>Con.</i> Hark, how our steeds for present service neigh!</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Dau.</i> Mount them, and make incision in their hides,</p>
+<p>That their hot blood may spin in English eyes,</p>
+<p>And dout them<a class = "tag" name = "tagIV_13" id = "tagIV_13" href
+= "#noteIV_13">13</a> with superfluous courage, Ha!</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Con.</i> What, will you have them weep our horses’ blood?</p>
+<p>How shall we, then, behold their natural tears?</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <span class = "charname">Montjoy</span>, <span class =
+"smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>Mont.</i> The English are embattled, you French peers.</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Exit <span class = "smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Con.</i> To horse, you gallant princes! straight to horse!</p>
+<p>Do but behold yon poor and starved band.</p>
+<p>There is not work enough for all our hands;</p>
+<p>Scarce blood enough in all their sickly veins,</p>
+<p>To give each naked curtle-ax a stain.</p>
+<p>’Tis positive ’gainst all exceptions, lords,</p>
+<p>That our superfluous lackeys, are enough</p>
+<p>To purge this field of such a hilding foe.<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagIV_14" id = "tagIV_14" href = "#noteIV_14">14</a></p>
+<p>A very little little let us do,</p>
+<p>And all is done. Then let the trumpets sound:</p>
+<p>For our approach shall so much dare the field,</p>
+<p>That England shall couch down in fear, and yield.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <span class = "charname">Orleans</span>,(<a class = "hist" name =
+"tagIV_D" id = "tagIV_D" href = "#noteIV_D">D</a>) hastily, <span class
+= "smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Orl.</i> Why do you stay so long, my lords of France?</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">62</span>
+<p>Yon island carrions,<a class = "tag" name = "tagIV_15" id =
+"tagIV_15" href = "#noteIV_15">15</a> desperate of their bones,</p>
+<p>Ill-favour’dly become the morning field:</p>
+<p>Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose,<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagIV_16" id = "tagIV_16" href = "#noteIV_16">16</a></p>
+<p>And our air shakes them passing scornfully:</p>
+<p>Big Mars seems bankrupt in their beggar’d host,</p>
+<p>And their executors, the knavish crows,</p>
+<p>Fly o’er them, all impatient for their hour.</p>
+<p>Description cannot suit itself in words</p>
+<p>To demonstrate the life of such a battle</p>
+<p>In life so lifeless as it shows itself.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Dau.</i> Shall we go send them dinners and fresh suits,</p>
+<p>And give their fasting horses provender,</p>
+<p>And after fight with them?</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p class = "float"><i>Con.</i></p>
+<p class = "iamb3">On, to the field!</p>
+<p>Come, come, away!</p>
+<p>The sun is high, and we outwear the day.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Exeunt, <span class = "smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+
+<p class = "scenedesc">
+Flourish of trumpets.</p>
+
+
+<h4 class = "scene"><a name = "sceneIV_3" id = "sceneIV_3">
+<span class = "smallcaps">Scene III.</span>&mdash;THE ENGLISH POSITION
+AT AGINCOURT.</a></h4>
+
+<p class = "scenedesc">
+The English Army drawn up for battle;(<a class = "hist" name = "tagIV_E"
+id = "tagIV_E" href = "#noteIV_E">E</a>) <span class =
+"charname">Gloster</span>, <span class = "charname">Bedford</span>,
+<span class = "charname">Exeter</span>, <span class =
+"charname">Salisbury</span>, <span class = "charname">Erpingham</span>,
+and <span class = "charname">Westmoreland</span>.</p>
+
+<p><i>Glo.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">R.C.</span>) Where is the
+king?</p>
+
+<p><i>Bed.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">L.C.</span>) The king himself
+is rode to view their battle.<a class = "tag" name = "tagIV_17" id =
+"tagIV_17" href = "#noteIV_17">17</a></p>
+
+<p><i>West.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">L.</span>) Of fighting men
+they have full threescore thousand.</p>
+
+<p><i>Exe.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">L.C.</span>) There’s five to
+one; besides, they all are fresh.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Erp.</i> It is fearful odds.</p>
+<p>If we no more meet till we meet in heaven,</p>
+<p>Then, joyfully,&mdash;my noble lord of Bedford,&mdash;</p>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+Crosses to <span class = "smallroman">L.</span></p>
+
+<p>My dear lord Gloster,&mdash;and my good lord Exeter,&mdash;</p>
+<p>Warriors all, adieu!</p>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+Crosses back to <span class = "smallroman">R.</span></p>
+</div>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">63</span>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>West.</i> O that we now had here</p>
+<p>But one ten thousand of those men in England</p>
+<p>That do no work to-day!(<a class = "hist" name = "tagIV_F" id =
+"tagIV_F" href = "#noteIV_F">F</a>)</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <span class = "charname">King Henry</span>, attended.(<a class =
+"hist" name = "tagIV_G" id = "tagIV_G" href = "#noteIV_G">G</a>) <span
+class = "smallroman">U.E.L.H.</span></p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p class = "float"><i>K. Hen.</i> (<span class =
+"smallroman">C.</span>)</p>
+<p class = "iamb3">What’s he that wishes so?</p>
+<p>My cousin Westmoreland?&mdash;No, my fair cousin:</p>
+<p>If we are mark’d to die, we are enough</p>
+<p>To do our country loss; and if to live,</p>
+<p>The fewer men, the greater share of honour.</p>
+<p>I pray thee, wish not one man more.</p>
+<p>Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,</p>
+<p>That he who hath no stomach to this fight.</p>
+<p>Let him depart; his passport shall be made,</p>
+<p>And crowns for convoy put into his purse:</p>
+<p>We would not die in that man’s company,</p>
+<p>That fears his fellowship to die with us.</p>
+<p>This day is call’d&mdash;the feast of Crispian:(<a class = "hist"
+name = "tagIV_H" id = "tagIV_H" href = "#noteIV_H">H</a>)</p>
+<p>He, that outlives this day, and comes safe home,</p>
+<p>Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam’d,</p>
+<p>And rouse him at the name of Crispian.</p>
+<p>He that shall live this day, and see old age,</p>
+<p>Will yearly on the vigil feast his friends,<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagIV_18" id = "tagIV_18" href = "#noteIV_18">18</a></p>
+<p>And say&mdash;to-morrow is Saint Crispian:</p>
+<p>Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,</p>
+<p>And say, those wounds I had on Crispin’s day.</p>
+<p>Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,</p>
+<p>But he’ll remember with advantages<a class = "tag" name = "tagIV_19"
+id = "tagIV_19" href = "#noteIV_19">19</a></p>
+<p>What feats he did that day: Then shall our names,</p>
+<p>Familiar in their mouths as household words,&mdash;</p>
+<p>Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,</p>
+<p>Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloster,&mdash;(<a class = "hist"
+name = "tagIV_I" id = "tagIV_I" href = "#noteIV_I">I</a>)</p>
+<p>Be in their flowing cups freshly remember’d.</p>
+<p>This story shall the good man teach his son;</p>
+<p>And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">64</span>
+<p>From this day to the ending<a class = "tag" name = "tagIV_20" id =
+"tagIV_20" href = "#noteIV_20">20</a> of the world,</p>
+<p>But we in it shall be remembered.</p>
+<p>We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;</p>
+<p>For he to-day that sheds his blood with me</p>
+<p>Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,</p>
+<p>This day shall gentle his condition:<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagIV_21" id = "tagIV_21" href = "#noteIV_21">21</a></p>
+<p>And gentlemen in England, now a-bed,</p>
+<p>Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here;</p>
+<p>And hold their manhoods cheap while any speaks</p>
+<p>That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <span class = "charname">Gower</span>, hastily, <span class =
+"smallroman">U.E.L.H.</span></p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Gow.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">R.C.</span>) My sovereign
+lord, bestow yourself with speed:</p>
+<p>The French are bravely in their battles set,<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagIV_22" id = "tagIV_22" href = "#noteIV_22">22</a></p>
+<p>And will with all expedience charge on us.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">C.</span>) All things are
+ready, if our minds be&nbsp;so.</p>
+
+<p><i>West.</i> Perish the man whose mind is backward now!</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Thou dost not wish more help from England, cousin?</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>West.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">L.</span>) Would you and I
+alone, my liege,</p>
+<p>Without more help, might fight this battle out!</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Trumpet sounds without, <span class = "smallroman">L.H.</span></p>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <span class = "charname">Montjoy</span>, and attendants, <span
+class = "smallroman">U.E.L.H.</span></p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Mont.</i>
+<span class = "stagedir">uncovers and kneels.</span>
+Once more I come to know of thee, King Harry,</p>
+<p>If for thy ransom thou wilt now compound,</p>
+<p>Before thy most assured overthrow.</p>
+</div>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">65</span>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">C.</span>) Who hath sent
+thee now?</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p class = "float">
+<i>Mont.</i></p>
+<p class = "iamb3">The Constable of France.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> I pray thee, bear my former answer back:</p>
+<p>Bid them achieve me,<a class = "tag" name = "tagIV_23" id =
+"tagIV_23" href = "#noteIV_23">23</a> and then sell my bones.</p>
+<p>Good Heaven! Why should they mock poor fellows thus?</p>
+<p>The man, that once did sell the lion’s skin</p>
+<p>While the beast liv’d, was kill’d with hunting him.</p>
+<p>Let me speak proudly:&mdash;Tell the Constable,</p>
+<p>We are but warriors for the working-day:<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagIV_24" id = "tagIV_24" href = "#noteIV_24">24</a></p>
+<p>Our gayness and our guilt<a class = "tag" name = "tagIV_25" id =
+"tagIV_25" href = "#noteIV_25">25</a> are all besmirch’d</p>
+<p>With rainy marching in the painful field,</p>
+<p>And time hath worn us into slovenry.</p>
+<p>But, by the mass, our hearts are in the trim;</p>
+<p>And my poor soldiers tell me&mdash;yet ere night</p>
+<p>They’ll be in fresher robes; or they will pluck</p>
+<p>The gay new coats o’er the French soldiers’ heads,</p>
+<p>And turn them out of service.</p>
+<p>Come thou no more for ransom, gentle herald:</p>
+<p>They shall have none, I swear, but these my joints,</p>
+<p>Which if they have as I will leave ’em to them,</p>
+<p>Shall yield them little, tell the Constable.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Mont.</i> I shall, King Harry.
+<span class = "stagedir">
+Rises from his knee.</span>
+And so, fare thee well:</p>
+<p>Thou never shalt hear herald any more.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Exit with Attendants, <span class = "smallroman">U.E.L.H.</span></p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Now, soldiers, march away:&mdash;</p>
+<p>And how thou pleasest, Heaven, dispose the day!(<a class = "hist"
+name = "tagIV_K" id = "tagIV_K" href = "#noteIV_K">K</a>)</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "scenedesc">
+Trumpet March.</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Exeunt <span class = "smallroman">L.H.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<h4 class = "scene"><a name = "sceneIV_4" id = "sceneIV_4">
+<span class = "smallcaps">Scene IV.</span>&mdash;ANOTHER PART OF THE
+FIELD OF BATTLE.</a></h4>
+
+<p class = "scenedesc">
+Alarums. Enter <span class = "charname">Dauphin</span>, <span class =
+"charname">Orleans</span>, <span class = "charname">Bourbon</span>,
+<span class = "charname">Constable</span>, <span class =
+"charname">Rambures</span>, and Others, hastily, and in confusion, <span
+class = "smallroman">L.H.</span></p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">66</span>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Dau.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">C.</span>) All is confounded,
+all!</p>
+<p>Reproach and everlasting shame</p>
+<p>Sits mocking in our plumes.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+Alarums, <span class = "smallroman">L.</span></p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p class = "float"><i>Con.</i></p>
+<p class = "iamb3">Why, all our ranks are broke.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Dau.</i> O perdurable shame!<a class = "tag" name = "tagIV_26" id
+= "tagIV_26" href = "#noteIV_26">26</a>&mdash;let’s stab ourselves.</p>
+<p>Be these the wretches that we play’d at dice for?</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><i>Orl.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">L.C.</span>) Is this the king
+we sent to for his ransom?</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Dau.</i> Shame, and eternal shame, nothing but shame!</p>
+<p>Let us die in honor: Once more back again.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Con.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">C.</span>) Disorder, that
+hath spoil’d us, friend us now!</p>
+<p>Let us in heaps go offer up our lives</p>
+<p>Unto these English, or else die with fame.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Dau.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">R.C.</span>) We are enough,
+yet living in the field,</p>
+<p>To smother up the English in our throngs,</p>
+<p>If any order might be thought upon.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Con.</i> The devil take order now! I’ll to the throng:</p>
+<p>Let life be short; else shame will be too long.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "scenedesc">
+Alarums.</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Exeunt <span class = "smallroman">L.H.</span></p>
+
+
+<h4 class = "scene"><a name = "sceneIV_5" id = "sceneIV_5">
+<span class = "smallcaps">Scene V.</span>&mdash;THE FIELD OF AGINCOURT
+AFTER THE BATTLE.</a></h4>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+The bodies of the <span class = "charname">Duke of York</span>(<a class
+= "hist" name = "tagIV_L" id = "tagIV_L" href = "#noteIV_L">L</a>) and
+<span class = "charname">Earl of Suffolk</span> are borne across the
+stage by soldiers.</p>
+
+<p class = "scenedesc">
+Trumpets sound.</p>
+
+<p class = "scenedesc">
+Enter <span class = "charname">King Henry</span> with a part of the
+English forces; <span class = "charname">Warwick</span>, <span class =
+"charname">Bedford</span>, <span class = "charname">Gloster</span>,
+<span class = "charname">Exeter</span>, and others, <span class =
+"smallroman">L.H.</span></p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">C.</span>) I was not angry
+since I came to France,</p>
+<p>Until this instant.&mdash;Take a trumpet, herald;</p>
+<p>Ride thou unto the horsemen on yon hill:(<a class = "hist" name =
+"tagIV_M" id = "tagIV_M" href = "#noteIV_M">M</a>)</p>
+<p>If they will fight with us, bid them come down,</p>
+<p>Or void the field;<a class = "tag" name = "tagIV_27" id = "tagIV_27"
+href = "#noteIV_27">27</a> they do offend our sight:</p>
+<p>If they’ll do neither, we will come to them;</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">67</span>
+<p>And make them skirr away, as swift as stones</p>
+<p>Enforced from the old Assyrian slings.</p>
+<p>Go, and tell them so.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Exit <span class = "charname">Herald</span> with Trumpeter, <span class
+= "smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>Exe.</i> The Duke of York commends him to your majesty.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Lives he, good uncle? thrice within this hour,</p>
+<p>I saw him down; thrice up again and fighting;</p>
+<p>From helmet to the spur, all blood he was.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Exe.</i> In which array, (brave soldier), did he lie,</p>
+<p>Larding the plain; and by his bloody side,</p>
+<p>(Yoke fellow to his honour-owing wounds),</p>
+<p>The noble Earl of Suffolk also lay.</p>
+<p>Suffolk first died: and York, all haggled over,</p>
+<p>Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteep’d,</p>
+<p>And takes him by the hand; kisses the gashes,</p>
+<p>That bloodily did yarn upon his face;</p>
+<p>And cries aloud:&mdash;<i>Tarry, dear cousin Suffolk!</i></p>
+<p><i>My soul shall thine keep company to heaven:</i></p>
+<p><i>Tarry, sweet soul, for mine, then fly abreast;</i></p>
+<p><i>As in this glorious and well foughten field,</i></p>
+<p><i>We keep together in our chivalry!</i></p>
+<p>Upon these words I came, and cheer’d him up:</p>
+<p>He smil’d me in the face, raught me his hand,<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagIV_28" id = "tagIV_28" href = "#noteIV_28">28</a></p>
+<p>And with a feeble gripe, says,&mdash;<i>Dear, my lord,</i></p>
+<p><i>Commend my service to my sovereign.</i></p>
+<p>So did he turn, and over Suffolk’s neck</p>
+<p>He threw his wounded arm, and kiss’d his lips;</p>
+<p>And so espous’d to death, with blood he seal’d</p>
+<p>A testament of noble-ending love.</p>
+<p>The pretty and sweet manner of it forc’d</p>
+<p>Those waters from me, which I would have stopp’d;</p>
+<p>But I had not so much of man in me,</p>
+<p>But all my mother came into mine eyes,</p>
+<p>And gave me up to tears.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+Re-enter <span class = "charname">English Herald</span> and Trumpeter,
+<span class = "smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p class = "float"><i>K. Hen.</i></p>
+<p class = "iamb3">I blame you not:</p>
+<p>For, hearing this, I must perforce compound</p>
+<p>With mistful eyes, or they will issue too.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+Trumpet without, <span class = "smallroman">R.</span></p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">68</span>
+<p><i>Exe.</i> Here comes the herald of the French, my liege.</p>
+
+<p><i>Glo.</i> His eyes are humbler than they us’d to be.</p>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <span class = "charname">Montjoy</span>,(<a class = "hist" name =
+"tagIV_N" id = "tagIV_N" href = "#noteIV_N">N</a>) and attendants, <span
+class = "smallroman">R.H.</span> <span class = "charname">Montjoy</span>
+uncovers and kneels.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> How now! what means this, herald?</p>
+<p>Com’st thou again for ransom?</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p class = "float"><i>Mont.</i></p>
+<p class = "iamb3">No, great king:</p>
+<p>I come to thee for charitable licence,</p>
+<p>That we may wander o’er this bloody field</p>
+<p>To book our dead, and then to bury them;</p>
+<p>To sort our nobles from our common men,</p>
+<p>For many of our princes (woe the while!)</p>
+<p>Lie drown’d and soak’d in mercenary blood;</p>
+<p>(So do our vulgar drench their peasant limbs</p>
+<p>In blood of princes;) and their wounded steeds</p>
+<p>Fret fetlock deep in gore, and, with wild rage</p>
+<p>Yerk out their armed heels at their dead masters,</p>
+<p>Killing them twice. O, give us leave, great king,</p>
+<p>To view the field in safety, and dispose</p>
+<p>Of their dead bodies!</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p class = "float"><i>K. Hen.</i></p>
+<p class = "iamb2">I tell thee truly, herald,</p>
+<p>I know not if the day be ours or no;</p>
+<p>For yet a many of your horsemen peer</p>
+<p>And gallop o’er the field.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p class = "float"><i>Mont.</i></p>
+<p class = "iamb3">The day is yours.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Praised be Heaven, and not our strength,
+for&nbsp;it!&mdash;</p>
+<p>What is this castle call’d that stands hard by?</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><i>Mont.</i> They call it&mdash;Agincourt.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Then call we this&mdash;the field of Agincourt,</p>
+<p>Fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+Loud flourish of Trumpets, and shouts of the soldiers. <span class =
+"charname">Montjoy</span> rises from his knee, and stands <span class =
+"smallroman">R.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">L.</span>) Your grandfather
+of famous memory, an’t please your majesty, and your great uncle Edward
+the plack prince of Wales, as I have read in the chronicles, fought a
+most prave pattle here in France.</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">C.</span>) They did,
+Fluellen.</p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> Your majesty says very true: if your majesties is
+remembered of it, the Welshman did goot service in a
+<span class = "pagenum">69</span>
+garden where leeks did grow, wearing leeks in their Monmouth caps;<a
+class = "tag" name = "tagIV_29" id = "tagIV_29" href =
+"#noteIV_29">29</a> which, your majesty knows, to this hour is an
+honourable padge of the service; and I do believe, your majesty takes no
+scorn to wear the leek upon Saint Tavy’s day.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> I wear it for a memorable honour;</p>
+<p>For I am Welsh, you know, good countryman.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> All the water in Wye cannot wash your majesty’s Welsh
+plood out of your pody, I&nbsp;can tell you that: Heaven pless it, and
+preserve it, as long as it pleases his grace, and his majesty too!</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Thanks, good my countryman.</p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> I am your majesty’s countryman, I care not who know it:
+I&nbsp;will confess it to all the ’orld: I&nbsp;need not to be ashamed
+of your majesty, praised be Heaven, so long as your majesty is an honest
+man.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Heaven keep me so!&mdash;Our herald go with him:</p>
+<p>Bring me just notice of the numbers dead</p>
+<p>On both our parts.&mdash;</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Exeunt <span class = "charname">Montjoy</span> and attendants, with
+English Herald, <span class = "smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+
+<p class = "iamb2">Call yonder fellow hither.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+Points to <span class = "charname">Williams</span>, who is standing in
+the ranks up the stage, <span class = "smallroman">L.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>Exe.</i> Soldier, you must come to the king.</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">C.</span>) Soldier, why
+wear’st thou that glove in thy cap?</p>
+
+<p><i>Will.</i>
+<span class = "stagedir">kneels <span class =
+"smallroman">R.</span></span>
+An’t please your majesty, ’tis the gage of one that I should fight
+withal, if he be alive.</p>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+Rises from his knee.</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> An Englishman?</p>
+
+<p><i>Will.</i> 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&nbsp;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&nbsp;will strike it out soundly.</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">70</span>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> What think you, Captain Fluellen? is it fit this
+soldier keep his oath?</p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">L.</span>) He is a craven and
+a villain else, an’t please your majesty, in my conscience.</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> It may be his enemy is a gentleman of great sort,<a
+class = "tag" name = "tagIV_30" id = "tagIV_30" href =
+"#noteIV_30">30</a> quite from the answer of his degree.<a class = "tag"
+name = "tagIV_31" id = "tagIV_31" href = "#noteIV_31">31</a></p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> Though he be as goot a gentleman as the tevil is, as
+Lucifer and Belzebub himself, it is necessary, look your grace, that he
+keep his vow and his oath.</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Then keep thy vow, sirrah, when thou meet’st the
+fellow.</p>
+
+<p><i>Will.</i> So I will, my liege, as I live.</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Who servest thou under?</p>
+
+<p><i>Will.</i> Under Captain Gower, my liege.</p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> Gower is a goot captain, and is good knowledge and
+literature in the wars.</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Call him hither to me, soldier.</p>
+
+<p><i>Will.</i> I will, my liege.</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Exit, <span class = "smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Here, Fluellen; wear thou this favour for me, and
+stick it in thy cap: When Alençon and myself were down together,(<a
+class = "hist" name = "tagIV_O" id = "tagIV_O" href = "#noteIV_O">O</a>)
+I&nbsp;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 love&nbsp;me.</p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> Your grace does me as great honours as can be desired in
+the hearts of his subjects: I&nbsp;would fain see the man, that has but
+two legs, that shall find himself aggriefed at this glove, that is
+all.</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Knowest thou Gower?</p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> He is my dear friend, an please you.</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Pray thee, go seek him, and bring him to my tent.</p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">L.</span>) I will fetch
+him.</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Crosses to <span class = "smallroman">R.</span>, and exit <span class =
+"smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">L.C.</span>) My lord of
+Warwick,&mdash;and my brother Gloster,</p>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+Both advance to the <span class = "charname">King</span>.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p>Follow Fluellen closely at the heels:</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">71</span>
+<p>The glove which I have given him for a favour</p>
+<p>May haply purchase him a box o’ the ear;</p>
+<p>It is the soldier’s; I, by bargain, should</p>
+<p>Wear it myself. Follow, good cousin Warwick:</p>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+<span class = "charname">Warwick</span> crosses to <span class =
+"smallroman">R.</span></p>
+
+<p>If that the soldier strike him (as, I judge,</p>
+<p>By his blunt bearing, he will keep his word,)</p>
+<p>Some sudden mischief may arise of it;</p>
+<p>For I do know Fluellen valiant,</p>
+<p>And, touch’d with choler, hot as gunpowder,</p>
+<p>And quickly will return an injury:</p>
+<p>Follow,
+<span class = "stagedir">
+<span class = "charname">Gloster</span> crosses to <span class =
+"smallroman">R.</span></span>
+and see there be no harm between them.&mdash;</p>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+<span class = "charname">Warwick</span> and <span class =
+"charname">Gloster</span> exeunt <span class =
+"smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+
+<p>Go you with me, Uncle of Exeter.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Exeunt Omnes, <span class = "smallroman">L.H.</span></p>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Trumpets sound.</p>
+
+
+<h4 class = "scene"><a name = "sceneIV_6" id = "sceneIV_6">
+<span class = "smallcaps">Scene VI.</span>&mdash;BEFORE KING HENRY’S
+PAVILION.</a></h4>
+
+<p class = "scenedesc">
+Enter <span class = "charname">Gower</span> and <span class =
+"charname">Williams</span>, <span class = "smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>Will.</i> I warrant it is to knight you, captain.</p>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <span class = "charname">Fluellen</span>, <span class =
+"smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> Heaven’s will and pleasure, captain, I peseech you now,
+come apace to the king: there is more goot toward you peradventure than
+is in your knowledge to dream&nbsp;of.</p>
+
+<p><i>Will.</i> Sir, know you this glove?</p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">C.</span>) Know the glove! I
+know, the glove is a glove.</p>
+
+<p><i>Will.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">R.C.</span>) I know this;
+and thus I challenge&nbsp;it.</p>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+Strikes him.</p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> ’Sblud, an arrant traitor as any’s in the universal
+’orld, or in France, or in England!</p>
+
+<p><i>Gow.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">L.C.</span>) How now, sir!
+you villain!</p>
+
+<p><i>Will.</i> Do you think I’ll be forsworn?</p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> Stand away, Captain Gower; I will give treason his
+payment in plows, I&nbsp;warrant you.</p>
+
+<p><i>Will.</i> I am no traitor.</p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> That’s a lie in thy throat.&mdash;I charge you in his
+majesty’s name, apprehend him: he’s a friend of the duke Alençon’s.</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">72</span>
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <span class = "charname">Warwick</span> and <span class =
+"charname">Gloster</span>,(<a class = "hist" name = "tagIV_P" id =
+"tagIV_P" href = "#noteIV_P">P</a>) <span class =
+"smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>Glos.</i>
+<span class = "stagedir">crosses to <span class =
+"smallroman">C.</span></span>
+How now, how now! what’s the matter?</p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> My lord of Gloster, here is (praised be Heaven for it!)
+a&nbsp;most contagious treason come to light, look you, as you shall
+desire in a summer’s day. Here is his majesty.</p>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <span class = "charname">King Henry</span>, <span class =
+"charname">Exeter</span>, and others, <span class =
+"smallroman">U.E.L.H.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i>
+<span class = "stagedir">coming down centre.</span>
+How now! what’s the matter?</p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">L.H.</span>) 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.</p>
+
+<p><i>Will.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">R.C.</span>) My liege, this
+was my glove; here is the fellow of it; and he that I gave it to in
+change promised to wear it in his cap: I&nbsp;promised to strike him, if
+he did: I&nbsp;met this man with my glove in his cap, and I have been as
+good as my word.</p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> Your majesty hear now (saving your majesty’s manhood)
+what an arrant, rascally, beggarly, lowsy knave it is: I&nbsp;hope, your
+majesty is pear me testimony, and witness, and avouchments, that this is
+the glove of Alençon, that your majesty is give me, in your conscience,
+now.</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Give me thy glove, soldier: Look, here is the fellow
+of it. ’Twas I, indeed, thou promised’st to strike; and thou hast given
+me most bitter terms.</p>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+<span class = "charname">Williams</span> falls on his knee.</p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> An please your majesty, let his neck answer for it, if
+there is any martial law in the ’orld.</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> How can’st thou make me satisfaction?</p>
+
+<p><i>Will.</i> All offences, my liege, come from the heart: never came
+any from mine, that might offend your majesty.</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> It was ourself thou didst abuse.</p>
+
+<p><i>Will.</i> Your majesty came not like yourself: you appeared to me
+but as a common man; witness the night, your garments, your lowliness;
+and what your highness suffered under that shape, I&nbsp;beseech you,
+take it for your own fault, and not mine: for had you been as I took you
+for, I&nbsp;made no offence; therefore, I&nbsp;beseech your highness,
+pardon&nbsp;me.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Here, uncle Exeter, fill this glove with crowns,</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">73</span>
+<p>And give it to this fellow.&mdash;(<i><span class =
+"charname">Williams</span> rises.</i>) Keep it, fellow;</p>
+<p>And wear it for an honour in thy cap</p>
+<p>Till I do challenge it.&mdash;Give him the crowns:&mdash;</p>
+<p>And, captain, you must needs be friends with him.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+The <span class = "charname">King</span> goes up the stage with <span
+class = "charname">Exeter</span>, <span class =
+"charname">Bedford</span>, and <span class =
+"charname">Gloster</span>.</p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> By this day and this light, the fellow has mettle enough
+in his pelly.&mdash;Hold, there is twelve pence for you; and I pray you
+to serve Heaven, and keep you out of prawls, and prabbles, and quarrels,
+and dissensions, and, I&nbsp;warrant you, it is the petter for you.</p>
+
+<p><i>Will.</i> I will none of your money.</p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> 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: ’tis a goot silling, I&nbsp;warrant you, or I will
+change&nbsp;it.</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Exit <span class = "charname">Williams</span>, <span class =
+"smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <span class = "charname">English Herald</span>, <span class =
+"smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i>
+<span class = "stagedir">coming down <span class =
+"smallroman">C.</span></span>
+Now, herald, are the dead number’d?</p>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+<span class = "charname">Herald</span> uncovers, kneels, and delivers
+papers. The <span class = "charname">King</span> gives one paper to
+<span class = "charname">Exeter</span>.</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">C.</span>) What prisoners
+of good sort are taken, uncle?</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Exe.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">L.C.</span>) Charles duke of
+Orleans, nephew to the king;</p>
+<p>John duke of Bourbon, and lord Bouciqualt:</p>
+<p>Of other lords and barons, knights and ’squires,</p>
+<p>Full fifteen hundred, besides common men.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">C.</span>) This note doth
+tell me of ten thousand French</p>
+<p>That in the field lie slain: of princes, in this number,</p>
+<p>And nobles bearing banners, there lie dead</p>
+<p>One hundred twenty-six: added to these,</p>
+<p>Of knights, esquires, and gallant gentlemen,</p>
+<p>Eight thousand and four hundred; of the which,</p>
+<p>Five hundred were but yesterday dubb’d knights:<a class = "tag" name
+= "tagIV_32" id = "tagIV_32" href = "#noteIV_32">32</a></p>
+<p>So that, in these ten thousand they have lost,</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">74</span>
+<p>There are but sixteen hundred mercenaries:<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagIV_33" id = "tagIV_33" href = "#noteIV_33">33</a></p>
+<p>The rest are&mdash;princes, barons, lords, knights, ’squires,</p>
+<p>And gentlemen of blood and quality.</p>
+<p>Here was a royal fellowship of death!&mdash;&mdash;(<a class = "hist"
+name = "tagIV_Q" id = "tagIV_Q" href = "#noteIV_Q">Q</a>)</p>
+<p>What is the number of our English dead?</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Exe.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">L.C.</span>) Edward the duke
+of York, the earl of Suffolk,</p>
+<p>Sir Richard Ketley, Davy Gam, esquire:</p>
+<p>None else of name; and of all other men</p>
+<p>But five and twenty.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> O Heaven, thy arm was here;</p>
+<p>And not to us, but to thy arm alone,</p>
+<p>Ascribe we all! When, without stratagem,</p>
+<p>But in plain shock and even play of battle,</p>
+<p>Was ever known so great and little loss</p>
+<p>On one part and on the other?&mdash;Take it, Heaven,</p>
+<p>For it is only thine!</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+Returns papers to <span class = "charname">Herald</span>, who rises and
+stands <span class = "smallroman">L.</span></p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p class = "float"><i>Exe.</i></p>
+<p class = "iamb3">’Tis wonderful!</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Come, go we in procession to the village:</p>
+<p>And be it death proclaimed through our host</p>
+<p>To boast of this, or take that praise from Heaven</p>
+<p>Which is his only.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">R.C.</span>) Is it not
+lawful, and please your majesty, to tell how many is killed?</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i>
+<span class = "stagedir">up the stage <span class =
+"smallroman">C.</span></span>
+Yes, captain; but with this acknowledgment,</p>
+<p>That Heaven fought for us.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> Yes, my conscience, he did us great goot.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Do we all holy rites:(<a class = "hist" name =
+"tagIV_R" id = "tagIV_R" href = "#noteIV_R">R</a>)</p>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+The curtains of the Royal Pavilion are drawn aside, and discover an
+Altar and Priests.</p>
+
+<p>Let there be sung <i>Non nobis</i> and <i>Te Deum</i>;</p>
+<p>The dead with charity enclos’d in clay:</p>
+<p>We’ll then to Calais; and to England then;</p>
+<p>Where ne’er from France arriv’d more happy men.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+Organ music; all kneel, and join in Song of Thanksgiving.</p>
+
+
+<h6 class = "end">END OF ACT FOUR.</h6>
+
+
+<hr class = "mid">
+
+<span class = "pagenum">75</span>
+<h4 class = "hist"><a name = "histIV" id = "histIV">
+HISTORICAL NOTES TO ACT FOURTH.</a></h4>
+
+<hr class = "small">
+
+<div class = "footnote">
+
+<p>(<a class = "hist" name = "noteIV_A" id = "noteIV_A" href =
+"#tagIV_A">A</a>) <i>The English Camp at Agincourt.</i>] The French were
+about a quarter of a mile from them at Agincourt and Ruisseauville, and
+both armies proceeded to light their fires, and to make the usual
+arrangements for a bivouack. The night was very rainy, and much
+inconvenience is said to have been experienced in each camp from wet and
+cold, accompanied, among the English, by hunger and fatigue. It was
+passed in a manner strictly consistent with their relative situations.
+The French, confident in their numbers, occupied the hours not
+appropriated to sleep in calculating upon their success; and in full
+security of a complete victory, played at dice with each other for the
+disposal of their prisoners, an archer being valued at a blank, and the
+more important persons in proportion; whilst the English were engaged in
+preparing their weapons, and in the most solemn acts of religion.<span
+class = "gap">***</span>The Chronicler in the text states, that from the
+great stillness which prevailed throughout the English camp, the enemy
+imagined they were panic-struck, and intended to decamp. Monstrelet
+relates that the English “were much fatigued and oppressed by cold,
+hunger, and other annoyances; that they made their peace with God, by
+confessing their sins with tears, and numbers of them taking the
+sacrament; for, as it was related by some prisoners, they looked for
+certain death on the morrow.”</p>
+
+<p>(<a class = "hist" name = "noteIV_B" id = "noteIV_B" href =
+"#tagIV_B">B</a>) <i>Enter Erpingham.</i>] Sir Thomas Erpingham came
+over with Bolingbroke from Bretagne, and was one of the commissioners to
+receive King Richard’s abdication. In Henry the Fifth’s time Sir Thomas
+was warden of Dover Castle, and at the battle of Agincourt, was
+commander of the Archers. This venerable knight is described by
+Monstrelet to have grown grey with age and honour; and when orders were
+given for the English army to march toward the enemy, by Henry crying
+aloud, “Advance banners,” Sir Thomas threw his truncheon in the air as a
+signal to the whole field, exclaiming, “Now strike;” and loud and
+repeated shouts testified the readiness with which they obeyed the
+command.</p>
+
+<p>(<a class = "hist" name = "noteIV_C" id = "noteIV_C" href =
+"#tagIV_C">C</a>) <i>I Richard’s body have interred new;</i>] Henry was
+anxious not only to repair his own misconduct, but also to make amends
+for
+<span class = "pagenum">76</span>
+those iniquities into which policy or the necessity of affairs had
+betrayed his father. He expressed the deepest sorrow for the fate of the
+unhappy Richard, did justice to the memory of that unfortunate prince,
+even performed his funeral obsequies with pomp and solemnity, and
+cherished all those who had distinguished themselves by their loyalty
+and attachment towards him. &mdash;<i>Hume’s History of England.</i></p>
+
+<p>(<a class = "hist" name = "noteIV_D" id = "noteIV_D" href =
+"#tagIV_D">D</a>) <i>Enter Orleans.</i>] Charles Duke of Orleans was
+wounded and taken prisoner at Agincourt. Henry refused all ransom for
+him, and he remained in captivity twenty-three years.</p>
+
+<p>This prince was a celebrated poet, and some of his most beautiful
+verses were composed during his confinement in the Tower of London. He
+married Isabella of Valois, daughter of Charles VI. and Isabeau of
+Bavaria, eldest sister to the Princess Katharine, Queen of
+Henry&nbsp;V.</p>
+
+<p>Isabella was the widow of our Richard the Second when she married the
+Duke of Orleans.</p>
+
+<p>After the victory of Agincourt, the following anecdote is related by
+Remy:&mdash; “During their journey to Calais, at a place where they
+rested, Henry caused bread and wine to be brought to him, which he sent
+to the Duke of Orleans; but the French Prince would neither eat nor
+drink. This being reported to the King, he imagined that it arose from
+dissatisfaction, and, therefore, went to the duke. ‘Noble cousin,’ said
+Henry, ‘how are you?’ ‘Well, my lord,’ answered the duke. ‘Why, then, is
+it,’ added the King, ‘that you will neither eat nor drink?’ To which
+Orleans replied, ‘that truly he had no inclination for food.’ ‘Noble
+cousin,’ rejoined Henry, ‘be of good heart. I&nbsp;know that God gave me
+the victory over the French, not that I deserved it, but I fully believe
+that he wished to punish them; and if what I have heard is true, it is
+not to be wondered at, for never were there greater disorder,
+sensuality, sins, and vices seen than now prevail in France; which it is
+horrible to hear described; and if God is provoked, it is not a subject
+of surprise, and no one can be astonished.’ Many more conversations are
+said to have passed between the King and the Duke of Orleans, and the
+commisseration and courtesy of the former to his prisoners is mentioned
+by every writer in terms of just praise.”</p>
+
+<p>(<a class = "hist" name = "noteIV_E" id = "noteIV_E" href =
+"#tagIV_E">E</a>) <i>The English army, drawn up for battle;</i>] The
+victory gained at Agincourt, in the year 1415, is, in a great measure,
+ascribed to the English Archers, and that there might be no want of
+arrows, Henry V. ordered the sheriffs of several counties to procure
+feathers from the wings of geese, plucking six from each goose. An
+archer of this time was clad in a cuirass, or a hauberk of chain-mail,
+with a salade on his head, which was a kind of bacinet. Every man had a
+good bow, a&nbsp;sheaf of arrows, and a sword. Fabian describes the
+archer’s dress at the battle of Agincourt. “The yeomen had their limbs
+at liberty, for their hose was fastened with one point, and their
+jackets were easy to shoot
+<span class = "pagenum">77</span>
+in, so that they might draw bows of great strength, and shoot arrows a
+yard long.” Some are described as without hats or caps, others with caps
+of boiled leather, or wicker work, crossed over with iron; some without
+shoes, and all in a very dilapidated condition. Each bore on his
+shoulder a long stake, sharpened at both extremities, which he was
+instructed to fix obliquely before him in the ground, and thus oppose a
+rampart of pikes to the charge of the French Cavalry.</p>
+
+<p class = "float">(<a class = "hist" name = "noteIV_F" id = "noteIV_F"
+href = "#tagIV_F">F</a>)</p>
+
+<div class = "poem ital">
+<p>O that we now had here</p>
+<p>But one ten thousand of those men in England</p>
+<p>That do no work to day!]</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>A certain lord Walter Hungerford, knight, was regretting in the
+king’s presence that he had not, in addition to the small retinue which
+he had there, ten thousand of the best English Archers, who would be
+desirous of being with him; when the King said, Thou speaketh foolishly,
+for, by the God of Heaven, on whose grace I have relied, and in whom I
+have a firm hope of victory, I&nbsp;would not, even if I could, increase
+my number by one; for those whom I have are the people of God, whom He
+thinks me worthy to have at this time. Dost thou not believe the
+Almighty, with these his humble few, is able to conquer the haughty
+opposition of the French, who pride themselves on their numbers, and
+their own strength, as if it might be said they would do as they liked?
+And in my opinion, God, of his true justice, would not bring any
+disaster upon one of so great confidence, as neither fell out to Judas
+Maccabeus until he became distrustful, and thence deservedly fell into
+ruin. &mdash;<i>Nicolas’s History of Agincourt.</i></p>
+
+<p>(<a class = "hist" name = "noteIV_G" id = "noteIV_G" href =
+"#tagIV_G">G</a>) <i>Enter King Henry, attended.</i>] Henry rose with
+the earliest dawn, and immediately heard three masses. He was habited in
+his “<i>cote d’armes</i>,” containing the arms of France and England
+quarterly, and wore on his bacinet a very rich crown of gold and jewels,
+circled like an imperial crown, that is, arched over. The earliest
+instance of an arched crown worn by an English monarch. &mdash;<i>Vide
+Planché’s History of British Costume.</i></p>
+
+<p>King Henry had at Agincourt for his person five banners; that is, the
+banner of the Trinity, the banner of St. George, the banner of St.
+Edward, the banner of St. Edmund, and the banner of his own arms. “When
+the King of England had drawn up his order of battle he made a fine
+address to his troops, exhorting them to act well; saying, that he was
+come into France to recover his lawful inheritance, and that he had good
+and just cause to claim it; that in that quarrel they might freely and
+surely fight; that they should remember that they were born in the
+kingdom where their fathers and mothers, wives and children, now dwelt,
+and therefore they ought to strive to return there with great glory and
+fame; that the kings of England, his predecessors, had gained many noble
+battles and successes over the French; that on that day every one should
+endeavour to preserve his own person and the honor of the crown of the
+King of England. He moreover
+<span class = "pagenum">78</span>
+reminded them that the French boasted they would cut off three fingers
+from the right hand of every archer they should take, so that their shot
+should never again kill man nor horse. The army cried out loudly,
+saying, ‘Sir, we pray God give you a good life, and the victory over
+your enemies.’” &mdash;<i>Nicolas’s History of Agincourt.</i></p>
+
+<p>The banner of the Oriflamme is said to have been unfurled by the
+French for the last time at Agincourt.</p>
+
+<p>(<a class = "hist" name = "noteIV_H" id = "noteIV_H" href =
+"#tagIV_H">H</a>) <i>The feast of Crispian.</i>] The battle of Agincourt
+was fought upon the 25th of October, 1415, St. Crispin’s day. The legend
+upon which this is founded, is as follows:&mdash; “Crispinus and
+Crispianus were brethren, born at Rome; from whence they travelled to
+Soissons in France, about the year 303, to propagate the Christian
+religion; but because they would not be chargeable to others for their
+maintenance, they exercised the trade of shoemakers; but the Governor of
+the town, discovering them to be Christians, ordered them to be beheaded
+about the year 303. From which time, the shoemakers made choice of them
+for their tutelar saints.” &mdash;<i>See Hall’s Chronicle.</i></p>
+
+<p>(<a class = "hist" name = "noteIV_I" id = "noteIV_I" href =
+"#tagIV_I">I</a>) <i>Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury
+and Gloster.</i>] Although Shakespeare has adhered very closely to
+history in many parts of Henry V., he has deviated very much from it in
+the <i>Dramatis Personæ</i>. He makes the Duke of Bedford accompany
+Henry to Harfleur and Agincourt when he was Regent of England. The Earl
+of Exeter, or, more properly speaking, the Earl of Dorset, was left to
+command Harfleur; the Earl of Westmoreland, so far from quitting
+England, was appointed to defend the marches of Scotland, nor does it
+appear that the Earl of Salisbury was either at Harfleur or Agincourt.
+The Earl of Warwick<a class = "tag" name = "tag5a" id = "tag5a" href =
+"#note5a">*</a> had returned to England ill from Harfleur. The
+characters introduced in the play who really were at Agincourt, are the
+Dukes of Gloucester and York, and Sir Thomas Erpingham.</p>
+
+<p>Holinshed states that the English army consisted of 15,000, and the
+French of 60,000 horse and 40,000 infantry&mdash;in all, 100,000.
+Walsingham and Harding represent the English as but 9,000, and other
+authors say that the number of French amounted to 150,000. Fabian says
+the French were 40,000, and the English only 7,000. The battle lasted
+only three hours.</p>
+
+<p>(<a class = "hist" name = "noteIV_K" id = "noteIV_K" href =
+"#tagIV_K">K</a>) <i>How thou pleasest, Heaven, dispose the day.</i>] At
+the battle of Agincourt, having chosen a convenient spot on which to
+martial his men, the king sent privately two hundred archers into a low
+meadow, which was on one of his flanks, where they were so well secured
+by a deep ditch and a marsh, that the enemy could not come near them.
+Then he divided his infantry into three squadrons, or battles; the
+van-warde, or avant-guard, composed entirely of archers; the
+middle-warde, of bill-men only; and the rerewarde,
+<span class = "pagenum">79</span>
+of bill-men and archers mixed together; the horse-men, as wings, went on
+the flanks of each of the battles. He also caused stakes to be made of
+wood about five or six feet long, headed with sharp iron; these were
+fixed in the ground, and the archers so placed before them that they
+were entirely hid from the sight of the enemy. When, therefore, the
+heavy cavalry of the French charged, which was done with the utmost
+impetuosity, under the idea of cutting down and riding over the archers,
+they shrunk at once behind the stakes, and the Frenchmen, unable to stop
+their horses, rode full upon them, so that they overthrew their riders,
+and caused the utmost confusion. The infantry, who were to follow up and
+support this charge, were so struck with amazement that they hesitated,
+and by this were lost, for during the panic the English archers threw
+back their bows, and with axes, bills, glaives, and swords, slew the
+French, till they met the middle-warde. The king himself, according to
+Speed, rode in the main battle completely armed, his shield quartering
+the achievements of France and England; upon his helm he wore a coronet
+encircled with pearls and precious stones, and after the victory,
+although it had been cut and bruised, he would not suffer it to be
+ostentatiously exhibited to the people, but ordered all his men to give
+the glory to God alone. His horse was one of fierce courage, and had a
+bridle and furniture of goldsmiths’ work, and the caparisons were most
+richly embroidered with the victorious ensigns of the English monarchy.
+Thus is he represented on his great seal, with the substitution of a
+knights’ cap, and the crest, for the chaplet. Elmham’s account, from
+which this is amplified, is more particular in some of the details; he
+relates, that the king appeared on a palfrey, followed by a train of led
+horses, ornamented with the most gorgeous trappings; his helmet was of
+polished steel, surmounted with a coronet sparkling with jewels, and on
+his surcoat, or rather jupon, were emblazoned the arms of France and
+England, azure, three fleurs-de-lis or, and gules, three lion’s passant
+guardant or. The nobles, in like manner, were decorated with their
+proper armorial bearings. Before him was borne the royal standard, which
+was ornamented with gold and splendid colours. An account of the
+memorable battle of Azincourt, or Agincourt, fought on the 25th of
+October, 1415, is thus related by Mr. Turner:&mdash; “At dawn the King
+of England had matins and the mass chaunted in his army. He stationed
+all the horses and baggage in the village, under such small guard as he
+could spare, having resolved to fight the battle on foot. He sagaciously
+perceived that his only chance of victory rested in the superiority of
+the personal fortitude and activity of his countrymen, and to bring them
+face to face, and arm to arm, with their opponents, was the simple
+object of his tactical dispositions. He formed his troops into three
+divisions, with two wings. The centre, in which he stationed himself, he
+planted to act against the main body of the French, and he placed the
+right and left divisions, with their wings, at a small distance only
+from himself. He so chose his ground that the village protected his
+rear, and hedges and briars
+<span class = "pagenum">80</span>
+defended his flanks. Determined to shun no danger, but to be a
+conspicuous example to his troops on a day when no individual exertions
+could be spared, he put on a neat and shining armour, with a large and
+brilliant helmet, and on this he placed a crown, radiant with its
+jewels, and he put over him a tunic adorned with the arms of France and
+England. He mounted his horse, and proceeded to address his troops. The
+French were commanded by the Constable of France, and with him were the
+Dukes of Orleans, Burgundy, Berry, and Alençon, the Marshal and Admiral
+of France, and a great assemblage of French nobility. Their force was
+divided into three great battalions, and continued formed till ten
+o’clock, not advancing to the attack. They were so numerous as to be
+able to draw up thirty deep, the English but four. A&nbsp;thousand
+speared horsemen skirmished from each of the horns of the enemy’s line,
+and it appeared crowded with balistae for the projection of stones of
+all sizes on Henry’s little army. Henry sent a part of his force behind
+the village of Agincourt, where the French had placed no men at arms. He
+moved from the rear of his army, unperceived, two hundred archers, to
+hide themselves in a meadow on the flank of the French advanced line. An
+old and experienced knight, Sir Thomas Erpingham, formed the rest into
+battle array for an attack, putting the archers in front, and the men at
+arms behind. The archers had each a sharp stake pointed at both ends, to
+use against the French horse. Sir Thomas having completed his formation,
+threw up his truncheon in the air, and dismounted. The English began the
+attack, which the French had awaited, not choosing to give the advantage
+as at Poictiers; but when they saw them advance, they put themselves in
+motion, and their cavalry charged; these were destroyed by the English
+archers. The French, frightened by the effect of the arrows, bent their
+heads to prevent them from entering the vizors of their helmets, and,
+pressing forward, became so wedged together as to be unable to strike.
+The archers threw back their bows, and, grasping their swords,
+battle-axes, and other weapons, cut their way to the second line. At
+this period the ambushed archers rushed out, and poured their impetuous
+and irresistable arrows into the centre of the assailed force, which
+fell in like manner with the first line. In short, every part
+successively gave way, and the English had only to kill and take
+prisoners.”</p>
+
+<p>(<a class = "hist" name = "noteIV_L" id = "noteIV_L" href =
+"#tagIV_L">L</a>) The Duke of York commanded the van guard of the
+English army, and was slain in the battle.</p>
+
+<p>This personage is the same who appears in Shakespeare’s play of King
+Richard the Second by the title of Duke of Aumerle. His Christian name
+was Edward. He was the eldest son of Edmund Langley, Duke of York, who
+is introduced in the same play, and who was the fifth son of King Edward
+III. Richard, Earl of Cambridge, who appears in the second act of this
+play, was younger brother to this Edward, Duke of York.</p>
+
+<p>(<a class = "hist" name = "noteIV_M" id = "noteIV_M" href =
+"#tagIV_M">M</a>) <i>Ride thou unto the horsemen on yon hill:</i>] After
+the battle,
+<span class = "pagenum">81</span>
+“there were small bodies of the French on different parts of the plain,
+but they were soon routed, slain, or taken.”</p>
+
+<p>(<a class = "hist" name = "noteIV_N" id = "noteIV_N" href =
+"#tagIV_N">N</a>) <i>Enter <span class = "charname">Montjoy</span>.</i>]
+He (the king) asked Montjoye to whom the victory belonged, to him or to
+the King of France? Montjoye replied that the victory was his, and could
+not be claimed by the King of France. The king said to the French and
+English heralds, “It is not we who have made this great slaughter, but
+the omnipotent God, as we believe, for a punishment of the sins of the
+French. The king then asked the name of the castle he saw near him. He
+was told it was Agincourt. Well, then, said he, since all battles should
+bear the name of the fortress nearest to the spot where they were
+fought, this battle shall from henceforth bear the ever durable name of
+Agincourt.” &mdash;<i>Nicolas’s History of Agincourt.</i></p>
+
+<p>(<a class = "hist" name = "noteIV_O" id = "noteIV_O" href =
+"#tagIV_O">O</a>) <i>When Alençon and myself were down together.</i>]
+During the battle, the Duke of Alençon most valiantly broke through the
+English line, and advanced, fighting, near to the king, insomuch that he
+wounded and struck down the Duke of York. King Henry, seeing this,
+stepped forth to his aid, and as he was leaning down to raise him, the
+Duke of Alençon gave him a blow on the helmet that struck off part of
+his crown. The king’s guard on this surrounded him, when, seeing he
+could no way escape death but by surrendering, he lifted up his arm, and
+said to the king, “<i>I am the Duke of Alençon, and yield myself to
+you;</i>” but as the king was holding out his hand to receive his
+pledge, he was put to death by the guards. &mdash;<i>Nicolas’s History
+of Agincourt.</i></p>
+
+<p>(<a class = "hist" name = "noteIV_P" id = "noteIV_P" href =
+"#tagIV_P">P</a>) <i>Enter <span class = "charname">Warwick</span> and
+<span class = "charname">Gloster</span>.</i>] The noble Duke of
+Gloucester, the king’s brother, pushing himself too vigorously on his
+horse into the conflict, was grievously wounded, and cast down to the
+earth by the blows of the French, for whose protection the king being
+interested, he bravely leapt against his enemies in defence of his
+brother, defended him with his own body, and plucked and guarded him
+from the raging malice of the enemy’s, sustaining perils of war scarcely
+possible to be borne. &mdash;<i>Nicolas’s History of Agincourt.</i></p>
+
+<p>(<a class = "hist" name = "noteIV_Q" id = "noteIV_Q" href =
+"#tagIV_Q">Q</a>) <i>Here was a royal fellowship of death!&mdash;</i>]
+There is not much difficulty in forming a correct estimate of the
+numbers of the French slain at Agincourt, for if those writers who only
+state that from three to five thousand were killed, merely meant the
+men-at-arms and persons of superior rank, and which is exceedingly
+probable, we may at once adopt the calculation of Monstrelet, Elmham,
+&amp;c., and estimate the whole loss on the field at from ten to eleven
+thousand men. It is worthy of remark how very nearly the different
+statements on the subject approach to each other, and which can only be
+explained by the fact that the dead had been carefully numbered.</p>
+
+<p>Among the most illustrious persons slain were the Dukes of Brabant,
+Barré, and Alençon, five counts, and a still greater proportion of
+distinguished knights; and the Duke of Orleans, the Count of Vendôsme,
+who was taken by Sir John Cornwall,
+<span class = "pagenum">82</span>
+the Marshall Bouciqualt, and numerous other individuals of distinction,
+whose names are minutely recorded by Monstrelet, were made prisoners.
+The loss of the English army has been variously estimated. The
+discrepancies respecting the number slain on the part of the victors,
+form a striking contrast to the accuracy of the account of the loss of
+their enemies. The English writers vary in their statements from
+seventeen to one hundred, whilst the French chroniclers assert that from
+three hundred to sixteen hundred individuals fell on that occasion. St.
+Remy and Monstrelet assert that sixteen hundred were slain.
+&mdash;<i>Nicolas’s History of Agincourt.</i></p>
+
+<p>(<a class = "hist" name = "noteIV_R" id = "noteIV_R" href =
+"#tagIV_R">R</a>) <i>Do we all holy rites:</i>] Holinshed says, that
+when the king saw no appearance of enemies, he caused the retreat to be
+blown, and gathering his army together, gave thanks to Almighty God for
+so happy a victory, causing his prelates and chaplains to sing this
+psalm&mdash;<i>In exitu Israel de Egypto</i>; and commanding every man
+to kneel down on the ground at this verse&mdash;<i>Non nobis domine, non
+nobis, <ins class = "correction" title = "text reads ‘seel’">sed</ins>
+nomini tuo da gloriam</i>; which, done, he caused <i>Te Deum</i> and
+certain anthems to be sung, giving laud and praise to God, and not
+boasting of his own force, or any human power.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">83</span>
+<h3 class = "chorus"><a name = "chorus_V" id = "chorus_V">
+Enter <span class = "charname">Chorus</span>.</a></h3>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Chor.</i> Vouchsafe to those that have not read the story,</p>
+<p>That I may prompt them.</p>
+<p>Now we bear the king</p>
+<p>Towards Calais: grant him there; there seen,</p>
+<p>Heave him away upon your winged thoughts</p>
+<p>Athwart the sea. Behold, the English beach</p>
+<p>Pales in the flood with men, with wives, and boys,</p>
+<p>Whose shouts and claps out-voice the deep-mouth’d sea,</p>
+<p>Which, like a mighty whiffler<a class = "tag" name = "tagVc_1" id =
+"tagVc_1" href = "#noteVc_1">1</a> ’fore the king</p>
+<p>Seems to prepare his way: so let him land;</p>
+<p>And solemnly, see him set on to London.</p>
+<p>So swift a pace hath thought, that even now</p>
+<p>You may imagine him upon Blackheath.</p>
+<p>How London doth pour out her citizens!</p>
+<p>The mayor, and all his brethren, in best sort,&mdash;</p>
+<p>Like to the senators of the antique Rome,</p>
+<p>With the plebeians swarming at their heels,&mdash;</p>
+<p>Go forth, and fetch their conquering Cæsar in.</p>
+<p>Now in London place him. There must we bring him;</p>
+<p>Show the occurrences, whatever chanc’d,</p>
+<p>Till Harry’s back-return again to France.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Exit.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">84</span>
+
+<h3 class = "extended">HISTORICAL EPISODE.</h3>
+
+<h4>OLD LONDON BRIDGE</h4>
+
+<h6>FROM THE SURREY SIDE OF THE RIVER.</h6>
+
+<h4>RECEPTION OF KING HENRY THE FIFTH</h4>
+
+<h5>ON ENTERING LONDON,</h5>
+
+<h5>AFTER THE BATTLE OF AGINCOURT. *</h5>
+
+<div class = "footnote">
+<p>* Extracts of King Henry’s reception into London, from the anonymous
+Chronicler, who was an eye-witness of the events he
+describes:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>“And when the wished-for Saturday dawned, the citizens went forth to
+meet the king.<span class = "gap">***</span>viz., the Mayor<a class =
+"tag" name = "tag6a" id = "tag6a" href = "#note6a">†</a> and Aldermen in
+scarlet, and the rest of the inferior citizens in red suits, with
+party-coloured hoods, red and white.<span class = "gap">***</span>When
+they had come to the Tower at the approach to the bridge, as it were at
+the entrance to the authorities to the city.<span class =
+"gap">***</span>Banners of the Royal arms adorned the Tower, elevated on
+its turrets; and trumpets, clarions, and horns, sounded in various
+melody; and in front there was this elegant and suitable inscription
+upon the wall, ‘Civitas Regis justicie’&mdash;(‘The city to the King’s
+righteousness.’)<span class = "gap">***</span>And behind the Tower were
+innumerable boys, representing angels, arrayed in white, and with
+countenances shining with gold, and glittering wings, and virgin locks
+set with precious sprigs of laurel, who, at the King’s approach, sang
+with melodious voices, and with organs, an English anthem.</p>
+
+<p class = "gap">******</p>
+
+<p>“A company of Prophets, of venerable hoariness, dressed in golden
+coats and mantles, with their heads covered and wrapped
+<span class = "pagenum">85</span>
+in gold and crimson, sang with sweet harmony, bowing to the ground,
+a&nbsp;psalm of thanksgiving.</p>
+
+<p class = "gap">******</p>
+
+<p>“Beneath the covering were the twelve kings, martyrs and confessors
+of the succession of England, their loins girded with golden girdles,
+sceptres in their hands, and crowns on their heads, who chaunted with
+one accord at the King’s approach in a sweet tune.</p>
+
+<p class = "gap">******</p>
+
+<p>“And they sent forth upon him round leaves of silver mixed with
+wafers, equally thin and round. And there proceeded out to meet the King
+a chorus of most beautiful virgin girls, elegantly attired in white,
+singing with timbrol and dance; and then innumerable boys, as it were an
+angelic multitude, decked with celestial gracefulness, white apparel,
+shining feathers, virgin locks, studded with gems and other resplendent
+and most elegant array, who sent forth upon the head of the King passing
+beneath minæ of gold, with bows of laurel; round about angels shone with
+celestial gracefulness, chaunting sweetly, and with all sorts of
+music.</p>
+
+<p>“And besides the pressure in the standing places, and of men crowding
+through the streets, and the multitude of both sexes along the way from
+the bridge, from one end to the other, that scarcely the horsemen could
+ride through them. A&nbsp;greater assembly, or a nobler spectacle, was
+not recollected to have been ever before in London.”</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">86</span>
+<h3 class = "act"><a name = "actV" id = "actV">
+ACT V.</a></h3>
+
+
+<h4 class = "scene"><a name = "sceneV_1" id = "sceneV_1">
+<span class = "smallcaps">Scene I.</span>&mdash;FRANCE IN THE
+NEIGHBOURHOOD OF TROYES.</a></h4>
+
+<p class = "scenedesc">
+Enter <span class = "charname">Fluellen</span> and <span class =
+"charname">Gower</span>, <span class = "smallroman">L.H.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>Gow.</i> Nay, that’s right; but why wear you your leek today?
+Saint Davy’s day is past.</p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all
+things: I&nbsp;will tell you, as my friend, Captain Gower: the rascally,
+scald, beggarly, lowsy, pragging knave, Pistol,&mdash;he is come to me,
+and prings me pread and salt yesterday, look you, and pid me eat my
+leek: it was in a place where I could not preed 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.</p>
+
+<p class = "entrance">
+Enter <span class = "charname">Pistol</span>, <span class =
+"smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>Gow.</i> Why, here he comes, swelling like a turkey-cock.</p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> ’Tis no matter for his swellings nor his
+turkey-cocks.&mdash;Heaven pless you, ancient Pistol! you scurvy, lowsy
+knave, Heaven pless you!</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Pist.</i> Ha! art thou Bedlam? dost thou thirst, base Trojan,</p>
+<p>To have me fold up Parca’s fatal web?<a class = "tag" name = "tagV_1"
+id = "tagV_1" href = "#noteV_1">1</a></p>
+<p>Hence! I am qualmish at the smell of leek.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+Crosses to <span class = "smallroman">L.H.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> I peseech you heartily, scurvy, lowsy knave, at my
+desires, and my requests, and my petitions, to eat, look you, this leek:
+because, look you, you do not love it, nor your affections, and your
+appetites, and your digestions, does not agree with it, I&nbsp;would
+desire you to eat&nbsp;it.</p>
+
+<p><i>Pist.</i>
+<span class = "stagedir">crosses to <span class =
+"smallroman">R.H.</span></span>
+Not for Cadwallader and all his goats.</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">87</span>
+<p><i>Flu.</i> There is one goat for you.
+<span class = "stagedir">Strikes him.</span>
+Will you be so goot, scald knave, as eat it?</p>
+
+<p><i>Pist.</i> Base Trojan, thou shalt die.</p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> You say very true, scald knave, when Heaven’s will is:
+I&nbsp;will desire you to live in the mean time, and eat your victuals:
+come, there is sauce for it.
+<span class = "stagedir">Striking him again.</span>
+You called me yesterday mountain-squire; but I will make you to-day a
+squire of low degree.<a class = "tag" name = "tagV_2" id = "tagV_2" href
+= "#noteV_2">2</a> I&nbsp;pray you, fall to: if you can mock a leek, you
+can eat a leek.</p>
+
+<p><i>Gow.</i> Enough, captain: you have astonished him.<a class = "tag"
+name = "tagV_3" id = "tagV_3" href = "#noteV_3">3</a></p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> I say, I will make him eat some part of my leek, or I
+will peat his pate four days.&mdash;Pite, I&nbsp;pray you; it is goot
+for you.</p>
+
+<p><i>Pist.</i> Must I bite?</p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> Yes, certainly, and out of doubt, and out of questions
+too, and ambiguities.</p>
+
+<p><i>Pist.</i> By this leek, I will most horribly revenge: I eat, and
+eke I swear&mdash;&mdash;</p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> Eat, I pray you: Will you have some more sauce to your
+leek? there is not enough leek to swear&nbsp;by.</p>
+
+<p><i>Pist.</i> Quiet thy cudgel; thou dost see I eat.</p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> Much goot do you, scald knave, heartily. Nay, ’pray you,
+throw none away; the skin is goot for your proken coxcomb. When you take
+occasions to see leeks hereafter, I&nbsp;pray you, mock at them; that is
+all.</p>
+
+<p><i>Pist.</i> Good.</p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> Ay, leeks is goot:&mdash;Hold you, there is a groat to
+heal your pate.</p>
+
+<p><i>Pist.</i> Me a groat!</p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> Yes, verily and in truth, you shall take it; or I have
+another leek in my pocket, which you shall eat.</p>
+
+<p><i>Pist.</i> I take thy groat in earnest of revenge.</p>
+
+<p><i>Flu.</i> If I owe you any thing, I will pay you in cudgels. Heaven
+be wi’ you, and keep you, and heal your pate.</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Exit <span class = "smallroman">L.H.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>Pist.</i>
+<span class = "stagedir">
+crosses to <span class = "smallroman">L.H.</span></span>
+All hell shall stir for this.</p>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+Crosses to <span class = "smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">88</span>
+<p><i>Gow.</i> Go, go; you are a counterfeit cowardly knave. Will you
+mock at an ancient tradition,&mdash;begun upon an honourable respect,
+and worn as a memorable trophy of predeceased valour,&mdash;and dare not
+avouch in your deeds any of your words? I&nbsp;have seen you gleeking<a
+class = "tag" name = "tagV_4" id = "tagV_4" href = "#noteV_4">4</a> and
+galling at this gentleman twice or thrice. You thought, because he could
+not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an
+English cudgel: you find it otherwise; and henceforth let a Welsh
+correction teach you a good English condition.<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagV_5" id = "tagV_5" href = "#noteV_5">5</a> Fare ye well.</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Exit, <span class = "smallroman">L.H.</span></p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Pist.</i> Doth fortune play the huswife<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagV_6" id = "tagV_6" href = "#noteV_6">6</a> with me now?</p>
+<p>Old I do wax; and from my weary limbs</p>
+<p>Honour is cudgell’d.</p>
+<p>To England will I steal:</p>
+<p>And patches will I get unto these scars,</p>
+<p>And swear, I got them in the Gallia wars.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Exit, <span class = "smallroman">R.H.</span></p>
+
+
+<h4 class = "scene"><a name = "sceneV_2" id = "sceneV_2">
+<span class = "smallcaps">Scene II.</span>&mdash;INTERIOR OF THE
+CATHEDRAL AT TROYES IN CHAMPAGNE.</a></h4>
+
+<p class = "scenedesc long">
+Trumpets sound. Enter, at one door, <span class =
+"smallroman">U.E.L.H.</span>, <span class = "charname">King
+Henry</span>,(<a class = "hist" name = "tagV_A" id = "tagV_A" href =
+"#noteV_A">A</a>) <span class = "charname">Bedford</span>, <span class =
+"charname">Gloster</span>, <span class = "charname">Exeter</span>, <span
+class = "charname">Warwick</span>, <span class =
+"charname">Westmoreland</span>, and other Lords; at another, <span class
+= "smallroman">U.E.R.H.</span>, the <span class = "charname">French
+King</span>, <span class = "charname">Queen Isabel</span>, the <span
+class = "charname">Princess Katharine</span>,<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagV_7" id = "tagV_7" href = "#noteV_7">7</a>(<a class = "hist" name =
+"tagV_B" id = "tagV_B" href = "#noteV_B">B</a>) Lords, Ladies, &amp;c.,
+the Duke of <span class = "charname">Burgundy</span>, and his Train. The
+two parties, French and English, are divided by barriers.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">L.C.</span>) Peace to this
+meeting, wherefore we are met!<a class = "tag" name = "tagV_8" id =
+"tagV_8" href = "#noteV_8">8</a></p>
+<p>Unto our brother France,&mdash;and to our sister,</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">89</span>
+<p>Health and fair time of day;&mdash;joy and good wishes</p>
+<p>To our most fair and princely cousin Katharine;</p>
+<p>And (as a branch and member of this royalty,</p>
+<p>By whom this great assembly is contriv’d,)</p>
+<p>We do salute you, duke of Burgundy;&mdash;</p>
+<p>And, princes French, and peers, health to you all!</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+All the French party bow to <span class = "charname">King
+Henry</span>.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Fr. King.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">R.C.</span>) Right
+joyous are we to behold your face,</p>
+<p>Most worthy brother England; fairly met:&mdash;</p>
+<p>So are you, princes English, every one.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Q. Isa.</i>
+<span class = "stagedir"><span class = "smallroman">R.</span> of <span
+class = "charname">F. King</span>.</span>
+So happy be the issue, brother England,</p>
+<p>Of this good day, and of this gracious meeting,</p>
+<p>As we are now glad to behold your eyes;</p>
+<p>Your eyes, which hitherto have borne in them</p>
+<p>Against the French, that met them in their bent,</p>
+<p>The fatal balls of murdering basilisks:<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagV_9" id = "tagV_9" href = "#noteV_9">9</a></p>
+<p>The venom of such looks, we fairly hope,</p>
+<p>Have lost their quality; and that this day</p>
+<p>Shall change all griefs and quarrels into love.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> To cry amen to that, thus we appear.</p>
+
+<p><i>Q.Isa.</i> You English princes all, I do salute you.</p>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+All the English party bow to <span class = "charname">Queen
+Isabella</span>.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Bur.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">R.</span>) My duty to you
+both, on equal love,</p>
+<p>Great kings of France and England!</p>
+<p>Let it not disgrace me,</p>
+<p>If I demand, before this royal view,</p>
+<p>What rub or what impediment there is,</p>
+<p>Why that the naked, poor, and mangled peace</p>
+<p>Dear nurse of arts, plenties, and joyful births,</p>
+<p>Should not, in this best garden of the world,</p>
+<p>Our fertile France, put up her lovely visage?</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> If, duke of Burgundy, you would the peace,</p>
+<p>Which you have cited, you must buy that peace</p>
+<p>With full accord to all our just demands;</p>
+<p>Whose tenours and particular effects</p>
+<p>You have, enschedul’d briefly, in your hands.</p>
+</div>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">90</span>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Fr. King.</i> I have but with a cursorary eye</p>
+<p>O’er-glanc’d the articles: pleaseth your grace</p>
+<p>To appoint some of your council presently</p>
+<p>To sit with us once more, with better heed</p>
+<p>To re-survey them, we will suddenly</p>
+<p>Pass our accept and peremptory answer.<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagV_10" id = "tagV_10" href = "#noteV_10">10</a></p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Brother, we shall.&mdash;Go, uncle Exeter,&mdash;</p>
+<p>And brother Bedford,&mdash;and you, brother Gloster,&mdash;</p>
+<p>Warwick,&mdash;and Huntingdon,&mdash;go with the king;</p>
+<p>And take with you free power, to ratify,</p>
+<p>Augment, or alter, as your wisdoms best</p>
+<p>Shall see advantageable for our dignity,</p>
+<p>And we’ll consign thereto.&mdash;</p>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+Barriers removed. The English Lords, <span class =
+"charname">Exeter</span>, <span class = "charname">Bedford</span>, <span
+class = "charname">Gloster</span>, <span class =
+"charname">Warwick</span>, and <span class =
+"charname">Huntingdon</span>, cross to the <span class = "charname">King
+of France</span>, and exeunt afterwards with him.</p>
+
+<p>Will you, fair sister,</p>
+<p>Go with the princes, or stay here with us?</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Q. Isa.</i> Our gracious brother, I will go with them:</p>
+<p>Haply a woman’s voice may do some good,</p>
+<p>When articles too nicely urg’d be stood on.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Yet leave our cousin Katharine here with us:</p>
+<p>She is our capital demand, compris’d</p>
+<p>Within the fore rank of our articles.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><i>Q. Isa.</i> She hath good leave.</p>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+Trumpets sound.</p>
+
+<p class = "exit">
+Exeunt all through gates, <span class = "smallroman">L.E.R.</span> and
+<span class = "smallroman">L.</span>, but <span class =
+"charname">Henry</span>, <span class = "charname">Katharine</span>, and
+her Gentlewomen.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p class = "float"><i>K. Hen.</i> (<span class =
+"smallroman">L.C.</span>)</p>
+<p class = "iamb2">Fair Katharine, and most fair!</p>
+<p>Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms,</p>
+<p>Such as will enter at a lady’s ear,</p>
+<p>And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><i>Kath.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">R.C.</span>) Votre majesté
+shall mock at me; I&nbsp;cannot speak votre Anglais.</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> O fair Katharine, if you will love me soundly with
+your French heart, I&nbsp;will be glad to hear you confess it brokenly
+with your English tongue. Do you like me, Kate?</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">91</span>
+<p><i>Kath.</i> <i>Pardonnez moi,</i> I cannot tell vat
+is&mdash;like&nbsp;me.</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> An angel is like you, Kate, and you are like an
+angel.</p>
+
+<p><i>Kath.</i> <i>Que dit-il? que je suis semblable aux anges?</i></p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> I said so, dear Katharine; and I must not blush to
+affirm&nbsp;it.</p>
+
+<p><i>Kath.</i> <i>O bon Dieu! les langues des hommes sont pleines de
+tromperies.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> What say you, fair one?</p>
+
+<p><i>Kath.</i> Dat de tongues of de mans is be full of deceits.</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> I’faith, Kate. I know no ways to mince it in love, but
+directly to say&mdash;I love you: then, if you urge me further than to
+say&mdash;Do you in faith? I&nbsp;wear out my suit. Give me your answer;
+i’faith, do; and so clap hands and a bargain: How say you, lady?</p>
+
+<p><i>Kath.</i> Me understand well.</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Marry, if you would put me to verses or to dance for
+your sake, Kate, why you undid me. If I could win a lady at leap-frog,
+or by vaulting into my saddle with my armour on my back, under the
+correction of bragging, be it spoken, I&nbsp;should quickly leap into a
+wife. But, before Heaven, I&nbsp;cannot look greenly,<a class = "tag"
+name = "tagV_11" id = "tagV_11" href = "#noteV_11">11</a> nor gasp out
+my eloquence, nor I have no cunning in protestation; only downright
+oaths, which I never use till urged, nor never break for urging. If thou
+canst love a fellow of this temper, Kate, whose face is not worth
+sun-burning, that never looks in his glass for love of any thing he sees
+there, let thine eye be thy cook. I&nbsp;speak to thee plain soldier: If
+thou canst love me for this, take me; if not, to say to thee&mdash;that
+I shall die, is true, but&mdash;for thy love, by the lord, no; yet<ins
+class = "correction" title = "text reads ‘I I’"> I </ins>love thee too.
+And while thou livest, dear Kate, take a fellow of plain and uncoined
+constancy;<a class = "tag" name = "tagV_12" id = "tagV_12" href =
+"#noteV_12">12</a> for a good leg will fall;<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagV_13" id = "tagV_13" href = "#noteV_13">13</a> a&nbsp;straight back
+will stoop; a&nbsp;black beard will turn white; a&nbsp;curled pate will
+grow bald; a&nbsp;fair face will wither; a&nbsp;full eye will wax
+hollow: but a good heart,</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">92</span>
+<p>Kate, is the sun and moon; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon, for
+it shines bright, and never changes, but keeps his course truly. If thou
+would have such a one, take me: And take me, take a soldier; take a
+soldier, take a king: And what sayest thou, then, to my love? speak, my
+fair, and fairly, I&nbsp;pray thee.</p>
+
+<p><i>Kath.</i> Est il possible dat I should love de enemy de la
+France?</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> No; it is not possible you should love the enemy of
+France, Kate: but, in loving me, you should love the friend of France;
+for I love France so well, that I will not part with a village of it;
+I&nbsp;will have it all mine: and, Kate, when France is mine, and I am
+yours, then yours is France, and you are mine.</p>
+
+<p><i>Kath.</i> Vat is dat?</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst
+thou love&nbsp;me?</p>
+
+<p><i>Kath.</i> I cannot tell.</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I’ll ask them.
+Come, I&nbsp;know thou lovest me: and at night, when you come into your
+closet, you’ll question this gentlewoman about me; and I know, Kate, you
+will to her dispraise those parts in me that you love with your heart.
+If ever thou be’st mine, Kate, (as I have a saving faith within me,
+tells me,&mdash;thou shalt,) shall there not be a boy compounded between
+Saint Dennis and Saint George, half French, half English, that shall go
+to Constantinople<a class = "tag" name = "tagV_14" id = "tagV_14" href =
+"#noteV_14">14</a> and take the Turk by the beard? shall he not? what
+sayest thou, my fair flower-de-luce? How answer you, <i>la plus belle
+Katharine du monde, mon très chère et divine déesse?</i></p>
+
+<p><i>Kath.</i> <i>Votre majesté</i> ’ave <i>fausse</i> French enough to
+deceive <i>la plus sage damoiselle</i> dat is <i>en France.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Now, fie upon my false French! By mine honour, in true
+English, I&nbsp;love thee, Kate: by which honour I dare not swear thou
+lovest me; yet my blood begins to flatter me that thou dost,
+notwithstanding the poor and untempting
+<span class = "pagenum">93</span>
+effect of my visage. But, in faith, Kate, the elder I wax, the better I
+shall appear: my comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty,
+can do no more spoil upon my face: thou hast me, if thou hast me, at the
+worst; and thou shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better: And
+therefore tell me, most fair Katharine, will you have me? Put off your
+maiden blushes; avouch the thoughts of your heart with the looks of an
+empress; take me by the hand, and say&mdash;Harry of England, I&nbsp;am
+thine: which word thou shalt no sooner bless mine ear withal, but I will
+tell thee aloud&mdash;England is thine, Ireland is thine, France is
+thine, and Henry Plantagenet is thine; who, though I speak it before his
+face, if he be not fellow with the best king, thou shalt find the best
+king of good fellows. Come, your answer in broken musick, for thy voice
+is musick, and thy English broken; therefore, queen of all, Katharine,
+break thy mind to me in broken English, Wilt thou have&nbsp;me?</p>
+
+<p><i>Kath.</i> Dat is as it shall please <i>le roi mon père</i>.</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Nay, it will please him well, Kate; it shall please
+him, Kate.</p>
+
+<p><i>Kath.</i> Den it shall also content me.</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Upon that I will kiss your hand, and I call
+you&mdash;my queen.</p>
+
+<p><i>Kath.</i> <i>Laissez, mon seigneur, laissez, laissez.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Then I will kiss your lips, Kate.</p>
+
+<p><i>Kath.</i> Dat is not be de fashion <i>pour les</i> dames <i>de
+la</i> France.</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> O Kate, nice customs curt’sy to great kings. We are
+the makers of manners, Kate; therefore, patiently, and yielding.
+<span class = "stagedir">Kisses her.</span>
+You have witchcraft in your lips, Kate: there is more eloquence in a
+sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they
+should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of
+monarchs.
+<span class = "stagedir">Trumpets sound.</span>
+Here comes your father.</p>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+The centre gates are thrown open, and</p>
+
+<p class = "entrance long">
+Re-enter the <span class = "charname">French King</span> and <span class
+= "charname">Queen</span>, <span class = "charname">Burgundy</span>,
+<span class = "charname">Bedford</span>, <span class =
+"charname">Gloster</span>, <span class = "charname">Exeter</span>, <span
+class = "charname">Westmoreland</span>. The other French and English
+Lords as before, <span class = "smallroman">U.E.R.</span> and <span
+class = "smallroman">L.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>Bur.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">R.</span>) My royal cousin,
+teach you our princess English?</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">C.</span>) I would have
+her learn, my fair cousin, how perfectly I love her; and that is good
+English.</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">94</span>
+<p><i>Bur.</i> Is she not apt?</p>
+
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Our tongue is rough, coz, and my condition is not
+smooth;<a class = "tag" name = "tagV_15" id = "tagV_15" href =
+"#noteV_15">15</a> so that, having neither the voice nor the heart of
+flattery about me, I&nbsp;cannot so conjure up the spirit of love in
+her, that he will appear in his true likeness. Shall Kate be my
+wife?</p>
+
+<p><i>Fr. King.</i> (<span class = "smallroman">L.C.</span>) So please
+you.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Exe.</i> The king hath granted every article:</p>
+<p>His daughter, first; and then, in sequel, all,</p>
+<p>According to their firm proposèd natures.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>Fr. King.</i> Take her, fair son;</p>
+<p>That the contending kingdoms</p>
+<p>Of France and England, whose very shores look pale</p>
+<p>With envy of each other’s happiness,</p>
+<p>May cease their hatred; and this dear conjunction</p>
+<p>Plant neighbourhood and christian-like accord</p>
+<p>In their sweet bosoms, that never war advance</p>
+<p>His bleeding sword ’twixt England and fair France.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Now, welcome, Kate:&mdash;and bear me witness all,</p>
+<p>That here I take her as my sovereign queen.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+The <span class = "charname">King</span> places a ring on <span class =
+"charname">Katharine’s</span> finger.</p>
+
+<div class = "verse">
+<p>Prepare we for our marriage:&mdash;on which day,</p>
+<p>My lord of Burgundy, we’ll take your oath,</p>
+<p>And all the peers’, for surety of our leagues.&mdash;</p>
+<p>Then shall I swear to Kate, and you to me;</p>
+<p>And may our oaths well kept and prosp’rous be!(<a class = "hist" name
+= "tagV_C" id = "tagV_C" href = "#noteV_C">C</a>)</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class = "stagedir">
+Flourish of Trumpets. Curtain descends.</p>
+
+
+<h6 class = "end">THE END.</h6>
+
+<hr class = "mid">
+
+<span class = "pagenum">95</span>
+<h4 class = "hist"><a name = "histV" id = "histV">
+HISTORICAL NOTES TO ACT FIFTH.</a></h4>
+
+<hr class = "small">
+
+<div class = "footnote">
+
+<p>(<a class = "hist" name = "noteV_A" id = "noteV_A" href =
+"#tagV_A">A</a>) <i>Enter</i> <span class = "charname">King
+Henry</span>,] At this interview, which is described as taking place in
+the Church of Notre Dame, at Troyes, King Henry was attired in his
+armour, and accompanied by sixteen hundred warriors. Henry is related to
+have placed a ring of “inestimable value” on the finger of Katharine,
+“supposed to be the same worn by our English queen-consorts at their
+coronation,” at the moment when he received the promise of the
+princess.</p>
+
+<p>(<a class = "hist" name = "noteV_B" id = "noteV_B" href =
+"#tagV_B">B</a>) <i>The</i> <span class = "charname">Princess
+Katharine</span>,] Katharine of Valois was the youngest child of Charles
+VI., King of France, and his Queen, Isabella of Bavaria. She was born in
+Paris, October 27th, 1401. Monstrelet relates, that on Trinity Sunday,
+June 3rd, the King of England wedded the lady Katharine in the church at
+Troyes, and that great pomp and magnificence were displayed by him and
+his princess, as if he had been king of the whole world. Katharine was
+crowned Queen of England February 24, 1421; and shortly after the death
+of her heroic husband, which event took place August 31st, 1422, the
+queen married a Welch gentleman of the name of Owen Tudor, by whom she
+had three sons and one daughter. The eldest son, Edmund, married
+Margaret Beaufort, the heiress of the house of Somerset. His
+half-brother, Henry VI., created him Earl of Richmond. He died before he
+reached twenty years of age, leaving an infant son, afterwards Henry
+VII., the first king of the Tudor line. Katharine died January 3rd,
+1437, in the thirty-sixth year of her age, and was buried at Westminster
+Abbey.</p>
+
+<p>(<a class = "hist" name = "noteV_C" id = "noteV_C" href =
+"#tagV_C">C</a>) <span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>may our
+oaths well kept and prosp’rous be;</i>] The principal articles of the
+treaty were, that Henry should espouse the Princess Catherine: That King
+Charles, during his life time, should enjoy the title and dignity of
+King of France: That Henry should be declared and acknowledged heir of
+the monarchy, and be entrusted with the present administration of the
+government: That that kingdom should pass to his heirs general: That
+France and England should for ever be united under one king; but should
+still retain their several usages, customs, and privileges: That all the
+princes, peers, vassals, and communities of France, should swear, that
+they would both adhere to the future succession of
+<span class = "pagenum">96</span>
+Henry, and pay him present obedience as regent: That this prince should
+unite his arms to those of King Charles and the Duke of Burgundy, in
+order to subdue the adherents of Charles, the pretended dauphin; and
+that these three princes should make no peace or truce with him but by
+common consent and agreement. Such was the tenour of this famous treaty;
+a&nbsp;treaty which, as nothing but the most violent animosity could
+dictate it, so nothing but the power of the sword could carry it into
+execution. It is hard to say whether its consequences, had it taken
+effect, would have proved more pernicious to England or France. It must
+have reduced the former kingdom to the rank of a province: It would have
+entirely disjointed the succession of the latter, and have brought on
+the destruction of the royal family; as the houses of Orleans, Anjou,
+Alençon, Britanny, Bourbon, and of Burgundy itself, whose titles were
+preferable to that of the English princes, would, on that account, have
+been exposed to perpetual jealousy and persecution from the sovereign.
+There was even a palpable deficiency in Henry’s claim, which no art
+could palliate. For, besides the insuperable objections to which Edward
+the Third’s pretensions were exposed, <i>he</i> was not heir to that
+monarch: If female succession were admitted, the right had devolved on
+the house of Mortimer: Allowing that Richard the Second was a tyrant,
+and that Henry the Fourth’s merits in deposing him were so great towards
+the English, as to justify that nation in placing him on the throne,
+Richard had nowise offended France, and his rival had merited nothing of
+that kingdom: It could not possibly be pretended that the crown of
+France was become an appendage to that of England; and that a prince who
+by any means got possession of the latter, was, without farther
+question, entitled to the former. So that, on the whole, it must be
+allowed that Henry’s claim to France was, if possible, still more
+unintelligible than the title by which his father had mounted the throne
+of England. &mdash;<i>Hume’s History of England.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<hr>
+
+<h6>JOHN K. CHAPMAN AND COMPANY, PRINTERS, 5, SHOE LANE,<br>
+AND PETERBOROUGH COURT, FLEET STREET.</h6>
+
+<p class = "lines">&nbsp;</p>
+
+<h3>FOOTNOTES</h3>
+
+<h4>Page Notes</h4>
+
+<div class = "footnote">
+
+<p><a name = "note1a" id = "note1a" href = "#tag1a">1*</a>
+The English authorities vary in their statements from seventeen to one
+hundred killed. The French historian, Monstrelet, estimates the loss of
+his countrymen at ten thousand men.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "note2a" id = "note2a" href = "#tag2a">2*</a>
+The throne is powdered with the letter S. This decoration made its
+appearance in the reign of Henry IV., and has been differently accounted
+for. The late Sir Samuel Meyrick supposes it to be the initial letter of
+Henry’s motto, “Souveraine.” The King’s costume is copied from Strutt’s
+“Regal Antiquities.” The dresses of the English throughout the play are
+taken from the works of Strutt, Meyrick, Shaw, and Hamilton Smith. The
+heraldry has been kindly supplied by Thomas Willement, Esq., F.S.A. The
+Lord Great Chamberlain carrying the sword of state is De Vere, Earl of
+Oxford.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "note3a" id = "note3a" href = "#tag3a">3*</a>
+At that moment the Earl of March was the lawful heir to the crown, he
+being the heir general of Lionel, Duke of Clarence, <i>third</i> son of
+Edward III, whilst Henry V. was but the heir of John of Gaunt, Duke of
+Lancaster, King Edward’s <i>fourth</i> son.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "note4a" id = "note4a" href = "#tag4a">4*</a>
+Extracts from the Account of the Siege of Harfleur, selected from the
+pages of the anonymous Chronicler who was an eyewitness of the
+event.</p>
+
+<p>“Our King, who sought peace, not war, in order that he might further
+arm the cause in which he was engaged with the shield of justice offered
+peace to the besieged, if they would open the gates to him, and restore,
+as was their duty, freely, without compulsion, that town, the noble
+hereditary portion of his Crown of England, and of his Dukedom of
+Normandy.</p>
+
+<p>“But as they, despising and setting at nought this offer, strove to
+keep possession of, and to defend the town against him, our King
+summoned to fight, as it were, against his will, called upon God to
+witness his just cause<span class = "gap">***</span>he (King Henry) gave
+himself no rest by day or night, until having fitted and fixed his
+engines and guns under the walls, he had planted them within shot of the
+enemy, against the front of the town, and against the walls, gates, and
+towers, of the same<span class = "gap">***</span>so that taking aim at
+the place to be battered, the guns from beneath blew forth stones by the
+force of ignited powers,<span class = "gap">***</span>and in the mean
+time our King, with his guns and engines, so battered the said bulwark,
+and the walls and towers on every side, that within a few days, by the
+impetuosity and fury of the stones, the same bulwark was in a great part
+broken down; and the walls and towers from which the enemy had sent
+forth their weapons, the bastions falling in ruins, were
+<span class = "pagenum">42</span>
+rendered defenceless; and very fine edifices, even in the middle of the
+city, either lay altogether in ruins, or threatened an inevitable fall;
+or at least were so shaken as to be exceedingly damaged.<span class =
+"gap">****</span>And although our guns had disarmed the bulwark, walls,
+and towers during the day, the besieged by night, with logs, faggots,
+and tubs on vessels full of earth, mud, and sand or stones, piled up
+within the shattered walls, and with other barricadoes, refortified the
+streets.<span class = "gap">**</span>The King had caused towers and
+wooden bulwarks to the height of the walls, and ladders and other
+instruments, besides those which he had brought with him for the
+assault.” &mdash;We are then told that the enemy contrived to set these
+engines on fire ’by means of powders, and combustibles prepared on the
+walls.’</p>
+
+<p>The History then states that “a fire broke out where the strength of
+the French was greater, and the French themselves were overcome with
+resisting, and in endeavouring to extinguish the fire, until at length
+by force of arms, darts, and flames, their strength was destroyed.
+Leaving the place therefore to our party, they fled and retreated
+beneath the walls for protection; most carefully blocking up the
+entrance with timber, stones, earth, and mud, lest our people should
+rush in upon them through the same passage.”</p>
+
+<p>“On the following day a conference was held with the Lord de Gaucort,
+who acted as Captain, and with the more powerful leaders, whether it was
+the determination of the inhabitants to surrender the town without
+suffering further rigour of death or war.<span class =
+"gap">****</span>On that night they entered into a treaty with the King,
+that if the French King, or the Dauphin, his first-born, being informed,
+should not raise the <ins class = "correction" title = "spelling unchanged">seige</ins>, and deliver them by force of arms within the
+first hour after morn on the Sunday following, they would surrender to
+him the town, and themselves, and their property.”</p>
+
+<p>“And neither at the aforesaid hour on the following Sunday, nor
+within the time, the French King, the Dauphin, nor any one else, coming
+forward to raise the siege.<span class = "gap">****</span>The aforesaid
+Lord de Gaucort came from the town into the king’s presence, accompanied
+by those persons who before had sworn to keep the articles, and
+surrendering to him the keys of the Corporation, submitted themselves,
+together with the citizens, to his grace.<span class =
+"gap">****</span>Then the banners of St. George and the King were fixed
+upon the gates of the town, and the King advanced his illustrious uncle,
+the Lord Thomas Beaufort, Earl of Dorset (afterwards Duke of Exeter) to
+be keeper and captain of the town, having delivered to him the
+keys.”</p>
+
+<p>Thus, after a vigorous siege of about thirty-six days, one of the
+most important towns of Normandy fell into the hands of the invaders.
+The Chronicler in the text informs us, that the dysentery had carried
+off infinitely more of the English army than were slain in the siege;
+that about five thousand men were then so dreadfully debilitated by that
+disease, that they were unable to proceed, and were therefore sent to
+England; that three hundred
+<span class = "pagenum">43</span>
+men-at-arms and nine hundred archers were left to garrison Harfleur;
+that great numbers had cowardly deserted the King, and returned home by
+stealth; and that after all these deductions, not more than nine hundred
+lances and five thousand archers remained fit for service.</p>
+
+<p>Hume, in his History of England, relates that “King Henry landed near
+Harfleur, at the head of an army of 6,000 men-at-arms, and 24,000 foot,
+mostly archers. He immediately began the siege of that place, which was
+valiantly defended by d’Estoüleville, and under him by de Guitri, de
+Gaucourt, and others of the French nobility; but as the garrison was
+weak, and the fortifications in bad repair, the governor was at last
+obliged to capitulate, and he promised to surrender the place if he
+received no succour before the 18th of September. The day came, and
+there was no appearance of a French army to relieve him. Henry, taking
+possession of the town, placed a garrison in it, and expelled all the
+French inhabitants, with an intention of peopling it anew with English.
+The fatigues of this siege, and the unusual heat of the season, had so
+wasted the English army, that Henry could enter on no farther
+enterprise, and was obliged to think of returning to England. He had
+dismissed his transports, which could not anchor in an open road upon
+the enemy’s coasts, and he lay under a necessity of marching by land to
+Calais before he could reach a place of safety. A&nbsp;numerous French
+army of 14,000 men at-arms, and 40,000 foot, was by this time assembled
+in Normandy, under the constable d’Albret, a&nbsp;force which, if
+prudently conducted, was sufficient either to trample down the English
+in the open field, or to harass and reduce to nothing their small army
+before they could finish so long and difficult a march. Henry,
+therefore, cautiously offered to sacrifice his conquest of Harfleur for
+a safe passage to Calais; but his proposal being rejected, he determined
+to make his way by valour and conduct through all the opposition of the
+enemy.”</p>
+
+<p><a name = "note5a" id = "note5a" href = "#tag5a">5*</a>
+Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. He did not obtain that title till
+1417, two years after the era of this play.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "note6a" id = "note6a" href = "#tag6a">6†</a>
+The Lord Mayor of London, <span class = "smallroman">A.D.</span> 1415,
+was Nicholas Wotton.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<hr class = "small">
+
+<h4>Scene Notes</h4>
+
+<p><b>Act I Chorus</b></p>
+
+<div class = "footnote">
+
+<p><a name = "noteIc_1" id = "noteIc_1" href = "#tagIc_1">Ic.1</a>
+<i>O, for a muse of fire, &amp;c.</i>] This goes, says Warburton, upon
+the notion of the Peripatetic system, which imagines several heavens one
+above another, the last and highest of which was one of fire. It
+alludes, likewise, to the aspiring nature of fire, which, by its levity,
+at the separation of the chaos, took the highest seat of all the
+elements.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIc_2" id = "noteIc_2" href = "#tagIc_2">Ic.2</a>
+<i>Assume the port of Mars;</i>] i.e., the demeanour, the carriage, air
+of Mars. From portée, French.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIc_3" id = "noteIc_3" href = "#tagIc_3">Ic.3</a>
+<i>Can this cockpit hold</i>] Shakespeare probably calls the stage a
+cockpit, as the most diminutive enclosure present to his mind.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIc_4" id = "noteIc_4" href = "#tagIc_4">Ic.4</a>
+<i>Upon this little stage</i>] The original text is “within this <ins
+class = "correction" title = "text has ‘wooden, O’">wooden&nbsp;O</ins>,”
+in allusion, probably, to the theatre where
+this history was exhibited, being, from its <i>circular</i> form, called
+<i>The Globe</i>.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIc_5" id = "noteIc_5" href = "#tagIc_5">Ic.5</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>the very
+<b>casques</b></i>] Even the helmets, much less the men by whom they
+were worn.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIc_6" id = "noteIc_6" href = "#tagIc_6">Ic.6</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i><b>imaginary</b>
+forces</i>] <i>Imaginary</i> for <i>imaginative</i>, or your powers of
+fancy. Active and passive words are by Shakespeare frequently
+confounded.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIc_7" id = "noteIc_7" href = "#tagIc_7">Ic.7</a>
+<i>The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder.</i>] <i>Perilous narrow</i>
+means no more than <i>very narrow</i>. In old books this mode of
+expression frequently occurs.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIc_8" id = "noteIc_8" href = "#tagIc_8">Ic.8</a>
+<i>Into a thousand parts divide one man,</i>] i.e., suppose every man to
+<ins class = "correction" title = "first ‘r’ invisible">represent</ins>
+a thousand.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIc_9" id = "noteIc_9" href = "#tagIc_9">Ic.9</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>make imaginary
+puissance:</i>] i.e., imagine you see an enemy.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<p><b>Act I</b></p>
+
+<div class = "footnote">
+
+<p><a name = "noteI_1" id = "noteI_1" href = "#tagI_1">I.1</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>task</i>] Keep busied with
+scruples and disquisitions.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteI_2" id = "noteI_2" href = "#tagI_2">I.2</a>
+<i>Archbishop of Canterbury,</i>] Henry Chichely, a&nbsp;Carthusian
+monk, recently promoted to the see of Canterbury.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteI_3" id = "noteI_3" href = "#tagI_3">I.3</a>
+<i>Bishop of Ely.</i>] John Fordham, consecrated 1388; died, 1426.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteI_4" id = "noteI_4" href = "#tagI_4">I.4</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>wrest</i>,] i.e.,
+distort.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteI_5" id = "noteI_5" href = "#tagI_5">I.5</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>or bow your reading</i>,]
+i.e., bend your interpretation.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteI_6" id = "noteI_6" href = "#tagI_6">I.6</a>
+<i>Or nicely charge your understanding soul</i>] Take heed, lest by nice
+and subtle sophistry you burthen your knowing soul, or <i>knowingly
+burthen your soul</i>, with the guilt of advancing a false title, or of
+maintaining, by specious fallacies, a&nbsp;claim which, if shown in its
+native and true colours, would appear to be false. &mdash;<span class =
+"charname">Johnson.</span></p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteI_7" id = "noteI_7" href = "#tagI_7">I.7</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>miscreate</i>,]
+Ill-begotten, illegitimate, spurious.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteI_8" id = "noteI_8" href = "#tagI_8">I.8</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>in approbation</i>] i.e.,
+in proving and supporting that title which shall be now set&nbsp;up.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteI_9" id = "noteI_9" href = "#tagI_9">I.9</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>impawn our person</i>,] To
+engage and to pawn were in our author’s time synonymous.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteI_10" id = "noteI_10" href = "#tagI_10">I.10</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>gloze</i>] Expound,
+explain.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteI_11" id = "noteI_11" href = "#tagI_11">I.11</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i><b>imbare</b> their crooked
+titles</i>] i.e., to lay open, to display to view.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteI_12" id = "noteI_12" href = "#tagI_12">I.12</a>
+In allusion to the battle of Crecy, fought 25th August, 1346.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteI_13" id = "noteI_13" href = "#tagI_13">I.13</a>
+<i>So hath your highness;</i>] i.e., your highness hath indeed what they
+think and know you have.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteI_14" id = "noteI_14" href = "#tagI_14">I.14</a>
+<i>They of those <b>marches</b>,</i>] The <i>marches</i> are the
+borders, the confines. Hence the <i>Lords Marchers</i>, i.e., the lords
+presidents of the <i>marches</i>, &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteI_15" id = "noteI_15" href = "#tagI_15">I.15</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>in few.</i>] i.e., in
+short, brief.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteI_16" id = "noteI_16" href = "#tagI_16">I.16</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>a nimble <b>galliard</b>
+won;</i>] A&nbsp;<i>galliard</i> was an ancient dance. The word is now
+obsolete.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteI_17" id = "noteI_17" href = "#tagI_17">I.17</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>let me bring thee to
+Staines.</i>] i.e., let me attend, or accompany thee.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteI_18" id = "noteI_18" href = "#tagI_18">I.18</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>Arthur’s bosom,</i>] Dame
+Quickly, in her usual blundering way, mistakes Arthur for Abraham.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteI_19" id = "noteI_19" href = "#tagI_19">I.19</a>
+<i>’A made a finer end,</i>] To make a fine end is not an uncommon
+expression for making a good end. The Hostess means that Falstaff died
+with becoming resignation and patient submission to the will of
+Heaven.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteI_20" id = "noteI_20" href = "#tagI_20">I.20</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>an it had been any christom
+child;</i>] i.e., child that has wore the <i>chrysom</i>, or white cloth
+put on a new baptized child.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteI_21" id = "noteI_21" href = "#tagI_21">I.21</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>turning o’ the tide:</i>]
+It has been a very old opinion, which Mead, <i>de imperio solis</i>,
+quotes, as if he believed it, that nobody dies but in the time of ebb:
+half the deaths in London confute the notion; but we find that it was
+common among the women of the poet’s time. &mdash;<span class =
+"charname">Johnson.</span></p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteI_22" id = "noteI_22" href = "#tagI_22">I.22</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>I saw him fumble with the
+sheets,</i>] Pliny, in his chapter on <i>the signs of death</i>, makes
+mention of “<i>a fumbling and pleiting of the bed-clothes.</i>” The same
+indication of approaching death is enumerated by Celsus, Lommius,
+Hippocrates, and Galen.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteI_23" id = "noteI_23" href = "#tagI_23">I.23</a>
+<i>’A could never abide carnation;</i>] Mrs. Quickly blunders, mistaking
+the word <i>incarnate</i> for a colour. <i>In questions of Love</i>,
+published 1566, we have “<i>yelowe, pale, redde, blue, whyte, gray, and
+incarnate.</i>”</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteI_24" id = "noteI_24" href = "#tagI_24">I.24</a>
+<i>Shall we shog off?</i>] i.e., shall we move off&mdash;jog off?</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteI_25" id = "noteI_25" href = "#tagI_25">I.25</a>
+<i>Let senses rule;</i>] i.e., let prudence govern you&mdash;conduct
+yourself sensibly.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteI_26" id = "noteI_26" href = "#tagI_26">I.26</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>Pitch and pay;</i>] A
+familiar expression, meaning pay down at once, pay ready money; probably
+throw down your money and pay.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteI_27" id = "noteI_27" href = "#tagI_27">I.27</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>hold-fast is the only
+dog,</i>] Alluding to the proverbial saying&mdash; “Brag is a good dog,
+but Holdfast is a better.”</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteI_28" id = "noteI_28" href = "#tagI_28">I.28</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>caveto be thy
+counsellor.</i>] i.e., let <i>prudence</i> be thy counsellor.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteI_29" id = "noteI_29" href = "#tagI_29">I.29</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>clear thy crystals.</i>]
+Dry thine eyes.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<p><b>Act II Chorus</b></p>
+
+<div class = "footnote">
+
+<p><a name = "noteIIc_1" id = "noteIIc_1" href = "#tagIIc_1">IIc.1</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>which <b>he</b> fills</i>]
+i.e., the King of France.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIIc_2" id = "noteIIc_2" href = "#tagIIc_2">IIc.2</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>Richard, earl of
+Cambridge;</i>] Was Richard de Coninsbury, younger son of Edmund of
+Langley, Duke of York. He was father of Richard, Duke of York, father of
+Edward the Fourth.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIIc_3" id = "noteIIc_3" href = "#tagIIc_3">IIc.3</a>
+<i>Henry lord Scroop of Masham,</i>] Was third husband of Joan Duchess
+of York (she had four), mother-in-law of Richard, Earl of Cambridge.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIIc_4" id = "noteIIc_4" href = "#tagIIc_4">IIc.4</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>the <b>gilt</b> of
+France,</i>] i.e., <i>golden money</i>.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIIc_5" id = "noteIIc_5" href = "#tagIIc_5">IIc.5</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>this grace of kings</i>]
+i.e., he who does the greatest honor to the title. By the same
+phraseology the usurper in <i>Hamlet</i> is called the <i>vice of
+kings</i>, i.e., the opprobrium of them.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIIc_6" id = "noteIIc_6" href = "#tagIIc_6">IIc.6</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>while we <b>force a
+play</b>.</i>] To <i>force a play</i> is to produce a play by compelling
+many circumstances into a narrow compass.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIIc_7" id = "noteIIc_7" href = "#tagIIc_7">IIc.7</a>
+<i>We’ll not offend one stomach</i>] That is, you shall pass the sea
+without the qualms of sea-sickness.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIIc_8" id = "noteIIc_8" href = "#tagIIc_8">IIc.8</a>
+<i>But, till the king come forth, and not till then,</i>] The meaning
+is, “We will not shift our scene unto Southampton till the king makes
+his appearance on the stage, and the scene will be at Southampton
+<i>only</i> for the short time while he does appear on the stage; for,
+soon after his appearance, it will change to France.” &mdash;<span class
+= "charname">Malone.</span></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<p><b>Act II</b></p>
+
+<div class = "footnote">
+
+<p><a name = "noteII_1" id = "noteII_1" href = "#tagII_1">II.1</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>in a fair consent with
+ours,</i>] i.e., in friendly concord; in unison with ours.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteII_2" id = "noteII_2" href = "#tagII_2">II.2</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>hearts <b>create</b></i>]
+Hearts <i>compounded</i> or <i>made up</i> of duty and zeal.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteII_3" id = "noteII_3" href = "#tagII_3">II.3</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>more advice,</i>] On his
+return to more <i>coolness of mind</i>.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteII_4" id = "noteII_4" href = "#tagII_4">II.4</a>
+<i>Are heavy orisons ’gainst, &amp;c.</i>] i.e., are weighty
+supplications against this poor wretch.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteII_5" id = "noteII_5" href = "#tagII_5">II.5</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>proceeding on
+<b>distemper</b>,</i>] <i>Distemper’d in liquor</i> was a common
+expression. We read in Holinshed, vol. iii., page 626:&mdash; “gave him
+wine and strong drink in such excessive sort, that he was therewith
+<i>distempered</i>, and reeled as he went.”</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteII_6" id = "noteII_6" href = "#tagII_6">II.6</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>how shall we stretch our
+eye</i>] If we may not <i>wink</i> at small faults, <i>how wide must we
+open our eyes</i> at great.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteII_7" id = "noteII_7" href = "#tagII_7">II.7</a>
+<i>Who are the late commissioners?</i>] That is, who are the persons
+lately appointed commissioners.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteII_8" id = "noteII_8" href = "#tagII_8">II.8</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>quick</i>] That is,
+<i>living</i>.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteII_9" id = "noteII_9" href = "#tagII_9">II.9</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>as gross</i>] As
+palpable.</p>
+
+<p class = "float"><a name = "noteII_10" id = "noteII_10" href =
+"#tagII_10">II.10</a></p>
+
+<div class = "poem ital">
+<p><span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span>though the truth of it
+stands off as gross</p>
+<p>As black from white,]</p>
+</div>
+<p>Though the truth be as apparent and visible as black and white
+contiguous to each other. To <i>stand off</i> is <i>être relevè</i>, to
+be prominent to the eye, as the strong parts of a picture. &mdash;<span
+class = "charname">Johnson.</span></p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteII_11" id = "noteII_11" href = "#tagII_11">II.11</a>
+<i>Which I in sufferance heartily will rejoice,</i>] Cambridge means to
+say, <i>at</i> which prevention, or, which intended scheme that it was
+prevented, I&nbsp;shall rejoice. Shakespeare has many such elliptical
+expressions. The intended scheme that he alludes to was the taking off
+Henry, to make room for his brother-in-law. &mdash;<span class =
+"charname">Malone.</span></p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteII_12" id = "noteII_12" href = "#tagII_12">II.12</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>our kingdom’s safety must
+so tender,</i>] i.e., must so regard.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteII_13" id = "noteII_13" href = "#tagII_13">II.13</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>dear offences!&mdash;</i>]
+<i>To dere</i>, in ancient language, was <i>to hurt</i>; the meaning,
+therefore, is hurtful&mdash;pernicious offences.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteII_14" id = "noteII_14" href = "#tagII_14">II.14</a>
+<i>Our puissance</i>] i.e., our power, our force.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteII_15" id = "noteII_15" href = "#tagII_15">II.15</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><span class =
+"charname">French King</span>,] The costume of Charles VI. is copied
+from Willemin, Monuments Français. The dresses of the other Lords are
+selected from Montfaucon Monarchie Françoise.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteII_16" id = "noteII_16" href = "#tagII_16">II.16</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>more than carefully it us
+concerns,</i>] <i>More than carefully</i> is <i>with more than common
+care</i>; a&nbsp;phrase of the same kind with <i>better than well</i>.
+&mdash;<span class = "charname">Johnson.</span></p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteII_17" id = "noteII_17" href = "#tagII_17">II.17</a>
+<i>How modest in exception,</i>] How diffident and decent in making
+objections.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteII_18" id = "noteII_18" href = "#tagII_18">II.18</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>strain</i>]
+<i>lineage</i>.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteII_19" id = "noteII_19" href = "#tagII_19">II.19</a>
+<i>That <b>haunted</b> us</i>] To <i>haunt</i> is a word of the utmost
+horror, which shows that they dreaded the English as goblins and
+spirits.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteII_20" id = "noteII_20" href = "#tagII_20">II.20</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>crown’d with the golden
+sun,&mdash;</i>] Shakespeare’s meaning (divested of its poetical fancy)
+probably is, that the king stood upon an eminence, with the sun shining
+over his head. &mdash;<span class = "charname">Steevens.</span></p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteII_21" id = "noteII_21" href = "#tagII_21">II.21</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i><b>fate</b> of him.</i>]
+His <i>fate</i> is what is allotted him by destiny, or what he is fated
+to perform.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteII_22" id = "noteII_22" href = "#tagII_22">II.22</a>
+<i>Montjoy,</i>] Mont-joie is the title of the principal king-at-arms in
+France, as Garter is in our country.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteII_23" id = "noteII_23" href = "#tagII_23">II.23</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>spend their mouths,</i>]
+That is, bark; the sportsman’s term.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteII_24" id = "noteII_24" href = "#tagII_24">II.24</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>memorable <b>line</b>,</i>]
+This genealogy; this deduction of his <i>lineage</i>.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteII_25" id = "noteII_25" href = "#tagII_25">II.25</a>
+<i>Shall <b>chide</b> your trespass,</i>] To <i>chide</i> is to
+<i>resound</i>, to <i>echo</i>.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteII_26" id = "noteII_26" href = "#tagII_26">II.26</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>you shall read</i>] i.e.,
+shall <i>find</i>.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<p><b>Act III Chorus</b></p>
+
+<div class = "footnote">
+
+<p><a name = "noteIIIc_1" id = "noteIIIc_1" href =
+"#tagIIIc_1">IIIc.1</a>
+<i>The well-appointed king</i>] i.e., well furnished with all the
+necessaries of war.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIIIc_2" id = "noteIIIc_2" href =
+"#tagIIIc_2">IIIc.2</a>
+<i>Embark his royalty;</i>] The place where Henry’s army was encamped,
+at Southampton, is now entirely covered with the sea, and called
+Westport.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIIIc_3" id = "noteIIIc_3" href =
+"#tagIIIc_3">IIIc.3</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>rivage,</i>] The
+<i>bank</i> or shore.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIIIc_4" id = "noteIIIc_4" href =
+"#tagIIIc_4">IIIc.4</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>to <b>sternage</b> of this
+navy;</i>] The stern being the hinder part of the ship, the meaning is,
+let your minds follow close after the navy. <i>Stern</i>, however,
+appears to have been anciently synonymous to <i>rudder</i>.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIIIc_5" id = "noteIIIc_5" href =
+"#tagIIIc_5">IIIc.5</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>linstock</i>] The staff to
+which the match is fixed when ordnance is fired.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIIIc_6" id = "noteIIIc_6" href =
+"#tagIIIc_6">IIIc.6</a>
+<i>Or close the wall up with our English dead!</i>] i.e. re-enter the
+breach you have made, or fill it up with your own dead bodies.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIIIc_7" id = "noteIIIc_7" href =
+"#tagIIIc_7">IIIc.7</a>
+<i>Whose blood is <b>fet</b></i>] To fet is an obsolete word meaning
+<i>to fetch</i>. That is, “whose blood is derived,” &amp;c. The word is
+used by Spencer and Ben Jonson.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIIIc_8" id = "noteIIIc_8" href =
+"#tagIIIc_8">IIIc.8</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>like greyhounds in the
+<b>slips</b>,</i>] <i>Slips</i> are a contrivance of leather, to start
+two dogs at the same time.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIIIc_9" id = "noteIIIc_9" href =
+"#tagIIIc_9">IIIc.9</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>whom of succour we
+entreated,</i>] This phraseology was not uncommon in Shakespeare’s
+time.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIIIc_10" id = "noteIIIc_10" href =
+"#tagIIIc_10">IIIc.10</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>are we <b>addrest</b>.</i>]
+i.e., prepared.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<p><b>Act III</b></p>
+
+<div class = "footnote">
+
+<p><a name = "noteIII_1" id = "noteIII_1" href = "#tagIII_1">III.1</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>lavoltas high</i>] A dance
+in which there was much turning, and much capering.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIII_2" id = "noteIII_2" href = "#tagIII_2">III.2</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>swift corantos;</i>] A
+corant is a sprightly dance.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIII_3" id = "noteIII_3" href = "#tagIII_3">III.3</a>
+<i>With <b>pennons</b></i>] <i>Pennons</i> armorial were small flags, on
+which the arms, device, and motto of a knight were painted.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIII_4" id = "noteIII_4" href = "#tagIII_4">III.4</a>
+<i>And, for achievement, offer up his ransom.</i>] i.e., instead of
+fighting, he will offer to pay ransom.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIII_5" id = "noteIII_5" href = "#tagIII_5">III.5</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>ancient Pistol.</i>]
+Ancient, a&nbsp;standard or flag; also the ensign bearer, or officer,
+now called an ensign.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIII_6" id = "noteIII_6" href = "#tagIII_6">III.6</a>
+<i>Of buxom valour,</i>] i.e., valour under good command, obedient to
+its superiors. The word is used by Spencer.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIII_7" id = "noteIII_7" href = "#tagIII_7">III.7</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>upon the rolling restless
+stone,&mdash;</i>] Fortune is described by several ancient authors in
+the same words.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIII_8" id = "noteIII_8" href = "#tagIII_8">III.8</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>with a muffler before her
+eyes,</i>] A&nbsp;muffler was a sort of veil, or wrapper, worn by ladies
+in Shakespeare’s time, chiefly covering the chin and throat.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIII_9" id = "noteIII_9" href = "#tagIII_9">III.9</a>
+<i>For he hath stolen a pix,</i>] A <i>pix</i>, or little chest (from
+the Latin <i>pixis</i>, a&nbsp;box), in which the consecrated
+<i>host</i> was used to be kept.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIII_10" id = "noteIII_10" href =
+"#tagIII_10">III.10</a>
+<i>Fico for thy friendship!</i>] Fico is fig&mdash;it was a term of
+reproach.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIII_11" id = "noteIII_11" href =
+"#tagIII_11">III.11</a>
+<i>The fig of Spain!</i>] An expression of contempt or insult, which
+consisted in thrusting the thumb between two of the closed fingers, or
+into the mouth; whence <i>Bite the thumb</i>. The custom is generally
+regarded as being originally Spanish. &mdash;<span class =
+"charname">Nares.</span></p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIII_12" id = "noteIII_12" href =
+"#tagIII_12">III.12</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>such slanders of the
+age,</i>] Cowardly braggarts were not uncommon characters with the old
+dramatic writers.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIII_13" id = "noteIII_13" href =
+"#tagIII_13">III.13</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>I must speak with him from
+the pridge.</i>] <i>From</i> for <i>about</i>&mdash;concerning the fight
+that had taken place there.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIII_14" id = "noteIII_14" href =
+"#tagIII_14">III.14</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>bubukles,</i>] A corrupt
+word for carbuncles, or something like them.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIII_15" id = "noteIII_15" href =
+"#tagIII_15">III.15</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>and whelks,</i>] i.e.,
+stripes, marks, discolorations.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIII_16" id = "noteIII_16" href =
+"#tagIII_16">III.16</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>his fire’s out.</i>] This
+is the last time that any sport can be made with the red face of
+Bardolph.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIII_17" id = "noteIII_17" href =
+"#tagIII_17">III.17</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>by my habit,</i>] That is,
+by his herald’s coat. The person of a herald being inviolable, was
+distinguished in those times of formality by a peculiar dress, which is
+likewise yet worn on particular occasions.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIII_18" id = "noteIII_18" href =
+"#tagIII_18">III.18</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>admire our sufferance.</i>]
+i.e., our patience, moderation.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIII_19" id = "noteIII_19" href =
+"#tagIII_19">III.19</a>
+<i>Without impeachment:</i>] i.e., hindrance. <i>Empechement</i>,
+French.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIII_20" id = "noteIII_20" href =
+"#tagIII_20">III.20</a>
+<i>Yet, Heaven before,</i>] In the acting edition, the name of God is
+changed to Heaven. This was an expression in Shakespeare’s time for
+<i>God being my guide</i>.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIII_21" id = "noteIII_21" href =
+"#tagIII_21">III.21</a>
+<i>Though France himself,</i>] i.e., though <i>the King of France</i>
+himself.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<p><b>Act IV Chorus</b></p>
+
+<div class = "footnote">
+
+<p><a name = "noteIVc_1" id = "noteIVc_1" href = "#tagIVc_1">IVc.1</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i><b>stilly</b> sounds,</i>]
+i.e., gently, lowly.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIVc_2" id = "noteIVc_2" href = "#tagIVc_2">IVc.2</a>
+<i>The secret whispers of each other’s watch:</i>] Holinshed says, that
+the distance between the two armies was but 250 paces.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIVc_3" id = "noteIVc_3" href = "#tagIVc_3">IVc.3</a>
+<i>Fire answers fire;</i>] This circumstance is also taken from
+Holinshed. “But at their coming into the village, <i>fires</i> were made
+by the English to give light on every side, as there likewise were in
+the French hoste.”</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIVc_4" id = "noteIVc_4" href = "#tagIVc_4">IVc.4</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>the other’s <b>umber’d</b>
+face:</i>] <i>Umber’d</i> means here <i>discoloured</i> by the gleam of
+the fires. <i>Umber</i> is a dark yellow earth, brought from Umbria, in
+Italy, which, being mixed with water, produces such a dusky yellow
+colour as the gleam of fire by night gives to the countenance.
+Shakespeare’s theatrical profession probably furnished him with the
+epithet, as burnt umber is occasionally used by actors for colouring the
+face.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIVc_5" id = "noteIVc_5" href = "#tagIVc_5">IVc.5</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>over-<b>lusty</b></i>]
+i.e., over-<i>saucy.</i></p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIVc_6" id = "noteIVc_6" href = "#tagIVc_6">IVc.6</a>
+<i>Do the low-rated English play at dice;</i>] i.e., do play them away
+at dice. Holinshed says&mdash; “The Frenchmen, in the meanwhile, as
+though they had been sure of victory, made great triumph; for the
+captains had determined before how to divide the spoil, and <i>the
+soldiers the night before had played the Englishmen at dice</i><ins
+class = "correction" title = "close quote missing">.”</ins></p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIVc_7" id = "noteIVc_7" href = "#tagIVc_7">IVc.7</a>
+<i>Minding true things</i>] To <i>mind</i> is the same as to <i>call to
+remembrance</i>.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<p><b>Act IV</b></p>
+
+<div class = "footnote">
+
+<p><a name = "noteIV_1" id = "noteIV_1" href = "#tagIV_1">IV.1</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>popular</i>] i.e., one of
+the people.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIV_2" id = "noteIV_2" href = "#tagIV_2">IV.2</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>you are a better than the
+king.</i>] i.e., a&nbsp;better <i>man</i> than the king.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIV_3" id = "noteIV_3" href = "#tagIV_3">IV.3</a>
+<i>The king’s a bawcock,</i>] A burlesque term of endearment, supposed
+to be derived from <i>beau coq</i>.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIV_4" id = "noteIV_4" href = "#tagIV_4">IV.4</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>an imp of fame;</i>] An
+<i>imp</i> is a young shoot, but means a <i>son</i> in Shakespeare. In
+this sense the word has become obsolete, and is now only understood as a
+small or inferior devil.</p>
+
+<p>In Holingshed, p. 951, the last words of Lord Cromwell are preserved,
+who says:&mdash; “<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span>and after
+him, that his son Prince Edward, that goodly <i>imp</i>, may long reign
+over you.”]</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIV_5" id = "noteIV_5" href = "#tagIV_5">IV.5</a>
+<i>It sorts</i>] i.e., it agrees.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIV_6" id = "noteIV_6" href = "#tagIV_6">IV.6</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>speak lower.</i>]
+Shakespeare has here, as usual, followed Holinshead: “Order was taken by
+commandement from the king, after the army was first set in battle
+array, that <i>no noise or clamor should be made in the host</i>.”</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIV_7" id = "noteIV_7" href = "#tagIV_7">IV.7</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>conditions:</i>] i.e.,
+<i>qualities</i>. The meaning is, that objects are represented by his
+senses to him, as to other men by theirs. What is danger to another is
+danger likewise to him; and, when he feels fear, it is like the fear of
+meaner mortals. &mdash;<span class = "charname">Johnson.</span></p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIV_8" id = "noteIV_8" href = "#tagIV_8">IV.8</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>his cause being just, and
+his quarrel honourable.</i>] In his address to the army, King Henry
+called upon them all to remember <i>the just cause and quarrel</i> for
+which they fought. &mdash;<span class = "charname">Holinshed.</span></p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIV_9" id = "noteIV_9" href = "#tagIV_9">IV.9</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>the latter day,</i>] i.e.,
+the last day, the day of Judgment. Shakespeare frequently uses the
+<i>comparative</i> for the <i>superlative</i>.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIV_10" id = "noteIV_10" href = "#tagIV_10">IV.10</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>their children <b>rawly</b>
+left.</i>] i.e., <i>left young and helpless</i>.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIV_11" id = "noteIV_11" href = "#tagIV_11">IV.11</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>too <b>round</b>:</i>]
+i.e., too rough, too unceremonious.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIV_12" id = "noteIV_12" href = "#tagIV_12">IV.12</a>
+<i>Rambures</i>,] The Lord of Rambures was commander of the cross-bows
+in the French army at Agincourt.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIV_13" id = "noteIV_13" href = "#tagIV_13">IV.13</a>
+<i>And dout them</i>] <i>Dout</i>, is a word still used in Warwickshire,
+and signifies to <i>do out</i>, or <i>extinguish</i>.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIV_14" id = "noteIV_14" href = "#tagIV_14">IV.14</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>a hilding foe.</i>]
+<i>Hilding</i>, or <i>hinderling</i>, is a <i>low wretch</i>.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIV_15" id = "noteIV_15" href = "#tagIV_15">IV.15</a>
+<i>Yon island carrion,</i>] This description of the English is founded
+on the melancholy account given by our historians of Henry’s army,
+immediately before the battle of Agincourt.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIV_16" id = "noteIV_16" href = "#tagIV_16">IV.16</a>
+<i>Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose,</i>] By their <i>ragged
+curtains</i>, are meant their colours.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIV_17" id = "noteIV_17" href = "#tagIV_17">IV.17</a>
+<i>The king himself is rode to view their battle.</i>] The king is
+reported to have dismounted before the battle commenced, and to have
+fought on foot.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIV_18" id = "noteIV_18" href = "#tagIV_18">IV.18</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>on the vigil feast his
+friends</i>,] i.e., the evening before the festival.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIV_19" id = "noteIV_19" href = "#tagIV_19">IV.19</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>with advantages</i>,] Old
+men, notwithstanding the natural forgetfulness of age, shall remember
+<i>their feats of this day</i>, and remember to tell them <i>with
+advantage</i>. Age is commonly boastful, and inclined to magnify past
+acts and past times. &mdash;<span class = "charname">Johnson.</span></p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIV_20" id = "noteIV_20" href = "#tagIV_20">IV.20</a>
+<i>From this day to the ending</i>] It may be observed that we are apt
+to promise to ourselves a more lasting memory than the changing state of
+human things admits. This prediction is not verified; the feast of
+Crispin passes by without any mention of Agincourt. Late events
+obliterate the former: the civil wars have left in this nation scarcely
+any tradition of more ancient history. &mdash;<span class =
+"charname">Johnson.</span></p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIV_21" id = "noteIV_21" href = "#tagIV_21">IV.21</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>gentle his condition:</i>]
+This day shall advance him to the rank of a gentleman.</p>
+
+<p>King Henry V. inhibited any person but such as had a right by
+inheritance, or grant, to assume coats of arms, except those who fought
+with him at the battle of Agincourt; and, I&nbsp;think, these last were
+allowed the chief seats of honour at all feasts and publick meetings.
+&mdash;<span class = "charname">Tollet.</span>]</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIV_22" id = "noteIV_22" href = "#tagIV_22">IV.22</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>bravely in their battles
+set.</i>] Bravely, for gallantly.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIV_23" id = "noteIV_23" href = "#tagIV_23">IV.23</a>
+<i>Bid them achieve me,</i>] i.e., gain, or obtain&nbsp;me.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIV_24" id = "noteIV_24" href = "#tagIV_24">IV.24</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>warriors for the <b>
+working-day</b>:</i>] We are soldiers but coarsely dressed; we have not
+on our holiday apparel.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIV_25" id = "noteIV_25" href = "#tagIV_25">IV.25</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>our <b>guilt</b></i>] i.e.,
+golden show, superficial gilding. The word is obsolete.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIV_26" id = "noteIV_26" href = "#tagIV_26">IV.26</a>
+<i>O <b>perdurable</b> shame!</i>] <i>Perdurable</i> is lasting.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIV_27" id = "noteIV_27" href = "#tagIV_27">IV.27</a>
+<i>Or void the field;</i>] i.e., avoid, withdraw from the field.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIV_28" id = "noteIV_28" href = "#tagIV_28">IV.28</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i><b>raught</b> me his
+hand,</i>] <i>Raught</i> is the old preterite of the verb <i>to
+reach</i>.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIV_29" id = "noteIV_29" href = "#tagIV_29">IV.29</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>Monmouth caps;</i>]
+Monmouth caps were formerly much worn, and Fuller, in his “Worthies of
+Wales,” says the best caps were formerly made at Monmouth.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIV_30" id = "noteIV_30" href = "#tagIV_30">IV.30</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>great sort,</i>] High
+rank.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIV_31" id = "noteIV_31" href = "#tagIV_31">IV.31</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>quite from the answer of
+his degree.</i>] A&nbsp;man of such station as is not bound to hazard
+his person to <i>answer</i> to a challenge from one of the soldier’s
+<i>low degree</i>.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIV_32" id = "noteIV_32" href = "#tagIV_32">IV.32</a>
+<i>Five hundred were but yesterday dubb’d knights:</i>] In ancient
+times, the distribution of this honor appears to have been customary on
+the eve of a battle.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteIV_33" id = "noteIV_33" href = "#tagIV_33">IV.33</a>
+<i>Sixteen hundred mercenaries;</i>] i.e., common soldiers, hired
+soldiers.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<p><b>Act V Chorus</b></p>
+
+<div class = "footnote">
+
+<p><a name = "noteVc_1" id = "noteVc_1" href = "#tagVc_1">Vc.1</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>a mighty
+<b>whiffler</b></i>] An officer who walks first in processions, or
+before persons in high stations, on occasions of ceremony. The name is
+still retained in London, and there is an officer so called that walks
+before their companies at times of publick solemnity. It seems a
+corruption from the French word <i>huissier</i>. &mdash;<span class =
+"charname">Hanmer.</span></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<p><b>Act V</b></p>
+
+<div class = "footnote">
+
+<p><a name = "noteV_1" id = "noteV_1" href = "#tagV_1">V.1</a>
+<i>To have me fold up, &amp;c.</i>] Dost thou desire to have me put thee
+to death.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteV_2" id = "noteV_2" href = "#tagV_2">V.2</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>a squire of low
+degree.</i>] That is, <i>I will bring thee to the ground.</i></p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteV_3" id = "noteV_3" href = "#tagV_3">V.3</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>astonished him.</i>] That
+is, you have stunned him with the blow.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteV_4" id = "noteV_4" href = "#tagV_4">V.4</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>gleeking</i>] i.e.,
+scoffing, sneering. <i>Gleek</i> was a game at cards.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteV_5" id = "noteV_5" href = "#tagV_5">V.5</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>English
+<b>condition</b>.</i>] <i>Condition</i> is temper, disposition of
+mind.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteV_6" id = "noteV_6" href = "#tagV_6">V.6</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>Doth fortune play the
+<b>huswife</b></i>] That is, the <i>jilt</i>.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteV_7" id = "noteV_7" href = "#tagV_7">V.7</a>
+The dresses of Queen Isabella, her ladies, and the Princess Katharine,
+are taken from Montfaucon Monarchie Françoise.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteV_8" id = "noteV_8" href = "#tagV_8">V.8</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>wherefore we are met!</i>]
+i.e., Peace, for which we are here met, be to this meeting.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteV_9" id = "noteV_9" href = "#tagV_9">V.9</a>
+<i>The fatal balls of murdering basilisks:</i>] It was anciently
+supposed that this serpent could destroy the object of its vengeance by
+merely looking at&nbsp;it.</p>
+
+<p class = "float">
+<a name = "noteV_10" id = "noteV_10" href = "#tagV_10">V.10</a>
+<div class = "poem ital">
+<p><span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span>we will, suddenly,</p>
+<p>Pass our accept, and peremptory answer.]</p>
+</div>
+<p>i.e., our answer shall be such as to leave no room for further
+questioning in the matter. “<i>We will peremptorily make
+answer.</i>”</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteV_11" id = "noteV_11" href = "#tagV_11">V.11</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>look <b>greenly</b>,</i>]
+i.e., like a young lover, awkwardly.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteV_12" id = "noteV_12" href = "#tagV_12">V.12</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>take a good fellow of plain
+and <b>uncoined</b> constancy;</i>] <i>Uncoined</i> constancy signifies
+<i>real</i> and <i>true</i> constancy, <i>unrefined</i> and
+<i>unadorned</i>.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteV_13" id = "noteV_13" href = "#tagV_13">V.13</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>a good leg will fall,</i>]
+i.e., shrink&mdash;fall away.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteV_14" id = "noteV_14" href = "#tagV_14">V.14</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>shall go to
+Constantinople</i>] Shakespeare has here committed an anachronism. The
+Turks were not possessed of Constantinople before the year 1463, when
+Henry the Fifth had been dead thirty-one years.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteV_15" id = "noteV_15" href = "#tagV_15">V.15</a>
+<span class = "dash">&mdash;&mdash;</span><i>my <b>condition</b> is not
+smooth;</i>] i.e., manners, appearance.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class = "endnote">
+<h4><a name = "scenes" id = "scenes">Scene Correspondences</a></h4>
+
+<table class = "scenes" summary = "list of scenes">
+<tr>
+<th>Kean</th>
+<th>Shakespeare</th>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>I.1</td>
+<td>I.1</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>I.2</td>
+<td><p>II.3 <i>with Boy’s speech from III.2</i></p></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>II.1</td>
+<td>II.2</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>II.2</td>
+<td>II.4</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><p>III (unnumbered scene after Chorus)</p></td>
+<td>III.1</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>III.1</td>
+<td>III.5</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>III.2</td>
+<td>III.6</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><p>IV (unnumbered scene interrupting Chorus)</p></td>
+<td>III.7</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>IV.1</td>
+<td>IV.1</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>IV.2</td>
+<td>IV.2</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>IV.3</td>
+<td>IV.3</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>IV.4</td>
+<td>IV.5</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>IV.5</td>
+<td><p>IV.6 and IV.7 (intermingled)</p></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>IV.6</td>
+<td>IV.8</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><i>Interlude</i></td>
+<td>&mdash;</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>V.1</td>
+<td>V.1</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>V.2</td>
+<td>V.2</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>&mdash;</td>
+<td>Epilogue (Chorus)</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of King Henry the Fifth, by William Shakespeare
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+Title: King Henry the Fifth
+       Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre
+
+Author: William Shakespeare
+
+Editor: Charles Kean
+
+Release Date: September 28, 2007 [EBook #22791]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK KING HENRY THE FIFTH ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by Louise Hope, David Starner, Curtis Weyant and
+the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
+http://www.pgdp.net
+
+
+
+
+
+[Transcriber's Note:
+
+This is not the text of _Henry V_ as written by Shakespeare. It is an
+acting version produced by Charles Kean in 1859. Approximate scene
+correspondences are listed at the end of the e-text.
+
+The original book had three types of notes. Footnotes, marked with
+asterisks or numbers, were printed at the bottom of the page. Longer
+notes, marked with letters, were printed at the end of each Act as
+"Historical Notes". For this e-text the asterisked notes are printed
+immediately after their paragraph, while numbered footnotes are
+collected at the end of each scene. The Historical Notes remain in
+their original location, as does the Interlude between Acts IV and V
+(printed as a very long asterisked footnote). The original numbering
+has been retained.]
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+           *       *       *       *
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+             Shakespeare's Play Of
+
+             KING HENRY THE FIFTH,
+
+        Arranged for Representation at
+            the Princess's Theatre,
+
+                      with
+       HISTORICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES,
+
+                       by
+             CHARLES KEAN, F.S.A.,
+
+              As First Performed
+          On MONDAY, MARCH 28th, 1859.
+
+
+
+
+  Entered At Stationers' Hall.
+
+  London:
+  Printed by John K. Chapman and Co.,
+  5, Shoe Lane, and Peterborough Court, Fleet Street.
+
+  PRICE ONE SHILLING.
+  TO BE HAD IN THE THEATRE.
+
+
+
+
+DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
+
+  [Transcriber's Note:
+  "Mrs. Charles Kean" was otherwise known as Ellen Tree. Throughout the
+  play, the Hostess is called by her Henry IV name, Mrs. Quickly.]
+
+  KING HENRY THE FIFTH,                       Mr. CHARLES KEAN.
+  DUKE OF BEDFORD,    }                     { Mr. DALY.
+  DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, }                     { Miss DALY.
+    (_Brothers to the King_)
+  DUKE OF EXETER (_Uncle to the King_)        Mr. COOPER.
+  DUKE OF YORK (_Cousin to the King_)         Mr. FLEMING.
+  EARL OF SALISBURY,                          Mr. WILSON.
+  EARL OF WESTMORELAND,                       Mr. COLLETT.
+  EARL OF WARWICK,                            Mr. WARREN.
+  ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY,                   Mr. H. MELLON.
+  BISHOP OF ELY,                              Mr. F. COOKE.
+  EARL OF CAMBRIDGE, }                      { Mr. T. W. EDMONDS.
+  LORD SCROOP,       }                      { Mr. CORMACK.
+  SIR THOMAS GREY,   }                      { Mr. STOAKES.
+    (_Conspirators against the King_)
+  SIR THOMAS ERPINGHAM, }                   { Mr. GRAHAM.
+  GOWER,                }                   { Mr. G. EVERETT.
+  FLUELLEN,             }                   { Mr. MEADOWS.
+    (_Officers in King Henry's Army_)
+  BATES,    }                               { Mr. DODSWORTH.
+  WILLIAMS, }                               { Mr. RYDER.
+    (_Soldiers in the same_)
+  NYM,      }                               { Mr. J. MORRIS.
+  BARDOLPH, }                               { Mr. H. SAKER.
+  PISTOL,   }                               { Mr. FRANK MATTHEWS.
+    (_formerly Servants to Falstaff,
+    now Soldiers in the same_)
+  BOY (_Servant to them_)                     Miss KATE TERRY.
+  ENGLISH HERALD,                             Mr. COLLIER.
+
+  CHORUS,                                     Mrs. CHARLES KEAN.
+
+  CHARLES THE SIXTH (_King of France_)        Mr. TERRY.
+  LEWIS (_the Dauphin_)                       Mr. J. F. CATHCART.
+  DUKE OF BURGUNDY,                           Mr. ROLLESTON.
+  DUKE OF ORLEANS,                            Mr. BRAZIER.
+  DUKE OF BOURBON,                            Mr. JAMES.
+  THE CONSTABLE OF FRANCE,                    Mr. RAYMOND.
+  RAMBURES, }                               { Mr. WALTERS.
+  GRANDPRE, }                               { Mr. RICHARDSON.
+    (_French Lords_)
+  GOVERNOR OF HARFLEUR,                       Mr. PAULO.
+  MONTJOY (_French Herald_)                   Mr. BARSBY.
+
+  ISABEL (_Queen of France_)                  Miss MURRAY.
+  KATHARINE                                   Miss CHAPMAN.
+    (_Daughter of Charles and Isabel_)
+  QUICKLY (_Pistol's Wife, a Hostess_)        Mrs. W. DALY.
+
+_Lords, Ladies, Officers, French and English Soldiers, Messengers,
+and Attendants._
+
+
+The SCENE, at the Beginning of the Play, lies in England;
+but afterwards in France.
+
+
+
+
+STAGE DIRECTIONS.
+
+R.H. means Right Hand; L.H. Left Hand; U.E. Upper Entrance. R.H.C.
+Enters through the centre from the Right Hand; L.H.C. Enters through
+the centre from the Left Hand.
+
+
+RELATIVE POSITIONS OF THE PERFORMERS WHEN ON THE STAGE.
+
+R. means on the Right Side of the Stage; L. on the Left Side of the
+Stage; C. Centre of the Stage; R.C. Right Centre of the Stage; L.C.
+Left Centre of the Stage.
+
+--> The reader is supposed _to be on the Stage_, facing the Audience.
+
+  THE SCENERY Painted by Mr. GRIEVE and Mr. TELBIN,
+  Assisted by Mr. W. GORDON, Mr. F. LLOYDS,
+  Mr. CUTHBERT, Mr. DAYES, Mr. MORRIS, &c., &c.
+  THE MUSIC under the direction of Mr. ISAACSON.
+  THE DANCE IN THE EPISODE by Mr. CORMACK.
+  THE DECORATIONS AND APPOINTMENTS by Mr. E. W. BRADWELL.
+  THE DRESSES by Mrs. and Miss HOGGINS.
+  THE MACHINERY by Mr. G. HODSDON.
+  PERRUQUIER, Mr. ASPLIN, of No. 13, New Bond Street.
+
+--> _For reference to Historical Authorities indicated by Letters, see
+end of each Act._
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+
+In the selection of my last Shakespearean revival at the Princess's
+Theatre, I have been actuated by a desire to present some of the finest
+poetry of our great dramatic master, interwoven with a subject
+illustrating a most memorable era in English history. No play appears
+to be better adapted for this two-fold purpose than that which treats
+of Shakespeare's favorite hero, and England's favorite king--Henry the
+Fifth.
+
+The period thus recalled is flattering to our national pride; and
+however much the general feeling of the present day may be opposed to
+the evils of war, there are few amongst us who can be reminded of the
+military renown achieved by our ancestors on the fields of Crecy,
+Poitiers, and Agincourt, without a glow of patriotic enthusiasm.
+
+The political motives which induced the invasion of France in the year
+1415 must be sought for in the warlike spirit of the times, and in the
+martial character of the English sovereign. It is sufficient for
+dramatic purposes that a few thousands of our countrymen, in their march
+through a foreign land, enfeebled by sickness and encompassed by foes,
+were able to subdue and scatter to the winds the multitudinous hosts of
+France, on whose blood-stained soil ten thousand of her bravest sons lay
+slain, mingled with scarcely one hundred Englishmen![*] Such a
+marvellous disparity might well draw forth the pious acknowledgment of
+King Henry,--
+
+  "O God, thy arm was here;--
+  And not to us, but to thy arm alone,
+  Ascribe we all.--When, without stratagem,
+  But in plain shock and even play of battle,
+  Was ever known so great and little loss
+  On one part and on the other?--Take it, God,
+  For it is only thine!"
+
+    [Footnote *: The English authorities vary in their statements
+    from seventeen to one hundred killed. The French historian,
+    Monstrelet, estimates the loss of his countrymen at ten thousand
+    men.]
+
+Shakespeare in this, as in other of his dramatic histories, has closely
+followed Holinshed; but the light of his genius irradiates the dry pages
+of the chronicler. The play of Henry the Fifth is not only a poetical
+record of the past, but it is, as it were, "a song of triumph," a lay of
+the minstrel pouring forth a paean of victory. The gallant feats of our
+forefathers are brought vividly before our eyes, inspiring sentiments
+not to be excited by the mere perusal of books, reminding us of the
+prowess of Englishmen in earlier days, and conveying an assurance of
+what they will ever be in the hour of peril.
+
+The descriptive poetry assigned to the "Chorus" between the acts is
+retained as a peculiar feature, connecting and explaining the action as
+it proceeds. This singular personage, so different from the Chorus of
+antiquity, I have endeavoured to render instrumental to the general
+effect of the play; the whole being planned with a view to realise, as
+far as the appliances of a theatre can be exercised, the events of the
+extraordinary campaign so decisively closed by the great conflict of
+Agincourt, which ultimately placed two crowns on the brow of the
+conqueror, and resulted in his marriage with Katharine, the daughter of
+Charles the Sixth, King of France. Shakespeare does not in this
+instance, as in _Pericles_ and the _Winter's Tale_, assign a distinct
+individuality to the Chorus. For the figure of Time, under the semblance
+of an aged man, which has been heretofore presented, will now be
+substituted Clio, the muse of History. Thus, without violating
+consistency, an opportunity is afforded to Mrs. Charles Kean, which the
+play does not otherwise supply, of participating in this, the concluding
+revival of her husband's management.
+
+Between the fourth and fifth acts I have ventured to introduce, as in
+the case of _Richard the Second_, a historical episode of action,
+exhibiting the reception of King Henry on returning to his capital,
+after the French expedition.
+
+It would be impossible to include the manifold incidents of the royal
+progress in one scene: neither could all the sites on which they
+actually took place be successively exhibited. The most prominent are,
+therefore, selected, and thrown into one locality--the approach to old
+London bridge. Our audiences have previously witnessed the procession of
+Bolingbroke, followed in silence by his deposed and captive predecessor.
+An endeavor will now be made to exhibit the heroic son of that very
+Bolingbroke, in his own hour of more lawful triumph, returning to the
+same city; while thousands gazed upon him with mingled devotion and
+delight, many of whom, perhaps, participated in the earlier reception of
+his father, sixteen years before, under such different and painful
+circumstances. The Victor of Agincourt is hailed, not as a successful
+usurper, but as a conqueror; the adored sovereign of his people; the
+pride of the nation; and apparently the chosen instrument of heaven,
+crowned with imperishable glory. The portrait of this great man is drawn
+throughout the play with the pencil of a master-hand. The pleasantry of
+the prince occasionally peeps through the dignified reserve of the
+monarch, as instanced in his conversations with Fluellen, and in the
+exchange of gloves with the soldier Williams. His bearing is invariably
+gallant, chivalrous, and truly devout; surmounting every obstacle by his
+indomitable courage; and ever in the true feeling of a christian
+warrior, placing his trust in the one Supreme Power, the only Giver of
+victory! The introductions made throughout the play are presented less
+with a view to spectacular effect, than from a desire to render the
+stage a medium of historical knowledge, as well as an illustration of
+dramatic poetry. _Accuracy_, not _show_, has been my object; and where
+the two coalesce, it is because the one is inseparable from the other.
+The entire scene of the episode has been modelled upon the facts related
+by the late Sir Harris Nicholas, in his translated copy of a highly
+interesting Latin MS., accidentally discovered in the British Museum,
+written by a Priest, who accompanied the English army; and giving a
+detailed account of every incident, from the embarkation at Southampton
+to the return to London. The author tells us himself, that he was
+present at Agincourt, and "_sat on horseback with the other priests,
+among the baggage, in the rear of the battle_." We have, therefore, the
+evidence of an eyewitness; and by that testimony I have regulated the
+general representation of this noble play, but more especially the
+introductory episode.
+
+The music, under the direction of Mr. Isaacson, has been, in part,
+selected from such ancient airs as remain to us of, or anterior to, the
+date of Henry the Fifth, and, in part, composed to accord with the same
+period. The "Song on the Victory of Agincourt," published at the end of
+Sir Harris Nicholas's interesting narrative, and introduced in the
+admirable work entitled "Popular Music of the Olden Time," by
+W. Chappell, F.S.A., is sung by the boy choristers in the Episode. The
+"Chanson Roland," to be found in the above-named work, is also given by
+the entire chorus in the same scene. The Hymn of Thanksgiving, at the
+end of the fourth act, is supposed to be as old as A.D. 1310. To give
+effect to the music, fifty singers have been engaged.
+
+As the term of my management is now drawing to a close, I may, perhaps,
+be permitted, in a few words, to express my thanks for the support and
+encouragement I have received. While endeavouring, to the best of my
+ability and judgment, to uphold the interests of the drama in its most
+exalted form, I may conscientiously assert, that I have been animated by
+no selfish or commercial spirit. An enthusiast in the art to which my
+life has been devoted, I have always entertained a deeply-rooted
+conviction that the plan I have pursued for many seasons, might, in due
+time, under fostering care, render the Stage productive of much benefit
+to society at large. Impressed with a belief that the genius of
+Shakespeare soars above all rivalry, that he is the most marvellous
+writer the world has ever known, and that his works contain stores of
+wisdom, intellectual and moral, I cannot but hope that one who has
+toiled for so many years, in admiring sincerity, to spread abroad
+amongst the multitude these invaluable gems, may, at least, be
+considered as an honest labourer, adding his mite to the great cause of
+civilisation and educational progress.
+
+After nine years of unremitting exertion as actor and director, the
+constant strain of mind and body warns me to retreat from a combined
+duty which I find beyond my strength, and in the exercise of which,
+neither zeal, nor devotion, nor consequent success, can continue to
+beguile me into a belief that the end will compensate for the many
+attendant troubles and anxieties. It would have been impossible, on my
+part, to gratify my enthusiastic wishes, in the illustration of
+Shakespeare, had not my previous career as an actor placed me in a
+position of comparative independence with regard to speculative
+disappointment. Wonderful as have been the yearly receipts, yet the vast
+sums expended--sums, I have every reason to believe, not to be
+paralleled in any theatre of the same capability throughout the
+world--make it advisable that I should now retire from the self-imposed
+responsibility of management, involving such a perilous outlay; and the
+more especially, as a building so restricted in size as the Princess's,
+renders any adequate return utterly hopeless.
+
+My earnest aim has been to promote the well-being of my Profession; and
+if, in any degree, I have attained so desirable an object, I trust I may
+not be deemed presumptuous in cherishing the belief, that my arduous
+struggle has won for me the honourable reward of--Public Approval.
+
+CHARLES KEAN.
+
+
+
+
+KING HENRY THE FIFTH.
+
+
+    _Enter CHORUS._
+
+  O for a muse of fire, that would ascend
+  The brightest heaven of invention,[1]
+  A kingdom for a stage, princes to act,
+  And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
+  Then should the warlike Harry, like himself,
+  Assume the port of Mars;[2] and, at his heels,
+  Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire,
+  Crouch for employment.(A) But pardon, gentles all,
+  The flat unraised spirit that hath dar'd
+  On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth
+  So great an object: Can this cockpit hold[3]
+  The vasty fields of France? or may we cram
+  Upon this little stage[4] the very casques[5]
+  That did affright the air at Agincourt?
+  O, pardon! since a crooked figure may
+  Attest in little place, a million;
+  And let us, cyphers to this great accompt,
+  On your imaginary forces[6] work.
+  Suppose within the girdle of these walls
+  Are now confined two mighty monarchies,
+  Whose high upreared and abutting fronts
+  The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder:[7]
+  Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts;
+  Into a thousand parts divide one man,[8]
+  And make imaginary puissance;[9]
+  For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings,
+  Carry them here and there; jumping o'er times,
+  Turning the accomplishment of many years
+  Into an hour-glass: For the which supply,
+  Admit me Chorus to this history;
+  Who, prologue-like, your humble patience pray,
+  Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play.
+
+    [_Exit._
+
+
+    [Footnote Ic.1: _O, for a muse of fire, &c._] This goes, says
+    Warburton, upon the notion of the Peripatetic system, which
+    imagines several heavens one above another, the last and highest
+    of which was one of fire. It alludes, likewise, to the aspiring
+    nature of fire, which, by its levity, at the separation of the
+    chaos, took the highest seat of all the elements.]
+
+    [Footnote Ic.2: _Assume the port of Mars;_] i.e., the demeanour,
+    the carriage, air of Mars. From portee, French.]
+
+    [Footnote Ic.3: _Can this cockpit hold_] Shakespeare probably
+    calls the stage a cockpit, as the most diminutive enclosure
+    present to his mind.]
+
+    [Footnote Ic.4: _Upon this little stage_] The original text is
+    "within this wooden O," in allusion, probably, to the theatre
+    where this history was exhibited, being, from its _circular_ form,
+    called _The Globe_.]
+
+    [Footnote Ic.5: _----the very +casques+_] Even the helmets, much
+    less the men by whom they were worn.]
+
+    [Footnote Ic.6: _----+imaginary+ forces_] _Imaginary_ for
+    _imaginative_, or your powers of fancy. Active and passive words
+    are by Shakespeare frequently confounded.]
+
+    [Footnote Ic.7: _The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder._]
+    _Perilous narrow_ means no more than _very narrow_. In old books
+    this mode of expression frequently occurs.]
+
+    [Footnote Ic.8: _Into a thousand parts divide one man,_] i.e.,
+    suppose every man to represent a thousand.]
+
+    [Footnote Ic.9: _----make imaginary puissance:_] i.e., imagine you
+    see an enemy.]
+
+
+
+
+ACT I.
+
+
+SCENE I.--THE PAINTED CHAMBER IN THE ROYAL PALACE AT WESTMINSTER.
+
+    [Frequent reference is made in the Chronicles to the Painted
+    Chamber, as the room wherein Henry V. held his councils.]
+
+  _Trumpets sound._
+
+    _KING HENRY(B) discovered on his throne (CENTRE)[*], BEDFORD,(C)
+    GLOSTER,(D) EXETER,(E) WARWICK, WESTMORELAND, and others in
+    attendance._
+
+    [Footnote *: The throne is powdered with the letter S. This
+    decoration made its appearance in the reign of Henry IV., and
+    has been differently accounted for. The late Sir Samuel Meyrick
+    supposes it to be the initial letter of Henry's motto,
+    "Souveraine." The King's costume is copied from Strutt's "Regal
+    Antiquities." The dresses of the English throughout the play are
+    taken from the works of Strutt, Meyrick, Shaw, and Hamilton Smith.
+    The heraldry has been kindly supplied by Thomas Willement, Esq.,
+    F.S.A. The Lord Great Chamberlain carrying the sword of state is
+    De Vere, Earl of Oxford.]
+
+  _K. Hen._ Where is my gracious Lord of Canterbury?
+
+  _Exe._ (L.) Not here in presence.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Send for him, good uncle.
+
+    [_EXETER beckons to a HERALD, who goes off, L.H._
+
+  _West._ (L.) Shall we call in the ambassador, my liege?
+
+  _K. Hen._ Not yet, my cousin: we would be resolv'd,
+  Before we hear him, of some things of weight,
+  That task[1] our thoughts, concerning us and France.
+
+    _Re-enter HERALD with the Archbishop of CANTERBURY,(F)[2] and
+    Bishop of ELY,[3] L.H. The Bishops cross to R.C._
+
+  _Cant._ (R.C.) Heaven and its angels guard your sacred throne,
+  And make you long become it!
+
+  _K. Hen._                  Sure, we thank you.
+  My learned lord, we pray you to proceed,
+  And justly and religiously unfold,
+  Why the law Salique,(G) that they have in France,
+  Or should, or should not, bar us in our claim:
+  And Heaven forbid, my dear and faithful lord,
+  That you should fashion, wrest,[4] or bow your reading,[5]
+  Or nicely charge your understanding soul[6]
+  With opening titles miscreate,[7] whose right
+  Suits not in native colours with the truth.
+  For Heaven doth know how many, now in health,
+  Shall drop their blood in approbation[8]
+  Of what your reverence shall incite us to.
+  Therefore take heed how you impawn our person,[9]
+  How you awake the sleeping sword of war:
+  We charge you, in the name of Heaven, take heed:
+  Under this conjuration, speak, my lord.
+
+  _Cant._ (R.C.) Then hear me, gracious sovereign, and you peers,
+  That owe your lives, your faith, and services,
+  To this imperial throne.--There is no bar
+  To make against your highness' claim to France
+  But this, which they produce from Pharamond,--
+  _No woman shall succeed in Salique land_:
+  Which Salique land the French unjustly gloze[10]
+  To be the realm of France, and Pharamond
+  The founder of this law and female bar.
+  Yet their own authors faithfully affirm
+  That the land Salique lies in Germany,
+  Between the floods of Sala and of Elbe;
+  Where Charles the Great, having subdued the Saxons,
+  There left behind and settled certain French:
+  Nor did the French possess the Salique land
+  Until four hundred one and twenty years
+  After defunction of King Pharamond,
+  Idly supposed the founder of this law.
+  Besides, their writers say,
+  King Pepin, which deposed Childerick,
+  Did 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 claiming from the female;
+  And rather choose to hide them in a net
+  Than amply to imbare their crooked titles[11]
+  Usurp'd from you and your progenitors.
+
+  _K. Hen._ May I with right and conscience make this claim?
+
+  _Cant._ (R.C.) The sin upon my head, dread sovereign!
+  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:
+  Go, my dread lord, to your great grandsire's tomb,
+  From whom you claim; invoke his warlike spirit,
+  And your great uncle's, Edward the black prince,
+  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.[12]
+
+  _Ely._ (R.C.) Awake remembrance of these valiant dead,
+  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 liege
+  Is in the very May-morn of his youth,
+  Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises.
+
+  _Exe._ (L.) Your brother kings and monarchs of the earth
+  Do all expect that you should rouse yourself,
+  As did the former lions of your blood.
+
+  _West._ (L.) They know your grace hath cause, and means and might:
+  So hath your highness;[13] never king of England
+  Had nobles richer and more loyal subjects,
+  Whose hearts have left their bodies here in England,
+  And lie pavilion'd in the fields of France.
+
+  _Cant._ O, let their bodies follow, my dear liege,
+  With blood, and sword, and fire to win your right:
+  In aid whereof we of the spiritualty
+  Will raise your highness such a mighty sum,
+  As never did the clergy at one time
+  Bring in to any of your ancestors.
+
+  _K. Hen._ We must not only arm to invade the French,
+  But lay down our proportions to defend
+  Against the Scot, who will make road upon us
+  With all advantages.
+
+  _Cant._ (R.C.) They of those marches,[14] gracious sovereign,
+  Shall be a wall sufficient to defend
+  Our inland from the pilfering borderers.
+  Therefore to France, my liege.
+  Divide your happy England into four;
+  Whereof take you one quarter into France,
+  And you withal shall make all Gallia shake.
+  If we, with thrice that power left at home,
+  Cannot defend our own door from the dog,
+  Let us be worried, and our nation lose
+  The name of hardiness and policy.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Call in the messengers sent from the Dauphin.
+
+    [_Exit HERALD with LORDS, L.H._
+
+  Now are we well resolv'd; and by Heaven's help,
+  And yours, the noble sinews of our power,--
+  France being ours, we'll bend it to our awe,
+  Or break it all to pieces.
+
+    _Re-enter HERALD and Lords, L.H., with the AMBASSADOR of FRANCE,
+    French Bishops, Gentlemen, and Attendants carrying a treasure
+    chest, L.H._
+
+  Now are we well prepar'd to know the pleasure
+  Of our fair cousin Dauphin; for we hear
+  Your greeting is from him, not from the king.
+
+  _Amb._ (L.C.) May it please your majesty to give us leave
+  Freely to render what we have in charge;
+  Or shall we sparingly show you far off
+  The Dauphin's meaning and our embassy?
+
+  _K. Hen._ We are no tyrant, but a Christian king;
+  Therefore with frank and with uncurbed plainness
+  Tell us the Dauphin's mind.
+
+  _Amb._                    Thus, then, in few.[15]
+  Your highness, lately sending into France,
+  Did claim some certain dukedoms, in the right
+  Of your great predecessor, King Edward the Third.
+  In answer of which claim, the prince our master
+  Says,--that you savour too much of your youth;
+  And bids you be advis'd, there's nought in France
+  That can be with a nimble galliard won;[16]
+  You cannot revel into dukedoms there.
+  He therefore sends you, meeter for your spirit,
+  This tun of treasure; and, in lieu of this,
+  Desires you let the dukedoms that you claim
+  Hear no more of you. This the Dauphin speaks.
+
+  _K. Hen._ What treasure, uncle?
+
+  _Exe._ (_Opening the chest._)
+
+                                Tennis-balls, my liege.(H)
+
+  _K. Hen._ We are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us;
+  His present and your pains we thank you for:
+  When we have match'd our rackets to these balls,
+  We will, in France, by Heaven's grace, play a set
+  Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard.
+  And we understand him well,
+  How he comes o'er us with our wilder days,
+  Not measuring what use we made of them.
+  But tell the Dauphin,--I will keep my state;
+  Be like a king, and show my soul of greatness,
+  When I do rouse me in my throne of France:
+  For I will rise there with so full a glory,
+  That I will dazzle all the eyes of France,
+  Yea, strike the Dauphin blind to look on us.
+  But this lies all within the will of Heaven,
+  To whom I do appeal; And in whose name,
+  Tell you the Dauphin, I am coming on,
+  To venge me as I may, and to put forth
+  My rightful hand in a well-hallow'd cause.
+  So, get you hence in peace; and tell the Dauphin,
+  His jest will savour but of shallow wit,
+  When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it.--
+  Convey them with safe conduct.--Fare you well.
+
+    [_Exeunt AMBASSADOR, and Attendants, L.H._
+
+  _Exe._ This was a merry message.
+
+  _K. Hen._ We hope to make the sender blush at it.
+
+    [_The KING rises._
+
+  Therefore, my lords, omit no happy hour
+  That may give furtherance to our expedition;
+  For we have now no thought in us but France,
+  Save those to Heaven, that run before our business.
+  Therefore let our proportions for these wars
+  Be soon collected, and all things thought upon
+  That may with reasonable swiftness add
+  More feathers to our wings; for, Heaven before,
+  We'll chide this Dauphin at his father's door.
+
+    [_The characters group round the KING._
+
+    _Trumpets sound._
+
+
+    [Footnote I.1: _----task_] Keep busied with scruples and
+    disquisitions.]
+
+    [Footnote I.2: _Archbishop of Canterbury,_] Henry Chichely,
+    a Carthusian monk, recently promoted to the see of Canterbury.]
+
+    [Footnote I.3: _Bishop of Ely._] John Fordham, consecrated 1388;
+    died, 1426.]
+
+    [Footnote I.4: _----wrest_,] i.e., distort.]
+
+    [Footnote I.5: _----or bow your reading_,] i.e., bend your
+    interpretation.]
+
+    [Footnote I.6: _Or nicely charge your understanding soul_] Take
+    heed, lest by nice and subtle sophistry you burthen your knowing
+    soul, or _knowingly burthen your soul_, with the guilt of
+    advancing a false title, or of maintaining, by specious fallacies,
+    a claim which, if shown in its native and true colours, would
+    appear to be false. --JOHNSON.]
+
+    [Footnote I.7: _----miscreate_,] Ill-begotten, illegitimate,
+    spurious.]
+
+    [Footnote I.8: _----in approbation_] i.e., in proving and
+    supporting that title which shall be now set up.]
+
+    [Footnote I.9: _----impawn our person_,] To engage and to pawn
+    were in our author's time synonymous.]
+
+    [Footnote I.10: _----gloze_] Expound, explain.]
+
+    [Footnote I.11: _----+imbare+ their crooked titles_] i.e., to lay
+    open, to display to view.]
+
+    [Footnote I.12: In allusion to the battle of Crecy, fought 25th
+    August, 1346.]
+
+    [Footnote I.13: _So hath your highness;_] i.e., your highness hath
+    indeed what they think and know you have.]
+
+    [Footnote I.14: _They of those +marches+,_] The _marches_ are the
+    borders, the confines. Hence the _Lords Marchers_, i.e., the lords
+    presidents of the _marches_, &c.]
+
+    [Footnote I.15: _----in few._] i.e., in short, brief.]
+
+    [Footnote I.16: _----a nimble +galliard+ won;_] A _galliard_ was
+    an ancient dance. The word is now obsolete.]
+
+
+SCENE II.--EASTCHEAP, LONDON.
+
+    _Enter BARDOLPH,(I) NYM, PISTOL, MRS. QUICKLY, and BOY, L.2 E._
+
+_Quick._ (L.C.) Pr'ythee, honey-sweet husband, let me bring thee to
+Staines.[17]
+
+  _Pist._ (C.) No; for my manly heart doth yearn.--
+  Bardolph, be blithe;--Nym, rouse thy vaunting veins;
+  Boy, bristle thy courage up; for Falstaff he is dead,
+  And we must yearn therefore.
+
+_Bard._ (R.) 'Would I were with him, wheresome'er he is!
+
+_Quick._ (C.) Sure, he's in Arthur's bosom,[18] if ever man went to
+Arthur's bosom. 'A made a finer end,[19] and went away, an it had been
+any christom child;[20] 'a parted even just between twelve and one, e'en
+at turning o' the tide:[21] for after I saw him fumble with the
+sheets,[22] and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers' ends,
+I knew there was but one way; for his nose was as sharp as a pen, and a'
+babbled of green fields. How now, Sir John! quoth I: what, man! be of
+good cheer. So a' cried out--Heaven, Heaven, Heaven! three or four
+times. Now I, to comfort him, bid him 'a should not think of Heaven;
+I hoped, there was no need to trouble himself with any such thoughts
+yet. So 'a bade me lay more clothes on his feet: I put my hand into the
+bed and felt them, and they were as cold as any stone.
+
+_Nym._ (R.C.) They say he cried out of sack.
+
+_Quick._ Ay, that 'a did.
+
+_Bard._ And of women.
+
+_Quick._ Nay, that 'a did not.
+
+_Boy._ (L.) Yes, that 'a did, and said they were devils incarnate.
+
+_Quick._ (_crosses L.C._) 'A could never abide carnation;[23] 'twas a
+colour he never liked.
+
+_Boy._ Do you not remember, 'a saw a flea stick upon Bardolph's nose,
+and 'a said it was a black soul burning in hell-fire?
+
+_Bard._ Well, the fuel is gone that maintained that fire: that's all the
+riches I got in his service.
+
+_Nym._ Shall we shog off?[24] the king will be gone from Southampton.
+
+  _Pist._ Come, let's away.--My love, give me thy lips.
+  Look to my chattels and my moveables:
+  Let senses rule;[25] the word is, _Pitch and pay_;[26]
+  Trust none;
+  For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes,
+  And hold-fast is the only dog,[27] my duck:
+  Therefore, _caveto_ be thy counsellor.[28]
+  Go, clear thy crystals.[29]--Yoke-fellows in arms,
+
+    [_Crosses L.H._
+
+  Let us to France; like horse-leeches, my boys,
+  To suck, to suck, the very blood to suck!
+
+    [_Crosses R.H._
+
+_Boy._ And that is but unwholesome food, they say.
+
+_Pitt._ Touch her soft mouth, and march.
+
+_Bard._ Farewell, hostess.
+
+    [_Kissing her._
+
+_Nym._ I cannot kiss, that is the humour of it; but adieu.
+
+_Pist._ Let housewifery appear: keep close, I thee command.
+
+_Quick._ Farewell; adieu.
+
+    [_Exeunt BARDOLPH, PISTOL, NYM, R.H., and DAME QUICKLY, L.H._
+
+_Boy._ As young as I am, I have observed these three swashers. I am boy
+to them all three: but all they three, though they would serve me, could
+not be a man to me; for, indeed, three such anticks do not amount to a
+man. For Bardolph,--he is white-livered and red-faced; by the means
+whereof 'a faces it out, but fights not. For Pistol,--he hath a killing
+tongue and a quiet sword; by the means whereof 'a breaks words, and
+keeps whole weapons. For Nym,--he hath heard that men of few words are
+the best men; and therefore he scorns to say his prayers, lest 'a should
+be thought a coward: but his few bad words are match'd with as few good
+deeds; for 'a never broke any man's head but his own, and that was
+against a post when he was drunk. They will steal any thing, and call
+it--purchase. They would have me as familiar with men's pockets as their
+gloves or their handkerchiefs: which makes much against my manhood, if I
+should take from another's pocket to put into mine; for it is plain
+pocketing up of wrongs. I must leave them, and seek some better service:
+their villainy goes against my weak stomach, and therefore I must cast
+it up.
+
+    [_Distant March heard. Exit BOY, R.H._
+
+
+END OF FIRST ACT.
+
+
+    [Footnote I.17: _----let me bring thee to Staines._] i.e., let me
+    attend, or accompany thee.]
+
+    [Footnote I.18: _----Arthur's bosom,_] Dame Quickly, in her usual
+    blundering way, mistakes Arthur for Abraham.]
+
+    [Footnote I.19: _'A made a finer end,_] To make a fine end is not
+    an uncommon expression for making a good end. The Hostess means
+    that Falstaff died with becoming resignation and patient
+    submission to the will of Heaven.]
+
+    [Footnote I.20: _----an it had been any christom child;_] i.e.,
+    child that has wore the _chrysom_, or white cloth put on a new
+    baptized child.]
+
+    [Footnote I.21: _----turning o' the tide:_] It has been a very old
+    opinion, which Mead, _de imperio solis_, quotes, as if he believed
+    it, that nobody dies but in the time of ebb: half the deaths in
+    London confute the notion; but we find that it was common among
+    the women of the poet's time. --JOHNSON.]
+
+    [Footnote I.22: _----I saw him fumble with the sheets,_] Pliny, in
+    his chapter on _the signs of death_, makes mention of "_a fumbling
+    and pleiting of the bed-clothes._" The same indication of
+    approaching death is enumerated by Celsus, Lommius, Hippocrates,
+    and Galen.]
+
+    [Footnote I.23: _'A could never abide carnation;_] Mrs. Quickly
+    blunders, mistaking the word _incarnate_ for a colour. _In
+    questions of Love_, published 1566, we have "_yelowe, pale, redde,
+    blue, whyte, gray, and incarnate._"]
+
+    [Footnote I.24: _Shall we shog off?_] i.e., shall we move off--jog
+    off?]
+
+    [Footnote I.25: _Let senses rule;_] i.e., let prudence govern
+    you--conduct yourself sensibly.]
+
+    [Footnote I.26: _----Pitch and pay;_] A familiar expression,
+    meaning pay down at once, pay ready money; probably throw down
+    your money and pay.]
+
+    [Footnote I.27: _----hold-fast is the only dog,_] Alluding to
+    the proverbial saying-- "Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a
+    better."]
+
+    [Footnote I.28: _----caveto be thy counsellor._] i.e., let
+    _prudence_ be thy counsellor.]
+
+    [Footnote I.29: _----clear thy crystals._] Dry thine eyes.]
+
+
+
+
+HISTORICAL NOTE TO CHORUS--ACT FIRST
+
+  (A) _----should famine, sword, and fire,
+  Crouch for employment._]
+
+Holinshed states that when the people of Rouen petitioned Henry V., the
+king replied "that the goddess of battle, called Bellona, had three
+handmaidens, ever of necessity attending upon her, as blood, fire, and
+famine." These are probably the _dogs of war_ mentioned in Julius Caesar.
+
+
+HISTORICAL NOTES TO ACT FIRST.
+
+(B) KING HENRY _on his throne,_] King Henry V. was born at Monmouth,
+August 9th, 1388, from which place he took his surname. He was the
+eldest son of Henry Bolingbroke, Earl of Derby, afterwards Duke of
+Hereford, who was banished by King Richard the Second, and, after that
+monarch's deposition, was made king of England, A.D. 1399. At eleven
+years of age Henry V. was a student at Queen's College, Oxford, under
+the tuition of his half-uncle, Henry Beaufort, Chancellor of that
+university. Richard II. took the young Henry with him in his expedition
+to Ireland, and caused him to be imprisoned in the castle of Trym, but,
+when his father, the Duke of Hereford, deposed the king and obtained the
+crown, he was created Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall.
+
+In 1403 the Prince was engaged at the battle of Shrewsbury, where the
+famous Hotspur was slain, and there wounded in the face by an arrow.
+History states that Prince Henry became the companion of rioters and
+disorderly persons, and indulged in a course of life quite unworthy of
+his high station. There is a tradition that, under the influence of
+wine, he assisted his associates in robbing passengers on the highway.
+His being confined in prison for striking the Chief Justice, Sir William
+Gascoigne, is well known.
+
+These excesses gave great uneasiness and annoyance to the king, his
+father, who dismissed the Prince from the office of President of his
+Privy Council, and appointed in his stead his second son, Thomas, Duke
+of Clarence. Henry was crowned King of England on the 9th April, 1413.
+We read in Stowe-- "After his coronation King Henry called unto him all
+those young lords and gentlemen who were the followers of his young
+acts, to every one of whom he gave rich gifts, and then commanded that
+as many as would change their manners, as he intended to do, should
+abide with him at court; and to all that would persevere in their former
+like conversation, he gave express commandment, upon pain of their
+heads, never after that day to come in his presence."
+
+This heroic king fought and won the celebrated battle of Agincourt, on
+the 25th October, 1415; married the Princess Katherine, daughter of
+Charles VI. of France and Isabella of Bavaria, his queen, in the year
+1420; and died at Vincennes, near Paris, in the midst of his military
+glory, August 31st, 1422, in the thirty-fourth year of his age, and the
+tenth of his reign, leaving an infant son, who succeeded to the throne
+under the title of Henry VI.
+
+The famous Whittington was for the third time Lord Mayor of London in
+this reign, A.D. 1419. Thomas Chaucer, son of the great poet, was
+speaker of the House of Commons, which granted the supplies to the king
+for his invasion of France.
+
+(C) _Bedford,_] John, Duke of Bedford, was the third son of King Henry
+IV., and his brother, Henry V., left to him the Regency of France. He
+died in the year 1435. This duke was accounted one of the best generals
+of the royal race of Plantaganet.
+
+King Lewis XI. being counselled by certain envious persons to deface his
+tomb, used these, indeed, princely words:-- _"What honor shall it be to
+us, or you, to break this monument, and to pull out of the ground the
+bones of him, whom, in his life time, neither my father nor your
+progenitors, with all their puissance, were once able to make fly a foot
+backward? Who by his strength, policy, and wit, kept them all out of the
+principal dominions of France, and out of this noble Dutchy of Normandy?
+Wherefore I say first, God save his soul, and let his body now lie in
+rest, which, when he was alive, would have disquieted the proudest of us
+all; and for his tomb, I assure you, it is not so worthy or convenient
+as his honor and acts have deserved." --Vide Sandford's History of the
+Kings of England._
+
+(D) _Gloster,_] Humphrey, Duke of Gloster, was the fourth son of King
+Henry IV., and on the death of his brother, Henry V., became Regent of
+England. It is generally supposed he was strangled. His death took place
+in the year 1446.
+
+(E) _Exeter,_] Shakespeare is a little too early in giving Thomas
+Beaufort the title of Duke of Exeter; for when Harfleur was taken, and
+he was appointed governor of the town, he was only Earl of Dorset. He
+was not made Duke of Exeter till the year after the battle of Agincourt,
+November 14, 1416. Exeter was half brother to King Henry IV., being one
+of the sons of John of Gaunt, by Catherine Swynford.
+
+(F) _Archbishop of Canterbury,_] The Archbishop's speech in this scene,
+explaining King Henry's title to the crown of France, is closely copied
+from Holinshed's chronicle, page 545.
+
+"About the middle of the year 1414, Henry V., influenced by the
+persuasions of Chichely, Archbishop of Canterbury, by the dying
+injunction of his royal father, not to allow the kingdom to remain long
+at peace, or more probably by those feelings of ambition, which were no
+less natural to his age and character, than consonant with the manners
+of the time in which he lived, resolved to assert that claim to the
+crown of France which his great grandfather, King Edward the Third, had
+urged with such confidence and success." --_Nicolas's History of the
+Battle of Agincourt._
+
+(G) _----the law Salique,_] According to this law no woman was permitted
+to govern or be a Queen in her own right. The title only was allowed to
+the wife of the monarch. This law was imported from Germany by the
+warlike Franks.
+
+(H) _Tennis-balls, my liege._] Some contemporary historians affirm that
+the Dauphin sent Henry the contemptuous present, which has been imputed
+to him, intimating that such implements of play were better adapted to
+his dissolute character than the instruments of war, while others are
+silent on the subject. The circumstance of Henry's offering to meet his
+enemy in single combat, affords some support to the statement that he
+was influenced by those personal feelings of revenge to which the
+Dauphin's conduct would undoubtedly have given birth.
+
+(I) _Enter BARDOLPH, NYM, PISTOL, Mrs. QUICKLY, and BOY._] These
+followers of Falstaff figured conspicuously through the two parts of
+Shakespeare's Henry IV. Pistol is a swaggering, pompous braggadocio; Nym
+a boaster and a coward; and Bardolph a liar, thief, and coward, who has
+no wit but in his nose.
+
+
+
+
+    _Enter CHORUS._
+
+
+  _Cho._ Now all the youth of England are on fire,
+  And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies:
+  Now thrive the armourers, and honour's thought
+  Reigns solely in the breast of every man:
+  They sell the pasture now to buy the horse;
+  Following the mirror of all Christian kings,
+  With winged heels, as English Mercuries;
+  For now sits expectation in the air.
+  O England!--model to thy inward greatness,
+  Like little body with a mighty heart,--
+  What might'st thou do, that honour would thee do,
+  Were all thy children kind and natural!
+  But see thy fault! France hath in thee found out
+  A nest of hollow bosoms, which he fills[1]
+  With treacherous crowns; and three corrupted men,--
+  One, Richard earl of Cambridge;[2] and the second,
+  Henry lord Scroop of Masham,[3] and the third,
+  Sir Thomas Grey, knight, of Northumberland,--
+  Have, for the gilt of France[4] (O guilt, indeed!),
+  Confirm'd conspiracy with fearful France;(A)
+  And by their hands this grace of kings[5] must die,
+  (If hell and treason hold their promises,)
+  Ere he take ship for France, and in Southampton.
+
+    _The back scene opens and discovers a tableau, representing the
+    three conspirators receiving the bribe from the emissaries of
+    France._
+
+  Linger your patience on; and well digest
+  The abuse of distance, while we force a play.[6]
+  The sum is paid; the traitors are agreed;
+  The king is set from London; and the scene
+  Is now transported, gentles, to Southampton,--
+  There is the playhouse now, there must you sit:
+  And thence to France shall we convey you safe,
+  And bring you back, charming the narrow seas
+  To give you gentle pass; for, if we may,
+  We'll not offend one stomach[7] with our play.
+  But, till the king come forth, and not till then,[8]
+  Unto Southampton do we shift our scene.
+
+    [_Exit._
+
+
+    [Footnote IIc.1: _----which +he+ fills_] i.e., the King of
+    France.]
+
+    [Footnote IIc.2: _----Richard, earl of Cambridge;_] Was Richard de
+    Coninsbury, younger son of Edmund of Langley, Duke of York. He was
+    father of Richard, Duke of York, father of Edward the Fourth.]
+
+    [Footnote IIc.3: _Henry lord Scroop of Masham,_] Was third husband
+    of Joan Duchess of York (she had four), mother-in-law of Richard,
+    Earl of Cambridge.]
+
+    [Footnote IIc.4: _----the +gilt+ of France,_] i.e., _golden
+    money_.]
+
+    [Footnote IIc.5: _----this grace of kings_] i.e., he who does the
+    greatest honor to the title. By the same phraseology the usurper
+    in _Hamlet_ is called the _vice of kings_, i.e., the opprobrium of
+    them.]
+
+    [Footnote IIc.6: _----while we +force a play+._] To _force a play_
+    is to produce a play by compelling many circumstances into a
+    narrow compass.]
+
+    [Footnote IIc.7: _We'll not offend one stomach_] That is, you
+    shall pass the sea without the qualms of sea-sickness.]
+
+    [Footnote IIc.8: _But, till the king come forth, and not till
+    then,_] The meaning is, "We will not shift our scene unto
+    Southampton till the king makes his appearance on the stage, and
+    the scene will be at Southampton _only_ for the short time while
+    he does appear on the stage; for, soon after his appearance, it
+    will change to France." --MALONE.]
+
+
+
+
+ACT II.
+
+
+SCENE I.--COUNCIL CHAMBER IN SOUTHAMPTON CASTLE.
+
+    _EXETER, BEDFORD, and WESTMORELAND, discovered._
+
+  _Bed._ 'Fore Heaven, his grace is bold, to trust these traitors.
+
+  _Exe._ They shall be apprehended by and by.
+
+  _West._ How smooth and even they do bear themselves!
+  As if allegiance in their bosoms sat,
+  Crowned with faith and constant loyalty.
+
+  _Bed._ The king hath note of all that they intend,
+  By interception which they dream not of.
+
+  _Exe._ Nay, but the man that was his bedfellow,(A)
+  Whom he hath cloy'd and grac'd with princely favours,--
+  That he should, for a foreign purse, so sell
+  His sovereign's life to death and treachery!
+
+    _Distant Trumpets sound. Enter King HENRY, SCROOP, CAMBRIDGE,
+    GREY, Lords and Attendants, U.E.L.H._
+
+  _K. Hen._ Now sits the wind fair, and we will aboard.
+  My lord of Cambridge,--and my kind lord of Masham,--
+  And you, my gentle knight,--give me your thoughts:
+  Think you not, that the powers we bear with us
+  Will cut their passage through the force of France?
+
+  _Scroop._ No doubt, my liege, if each man do his best.
+
+  _K. Hen._ I doubt not that; since we are well persuaded
+  We carry not a heart with us from hence
+  That grows not in a fair consent with ours,[1]
+  Nor leave not one behind that doth not wish
+  Success and conquest to attend on us.
+
+  _Cam._ (R.) Never was monarch better fear'd and lov'd
+  Than is your majesty: there's not, I think, a subject
+  That sits in heart-grief and uneasiness
+  Under the sweet shade of your government.
+
+  _Grey._ (R.) Even those that were your father's enemies
+  Have steep'd their galls in honey, and do serve you
+  With hearts create[2] of duty and of zeal.
+
+  _K.Hen._ (C.) We therefore have great cause of thankfulness;
+  And shall forget the office of our hand,
+  Sooner than quittance of desert and merit
+  According to the weight and worthiness.
+  Uncle of Exeter, R.
+  Enlarge the man committed yesterday,
+  That rail'd against our person: we consider
+  It was excess of wine that set him on;
+  And, on his more advice,[3] we pardon him.
+
+  _Scroop._ (R.) That's mercy, but too much security:
+  Let him be punish'd, sovereign; lest example
+  Breed, by his sufferance, more of such a kind.
+
+  _K. Hen._ O, let us yet be merciful.
+
+  _Cam._ So may your highness, and yet punish too.
+
+  _Grey._ Sir, you show great mercy, if you give him life,
+  After the taste of much correction.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Alas, your too much love and care of me
+  Are heavy orisons 'gainst this poor wretch![4]
+  If little faults, proceeding on distemper,[5]
+  Shall not be wink'd at, how shall we stretch our eye[6]
+  When capital crimes, chew'd, swallow'd, and digested,
+  Appear before us?--We'll yet enlarge that man,
+  Though Cambridge, Scroop, and Grey,--in their dear care
+  And tender preservation of our person,--
+  Would have him punish'd. And now to our French causes:
+
+    [_All take their places at Council table._
+
+  Who are the late Commissioners?[7]
+
+  _Cam._ (_R. of table._)       I one, my lord:
+  Your highness bade me ask for it to-day.
+
+  _Scroop._ (_R. of table._) So did you me, my liege.
+
+  _Grey._ (_R. of table._) And me, my royal sovereign.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Then, Richard earl of Cambridge, there is yours;--
+  There yours, lord Scroop of Masham;--and, sir knight,
+  Grey of Northumberland, this same is yours:--
+  Read them; and know, I know your worthiness.--
+  My lord of Westmoreland,--and uncle Exeter,--
+
+    [_L. of table._
+
+  We will aboard to-night.
+
+    (_Conspirators start from their places._)
+
+                          Why, how now, gentlemen!
+  What see you in those papers, that you lose
+  So much complexion?--look ye, how they change!
+  Their cheeks are paper.--Why, what read you there,
+  That hath so cowarded and chas'd your blood
+  Out of appearance?
+
+  _Cam._           I do confess my fault;
+  And do submit me to your highness' mercy.
+
+    [_Falling on his knees._
+
+  _Grey._   } To which we all appeal.    [_Kneeling._
+  _Scroop._ }
+
+  _K. Hen._ (_rising; all the LORDS rise with the KING._)
+  The mercy that was quick[8] in us but late,
+  By your own counsel is suppress'd and kill'd:
+  You must not dare, for shame, to talk of mercy.
+  See you, my princes and my noble peers,
+  These English monsters! My lord of Cambridge here,--
+  You know how apt our love was to accord
+  To furnish him with all appertinents
+  Belonging to his honour; and this man
+  Hath, for a few light crowns, lightly conspir'd,
+  And sworn unto the practises of France,
+  To kill us here in Hampton: to the which
+  This knight, no less for bounty bound to us
+  Than Cambridge is,--hath likewise sworn.--But, O,
+  What shall I say to thee, lord Scroop? thou cruel,
+  Ingrateful, savage, and inhuman creature!
+  Thou that did'st bear the key of all my counsels,
+  That knew'st the very bottom of my soul,
+  That almost might'st have coin'd me into gold,
+  May it be possible, that foreign hire
+  Could out of thee extract one spark of evil
+  That might annoy my finger? 'Tis so strange,
+  That, though the truth of it stands off as gross[9]
+  As black from white,[10] my eye will scarcely see it;
+  For this revolt of thine, methinks, is like
+  Another fall of man.--Their faults are open:
+  Arrest them to the answer of the law;--
+
+    [_EXETER goes to door U.E.L.H, and calls on the Guard._
+
+  And Heaven acquit them of their practises!
+
+_Exe._ (_comes down, R.C._) I arrest thee of high treason, by the name
+of Richard earl of Cambridge.
+
+I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Henry lord Scroop of
+Masham.
+
+I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Thomas Grey, knight, of
+Northumberland.
+
+  _Scroop._ (_R., kneeling._)
+  Our purposes Heaven justly hath discover'd;
+  And I repent my fault more than my death.
+
+  _Cam._ (_R., kneeling._)
+  For me,--the gold of France did not seduce;(B)
+  Although I did admit it as a motive
+  The sooner to effect what I intended:
+  But Heaven be thanked for prevention;
+  Which I in sufferance heartily will rejoice,[11]
+  Beseeching Heaven and you to pardon me.
+
+  _Grey._ (_R. kneeling._) Never did faithful subject more rejoice
+  At the discovery of most dangerous treason
+  Than I do at this hour joy o'er myself,
+  Prevented from a damned enterprize:
+  My fault, but not my body, pardon, sovereign.
+
+  _K. Hen._ (C.) Heaven quit you in its mercy! Hear your sentence.
+  You have conspir'd against our royal person,
+  Join'd with an enemy proclaim'd, and from his coffers
+  Receiv'd the golden earnest of our death;
+  Wherein you would have sold your king to slaughter,
+  His princes and his peers to servitude,
+  His subjects to oppression and contempt,
+  And his whole kingdom into desolation.
+  Touching our person, seek we no revenge;(C)
+  But we our kingdom's safety must so tender,[12]
+  Whose ruin you three sought, that to her laws
+  We do deliver you. Get you, therefore, hence,
+  Poor miserable wretches, to your death:
+  The taste whereof, Heaven of its mercy give you
+  Patience to endure, and true repentance
+  Of all your dear offences![13]--Bear them hence.
+
+    [_Conspirators rise and exeunt guarded, with EXETER._
+
+  Now, Lords, for France; the enterprize whereof
+  Shall be to you, as us, like glorious.
+  We doubt not of a fair and lucky war,
+  Since Heaven so graciously hath brought to light
+  This dangerous treason, lurking in our way.
+  Then, forth, dear countrymen: let us deliver
+  Our puissance[14] into the hand of Heaven,
+  Putting it straight in expedition.
+  Cheerly to sea; the signs of war advance:(D)
+  No king of England, if not king of France.
+
+    [_Exeunt, U.E.L.H._
+
+    [Footnote II.1: _----in a fair consent with ours,_] i.e., in
+    friendly concord; in unison with ours.]
+
+    [Footnote II.2: _----hearts +create+_] Hearts _compounded_ or
+    _made up_ of duty and zeal.]
+
+    [Footnote II.3: _----more advice,_] On his return to more
+    _coolness of mind_.]
+
+    [Footnote II.4: _Are heavy orisons 'gainst, &c._] i.e., are
+    weighty supplications against this poor wretch.]
+
+    [Footnote II.5: _----proceeding on +distemper+,_] _Distemper'd in
+    liquor_ was a common expression. We read in Holinshed, vol. iii.,
+    page 626:-- "gave him wine and strong drink in such excessive
+    sort, that he was therewith _distempered_, and reeled as he
+    went."]
+
+    [Footnote II.6: _----how shall we stretch our eye_] If we may not
+    _wink_ at small faults, _how wide must we open our eyes_ at
+    great.]
+
+    [Footnote II.7: _Who are the late commissioners?_] That is, who
+    are the persons lately appointed commissioners.]
+
+    [Footnote II.8: _----quick_] That is, _living_.]
+
+    [Footnote II.9: _----as gross_] As palpable.]
+
+    [Footnote II.10:
+      _----though the truth of it stands off as gross
+      As black from white,_]
+    Though the truth be as apparent and visible as black and white
+    contiguous to each other. To _stand off_ is _etre releve_, to be
+    prominent to the eye, as the strong parts of a picture.
+    --JOHNSON.]
+
+    [Footnote II.11: _Which I in sufferance heartily will rejoice,_]
+    Cambridge means to say, _at_ which prevention, or, which intended
+    scheme that it was prevented, I shall rejoice. Shakespeare has
+    many such elliptical expressions. The intended scheme that he
+    alludes to was the taking off Henry, to make room for his
+    brother-in-law. --MALONE.]
+
+    [Footnote II.12: _----our kingdom's safety must so tender,_] i.e.,
+    must so regard.]
+
+    [Footnote II.13: _----dear offences!----_] _To dere_, in ancient
+    language, was _to hurt_; the meaning, therefore, is hurtful--
+    pernicious offences.]
+
+    [Footnote II.14: _Our puissance_] i.e., our power, our force.]
+
+
+SCENE II.--FRANCE. A ROOM IN THE FRENCH KING'S PALACE.
+
+  _Trumpets sound._
+
+    _Enter the FRENCH KING,[15] attended; the DAUPHIN, the DUKE OF
+    BURGUNDY, the CONSTABLE, and Others,(E) L.H._
+
+  _Fr. King._ (C.) Thus come the English with full power upon us;
+  And more than carefully it us concerns[16]
+  To answer royally in our defences.
+  Therefore the Dukes of Berry and of Bretagne,
+  Of Brabant and of Orleans, shall make forth,--
+  And you, Prince Dauphin,--with all swift despatch,
+  To line and new repair our towns of war
+  With men of courage and with means defendant.
+
+  _Dau._ (R.C.) My most redoubted father,
+  It is most meet we arm us 'gainst the foe:
+  And let us do it with no show of fear;
+  No, with no more than if we heard that England
+  Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance:
+  For, my good liege, she is so idly king'd,
+  Her sceptre so fantastically borne
+  By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth,
+  That fear attends her not.
+
+  _Con._ (L.C.) O peace, prince Dauphin
+  You are too much mistaken in this king:
+  With what great state he heard our embassy,
+  How well supplied with noble counsellors,
+  How modest in exception,[17] and withal
+  How terrible in constant resolution,
+  And you shall find his vanities fore-spent
+  Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus,
+  Covering discretion with a coat of folly.
+
+  _Dau._ Well, 'tis not so, my lord high constable;
+  But though we think it so, it is no matter:
+  In cases of defence 'tis best to weigh
+  The enemy more mighty than he seems:
+  So the proportions of defence are fill'd.
+
+  _Fr. King._ Think we King Harry strong;
+  And, princes, look you strongly arm to meet him.
+  The kindred of him hath been flesh'd upon us;
+  And he is bred out of that bloody strain[18]
+  That haunted us[19] in our familiar paths:
+  Witness our too much memorable shame
+  When Cressy battle fatally was struck,
+  And all our princes captiv'd by the hand
+  Of that black name, Edward, black prince of Wales;
+  Whiles that his mountain sire,--on mountain standing,
+  Up in the air, crown'd with the golden sun,--[20]
+  Saw his heroical seed, and smil'd to see him
+  Mangle the work of nature, and deface
+  The patterns that by Heaven and by French fathers
+  Had twenty years been made. This is a stem
+  Of that victorious stock; and let us fear
+  The native mightiness and fate of him.[21]
+
+    _Enter MONTJOY,[22] L.H., and kneels C. to the KING._
+
+  _Mont._ Ambassadors from Henry King of England
+  Do crave admittance to your majesty.
+
+  _Fr. King._ We'll give them present audience.
+
+    (_MONTJOY rises from his knee._)
+
+                                              Go, and bring them.
+
+    [_Exeunt MONTJOY, and certain LORDS, L.H._
+
+  You see this chase is hotly follow'd, friends.
+
+  _Dau._ Turn head, and stop pursuit; for coward dogs
+  Most spend their mouths,[23] when what they seem to threaten
+  Runs far before them. Good my sovereign,
+  Take up the English short; and let them know
+  Of what a monarchy you are the head:
+  Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin
+  As self-neglecting.
+
+    [_FRENCH KING takes his seat on Throne, R._
+
+    _Re-enter MONTJOY, LORDS, with EXETER and Train, L.H._
+
+  _Fr. King._       From our brother England?
+
+  _Exe._ (L.C.) From him; and thus he greets your majesty.
+  He wills you, in the awful name of Heaven,
+  That you divest yourself, and lay apart
+  The borrow'd glories, that, by gift of heaven,
+  By law of nature and of nations, 'long
+  To him and to his heirs; namely, the crown,
+  And all wide-stretched honours that pertain,
+  By custom and the ordinance of times
+  Unto the crown of France. That you may know
+  'Tis no sinister nor no awkward claim,
+  Pick'd from the worm-holes of long-vanish'd days,
+  Nor from the dust of old oblivion rak'd,
+  He sends you this most memorable line,[24]
+
+    [_Gives a paper to MONTJOY, who delivers it kneeling to the KING._
+
+  In every branch truly demonstrative;
+  Willing you overlook this pedigree:
+  And when you find him evenly deriv'd
+  From his most fam'd of famous ancestors,
+  Edward the Third, he bids you then resign
+  Your crown and kingdom, indirectly held
+  From him the native and true challenger.
+
+  _Fr. King._ Or else what follows?
+
+  _Exe._ Bloody constraint; for if you hide the crown
+  Even in your hearts, there will he rake for it:
+  Therefore in fierce tempest is he coming,
+  In thunder and in earthquake, like a Jove.
+  (That, if requiring fail, he will compel):
+  This is his claim, his threat'ning, and my message;
+  Unless the Dauphin be in presence here,
+  To whom expressly I bring greeting too.
+
+  _Fr. King._ For us, we will consider of this further:
+  To-morrow shall you bear our full intent
+  Back to our brother England.
+
+    [_MONTJOY rises, and retires to R._
+
+  _Dau._ (_R. of throne._)   For the Dauphin,
+  I stand here for him: What to him from England?
+
+  _Exe._ Scorn and defiance; slight regard, contempt,
+  And any thing that may not misbecome
+  The mighty sender, doth he prize you at.
+  Thus says my king: an if your father's highness
+  Do not, in grant of all demands at large,
+  Sweeten the bitter mock you sent his majesty,
+  He'll call you to so hot an answer for it,
+  That caves and womby vaultages of France
+  Shall chide your trespass,[25] and return your mock
+  In second accent of his ordnance.
+
+  _Dau._ Say, if my father render fair reply,
+  It is against my will; for I desire
+  Nothing but odds with England: to that end,
+  As matching to his youth and vanity,
+  I did present him with those Paris balls.
+
+  _Exe._ He'll make your Paris Louvre shake for it:
+  And, be assur'd, you'll find a difference
+  Between the promise of his greener days
+  And these he masters now: now he weighs time,
+  Even to the utmost grain: which you shall read[26]
+  In your own losses, if he stay in France.
+
+  _Fr. King._ To-morrow shall you know our mind at full.
+
+  _Exe._ Despatch us with all speed, lest that our king
+  Come here himself to question our delay;
+  For he is footed in this land already.
+
+  _Fr. King._ You shall be soon despatch'd with fair conditions:
+
+    [_MONTJOY crosses to the English party._
+
+  A night is but small breath and little pause
+  To answer matters of this consequence.
+
+    [_English party exit, with MONTJOY and others, L.H.
+    French Lords group round the KING._
+
+    _Trumpets sound._
+
+
+    [Footnote II.15: ----FRENCH KING,] The costume of Charles VI. is
+    copied from Willemin, Monuments Francais. The dresses of the other
+    Lords are selected from Montfaucon Monarchie Francoise.]
+
+    [Footnote II.16: _----more than carefully it us concerns,_] _More
+    than carefully_ is _with more than common care_; a phrase of the
+    same kind with _better than well_. --JOHNSON.]
+
+    [Footnote II.17: _How modest in exception,_] How diffident and
+    decent in making objections.]
+
+    [Footnote II.18: _----strain_] _lineage_.]
+
+    [Footnote II.19: _That +haunted+ us_] To _haunt_ is a word of the
+    utmost horror, which shows that they dreaded the English as
+    goblins and spirits.]
+
+    [Footnote II.20: _----crown'd with the golden sun,--_]
+    Shakespeare's meaning (divested of its poetical fancy) probably
+    is, that the king stood upon an eminence, with the sun shining
+    over his head. --STEEVENS.]
+
+    [Footnote II.21: _----+fate+ of him._] His _fate_ is what is
+    allotted him by destiny, or what he is fated to perform.]
+
+    [Footnote II.22: _Montjoy,_] Mont-joie is the title of the
+    principal king-at-arms in France, as Garter is in our country.]
+
+    [Footnote II.23: _----spend their mouths,_] That is, bark; the
+    sportsman's term.]
+
+    [Footnote II.24: _----memorable +line+,_] This genealogy; this
+    deduction of his _lineage_.]
+
+    [Footnote II.25: _Shall +chide+ your trespass,_] To _chide_ is to
+    _resound_, to _echo_.]
+
+    [Footnote II.26: _----you shall read_] i.e., shall _find_.]
+
+
+END OF ACT SECOND.
+
+
+
+
+HISTORICAL NOTES TO CHORUS--ACT SECOND.
+
+  (A) _These corrupted men,----
+  One, Richard earl of Cambridge; and the second,
+  Henry lord Scroop of Masham; and the third,
+  Sir Thomas Grey knight of Northumberland,--
+  Have for the guilt of France (O, guilt, indeed!)
+  Confirm'd conspiracy with fearful France._
+
+About the end of July, Henry's ambitious designs received a momentary
+check from the discovery of a treasonable conspiracy against his person
+and government, by Richard, Earl of Cambridge, brother of the Duke of
+York; Henry, Lord Scroop of Masham, the Lord Treasurer; and Sir Thomas
+Grey, of Heton, knight. The king's command for the investigation of the
+affair, was dated on the 21st of that month, and a writ was issued to
+the Sheriff of Southampton, to assemble a jury for their trial; and
+which on Friday, the 2nd of August, found that on the 20th of July,
+Richard, Earl of Cambridge, and Thomas Grey, of Heton, in the County of
+Northumberland, knight, had falsely and traitorously conspired to
+collect a body of armed men, to conduct Edmund, Earl of March,[*] to the
+frontiers of Wales, and to proclaim him the rightful heir to the crown,
+in case Richard II. was actually dead; but they had solicited Thomas
+Frumpyngton, who personated King Richard, Henry Percy, and many others
+from Scotland to invade the realm, that they had intended to destroy the
+King, the Duke of Clarence, the Duke of Bedford, the Duke of Gloucester,
+with other lords and great men; and that Henry, Lord Scroop, of Masham,
+consented to the said treasonable purposes, and concealed the knowledge
+of them from the king. On the same day the accused were reported by Sir
+John Popham, Constable of the Castle of Southampton, to whose custody
+they had been committed, to have confessed the justice of the charges
+brought against them, and that they threw themselves on the king's
+mercy; but Scroop endeavoured to extenuate his conduct, by asserting
+that his intentions were innocent, and that he appeared only to
+acquiesce in their designs to be enabled to defeat them. The Earl and
+Lord Scroop having claimed the privilege of being tried by the peers,
+were remanded to prison, but sentence of death in the usual manner was
+pronounced against Grey, and he was immediately executed; though, in
+consequence of Henry having dispensed with his being drawn and hung, he
+was allowed to walk from the Watergate to the Northgate of the town of
+Southampton, where he was beheaded. A commission was soon afterwards
+issued, addressed to the Duke of Clarence, for the trial of the Earl of
+Cambridge and Lord Scroop: this court unanimously declared the prisoners
+guilty, and sentence of death having been denounced against them, they
+paid the forfeit of their lives on Monday, the 5th of August. In
+consideration of the earl being of the blood royal, he was merely
+beheaded; but to mark the perfidy and ingratitude of Scroop, who had
+enjoyed the king's utmost confidence and friendship, and had even shared
+his bed, he commanded that he should be drawn to the place of execution,
+and that his head should be affixed on one of the gates of the city of
+York. --_Nicolas's History of the Battle of Agincourt_.
+
+    [Footnote *: At that moment the Earl of March was the lawful
+    heir to the crown, he being the heir general of Lionel, Duke of
+    Clarence, _third_ son of Edward III, whilst Henry V. was but the
+    heir of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, King Edward's _fourth_
+    son.]
+
+
+HISTORICAL NOTES TO ACT SECOND.
+
+(A) _----the man that was his bedfellow,_] So, Holinshed: "The said Lord
+Scroop was in such favour with the king, that he admitted him sometimes
+to be his _bedfellow_." The familiar appellation, of _bedfellow_, which
+appears strange to us, was common among the ancient nobility. There is a
+letter from the sixth Earl of Northumberland (still preserved in the
+collection of the present duke), addressed "To his beloved cousin,
+Thomas Arundel," &c., which begins "_Bedfellow_, after my most haste
+recommendation." --_Steevens_.
+
+This unseemly custom continued common till the middle of the last
+century, if not later. Cromwell obtained much of his intelligence,
+during the civil wars, from the mean men with whom he slept. --_Malone_.
+
+After the battle of Dreux, 1562, the Prince of Conde slept in the same
+bed with the Duke of Guise; an anecdote frequently cited, to show the
+magnanimity of the latter, who slept soundly, though so near his
+greatest enemy, then his prisoner. --_Nares._
+
+(B) _For me,--the gold of France did not seduce;_] Holinshed observes,
+"that Richard, Earl of Cambridge, did not conspire with the Lord Scroop
+and Thomas Grey, for the murdering of King Henry to please the French
+king, but only to the intent to exalt to the crown his brother-in-law
+Edmund, Earl of March, as heir to Lionel, Duke of Clarence; after the
+death of which Earl of March, for divers secret impediments not able to
+have issue, the Earl of Cambridge was sure that the crown should come to
+him by his wife, and to his children of her begotten; and therefore (as
+was thought), he rather confessed himself for need of money to be
+corrupted by the French king, than he would declare his inward mind,
+&c., which if it were espied, he saw plainly that the Earl of March
+should have tasted of the same cup that he had drunk, and what should
+have come to his own children he merely doubted, &c."
+
+A million of gold is stated to have been given by France to the
+conspirators.
+
+Historians have, however, generally expressed their utter inability to
+explain upon what grounds the conspirators built their expectation of
+success; and unless they had been promised powerful assistance from
+France, the design seems to have been one of the most absurd and
+hopeless upon record. The confession of the Earl of Cambridge, and his
+supplication for mercy in his own hand writing, is in the British
+Museum.
+
+(C) _Touching our person, seek we no revenge;_] This speech is taken
+from Holinshed:--
+
+"Revenge herein touching my person, though I seek not; yet for the
+safeguard of my dear friends, and for due preservation of all sorts,
+I am by office to cause example to be showed: Get ye hence, therefore,
+you poor miserable wretches, to the receiving of your just reward,
+wherein God's majesty give you grace of his mercy, and repentance of
+your heinous offences."
+
+(D) _Cheerly to sea; the signs of war advance:_] "The king went from his
+castle of Porchester in a small vessel to the sea, and embarking on
+board his ship, called The Trinity, between the ports of Southampton and
+Portsmouth, he immediately ordered that the sail should be set, to
+signify his readiness to depart." "There were about fifteen hundred
+vessels, including about a hundred which were left behind. After having
+passed the Isle of Wight, swans were seen swimming in the midst of the
+fleet, which, in the opinion of all, were said to be happy auspices of
+the undertaking. On the next day, the king entered the mouth of the
+Seine, and cast anchor before a place called Kidecaus, about three miles
+from Harfleur, where he proposed landing." --_Nicolas's History of
+Agincourt_.
+
+The departure of Henry's army on this occasion, and the separation
+between those who composed it and their relatives and friends, is thus
+described by Drayton, who was born in 1563, and died in 1631:--
+
+  There might a man have seen in every street,
+    The father bidding farewell to his son;
+  Small children kneeling at their father's feet:
+    The wife with her dear husband ne'er had done:
+  Brother, his brother, with adieu to greet:
+    One friend to take leave of another, run;
+  The maiden with her best belov'd to part,
+  Gave him her hand who took away her heart.
+
+  The nobler youth the common rank above,
+    On their curveting coursers mounted fair:
+  One wore his mistress' garter, one her glove;
+    And he a lock of his dear lady's hair:
+  And he her colours, whom he did most love;
+    There was not one but did some favour wear:
+  And each one took it, on his happy speed,
+  To make it famous by some knightly deed.
+
+(E) Enter the FRENCH KING, _the DAUPHIN, the_ DUKE OF BURGUNDY, _the
+CONSTABLE, and others._] Charles VI., surnamed the Well Beloved, was
+King of France during the most disastrous period of its history. He
+ascended the throne in 1380, when only thirteen years of age. In 1385 he
+married Isabella of Bavaria, who was equally remarkable for her beauty
+and her depravity. The unfortunate king was subject to fits of insanity,
+which lasted for several months at a time. On the 21st October, 1422,
+seven years after the battle of Agincourt, Charles VI. ended his unhappy
+life at the age of 55, having reigned 42 years. Lewis the Dauphin was
+the eldest son of Charles VI. He was born 22nd January, 1396, and died
+before his father, December 18th, 1415, in his twentieth year. History
+says, "Shortly after the battle of Agincourt, either for melancholy that
+he had for the loss, or by some sudden disease, Lewis, Dovphin of
+Viennois, heir apparent to the French king, departed this life without
+issue."
+
+John, Duke of Burgundy, surnamed the Fearless, succeeded to the dukedom
+in 1403. He caused the Duke of Orleans to be assassinated in the streets
+of Paris, and was himself murdered August 28, 1419, on the bridge of
+Montereau, at an interview with the Dauphin, afterwards Charles VII.
+John was succeeded by his only son, who bore the title of Philip the
+Good, Duke of Burgundy.
+
+The Constable, Charles D'Albret, commanded the French army at the Battle
+of Agincourt, and was slain on the field.
+
+
+
+
+    _Enter CHORUS._
+
+
+  _Chor._ Thus with imagin'd wing our swift scene flies,
+  In motion of no less celerity
+  Than that of thought. Suppose that you have seen
+  The well-appointed king[1] at Hampton pier
+  Embark his royalty;[2] and his brave fleet
+  With silken streamers the young Phoebus fanning:
+  Play with your fancies; and in them behold
+  Upon the hempen tackle ship-boys climbing;
+  Hear the shrill whistle, which doth order give
+  To sounds confus'd; behold the threaden sails,
+  Borne with the invisible and creeping wind,
+  Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea,
+  Breasting the lofty surge: O, do but think
+  You stand upon the rivage,[3] and behold
+  A city on the inconstant billows dancing;
+  For so appears this fleet majestical,
+  Holding due course to Harfleur. Follow, follow!
+  Grapple your minds to sternage of this navy;[4]
+  And leave your England, as dead midnight still,
+  Guarded with grandsires, babies, and old women,
+  Either past, or not arriv'd to, pith and puissance;
+  For who is he, whose chin is but enrich'd
+  With one appearing hair, that will not follow
+  These cull'd and choice-drawn cavaliers to France?
+  Work, work your thoughts, and therein see a siege;
+  Behold the ordnance on their carriages,
+  With fatal mouths gaping on girded Harfleur.
+  Suppose the ambassador from the French comes back;
+  Tells Harry--that the king doth offer him
+  Katharine his daughter; and with her, to dowry,
+  Some petty and unprofitable dukedoms.
+  The offer likes not: and the nimble gunner
+  With linstock[5] now the devilish cannon touches,
+
+    [_Alarums, and cannon shot off._
+
+  And down goes all before them. Still be kind,
+  And eke out our performance with your mind.
+
+    [_Exit._
+
+    [Footnote IIIc.1: _The well-appointed king_] i.e., well furnished
+    with all the necessaries of war.]
+
+    [Footnote IIIc.2: _Embark his royalty;_] The place where Henry's
+    army was encamped, at Southampton, is now entirely covered with
+    the sea, and called Westport.]
+
+    [Footnote IIIc.3: _----rivage,_] The _bank_ or shore.]
+
+    [Footnote IIIc.4: _----to +sternage+ of this navy;_] The stern
+    being the hinder part of the ship, the meaning is, let your minds
+    follow close after the navy. _Stern_, however, appears to have
+    been anciently synonymous to _rudder_.]
+
+
+
+
+  Scene Changes to
+  THE SIEGE OF HARFLEUR.
+
+  THE WALLS ARE MANNED BY THE FRENCH.
+
+  The English Are Repulsed from
+  an Attack on the Breach.
+
+
+    _Alarums. Enter KING HENRY, EXETER, BEDFORD, GLOSTER, and
+    Soldiers, R.H._
+
+  _K. Hen._ Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
+  Or close the wall up with our English dead![6]
+  In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
+  As modest stillness and humility:
+  But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
+  Then imitate the action of the tiger!
+  On, on, you noble English,
+  Whose blood is fet[7] from fathers of war-proof!
+  And you, good yeomen,
+  Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
+  The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
+  That you are worth your breeding: which I doubt not;
+  For there is none of you so mean and base,
+  That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
+  I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,[8]
+  Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
+  Follow your spirit; and, upon this charge,
+  Cry--God for Harry! England! and Saint George!
+
+    [_The English charge upon the breach, headed by the KING.
+    Alarums. The GOVERNOR of the Town appears on the walls
+    with a flag of truce._
+
+  _K. Hen._ How yet resolves the governour of the town?
+  This is the latest parle we will admit:
+  Therefore, to our best mercy give yourselves;
+  Or, like to men proud of destruction,
+  Defy us to our worst: for, as I am a soldier
+  (A name that, in my thoughts, becomes me best,)
+  If I begin the battery once again,
+  I will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur
+  Till in her ashes she lie buried.
+  The gates of mercy shall be all shut up.
+  What say you? will you yield, and this avoid?
+  Or, guilty in defence, be thus destroy'd?
+
+  _Gov._ Our expectation hath this day an end:
+  The Dauphin, whom of succour we entreated,[9]
+  Returns us--that his powers are not yet ready
+  To raise so great a siege. Therefore, dread king,
+  We yield our town and lives to thy soft mercy.
+  Enter our town; dispose of us and ours;
+  For we no longer are defensible.
+
+    [_Soldiers shout._
+
+    [_The GOVERNOR and others come from the town, and kneeling,
+    present to KING HENRY the keys of the city._
+
+  _K. Hen._ Come, uncle Exeter, R.
+  Go you and enter Harfleur; there remain,
+  And fortify it strongly 'gainst the French:
+  Use mercy to them all. For us, dear uncle,--
+  The winter coming on, and sickness growing
+  Upon our soldiers,--we'll retire to Calais.
+  To-night in Harfleur[*] will we be your guest;
+  To-morrow for the march are we addrest.[10]
+
+    [_March. English army enter the town through the breach._
+
+
+    [Footnote *: Extracts from the Account of the Siege of Harfleur,
+    selected from the pages of the anonymous Chronicler who was an
+    eyewitness of the event.
+
+    "Our King, who sought peace, not war, in order that he might
+    further arm the cause in which he was engaged with the shield of
+    justice offered peace to the besieged, if they would open the
+    gates to him, and restore, as was their duty, freely, without
+    compulsion, that town, the noble hereditary portion of his Crown
+    of England, and of his Dukedom of Normandy.
+
+    "But as they, despising and setting at nought this offer, strove
+    to keep possession of, and to defend the town against him, our
+    King summoned to fight, as it were, against his will, called upon
+    God to witness his just cause * * * he (King Henry) gave himself
+    no rest by day or night, until having fitted and fixed his engines
+    and guns under the walls, he had planted them within shot of the
+    enemy, against the front of the town, and against the walls,
+    gates, and towers, of the same * * * so that taking aim at the
+    place to be battered, the guns from beneath blew forth stones by
+    the force of ignited powers, * * * and in the mean time our King,
+    with his guns and engines, so battered the said bulwark, and the
+    walls and towers on every side, that within a few days, by the
+    impetuosity and fury of the stones, the same bulwark was in a
+    great part broken down; and the walls and towers from which the
+    enemy had sent forth their weapons, the bastions falling in ruins,
+    were rendered defenceless; and very fine edifices, even in the
+    middle of the city, either lay altogether in ruins, or threatened
+    an inevitable fall; or at least were so shaken as to be
+    exceedingly damaged. * * * And although our guns had disarmed the
+    bulwark, walls, and towers during the day, the besieged by night,
+    with logs, faggots, and tubs on vessels full of earth, mud, and
+    sand or stones, piled up within the shattered walls, and with
+    other barricadoes, refortified the streets. * * * The King had
+    caused towers and wooden bulwarks to the height of the walls, and
+    ladders and other instruments, besides those which he had brought
+    with him for the assault." --We are then told that the enemy
+    contrived to set these engines on fire 'by means of powders, and
+    combustibles prepared on the walls.'
+
+    The History then states that "a fire broke out where the strength
+    of the French was greater, and the French themselves were overcome
+    with resisting, and in endeavouring to extinguish the fire, until
+    at length by force of arms, darts, and flames, their strength was
+    destroyed. Leaving the place therefore to our party, they fled and
+    retreated beneath the walls for protection; most carefully
+    blocking up the entrance with timber, stones, earth, and mud, lest
+    our people should rush in upon them through the same passage."
+
+    "On the following day a conference was held with the Lord de
+    Gaucort, who acted as Captain, and with the more powerful leaders,
+    whether it was the determination of the inhabitants to surrender
+    the town without suffering further rigour of death or war. * * *
+    On that night they entered into a treaty with the King, that if
+    the French King, or the Dauphin, his first-born, being informed,
+    should not raise the seige, and deliver them by force of arms
+    within the first hour after morn on the Sunday following, they
+    would surrender to him the town, and themselves, and their
+    property."
+
+    "And neither at the aforesaid hour on the following Sunday, nor
+    within the time, the French King, the Dauphin, nor any one else,
+    coming forward to raise the siege. * * * The aforesaid Lord de
+    Gaucort came from the town into the king's presence, accompanied
+    by those persons who before had sworn to keep the articles, and
+    surrendering to him the keys of the Corporation, submitted
+    themselves, together with the citizens, to his grace. * * * Then
+    the banners of St. George and the King were fixed upon the gates
+    of the town, and the King advanced his illustrious uncle, the Lord
+    Thomas Beaufort, Earl of Dorset (afterwards Duke of Exeter) to be
+    keeper and captain of the town, having delivered to him the keys."
+
+    Thus, after a vigorous siege of about thirty-six days, one of the
+    most important towns of Normandy fell into the hands of the
+    invaders. The Chronicler in the text informs us, that the
+    dysentery had carried off infinitely more of the English army than
+    were slain in the siege; that about five thousand men were then so
+    dreadfully debilitated by that disease, that they were unable to
+    proceed, and were therefore sent to England; that three hundred
+    men-at-arms and nine hundred archers were left to garrison
+    Harfleur; that great numbers had cowardly deserted the King, and
+    returned home by stealth; and that after all these deductions, not
+    more than nine hundred lances and five thousand archers remained
+    fit for service.
+
+    Hume, in his History of England, relates that "King Henry landed
+    near Harfleur, at the head of an army of 6,000 men-at-arms, and
+    24,000 foot, mostly archers. He immediately began the siege of
+    that place, which was valiantly defended by d'Estoueleville, and
+    under him by de Guitri, de Gaucourt, and others of the French
+    nobility; but as the garrison was weak, and the fortifications in
+    bad repair, the governor was at last obliged to capitulate, and he
+    promised to surrender the place if he received no succour before
+    the 18th of September. The day came, and there was no appearance
+    of a French army to relieve him. Henry, taking possession of the
+    town, placed a garrison in it, and expelled all the French
+    inhabitants, with an intention of peopling it anew with English.
+    The fatigues of this siege, and the unusual heat of the season,
+    had so wasted the English army, that Henry could enter on no
+    farther enterprise, and was obliged to think of returning to
+    England. He had dismissed his transports, which could not anchor
+    in an open road upon the enemy's coasts, and he lay under a
+    necessity of marching by land to Calais before he could reach a
+    place of safety. A numerous French army of 14,000 men at-arms, and
+    40,000 foot, was by this time assembled in Normandy, under the
+    constable d'Albret, a force which, if prudently conducted, was
+    sufficient either to trample down the English in the open field,
+    or to harass and reduce to nothing their small army before they
+    could finish so long and difficult a march. Henry, therefore,
+    cautiously offered to sacrifice his conquest of Harfleur for a
+    safe passage to Calais; but his proposal being rejected, he
+    determined to make his way by valour and conduct through all the
+    opposition of the enemy."]
+
+
+    [Footnote IIIc.5: _----linstock_] The staff to which the match is
+    fixed when ordnance is fired.]
+
+    [Footnote IIIc.6: _Or close the wall up with our English dead!_]
+    i.e. re-enter the breach you have made, or fill it up with your
+    own dead bodies.]
+
+    [Footnote IIIc.7: _Whose blood is +fet+_] To fet is an obsolete
+    word meaning _to fetch_. That is, "whose blood is derived," &c.
+    The word is used by Spencer and Ben Jonson.]
+
+    [Footnote IIIc.8: _----like greyhounds in the +slips+,_] _Slips_
+    are a contrivance of leather, to start two dogs at the same time.]
+
+    [Footnote IIIc.9: _----whom of succour we entreated,_] This
+    phraseology was not uncommon in Shakespeare's time.]
+
+    [Footnote IIIc.10: _----are we +addrest+._] i.e., prepared.]
+
+
+
+
+ACT III.
+
+
+SCENE I.--FRANCE. ROOM IN THE FRENCH KING'S PALACE.
+
+  _Trumpets sound._
+
+    _Enter the FRENCH KING, the DAUPHIN, DUKE OF BOURBON, the
+    CONSTABLE OF FRANCE, and others, L.H._
+
+  _Fr. King._ (C.) 'Tis certain he hath pass'd the river Somme.
+
+  _Con._ (R.C.) And if he be not fought withal, my lord,
+  Let us not live in France; let us quit all,
+  And give our vineyards to a barbarous people.
+
+  _Dau._ (R.) By faith and honour,
+  Our madams mock at us;
+  They bid us--to the English dancing-schools,
+  And teach lavoltas high[1] and swift corantos;[2]
+  Saying our grace is only in our heels,
+  And that we are most lofty runaways.
+
+  _Fr. King._ Where is Montjoy the herald? speed him hence:
+  Let him greet England with our sharp defiance.--
+  Up, princes! and, with spirit of honour edg'd
+  More sharper than your swords, hie to the field:
+  Bar Harry England, that sweeps through our land
+  With pennons[3] painted in the blood of Harfleur:
+  Go down upon him,--you have power enough,--
+  And in a captive chariot into Rouen
+  Bring him our prisoner.
+
+  _Con._              This becomes the great.
+  Sorry am I his numbers are so few,
+  His soldiers sick, and famish'd in their march;
+  For, I am sure, when he shall see our army,
+  He'll drop his heart into the sink of fear,
+  And, for achievement offer us his ransom.[4]
+
+  _Fr. King._ Therefore, lord constable, haste on Montjoy;
+
+    [_CONSTABLE crosses to L._
+
+  And let him say to England, that we send
+  To know what willing ransom he will give.--
+  Prince Dauphin, you shall stay with us in Rouen.
+
+  _Dau._ Not so, I do beseech your majesty.
+
+  _Fr. King._ Be patient; for you shall remain with us.--
+  Now, forth, lord constable (_Exit CONSTABLE, L.H._), and princes all,
+  And quickly bring us word of England's fall.
+
+    [_Exeunt L.H._
+
+    _Trumpets sound._
+
+
+    [Footnote III.1: _----lavoltas high_] A dance in which there was
+    much turning, and much capering.]
+
+    [Footnote III.2: _----swift corantos;_] A corant is a sprightly
+    dance.]
+
+    [Footnote III.3: _With +pennons+_] _Pennons_ armorial were small
+    flags, on which the arms, device, and motto of a knight were
+    painted.]
+
+
+SCENE II.--A VIEW IN PICARDY.
+
+  _Distant Battle heard._
+
+    _Enter GOWER, L.U.E., meeting FLUELLEN, R.H._
+
+_Gow._ (C.) How now, Captain Fluellen! come you from the bridge?(A)
+
+_Flu._ (R.C.) I assure you, there is very excellent service committed at
+the pridge.
+
+_Gow._ Is the Duke of Exeter safe?
+
+_Flu._ The Duke of Exeter is as magnanimous as Agamemnon; and a man that
+I love and honour with my soul, and my heart, and my duty, and my life,
+and my livings, and my uttermost powers: he is not (Heaven be praised
+and plessed!) any hurt in the 'orld; but keeps the pridge most
+valiantly, with excellent discipline. There is an ensign there at the
+pridge,--I think in my very conscience he is as valiant as Mark Antony;
+and he is a man of no estimation in the 'orld; but I did see him do
+gallant service.
+
+_Gow._ What do you call him?
+
+_Flu._ He is called--ancient Pistol.[5]
+
+_Gow._ I know him not.
+
+    _Enter PISTOL, R.H._
+
+_Flu._ Do you not know him? Here comes the man.
+
+  _Pist._ Captain, I thee beseech to do me favours:
+  The Duke of Exeter doth love thee well.
+
+_Flu._ Ay, I praise Heaven; and I have merited some love at his hands.
+
+  _Pist._ Bardolph, a soldier, firm and sound of heart,
+  Of buxom valour,[6] hath,--by cruel fate,
+  And giddy fortune's furious fickle wheel,
+  That goddess blind.
+  That stands upon the rolling restless stone,--[7]
+
+_Flu._ By your patience, ancient Pistol. Fortune is painted plind, with
+a muffler before her eyes,[8] to signify to you that fortune is plind;
+And she is painted also with a wheel, to signify to you, which is the
+moral of it, that she is turning, and inconstant, and variations, and
+mutabilities: and her foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone,
+which rolls, and rolls, and rolls:--In good truth, the poet makes a most
+excellent description of fortune: fortune, look you, is an excellent
+moral.
+
+  _Pist._ Fortune is Bardolph's foe, and frowns on him;
+  For he has stolen a _pix_,[9] and hang'd must 'a be.(B)
+  A damned death!
+  Let gallows gape for dog; let man go free,
+
+    [_Crosses to L.H._
+
+  But Exeter hath given the doom of death,
+  For _pix_ of little price.
+  Therefore, go speak, the duke will hear thy voice;
+  And let not Bardolph's vital thread be cut
+  With edge of penny cord and vile reproach:
+  Speak, captain, for his life, and I will thee requite.
+
+    [_Crosses to R.H._
+
+  _Flu._ Ancient Pistol, I do partly understand your meaning.
+
+  _Pist._ Why, then, rejoice therefore.
+
+_Flu._ Certainly, ancient, it is not a thing to rejoice at: for if,
+look you, he were my prother, I would desire the duke to use his goot
+pleasure, and put him to executions; for disciplines ought to be used.
+
+_Pist._ _Fico_ for thy friendship![10]
+
+_Flu._ It is well.
+
+_Pist._ The fig of Spain![11]
+
+    [_Exit PISTOL, R.H._
+
+_Flu._ Very goot.
+
+_Gow._ Why, this is an arrant counterfeit rascal; a cut-purse;
+I remember him now.
+
+_Flu._ I'll assure you, 'a utter'd as prave 'ords at the pridge as you
+shall see in a summer's day.
+
+_Gow._ Why, 'tis a gull, a fool, a rogue, that now and then goes to the
+wars, to grace himself, at his return into London, under the form of a
+soldier. You must learn to know such slanders of the age,[12] or else
+you may be marvellously mistook.
+
+_Flu._ I tell you what, Captain Gower;--I do perceive, he is not the man
+that he would gladly make show to the 'orld he is: if I find a hole in
+his coat, I will tell him my mind.  [_March heard._]  Hark you, the king
+is coming; and I must speak with him from the pridge.[13]
+
+    _Enter KING HENRY, BEDFORD, GLOSTER, WESTMORELAND, Lords,
+    and Soldiers, L.H.U.E._
+
+_Flu._ (R.) Heaven pless your majesty!
+
+_K. Hen._ (C.) How now, Fluellen! cam'st thou from the bridge?
+
+_Flu._ Ay, so please your majesty. The duke of Exeter has very gallantly
+maintained the pridge: the French has gone off, look you; and there is
+gallant and most prave passages: Marry, th'athversary was have
+possession of the pridge; but he is enforced to retire, and the duke of
+Exeter is master of the pridge: I can tell your majesty, the duke is a
+prave man.
+
+_K. Hen._ What men have you lost, Fluellen?
+
+_Flu._ The perdition of th'athversary hath been very great, very
+reasonable great: marry, for my part, I think the duke hath lost never a
+man, but one that is like to be executed for robbing a church, one
+Bardolph, if your majesty knows the man: his face is all bubukles,[14]
+and whelks,[15] and knobs, and flames of fire: and his lips plows at his
+nose, and it is like a coal of fire, sometimes plue, and sometimes red;
+but his nose is executed, and his fire's out.[16]
+
+_K. Hen._ We would have all such offenders so cut off.
+
+    [_Trumpet sounds without, R._
+
+    _Enter MONTJOY and Attendants, R.H._
+
+_Mont._ (_uncovers and kneels._) You know me by my habit.[17]
+
+_K. Hen._ Well, then, I know thee: What shall I know of thee?
+
+_Mont._ My master's mind.
+
+_K. Hen._ Unfold it.
+
+_Mont._ Thus says my king:--Say thou to Harry of England: Though we
+seemed dead, we did but sleep. Tell him, he shall repent his folly, see
+his weakness, and admire our sufferance.[18] Bid him, therefore,
+consider of his ransom; which must proportion the losses we have borne,
+the subjects we have lost, the disgrace we have digested. For our
+losses, his exchequer is too poor; for the effusion of our blood, the
+muster of his kingdom too faint a number; and for our disgrace, his own
+person, kneeling at our feet, but a weak and worthless satisfaction. To
+this add--defiance: and tell him, for conclusion, he hath betrayed his
+followers, whose condemnation is pronounced. So far my king and master;
+so much my office.
+
+  _K. Hen._What is thy name? I know thy quality.
+
+_Mont._ Montjoy.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Thou dost thy office fairly. Turn thee back,
+  And tell thy king,--I do not seek him now;
+  But could be willing to march on to Calais
+  Without impeachment:[19] for, to say the sooth
+  (Though 'tis no wisdom to confess so much
+  Unto an enemy of craft and vantage),
+  My people are with sickness much enfeebled;
+  My numbers lessen'd; and those few I have,
+  Almost no better than so many French;
+  Who, when they were in health, I tell thee, herald,
+  I thought, upon one pair of English legs,
+  Did march three Frenchmen.--Forgive me, Heaven,
+  That I do brag thus!--this your air of France
+  Hath blown that vice in me; I must repent.
+  Go, therefore, tell thy master here I am;
+  My ransom is this frail and worthless trunk;
+  My army but a weak and sickly guard:
+  Yet, Heaven before,[20] tell him we will come on,
+  Though France himself,[21] and such another neighbour,
+  Stand in our way. There's for thy labour, Montjoy.
+  Go, bid thy master well advise himself:
+  If we may pass, we will; if we be hinder'd,
+  We shall your tawny ground with your red blood
+  Discolour:(C) and so, Montjoy, fare you well.
+  The sum of all our answer is but this:
+  We would not seek a battle, as we are;
+  Nor, as we are, we say, we will not shun it:
+  So tell your master.
+
+  _Mont._            I shall deliver so.
+
+    (_MONTJOY rises from his knee._)
+
+  Thanks to your highness.
+
+    [_Exit MONTJOY with Attendants, R.H._
+
+  _Glo._ I hope they will not come upon us now.
+
+  _K. Hen._ We are in Heaven's hand, brother, not in theirs.
+  March to the bridge; it now draws toward night:
+  Beyond the river we'll encamp ourselves;
+  And on to-morrow bid them march away.
+
+    [_Exeunt, R.H._
+
+    _March._
+
+
+    [Footnote III.4: _And, for achievement, offer up his ransom._]
+    i.e., instead of fighting, he will offer to pay ransom.]
+
+    [Footnote III.5: _----ancient Pistol._] Ancient, a standard or
+    flag; also the ensign bearer, or officer, now called an ensign.]
+
+    [Footnote III.6: _Of buxom valour,_] i.e., valour under good
+    command, obedient to its superiors. The word is used by Spencer.]
+
+    [Footnote III.7: _----upon the rolling restless stone,--_] Fortune
+    is described by several ancient authors in the same words.]
+
+    [Footnote III.8: _----with a muffler before her eyes,_] A muffler
+    was a sort of veil, or wrapper, worn by ladies in Shakespeare's
+    time, chiefly covering the chin and throat.]
+
+    [Footnote III.9: _For he hath stolen a pix,_] A _pix_, or little
+    chest (from the Latin _pixis_, a box), in which the consecrated
+    _host_ was used to be kept.]
+
+    [Footnote III.10: _Fico for thy friendship!_] Fico is fig--it was
+    a term of reproach.]
+
+    [Footnote III.11: _The fig of Spain!_] An expression of contempt
+    or insult, which consisted in thrusting the thumb between two of
+    the closed fingers, or into the mouth; whence _Bite the thumb_.
+    The custom is generally regarded as being originally Spanish.
+    --NARES.]
+
+    [Footnote III.12: _----such slanders of the age,_] Cowardly
+    braggarts were not uncommon characters with the old dramatic
+    writers.]
+
+    [Footnote III.13: _----I must speak with him from the pridge._]
+    _From_ for _about_--concerning the fight that had taken place
+    there.]
+
+    [Footnote III.14: _----bubukles,_] A corrupt word for carbuncles,
+    or something like them.]
+
+    [Footnote III.15: _----and whelks,_] i.e., stripes, marks,
+    discolorations.]
+
+    [Footnote III.16: _----his fire's out._] This is the last time
+    that any sport can be made with the red face of Bardolph.]
+
+    [Footnote III.17: _----by my habit,_] That is, by his herald's
+    coat. The person of a herald being inviolable, was distinguished
+    in those times of formality by a peculiar dress, which is likewise
+    yet worn on particular occasions.]
+
+    [Footnote III.18: _----admire our sufferance._] i.e., our
+    patience, moderation.]
+
+    [Footnote III.19: _Without impeachment:_] i.e., hindrance.
+    _Empechement_, French.]
+
+    [Footnote III.20: _Yet, Heaven before,_] In the acting edition,
+    the name of God is changed to Heaven. This was an expression in
+    Shakespeare's time for _God being my guide_.]
+
+    [Footnote III.21: _Though France himself,_] i.e., though _the King
+    of France_ himself.]
+
+
+END OF ACT THIRD.
+
+
+
+
+HISTORICAL NOTES TO ACT THIRD.
+
+(A) _Come you from the bridge?_] After Henry had passed the Somme, Titus
+Livius asserts, that the King having been informed of a river which must
+be crossed, over which was a bridge, and that his progress depended in a
+great degree upon securing possession of it, despatched some part of his
+forces to defend it from any attack, or from being destroyed. They found
+many of the enemy ready to receive them, to whom they gave battle, and
+after a severe conflict, they captured the bridge, and kept it.
+
+  (B) _Fortune is Bardolph's foe, and frowns on him;
+  For he hath stol'n a pix, and hanged must 'a be._
+
+It will be seen by the following extract from the anonymous Chronicler
+how minutely Shakespeare has adhered to history-- "There was brought to
+the King in that plain a certain English robber, who, contrary to the
+laws of God and the Royal Proclamation, had stolen from a church a pix
+of copper gilt, found in his sleeve, which he happened to mistake for
+gold, in which the Lord's body was kept; and in the next village where
+he passed the night, by decree of the King, he was put to death on the
+gallows." Titus Livius relates that Henry commanded his army to halt
+until the sacrilege was expiated. He first caused the pix to be restored
+to the Church, and the offender was then led, bound as a thief, through
+the army, and afterwards hung upon a tree, that every man might behold
+him.
+
+  (C) _Go, bid thy master well advise himself:
+  If we may pass, we will; if we be hinder'd,
+  We shall your tawny ground with your red blood
+  Discolour:_]
+
+My desire is, that none of you be so _unadvised_, as to be the occasion
+that I in my defence shall _colour_ and make _red your tawny ground_
+with the effusion of Christian blood. When he (Henry) had thus answered
+the Herald, he gave him a great reward, and licensed him to depart.
+--_Holinshed_.
+
+
+
+
+    _Enter CHORUS._
+
+
+  _Cho._ Now entertain conjecture of a time
+  When creeping murmur and the poring dark
+  Fills the wide vessel of the universe.
+  From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night
+  The hum of either army stilly sounds,[1]
+  That the fix'd sentinels almost receive
+  The secret whispers of each other's watch:[2]
+  Fire answers fire;[3] and through their paly flames
+  Each battle sees the other's umber'd face:[4]
+  Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs
+  Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents,
+  The armourers, accomplishing the knights,
+  With busy hammers closing rivets up,
+  Give dreadful note of preparation.
+  Proud of their numbers, and secure in soul,
+  The confident and over-lusty[5] French
+  Do the low-rated English play at dice;[6]
+  And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night,
+  Who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp
+  So tediously away.
+
+
+    _Scene opens and discovers the interior of a French tent, with the
+    DAUPHIN, the CONSTABLE, ORLEANS, and others, playing at dice._
+
+_Dau._ Will it never be day?
+
+_Con._ I would it were morning; for I would fain be about the ears of
+the English.
+
+_Dau._ Who will go to hazard with me for twenty English prisoners?
+
+_Orl._ The prince longs to eat the English.
+
+_Con._ Would it were day! Alas, poor Harry of England! he longs not for
+the dawning, as we do.
+
+_Dau._ If the English had any apprehension, they would run away.
+
+_Con._ That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; their
+mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.
+
+_Dau._ Foolish curs, that run winking into the mouth of a Russian bear,
+and have their heads crushed like rotten apples! You may as well
+say,--that's a valiant flea, that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a
+lion.
+
+_Con._ Just, just: give them great meals of beef, and iron and steel,
+they will eat like wolves, and fight like devils.
+
+_Orl._ Ay, but these English are shrewdly out of beef.
+
+_Con._ Then we shall find to-morrow--they have only stomachs to eat, and
+none to fight. Now is it time to arm: Come, shall we about it?
+
+_Dau._ It is now two o'clock: but, let me see,--by ten We shall have
+each a hundred Englishmen.
+
+
+SCENE CLOSES IN.
+
+  _Cho._ The poor condemned English,
+  Like sacrifices, by their watchful fires
+  Sit patiently, and inly ruminate
+  The morning's danger; and their gestures sad,
+  Investing lank-lean cheeks, and war-worn coats,
+  Presenteth them unto the gazing moon
+  So many horrid ghosts.
+
+    [_Scene re-opens, discovering the English camp, with group
+    of soldiery praying. After a pause the scene closes._
+
+  O, now, who will behold
+  The royal captain of this ruin'd band
+  Walking from watch to watch, from tent to tent,
+  Let him cry--Praise and glory on his head!
+  For forth he goes and visits all his host;
+  Bids them good-morrow with a modest smile,
+  And calls them--brothers, friends, and countrymen.
+  Upon his royal face there is no note
+  How dread an army hath enrounded him;
+  Nor doth he dedicate one jot of colour
+  Unto the weary and all-watched night;
+  But freshly looks, and overbears attaint
+  With cheerful semblance and sweet majesty;
+  That every wretch, pining and pale before,
+  Beholding him, plucks comfort from his looks:
+  Then, mean and gentle all,
+  Behold, as may unworthiness define,
+  A little touch of Harry in the night:
+  And so our scene must to the battle fly;
+  The field of Agincourt. Yet, sit and see;
+  Minding true things[7] by what their mockeries be.
+
+    [_Exit._
+
+
+    [Footnote IVc.1: _----+stilly+ sounds,_] i.e., gently, lowly.]
+
+    [Footnote IVc.2: _The secret whispers of each other's watch:_]
+    Holinshed says, that the distance between the two armies was but
+    250 paces.]
+
+    [Footnote IVc.3: _Fire answers fire;_] This circumstance is also
+    taken from Holinshed. "But at their coming into the village,
+    _fires_ were made by the English to give light on every side, as
+    there likewise were in the French hoste."]
+
+    [Footnote IVc.4: _----the other's +umber'd+ face:_] _Umber'd_
+    means here _discoloured_ by the gleam of the fires. _Umber_ is a
+    dark yellow earth, brought from Umbria, in Italy, which, being
+    mixed with water, produces such a dusky yellow colour as the
+    gleam of fire by night gives to the countenance. Shakespeare's
+    theatrical profession probably furnished him with the epithet,
+    as burnt umber is occasionally used by actors for colouring the
+    face.]
+
+    [Footnote IVc.5: _----over-+lusty+_] i.e., over-_saucy._]
+
+    [Footnote IVc.6: _Do the low-rated English play at dice;_] i.e.,
+    do play them away at dice. Holinshed says-- "The Frenchmen, in the
+    meanwhile, as though they had been sure of victory, made great
+    triumph; for the captains had determined before how to divide the
+    spoil, and _the soldiers the night before had played the
+    Englishmen at dice_."]
+
+    [Footnote IVc.7: _Minding true things_] To _mind_ is the same as
+    to _call to remembrance_.]
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV.
+
+
+SCENE I.--THE ENGLISH CAMP AT AGINCOURT.(A) NIGHT.
+
+    _Enter KING HENRY and GLOSTER, U.E.L.H._
+
+  _K. Hen._ Gloster, 'tis true that we are in great danger;
+  The greater therefore should our courage be.
+
+    _Enter BEDFORD, R.H._
+
+  Good morrow, brother Bedford.--Gracious Heaven!
+  There is some soul of goodness in things evil,
+  Would men observingly distil it out;
+  For our bad neighbour makes us early stirrers,
+  Which is both healthful and good husbandry.
+  Thus may we gather honey from the weed,
+  And make a moral of the devil himself.
+
+    _Enter ERPINGHAM.(B) L.H._
+
+  Good morrow, old Sir Thomas Erpingham:
+  A good soft pillow for that good white head
+  Were better than a churlish turf of France.
+
+  _Erp._ Not so, my liege: this lodging likes me better,
+  Since I may say--now lie I like a king.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Lend me thy cloak, Sir Thomas.--Brothers both,
+  Commend me to the princes in our camp;
+  Do my good morrow to them; and anon
+  Desire them all to my pavilion.
+
+_Glo._ We shall, my liege.
+
+    [_Exeunt GLOSTER and BEDFORD, R.H._
+
+  _Erp._ Shall I attend your grace?
+
+  _K. Hen._                       No, my good knight;
+  Go with my brothers to my lords of England:
+
+    [_ERPINGHAM crosses to R._
+
+  I and my bosom must debate a while,
+  And then I would no other company.
+
+_Erp._ Heaven bless thee, noble Harry!
+
+    [_Exit ERPINGHAM, R.H._
+
+_K. Hen._ Gad-a-mercy, old heart! thou speakest cheerfully.
+
+    _Enter PISTOL, L.H._
+
+_Pist._ _Qui va la?_
+
+_K. Hen._ A friend.
+
+  _Pist._ Discuss unto me; Art thou officer?
+  Or art thou base, common, and popular?[1]
+
+  _K. Hen._ I am a gentleman of a company.
+
+  _Pist._ Trail'st thou the puissant pike?
+
+  _K. Hen._ Even so. What are you?
+
+  _Pist._ As good a gentleman as the emperor.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Then you are a better than the king.[2]
+
+  _Pist._ The king's a bawcock,[3] and a heart of gold,
+  A lad of life, an imp of fame;[4]
+  Of parents good, of fist most valiant:
+  I kiss his dirty shoe, and from my heart-strings
+  I love the lovely bully. What's thy name?
+
+_K. Hen._ Harry _le Roi_.
+
+_Pist._ _Le Roi!_ a Cornish name: art thou of Cornish crew?
+
+_K. Hen._ No, I am a Welshman.
+
+_Pist._ Knowest thou Fluellen?
+
+_K. Hen._ Yes.
+
+  _Pist._ Tell him, I'll knock his leek about his pate,
+  Upon Saint Davy's day.
+
+    [_Crosses to R._
+
+_K. Hen._ Do not you wear your dagger in your cap that day, lest he
+knock that about yours.
+
+_Pist._ Art thou his friend?
+
+_K. Hen._ And his kinsman too.
+
+_Pist._ The _figo_ for thee, then!
+
+_K. Hen._ I thank you: Heaven be with you!
+
+_Pist._ My name is Pistol call'd.
+
+    [_Exit, R.H._
+
+_K. Hen._ It sorts[5] well with your fierceness.
+
+    _Enter FLUELLEN, L.H., and crosses to R., and GOWER, U.E.R.H.,
+    following hastily._
+
+_Gow._ Captain Fluellen!
+
+_Flu._ (R.C.) So! in the name of Heaven, speak lower.[6] It is the
+greatest admiration in the universal 'orld, when the true and auncient
+prerogatifes and laws of the wars is not kept: if you would take the
+pains but to examine the wars of Pompey the Great, you shall find,
+I warrant you, that there is no tiddle taddle, or pibble pabble in
+Pompey's camp.
+
+_Gow._ (L.C.) Why, the enemy is loud; you heard him all night.
+
+_Flu._ If the enemy is an ass, and a fool, and a prating coxcomb, is it
+meet, think you, that we should also, look you, be an ass, and a fool,
+and a prating coxcomb, in your own conscience, now?
+
+_Gow._ I will speak lower.
+
+_Flu._ I pray you, and beseech you, that you will.
+
+    [_Exeunt GOWER and FLUELLEN, R.H._
+
+_K. Hen._ Though it appear a little out of fashion, there is much care
+and valour in this Welshman.
+
+    _Enter BATES and WILLIAMS, L.H._
+
+_Will._ Brother John Bates, is not that the morning which breaks yonder?
+
+_Bates._ I think it be: but we have no great cause to desire the
+approach of day.
+
+_Will._ We see yonder the beginning of the day, but, I think, we shall
+never see the end of it.--Who goes there?
+
+_K. Hen._ A friend.
+
+    [_Comes down, R._
+
+_Will._ Under what captain serve you?
+
+_K. Hen._ Under Sir Thomas Erpingham.
+
+_Will._ A good old commander, and a most kind gentleman: I pray you,
+what thinks he of our estate?
+
+_K. Hen._ Even as men wrecked upon a sand, that look to be washed off
+the next tide.
+
+_Bates._ (L.) He hath not told his thought to the king?
+
+_K. Hen._ No; nor it is not meet he should. (_Crosses to centre._) For,
+though I speak it to you, I think the king is but a man, as I am: the
+violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element shows to him as it
+doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions:[7] therefore when
+he sees reason of fears, as we do, his fears, out of doubt, be of the
+same relish as ours are: Yet, in reason, no man should possess him with
+any appearance of fear, lest he, by showing it, should dishearten his
+army.
+
+_Bates._ He may show what outward courage he will; but I believe, as
+cold a night as 'tis, he could wish himself in the Thames up to the
+neck; and so I would he were, and I by him, at all adventures, so we
+were quit here.
+
+_K. Hen._ (C.) By my troth, I will speak my conscience of the king:
+I think he would not wish himself any where but where he is.
+
+_Bates._ (L.) Then 'would he were here alone; so should he be sure to be
+ransomed, and a many poor men's lives saved.
+
+_K. Hen._ I dare say you love him not so ill, to wish him here alone,
+howsoever you speak this, to feel other men's minds: Methinks I could
+not die any where so contented as in the king's company; his cause being
+just, and his quarrel honourable.[8]
+
+_Will._ (R.) That's more than we know.
+
+_Bates._ Ay, or more than we should seek after; for we know enough, if
+we know we are the king's subjects: if his cause be wrong, our obedience
+to the king wipes the crime of it out of us.
+
+_Will._ But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy
+rekoning to make, when all those legs and arms and heads, chopped off in
+battle, shall join together at the latter day,[9] and cry all--We died
+at such place; some swearing; some crying for a surgeon; some, upon
+their wives left poor behind them; some, upon the debts they owe; some,
+upon their children rawly left.[10] I am afeard there are few die well
+that die in battle; for how can they charitably dispose of any thing,
+when blood is their argument? Now, if these men do not die well, it will
+be a black matter for the king that led them to it; whom to disobey were
+against all proportion of subjection.
+
+_K. Hen._ So, if a son, that is by his father sent about merchandise, do
+sinfully miscarry upon the sea, the imputation of his wickedness, by
+your rule, should be imposed upon his father that sent him:--But this is
+not so: the king is not bound to answer the particular endings of his
+soldiers, nor the father of his son, for they purpose not their death,
+when they purpose their services. Every subject's duty is the king's;
+but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore should every soldier in
+the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his
+conscience: and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the
+time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained.
+
+_Will._ 'Tis certain, every man that dies ill, the ill is upon his own
+head; the king is not to answer for it.
+
+_Bates._ I do not desire he should answer for me; and yet I determine to
+fight lustily for him.
+
+_K. Hen._ I myself heard the king say he would not be ransomed.
+
+_Will._ Ay, he said so, to make us fight cheerfully: but, when our
+throats are cut, he may be ransomed, and we ne'er the wiser.
+
+_K. Hen._ If I live to see it, I will never trust his word after.
+
+_Will._ That's a perilous shot out of an elder gun, that a poor and
+private displeasure can do against a monarch! you may as well go about
+to turn the sun to ice with fanning in his face with a peacock's
+feather. You'll never trust his word after! come, 'tis a foolish saying.
+
+_K. Hen._ Your reproof is something too round:[11] I should be angry
+with you, if the time were convenient.
+
+_Will._ Let it be a quarrel between us, if you live.
+
+_K. Hen._ I embrace it.
+
+_Will._ How shall I know thee again?
+
+_K. Hen._ Give me any gage of thine, and I will wear it in my bonnet:
+then, if ever thou darest acknowledge it, I will make it my quarrel.
+
+_Will._ Here's my glove: give me another of thine.
+
+_K. Hen._ There.
+
+_Will._ This will I also wear in my cap: if ever thou come to me and
+say, after to-morrow. _This is my glove_, by this hand, I will take thee
+a box on the ear.
+
+_K. Hen._ If ever I live to see it, I will challenge it.
+
+_Will._ Thou darest as well be hanged.
+
+_K. Hen._ Well, I will do it, though I take thee in the king's company.
+
+_Will._ Keep thy word: fare thee well.
+
+_Bates._ Be friends, you English fools, be friends: (_Crosses to_
+WILLIAMS, R.) we have French quarrels enough, if you could tell how to
+reckon.
+
+    [_Exeunt Soldiers, R.H._
+
+  _K. Hen._ Upon the king! let us our lives, our souls,
+  Our sins, lay on the king!--we must bear all.
+  O hard condition, twin-born with greatness,
+  Subjected to the breath of every fool.
+  What infinite heart's ease must king's neglect,
+  That private men enjoy!
+  And what have kings, that privates have not too,
+  Save ceremony, save general ceremony?
+  And what art thou, thou idol ceremony?
+  Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form,
+  Creating awe and fear in other men?
+  Wherein thou art less happy being fear'd
+  Than they in fearing.
+  What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet,
+  But poison'd flattery? O, be sick, great greatness,
+  And bid thy ceremony give thee cure!
+  Canst thou, when thou command'st the beggar's knee,
+  Command the health of it? No, thou proud dream,
+  That play'st so subtly with a king's repose:
+  I am a king that find thee; and I know,
+  'Tis not the balm, the sceptre, and the ball,
+  The sword, the mace, the crown imperial,
+  The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp
+  That beats upon the high shore of this world,
+  No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony,
+  Not all these, laid in bed majestical,
+  Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave,
+  Who, with a body fill'd and vacant mind,
+  Gets him to rest, cramm'd with distressful bread;
+  And but for ceremony, such a wretch,
+  Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep,
+  Had the fore-hand and vantage of a king.
+
+    _Enter ERPINGHAM, R.H._
+
+  _Erp._ My lord, your nobles, jealous of your absence,
+  Seek through your camp to find you.
+
+  _K. Hen._                         Good old knight,
+  Collect them all together at my tent:
+  I'll be before thee.
+
+    [_Gives back the Cloak to ERPINGHAM._
+
+  _Erp._             I shall do't, my lord. _[Exit, R.H._
+
+  _K. Hen._ O God of battles! steel my soldier's hearts;
+  Possess them not with fear; take from them now
+  The sense of reckoning, lest the opposed numbers
+  Pluck their hearts from them!--Not to-day, O Lord,
+  O, not to-day, think not upon the fault
+  My father made in compassing the crown!
+  I Richard's body have interred new;(C)
+  And on it have bestow'd more contrite tears,
+  Than from it issu'd forced drops of blood:
+  Five hundred poor I have in yearly pay,
+  Who twice a day their wither'd hands hold up
+  Toward heaven, to pardon blood:
+                                More will I do--
+
+    [_Trumpet sounds without, R._
+
+  The day, my friends, and all things stay for me.
+
+    [_Exit, R.H._
+
+
+    [Footnote IV.1: _----popular_] i.e., one of the people.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.2: _----you are a better than the king._] i.e.,
+    a better _man_ than the king.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.3: _The king's a bawcock,_] A burlesque term of
+    endearment, supposed to be derived from _beau coq_.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.4: _----an imp of fame;_] An _imp_ is a young shoot,
+    but means a _son_ in Shakespeare. In this sense the word has
+    become obsolete, and is now only understood as a small or inferior
+    devil.
+
+    In Holingshed, p. 951, the last words of Lord Cromwell are
+    preserved, who says:-- "----and after him, that his son Prince
+    Edward, that goodly _imp_, may long reign over you."]
+
+    [Footnote IV.5: _It sorts_] i.e., it agrees.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.6: _----speak lower._] Shakespeare has here, as
+    usual, followed Holinshead: "Order was taken by commandement from
+    the king, after the army was first set in battle array, that _no
+    noise or clamor should be made in the host_."]
+
+    [Footnote IV.7: _----conditions:_] i.e., _qualities_. The meaning
+    is, that objects are represented by his senses to him, as to other
+    men by theirs. What is danger to another is danger likewise to him;
+    and, when he feels fear, it is like the fear of meaner mortals.
+    --JOHNSON.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.8: _----his cause being just, and his quarrel
+    honourable._] In his address to the army, King Henry called upon
+    them all to remember _the just cause and quarrel_ for which they
+    fought. --HOLINSHED.]
+
+    [Footnote V.9: _----the latter day,_] i.e., the last day, the day
+    of Judgment. Shakespeare frequently uses the _comparative_ for the
+    _superlative_.]
+
+    [Footnote V.10: _----their children +rawly+ left._] i.e., _left
+    young and helpless_.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.11: _----too +round+:_] i.e., too rough, too
+    unceremonious.]
+
+
+SCENE II.--THE FRENCH CAMP--SUNRISE.
+
+  _Flourish of trumpets._
+
+    _Enter DAUPHIN, GRANDPRE, RAMBURES,[12] and Others._
+
+  _Dau._ The sun doth gild our armour; up, my lords!
+  My horse! _varlet! lacquay!_ ha!
+
+    [_Servants exeunt hastily._
+
+  _Grand._ O brave spirit!
+
+  _Dau._ Cousin Orleans.--
+
+    _Enter CONSTABLE, L.H._
+
+  Now, my lord Constable!
+
+  _Con._ Hark, how our steeds for present service neigh!
+
+  _Dau._ Mount them, and make incision in their hides,
+  That their hot blood may spin in English eyes,
+  And dout them[13] with superfluous courage, Ha!
+
+  _Con._ What, will you have them weep our horses' blood?
+  How shall we, then, behold their natural tears?
+
+    _Enter MONTJOY, R.H._
+
+  _Mont._ The English are embattled, you French peers.
+
+    [_Exit R.H._
+
+  _Con._ To horse, you gallant princes! straight to horse!
+  Do but behold yon poor and starved band.
+  There is not work enough for all our hands;
+  Scarce blood enough in all their sickly veins,
+  To give each naked curtle-ax a stain.
+  'Tis positive 'gainst all exceptions, lords,
+  That our superfluous lackeys, are enough
+  To purge this field of such a hilding foe.[14]
+  A very little little let us do,
+  And all is done. Then let the trumpets sound:
+  For our approach shall so much dare the field,
+  That England shall couch down in fear, and yield.
+
+    _Enter ORLEANS,(D) hastily, R.H._
+
+  _Orl._ Why do you stay so long, my lords of France?
+  Yon island carrions,[15] desperate of their bones,
+  Ill-favour'dly become the morning field:
+  Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose,[16]
+  And our air shakes them passing scornfully:
+  Big Mars seems bankrupt in their beggar'd host,
+  And their executors, the knavish crows,
+  Fly o'er them, all impatient for their hour.
+  Description cannot suit itself in words
+  To demonstrate the life of such a battle
+  In life so lifeless as it shows itself.
+
+  _Dau._ Shall we go send them dinners and fresh suits,
+  And give their fasting horses provender,
+  And after fight with them?
+
+  _Con._                   On, to the field!
+  Come, come, away!
+  The sun is high, and we outwear the day.
+
+    [_Exeunt, R.H._
+
+    _Flourish of trumpets._
+
+
+    [Footnote IV.12: _Rambures_,] The Lord of Rambures was commander
+    of the cross-bows in the French army at Agincourt.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.13: _And dout them_] _Dout_, is a word still used in
+    Warwickshire, and signifies to _do out_, or _extinguish_.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.14: _----a hilding foe._] _Hilding_, or _hinderling_,
+    is a _low wretch_.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.15: _Yon island carrion,_] This description of the
+    English is founded on the melancholy account given by our
+    historians of Henry's army, immediately before the battle of
+    Agincourt.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.16: _Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose,_] By
+    their _ragged curtains_, are meant their colours.]
+
+
+SCENE III.--THE ENGLISH POSITION AT AGINCOURT.
+
+    _The English Army drawn up for battle;(E) GLOSTER, BEDFORD,
+    EXETER, SALISBURY, ERPINGHAM, and WESTMORELAND._
+
+  _Glo._ (R.C.) Where is the king?
+
+  _Bed._ (L.C.) The king himself is rode to view their battle.[17]
+
+  _West._ (L.) Of fighting men they have full threescore thousand.
+
+  _Exe._ (L.C.) There's five to one; besides, they all are fresh.
+
+  _Erp._ It is fearful odds.
+  If we no more meet till we meet in heaven,
+  Then, joyfully,--my noble lord of Bedford,--
+
+    [_Crosses to L._
+
+  My dear lord Gloster,--and my good lord Exeter,--
+  Warriors all, adieu!
+
+    [_Crosses back to R._
+
+  _West._            O that we now had here
+  But one ten thousand of those men in England
+  That do no work to-day!(F)
+
+    _Enter KING HENRY, attended.(G) U.E.L.H._
+
+  _K. Hen._ (C.)        What's he that wishes so?
+  My cousin Westmoreland?--No, my fair cousin:
+  If we are mark'd to die, we are enough
+  To do our country loss; and if to live,
+  The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
+  I pray thee, wish not one man more.
+  Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
+  That he who hath no stomach to this fight.
+  Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
+  And crowns for convoy put into his purse:
+  We would not die in that man's company,
+  That fears his fellowship to die with us.
+  This day is call'd--the feast of Crispian:(H)
+  He, that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
+  Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd,
+  And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
+  He that shall live this day, and see old age,
+  Will yearly on the vigil feast his friends,[18]
+  And say--to-morrow is Saint Crispian:
+  Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
+  And say, those wounds I had on Crispin's day.
+  Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
+  But he'll remember with advantages[19]
+  What feats he did that day: Then shall our names,
+  Familiar in their mouths as household words,--
+  Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
+  Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloster,--(I)
+  Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
+  This story shall the good man teach his son;
+  And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
+  From this day to the ending[20] of the world,
+  But we in it shall be remembered.
+  We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
+  For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
+  Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
+  This day shall gentle his condition:[21]
+  And gentlemen in England, now a-bed,
+  Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here;
+  And hold their manhoods cheap while any speaks
+  That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
+
+    _Enter GOWER, hastily, U.E.L.H._
+
+  _Gow._ (R.C.) My sovereign lord, bestow yourself with speed:
+  The French are bravely in their battles set,[22]
+  And will with all expedience charge on us.
+
+  _K. Hen._ (C.) All things are ready, if our minds be so.
+
+  _West._ Perish the man whose mind is backward now!
+
+  _K. Hen._ Thou dost not wish more help from England, cousin?
+
+  _West._ (L.) Would you and I alone, my liege,
+  Without more help, might fight this battle out!
+
+    _Trumpet sounds without, L.H._
+
+    _Enter MONTJOY, and attendants, U.E.L.H._
+
+  _Mont._ (_uncovers and kneels._)
+  Once more I come to know of thee, King Harry,
+  If for thy ransom thou wilt now compound,
+  Before thy most assured overthrow.
+
+_K. Hen._ (C.) Who hath sent thee now?
+
+_Mont._ The Constable of France.
+
+  _K. Hen._ I pray thee, bear my former answer back:
+  Bid them achieve me,[23] and then sell my bones.
+  Good Heaven! Why should they mock poor fellows thus?
+  The man, that once did sell the lion's skin
+  While the beast liv'd, was kill'd with hunting him.
+  Let me speak proudly:--Tell the Constable,
+  We are but warriors for the working-day:[24]
+  Our gayness and our guilt[25] are all besmirch'd
+  With rainy marching in the painful field,
+  And time hath worn us into slovenry.
+  But, by the mass, our hearts are in the trim;
+  And my poor soldiers tell me--yet ere night
+  They'll be in fresher robes; or they will pluck
+  The gay new coats o'er the French soldiers' heads,
+  And turn them out of service.
+  Come thou no more for ransom, gentle herald:
+  They shall have none, I swear, but these my joints,
+  Which if they have as I will leave 'em to them,
+  Shall yield them little, tell the Constable.
+
+  _Mont._ I shall, King Harry.
+
+    (_Rises from his knee._)
+
+                             And so, fare thee well:
+  Thou never shalt hear herald any more.
+
+    [_Exit with Attendants, U.E.L.H._
+
+  _K. Hen._ Now, soldiers, march away:--
+  And how thou pleasest, Heaven, dispose the day!(K)
+
+    _Trumpet March._
+
+    [_Exeunt L.H._
+
+
+    [Footnote IV.17: _The king himself is rode to view their battle._]
+    The king is reported to have dismounted before the battle
+    commenced, and to have fought on foot.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.18: _----on the vigil feast his friends_,] i.e., the
+    evening before the festival.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.19: _----with advantages_,] Old men, notwithstanding
+    the natural forgetfulness of age, shall remember _their feats of
+    this day_, and remember to tell them _with advantage_. Age is
+    commonly boastful, and inclined to magnify past acts and past
+    times. --JOHNSON.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.20: _From this day to the ending_] It may be observed
+    that we are apt to promise to ourselves a more lasting memory than
+    the changing state of human things admits. This prediction is not
+    verified; the feast of Crispin passes by without any mention of
+    Agincourt. Late events obliterate the former: the civil wars have
+    left in this nation scarcely any tradition of more ancient
+    history. --JOHNSON.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.21: _----gentle his condition:_] This day shall
+    advance him to the rank of a gentleman.
+
+    King Henry V. inhibited any person but such as had a right by
+    inheritance, or grant, to assume coats of arms, except those who
+    fought with him at the battle of Agincourt; and, I think, these
+    last were allowed the chief seats of honour at all feasts and
+    publick meetings. --TOLLET.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.22: _----bravely in their battles set._] Bravely, for
+    gallantly.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.23: _Bid them achieve me,_] i.e., gain, or obtain
+    me.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.24: _----warriors for the +working-day+:_] We are
+    soldiers but coarsely dressed; we have not on our holiday
+    apparel.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.25: _----our +guilt+_] i.e., golden show, superficial
+    gilding. The word is obsolete.]
+
+
+
+
+SCENE IV.--ANOTHER PART OF THE FIELD OF BATTLE.
+
+    _Alarums. Enter DAUPHIN, ORLEANS, BOURBON, CONSTABLE, RAMBURES,
+    and Others, hastily, and in confusion, L.H._
+
+  _Dau._ (C.) All is confounded, all!
+  Reproach and everlasting shame
+  Sits mocking in our plumes.
+
+    [_Alarums, L._
+
+  _Con._ Why, all our ranks are broke.
+
+  _Dau._ O perdurable shame![26]--let's stab ourselves.
+  Be these the wretches that we play'd at dice for?
+
+  _Orl._ (L.C.) Is this the king we sent to for his ransom?
+
+  _Dau._ Shame, and eternal shame, nothing but shame!
+  Let us die in honor: Once more back again.
+
+  _Con._ (C.) Disorder, that hath spoil'd us, friend us now!
+  Let us in heaps go offer up our lives
+  Unto these English, or else die with fame.
+
+  _Dau._ (R.C.) We are enough, yet living in the field,
+  To smother up the English in our throngs,
+  If any order might be thought upon.
+
+  _Con._ The devil take order now! I'll to the throng:
+  Let life be short; else shame will be too long.
+
+    _Alarums._
+
+    [_Exeunt L.H._
+
+
+    [Footnote IV.26: _O +perdurable+ shame!_] _Perdurable_ is
+    lasting.]
+
+
+SCENE V.--THE FIELD OF AGINCOURT AFTER THE BATTLE.
+
+  [_The bodies of the DUKE OF YORK(L) and EARL OF SUFFOLK are borne
+  across the stage by soldiers._
+
+  _Trumpets sound._
+
+    _Enter KING HENRY with a part of the English forces; WARWICK,
+    BEDFORD, GLOSTER, EXETER, and others, L.H._
+
+  _K. Hen._ (C.) I was not angry since I came to France,
+  Until this instant.--Take a trumpet, herald;
+  Ride thou unto the horsemen on yon hill:(M)
+  If they will fight with us, bid them come down,
+  Or void the field;[27] they do offend our sight:
+  If they'll do neither, we will come to them;
+  And make them skirr away, as swift as stones
+  Enforced from the old Assyrian slings.
+  Go, and tell them so.
+
+    [_Exit HERALD with Trumpeter, R.H._
+
+  _Exe._ The Duke of York commends him to your majesty.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Lives he, good uncle? thrice within this hour,
+  I saw him down; thrice up again and fighting;
+  From helmet to the spur, all blood he was.
+
+  _Exe._ In which array, (brave soldier), did he lie,
+  Larding the plain; and by his bloody side,
+  (Yoke fellow to his honour-owing wounds),
+  The noble Earl of Suffolk also lay.
+  Suffolk first died: and York, all haggled over,
+  Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteep'd,
+  And takes him by the hand; kisses the gashes,
+  That bloodily did yarn upon his face;
+  And cries aloud:--_Tarry, dear cousin Suffolk!
+  My soul shall thine keep company to heaven:
+  Tarry, sweet soul, for mine, then fly abreast;
+  As in this glorious and well foughten field,
+  We keep together in our chivalry!_
+  Upon these words I came, and cheer'd him up:
+  He smil'd me in the face, raught me his hand,[28]
+  And with a feeble gripe, says,--_Dear, my lord,
+  Commend my service to my sovereign._
+  So did he turn, and over Suffolk's neck
+  He threw his wounded arm, and kiss'd his lips;
+  And so espous'd to death, with blood he seal'd
+  A testament of noble-ending love.
+  The pretty and sweet manner of it forc'd
+  Those waters from me, which I would have stopp'd;
+  But I had not so much of man in me,
+  But all my mother came into mine eyes,
+  And gave me up to tears.
+
+    [_Re-enter ENGLISH HERALD and Trumpeter, R.H._
+
+  _K. Hen._              I blame you not:
+  For, hearing this, I must perforce compound
+  With mistful eyes, or they will issue too.
+
+    [_Trumpet without, R._
+
+  _Exe._ Here comes the herald of the French, my liege.
+
+  _Glo._ His eyes are humbler than they us'd to be.
+
+    _Enter MONTJOY,(N) and attendants, R.H. MONTJOY uncovers
+    and kneels._
+
+  _K. Hen._ How now! what means this, herald?
+  Com'st thou again for ransom?
+
+  _Mont._                     No, great king:
+  I come to thee for charitable licence,
+  That we may wander o'er this bloody field
+  To book our dead, and then to bury them;
+  To sort our nobles from our common men,
+  For many of our princes (woe the while!)
+  Lie drown'd and soak'd in mercenary blood;
+  (So do our vulgar drench their peasant limbs
+  In blood of princes;) and their wounded steeds
+  Fret fetlock deep in gore, and, with wild rage
+  Yerk out their armed heels at their dead masters,
+  Killing them twice. O, give us leave, great king,
+  To view the field in safety, and dispose
+  Of their dead bodies!
+
+  _K. Hen._           I tell thee truly, herald,
+  I know not if the day be ours or no;
+  For yet a many of your horsemen peer
+  And gallop o'er the field.
+
+  _Mont._                  The day is yours.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Praised be Heaven, and not our strength, for it!--
+  What is this castle call'd that stands hard by?
+
+  _Mont._ They call it--Agincourt.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Then call we this--the field of Agincourt,
+  Fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus.
+
+    [_Loud flourish of Trumpets, and shouts of the soldiers.
+    MONTJOY rises from his knee, and stands R._
+
+_Flu._ (L.) Your grandfather of famous memory, an't please your majesty,
+and your great uncle Edward the plack prince of Wales, as I have read in
+the chronicles, fought a most prave pattle here in France.
+
+_K. Hen._ (C.) They did, Fluellen.
+
+_Flu._ Your majesty says very true: if your majesties is remembered of
+it, the Welshman did goot service in a garden where leeks did grow,
+wearing leeks in their Monmouth caps;[29] which, your majesty knows, to
+this hour is an honourable padge of the service; and I do believe, your
+majesty takes no scorn to wear the leek upon Saint Tavy's day.
+
+  _K. Hen._ I wear it for a memorable honour;
+  For I am Welsh, you know, good countryman.
+
+_Flu._ All the water in Wye cannot wash your majesty's Welsh plood out
+of your pody, I can tell you that: Heaven pless it, and preserve it, as
+long as it pleases his grace, and his majesty too!
+
+_K. Hen._ Thanks, good my countryman.
+
+_Flu._ I am your majesty's countryman, I care not who know it: I will
+confess it to all the 'orld: I need not to be ashamed of your majesty,
+praised be Heaven, so long as your majesty is an honest man.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Heaven keep me so!--Our herald go with him:
+  Bring me just notice of the numbers dead
+  On both our parts.--
+
+    [_Exeunt MONTJOY and attendants, with English Herald, R.H._
+
+                    Call yonder fellow hither.
+
+    [_Points to WILLIAMS, who is standing in the ranks up the stage, L._
+
+_Exe._ Soldier, you must come to the king.
+
+_K. Hen._ (C.) Soldier, why wear'st thou that glove in thy cap?
+
+_Will._ (_kneels R._) An't please your majesty, 'tis the gage of one
+that I should fight withal, if he be alive.
+
+    [_Rises from his knee._
+
+_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._ (L.) 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,[30] quite
+from the answer of his degree.[31]
+
+_Flu._ Though he be as goot a gentleman as the tevil is, as Lucifer and
+Belzebub himself, it is necessary, look your grace, that he keep his vow
+and his oath.
+
+_K. Hen._ Then keep thy vow, sirrah, when thou meet'st the fellow.
+
+_Will._ So I will, my liege, as I live.
+
+_K. Hen._ Who servest thou under?
+
+_Will._ Under Captain Gower, my liege.
+
+_Flu._ Gower is a goot captain, and is good knowledge and literature in
+the wars.
+
+_K. Hen._ Call him hither to me, soldier.
+
+_Will._ I will, my liege.
+
+    [_Exit, R.H._
+
+_K. Hen._ Here, Fluellen; wear thou this favour for me, and stick it in
+thy cap: When Alencon and myself were down together,(O) I plucked this
+glove from his helm: if any man challenge this, he is a friend to
+Alencon and an enemy to our person; if thou encounter any such,
+apprehend him, an thou dost love me.
+
+_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.
+
+_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._ (L.) I will fetch him.
+
+    [_Crosses to R., and exit R.H._
+
+  _K. Hen._ (L.C.) My lord of Warwick,--and my brother Gloster,
+
+    [_Both advance to the KING._
+
+  Follow Fluellen closely at the heels:
+  The glove which I have given him for a favour
+  May haply purchase him a box o' the ear;
+  It is the soldier's; I, by bargain, should
+  Wear it myself. Follow, good cousin Warwick:
+
+    [_WARWICK crosses to R._
+
+  If that the soldier strike him (as, I judge,
+  By his blunt bearing, he will keep his word,)
+  Some sudden mischief may arise of it;
+  For I do know Fluellen valiant,
+  And, touch'd with choler, hot as gunpowder,
+  And quickly will return an injury:
+  Follow,
+
+    (_GLOSTER crosses to R._)
+
+        and see there be no harm between them.--
+
+    [_WARWICK and GLOSTER exeunt R.H._
+
+  Go you with me, Uncle of Exeter.
+
+    [_Exeunt Omnes, L.H._
+
+    _Trumpets sound._
+
+
+    [Footnote IV.27: _Or void the field;_] i.e., avoid, withdraw from
+    the field.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.28: _----+raught+ me his hand,_] _Raught_ is the old
+    preterite of the verb _to reach_.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.29: _----Monmouth caps;_] Monmouth caps were formerly
+    much worn, and Fuller, in his "Worthies of Wales," says the best
+    caps were formerly made at Monmouth.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.30: _----great sort,_] High rank.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.31: _----quite from the answer of his degree._] A man
+    of such station as is not bound to hazard his person to _answer_
+    to a challenge from one of the soldier's _low degree_.]
+
+
+SCENE VI.--BEFORE KING HENRY'S PAVILION.
+
+    _Enter GOWER and WILLIAMS, R.H._
+
+_Will._ I warrant it is to knight you, captain.
+
+    _Enter FLUELLEN, R.H._
+
+_Flu._ Heaven's will and pleasure, captain, I peseech you now, come
+apace to the king: there is more goot toward you peradventure than is in
+your knowledge to dream of.
+
+_Will._ Sir, know you this glove?
+
+_Flu._ (C.) Know the glove! I know, the glove is a glove.
+
+_Will._ (R.C.) 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._ (L.C.) How now, sir! you villain!
+
+_Will._ Do you think I'll be forsworn?
+
+_Flu._ Stand away, Captain Gower; I will give treason his payment in
+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 Alencon's.
+
+    _Enter WARWICK and GLOSTER,(P) R.H._
+
+_Glos._ (_crosses to C._) How now, how now! what's the matter?
+
+_Flu._ My lord of Gloster, here is (praised be Heaven 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, EXETER, and others, U.E.L.H._
+
+_K. Hen._ (_coming down centre._) How now! what's the matter?
+
+_Flu._ (L.H.) 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 Alencon.
+
+_Will._ (R.C.) My liege, this was my glove; here is the fellow of it;
+and he that I gave it to in change promised to 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
+arrant, rascally, beggarly, lowsy knave it is: I hope, your majesty is
+pear me testimony, and witness, and avouchments, that this is the glove
+of Alencon, that your majesty is give me, in your conscience, now.
+
+_K. Hen._ Give me thy glove, soldier: Look, here is the fellow of it.
+'Twas I, indeed, thou promised'st to strike; and thou hast given me most
+bitter terms.
+
+    [_WILLIAMS falls on his knee._
+
+_Flu._ An please your majesty, let his neck answer for it, if there is
+any martial law in the 'orld.
+
+_K. Hen._ How can'st thou make me satisfaction?
+
+_Will._ All offences, my liege, come from the heart: never came any from
+mine, that might offend your majesty.
+
+_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
+your 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 beseech your highness, pardon me.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Here, uncle Exeter, fill this glove with crowns,
+  And give it to this fellow.-- (_WILLIAMS rises._) Keep it, fellow;
+  And wear it for an honour in thy cap
+  Till I do challenge it.--Give him the crowns:--
+  And, captain, you must needs be friends with him.
+
+    [_The KING goes up the stage with EXETER, BEDFORD, and GLOSTER._
+
+_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
+Heaven, 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: 'tis a goot silling, I warrant you, or I will change it.
+
+    [_Exit WILLIAMS, R.H._
+
+    [_Enter ENGLISH HERALD, R.H._
+
+_K. Hen._ (_coming down C._) Now, herald, are the dead number'd?
+
+    [_HERALD uncovers, kneels, and delivers papers.
+    The KING gives one paper to EXETER._
+
+  _K. Hen._ (C.) What prisoners of good sort are taken, uncle?
+
+  _Exe._ (L.C.) 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._ (C.) This note doth tell me of ten thousand French
+  That in the field lie slain: of princes, in this number,
+  And nobles bearing banners, there lie dead
+  One hundred twenty-six: added to these,
+  Of knights, esquires, and gallant gentlemen,
+  Eight thousand and four hundred; of the which,
+  Five hundred were but yesterday dubb'd knights:[32]
+  So that, in these ten thousand they have lost,
+  There are but sixteen hundred mercenaries:[33]
+  The rest are--princes, barons, lords, knights, 'squires,
+  And gentlemen of blood and quality.
+  Here was a royal fellowship of death!----(Q)
+  What is the number of our English dead?
+
+  _Exe._ (L.C.) Edward the duke of York, the earl of Suffolk,
+  Sir Richard Ketley, Davy Gam, esquire:
+  None else of name; and of all other men
+  But five and twenty.
+
+  _K. Hen._          O Heaven, thy arm was here;
+  And not to us, but to thy arm alone,
+  Ascribe we all! When, without stratagem,
+  But in plain shock and even play of battle,
+  Was ever known so great and little loss
+  On one part and on the other?--Take it, Heaven,
+  For it is only thine!
+
+    [_Returns papers to HERALD, who rises and stands L._
+
+  _Exe._              'Tis wonderful!
+
+  _K. Hen._ Come, go we in procession to the village:
+  And be it death proclaimed through our host
+  To boast of this, or take that praise from Heaven
+  Which is his only.
+
+_Flu._ (R.C.) Is it not lawful, and please your majesty, to tell how
+many is killed?
+
+  _K. Hen._ (_up the stage C._)
+  Yes, captain; but with this acknowledgment,
+  That Heaven fought for us.
+
+_Flu._ Yes, my conscience, he did us great goot.
+
+_K. Hen._ Do we all holy rites:(R)
+
+    [_The curtains of the Royal Pavilion are drawn aside,
+    and discover an Altar and Priests._
+
+  Let there be sung _Non nobis_ and _Te Deum_;
+  The dead with charity enclos'd in clay:
+  We'll then to Calais; and to England then;
+  Where ne'er from France arriv'd more happy men.
+
+    [_Organ music; all kneel, and join in Song of Thanksgiving._
+
+
+END OF ACT FOUR.
+
+
+    [Footnote IV.32: _Five hundred were but yesterday dubb'd
+    knights:_] In ancient times, the distribution of this honor
+    appears to have been customary on the eve of a battle.]
+
+    [Footnote IV.33: _Sixteen hundred mercenaries;_] i.e., common
+    soldiers, hired soldiers.]
+
+
+
+
+HISTORICAL NOTES TO ACT FOURTH.
+
+(A) _The English Camp at Agincourt._] The French were about a quarter of
+a mile from them at Agincourt and Ruisseauville, and both armies
+proceeded to light their fires, and to make the usual arrangements for a
+bivouack. The night was very rainy, and much inconvenience is said to
+have been experienced in each camp from wet and cold, accompanied, among
+the English, by hunger and fatigue. It was passed in a manner strictly
+consistent with their relative situations. The French, confident in
+their numbers, occupied the hours not appropriated to sleep in
+calculating upon their success; and in full security of a complete
+victory, played at dice with each other for the disposal of their
+prisoners, an archer being valued at a blank, and the more important
+persons in proportion; whilst the English were engaged in preparing
+their weapons, and in the most solemn acts of religion.  *  *  *  The
+Chronicler in the text states, that from the great stillness which
+prevailed throughout the English camp, the enemy imagined they were
+panic-struck, and intended to decamp. Monstrelet relates that the
+English "were much fatigued and oppressed by cold, hunger, and other
+annoyances; that they made their peace with God, by confessing their
+sins with tears, and numbers of them taking the sacrament; for, as it
+was related by some prisoners, they looked for certain death on the
+morrow."
+
+(B) _Enter Erpingham._] Sir Thomas Erpingham came over with Bolingbroke
+from Bretagne, and was one of the commissioners to receive King
+Richard's abdication. In Henry the Fifth's time Sir Thomas was warden of
+Dover Castle, and at the battle of Agincourt, was commander of the
+Archers. This venerable knight is described by Monstrelet to have grown
+grey with age and honour; and when orders were given for the English
+army to march toward the enemy, by Henry crying aloud, "Advance
+banners," Sir Thomas threw his truncheon in the air as a signal to the
+whole field, exclaiming, "Now strike;" and loud and repeated shouts
+testified the readiness with which they obeyed the command.
+
+(C) _I Richard's body have interred new;_] Henry was anxious not only to
+repair his own misconduct, but also to make amends for those iniquities
+into which policy or the necessity of affairs had betrayed his father.
+He expressed the deepest sorrow for the fate of the unhappy Richard, did
+justice to the memory of that unfortunate prince, even performed his
+funeral obsequies with pomp and solemnity, and cherished all those who
+had distinguished themselves by their loyalty and attachment towards
+him. --_Hume's History of England._
+
+(D) _Enter Orleans._] Charles Duke of Orleans was wounded and taken
+prisoner at Agincourt. Henry refused all ransom for him, and he remained
+in captivity twenty-three years.
+
+This prince was a celebrated poet, and some of his most beautiful verses
+were composed during his confinement in the Tower of London. He married
+Isabella of Valois, daughter of Charles VI. and Isabeau of Bavaria,
+eldest sister to the Princess Katharine, Queen of Henry V.
+
+Isabella was the widow of our Richard the Second when she married the
+Duke of Orleans.
+
+After the victory of Agincourt, the following anecdote is related by
+Remy:-- "During their journey to Calais, at a place where they rested,
+Henry caused bread and wine to be brought to him, which he sent to the
+Duke of Orleans; but the French Prince would neither eat nor drink. This
+being reported to the King, he imagined that it arose from
+dissatisfaction, and, therefore, went to the duke. 'Noble cousin,' said
+Henry, 'how are you?' 'Well, my lord,' answered the duke. 'Why, then, is
+it,' added the King, 'that you will neither eat nor drink?' To which
+Orleans replied, 'that truly he had no inclination for food.' 'Noble
+cousin,' rejoined Henry, 'be of good heart. I know that God gave me the
+victory over the French, not that I deserved it, but I fully believe
+that he wished to punish them; and if what I have heard is true, it is
+not to be wondered at, for never were there greater disorder,
+sensuality, sins, and vices seen than now prevail in France; which it is
+horrible to hear described; and if God is provoked, it is not a subject
+of surprise, and no one can be astonished.' Many more conversations are
+said to have passed between the King and the Duke of Orleans, and the
+commisseration and courtesy of the former to his prisoners is mentioned
+by every writer in terms of just praise."
+
+(E) _The English army, drawn up for battle;_] The victory gained at
+Agincourt, in the year 1415, is, in a great measure, ascribed to the
+English Archers, and that there might be no want of arrows, Henry V.
+ordered the sheriffs of several counties to procure feathers from the
+wings of geese, plucking six from each goose. An archer of this time was
+clad in a cuirass, or a hauberk of chain-mail, with a salade on his
+head, which was a kind of bacinet. Every man had a good bow, a sheaf of
+arrows, and a sword. Fabian describes the archer's dress at the battle
+of Agincourt. "The yeomen had their limbs at liberty, for their hose was
+fastened with one point, and their jackets were easy to shoot in, so
+that they might draw bows of great strength, and shoot arrows a yard
+long." Some are described as without hats or caps, others with caps of
+boiled leather, or wicker work, crossed over with iron; some without
+shoes, and all in a very dilapidated condition. Each bore on his
+shoulder a long stake, sharpened at both extremities, which he was
+instructed to fix obliquely before him in the ground, and thus oppose a
+rampart of pikes to the charge of the French Cavalry.
+
+  (F) _O that we now had here
+  But one ten thousand of those men in England
+  That do no work to day!_]
+
+A certain lord Walter Hungerford, knight, was regretting in the king's
+presence that he had not, in addition to the small retinue which he had
+there, ten thousand of the best English Archers, who would be desirous
+of being with him; when the King said, Thou speaketh foolishly, for, by
+the God of Heaven, on whose grace I have relied, and in whom I have a
+firm hope of victory, I would not, even if I could, increase my number
+by one; for those whom I have are the people of God, whom He thinks me
+worthy to have at this time. Dost thou not believe the Almighty, with
+these his humble few, is able to conquer the haughty opposition of the
+French, who pride themselves on their numbers, and their own strength,
+as if it might be said they would do as they liked? And in my opinion,
+God, of his true justice, would not bring any disaster upon one of so
+great confidence, as neither fell out to Judas Maccabeus until he became
+distrustful, and thence deservedly fell into ruin. --_Nicolas's History
+of Agincourt._
+
+(G) _Enter King Henry, attended._] Henry rose with the earliest dawn,
+and immediately heard three masses. He was habited in his "_cote
+d'armes_," containing the arms of France and England quarterly, and wore
+on his bacinet a very rich crown of gold and jewels, circled like an
+imperial crown, that is, arched over. The earliest instance of an arched
+crown worn by an English monarch. --_Vide Planche's History of British
+Costume._
+
+King Henry had at Agincourt for his person five banners; that is, the
+banner of the Trinity, the banner of St. George, the banner of St.
+Edward, the banner of St. Edmund, and the banner of his own arms. "When
+the King of England had drawn up his order of battle he made a fine
+address to his troops, exhorting them to act well; saying, that he was
+come into France to recover his lawful inheritance, and that he had good
+and just cause to claim it; that in that quarrel they might freely and
+surely fight; that they should remember that they were born in the
+kingdom where their fathers and mothers, wives and children, now dwelt,
+and therefore they ought to strive to return there with great glory and
+fame; that the kings of England, his predecessors, had gained many noble
+battles and successes over the French; that on that day every one should
+endeavour to preserve his own person and the honor of the crown of the
+King of England. He moreover reminded them that the French boasted they
+would cut off three fingers from the right hand of every archer they
+should take, so that their shot should never again kill man nor horse.
+The army cried out loudly, saying, 'Sir, we pray God give you a good
+life, and the victory over your enemies.'" --_Nicolas's History of
+Agincourt._
+
+The banner of the Oriflamme is said to have been unfurled by the French
+for the last time at Agincourt.
+
+(H) _The feast of Crispian._] The battle of Agincourt was fought upon
+the 25th of October, 1415, St. Crispin's day. The legend upon which this
+is founded, is as follows:-- "Crispinus and Crispianus were brethren,
+born at Rome; from whence they travelled to Soissons in France, about
+the year 303, to propagate the Christian religion; but because they
+would not be chargeable to others for their maintenance, they exercised
+the trade of shoemakers; but the Governor of the town, discovering them
+to be Christians, ordered them to be beheaded about the year 303. From
+which time, the shoemakers made choice of them for their tutelar
+saints." --_See Hall's Chronicle._
+
+(I) _Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloster._]
+Although Shakespeare has adhered very closely to history in many parts
+of Henry V., he has deviated very much from it in the _Dramatis
+Personae_. He makes the Duke of Bedford accompany Henry to Harfleur and
+Agincourt when he was Regent of England. The Earl of Exeter, or, more
+properly speaking, the Earl of Dorset, was left to command Harfleur; the
+Earl of Westmoreland, so far from quitting England, was appointed to
+defend the marches of Scotland, nor does it appear that the Earl of
+Salisbury was either at Harfleur or Agincourt. The Earl of Warwick[*]
+had returned to England ill from Harfleur. The characters introduced in
+the play who really were at Agincourt, are the Dukes of Gloucester and
+York, and Sir Thomas Erpingham.
+
+Holinshed states that the English army consisted of 15,000, and the
+French of 60,000 horse and 40,000 infantry--in all, 100,000. Walsingham
+and Harding represent the English as but 9,000, and other authors say
+that the number of French amounted to 150,000. Fabian says the French
+were 40,000, and the English only 7,000. The battle lasted only three
+hours.
+
+    [Footnote *: Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. He did not obtain
+    that title till 1417, two years after the era of this play.]
+
+(K) _How thou pleasest, Heaven, dispose the day._] At the battle of
+Agincourt, having chosen a convenient spot on which to martial his men,
+the king sent privately two hundred archers into a low meadow, which was
+on one of his flanks, where they were so well secured by a deep ditch
+and a marsh, that the enemy could not come near them. Then he divided
+his infantry into three squadrons, or battles; the van-warde, or
+avant-guard, composed entirely of archers; the middle-warde, of bill-men
+only; and the rerewarde, of bill-men and archers mixed together; the
+horse-men, as wings, went on the flanks of each of the battles. He also
+caused stakes to be made of wood about five or six feet long, headed
+with sharp iron; these were fixed in the ground, and the archers so
+placed before them that they were entirely hid from the sight of the
+enemy. When, therefore, the heavy cavalry of the French charged, which
+was done with the utmost impetuosity, under the idea of cutting down and
+riding over the archers, they shrunk at once behind the stakes, and the
+Frenchmen, unable to stop their horses, rode full upon them, so that
+they overthrew their riders, and caused the utmost confusion. The
+infantry, who were to follow up and support this charge, were so struck
+with amazement that they hesitated, and by this were lost, for during
+the panic the English archers threw back their bows, and with axes,
+bills, glaives, and swords, slew the French, till they met the
+middle-warde. The king himself, according to Speed, rode in the main
+battle completely armed, his shield quartering the achievements of
+France and England; upon his helm he wore a coronet encircled with
+pearls and precious stones, and after the victory, although it had been
+cut and bruised, he would not suffer it to be ostentatiously exhibited
+to the people, but ordered all his men to give the glory to God alone.
+His horse was one of fierce courage, and had a bridle and furniture of
+goldsmiths' work, and the caparisons were most richly embroidered with
+the victorious ensigns of the English monarchy. Thus is he represented
+on his great seal, with the substitution of a knights' cap, and the
+crest, for the chaplet. Elmham's account, from which this is amplified,
+is more particular in some of the details; he relates, that the king
+appeared on a palfrey, followed by a train of led horses, ornamented
+with the most gorgeous trappings; his helmet was of polished steel,
+surmounted with a coronet sparkling with jewels, and on his surcoat, or
+rather jupon, were emblazoned the arms of France and England, azure,
+three fleurs-de-lis or, and gules, three lion's passant guardant or. The
+nobles, in like manner, were decorated with their proper armorial
+bearings. Before him was borne the royal standard, which was ornamented
+with gold and splendid colours. An account of the memorable battle of
+Azincourt, or Agincourt, fought on the 25th of October, 1415, is thus
+related by Mr. Turner:-- "At dawn the King of England had matins and the
+mass chaunted in his army. He stationed all the horses and baggage in
+the village, under such small guard as he could spare, having resolved
+to fight the battle on foot. He sagaciously perceived that his only
+chance of victory rested in the superiority of the personal fortitude
+and activity of his countrymen, and to bring them face to face, and arm
+to arm, with their opponents, was the simple object of his tactical
+dispositions. He formed his troops into three divisions, with two wings.
+The centre, in which he stationed himself, he planted to act against the
+main body of the French, and he placed the right and left divisions,
+with their wings, at a small distance only from himself. He so chose his
+ground that the village protected his rear, and hedges and briars
+defended his flanks. Determined to shun no danger, but to be a
+conspicuous example to his troops on a day when no individual exertions
+could be spared, he put on a neat and shining armour, with a large and
+brilliant helmet, and on this he placed a crown, radiant with its
+jewels, and he put over him a tunic adorned with the arms of France and
+England. He mounted his horse, and proceeded to address his troops. The
+French were commanded by the Constable of France, and with him were the
+Dukes of Orleans, Burgundy, Berry, and Alencon, the Marshal and Admiral
+of France, and a great assemblage of French nobility. Their force was
+divided into three great battalions, and continued formed till ten
+o'clock, not advancing to the attack. They were so numerous as to be
+able to draw up thirty deep, the English but four. A thousand speared
+horsemen skirmished from each of the horns of the enemy's line, and it
+appeared crowded with balistae for the projection of stones of all sizes
+on Henry's little army. Henry sent a part of his force behind the
+village of Agincourt, where the French had placed no men at arms. He
+moved from the rear of his army, unperceived, two hundred archers, to
+hide themselves in a meadow on the flank of the French advanced line. An
+old and experienced knight, Sir Thomas Erpingham, formed the rest into
+battle array for an attack, putting the archers in front, and the men at
+arms behind. The archers had each a sharp stake pointed at both ends, to
+use against the French horse. Sir Thomas having completed his formation,
+threw up his truncheon in the air, and dismounted. The English began the
+attack, which the French had awaited, not choosing to give the advantage
+as at Poictiers; but when they saw them advance, they put themselves in
+motion, and their cavalry charged; these were destroyed by the English
+archers. The French, frightened by the effect of the arrows, bent their
+heads to prevent them from entering the vizors of their helmets, and,
+pressing forward, became so wedged together as to be unable to strike.
+The archers threw back their bows, and, grasping their swords,
+battle-axes, and other weapons, cut their way to the second line. At
+this period the ambushed archers rushed out, and poured their impetuous
+and irresistable arrows into the centre of the assailed force, which
+fell in like manner with the first line. In short, every part
+successively gave way, and the English had only to kill and take
+prisoners."
+
+(L) The Duke of York commanded the van guard of the English army, and
+was slain in the battle.
+
+This personage is the same who appears in Shakespeare's play of King
+Richard the Second by the title of Duke of Aumerle. His Christian name
+was Edward. He was the eldest son of Edmund Langley, Duke of York, who
+is introduced in the same play, and who was the fifth son of King Edward
+III. Richard, Earl of Cambridge, who appears in the second act of this
+play, was younger brother to this Edward, Duke of York.
+
+(M) _Ride thou unto the horsemen on yon hill:_] After the battle,
+"there were small bodies of the French on different parts of the plain,
+but they were soon routed, slain, or taken."
+
+(N) _Enter MONTJOY._] He (the king) asked Montjoye to whom the victory
+belonged, to him or to the King of France? Montjoye replied that the
+victory was his, and could not be claimed by the King of France. The
+king said to the French and English heralds, "It is not we who have made
+this great slaughter, but the omnipotent God, as we believe, for a
+punishment of the sins of the French. The king then asked the name of
+the castle he saw near him. He was told it was Agincourt. Well, then,
+said he, since all battles should bear the name of the fortress nearest
+to the spot where they were fought, this battle shall from henceforth
+bear the ever durable name of Agincourt." --_Nicolas's History of
+Agincourt._
+
+(O) _When Alencon and myself were down together._] During the battle,
+the Duke of Alencon most valiantly broke through the English line, and
+advanced, fighting, near to the king, insomuch that he wounded and
+struck down the Duke of York. King Henry, seeing this, stepped forth to
+his aid, and as he was leaning down to raise him, the Duke of Alencon
+gave him a blow on the helmet that struck off part of his crown. The
+king's guard on this surrounded him, when, seeing he could no way escape
+death but by surrendering, he lifted up his arm, and said to the king,
+"_I am the Duke of Alencon, and yield myself to you;_" but as the king
+was holding out his hand to receive his pledge, he was put to death by
+the guards. --_Nicolas's History of Agincourt._
+
+(P) _Enter WARWICK and GLOSTER._] The noble Duke of Gloucester, the
+king's brother, pushing himself too vigorously on his horse into the
+conflict, was grievously wounded, and cast down to the earth by the
+blows of the French, for whose protection the king being interested, he
+bravely leapt against his enemies in defence of his brother, defended
+him with his own body, and plucked and guarded him from the raging
+malice of the enemy's, sustaining perils of war scarcely possible to be
+borne. --_Nicolas's History of Agincourt._
+
+(Q) _Here was a royal fellowship of death!--_] There is not much
+difficulty in forming a correct estimate of the numbers of the French
+slain at Agincourt, for if those writers who only state that from three
+to five thousand were killed, merely meant the men-at-arms and persons
+of superior rank, and which is exceedingly probable, we may at once
+adopt the calculation of Monstrelet, Elmham, &c., and estimate the whole
+loss on the field at from ten to eleven thousand men. It is worthy of
+remark how very nearly the different statements on the subject approach
+to each other, and which can only be explained by the fact that the dead
+had been carefully numbered.
+
+Among the most illustrious persons slain were the Dukes of Brabant,
+Barre, and Alencon, five counts, and a still greater proportion of
+distinguished knights; and the Duke of Orleans, the Count of Vendosme,
+who was taken by Sir John Cornwall, the Marshall Bouciqualt, and
+numerous other individuals of distinction, whose names are minutely
+recorded by Monstrelet, were made prisoners. The loss of the English
+army has been variously estimated. The discrepancies respecting the
+number slain on the part of the victors, form a striking contrast to the
+accuracy of the account of the loss of their enemies. The English
+writers vary in their statements from seventeen to one hundred, whilst
+the French chroniclers assert that from three hundred to sixteen hundred
+individuals fell on that occasion. St. Remy and Monstrelet assert that
+sixteen hundred were slain. --_Nicolas's History of Agincourt._
+
+(R) _Do we all holy rites:_] Holinshed says, that when the king saw no
+appearance of enemies, he caused the retreat to be blown, and gathering
+his army together, gave thanks to Almighty God for so happy a victory,
+causing his prelates and chaplains to sing this psalm--_In exitu Israel
+de Egypto_; and commanding every man to kneel down on the ground at this
+verse--_Non nobis domine, non nobis, sed nomini tuo da gloriam_; which,
+done, he caused _Te Deum_ and certain anthems to be sung, giving laud
+and praise to God, and not boasting of his own force, or any human
+power.
+
+
+
+
+    _Enter CHORUS._
+
+
+  _Chor._ Vouchsafe to those that have not read the story,
+  That I may prompt them.
+  Now we bear the king
+  Towards Calais: grant him there; there seen,
+  Heave him away upon your winged thoughts
+  Athwart the sea. Behold, the English beach
+  Pales in the flood with men, with wives, and boys,
+  Whose shouts and claps out-voice the deep-mouth'd sea,
+  Which, like a mighty whiffler[1] 'fore the king
+  Seems to prepare his way: so let him land;
+  And solemnly, see him set on to London.
+  So swift a pace hath thought, that even now
+  You may imagine him upon Blackheath.
+  How London doth pour out her citizens!
+  The mayor, and all his brethren, in best sort,--
+  Like to the senators of the antique Rome,
+  With the plebeians swarming at their heels,--
+  Go forth, and fetch their conquering Caesar in.
+  Now in London place him. There must we bring him;
+  Show the occurrences, whatever chanc'd,
+  Till Harry's back-return again to France.
+
+    [_Exit._
+
+
+    [Footnote Vc.1: _----a mighty +whiffler+_] An officer who walks
+    first in processions, or before persons in high stations, on
+    occasions of ceremony. The name is still retained in London, and
+    there is an officer so called that walks before their companies at
+    times of publick solemnity. It seems a corruption from the French
+    word _huissier_. --HANMER.]
+
+
+
+
+  HISTORICAL EPISODE.
+
+  OLD LONDON BRIDGE
+  From the Surrey Side of the River.
+
+  RECEPTION OF KING HENRY THE FIFTH
+  On Entering London,
+  AFTER THE BATTLE OF AGINCOURT.[*]
+
+    [Note *: Extracts of King Henry's reception into London, from
+    the anonymous Chronicler, who was an eye-witness of the events he
+    describes:--
+
+    "And when the wished-for Saturday dawned, the citizens went forth
+    to meet the king. *   *   *   viz., the Mayor[{~DAGGER~}] and Aldermen in
+    scarlet, and the rest of the inferior citizens in red suits, with
+    party-coloured hoods, red and white. *   *   *   When they had
+    come to the Tower at the approach to the bridge, as it were at the
+    entrance to the authorities to the city. *   *   *   Banners of
+    the Royal arms adorned the Tower, elevated on its turrets; and
+    trumpets, clarions, and horns, sounded in various melody; and in
+    front there was this elegant and suitable inscription upon the
+    wall, 'Civitas Regis justicie'--('The city to the King's
+    righteousness.') *   *   *   And behind the Tower were innumerable
+    boys, representing angels, arrayed in white, and with countenances
+    shining with gold, and glittering wings, and virgin locks set with
+    precious sprigs of laurel, who, at the King's approach, sang with
+    melodious voices, and with organs, an English anthem.
+
+      [[Footnote {~DAGGER~}: The Lord Mayor of London, A.D. 1415, was Nicholas
+      Wotton.]]
+
+       *   *   *   *   *
+    "A company of Prophets, of venerable hoariness, dressed in golden
+    coats and mantles, with their heads covered and wrapped in gold
+    and crimson, sang with sweet harmony, bowing to the ground,
+    a psalm of thanksgiving.
+       *   *   *   *   *
+    "Beneath the covering were the twelve kings, martyrs and
+    confessors of the succession of England, their loins girded with
+    golden girdles, sceptres in their hands, and crowns on their
+    heads, who chaunted with one accord at the King's approach in a
+    sweet tune.
+       *   *   *   *   *
+    "And they sent forth upon him round leaves of silver mixed with
+    wafers, equally thin and round. And there proceeded out to meet
+    the King a chorus of most beautiful virgin girls, elegantly
+    attired in white, singing with timbrol and dance; and then
+    innumerable boys, as it were an angelic multitude, decked with
+    celestial gracefulness, white apparel, shining feathers, virgin
+    locks, studded with gems and other resplendent and most elegant
+    array, who sent forth upon the head of the King passing beneath
+    minae of gold, with bows of laurel; round about angels shone with
+    celestial gracefulness, chaunting sweetly, and with all sorts of
+    music.
+
+    "And besides the pressure in the standing places, and of men
+    crowding through the streets, and the multitude of both sexes
+    along the way from the bridge, from one end to the other, that
+    scarcely the horsemen could ride through them. A greater assembly,
+    or a nobler spectacle, was not recollected to have been ever
+    before in London."]
+
+
+
+
+ACT V.
+
+
+SCENE I.--FRANCE IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF TROYES.
+
+    _Enter FLUELLEN and GOWER, L.H._
+
+_Gow._ Nay, that's right; but why wear you your leek today? Saint Davy's
+day is past.
+
+_Flu._ There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things:
+I will tell you, as my friend, Captain Gower: the rascally, scald,
+beggarly, lowsy, pragging knave, Pistol,--he is come to me, and prings
+me pread and salt yesterday, look you, and pid me eat my leek: it was in
+a place where I could not preed 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.
+
+    _Enter PISTOL, R.H._
+
+_Gow._ Why, here he comes, swelling like a turkey-cock.
+
+_Flu._ 'Tis no matter for his swellings nor his turkey-cocks.--Heaven
+pless you, ancient Pistol! you scurvy, lowsy knave, Heaven pless you!
+
+  _Pist._ Ha! art thou Bedlam? dost thou thirst, base Trojan,
+  To have me fold up Parca's fatal web?[1]
+  Hence! I am qualmish at the smell of leek.
+
+    [_Crosses to L.H._
+
+_Flu._ I peseech you heartily, scurvy, lowsy knave, at my desires, and
+my requests, and my petitions, to eat, look you, this leek: because,
+look you, you do not love it, nor your affections, and your appetites,
+and your digestions, does not agree with it, I would desire you to
+eat it.
+
+_Pist._ (_crosses to R.H._) 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 Heaven'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.[2]
+I pray you, fall to: if you can mock a leek, you can eat a leek.
+
+_Gow._ Enough, captain: you have astonished him.[3]
+
+_Flu._ I say, I will make him eat some part of my leek, or I will peat
+his pate four days.--Pite, I pray you; it is goot for you.
+
+_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 eke 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, 'pray you, throw
+none away; the skin is goot for your proken coxcomb. When you take
+occasions to see leeks hereafter, I pray you, mock at them; that is all.
+
+_Pist._ Good.
+
+_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 any thing, I will pay you in cudgels. Heaven be wi'
+you, and keep you, and heal your pate.
+
+    [_Exit L.H._
+
+_Pist._ (_crosses to L.H.) All hell shall stir for this.
+
+    [_Crosses to R.H._
+
+_Gow._ Go, go; you are a counterfeit cowardly knave. Will you mock at an
+ancient tradition,--begun upon an honourable respect, and worn as a
+memorable trophy of predeceased valour,--and dare not avouch in your
+deeds any of your words? I have seen you gleeking[4] and galling at this
+gentleman twice or thrice. You thought, because he could not speak
+English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English
+cudgel: you find it otherwise; and henceforth let a Welsh correction
+teach you a good English condition.[5] Fare ye well.
+
+    [_Exit, L.H._
+
+  _Pist._ Doth fortune play the huswife[6] with me now?
+  Old I do wax; and from my weary limbs
+  Honour is cudgell'd.
+                     To England will I steal:
+  And patches will I get unto these scars,
+  And swear, I got them in the Gallia wars.
+
+    [_Exit, R.H._
+
+
+    [Footnote V.1: _To have me fold up, &c._] Dost thou desire to have
+    me put thee to death.]
+
+    [Footnote V.2: _----a squire of low degree._] That is, _I will
+    bring thee to the ground._]
+
+    [Footnote V.3: _----astonished him._] That is, you have stunned
+    him with the blow.]
+
+
+SCENE II.--INTERIOR OF THE CATHEDRAL AT TROYES IN CHAMPAGNE.
+
+    _Trumpets sound. Enter, at one door, U.E.L.H., KING HENRY,(A)
+    BEDFORD, GLOSTER, EXETER, WARWICK, WESTMORELAND, and other Lords;
+    at another, U.E.R.H., the FRENCH KING, QUEEN ISABEL, the PRINCESS
+    KATHARINE,[7](B) Lords, Ladies, &c., the Duke of BURGUNDY, and
+    his Train. The two parties, French and English, are divided by
+    barriers._
+
+  _K. Hen._ (L.C.) Peace to this meeting, wherefore we are met![8]
+  Unto our brother France,--and to our sister,
+  Health and fair time of day;--joy and good wishes
+  To our most fair and princely cousin Katharine;
+  And (as a branch and member of this royalty,
+  By whom this great assembly is contriv'd,)
+  We do salute you, duke of Burgundy;--
+  And, princes French, and peers, health to you all!
+
+    [_All the French party bow to KING HENRY._
+
+  _Fr. King._ (R.C.) Right joyous are we to behold your face,
+  Most worthy brother England; fairly met:--
+  So are you, princes English, every one.
+
+  _Q. Isa._ (_R. of F. KING._) So happy be the issue, brother England,
+  Of this good day, and of this gracious meeting,
+  As we are now glad to behold your eyes;
+  Your eyes, which hitherto have borne in them
+  Against the French, that met them in their bent,
+  The fatal balls of murdering basilisks:[9]
+  The venom of such looks, we fairly hope,
+  Have lost their quality; and that this day
+  Shall change all griefs and quarrels into love.
+
+  _K. Hen._ To cry amen to that, thus we appear.
+
+  _Q.Isa._ You English princes all, I do salute you.
+
+    [_All the English party bow to QUEEN ISABELLA._
+
+  _Bur._ (R.) My duty to you both, on equal love,
+  Great kings of France and England!
+  Let it not disgrace me,
+  If I demand, before this royal view,
+  What rub or what impediment there is,
+  Why that the naked, poor, and mangled peace
+  Dear nurse of arts, plenties, and joyful births,
+  Should not, in this best garden of the world,
+  Our fertile France, put up her lovely visage?
+
+  _K. Hen._ If, duke of Burgundy, you would the peace,
+  Which you have cited, you must buy that peace
+  With full accord to all our just demands;
+  Whose tenours and particular effects
+  You have, enschedul'd briefly, in your hands.
+
+  _Fr. King._ I have but with a cursorary eye
+  O'er-glanc'd the articles: pleaseth your grace
+  To appoint some of your council presently
+  To sit with us once more, with better heed
+  To re-survey them, we will suddenly
+  Pass our accept and peremptory answer.[10]
+
+  _K. Hen._ Brother, we shall.--Go, uncle Exeter,--
+  And brother Bedford,--and you, brother Gloster,--
+  Warwick,--and Huntingdon,--go with the king;
+  And take with you free power, to ratify,
+  Augment, or alter, as your wisdoms best
+  Shall see advantageable for our dignity,
+  And we'll consign thereto.--
+
+    [_Barriers removed. The English Lords, EXETER, BEDFORD, GLOSTER,
+    WARWICK, and HUNTINGDON, cross to the KING OF FRANCE, and exeunt
+    afterwards with him._
+
+  Will you, fair sister,
+  Go with the princes, or stay here with us?
+
+  _Q. Isa._ Our gracious brother, I will go with them:
+  Haply a woman's voice may do some good,
+  When articles too nicely urg'd be stood on.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Yet leave our cousin Katharine here with us:
+  She is our capital demand, compris'd
+  Within the fore rank of our articles.
+
+  _Q. Isa._ She hath good leave.
+
+    [_Trumpets sound._
+
+    [_Exeunt all through gates, L.E.R. and L., but HENRY, KATHARINE,
+    and her Gentlewomen._
+
+  _K. Hen._ (L.C.)    Fair Katharine, and most fair!
+  Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms,
+  Such as will enter at a lady's ear,
+  And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?
+
+_Kath._ (R.C.) Votre majeste shall mock at me; I cannot speak votre
+Anglais.
+
+_K. Hen._ O fair Katharine, if you will love me soundly with your French
+heart, I will be glad to hear you confess it brokenly with your English
+tongue. Do you like me, Kate?
+
+_Kath._ _Pardonnez moi,_ I cannot tell vat is--like me.
+
+_K. Hen._ An angel is like you, Kate, and you are like an angel.
+
+_Kath._ _Que dit-il? que je suis semblable aux anges?_
+
+_K. Hen._ I said so, dear Katharine; and I must not blush to affirm it.
+
+_Kath._ _O bon Dieu! les langues des hommes sont pleines de tromperies._
+
+_K. Hen._ What say you, fair one?
+
+_Kath._ Dat de tongues of de mans is be full of deceits.
+
+_K. Hen._ I'faith, Kate. I know no ways to mince it in love, but
+directly to say--I love you: then, if you urge me further than to
+say--Do you in faith? I wear out my suit. Give me your answer; i'faith,
+do; and so clap hands and a bargain: How say you, lady?
+
+_Kath._ Me understand well.
+
+_K. Hen._ Marry, if you would put me to verses or to dance for your
+sake, Kate, why you undid me. If I could win a lady at leap-frog, or by
+vaulting into my saddle with my armour on my back, under the correction
+of bragging, be it spoken, I should quickly leap into a wife. But,
+before Heaven, I cannot look greenly,[11] nor gasp out my eloquence, nor
+I have no cunning in protestation; only downright oaths, which I never
+use till urged, nor never break for urging. If thou canst love a fellow
+of this temper, Kate, whose face is not worth sun-burning, that never
+looks in his glass for love of any thing he sees there, let thine eye be
+thy cook. I speak to thee plain soldier: If thou canst love me for this,
+take me; if not, to say to thee--that I shall die, is true, but--for thy
+love, by the lord, no; yet I love thee too. And while thou livest, dear
+Kate, take a fellow of plain and uncoined constancy;[12] for a good leg
+will fall;[13] a straight back will stoop; a black beard will turn
+white; a curled pate will grow bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye
+will wax hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and moon; or,
+rather, the sun, and not the moon, for it shines bright, and never
+changes, but keeps his course truly. If thou would have such a one, take
+me: And take me, take a soldier; take a soldier, take a king: And what
+sayest thou, then, to my love? speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee.
+
+_Kath._ Est il possible dat I should love de enemy de la France?
+
+_K. Hen._ No; it is not possible you should love the enemy of France,
+Kate: but, in loving me, you should love the friend of France; for I
+love France so well, that I will not part with a village of it; I will
+have it all mine: and, Kate, when France is mine, and I am yours, then
+yours is France, and you are mine.
+
+_Kath._ Vat is dat?
+
+_K. Hen._ Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou
+love me?
+
+_Kath._ I cannot tell.
+
+_K. Hen._ Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask them. Come,
+I know thou lovest me: and at night, when you come into your closet,
+you'll question this gentlewoman about me; and I know, Kate, you will to
+her dispraise those parts in me that you love with your heart. If ever
+thou be'st mine, Kate, (as I have a saving faith within me, tells
+me,--thou shalt,) shall there not be a boy compounded between Saint
+Dennis and Saint George, half French, half English, that shall go to
+Constantinople[14] and take the Turk by the beard? shall he not? what
+sayest thou, my fair flower-de-luce? How answer you, _la plus belle
+Katharine du monde, mon tres chere et divine deesse?_
+
+_Kath._ _Votre majeste_ 'ave _fausse_ French enough to deceive _la plus
+sage damoiselle_ dat is _en France._
+
+_K. Hen._ Now, fie upon my false French! By mine honour, in true
+English, I love thee, Kate: by which honour I dare not swear thou lovest
+me; yet my blood begins to flatter me that thou dost, notwithstanding
+the poor and untempting effect of my visage. But, in faith, Kate, the
+elder I wax, the better I shall appear: my comfort is, that old age,
+that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face: thou
+hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst; and thou shalt wear me, if thou
+wear me, better and better: And therefore tell me, most fair Katharine,
+will you have me? Put off your maiden blushes; avouch the thoughts of
+your heart with the looks of an empress; take me by the hand, and
+say--Harry of England, I am thine: which word thou shalt no sooner bless
+mine ear withal, but I will tell thee aloud--England is thine, Ireland
+is thine, France is thine, and Henry Plantagenet is thine; who, though I
+speak it before his face, if he be not fellow with the best king, thou
+shalt find the best king of good fellows. Come, your answer in broken
+musick, for thy voice is musick, and thy English broken; therefore,
+queen of all, Katharine, break thy mind to me in broken English, Wilt
+thou have me?
+
+_Kath._ Dat is as it shall please _le roi mon pere_.
+
+_K. Hen._ Nay, it will please him well, Kate; it shall please him, Kate.
+
+_Kath._ Den it shall also content me.
+
+_K. Hen._ Upon that I will kiss your hand, and I call you--my queen.
+
+_Kath._ _Laissez, mon seigneur, laissez, laissez._
+
+_K. Hen._ Then I will kiss your lips, Kate.
+
+_Kath._ Dat is not be de fashion _pour les_ dames _de la_ France.
+
+_K. Hen._ O Kate, nice customs curt'sy to great kings. We are the makers
+of manners, Kate; therefore, patiently, and yielding. (_Kisses her._)
+You have witchcraft in your lips, Kate: there is more eloquence in a
+sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they
+should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of
+monarchs. (_Trumpets sound._) Here comes your father.
+
+    [_The centre gates are thrown open, and_
+
+    _Re-enter the FRENCH KING and QUEEN, BURGUNDY, BEDFORD, GLOSTER,
+    EXETER, WESTMORELAND. The other French and English Lords as
+    before, U.E.R. and L._
+
+_Bur._ (R.) My royal cousin, teach you our princess English?
+
+_K. Hen._ (C.) I would have her learn, my fair cousin, how perfectly I
+love her; and that is good English.
+
+_Bur._ Is she not apt?
+
+_K. Hen._ Our tongue is rough, coz, and my condition is not smooth;[15]
+so that, having neither the voice nor the heart of flattery about me,
+I cannot so conjure up the spirit of love in her, that he will appear in
+his true likeness. Shall Kate be my wife?
+
+_Fr. King._ (L.C.) So please you.
+
+  _Exe._ The king hath granted every article:
+  His daughter, first; and then, in sequel, all,
+  According to their firm proposed natures.
+
+  _Fr. King._ Take her, fair son;
+  That the contending kingdoms
+  Of France and England, whose very shores look pale
+  With envy of each other's happiness,
+  May cease their hatred; and this dear conjunction
+  Plant neighbourhood and christian-like accord
+  In their sweet bosoms, that never war advance
+  His bleeding sword 'twixt England and fair France.
+
+  _K. Hen._ Now, welcome, Kate:--and bear me witness all,
+  That here I take her as my sovereign queen.
+
+    [_The KING places a ring on KATHARINE'S finger._
+
+  Prepare we for our marriage:--on which day,
+  My lord of Burgundy, we'll take your oath,
+  And all the peers', for surety of our leagues.--
+  Then shall I swear to Kate, and you to me;
+  And may our oaths well kept and prosp'rous be!(C)
+
+    [_Flourish of Trumpets. Curtain descends._
+
+
+    [Footnote V.4: _----gleeking_] i.e., scoffing, sneering. _Gleek_
+    was a game at cards.]
+
+    [Footnote V.5: _----English +condition+._] _Condition_ is temper,
+    disposition of mind.]
+
+    [Footnote V.6: _----Doth fortune play the +huswife+_] That is, the
+    _jilt_.]
+
+    [Footnote V.7: The dresses of Queen Isabella, her ladies, and the
+    Princess Katharine, are taken from Montfaucon Monarchie
+    Francoise.]
+
+    [Footnote V.8: _----wherefore we are met!_] i.e., Peace, for which
+    we are here met, be to this meeting.]
+
+    [Footnote V.9: _The fatal balls of murdering basilisks:_] It was
+    anciently supposed that this serpent could destroy the object of
+    its vengeance by merely looking at it.]
+
+    [Footnote V.10:
+      _----we will, suddenly,
+      Pass our accept, and peremptory answer._]
+    i.e., our answer shall be such as to leave no room for further
+    questioning in the matter. "_We will peremptorily make answer._"]
+
+    [Footnote V.11: _----look +greenly+,_] i.e., like a young lover,
+    awkwardly.]
+
+    [Footnote V.12: _----take a good fellow of plain and +uncoined+
+    constancy;_] _Uncoined_ constancy signifies _real_ and _true_
+    constancy, _unrefined_ and _unadorned_.]
+
+    [Footnote V.13: _----a good leg will fall,_] i.e., shrink--fall
+    away.]
+
+    [Footnote V.14: _----shall go to Constantinople_] Shakespeare has
+    here committed an anachronism. The Turks were not possessed of
+    Constantinople before the year 1463, when Henry the Fifth had been
+    dead thirty-one years.]
+
+    [Footnote V.15: _----my +condition+ is not smooth;_] i.e.,
+    manners, appearance.]
+
+
+
+
+THE END.
+
+
+
+
+HISTORICAL NOTES TO ACT FIFTH.
+
+(A) _Enter_ KING HENRY,] At this interview, which is described as taking
+place in the Church of Notre Dame, at Troyes, King Henry was attired in
+his armour, and accompanied by sixteen hundred warriors. Henry is
+related to have placed a ring of "inestimable value" on the finger of
+Katharine, "supposed to be the same worn by our English queen-consorts
+at their coronation," at the moment when he received the promise of the
+princess.
+
+(B) _The PRINCESS KATHARINE_,] Katharine of Valois was the youngest
+child of Charles VI., King of France, and his Queen, Isabella of
+Bavaria. She was born in Paris, October 27th, 1401. Monstrelet relates,
+that on Trinity Sunday, June 3rd, the King of England wedded the lady
+Katharine in the church at Troyes, and that great pomp and magnificence
+were displayed by him and his princess, as if he had been king of the
+whole world. Katharine was crowned Queen of England February 24, 1421;
+and shortly after the death of her heroic husband, which event took
+place August 31st, 1422, the queen married a Welch gentleman of the name
+of Owen Tudor, by whom she had three sons and one daughter. The eldest
+son, Edmund, married Margaret Beaufort, the heiress of the house of
+Somerset. His half-brother, Henry VI., created him Earl of Richmond. He
+died before he reached twenty years of age, leaving an infant son,
+afterwards Henry VII., the first king of the Tudor line. Katharine died
+January 3rd, 1437, in the thirty-sixth year of her age, and was buried
+at Westminster Abbey.
+
+(C) _----may our oaths well kept and prosp'rous be;_] The principal
+articles of the treaty were, that Henry should espouse the Princess
+Catherine: That King Charles, during his life time, should enjoy the
+title and dignity of King of France: That Henry should be declared and
+acknowledged heir of the monarchy, and be entrusted with the present
+administration of the government: That that kingdom should pass to his
+heirs general: That France and England should for ever be united under
+one king; but should still retain their several usages, customs, and
+privileges: That all the princes, peers, vassals, and communities of
+France, should swear, that they would both adhere to the future
+succession of Henry, and pay him present obedience as regent: That this
+prince should unite his arms to those of King Charles and the Duke of
+Burgundy, in order to subdue the adherents of Charles, the pretended
+dauphin; and that these three princes should make no peace or truce with
+him but by common consent and agreement. Such was the tenour of this
+famous treaty; a treaty which, as nothing but the most violent animosity
+could dictate it, so nothing but the power of the sword could carry it
+into execution. It is hard to say whether its consequences, had it taken
+effect, would have proved more pernicious to England or France. It must
+have reduced the former kingdom to the rank of a province: It would have
+entirely disjointed the succession of the latter, and have brought on
+the destruction of the royal family; as the houses of Orleans, Anjou,
+Alencon, Britanny, Bourbon, and of Burgundy itself, whose titles were
+preferable to that of the English princes, would, on that account, have
+been exposed to perpetual jealousy and persecution from the sovereign.
+There was even a palpable deficiency in Henry's claim, which no art
+could palliate. For, besides the insuperable objections to which Edward
+the Third's pretensions were exposed, _he_ was not heir to that monarch:
+If female succession were admitted, the right had devolved on the house
+of Mortimer: Allowing that Richard the Second was a tyrant, and that
+Henry the Fourth's merits in deposing him were so great towards the
+English, as to justify that nation in placing him on the throne, Richard
+had nowise offended France, and his rival had merited nothing of that
+kingdom: It could not possibly be pretended that the crown of France was
+become an appendage to that of England; and that a prince who by any
+means got possession of the latter, was, without farther question,
+entitled to the former. So that, on the whole, it must be allowed that
+Henry's claim to France was, if possible, still more unintelligible than
+the title by which his father had mounted the throne of England.
+--_Hume's History of England._
+
+
+
+
+  JOHN K. CHAPMAN AND COMPANY, PRINTERS, 5, SHOE LANE,
+  AND PETERBOROUGH COURT, FLEET STREET.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+           *       *       *       *
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Errata Noted by Transcriber
+
+  a paean of victory  [poean]
+  within this wooden O  [wooden, O]
+  suppose every man to represent  [first "r" in "represent" invisible]
+  [Historical Notes to Act II]
+    [endnote labeling, with (A) reused, unchanged]
+  Lewis, Dovphin of Viennois  [spelling unchanged]
+  should not raise the seige  [spelling unchanged]
+  ... had played the Englishmen at dice."  [missing close quote]]
+  I remember him now.  [; for .]
+  _Non nobis domine, non nobis, sed nomini tuo_  [_seel nomini_]
+  yet I love thee too  [I I love thee]
+
+
+Scenes
+
+_Correspondences are approximate; all Scenes have been significantly
+edited. Chorus speeches are fairly close to their original form._
+
+Kean edition (this text): Shakespeare
+
+  I.1 : I.2
+  I.2 : II.3, with Boy's speech from III.2
+  II.1 : II.2
+  II.2 : II.4
+  III (unnumbered scene after Chorus) : III.1
+  III.1 : III.5
+  III.2 : III.6
+  IV (unnumbered scene interrupting Chorus) : III.7
+  IV.1 : IV.1
+  IV.2 : IV.2
+  IV.3 : IV.3
+  IV.4 : IV.5
+  IV.5 : IV.6 and IV.7 (intermingled)
+  IV.6 : IV.8
+  Interlude added by Kean : _no equivalent_
+  V.1 : V.1
+  V.2 : V.2
+
+_Shakespeare's Epilogue (spoken by Chorus) is absent._
+
+
+
+
+
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